European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 28 news Bra is the stars and stripes wednesday july 30.1936 Ella Fitzgerald recovering Niagara Falls. . A Singer Eha Fitzge Rald remained hospitalized in Good condition after doctors concluded she did nol suffer a heart attack a spokesman said. Fitzgerald 68. Was taken to the Niagara Falls me Morial medical Center by ambulance sunday suffering from congestive heart failure a weakening of the heart Hospital officials said. Tests on monday showed the recovering Singer did not suffer a heart attack said Hospital spokeswoman Lanora Ziobrowski. Fiu Gerald s manager Pete Cavello said la Singer had suffered from a respiratory problem. Her breathing is nol what it should be he said. . Dismisses soviet claim Washington not the Reagan administration scoffed monday at Mikhail s. Gorbachev s announcement that six soviet regiments would be with drawn from Afghanistan. Within hours of Gorbachev s statement that six regi melt amounting to 6,000 troops would be with drawn the while House and the slate department noted that similar announcements of troop withdraw als had been made in the past. The administration said the moves had later turned out to be Only routine rotations of forces while the total Force level in Afghanistan remained the same. The administration said the Only acceptable Solu Tion would be for the soviet Union to Sel a timetable for the withdrawal of All itt troops in Afghanistan estimated to number 120,000, Over a Short period of . Austrians seize computers Washington up austrian authorities have seized  computers bought in Wesl German Yin what May be a vast european network to funnel High technology equipment to the soviet bloc . Sources said monday . Customs officials have begun an investigation into the aborted diversion of the computers including Why West German authorities granted an Export it Cense for the machines the sources said. The crates with the computers were marked Wilh a bulgarian destination. Austrian officials seized the computers and related equipment at the Airport in Vienna Austria about a month ago the sources said the computers Are built under License by a Wes German subsidiary of Tek Troix inc. Of Beaverton ore., they said. Michigan Coke Cache seized Paw Paw Mich. Up at least 200 pounds of cocaine valued at about s30 million was confiscated and eight people were arrested by Federal authorities in a drug raid on a suspected cocaine processing Laboratory. Agents from the drug enforcement Agency the Fri the Michigan state police and Van Buren and Berrien county sheriffs departments raided two Van Buren county farmhouses Early monday. Authorities said they confiscated nine guns Chemi cals drug processing equipment and several cars. The raid is the largest in state history. In december Federal authorities in Detroit seized 55 pounds of co Caine with an estimated value of j13 million. Ryan o Neal s son indicted Annapolis. My. Up a grand jury indicted the son of actor Ryan o Neal on manslaughter charges monday in the boating death of his Friend Gian Carlo Coppola the son of film director Francis Ford Coppo la. The Anne Arundel county grand jury returned a six count indictment against Griffin o Neal 21, of Beverly Hills Calif. He was charged Wilh boat manslaughter and five counts of reckless and negligent operation of a boat in the May 26 incident. Coppola was killed when struck by a broken online. County Deputy state s attorney Gerald Anders said the manslaughter charge carries a maximum five year prison sentence and $1,000 line. The penalties for theother lesser charges Range from 30 Days to three months in jail and 525 to j 500 in fines Anders said. They found there was probable cause that he was operating the boat Anders said of the indictment resumed by the 23-member grand jury. I think Evi dance will show that alcohol May have been involved. Just Fine for boy George a photo fans mob pop linger boy George is he leaves a London court alter being fined s37s for . Bay George 25, whose my name is George o Dowd was arrested july ii while being trailed for addiction. Mag bite Geoffrey new told the stir whose specially to outlandish clothes and makeup i think it i right to say that you faced a to the charge  the gender Bender sinter got off relatively lightly compared with British drag sentence Given during the last two years to television Start Stacy Keach who was imprisoned for a months and Judy came jailed for three months. Deadly heat wave drifts West by United Prem Latend curl a deadly heal wave thai has scorched the Southeast for weeks and worsened a drought blamed for More than $ i billion in farm tosses is spreading Westward and snapping record temperatures set Early this Cen Tury along the Way. Thunderstorms and tornadoes rampaged across the Plains overnight with High winds Hail and heavy rain knocking out Power in Missouri and Iowa. Temperatures near 100 degrees were expected tues Day in the Southern Mississippi Valley and the South pm Plains the National weather service said. On monday temperatures reached record Levels in at least eight cities in Texas Oklahoma Colorado Arkansas Kansas and Missouri. Fort Smith ark., re ported a blistering 107, snapping the record 106 set in1930, and a 106-degree Reading at Dodge City kan., broke the record 104 set in 1910. Temperatures in the upper 90s were expected in the Southeast where readings above 100 degrees have aggravated the worst drought in More than a Century. Atlanta was expected to break new ground tuesday with 26 consecutive Days of 90-Degrce heat outdoing its 1980 record. The High temperature of 93 degrees monday at Charlotte n.c., was the 2itb consecutive Day with temperatures of at least 90. The previous record for the City was 22 Days set in August and september of 191$. At least 53 people have died in the South and mid West since july 7 because of the heat including 24 in Georgia five each in North Carolina Missouri an Alabama four in Indiana three in Illinois two each in South Carolina and Kentucky and one each in Virginia Texas and Louisiana. Showers and thunderstorms were welcomed by the Southeast monday but forecasters said much More rain was needed to end the drought that has caused More than 11.2 billion in agricultural damage. Therain also swept across the Central Gulf coast and the Middle Atlantic states. National weather service meteorologist Gary Acca Tey said most of the scattered rain in Georgia has been absorbed on the surface and has done Little to Hall the fall in ground water and Lake Levels. Overall it has t helped that much except for the few people who have got heavy thundershowers Bee Ajey said. The drought is also drying up Rivers and bringing Sharks and other Saltwater species into the Altamaha River near Brunswick ga., because of the higher Salin Ity of the water. J. I ii1to to wot Boone Iowa a sixteen cars of a train loaded with hazardous chemicals crashed off a Bridge after apparently being blown from the tracks during a storm and some chemicals leaked into the pcs Moines River officials said tuesday. Officials did not know what chemicals leaked or what environmental danger they posed said Jerry Mathiason an aide to gov. Terry Branstad. However 200 children attending a Bible Camp near by were evacuated As a precaution said Iowa disaster services spokesman Dennis Hart. Twenty residents also were evacuated As officials cleared a 1-mile Square area near the Bridge. Ellen Gordon spokeswoman for Iowa slate disaster services said five people who had been boating on the River complained of headaches and nausea and were taken to a Hospital. They were examined and released. An emergency worker also complained of not feeling Well she said but she did nol know his status. It s very evident there Are chemicals leaking out Branstad said after flying Over the scene tuesday. You can see along the West Bend of the River the water is very  Branstad declared Boon county where the Accident occurred and neighbouring Polk county a disaster area because of the heavy thunderstorms that rolled through the area monday night. The declaration is the first step toward seeking Federal assistance in cleaning up. The Iowa department of natural resources peo ple Are asking people to stay off the Pes Moines River and Saylorville Lake As a precautionary measure Branstad told reporters. He said there was no immediate danger to cities that get drinking water from the River