European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d military s air Accident rate causing concern Page 9 d Tway s dramatic Bunker shot cinches . Open title Page 21 d today s Dollar buys 2.06 Marks rates Page 27 authorize of unofficial publication fou the . Aimed Foicey vol.45,no. 117 wednesday August 13, 1906 i can 0 8693 a suspected go defector once served in Germany Sas photo by Dan Wohn Hugo Romeu by the Sun and stripes an awol Soldier who May have defected to Cuba worked As an enlisted lab oratory technician at the army Hospital in bad Cannstatt Germany while trying to gel credentials to be a doctor. Defense department officials said  Romu of Glen View 111., May be the defector referred to in a cuban radio report As Cape. Hugo Romu Almeida. Romeu was listed As absent without leave july 3from the Hospital and listed As a deserter aug. 5, military officials said. Radio Havana claimed the Soldier defected to Cuba because of objections to . Foreign policy toward Central America. A report by the cuban news Agency Prensa Latina said Romu said the War in Vietnam and the misery he observed during his two year stay in the Domin ican Republic also influenced his Deci  the awol private was born june 30, 1955, in Cuba and became a naturalized . Citizen on Jan. 24, 1967, the Penta Reagan announces new Aid for Farmers Springfield Iii. A president Reagan trying to boost Republican elec Tion chances in the Midwest Grain Belt offered new Aid to Farmers tuesday and defended his decision to subsidize wheat tales to the soviet Union. In an appearance at the Illinois state fair Reagan announced that for the first time Farmers will be Able to get Price support Loans for Grain stored on the ground As Well As in storage facilities such As silos or Grain elevators. With bumper harvests Here in the Midwest storage is scarce and some producers fear Lack of space in elevators or farm bins will make their crops ineligible for Price support Loans Reagan said. Farmers need these Harvest Loans and we intend to Sec they gel them regardless of problems with storage that Are beyond their control he added. The announcement was greeted by Light applause. Presidential spokesman Larry up cakes see Reagan on Page 28 Cool air heavy rain bring Relief to South by United press International thunderstorms developing along an invading Canadian cold front answered the prayers of southerners tuesday with second straight Day of rain for their drought stricken Region. The Cool air which brought a taste of autumn for Early risers in the Midwest collided with warm Gulf coast breezes in the South creating storms that have been blamed for one death. Rain was expected through wednesday the National weather service  s the first sustained rainfall they be gotten in a while said Bill Barlow an news meteorologist. It s heavier and More widespread but it s still too Tarly to Tell what effect it will have on the  drought the worst in More than a Century has been blamed for $2.5 billion see rain on Page 28 my cracking Down  guards Washington a an if army audit that turned up numerous Al Amples of unqualified Security guards holding sensitive positions at weapons depots has prompted a major crackdown within the service. Maj. Phil Soucy said monday the army has so far adopted 14 of the 16 recommendations advanced by the Audi tors. The audit concluded that army at in "7t mands were frequently hiring Una Ali a guards were moving them into Posi at sensitive installations  Security clearances and were fail Rajic Al take action to remove guards who Sam stable behaviour. The report Menn Auch hiring of two guards at the Anniston my depot where chemical weapon nil one of the men was event a see guards on Page gon said tuesday. He enlisted in the army on april 10, 1985, in Chicago and was assigned to the army Hospital in bad Cannstatt in june 1985. Earlier this year he was reduced in rank from a specialist four to private first class but the Pentagon spokesman would not say Why Romeu was demoted. The army had barred him from re enlisting the spokesman said. The stars and stripes interviewed Romu last summer after bad Cannstatt see defector on Page 28 25-year leap a photo one rime East German Border guard Conrad Schumann sits in front of a photograph that made him famous a Quarter of a Century ago a snapshot of the Young Soldier in full uniform leaping across the East West Border in Berlin on aug. 15, 1961. Monday Schumann joined 19 other former East German guards in a press conference at checkpoint Charlie in connection with today s 25th anniversary of the Wall. Related Story Page 28.