European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday september 28.1986 news updates funds for eur Tunnel London a eur Tunnel the Anglo French company planning a rail Tunnel Between Britain and France announced plans Friday to raise some 200 million pounds $300 million for the project. The funding will be through an International private equity placing Only to Banks for the second financing stage of the project which is to Cost a total of 4.736 billion pounds $7.104 billion said lord pc Nock joint chairman of eur Tunnel. 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F 86 64 Toronto t 73 61 Vancouver cd High Low 64 w 43 3? so 32 72 69 61 43 supplied by the associated Prats f a Al Cloudy up try Cloudy a mostly Cloudy. A fun t no in  sergeant 24, Dies after car catches fire Kirkel Germany a 24-year-old sergeant assigned to the 576th ordnance co died sept. 18 on a Rural Highway when his car caught fire. The cause of the fire and the nature of the Accident was not known a 32ndarmy air defense come spokesman said Friday in Darmstadt. Set. Kerry j. Mercier was pronounced dead at the scene As a result of Burns received in the fire. The Accident took place about 18 Miles from Zweibruck in the official said. An investigation into the cause of the Accident is being conducted by military and German police. Mercier is survived by his wife who is in the United slates. Syrian reportedly pledges to Rescue foreign hostages Beirut Lebanon a Syria s army intelligence chief in Lebanon was quoted saturday by the leftist newspaper As Safir As vowing to Rescue All for eign hostages held in Lebanon Brig. Gen. Ghazi Ccnaan was also quoted As saying several foreign secret services were behind the recent surge of abductions in moslem West Beirut. As Safir said Ccnaan made his re Marks during talks with lebanese government leaders army and police com Manders in West Beirut on Friday Ccnaan was quoted As saying syrian president Hafez Assad s government was determined to enforce Law and order in the moslem half of the Leb anese capital. The syrian general returned to the lebanese capital to take Persona charge of a Security plan launched last june 28 to re establish lebanese government authority in West Beirut. Syrian troops have been actively helping moslem units of the lebanese army and police to end a 27-month reign of feuding militias. There was a Lull in kidnappings and Bank robberies after some 500 syrian soldiers entered Beirut s moslem Sec Tor july 4 to help enforce the Security plan. But a fresh wave of Bank robberies has rocked West Beirut in the past three weeks in which two americans were also kidnapped. British journalist David Hirst 50, of London s guardian newspaper also was abducted in West Beirut on Friday. But he ignored a gunman s threat to shoot him if he did not submit and kicked his Way to Freedom from his Cap tors an hour later. Nineteen foreigners arc missing in Lebanon eight frenchmen six americans two britons one irishman an italian and a South korean. Assad s to a bout Reagan vows government shutdown to pressure Congress on budget Bill Washington a president finds Congress unable to produce a re of the House budget  threatened on saturday to shut Down the Federal government and make Capitol Hill lawmakers work by candlelight unless they strip pet programs and arms control provisions from a Mas Sive spending Bill designed to keep the government from going broke. The president in his weekly radio address bemoaned Congress failure to pass its 13 regular appropriations Bills onetime and has again resorted to a Hodge podge measure designed to keep the government running when the new fiscal year begins on oct. I. He also denounced As simply unacceptable restrictions on his arms control policies contained in the House Bill. My friends this is no Way to run a government said Reagan noting that the end of session budget snarl has be come a fixture in recent years on Capitol Hill. Reagan who sent Federal workers Home in 1981 after vetoing a similar measure made Clear he has no qualms about repeating the tactic this year. Once again the budget deadline finds Congress unable to produce a responsible budget Reagan said. In Stead they throw together what they Call a continuing Resolution at the last moment a kind of Christmas tree Hung with pet projects and wasteful spending programs that never could have made it into a real budget. I Hope they know where the keys to the building arc because if they Don t act responsibly i won t have any Choice but to shut it  Reagan said of the fed eral government s activities. If they want to put a real budget to Gether by candlelight it s of by me Reagan added. Rep. William h. Gray d-pa., in the democrats response to Reagan s Broad cast said the president wants to eliminate 44 Federal programs cutting education for our children health care for our elderly and Aid for our Farmers to pay for defense an foreign Aid  there you go again blaming con Gress for your fiscal and Revenue prob lems As if you had t been president for the past six years said Gray chairman of the House budget committee. Congress is moving Gray said not ing congressional passage of sweeping tax changes. We Are going to help solve this fiscal crisis your policies have  on Friday the Senate appropriations committee approved by voice vote a $556 billion measure. It could be brought up for full Senate debate on monday. On thursday the House passed its version a $562 billion Bill. Both cover virtually every government department and Agency but the Senate has authorized More spending for the military and less for Domestic programs in keeping with White House demands. The House Bill would restrict the president s options on five major defense matters the Salt ii treaty nuclear testing the strategic defense initiative anti satellite tests and chemical weapons. Reagan charged that the House ver Sion would pull the Rug out from under our negotiators at the arms control talks with the soviets in Geneva endanger Progress toward arms control and Cut deeply into vital defense programs. Dislodged plastic heart valve kills boy Des Moines Iowa up a 13 year old boy waiting for a heart trans Plant died Friday two Days after a classmate punched his Chest and Dis lodged a plastic bean valve that kept him alive authorities said. Justin Charles Cupples of Newton Iowa had a heart attack before Dawn that severely damaged his brain and made his lungs and kidneys malfunction mercy Hospital medical Center spokesman Bill Maurer said. He died at1 30 . The Hospital was searching nation wide for a donor heart for Justin until be suffered the heart attack. He just had a whole Bunch of problems Maurer said. Justin received a plastic heart valve last month but it was dislodged when a 15-year-old classmate hit him on the Chest wednesday causing him to bleed internally Maurer said. Children at Berg Junior High school said the boy hit Justin in the neck then chased him Down a hallway an punched his Chest. Teachers helped Justin to the school nurse and he complained of severe pain then collapsed. The boy s bean stopped several times and doctors said he suffered brain damage by the time he arrived at the Des Moines Hospital. Jasper county authorities said they will decide next week whether to file charges against the classmate who hit Justin. Jasper county attorney John Bill Mosley said he will review police reports this weekend. As for charges Well then take it from there he said. Classmates and friends mourned jus tin Friday and principal David git lager said the students will be offered counselling. He was a Nice Guy a classmate said. Ill miss  woman leads Ore. American legion want to trn n i re i r Portland Ore. A a former women s army corps dental technician has become the first woman commander of the 25,000-Mcmber american legion department of Oregon. We re not people to be put into the background said Patsy Nestor of port land who Rose through the ranks of the organization Over ii years. We Are smart and Able to do things in our own  we try to downplay the fact that she s a lady said Barry Snyder. The department adjutant. It s an organization where anybody is Able to grow. I guess you could say we re an equal  Nestor 54, is a native of Bend who enlisted m the women s army corps in june 1951. She served As a dental technician at army bases in Washington state and moved to Portland after her Dis charge m april 1953. No wa9s he to cd me overcome a very bad inferiority Complex made me become aware of other people and that All people were made the same Nestor said. People used to intimidate me they Don t do that  during 1980-81, Nestor was the first woman commander of Tigard Post 158, which she said was a unique situation for these Macho men to have to accept. They found out i was t going to Back Down become female so to speak and would stand up and fight she said. They respected me enough to Back me for the offices i ran