European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes o Iowa town has Bright idea to save Money Page 5 d Calvin & ,1 far Side Start today Page 18 d Reagan still backs Gates for Cia postage 28 these is Ard Utho Leo Uno Mictl a ution Foth . Tutto Foice 1 vol. 45, no 316 monday. March 2, 1987 d 6693 a twisters kill 8 in Mississippi Laurel miss. A residents and cleanup Crews worked under a sunny shy sunday to recover belongings and Clear up wreckage from ,1 Tornado int left cd jul people dead nearly 500 families homeless and millions of dollars in damage. Everybody is tired but things arc looking up said Carl Carlos Jones county civil Defenso director. It s just a matter or cleanup and gel Back on our feel  the Tornado left no cast 145 people injured Asil Cut a 20-Mik-Long, 2-mlle-Widc path  across mostly Rural Jones county in Southeastern Mississippi on saturday morning. Same residents camped out overnight at bonfires beside the piles or splintered lumber and Brick hat had been heir Homes and the National guard blocked off 15 roads and highways. It probably caused More damage in one county than i Vever seen said nov. Bill attain. In looked More like a Hurricane than it did a Tornado because everything was so flattened out the storm skilled Laurel ffcltyof21,. Jones county Coroner Henry Dobson said six Fatali ties were directly caused by the Tornado and two other people died of heart attacks during or after the storm. The Tornado carved a Trail through the Small communities of Glade Powers Tucker s crossing Jenkins and Mosselle saturday morning. A Survey by the red crass listed 219 single family home114 Mobile Homes and one apartment Complex destroyed. In All 648 residences in the county were either destroyed or damaged. The red Cross said 492 families were forced out of their Homes. Most of the injured were Aken o hospitals by about 4 p.m., Carlos said adding that about 75 percent of the injuries were minor. Allain declared a state of emergency that allowed the Mississippi Highway patrol and other slate agencies 10 Send in Rescue Crews. A guide miss family awaits help after i Clr Home was hit by one of the tornadoes that ripped through inc slate. . Officials Praise latest soviet plan to reduce missiles Geneva a visiting . Officials hailed a soviet offer of an immedi ate agreement to rid Europe of medium Range nuclear missile and arms control negotiators scheduled a special session monday to discuss it. I think it is a constructive step thai should open the Way to concluding the remaining issues leading ultimately to a treaty said assistant Secretary of de sense Richard n. Peril on sunday. Kremlin Leader Mikhail Gorbachev said saturday the soviet Union was will ing to sign without delay an agreement to eliminate soviet and american medium Range missiles from ii rope within five Yean. But Perl warned thai both sides at the Geneva talks would have to agree on ways to police a treaty and on Many other details before a final document could be offered. He said the current round of Geneva arms talks due to end wednesday May be extended to discuss medium Range weapons. Sen Richard g. Lugar r-lnd., visit ing Geneva with a Sunaie observers group said he hoped a to Merchun Ivi arms treaty could be ratified before president Reagan i cats office in 1989. He said some senators were optimistic that he next round of the talks May Start drafting a treaty and that the round May begin sooner than the scheduled resumption Date of april 23. The treaty could include other areas discussed in the talks such As Long Range nuclear weapons and space based weapons he said. Lugar said the nut round will be Cru Cial because time is running out before the 1988 presidential Campaign. He said he hoped drafts could be submitted to Reagan and Gorbachev by the end of i98tt the Senate would Lake up the treaty Early in the 1988 session before inc presidential election Campaign reaches full Speed he said. Perl and Lugar talked to reporters independently. Both said they believed the soviets made inc initiative in Hopes in would in crease Western european opposition to the so called Broad interpretation of the 1972 Ami ballistic missile treaty. This interpretation would allow expanded testing in the strategic defense Intia Sivc Reagan s proposal Tor a space based missile defense system. The United states european allies have expressed concern Phil this could scuttle the Geneva talks because of soviet insistence that see soviet on Page 28 seat of Power no More an Unia Mitil d Workman h heels out the chair of president Reagan s ousted chief of staff Dunaj Regan saturday at inc while i limb. I Gan Hiliu quit Fri hot Van at Ihu while Anuw winding up his affairs. Helped Story pure 18.