European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes q Iowa town has Bright idea to save Money Page 5 d saturday s College basketball results sports Page 21 d Gorbachev offers separate arms pact Page 28 ripes auth Suhd unofficial Public Itlen fou Ink u.�. Humid Foj Kij vol.45. No.316 monday March 2, 1987 the 0 6693 a twisters kill 7 in Mississippi Laurel miss. A powerful tornadoes swept across South Central Mississippi on saturday killing seven people and injuring at least 145 others an leaving nearly 500 families homeless. We be got injuries along a 15 to 20-mile track said Carl Carlos Jones county civil defense chief. Officials called units of the National guard to Hel Clear roads and prevent looting. Four  admitted to Laurel s two hospitals  Early  county which 6oret"toijtelhc storms fury was declared a disaster  who poured the area late saturday about 345 Homes were destroyed and 300 were damaged forcing 492 families to seek other shelter said Dusty Perkins a spokesman for the slate Emer gency management Agency. About one fourth of the injuries were serious said Carlos. Details were not immediately available one or More tornadoes spawned by a storm system thai had dumped heavy ram and caused flooding in other parts of the state hit Al mid Oming and killed two people in the Community of Glade five mile Southeast of Laurel. The area was hit so bad that they an could t gel to All he victims imm Ejoann Dunagin nursing director at stale Hospital in Laurel another person was killed on  of Laurel and the four other fatalities we Mjor cd in the coun by said Deputy sheriff Larr per. A Tornado upped thru Jeptie Eastern part of Glade a farming  300 people about 90 mites North of , and destroyed a school Church store Tiff feral houses Carlos said. Two  areas Dixie and Powers also we Rajunas one or More twisters Cul a path 20  two Miles wide through the county. Narvey should be completed by tuesday allowing the Siat clo apply of Federal disaster Assisi athe governor said  he extent of the damage Jcj Umpire ii would run into the millions of Dolla in All  cd 219 houses and 126 to bile  said and 39 businesses were dam Fyod. It looks like one of the worst Toma we be had he said la looks More like a Anc or a War zone the National weather service reported Trees and Power lines were downed from Rankin county in Cen trial Mississippi near Jackson to the Alabama Border. Tornado warnings were issued in eight counties forty people were taken to Jones county Community Hospital and 12 others were taken to South Mississippi stale Hospital. Most suffered cuts and bruises from flying debris and some drove themselves to the hospitals officials said. Janet West watched through the Joor of her fam ily Sstorm cellar while the wind whipped rain to the consistency of  pc looked outside and it just did t look  a was almost  House behind me and i swear ii said her husband How forc torn All to  it heard the warning when i he the a resident of Laurel miss., surveys the wreckage looked i Ard. Our Mccharles Tigirt Sai and climbed into his Tornado touched Down. La turned inc trailer on us. I had lot said Tigirt. The school s gone. The Church store they re both  1 ,650 customers in Waynesboro were without electricity for about an hour said John Hutchinson of Mississippi Power co. Hutchinson said the Tornado destroyed one 230,000-Voll transmission line serving Laurel and four sled Lowers. Another Tower was toppled on a 1 10,000-Volltine, he said French jury gives Arab terrorist life term t reject government  i leniency and sentenced Georges Ibrahim Abdallah to life in prison for complicity in the assassinations of american and israeli diplomats in  two women emerged after an hour of deliberations with the Majori a that Abdallah receive the Maxim Abdallah  in the assassinations of it Fritts military attache la.  israeli Diplomat Jacov Barsimantov in 1982, and an attempt on the life of former . Robert 0. Homme in Strasbourg in 1984.  rec monday that a 10 years in.  into a Martyr and 1 hostage to  verdict represented a Victory for the United slates which entered the Case As a civil party urging the court to resist political pressures and serve notice to terrorists that they can no longer use France As . Abdallah was not in court for sentencing. His actor a Jacques verges reacted angrily and said i Amney Foice Waswill keep Georges Ibrahim Abdallah for life if that is "jjntcrcsi."1 reporters he did not know if Abdal Lah s  new wave of bombing sin Paris in reaction Toi hut he said "1 Don t think try Matei Illman like see cola increase approved for gis overseas by Chuck Vinci i Washington Bureau fic members overseas soon Wil increase of 10 percent to 20 pen Secretary of defense Caspar Weinberger Alonas authorized a program to allow family members overseas who Trot Cobmand spam rect to re-110 the United states on a space aboard military aircraft. Ola increase was effective March 1 and should first appear in March 15 paychecks said David , principal assistant Secretary of defense for Force management and personnel. Enberger approved the new cola rate tables per diem committee a the most recent . Housch Dit re data Armor the  the Purchas ing Power overseas personnel More a told the purchasing Power of Ary members in the Toni led states he said. Eligibility for a flight Home for Nan command sponsored families will de Pend on demonstrated need As deter mined by local commanders and will apply to overseas personnel in Ger Many Japan Italy and Spain Armor said. Military personnel in those countries have been hardest hit by falling Exchange rates he said. The situation inmost critical in Europe. In Sog tries the Dollar hasfajg�0m4inrli As Bart tall of people who rely on Economy some military member summand sponsored  in 1984and i9b5, when thf3bibh and they Are now facing sen ships. If they re not command sponsored they re not getting a full housing allow Ance he said if they brought the families Over when things were Good. They May have problems  said it s difficult to estimate How Many non command sponsored families arc overseas but Dod believes the number is about 5,000 or  Donl Mma. Win on lying at allowing families in those four countries to return if they can show their local commanders that they re haying serious problems an that returning to the slates would help them out of that  is a cutoff of May i for the program. If a member who is no command sponsored brings family a embers overseas after that Date the eligible for the free trip Armor Sun  can of lain command ii pc to if thy Are wilting to mend their oni Lulu sign men is to conform with Signor re accompanied tour lengths. That s on immediate wily or 3 military family to solve its economic  he said. Fejt