European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes q Iowa town has Bright idea to save Money Page 5 d Calvin & Hobbes far Side Start today Page 18 q Reagan still backs Gates for Cia Post. Page 28 the stars an unoffioa1. Publ Colci vol. 45. No. 31 6 monday. March 2, 1987 06693 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 and Leav ing nearly 500 families homeless. We be go injuries along a is to 20-mile track said car Carlos Jones county civil defense chief. Officials called units of the National guard 10 help Clear roads and prevent looting. Four of the 40 people admitted 10 Laurel s two hospitals were in critical condition Early sunday. Jones county which bore the Brunt of the storms fury was declared a disaster area said gov. Bill Al late who toured the area late saturday. About 345 Homes were destroyed and 300 were damaged forcing 492 families to seek shelter said Dusty Perkins a spokesman for the slate emergency management Agency. About one fourth of the injuries were serious Carlos said. Details were not immediately available. One or More tornadoes spawned by a storm system that had dumped heavy ram and caused flooding in other parts of the state hit at mid Oming and killed two people in the Community of Glade five Miles Southeast of Laurel. The area was hit so bad that they apparently could t get to All the victims immediately said Joann Dunavin nursing director at South Mississippi state Hospital in Laurel. Another person was killed on the outskirts of Laurel and the tour other fatalities were reported in the court by said Deputy sheriff Larry Harper a Tornado ripped through the Eastern part of Glade a farming Community of about 300 people about 90 Miles North of the Gulf coast and destroyed a school Church store and several houses Carlos said two other unincorporated areas Dixie and Powers also were hit As one or More twisters Cut a path 20 see twisters on Page 28 a Glade miss family awaits help after their Home was hit by one of the tornadoes tint ripped through the state. Pow to . Officials Praise latest soviet ran to reduce mrs files Geneva a visiling\.s, offi Tafs hailed a soviet offer of anon Midi a ate agreement to rid Europe of i Range nuclear missiles and arms a negotiators scheduled a special monday to discuss it. I think it is a constructive should open the Way to cond Ming the remaining issues leading  to a treaty said assistant Sec Larry of de sense Richard n. Perle on enday. Kremlin Leader Muf Pil Gorbachev said saturday the Sov Vunion was will ing to sign without pay an agreement to eliminate soyt mid american medium Range missile from Europe within five years but Pyrle a cd that both sides at the Geneva Lalk would a if to agree an ways to to acc u treaty and on Many other do talk before a final Docu Manl could be he of the current round of Geneva arms As due id end wednesday. May be Euben did to discus medium Range Cap Dos. Sen Bichard g. Luj Iii r-lnd., visit ing go Jvn with a St wait observers group said he hoped a  arms treaty could of ratified before president Reagan leaves office in i9sm. He said some senators � to optimistic it the 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. Klugar said the next round will be Cru  time s running out before Gas presidential Campaign. He said he naked drafts could be submitted to Reagan ind Gorbachev by the end of 1987. The sort pc would take up the treaty Early in the ims session before the presidential Csc Atiq Campaign reaches full Speed he said. Pyrle and lugs talked to reporters independently. Both said they in eyed the soviets made the initiative in fives it would in crease Western  to the so called Broad  of the 1972 anti ballistic Missius Caty. This interpretation would Prilow expanded testing in the St Ralcgie firn so inti alive Reagan s proposal for it acc based missile defense system. The nit cd slates european allies have expressed concern that this could scuttle the Geneva talks a Taum of soviet insistence that see soviet on Page 28 seat of Power no More. Unit Ali Kii Workman wheels out the chair of in a aft tiers. To Juil whip