European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 26, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 28 the stars and stripes tuesday. May 26,1987 Tornado survivors begin to Bury dead Saragosa Texas a survivors of a Tornado that destroyed it is Community began 10 Bury heir 29 dead today and to seek help for themselves As they wondered How 10 return to a town Hal no longer exists. People who established this town were pioneers. The people of Saragosa arc pioneers again said stale rep. Ron Coleman d-e1 paso who was among the Joo people attending an outdoor mass on sunday in memory of those killed. More than 120 people were injured and six of those killed were children. About half the deaths occurred .11 a head Start preschool graduation. The first funeral Tor the victims was held monday morning in Pecos for a 25 year old woman and her son who would Nave been a year old on sunday. Two mass funerals Are planned for tuesday. Friday s Tornado reduced this 76-year old farming Community whose 350 Resi dents were mostly poor mexican Ameri cans to rubble. I really Don t expect it will be rebuilt. I Don t think they can afford it said the Rev Ralph Barranger who serves Christ the King Church. Some said they would move away. I Don l like his place anymore. Too much has died said Frank Ramirez who escaped serious injury when the Tor Nado levelled his House. As front end loaders and dump trucks hauled away splintered houses crumpled cars and cracked Adobe volunteers in nearby Balmorhea were being trained to interview the survivors in preparation for monday s opening of a disaster Relief enter. Local red Cross spokeswoman Susan Clowe said the Relief Center opened  Day morning and volunteers arc inter viewing families to determine heir needs for food clothing shelter and emergency medical care. These people arc in Shock. We re just trying to find out what they need whether it be anything from payment for the funeral to Long term help in terms of re building or furnishing their Homes Clowe said. Well be Here As Long As it lakes to meet people s needs said Dan Wagoner director of the american red Cross Effort in Bai Morica. Offers of Aid have been received from As far away As Canada. Bishop Raymond Pena said he a asked All 76 churches in his Al 1 Aso diocese to make a special Appeal for help. Wagener said that although response has been Good the needs of victims stretch beyond food. You can t measure a disaster by the number of houses that arc destroyed. You have to look at How it affects the Community he said. Sunday morning 36 hours after the Tornado hit 12-year-old Ramiro Rami rez found his Pel Chihuahua under debris in his House alive and uninjured Al though shaking the boy and his father were Home when the Tornado struck but they were not badly Hurt. Most of the More than 120 injured had been treated and released from hospitals by saturday afternoon. A few were hospitalized in serious condition the Tornado levelled a Community Hall where about 100 people had gathered for a graduation ceremony for preschool children in 3 head Start program. Among those kilted there were Elsa Lara Herrera and her son Jonathan. About 2so mourners said a Rosary Sun Day which would have been Jona than s first birthday for them in Pecos they were attending the ceremonies with mrs. Herrera s husband Joey Herrera jr., a Pecos school Board trustee and guest at the graduation who sur Vived Royal dress rehearsal a photo Queen Elizabeth ii s coach and four clips past Berlin bused soldiers monday at a rehearsal of the Queen s birthday Parade. Britain s Queen arrives in Berlin Tun Day. Hie Parade will be wednesday at the Maifeld near Berlin s olympic stadium during the City s 750th anniversary festivities. Warning from Page 1. The frigate could have shot Down any missiles fired against it. Lally told a reporter he spent monday aboard the Stark where he met with the Captain and Crew but 1 am not prepared 10 talk to the press about  a Navy officer said Lally s delegation visited the Lasalle flagship of the task Force before proceeding to the Stark. The Crew there was Clearing debris from the devastation. The committee chairman. Rep. Les Aspin d-wis., dispatched the delegation in part to consider the ques Tion of whether failure to detect an incoming missile until the final seconds stemmed from any Inadequacy  or personnel. Kuwait has asked that 11 of its 21 Tanker Fleet Fly the . Flag As a Protection against iranian attacks on its ships. Iran accuses Kuwait of aiding the iraqi War Effort in the to a Yeier War and warned it would not be deterred by the . Flag on kuwaiti tankers. The Stark is among the seven vessel . Middle East task Force which is to protect the re flagged kuwaiti vessels. Soviet warships in the Gulf will protect their tankers. Sasser said in Bahrain the United stain is inter ested in seeing its Western allies and traditional friends among the Gulf Arab Stales share the risks of guaranteeing Freedom of navigation in the Oil Rich re Gion but without soviet participation. In Kuwait Sasser met separately with Crown Prince Sheik Saad Al Abdullah Al Sabah Oil minister Sheik Ali Khalifa Al Sabah and defense minister Sheik Salem Al Sabah sen. Sasser reaffirmed the . Desire to keep the Gulf. Open to International navigation minister of state for foreign affairs Saud Al Oss Aimi told report ers later. Following the  Stark disaster the Reagan administration reaffirmed its plan to provide . Naval Protection to kuwaiti tankers starting next month prompting the Senate to demand by a 91-5 vote last thursday it be provided with Complete details before the administration precedes with the arrangement. President Reagan has also announced he will go ahead with a plan to sell f-15 Jet aircraft to saudi Arabia. That plan has come under congressional criticism because patrolling saudi jets reportedly failed to answer . Requests for help when the Stark was hit. Moscow announced recently it has tade its own arrangements to provide some kuwaiti Oil tankers with the pre Lection of the soviet Fleet. Some congressmen Are wary of giving kuwaiti ships american Protection including air cover from the air Craft Carrier  Constellation which could ultimately Lead to a naval confrontation with Iran. Iran charged last week that the . And Iraq fabricated the May 17 attack to provide a pretext for an increased Ameri can military presence in the Gulf. Remembers from Page 1 Vietnam Veteran who is a candidate for the democratic presidential nomination. Vice president George Bush and former chief jus Tice Warren Burger went to Philadelphia to formally open the Observance of the Bicentennial of the Constitution. During the weekend representatives of the 13 original states re enacted the debate that went into the drafting of the document. Former prisoners of War gathered for a Smalt Cere Mony in a cemetery at Las Cruces n.m., some of them  by memories of the horrors of the Balaan death March after they were surrendered to the japanese in the Philippines in world War ii. In Kansas City mo., the Rev. Thomas denier re called his service in the Pacific during world War it in a speech at the City s Liberty memorial it was Only when i stood at the Graves of my com rades in the steaming Jungles of new Guinea and the Sticky mud of the Philippines and i heard the Plain Tive refrain of taps echoing off the Hills that i came to realize that from death and sacrifice comes life and Freedom Denzer said americans of japanese ancestry who served in the . Armed forces were honoured monday at a cemetery atop Capitol Hilt in Seattle. In new York sex  gathered at a Vietnam Monument on memorial Day to Back a measure to establish a shelter in the City for homeless veterans. On memorial Day everyone focuses on those Veter ans who died but we have to take care of the ones who Are dying said John Rowan a member of the nation Al Board of directors of the Vietnam veterans of Amer news Brief jury acquits Donovan of larceny fraud charges new York a a jury on monday acquitted former labor Secretary Raymond j. Donovan of the larceny and fraud charges thai forced him from office More than two years ago. The panel which deliberated for 9 a hours also found All seven of his co defendants innocent of All charges in a subway construction contract. Donovan the first silting Cabinet member to be indicted stood with arms folded As the jury t forego Man read the verdict. After she proclaimed him inno cent on the first and most serious count of grand larceny the 56-year-old former seminarian made the sign of the Cross. His wife Catherine who was seated in the gallery clutched a Friend s hand and sobbed. Other relatives of the defendants and even one defense lawyer wept openly As the verdicts were read in the eight month old Case. The defendants lawyers and court officers broke into applause after the jury left the courtroom in state supreme court which is new York s trial court. The jury also cheered