European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28othe stars and stripes wednesday May 27,1bb7 Rosary service held for 29 Tornado victims Balmorhea Texas a More than 1,000 relatives and friends or 29 people killed by a Tornado in the nearby town of Saragosa filled a school gymnasium for a Rosary service monday night while red Cross volunteers began distributing Aid thai has poured in from As far away a Canada. Tic firs funeral since the Friday night disaster was held monday morning with the burial in Pecos of a 25-year-old woman and her son who would have been 1 year old sunday. Red Cross workers set up shop in the school in Balmorhea where officials can celeb the last week or classes after the disaster. Elpaso Bishop Raymond Pena an the Rev. Ralph Derringer pastor of both the Balmorhea and Saragosa parishes led families and friends seated on folded Chain on the gym floor in the Rosary in Spanish and English. Pena who had visited earlier with individual families spread through the school in classrooms converted to Pri vate mourning Parlours said my heart is rent. But As visited with you and have seen your strength and the strength of your Faith the strength of your Trust and the strength of your love the strength of my Faith and the strength of Ray Trust and the strength  my love has been in  Reeves county sheriff Raul Florcz had ordered that no reporters or photog Raphers be allowed inside the building. These people Are 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 said red Cross spokeswoman Susan Clowe. Late monday violent weather again swept West Texas As a mass of moist unstable air met a line of dry air. The red Cross has determined hat 55 Homes were destroyed and about 40 were damaged when Friday s twister Tore apart the predominantly hispanic farm ing Community. Clowe said 90 to 100 families were affected by the disaster which injured More than 120. Florez said the preliminary damage estimate was $ 1.4 million. Nov. Bill Clements said slate official were working on an emergency Declara Tion that could Speed assistance to the Tornado s victims. We re going to declare an emergency. We re working on that right now. We re contacting Washington Clements said. A Icrine Mccain executive Distor of the red Cross chapter said donations have been made of clothing food and household items As Well As More than 16,000 in Cash from a child s Piggy Bank to pennies in a paper bag. The response has been tremendous not Only from ode a and writ Texas but from All Over the country she said. While Earth moving machines were used to dig Graves for the mass funeral dozens of workers began cleaning up the 76-year-old Community. People who established Otis town were Nion ters. The people of Saragosa ate Pioneer again said rep. Ron Cole Man a Texas who was among 500 peo ple attending an outdoor mass on Sun Day in memory of the victims at the site of what used to be our lady of Guada upe Church. While our hearts Are heavy god is still with us Pena said at sunday s serv ice. Non believers now will question our Faith in god. Bui for us the words that Jesus Speaks to us in the gospel today 1 will not abandon you is a sign that god hears our prayers. Stark from Page 1 september 1980 and Between them have attacked about 230 ships in the Gulf in raids aimed at damaging each other s Economy. Iraq called the attack on the Stark a mistake. Presi Dent Saddam Hussein publicly apologized for it. Iraqi officials stressed the need for . Help to end the War and said they do no want iraqi-. Relations impaired. Newton told reporters that attacking the Stark was the last thing the iraqis wanted. The iraqis have shown lot of Good Wilt. We still have a healthy  the first closed door meeting with iraqi defense officials is due tuesday. Embassy officials declined to give details and said no firm Agenda was set. . Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger has demanded the iraqis produce the Pilot to explain Why relaunched at least one missile at the Stark As it patrolled the Gulf. Iraq has not said it will do so. But Western Diplo Mats said they believe the iraqis will cooperate with the . Mission. . Officials in Baghdad said Iraq agreed to pay compensation for human and material losses in the attack but no amount was worked out. Some diplomats in Baghdad mentioned figures of from $300 million to $400 million. Sen. James Sasser a Tennessee Democrat headed Home after visiting Bahrain and Kuwait where he warned that the United stain will not tolerate any armed attack on american ships by any  a delegation of staff members from the House armed services committee meanwhile visited the Slark. Iraq said repeatedly the attack Vas carried out by one French made Mirage Al Jet. Bil . Naval officials say two planes May have been involved. They said the warship was hit by one exocet missile a wave skimming radar guide weapon widely used by Iraq to attack iranian ships and Oil installations and a second missile possibly a laser guided As-30. Mirages can carry Only one exocet. It is not known if they can also carry As Fli with that payload. Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz said last week that the one Pilot Baghdad acknowledge carried out the air strike believed he was attacking an iranian  Aziz also said the Pilot received no signals or warn Ings from the Stark identifying it As a . Vessel. . Officials have said the warship transmitted two signals to the iraqi plane. This is one key contradiction . Investigators Hope to resolve. Despite the carnage Westem diplomats believe Washington Wil go ahead with plans to Register kuwaiti tankers under the . Flag to protect them from iranian attacks. One fifth of the non communist world s Oil passes through the Gulf. Iran accuses Kuwait of directly aiding Iraq s War Effort. Iran singled out kuwaiti vessels and those Trad ing with that Gulf state for attack in recent months. Meanwhile a c-141 transport plane flying out of Rhein main a carrying the remains of 36 sailors killed in the attack on the Stark was to land tuesday at Dover fab Del thirty seven sailors were killed in the May 17 attack on the Stark in the persian Gulf. The remains of one victim Terance c. Weldon of Orlando fla., have not been positively identified said it. Nettie Johnson a Media Center spokeswoman. The bodies will be prepared for burial at the Dover fab mortuary and it will then be up to the families of the victims to decide where the coffins arc to be hip Ped. Sasser said after his fact finding Mission into the devastating air raid against the Navy frigate Stark the United states win not tolerate any armed attack on american ships by any  his remarks were obviously targeted at warring Ira and Iran. An iraqi missile strike on May 17 killed 37. American sailors on the Navy warship. Kuwaiti officials a id the Tennessee Democrat assured them the United slates is determined to protect Freedom of navigation in the persian Gulf and ensure the flow of Oil to industrialized countries. Sasser spent 36 hours in Bahrain. He visited the heavily damaged Stark now at an Chor and later met with Bahrain s ruler Sheik la bin Sulman Amui Alifa and foreign minister Sheik Mohammed bin Mubarak. The senator then flew to Kuwait where he explored Security measures for kuwaiti Oil tankers due to Tail the Gulf sea lanes under the american Flag talking to reporters at Kuwait Airport before he left for Washington with a Stopover in Europe Sasser said that the attack on the missile frigate was accidental and that Iraq apologized for it. Inflation in dec up Luxembourg a consumer prices in the 12 nations of the european economic Community Rose  percent in april raising the secs average annual inflation rate to 3.2 percent from 3.1 percent in March the secs statistics Agency euro set has re. Ported. Honor from Page 1 a cemetery at Las Cruces n.m., some of them bound together by memories of the horrors of the Hawaii death March after they were surrendered to the Japa Nese in the Philippines in world War ii. Ii was one hell of a horrible experience and i lived it for a Long Long time said Donald Harris. In Kansas City mo., the Rev. Thomas Denzer re called his service in the Pacific during world War ii in a Speed Al 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 laps echoing off the Hills that i came to realize thai 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 Hill in Seattle. Id Southern California crosses were planted Ai the Westminster civic Center for american hostages in Lebanon and marines in Santa Ana re enacted the raising of the american Flag on iwo Jima during world War ii. In new York City former servicemen gathered at a Vietnam Monument to Back a proposal to establish shelter 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 Veteran of Amer Ica. In West Virginia which had the nation s highest casually rate in the Vietnam War a Vietnam veterans Park was dedicated at Philippi by sen. Jay Rockefeller. This Park will always remind us of the dangers they faced and the sacrifices they endured he Saidt Donovan from against him which he said from the Start were Cully motivated to Embarrass Reagan before the 1984 election. In Washington Reagan voiced his jury s decision. Kin who spent 3w Yeara pc Selling the Case left the courtroom without comment. When asked for a statement assistant District at Torney Lay Shapiro said nothing. Not even no com ment."1 i news conference mond sve to accept the yildpbbf8wi��pbblijmf.r3 and ally we can t win All the timer Merola dismissed the suggestion of political motivation in the prosecution As absolute  no Cost of the prosecution could be ascertained but Donovan s lawyers have said the defense of his company s executives has Cost More than is 3 million As Well As scores of millions More in lost  other defendants in the Case were state sen. Us president Richard c. Callighan senior vice president Albert j. Marini vice president Gennaro Liguori second vice president and Morris j. Levin and  months to present hit Case Cau ing 40 Wolffi few so la i joins 5js exhibits. The defense  Caj Jing a an Gle witness arguing thai  to prove any crime