European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 news update the stars and stripes Friday May 29,1937 brazilian debt Rio de Janeiro Brazil a finance minister Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira warns to restart paying the interest on Brazil s for eign debt a newspaper reported wednesday Bresser Pereira in a Brief inter View Wilh the influential o Enado de Sao Paulo newspaper was quoted As saying one of his chief goals As finance minister is to re Voke the moratorium and restart payments As soon As  Bresser Pereira who has head to the finance ministry for on month is to travel to Washington with Central Bank president Fer Nando Milliet in about a month to begin talks with foreign creditor Banks. Sunken ferry sold London a the salvaged British car ferry Herald of free Enterprise which sailed Wilh open Bow loading doors capsized and drowned nearly 200 people is being sold to a German company and May carry passengers again a London newspaper said wednes Day. Operators Townsend Thoresen would not comment on the report in the London evening Standard which said the 7,951-ton vessel is going to Eckhardt Marine a Ham Burg based Marine finance firm. It quoted the German firm As saying the ship would probably be used As a ferry and not sold Tor scrap. 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Bartma Washington Butiu Washington a plan to Force the Pentagon to pay More attention to conventional warfare planning particularly in Europe is gaining support on Capitol Hill. An amendment establishing a conventional defense advisory Board within the Pentagon was attached to defense authorization legislation passed by the House last week. This week the Senate led by Sens Strom Thurmond , and Carl Levin d-mich., began considering a similar move. Ever since the end of the second world War a disproportionate amount of attention has been devoted to glamorous strategic nuclear systems at the expense of nuts and bolts conventional defense matters such As Airlift heavy ground forces sea lift. And air superiority said rep. Charles Bennett d-fla., who first proposed the advisory panel. The panel would examine and make recommendations concerning All conventional Force programs including adequacy of research and development pro Grams and equipment purchasing. Thurmond wants to place a similar pro vision in the Senate s defense Bill Bui Levin remains unsure of the Best approach to attain his goal of strengthening . Conventional forces an aide said. An aide id Bennett said that while the plan was developed before current East West negotiations to remove nuclear weapons from Europe it blends Well with All this Zero option  we continue to make nuclear War More Likely by shortchanging those conventional forces in order to pay for Ever More redundant strategic forces both offensive and defensive. Levin Aid in recent speech. Levin said that Over the next three years the Reagan administration want so increase strategic forces funding by 37 clop men for strategic forces was 16 percent of the total defense budget for research and development. For fiscal1989, the administration proposes that it Lake up 35 percent of that by decl i think our lop defense priority is the improvement of our conventional forces Levin said. In a constrained budget environment we must id effect play Robin Hood. We must take from the redundant and give to the under funded we must tale from he nuclear and give to the  storms twisters floods Batter . By the associated press thunderstorm that dropped and Inch of rain an hour and spawned tornadoes drenched Oklahoma and Kansas thurs Day forcing hundreds of evacuations blowing the roof off a factory and killing a 2-year-old who drowned when her fam ily s car was swept Oft a Road. In Ros Shiue kan., 300 people were evacuated thursday because of flooding Afler Cross Creek surged to More than 6 feet above flood stage. One woman was Hurt and May have fractured a leg when she slipped on Railroad tracks. In Guthrie okja., several Hundred residents headed for High ground after Cottonwood Creek reached 26.9 feet said Joe Goddard Logan county assistant civil defense director. Other evacuations were under Way in the Southern part of Oklahoma City Anat least one Community North of the City was Cut off by High Waters authorities said. Rush hour traffic was snarled when official closed a major Highway inter change after water eroded a foundation under a Bridge. In Oklahoma City a 2-year-old Girt died in a Hospital after she and her family were found clinging to a tree Early thursday about 2vi hours after blood a lers swept their car off a Road officials said. The girl s 6-year-old sister and 3-Ycar old brother were listed in Good condition at Oklahoma children memorial Hospi Tal. Thunderstorms doused an area fro Northern Texas to Oklahoma Kansas and Missouri. Rash flood warnings were posted for Central Oklahoma and lash flood watches were issued for parts of Oklahoma Kansas and Texas. Intense thunderstorms were devel Oping across a vast area of Texas at Daw thursday prompting forecasters to warn of lightning High winds and Hail. Hail the size of baseballs fell in Midland Dur ing the night. Up to 9 inches of rain Felt on Oklahoma on wednesday night and thursday was the 10th Day in a Row of precipitation. Storms on wednesday spawned two tornadoes that touched Down in Brown county kan., ripping the roof and two Walls from a machine parts factory eleven employees escaped injury by huddling in a bathroom said Highway patrol  Williams. The twisters also seriously damaged two farmhouses. At least four twisters were sighted in Texas three in Kansas and one in wis Consin the National weather service said. High winds blew Down a barn in Lena. 111., and another in Buchanan mov and downed Trees and Power lines in Illinois Wisconsin and Kansas. In Southwest Iowa the  fed by three Days of rain swamped 2,5 Square Miles most of it cropland from Sidney to Riv non said a Fremont county civil defense official. Damage to crops and soil in Iowa was estimated at $3.6 million from tuesday flooding alone. Tuesday s floods contaminated the Wells of 13 or 14 families in the Lin Community of co Buie upstream said Jerry of Sindorf of the slate office of disaster services. The National guard provided a 400-gallon water Tan at the state health department worked to restore drinking water supplies. In Western Missouri flooding from the tar Cio River closed a seven mile Section of interstate 29 North of St. Joseph on wednesday. In Tarkio municipal Wells a lumber company a Grain storage site and the Tarkio Airport were flooded. Mayor Charles Sheppard said. In Michigan wednesday the Mercury soared to 90 degrees in Flint breaking the 1978 record for the Date by 3  hot weather was predicted for thursday. The temperatures together with humidity readings of so percent or More presented a danger to livestock especially confined animals the weather service said. Fog dosed the is. Marys River the Channel Between lakes Superior an Huron for 13 hours wednesday. The River was closed again for a time thurs Day Bui reopened by late morning. In Wyoming up to 5 inches of Snow and powerful winds blocked two uses in Yellowstone National Park on wednesday. Injured Stark sailors still listed serious san Antonio. Texas a two sailors burned in the iraqi Jet attack on the . Frigate Stark Are stable at Brooke army medical Center s Burn Cen Ter but their conditions still Are serious officials said. Navy Petty officers 3,c. James r. Wheeler 28, of Elpaso and Lawrence m. Bareford 23, of Spotsylvania va., Are being mated at Ibe . Army Surgi Caj research Institute for second an third degree bums. They were injured May 17 when mis Siles fired by an iraqi Pilot bit their ship in the persian Gulf. The attack killed 37 men aboard the Navy frigate the Raen arrived in san Antonio on May 20 in critical condition but their condition was upgraded to serious last weekend. A tracheal tube has been removed from Wheeler s Throat said medical Cen Ter spokesman Ray Dery on monday Bareford bad the first of a series of ski graft operations Dery said. No dates have been set for other skin graft operations for the men Dery said. Their condition is the same serious Dery said wednesday. They arc stable and doing  Wheeler received modest damage this Airway and lungs in die explosion and fire aboard the shark. He had second and third degree Burns Over 23 percent of his body. Bareford was burned Over 42 percent of his body. The red Cross announced it is provid ing financial assistance so relatives of themen can stay in san Antonio. Barc Ford s parents Are in san Antonio along with Wheeler s Mother officials said. Wheeler s father was there earlier but has returned to Elpaso Dery said. Army identifies Soldier killed in Accident Goeppinger Germany Sas the Soldier killed saturday in a Ira tic Accident in Schondorf was pvt. 2 Leo Carter jr., a Rifleman in co a 4lh in 16 h inf regl at Cooke Barracks in Goc Pingen. Carter 20, was a passenger in a 1979 Bow that collided head on Wilh a bus. He received the army commendation medal posthumously in recognition of Bis military service said 1st inf div fwd spokesman Sec. Frank Stachowiak. Carter is survived by his father Leon Carter of Atlanta and his Mother. Vero Nica l. Martin of Jackson. Miss the car s Driver spec. 4 Darrel Jor Dan 19, a tracked vahide Driver in the battalion s he co remained in stable condition and under observation for pos sible head injuries thursday at the army Hospital in bad Cannstatt