European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 28 the stars and stripes monday july 27,1987 this festival Ilso Methvi to sniff Calif. A Aroma ,500 pounds of filled god net Alley Al the ninth annul garlic festival claimed Capi Ollof thai Pungi Lily family. Tens of thou says of i their noses to the a world s smell est be nearly 100 food feed everything fro Lamari to garlic wine jewelry and garlic Pei about 150,000 ing the three Day in dizzying inking Rose Ning of the this self pro member of the _ lovers followed iday of one of the special to Booths of Prolic Scampi and gallic ice Cream garlic Here Mon in Are process motion Dii expected Dur City 20 Miles Han 100 Mil i yearly Saidur for the South of san Jok lion pounds of g Bevon Sorlie. Event. Last year f2,000 festival gown Vns Umed 12.230 poof of Pepper Steak san fetches 8,000 Poun of Calamari and 3,000 Padus of Scampi am washed in All Down with soft drinks pm and 25,000 Gallons of Beer. Cali Fiffia produces 90 percent of All  garlic old most of that is grown within 90 Miles f Gilroy or comes to Gilroy for process ing. Ales ill customers and on the a for about 1 Luff int of totals in february pcs exceeded $300 Winner credit sales retail sales ranging to 18 percent i million. Exchange  had pref Etc that the introduction of Lull cards would account hit about 6 percent  in the exchanges. A officials forecast another Strong say injw7, the report said. Admiral says Gulf Mission to continue despite blast editor s note the following dispatch distributed by the Pentagon was written saturday by Tim ahem of the associated press Michael Duffy time or no Jurat m. Dorsey the Washington time and Mark Thompson Knight Kidder newspapers. In the persian Gulf the top . Military official in the persian Gulf vowed saturday that the explosion of a mine against a re flagged Oil Tanker would not deter the United Stales from escorting ships in the persian Gulf. Bui rear adm. Harold j. Born san admin cd thai the surprising presence of submerged moored mines Means we re going to have to review the whole pro Gram and beef up Bis Force s ability to find and de stroy mines. We just don1 have a great Deal of anti mine capability said Belsen who Heads the nine ship Middle Easl Force. We re going to do some mine sweeping i m  Bernsen and his aides were stunned Early Friday morning when a moored mine ripped open a Hole in the Hull of the supertanker Bri Duclon while it was under escort by three Navy warships in the Gulf. Bern sen fingered Iran As the culprit saying it must be the iranians 1  the Bridgeton limped into Kuwait leaving the three warships to find their Way Back to Belsen s Headquarters Here. The warships did thai saturday zigzagging their Way Down the Western Edge of the Gulf in a successful Effort to skirt potential minefields. It certainly would not have been a pleasant experience he said. Now that the warships Are Safe Belsen acknowledged in a discussion saturday with the 10 members of Iho Pentagon press Pool that he has to find a Way to Clear a mine free pain before resuming president Rea Gan s controversial program of escorting the re flagged tankers through the Gulf. Ii has to be right Al the lop of the list after yester Day no doubt about ii he said we re going to be looking at aspects of the m Ine problem very  Belsen said Navy mine sweeping experts will sur vey the Channel in Miles West of Farsi Island where the Lelh Rcd mine struck the Bridgeton 21 feel below its water line. Born san said he will consider other ways of keeping the convoys running through the Gulf those include other routes and filling tankers Only 75 percent full to give them even More latitude to stray from established shipping channels. The Admiral also revealed that once the first con Voy s route was picked nobody checked that passage for mines. The pain followed by the ships threaded a Needle Between shallow water on inc West and a War zone declared by Iran on inc can. We had no indications thai there were mines in that area. Never have we seen a moored mine in Tut area he said during a trip on his personal Walcer ferry. We Don t normally sail into a minefield. That s not the Way we do business he said. Even though military planners spent months preparing for the passage Belsen Laid threats from silk worm missiles iranian aircraft and Small patrol boat attacks overshadowed the threat of mine warfare. Belsen said no one on his staff was assigned 10 Grap ple with the threat from mines. It s not just Oil tankers that Belsen is worried about now. Ii May seem incongruous but the fact is that t Large ship a non warship such As the Bridgeton is far less vulnerable to a mine than a warship he said. Capt. David p. Yonkers commander of the three ship flotilla agreed with that assessment. Right now. I certainly would t want logo Back through the area we were in yesterday said Yonkers. The mine is far and away the most difficult thing for me to defend against. One of the things i do not now have is the capability to defend my ships against mines. A lot of people Are going to have to do some rethinking about this  Yonkers and Belsen said they would review the Convoy s trip and make recommendations to washing ton about How to do it More safely next time. Well make some recommendations to washing ton and then i m sure that they will take some action Belsen said one possible lactic is to use the giant Tanker them selves As mine sweepers which is what happened Fri Day after the Bridgeton was hit. The Convoy collapsed its Diamond shaped formation in which the warships were outside of the tankers. Instead the warships Scur ried behind the Tanker s vast bulk. Once the Bridgeton was struck Yonkers ordered the single file formation born san said. If you be got a big Tanker thai is very difficult to Hurt with a single mine you gel in behind it. That s the Best defense and that s exactly what we did Cool front brings Relief to some Eastern areas by the associated Prthu the heal wave thai has gripped the Eastern half of the United Stales for the past week chased hundreds of thousands of people to beaches sat urday but a weak Cool from easing southward from Canada brought slight Relief for some Northern areas. However some cities passed Ihei record highs As temperatures continued rising. Water temperature in Lake Erie Hil 79 degrees at Buffalo n.y., the warm est the Lake has been in the 61 years that records have been kept. Seven deaths in five Stales have been blamed on the heat since Luly 17. The temperature it new York City s Central Park hit 9s, a record for the Dale and hit 97 Al Newark n.j., also a record. Other july 25 records included 99 at Grenville Spartanburg . 93 at Providence . 101 at Baltimore 99 at Richmond a. 97 at Greensboro High Point Winston Salem Airport i North Carolina 97 at Bristol Tenn. 98 at Roanoke a. And 96 Al Wil Mington Del. Philadelphia lied its record of 95 and Charlotte n.c., lied its record of 100. The official hoi spot in the nation was Ide at the desert City of Needles Calif. It was the eighth Day in a Row u 90 degree weather at Newark and the seventh consecutive Day Washington s National Airport hit at least 96. Louisville ky., had its eighth consecutive Day in the 90s, with a High of 93. The National weather service said Earls of the Southeast would suffer heat Index a combination of heat and humidity of 105. A heat Index of 79 is considered uncomfortable for everyone. Part of the Cool front had eased the heat As far South As Northern Illinois and Indiana slightly lowering temperatures and humidity and the Eastern end was slowly moving Over the North East. The clash Between warm and Cool air brought severe thunderstorm watches for parts of Ohio Indiana South Dakota West Virginia Pennsyl Vania new Jersey new York Connecticut Maine new Hampshire ver Mont and Massachusetts. As Many As i million people were expected to visit Chicago s 32 reaches Over inc weekend Joseph Pecoraro general supervisor of beaches and pools for the Chicago Park District said. An estimated 385,000 people hit new York City s Coney Island Man Hattan Rockaway and Orchard beaches. The weekend closing of Many Busi Nesses lessened demand for electricity thai Hil records during the week from the Plains to the Easl coast but new York s consolidated Edison had re Cord for a saturday following a we a of four record Selling Days. A veterans administration Hospital in Boston regained Power and its air conditioning Early saturday for in first Lime since thursday evening. Emergency generators had supplied just enough Power for lights and fans Hospital spokeswoman Norma o Brien said. Baldrige from Paga 1 Cabinet in january 1911. Bil Drigo came Down with viral pneumonia last de Cember and was hospitalized in Albuquerque . He was fall on hit Back Tor nearly four weeks bul said in april hit he had made a full recovery he said he had quit sum King and begun jog in Iolj Milci a by. He was one of Only three members of Reagan s Origi Nal 1981 Cabinet who remained on the Job. The others Are defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and housing Secretary Samuel Pierce. I guess it s Luck of the draw Baldrige said in april. There have been other secretaries of Commerce who stayed longer. Herbert Hoover was one of them. He stayed for two full  the intensifying Trade dispute with Japan concern ing semiconductors brought him new attention Iii Spring and summer. Long the haul on Trade in an administration Hal tended to oppose action against errant trading partners Baldrige marshalled the Case in the Cabinet Lor the stiff tariffs imposed earlier in the year on japanese electronics products we Wani very much to have Good relations with Japan he said. The fact that in inc past not enough attention was paid to Trade has led to this friction now. But thai should not Bolher the res of of lives. We have to be careful it does  he said the problems can t be pushed aside but that Lilicy Muil be add Ciu d in a straightforward manner and thai will help both