European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 28, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes tuesday july 2b, 1987page 28 f a heat wave hanging Over most of . By the associated press a heat wave cranked temperatures into the 90s again sunday Over much of uie nation East of the Rockies but a coot from pushing Down from Canada brought some Relief around the great lakes and North East along with thunderstorms. At least 12 deaths have been blamed on the heal in five state. Sunday was the 10th consecutive Day in the 90$ at Chicago and Rockford 111., with both cities passing 90 just after noon. Humidity was in the 55 to 65 per cent Range. To the South Peoria hit 100 for the first time since 1983. Denver hit 95, for its ninth consecutive 90-degree Day but with lower humidity than in the East and fire warn Ings were issued for the mountains in the area. In the normally hot Southwell Needles and Palm Springs calif., hit 109and Iii respectively and Phoenix ariz.,hit 111. In the South the National weather service issued poultry alerts in Louisiana and Mississippi warning producers thai temperatures in the High 90s would put stress on their Birds. In Georgia it was 94 in Atlanta Macon and Columbus registered 95. In he Carolina cheer s.c., set a record for the Date of99. In North Carolina the temperature hit 97 at Raleigh and Charlotte. But the weak cold front and the thunderstorms made a big difference in pans of Ute Northeast. New York City hit 95 on saturday its ninth Day in a Row in the 90s. But on sunday the temperature in Central Park Rose to 86 at noon then dived to 69 at i pm. During a thunderstorm recovered Only to 72 at 2 . And Rose to 79 later. Severe thunderstorm watches were posted for parts of Pennsylvania new York new Jersey and southward into West Vir Ginia Maryland Delaware and Virginia As the cooler air clashed with the stale hot air. Storms also broke out in Minnesota and rolled across Eastern Iowa and Wisconsin into Illinois and Indiana. A thunderstorm with a possible Torna do ripped up hundreds of Trees and brought Down dozens of Power lines at Mountainside ., Borough administrator Jim Roberts said. Around the state an estimated 25,000 customers Tost Power during a wave of storms Utility officials said. Torrential rain forced Aone Day postponement for the last round of the . Women s open Golf tournament at Edison  See pm 13. Temperature behind the front were mostly in the 80s.relief from the heal May be Loo late for some Farmers in Southeastern and Eastern Virginia which has had heat and no rain for More than two weeks. Co crops Are withering and cucumbers and snap Beans were wiped out in some  like to hold off on emergency Calls As Long As we can. But we re already looking at some com losses up 10 70 and to per cent said Jim Glasscock executive director of the Southampton agricultural stabilization and conservation service. Threat from Parja 1 mines we Are perfectly capable of taking retaliatory Steps certainly Weinberger said on the Abc news program this  appearing before Weinberger on the same program the iranian ambassador to the United nations said Ramaie Kuji Grassani said that the mine blamed for dam aging the Bridgeton might be ours it might be some body else  but he added we Are pleased to see that the Tanker Wai  asked about the possibility of american retaliation he said i think if the United Stales wants to be fur ther involved in the War it can proceed. We have no civil clashes in Haiti end in Many many1 deaths Jean Rabel Haiti a dozens of peo ple May have died and 54 were wounded in a clash last week Between peasants from this Lush Oasis and peasants from the desert that sur rounds it a Catholic missionary and govern ment official said  300 people Are missing according to the missionary who helped organize the desert peasants into a group called tet Assam Cre Ole for Heads together "1 can t say if they re dead or not the mis Lionar said. A government spokeswoman who flew by helicopter sunday to Jean Rabel said the official count is 10 dead and s4 wounded. But Anaise thavenet of the information ministry said pwn it who participated in the fight say there Are Many Many dead. I think it s very possible. I can t say How Many the bloody conflict was Over and. Peasants from the desert have tried to regain land they say they were driven from during the 29-year dictatorship of the Duvalier family. Jean Claude Duvalier led to exile in France 17 months ago the peasants in the Oasis Many of whom work at sharecroppers for two families that own Mott of the land have resisted Effort that might cause hem to lose Access to their farms. Aids drug tested by orbiting cosmonauts Moscow a cosmonauts aboard an orbiting research station conducted medical and scientific tests sunday including some with drug used to treat an ads related form of can cer the official Tass news Agency reported. The syrian space Pilot Mohammed fans also took photographs of the syrian desert that Are in tended to help his country find new arable lands and Mineral deposits. Radio Moscow reported. Paris and two soviet cosmonauts Alexander Victorenko 40, and Alexander Alexandrov 44. Docked their soyuz tm-3 capsule with the Mir orbiting station three Days earlier. They joined two other soviet fliers Alexander Lav Eikin and Yuri Romanenko who had in stationed aboard the Mir for nearly six months. Objection to that. We have to prepare for the worst of  on Friday the White House said that retaliation was not being considered and that there was no Evi Dence of who had placed the mine. Bui military officials said even before the escort operation began that they Are prepared if necessary to retaliate if Iran acted against american installations or personnel. In i remarks Weinberger said the Navy would not necessarily need to Send min sweeping ships to the Gulf. The Navy has Only a few Active duty minesweepers. More Likely officials said helicopters would be Usedalo search for mines. We have a min sweeping capability in the persian Gulf and it can be increased an will be increased Weinberger said. What we Don t do is talk about it talk about where it s based and All the  however naval experts said Clearing mines with helicopters alone would be extremely difficult requiring Long hours of flying in air that is hot dense and often full of Sand. Since May 17, five ships have struck mines in the Northern half of the Gulf. In his efforts to describe the american ability to counter mines in the persian Gulf Weinberger mentioned the finding and destruction of several mines in kuwaiti territorial Waters in recent weeks and a Long search for mines in the red sea in 1984, when several ships hit mines  to have been placed by Libya. In 1984, mine searching teams from the nether lands Italy France Britain the soviet Union the United slate. Egypt and saudi Arabia looked for mines in the red sea. Few of the devices were found before merchant ships hit them. Weinberger s remarks seemed to suggest that the Navy would use similar tactics. This would mean using sea stallion helicopters based either on land or on  ship used a a helicopter base in the red sea. The la sails is the command ship far the group of frigates Destro Yeni and cruisers that is protecting merchantmen flying the american Flag in the Gulf. The extended escort is taking the warships farther North id the Gulf than they used to go. In the red sea operation helicopters also worked from a Marine amphibious transport ship the stir the port and an oceanographic research ship also Loo part in the search. Four Marine amphibious ships including the Dock Landing ship Spiegel Grove the amphibious assault ship Guadalcanal and two tank land ing ships the Saginaw and the la Moure county recently moved from the Mediterranean sea to the Indian Ocean not far from the Gulf. In his remarks Weinberger cautioned la has nol been firmly established that the explosion was caused by a mine he said. It could have been an internal explosion. I Don t think it was. I think it was a mine. But it has t been firmly  Baldrige from Page 1 arrived in new Britain july 8v Meskill said. He was really the Cowboy a typical Gary Cooper  i remember when i met him i asked him if he liked to play Golf and he said no he and a Friend had raised some calves and they roped them on the weekends he said. Meskill remembered when he got the gubernatorial nomination in 1970 How Baldrige almost became his running mate but did not gel the nomination. I guess the Cream rises to the top. Here is a Man. The nomination for lieutenant governor eluded him. Yet he wound up in the president s Cabinet and stayed i in the Cabinet until the end of his life Meskill Dii i Baldrige was named Ai a member of Reagan s original Cabinet in 1981. He had the favor of the president. He was never criticized for any of his activities Meskill said. I guess the quiet easy going hard working approach pays  former Republican slate sen. Richard Bozzuto of Watertown said Connecticut lost a Friend at  Bui it s not what Connecticut loses it s what Amer Ica loses he said adding he would always remember Baldrige for his honesty. He died doing what he always loved to do but there was so much More Pozzulo said. There was so much More he could have  cafes from Page with customers and on lairs account  of total retail sates ranging from 8 percent of sales in february to18 percent in december. Total Sale exceeded s300 million. I Iaia it Fly Valriea that the Oil cards would account for Blei in the Exchange.  tales year in 1987, the report said. Gunmen kill Irish policeman Belfast Northern Ireland a guerrillas shot and killed a policeman Early monday after breaking Down the rear door of his House in Ballymena a county Antrim Market town police said. Belfast police sgt. Jim Green said two masked raid ers smashed their Way into the House shortly after mid night while the policeman was watching television. They apparently escaped in a car he said. Ballymena is a predominantly protestant Iowa 30 Miles Northwest of Belfast. The victim who was nol immediately identified. Was a traffic officer with the Royal Ulster constabulary the regular police Force. He is the 12th policeman and the 22nd member of la province s Security forces to be killed by guerrillas this year. No group immediately claimed responsibility. The Irish Republican army an almost exclusively roman Catholic guerrilla group is fighting to drive the British out of Northern Ireland and unite the province where protestants outnumber catholics 3 to 2, with the Catholic Irish Republic. The Ira is outlawed throughout Ireland