European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes in is Brief s collapsed building traps 25 people in brazilian City Belem Brazil a Rescue workers due Wilh their hands Friday alongside Crane and tractors in Hopes of finding about 25 people believed trapped when a partially built apartment building collapsed. At least six people were killed and a nearby Church and three houses were badly damaged inthe thursday even ing disaster. City officials said they did Noi know the Rea son for he collapse but added that the 12-Siory building had been condemned As unsafe. We estimate there Are some 25 people including 15 women construction workers still trapped inside maj. Jose Ribamar Matos of the Belem fire department who was helping coordinate the Rescue Effort Lold the associated press. Pilot joins Blind Sailor on boat amid rough seas Hamilton Bermuda a a Pilot boarded Blind Sailor Jim Dickson s boat in the Atlantic Ocean Friday to guide in through rough seas to Bermuda a Rescue official said. Despite 10-foot wave and winds gusting up to 3s Mph the skipper of a Bermuda Lifeboat was Able to get his vessel close enough to Dick son s Craft Tor the Pilot to leap onto the pitching deck said Timothy Winkelmann of Bermuda Rescue coordination Center. Dickson set sail from Portsmouth r.i., on aug. 4 for England in the Hope of becoming the first sightless Sailor to Cross the Atlantic Ocean. On thursday he decided to ride out a tropical storm at sea off Bermuda. Winkelmann said Dickson was expected to arrive in Bermuda around 6 30 . Local time Friday the Pilot Paul petronello boarded Dickson j yacht the Eye opener shortly after noon Winkelmann  was a very difficult Transfer but Paul Man aged to do in said Winkelmann. Army releases name of go charged in woman s death Crail sheim Germany is the army has released the name of the Soldier charged Wilh murdering a German woman in Leinen Bronn last month. Pfc. Donald a Powers of service Biry 4lh in 12ih Field arty in Crail sheim is awaiting trial at the u.5. Army confinement facility a Mannheim said vol corps spokesman Guenther , 26, i we and of tilling a 31-year-old local woman whose body was found in her Lei Nen Bronn residence july s. German police arrested Powers july 6 in Crail sheim and turned him Over to american officials july 9,1st army div spokesman master sgt. Jimmie Ferguson did. Powers has been confined at Mannheim since july 22. Saturday August 15,1987 ships avoid Oman area despite mine sweeping Manama Bahrain a ships avoided a Busy Anchorage just South of the persian Gulf Friday despite assurances it has been cleared of floating mines ship Ping executives said. The newspaper Al Khaledi meanwhile quoted a United Arab emirates official As warning there May be Small Booby trapped boats operated by Remote control in the same Waters outside the Strait of Hormuz. The United Arab emirates ministry of agriculture warned fishermen and swimmers thursday not to approach suspicious objects and Small boats on the easter coast of the country the shariah based paper said. Emirates president Sheik Zayed bin Sultan Al a Hyan is expected to Fly to Damascus Syria saturday to enlist Syna which has Good relations with Iran in Effort to end the 7-year-old Iran Iraq War. Coast guards of the United Arab emirates and Oman supported by a saudi arabian mine sweeper Friday continued to search for mines in the Gulf of Oman the sole Intel to the persian Gulf located about 30 Miles South of the Strait of Hormuz. Shariah and Fuja Irah Are two of the seven Sheik Doms thai make up the United Arab emirates federation. The . Navy was reportedly checking for mines far ther off the emirates coast Iran which has been accused of laying the mines offend to help in the search. Meanwhile a soviet destroyer steamed southward through the Suez canal from the Mediterranean sea sources at the canal authority said. The sources demanding anonymity said the destroyer reported it destination was the red sea. They said they had no Way of knowing if it was headed for the persian Gulf. In the Northern part of the Gulf kuwaiti tankers flying american flags were loading cargoes in preparation for their trip South under . Navy escort. It s All Normal and there Are no More mines an official at the Fuja Irah Harbor control said. He reiterated a statement by col Saeed Sams soum Fuja Irah s police chief ending a Daylong exclusion zone inthe is Soi Iare mile area where ships Anchor before going through the Strait of Hormuz and up the persian Gulf Sams soum said two mines were located and detonated and a thorough search showed there no longer was a  Anonymous port official denied reports that As Many As six mines were spotted off the uni cd Arab emirates and  suspect object. Fumed out to be the Hump Ofa floating dead Camel he said. From a distance the objects arc not Clear and everyone has been  up Lioto a mine floats in the Gulf of Oman off the port of Fps or a Pilot from Page 1 president s Landing at the ranch and Reagan did not know about it until after he was on the ground. The Pilot of the presidential helicopter. Marine corps col. Michael Glenn did nol believe the two aircraft were on a collision course at any Lime he said. Glenn initiated a gentle climb and right hand turn As a precautionary measure after seeing the a proc hint plane fit water Nam mining that the a never was not noticeable to any of us aboard the  Fitzwater said the plane flew Over the 688-acre ranch in the Santa Ynez mountains about 20 Milea North of Here. The airspace Over the ranch is closed to such flights by Federal regulation just As the airspace Over the White House is closed. Filz Waler said three helicopters were involved in the presidential movement from Point Mug Nas where air Force one landed to the ranch. Aboard Marine one were the president while House chief of staff Howard h. Bakerjr. National Security adviser Frank c Carlucci Jim Kuhn the president s personal assistant Filz Waler White House photographer Bill Fitz Patrick and the president s physician or. John Mutton. When the incident occurred. Nighthawk two carry ing secret service agents was about to land at the ranch and Nighthawk three carrying staff members and others had landed at Santa Barbara Airport Kelly Chapman of Martin aviation at the Airport id the Pilot is Rcd at a  area of the Airport and took a shuttle Van to the terminal to pay for his fuel. While refuelling the Pilot mentioned to Airport workers that he had been buzzed by helicopter on the night South Airport workers said he said the helicopters were flying around the retrying to Lake Down their identification number said Kim Mclain a Rueter with Martin aviation. President from Page 1 will return to Washington on sept. 6. Meanwhile while House chief of staff Howard Baker said Reagan has nol yet made up his mind on asking Congress for renewed Aid to the nicaraguan con Ira guerrillas. He said Reagan will base a decision at the end of the fiscal year Onset. 30 on such things As whether sub Stantial Progress is being made toward implementation of a peace plan that Calls far the Sand Nisu government to Institute democracy and put a cease fire in place. I can i Tell you what the president will do the chief of staff said. He can nuke a decision unilaterally whether to submit a request at that  Reagan in a televised speech wednes Day night thai was billed As his Long promised reaction to the congressional Iran Contra hearings said that increased cooperation Wilh Congress May be the eventual Blessing in disguise to come out of the Iran Contra mess he also pledged in his televised speech to concentrate now on his remaining Agenda including confirmation of Bork support for the Contra rebels fighting the sandinista and the package or measures he refers to As his economic Bill of  according loan Abc news poll re teased thursday a majority of Ameri cans polled remain convinced that Rea Gan is still generally lying about the Iran Contra affair. Fifty eight percent of the 512 Ameri cans contacted by Telephone after the president s speech wednesday night said Reagan has nol Lold the Public the truth about the Iran situation while 38 per cent said he had. Four percent had no opinion. Fifty five percent of the 177 Ameri cans who saw the tace cd said Reagan lied while 42 percent said the president told the Inith. Fifty nine percent of the non viewers said the president is lying while 37 percent said tie is being honest about the Iran Contra situation Abc news found that Only 35 percent 177 of the 512 polled Beard the presi Dent s address. In a poll conducted aug. I by Abc 52percent said the president lied while 44 percent said he had been truthful. Four percent had no opinion. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus five percentage Points for All contacted and plus or minus eight percentage Points for those who viewed the speech. At the Home of Nebraska rancher Ted Long Reagan repeated hit Appeal for his economic proposals. They include a constitutions amendment requiring a balanced budget and the authority for presidents to have line item veto Power Over spending Bills. The measures Are needed he said to restrain future administrations from increasing taxes and govern ment spending. Let s never let government again take away our Freedom to Prosper he Laid in the speech to a crowd of about 300 Al a Western style lunch. The president s most urgent t Pilch however was for Quick Senate action on Bork whom he has nominated to replace former Justice Lewis f. Powell. The wild West Center at which Rea Gan spoke was decorated with homemade signs fashioned of while sheets with such slogans Saint you re the Best and bridle the  outside the Arena members of nebraskans for peace held up banners say ing our silo an for Grain not mis Siles and farms not arms in Remarick later Al a Public gathering Al the Buffalo Bill wild West Arena the original site of William f. Cody s fable wild West shows Reagan touched briefly on Hii televised report on the Iran con Ira affair. Saying he had waited until Congress finished its work before speaking out he added Bui now it s Lime to gel Down to the real business at hand 10 move Forward Wilh