European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d airports controllers blamed for delays Page 5 d Lange re elected in new zealand Page 8 d be Hawks sign Bosworth for $11 million sports Page 21 vol. 45, no. 120 Alm Hoditch us orc a folic Tion of the u.�, med of get sunday. Augustie. 1987 a d 8693 a record rain floods Chicago two men Wade through flooded Kennedy expressway in Chicago closed in he Wake of record breaking ruin Rivers husband found dead in hotel room a Portoro Chicago Ai hundreds of pm pc were unable i return i flooded Homes saturday and rising Waltr in inc pcs 1 Laius River threatened lit1 Western suburbs Aller Ihu City s heaviest Johi or rainfall on record there s about 2 feel of vaunt in inc Sirc ets. And it s coming Ici Ward Hie police nation now Saij i police officer. Phyl Lis i As Sarolli in Riverside. We Milf Down town  o Hare Inci National air Perl was Back 10 Normal Flat hooded roads forced hundreds of travellers 10 May in the terminals until the expressways were reopened saturday morning. Four deaths were blamed on inc storm authorities said. Elsewhere heavy rain in Southern Mississippi and Louisiana ended sat urday but four Rivers were rising ind 360 Rural residents remained evacuated for a second  rain fell saturday he none was forecast for sunday a marked change from Friday s 9.3 inches heavier in the Century Hal records have been Kepi said Tom Dietrich of the National weather service. By Early saturday red Cross authorities estimated thai 3.000 Homes had been damaged and hundreds of people evacuated. They could Noi provide any monetary estimate of damages and did not have an estimate on inc total number of people evacuated. The Des Plaines River running North to South through Chicago s Western suburbs threatened flooding in an area that was hit hard last october. Evacuations continued saturday in Riverside and Elmhurst and about 65 people were evacuated Early saturday from Lawrence House an elderly pc ple s residence on Chicago s North Side. Chicago sanitation department spokesman Kirsten Svare said water in see Chicago on Page 28 Philadelphia up Edgar Rosenberg Hus band of comedian Joan Rivers died Friday in his hotel room of an apparent drug overdose suicide police said. He was 62. Detective Gerald we Anonby said police found Vali urn As Well As a noli1 writ Len by Rosenberg in the four seasons hotel room where his body was  on a preliminary investigation we believe it was a suicide we Anonby said "ik1 apr a really died of an Over-1 dose of  a publicist for Rivers said Rosenberg who was i executive producer of i the late show starring i Joan Rivers until she was dropped in May had Rosenber been depressed recently. Rosenberg had jul Rcd a major heart attack in 1985 and underwent quadruple bypass surgery and has been in see Rivers on Page 28 humanitarian Aid planes flew weapons for contras Washington a the official who headed the . Humanitarian Aid program for the contras said Friday that he ordered his planes twice to Fly weapons for the contras in Central America at if direction of assistant Secretary of stale Elliott Abrams. The shipments involved weapons that the con iras had stockpiled in the Region Hal needed to be transported to rebel troops said Robert duckling the former head of the state department s Nicara Guan humanitarian assistance office. He said the flights incurred during Early 1 Judi. A period when the . Government Wai giving Ilie contras humanitarian assistance Bui during which a congressional ban was in cd Tell on military Aid. The assistance office established after Comsh a voted in june los to permit $27 million in humanitarian Aid was in charge of buying and delivering such goods As food and non lethal supplies. Duemling said none of the $27 million was Speni to buy weapons but it was decided that weapons owned by the con rns could be ferried by the humanitarian Aid planes in some cases. He said he was directed by Abrams 10 Fly the mined toads after the administration policy peo ple consulted extensively Wilh the congressional intelligence committees As 10 whether Hal would be per milled. He said that he sat in on at least one such meeting and that the committees did not specifically veto the idea As far As he knew. Problems with getting Landing permission from honduran officials had prompted the idea of Mak ing drops directly into Nicaragua lie said. The question was if you re going to Fly directly  Nicaragua that is a dangerous thing Duemling Saint in a Telephone interview. To minimize the number of High la the cajuns could be flown on the wac flights a1, Long As Ilic lights were Princi Pally humanitarian he win. At the Lime Puc Mlin ii a ii a his under standing that the Iii Liuti Feizi rally handled their Iwin deliveries but Hal their planes were much smaller than the  capacity cargo planes Hal the slate department was using. Duemling said he understood thai the members of the congressional intelligence co mittens did t like in panic Lark bul did Nui absolutely veto it. He said rep Lee Hamilton. A and. Chairman of the House select c Ommi uce on intelligence told sew contras on Pago 28