European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 6, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday november 6,1987 the stars and still peso rainstorm kills 10 along Spanish coast of off. .-.tv. ---4,-.,. Fax traffic is blacked by he cop of the Rio Micro Bridge near Valencia in flooding caused by the storm that so Rock the arc. Valencia Spain a a Torren tial rainstorm along Spain s est coast killed Al least 10 people and thousands of residents were without Power water and Telephone service wednesday us Thor Ilij said. The storm which i tuesday also caused extensive property and crop dam age. Civil defense officials said riven in inc Valencia Region overflowed i hair Banks destroying Small Bridges and water Wells and flooding sir girls and High ways. Eight people died in Auto accidents blamed on inc storm and two drowned officials said. One drowning victim was a German Man whose body was found at a Camp ground in vill Joyosa in Alicante prov Ince police said. Civil governors of several Eastern provinces mobilized army Rucks and helicopters to evacuate resident trapped on roofs and to transport water food and other emergency supplies to isolated Siles spokesmen said. Heavy Rains also caused flooding in the neighbouring Southeastern Region of Murcia and in Andalusia. Pullout proposal insufficient paper says . Offer on f-i6s reported rejected by Spain Madrid Spain a Spain s de sense minister has rejected a u a. Offer to pull out part of a Wing of 72 f-16 Jet lighters stationed in Spain us i Suffi cell according to a newspaper report wednesday. The leading Spanish daily Al pais said Narcis Serra met monday in California with Secretary of defense Caspar Wein Berger to discuss currently deadlocked bilateral negotiations to reduce the american military presence in Spain during a meeting of nato defense ministers m Monterey Calif. A spokesman with the . Embassy in Madrid had no comment on the report. The paper cited unnamed informed sources As saying Weinberger presented an offer to Cut the 72 f-l6s stationed with the 401st tac fighter Wing at Tor Cjon a outside Madrid t o 24, the paper quoted Serra As laying tuesday in California that the american position had changed in recent months but unfortunately is not sufficient to be accepted by the Spanish  the paper said Serra did not reveal details of the . Offer. After the interview with Weinberg owe have no new information that will permit us to believe we have made advances Serra said according to inc paper. Previously Weinberger has argued inc tactical fighter Wing is vital to Western Security. . Negotiators also have strongly Orcsi Slid any withdrawal of .troops based in Spain claim ing that such a move would weaken Europe s Southern flank. The seventh and critical round of .-Spanish talks to reduce the . Military presence in Spain was set to begin thursday in Madrid and continue through Friday. The position of the United slates is not immovable but i insist that it is in sufficient the paper quoted Serra As saying. Since the troop reductions began in july 1986, Spain has not wave Rodin it demand thai America withdraw the tac tical Wing of 72 f-16 jets from Torr Jonas Well As five Kc-135 refuelling Tanker jews stationed at Zaragoza a in North Eastern Spain. When Serra was asked about Spain s much repeated Threal to cancel the cur rent defense Accord in the . Govern ment failed to agree its demands by nov. 14, the defense minister said Spain was to make ils position Clear in Madrid after the end of he seventh round of talks the paper said. The United Stales has maintained three air bases a naval station nine communication posts and 10.000 troops in Spain since a bilateral defense treat was first signed in 1953 by president Dwight Eisenhower and Gen. Francisco Franco. The current Accord is set to expire next May. If no accommodation is reached beforehand in the troop reduction talks Spain plans to put in Force the terms of inc current Accord thai Call for inc United states to make a Complete withdrawal by May 1989, Spanish officials have said. The troop reduction negotiations began following a March 1986 referendum on whether Spain should remain in nato. A majority of spaniards Yold to re main in nato under condition thai the government of socialist prime minister Felipe Gonzalez open negotiations to Sig wifi cannily reduce the american military presence. 5 polish dancers defect in Canada seek Asylum four of the i polish Billet stars who defected in cd Usu i Otic  from report to in Toronto. From kit the by Lett dancers met Robert Glondek jut bid Wicz Dutto Cau Yuka us Mirek Fieric. Toronto up five accomplished polish bal ice dancers defected in Canada and were seeking Asylum to pursue artistic Freedom the dancers and friends who helped spirit them from their hotel said. The four men and one woman All were soloists with the Warsaw National Ballet and left the troupe from a hotel in Hamilton Ontario about 40 Miles weit of Toronto sunday and Early tuesday said Lyn Cromb who helped them escape in the Back of a Van. It s nol like Russia there s no Kab Cromb said there was no problem walking out of their hotel the problem is they can l go Back to Poland but there s no one after  Cromb said two of the dancers left Hamilton for Toronto late sunday after performances in Hamilto saturday night and Kitchener Ontario sunday night. Before that the troupe was in Chicago. Buffalo and Detroit. The three remaining dancers Irav eled to Toronto Early tuesday Cromb said and All plan to seek Asylum. They spent much of tuesday Al one of Canada s immigration offices in Toronto she said and four of i hair visas expired tuesday night. Cromb said one dancer Man Finck. 21, got a six month Extension on his \ Isidor s visa Hui hat did not allow him to work. The dancers said through an interpreter they missed i hair families but were positive Aboul i hair decision. They said they wanted artistic Freedom including inc Chance 10 try new techniques in dancing. I want to come to Canada to develop my career said Finek who left his Mother father four stolen and iwo Brothers in Poland