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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, November 20, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 20, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d Dodds raises age requirement for entering kindergarten Page 2 q tips on How to manage your Money daily Magazine d cubs Andre Dawson wins no map award sports Page 21 the Sims  5tripes authorized Undorf Licul publication of the . Ahmed Foch to d 6693 a 30 killed in London subway fire a firefighter descends into a Smoky King s Cross station As another fireman works from above. Half a vi5klvmvstiimur Iraq gift Fate and poured flames and smoke into London s busiest subway station killing at least 30 people and injuring about to others. Initially the death loll from wednesday s fire was put at 34, but on thursday British transport police said 30 were killed and 21 others were hospitalized 12 of them in serious condition. Authorities said they have no clue As to what started the fire at King s Cross station and added they arc investigating All possibilities including arson. Queen Elizabeth ii expressed Shock and prime minister Margaret Thatcher poured the disaster scene nicking her Way through rubble and inspecting the burned kill escalator. Later she told parliament a pub Lic inquiry would be  also visited some of the injured and said i am horrified like everyone else. It is Oiw of the worst a Isas ters we have had far some  initially it was thought trash that had accumulated under the escalator caught tire but London under ground said it found the machine roam under the Stair Way clean As a  the cause of the fire is at present not known and i being investigated chief Constable Kenneth h. Ogram of the transport police told a news  disclosed that telephoned claims of sabotage were received but he gave no details and said he had no grounds for believing them. He appealed to wit Nesses to Contact police and help piece together what  fire officer Phil Lloyd said we arc rather mystified at the moment Why at the end of the Rush hour with a lot of people about a relatively Small fire can accelerate and cause such horrendous damage and such horrendous injuries in such a Small space of  he said police forensic experts were on hand who see fire on Page 28 a great american agony but she quit b Janet Howells Tierney staff writer Hanau Germany it took 12 slices of gum six cups of herbal Tea assorted Candy and toothpicks but she did it. After 14 years Debby l. Booth to quit puffing the entire workday for the great american smoke Oul thursday. I have willpower for anything but cigarettes Booth said trembling slightly. But i have to Stop smoking. My mule girl is starting to imitate me smok  see related Story photo on age 3. At one Point during the morning All the gum Candy and toothpicks we run t working and the Long Busy Day loomed ahead. Booth is Secretary for Hanau s depart ment of child services. She had t smoked in about 12 hours and she fell like going into the lady s room and crying it happened about 9 a.m.," said Gloria to Sumpter one of two people who adopted Booth for the Day apart of a program sponsored by the Hanau alcohol and drug prevention. Debby started looking for me and i was downstairs. When she finally found me 1 told her i m Here and you Don t want to go cry " Sumpter a clerk typist gave Booth a Back rub an other Peppermint and the crisis passed you re feeling withdrawal from the drug and the habits and lifestyle associated with it said Jolin l. Daniels Booth s other adopter and a drug and alcohol Counselor. Daniels offered her More advice and Booth nodded but her eyes skipped around the room. Needing 10 do something with her Mouth Booth talked. To usually smoke a cigarette while drying my hair in the morning Booth said. My routine was messed up. I was a Bear to my kids 3-year-old twins Steven and Tiffany this morning. They say they la help me As Long As i Stop  Booth s husband Doug a smoker supported her by washing All the ashtrays in the House the night before. Continued on Page 28 nuke  Cut increases importance of conventional forces Galvin says by Joseph Owen snit jul Bureau Stuttgart a pending Cut in the nuclear arsenals of the superpowers increases the importance of . Conventional forces in Europe the supreme Al lied commander Europe stressed thurs Day. Claiming the soviets have a threefold advantage in artillery and tanks com pared to nato and twice the number of planes Gen John k. Galvin called upon the soviet Union to carry out Mikhail Gorbachev s reported suggestion that the Side with the larger Arsenal reduce that Arsenal. If the still Union is serious about this new approach to the West then they should be ready to come Down As Syme tribally with the conventional forces As they will have done with their Over whelming nuclear forces said  also serves As commander of . European come. In the agreement that we have i Hanow on the nuclear Side we Are taking out one nuclear warhead for every three or four thai the soviets Are taking out Galvin said in an interview at Elj com he. They the soviets should be will ing to do the same thing on the conventional Side. They should take out about 15,000  when Gorbachev meets with presi Dent Reagan next month in Washington the 111 leaders Are expected to sign a treaty on intermediate Range mimics. Galvin said the United vat i should t Settle for Small lopsided troop cuts such As 10,000 soviet troops for 3,000 or 4,000 Macri cans. That does t really gel you any where he said. That kind of thing could simply be lost in the daily shuffle there Are Loo Many ways that thai could tie masked As a reduction when it really i  . Conventional forces in Europe have become even More important give the pending treaty on intermediate Range nuclear missiles Ai Well As proposed 50 percent reductions in strategic nuclear weapons he said. The soviets have a i s wanted to gel Ilie nude in Caponi out of eur Rupf because it is the nuclear weapon that see  Cut on Page 28 is 0fa try l Merrt Law . John r. Gait in  
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