European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 3, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Paga 28 the stars and stripes sunday. January3,1988 App no Rescue i makers help people fitting far the tar lives Down inc Walls of he first hotel 13 die 8 t Hurt As fire ravages Bangkok hotel Bangkok Thailand up police investigators said saturday a carelessly tossed cigarette or a Short circuit May have caused a new year s Day hotel fire that killed in foreign tourists and injured 81 other people. The fire May have been started by a Short circuit or a discarded cigarette mid police i. Col. Sup put Visal Yaquira. Those killed in the predawn Blaze Al Bangkok s first hotel included Svea singaporeans two malaysians one american one vietnamese australian and one taiwanese a senior police official said. A spokesman for the Hospital of forensic medi Cine said the badly charred body of the 13th victim originally identified by police As male was a female of unknown nationality Stippel said relatives reported to police that iwo italian female guests in the hotel were still missing. Police arrested one Rescue worker Kittisak Pra Diu Kranich on a charge of in Cal after 14 hold Resi dents complained of looting following the Blaze. Many said that cameras watches Money and jewel by were stolen from rooms and Luggage thai were untouched by the fire. Investigators said the fire started about 4 10 . In a second floor room where a new year s eve party was still in Progress. The hotel s night manager who was injured in the Blaze said he first spotted the fire Al a circuit Don in the room but could not put it out More than 300 firemen and 57 fire department vehicles fought inc Blaze at inc fully booked 218 room hold for five hours before pulling it out three helicopters were used to Pluck guests from the hotel s roof Daniel j. Ryan. 27. An unmarried american air Craft Mechanic from Jacksonville ark., died of smoke inhalation. Seven other americans staling at the hotel escaped unhurt Ryan was trapped on the top floor of the 9-Story hotel with a fellow worker from Boeing Middle East in saudi Arabia. Reagan Calls for action on nominee inf treaty Palm Springs Calif. Up in his first radio address of 1988, president Reagan called saturday for Senate action on two priorities from 1987me supreme court nomination of Anthony Kennedy and the Aims agreement signed at the recent superpower Summit. Winding up a we Klong California vacation Reagan prodded the Senate on Trie Kennedy nomination and the intermediate nuclear forces treaty while Declar ing in his weekly radio address that As America it we do indeed have much to be Happy about As this new year a look at issues facing the return of Congress at the end of the month Reagan praised Kennedy hit third Choice to replace retired Justice Lewi Powell As a seasoned Federal appeals court judge who shares big Law and order View that judges must respect the rights of the accused but they must also keep firmly in mind the rights of crime victims and of society the supreme court has been one Justice Short for Many months now Reagan said of the difficulties posed by Senate rejection of his first nominee Robert boric and the withdrawal of his second Douglas gins Burg. So i urge the Senate to confirm judge Kennedy with All due Speed Reagan also sounded a similar note of urgency on ratification of the intermediate nuclear forces treaty. It was signed dec. 8 Al the Start of his third Summit with Soviel Teader Mikhail Gorbachev and Reagan noted that the agreement would Force the soviets to dismantle four limes As Many warheads As the United states. The president also look at sceptics by declaring the treaty s verification measures to be the most Strin gent in the history of arms control negotiations what docs this add up to a Good Deal for the United states and our allies and a step toward a More secure peace for All the world Reagan said. "1 Wel come the hearings the Senate will hold on this Kiealy. Yet Here again i urge the Senate to move Forward on on another Issue hanging Over the Looth Congress Reagan called the free Trade agreement signed saturday a historic pad that will create More jobs and lower prices for Consumers on both sides of the the agreement would Lake effect Jan. 1, 1989, and would gradually eliminate All tariffs Between inc two countries. Canada and the United states Nave the larg est two Way Trade of any two nations in the world amounting to More than 150 billion in 1986. Sen. Lloyd Bentsen a Texas chairman of he sen ate finance committee and Ren. Dan Rostenkowski. D-i1i. Chairman of he House ways and Means con Mittee have urged the administration to delay submit Ting the legislation until june. Congress would then have 90 working Days in which to act. With Many recesses expected this could push a final Vole Back until after the 1988 pics Enka and congressional elections. The agreement was one of the last official matters on the president s Agenda As he neared the end of his vacation. He and first lady Nancy Reagan Are slaying at the estate of publisher Walter h. Annenberg in ran Cho Mirage next door to Palm Springs. Saturday night the president and mrs. Reagan were to participate m the opening of the Bob Hope cultural Center a privately funded 520 million Complex m nearby Palm desert which includes the 1,100-seat me Callum Thaier for the performing arts. On sunday the reagans were to Fly Back to Washington where the president will plunge into meetings in preparation for his annual slate of he Union Mes Sage to Congress expected Jan. 25, and his budget proposal to be submitted in late january or february. New year s Day was marked by broadcasts of taped television messages from Reagan to the soviet people and from soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev loan american audience. Both leaders pledged to seek agreement during this year on a treaty reducing their arsenals of intercontinental nuclear missiles in december Reagan and Gorbachev signed a treaty in Washington reducing medium Range missiles. They ate to meet again in first half of 1988. Perhaps we can have a treaty Rea Dylo sign by our meeting in the Spring Reagan said. The world prays that we will. We on the american Side Are determined that we Gorbachev said the soviets Are ready to continue fruitfully the negotiations on reducing strategic arms with a View to signing a treat to this effect even in the first half of this year. 5 German warships will be sent to maintain Mediterranean Force Hamburg a West Germany plans to Send five warships to the Mediterranean to replace . Vessels deployed in the embattled persian Gulf the newsmagazine Der Spiegel said saturday in Bonn a defense ministry spokesman confirmed that West Cirman ships would be sent to the Mediterranean in the first half of this year. But he declined to comment on Der Spiegel s con Tention that there Are plans for a continuous presence of West German ships in the Mediterranean Der Spiegel said three West German frigates a de Stroyer and a Supply ship will sail for the Mediterranean on Jan. 21. The defense ministry spokesman who asked that his name not be used said the ships would stay in the Mediterranean for Only a few weeks West Germany also Seni worships to the Mediterranean in october but the vessels have since re Lumen. The United slates and other nato countries have deployed warships in the persian Gulf to protect commercial shipping from attack during the Iran Iraq War. West Germany maintains that its Constitution prevents it from sending warships to the Persi Anulf and instead inc West germans have chosen to periodically Send replacement vessels to the Mediterranean. Soviets from Page 1 polish each week on two frequencies. In recent years Only inc Short wave broadcast which covers a wider area was subjected to jamming bbl technicians tra ced the jamming to three stations in the soviet Union. The director of the . Information Agency Charles z. Wick met with soviet broadcast officials during inc Summit meeting in Washington Tost month and asked them to Slop the jamming. Oahu evacuees return As floodwaters recede Honolulu a hooding caused by up to 20 inches of rain abated saturday on the Eastern Side of he Island of Oahu. And most of the 2.800 evacuees returned Home to clean up at least $29 million in damage. The new year s eve Flash floods left 72 people homeless. We worked so hard for this and now it s All gone said Pat von Ara Swandt standing in 6 inches of mud in her living room in the Home she and her husband Bill bought Ihrcke years ago. Two weeks ago our Brand new Furni Ture was delivered. Two weeks ago. And now it s gone mrs. Von Arnswaldt said. The von Arn Swalls Home in the a Paione Valley is on Kahuna Street which was transformed into a raging Creek when water overflowed a canal clogged with Trees and boulders and carved a Channel up to 20 feet deep in places. The water left a mixture of mud Pav ing slabs and boulders piled in Yards. Along with dozens of denied cars that were bounced along the Street like toys. The floods from Niu Valley to Kailua were caused by a sudden storm that stalled along the Koolau Mountain Range on Hawaii s most populous Island and dumped up to 20 inches of rain in some areas in 14 hours authorities said. _. Some people had to be rescued by Homes and to Mcowat Boal and firefighters and police had to by does not cover flood i Luige said insure help some Reid cats Wade through Rush Ance Industry spokesman Robert Grant ing water but no injuries were reported. Most of he 2,800 evacuees went to stay with friends or relatives in other parts of Oahu which Hud Only Light but steady rain during the downpour in the cast. Oahu civil defense officials estimated damage Al $29 million stressing that the estimate was very preliminary and Likely to Rise. Most of the damage was done to
