European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 21, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 28 the stars and stripes sunday. February 21,1988 Boulder slams into clinic in Rio burying 100 persons Rio 1 e Janeiro Brazil up torrential Rains loosened a giant Boulder atop a Hillside sending it crashing through a Hospital and up to 100 patients and medical staff members were buried in the rubble and feared dead officials said saturday. Unofficial reports said Rio s citywide death toll in two Days of heavy Rains and flooding could reach 150, flooding in Rio de Janeiro state earlier this month killed More than 200 people. The situation is Danle Casque Rio health Secre tary Jose Assad said. The Hospital was hit Laic Friday night during Torren tial Rains that undermined he giant Boulder High on the Hillside and sent it crashing through part of the building. One Wing of the Hospital was demolished. Civil defense and fire department Rescue teams were delayed for hours from reaching the scene because of roads blocked by landslides on the Hillside. Eventually they were flown in by air Force helicopters and worked through inc dark mss under army searchlights. The Santa Teresa District is built Over Steep hillsides close to the Center of Rio de Janeiro. It contains Many old colonial Era buildings and i a Bohemian and Artis tic Center. Among the first bodies recovered were those of four children killed in the Rio comp Ido District when their slum houses collapsed. At least 14 people were buried in the Formiga Hill Side Shantytown when 10 Saeki collapsed under ions of sliding mud. The red crass summoned All of its volunteers in a television Appeal and civil defense officials asked the Navy for amphibious vehicles to reach occident till in the Elf i Northern areas of the City the Rains Friday halted traffic on Rio s major free Way for seven hours. Police deployed three army companies in an Effort to prevent the looting of stores and Homes and Mug Ging of stranded motorists. In Many areas of downtown and suburban Rio a City of 7 million people Drivers watched helplessly As their cars floated along streets and smashed into lamp posts. Some Drivers lied their can to Trees and posts. The flooding came Only Day after the close of Rio s annual carnival which brought hundreds of thousand of tourist into the capital. Meteorologists said the latest downpour was caused by an Antarctic cold front. They said inc rain was Likely to continue through the weekend. Shultz meets with finnish Leader in Stopover on Way to Moscow Helsinki Finland up sccret�7 of state George Sulu on the final Lei of a trip to energize the strategic arms talks said saturday that he did nol expect any breakthroughs in his Moscow talks. Shul who was scheduled to Fly to Moscow Early sunday for iwo Days of talks Wilh soviet Leader Mik Hail Gorbachev and foreign minister it guard Shevardnadze conferred Wilh his staff in Helsinki saturday and met with finnish president fluno Koivisto briefly in a Courtesy visit. In a news conference Shultz said there is a sense on both the soviet and american sides that there has been a slowdown in the Geneva talks on reducing strategic arms and each Side blames the other. He said what i m going to try to do. Is to try to energize this process of completing an agreement on strategic  the principal Issue to be worked out he said is verification the ground rules for monitoring to see that an agreement b not being violated by the other Side. The intermediate nuclear forces treaty now before the Senate has the Mast elaborate verification proce dures in arms control history. Involving at least six layers of inspection and spot checks. They re stirring up no end of trouble in Central America and trying to introduce an alien philosophy into our hemisphere he said. So there Are quite a few soviet bean  we have to re cognate that this relationship is going to be competitive and adversarial so we have to ask ourselves How do we manage a relationship like that?1" Shultz is to return to Washington tuesday to spend one Day in the United states and then head to the Middle East to try to mediate a settlement leading to limited self Rule for the palestinians and a partial israeli withdrawal from inc occupied territories. Arab killed in holy site protest Jerusalem a soldiers shot and killed a palestinian demonstrator saturday in the West Bank town of Ramallal during a March on the municipal building the Arab run Palestine press service and hos Pital sources said. A spokesman for the israeli army could nol immediately confirm the report of the Denaui. The army command said israeli troops clashed with 200 moslem worshippers at the Tomb of the patriarchs in Hebron in the occupied West Bank. Modems and jews both believe the site is the burial place of the biblical patriarchs Abraham Isaac and Jacob and three of their four wives. The site Aitra Eis jewish and moslem religious Funda mentalists and has been a constant source of friction since Israel captured the West Bank and Gaza strip in the 1967 Middle East War. An army spokeswoman said soldiers ordered the moslem worshippers out of the Hall and used Force but not gunfire or tear Gas to evict them when they re the arabs attacked the soldiers the spokeswoman said on condition of anonymity in keeping with army regulations. 12 killed in North Carolina in commuter plane crash. Morrisville . Api a commuter plane crashed in heavy fog Friday night after Takeoff Tram Roll Cidh Durnan Airport and All 12 people aboard were killed an Airport spokeswoman said. American Eagle flight 37s was in mule to Richmond vs., with 10 passenger and two Crew members aboard when it crashed in a wooded area at 9 27 p.m., about a mile from the 10,000-foot runway said the spokeswoman Teresa Damiano she said witnesses reported hearing an explosion and seeing a fireball before the crash. A team of investigators from the Federal aviation administration and the National transportation safety Board flew to the scene. The victims names were not immediately available american Eagle a a commuter earner for american airlines. . Fighters intercept two soviet bombers Ottawa a . Air Force tighten intercepted two soviet bombers Oft the East coast or Canada on Friday evening according to a Brief statement swed by the Canadian department of National defense Norad the North american air defense come detected the Long Range Tupoljev bears by radar when they entered the Canadian air de sense identification zone Wilhour notification the department said. The incident Mark the fifth time this year that soviet military aircraft have been intercepted. The interception was under operational control of the Canadian Norad Region Headquarters in North Bay Ontario the statement raid. Interceptor aircraft stand on 24-hour Alert to be scrambled within five minutes if an incoming aircraft is detected by radar and cannot be Corre lated with a flight plan. Emergency Rule Extension recommended in Turkey Ankara Turkey a a government Council recommended Friday that emergency Rule be extended in nine provinces to help com Bat kurdish insurgents inc sem official Anatolia news Agency Saidt the emergency Rule would include Turkey s land esl City Istanbul and the Southeast provinces of Bingol. Diyarbakir Elzig Hakkari Mardin shirt Tuncell and Van inc new Agency said. The National Security Council made up of Cabinet members and lop military commanders announced its recommendation after a meeting Friday the news Agency said. Government troops and kurdish guerrillas seeking autonomy have been fighting since 1984. An estimated 10 million of Turkey i 52 million people Are ethnic kurd and most live in the rugged terrain of East and Southeast Turkey. If the recommendation i approved by the one House parliament emergency Rule in those provinces will be emended for four months As of March 19, when a four month period of Emer gency role expires. Marine from Paul Al 1 have sealed off a 300-Square-Milc area around Tyre. Searching through Cave Trewn valleys and Olive and Citrus Grove. Higgins 43, Heads a 76-Trmn unarmed . Observer team that monitors Border violations of a 1949 armistice agreement Between Lebanon and Israel. The group is attached to the  . Interim Force in Lebanon or uni Fil deployed in 1918 after an israeli incursion Imo some Lebanon. The pro iranian organization of the oppressed on Earth on Friday claimed responsibility for Higgins abduction accusing him of being a Cia spy. American and . Officials denied the charge the Pentagon said Higgins. Of Danville ky., had been a Junior military aide 10 former Secretary of de sense Caspar Weinberger but that his abduction did not pose a major Security risk to the United slates. The first claim of responsibility for the kidnapping came thursday in a Call from an Anonymous Man claiming to speak for a previously unknown group the islamic revolutionary brigades. We believe Higgins is still in South Lebanon be cause the accomplice who was assigned to transport him to Beirut after the abduction is detained by us Daou said. Security sources speaking on condition of anonymity said Many of the 40 men detained have links to the iranian backed Hezbollah or Pany of god an umbrella organization for shiite extremists. Hezbollah s voice of islam radio station based in Baalbek in East Lebanon claimed saturday that 150 Hezbollah members were rounded up in House raids in the Tyre Region. Doad said Higgins abduction was carefully thought out planned and  he said that among the detainees were those As signed to Monitor Higgins movements and they have confessed that they knew four Days in Advance that he was coming to Tyre on  Higgins was driving from Tyre to uni Fil head quarters in the Border town of a Agoura when gunmen blocked the Highway with their car and seized him. The kidnappers ran into a Chain of snags after the abduction. Their first car a Brown Volvo got stuck in Ute mud. They made a Bulldozer Driver push them Oul but the exhaust was broken and they had to move Higgins to a White Peugeot  Tbs second car collided with a truck loaded with oranges Southeast of Tyre. The kidnappers then moved Higgins to a red Mercedes and fled to their unknown hid Tjui Daoud  snags Cost the kidnappers about. I it hours during which we managed to Seal off ill exits from in Tyre Region South  Daoud said. I am 60 percent certain that Higgini is still South of the Utal it is very difficult for them to smuggle him out on foot through the Valley. Nevertheless we re keeping this in mind he added