European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes sunday May 22,1968 a braving a flooded Street in Charlotte , stalls and the Driver tries to keep dry As he works to restart it. Rainstorms Pound Texas East states on flood Alert by the associated press heavy Rains drenched portions of Texas saturday after closing roads and raising River Waters 8 feet while a flood watch remained in effect Over several Eastern states. Meanwhile Northern California residents basked Ina heat wave after the Mercury soared Friday breaking records in a hot spell that sent people flocking to beaches and Parks. In Texas thunderstorms brought More than 3 inches of rain to Kerrville and Over 2 inches to portions of Austin. Some roads were closed in Northern Val verde and other southwestern counties. At Stonewall West of Austin the Pedernales River reportedly Rose 8 feet late Friday night. Flood watches were in effect for portions of South Eastern new York Eastern Pennsylvania new Jersey Northern Delaware Maryland Northern Virginia and northeastern West Virginia. Strong winds from a possible Tornado late Friday did considerable damage to roofs and cars at new braunfels Texas Between Austin and san Antonio. The weather was quiet Over the Southeast with Clear skies from Florida to the Tennessee Valley. Clear skies also covered the nation West of the Rockies. Northern California sizzled Friday. The Mercury reached 97 degrees in san Jose recording the highest temperatures in the area and surpassing the record of 94 degrees set in 1942. Downtown san Francisco registered 92, four degrees higher than the Mark reached the same year. Copter wreckage recovered Manama Bahrain a Salvage workers recovered the wreckage of a downed . Helicopter gunship from the Gulf saturday and put it aboard a Salvage tugboat where investigators will examine it for crash clues. The Marine corps ah-1 cobra which vanished april 18, hours after Daylong clashes Between . And iranian naval forces was in three Large pieces when lifted out of 130 feet of water off the United Arab emirates coast. Investigators arc primarily interested in finding out whether the helicopter was shot Down As Iran has claimed. A . Official said the bodies of the two pilots recovered earlier w6rc flown to Dover fab del., on Friday. The two marines capt. Kenneth Hill 33 and capt. Stephen Leslie 30, based at new River ., have been declared killed in action although the cause of the crash has yet to be established. . Officials said the cobra s Crew reported in their last radio message that they were being tracked by hostile radar. An official said it was possible that the aircraft was either hit or crashed trying to evade fire. The Navy after originally planning to blow up the sunken wreck decided to raise it to belter enable investigators to determine the cause of the crash a military official said. Star wars from Page 1 asked to take a fresh look at the Star wars program Early this year by defense Secretary Frank a Carlucci. Its report was dated april 13 but was not cleared for unclassified release until Friday. The Pentagon in finally releasing the study stressed the findings were solely those of the authors and the submission of the report to the Secretary in no Way signals a change in . Policy with respect to the Star wars the Star wars program known formally As the strategic defense initiative is an Effort to develop lasers and other exotic weapons that could be deployed either in space or on the ground to automatically shoot Down enemy nuclear missiles. Last september then defense Secretary Caspar w. Weinberger selected five Star wars technologies for concentrated research saying they would form the heart of an initial phase i system. Among the five were some space based As Well As ground based rocket systems. Ever since then the Pentagon has suggested the re search results involving All five technologies would be evaluated sometime in the Early 1990s and a decision made on constructing an initial system. We believe that the difficulty of supporting such a Large decision All at once and of bringing All system elements to a satisfactory stage at the same time make the All at once plan very risky the task Force said. The stepped plan allows much More confident decisions and much More flexibility in the face of Uncer Pentagon also should consider giving the High est priority to development of the sensors processing and communications necessary to detect a nuclear attack and track and target incoming missiles it said. Moreover it said the defense department and Congress must resolve their dispute Over what research the abm treaty allows. There is not a Force acting on the ski program that is More damaging or More insidious the 11-member group wrote. Because the soviets exploit ambiguities to the limit a . Policy that restricts us to activities that Are unambiguously permitted by the treaty could seriously impair our Security the panel said. We believe the defense department should define a technically optimum testing and deployment program and should then adhere to that program except when treaty constraints unambiguously require it to do news briefs Papandreou expects drawn out base talks Athens Greece a Premier Andreas Papandreou was quoted Friday As saying he expects negotiations for a new agreement on . Military oases in Greece to run into 1989. In an interview published in the satirical left Wing weekly Pontikis Papandreou said he did not think we can easily finish in 1988." under the present Accord the four american bases would have to close Down 17 months after the pact s expiration on dec. 31, 1988. A shut Down notice has to be issued five months earlier. Well denounce the agreement. Therefore the bases won t exist legally after january 1989," Papandreou was quoted As saying. But Papandreou described the negotiations As very serious and said they could Lead to an agreement. . Talks with Noriega stall official recalled Washington up talks with Pana Manian strongman Manuel Noriega have broken Down and the Reagan administration divided about whether to drop drug charges against him recalled state department official Michael Kozak for further consultations Friday. Amid reports a tentative agreement had been reached with Noriega a state department offi Cial said there is no Kozak Deputy assistant Secretary of state for inter american affairs had been in Panama for three weeks trying to arrange for Noriega to step Down in return for the United slates dropping the drug charges against him. Soviet party chiefs in areas torn by ethnic strife fired Moscow a the communist party saturday fired the party leaders in the Southern republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan where eth unrest erupted into violence this year the soviet official news Agency Tass announced. Tass said a meeting of communist party officials in Baku the Azerbaijan capital replaced party Leader Kya Niran Bagirov. A similar meeting in Yerevan Armenia s Cap ital replaced Karen Demirchyan it said. No reason was Given for the firings but it probably was directed from Moscow and related to the ethnic strife that erupted earlier this Yea Rover control of the mountainous Magorno Kara Bakh Region of Azerbaijan. Tass said Bagirov was replaced by 58-year-old Abdul Rahman Vizirov who has been Azerbaijan s ambassador to Pakistan. Demirchyan was replaced by 49-year-old Suryn Arutyunyan the first Deputy prime minister of Armenia. At least 32 people 26 ethnic Armenia Sand six Azerbaijan were killed in three Days of ethnic rioting that began feb. 28 in the azerbaijani City of sum Ait. 2 hijackers of kuwaiti Jet reportedly killed in Beirut Kuwait a two of the shiite moslem militants who hijacked a kuwaiti jumbo Jet last month were killed in fighting Between Shine militias in the Southern Beirut slums a newspaper reported saturday. The Al Abas daily quoting a report by an unidentified european foreign ministry identified the men As Qassem Zainuddin and Nihad Hashman or his brother Fuad. It said they were killed along with 10 other shiites in fighting near the Bour Al Baraj Nch palestinian refugee Camp on monday night. Hashman s Mother also was killed in the Bei rut fighting the paper said. Al Abas said the Hashman Brothers and Zainuddin were among the nine hijackers who seized a Kuwait airways Boeing 747 on april 5. They killed two kuwaiti passengers before surrendering to authorities in Algiers the jumbo Jet s third Stop in the 17-Day drama in return for what diplomats said was Safe conduct to an undisclosed country
