European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 3, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 s the stars and stripes Friday june 3,1 bus 3 miners killed in West Germany m photo mine worker Georg Kraft outside he Borken mine. Corruption cited in drug affidavit Tucson Ariz. A millions of dollars in bribes were paid 10 Mexico s defense minister an Dolhar officials and . Customs agents let loads of marijuana pass through a Border station according Toan affidavit in a drug smuggling Case. The affidavit was filed by the . Attorney s office in . District court in support of inc government s seizure of More than Sio million in assets belonging to Jaime Javier Figueroa Soto and nine others. They were arcs cd last week during raids. Drug enforcement administration agent Leonard Williams displayed some of the assets tuesday and said he expect More arrests and asset seizures. The affidavit contains a charge by a Dea informer that Gen. Juan Arevalo Gardoqui Mexico s defense minister received a $ 10 million bribe in 1984 from a alleged partner of Figueroa Soto a Rafael Caro Quin Taro 1o assure Protection of marijuana and poppy Fields in the mexican stale of Chihuahua. Arevalo Gardoqui has denied his family is involved in drug trafficking and the mexican Federal  office also denied lire allegations against Are Valo and other top Law enforcement officials. The Ari Zona daily Star reported. Borken West Germany a an explosion about 300 feet underground in a coat Shaft wednesday killed 31 miners and trapped 26, who were Given Little Chance of survival. About 30 Rescue workers used Large drills Earl thursday to bore through tons of debris in an urgent Effort o reach the trapped miners. The explosion scorched the ground on the surface where eight men were critically injured. The blast also blew the roofs off at least three work buildings at thymine knocked Down Sheds and shattered windows. Early thursday hcs Siche Rund Funk radio quoted authorities As saying 31 bodies had been found raising by 15the number of dead that had been earlier confirmed. Twenty six other miners were Stitt trapped 330 fee below ground the Frankfurt based radio station said. Dieter Wickert a spokesman for the company that owns the mine said the latest confirmed count he d heard was 29 dead. My son Dieter is Down there. He s been a Miner tor20 years said Werner Henoc an elderly Man who was waiting overnight inside his son s House located not far from the mine. God let him be alive. He has two Small children Henke brushing away tears said. It does not look like any survivors will be found since in was Likely oxygen Levels inside the Shaft had seriously diminished Borken mayor Bernd Hesle told reporters More than 12 hours after the wednesday midday blast. In a building not far from the mine Shaft wives another relatives of the missing workers were consoling each other but even they expressed Little Hope their loved ones would be round alive. That was an incredible explosion said 60-year-old Gerhard Het Manczyk whose son in Taw Alfred Wir Embi was among the missing. I Don t see How anyone could have survived,1 said the somber Het Manczyk who was going Home after waiting futilely for hours Lor Good news. Three Rescue workers were being treated at a Hospi Tal after inhaling fumes from Carbon monoxide that was released in inc blast but their lives were not in danger mayor Hessler said. Officials said they still did not know what cause the explosion inside the mine at Borken about 72 Miles Northeast of Frankfurt. But Erwin Braun head of the Hesse stale mining Board said All indications pointed to a Gas explosion triggered by a dust build up. Thunderstorms flood town in North Central Texas Comanche Texas a heavy thunderstorms dumped More than 10 inches of rain on this North Central Texas town overflowing a Creek obliterating an earthen dam and forcing the evacuation of about 60 people authorities said. The storm Waters also damaged Homes business Sand Bridges and briefly shut Down some highways else where in inc area late tuesday and Early wednesday. A Wall of water came through Here and these peo ple barely Goi out in time said Gayle Godfrey As he stood amid Lorn furnishings and soggy carpet drying on the Shore of Lake bans. The flood s Apex came Between 3 . And 6 ., and by 8 30 ., residents were allowed to return to their Homes. All thai remained of the former 100-acre private Lake Al Daylight were acres of mud ions of debris and fallen Trees. Maida Godfrey pointed to grass and mud stains 4 i feet High on inc while Walls of her Home which she estimated sustained about 130,000 in damage. We had to leave out the Back door when the water came pouring in she said. We be lived Here 22 years and it s never Gollon this High  Godfrey 40. And her 18-year-old son Sheridan ran up a Hill to the Home of a neighbor. From the top of the Hill she said she heard a loud Roar about 5 . Atwater broke through the dam that was built in the 1930s in a water reclamation project. Flood Walers also overflowed the Banks of India Creek tearing through Homes and businesses in co Manchu and knocking chunks of pavement from Bridges. At Lake Comanche about four Miles Southeast of this town of 12,600, a dam held but water spilled Over its lip said Duane Ogle a teacher Al Comanche High school. North along . 377, the floodwaters blocked Sev eral underpasses and Bridges with togs and debris. The Driver of an 1 8-Whceler reportedly sworn to safety a headwaters washed his truck off the Road. Gorbachev appears amused u he gestures Lottus Reagan. A photo Summit from Page 1 Tion of the soviet Union As the evil Empire does not apply any longer. The reagans and Gorbachev got to Gether wednesday night to Lake in the Bolshoi Ballet after dinner at inc Gorbachev Dacha. Gorbachev Al his own news Confer ence said the two leaders in what will be their final Summit unless the remaining  impasses Are bridged by negotiators in Geneva have freed themselves from All sorts of propaganda  in fact Reagan said i m going Todo everything 1 can to persuade my Suc Cessor to follow up and continue in policy of reconciliation. The first lines have already Bee written into a Book of the world Wilh out nuclear weapons Gorbachev said upon exchanging final papers of the intermediate Range nuclear forces treaty a lesser  Accord thai was com pm Clad at the 1987 summil.". 1 con t think anyone can close the Book on that and put it aside he said. In remarks after a ceremony punctuated with smiles and handshakes Gorbachev said Reagan had disavowed his description of the soviet Union As an evil  somebody asked the president whether he still considered the soviet Union to be an evil Empire. He said no and he said that within the Walls of the Kremlin next to the Czar s gun right in the heart of that evil Empire. We Lake note of that he said. As in ancient greeks say everything flows everything changes. Everything is in a  it was once hoped thai this week Summit would be crowned by an agreement to slash Long Range nuclear weapons 30 to 50 percent. Edward a Rowny a senior . control adviser said we did t get anywhere on sea launched cruise missiles we did nol get anywhere on the ski   he referred to a disagreement Over How to Monitor cruise missiles earned on warships and on the link the soviets have made Between the . Strategic defense initiative and the 1972 anti ballistic missile treaty. The ski program which seeks space based defense against soviet bal Listic missiles will involve technology tests that the soviets say threaten the 1972 treaty. On the regional front they did no try to paper Over their differences. Gorbachev threatened that the red  would take appropriate action if .-armed rebels did not cease fir ing on soviet troops As they withdrew from Afghanistan