European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. June 1988 the stars and stripes global floods predicted by . Official Bangkok. Thailand up global warming i expected to flood Low lying coastal areas worldwide and displace millions of people within three decades the head of the . Environment program said Sun Day. Global warming caused by a buildup of Carbo dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere. Will cause Thermal expansion of the oceans by As much alone meter 3.3 fee inundating Low lying coastal areas said Mostafa Tolba executive director of theunes in his world environment Day message. Tolba said almost a third of the world s population lives within 37 Miles of a coastline. For the firs Lime since Snep was established in 1972, the main annual world environment Day Cere monies were held in Bangkok rather than at . Headquarters in new York or Snep Headquarters in Nairobi Kenya. The greenhouse effect will very probably produce a mean temperature increase of 1.5 to 4.5 degrees Celsi us 2.7 to 8.1 f Over the next 30-40 years Tolba said. Tolba called for he installation of defences against the advancing seas and Tor strict cries to restrict the buildup of the greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases include Carbon Dion intr whith has increased 25 percent since the Industrial revolution nitrous aside methane Ozone and chlorofluorocarbons. It May Lake another 15 years before scientists can give reliable predictions of what warming will mean in each Region by then it May be too late. Tolba said. In Northern countries Snep predicts the Green House effect will cause Shorter welter Winters and longer drier Summers. Subtropical regions arc expected to become drier and tropical ones act scr Snep says. Swiss freeze a phonic with the official Start of summer Lille Mare than two weeks any you would expect the outdoor cafes in Andermatt Switzerland to be filled with guests enjoying food and drink while basking in Sunshine. Bui in apparent confirmation thai the Moil Predicta ble thing about the weather is us unpredictability Ait unseasonable snowstorm sunday kept the Chai empty and act the tables till a few inches of Snow. Wolf advocates stir some howls of protest Yellowstone National Park Wyo. A an environmental Leader and a Western politician have taken up the cause of the Wolf calling for its return to the wilds of the nation s first National Park. They added their voices Over the weekend to that of inc head of the National Park service who said that the howl of the Wolf is the Call the music of inc  lined tip to voice indignant opposition Are the majority of cattlemen and sheep men in the West backed by Wyom ing s two . Senators and one representative. Speaking at the annual meeting of the greater Yellowstone coalition rep. Wayne Owens a Utah and m. Rupert Cutler president of the defenders of wildlife urged National support for restoration of the Wolf to Yellowstone National Park. The coalition formed in 1983, consists of about 50 National regional and local organizations that Monitor manage ment of the 2.j million acre Park. Nearly Alt of America s Wolf Popula Tion was wiped out earlier this Century by ranchers Farmers and Bounty  have been a few sightings of Lone wolves in a few Western slates. A pack of wolves migrated across the Canadian Border into Glacier National Park two years ago but left this year to go Bac Kinto British Columbia. Efforts to revive the Wolf population in Minnesota have resulted in about1,200 wolves there. Efforts to restart the red Wolf population in Virginia an mexican Wolf colonies in the Southwest also Are under Way. Noting thai the reintroduction of the Gray Wolf into Yellowstone is endorsed by the National Park service Owen said i am always offended when we politicians substitute our own value judgments for those of professional land managers. There is a theory among the Wyom ing and Montana congressional delegations thai they own  Owens said he introduced a Bill in Congress after discovering i Yellowstone Park last fall that the Wolf recovery program had been completely sidetracked by political  the Bill would order he Interior department to implement inc Rocky Mountain Wolf recovery plan drawn up by the . Fish and wildlife service. It would re establish wolves in the entire Northern Rocky Mountain Region including Yellowstone. To was Clear to me when i introduced the Bill that i could not pass it said Owens but i hoped to expose the Wolf to Daylight. There is no predation prob Lem with wolves. H is psychological the haired of  Culler whose 80,000-member organization has Reinor Duclion of wolves int Yellowstone As a top priority said All americans have a Ngun to influence the course of events in Yellowstone National  Culler said restoring the wolves has enormous symbolic importance As Well As ecological importance. It will reviewed As one of the major conservation accomplishments of the 1990s." Park service director William pen Mott said Friday in an interview with the associated press that he believes  is inevitable. When that happens people May never Sec a Wolf said Moll but the will hear them howl. Thai is inc Call the music of the West. That Quality is a important As a natural presence or a Structure within a Park Cutler and Owens urged inc 300 peo ple attending saturday s meeting to rally support to Force Congress to hold hear Ings on the Wolf reintroduction plan. Cutler said the next step would be a environmental Impact Siai Emend on the proposal. He said a requested $200,000federal appropriation is in danger of fail ing to get through the by decl review pro . Could redeploy Philippines forces study says Washington up if forced to shul Down ils military bases in the Philippines the United slates could redeploy its forces to other nearby countries without a major loss of military  or prohibitive costs a new study says. The study by the non profit Council on foreign re lations released last week found that . Air and naval forces in the Philippines could if necessary be split Upland transferred 10 Japan Korea Australia Guam and Micronesia. The United slates Philippines bases agreement expires in 1991, although a review of the arrangement by officials from Bolh countries began recently in Manila. A surge of nationalism has prompted at least eight members of the 24-Membcr philippine Senate to urge that dark a and the Subie Bay no Complex be closed  new bases agreement would have to be ratified by the philippine Senate and Only eight or nine negative Voles would be required to Block ratification. . Secretary of state George Shultz has called Onich Philippines to continue allowing the United states to use the bases. The foundation supported study by Alva Bow ennobled that the . Military is based in the Philippines 10 project Force into East Asia the Indian Ocean an the persian Gulf and to reassure allies of . Willingness to intervene on their behalf. A local of 17,220 . Military members and 1,350 . Civilians work at the bases. . Forces have been based in the Philippines since the end of the 19th Century. The extended base Struc Ture in effect at the end of world War ii has shrunk Over the past four decades and jurisdiction Over the bases formally pasted from the United slates to the Philippines in 1979. Bowen a retired Navy Captain who has worked forthe congressional research service said that while loss of the bases is not an imminent probability contingency planning for such a redeployment is Pru  former defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger submitted a still classified report to Congress in 1986 that discussed potential redeployment Silas. Bowen who wrote a 1986 Book on philippine base redeployment said the United slates would not Sacri fice much military effectiveness if it moved air Force units to Japan and Korea and units for ship repair to Japan and Guam. He also suggested using Australia s port and Airlift facilities and . Facilities in Micronesia. Bowen said the United slates would have to expand its existing military facilities in these countries and build some new ones to accommodate the redeployed forces