European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 18, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes monday july 18,1988 Tornado damage set at $25 million Council Bluffs Iowa a damage from a string of tornadoes that hit two cities Friday was estimated at $25 million As National guardsmen kept watch sunday against looting. As Many As 10,000 Homes sustained dam age and thousands of Trees were uprooted. At least 94 people suffered injuries mostly minor. Some residents complained of Little or no warning of the twisters. More than 100 families were forced news briefs from houses that were destroyed or sustained structural damage Friday when a thunderstorm packing 92 Mph winds and As Many As four tornadoes slammed into Omaha neb., and Council Bluffs across the Missouri River. People Are traumatized said coun cil Bluffs mayor Tom Hanafan. Roughly 24 hours later the reality starts to set  by sunday 22,500 households still in were without Power in Eastern Omaha and several thousand remained without Power in Council Bluffs. As Many As 100,000 residences lost electricity Early saturday. Power was not expected to be restored to All of Council Bluffs until monday. National guardsmen kept the 700 Block area of damage in Council Bluffs sealed off sunday issuing permits Only to people who had a need to be there. Some looting was reported but no arrests were made authorities said insurance adjusters examining the wreckage of Council Bluffs West end said the damage probably would reach $20 million to $25 million the Omaha world Herald reported. Adjusters said 160 Homes were severely damaged. There was no immedi ate estimate of the damage in Omaha said Omaha mayor Walt Calinger. E. German guards grab Man attempting to escape Berlin a four East German Border guards seized a Man trying to climb Over a Metal Fence and escape to West Berlin at checkpoint Charlie a West Berlin police official said sunday. The incident was witnessed by several tourists on the Western Side of the Border crossing late saturday and was described in the sunday Edi Tion of the West Berlin Morgen Post newspaper. Photographs published by the newspaper showed two East German guards pinning the Man to the ground. Reagan goes on vacation during demo convention Washington a president Reagan flew to California sunday to relax at his ranch during the democratic National convention. Reagan and his wife Nancy took off from Andrews air Force base md., in the late morn ing on a five hour flight to the West coast. The president planned to stick with his usual vacation regimen at Rancho Del Cielo his 688 acre ranch in the Santa Ynez mountains not far from Santa Barbara Calif. Reagan wanted to maintain a Low profile Dur ing convention week and thus the first couple scheduled the week Long july visit. Democrats from Page 1 Bush was fishing in Wyoming with Treasury Secretary Jim Baker. Hell be Back campaigning on wednesday the Day democrats make it official and bestow their nomination on Dukakis. The Unity talks with Jackson s aides proceeded under a near blackout with aides saying Little More than that Progress had been made in discussions last ing Well into saturday night. Whatever happens Jack son s Side made Clear it was going to take a face to face session Between the rivals to Seal any agreement. Jackson said sunday he was sure the democrats would wind up with a unified convention eventually at this Point there is no defined place for the progressive Wing in the Campaign he said. Our minority planks Are majority positions. It s too much to expect that we not debate and deliberate and arrive at decisions and arrive at a mandate to govern. That is in the highest and Best traditions of the democratic  Iraq s Hussein urges Iran to take peace Road after latest Battles Baghdad Iraq a president Saddam Hus Sein said sunday that a string of iraqi victories on the Battlefield should persuade Iran to accept an Honora ble peace and end the War Between the persian Gulf nations. Iraq later said its forces withdrew from an iranian Border area after ridding it of enemy troops and bombed Industrial targets in Southern Iran. Iran s rulers have to accept the peace Road they have to abandon their unjust dreams and foolish Mot tos and slogans their hollow illusions after their de feats the iraqi Leader declared in a speech broadcast on Baghdad radio. Hussein s speech came on the 20th anniversary of his seizure of Power. He proposed that Iran and Iraq sign a peace Accord Exchange prisoners return to their respective Borders and vow not to interfere in each other s internal affairs. A military communique issued shortly afterwards said iraqi forces withdrew from the iranian town of de Loran which they seized tuesday. The iraqis advanced 30 Miles into Iran to capture de Loran after chasing iranian forces out of the Dubai Dat Region on their Side of the Border. Military communiques said at the time that Iraq did not wish to hold onto iranian territory and would withdraw from Deh Loran after Clearing the Border area of enemy troops and destroying their bases. The iraqi news Agency reported that iraqi War planes b9mbed fuel storage tanks near the Southern iranian City of Ahwaz scoring destructive  there was no immediate iranian comment on the iraqi reports. Iraq s victories in Zubaidah and de Loran were the latest in a series of iraqi triumphs this year that chased iranian troops out of almost All the iraqi territory they had seized since 1982. The iraqis began recapturing their lost territories in april. They said they seized about 133 strategic Heights in the Northern Region of the 730-mile Long front. Simultaneously they launched assaults in the South recapturing the Southern Faw Peninsula in april and the Shalam Cheh and maj noon islands in May and june. Hussein said these victories could Lead to a peace settlement and urged Iran to accept the . Security Council Call for a cease fire in the 8-year-old War. Iraq accepts the july 1987 Resolution but Iran maintains the conflict cannot end until Iraq is branded the aggressor in the War. Hussein stressed sunday that any settlement should guarantee Iraq s navigation rights along the Shatt Al Arab waterway which forms the southernmost Border with Iran As Well As through the Strait of Hormuz the narrow Entrance to the persian Gulf. Iraq s Only Access to the Gulf along the Shatt Al Arab has been blocked by Iran since the outbreak of fight ing. Gas from Page 1 of the leak saturday. The steering engines Man Euver the shuttle in orbit and Are separate from the main propulsion engines. Technicians determined sunday that the amount of Gas near the leak was 40 to 50 parts per million a Small leak but enough to cause concern about safety. If discovery were removed from the pad it would be transported to a building to be disconnected from its two solid fuel Booster rockets and external liquid fuel tank. Then it would be towed to another building where there is equipment to re move the steering engine compartment. Removing the shuttle from the pad could put off the launch now planned for Early september by As much As two months said Chuck Hollinshead a spokesman at the Kennedy space Center. Discovery is being prepared for the first shuttle Mission since challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff on Jan. 28, 1986, killing the Crew of seven. The flight originally was scheduled for last february but has been postponed five times because of various technical problems. Five Veteran shuttle Crew members Are to ride discovery on a four Day Mission in which they Are to deploy a communications satellite conduct experiments and Check out More than 200 modifications made since the challenger Accident. A two month delay of discovery s launch would scramble Nasa s shuttle schedule. The launch of Atlantis scheduled for mid no vember with a classified defense department pay Load probably would be put off until Early 1989, and subsequent flights would have to be juggled. Nasa is expected to postpone at least two of the nine missions planned for 1989 because of a shortage of Booster rocket fuel caused by an explosion in May that destroyed a Nevada Plant that manufactured a fuel component. Pilot from Page 1 Gan who now lives in Santa Ana California to Board Irish Are lingus flight 104 at Kennedy at 7 45 . Sunday and arrive at Baldonnel aerodrome near dub Lin at 8 15 . Monday. Asked Why he was embarking on such a historic flight with Only $3 on hand the Galveston Texas native noted that the Irish airline was sponsoring the trip which will include meetings with government officials and a Parade. Corrigan s legend began when he climbed aboard his rickety monoplane parked in Brooklyn s old Floyd Bennett Field 50 years ago and said with a smile he was going to California. He landed 28 hours and 13 minutes later and not knowing his error asked is this los Angeles Corrigan has insisted Over the years that the flight was a mistake. I set that Compass wrong or i would have got to California he said after his famous flight. Honest i meant to go there. It was just dumb Irish Luck that i got to  when he took off from new York parts of Sunshine a Junker plane he bought for $310 were held together by baling wire. His Only instruments were the wrong Way com pass and a 10-foot pole to Knock ice off the wings. He had no radio. For food he had two chocolate bars and two boxes of Fig bars. He had one quart of water. The flight Cost $69 for 330 Gallons of gasoline car ried in five fuselage and Wing tanks that blocked his View and forced him to Fly  the misguided venture made Corrigan a de pression Era hero hailed All the More because he had helped the legendary Charles Lindbergh assemble the spirit of St. Louis 11 years before. The following years were Heady ones for Corrigan who returned to a ticker tape Parade in new York City. He met president Franklin d. Roosevelt starred As himself in the 1939 Rio film the flying irishman and entered the service As a civilian Pilot for the army s ferry command. The years since have been less memorable. Corri Gan who in 1950 bought a 20-acre Orange Grove on the outskirts of Santa Ana has rarely made Public appear ances or spoken with the news Media. His wife Elizabeth the childhood sweetheart he married a year after his flight died in 1966. His oldest son Roy who took up his father s interest in aviation was killed in a plane crash on Santa Catalina Island in1972