European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 17, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes o Navy Pilot blamed for Downing of Jet Page 3 d Dukakis Bush Trade charges in Campaign Page 5 d Birmingham memorial Marks Church bombing Page 7 p Yankees beat red sox in Al East sports Page 21 authorized unofficial publication Porte a. Ahmed Good morning vol. 47, no. 152 saturday september 17, 1988 0., Sumi d 8693 a storm packing 120 Mph winds lashes at Gulf coast of Texas Brownsville. Texas a Hurricane Gilber howled toward the Taxa Mexico coast Friday wild High Waves and 120 Mph winds. Thousands of Gulf coast residents huddled in pub Lic shelters and boarded up Homes or fled Inland in anticipation of the storm. By Early afternoon heavy rain was falling on Brownsville the southernmost Texas City and wind gusts to 62 Mph were measured at the Airport and to 65mph at port Isabel. Up to 5 inches of rain were fare cast along with tides 7 feel to i feet above  coastal roads were flooded. Gilbert which for a time this week was the most powerful storm on record in the Western hemisphere weakened but remained a dangerous storm. So far it is responsible Tor at least so deaths and billions of Dollar sin damage Asil roared across the Caribbean and through the Gulf of Mexico. It appeared however that the . Coast might escape the direct fury or the storm As its Central Eye failed to make an expected turn to the North and was expected to make landfall in Mexico. In has gone a Little left of our track and that mean sit s a Little bit closer to the coast than if it had veered up the coast National Hurricane Center director Bob sheets said. He forecast landfall for within a few hours of 7  50 to 100 Miles South of Brownsville at the Southern lip of Texas. At 2 p.m., the Center of the storm was near 24 North latitude and 97. Wesl Longitude or about 130 Miles South Southeast or Brownsville and 40 Miles cast of lie mexican coast. It was moving West Northwest Al 12 Mph with maximum sustained winds of 20 Mph. The National weather service Hurricane warning included Mexico s Northern coast and the Southern half of the Texas coast from Brownsville to Porto Connor including 250,000-Rcsidcnl Corpus Christi continued on Back Page Many gis already fed up with Field rations spec. James novel cob 4th in 67th Armor in for Ledburg West Germany satisfies his hunger with in or. By Janet Howells Tierney St of writer schwab1sch-Hall, Wes Germany american soldiers Long have been called the Best fed troops in he world but at East some personnel eating the military s latest generation of combat cuisine arc begging to differ. The soldiers some of the 125,000nato mops participating in cider disc certain Challenge have been sampling the army s newest line of group size to rations and dehydrated res or meals ready to eat. And after the first week of the exercise some have clearly had their fill. I ale them one Lime and that  said sgt. 1st class Roger d. Thompson a howitzer maintenance chief with Bury a 6ih arty in 41stfield arty brigade from  Wisl Germany. If my wife cooked like thai " some German soldiers also selected to Sample to rations and res during the exercise said they arc doing without or buying meals from local sources. They Are Only for sadistic per sons said one German Soldier who admits to eating the Are a subs Candy and some of he desserts continued on Page 3 Gorbachev offers Trade off on asian bases Moscow a Mikhail s. Gorba Chov announced Friday that the Kremlin is ready to give up a key naval base i Vietnam if . Forces leave their bases in the Philippines. The soviet Leader also said his govern ment had Frozen nuclear weapons stocks in soviet Asia and proposed the creation of an International Center on the peaceful use of outer space Al a siberian radar Siaion Tass reported. In appeared that Gorbachev was propos ing the Clim Nalion or conversion of the Krasnoyarsk radar which the . Govern ment says is a breach of the 1972 anti bal Listic missile treaty and whose existence has stymied Geneva arms talks. President Reagan said he would stud the proposal. I look Forward 10 doing that because certainly we want to do any thing we can to help bring about a belter relationship Between our two countries i said. Then referring to the risk of getting cheated Al cards the president added but As i have frequently said to him Gorbachev Trust everybody but Cut the cards " Gorbachev also reiterated his Call for Asino Soviel Summit and urged Japan nil to increase its Mil Ilary strength. The soviet Lender read aloud a seven Point plan aimed Ai strengthening Secu Rity in the Asia Pacific Region during meeting with communist parly and local government workers in the City of Krasnoyarsk 2,000 Miles East of Moscow. The speech the first major address by Gorbachev since his return monday from a six week vacation is to be carried in full by Tass. The official news Agency first distributed a summary of Gorba Chev s proposals aware of the asian and Pacific coun tries concern the soviet Union will not increase the amount of any nuclear weapons in the Region it has already been practising this far some time Andis calling on the United states and other nuclear Powers not to deploy them additionally in the Region Tass said. In additional if the United state agrees to the elimination of military bases in the Philippines the soviet Union will be ready by agreement with sea Gorbachev on Back