European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 18, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Cincinnati s Tom Browning pitches perfect game Page 21 the St is and ripes authorize uhf Pickal. Puoi.ict10n foil the a Aflalo of faces vol.47,no. 153 sunday september 18,1988 Mio i Good morning d 8693 a 200 feared dead in Mexico floods Monterrey Mexico a about 200 or the northbound Lane of a causeway to padre Island Texas is covered by Seamer churned up by Gilbert. Officials Hurricane the strongest on record was Down graded to a tropical depression saturday Afler leaving100 others dead across the Caribbean Mexico s Yuca Tan Peninsula and Texas. Red Cross spokesman Adelberto Salas said Only 11 of the estimated 200 passengers on four buses Over turned by the surging Santa Catania River in Monter Rey were saved. At least six policemen were swept to their deaths As they tried to Rescue the passengers police spokesman Gilberto Sanchez said. Sanchez also said nearly 200 bus passengers were feared dead. Police said the buses were coming from the direction of Saltillo about 5s Miles West of Monterrey. Saltillo a City of about 450,000, is the capital of neigh Boring Coahuila stale. Sanchez said rising water stranded the buses on alow lying stretch of Road parallel to the River a special police unit the cobras tried to Rescue the passengers but the current increased the water Rose and the buses overturned. At least six officers were swept away. The Santa Catarina cuts through downtown Monter Rey near the main business area. The River was straight ened and channelled years ago As part of an Urban development project and its wide Flat bed became a recreational area with soccer Fields basketball and ten n is courts and jogging trails. The local newspaper Al North said the flood Walers reached the hoops on the basketball courts by Early saturday morning. The newspaper also said a trailer truck Slid into the River in driving rain and us two occupants were missing. Nuevo Leon nov. Jorge Trcy Ino Martinez also re ported heavy property damage in Monterrey the state capital of Nuevo Leon and a cily of 3 million about 110 Miles from the Texas Border. Gilbert had come ashore for the second time i three Days in Mexico Friday afternoon hitting a sparsely populated stretch of the Gulf of Mexico coast South of Matamoros. It quickly began to dissipate into torrential rams and High winds that drenched the northeastern slates of Tamaulipas Nuevo Leon and Coahuila. In coastal Texas and northeastern Mexico thou Sands of people evacuated As inc storm approached. The entire Beach area of Matamoros a City of280,000 Jusi across the Border from Brownsville Texas was emptied in Advance of the killer storm. The storm passed directly Over Santa Rosa an Santa Cruz two Small villages a few Miles North of la Pesca Mexico where Ocean tides coursed Over two Miles of Fla lands and into he town. In Texas heavy Rains fell on Brownsville with gusts up to 82 Mph recorded at nearby South padre Island but the vulnerable coastal area escaped the worst of Heslor. However inc aftereffects of the Hurricane still threatened danger of Flash flooding in Texas is very use Gilbert on Back Paga Seoul Poce Aff Ock protesters of games Seoul South Korea a riot police on saturday beat Radical students who staged an anti olympic protest in the heart of the capital on the opening Day of the olympics. About 20 protesters were arrested. Students later held a rally at Korea University in the North of Seoul and burned an effigy painted with an Ameri can Flag in the shape of a nuclear bomb. Oppose dictator s olympics Stu dents chanted at both protests. About 200 students shouting Ami olympic slogans tried to March through souls main shopping District toward Myon Dong Cathedral to protest the games. The Brief protest was held about 10 Miles from the olympic Sites. Scores of riot police charged the March after in had gone about 150 Yards. Riot police punched and kicked pro testers to break up the rally. It was the first protest staged in the City Center in several week. Protesters did not attempt to fight police. Nearly 10,000 olympic athletes from 160 countries opened the biggest athletic show on Earth under a massive Security Blanket and the jealous Glare of communist North Korea. Coverage of he Ljra plus tarlsonp�ge2l. Later saturday about 300 students staged an anti american protest at Korea University they denounced the South korean and . Governments and demanded that the olympics be shared with North Korea. Yankee go Home students shouted As they shot their fists into the air. About 400 Riol police kept watch out Side the school but they did not inter Vene and students dispersed without a confrontation. The radicals Are demanding that the olympics be shared with North Korea to help unify the
