European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 20, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes d Dopey travel spurs Grumpy fleece award education news going to College d the Nightmare of spouse abuse Page 13 d Evans swims to 1st . Gold medal at olympics Page 21 Page 4page 9 the sars and stripes authorized unofficial pusuc�t1oh for the los armed Good moral nil vol.47,no. 155 tuesday september 20, Isaa 2h out m so if d 8693 a coup in Burma Sparks rioting Rangoon Burma a fiddling broke out in the capital monday Between troops and demonstrators angered by a military coup staged by hard line armed forces commander Gen. Saw Maung. Scores of casual lies were reported. Residents said demonstrators moving into Rangoon from outlying areas clashed Wilh troops downtown monday morning and Wen forced to flee and leave behind their dead and wounded More than 40 demonstrators and 17 soldiers were reported killed in the capital s Kangal Isu area. The total number of casualties could not be determined. Protesters were seen taking weapons from fallen sol Diers who were deployed in Rangoon after saw Maung announced sunday that he was unseating Burma s first civilian president in 26 years. Demonstrators were using Bamboo Spears knives swords and various homemade weapon against the Well armed soldiers. Transportation came o a Hull and groups of people were seen hurriedly buying food from pavement Ven Dors. Saw Maung said in a statement broadcast by stale run radio Rangoon that he overthrew president Maung Maung to halt economic and social duos and to hold democratic elections after 26 years of authoritarian Rule. The Fate of Maung Maung was unknown. Saw Maung 59. Immediately abolished key govern ment institutions and slapped an 8 .-tc4 . Cur few on the capital the country s largest Eity with 2,5 million residents. Public gatherings were banned but it was not known if inc measures were Only for rang Oon or Tor All of Burma. Shortly after inc 4 . Broadcast thousands of peo ple poured out of heir Homes to protest inc new re Gime. Protesters chopped Down Trees and threw them along with stones and bricks across roads to Block military vehicles then Many resumed Home at the urging of protest organizers. I believe the people Wil Rise up again and this Lime see Burma on Back Pago flooding isolates mexican costal areas Ciudad Victoria Mexico him widespread flooding in Rural areas in the mexican coastal state of Tania Lipas. On the Border with the United slates has isolated an undetermined number of people leaving them without shelter food or cooking utensils authorities said Sun Day. The . Coast guard sent helicopters on Rescue operations to two Vil Lages endangered by Loo dealers brought on by Hurricane Gilbert. Enc mics us. Spokesman Al a temporary coast guard command Post at the Border patrol Headquarters at Corpus Christi Texas identified the villages As Colorado do Abajo 65 Miles South of Laredo and san Fernando 60 Miles South of Brownsville Texas near the Gulf of Mexico coast. There is the threat of a dam breaking in Colompos de Abajo on the Rio Alamo Mastas said. Once that Rescue operation was under Way we got word of another situation where people were in Gener ally Tough shape. The report said 300 people were on their rooftops or in Trees at san Fernando and so we will go there \ tit 1 bus plows through a flooded strict in Campeche Mexico. Winds and torrential Rains from Gilbert then the strongest Atlantic storm on record devastated inc Yuca Tan Peninsula wednesday before sweeping across the Gulf of Mexico and slamming into Northeast Mexico 120 Miles South of Brownsville on Fri Day. The storm weakened to a Tropi Cal depression in Northern Mexico saturday a week after it began a ram Page across the Caribbean and mexi co leaving at least 195 dead. Meanwhile Rescue workers found eight More bodies of the estimated 200 people missing Day after a River in Monterrey flooded sweeping away four passenger filled buses m the sin Gle most deadly blow of Hurricane Gilbert officials said. The Rescue workers walking along inc Banks or in the now shallow Waters of the Santa Catarina River in Monterrey discovered the bodies and brought them to the morgue of he civil Hospital a Hospital spokesman said. Before sunday discovery Nuevo Leon gov. Jorge Trevino said 60 peo ple had died in the Monterrey flood and reports from state authorities showed 93 people had been killed by see flooding on Back Page by David Tarrant stuff writer schwab1sch Hall West Germany one of inc stories soldiers in this year s return of forces to Germany arc telling concerns a West German Farmer Al the wheel of a dilapidated Volkswagen Beetle who Chin pcs upon an american tank Crew on a deserted Back Road during a previous reformer. Perhaps you could run Over my car Wilh your Lank the Farmer suggests looking quickly in All directions. Related stories photos pages 2,3. The tank commander supposedly hesitates Only momentarily before driving his 60-ton chunk of Armor Over the compact. True or not the Story represents at least one of the problems the military and Congress would like to change about Man Euver damage. Still smarting from a recent general accounting 6f flee report Ana facing increasing German sensitivity Over environmental and property damage caused Dur ing held exercises the . Army in Europe has begun la revamp the Way it prevents trucks and pays Tor inc uses new damage claims process Wear and tear of deterrence. Many of those measures Are etting their first real lust in nato exercise certain Challenge a free play Man Euver involving 125,000 troops that is scheduled to run through thursday in inc West German states of Bavaria and Badin our Tumberg. The germans for what appears to be Good and Well known reasons Are becoming More sensitive to their environment and what we can do to it said col. Wayne Halsted. The director of civil affairs for v corps one of two Forward deployed corps participating in the two week exercise. It becomes necessary for us to con vice them that we arc also concerned about it and that we re doing everything we can to minimize what we do to the environmental issues aside it is the traditionally High Cost of Man Euver damage that has attracted con Gressional interest since 1980, the United slates has paid an average of $28.8 million a year for exercise damage in West Ger Many at prices ranging from $54.65 for a Curbstone to is 87,765 fora mile of Concrete agricultural Road. Usa eur believes belter planning of Small exercises could save s3 million to s3 million annually in damage payments. And More could be saved by on site inspections of reported damage according to a . Army claims Center study quoted in the Gao report. The Gao first reported in 19jo that the United slates was. Doing virtually nothing to verify High Cost property claims from training Maneu vers. The Agency s second review issued last month found that very Little has bran done since the last review to increase . Involvement in the verification process or improve. Procedures to process and ver Ify Man Euver damage that report coupled with a concurrent study by the . Army in Europe prompted inc department of defence to begin tightening controls Over the Way a never Chumac claims would be handled for the 20th annual Refo Gerv -.,. As a Start five employees were added to help the . Army claims service verify claims and Speed payments. Additionally military a Emend have been sea damage on Page 3
