European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes tuesday november 22,1988 guard patrolling Tornado racked City by the associated press the National guard patrolled in Tuscaloosa ala., White he South cleaned up monday from a barrage of nearly two a twin Lac Escasan tornadoes and storms that killed two people and damaged More than 150 houses. Related photo pare4. The same storm system carried High wind and heavy rain to parts of Ohio and Pennsylvania on sunday ripping off the roof of an empty school in southwestern Pennsylvania and toppling a 75-foot Christmas tree in Pittsburgh. It later became the i nil big snowstorm of the season to hit Maine dumping Sec stand nearly a foot of Snow that was blamed for More than 100 traffic Acci dents with two fatalities. Caribou re corded 10 inches of Snow. In the Caribbean. Tropical storm Keith churned off Mexico s Yucatan Peninsula after becoming the huh tropical storm of the season. Forecasters expect it to reach Hurricane strength As it Heads into the Gulf of Mexico. It could hit Florida late in the week. Twisters skipped across Arkansas Mississippi and Alabama uprooting Trees damaging houses and Downing Power lines Over the weekend. The tornadoes struck unusually late in the year said Harry Gordon of the National weather service s severe storms Center in Kansas City to. One Tornado slammed through a three mile area near the Small Northeast Mississippi own Oynel Lelon snapping the lops off Trees before dipping into Amobile Home Park and running along a string of Hills and valleys. Two people in Mobile Homes a 37 year old Man and inc 9-Momh-Oid boy were found dead sunday after the Tor Nado hit. Nine others were injured including one person who was in critical condition and one in serious condition. Tornadoes also were reported in the Mississippi counties of Simpson Bolivar Sunflower and Lake with at least 25 houses damaged in Simpson. A Tornado i Tuscaloosa Early sunday Cuta mile Long path of destruction damaging houses and knocking out electricity to 3,600 Homes. Nearly 100 Homes were damaged or destroyed and six people were injured. In Pennsylvania classes were cancelled monday at the German Central Elemen tary school in Mcclellan Down after a thunderstorm lore off the roof of the building sunday forty Miles to inc North in Pittsburgh a 75-Fbol-Laii christinas tree was knocked Over by High winds. The artificial tree with 5,8121ighls, was erected at Point state Park. Heavy Rains in new Jersey on sunday left four Rivers swollen to near flood stage the Millstone Mariian Saddle and ram Apo in the Northwestern and Northern parts of the stale. Rain wind and lightning also forced a halt in departures for it time sunday eve Ning at the three major new York Are airports John f. Kennedy International Newark International and Laguardia said Bill Cahill spokesman for the government Agency that runs them. Cabinet from Page 1 went on to say thai Thornburgh will work with me to fight d rugs with every tool at our Bush noted that Cavazos a former president of Texas tech University is the first hispanic to hold a Cabinet Post but he added overriding is or. Cava Zos commitment to excellence in Bush had promised hispanic leaders that he would name a hispanic to his Cabinet. Bush said his Choice of Darman underscores his determination to Cul the budget deficit. Dick Darman understands the numbers Bush news briefs canadians go to polls in National election Toronto a Newfoundland voters monday cast the first ballots in National elections prime minister Brian Mulroney Hopes will give him a parliamentary majority to ratify the free Trade agreement. The controversial Trade pact which has dominated the rancorous Campaign would phase out All remaining tariffs on Trade Between inc two countries starting Jan. I opposition Leader John Turner has urged canadians to vote for his Liberal party because he opposes the Trade agreement and is seeking to keep Canada Turner revived his party s chances during the is Day Campaign by accusing Mulroney of Selling out Canada. Polls in the Campaign s final Days showed Mulroney s progressive conservative party had returned to favor after a two month slide attributed to the cffktivencssoflhc59-year-oldturncr5atlacks. Onassis death attributed to excess fluid in lungs Buenos Aires Argentina a greek heiress Christina Onassis died of an acute Pul monary edema or accumulation of fluid in her lungs a Federal judge said monday. Judge Juan Carlos Cardinal said inc cause of death was included in a partial report he received Agnethe judge said he still was awaiting a determination on the cause of the edema As Well As re sults of a chemical analysis and other pathological studies performed on the body. The 37-year-old Onassis apparently suffered a heart attack saturday at the country club Home of friends she was visiting. Three containers of Medicine and other Evi Dence found in Onassis bedroom were taken by police sunday for analysis the private. News Agency diaries y Noticia said full Coroner s report on the cause of death was expected to be released 10 Cardinali report is the key to the release of the body for burial in Greece and it might provide details of Onassis death. Said Dick Darman will play a Central role in that Effort which will commence immediately when i As sume office. Because he understands the government and the Economy so Well Dick will make sure the bus administration Nils the ground Martle Barnes a spokeswoman for Massachusetts gov. Michael Dukakis the Defeated democratic presidential candidate said Bush called the governor at his statehouse office and invited the Defeated democratic nominee to meet with him but she had no idea when the meeting would Lake place or what matters would be discussed. Cavazos was named to succeed William Bennett i september. Thornburgh. A former Pennsylvania Gover nor is a Bush ally who took office last August. Thornburgh and Cavazos will be the second and third members of the current Reagan administration to remain on the Job. Earlier Bush said Brady would keep his Posi Tion. Bush also appointed former Treasury Secretary James a. Baker Iii As his Secretary of stale. Darman was Baker s right Arm throughout the Rea Gan administration both when Baker was while House chief of staff and later when he was Treasury Secretary. He played a behind the scenes role in negotiating the 1983 Rescue plan for social Security. Bush spent a quiet weekend out of the limelight attending Church sunday jogging and conferring at Home with gov John Sununu of new Hampshire his chosen chief of monday s announcement Bush met with two former presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy on Bush s schedule was a meeting with David Packard the computer magnate who headed a com Mission that recommended an overhaul of Pentagon procurement procedures. Bush must cancel some programs toc Udod budget Gao says Washington a president elect George Bush should cancel some weapons and look for other Pentagon savings As part of the Effort to control the defense budget a congressional Agency said monday. The general accounting office in one Ofa series of reports on issues facing Bush when he takes office Jan 20, noted that even though each of the services say sit needs Many billions of Dollar More to Complete us modernization and expansion programs the current 1300 billion defense budget in l Likely to be increased for the foreseeable future. V current Pentagon plans include programs which would Cost about $200 billion More than the defense department can expect to receive during the five year period which ends in 1992, said. Bush and the democratic controlled Congress need to Lake a number of actions to reduce future defense expenditures the Gao said. Those include reducing and realigning planned programs. In so doing cancel marginal systems and delay systems not ready for it did not give examples seeking common missions. In the past for exam ple we have developed a variety of systems land based to aircraft o attack carefully assessing the Long term Impact of planned weapons. The Cao said that recalling four world War ii battleships from Mothballs was cheaper than building four new warships but operating three of the ships win Cost $150 million this year and require about 4,600 personnel. Rethinking America s far Flung network of world wide commitments. The rising costs of our worldwide commitments in the absence of increased Burden sharing by our allies May simply be new administration also needs to take Steps to try to end the series of weapons purchasing scandals. And High prices for spare parts one improvement would be in the Pentagon office that oversees what is supposed to be the realistic test ing of weapons the Gao said. The. Usefulness of the current testing system has been limited because of insufficient resources to con duct testing deferral of certain critical tests until after the production decision failure to simulate realistic Battlefield conditions during testing and acceptance of products which do not meet the lest criteria it said. Snow from Page 1 Schwabish Gelind spokesman maj Jerry Hart said. In the kaisers Laulom Ramstein a area temperatures monday hovered in the High 30s after several inches of Snow covered the Rheinland Pfalz Region sunday night despite Early morning sanding by Road Crews roads in and out of the City and surrounding villages remained Slick until Midas Mcmoon after having caused lengthy traffic snarls along heavily travelled commuter routes during Rush hours. As predicted flurries began to appear sunday allover West Germany but Snow stuck to the ground Only South of the country s Eifel Region and the Taurus mountains near Frankfurt said air Force master sol. Melvin a Bradley forecaster at the european fore cast unit in Trabyn Trarbach. Bradley said the southbound storm was expected to leave most areas late monday while continuing to dump More Snow South of the Danube River until tuesday morning. By i . Monday the storm Al ready had left an Inch of Snow at Fulda 2 to 4 inches at Pitburg Hahn and Spang Sahelm 4 in Munich and5 in Ansbach Grafen Wuhr and ill sheim Bradley said a cold front is expected to follow the storm with temperatures throughout the country rang ing from the 20s to freezing during the Day and from the Lens to 20s at night. Sloppy weather should reap Pear by thanksgiving people need to get where they re going and slay there he warned predicting freezing precipitation in Central and Southern West Germany during the holi Day and a mixture of rain and Snow in the North. Much of the British Isles also awoke sunday and Mon Day to soft blankets of Snow that fell overnight ail the Dodds schools at Laken Halh and nearby Raf Feltwell were closed monday after the blustery weekend weather a spokeswoman at the Raf Mildenhall weather of fice said about 2 inches of Snow fell around the neigh Boring bases Over both Days. Not All of thai would necessarily have accumulated she said. 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