European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 26, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday november 26, 198b the stars and stripes Page 3 t  j.,u.,A my Raslan Man and hts children Brae the flood Waters in Kou Bam and Bead for higher ground at least 142 thais killed by Monsoon Rains floods Bangkok Thailand a a week of Mon soon Rains sent logs and mud crashing into villages and killed at least 142 people officials said Friday. Unofficial counts placed the dead Al More than 200, with hundreds missing and believed drowned or buried beneath mud slides thai struck several villages in Southern Nakhson sri thammarat province. The Interior ministry said at least 70,000 Villag ers in 12 Southern provinces were left homeless while extensive damage was reported to roads Bridges railways and agricultural land. Torrential Rains in Southeast Asia from saturday to wednesday also were blamed for the deaths of dozens of people in Malaysia and Indonesia. Rood Waters washed out thousands of roads Cut off rail service and destroyed crops in the hardest hit areas authorities said. Malaysia s stale news Agency by Rama reported an improvement in the flood situation in Malaysia with no new deaths. Earlier thursday authorities said 27 people died from the storms 14 in the worst hit stale northeastern Kelantan. A spokesman of me Mcleod logical department in Kuala Bumpur the malaysian capital said the weather part of the annual asian Winter Monsoon season that lasts from november until March was among the three worst this decade. Monsoon Rains lasting three to 10 Days this month have lashed Southeast Asia Southern India and sri Lanka. A spokesman for Thailand s 4th army stationed in the South said hundreds of Rescue workers Fri Day recovered 45 bodies from the mud slides bring ing to 104 the number of dead in Nakhson sri thammarat. Villagers in some areas were being evacuated by troops to higher ground. The s. Embassy Friday said the s. Office of foreign disaster assistance will give $25,000 to Relief efforts. _ the worst hit province recorded 17.5 inches of rain tuesday a single Day record for rainfall since data collection began 38 years ago the meteorological department said. The English language newspaper nation reported that the usually bustling tourist City of hat Yai was reeling from Ihrcke Days of Flash floods with Many businesses closed Imd hundreds of malaysian and other tourists stranded in hotels like  food was reported scarce in hotels where water. Was being rationed to guests. Radio Thailand said prime minister cd Alidai Choo Shavan planned to Fly to the disaster area 490 Miles South of Bangkok the army spokesman contacted by Telephone said mud and logs rolled off Barren hillsides in the. Province s Pipoon District crushing people and slamming into  inspector of the forestry department blamed. The deaths on serious wounds on the soil and mountains inflicted by uncontrolled logging and mining. Hundreds of mourners Spanish-s. Defense pact gets final of Madrid Spain a the government gave the Green Light Friday to a new eight year defense agreement with the United Stales that stipulates the removal from Spain of 71 s. F-16 lighter bombers by 1992, a spokesman said. Spain and the United Stales first signed a military cooperation treaty in 1953, during the height of the cold War under the authoritarian regime of Gen. Francisco Franco. The government of socialist prime minister Felipe Gonzalez sees the new eight year Accord As a fresh Start Between two democratic allies and says it represents a departure from previous texts that renewed the Origi Nal agreement. Spokesman Quill Crumn Una told the associated press the Cabinet s approval of the Lext of the Accord Means it will go soon for ratification before parliament where the socialist party has a comfortable majority. Chief negotiators Maximo Cajal for Spain and s. Ambassador Reginald Bartholomew initiated the texts in Spanish and English thursday at the foreign ministry ending the Long and at times tense negotiations begun in july 1986. In the new agreement Spain will not receive any s. Military Aid in Exchange for the s. Armed forces use of two air bases and a major naval station in Southern Spain As Well As nine communications posts. Last january both sides reached a tentative agreement for a new Accord in which the United Stales accepted Spain s principal demand that the air Force withdraw within three years its 401sltac fighter Wing of 72 of Lei fighter bombers from the joint s.-Spamsh air base at Torr Jon just East of the Spanish capital. Italy has agreed to provide a new Home base in Colone for the jets and the 3,600 s. Troops and 600 civilians attached to the combat ready unit. The new agreement fixes Al 8,000 the maximum number of s. Troops that can be based in Spain at Given Lime and at 1,000 the number of s. Civilians employed by the military. The negotiations stemmed from a March 12, 1986, referendum in which a majority of spaniards backed the government s proposal to remain in nato on condition that the s. Military presence be subset anally reduced. Two other conditions approved in the nato referendum were that Spain prohibit the transport storage or introduction in Spanish territory of nuclear weapons and that Spain s armed forces remain outside the integrated nato military command. The final obstacle to a new Accord was cleared last. September in a meeting in new York Between 5, Secretary of stale George Shultz and foreign minister Francisco Fernandez Ordonez. The United Stales accepted Spain s demand that a clause in inc new agreement slate that the the introduction installation or storage of nuclear weapons in Spanish territory must be subject to approval by the Spanish  \ at the same time Spain accepted a clause in which in agrees not to carry out inspections of inc cargoes of St Navy ships thai Anchor in Spanish ports. Chinese to visit s.s.r Nea Smyrne Greece a hundreds of mourners attended Friday s funeral for shipping heiress Christina Onassis at a Cathedral that her father helped build in this Athens suburb. About 500 friends and relatives packed inc St. Folini Cathedral to hear 15 priests perform the 45-Minutc greek orthodox funeral Liturgy. Thierry Roussil Onassis fourth sex husband stood alone behind the Flower covered coffin which was flanked by Onassis relatives and friends. Greek government ministers politicians shipowners and businessmen stood under the Cathedral s frescoes Ceil Ings As the priests chanted the service. Roussil. Who divorced Onassis in 1987 after two years of marriage would not answer reporters questions. Onassis 37, died nov. 19 of a pulmonary edema or accumulation of fluid in the lungs in the Buenos Aires Argentina Home Oblong Lime friends. However the cause of death is still under investigation. She was the heiress 10 the Fortune of her father shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. Outside inc Cathedral More than 3,000 people stood in the rain and lined nearby apart men building balconies. They clapped and threw Rose petals in accordance with greek tradition As Young pallbearers from the Alexander Onassis Public Benefit foundation car ried the casket outside the Church. Life to you they yelled As Roussel and Onassis relatives filed out of the Cathedral. The pallbearers All had received scholarships from the foundation for postgraduate studies outside Greece. Beijing a foreign minister Qian i Chen will travel to Moscow dec. I for the first visit by Ai chinese foreign minister  soviet Union in 31 years the government said thursday. -. A Nossis funeral the foundation was set  by Aristotle Onassis and named after his Only son., who was killed in a 1973 plane crash. Ii also gives annual awards for outstanding work in scholarship human rights Ana he environment. A spokesman for the foundation said the body would be flown to the family Island of scorpios on Greece s North West coast for burial at a private ceremony  spokesman said Onassis would be buried nest to her father and brother in a mausoleum on the Small Island