European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 13, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday dab mar 13, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 5 . Joins Aid Effort for quake victims from press dispatches from los Angela and new York from Argentina and Cuba from Britain Scandinavia Israel and Japan people around the world have sen food medi Cal supplies and Rescue equipment to victims of he earthquake in soviet Armenia. The Soviel Union has Noi accepted such extensive for eign assistance since world War ii and Robert Legvold director of the Harriman Institute for soviet studies at Columbia University in new York. Said he saw political significance in Moscow s decision to do so. For the average soviet citizen he outside world. Often seen As hostile turns Nul to be compassionate Legvold said it serves to validate Mikhail Gorba Chev s notion of the need for the soviet Union to be come a part of the larger world Community. To the extent that there is a traditional russian xenophobia hem is evidence that the outside world is responsive and willing to  Julia v. Taft. Director of the . Government s disaster Relief Agency landed sunday in Yerevan the capital of Armenia with a half dozen american trauma physicians and search learns. Paramedics from Miami and Fairfax county a. Have flown in. They Kofl saturday aboard an air Force c-141 Starl Ifil r logistics transport plane loaded with 100 ints 750 blankets and 5.000 pounds of tools and equipment including shovels Chain saws radios and reels of Cable in Washington Arpie italian International president of the armenian Relief society said her group received More than s3 million in contributions including More than s 1 million in medical supplies from drug companies and hospitals. She said new York food companies have offered Large amounts of canned goods. The society has arranged for three planes to carry Aid to Armenia. The first was scheduled to leave Mon Day from Kennedy International Airport. Television viewers in a Angeles pledged More than j2.8 million in Aid to Armenia during a six hour fund raising Effort by a local television station. A taped message from Fiovo. George Dukmejian of California the son of armenian immigrants was broadcast in the telethon. Soviel officials said they need Antibiotic kidney dialysis machines ultrasound diagnostic equipment blood transfusion kits and machines far administering intravenous drugs. Red Cross societies in 14 countries Send food and medical supplies to Armenia on 17 mercy  to Rev Gautier a spokeswoman for the american red Cross said the countries were Britain Bulgaria. Canada. Finland. France. East and West Germany Hungary Norway Poland Sweden Turkey Yugoslavia and Trie United states. Industrialist Armand Hammer Center watches Aid for quake victims loaded on his Jet in Jim an Rita saturday. In addition Japan has pledged More than j8 million in assistance to Armenia. It is also sending officials to the soviet Union to discuss what Japan might do to help rebuild destroyed areas. Israel sunday dispatched a Rescue team of 42 people led by Gen Aharon Verdi commander of the civil defense unit of the israeli army. An army spokesman said two planes were to leave monday for the soviet Union with a 46-Mcmbcr medical team and about 4 tons of medical supplies Britain promised to provide $9,2 million in Aid. Tass the official soviet press Agency said that Britain had established an air link with Armenia sending three or four transport planes a Day with medical sup plies Rescue equipment and food. The european Community said it was sending $600,000 Worth of emergency Aid. Switzerland s disaster Relief corps has sen i Rescue experts and dogs trn med to locale people trapped in rubble. West Germany sent a plane with medical supplies  equipment. Sweden is sending surgical equipment and medical supplies Worth nearly $1 Mil lion. Denmark sent a shipment of antibiotics and med ical instruments. Even countries devastated by civil wars like Leb anon and Afghanistan Are sending assistance to the armenians. The armenian Relief society in Lebanon has made plans to ship 2vi tons of medical supplies via a Rofini the soviet airline Tass reported that children in Afghanistan were donating blood to help armenians injured in the Earth quake which left at least 45,000 dead 12,000 injured and 500,000 homeless according to soviet estimates. Fidel Castro the cuban Leader donated blood for the Relief Effort Tass reported. Several tons of canned beef Are being shipped from Argentina. A Bonners ferry Idaho a two badly burned bodies dozens of weapons and the largest marijuana growing operation Ever found in Idaho were discovered after a fire levelled a ranch House the weapons included machine guns handguns and rifles. We even found what we think is a 105mm Shell for a Cannon said Wayne Longo regional manager of the Idaho Bureau of narcotics. Some of the weapons even had bayonets on  several Booby traps were found on the property and state agents wore Bullet proof vests while they searched the , Longo said. The investigation continued sunday authorities found the bodies while examining the wreckage of the House that burned Friday night on a 4q-acre ranch near Bonners ferry in Northern Idaho. Mich deadline brings Rush on abortion clinics we can t even Tell if they re male or female said Longo. We re calling a pathologist to do  ,. He said investigators Don l know if the two died in the me or before it started sheriffs deputies said no identities had been determined by sunday after noon. Authorities were unable to locale the owners of the ranch David and Helen Ash Ley. Deputies have records indicating at Sands of time in the stars and stripes least five adults lived in the House Longo  to the House is a dilapidated Bam Longo said. But inside authorities found a building within the building containing the largest and most sophisticated marijuana growing operation Ever seen in  Longo estimated the Structure contained at East 1,000 marijuana plants Detroit Al a ban on Midi Caid funded abortions in Michigan approved by voters last month went Imo effect monday prompting a Rush on abortion clinics by poor women hoping to beat the deadline. Or. Abraham Hodari. Whose worn a care clinics perform More medicaid funded abortions than any other facilities in the slate said doctors and nurses worked double shifts to perform All scheduled abortions Over the weekend. The clinics were prepared to pc form 120 abortions Friday and saturday about 50 percent More than the Normal two Day total he said last week. I be had so Many women say doctor i m sure i m pregnant but it s too Carly to test positive " Hodari said Tlell them there s nothing i can do. It s too  he did not immediately return a phone message sunday seeking further details on How Many were actually performed. Michigan voters approved the medi Caid abortion ban in the nov s election the results of the election were certified dec. 2, and such measures go into effect 10 Days after they Are certified. Proponents of the ban have said the state spent j6 million on Mcd Cakl abortions last year. For about 18,000 poor women. Dec 13, 1948 the pilots of two Pennsylvania National guard f-47 thunderbolts were killed when their planes collided near Reading 1 a 30 years ago today. Dec. 13, 1958 the United nations general Assembly passed a .-Sponsorcd Resolution condemning the Soviel Union and the hungarian regime for continued repression of the hungarian people. 20 years ago foday. Dec. 13. 1968 Ethel Kennedy widow of sen. Robert f. Kennedy gave birth to her 1 Ullh child in a Washington Hospital. Her husband was assassinated after winning the democratic presidential primary in California in june 10 years ago today. Dec. 13, 1978 military officials reported that 100 american soldiers and 17 civilians two americans 12 turks one German one italian and one jordanian had been arrested in a drug crackdown in the Hanau West Germany area