European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 28, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes thursday december 28,1989 cold damaged pipes leave Many southerners dry by the associated press thousands of people across the South were left without water or found their taps producing a trickle too weak Tor a decent Shower because the Christmas weekend freeze cracked pipes. Texas plumbers called for out of state reinforcements hotels with water offered special rates to folks desperate to Bathe and the National guard trucked water in to pol lock la. It s unbelievable unbelievable said Bennie Payne who was Busy dispatching plumbers from his Central plumb it yourself Supply in Baton Rouge la. Our Guys Are working till they drop. I Don t know How much longer they can keep up this  however in one of the hardest hit cities Jackson miss., officials said wednesday that they were making rapid Progress toward fixing the broken pipes and Restor ing Normal service. From Dallas to Raleigh n.c., a strange sort of Spring thaw followed the rare weekend freeze pipes unprotected from the cold cracked open As freezing water expanded then began dripping and gushing As temperatures Rose monday and tuesday. The worst of the South cold wave appeared Over with the National weather service predicting lows wednesday at or above freezing in much of the Region and rising to the 50s and 60s wednesday and thursday. Elsewhere freezing rain was forecast wednesday across the Plains and Light Snow from the great lakes and Ohio Valley East into West Virginia Western Pennsylva Nia and new York state and into new England. The wintry weather has been blamed for the deaths of 97 people since dec. 15. The cold destroyed much of Florida s valuable Citrus crop and froze an estimated 65 percent of Texas oranges and Grapefruit on the Trees. Louisiana fishermen were astounded to ice in the shallows where the earn their living. We have Banks that Are solid White with fish and Frozen fish floating everywhere said Joe Buras presi Dent of the Delta commercial fishermen s association of plaque mines Parish. La. We have islands with ice stick ing 2 or 3 feet High and Bays that Are Frozen solid. It looks like Alaska it s so bad right  particularly hard hit with water problems were Jack son with an estimated 60,000 Homes and businesses left dry and Houston where one official guessed the number affected May have topped 100,000. Jackson officials asked laundries car washes and other businesses that use Large amounts of water to stay closed a second Day wednesday and non essential government workers were ordered to stay Home. Residents who had water were warned to boil it for three minutes to kill germs that Are a threat when Levels arc Low. Low pressure also hampered firefighters in battling blazes. However Jackson mayor Kane ditto said wednesday that conditions were quickly returning to Normal. We Are in much better shape this morning ditto said on Abc s Good morning  we suspect that about 20 percent of the Homes might now be out of water and hopefully those will be Back up sometime Dur ing the  ditto said 10 Crews were restoring service to the remainder of 150 major Breaks reported since saturday. Houston residents hankering for showers were obliged at s25-a-douse in the downtown Holiday inn and the ramada inn near the Astrodome. Low pressure plagued much of the City and homeowners found waiting lists As Long As two weeks for plumbers. The John Moore plumbing co., with a backlog of 2,000 trouble Calls was recruiting out of state plumbers to Bol Ster its staff of 28, said Shirley Kurtz sales manager. Plumbing Breaks also caused problems in places including Dallas Baton Rouge la. Mobile ala., Meridian miss., Charleston s.c., and Raleigh. In West Ashley s.c., Linda Singletary said her water pressure was so Low it took 45 minutes to run a sinful to Wash the dishes. The Shower you can t soap yourself Down because it would take you three hours to get the soap off Singletary said. Washing your hair is out of the  More serious problems abounded. Four National guard trucks from Camp Beauregard la., hauled 6,000-gallon water trailers to the desperately dry town of Pollock. Water gushing from broken pipes ruined 240,000 pounds of food intended for distribution to the needy said Ron Prado director of the Bay area food Bank. Cold caused property damage in the Dallas area most of it from broken pipes could total s25 million an insurance Industry group predicted. Among Dallas businesses with water damage was the hard Rock cafe where a pipe broke pumping 900,000 Gallons of water into the basement Christmas Day. We lost All our food computers and amplifiers said assistant general manager Rob Perez. It was pretty Bru  Romania from Page 1 Masse after battling citizens and army troops. No figures Are available however on How Many Ceausescu loyalists have Given up. Dumitru Mazilu vice chairman of the National Salva Tion committee which is now running Romania Reaf firmed that the nation s interim leaders were devoted to setting up a True democracy in place of Ceausescu s 24-year stalinist despotism. We want Romania to become a member of the free civilized world he said. Romania is no longer a communist country. Roma Nia is a free land and we will create a real  romanian television on wednesday night showed workers taking Down communist party signs and slogan from Bucharest buildings. Com clip Bogdan Romania s new Deputy foreign min ister said that although bureaucrats who had worked forbears under Ceausescu were still in positions of Power the new government sought a clean but peaceful break with the past. They Are not All criminals they were at the most too Servile and obedient. We must try to avoid a Witch Hunt at any costs he said. Meanwhile the National salvation committee named a new foreign minister 58-year-old University professor Seigiu Colac. His predecessor Ion Stoian has been ousted along with Ceausescu s whole leadership. Relief flights were being shuttled into Romania As the country struggled to recover from its  Bucha rest Airport More than 40 aircraft came in by wednesday afternoon. There is even too much Aid said Bernard to Uchner the French minister for humanitarian affairs before re Luming to Paris. We have to decide what is needed and then  reports say tens of thousands of people were killed during Romania s revolution which started with massive anti Ceausescu protests on dec. 16. Massacred students Are believed to be hidden in mass Graves according witnesses who saw Ceausescu s forces fire on crowds. During his trial. Ceausescu was accused of being responsible for the killing of 60,000 people during his reign. Normalcy appeared to be gradually returning in Roma Nia and the government said Many factories and Busi Nesses were again operating after being crippled by the upheaval. Bucharest s ubiquitous roadblocks relaxed allowing people to return to work. At the once prestigious University Library 500,000 vol Umes including some precious manuscripts were burned in a fire sparked by a guerrilla standoff. But at the National Library the Only books destroyed were six Long shelves of Ceausescu s works pages upon pages describing his revised stalinist Way to socialism. From the first signs of Ceausescu s forced departure on Friday staff members began baling the Dusty volumes to be destroyed. No one Ever read this stuff no one said Virgil Tibe Riu Spanu director of acquisitions.  romanians were exultant wednesday after state television showed Ceausescu and his wife being tried and then aired photographs of the couple lying dead next to a Wall riddled by a firing squad s bullets. A week ago he Ceausescu was screaming at us an calling us fascists and terrorists. And now to see him lying in some obscure place shot said Bogdan Lazarren a 21-Ycar-old engineering student shaking Liis head. The romanian daily add varus said in a commentary the dictators the horrible couple that instituted the most diabolical machine for the people s debasement and enslavement have got their due punishment sprung from the whole nation s sacred and bitter  embassy from Page 1 love album and other Rock music at High volume. The sound easily reached reporters in a i2th-floor room Overlook ing the Vatican embassy. Army it. Col. Jerry Murguia a spokesman for the . Southern come said he could not comment on Why the troops might have mowed the Lawn an shot out Street lights. The music appeared to relieve the tedium for some of the soldiers who have had to stand in the hot Sun for hours wearing heavy flak jackets. On tuesday . Soldiers searched the Vatican representative monsignor Sebastian Laboa and his car As he left the embassy apparently to prevent no Riega from being spirited out. After a week of fighting order re turned to Panama City. Crews cleared Mounds of garbage left from wild looting sprees that emptied shelves and Many people returned to work. The . Military reported Only scattered clashes with Noriega loyalists tues Day. A few members of his defense forces were arrested and Many surrendered. On the third Day of negotiations Over Noriega s Fate Gen. Maxwell Thurman who commands . Forces in Central and South America posted himself out Side the Vatican embassy for nearly six hours tuesday afternoon. He met three times with Laboa in the Street and spent the rest of the time wait ing in a car one of a caravan of sedans jeeps and armoured personnel carriers that escorted him to the Mission. Neither Thurman nor other . Officials would comment on the negotiations. At the Vatican Navarro told reporters the holy see could not legally give no Riega to . Officials because the embassy is empowered to Deal Only with the panamanian government. He said Panama s .-backed civilian government had not made any request for Noriega. Navarro also said the Vatican had not spoken with other countries about arranging exile for Noriega. The United Stales and the Vatican have no extradition treaty and the vat ican criticized the bloody . Invasion that toppled the general and installed the government of president Guillermo Endara who was elected in May in ballot ing Noriega nullified. Without an agreement Noriega will not get past the . Troops surrounding the Vatican Mission. Under International Law embassies arc considered inviolable and . Troops cannot legally enter the Mission to get him. . Troops also surrounded the cuban nicaraguan and libyan embassies where it was thought Noriega might try to seek Refuge. In retaliation Nicara Gua announced wednesday it will not permit a . Plane carrying supplies to the . Embassy in Nicaragua to land next month until the embassy standoff ends. Bush speaking to reporters wednes Day in Texas said he was personally involved in trying to win custody of Noriega and had set no time limit on negotiations. The . Southern come said Noriega probably weal to the Vatican Mission on his own after his closest collaborators either deserted him or were arrested. It. Col. Luis Del Cid considered one of Noriega s right hand men pleaded in Nocent tuesday in . District court in Miami to drug smuggling charges. I surrendered myself i wanted to be brought Here he told the court. He is charged with racketeering drug smuggling and Money laundering in the same february 1988 indictment that names Noriega. . Attorney Dexter Lehtinen said Noriega s aide was a Liaison courier and emissary for Manuel Noriega Deal ing with drug  . Drug agents in Panama were scrutinizing thousands of documents seized in raids on Noriega s houses and govern ment offices including the headquarter of the anti narcotics special Force. The information included flies on for Eigners entering and leaving the country. A . Drug enforcement administration agent who spoke on condition of anonymity said some of the ales were on colombian drug lords. In Panama City . Troops continued to Block some major streets adding to the usual traffic jams and 15 tons of emergency medical supplies arrived to help hospitals in need of blood surgical equipment and other basics. Since the invasion began 23 Ameri cans and 293 panamanian military have been killed and 330 americans and 123 panamanians wounded according to the Southern come. Another 4,446 panamanians have been detained. Panamanian doctors say More than100 civilians were killed and hundreds of others injured. No Complete figure was available because Many civilians were buried quickly in common Graves and there were no authorities to keep records