European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 04, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes d Pentagon told to study Exchange consolidation Page 2 o German mayor asks Bush to close . Post Page 3 g Lemieux extends Streak to 41 Page 21 d West German officials reject Neutral nation idea Page 28 the is and stripes authorized unofficial publication forthe u $ Aramco forces Good Momma vol. 48. No. 293 sunday february 4. 1990 if if 011 t4 Soryu d 8693 a s. Africa activists taste Freedom reaction mixed in Block townships Johannesburg. South Africa a Long is inc ii Ami apartheid activists began speaking out and some Blacks celebrated saturday As the government implemented sweeping political changes announced by president f a. De Klerk. Reaction in Black townships was subdued with no celebrations in the largest Black City. Sow clo. Home to 2.5 million people. But about 8.000 people including Many elders and children crammed into a stadium in Alexandra a township of More than 100.000 people near Johannes Burg. They chanted. Viva Anc for the newly in banned african National ingress while swaying to the rhythm of liberation songs. The Day before de Klerk had Legnoli cd the Anc. The Mam guerrilla group fighting while Rule and hied restrictions on 60 oppo Ilion groups und 37-1 individuals. The Alexandra rally originally had been scheduled to protest living conditions in the squalid township and the protesters marched to the local Council office and police station after the rally. Two Hundred Blacks mostly children gathered two hours later for a perfunctory rally in a Church in the largest Luik township outside Cape town where hundreds of thousands live. In i he Natal provincial capital of i Lucic Maril Lairg. 7.000 people gathered outside a Cricket stadium to protest against a visiting Fng ish team. English captains Mike chatting and All Placher walked out i a truck and were handed a petition against the Lour. Members of the crowd hurled stones and insults As the two men left but there were no reported injuries. De Klerk on Friday announced a moratorium on see Freedom on Back Page hearing trains crash gis rushed to help b Rili cd Roberts staff writer flickering office lights caused army spec. Kenneth her to look out of his office window Friday in time to see two colliding commuter Grams climb straight up until the wheels from both trains were touching each the rams then became sandwiched to Gether before falling into a parking lot near the train station in re sols him. Wem Ger Nanny. The Accident killed 16 people and injured 47 others including 35 seriously. The Driver of one train was among the fatalities and the second Engineer said by investigators to have driven through a stoplight was too serious la injured to be questioned the associated Cress reported a Alurdas. Wulf of clench of the regional prosecutor s office in Darmstadt said human error was the cause of the head on Acci Dent during the Friday evening Rush hour. A reported Gelbrich said one of the trams on the Frankfurt Wiesbaden suburban line had Frankfurt Wiesbaden site of commuter train crash is. Susan Harris switched onto the rails where the Colli Sion occurred because a locomotive a parked on the stretch of track the train usually used to enter the train station. The oncoming Tram was supposed to have waned but apparently drove through the Stop signal he vial. Rus from a Bill Racks ran to the Accident site about 50 cards from their front Gate and helped victims of the mangled wreckage b using first Aid kits from their cars. Soldiers removed Many of the injured from the Wick age by u Irig he Ankles yanked from Beds and a Bjrr. Day room was convened m of a rest area for passengers with minor injuries. I remember walking through the first and second cars headed toward main and i was just walking through Over i d. It was really wild How some were Hurt and others were not fellow soldiers lifted sgt. Mischa Rog ers who holds the coveted expert held medical badge into one of the trains where she began identifying those who needed immediate care and those who were dead. The wounded Vesie taken by i a. Soldiers to a triage area Sel up out Side the Irain. "1 had seen deceased before but not see crash on Back Page 1 a identified l a. Soldiers Carrs a victim from the twisted wreckage if a ii Nimmler trains that Euclid de during Rush hour i Rida in Rik Felsheim Vii Fri Nan. Killer windstorm blasts Central Europe from staff and wire reports a violent windstorm buffeted much of Central Europe late Friday killing at least 18 people in Northern France. Winds As High As 104 Mph Tore across Brittany nor Mandy and the Paris Region ripping off roofs blowing Trees and electric lines across railways and roads and cutting off Clicc tic service to More than 2 million peo ple. Among the buildings damaged was the 12th-Century Calic Drafall Chartres. One of the world s most magnificent gothic structures. The wind peeled Copper plates from the roof leaving a 540-Squarc-foot Hole Over the Nave Between the two Bell towers. Meanwhile in Western the rain swollen Severn River Rose 14 feet above Normal and flooded towns and Farmland along its Banks. The Riverside City of Worcester 100 Miles Northwest of London had its worst flooding in 25 years. A . Air Force weather forecaster at Ramstein a. West Germany said the storm spread across most of West Germany France and the Benelux. The one forecaster on duty is going absolutely nuts trying to give everybody base spokes Man maj. Bruce Lewis said. This is a stronger than the Normal storm but it s not unusual for a Winter pattern storm to move like on saturday night the storm was moving to the Northwest toward Denmark and was expected to die Down at Midnight according to the forecaster from Del 2. Mil weather so. Winds gushed from 51 Mph to 71 Mph at Ramstein after dark where two Aero club Piper aircraft flipped Over and Trees blocked roads around the base Lewis said. At nearby Lan Stuhl army regional medical c enter the wind blew part of the roof off the snack bar. Witnesses said. We had to run for our lives it was coming right at see wind on Back Page
