European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 5, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse A House panel orders Exchange merger plan. Age found guilty of defrauding Dod. A Wii vets tracking forgotten medals. Page 6 a a last ride wraps up Shoemakers career. Page 21 the stm4a authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces Good morning vol. 48. No. 294 monday. February 5, 199 a a , 5. D 8693 a killer windstorm rips europe18 dead in France winds hit 104 Mph from Slaff and hire reports a violent windstorm ripped Central Europe late Friday. Killing at least 18 people it Northern France. Winds up to 104 Mph Tore Cartus Brittany Normandy and the Paris Region ripping of roofs and blowing Trees and electric lines across railway and roads. Electric service was Cut off to More than 2 Mathion people. Among the buildings damaged was the let Khz Century Cathedra at Chartres one of the world s Mosny Agnini x cent gothic structures. The wind peeled Copper from the roof leaving a 540-Squarc-foot Hole Over the Nave Between the two Bell towers. Meanwhile in Western England 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 no act of West Germany France and the the one forecaster on duty is going absolutely nuts trying to give everybody base spokesman maj. Brahe Lewis said. Quot this is a stronger than the nominal storm but it s not unusual Lor a Winter pattern storm to move like the storm was moving to the Northwest toward Denmark late saturday according to the forecaster from Del 2, .11 St weather so. W kinds gusted from 51 Mph to 71 Mph at Ramstein see storm on Back Page gis rushed Aid victims of train crash by Chuck Roberts staff w Riter flickering of tick lights caused army spec. Kenneth Oyer to look out of his Oil ice window Friday in time to see two colliding commuter trains Quot climb straight up until the wheels from both trains were touching each the trains then became Quot sandwiched together Quot before falling into a parking lot near the train station in . West Germany. The Accident killed one Engineer and 16 passengers a nine men and seven women a and injured 97, including 35 seriously. The other Engineer said by investigators to have driven through a stoplight was too seriously injured to be questioned. The associated press reported saturday. Wulf Gelbrich of the regional pros Ccu Tor s office in Darmstadt said Humah error was the cause of the head on Accident during the Friday evening Rush hour. A reported. Gelbrich said one of the trains on the Frankl Urt Wiesbaden suburban line had switched onto the rails where the collision occurred because a locomotive was parked on the stretch of track the train usually used to enter the train station. The oncoming train was supposed to have waited but apparently drove through the Stop flan Al. He said. Riis Felsheim mayor Norbert Winter Stcin lauded the cooperation of . Troops and Cal emergency Crews As computer operator at a Bill Barracks was about 300 Yards from the Accident site. Offs amps waiter Keber unidentified . Soldiers carry a victim from the twisted wreck acc of two commuter trains that collided during Rush hour Friday in West Germany. 1 looked up and there was a loud Boom like a he said. A i have never heard anything like it before. After that i remember dropping the phone and i saw the Jat guard motioning for me to come out and other soldiers from a Bill Barracks ran to the Accident site about 50 Yards from their front Gate and helped victims of the mangled wreckage in using first Aid kits from their cars. Sof Dicks removed mans of the injured from the wreckage is using blankets yanked from Beds and a Barracks Day room was converted into a rest area for passengers with minor injuries. A a i remember walking through the first and second cars headed toward main and 1 was just walking through Oyer said. Quot it was really wild How some were Hurt and others were not fellow soldiers lifted sol. Mischa Rogers who holds the coveted expert Field medical badge into one of the trams. A where she began identifying those who needed immediate care and those who weft dead. The wounded were taken in . A driers to a triage area set up outside the Jam. A i had a deceased before hut not like set Ign Rogers who assisted in three of the Fow front cars that received the Brunt of the outage. She said passengers in those cars Sra inc massive injuries. Passengers trapped under wreckage were removed by i Crmim Rescue workers. Who arrived at the Settle about 15 minutes after the Accident. The collision occurred about 445 see crash on Back pages. Africans celebrate new found Freedom by new Day Cape town. South Africa a thousands of anti govt in mini demonstrators rallied in Black townships outside Johannesburg and Cape town saturday to celebrate the stunning political changes made by president Friderik w. Do Klerk in his opening address to parliament on Friday. Although police spokesman Leon Mellet said saturday that All leaves had been indefinitely cancelled in anticipation of Quot emotional upsurge Quot no serious incidents were reported. But away from the joyous scenes observers said there were last minute hitches that could delay the one major gesture Many Are still awaiting a the release of jailed african National Congress Leader Nelson Mandela. Sources said Mandela was holding out for further concessions from de Klerk believing that the government needs his assurances of a peaceful release and that his continued imprisonment is increasingly embarrassing. Some observers now worry that their previous estimate of mid february for Mandela s Freedom might have been Overly optimistic. In the most dramatic move of the governing National party s 42-year Rule de Klerk Friday legalized Mandela s Anc and the pan africanist Congress after 30 years and lifted a 40-year ban on the South african communist party. In addition he lifted sweeping restrictions on 374 activists and 60 organizations inside the country ended emerged v censorship Laws for print Media and declared a moratorium on All executions. Saturday the government published a list of 175 people whose statements and writings can now appear in South Africa for the first time in several years a including Anc president Oliver Tamhoy and exiled newspaper editor Donald Woods. De Klerk also firmly committed himself to Mandela s Quick release but added that Quot a further Short passage of Lime is Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964 for plotting to violently overthrow the government. Education minister Stoffel Van Der Merwe one of Seo s. Africa on Back Page
