European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 8, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday May 8, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 5arkansas cities Brace for flooding Little Rod Pine Bluff in path of rising Waters by the associated press National guardsmen helped sandbag against rising streams sunday in Arkansas As Little Rock where the worst of the flooding from last weeks thunderstorms was expected to hit monday braced for flooding. The Arkansas River was expected to Crest 5 feet above flood stage there tuesday and 1 i feet above flood stage wednesday at Pine Bluff where about 100 Homes had been evacuated. Marine reserves in Arkansas for weekend training at Camp Robinson joined National guardsmen and civilian volunteers in completing sandbagging before Dawn sunday around 25 Homes in Low lying sections of North Little Rock. A a we re going to be in fairly Good shape today unless the Sand Walls that we be made done to hold a said City spokesman Joe Smith. A the Waters there but we were Able to prepare Well enough to keep the water off of the neighbourhoods we think. We re keeping our fingers  emergency personnel in two communities elsewhere in Arkansas also requested guardsman to help with sandbagging said Gary Talley of the state office of emergency services. Water began slowly receding in Western Arkansas where the fort Smith Van Buren area was hardest hit. The Arkansas River crested at about 35 feet there saturday 13 feet above flood stage. Meanwhile a record flood Crest on the Trinity River in Texas was moving downstream toward the Gulf of Mexico but a neighbourhood in Dallas remained flooded. Hundreds of residents were forced from their Homes by the rising floodwaters near Bristol Texas. The death toll from the flooding caused by last weeks thunderstorms was six All in Texas. A total of 12 Texas deaths have been blamed on weather in the past several weeks. On the Oklahoma Texas Border Lake Texoma topped the old record of 643 feet above sea level saturday nearly 27 feet above Normal and continued rising sunday to 644.8 feet even though the corps of engineers was releasing 145,000 cubic feet of water per second. The Lake was expected to Crest monday at about 645 feet or 5 feet above the overflow spillways. Mobile Homes around the Lakeshore were inundated and Oklahoma a Marshall county had Only one Road leading to the outside because of High water from arms of the Reservoir. Despite warnings of submerged Power lines floating a Joe May left Phot code enforcement officer in North Little Rock ark., surveys a flooded area of the City. In right photo water rushes through Breaks in levee along the Western Bank of the Trinity River near Bristol Texas. Propane tanks Trees docks and other obstacles Many sightseers toured the Lake by boat officials said. Wakes from the boats were blamed for destabilizing some submerged structures said Marshall county civil defense director John Martin. In Texas water from the Trinity River still stood several feet deep sunday in the Rochester Park area Southeast of downtown Dallas As residents spent a fourth Day waiting for the water to recede. Flood stage is 30 feet and sunday the Trinity stood at 43.8 feet in Dallas. Rochester Park resident Alester Crumbley said this is the third time in a year his Home has been flooded. He moved Back into his Home Only two weeks ago after spending $ 11,000 and several months rebuilding from two floods last year he said. Flooding continued in several Rural counties along the Trinity South of Dallas As the record High water Bush leaders in Congress agree to full scale budget negotiations Washington apr president Bush sunday night agreed with leaders of Congress to press for full scale budget negotiations with no preconditions to bring the widening Federal deficit under control lawmakers said. The congressional leaders emerged from 90 minutes of talks at the White House saying they would be Back later in the week for further talks with Bush. They said they needed in the interim to consult with other members of their respective legislative bodies. House speaker Tom Foley asked if budget negotiations were now on track said a i think that a going to be the  Foley and Senate majority Leader George Mitchell said they did not discuss any details including whether the president is now willing to reconsider his no new taxes pledge. Foley said however a the Assumption is that All matters would be on the table that we would not enter any talks with  Congress and the White House have made repeated efforts in recent years both with former president Reagan and with Bush to forge grand compromises on the deficit. Foley said he expects to achieve More lasting results this time. A fall of us who took part in this agreement feel that we need a major and meaningful Effort that has been somewhat lacking for various reasons in past years to narrow the deficit for the coming year and the years ahead the speaker said. A i think there a Goodwill on All sides in attempting to Deal with the fiscal problems the country faces. They re real and they have been for a number of years. We re going to i think find a Way to Deal effectively with them a said Foley the projected deficit for fiscal 1991 a the year that starts oct. 1 a has been driven upward by slower economic growth and higher interest rates than the Bush administration had forecast. Foley said the congressional leaders including House minority Leader Bob Michel a expressed an interest. That we have an Opportunity to consult with our membership and to consult again with the president sometime later in the  Bush slipped upstairs to his private quarters with the leaders. White House chief of staff John Sununu and budget director Richard Darman portfolios and Legal pads in hand preceded Bush up the stairs where they were joined by the four lawmakers the top democrats and republicans in both the House and Senate for the informal talks. Washed out levees. At Trinidad about 60 Miles Southeast of Dallas the Trinity was 47.5 feet deep sunday far above the 28-foot flood stage. A a we be still got two main roads closed. We had about 150 people evacuated from their Homes the last couple of Days and As far As i know water is still in their Homes a said a dispatcher from the Henderson county sheriffs department. The red Cross in Texas counted 723 dwellings destroyed and More than 2,000 others damaged by flooding in the last two weeks which the weather service called the most serious in the state since 1908. Conditions returned to Normal sunday for Amtrak a spokesman said. Amtrak trains were unable to pass through Dallas for a third consecutive Day saturday because of flooding on the Trinity an Amtrak ticket clerk in Dallas said. Buses had ferried passengers to trains on opposite sides of the  of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. May 8, 1950 a Secretary of state Dean Acheson arrived in Paris to begin mapping with Western leaders a common global strategy for the West in the cold War against communism.30 years ago today. May 8, 1960 a soviet Premier Nikita s. Khrushchev said the Pilot of an american plane shot Down Over the soviet Union on May Day was alive in Moscow and might be tried As a spy.20 years ago today. May 8, 1970 a president Nixon called americans governors to the White House to discuss a the disruption of peace and a violence and potential violence throughout the nation.�?�? 0 years ago today. May 8, 1980 a the president of the International olympic committee won agreement from soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev to eliminate National anthems and flags from the summer olympic games in Moscow in an attempt to prevent a widespread Boycott soviet sources announced