European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 14, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday May 14, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 57,000 on evacuation Alert in so flooding by the associated press National guardsmen and volunteers rushed to sandbag water softened levees saturday and 7,000 people were under an evacuation warning because of the worst flooding since the Early 1900s in parts of Texas Oklahoma Arkansas and Louisiana. Fierce storms dumped 2 to 4 inches of rain on Northwestern Louisiana where the red River already was rising from water draining out of the Oklahoma Texas Border area. Heavy rain also fell in northeastern Texas and an additional 2 to 3 inches Over the weekend was a possibility officials said. Poisonous snakes and fire ants driven from cover by the water made emergency workers nervous. Water has inundated More than 250,000 acres of Arkansas Farmland and More than 18,000 cattle were stranded officials said. In Texas flooding had caused $500 million to $700 million in agricultural damage with millions More to Homes and roads. Over the past three weeks 12 deaths in Texas and one in Oklahoma have been blamed on flooding. The Federal emergency management Agency on saturday declared four More Texas counties disaster areas from storms and flooding that began april 15. That made the total 29. Along Texas rampaging Trinity River about 500 residents voluntarily left subdivisions downstream from the Lake Livingston dam after Liberty county judge Dempsie Henley issued an evacuation warning for 7,000 people in Low lying areas. He said officials projected that four to five times the Normal discharge would go Over the dams spillway when the Trinity a flood Crest reaches the Reservoir. A tuesday through Friday we will have the Crest come in Here and we will have a major dangerous flood a the highest in the history of the county since the Lake was built a Henley said. Already saturday every Road and Bridge leading into housing developments along the Trinity was As much As 6 feet under water. A the Only transportation is by boat a said Henley adding that some people wanted to stay to guard their property. In Louisiana forecasters said the red River would reach a 45-year High in Shreveport by Early this week. No major flooding was expected in the City however. The army corps of engineers said the volume of water expected to move through the Region would exam volunteers in Garland ark., place sandbags around the municipal water pump hoping to minimize contamination. Need that of record floods in 1927 and 1957. However levees and other flood control measures built since then would prevent a disaster the corps said. Downstream in Avo Yelles Parish National guardsmen arrived saturday to help finish a five mile Long levee that about 50 Farmers started building themselves with farm machinery to protect cropland from the rising River. A a that a a major undertaking to build something that Long that fast a said Michael Logue spokesman for the corps of engineers District in Vicksburg miss. Upstream in Arkansas volunteers sandbagged a levee at Garland City where the River threatened . 82, the Only major thoroughfare still open into the Texarkana area from the Arkansas Side. Westbound lanes of interstate 30 were closed at Fulton where the River crested around 34 feet Friday. 7 feet above food stage. A a it a going to maintain a Crest like that Tor at least 72 hours and maybe longer because we be got rain that will affect the  said state emergency official Gary . Agencies told to get rid of South Africa ties Norfolk a. Not a gov. L. Douglas Wilder on saturday ordered All Virginia state agencies and institutions to divest themselves of business investments in companies that Are not a substantively free of economic activity in South Africa. State officials estimate such holdings amount to More than $750 million. Much of the Money is invested by the Agency that pays pensions to retired state employees. Wilder said people should support the efforts of South african Blacks to break the chains of apartheid with the same vigor and enthusiasm they support the aspirations to Freedom of people in China and Eastern Europe. A if we Are to participate in the Exten Sion to All Peoples of the freedoms and liberties which we hold dear we must take Concrete actions which reflect our support a said Wilder the first Black Ever elected governor of a state in a commencement address at Norfolk state University a predominantly Black institution. A the Freedom sought in South Africa is no different from the Freedom sought in East Germany in Poland and in Lithuania. Our support can be no less a he said. About half the states including a number in the South have taken Steps to divest themselves of South african economic interests in the past 10 years some adopting More stringent rules than others. Elephant which underwent unsuccessful caesarean Dies hundreds of cities counties and colleges have also divested such assets. The aim is to put economic pressure on South Africa to disassemble its apartheid system of racial separation. With the divestment order saturday Wilder did More than take a human rights step of considerable significance in the state that was once the Centrepiece of the confederacy. The move was also expected to help Wilder fend off critics who charge the Middle of the Road economic and social stands that helped him win the governorship Are beginning to have a harmful effect on the needy particularly Blacks. The Rev. Jesse Jackson the two time democratic presidential aspirant who has verbally sparred with Wilder in remands of time cent months has suggested that what Wilder Calls a mainstream politics Quot might Well leave the poor and needy in an economic and social  or even a  Wilder did not directly address those charges saturday in his commencement address. But he has insisted Quot mainstream politics arc both economically sound and socially  Wilder said in an interview shortly before he spoke that his order would undoubtedly bring him new criticism from Many conservatives who oppose divestment on the ground it accomplishes Little. A but my order is the right thing to do. The moral thing to do Quot Wilder argued. Quot the state is looking for direction on this and in a determined to give  Syracuse . Apr babe the asian elephant whose calf was stillborn in an emergency caesarean Section last month died saturday Burnet Park zoo official said. The cause of death was unknown said Bob Geraci spokesman for Onondaga county Parks which operates the zoo. Geraci said the 36-year-old 7,700-Pound babe died at 1 39 . With veterinarians in attendance. A they let her Lay Down All on her own. She gave a sigh and then she died a go Raci said. Babes body was to be moved to the Cornell school of veterinary Medicine in Ithaca for an autopsy Geraci said. Babe underwent an emergency caesarean Section on april 23 in a failed attempt to save her unborn calf. Experts said the 266-Pound Bull calf died from trauma when it could not position itself properly in the uterus. After the surgery babes condition deteriorated and she was kept alive with intravenous doses of dextrose and amino acids. On Friday a team of experts had dismissed Calls to have babe humanely killed saying she did not appear to be in pain. The zoos veterinarian Carole Wallace said babe appeared stable not critical and had shown strength and a desire to live. The zoo world closely watched babes 22-month pregnancy because of the rarity of births among asian elephants in  the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. May 14, 1950 a the United slates ordered Czechoslovakia to close is Pittsburgh and Cleveland consulates and reduce its diplomatic personnel in the United states by two-thirds.30 years ago today. May 14, 1960 a the United states failed in an attempt to Pul a giant balloon satellite into orbit to act As a reflector for radio waves.20 years ago today. May 14, 1970 a an israeli armoured Force which drove into the lebanese Foothills of mount Harmon to clean up Arab guerrilla bases returned to Israel without interference or resistance the military announced.10 years ago today. May 14, 1980 a Secretary of slate Edmund music began his first overseas Mission with a Challenge to the soviet Union to begin normalizing relations with the United states by withdrawing from Afghanistan