European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 20, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse The still amp and Helpes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armeo forces inside stripes vol. 49, no. 36 sunday May 20, 1990 a a 25 Dolly and sunday d 8693 a Baker announces ban on chemical weapons Moscow apr Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii said saturday that a a Trail blazing agreement Quot on .-soviet cooperation to ban superpower production of chemical weapons will be signed at the Washington Summit at the end of the month. The two sides also have resolved major disputes on cutting their strategic nuclear arms Baker said at a news conference. His comments followed four Days of intensive negotiations on an Agenda for the May 31-june 3 Summit. He acknowledged failure to Bridge differences on reducing troops and tanks in Europe but otherwise gave a positive account of his talks with president Mikhail s. Gorbachev and foreign minister Eduard a. Shevardnadze. Baker said he offered new approaches on cutting conventional arms but found see Baker on Back Page Rirs in the cards sunday Magaz a floods still plague Louisiana Texas a f its ii Quot Xor nomm Quot rain it or Quot by lie associated press i he swollen red River pushed southward saturday in Louisiana where it has swamped so,000 acres of Rich Farmland and Hood victims m Texas got Relief checks to help make it through the High water Days. The army corps of engineers predicted that 700,000 acres will be hooded in Louisiana before the mar and backwaters recede. The red River is swollen Wilh draining blood Waters from states upstream. It was expected to Crest at 40 feet sunday in Alexandria in Central Louisiana hint is 8 feet Over Hood stage. A in Louisiana we have one commodity ready to Harvest Winter wheat. That s gone in the flooded said Larry Michaud of the states agriculture department. Quot there will be extensive damage to the Cotton in the he said a along the red there Are levees for the most part. The farms inside the levees Are the ones that Are in Texas. 38 counties have been declared Federal disaster areas. Brad Harris regional head of the Federal emergency management Agency was distributing Relief checks Friday lie said that at least 3.000 people already have requested Aid and ins Agency has a Bent inc rules Quot to gel it to them. Quot now i can go find a place on dry see floods on Back Page a lies a c a a. V. Quot a a. Firefighters in Joplin mo., Rescue Pauline Godfrey after her car Slid off a Bridge Friday into Turkey creek.. Hostage very ill report says Beirut Lebanon up a the lebanese Magazine that broke the . Arms for hostages Story reported saturday that . Captive Thomas Sutherland is seriously ill and that negotiations Are under Way to free anglican envoy Terry Waite and three other hostages. Also saturday the shiite amal indicated they will return the remains of two israeli soldiers killed by moslem guerrillas in Southern Lebanon years ago if Israel releases some 400 Arab prisoners. The Ash Shiraz Magazine said Sutherland who was kidnapped five years ago is seriously ill and would be among the first . Captives freed in any future deals involving americans. Waite Sutherland Sutherland. 63. The Dean of american University of Beirut s agricultural school was kidnapped june 4, 1985, in moslem West Beirut. 1 he islamic jihad claimed responsibility. Two . Hostages Robert Fol Hill and Frank Reed were released separately last month after More than three years in Captivity. Fol Hill recently had his Larynx removed after medical examinations revealed lie has had Throat cancer for at least a year Ash Shiraz reported contacts were under Way to free three britons including Waite and Irish hostage Brian Keenan. The Magazine said the negotiations involving the three britons were separate from those of Keenan but gave no details of the parties involved in the contacts
