European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 9, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2the stars and stripes thursday May 9, 1991 at a Givance f Niv a a Harbor at Surg Starken shows he Charm of  Feliman Island. See Story and photos in stripes Magazine. /. Battle with Helmsley corp. The sheriffs department has no intention of evicting a dying cancer patient in san Francisco despite what a spokesman says Are orders from her landlords representing the Helmsley corp. A Page 4 panel rejects More b-2s a House armed services panel has overwhelmingly rejected president Bush s request to buy four additional b-2 stealth bombers. A Page 5 giving a Fig for newtons thousands of Fig Newton lovers turn out to celebrate the Centennial of the fruit filled cookie. A a a Page 7 Brand does no to mince words tired of cigarettes with names like Kool consider death cigarettes a new Brand that arrives in a Black package shaped like a coffin and decorated with a Skull and crossbones. A a Page 9 not for defense Only advances in cancer therapy Cataract surgery supercomputers and other diverse Fields have resulted from military research on the strategic defense initiative.7�? Page 17 Index a Abby Ann Landers 14 comics. 14-16 commentary. 13 crossword. 14 letters. 12 Money matters. 17 sports. 18-24 to listings. 18 weather. .11 twister leaving at least 50 dead Dhaka Bangladesh a with Lowland areas still reeling from last weeks devastating Cyclone storms brought new misery to Bangladesh As a Tornado levelled villages and factories and claimed dozens of lives. Rescuers found at least 34 bodies Bur cd under collapsed buildings or tossed into Muddy Rice paddies Muftar Rahman Khan a Junior Cabinet minister said wednesday. A local magistrate said 50. People were killed and the toll was Likely to Rise As the search continued. Government officials said 400 people also were injured in the twister that Tore a nine mile path outside Dhaka about 6 30 . Tuesday. The Tornado destroyed Concrete factories in an Industrial area near Tongi eight Miles North of Dhaka and caused widespread damage in at least i3 other villages. An earlier report by the government owned Daminik Bangka newspaper said 50 people died and 1,200 were Hurt in the seven minute Tornado. Sufia Altha 25, recovering at a medical clinic in Joy devour said that when she saw the dark funnel approaching she threw her 18-Mbnth-61d son on the floor and covered him with her body. A in a few seconds the House was tossed into the air like a toy7" she said. She later found her husbands body 100 Yards away on the Edge of a Pond and the body of another son was in a Rice. Schools houses and. Small factories were levelled. A ceramics factory was reduced to cinder blocks just 90 Mir utes after its 1,000 employees finished work. The night watchman was sliced in two by a flying piece of Metal workers at the factory said. Tongi was not in the path of the april 30 Cyclone  the Southeastern coast and killed 125,730 people according to the official death  some newspapers said the total would probably surpass 225,000. Daminik Bangka said the total was believed to be 500,000. 7,7 that would bring the death toll to the level of the 1970 Cyclone previously the worst natural disaster in the Low lying Nationn the Bay of Bengal. Relief workers said at least 18 million survivors were threatened with disease including cholera and starvation in the aftermath of the cyclones 145 Mph winds and 20-foot Waves. 7 the u n. Food and agricultural organization said wednesday that the Cyclone caused extensive damage to Bangladesh a Rice Fields and decimated livestock herds. Rice is the country a most important food crop. Bush undergoes thyroid testing to determine method of treatment Washington a president Bush saying a i feel Good a flew to a Hospital wednesday morning for the first test on his overactive thyroid gland which doctors now blame for the irregular heartbeat he suffered last weekend. The irregular heartbeat returned briefly tuesday evening his spokesman said but it was Back to Normal within a few minutes. The president was administered an anti coagulation drug called. Coumou Din press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater said wednesday morning. Bush a doctors said he underwent a background scan at Bethesda naval Hospital then swallowed a diagnostic dose of radioactive iodine before leaving the hos Pital. 7. A v 7 \ .7 a for. Burton Lee the presidents physician said Bush will return thursday for another scan that will give doctors a closer look at his thyroid problem. It takes a Day for the iodine a a cocktail to sink in Fitzwater said. The procedure took Only a few minutes and Bush returned immediately to the White House barely 45 minutes after his Marine one helicopter whisked him off to the medical appointment. Bush was still dressed casually in a Green shirt and Blue jacket when he returned. Striding toward the Oval office Bush playfully pulled Down his shirt Collar and exposed his Throat when reporters asked what had been done. A the was very Happy it get the news tuesday that the thyroid and not heart problems were suspected As the cause of is atrial fibrillation Lee said. A the does no to like the heart  Fitzwater said a a it a a radioactive iodine test where he drinks the Milkshake. 7. Then it has to have time to be absorbed into the glands so the tests will conic  Lee and other physicians working on the presidents ease said tuesday that the t by Roi d p Rob e m is e As i by t re table. The tests will help the doctors deter mine what treatment to follow. The alter natives Range from drugs to surgery. A it will take us at least a week to make sure sve have All the tests we need a Lee said. He said blood tests taken after the president suffered an irregular heartbeat saturday confirmed that Bush a thyroid was secreting too much hormone. He said the finding was Good news for. Bush because it provided a simple Clear cause for the heart problem and because an overactive thyroid is easily treated. A it makes president Bush a Long term Outlook much better a Lee said at a news conference at Bethesda naval Hospital. A if you know what s wrong and can fix it its a much More satisfactory  Bush s doctors also said it is now definite that the presidents heart is organically sound and that the irregular beat does not Stem from a Basic weakness in the heart. He is expected to Wear a portable heart Monitor for at least another week. Doctors said. It was Bush s heart problem that led to discovery of his new diagnosis a condition known As hyperthyroidism. His wife. Barbara suffers from a similar disorder. The thyroid is a Small Butterfly shaped land in the front of the neck. It secretes hormones that help regulate the heart liver Braini ind muscle function. A generally enlarged thyroid can cause , the disorder discovered last year in mrs. Bush. Other problems can include one or More lobes of the gland being greatly enlarged and overactive. Still another possibility though doctors called it Remote is the presence of a tumor. A. A t it for pushing nation toward War correction because of incorrect information provided by a source an article yesterday gave the wrong name for a suspect in the shooting death of a turkish Man near Ramstein a Germany. The suspect is sgt. William g. Aflague. Belgrade Yugoslavia apr a Deputy defense minister accused the leaders of Yugoslavia a republics wednesday of encouraging ethnic com diet and pushing the country to the Brink of civil War. Adm. Slane Brovet addressed the Federal parliament in Belgrade As representatives of the federations republics were discussing what sources claimed was the military a demand for a nationwide state of emergency. Borba the respected Belgrade daily newspaper said representatives of the republics were badly split Over the demand. At a 12-hour meeting tuesday the representatives failed to agree on How to resolve the conflict. Talks were continuing wednesday. About 20 people have been killed in the past week in some of the worst ethnic fighting since world War ii. The army has been sent into some areas of Croatia to separate croats and serbs. Yugoslavia a main conflict is Between serbs the largest ethnic group and croats the second largest. Nearly All of those killed in the past week died in fighting Between the two groups inside Croatia. Serbia and Croatia rivals for decades now differ widely on Yugoslavia a future. Croatia says it will secede if Yugoslavia does not become a Loose federation of states. Communist run Serbia wants a Strong centrally controlled federation. Serbia a parliament also met in Belgrade on wednesday. Prime minister Dragutin Zelenovich accused Croatia s leaders of seeking to a politically. And physically destroy the serbian  Law maker Milan Paroski called for the arrest of Stipe Mesic Croatia a representative to the eight member collective Federal presidency. Mesic becomes the groups chairman May 15, Borba reported that Serbia and Montenegro supported a five Point plan by defense minister Veljko Kadijevic giving the armed forces greater authority. Croatia and its Western neighbor Slovenia opposed the plan. Kadijevic on monday issued a virtual ultimatum to restore order or face a possible military takeover. He placed the army on combat Alert and the military started calling up reserves