European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 24, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday june 24, 1991 the stars and stripes Page 3series of eruptions Rock Philippines from wire reports Manila Philippines a mount Pinatubo erupted 10 times sunday shooting Ash and debris Over the surrounding Countryside As Small earthquakes Shook the region., at least 84 temblor Shook the Mountain late saturday and Early sunday scientists said. Three of the temblor were described As Strong but no Richter scale readings were available. Thousands of american troops and dependents were stranded sunday in the Central City of Cebu waiting for flights to the United states. About 900 were waiting at the Island Airport 350 Miles Southeast of Manila when they were joined sunday by almost 2,000 More evacuees brought from Subic Bay naval facilities by the aircraft Carrier Midway a shortage of planes and fuel prevented some flights saturday forcing men women and children to stay in tents pitched near Cebu s Airport officials said. . Sources however said most of the people staying in tents were filipino spouses or girlfriends who lacked entry visas to the United states. \ it. Lee Saunders a Navy spokesman said that the evacuation of 20,000 americans and the dependents was expected to last at least three More Days. Two weeks of eruptions by the Volcano have paralysed two . Facilities the sprawling Clark a one of the biggest overseas . Military bases and Subic Bay. Meanwhile fear of renewed eruptions and landslides accelerated the exodus from areas ravaged by falling Ash and debris. At least 63 volcanic tremors recorded saturday afternoon appeared to indicate magma was rising inside the Volcano. At least 268 people including a 9-year-old american girl have been killed in eruptions of the 4,795-foot Volcano which had been dormant for More than 600 years. Philippine Public works Secretary Jose de Jesus toured areas North of Clark on saturday and urged residents to leave be a n x. This hangar collapsed by Ash spewed by mount Pinatubo is Only a Small part of the destruction wreaked on Clark a Philippines. Cause of the threat of landslides and floods from the Volcano. On sunday knee deep hooding was reported in Olon Gapo the City adjacent to Subic after rain washed volcanic Ash into drains. ,. A 1 lie , military evacuated Clark personnel and dependents to Subic shortly alter mount Pinatubo began erupting june 9. Then it ordered them and Many Subic personnel evacuated when fallout from the eruption reached the naval base 25 Miles Southwest of the Volcano. The evacuation is taking place Only three months before the lease on Clark and Subic expires. Talks on extending the lease stalled in May Over How much the United states would pay and How Long the lease would last. In a related development president Corazon Aquino has ordered the tourism department to Market souvenir items   belched by the Volcano officials said sunday. Assistant press Secretary Lourdes Siytangco said Aquino issued the directive after meeting with tourism undersecretary Mina Gabor who showed her Small Glass jars filled with volcanic Ash. Siytangco said the president was told that the Ash can be manufactured inti pendants and the rocks used to Stone Wash denims or to hone knives. A like the mount St. Ile Leiis they found out that the souvenir ashes and rocks Are still Selling up to now a Siytangco said. Press Secretary Tomas gome. Ill said studies Are being made to find out if the tons of volcanic Sand spewed out by the 5,725-foot Peak could tie used As construction materials for buildings or to make ceramics. Siytangco said Aquino wanted the project to be part of a livelihood and rehabilitation program to Bene lit some 200,000 people affected by Pina Tuboz a devastating eruption. A Mem sure detractors will always make Fuh of us Quot Gomez said. Military officials Tell of failure to find Saddam s luxury bus by Patrick j. Sloyan new Day a. /. A Washington a desert storm commanders conducted a massive search for an american made motor Home used by Saddam Hussein during a 42-Day Campaign to Hunt Down and kill the Iracki president according to . Military offic tils. A we really went after him a one desert storm general said of the search for Saddam a Forest Green a wander Lodge a a Type of luxury vehicle favored by celebrities such As country Singer Johnny Gash and actor Tom cruise. What the military called an intense a get Saddam operation is at Odds with statements by presi Jent Bush and his top aides that the United states was really after iraqis military leadership a not Saddam the individual. But the wily often battling iraqi Leader escaped death at least twice while missiles and warplanes hunted for the $350,000 motor Home lie used As a Mobile command Center. In the opening hours of the War on Jan. 17, Ioma Hawk cruise missiles and.f-117 stealth tighter bomb ers destroyed command bunkers that Saddam was using in Baghdad. American Hopes soared when he failed to appear in Public for three Days a close but no Cigar a said one Pentagon planner of the Bunker strikes. Alter most command bunkers were destroyed . Air Force plan severe divided into Hunter killer teams and patrolled areas Likely to be travelled by Saddam s Mobile command Center. According to one air Puree officer the search at one Point rivalled Allied Ett Orts to. Destroy scud missile Sites in Iraq. Quot we had a lot of resources tied up a the officer said. While the search for the wander Lodge failed Saddam had a Brush with death Midway in the wan according to military officials. Two f-16 Falcon pilots a so called a killer bees on a routine patrol a unwittingly strafed his motorcade Between Baghdad and Basra Iraq u a it was at night and we had spotted a 50-vehicle Convoy a said a senior . Officer the fighters strafed the front and rear of the motorcade but Saddam a vehicle was in the Middle and was undamaged. The luxury bus was identified by . Intelligence before the War from a photograph of Saddam being briefed inside cramped quarters. The Baghdad government which released the photo on Jan. 11, identified the location As an underground operations room in Southern Iraq. A a the fori Valley ga., builders of the motor Home identified the room As the stripped Down inferior of a wander Lodge. The company sold nine of the vehicles to Iraq during the 1980s. Eventually two wander lodges used by iraqi generals were destroyed by american troops during the ground War. 1. But air Force Hunter killer teams looking for Saddam a wander Lodge came up empty. Some of those involved in the operation blamed the inability of . Intelligence to locate radio signals from the motor Home. One desert storm commander speculated that Saddam spent most of the War in the residential neighbourhoods of Baghdad. Other commanders suspected the whole wander Lodge Hunt was a ruse resulting from one More Saddam  Klerk s son to wed mixed race Girlfriend s. African papers say Johannesburg South Africa of president . De Klerk s son plans it marry his mixed race Girlfriend in december newspapers reported Sui ulay. The papers gave front Page coverage to the wedding plans of Willem de Klerk and Erica Adams daughter of a mixed race. Politician. The presidents Only com Niento on sunday was that he and his wife Marike had not been informed of Ali c impending wedding. A a we Are surprised because we Are in regular Contact with our son a he  from these facts 1 want to repeat. That i prefer not to make Public statements on family  the Romance made International headlines in january and. Caused a stir in South Africa where nixed marriages arc not common. Interracial sex anti marriage was Quot legalized in 1985 when apartheid Laws Banning such relationships were repealed. ,. Had the Laws still been in Force the sunday Star wrote a de Klerk a the longest serving Cabinet member of a party which created anti repeatedly endorsed the legislation a would have  son face a prison sentence.�?�. The sunday Star also said de Klerk who had a one too be meeting with his son in England in May a a quickly came to term with the relationship. A but Marike like All mothers anxious about their songs happiness was slower to accept it a a there have been tears Quot the paper quoted an aide As saying. It also quoted friends of tie couple As say ing the pair wanted a july wedding in England where they have been living for five months. But the wedding was postponed at the request of both families. A apart from wanting the two to have More time before taking the final step it was Felt that a a quiet family affair would ire impossible on meet Street Home turf Quot the paper said