European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 10, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday november 10, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 3 filipino toll expected to hit 5,000 typhoon Seth bearing Down on country Manila Philippines apr divers searched saturday for bodies entombed in the seabed under landslides triggered by tuesdays storm which killed As Many As 5000 people in the Central Philippines. An approaching typhoon threatened More hardship. Rear adm. Mariano Domangcas chief of the philippine Navy said his divers found 16 bodies buried in shallow portions of the Bay off Oroc City. The port and agricultural Center on Leyte Island is 350 Miles Southeast of Manila. Oroc City suffered the most casualties in the floods which occurred when tropical storm Thelma hit Leyte and Negros Island. The Manila weather Bureau reported that a typhoon was. Heading for Northern and Central areas of Luzon Island and would begin to affect weather there by monday. Forecasters said the new storm typhoon Seth was entered on saturday about 600 Miles East of extreme Northern Luzon. It was headed Southwest with maximum sustained winds of 115 Mph. Storm warnings were raised Over northeastern Luzon and meteorologists warned coastal areas to prepare for Strong winds and rough seas. The office of civil defense reported that at least.____1. 1 j ,___i___�?z__.1 "3 Lrtil Amna i have perished. Throughout the Day philippine military planes and Navy barges arrived with supplies. President Corazon Aquino said she planned to visit Oroc City today to assess the damage. Aquino also announced that Japan had donated $1 million to storm victims. France Australia and the United states earlier gave donations. The philippine department of budget and management released an initial amount of $259,000 to fund re Lief in Oroc City and nearby towns. Fearing cholera and other intestinal diseases workers used dump trucks and Earth movers to Speed mass burials of the victims in Oroc City which has 160,000 residents. In Manila civil defense director Ernesto Rivera said there is almost no Chance that any of the missing have survived. A to Roc is isolated and there is no place for the missing to go and they Are probably dead a he said. In Cebu 70 Miles to the East provincial gov. Emilio Osmena sent 300 nurses and doctors to Oroc City to prevent the spread of disease. He said he was also sending water purification teams and equipment to assist in burials. On Friday Aquino declared Leyte a disaster area and ordered emergency food and Medicine to the Island. Mayor Maria Victoria Locsin said the calamity had overwhelmed the municipal government and that it was having problems with distribution. Many supplies were stored at Oroc City Hall because there were not enough City workers available to hand them out. People who lined up at Supply Points received a Small tin of sardines and 2.2 pounds of Rice. Oroc City is a major sugar and Rice producing Center but Many of the food stocks were destroyed by the cascading mud and debris set Loose by the floodwaters. Survivors spread Muddy Rice in the Sun to dry. Domangcas said four Navy vessels were involved in the sea search while two other Navy ships were delivering dump trucks generators Waters tanks and other essential equipment to Oroc City. . Officials said two . Navy and one philippine air Force c-130 planes left the Subic Bay naval facilities on Luzon he route to Taloban in Leyte. The i % a residents remove debris from a Yard in Oroc City following tuesdays devastating tropical storm. Planes Are to deliver food blankets and other supplies. From Taloban the goods will be ferried by truck and helicopter to Oroc City. German police storm Bank free hostages Ltd Henscheid Germany up a police stormed a Bank saturday and freed hostages held for 22 hours by a gunman witnesses reported. The witnesses said the unidentified gunman who wore a White stocking mask apparently was wounded in the raid at a Branch of the commery Bank. A police anti terrorist unit stormed the Bank located in a pedestrian zone and overpowered the gunman about 1 . Said the witnesses. They said All the hostages were freed within five minutes. Lii Henscheid is about 43 Miles Northeast of Bonn. The Lone gunman who held up the Bank around 3 . Friday took about 10 people hostage. He released five of them a three women a Man and a child a late Friday and Early saturday police reported. The exact number of hostages seized was not immediately known. But a spokesman for the local prosecutor said �?o10 to 11�?� Bank employees and customers had been taken hostage when the gunman held it up shortly before closing time Friday. The Bandit reportedly made one hostage strip to his underwear to take a message to police. The Bonn newspaper express said that according to an unconfirmed report the gunman demanded 9 million Marks $5.4 million and an automobile. Witnesses reported hearing a gun fired Friday. Police said later one hostage had a foot injury but gave no details. Early saturday a shirt with red stains was thrown out of the Bank but it was not known if the stains were blood. Late Friday police placed plastic bags apparently with food before the Bank a door. The bags disappeared inside but it could not be determined who had pulled them  Mission aboard Atlantis set for nov. 19 Cape canaveral Fla. A Nasa has set nov. 19 As the launch Date for the sixth and final space shuttle flight of 1991, a military Mission by Atlantis. Mission managers at Kennedy space Center said Atlantis is scheduled to lift off at 6 51 . Est with six astronauts and a defense department satellite. The satellite is designed to warn of nuclear detonations and enemy missile launches. After the satellite is released six hours into the flight the astronauts will devote their time to military observations radiation monitoring and medical experiments. The 10-Day Mission is supposed to end nov. 29 at Kennedy space Center. Everything about the flight except for some military observation targets will be unclassified. The Crew will use special optics and communication equipment to evaluate the effectiveness of observing sea ports airports and other . Military installations from space. A we have never really quantified per be the amount of detail we can see from 160 Miles 195 Miles or 300 Miles wherever the shuttle might happen to be a a said astronaut Mario Runco or. Atlantis voyage 224 Miles above Earth i 1 be the ninth shuttle Mission dedicated to Pentagon work and Only the second not cloaked in secrecy. The military conducted its first unclassified shuttle Mission last Spring. The Pentagon dropped total classification of shuttle flights to save Money. Military officials put the savings at 580 million a  through the Snow Celeste Kuta of Wyoming Ohio a suburb of Cincinnat run Friday. Snow was also forecast saturday for the to does no to let a fresh snowfall keep her from her daily Carolina and Colorado. See weather on Page 11