European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 19, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday november 19, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 3upside-Down world sprint boat racers Mike Woodger and Chris Paddon miraculously escaped injury lost control of their boat and hit a Bank. The crowd witnessed the spectacular sunday alter they were flipped upside Down in their 440-horsepower boat the two crash at Wangaratta in Victoria Australia. Missing american Engineer Safe in Baghdad Vicksburg miss. Apr an Engineer missing for almost a week while on a Volunteer Mission to Kuwait telephoned from Iraq on monday to report he was Safe and in the custody of the red Cross his wife said. The International committee of the red Cross confirmed his whereabouts. A nah he could say was a in Mok. In a still in Baghdad. In a in the hands of the International red Cross and ill Call you when i get Back to Kuwait a Phyllis Cordes quoted her husband Gordon e. Cordes As telling her in a Brief 10 . Telephone Call. A the also asked if the kids were  Cordes a Road Engineer with the Kuwait emergency recovery office was last seen nov. 12 travelling North of Doha a suburb of Kuwait City 60 Miles South of the kuwaiti iraqi Border. It was not yet Clear How he Haa got into Iraq. His wife said Cordes who is with the . Army corps of engineers Mississippi River commission had volunteered to work in helping to rebuild the transportation system in Kuwait in the Wake of the seven month occupation by neighbouring Iraq. Cordes said her husband had no time to explain his disappearance during the Telephone Call. In previous cases Iraq also has returned civilians who have strayed across the poorly marked  of Gas strike jams Italy s stations Naples Italy a amps a Panicky motorists trying to fill up fuel tanks in Advance of a threatened Italy wide Gas strike jammed filling stations sunday and monday. The strike by Gas station operators was scheduled to Start at 7 . Monday and end at 7 . Saturday. The strike is the second in several weeks by operators demanding a larger share of Petroleum companies profits. A strike several weeks ago fizzled when Many Gas station operators refused to participate. This weeks strike is also scheduled to affect stations on the Autostrada Italy a expressways. Autostrada stations Are scheduled to close at 10 . Monday and not reopen until thursday morning according to Sergio Mairano a fuel specialist with the naval support activity in Naples. Quot the situation regarding the stations on the Autostrada is confusing. Some of those stations May remain open a Mairano said monday. Another strike by Gas station operators is tentatively scheduled to take place from dec. 23 until dec. 26. Conferees drop proposal to allow patient paid abortions overseas by Check Vinch Washington Bureau Washington a a congressional Effort to allow abortions in overseas military medical facilities if patients pay for them has died once and for All a at least for this year. The proposal sponsored by rep. Les Aucoin d-ore., and taken up in the Senate by sen. Frank r. Lau Tenberg d-n.j., would reverse a 1988 Pentagon decision to ban abortions in overseas facilities a practice that had been sanctioned since the late 1970s. The measure was stricken from the Compromise fiscal 1992 defense appropriations Bill completed by House and Senate negotiators late last week. It was dropped from the fiscal 1992 defense authorization Bill for the same reason a a threatened veto by president Bush. Aucoin a proposal was narrowly approved As part of the House version of the authorization Bill. But negotiators dropped it from the House Senate Compromise version because they did not want to reopen debate on other issues already decided should Bush make Good on his veto threat. A a that a basically what happened with the appropriations Bill too a said a Senate appropriations committee staffer. A a we re already More than a month into the new fiscal year and there a still no defense budget set. We have to get this  i he staffer said the Voles would not have been there to override a presidential veto. A there was some talk about whether Bush would really reject the whole Bill for that single provision but in the end no one wanted to test him Quot he said. Aucoin who has sponsored the Bill each of the last three years vowed to raise the Issue again for the fiscal 1993 defense budget Cycle said his spokesman Eileen Goldsmith. A a we re mad As hell and we re not giving up a Goldsmith said. About 15 to 20 abortions a year had been performed in overseas facilities before the 1988 change which was made unilaterally by the Reagan administration with no congressional input