European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 3, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes wednesday june 3, 1992 two Rescue workers carry a Mother left and her child in the flooded Paris suburb of Sarco Lucs on  knocks out Power transit system in flooded Paris Paris apr the City of Light was darkened monday As a storm Cut off electricity and halted Public transport throughout the French capital. Even president Francois Mitterrand a office was without Power for a time. A Campground in the verdant Bois de Boulogne Park West of Paris was under 5 feet of water. About 140 people were stranded in cars and tunnels and hundreds were evacuated from flooded Homes. Train tracks at the Gare do Nord were flooded disrupting commuter rail and subway service into the late afternoon. Service was also Cut at the waterlogged Gare St. Lazare station. About 25,000 Homes and offices lost Power including the presidential Elysee Palace and the ., British and japanese embassies electricity de France said. Service to these priority clients was restored about 8 a.m., but More than 7,500 Homes and offices remained without electricity hours later the Utility said. A live been walking for 20 minutes a said Solange Dien a returning vacationer who dragged heavy Luggage through a subway Tunnel. Quot first the metro was Down then the escalator stopped and now i can t find my Way out of  the weather service said about 3 inches of rain drenched Paris Between dusk and Dawn. In one two hour period 1.7 inches of rain fell it said. Meteorologists said such storms occur in the Region about once a decade. The heavy Rains followed scattered showers throughout last week that poured into the Seine causing a massive fish kill. More than 300 tons of dead fish had been retrieved by monday authorities said. The area around Paris also got drenched overnight. One nearby town reported 3.8 inches of rain. Flooding and mudslides Cut several major highways leading to the capital including the roads connecting Paris to Lille Beauvais and Amiens. World germans in poll give Kohl Only 27% support from wire reports Berlin a Only 27 percent of germans surveyed would vote for Chancellor Helmut Kohl while 40 percent would choose his Likely rival in the next National elections according to a poll released monday. The television Channel Rel plus which commissioned the Survey of 2,013 voting age germans said Only 20 percent of those questioned in Eastern Germany would vote for Kohl. That is the lowest rating for Kohl in the former communist Region since the weekly surveys started last  museums closed Paris a the Picasso museum and the louvre were closed monday by Security guards striking for More pay and better working conditions government sources said. The Picasso is the most recent in a list of museums closed by the striking guards. The louvre was shut Down Friday morning and All Day sunday by the strike while the orsay museum was closed saturday and sunday. The unions representing guards warned that the louvre would be hit again by the strike june 14.soccer official charged Bastia Corsica a the head of the French soccer federation was charged monday with involuntary homicide in last month s soccer tragedy that left 15 dead but said he would a fight to the end and not resign. Jean fou met Fayard was also charged with involuntarily inflicting injuries in the Accident in which More than 1,300 people were injured. About 100 of them remain  crime rotes Rise London a reported crimes in London increased 11 percent last year led by increases in Domestic violence and Street crime Scotland Yard reported monday. The 184 homicides reported in the year ending March 31 was an increase of 1 percent and serious assaults were up 6 percent the department said. Rape increased 15 percent. Street crimes a robberies of personal property and snatch thefts a were up 25 percent. Reports of Domestic violence increased 46 percent the report said. Russians upset As Vodka prices triple Kohl aide in scandal Dies Moscow apr Moscow a heavy drinkers May now be staggered before they even open the bottle the Cost of Vodka and other spirits tripled monday. The Price of Vodka Rose from 47 rubles per 15-ounce hot Ilc to about 150 rubles after the municipal government lifted Price controls. That san increase from 39 cents to $125. The new Price represents about three Days wages for an average worker. One enraged buyer retired defense ministry worker Konstantin Kudrya Tsylov said he blamed president Boris n. Yeltsin personally for the increases. A prices Are getting higher every Day and he does t worry about the people a he just spits on them a the rumpled unshaven Kudrya Tsylov said standing near a liquor department in the downtown Tverskoy supermarket. The government also announced monday that it May soon free prices for bread and milk. And in yet another blow to already Cash strapped Consumers Telephone rates in the capital tripled overnight. Quot we can to let this happen. When will it Ever end a said Metal worker Yuri Vidinic looking longingly at the goods for Sale in the Tverskoy supermarket. Vidinic said he buys Candy instead of pure sugar because its cheaper and he  remember the last time he had been Able to afford potatoes. A if the prices for bread and milk go up that a the end. Its an act of sabotage Quot he said. Under the new pricing system for Vodka stores negotiate How much they pay factories or other suppliers and then sell to the Public for a 10 percent maximum markup the inter fax news Agency reported. Restaurants cafes and bars Are allowed a markup of 50 percent. Retailers can keep 10 percent of the additional income from increased prices but must put 90 percent into Moscow a social Security fund inter fax said. Bonn Germany a Lutz Stavenhagen one of Chancellor Helmut Kohls top aides before resigning in december Over secret  deliveries to Israel has died of pneumonia his office said monday. He was 52. Stavenhagen died overnight in a Hospital in Pforzheim Southern Germany his office said. He was a member of bundestag the lower House of the German  opens in Sweden Stockholm Sweden Stockholm got its second International Airport monday As Bromma Airport opened for daily flights to London City Airport. Bromma 4.3 Miles Northwest of Stockholm had been used by private planes and business Charters since it was closed to scheduled traffic 30 years  returns More remains to  Rebel strategist Dies Bangkok Thailand up a Vietnam has returned to  Authorities the remains of 10 More american service members killed during the Vietnam War radio Hanoi reported. The broadcast made available in Bangkok on tuesday said the remains together with personal belongings were handed Over to  Officials at a ceremony on monday and will be flown to the  scentral identification Laboratory in Hawaii. The broadcast did not identify the 10 service members or indicate where or when the remains were found. It said the delivery is the 37th made so far. A total of 474 cases of american service members missing in action in Vietnam have now been resolved the radio said. A total of 2,256  Service members Are still unaccounted for in Southeast Asia since the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, More than two thirds of them in Vietnam. San Salvador a commander German Serrano one of the Faramundo Marti liberation National fronts top strategists during the 12-year salvadoran civil War died monday of a brain Haemorrhage. He was 33. Serrano was the fronts top person in Chelate Nango province North of the capital scene of of the fiercest fighting of the conflict. Some