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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday june 18, 1992 at a glance Quirky Barcelona Spain is preparing to play Host to the summer olympics. For a look at How to see the games and their Host City see stripes Magazine. Praised no ends up in jail the Indiana National guards 1990 non commissioned officer of the year is serving a jail sentence for refusing to follow orders to remove a Cap that protected his burned skin from the cold weather. A Page 4 Navy left out statement a 2,000-Page report by the naval investigative sen ice into last years Tail Hook convention did not include a statement from a witness who said Navy Secretary h. Lawrence Garrett Iii was present. A Page 5 aids quarantine questioned critics say authorities in Michigan and Oklahoma went too far by confining two people infected with the aids virus. A Page 6 Sarajevo cease fire fails a cease fire in Sarajevo was blown apart by heavy shelling Early wednesday a Page 8 Mission Likely to change the 21st theater army area come will be in business a Long time though its Mission May change according to the 21st�?Ts new commander it. Gen. William g. Pagonis. A Page 10 Nike runs into a problem Spain a trademark Law is threatening to turn Nike s sponsorship of America s olympic track and Field team into a multimillion Dollar fiasco. A Page 15 Index Abby Ann Landers 17 comics.17-19 commentary.14 crossword .17 faces a places .16 letters .13 Money matters.15 sports.26-32 to listings.31 weather.12 More than 50 Hurt As twisters tear through 4 Midwest states by the associated press National guardsmen were on duty in several Minnesota towns wednesday after tornadoes hit four midwestern states leveling a housing development and scattering hazardous farm chemicals. More than 50 people were injured. A i thought we were going to die a said Dan Gunn Ink a resident of Chandler minn., who lost his House. A we thought it was All Over. We were praying for our  a we got in the car and looked at the sky and it was All Green a said Louise Beigler who was in Lake Wilson minn., when a Tornado hit. She got into a relatives basement just in time. Severe thunderstorms unleashed numerous twisters a along with heavy rain a tuesday afternoon and evening in Minnesota South Dakota Nebraska and Iowa. A Tornado was reported Early wednesday near Omaha neb. The hardest hit state was Minnesota where tuesdays storms Cut a Large area of damage across the southwestern and Central areas of the state injuring at least 45. National guardsmen were sent into Chandler Olivia Clark Field and Cokato. They were out wednesday morning helping with the cleanup distributing drinking water keeping out sightseers and visiting farms to make sure no one else needed help said maj. Lucy Render. Power outages were reported in the area including 12,000 Northern states Power co. Customers in and around Minneapolis where there was heavy rain High wind and lightning. In Chandler a town of 300, an apartment building and 25 to 30 Homes in a new housing development were destroyed or damaged As were at least six businesses downtown and a school said resident Harvey Bruxvoort. Some of the houses were still under construction and not occupied. A it resembles an atomic bomb blast a Bruxvoort said. A Trees Are left with no  a every House on the Hill is gone. There ainu to nothing left a a said resident Bill Mclaine. A it picked up cars and dropped Mem three quarters of a mile away a mile away on  Twenty five people in Chandler were Hurt including 11 who were hospitalized. Six people were injured in Clarkfield a town of about 925 people. Four people were injured one critically near Leota a few Miles South of Chandler. And eight people were injured at Cokato about 45 Miles West of Minneapolis. Chandlery a Tornado Siren was repaired three Days earlier. A boy did we need that thing a said City clerk a1 vis. A we would be had dead people like you   in Lake Wilson minn., authorities said they freed a Man and a child trapped in a car that was picked up and blown a Quarter mile. Both were hospitalized. The red Cross reported 69 houses were destroyed by the storms including 35 in Chandler and 29 in Lake Wilson about five Miles to the North. Two houses and 15 Mobile Homes were destroyed in Cokato the red Cross said in a news release. Yeltsin from Page 1 Range warheads. The agreement announced by presidents Bush and Yeltsin will Cut them Down to Between 3,000 and 3,500 on each Side. The sweep of the agreement exceeded most expectations. A desperate Lith hour race to conclude it at the Summit contributed to the drama. A with this agreement a Bush said a the nuclear Nightmare recedes More and More for ourselves for our children and for our  the cuts Are to be carried out in two phases and go far beyond the one third reductions in Long Range weapons required under the new Start treaty. That Accord still to be ratified by the Senate took nearly a decade to negotiate with the soviet Union. The new agreement was reached in Only five months. Even in the final hours Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii was saying he did not know if an agreement was possible and that several extraordinarily Tough issues were defying Resolution. A your ability to reach this agreement so quickly is a tribute to the new relationship Between the United states and rus Sia and to the personal leadership of our guest Boris Yeltsin a Bush said at a White House Rose Garden ceremony. The United states set out to remove the Core of russians nuclear strength a land based missiles with multiple warheads. That goal was achieved. But to get there the Bush administration made two significant concessions it agreed to establish an Overall ceiling of 3,000 to 3,500 warheads much deeper than the 4,700 Bush had proposed. And while the president offered in january a one third Cut in the ballistic missile warheads on nuclear submarines the agreement provides for a 55 percent reduction. Dollar from Page 1 the up move is More dependent on big troubles in other countries than from the . Economy itself a Barandes said explaining that there is a 50-50 Chance the Dollar has bottomed out. Presidential politics he said May be an even More important Factor than economics. A a big problem for investors now is where to invest a he said. A Gold is going up. We have a classical pattern of people being very worried so they re holding More Cash and Gold which could be a presinal of a financial crisis. We have to pay attention to  Barandes said there is speculation that the Federal Reserve Board May lower interest rates further perhaps a Quarter of a percentage Point. A but another Cut does no to make sense in terms of economic efficiency a he said. A in terms of politics it might happen. It would maybe reassure people then disappoint them again be cause it will have been done without giving any  Barandes cited the National debt a budget debt projected to be $330 billion to $400 billion this fiscal year and the savings and loan bailout that will have to be financed by taxpayers. A reduction of the deficit is unlikely because if employment is not growing tax receipts will not really grow. Social spending will have to grow to support Low income people so the Outlook is not really Brilliant so people Are More and More hesitant for buying  the . Jobless rate Rose to 7.5 percent of the work Force in May. There is a crisis of Confidence at the moment Barandes said. Foreigners he said Are not purchasing . Stock at the moment. The Dow Jones Industrial Index appears to be near its Peak he said. He said he sees an economic recovery under Way but described it As a very  Geoffrey Dicks an economist with the London business school said he completed a study in May showing the Dollar will recover to 1.74 Marks in one year. Quot that is based on the View that once the election is out of the was and the recovery is under Way that Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan will raise interest rates a he said. Dicks said his study also assumes that president Bush will be re elected. As to the other contenders being elected he added a we Haven t thought that one  Dicks said he thinks the Dollar will not go any lower than its present level. Nigel Rendell International economist with James Capel and co. In London said the Dollar could dip to 1.50 Marks or lower but should be higher by years end. He forecast a level of Between 1.55 and 1.60 Marks. A the Economy is recovering but peole want it to recover a Little bit faster a e said. Dicks said dropping interest rates further would not help the ailing Economy. A the election May come into play in the next few weeks a he said. A Europe is Uncertain about the political situation in the ., especially about what Perot stands  t marines from Page 1 strive to create a professional work environment a said warrant officer Ginny Bueno. Tracht 41, does the 5  . Shift on pm Rock station dc-101, based just North of Washington in Silver Spring old. He is a 20-year radio Veteran and has spent the last decade with dc-101, one of the most popular Rock stations in the area. His material utilizes sexual innuendos and attracts a mostly Young male audience. He uses a Slang of his own invention to relate what he Calls a bits Quot or risque jokes and stories involving a slew of alter egos. He intersperses those with music discussion of some of the stranger news Sto Ries of the Day and chats with Telephone callers. Bueno said Flynn does not mean to single out any particular radio station As a whole but he thinks Trachte a show occasionally goes beyond the Bounds of Good taste. Asked whether complaints about Trachte a show from anyone who May have Felt offended played a role in Flynn a decision Bueno said she was not aware of any such complaints  
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