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 Sommer 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 guard s 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 service 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 Falls 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 21 St s new commander it. Gen. William g. Pagonis. A Page 10 Nike runs into a problem Spain a trademark Law is threatening to turn Nike a 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 no places. .16 letters. 13 Money matters. 15 sports. 26-32 to listings. 31 weather. 12 50 Hurt As damaging twisters tear through 4 Midwest states by the associated press tornadoes hit four midwestern states leveling a housing development and scattering hazardous farm chemicals in one Minnesota town. More than 50 people were injured. A i thought we were going to die a said Dan Gunnink a resident of Chandler minn., who lost his House. A a we thought it was All Over. We were praying for our  severe thunderstorms unleashed numerous twisters a along with heavy rain a tuesday afternoon through tuesday night in Minnesota South Dakota Nebraska and Iowa. A Tornado was reported Early wednesday near Omaha neb. Tornadoes also had raked parts of the Plains on monday. After tuesdays storms the National guard was sent into Chandler Olivia Clarkfield and Cokato All in southwestern or South Central Minnesota to help local authorities with the cleanup or with distribution of drinking water. 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 said resident Harvey Bruxvoort. Some of the Homes were still under construction and not occupied. A it resembles an atomic bomb blast a Bruxvoort said. A Trees Are left with no  chemicals leaked from storage tanks that were destroyed authorities said. Officials worried that the pesticides and fertilizer might contaminate chandlery a water Supply. A the chemicals have been strewn about with the rain a said Kevin Burns spokesman for the Minnesota department of Public safety. A a we done to want to alarm anyone but we Are  Twenty five people in Chandler were Hurt including 11 who were hospitalized. Six people were injured in Clarkfield a town of about 925 people. Chandlery a Tornado Siren was repaired three Days earlier. A boy did we need that thing a said City clerk Al 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. In Cokato about 45 Miles West of Minneapolis a half dozen Homes were destroyed and eight people were taken to hospitals Wright county sheriff Don Hozempa said Early wednesday. In fort Thompson in Central South Dakota a Tornado destroyed six houses and 10 Mobile Homes gov. George Mickel son said. Seven people were injured none seriously Hospital officials said. In Iowa Denison police chief Ron Smith said tornadoes destroyed farmhouses in Crawford county and downed Power lines and Trees. A Man camping near Dow City was injured apparently by a fallen tree said Smith. Backfire from Page 1 that russian Aid be rejected. A a they be got it backwards a Bush said. A this Man is trying to go the extra  Bush stressed that a we have no evidence of anyone being alive a but he and Yeltsin said a joint commission would scrutinize communist party and Kab archives for information about possible . Prisoners. Bush also said he was dispatching a . Envoy to Moscow at once to look into the new allegations. Some leaders on Capitol Hill suggested the pow Issue must be resolved before action can occur on the Aid package which had been put on a Back Burner even before the pow disclosures. Yeltsin a disclosure a and his offer that a no Stone will remain unturned in helping to discover the Fate of missing americans a threatened to overshadow the Centrepiece of the first Post soviet Era Summit a sweeping proposal to Cut nuclear weapons. Bush and Yeltsin were to wrap up their two Day Summit meeting by signing the agreements a which they announced tuesday a under which each nation would slash its Arsenal of Long Range nuclear weapons by two thirds. The arms accords Call for elimination of some of the deadliest weapons. The two nations agreed to Cut their stockpiles of Long Range nuclear weapons to no More than 3,500 warheads each far beyond the limits called for in the a ratified strategic arms reduction treaty signed in july. A think Back to the cold War climate that marked earlier summits and How far we be come a Bush said As he toasted the russian president at a White House banquet tuesday night. Yeltsin told the Black tie dinner Quot this is the Best Day in my life because today we have resolved something for which i have been striving for a Long time we have decided today to Cut nuclear arsenals to one third of today a  he called Bush a my Friend  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 Quot 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. Quot but another Cut does no to make sense in terms of economic efficiency Quot 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. A that is based on the View that once the election is out of the Way 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 through 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 Maria or lower but should be higher by year s end. He forecast a level of Between 1.55 and 1.60 Marks. A the Economy is recovering but people want it to recover a Little Oit faster a he 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. Quot Europe is Uncertain about the political situation in the ., especially about what Perot stands  Sailor from Page 1 United states naval  the letter arrived the week of april 19, the third anniversary of the explosion Kubicina said. The letter signed by master chief Petty officer . Koch jr., said a a in a like to talk to you about using your Active duty  Kubicina sent a copy of the letter to ant. Frank b. Kelso ii chief of naval operations to complain. A i Hope that you will personally see to it that nothing like this Ever Ever happens again a she said. In a response thursday Kelso said he deeply regretted a the distress and anguish you and sour family experienced because of the letter. A immediate action was taken to remove your brother a name from future Navy mailings a he said. Navy spokesman it. Matt Brown said he would Check into whether the names of other Iowa victims also had been removed from Navy mailing lists. Kubicina said relatives of at least three other Iowa victims had received similar recruiting letters