European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 3, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tripes vol.52-, no. 107 tuesday August 3,1993u.s. Hedges threats support on Bosnia Washington apr president Down admin Glinton on monday played is ration comments that the United states was prepared to act alone in bos Nia and Herzegovina saying he still expected the allies to support a . Plan to use air Power in the Region. A i think Well have a common position a he said. Meanwhile senior nato officials met in Brussels Belgium to discuss the american plan to use air Power to protect Sarajevo from besieging serbs and to ensure the delivery of Relief to the bosnian capital. A nato official speaking on condition of anonymity said that initial responses to the proposal were mixed but that a consensus appeared to be building in favor. He said the most reluctant nations were those with Large peacekeeping contingents on the ground a Britain and France. On sunday a state department spokesman said the United states was willing to go it alone if its partners remained opposed to the plan. But Clinton said Quot i think the stories this morning perhaps exaggerated our position. We re going to try to work through to a common  a i done to believe that the allies will permit Sarajevo to fall or to starve a he said. In Cairo Secretary of state Warren m. Christopher echoed Clinton a comments. A other nations share our feelings that something must be done in this situation a he said. Asked if the United states would go it alone he said a at this Point the question does not arise whether or not we would act alone. I am not prepared to answer that hypothetical  also monday Bosnia a president went see . On Page 2 St. Louis gain Means losses downstream St. Louis api a floodwaters submerged a Rural Illinois town and thousands of St. Louis residents were evacuated overnight for fear of a propane Gas explosion. But the end could be in sight forecasters said monday that the Mississippi River already had reached its highest Levels Here. The Small town of Valmeyer was covered with Brown floodwaters after a levee collapsed Early monday in Monroe county Iii. With nothing to Stop the Waters flow farms and Small Chicago. Floods Cove Towi Illinois Springfield a St. Louis Valmeyer communities for 20 Miles were threatened. A record Crest in the St. Louis area had been expected monday a for the Mississippi. But forecasters said the River actually crested sunday when it reached a record 49.4 feet a Short of the predicted 49.7 feet. On monday morning it stood at 48.6 feet. Although that dip helped Sand baggers and relieved some anxiety in the metropolitan area the respite came at a big Cost downstream the water recede in St. Louis because of busted levees in Rural Illinois just to the Southeast. A a i  interpret it As Good news a said . Army corps of engineers spokesman Gary Dyhouse. A a we have 60,000 acres of prime Farmland that have  since Friday Waters have attacked the St. Louis area from All sides testing the St. Louis flood Wall straining water from the Mississippi River pours Over Farmland after a levee gave away near Columbia in Monroe county Iii., on sunday. The House at right was torn from its foundation and carried downstream in the torrent. A a soggy levee in the City a South end and overwhelming farmlands. Thousands of people Are without drinking water just to the East in Rural Illinois. Nearly two months of flooding in nine midwestern states has contributed to 45 deaths and caused at least $10 billion in damage to crops and property. Police on monday evacuated another 8,000 people in South St. Louis where the River Des Peres empties into the Mississippi. Authorities feared that 51 propane tanks floating in floodwaters at a Phillips pipeline co. Site could explode. Earlier 1,000 people were evacuated. The latest order brought the total to 9,000 residents in 3.0 h Homes and 400 businesses. A this has the potential for a truly major disaster a see gain on Page 2kuwait grab left Good memories Saddam says Nicosia Cyprus apr iraqi president Saddam Hussein said iraqis invasion of Kuwait three years ago monday has pro a a it video his people with a Good  Saddam in a speech marking the aug. 2, 1990, invasion briefly referred to the persian Gulf War and . Economic sanctions that followed iraqis defeat and withdrawal from Kuwait. A the Mother of All Battles is still going on and the embargo is still present a Saddam said in his sunday address to clerics tribal leaders and writers. A the most important thing is that your country remained Safe a he said. A what we passed through three years ago has become memories now. It is Good memories for Good  the iraqi news Agency monitored in Cyprus reported the speech monday. Saddam a invasion of Kuwait was a miscalculation however because it underestimated Allied resolve. Thousands of iraqis died when a coalition of .-led forces drove Iraq from Kuwait in Early 1991. . Officials have said the 3-year-old sanctions against Iraq also have caused tens of thousands of deaths among Young children and have plunged the population into deepening poverty. Saddam was further weakened by kurdish and shiite Muslim rebellions after the War but still keeps tight control Over iraqi society. State controlled iraqi newspapers commemorated monday As a Day of Honor and referred to the claim that Kuwait was a legitimate part of Iraq and should some Day be retaken. Babel a newspaper published by Saddam a son Udai said iraqis were continuously discussing a the Severance of Kuwait from Iraq and look for the Day it will be  in Kuwait newspapers published special editions marking aug. 2, 1990, As a the Day of shame and a the Day of  the Only Public remembrance in Kuwait was the opening of a photo exhibit that showed destruction caused by the iraqis. A cd