European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 3, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Us Sasha vol. 52, no. 107 500 tuesday August 3,1993 d 8693 Anat weighs strikes air Power in Bosnia Brussels Belgium a nato allies on monday considered a . Proposal to escalate the West s involvement in Bosnia by bombing serbian positions. When the proposal Wals first made Over the weekend european reaction was Cool. But a nato official speaking monday on condition of anonymity said sentiment scented to be moving in favor of using nato warplanes to break the serbian siege of Sarajevo and increase the flow of Aid. In Washington president Clinton said he believed the allies would authorize the american proposal but played Down a state department spokesman s comment that Washington was Quot determined to act Quot Evert without nato support. Quot i think Well have a common position Quot Clinton said. Quot i Don t believe that the allies will permit Sarajevo to fall or to  the nato military Alliance founded in 1949 to counter the soviet threat has never acted in an offensive capacity. On monday the commander of the bosnian serbs air Force warned that if . Fighters attack his forces Quot will fire Back with All their might. Quot those who want to become the worlds policeman simply do not care for their allies opinion Quot Gen. Zivomir Nin Kovic said. International attempts to end the War fare in Bosnia have not managed to halt violence that has left Between 140,000 to 200,000 people dead or missing and More than 2 million  Geneva Over the weekend leaders of Bosnia s three warring factions agreed on a plan that sets the stage for the coun try a partition into three ethnic states. However on monday the future of see nato on Pago 2 St. Louis gain Means St. Louis apr 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 conf hey Iii. With nothing to Stop the Waters flow farms and Small Chicago floods cover Towi Illinois Springfield communities for 20 Miles were threatened. A record Crest in the St. Louis area had been expected monday 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. Quot i  interpret it As Good news Quot said . Army corps of engineers spokesman Gary Dyhouse. Quot we have 60,000 acres of prime Farmland that have  a since Friday Waters have attacked the St. Louis area from All sides testing the St. Louis flood Wall straining a amps water from the Mississippi River pours Over Farmland after a levee gave away near Columbia in Monroe county 111., on sunday. The House at right was Tom from its foundation and carried downstream in the torrent. 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 death 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 3,000 Homes and 400 businesses. Quot this has the potential for a truly major disaster a a a see gain on Page 2 left Good memories Saddam says Nicosia Cyprus a iraqi presi it Saddam Hussein said iraqis invasion Kuwait three years ago monday has proved his people with Quot Good  Saddam in a speech marking the aug. 1990, invasion briefly referred to the Risian Gulf War and . Economic notions that followed Iraq s defeat and the drawl from Kuwait. A the Mother of All Battles is still going i and the embargo is still present Eddam said in his sunday address to Aries tribal leaders and writers. Quot the most important thing is that your country remained Safe a he said. Quot 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 plugged the population into deepening a Ovady. Saddam was further weakened by kurdish and shiite Muslim rebellions after the War but still keep tight control Over iraqi society. State controlled iraqi newspapers commemorated monday ask Day 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 Quot 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 Quot the Day of  the Only Public remembrance in Kuwait was the opening of a photo exhibit that showed destruction caused by the iraqis