European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 02, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 r the stars and stripes sunday october 2,1994 at a glance Oliver North above was called the colonel of untruth by vice presi Dent Al Gore who added that the Senate race in Virginia is a Choice Between the empty rhetoric of Oliver North and sound policy Deci Sions and substance of  see Story on Page 8. Heavy Burden few insurers cover weight loss even for the morbidly obese a specialist says. Page 6 classroom arrest a teacher s aide was led from her classroom in Handcuffs on charges she had three students kill her Hus band. Page a View of Earth a 3-d space radar aboard the endeavour scanned the Sahara for a geologic study of riverbeds buried by Sand thousands of years ago Page 8 plague fears in an Effort to prevent the plague from spreading doctors Are examining every passenger leaving Indian airports. " a  10 plane sleepy russian president Boris Yeltsin said he missed his meeting with the Irish Leader because he had Over slept. Page 11 Market optimism Good third Quarter profit reports Are expected to boost the Stock mar Ket in the coming weeks. Pagel2 Index Abby Ann Landers. 20 classifieds 24-30 commentary. 23 faces n places 20 Horoscope. 27 letters. 22 Money matters. 12-13 Mutual funds 13-17 sports. 30-36 weather 21 High tech search of ferry delayed by surging sea survival Means dinner for two in Stockholm Stockholm Sweden a with the Estonia rapidly sinking Kent Harstedt and Sara he Renius prom ised to have dinner together if they survived. Then they hurled themselves Over the railing and into the frigid Waters of the Baltic. When we realized that the ship was going Down we held hands and walked into the sea he Renius 20, said on swedish state television. The last thing Kent said Wasif we survive this i la treat you to dinner in Stockholm we lost each other in the water and i thought i was going to drown. When i came up to the surface i saw a head to the left of me. I asked who twas and it w5s Kent she said. Harstedt meanwhile had been sure he was Goin to die. In the water his foot became entangled in wire and hews pulled under. There was water in my Mouth and nose he said thursday in a television interview. I thought of my family. And i said goodbye i blacked out. The next thing i re member my foot came Loose and i came to the  the swedish pair found a life raft mid the chaos Early wednesday and struggled aboard. We decided to remain Calm. The icy Waves came Down Over us har Stedt 29, was quoted by swedish newspapers As saying. Holding each other for warmth they watched most of their raft mates die one by one As they froze to death. Kent Harstedt appearing at a Stock Holm Hospital Friday said he an another Terry passenger hugged each other to keep warm on a life raft. Only six of the 16 people on the raft survived according to afto bladet a Stockholm daily. Theirs is one of the few stories witha Happy ending Harstedt and he Renius became in Stant celebrities Back Home in swe Den retelling their Story to the , i never thought of giving up but think i would t have made it alone he Renius said. Both were recovering from the or Deal at a Hospital near Stockholm. And yes the dinner Date is still on. Turku Finland a Stormy weather postponed a High tech robot search of the Estonia wreckage saturday but murky sonar pictures indicated some problem with the Bow of the sunken ferry. More than 900 people died when the ship went Down Early wednesday off Fin land. Finnish officials said they had recovered 100 bodies with 810 people still missing. Of the 139 known survivors on died saturday in a Hospital near Stock Holm. The finnish Salvage ship Halli was pounded by High Waves most of saturday As the Crew waited for a break in the Stor my weather to lower two High tech sea owl robots into the frigid Baltic sea. Sonar pictures of the Hull show a Bow that looks As if it had been sheared off swedish maritime safety chief Bengt Eri Stenmark says the cargo door the pointed part of the Bow was ripped of before the Estonia Sank. Sweden Home to More than half the victims observes a National Day of mourning today while Finland and Esto Nia also have declared official mourning. The tragedy sent Shock Waves through a Region that depends on Good reliable ferry transportation and called into question the popular ferry design. _ _ in a highly publicized move Sweden sent out an army of investigators to Check for problems on ferries docked in an around Stockholm. At the Rescue operations Center in the southwestern finnish City of Turku in investigators poured Over the sonar images taken by Salvage Crews Friday. Despite the Lack of detail one of the picture clearly shows a Bow that is Flat rather than pointed. Asked at a news conference if the Pic Ture confirms something was missing from the ferry s Bow finnish naval expert Jouko no Ortega said maybe but v we can t be  thugs from Page 1 front for the advancement and Prog Ress of Haiti where gunshots stopped pro democracy rallies wednesday and Friday gunmen boasted that they would  who tried to shut them Down. Even if i die my blood will still have life to kill you said Eric Jean 35. He bragged that he would have killed hundreds of his countrymen if he had been there Friday when pro Aristide supporters approached. Threats from the pro army group succeeded in cowing pro democracy demonstrators in suburban be Plaine where Aristide taught catechism classes when he was a Seminary  we heard that graph member Shad organized a meeting and were Hun Gry for blood said Joseph Pierre explaining Why the group called off its planned demonstration. Graph is just a Small group that holds the people hostage that does twant the people to express themselves said Antoine Juste another group organizer. Looters ransacked warehouses sat urday in a Seaside District and Ameri can service members stood by while Hai Tian police fired tear Gas into one building to Clear out the rioters. But the looting was t  pier Saint whose warehouse is next door to two ransacked Ware houses said he did t fear looters just organized thieves seeking to take advantage of disorder. The two sacked businesses reportedly were owned by coup backers he said. Y the people who Are looting knew where to go pier Saint said. They a the shoulder of . Army maj. Port a Prince s Airport saturday. Been looting Here for two Days and Haven t touched my  the looters were Able to keep people away from his warehouse pier Saint said. They say Don t worry. You re Good �