European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 05, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes wednesday february 5, 1969  i a i my gym in = a would be Hijacker talked out of Cuba trip Miami a a knife Wield ing Young Man with shoulder length hair was talked out of forcing a National airlines plane to Cuba monday several hours after an Eastern air lines Jet with 93 people aboard was hijacked to the Caribbean Island. Bade county sheriff s deputies met National flight 11 from new York at Miami International Airport and arrested Michael Peparo 18, of cold Spring,n.y., and his hippie attired girl Friend Tamsin Fitzgerald 18.her address was not available. Peparo and miss Fitzgerald were booked into Dade county jail on air piracy and kidnapping  said the youth who told them he was a student a dutchess Community College at Poughkeepsie n.y., had a knife Oil drilling suspended off Shore of California from a and up dispatches Santa Barbara Calif. As a runaway Oil Well continued to leak 21,000 Gallons a Day into the Pacific Ocean five Compa Nies agreed monday to a Federal request to suspend drilling under the Santa Barbara  of Interior Walter j. Hickel requested the halt earlier in the Day after a flight Over a 200-Square-mile Oil Slick off the Southern California coast. He told a news conference later that the temporary shutdown was made voluntarily by the Humble Phillips Gulf Texaco and Mobil Oil  Oil co., operator of the underwater Well that started spewing Oil into the Channel last tuesday ceased operation another Sites soon after the seepage was  a two hour Survey of the massive Slick of Reddish brow crude Oil that has contaminated the Blue Green Waters of the Pacific along the coast Hickel said the pollution is Muchmore severe than i had  got a close up View of the Slick fed by Oil bubbling up from underground fissures sur rounding an offshore drilling operation from a coast guard amphibious  returning to the Airport from the Survey Hickel said the pollution disaster in the Channel was As much the fault of the government As  he said the Oil Industry had met government regulations but that these rules were not rigid enough to protect the Channel against , a spokesman for the state attorney general s czech Border guard flees to West Germany Munich a a Czecho slovak Border guard in full uniform defected to West Ger Many Over the weekend the bavarian Border police reported monday. Bavarian police who said the czech gave political motives for fleeing reported the unidentified guard crossed the Border near Koetting South of the Furth Imwald crossing Point. Ancient ships found Trapani Sicily a three ships thought to be of phoenician manufacture and to Date from eight centuries before Christ have been Sicily. Located off Western marinas would Bethe winds did not office said the state will file civil damage suit against Union Oil co. As a result of the Cllrk. Oil was still bubbling to the surface from fissures around a drilling platform but the Slick was prevented from washing up on the beaches by offshore winds. The coast guard reported the Slick was under reasonable control and said major damage to beaches and glistening yachts inverted if  major part of the Slick was about 10 Miles Long and was entered on the drilling plat form about six Miles offshore. Some fingers of Oil reached the surf and beaches at Rincon and pitas Points Over a seven mile stretch but other beaches were reported  company workmen. Appeared to have achieved som Success in corralling the muck with plastic sea curtains float ing on foam pillows. Surface ships scooped up the encircled Oil. Best at the Beach Suzanne Marie Jeffs cradles the spoil Sas the Winner of Australia s latest Beauty contest the miss West coast Beach girls final at Perth. Diana Allen right place second ahead of Anita Oliver. Associated press photo liner is towed in with dead capt. Balboa Panama canal zone a the liner fair sea tied up Here monday with its 985 Pas sengers Safe but Many angry after 12 Days at sea aboard the fire crippled ship. The body of the ship s italia master capt. Ciro Cardia 44 was brought ashore in a cof Fin. His successor As skipper told of finding Cardia dead of an apparently self inflicted pistol wound after the Strain of the fire ordeal. The fair sea was towed int port by two . Freighters from the scene of its disaster a Sud Den fire attributed to an electrical failure near the Galapagos islands 900 Miles from Here. Staff capt. Franco ,42, who assumed command of the fair sea after Cardia s death said the skipper left the Bridge Jan. 26, three Days after the  was discouraged by frequent breakdowns in the towing Dag Nino said. Other officers said they would testify at a hearing that Cardia was found dead in his Cabin witha head wound a .38 Caliper Pis Tol beside him. They said he left the a Farewell note for his family in Italy. A " an Airlift was starting to transport passengers i of the Crew to England sea s destination. Most passengers were  the passengers disembarked Here Many praised the conductor the Crew during the fire and Drifting but assailed the ship operators. Passenger Phil Whiteman of Sydney called conditions on the fair sea during the first 36 hours after the fire As  he claimed the ship was without lights that no food could be cooked that there was no air conditioning and Only two Bath rooms were working for the entire  ski club meets Frankfurt special the Frankfurt International ski club will meet at the i of. Farbe building s Terrace club wednes Day night at 7 30 . Feature will be a norwegian ski film Dis Cussion of Fasching party an ski races this weekend in funds Bach. Von Broun to testify in is Case Essen Germany up West German judge prosecutors and defense lawyers flew to the United states tuesday to ques Tion German born . Space scientist Wernher von Braun As a witness in the War crimes trial of three former nazi is men. Von Braun a key figure in the nazi v-2 rocket program Long be fore he went on to Fame in Amer Ica is to testify at a hearing opening Friday at the West Ger Man consulate general in new Orleans. Then the panel moves on to Mexico City monday for similar questioning of world War ii  Dornberger head of the v-2 program. Dornberger has lived in Mexico for Many years. Former is. It. Col. Helmut Bischof 59, and is sets. Ernst Sander 54, and Erwin busta 63, Are accused of hanging at least 70 slave labourers from a construction Crane at the under ground factory near Nordhausen concentration Camp where the v-2 rockets were  defendants maintain the victims were executed for sabotaging v-2s they worked on in 1945. But prosecutors in the Essen trial contended faults in the v-2s were caused by defective material and the hangings were malicious murder. Former Boxer arrested As Bank burglar san Antonio Tex up the Fri monday announced the arrest of John Joseph Iris Johnny Kilday a onetime middleweight boxing contender accused of taking More than $360, 000 Early this year in one of the largest Bank burglaries in Florida  Shanklin special agent in charge of the Pallas office of the Federal Bureau of investigation said that Kilday was recognized by a customs agent at san Antonio As he sought to reenter the country from Mexico. More than $282,000 of the loot was found by agents in a Dallas Bank vault Shanklin  is charged with the Bur Glary of the Barnett National Bank in Jacksonville Fla Shanklin said that Kilday was being held in a san Antonio jail in lieu of $500,000 Bond for the$363,015 burglary Jan. 3. Kilday and his brother fran Cis Xavier Kilday a former employee of the Bank were Bot named in the suit filed Jan. 23 in Jacksonville. The brother is still at Large and is considered Dan  arrest in san Antonio was the result of a nationwide Borde Alert and an International search. Irish Johnny was a Middle weight Boxer in the late 1940s and 1950s and at one time was considered a serious contender for the middleweight title jobless in Mexico Cit Mexico City a More than two thirds of the 7,443,078residents of Mexico City Are unemployed a private marketing research organization reports and an aerosol can of Mosquito repellent. Deputy Butch Sumblin said the mustachioed youth wore shoulder length hair Blue Jean Sand a Pullover sweater and car ried an Eastern youth fare  Deputy said miss Fitzger Ald was arrested after she runaway from deputies through one of the Airport concourses an was chased and caught. Sumblin also quoted the Pilot of the National plane capt. Harry Davis As saying he doubted the boy had the nerve to carry out the Hijack ing National officials said the youth had forced his Way into the cockpit of the plane which left new York at 12 37 .,before he was talked out of his plan. They said he was no armed when he was met by deputies at the Airport. Radioed ahead capt. Davis radioed ahead and notified authorities of the attempt a spokesman said. Meanwhile the six Crew members of the hijacked East Ern flight 7 brought the boeing727 jetliner to Miami at 5 15 . Est some six and a Hal hours after capt. Jack Moore radioed the Faa air traffic control Tower at Jacksonville Fla. It looks like we re going South of Miami  Moore said it was his second Hijack trip to Cuba in 32 Days. He was aboard an Eastern Jet hijacked near Jacksonville in route to Miami from new Yorkton Jan. 2 and diverted to Cuba with 140 passengers and eight Crew members. This one was a Little differ ent he said. The first time i was a  Peggy Boulton 20, of Philadelphia said i was scared very scared when the Hijacker held a knife to he Chest. He did t say anything Buthe did t have to she said. I knew what he  Long Blade Moore said the knife looked like a Large Steak knife with a Blade about nine inches  Miami Captain said four persons two men and two women left the plane in Havana. He said they gave the names "mr.j. Babin or. W. Hernandez mrs. W. Hernandez Hernandez on the list. And miss passenger the Eal passengers who Werteen route to Miami from Newark when they made the unscheduled Side trip were brought Back later in the  Eastern plane was the 12th commercial Airliner hijacked to Cuba this year. Among the passengers was Al Len Funt originator of the can did camera television pro Gram Funt s wife and two Chil Dren a nurse and a film Crew. 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