European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 try to divert Aquino plane failed in 83 americans Tell of filipinos moves preceding shooting a a san Francisco a philippine air Force offi cers took Over air Force radar Scopes and tried to divert a plane carrying the late opposition Leader Benigno Aquino on the Day he was service members have told the san Francisco in a report published the examiner said air Force officers were asked to leave the room while philippine military officers tracked two f5 fighter jets sent to intercept Aquinas China airlines flight and Force the plane to land outside Aquino was shot to death As he headed for the Tarmac after Landing at Manila International air Twentyfive High ranking military men have been charged with conspiring to murder both Aquino and Rolanda who the military claims assassinated Aqui Galman was shot to death moments after Aquino was fatally on the Day Aquino was a full Battle staff of filipinos showed up at the philippine air defense control Center at Villamore air base near air Force Dave Hampton told the Hampton was one of eight air Force personnel stationed there As part of a joint defense when i asked what was going they told me to blow off it was none of my Hampton they just said it involved internal the same situation occurred several Hundred Miles to the at the air forces Wallace air according to air Force James i was surprised that the philippine air Force person Nel were there on a keys i thought it was the philippine head Man at Wal was and that was also strange on a when i asked what was going they were keys said the philippine officers asked personnel to relinquish control of weapons radar which Are used to guide armed the americans refused a request to leave the he keys said the filipinos were allowed to use the main As they would during full exercises or if an unknown aircraft penetrated philippine Hampton said Umberto the fifth rank ing officer of the philippine air told him later that Day that officers were trying to intercept the China air lines plane and land it at Basa air 35 Miles North East of they scrambled the fighters but evidently missed the plane or their timing was Hampton they were trying to keep Aquino from two sets of philippine jets were sent out about the time Aquinas plane was said Jess the air Force joint air defense chief controller at Villa Moultry was at the embassy compound in but took a Call from his technician at the air base about the time that Aquino was stepping off the China airlines he informed me that the philippine air Force had scrambled their own Craft and also had requested the scramble of Moultry there was a lot of concern if we it might create an International incident and involve us in a difficult the examiner said state department officials in Washington said they were unaware of the events at the air air Force personnel who May have witnessed the incidents no longer Are stationed in the the examiner a Sample of space a photo three teachers from Judith Marie taste of weightlessness aboard a High Garcia of Barbara flying the three women teach Morgan of and Kathleen ers Are among 10 finalists for a berth on Anne Beres of get a a space shuttle removing Lead from Gas sends pump Price soaring los Angeles a Oil glutted gasoline scrambling to recoup losses and pay for cleaning Lead from Gaso have pushed up already rising pump prices Over the past two according to Oil Industry analyst Dan this will continue right straight through to next the Public is going to have to pick up this increasing Tab for the luxury of getting poisonous Lead out of our Lundberg gasoline prices nationwide have risen an average of a cent a gallon for All grades of gasoline since june Lundberg said he surveys gasoline stations in 50 states every other week to produce his Lundberg the largest increase was for regular which Rose of a cent to an average Price of 53 a Gal he regular unleaded was at up of a and Premium unleaded hit an increase of of a cent per the addition of Lead is a relatively inexpensive Way to boost the octane rating of recent crude Oil Price cuts May not have had time to be fully reflected at the but some of the potential saving to Consumers is being absorbed by gasoline Lundberg those retailers were unable to quickly pass on wholesale gasoline Price hikes to the Public earlier in the the dealers Overall Gross profit margin remains cents lower than it was at begin Ning of and the dealers Are strongly motivated to recover the lost he if International and Domestic crude Oil get into a deeper anything resembling a free fall in crude Oil Price will also cause gasoline prices to Lundberg if International and Domestic prices then gasoline prices will zoom up As we try to get the Lead out of gasoline no matter How much it the crude Oil prices continued their three month fall As Mexico Cut its Export prices last and the organization of Petroleum exporting nations was still in Lundberg the Price of crude Oil on the International spot Market dropped approximately a barrel since last Domestic crude prices have not dropped in accordance with the International mar but exact figures Are not Lundberg Mexico Cut its Price for Light crude by a barrel to and by to for its heavy Maya Lundberg Mexico is the United states leading supplying 14 percent of Oil elderly women held captive in Boardinghouse Ocean a a Boardinghouse operator kept up to 10 former mental patients captive for years while cashing their social Security an investigator said the elderly women were housed under truly horrific sleeping on mattresses on the wearing tattered clothes and eating Corn powdered milk and said William director of the division of housing and development in the state department of Community on july 2 and again department investigators raided a Boardinghouse owned by Rosemary re moving four ranging in age from 60 to from the Michael a department they look like survivors from a concentration Connolly i dont think they were in immediate Dan but the Way they were kept and treated was life the women Are All in area hospitals he who also owns another Boardinghouse Here and one in Hope faces up to in fines for running two illegal Connolly the Monmouth county prosecutors office is investigating whether criminal charges should be filed against who is in her and her Josephine Connolly he said the departments investigation was prompted by tips from welfare workers and neighbors who thought Scorp was running an illegal investigators came up empty handed during several sur prise inspections and suspected that Scorp was hiding boarders or shifting them among her three after surveillance proved people were living with investigators obtained search warrants and raided the Boardinghouse on july Connolly they found three emaciated two of them living in the third floor which they were never allowed to he the All former patients at the states mental institution in Morris were afraid of the investigators because they have been told Over the years if they dont they will be sent Back to the mental the official the women were identified As Marie mar Cella and Vera after the investigators suspected that at least two More women were being held by the said following surveillance at All three investigators raided the first House again saturday and removed Margaret Connolly a fifth Evelyn had been checked into Riverview medical Center in red Bank by Scorp some time before Connolly simultaneous raids at the other properties showed that the second Ocean township Home had been vacant for quite some while investigators found mattresses on the floor and supplies of canned foods at the Hope town ship Connolly said at one Scorp owned As Many As seven or eight properties and held up to 10 All former mental he said he knew that one Boarder adding that the department was trying to determine the whereabouts of the they were free Connolly if they knew they could have left in they should have cashed their social Security checks and then paid Scorp for room and he in some have never seen their except to sign them in some Scorp had gained authorization to sign their checks for he the monthly checks averaged to
