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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 05, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes thursday september 5,1985 prison escapees Rob Bank in Milwaukee Milwaukee a robbers armed with Automo in weapons and hand grenades who held a banker and his family captive for More than 11 hours have own identified As Oklahoma prison fugitives authorities said wednesday. The robbers fled with All the Bank s Cash according to police. One of the men was on the Fri s list of most wanted criminals they said. No one was injured in the abduction and robbery at Central Bank in suburban West Allis which Richard to Laski town police lieutenant described As very Well organized. This is not the Ork of your average Amateur Bank robber he said. Fri special agent h. Ernest Woodby said two men were identified from photographs and investigators be Lieve one or two others were involved in the abduction and robbery which began monday night. The victims using photographs provided by the Fri identified the two men As Joseph William Dougherty 46, of Philadelphia and Terry Lee Contr. In his 40s, of Terre haute ind., he said. The non made no Effort to hide their faces and indicated that they were known by the Fri said Harold Kirby West Allis police lieutenant. Authorities said the two men convicted of an Oklahoma City Bank robbery escaped june 19 while being transferred from prison to a Federal court hearing in Oklahoma City. They also were wanted in connection with Bank robberies in the St. Louis area and Conner was wanted in connection with several Arizona Bank holdups police said. Dougherty s picture is on an Fri most wanted pos Ter Kirby said. The amount taken was it immediately reported. The robbers virtually cleaned out the Bank s vault and depository area Woodby said. Richard a. Woodcock executive vice president and chief operating officer of Central Bank was surprised by the two heavily armed robbers when he and family members returned Home monday evening from a Vaca Tion Kirby said. After being held overnight. Woodcock his wife their daughter and her Boyfriend were taken to the Bank about 7 . Tuesday police said. Woodcock was forced to drive the group to the Bank in the family s Van by the robbers who were armed with a pistol automatic weapons and hand grenades police said. At the Bank the robbers forced Woodcock to open the vault. They took four Teller drawers filled with can und forced the family and about 20 employees into a Small storage room tying the door shut with a thin Nylon rope Kirby said. The robbers fled in a car owned by one of the Bank workers. The vehicle was found abandoned tuesday evening in Milwaukee. Police were alerted by employees who escaped and triggered an alarm Kirby said. The captives who were pretty shaken up watched television and drank Coffee throughout the night As the intruders kept their hands near their weapons Polaski said. Inmate in Florida granted stay of execution Starke Fla. A Willie Jasper Darden one of the first inmates slated for death in Florida when capital punishment resumed in 1979, got an indefinite stay from the supreme court just seven hours before his scheduled execution wednesday. Darden 52, who has spent More time on death Row in Florida than any other inmate except one was to die at 7 . Wednesday at Florida state prison. But after rejecting a request for a stay on a 5-4 vote earlier tuesday the High court reconsidered and issued an indefinite stay a minute before Midnight. The supreme court will hear Darden s Case in its coming term which begins oct. 7, court spokeswoman Toni House said in Washington. Darden was convicted of gunning Down Lakeland furniture store owner James Carl Turman in a sept. 8, 1973, robbery at Carl s furniture store. The robbery netted Darden Only s15. Lawyer Robert Harper said he used an informal Legal procedure called the Rule of four in pressing hit last minute Legal bid to keep Darden alive. Under that Rule if four justices Are believed Likely to vote for hearing a Case then generally the court agrees to hear it. What i said in the second Appeal was you already showed me four votes " of Arper said. That s Good enough t ought to be enough to save the Man. And you ought to give the Man a  it was Darden s third death warrant. He originally was scheduled to die with Wil Liam Lanay Harvard convicted of killing a former wife but the state supreme court granted Harvard an indefinite stay last week Darden a born again Christian who has written article for religious magazines from his cell would have been the 14th Jet from Page 1 in Progress payments on the  plane and other Republic programs. The air Force official said the service was considering several alternatives if the t 46a was cancelled including putting new wings and engines on the old t-37 trainers. Another option would be to shop for a cheaper plane. Yet another would be buy ing the design rights to the t-46a from Republic and hiring another company to bund it the official said. Under air Force pressure Fairchild industries recently installed new management at in Republic subsidiary and began a pro Gram of improvements to win Back the Pentagon s Confidence. Turner said the company had hired More inspectors put in new firefighting equipment improved its train ing of Plant workers and taken other Steps in an Effort to save the Jet Trainer program. We put a to More people on the pro Gram a lot More Money and have worked spy from Page 1 Ltd from the Start. During debate in parliament Kohl de fended Interior minister Friedrich Zimmer Mann s actions concerning the aug. 19 defection of counterspy Hans Joachim Tietge to East Germany. West Germany s spy chief Heribert Hel in Broich was fired last week for keeping Tiedge in his sensitive Post despite knowing of the counterspy s financial and drinking problems. Man executed in Florida since the death penalty was re instituted in 1979 and the fourth to die this year. He was supposed to have been one of the first men executed in the state. The first two death warrants signed by gov. Bob Graham carried the names of Darden and John Spinkelink who was executed in May 1979 for the murder of a travelling compan Ion. Darden s search for a stay led to a flurry of Federal and state court requests tuesday. First the state supreme court rejected arguments by Harper that the sentencing judge failed to hear All mitigating evidence about Darden s difficult Yean growing up in Greene county . Then after the us. Supreme court narrowly refused to consider the Issue Darden was refused a stay by . District court judge w. Terrell Hodges in Tampa. The Lith is. Circuit court of appeals in Atlanta which last week had refused to reconsider Darden s Case again refuted to Grant a stay tuesday night Harper then returned to the nation s highest court which granted the stay. Other Darden supporters at the Florid Clearinghouse on criminal Justice charged tuesday that the Only evidence linking the condemned Man with the murder included identification that is riddled with contradictions inconsistencies and shoddy police  although he refused to speak with re porters this week Darden has maintained his innocence in previous interviews. He arrived at the state s death Row Jon 29, 1974. Only Howard Douglas who arrived dec. 5, 1973, for a Polk county Mur Der has been there longer. Temperatures on All those areas where the air Force said we be got to pull our socks up he said. We feel fully confident we can produce the plane. But he added the air Force has got to be  the new Trainer is Fairchild Republic s Only prime military contract although the Plant also manufactures Tail sections land ing gear and similar parts for other military aircraft and has a joint venture with a swedish company to build a new commuter air plane. The company has forecast si.5 billion in Revenue from sales of 650 t 46as to the air Force and has estimated it May reap More than $2 billion from sales to foreign governments. The company currently has contracts Worth about $200 million to develop the plane and produce the first 10, and a Mili tary authorization Bill awaiting approval in Congress would authorize the next 33. The first prototype of the new plane was delivered to Edwards fab in California last week for test flights later this month. Although company officials said they could not assess the Impact on the company if the program was cancelled they added that in the next few years the t-46 would account for a majority of Republic s reve Nues. Two Industry analysts said tuesday that the Impact would be severe. If it s True it would be a fatal blow said a Paine web Ber analyst Joseph Campbell. It would really be a major blow agreed Wolfgang Demisch who follows the aerospace Industry for the first Boston corp. Because of the severe need for a new training plane he raid "1 personally would be surprised if this particular decision  Roy n. Cacciatore commissioner of Commerce and Industry for Nassau county where most of the Republic employees live said tuesday night that he did not believe cancellation of the Trainer program would necessarily mean shutting the Plant. Nixon from Page 1 Ca s Challenge is to provide Prosperity which gives All an Opportunity to escape from Pov erty. Our systems Are profoundly different but in the Long View our goal of a better life for All Pur people ii the same the former president said. Nixon foresaw a 21st Century in which nuclear weapons will have made world War obsolete. For that reason he said i do not believe there will be a third world  it will be a world he said in which the common enemy will be poverty hunger misery disease and  soviets from Page 1 the Start of tuesday s meeting. 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