European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday March 8, 1986 Pilot Craig Hosking of Bountiful Utah taxes his Pitts-s2b plane after a smooth but unorthodox Landing in Lancaster Calif. Hosking modified the crop duster Topsy Turvy trick a photo plane to allow him to land using the lower cockpit controls upside Down. He claims to be the first person Ever to land an aircraft in this manner. Midshipman denies using cocaine refuses to resign from Academy from the . Naval Academy thursday and disputed the findings of a random urine test. "1 Don t know what went wrong. I Don t know where it went wrong. All i know is i did t do anything. And that s my Basic claim said midshipman 1st class Jeff Bellistri 23, after meeting with capt. Thomas Watson jr.,the Academy s attorney. Bellistri of Severna Park md., said the Navy offered him the Chance to resign thursday with no further Obliga Tion to the service. Because he refused the Academy no must decide whether or not to expel him. In a final Effort to plead his Case Bellistri tried thurs Day to meet with superintendent rear adm. Charles , but was not allowed to see him. He did t have an appointment and the superintendent s schedule was full said Academy spokesman it. Cmdr. Stephen Clawson adding that Larson would make the final determination on the Case within a few Bellistri accompanied by family members and two attorneys did meet with Watson to Tell him he was no resigning. Larson has the final say in the Case that began nov. 12 when Bellistri s company was awakened to provide urine samples As part of the Navy s random drug testing pro Gram. R two weeks later Bellistri a Star midfielder on the acad Emy Lacrosse team was told his specimen contained traces of cocaine. Bellistri who Hopes to graduate and be commissioned this Spring said he believed his specimen was it was among 100 such tests taken. The midshipman took two lie Detector tests in an at tempt to exonerate himself. One polygraph test performed by a private polygraph operator indicated he was telling the truth Bellistri said. The second test Given by the naval investigative service was inconclusive he added. Academy officials would not comment on the polygraph results citing Federal privacy Laws during administrative cases. If Larson expels Bellistri the Case would be reviewed by Secretary of the Navy John Lehman. Runaway train car kills 3 women if j a Tiree y�un8 women were killed after one of five runaway freight cars was automatically derailed at a crossing and slowed Over an Auto Mobile and into a building officials said. Officials did not know what caused the Accident but the possibility of vandalism was being investigated said Wil Liam Lyman Santa be railway division superintendent. San Bernardino county Coroner s officials identified the victims As Erica Marie Martinez 20, Katherine Elizabeth Robles 17, and Frances Mendoza 17, All of Colton. I think All three were in the car said Deputy Coroner Hank Lee who said the destruction at the crossing 60 Jossis Luss Angeles made k diff cult to determine exactly what had happened. The Chain of events began at 11 50 a m when three rail cars loaded with scrap Metal rolled of a son Pacific siding and banged into two Hopper cars on a Santa be track said Tom Buckley spokesman for the Santa Fer Ailway in los Angeles. The three cars carrying scrap Metal had been inspected an hour before the Accident and were mechanically sound Santa be spokesman Mike Martin said. All five cars rolled four or five blocks Down the track until they readied an intersection where the first car hit a device called a derail which automatically forced it off the track Buckley said. A single car usually is stopped by the derail mechanism which is designed to derail a car that is not supposed to be on the tracks but the momentum of the four cars behind i pushed it across the Road Martin said. As it rolled across the Street the first rail car struck an automobile and smashed into a commercial building the other four cars continued across the crossing and smashed into track maintain ence equipment the officials said. Stateside 22 ships that fought in Wii designated As historic landmarks Washington a the Interior department says it has designated 22 ships that served in Pacific campaigns of world War ii As National historic ships Are aircraft carriers intrepid at new York City and York town at Charleston . Battleships North Carolina at Wilmington . Ala Bama at Mobile Ala. And Massachusetts at fall River mass. Destroyers Kidd at Baton Rouge la. Cassin Young at Boston sullivans at Buffalo . And Laffey at Charleston. Submarines silversides at Chicago drum at Mobile cobia at Manitowoc wis. Cod at Cleveland Bowfin at Honolulu Pamp Anito at san Francisco lionfish fall River Vecuna at Philadelphia and torsk at Baltimore. Minesweepers Hazard at Omaha neb. And inaugural at St. Louis. Torpedo boats it 796 at fall River. Cargo ship Jeremiah o Brien at san Francisco one of the noted Liberty class numbering More than 2,700. Designation As a landmark Means the owner May receive a plaque. The designation does not restrict the own Erin any Way. Treating mild hypertension saves lives report concludes Boston a the controversial practice of using drugs to treat n ild and moderate High blood pressure saves lives and is especially effective for preventing strokes a new analysis concludes. High blood pressure what doctors Call hypertension is a major underlying cause of heart disease strokes and kidney failure. However doctors disagree Over How High blood pressure must be before it should be lowered wit drugs. The new report suggests that treating even relatively mild High blood pressure of Between 90 and 114 diastolic which is the second of a pair of numbers Given for blood pressure readings significantly reduces the risk of death. Mayor of peking rejects offer to take California City s pigeons Redwood City Calif. Up the peking mayor has rejected an offer of More than 1,000 pigeons that have been plaguing downtown Redwood City with droppings. Mayor Brent Britschgi said peking s mayor Cheng Xintong sent him a letter rejecting the City s offer. Pigeon droppings have serious effects around City properties the chinese official said in his letter. Redwood City officials made the offer in january after learning peking merchants wanted to import pigeons As a tourist attraction for Tiena men Square which has not had any since the communists exterminated them in the1950s. Cheng said Redwood City officials were misled by a report about a plan to repopulate the landmark with pigeons. The report he said was a 2 Dallas men turn in to police plastic bag containing $11,049 Dallas up when two men saw a crowd Chas ing Dollar Bills blowing along a Roadway they went straight to the source a White plastic bag containing More than $11,000. 6 Francisco Morales 18, and Jose Maraz 39, ignored the Small change and grabbed the bag but the pair turn Dover the $ 11,049 to the police. I guess everybody else was so Busy trying to get the Loose Money that they overlooked this plastic bag filled with Money said it. Joe Dunn of the Dallas police. Morales and Maraz will be allowed to keep the Money info one claims it within 60 Days police said. Police suspect the Money was involved in a drug Dealand they doubt the owner will want to claim it. Record Low 604 rubella cases reported in . Last year Atlanta a sixteen years after the Advent of the rubella vaccine the United states reported a record Low of 604 cases of the once common childhood disease last year the National centers for disease control have said. The ailment sometimes called German measles Al though it is a different disease from measles was Down from 752 cases in 1984, the cd said. In 1969, when a record 57,686 cases were reported rubella vaccine was licensed for use in the United states the Progress As Young children get less and less rubella keeps the nation on target to wipe out congenital rubella syndrome the devastating incidence of rubella in children at birth the cd said in its weekly report
