European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 20, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday August 20. 1986 Roy Dale helping Lasso Robertson for race Washington a Cowboy hero Roy Rogers is Hilling the television Trail to urge americans to draft the Rev. Pal Robertson for president. Political consultant Dick Minard. Who until recently worked for Robertson showed reporters a commercial tuesday in which Rogers and his wife. Dak Evans urge people to join the National committee to draft pal Robertson or president. Our goal is to cont acc inc inc Irwin Public pal Kobe Sun is a legitimate  said Minard who resigned june 21 As National director of Robertson s Freedom Council. Minard said the commercials wire Jim ihi1 Cpin nine of the Effort to convince Rehemon he should run for president however. Robertson appears to need no urging to seek the 1988 Republican presidential nomination. He hits formed a committee called americans for pit Robertson thai is accepting contributions to finance his preliminary activities As lie explores the Prospect of a presidential candidacy. There is a fabulous groundswell of enthusiasm for my gelling in to the rare their lesion evangelist said sunday on the lbs show face inc  Robertson has claimed his supporters won a plural Helms aide denies he leaked data to chilean officials South Bend and up  a Republican sen. Jesse Helms has denied he was the Sou rce of intelligence data leaked to chilean authorities. I Don t leak informal Ion Christopher Manion told the South Bend Tribune monday. Never  Manion s name was made Public by slate department officials aug. 3 As a target of the Fri and Cia investigations into the leak. . Government officials said some one close 10 Helms lipped the chileans to a coven . Intelligence gathering Ope ration aimed Al Chile. Speaking in Washington As he prepared for a vacation to Switzerland Manion old the newspaper he wants to cooperate in any Way Uilah the investigation into the source of the leak. Helms has charged thai the allegations Art actually aimed at him for opposing stale in apartment policy to Ward Chile whose government has been accused of human rights violations. During a a Ceni trip to Chile. Helms blasted . Ambassador Harry Barnes for attending the funeral of a chilean born . Citizen who was burned to death Dur ing an Ami government rally. Helms called the Man s funeral a communist  Manion refused 10 speculate on who made inc allegations against him and the motive behind the accusations. When the investigation is completed he will comment further he said. Since i9bi, Manion has served As an aide to Helms on the staff of the Senate foreign relations committee s Western affairs subcommittee a position he continues to hold. I m serving on the Job. With the full support of Superior and  he said. Manion. A South Bend native is the brother of Daniel Manion the conservative South Bend attorney whose controversial nomination to the . 7ih circuit court of appeals was narrowly approved by the Senate in june. To of Republican precinct Delegate contests earlier this month in Michigan an assertion disputed by sup porters of vice president Cgeorge Bush Anil rep. Jack Kemp of new York. Minard said the Rogers commercial will run in a a Bama California Florida. Georgia. Louisiana. Oua i homa and teas. The com Miniee also plans to promote a Robertson candidacy with billboards i in Tennessee. Indiana South Carolina and Oklahoma. He a d Elfr Roiti Metlei T i spending about  on lie i initial round of advertising. He i said that Rogers and Evans Haj i donated their services and that 1 lie commis Iee is talking la ulker i entertainment and sports figures 1 about appearing in subsequent Rogers ads. Minard refused to name am of the individuals he has approached. In the commercial the 7j-Jear-old stars of Holly Wood westerns of four decades ago urge people to join the draft committee. America needs pal Robertson says Rogers. He s capable he s qualified and he  please write  adds Evans. Let s draft  Rogers born Leonard sly in Cincinnati wears nil trademark Cowboy hat As he asks people 10 join Date and me As members of inc National committee to draft fat Robertson for president the couple supported president Reagan in his presidential campaigns. Minard said the committee Hai received $110,000 in contributions from More than 5,300 donors since it was formed a month ago. While the group is required to report its contributions and i Penunuri s to the Federal election Coin. Mission it is not subject to contribution limits thai apply to other political committees. Fred Esfand spokesman for the Fec. Said the com Mission lost a court Case in 1980 when i tried to impose Jimilia on draft committees he said the court ruled such committees technically live no candidate and therefore Are nol subject to the s 1,000 limit on individual contributions. Minard said he told Robertson of his plan to form he draft commit cd when he left he evangelist s free Dom Council hut has not conferred with him since then Minard said Robertson s knowledge of the draft committee s activities or plans is Zero to  Appelo the stunt before the crash fifty four year Ald Mary Ells Maiman of Vancou ver Wash known As grandma Mary performs a Wing hulking stunt aboard u 1917 Jenny biplane two lays before the Vintage Craft crashed and sent her to a Hospital with serious injuries. The Slun woman who was in the cockpit with Pilot vally Olson when the plane plunged to the ground was listed in stable condition the Pilut walked away with brushes. Convicted rapist leaps to death from courtroom Philadelphia a while a jury was return ing a guilty verdict for rape a defendant facing 30 to 60 years in prison bolted toward a closed plate Glass window and plunged six floors to his death. The i Jih member of the 12-Membcr common pleas court jury was being polled about 5 36 . Monday when defendant Robert Mcpeake 39, dashed about 15 feet to the window and jumped through it authorities said the presiding judge said she had Noii Cej my Pajic looking intently at the window in her City Hall court room while the jury was delivering its verdict i be been in court a lot of years common pleas judge Lynne m. Abraham said. Nothing could have prepared me for  Mcpeake an unemployed construction worker had been free on bail. As a result no special Security Mea sures were in place in the courtroom luring his six Day trial she said if i though a Man was capable of that 1 certainly would have Pajion swaps 10 prevent it she said. But i m not allowed to put sheriff. By people who Aren t in  court stenographer Carl Sokolski said a shocked silence fell Over the courtroom when Mcphate jumped. Then he said he room erupted in gasps and screams. The judge said about 30 people including family members of both the defendant and the victim were in the courtroom at the Lime. Everybody screamed. Everybody broke Down in tears she said. Mcpeake s wife and sister in Law reacted with Hor ror Abraham said. The rape victim a teen age girl broke Down in  he had been convicted of rape before and i think he knew that if he was convicted again of rape he was going to to bark to prison and 1 Don t think he wanted to face All of that inc judge said Mcpeake of Philadelphia was convicted of rape in 1978. He was on parole from a l-to-5-year sentence when the offence for which he was convicted monday occurred according to records of the District attorney s office. The courtroom window faced onto an air Shaft on a portion of City Hall not visible from its courtyard or the Street. Mcpeake landed or Concrete a the Bottom of the Shaft. He was pronounced dead of multiple injuries. Mcpeake was charged with raping a 15-Ycar-old girl in Northeast Philadelphia oct. 26, 1984, said Sheryl Stein spokeswoman for the District attorney s office. He was arrested Jan. 11, 1p85, on charges of rapt involuntary deviate sexual Intercourse and burglary. He was convicted on All counts monday and faced 30 to 60 years in prison Slein said