European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday fobmary27. 1937 the stars and stripes Page 5 Pilot Colls in then vanishes in stolen plane Denver an unknown Pilot who stole i $210.000 plane Al St,ip1clon International Airport got approval Lor Takeoff from the control Tower and two t been seen since authorities disclosed wednesday. Stolen was a Cessna 404. Which had about w Gallons of fuel enough in Fly about .150 Miles. It was leased its air today a nation wide freight Eoina Iii. The thief apparently identified the plane to i he control lower As "67 Romero and received Clear Ance for Takeoff " apparently he just made up the 67k Tail said Joe Krcuser. Chief dispatcher for air today. He said tie was going to Wichita Kansas Hul a search of inc Airport at Vidilla did not turn up a 67 search ends for 18 crewmen from capsized filipino vessel new York a the coast Fiu gird and Navy abandoned an air and sea search wednesday for is crewmen from a filipino cargo ship thai Capri etl in i howling North Atlantic storm. Only one Seaman was saved. Tin Sloan. Which Carlic claimed three other victims off inc new Jersey coast. Continued to blow Al up to 43 knots and pile Waves up 10 35 feet. Although in listed Only five As known , the c past guard said four other no n had disappeared from sight and nine had been missing since the ship the Kaisa 24, was abandoned tuesday. The survivor was picked up by the submarine scamp which was taking on water in the rough surface and hat to limit ils Rescue role said coast guard 1 Elty officer Randy Midgett. A l Daybreak wednesday search ves Sels and planes had eight Balsa survivors in sight on a raft and two in a Lifeboat. The c Oast guard said hut the rail overturned when a High Riding panamanian car Carrier the fria is tried to pick up its eight occupants during the morning. Among the victims was u Man who was Halfway up a ladder to the Ariasi when he fell and disappeared into these said Cherry Miliser a spokesman at the . Navy air station in of Muila. The Lone survivor was pulled in by the scamp and two other men made it Hack to the raft. 1-Atcr in she morning one Man on the rail and one in the life Boal were swept overboard by the Waves. The search was Given up at 2 15 . After the men in inc water had vanished and those aboard the raft and Lifeboat showed no response to efforts to Sci their attention said midget. The Baha was last seen still afloat where it was abandoned upside Down about 1,101 Miles East of new York and 2 to Miles South of Newfoundland. The 345-foot ship had sailed Teh. Ikon Iii Savannah Cia. Bound for Spain with a cargo of Clay said Petty officer dullard. The ship s Home port was Manila. Two other ships thai reported them selves in trouble tuesday were out of danger wednesday said Milliard. They were the 610-foot . Eon urine ship Export Patriot which had been in the same general area As the Llansa 24, and the 477-foot a relish cargo Carrier Diana i Miles Northeast of Fier Muda. Both had been taking on water and the Diana lost four cargo containers. A fruitless search for the Capri cd fish ing boat adores Marie and its three crewmen missing since monday 60miles off Cape May n.j., was ended tuesday night the coast guard said. Some experts oppose mandatory aids testing Atlanta al1 some medical authorities joined Jun rights advocates in opposing mandatory testing for inc aids virus As what was to have been a conference of a few dozen health experts turned into a forum on the Issue. The meeting sponsored by inc nation Al centers for disease control attracted hundreds of participants including health researchers who argued that fear Over a perceived Lack of confidentiality was preventing a considerable number of people from being tested for the aids virus antibody. The growing i Horvai of aids added to the urgency of the meeting. Although the National infection rate for aids virus is an estimated one in 160, rates can be much higher in selected populations As High an one in nine among men Ages 30-39 in the cities hardest hit by aids said or. James Curran director of the aids program at the cd. Despite the threat Many of those pre sent opposed mandatory testing. Manda tory aids tests Are social placebos de signed to reassure anxious an frightened said or. Ron Bayer of new York s Hastings Center. This is no the time for he denounced tests for All Hospital patients As a dimly disguised Man Euver or. James Curran director of the government s aids program meets the press. Aimed at eventual forced testing of the entire . Population Only widespread changes in sexual be Havior and in drug use can curtail the spread of aids said Bayer an associate for policy studies Al the non pan Isan non Proll organisation. Acquired immune deficiency syn drome which cripples the body s immune system is transmitted Mosi frequently by sex or intravenous drug use. John Martin of the school of Public health at Columbia University presented findings of a study in which 745 homosexual men were offered inc test. Of the 395 who declined to he tested. 40 percent listed confidentiality As a factoring i heir decision. Steve Morin of the University of Cali fornia at san Francisco s department of Medicine said u study of Gay men in san Francisco indicated great concern Over he confidentiality of the results. If we had legislation thai protected people it would go a Long Way toward easing such fear Martin said. Cd officials stressed tuesday that the cd cannot dictate health practices to stale agencies we re Here to discus the Merit or Lack of Merit of additional aids testing said cd director James 0, Mason. 2 gunmen commit suicide after murders 6 die in rambo Type slayings v1rginville. A. A two men. Apparently spurred by a love Triangle and a child custody dispute shot two couples to death in Homes is Miles apart wednesday and then drove to a wooded area and committed suicide police said. The two shooters just got together to solve Boih problems capt. William Regan said. These two killers fantasized in rambo Regan said. They were dressed in fatigue clothes boots carried knives just like the movie state police said John Ritchie 25, of Auburn and Leon Warmkessel. 2.1, from near Reading planned the murders the night before police found Imja haul 37, and sicken i aul 31, dead in their bed in their Home after a Call from their 9-year-old daughter Dara. Police said. Authorities said i aul was formerly married to Warmkessel i wife Miriam and that she and Paul were engaged in a custody Light Over heir 7-year-old son Steven. Authorities believe killing Paul was Warni pcs Sci s Way of solving his wife s custody fight police said. Dara and to other children in the Home were unharmed. It. Donald Holloway said Dara heard her Mother scream heard several shots ran out of her room and identified one Man As Warmic sad. He said she was sure it was Warmkessel because he had a Diamond in one ear and she had seen him before. Later police found the bodies of Ritchie s estranged wife Angela 25. And Joseph Paduch jr., 25. Minersville Sho to death in bed a is. Ritchie s Home i Orwigsburg Schuylkill county the Ritchie 3 year old daughter Cassandra was found unharmed outside the House police said. An officer going to the Pauls Berks county House saw a parked car about a mile away and found in empty except for a Shotgun and other weapons Regan said. The bodies of Ritchie and Warmkessel were found about 25 feet away Imo the Woods he said. All of the victims were shot with either a 12-Gaugeshotgun or a ,357-Calitwr magnum revolver or both Holloway said. Ritchie committed suicide with a re Volver and Warmkessel did so Wilh a Shotgun apparently the same weapons used in the four other killings. Holloway said. Holloway said police believe the men set out on their rampage from Ritchie s Girlfriend s House in a Burn Schuylkill county then killed is. Ritchie and Paduch and went on the Pauls Home Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Feb. 27, 1947 president Truman sent to con Gress the draft of a proposed Bill calling for unification of the three branches of America s armed Fortes the departments of inc army Navy and air forces the legislation would establish a National defense Organiza Tion under 3 civilian Secretary of National defense who would have Cabinet rank. 30 years ago today. Feb. 27. 1957 six european nations in a meeting of the Western european Union in London lined up unanimously against Britain s decision to slash the Sie of its nato troop commitments in Germany. 20 years ago . 27, 1967 former Republican providential candidate Harry Goldwater said the United Stales should bomb the Supply docks at Haiphong. North Vietnam and said it would be just Loo Damn bad if russian ships in the Harbor were hit. ? 0 years ago today. Feb. 27, 1977 president Carter tried to discourage the Washington Host from disclosing Central intelligence Agency payments to Jordan s Kin Hussein congressional sources said
