European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 4, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday March 4, 1987 the stars and stripes Pago 5 Navy gives sick child f-14 a de san Diego a the Navy monday opened its heart and top gun fighter weapons school to a a year old leukaemia patient whose dream was to Fly in and Mecl. Justin who is being identified Only by his first name Al the family s request got the next Best thing to a ride in a Jet when he sat Al the con trots or an f-14 simulator Al Mira mar  youngster arrived in Miramar Wilh his parents and older brother in a private jul donated by a television production company in Burbank. The family lives in Gra Nada Hilb he As offered the Chance to sit up front at Takeoff but he did t want to do that said Justin s Mother Arne. After about 10 minutes he could t wait to gel up front. He sat on the co Pilot s Lap and he got to Seewall the  at the air station Justin and his 11-year-old brother Jason got a Pri Valeiourafanf-14, he wanted to Fly in an f-14," said la Rick Brennan. We could never bet flight gear Small enough to safety pin him in the air plane. The kind of 0-forces and accelerations thai we have in an air plane might Hurt him so we said no to that right  the boys used the f-14 Simula Tor to practice takeoffs from Mira mar and landings on a Carrier in the Ocean no easy task even for a trained Pilot. The Buzzer signifying a crash sounded several times during the hour the two were at the controls of the multimillion Dollar Simula Tor. Justin s love of flying came from watching television and the i Movic to gun his Mother said. 1 acquitted in pizza connection Case new York up eighteen of 19 defendants in the $ 1.6 billion pizza connection heroin smuggling Case were convicted monday in what a prosecutor called a great Victory far International Law enforcement against the  the 18 defendants were convicted of at least one count each concluding a 17 month trial that featured the murder of one of the accused and the attempted assassination of a second that ten him paralysed the Only defendant acquitted in one of the longest Federal trials in . History was Vito Badalamenti 29, son of gae Tano Badalamenti 63, the reputed for Mer head of the mafia in Sicily. Father and son had been extradited from Spain in 1984 to stand trial. Five of the defendants face at least 20 Yean to life imprisonment without a Rote including Gaetano Badalamenti and Salvalore Catalano 45, of new York City the reputed traders of the drug ring which used Jam Parlours As fronts to Dis tribute heroin on the East coast and in the Midwest. Today is really a great Victory for International Law enforcement against the mafia . Attorney Rudolph Giu Liani said. We could t have hoped for better " the government said it will now bring a civil Case against the defendants in an Effort to seize More than s5 million of their assets. The jury of three women and eight men reached their verdict surprisingly quickly. Most people connected with the trial which began Wilh jury selection on sept. 30, 1985, expected deliberations in the complicated Case to take much longer. The elder Badalamenti was convicted of masterminding the conspiracy that imported narcotics from Sicily. Catalano was convicted of operating the . Sid of the operation. A key government witness was former Mallow Tommaso Buscetta who Testi fied on his involvement in la Cosa nos Ira its rules and Structure and identified the defendants including the elder Bada Lamenti whom he called the former Boss of Bosses of the sicilian mafia. Buscetta also detailed the 1979 assassination of former Bonanno family head Carmine Galante. The shootings of two defendants have been linked to the trial. The body of defendant Goclano Maz Zara 50, of say Orville n.j., was found dec. T in a ear bag bag on a Rynn Kutyn Street police Suidt he bad  toned and shot. There were no arrests. A second defendant Pictro Alfano 46, of Oregon iii., was shot feb. 11 on a Greenwich Village Street. A motion to have Alfano s Case severed from those of the other defendants was refused and the trial proceeded As he was recovering in a new York Hospital paralysed from the Waist Down. The names of the jurors were kept secret to protect them from possible reprisals. One juror said Friday a relative had received a Telephone Call that apparently was a threat. Although the juror Lold . District judge Pierre Laval the Call would not Anent her judgment she was excused from the Manhattan trial. Deliberations resumed saturday morning Wilh ii jurors. While the jury deliberations were Quick in took More than a half hour thread the 59-Page verdict Sheet to a packed courtroom. Ivan Fisher Catalano s lawyer said the verdict reflected a clean sweep for the government. I Don l agree with  sentencing for the defendants was scheduled for May s. Dod seeks agility with x-31 jets Washington a the defense department announced monday it had assigned the military designation "x-31 loan experimental aircraft program de signed to explore ways of increasing the Maneule ability of Jet fighters. The Pentagon launched the program last year when the defense advanced research project Agency or Darpa approved a $70 million development Effort involving . And German Compa Nies. The x-31 is the first experimental air Craft program that the United states has undertaken in cooperation Wilh a foreign country. Rockwell International corp.,general electric co. And the German firm of Messerschmit Bolkow Bloom Are the prime partners in the Effort which Calls for the production of to prototype planes the idea according to the Pentagon is to explore the use of new technologies that could produce dramatic in prove meals in Survey ability through in creased Maneule ability for fighter air Craft during close in Aerial  teased because he was fat youth fatally shoots classmate self Decalb to. A a Bay who frequently was teased about being Over weight and had talked about shooting other pupils pulled a gun from his gym bag and killed a classmate and himself in their seventh Grade history class Mon Day police said. Nathan d. Faris 12, of Rushville fatally wounded classmate Timothy per Rin 13, of Rush i Ikas horrified pupils ran from the Small classroom then shot himself once in the head said Highway patrol trooper Bob Anderson. Pupils in the classroom at Dekalb High school Lold authorities that Faris removed a ,45-Calibcr automatic hand gun from the gym bag when the Lardy Bell rang at the Start or classes and went to the from of Floc class. Kids leased him and asked if it was real or whether it was plastic. He walked Over and pointed it at the head of another boy Anderson said. He grabbed at the gun and in went off and the Bullet hit me floor. The Perrin boy tried to help and grabbed the gun to help his buddy and Paris shot him twice. By this time Alt the other kids were out of the class room and the Faris boy apparently turned the gun on himself. "1 heard he was a loner and they teased him. I Don t think he fit in with the group Anderson said. He did not know where Faris got inc weapon. Nathan d. Faris five Shell casings were found in the room in the red Brick one Story school that houses both Junior and senior High school students. Billy Couch a seventh grader in a nearby classroom where Perrin ran and collapsed after being shot in the Arm and Side said Faris had warned his Best Friend last week not to come to school because he was going 10 shoot  Joe Hawkins a ninth grader said fans Lold him last week thai he was  i Jusi told him he was a Little strange Hawkins said. Couch and Hawkins said they could not explain the shooting but thai Faris was often leased by his classmates. Everybody always teased him. He was overweight and they called him Chubby Couch said. Principal Mark Herpst said Faris was an Honor roil student a quiet reserved student a Good  we Don l have those kinds of prob lems Here harps said. A major prob Lem Here is three Lardies. You Don t walk in and expect this to s totally devastating totally  classes were dismissed after the shoot ing. Harpst said he was walking Down the Hall when he heard shots. My concern was getting the gun be fore he shot someone else Harpst said. Among other things the Pentagon has said it would like to explore ways of breaking the stall Barrier by building a plane that could pursue High angles of attack or other Maneu vers that normally reduce air flow Over the wings and cause stalling. Among the technologies being explored Are the use of vectored thrust engines better aircraft control systems Ana improved Protection against g forces for air Crews the first flight tests arc expected ini9s9. Sands or term in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today March 4, 1947 president tru Man asked Congress to let the draft die March 31. He said however that he would re enact the draft if the army and Navy found that they could not maintain necessary strength by voluntary enlist ment. 30 years ago  4, 1957 Germany agreed in negotiations Between two government delegations in Bonn to pay 588 million Marks toward the support of British troops in Germany. The Anglo German bargaining committee recommended fur ther measures of Mutual Aid in order to strengthen economic cooperation be tween the iwo countries. 20 years ago today. March 4. 1967 faced Wilh a manpower Pinch in certain enlisted specialities and grades the army began working on a study to find out Haw Many men will be needed for second involuntary Tours in Vietnam during inv coming year. To years ago today. March 4, 1977 the vietnamese foreign ministry said thursday that Vietnam was ready to consider and solve with Goodwill the Issue of missing americans of the Vietnam War and repatriation of remains of american dead