European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 24, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday june 24,1987 Likely to be Pioneer Vietnam str Mary a Banner in a a by race for t r Speir Ira maj a � Wom is nos of veterans group if elected la inc office. Delta aircraft Crew Able to avoid crash on runway new York not two airliners in Nashville began take outs in opposite directions pm the same run Way last week but one of the Crews aborted its Takeoff in time to avoid a crash. The National transportation safety Board which i investigating said monday that the Crew of one of the planes a Delta air lines Boeing 727 saw the i other a Southwest airlines 737 Heads toward the Delia jul liner and Takeoff Southwest flight continued us Takeoff and was in an apparently Normal climb when it flew past the Delta Craft. It was not immediately known whether the Delta Crew had been Able to taxi off the runway by then. Ii was not known whether the Southwest Crew Ever saw the Delta plane nor was any information available on How close the two planes came. Georgia Man waiting for his zip Pidy Duda Day. Decatur a. Al no Hilltop mansion 11 years ago the mistrial came in inc fourth Day of deliberations and Kutu Aledine of the stale s most famous Mur cd series out has spawned books and fascinated texans for More than a decade. Cullen Davis killed those people and he got by within it tears me apart. It really tears me apart said the tearful jury Foreman Kenneth Pool. S District judge Claude Williams declared the is needed he favor of the plaintiffs. A 10-2 civil trials. _ jurors said they could t agree whether Davis should have to pay the is 6.5 million in damages Quint by his i wife Priscilla Davis and her former rus and Jack Walbom for the death of their daughter. Andrea 12.Davis was acquitted of the so 1 i0.xt a to but thai had no bearing on this Case. Pool said theirs to on reasonable doubt like a Cir Ninalu instead of Basing their decision on the preponderance of evidence As required in a civil Inal. Mrs. Davis Lold reporters i l feel Lik justic As Davis supporters shared and surrounded him the 53-year-old industrialist said i m pad it Jover. I m i up pointed i did t win it the Way 1 wanted to which he said would have been via a Clear Cut verdict " Wilborn said he was bitterly disappointed with the outcome. He said it adding thai he did not know whether he would pursue his civil lawsuit and his attorney John Collins said we need logo Home and think about to eyewitness testimony a Black Ciao gunmen Weinga crude Black wig killed the chid and mrs. Davis1 Boyfriend Stan Farr 30 on the night of aug. 2,1976. Mrs Davis was wounded As was a Friend offers Bubba , then 22, was partially paralysed n the shooting hut do verly Bass his teen age Dale that nigh and now his wife escaped unharmed. .,.Gavrel s wife.Gavrel and mrs. Davis testified that Davis was the gunman. .-., during the reopened arguments plaintiffs lawyer Bob Gibbins appealed to the panel to consider again the eyewitness eyewitnesses said Cullen Davis was the one who did this Gibbins said. How much stronger can you gel of counter Vaie a and Ruiru e. Bar fit. Of troop the bad been seated in fue front of the bus and were lolled m Mon ties said a Michelangelo it want but Man is fined anyway Pittsburgh a a judge say be was t very fond of an 800-Pound aluminium sculpture Stoke from a Park but he sentenced the Man who sold it for ice Toto Vevers probation and 110,000 Fine. Allegheny county judge Robert e Dau toll rap dealer tee Schwarz on monday that he preterm be work of Michelangelo and Fredenc Remington to thais sars T convicted in apri of stolen property after he admitted buy the abstract sculpture Clarion Call from several men for 1150 three other men have been convicted. He said he sold it to another dealer to be melted Down for j 1 us. Of evidence As required in a civil Inai. P r. Hotel arsonists get up to 99 years in prison. Or or. Armando Jimenez Rivera a 29 Lopez _ pleaded guilty to the ret. San Juan puerto Rico a three former hotel employees who pleaded guilty to arson in the new year Sive fire thai killed 97 people at the Dupont Plaza hotel were sentenced in fed eral court to prison terms ranging from 7s to 99 years."1 Don l think puerto Rico is willing to accept one More murder one More ship ment of drugs one More terrorist act we Sre Fedi up Medrai judge Jose a. Fusle said monday before passing sentence. Hector Escudero Aponte 35,. The maintenance Man charged with igniting a can of cooking fuel that touched Oil the inferno was sentenced to two terms of 99 years to be served concurrently. In addition to pleading guilty to arson Las april Escudero Aponte pleaded guilt to one count of first degree murder in the death of secret service agent Manuel Dejesus Marrero Otero 49. Marrero Otero was working in the hotel on a Case of counterfeit Money when the fire erupted. Jose Francisco Rivera Lopez. � 4�-_Vear-old bartender who was accused of inciting the other two to Sel inc fire also was sentenced to 99 years in prison. The third person arrested and charged so far Armando Jimenez Rivera a 29-year-old bartender s assistant was sentenced to 75 years. Prosecutors said Jimenez Rivera provided the cooking fuel to Escudero Aponte and then shielded him from View while the fire was lit. Prosecutors had recommended lighter sentences for All three defendants noting thai two confessed to their roles All three cooperated with investigators and there never was an intention to kill people. Lopez pleaded guilty to the reduce charge of 96 counts of second degree murder plus arson and fire was the second worn bowl Blaze in us history. A 1946 fire at the Winecoff hotel in Atlanta killed 119 pc Oplt no motive has been alleged but. The hotel in puerto Rico was engaged in a bitter enl act dispute with teamsters local 901, which had called a strike to begin new year s Day. All three defendants Are members of the Union local. Teamsters officials denied involve ment in the Blaic and government investigators have produced no evidence Tunion involvement
