European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 4, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday september 1987 the stars and stripes Pago 5 suspected fire forces Airliner Down in Florida Tampa. Fla. A an american airlines 117 with 32 passengers and a Crew or six mad a Safe emergency Landing wednesday after the Pilot reported an engine fire the Federal aviation administration said. The passengers and Crew of flight 907 in route 10 Tampa from Nashville and Milwaukee were evacuated by emergency Chute when the plane landed m 12 10 . At Tampa Inglema tonal Airport an airline spokesman said. Two passengers were injured slightly using the chutes. A warning Light in the cockpit of the Boeing 727-200 indicated a possible fire in one engine while the plane was on approach but controller in the Tower saw no names or smoke said a spokesman at the airline s Dallas offices. It appears at this Point it was a faulty warn ing Light he said. Officials said the Light came on when the night was about 10 minutes from the  Pilot immediately activated to fire extinguishers built into he engine. Apparently he blew both bottles and the Light still May have been an the airlines spokesman said. The Pilot declared an emergency landed the aircraft turned onto a taxiway and opened the Chulos that Pilot did exactly and precisely what he is supposed to  said Paul Macales Ler director of the Hillsborough county aviation authority. American officials said that until the plane is closely inspected they won t know conclusively what triggered the cockpit warning Light. Reinforcements in route to Forest fires in West by the associated press overwhelmed firefighters m smaller hol spots Burn wednesday and awaited reinforcements from As far As the Northeast As they battled hundreds or fires that had blackened More than 130,000 acres in the West. More than 300 California National guardsmen were called out wednesday to help in hard hit Tuo Lumc county along with aircraft and 90 trucks said guard spokeswoman sgt. Carolyn Hamilton. The fires in tinder dry Oregon California and Idaho forced scattered evacuations destroyed or damaged dozens of Homes and threatened Rural communities. One fire in Washington forced the evacuation of a state Park. Lightning spawned fires had charred 89,1 is acres of Brush and Timber by wednesday in Northern califor Nia swelling by 20,000 acres in less than 24 hours., there arc now 910 fires going said John Carter at the joint state Federal tire information Center in Sacra mento Calif. We have 11,000 people fighting the  the biggest single fire in the Central Idaho mountains was a Blaze that flared up and doubled in size in one Day to 15,000 acres after being left to bum itself Oul. Federal and state firefighters used at least 48 air tankers 296 fire engines and 31 helicopters. Scores of residents were evacuated in Tuolumne City Harding Flats and Smith station. Mike Milosch of the . Forest service said the hottest spot in California was in the Southern Stanis Laus National Forest with three uncontrolled fires of 3,000 to 4,000 acres each that burned a House a to bile Home and two Lookout stations in Southern California s san Bernardino county where temperatures hit 107, Homes in the Oak Hills area near Cajon pass were briefly threatened by a 65 acre Blaze. The fire ran in and around All the Homes there but none of the Homes was damaged. We Emp tied a Bunch of fire engines said forestry department capt. Tom Andreas. Fire information officer John Silvius said 163 fires have blackened 14,000 acres of Brush and Timber in a Jamal National Forest. California s northernmost National Park. He said the Battle there could take a very very Long time minimum a  we Are extraordinarily Short of people Silvius said. He said some fires had As few As 1 i firefighters assigned to handle them. In Idaho a 32-Day-cld fire that flared up to cover 15,000 acres threatened a Lookout and other buildings in the Elk Creek area. A Range fire Southwest of Poca Ocllo blackened 2,600 acres. In Oregon at least 26,000 acres of Forest were Black ened in seven major fires end 600 smaller ones. More than 3,000 firefighters were on the Job with More on the Way said Ray noddy of the Oregon uni fied coordination group which coordinates firc fight ing among state and Federal agencies. Crews were Short handed because larger fires in California were Given priority he said. Foresters from several states were on their Way to join the Battle against the Oregon fires including Crews from Ohio Indiana Tennessee and the Northeast. There s really a shortage of people and air support especially tankers and helicopters said Gary let than of the Federal slate coordination group. The situation was so extreme that no firefighters were assigned to a fire covering 2,200 acres 25 Miles West of Grants pass. Remarkably nobody is on it yet Naddy said. It s very  judge refuses to suppress Marine confession Quantico a. Up the judge in the court martial of Marine staff sgt. Robert stuff Mcbeam refused wednesday to suppress a confession that the former guard at the . Embassy in Moscow bad sex with soviet prostitutes. Defense attorney James Bagley argued that stuff Webcam was tricked into admit Ting to sexual encounters As fan of a bigger naval investigative service investigation into the sex and scr cos scan dal in the Marine corps. Stull Cacam admitted to the sexual contacts with the soviet women in a written statement taken by mis agents on March 29. They hid it Bagley said of the n1s agents intentions. If he had known he would be prosecuted he would t have signed the darn  prosecutor Marine maj. Lawrence Koenig old presiding judge Marine it. Co. Eligah Clark that stuff Mcbeam was keenly aware that Nis agents were interested in finding out about fraternization offences and made a spontaneous statement implicating himself. Clark denied the defense motion to suppress the confession saying slut Fly beam knew the corps rules against fraternization. The confession is considered crucial to the government s Case. Marine guards Are normally not Al Lowed As much As a conversation with soviet citizens without reporting the Contact to superiors Stuffl Cham Deputy commander of the embassy guards during his yearlong assignment that began in May 1985, is the second Marine court Martiale in the scandal that prompted the recall last Spring of the ensure 28-Man Marine guard contingent stationed at the . Embassy in Moscow. Last month one of Stuflebeam s sub ordinates ski. Clayton Lonetree became the first Marine Ever found guilty of espionage in a court martial at the Quanti Crucia Sionag court a speck again tries for parole some fear he s a time bomb Joliet 111. A Richard speck belongs behind Why this was called the crime of the Century co Marine Barracks Lonetree was sentenced to 30 years in prison. A second Marine guard Cpl. Arnold Bracy was also charged with espionage but the charges were dropped. Stuffl Cacam 25, of Bloom Impton 111., is not accused of espionage but of sexual improprieties including having sex with soviet prostitutes whom he allegedly met in 19bs at a Moscow hotel bar that was off limits to marines. He is also accused of lying about the reported encounters to his superiors. He faces a maximum punishment of 14 i years in prison and a dishonourable discharge if convicted. Ban or in a grave for stabbing and strangling eight student nurses 2\ years ago a prosecutor argued wednesday As a state panel considered whether to Grant parole. How ironic that on what should have been the 20lh anniversary of his execution he seeks a second Chance for Freedom. He never gave those nurses a second Chance said Gayle shines an assistant Cook county stale s attorney. She said freeing speck would be tantamount to re leasing a time  speck was not present As a three member panel of the Illinois prisoner review Board heard 90 minutes of arguments on his possible parole. The panel will make a recommendation to the to Mcm bar Board which will announce its decision sept. 9. Speck is serving eight consecutive 50 to 150-year terms at Stalc Ville correctional Center for killing the eight nuns in a South Chicago Lawn House in july 1966. They were bound and gagged and taken one by one into a room where they were Slabbed or strangled. They went like lambs to a Slaughter. You can see we Century,1" shines said. A parole is a matter of clemency and Grace not a right. We say that speck already is in the Only place he should be besides his own  More than a dozen relatives and seven former class mates of the slain nurses attended the hearing to oppose freeing speck. We re Here to see that he never reaches the outside of these Walls Joe Matuscki of California father of victim Patricia Matusek told the Board. I want to accuse him of five More murders the parents of three of the girls who died of the stress and Strain they had la go  we weren t really so much worried that he might get out this time said former classmate Ellen Stan Nish of Sarasota a. But when we talk to people in their 20s or Early 30s, they Don t remember the horror the brutal nature of the crime. Well keep coming Back As Long As we have  speck appeared had fits first parole hearing in 1976. But skipped the next four and instead sent contemptuous taunting notes to the prisoner review Board. He chose not to appear at wednesday s hearing. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Sept. 4, 1947 the . Bureau of standards revealed that it was working on a Wristwatch radio with a receiver tube the size of a Rice Grain. The main obstacle to its development was finding a Battery Small enough to Power in. 30 years ago today. Sept. 4, 1957 plans for racial integration of Little Rock High school were cancelled when National guardsmen surrounded he grounds on the order of Arkansas gov. Orval Faubus. 20 years ago today. Sept. 4, 1967 Early election results showed a Victory for chief of state Nguyen Van Thieu in the South Vietnam presidential race. The 44-year-old army general ran against 10 civilians. 10 years ago today. Sept. 4, 1977 former president Richard Nixon told interviewer David Frost that he thought he had directed . Haldeman to destroy All but the most historic of the White House tape recordings three months before watergate investigators Learned of their existence