European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 12, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday october 12. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 Cuba reportedly has retaliation plan new Vork a Cuba has planned to attack a Florida air base in retaliation if the United states Ever strikes against in a cuban air Force general who defected to the . Five months ago has old the new York times according to the report in sunday s times cuban combat pilots regularly practice for retaliatory strikes against Homestead fab. The defector Brig. Gen. Rafael Del Pino Diaz a former Deputy commander of the air Force said Cuba recognizes thai it is no military Malch for the United states. Us intention in counter attacking would be to provoke the United states into an even stronger action so the soviet Union would become involved he said. Then the United Stales would try to avoid this Type of confrontation and end its aggression against Cuba he told the times. The general said that the cubans training was strictly defensive and that Cuba has no intention of starting a fight with the United slates a spokesman for the defense department and a senior slate department official told the newspaper that the United Stales had not previously been aware of such a specific plan. While there is nothing to indicate a confrontation Between he two countries foreign affairs and Mili tary experts told the times they could nol Rule out the possibility of a limited clash. The chief of Cuba s diplomatic Mission in Washington Ramon Sanchcz Parodi said he would have no comment and the times said it could not verify Del Pino s statements independently. Del Pino 49, said he had flown in drills simulating raid on inc base South of Miami several times. Including one a year ago. Cuban pilots also practice in a similar Way for retaliatory strikes against the . Navy Bine Al Guantanamo Bay on leased land on the Eastern tip of Cuba he said. Because of Security concerns offi eals asked inc times nol to disclose the Lime and place of the news paper interview. California Relief centers expect Large numbers of quake victims los Angeles a disaster re Lief centers opened sunday As people continued to rebound from a Strong earthquake and aftershocks that left thousands of Homes shattered earthquake victims were turning out in Large numbers Al the centers. A special Telephone hot line was advis ing victims where to go and How to apply for state and Federal help in rebuilding Homes or replacing property damaged by the quakes said Verne Paule spokesman for the Federal emergency management Agency. The hoi line will be staffed from 8 . To 7 . Daily indefinitely he said. The quake on oct. I measured 6.1 on the Rich ice scale while the largest aftershock on oct. 4, registered 5.5. The quakes kilted seven people and caused More than 1177 million in damage. Twenty seven aftershocks measuring 3.0 or greater on the Richter kale have followed the initial quake entered in the Whittier Narrows recreation area. It was the strongest earthquake in the los Angeles area in 16 years. The most recent measuring 3.1, hit late thursday night said Bob finn a spokesman for inc California Institute of technology s seismology lab in Pasadena. Officials spent saturday preparing the seven disaster centers that opened Sun Day for quake victims who want to apply for Federal disaster assistance Money or who simply want More information on the financial options open to them in rebuilding. We Bunje All people who have suffered uninsured losses to visit one of these disaster application centers to apply for various stale Federal and local assistance programs Paule said. Meanwhile cleanup continued. The quake and its aftershocks damaged More earthquake in California several buildings collapsed pfc ago Tribune map source Chicago Tribune news reports than 10,000 buildings including scores in downtown Whittier the area hardest hit by the jolts. In los Angeles 773 apartments in 63 buildings have been ordered vacated authorities said. Red Cross spokesman Al Panico said an estimated 10,000 Southern califor. Nivans left their Homes after the quake including Many whose dwellings were habitable but who were Loo frightened to return for fear of a targe aftershock. New charge filed against Federal judge Miami api a new pc dam complaint has been tiled against . District judge Alyce Hastings who Al ready faces possible impeachment in Congress it was reported saturday by the Miami Herald the newspaper said the jul Isicc department hied a confident charge accusing Hastings of approving a wiretap against Kevin Gordon a Friend of metro dad mayor Steve Clark then telling Clark about it. Hastings denied the charge which was filed with the 11th . District circuit court of appeals in Atlanta under the i ago judicial conduct act. Inc Herald said. The Law allows judges to investigate alleged improper behaviour by colleagues i m astounded you would have any measure of informal Ion on thai the newspaper quoted Hastings As saying in Washington when a reporter asked him about the charge. A complaint has been filed so what he added. Hastings said he could not discuss the complain further because in is confidential. Calls to his Home were not answered. Justice department spokesman John Russell said he had no comment on inc Herald report and a spokesman for the appeals court refused to comment. The embattled Federal judge already has three complaints against him before a House subcommittee. They include two accusations of lying in his successful defense against 1983 bribery charges and one filed by a St. Petersburg attorney of violating judicial canons by urging the defeat of president Reagan according to a report released bythe subcommittee. The subcommittee will decide whether to recommend impeachment to the full House. It s raining gobblers again in Arkansas town Yellville Ark up in one of the More curious autumn rituals in the land turkeys were dropped from an air plane again in Yellville s 42nd annual two Day Gobbler extravaganza. Saturday was the be could Day of the fall Celebration which includes a Turkey calling contest a Turkey sup per that feeds virtually All 1,100 people in town and three Beauty contests including a miss drumsticks pageant for aspiring belly Grables. The men gel a great kick out of that confides Jessie Adams Secretary of the chamber of Commerce which organizes he whole thing. The High Point no Pun intended is the Turkey drop. Hasley Williams is the Dropper a 50-year-old re tired Navy Pilot who flew Jet fighters in Vietnam. Williams who has to borrow a plane to make the drop circled in from like Northeast flying slowly. Just off the town s courthouse Square two dozen ten aged boys had gathered on the West Bank of a Creek in the backyard of Martha Braze who has made an Coffon to keep them out of her okra and strawberries by posting a no trespassing sign. It did no Good. Williams was flying at an Altitude of 1,000 feel. He was flying so slowly that in appeared he might stall. Then the passenger door opened and a Turkey dropped out for a second it fell like a Stone then its wings unfolded and in began a Graceful Glide into the Trees. The Turkey s across the Creek the dumb Turkey s across the Creek shouted one Chaser boys scrambled Down into the Ravine and Williams circled Back to drop his second Bird. Ten minutes later Ricky Wallace. 13, of Lakeview emerged soaked to his Waist with a j 5-Pound Bird. Hell Lake it Home he said and turn it Loose with the  Williams dropped four Birds one Al a time saturday morning. They All glided safely to the ground. One caught a Tail wind and napped off to the North. I think in made a clean getaway said Kent Burc 31, of Jasper. Todd gales 22, an air plane Mechanic from Berryville caught one. I jumped on him said Gates. It landed on the ground in some nigh grass. I could t Sec it at first then it started  for 42 cais yell Villa a tiny Steark town known As a Good place to fish Hunt and re True has been dropping tur keys on itself. Originally they were dropped off the courthouse roof. Aid Adams but about 25 years ago the City heard that game officials were dropping turkeys into the Woods from planes to boost their no Movre. So the festival look to Theair. Animal rights activists complained a few Yean ago. Concerned that me turkeys would drop like bricks. Some of them from the humane society came out and after they saw it 1 guess they decided we were just a Bunch of Hillbillies too dumb to bother with or maybe we were a Little smarter than they  either Way they have not been Back