European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday october 13,19s7 the stars and stripes Page 9 Yeager still flying supersonic after 40 years Edwards fab Calif. Of in he 40 years since lest Pilot Chuck Yeager first broke the sound Barrier at this Remote desert military Post Man has gone to la Moon and much has charged not least for a Cager. The 64-year-old Pilot a link known Captain when hrs sonic Boom first thundered Over the Mojave desert has become famous and his teats have passed into legend fostered by two books and a movie. Yet some things have remained the same Yeager is still flying supersonic. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of his feat wednesday Yeager will Pilot an f-4 phantom in a pass Over Wright Patterson fab in Ohio. Later he will Fly another hot plane to his Home slate of West Virginia for celebrations there. The prehistoric Silt of the dry take bed that the Bell Al landed on that morning of oct. 14, 1947. Has also remained pretty much the same dry hard and Tough tile Yeager. It s still us Das a Landing Field too. Space shuttles resuming to Earth have touched wheels on the Lake bed a vast and forgiving runway. But it was the Al piloted by Yeager that paved the Way Tor All thai followed. Ii was being in the right place at the right time and Luck plays a part Yeager recalled in a recent Telephone interview from hit Home in the Sierra Foothills. I had no idea what the Al would bring. You can l predict the  the 24-year-old Captain had christened the Little Bullet shaped rocket powered plane glamorous Glennis after his wife and vowed that he would be the Man to break the sonic Barrier if it could be done. Before his flight scientists and pilots feared that a plane might disintegrate when it hit that mystical number Mach i or the Speed of sound Esti mated to be about 700 Mph depending on Altitude. One Man British Pilot Geoffrey dehavilland jr., had already died in the attempt and Bell s civilian fat Prioto Yeager betide in no by  " test Pilot had demanded si50,000 to try it with the Bell walked and on oct. 14, lying on army pay Yeager and the it caused the first sonic Boom overheard Glennis Yeager said she did t realize what had happened until her husband landed on the fifty expanse of desert and his Friend Engineer Jack Ridley ran up and slapped him on the Back. It changed our whole life although i did t real ize it immediately she said in a recent interview. According to his autobiography the Young Pilot had told his Boss col. Albert Boyd that he volunteered for the Al project because it sounded like an interesting air plane. Boyd snapped Yeager this is inc air plane to Fly. The tint Pilot who goes faster than sound will be in the history books. It will be the most historic rid since the Wright  Boyd was right. What Yeager and the Crew at the air base then called maroc did was open the door wide to the Jet age. Because of Security precautions a Cager s Fame was Stow to grow after Hij feat. That changed dramatically when the flight and his previous exploits As a fighter Pilot in world War ii were extolled in a Book by Tom Wolfe the right stuff and in a film by the same name. His autobiography became a bestseller. He endorses products such As batteries and ires and has a computer night simulator game named after him. Glamorous Glennis hangs in the National air and space museum at the smithsonian institution i Washington. We re Lucky that we got the Al Over when we did a Cager said noting that the British abandoned supersonic research after dehavilland s death. Now a retired air Force general Yeager work As a consultant for Nothrop aircraft and Mcdonnell Douglas in developing the advanced tactical fighter an aircraft for the 1990s that is expected 1c, be the mainstay of the air Force Well into the next Century. Lockheed leads another team composed of Boeing and general dynamics in a competitive at proposal la s All been fun because i be been Able to slay abreast of the new technology he said. Animatedly Yeager counts off advances such at swept wings More powerful engines computer guid Ance and stability systems. As a member of the president s commission on space a Cager conducted that a manned Mission to Mars is one of the options inc United slates should consider. The United states should not be deterred from exploring the heavens because of the space shuttle tragedy that took the lives of the challenger Crew in january 19s6, he said. You re going to have airline accidents but you Don t quit flying airliners. You just press  Escapee was key informant paper reports London a a reputed International drug trafficker who escaped from a top Security police ecu in Britain last week was a key informant in an investigation into alleged corruption Al Scotland Yard the sunday times reported. Another newspaper the mail on sunday said aus Trian born Nikolas Maria Char Sony May have been sprung from his cell by corrupt  a nationwide search is under Way for Char Sony who escaped oct. I from a police cell at Dewsbury a Small Lown in Northern England by sawing through the bars of his cell. Chras Tny was arrested in Britain s by gust Ever co Caine bust when police and customs officers raided a House on Hartey Street London s doctors Row in Jun and seized 117 pounds of cocaine. The sunday times said Chras Tny was moved to Daws buy the most secure police station in Northern England amid fears for his safety after he turned in former. In a largely unattributed report the newspaper said can ulna named major cocaine suppliers in Britain and agreed to provide information for a separate in Quiry by officers front South Yorkshire who Are investigating the relationship Between a former senior police officer in London and his informants. South Yorkshire police interviewed Chras Tny sever Al times in Dewsbury the sunday times said. The mail on sunday said in its report attributed to unidentified police sources that detectives investigating allegations of corruption at Scotland Yard tear that his escape May have been arranged by powerful figures about to be exposed to Chras Tny s  Peru nationalization Uma Peru a the government nationalized Peru s financial system sunday climaxing More than two months of acrimonious National debate. A Law published in the official Gazette gave the state monopoly control of Peru s financial system and expropriated 10 private Banks 17 insurance firm and six finance companies. American finds life in . A bit stunning frightening Nakhod a . Not there Are time when the loneliness of being the Only american living on the Pacific coast of the soviet Union gets to Bill Turner. To overcome the frustration and touch of fear that grip him. Turner Heads into the coastal headlands on his bicycle exploring quiet inlets and Mountain lanes that few westerners Nave seen. When i Stop to think it s a bit stunning and fright ening to realize i m the Only native English speaker living in the soviet far East he said. Turner works in this port City at the Southeast tip of the soviet Union 55 Miles from Vladivostok As the Ameri can manager of the Marine resources co., a joint soviet american fishing venture founded 10 years ago. The nearest american presence in the soviet Union is in Moscow 4,500 Miles to the West. Japan rests tantalizingly nearby but can be reached Only by a 52 hour ferry ride or by plane from the soviet City of Khabarovsk a 16-hour train ride from Nakhod a. Nakhod a seems to treat its resident american with an ambivalence familiar to foreigners who work in Moscow. I have no problem with official relationships Turner said on a recent afternoon As he showed an american reporter around town. In fact i get along Well with the authorities but when it comes to social izing i m a Leper before moving Here Turner 33, worked for five years As a Marine resources representative aboard so Viet fish processing ships in the North Pacific. He said the duty which included four to sin month spells of working with soviet Crews aboard ships Wilh minimal comforts hardened him for the current assignment but did not fully prepare him for the Isola Tion that comes Wilh being a foreigner on russian soil particularly in a provincial City. Turner stays in touch with the outside world by the company phone and telex which he must use sparingly because of the Cost and by mail which takes two to four weeks to reach him. Marine resources established by Seattle business Man James Talbot has weathered the up and Downs of soviet american relations in the last decade. The company is a 50-50 partnership unlike new joint ventures being encouraged by Moscow in which the soviet Side retains is percent control. The business brings together american fishermen along the Pacific coast of Canada and the United slates Wilh soviet processing and storage vessels. The catch which totalled More than 300,000 metric tons last year is distributed in the soviet Union and exported to foreign markets including the United slates and Japan. Ireland May scrap extradition pact Dublin Ireland a prime minister Charles Haughey hinted sunday that Ireland might abandon a new Anglo Irish extradition treaty unless Britain re forms its Legal system in Northern Ireland and reviews alleged miscarriages of Justice. Haughey s remarks came in response to a mounting Campaign in Ireland to scrap the new extradition treaty set for ratification by the Irish parliament on Dee. T. The treaty Aims to ease the handing Over of Irish guerrilla suspects to British Justice. In a speech at the grave of Wolfe tone the 18th Century founding father of Irish republicanism Haug hey addressed the controversy in veiled terms that strongly suggested he new treaty would be in doubt unless Britain acted soon. He referred specifically to claims by the roman Catholic minority in Northern Ireland that suspects cannot get a fair rial under the province s Legal system. The system allows a defendant to be convicted by a single judge without a jury often on the testimony of a single informer. A British Promise to Reform that system was implicit in the 1985 Anglo Irish agreement when a Dublin won a consultative role in governing the British province plus other concessions on a calf of the 600.000 Catholic. Also implicit in that Accord was an Irish Promise to adopt tougher extradition Taw so that tsp Eft could no longer plea that bombings Murten and kidnappings Are political offences and therefore Nan extraditable