European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 15, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday october 15, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 8-1b Pilot reportedly tried to save Crew Offutt fab neb. A an air Force Pilot May have sacrificed his own life in an unsuccessful attempt to keep a crippled a left bomber aloft Long enough 10 permit two other occupants to escape the Omaha world Herald reported. The strategic air come is investigating the possibility thai maj James t. Acklin stayed aboard the doomed bomber and fought to keep it under control Long enough for two men not in ejection scats to bait out the paper said. Acklin 37, of Champaign 111., was in the right front scat of the b-1b when the plane sailed into a Nock of Birds near la Junta Colo. The two right Jet engines failed after ingesting Birds and flames erupted from one of the engines. Three Crew members used explosive powered ejection seals to escape. Two other Sac officers aboard a student Pilot and an electronic systems instructor were unable to bail out. They and Acklin an instructor Pilot were killed in the crash sept. 28. A Sac Accident investigation Board has impounded All of the records per Taining to the crash and has not Dis closed the information it obtained in interviews with survivors. Sac spokesmen refused to discuss the find Ings. The world Herald quoted a senior officer Al Sac Headquarters As saying there arc reports hit Acklin stayed with the plane disdaining the use of his own ejection scat to keep the aircraft aloft As Long As possible the Federal aviation administration s air route Center near Denver re ported that inc bomber had climbed to 15,500 feet when a Crew member sent a radio message that a crash was Immi nent. Flight cup crts a d it appeared the Pilot took inc crippled bomber to a higher Altitude to give the passengers with manual parachutes a better Chance to survive. The air Force has not confirmed thai the plane climbed rapidly after inc collision with Birds. Gay activists picket supreme court Washington a police wearing rubber gloves arrested Al least 600 demonstrators tuesday As thousands of homosexual activists protesting a 1986 ruling on a Georgia anti sodomy Law besieged the supreme court. District of Columbia police spokeswoman Shannon Cockett said the arrested protesters were charged with violating Public space a Misdemeanour offence which carries a s100 Fine or 60 Days in jail or both. Court police temporarily scaled entrances to the building after groups of protesters tried to make their Way inside. It was the first time in its history that Access to the building was closed., court spokeswoman Tom House  said inc operation of the count was nol interrupted and inc entrances were reopened a half hour after being Cloud. It was the largest mass arrest since mayday in 1971," House said referring to the 1971 protests against the Vietnam War in which More than 7,000 people were detained. Demonstrators began crossing police lines Al 9 30 . And continued until shortly after 2 . Police pushed barricades Back to allow demonstrators onto the court Plaza where they were arrested by police wearing rubber gloves. It is illegal to Demon Strate on supreme court grounds. The demonstrators sat Down in circles on the court Plaza where they were handcuffed by police. Some protesters walked quietly escorted by police to Wail ing . Marshal and City buses. Others were dragged across the Plaza in the rear of the building police wrestled five pro testers to the ground after they attempted to Cross a police barricade. They were handcuffed and led to wailing  demonstration culminated a week in which homosexuals and their supporters from across the coun try lobbied Congress and staged a March from the White House to the malt adjacent to the Capitol. To Appiano police Bur protester from supreme in not building. . Border patrol expanding Southern Region drug watch Mcallen. Texas a the . Border patrol will add new offices and hundreds of agents to expand the patrol area in its 13-Stalc Southern Region in an Effort to Stow the flow of illegal drugs and aliens officials said tuesday. Texas officials said the expansion would double the number of counties patrolled from nine to 18 and in clude hundreds of Miles of coast line the Border patrol Seldom watches. Our geographical area is going to be enlarged by about 100 percent said Jerry l. Hicks Deputy chief patrol agent for the Mcallen sector. Paul Berg the Border patrol s assistant regional commissioner said the plan had not been formalized but has the approval of officials in Washington and we re going Forward As if it had been  Overall authorities will add 900 agents to the Bor Der patrol in the Southern Region Over the next two years. The Southern Region stretches from new Mexico to North Carolina. Extra personnel will help the Agency focus belter on enforcing the immigration Reform and control act of 19btracking Down criminal aliens and stopping drug smugglers Berg said. We re very very heavily involved in drug enforce ment Berg said. Woman injured by runaway outhouse Cadiz by. A a woman suffered cuts and bruises when she was Hil by an out of control privy during an outhouse race Al the Trigg county Ham festival. This would be the top of the list As tar As Freak accidents said police chief Clarence Choate. That s just one of those things Hal could never happen  Choate said four men were pushing a wooden out House mounted on tour wheels when they lost control of it during the outhouse race a featured event of the festival saturday. The outhouse whizzed Down inc Street with the Driver inside unable to control it. Choate said. It crossed an embankment and went into a parking lot next to the county courthouse where it collided Wilh Evelyn Mosc to 53, of Trigg county he said. Outhouse Driver Ron Russell. 39, of Hopkins vile suffered a shoulder injury he said. The outhouse remained intact Choate said. It was a Well built  lice said the March attracted about 200,000 people while organizers put the number Al 500,000. The demonstrators were demanding More k g.1l Protection of their civil rights and a More aggressive Feder Al Effort against aids which has taken a targe toll among homosexual men. The protesters targeted the supreme court because of its 5-4 vote last year in Bowers is. Hardwick to uphold Georgia s anti sodomy Law As applied to con sensual homosexual  about half the states have Laws against sodomy. Michael Hardwick the defendant in the Georgia Case was among those arrested at the demonstration. Civil disobedience is nol new to Gays and lesbians said Pat Norman of san Francisco a co chair Man of the March. Each and a very Day we commit the act of civil disobedience by Loving each other.1 the Marrcil began after the first wave of protesters holding hands marched to the Steps where they were met by police standing shoulder to shoulder. After the first group was arrested More groups each numbering about 15, marched hand in hand across inc Street to the court Steps. As the groups crossed the line and were arrested some police officers at the lop of the Steps donned the protective gloves prompting the crowd to shout shame shame and your gloves Don t match your  police officers in Washington it c bad the option since last summer of wearing rubber gloves while Mak ing arrests to guard against exposure to the aids virus and other communicable diseases. Although the court s regularly scheduled four hour argument session was open to the Public As usual the rest of the court building was closed by marshal Al  a new regulation approved by chief Justice William h. Rehnquist Wong said Only those people wishing to View the Public sessions in the courtroom or those having some official business in the building would be allowed to enter inc grounds. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Oct. 15, 1947 the French government threatened military conscription and prison sentences for Paris subway workers unless they ended the metro strike. 30 years ago today ,. Oct. 5, 1957 a Federal District judge signed a 10-Day restraining order that barred James r. Hoffa from taking office As president of the teamsters Union. The order also barred those elected with him from assuming office. 20 years ago today ,. Oct. 15, 1967 the brother of communist revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara dismissed As a farce the bolivian government s announcement thai the guerrilla Leader was shot and killed. Roberto Guevara said the guerrilla killed in a clash with bolivian rangers was some one else. To years ago today oct. Is 1977 actor Singer Bing Crosby died on a Golf course of a heart attack minutes after he and his Spanish partner had won their match. The 73-year-old Crosby collapsed Ai he walked to the clubhouse of the Moraleja Coune near Madrid