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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 11, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday december 11, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 army pvt. Wade e. Roberts Roberts in t a deserter lawyer claims fort Dix. . Up an army private who defected to the soviet Union and then re Lumen to the West is not a deserter and is facing a court martial Only because he fled to a comm Nisi nation his attorneys said wednesday pal. Wade e. Roberts 22, should not be prosecuted and should be allowed to accept an administrative discharge an option Given virtually All soldiers who go absent without leave Rob erts civilian and military attorneys argued. If he had not proceeded to any socialist country or the soviet Union in particular this Case would not have been treated in this Way civilian attorney Ronald Kuby argued during Roberts article 32 hearing. The hearing is the military equivalent of a civilian probable cause proceeding to determine if charges Are warranted. Article 32 investigator maj. Joseph j. Switz Craid he would make his recommendation to the commander of fort Din by monday the Maii mum Penally for desertion that re sults in apprehension the crime with which Roberts is charged is three years in prison and a dishonourable discharge. Roberts 22. Of Apple Valley Calif left his base in West Germany in March and fled to the soviet Union with his German Girlfriend Petra Neumann. He returned 10 the West nov. 4, say ing he disliked his Job on a soviet reptile farm and wanted top notch mat Emily care for the pregnant Neumann. The Ewo were married in the soviet Union and their child a son named Trevor Dieter Rob erts was born last week Kuby said. Probe clears controller in crash of air Force Jet Indianapolis a no action is Eup voted against tin air traffic controller who did not respond when the Pilot of a powerless air Force Jet warned he might have to crash and asked if he was near a populated area a Federal official said. The a-7d Corsair crashed into a ramada inn after the Pilot bailed out on oct. 20. Ten people were killed nine of them hotel employees. Mori excl slain of he Federal aviation administration s regional office in pcs Plains iii., said the con troller did t do anything wrong he apparently did t hear the Guy Edc Stcin said in a Telephone interview the Faa s official investigation of the incident is finished  has not been released publicly. The agcy a will urn Over ils report 10 the air Force which is conducting the Only other investigation into the crash. The Pilot maj. Bruce l. Tea Garden tried unsuccessfully to restart Ilic engine of the jul when its Power a Cal out not far from Indianapolis International Airport he was above the Clouds when he asked con i rollers if the Airport was near a populated area. Ill be dead clicking in in radioed Teagarden. And say if there is any kind of housing area close 10 me in ease i have to gel rid of this thing Tea Garden came in Loo High and too fast to land and attempted a turn toward a second runway bul ran out of Altitude. He did not break through the Clouds until he was Only 800 feel off the ground. It looks like 1 might have to gel Cut of it and i m going Down in a housing  Tea Garden told the lower seconds before he ejected safely from the plane. The plane clipped the Corner of a Bonk then crashed into inc ramada inn Airport just above the lobby exploding into a Ball of flame. The Pilot controller transmissions were released by the Faa in late november. I can t answer the question As to Why that transmission was not responded 1o," Paa spokesman David Erickson said at the Lime. Nasa pushing for space station Cape canaveral Fla. A without a manned space station America would abdicate space leadership to the soviets japanese and europeans and Nasa might cease to exist the head of the project said. The space station is president Reagan s initiative and a re affirmation of thai is needed if we arc to gel through this process and gel enough Money to Start  Andrew j. Stofan said in an interview. I Hope we would get that the National aeronautics and space administration is pushing ahead with the station despite budget uncertainties that could scale Back delay or cancel in. Congress is debating How much to spend on the station Asil seeks ways to reduce the budget Ilef Icil by$76 billion Over two years. The House approved Nasa s $767 million request for the station for the fiscal year Ihal started oct. 1. The Senate voted 1359 million. Nasa will eel hit and the space station will gel nil there s no doubt about it Stofan said. I be heard station numbers As Low As $300 million and As High as1650 to $700 million and anything in Between those depending on who you talk with. I Don t know where the Bottom line is where you say you can l do it he said. If we got Only 1200 million i would recommend 10 Jim Fletcher Nasa s administrator that we cancel the program cancellation would be the end Ofa program thai has gone through three trying years since the 1984 state of the Union message in which Reagan declared development of he station a National goal. Nasa said in could do in for $8 billion and Start assembling in in orbit by 1992. That Date has slipped two years and the Agency recently estimated the Cost Al $14.6 billion. Thai figure was for a scaled Down Model. The Basic problem we be got today is leadership Sloan said. It s a Lack of or not enough leadership in the while House in the office of management and budget in confess and in Nasa. It lakes leadership Winall those areas or Nasa s not going to make in. We Are building a spate station for science and commercial use but we Are also designing Ilas a Siepp Insione to Send Man out Inlo space to the Moo nor Mars Sloan said. If we want Man logo out there. The space station is absolutely essential. A space station is not Only the next logical step it s the Neil necessary step he said. I can l Sec this coun try walking away from taking that next step and essentially saying to Russia Europe and Japan that we have decided to drop our leadership role in space. That exactly what will happen. And what of inc future of Nasa if there in t a space station he asked. It signals the Start of the demise of inc Agency. It says there is no  suit seeks recovery of King s papers Boston not the widow Zofih Rev. Martin Luther King or. Has filed a lawsuit demanding that Boston University be required to return a collection of the civil rights Leader s tellers manuscripts and other papers that has been in the University s vast collection of personal papers of noted 20lh Century figures. Four years before he was slain in 1968, King deposited his papers at the University where he received a doctorate in theology and icy have remained there Ever since. Bul the suit filed tuesday in the name of Coretta Scott King said the papers belong to the King estate not to the University. Mrs. King also accused the University of failing to provide adequate care for the col Lection. In a written statement issued in Atlanta. Mrs. King said her husband intended that his Papen he permanently housed in the South. It is time for the paper so be resumed  she mid. She has proposed that inc documents be Kepi at the King Center for non violent social change in Atlanta where a majority of inc King collection is already stored. Boston University has refused mrs. King s request contending that her husband intended to keep his papers at inc University permanently. The University bases ils claim on a letter signed by King in 1964. In which he said the papers would become the absolute property of the University upon his death. As a matter of Law the Man said we should keep his documents Here Melvin b. Miller a lawyer who i a Brusiee of the University said. We cannot give up documents that Martin Luther King entrusted to our care without being in derogation of his express wishes and in dereliction four  court ruling upholds reputation of Chicken soup san Francisco a a mock court has Given a Shol in the Arm to jew ish mothers everywhere by ruling that Chicken soup deserves its reputation As jewish  the moot court of historical review and appeals which decides such weighty questions As who invented the Fortune cookie heard from a physician an offi Cial of the american jewish Congress j jewish Mother and a Chicken. Actor Wyman Spalding. Who came costumed As a Rhode Island red pleaded with the court and audience to eat vegetables not poultry. Another witness Joanne Miller Testi fied that the secret of making Chicken soup is to use fowl that has been killed Kosher Lyle. She said a Kosher Butcher tickles the Bird under the Chin before delivering inc Faial chop with one Swift motion. The Chicken Dies Happy with a smile on ils face said. Or. Michael to noir of the clinical staff of the University of Californi medical school is if cd thai Chicken soup does indeed have medical benefits especially when fight my colds Al though i am not sure if i Gol Well because of the soup or because what my Mother made tasted so awful i did i want Lodrick 11," Cit Brown a Public defender who argued for the opposition concealed the value of Chicken soup but said it belongs la All nationalities he pointed Oul thai the greeks. Ital ians and chinese All claim to me Chicken soup in Lime of illness. After municipal judge George chop pc Las made his ruling in favor of Chicken soup the court adjoined to inc hallway where everyone was i scaled to Chicken soup from a chinese restaurant  
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