European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 28, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday december 28, 1967 the stars and stripes pages baby born in helicopter  Ai t Linda Olmo was still flying High saturday two Days after bet new  the world 1,500 feet in he sky. A nervous mrs. Olmo was being rushed by medevac helicopter to Hahnemann University Hospital when she began giving birth. Hours later she and her husband Carlos named the 8-Pound, 2-Ouncc girl Carla Midi to show i hair gratitude 1o the medevac Crew. Mother and daughter were doing Fine saturday it was All so  mrs Olmo said. It was like Riding in an  the child was due monday but mrs. Orno fell the first sign of labor while shopping for presents on Christmas eve and went to Saint Mary Hospital in suburban Langhorne. Doctors had planned to Send mrs. Olmo to Hahnemann for the delivery because they detected potential problems with her heart. When she boarded the helicopter in Langhorne no one considered inc Lime Short the doctor said it s going to be a Long Wail but As soon As i got in the helicopter everything happened so fast she said White the helicopter was Scarine inc 14th floor Landing pad Carla s head emerged prompting Pilot Steven w. Gray to radio a Mes Sage Lolic Hospital. We re having a Bahy up Here he said. Japanese cars Are better Gephardt says in interview Washington api rep. Richard Gephardt who has made american competitiveness a major Issue in his democratic presidential Campaign says Japan makes better cars than the United states does. They have belter Quality ratings. The fit and finish is belief the doors. When they re slammed they sound better and probably arc lighter. They have More  on their cars than Many of our cars do he said but Gephardt in an interview with David Frost added thai the american Industry is really improving. Our management is  the interview was aired Over the weekend and published in inc Jan. 4 editions of . News &. World re port. When Frost asked Gephardt whether the japanese made the Best cars he said in Many ways they  All the Best rated cars in a consumer Magazine were japanese. All the worst rated ears were american. That s not a Good sign he said. The 46-year-old Missouri congressman look Issue with the description of his Trade amendment As protectionist saying its threat of penalties against trading partners was1 designed to help open markets for . Goods. It s inc Antithesis of protectionism it s Promollo ism he said. Gephardt asked Mil Gary Hurt s re entry into the demo Colic presiden j Ace said he does not think presidential candidates Shurld answer every conceivable question any Hun inn being can  Hart abandoned his Campaign in May amid reports about his rela kinship with a Miami Model. Since re entering the Field earlier this month he his refused to answer questions about his private life "1 Don t think thai a lot of your private life is terribly relevant to whether or not of would he a Piid  Gephardt said. An awful in of it i. An inquiry i Iii people Don t really want to know about or need to know  on other matters Gephardt recalled his infant son s struggle with cancer As a wrenching experience. One of the most excruciating and difficult times of my  the boy. Now 16, was two when he was diagnosed As having a cancerous tumor. They declared thai he would nol live. And we prayed endlessly. That he could be saved. 1 really think the lord had a role in bringing about Liis heal ing Gephardt said. I have a very different View of life and everything since that experience. Nothing is really More important than your life and your family 1 life and every thing else is secondary really he said. Gephardt asked about the legacy of president Reagan said i think they la say that he gave America Confidence at a time when America desperately wanted to have thai Confidence but ultimately he did not fulfil thai desire fat  Jackson Calls report of plagiarism unethical Chicago a democratic presidential candidate Jesse Jackson says a newspaper violated journalistic and Chi Cal standards with a Story that quoted some classmates As alleging he left the University of Illinois in i960 because of plagiarism. Jackson said the Champaign 111. News Gazelle acted irresponsibly when it published accounts of the alleged plagiarism based on what the people quoted admitted was hearsay. I can Only say that Freedom of the press should be protected and so should rights of privacy Jackson said. News Gazette editor John Foreman defended his newspaper s approach say ing any other candidate would have been treated the same Way. He noted that Jackson had no denied the allegations. Jackson has said he left the University of Illinois because of racism. He graduated from North Carolina agricultural and technical College. The news Gazelle quoted two College acquaintances of Jackson As saying they were ind Jackson left the school Afler his freshman year for copying a time mag a Ine article for an English paper. The English teacher they named Phil . Said he remembered a Caie of plagiarism involving a Black student Hul could not recall the student s nume. La s full of Rumor and innuendo Jackson said of the report. The professor said he knew nothing about it and neither do  he said during the presidential Campaign there has been a sex test a drug icel a plagiarism test. Now there s a Rumor lest. La s a new  Jackson said tie newspaper did not seek comment from him before running the article bul Foreman said efforts had it in made to in so. It s simply ridiculous to say we failed to seek his  Foreman said. We tried repeatedly in reach Jackson through his spokesmen and ultimately we presented him with inc allegations through a reporter in Iowa. He declined to discuss  soviet handout a Photic soviet ambassador Yuri Dubinin right presents a a Omilian of $5,000 to Milch Snyder Leader of a group in Washington thai helps Llu poor and homeless. Train derailment Sparks blast Marshall Texas a a 23-far freight train derailed when rain weak ened culverts collapsed saturday sparking explosions and a fire thai shot 300 feet into the air. Four people were Hurt authorities said. Two locomotives and 22 of the cars detailed. Union Pacific spokesman Tom Lahood said. He said chemicals in some of the rail cars were not dangerous. An evacuation was ordered in the heavily wooded area to the North and Northwest primarily because of threat of fire said fire marshal Bill Elliott. Mar shall is 152 Miles East of Dallas and 22 Miles West of Shreveport la. Ten families reportedly were evacuated. Lahood said from the company s Headquarters in Omaha neb. Heavy Rains had drenched Nort Nast Texas for several Days swelling some creeks and Rivers from their Banks. The culverts collapsed when the Lead locomotive went Over them. Lahood said. The derailment at ,1 10 . Aboul five mile Northwest of Marshall sparked a blast that Shol flames up to 300 feet Mlo the air and several in cars in the wooded area caught fire officials said. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Dec. 28. 1947 a record snowfall of 25.8 inches blanketed new York Rity and its & million residents resulting in 51 deaths most attributed to heart a lacks from Over Elenion. 30 years ago today ,. Dec. 28. 1957 Elvis Preslac was granted a 60-Ja deferment from the army so he could Complete his fourth Hollywood movie. King  20 years ago today. ,. Dec 28, 1967 Edgar Eugene Bradley a West coast radio evangelist s representative was arraigned in connection with a warrant filed b new Orleans District attorney Jim Garrison accusing him of conspiring to kill president John f. Kennedy. To years ago today. Dec 2h, 1977 four . In Force planes evacuated Soi americans and j6 nationals from the Tow lying enit Iol Ami m the marshal Island i and Tom them to Guam to escape the onslaught of typhoon Mary