European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday. January 1988 the stars and stripes Page 5 Bird proofing plan for b-1b of d Rockwell to get $19.6 million contract 11 nok Man Black in military writer Washington the or Force on tuesday approved and if aliens proposed by Rockwell inc run Lionnil of Orp. I inc new re h bomber More Resis Tant to Birds and announced it was awarding a i Hasel contract to the Timpany for Birds Riu Vul Crail ily reduction a ii-11 was lost in september after it struck Birds during a ruining Hight. Thi1 air Forte previously awarded Rockwell si8.9 million to design and test modifications for inc bib. Tuesday s contract Worth $19.6 million increases areas on the plane to he strengthened from two to three and Calls for producing 9 modification kits 10 cover the entire Licet. Production of the modification kits is 10 he com Pletch by april Rockwell will also be paid in install attic Modifica lion kits on 20 of the bombers Mike Wallace a spokesman for the air Yam aeronautical system division Al Wright Patterson fab in Ohio said the service had yet to decide whether it would install the remaining 79 kits itself or award another contract later. The air Force and Rockwell began exploring modifications after one of the heavy bombers crashed on sept. 28 in Colorado when if ran into a flock of Birds during a Low level training night. Three of the six men aboard Lac bomber died. Although the air Force has yet to Complete its for Mal Accident investigation report. Pentagon sources have said the plane apparently lost two of its four engines after Bird strikes ripped apart Hydraulic and fuel lines in an area of the Wing above the engines. The air Force Hopes to release results of its Accident investigation by the end of the month. In the mean time it has suspended All Low love raining flights with the new plane. According to Wallace the air Force has decided to proceed with modifications thai involve strengthening that area Between the wings and engines another urea around the so called Pivot pin on which the wings swing Back and Forth and an area around the base of the Tail Fin. In each Case the air Force wants to toughen or shield the internal electrical and Hydraulic lines thai run through those sections of the plane the modifications would not be visible from the outside. The bib the nation s first new heavy strategic bomber in 25 years is designed to Fly just below the Speed of sound at altitudes As Low As 200 feel to evade Del eel Ion. Fugitive sought Qadhafi s help prosecutor says Cades. . A a Federal prosecutor charged tuesday that a for. Mar state senator who spent two years on the run after faking his own death tried to Contact libyan Leader Moa mar cad Hafi in a last ditch Caturi to prevent his return to the United slates to lace Crimi Nal charges. David Fril Diane. 5f. Was arraigned before . In Istrol judge 1 in f. Gerry and pleaded innocent to charges that he masterminded a multimillion Dollar swindle of a teamsters pension fund. Assistant . Attorney Michael Char Lul said of Ned and faked his death in a scuba diving Accident ill the Bahamas in september i h3 to avoid serving a Pris on sentence for his 1980 conviction of accepting kickbacks to arrange a Luan from the a Trie fund. I Ihen travelled in Africa Asia and Lurue Lefure Liis arrest dec. 12 in the Maldive islands off the coast of India Chertoff said. Friedland was returned to the United slates dec. 27 by Federal marshals. A Federal judge in Newark ordered him to begin serving a seven year sentence for his earlier conviction at the metropol Itan correctional Center in new York or. Of Richtand took every step Possi ble to evade his apprehension and engaged in several i forms to persuade authorities on the maldives not to turn him Over to . Custody. Oie Rioff said at the arraignment Ocnoff also said that while Friedland was in a Maldive jail he asked someone lie knew to con act the libyan embassy and attempt to get a message to Clad Hafi. Friedland s attorney John Yacovelly. Interrupted the prosecutor saying it was inappropriate to discuss such inform David Fried land is Csc Rcd from courtroom in Camden nj., Siler his arraignment. Tion at the arraignment. Following the hearing Chertoff declined to elaborate and Yacovelly would not comment we. Don t know anything about said Yasav Kllc. Who has known Fried land since 1959 when both were students at Rutgers University Law school in Newark. Gerry set March 7 for Fri Udland s trial on charges that include conspiring to commit racketeering wire fraud mail fraud and labor violations. The charges carry maximum penalties of 150 years in prison. Friedland is accused i f paying thou Sands of Dollan in kickbacks to three for Mer officials of the pension fund of local 701 of the International Wisroth Rhood of teamsters in North Brunswick in lh2. In return for the kickbacks Federal prosecutors charge Friedland and for Mer Union county assemblyman Joseph j. Higgins. Now of 1 Pompano Beach Flat. Defrauded the fund of $20 million through a bogus mortgage company they established in Florida. Since his arrest Friedland has been quoted in interviews As saying he Ted the United slates because he feared for his life. Friedland Higgins and four other men were named in a 90-Counl Federal indict ment in october 1985 in Newark Ilig gins entered a plea agreement with prosecutors and testified for the government against the others. Ken Neil 1". Zauber Robert c Oor and Frank scotto were convicted in 1986 and Are free on bail pending Appeal. Angus Stone Douglass pleaded guilty in a plea agreement. Koch his army launch Boycott of $7 . Cinemas new York m j mayor Edward i. Kodi showed up outside two manhat Tan movie Heaters with some of his army determined to use a Boycott to forct1 Heaters to abandon their new 1? ticket Price. We will not he Ahu cd. We will not be taken advantage the Mavor said tues Day night outside the Ila Ronet and Coronet Heaters. The two arc among 2h the piers owned by Cinelle Odeon that raised their prices to i7 at the beginning of the Holiday season. Loews Heaters followed suit. Protesters passed out leaflets indicating where films could be seen for less. Koch declared War on monday saying lie was encouraged by a barrage of letters since he broached the idea of a Boycott two weeks ago Koch. Who describes himself As a movie addict said just before Christmas that he would urge a Boycott of 17 movie Heaters if enough people wrote him in support of the idea. He received i,05j replies aides said with 1,04b yeas. Koch mid he would add other %1 Thea ices to the Boycott list each monday. I Hope 1 Don t have to continue this for a very Long time he said. If the army is behind me and see that it s working. I will continue this until we have Victory the manager of the baronet and Cor Onet referred Calls to the Heaters owner. Spokeswoman Denise Battaglia said no comment in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Jan. 7, 1948 the United Stales opened ils Case in nor nacre against the 21 gentlemen of German political and economic administrators who transferred the plans and ideologies of Adolf Hitler into action. 30 years ago today. ,. Jan. 7. 1958 the soviet Union announced a 300.0 x Man reduction m ils armed forces in i9sb and called on Western nations Lodo likewise. 20 years ago today. Jan 7 1968 thousands of communist guerrillas stormed into South Vietnam Ese villages As close As 23 Miles from the capital of Saigon in a wave of terrorist attacks that killed at least 14 and wounded 1 vib. 10 years ago today. Jan. 7, 1978 in a ceremony in Budapest Hungary Secretary of stale Cyrus Vance resumed the Crown of St. Stephen to Hungary. The Crown which symbolized hungarian nationhood had been held by the United states since the end of world War u
