European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 25, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday. May 25.19bb the stars and stripes Page s v-22 copter plane Rolls into spotlight Arlington tens 4p the first non experimental aircraft thai Flics Bath like a helicopter and an air plane rolled into the spotlight monday hailed As an aviation Milestone by legislators and top military brass. The v-22 Osprey a till Rotor Craft that takes offend hovers like a helicopter and Flics like an air plane received a standing ovation from a crowd of 1,600. The crowd watched As the camouflaged Craft was towed onto the Tarmac it Bell helicopter text Ron inc s flight re search Center. The first flight of the v-22. Which has been in development Tor 30 years is scheduled for aug. 15. An advanced experimental Model the Xv-15, has been Hying since 1977. Fort Worth based Bell and Boeing helicopter co. Or Philadelphia arc jointly developing the v-22 for the Navy marines and air Force. The three services plan to buy 632 of the twin engine aircraft at an estimated Cost on 16.6 million each a s kind of awesome Marine corps Comman Dant Gen. Alfred m. Gray or. Told the crowd. It works it s ahead of schedule and will be a sound investment for tainayers1 Money said Navy Secre tary William l. Ball ill comparing the tilt Rotor s pro Duclion to the Jet engine s development As aviation milestones. You Are proving every Day that a great country can still out think Ouid sign and out produce All Comers Ball said. The three military sen ices plan to use the v-22 for combat assault search and Rescue medical evacuation and special forces missions. Other uses including anti submarine warfare also Are being studied. The Cabin can carry 24 combat equipped troops in addition to a Crew of three. On our abortive Rescue attempt made in Iran a Tew years ago think what could have happened if they d had an Osprey said House speaker Jim Wright refer ring to the failed 1930 Rescue of 44 american hostages from Tehran. The Osprey about the size or a medium transport aircraft has a Stocky 57.3-fool-Long fuselage and twin engines mounted on thick stubby wings. Us engines Point upward during Takeoff and Landing with 38-fool the Navy marines und air Force plan to thy 6b1 of these v-22 Osprey i a an Ester Nan Cost of to 6.6 million each. In diameter Rotor Blades that parallel the ground. The engines rotate or tilt Forward once the v-22 is airborne. Rotors lock into place and act like Over sized propellers pulling the Osprey through the air like a conventional aircraft. The tilt Rotor can Fly with the Speed and Range of a Turboprop plane More than 360 Mph but does t require an Airport or runway. It also can hover like a helicopter. I m convinced that in the next 20 years there will be thousands of these in use said Bell president pm. Jack Homer. Bell has talked with american airlines and several commuter companies about civilian uses for Lite Craft a spokesman said. The new York and new Jersey port authority is a Strong supporter of this  said Horner. We could build a lot of v-22s for the Cost prone Airport. The British designed harrier jump Jet also takes off and lands vertically but using jct propulsion rather than a Rotor system. Couple denies role in plot to kill Jackson St. Louis u i a couple accused of being part Ofa White supremacist conspiracy to kill democratic presidential candidate Jesse Jackson pleaded inno cent to All charges monday and . District judge Edward filippino set trial for july 18. Londell Williams. A and his wife. Tammy 27, wearing to shirts and jeans appeared in Handcuffs before filippino in a 10-minute hearing. Filippino asked them if they were under the care of a psychiatrist or physician and if they were addicted to drugs or alcohol. Both said they had no addictions and were not under medical or psychiatric supervision. Londell Williams is charged in a four count indictment handed Down thurs Day with threatening to kill and inflict bodily harm on Jackson Possession of an unregistered ar-15 Rifle that had been altered to perform As an automatic wean on threatening to injure an informant and intimidating an informant. Tammy Williams is not charged with threatening Jackson but is named in the other three counts. Cynthia Short attorney for Tammy Williams and John Hughes attorney for Londell Williams filed motions monday appealing a lower court order that the couple Bolh of whom have prior arrest records be held without Bond until trial. Both have been held without bail since being charged May 17. The penalty on the threatening charge is a prison term of up to three years and a Tine of up to $250,000. The other counts each carry prison terms of up to 10 years and fires up to $250,000. The charges arc based in part on tape recorded conversations in which Londell Williams is alleged to have claimed the White supremacist group known As the covenant the sword and the Arm of the lord was planing la kill Jackson because he was getting too close to being Percsi Illinois Man guilty in Kidnap murder Kankakee Iii. A a Man who made greed his god was convicted monday of kidnapping and murdering a prominent businessman who was buried alive and suffocated in a botched $1 Mil lion Ransom scheme. Jurors deliberated Only about an hour after a we Klong trial before finding Daniel Edwards 31. Of Bourbonnais guilty of murdering Kankakee business Man Stephen Small. A second phase of the trial will deter mine whether Edwards is sentenced to death. Small -10, was the great grandson of former j Illinois gov Len Small and was a member of a family with major Media holdings. He was the former vice presi Dent of mid America Media a group that owned radio and Cable television stations before the company was was sold in 1986. Edwards live in Girlfriend Nancy d. Rish 26, also was charged in the scheme and is awaiting trial. Edwards was a Man who made greed his god said Frank Nowicki an assist ant Illinois attorney general All Danny boy had to do to Cash in on that Jackpot was put Stephen Small. In a Box said Michael Ficaro an other assistant Illinois attorney general slamming his hand on the top of the cof Fin sized crate in which Small died. But Edwards attorney Sheldon Rea Gan argued that Small was buried with Candy bars lights and water and had t been harmed before being put in the Box. He said a faulty air Supply system caused Small s death. It s an Accident but it s nol an intentional murder said Reagan who suggested someone else abducted Small. I know you want 10 convict somebody but certainly not for  i1 to Days after he had been abducted police found Small s body in the ten buried under 3 feel of Sand 13 Miles Southeast of Kan flu c. The jury picked in Northern Illinois Winnebago county because of publicity the ease received locally heard a tape of Small s voice relaying the Ransom de Mand to his family and heard witnesses who saw Edwards building the Box. Perhaps the most chilling evidence was the tape recorded voice of Small on the Telephone telling his wife Nancy a s no joke. I m inside. A Box.  it s under a couple of feet of Sand or something like underground Small told his wife. I want you to get $1 Mil lion. God Only knows How you re going 10 do that. He says there s 48 hours of air for  prosecutors called the tapes the voice from the grave. Reagan however told jurors that no one had identified the voice on the ran som tapes As Edwards voice and said the facts Don t Tell you that Edwards was the kidnapper. Throughout the trial the ban a on display in the courtroom. Dent of the United  however officials said William has passed a lie Detector lest in which he de Nied membership in the Cha or tote order another while supremacist group. In a Telephone Call last week to a Tele vision station Williams denied membership in either group and denied he was involved in a plot to kill Jackson. A neighbor of the couple told the Franklin county sheriffs department on May 9 that the couple was conspiring to kill Jackson court records indicate. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today May 15, 1948 the Arab legion ignored a . Appeal to comply with the . Security Council s cease fire order in Palestine while Israel ordered a cease fire on All fronts. 30 years ago today May 25, i9j8 air Force capt. . Feeding withstood a Gravity pull 83 times his own weight about twice As much As any Man before who i cd to Lell about it in endurance tests in alarm Gordo . 20 years ago today. May 25, 1968 As France faced an almost total labor stoppage. President Charles do Gaulle said he would resign unless voters approved a referendum on his policies. 10 years ago today May 25. 1978 an army Survey indicated some 209,000 enlisted person Nel nearly one out of three used marijuana and about 49,000 used hard drugs