European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday june 22, 1988 the stars and stripes links umbrellas a Model it Hilton head Island , clip onto any golfing keeping clubs Iff displays umbrellas which an designed to while raving them Emily accessible. Of made record 12 intercepts off Alaska in 4 Days Anchorage Alaska up american Jet fighters intercepted a re Cord 12 soviet military planes Hying Oft Alaska during a tour Day period last week but the air Force said monday it had no explanation Tor the increased so Viet activity. Never before has the air Force encountered so much soviet military activity in the airspace around Alaska in such a Short Lime according to a review of intercept records said sol. George Craw Ford of the alaskan air come at Elmen Dorf fab in Anchorage. Crawford said the air Force views the flights As training missions for the Sovi ets As Well As unplanned real lire intercept training Tor the americans. As Tor the sudden jump in soviet Mili tary air activity in the Arctic Crawford declined to. Speculate on the reasons and said you d have to ask the in All cases he soviets have stayed in International airspace. An intercept is triggered when radar detects a non com Mercial air plane entering the . Air de sense identification zone a Buffer around . Airspace. The most recent intercepts occurred late Friday off Northwest Alaska when two Al 5s scrambled from Eielson of near Fairbanks to meet three soviet planes in iwo encounters High above the Arctic Ocean Between the Alaska and Siberia land mass Crawford did. First the Al is found an Il-2d coot a Etc an intelligence gathering recon Naissance plane that reached a Point a similes from Point Lay an Alaska Eskimo Village on the Chukchi sea coast before it turned away from the in itch states Crawford said. But before he f-l5s could return to base they were directed Back to the Sam general area to meet iwo soviet bombers heading toward Alaska. Crawford said the air Force Jet fight in intercepted two soviet car a bomb ers 123 Miles Northwest of Point Lay. Bearg bombers arc capable of carry ing two air to surface missiles. The interceptions were similar to three thursday involving five soviet aircraft a coot two car is and a pair of car bombers capable of carrying cruise mis Siles. Last tuesday there were two intercepts thursday s numbers represented two alaskan air come records for num Ber of missions flown in a Day and num Ber of soviet aircraft encountered. But then came More on Friday adding to the air Force totals and setting new record for intercept activity in such a Short lifespan Crawford said. So far this year the air Force has Down 20 intercept missions off Alaska in which 35 soviet military planes were steered away. Last year the air Force conducted 31 intercepts of 56 soviet planes off Alaska. Judge agrees to dismiss la desegregation suit los Angeles apr a Federal judge monday agreed to dismiss the country s largest desegregation suit paving the Way for an end to the 25-year Battle Between the a act and the nation s second largest school District. Us. District judge a. Wallace Tashima gave the a act and the los Angeles school District 60 Days to work out a settlement before the decision become final. The action arises out of the recognition that. Precious Little can be accomplished to desegregate school system hat presently is just barely 17 percent White said District counsel Peter James. Graver g. Haikins general counsel for the National association for advancement of coloured people said he was hopeful negotiations would offer some substantial Relief to minority students. The suit was first filed by the a act in state court in 1963, and moved to Federal court in 1981. In the mid-1960s, enrolment in the District was More than 55 percent White. Today however 83 per cent of the District s nearly 590,000 students Are from minority groups. Hispanic form the largest ethnic minority group at 56.8 percent followed by Blacks a 17.7 percent asians and Pacific islanders at 8.2 percent and american indians at 0.3 percent. Whites make up 16.9 percent of the total enrolment. The a act alleged that the District illegally discriminated against Black students through its policies and actions. A state court ordered he District to re assign and bus students to achieve integration fromi978lol98l. Mandatory busing ceased when voters approved proposition i in 1979, which barred slate courts from Friend charged with aiding suicide manorv1lle, . Of Aman who twice saved his Best Friend from trying to kill himself was in jail on manslaughter charges monday accused of helping the Man commit Sui cide on a third try. Thomas pc Rillo 25, told police that his Friend John a Lockly 29, was despondent Over the break up of his marriage and that Petrillo agreed to help him end his life. He feels his Friend is belter off now said Suffolk county assistant District attorney John Collins who videotaped Pitrillo s confession. He seems to have done it out of affection and has shown no Petrillo told authorities Lockle was depressed and begged for his help in committing suicide after the two shared a few Beers Early saturday. Stockle an unemployed Auto me chanic wanted to Hook up a flexible pipe to his car exhaust to kill himself by Carbon monoxide poisoning but could t get the engine signed Petrill told police. Petrillo from Shirley on Long is land said Stockle then asked him to push his Carlo a wooded area about a mite away. Petrillo said he then connected the pipe to the exhaust of his jeep and placed the other end inside Lockle s firebird. Petrillo let his motor Idle while Stockle sat in his car Collins said. He said he then walked away about 50 feet away for about two hours said Collins. When be re. Turned he broke a window in the fire Bird to make it look like he tried to Rescue he then went to another Friend Shouse and told him that Stockle had killed himself. Police were called Petrillo at first said he accidentally found the body but later confessed to assist ing Petullo in the suicide officers said. Petrillo a swimming Pool construction worker had rescued Stockle on two previous suicide attempts the dead Man s family told police. New York slate Law specifically pro Hibits anyone from helping someone commit suicide or attempt suicide. Petrillo has been arrested six limes since 1980, including arrests for rape and burglary Collins said he was placed on three years probation for the burglary conviction the disposition of the rape Case was not immediately available. Ordering busing As a remedy for segregation. The anti busing initiative would not prevent a Feder Al court from ordering busing however if it found the District in violation of Federal Law. Since mandatory busing ended the District provided voluntary integration approach relying partly on Magnet schools which offer specialized instruction and which must conform to ratios that permit up to 60 percent to 70 percent minority enrolment. Among proposals being considered to enhance opportunities of minority students is the expansion of a one year Pilot program that involved overhaul ing the administration and leaching staffs at Low achieving inner City schools. That was accompanied by new curricula with an emphasis on Reading and writing. Some evidence indicates that the changes have brought higher test scores James said. Shooting leaves 1 dead 3 Hurt Butler a. A a father of 11 was charged with murder monday in connection with what police said was an unprovoked shooting spree at a bar which left one Man dead and three wounded Robert Edward Mclaughlin 51, of Glenshaw pa., surrendered to shale town ship police monday one hour after Bret Stidham 22, of Pittsburgh died at presbyterian University Hospital in Pittsburgh. State police said Mclaughlin opened fire sunday night inside the Plainview bar i Penn township shooting Stidham and three others before fleeing in a pickup truck. Investigator said they believe Mclaughlin did t know his victims. Mclaughlin was also charged with at tempted murder and aggravated assault. One of the three shooting survivors was hospitalized in critical condition an other was listed in fair condition and the third was treated and released
