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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, January 24, 1989

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 24, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thousands pay final respects to downed a of Utuado puerto Rico a thousands of rela Tives friends and air Force officials flocked to the Mountain town of Utuado sunday for the funeral of the air Force Pilot whose plane was shot Down during . Raid on Libya. The remains of air Force maj. Fernando Ribas Dominicci 33, arrived in puerto Rico on Friday three years after his plane was shot Down. It is a Miracle. For three years i prayed to Jesus Christ to return my son said the Pilot s Mother Teresa Dominicci de Ribas. I asked where is he who has him and although i never personally got an answer he  during the half hour ceremony at the Hillside san Andres de Utuado cemetery four Fin puerto Rico on Friday three years after his plane was shot Down. During the half hour ceremony at the Hillside san Andres de Utuado cemetery four f-111f jets the Type Ribas Dominicci piloted flew Over the Small town about 35 Miles West of san Juan. The major s v Dow Blanca held their 7-year-old son s hand and wept As the planes flew overhead in a missing Pilot formation. Police would t estimate the number of people who flocked to the town for the services but some observers offered estimates of up to 15,000 half the town s Normal population. Air Force chief of staff it. Gen. Carl Smith and Gen. Sam Westbrook commander of Raf Laken Heath in England where the Pilot was stationed gave eulogies. Fernando belongs to history. He returns As an example to All to inspire us about what to be and tuesday january 24, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 the widow of air Force maj. Fernando Ribas Dominicci Blanca says a tearful Farewell to husband. A what to do said Westbrook. He is a True hero a exemplary Model for  Westbrook said he would ask that Ribas Dominic Cibe awarded the Silver Star. Libya initially had identified the body As that of capt. Paul Lorence 31, of san Francisco Ribas Dominicci s electronics War fare officer who was also killed in the raid on Tripoli and Benghazi in which an estimated 40 libyans were killed. The body was returned Jan. 13 during a period of International debate Over a libyan Plant the United states says can produce chemical weapons and nine Days after . Fighters shot Down two libyan jets Over the Mediterranean. Manager abducted in grandma Moses Art theft Boston up two men kid napped a sales manager of a Boston Art gallery forced him to let them inside and stole two original grandma Moses paintings Worth about $100,000 each police said sunday. Thomas Waelter 39, employed at the Bloch gallery told police he was kid napped from a subway station parking lot saturday evening and taken to the gallery where his abductors forced him to turn off the alarm and let them inside. Waelter said a Friend dropped him off at about 6 . At the subway station Whereto men drove up behind him threw a Blanket Over his head and shoved him into the Back of their  police said. After the pair drove Waelter behind Bloch gallery they told him to walk around to the front of the building and he entered punching in the computer code to neutralize the gallery s alarm and assuring the alarm company everything was Fine Boston police spokeswoman ill Reilly said. Once inside they tied him up wit plastic cuffs on his hands and feet and took him to the rear of the building handmade him lie face Down on the floor Reilly said. The suspects took 10 paintings including two by american artist Anna Mary Robertson Moses better known As grandma Moses. Reilly was unable to say what other works were taken or the Dollar value involved. Shortly after the men fled with the paint Ings Reilly said Waelter who was not harmed freed himself and called police. Waelter told police the men used no weapons in the kidnapping and theft and that while they called him by name he did not recognize them. Neighbors raising stink about hog operations Tilghman my. Up some 1.2 million Gal Lons of hog manure does not Lay the foundation for Good relations with your neighbors. Hog Farmers Terry Price and Melvin Draper have made that discovery. Their neighbors Are waging a Campaign aimed at encouraging them to do a better Job of smothering the smell of their profitable pigs a their separate farms near the historic Antietam National Battlefield. Price and Draper would not be affected directly by a proposed ordinance regulating animal Husban dry now before the Washington county commission ers. But supporters of the legislation believe such Laws might Jar the consciences of the men so they will clean up their operations a bit. I go up the Road and people hold their noses Price said in sunday s editions of the Baltimore Sun. I m used to being proud of what we do. But this makes you want to keep to yourself All you can. I jus can t believe it stinks enough to cause somebody a bad  Price and Draper have each invested $2 million in the hog operations which feature High tech facilities in every facet except for that waste disposal prob Lem. Hog manure gives off potentially explosive meth Ane Gas and must be stored in open pits. Price s land which houses More than 8,300 hogs is graced by open pits holding up to 1.2 million Gallons of hog manure. It s state of the Art technology but it s still an open sewer pit. There s nothing state of the Art about that said Edward Kuczynski a lawyer who lives near the Draper and Price operations. Draper was understanding of his neighbors con Cerns but staunch in his belief that he s got a right to raise his hogs. I Ain t saying it Don t stink said Draper whose previous business was hauling refuse. You can t raise no animal without some kind of odor. How do you get rid of it you do something to try to make a living and this is what  nude stroller arrested in fatal hit run Accident Malibu Calif. A a nude Man shouting Hail satan As he strolled through a beachfront restaurant was arrested and later linked to a fatal hit run Accident authorities said sunday. Brian l. Harlow 28, of Malibu allegedly was driving a stolen pickup truck involved in a Pacific coast Highway crash minutes before the Friday night restaurant escapade that led to his arrest a California Highway patrol spokesman said. Harlow briefly hospitalized for Obser vation at Harbor Urcla medical Center was booked for investigation of murder and was being held without bail at Tholos Angeles county jail. Startled diners avoided conversing with the nude Man As he strolled casually through the restaurant and sat at an unoccupied table manager Greg Butler said. A waiter told him he d better leave and he said he was satan and was going to die. We left him alone hoping the sheriffs would show up Butler said. Five minutes after entering the restau rant Harlow walked through the crowded bar to an outside Patio and Down to a Rocky outcropping on the Beach where he was arrested. The pickup Harlow left running in the restaurant parking lot had been involved in a fatal Accident at 11 40 . Friday in Corral Canyon the cup spokesman said. The pickup hit a motorcycle from be Hind rear ended it then kept going the spokesman said. The motorcyclist suffered Only minor injuries the spokesman said but the 22 year old passenger on the motorcycle a recently discharged Sailor from Norfolk va., was killed. Identification was with held until relatives could be contacted  
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