European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 28, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. March 28, 1969 the stars and stripes Page 5 former airman gets medal 44 years late Thurmont. And. A a former Soldier has finally gotten his recognition 44 years after he climbed Inlo a bomber s open bomb Bay with no Parachute and manually dropped a dozen 250-Pound bombs Over nazi Germany. Russell acc Fisher performed his feat in 20-Bclow Zero temperatures and thin oxygen at 17,000 feel White anti aircraft fire exploded around the plane according to records. Authorities say he almost certainly saved the lives of the eight Man Crew. The retired civilian army employee and former stale commander of the american legion received the distinguished Hying Cross saturday. On March 30, 1945. Fisher was in a b-17 bomber on a Mission Over the City of Bremen when a malfunction made it impossible to release the plane s bombs automatically. The technical sergeant from Thurmont climbed into the bomb Bay hooked his leg around a Smalt catwalk and began pulling pins that released the bombs to plummet into a Railroad Yard and munitions factory. It happened Loo fast to be scared. No one told Meto do it no one asked me i just went Down because 1 knew it had to be done Fisher said before receiving the medal. Although his colleagues at the time recommended he receive a medal the War soon ended and in the confusion his Honor was forgotten. Fisher did t give it much thought until about five years ago when he ran into Bernard e. Sch Csinger jr., the in Ign s navigator. He said i m sorry the rest of the Crew was around when you got your medal " Fisher remembered i said whal medal. Schlesinger an attorney from. Alexandria a. Started scratching around for information working. With rep. Beverly b. Byron d-md., to locale military records. "1 would t Lake a million dollars for my expert  said Fisher. But i would t want to live through Ihm again either haitian refugees vow to toss offs overboard Miami a about 250 haitian refugees threatened to throw babies Over Board during a 30-hour land put with a coast guard vase transporting nearly 100 haitians Back to their Homeland officials said. A rope was used 10 immobilize the rudder of the 50-fool refugee vessel and four other coast guard cutters were sent to the scene before the haitians agreed to leave the Sailboat sunday about 120 Miles Southeast of Miami said Petty officer Gary is arvo la was really an ordeal and there were some very tense moments said Starks. There was no idea Whai would happen and Rio Neof the haitians had life jackets. There was a potential for a significant  one refugee woman was rescued after leaping into the sea and others vowed Tothrow their infant children overboard unless they were allowed to continue to Ward the United Sianii said Starks Sparks said none of the refugees had weapons and no one was injured Al though three ill haitians were trans ported to the coast guard base in Miami Beach. Som in haitians aboard the coast guard Cutler  refused to eat in an act of sympathy with the refugees he said. The escape1 encountered the refugee boat saturday slightly More than Ihrck mites off fort Laud Crdal while in route to port a Prince. If the refugees had come within the three mile limit they would have been brought ashore to be interviewed by . Immigration officials. Under ins policy Brief hearings Are held with refugees intercepted at sea and Only those deemed political Asylum candidates an allowed to enter the United slates. The escape returned the 99 original refugees to port a Prince sunday wit the Cutter steadfast returning the other Iso refugees to their Homeland. Only five of inc More than 20,000 haitians interviewed at sea since 1981 have been brought into the country for Asylum hearings. About 1,400 haitians have. Been stopped at sea so far this month More than in any other month in the eight year interdiction program. Gerard Jean just director of inc Hai Tian refugee Center in Miami said the latest incident shows the frustration Many haitians feel As Central american refugees pour into South Florida. Record wait Jack Fisher discusses it machine he has been hooked to while awaiting a heart transplant opera Tun in Pitts Burgh. On saturday when this photo was taken Nith his 5-Yi a wild juju h tur Christine and he wife Kuk. Fisher had own waiting a record 107 Days in was a Lull wailing monday. Cyanide laced grapes traced to chilean shipper Washington up . Investigators have traced the cya mde laced grapes that triggered inc ban on fruit from Chile to a chilean producer who shipped the tainted Fri Iii to the United Stales food and drug administration Chi f Frank Young says we. Don t have the exact person who would have done it Buwe do have a lot of information and we can Trace Back with a paper Traill to the Smalt producer where this  Fame from Young said on . Television sunday. He refused to identify the producer. He said authorities believe the tampering was done in Chile. The Fra imposed a four Dav ban on chilean fruit that ended March is after authorities discovered cyanide had been injected into two grapes in a shipment from Chile. The deadly chemical was found during a St Ppd up inspection program after ,"embassy received two Anonymous Telephone Calls warning of the Poison ing of chilean fruit the Best understanding that we have right now is that this followed a threat by an individual or individuals that said that they would put cyanide into the fruit Young said we do not know who did it but the person who would do it would come under  Laws on tampering because the tampering actually was found in the United states he said. In the Days following he apparent poisoning chilean officials blamed h5 communist party which denied involvement estimates of losses to the chilean Economy because of the ban ranged from s100 million los too million. Arrest ends crime spree with pair in drug coma Racine Wii a an Indiana Fugi Tive and his female companion were both in a coma sunday from drug overdoses thai occurred Moin wins. Before they were arrested authorities said. Ronald r. Hummer. 39 and Elizabeth Bonvillain it Are suspects in an interstate crime spree that included the taking of n hostage in an Indianapolis Hospital an Illi Nois armed robbery and the shooting of a police officer in suburban Milwaukee. Both remained in the drug induced comas sunday at is. Luke s Hospital in Racine but were taken off the critical list said nursing us pen isor Linda Cohn. Racine county sheriffs Deputy Ken Neth Sowinski said the id were arrested saturday morning when officers found them hiding in a barn shortly after a patrol Man. Who surprised them in a parked car was shot in the hand. They were four i buried under Straw in a Box stall Sowinski said. Both appeared to be under the influence of  Plummer an inmate at a Federal prison who had been Iii Indianapolis to fact Rob Bery charges is accused of escaping Friday with inc help of Bonvillain after he con trived a visit to a Hospital emergency room they Are suspected of taking an a Ray Lech Mician hostage then releasing him unharmed in Chicago. Police said Plum Raer has tried on at least four occasions since 1973 to escape from custody in Ohio and Kentucky. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. March 28. I94s an american owned vehicle us stoned and its windows smashed As  women paraded through the streets of Vienna Austria in a communist inspired demonstration against the nato pact. 30 years ago today. March 28, 19s9 the United states resumed full diplomatic re talons with Bulgaria ending a nine year break in relations thai began when a Bulgaria charged thai the last american ambassador in Sofia was a spy 20 years ago today. March 28, 1969 beatles drummer Kingo Starr announced that the group would not give any More Public performances but would continue to produce records and films As a group. J 0 years ago today. March 28, 1979 palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat urged the Arab world to impose a Boycott on inc United states and the egyptian regime for making a Treach Erous peace with Israel