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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 27, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pai the stars and stripes thursday april 27,1983 emergency Landing from wire report Stutchfield Park Ariz. A by b bomber made an emergency Landing without incident tues Day afternoon Al Luke fab West of Phoenix because Al electrical prob lems during a training flight officials said. Base spokesman Bill Mckenzie said the aircraft was based at Ellsworth fab outside rapid City . However., he said he did not know if the flight originated there. Duill in 1941 to train fighter pilots Luke is a tactical air come base with no bomber squadrons however  said the Blel had no problem setting Down on one of two 10,000-foot runways. Aide commits suicide Tokyo prime minister no Boru to Kishil i s former top aide who was imply rated in he political. Scandal that forced Takeshita to resign comm Rcd suicide wednes Day police a  Aoki who resigned in the midst of incl scandal that toppled Takishita s government killed himself at Hii Tokyo apartment at about 10 . The Tokyo metro Politan police said British to Check jets London British and . Aviation authorities on. Tuesday ordered checks on British Aero space 146 jets which Are used Here by Queen Ali a both 11, after cracks were discovered in their Amori can built Jet  civil aviation authority and the . Federal aviation administration issued the order after the cracks were discovered when the engines were stripped Down inthe United slates authorities said. Policeman freed Warsaw Poland a police Man sentenced to 14.years in Pris on for the murder of pro Solidarity priest Jeray Popi Rusiko has been treed., after serving about four years it was announced  chronic Liwski was one of four Security officers convicted of killing inc roman Catholic priest in 1984 and dumping the body in the Vistula River North of Warsaw. The three other officers were Given longer sentences and remain in prison. Mexican drug raid Mexico City Federal agents seized 1,760  co Caine during raids in Northern Mexico and arrested 12 people suspected of planning to smuggle the drug into the United states prosecutors said tuesday. The attorney general s office said police arc also looking for two pilots a Mescan and a Colombi an the Are suspected of flying the drug into Mexico from  Lobian cil of Barranquilla. Party ret Moscow party s c a nor. Day retired 14 eluding Fornin a. Carom to. Renewal of the making b in strengthen. It Gorbachev party idol Medvedevs unanimously quests for re  committee. Or Bers of the prions commit res 74 the communist committee tues i nor members in preside in Andrei a make Way for party s top policy that Likely will  Cal Mikhail s. Chief Vadim a d the committee in proved 110 re resent by cent rambers non voting a bars and Mem Ray s Central Revi judge overturns conviction of Man who served 21 years Arcadia Fla a a judge tuesday overturned the murder conviction of a 53-year-old former migrant farm worker in the poisoning deaths of his seven children freeing him after 21 years in prison. Retired circuit judge Clifton Kelly called Back by the Florida supreme court to hear this Case released James Richardson 53, to the custody of de sense attorney Ellis Rubin of Miami. The decision came after an extraordinary Appeal in which both Rubin and special prosecutor Janet Reno agreed that Richardson a Black Man who was convicted by an All White jury had been railroaded. Within my heart i knew that these great men were going to get me out they weren t going to let me slay in there Richardson said. Right now i feel  Richardson was convicted in 1968 of murdering his oldest child an a year old daughter and was sentenced to death. The sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. This court is now convinced that the defendant did not receive a fair trial Kelly told a packed courtroom in inc Desoto county court House. Kelly denied de sense attorney Mark Lane s motion to dismiss the Richardson charge saying the state would decide later whether to retry the Case. Reno however said the charges would be dropped. Richardson s wife Annie Mae cried when she heard the judge s decision. Gov. Bob Martinez who had appointed Reno to review the Case said the Evi Dence justified Richardson s release. Kelly reached his decision after hear ing arguments from three sides Richard son s defense attorneys the former prosecutor who brought the Case in 1968, and the special prosecutor Lane had argued that the state attorney and Frank clinic the Desoto county sheriff at the time of the trial railroaded Richardson by manufacturing and encouraging perjured testimony and by withholding essential evidence from he defense now the state and the defense both say the judgment of conviction must be vacated said Lane a Washington Law yer and author who first alleged a Frame up in the Case in his 1971 Book arca Dia Lane said clinic was Friendly with bes Sie Reese the Babysitter who originally came under suspicion in the poisoning ease and lied to protect her. Cline was with Reese on the morning in 1967 when Richardson s children were fed lunch laced with poral Hion a since banned deadly insecticide. Lane said. Reese who is in her late 60s and in a nursing Home has confessed to nurses tothe deaths according to an affidavit from nurses. No charges have been file against her and prosecutors have said she has become confused. Quake hits Mexico City Acapulco Mexico City a a Strong earthquake struck Mexico City and Aca Pilco tuesday cracking buildings and shattering windows and panicking thou Sands of people who remembered the killer quake of 1985. The Ricmor hit Mexico City at 8 26 a.m., about the same time As the massive earthquake Hal hit on sept. 19, 1985, killing Al least 10,000 people and destroying hundreds of buildings. One Man  tuesday when Power cables fell on him and iwo women were seriously injured when they jumped from the second floor of a swaying build ing officials said. Police reported no collapsed buildings or other deaths or serious injuries but Many buildings swayed widely and were evacuated. The quake produced a lot of panic because of the 1985 experience said mayor Manuel Camacho Solis the tremor Shook the Pacific Beach resorts of Acapulco and Zihura Lanjo but there were no reports of death or dam age according to Guerrero state govern ment spokesman Miguel Angel Hernan Dez. Even though the quake was intensively Felt everything is Normal and there Are also reports of no major dam Agni we did a Survey by radio said Hernandez by Telephone. The . National earthquake information Center in Golden Colo said the earthquake registered 6.b on the Richler scale. It said the epicentre was 40 Miles Oast of Acapulco about 200 Miles Southof Mexico cily. Mexico s seismic Institute calculated the quake at 7 on Lite Richter scale. The 1985 quake measured 8.1 on the Richter scale. There s a real psychosis Here about earthquakes since 1985," said Alejandro Maura an office worker who like hundreds of others had not re entered his building hours after he tremor. Francisco Guerra advertising director of the newspaper nov dads do a Apul co said the quake caused Brief Power failures and panic. I be never Felt a tremor so Strong in the City and i be lived Here for 30 years. I thought the building would collapse he said. From Page 1 syndrome of the Laic 197c Long standing personnel proof catch reps. Pal Sehron Cdr a and Beverly Byron d-md., criticized general decline in spending for those pro Grams by the Reagan administration in the past few years. Cheney pointed out that he was not in the Pentagon during those budget cycles. All i can say is that i assure you i will spend a Tot of Lime on this area he said. Fie pointed out that for the current $ in billion reduction military construction and personnel accounts look far less of a Cut than spending for hardware military personnel spending for fiscal 199q has been reduced by $700 million military construction by $500 million and family housing by less than s50 Mil lion. In contrast there will be cuts of$l,5_ billion in both the operations and Mai for Lenare and research and dec Lonnem accounts and the major Cut of is Bil lion in. New. Weapons.procureirua1 even the most signified personnel actions in the revised buds Tel a reduction of 8,000  Troon find 5,000 Navy personnel will chm timely painless. Half of the Amy Cut will be achieved through a draw Down and Transfer to the Reserve component of a brigade assigned to the 4ih inf div headquartered at fort Carson colo.,  spokesman i col. John rejigs said. The remaining cuts will come through the elimination of positions in the per Shing ii missile units in West Germany which arc being withdrawn under the while All the Pershing ii slots will Dis appear Ritz said some of the troops a piously assigned to those slots will be hello backfill vacancies in 8-Inchand multiple. Launch Rock a on the Side. The cuts off be achieved   the Carrier Coral be thud a jump to of destroyers deactivate fit of if p-3 recon Naissance aircraft  of 10 frigates from Active  Reserve components. Jt1 in terms q j his specific Sion service be mfrs should feel Lucky Saur a Pentagon personnel Cial. Juffre s been a tendency Over the tvs Jears to Cul into people pro v3 because they yield Quick savings T. Paper. But for this $10 billion Cul,1 almost All the heartburn was fell by the folks on the hardware  detailing the hardware cuts at his first congressional hearing As defense Secre tary Cheney produced few surprises since inc major features of inc s10 Bil lion revision were worked out weeks ago in Rouglin negotiations Between lawmakers and administration officials. He outlined the administration s proposal to end the dec ado old deadlock  of Long Range missiles. The 50 existing 10-warhead my missiles would be made rail mob in fiscal 1990, and procurement Otic single War head Midge than Kouja begin in fiscal 1991. The planned procurement of 50 additional my jul smiles would be can celeb. The  weapons pro Gram care Clelion is the v-22 till Rotor air Rall for the Marino corps which air almost s1.3 billion. Said that the decision was simply a question of affordability and that the narrow Mission for that aircraft gelling marines from ship to Shore could continue to be accomplished by helicopters in the inventory of her Prog Arns scheduled for Termi nation include the  s ah-64 Apache attack helicopter the oh-5sd advanced helicopter improvement pro Gram die Fud aircraft and one los Angeles class submarine Cheney also confirmed his plans to Incel the scheduled acquisition of aircraft Carrier Battle group. That of the toughest decisions i had to Mitt he said Bui in my judgment i feel Veon do the Job we need to do with the  of carriers we  weapons i owns that were stretched out include the Timmy s uh-60 Black Hawk and  helicopters the  s and ats nip Lyjak missile the Navy t-45ts irid a Fly aircraft and the b-2 stealth bomber Fol feh will be delayed for a year at a savings of $855 million. Funding for stars wars the strut Chic defense initiative also will be Sla Shedoy almost $ i billion  
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