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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes sunday january 21,1990 Little Rock. Ark. Apr a twin engine corporate Jet crashed or Tolof Little Rock municipal Airport while templing to land during a violent storm Friday killing All seven aboard. The 21-scat Gulf Stream ii Jet. Carrying employees of an Eastman Kodak co. Subsidiary was attempting a Landing shortly after 5 . Witnesses said. Seven bodies were recovered from inc wreckage said Coroner Steve Nawojczyk. The air plane broke apart on  he said. According to witnesses. Thu Lane hit guidance lights Short of Iho Erport. Pan caked onto a Street  200 feet onto Airport Propp without reaching the runway. I lightning were sweep ing them Fth the area about the time ofic crash. As company Jet crashes Landing in violent storm first i heard a rumbling like Thundu and As i looked out 1 saw  going across the  Saj Pcraig tin who witnessed to crash. It k like there a Nyling left of the plane"1 Airport ojt3laid they did not con Sider  run Fries because of the Cal he Ucci Sions on non Kye in bad ice arc up to the Pilot said tanager James Rodgers. The plane left Longview. Texas in route to Batch Villa. Ark., and was diverted to Little Rock because of had weather said Bill Edwards a spokesman for Tennessee Eastman co. In Kingsport Tenn. The passengers were employees of Arkansas Eastman in Batch Villa which makes chemicals and aspirin. Gary Mcdonald manager of Community relations for Arkansas Eastman Lenl Ifird the dead As . Bud Ger Nurt. Retired Arkansas Eastman presi Dent and his wife. Marian and company employees William Schirmir. Randy Wood and Nathan Castcel and company pilots Don Mason and de o Neal. Charles Rogers said he was driving on interstate 440, which passes the Airport when he saw the plane hit some Guy wires or something i saw Sparks. It looked sort of red and  Hen the plane hit the ground it just Fotti Rogers said. Ait is As the  he said. There were spa Kiup in the air. So it did hit something  state rep. Jim keel a Little Rock who arrived at the Airport on a later commercial Light said the weather was atrocious and he was surprised that aircraft were being cleared for landings at the time. Barry from Page 1 drug related crimes. Wherever there is predisposition there is not  said Stephens. It was scrupulously fair to the subject of the investigation. Or.  Stephens said Barry went to the Visla hotel in his limousine accompanied by Security guards. He entered on his own volition. He went to inc seventh floor on his own free will. He put himself in that  Afler Friday s Brief court hearing in even briefer remarks to reporters swarm ing around the Federal courthouse. Barr said. I m going to leave Here and go about inc business of  but the mayor s office issued a statement later thai said he was temporarily giving up his Day to Day mayor s chores because of a need for time to handle his Legal matters his concern for his family and because in is in the Best interests of the Cili cons of Washington  he has been plagued in recent years by accusations of drug use As Well As the corruption convictions of several top City officials. He has repeatedly denied Ever using or buying drugs. In inc statement released by his office Barry said i want to assure my friends colleagues supporters fellow citizens the business Community and the nation that this government will continue to operate at maximum performance. 1 know i have a team of compact Cal professionals who will continue to run inc affairs of government while i devote some time i to my Legal  the statement i which said he was i turning Over Day to Day mayor s do tics to Thompson was released after he met with Cabinet members and Polit j ical advisers. Anonymous sources said several Thompson Cabinet members threatened to resign if Barry did not step aside from most City affairs. If convicted the mayor could face penalties of up to one year in jail and a $ 100.000 Fine said Stephens. According to court papers filed by fed eral prosecutors the Fri rented hotel room in which Barry was arrested was being watched through a surveillance camera. He gave a Quantity of currency to a cooperating witness in return for crack a highly potent form of cocaine according to the papers or. Barry put some of the crack co Caine in a smoking apparatus lit the crack cocaine and smoked it Fri agent Ronald Stern said in an affidavit. I observed or. Barry. Inhale on the lit smoking  Federal agents then entered the hotel room end arrested the mayor who officials said later tested positive for cocaine when blood and urine tests were Given under a warrant. He was taken to Fri Headquarters and released on his own recognizance. . Magistrate Deborah Robinson Al Lowed the mayor to remain free but or dered him to undergo drug tests every monday. He also must make weekly phone Calls to a pretrial services Agency and will face another court appearance feb. 5. Barry s court appearance came less than two hours before the san Lancing of Charles Lewis a former Friend of the mayor and now a cooperating govern ment witness against him for conspiracy to distribute cocaine. Lewis pleaded guilty last year and told the judge he had Given cocaine to inc mayor. Lewis was sentenced to 15 months in prison. Soviets from Page y. There arc started resisting right Many dead and  the shooting seemed certain ther inflame passions resulting from to current ethnic conflict Between Azerbaijan and Armenia. In marked inc Krem Lin s first use of deadly Force against the soviet people since army troops killed 20 pro Independence demonstrators during a protest last april 9 in Tbilisi the Capi Tal of soviet Georgia. The confrontation came after a Day i which azerbaijani militants ruled the streets of Baku trapping some red. Army troops in their Barracks Blocky if others from patrolling the City and vow ing to set up an islamic a Cpd it Accord ing to reports from  the cily of Lif Fillion was in a state of virtual Jua Niy during the Day Friday. Most Belovics were closed and thou Sands of people milled around outdoor bonfires according to official Media and a spokesman at the azerbaijani Republic Mission in Moscow. In Moscow in was announced that the Kremlin had abandoned its emergency mobilization of army reserves on Friday after an outpouring of protests from rus Sian parents unwilling to let their sons police the fighting in Azerbaijan. Moscow said on Friday night that All the Young reservists conscripted for the special duty would be released within five Days. In Public resistance to the Call up. Was fetid the National i my builders that opt fiscal poli Osc of the aver  mrs. Bush Van women Washington a first lady Barbara Bush said thursday that women arc not physically Strong enough to go into combat. And that Thirl presence would cause morale and other problems. The comm Cutsin a radio inter View with mute cd broadcasting amounted to a of tuning of the qualified yes inc gave news Agency reporters i tuesday when asked if military women should be allowed to serve i combat. Salvadormart charges san Salvador Al Salvador a an army to Loncle three lieutenants and five listed men were charged with Rrth Der Friday in the november swings of six Jesuit priests their housekeeper and her teen age daughter. Col. Guillermo Beil Vidics. Director of the  is the highest ranking Arnod forces officer to be accused if a crime involving a human right abuse in inc 10-year-old civil War against leftist guerrillas. The slain jesuits were Klu Calora Al he Jose Simeon canal Central american University. German politician Bonn. West Germany a Herbert Wuchner the fiery orator who quit the communist party to become one of West Germany s leading social democrats has died a spokesman said. He was 83. Wuchner died late Friday at his Home in the Bonn suburb of bad Godesberg social democratic party spokesman Eduard Eussen said. He had been seriously ill for Sev eral years suffering from diabetes alzheimer s disease and sclerosis  
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