European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes tuesday january 23,1990 Atlanta controller de certified Atlanta a the air traffic controller who was in charge of two planes involved in a fatal runway crash last week was stripped of his certification a Federal investigator said sunday. The controller failed to warn the Pilot of an Eastern airlines Boeing 727 that had just landed that there was a smaller plane on the runway in front of him said the official from the National transportation safety Board. The Pilot of the smaller plane a twin engine Bench Craft King air. Was killed in the Accident thursday night at Mansfield Atlanta International Airport. The co Pilot of the Bench Craft was slightly injured but nobody aboard the Airliner was Hurt. The Pilot of the Eastern plane which carried 141 passengers spotted the smaller plane too late and tried to veer away but the Airliner s right Wing struck the smaller plane s cockpit. Safety Board investigators were told the Faa had de certified the controller due to an error made because procedures were not followed the Nosb said in a news release sunday under the name of chief investigator Bob macintosh. Macintosh refused to answer questions. The controller whose name was with held May apply for retraining and Recer Tif cation but won t be allowed to direct air traffic without certification. The controller was hired by the Faa in 1982 and has worked in the Atlanta Tower since october 1988, the its said. He took his Post about four min utes before the Accident. Nosb investigators said saturday the Pilot of Eastern flight 111 from new York was t warned of the smaller plane on the runway ahead of him As is required. During a 2 i hour interview with Nosb investigators sunday the control Ler acknowledged it was his responsibility to ensure the runway was Clear before allowing another plane to land the Nosb statement said. He stated that he thought that the King air had cleared the runway and was surprised that it had not the statement said. However he did not actually observe the King air Clear the runway. He could not explain Why he did not offer traffic information to Eastern 111 about the King air flight As required by air traffic control  the controller also indicated that he was distracted by two other aircraft one that had just landed and another on Landing approach that had reported a possible Hydraulic problem the statement said. The Eastern Pilot 23-year Veteran Ralph Orlando blamed the crash on the controller. We should have been advised at a minimum that there was a Small plane and that it might not be cleared Orlan do said. Apparently no one in the Tower saw the collision macintosh said. The Pilot who was killed Eric Thom As 30, worked for Atlanta based Epps air service. Barry from Page 1 Caine ingestion. A defendant who pleads not guilty on the ground that the police led him into committing a crime ordinarily has a hard argument to make. But in the District of Columbia the entrapment defense is especially difficult lawyers say. Gerald Caplan. A professor of criminal Law at George Washington University and former general counsel to the District of Columbia metropolitan police department said. The defendant who asserts an entrapment defense takes enormous  the prosecution can defeat such a de sense in this City if it can show that the defendant had a predisposition to commit the crime with which he has been charged. Juries Here arc instructed that they can find for a predisposition to a crime merely if the defendant participated with  Law enforcement officials have said that to demonstrate predisposition they intend to use testimony of the woman rash cd Moore that she and Barry used drugs together several times. The mayor s Public statement on the Steps of a Church sunday morning was More vague. He said Only that he needed to heal my body mind and  it is unclear whether that was an at tempt to preserve the option of denying a drug habit while trying to offer Public contrition. His vagueness could also have been meant to reduce the possibility of a per jury charge because he has previously denied under oath that he uses drugs. But Caplan said prosecutors have wide latitude in demonstrating a Predis position and that if Barry tries an entrapment defense he will expose himself to questioning about All sorts of things that would not otherwise be allowed in court. All the evidence that is usually inadmissible Surh As hearsay would be no be admitted to show a  Caplan said. Weird from Page 1 finding. From the very inception of this poll part of its Mission has been to explore the soft Underbelly of the Iowa pay  she said in a recent interview. We arc fascinated with the whole idea of what being an Lowan Means. The poll gives us a wonderful instrument for tap Ping into  Lowans expect nothing less of their poll. It was Sulzer who revealed How Many of them have Pink flamingos or other ornaments on their lawns 24 percent. In was she who found that 65 percent of Lowans prayed for rain last summer 56 percent prefer paper grocery bags to plastic ones 42 percent wish they owned a convertible 26 percent sunbathe 9 percent know what Auld Lang sync Means old Long since literally the Good old Days figuratively. There is much More forty three per cent of Lowans believe there is life on other planets. Forty two percent arc an noyed by Telephone answering machines. Eighty seven percent say it s not the heat it s the humidity. And among those who keep tropical fish 40 percent wish their pets were More affectionate. That one had a very Small Sample size i have to Point out Sulzer said. We could t resist Howe  the los Angeles times could t resist Selzer s finding that 11 percent of Lowan Drivers have names for their cars. I stole that question said . Times pollster . Bud Lewis because i liked  pilfering queries is an honorable poll ing tradition that allows for comparison of data. Lewis result eleven percent of Southern California s Drivers have names for their cars too. In both Stales moreover Betsy is among the favorite automotive monikers. Not to make Betsy Blush but Lewis also found that 38 percent of Southern California Drivers admit having made indecent gestures toward other Drivers who d made them angry. More gestures May be on the Way. Four percent in the . Times poll had telephones in their cars and 31 percent said they d like one. But in the National great american to poll 54 percent said it should be illegal to use a car phone while driving. Other polls drive for the bizarre. The satirical spy Magazine reported this month that 5 percent of the americans it had polled said they would sacrifice a Finger for a big part in a movie. Bel from Page continuing  its ethnic armenian enclave Ofca Magorno Karabash and neighbouring  created yet another a serious Hallel for president Mikhail s. Gorbachev. He is under criticism from armenians for reacting too slowly and from azerbaijanis Ana moslem in neighbouring Iran for clamping Down Loo harshly. The army action in Baku is the Batiest since Gorbachev took Doh 1985. He has sought to  Force to end the numerous  tensions hat Are tearing Auk fabric of this multiethnic Cuau Parjani authorities did not Given Soviel army permission to enter our City and we will never forgive the death of innocent victims. I Call on All azerbaijani soldiers and officers to re sign from the army Zerba Ipri presi Dent Elmira Kafarova was quoted by residents As saying in an address carried on Baku radio. Meanwhile hundreds of Azerli predominantly shiite Marks Fps cd into Iran Ftp Home  and warned if the soviet Pir Lions of mos azerbaijanis  be serious  the soviet army swept into Caspian sea Oil port of 1.8 million peo pie before Dawn on saturday bursting through human blockades with tanks and gunfire to end a three Day stand off be tween the troops and Baku nationalists who had barred the soldiers from enter  official death  at 57 civilians with Abou 5uo wounded and six soldiers cd Lotfin the action. But Azer Bariani