European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 12, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes monday february 12,1990 18 hospitalized after crash of sightseeing copter in . New York a a sightseeing helicopter carry ing four tourists and a Pilot went Down saturday of i croon in the East River bursting into flames after it crashed into the water near a helipad police and wit Nesses said. Police divers and a rescuer in a life raft went Oul to save the passengers and Pilot and some of the survivors held onto a Board extended from the raft until help arrived will Csecs said. Eighteen people were taken to the Hospital including 13 rescuers who suffered exposure and a 14-year old boy on the helicopter who was in critical condition afr his heart slopped said la. Joseph Apuzzo of emergent medical services. The other crash survivors also suffered exposure Hospital spokesman John Clark said. All bul the boy were expected to be released. Police said the helicopter was taking off at the Lime of the Accident about 3 15 . Witnesses said the Bell helicopter burst into flames after Impact near the Manhattan helipad but police said flames were visible before the helicopter touched water. After the people were pulled from the River the copier turned upside Down and Sank. Rescue efforts were aided by relatively Calm water. At Liberty i a. Army Cadet Pamela Home of san Antonio stands with soviet army Cadet Andrei Dovigi it the statue of Liberty in new York Harbor. The two military tourists traded hats for the occasion. Soviet cadets Are visiting the . Military acad Emy at West Point ., for one week As part of an Exchange Between the two nations academies. Although the National weather service said water temperatures were Likely in the Low 40s. Helicopters and an assortment of boats were brought in to pull people from the water. The helicopter was owned by Island helicopter corp., Deputy police chief Ron Johnson said. Island helicopter confirmed that the copter was one of the company s and said it had been taking off for a sight seeing trip around Manhattan when it crashed. The National transportation safety Board was investigating the crash said Kathleen Bergen spokeswoman for the Federal aviation admin Sara Tion. She said the Faa was speaking for the Nosb under a local agreement. Police said the critically injured boy was from Long Island and his father who also was on the helicopter lived in new Jersey. The other two passengers on the helicopter were visitors from France and the Pilot was a Long Island resident police said. It was the third time in the last five years that an Island helicopter coming into the East Side helipad had gone into the River. A May 2, 1988, crash of another sightseeing helicopter killed a japanese business Man. Three years earlier a West German Man died when a copter with eight people aboard went Down. Baby arrives via subway new York up a very pregnant woman wailing for a train on a subway platform made an express delivery a baby boy. With the help of transit police Sydell go thin 18, delivered her baby on a 7th Avenue subway platform in Manhattan shortly before 5 . Saturday said Al o scary a transit police spokesman. Transit officer Thomas Breyer 35, explained that when they arrived at the scene the Mother s water had broken and the baby s feet were visible. Breyer said his partner Jerry Lofredo 24, noticed the umbilical Cord was wrapped around the baby s head. He slipped the Cord Over the baby s head and then pulled  All the Way out Breyer said. He said Lofredo tapped the baby on the Back and cleaned out the infant s airways. The baby was placed on the Molher s Slomach covered with clothing and both were rushed to a local Hospital. Doctors said the baby was nearly a month late Bercy Craid. Both officers said they were instructors in the Transil police s training division and that they Are Well versed in emergency medical techniques. Neither officer had delivered a baby while on duly bul Bolh had participated in the birth of their own children. We be trained for this Breyer said. We get everything from life to death. Tonight we feel real  entrant nets cd to tune of $2,054 Boston a Given two minutes to gather All the compact discs she could. Lisa Lyles knew preparation physical menial and emotional would be the key. So the opera Lover who won the shopping spree through a Bank promotion trained for the task. She swam laps for endurance practice yoga for control figured out How to make her hands Sticky Drew maps of the terrain and developed memory nudging devices. I knew this was a once in a life time Opportunity Lyles said saturday. I had to go for it and meet the  in the end. She raced through the Tower records building Friday scooping up 60 compact discs chiefly classical ones and ran up a Bill of $2.054 during her two minute allotment five times what the promoters figured each cont Siant would Rake in. The 34-year-old Melrose resident was one of three people whose names were drawn a week ago for a two minute shopping dash. The folks at Bay Bank had estimated shelling Oul about $400 per contestant to promote a new Branch. Link did they realize thai lavish boxed sets of some classical music collections went for $250 each. I did t do it intentionally but i was told outright there were no res trillions Lyles said. I knew i could not afford to Purchase 180 boxed sets so i said to myself i m going to hit these " Lyles a fund Raiser for the Boson symphony or Chestra spoiled which aisles had the Best items Esti mated the trips she would need and made up sing song ditties to jog her memory about what she wanted. She also discovered that a Tacky cloth she and her husband used to strip furniture gave her Sticky fingers. When her time came Al Tower records she was ready. Jayms Cavitt a northeastern University freshman from Paxton eclipsed Lyles haul by gathering up 86 compact discs bul his taste was less expensive at a grand total of $1,300 Worth of merchandise. Another northeastern freshman Edward Monette of West Hampton Beach ., was the third in Grant staggering Oul the door with 59 compact discs Worth $900 and weighing about 30 pounds. Over the past week a Cavil and Monette were looking Over the store s second floor layout of $15 hard Rock cd while Lyles was on the third floor checking out $250 boxed sets of Bach s Organ works and Wagner s ring Cycle. Stateside Bloomingdale robbery could total $500,000 new York a armed men stole be tween $250,000 and $500,000 in receipts from Bloomingdale s flagship department store sat urday evening police said. Two or three gunmen wearing ski masks sur prised three Security guards in the basement of the Manhattan store at about 7 30 ., said sgt. Pete Berry a police spokesman. The guards were leaving a freight elevator with the Day s receipts in a locked cart when the robbers armed with a sawed off Rifle and a gun handcuffed two of them together and forced All three to lie on the floor he said. Auto insurance rates Are Frozen in Georgia Atlanta up1 insurance commissioner Warren Evans has ordered an immediate freeze on Georgia s steadily increasing Auto Mobile insurance rates. Evans said he has been working to reduce the Cost of Auto insurance in the stale since taking office in 1982. To Date our policy has been to work with the companies in Hopes that a cooperative attitude would result in lower automobile rates on their  he said. Unfortunately the companies just Haven t gotten the message. In spite of All our urging and encouragement the Best we be been Able to get them to do is reduce their Rale of increase. Wife s hit and run death leaves Blind Man stranded Oraham Texas a a Blind Man was left stranded and screaming for help after his wife was killed by a hit and run Motorist police said. Police said Charles Walker told them he and his 55-year-old wife were walking when he heard a swishing noise and he could no longer find or hear his wife. A resident heard Walker s screams and called officers. Police Young county deputies and Texas department of Public safety officers found Mildred Walker s body in a Field about 50 feet from where she had been struck. Police said Charles Ike Harp Chc 34, of Graham was arrested on a charge of failure to Slop and Render Aid. Officers tracked Down the automobile by checking Chrome frag ments left at the scene. Harp Che was being held in the Young county jail in lieu of $50,000 bail. Koch says e. Europe jews should emigrate to Israel Palm Beach Fla. A the sweeping changes in the soviet Union and Eastern Europe could Lead to persecution of jews so they should emigrate while they can to Israel former new York mayor de Koch has said. Slavic anti semitism held in Check by communist governments could explode in new pogroms if nationalist parties Lake Over in the soviet bloc Koch said in a speech to the anti defamation league of b Nai b Rich. They ought to leave and Board those Al Al planes As soon As they can and Fly on wings of eagles to the stale of Israel Koch told about 640 people attending a meeting of the group s executive committee which presented him with the league s distinguished Public service award. Koch Defeated last year by David Dinkins in his try for a fourth term As mayor said he now has a radio show a television show and a newspaper column and is out of politics for Good