European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 1, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 a the stars and stripes sunday september 1,1991pilots who Fly Over Bush Home penalized Kennebunkport Maine apr inexperienced pilots often breach National Security unintentionally by flying Over president Bush s vacation Home aviation officials say. Managers at nearby airports estimated there have been several violations per week since Bush started his vacation aug. 6. One Pilot flew Over the presidents Seaside estate at walkers Point while using a 1983 Chart said Walter Claxton Portland International Jetport a Tower manager. 0 a a that a like taking a Road map from the late 1920s and driving across the country Quot he said. Pilots Are supposed to Check the latest reports of restricted areas and other conditions before flying into Maine. The walkers Point restricted area is four Miles in All directions and up to 3,000 feet above the estate when Bush is staying there a mile radius and 1,000 feet up when he a not. Many violators get warnings others Are fined or have their pilots licenses suspended. White House officials refuse to comment on Security at the presidents vacation Home but say they would be Able to determine a credible threat from a Pilot who bumbles into the restricted area. Authorities must try to meet the Pilot at an Airport after each incident Claxton said. Then the Federal aviation administration files a report and levies a penalty if warranted. Police with guns drawn met Pilot Tom Donovan when he landed in nearby Biddeford two weeks ago. Donovan was mistaken for another Pilot who had flown above Bush a Home but he Wasny to upset by the confrontation. A you need to understand the severity of someone flying Over president Bush a House a the retired air Force Pilot said. Sanford air owner Don Martel said out of state pilots following the Maine coast violate the space often. A they could be flying along Happy As Little clams and All of a sudden get a Nasty ram from the secret service a Martel said. A a it a easy to see How it happens. Unfortunately its spiders find Tony Homes in Chicago Chicago apr climb up the water spout scaling the Sears Tower is a More Likely Challenge for those hairy Creepy Black and Brown spiders that Lurk outside the windows of City High rises each fall. And while they Are harmless try telling that to the window washers who fight them for space each Day a or the Tony apartment dwellers whose High rent views Are marred by the critters. A a they re enormous a said Harold Engel owner of Al window cleaning. A they get All Over you. Some of them bite you. But there a nothing you can do about a a you Knock them Down one week and they re Back the next. They Are a very very Large pain in the a a they re disgusting a agreed Helen Morrison a lawyer who gets the spiders along with other amenities at her 18th-floor condominium on Chicago a affluent North Side. A last year i had a lot of them a and they were ugly a said Morrison. A i just never opened the Balcony last year because they were so but some Small admiration May be in order for these High Rise trapeze artists a Raneus Serri Catus to the cognoscenti a whose ventures sound More like a children a Story than a spiders tale. Experts done to have a great base of knowledge about this particular spider and done to know for example just now common they Are in other big cities. But they say that some of the spiders apparently travel by air across Lake Michigan before taking up residence in Chicago. As youngsters the spiders climb to the top of a tall Plant extend themselves on a strand of silk and wait patiently for a draft of wind to balloon them across the Lake said Daniel Summers an entomologist at the Field museum of natural history. A the High Rise buildings Are really just in the Way of their flight plan a said Louis Sorkin of new Yorkus american museum of natural history a for them its like being on a big tree. They set up housekeeping the winds that blow the spiders to the upper reaches of downtown buildings also blow other Small delectable insects into the elaborate webs Woven by the spiders providing plenty of sustenance Summers said. Summers said the spiders some of which measure an Inch across remain outside skyscrapers until fall when Many of the adults die. Some of the younger hardier spiders May survive the Winter by Squir reling into cracks or sneaking inside. A was the spiders come in to seek warmth that a when we Start getting the Calls Quot Summers said. A do they bite All spiders bite and they re All venomous to a certain extent. But these Are very gentle while they will disappear from View Over the Winter next Spring new immigrants from Michigan Likely will Fly in to augment the spider population be said. A a that a their method of dispersal Quot said Summers. A you done to want All the babies to stay in one area fighting for the same a spider finds a Home on the 14th floor. . Stuck with patriots Burden a 7-ton Flag Evansville ind. A it seems the great american Flag weighing 7.7 tons is just too great. Federal officials in Washington promised on Flag Day in june that the 411-foot flags warehouse Days were numbered and that the Flag would be booked at events across the nation. It was unfurled in Greenville s.c., during the fourth of july weekend. But it has no other bookings until Flag Day 1992, when it will be displayed in Washington again. The Flag was made by Anchor industries in Evansville and was supposed to have been Hung on the verrazano Nar rows Bridge in new York on special holidays. But a fund raising drive for the project failed and the Flag was donated to the Federal government in 1983. Since then the elephantine stars and stripes has been stored in a warehouse in suburban Washington. A a it a a logistics Nightmare a said Kathryn Gaddy a spokeswoman for the government Agency responsible for the Flag. To Book the 7.7-ton Flag event organizers must pay for insurance hire a 25-ton Crane and round us 100 Volunteer handlers to move it. Organizers also Are asked to cover the expenses of a member of the ironworkers International Union who oversees the unfolding and folding. Organizers of the Aloha bowl football game in Hawaii had been interested in using the Flag during opening ceremonies of the Christmas Day game. They wanted to unfold the Flag on the Field during the National Anthem. A i told them they had two really big problems. For one thing this Flag is the size of vhf football Fields. And it takes 2vi hours to unfold it and another 2vi hours to refold Trident ii missile launched from submarine Cape canaveral Fla. Apr an unarmed Trident 11 missile was launched from the submerged Kentucky off the Florida coast on Friday. The 7 30 . Launch the sixth in a series of demonstration and Shakedown operations for Trident 11-carrying submarines was successful said Terri Brasher a spokeswoman for the Trident tests. Trident submarines Are designed to carry 24 missiles each capable of delivering 12 nuclear warheads to separate targets More than 5,000 Miles away. Each of the 44-foot missiles costs $26.5 million. A total of 34 Trident ii missiles have been launched since the first one blasted off from Cape canaveral in january 1987. Nineteen were launched from land and 15 from submarines. Barry May face longer Senteno >yash, of a Federal appeals court on perjury while testifying Washington apr a Federal appeals court on Friday affirmed its ruling that former mayor Marion barrys sentence for cocaine Possession May be lengthened because of an allegation that he lied to a grand jury. Barry had asked the . Court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit to reconsider a narrow part of its july 12 decision which upheld his conviction but ordered him re sentenced. Without comment the court declined a Barry was convicted in August 1990 of a single count of cocaine Possession. He was acquitted on another count and the jury deadlocked on 12 others including three counts of lying to a grand jury. In july the appeals court ordered Barry re sentenced on grounds that . District judge Thomas Penfield Jackson did not follow guidelines when he ordered a six month prison term. But it rejected arguments by Barry s attorney that the sentence could not be lengthened based on the judges belief that Barry committed perjury while testifying before a Federal grand Jui december 1988 about alleged drug use by a Frie Charles Lewis. Mundy barrys attorney had arg that because the testimony occurred almost a year fore the offence for which he was convicted a Posi Sion of cocaine in november 1989 the two could be linked. In court papers Mundy said other Appell courts have found that an alleged obstruction of Jusi must occur after the crime for which the defendant convicted in order to be relevant in sentencing the appeals court however said a stand would bar judges for example from increasing the s tence of a defendant who bribed a police officer no investigate a crime he was about to commit. Mundy was out of town Friday and not available attorney also has asked Jackson to i qualify himself from handling the re sentencing c tending comments that the judge made after the s fencing last year showed he was biased
