European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 1, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday september 1, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 5pearl Harbor survivors refuse raiders apology Atlanta up a National group of Pearl Harbor survivors has rejected a Public apology from japanese pilots for the dec. 7, 1941, Surprise attack a newspaper has reported. The Pearl Harbor survivors association which has 14,000 members refused to Sanction the Public apology the Atlanta Constitution reported Friday. Twenty japanese veterans had planned to make the apology oct. 19 at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta said John Westerman a Pearl Harbor survivor who was coordinating the event. The association s president Gerald a. Glaubitz of Morningside md., said �?o99.99 percent of the organizations members objected to the meeting. A Many of the people told us if we went through with this they would quit the organization a Glaubitz said. A would you expect jews to invite the nazis to an event where they were talking about the holocaust a Quot during the scheduled Here Mon the japanese had planned to read a statement expressing regret for the attack and the War. Quot Quot written by former japanese Pilot Zenji Abe the statement reads in part a we the japanese Pearl Harbor veterans assembled Here today deeply regret that 50 years ago. The United states and Japan because their leaders could not sufficiently understand their respective positions entered into a terrible great War. A we harboured no personal hatred for american people. Therefore when we think about the fact that the strike we carried out took the lives of some 2.000 people in an instant and the fact the scars still remain deep inside the members of the association it fills our hearts with Westerman. A 1 year old Navy Ensign on the Maryland at Pearl Harbor said he was surprised and disappointed by the association s decision noting that even the marines and japanese soldiers who fought bitterly at iwo Jima held a reunion 45 years 3 later. A we Felt that if the veterans who dropped the bombs on us apologized and expressed their regret for the attack certainly the japanese government would have to follow suit Quot he said. Quot and that a what the Pearl Harbor survivors have wanted for More than 45 the a hinted states will Mark the 50th anniversary of Pearl Harbor this year with ceremonies at a memorial built Over the sunken battleship Arizona. Seeking to avoid a Flap with veterans the Bush administration has not invited any foreign dignitaries to accused of helping dispose of girl s body Beverly mass. Apr police on Friday arrested a teen Ager accused of helping dispose of the body of a 14-year-old girl who had been stabbed to death and dumped in a Pond. Michael Maillet 19, was to be arraigned in Salem Carnevale District court on a charge of being an accessory to murder after the fact police defective Bill Gates said. Authorities said Maillet went to police last week leading to the discovery of the body of Amy Carnevale. It had been weighted with cinder blocks and dropped into the Pond. Carnevale a 16-year-old Boyfriend was arrested wednesday on a juvenile delinquency charge and accused of killing the girl. Prosecutors said thursday that they will seek to try him As an adult. A Friend of the victim said the 16-year-old, whose name has not been made Public because of his age talked about killing Carnevale since last year. She also said she dated the boy. A i went out with the defendant for about a year and he hit me before a said Diane Wager 15. Quot he does have a lot of Force behind Wager described the boy As a very possessive and really a the did no to like her Amy to hang around other Guys a she said. Quot that a what they had a fight about last Wager said the youth detailed a plot to kill Carnevale in a phone conversation last summer. A the wanted to take her on a Long walk to the Woods a she said a Al Newas going to give her Flowers and then he was going to kill her and then throw her into a Wager said the defendant also told Carnevale he wanted to kill her but she and the victim thought the Bov was joking. A neighbor. Patricia Paine said Carnevale and the defendant seemed to have a Good relationship. She said they were like Quot they used to sit and watch to All the time holding hands Quot Paine said. Stephen o Connell a spokesman for the District attorney s office said investigators were conducting interviews to decide whether other people should be charged As accessories. Two other friends were aware of the stabbing prosecutors chief officers indicted in abuse Rochester n y. A the City a fired police chief a former vice squad commander and four police officers have been indicted for allowing a Vir in the stars and stripes10 years ago sept. 1,1981 a a thunderous bomb blast injured at least 15 people when it exploded in the parking lot in front of the Headquarters building of the . Air forces in Europe at Ramstein a Germany. Early investigations attributed the bombing to terrorists.20 years ago sept. 1,1971 a Fri agents joined the search for the people who blew up 10 school buses in Pontiac mich., a week before federally ordered integration and busing were to go into effect no one was injured in the blasts.30 years ago sept. 1,1961 a the soviet Union announced it would resume testing atomic weapons to strengthen its defences and Cool the threat posed by a a Hothead in the capitals of some nato powers.�?�40 years ago sept. 1,1951 a move started in Congress for a break in diplomatic and Trade relations with Czechoslovakia in an Effort to Force the communist nation to release american journalist William n. Oatis who was jailed As a spy. Tual reign of terror against suspects. The 19-Coiint Federal indictment was handed up thursday. If charges the six suspects with civil rights violations and describes More than 50 incidents in which suspects were allegedly mistreated. The indictment says some suspects were punched struck in the head stomach and Groin thrown handcuffed Down stairways threatened with guns and live electrical wires and shoved into Walls. Information about the alleged brutality began emerging in october after chief Gordon f. Urlacher was arrested on charges of embezzling police department funds . Attorney Dennis Vacco said. Following Urlacher s arrest and suspension a individuals aware of the abuses Felt the door had been opened to come Forward arid Start speaking about them Quot Vacco said. A it was a snowball the 48-year-old Urlacher who is charged with stealing nearly $5 111, 100 from the department was fired in december. The new indictment accuses Urlacher of knowing about police abuses and doing nothing to Stop them. He also allegedly or dered police department investigators not to pursue complaints that vice squad officers were engaging in illegal conduct. Urlacher told a Rochester newspaper the Democrat and chronicle that the charges were ridiculous. A anybody who a known me will Tell you i would never tolerate abuses of civil rights a he said. Also named in the indictment were former vice squad c Apt. James w. Of Brien jr., sgt. Thomas Alessi investigator Scott Harloff and officers Gregory Raggi and Michael Mazzeo. Arizona search halted for remains of 3 women drifter says he killed Phoenix apr after three Days of digging the Fri Friday halted a search for remains of three women Donald Leroy Evans said he buried in the mountains. Evans was taken out of Arizona on Friday Fri spokesman Jack Callahan said. He refused to disclose further details. A a we re moving on to wherever we have to go a said Fred Lusk Evans court appointed attorney in an interview with Phoenix television station Konx. A i do not know where we re the search was the first test of the 34 year old drifters claim that he killed at Lea so 60 people in a decade of wanderings around the country since his discharge from the marines in 1977. Authorities brought Evans to Arizona to follow up his assertion that he killed three women and buried them near Black Canyon City 40 Miles North of Phoenix. Three Days of digging however yielded nothing. Evans faces murder charges in Mississippi in the death of a 10-year-old homeless girl Beatrice Louise Routh. He was arrested aug. 5 while on parole fora 1987 rape . The girl was kidnapped aug. I from a Beach in Gulfport miss., raped and strangled in Louisiana. Her body was dumped in Mississippi. Evans was brought to Phoenix from Mississippi on wednesday. He was driven to Black Canyon City where Fri officials and Yav Apai county sheriffs deputies used a Backhoe a Metal Detector and a bloodhound digging Side by Side trenches in fhe rugged terrain dotted with Sagebrush and Cactus. Man on most wanted list surrenders Long Beach Calif. Up a Man named on americans ten most wanted list who was suspected of killing a woman w Hile escaping a Virginia state courthouse was captured Friday. A Thomas a. Nixon 30, gave himself up to Long Beach police county sheriffs deputies and Fri agents who surrounded his suburban House Early Friday police spokesman Ray Jordan said. On March 28, Nixon was being held by Henrico county and Richmond authorities in Virginia on robbery charges when he managed to escape and steal a Van which he rammed into a car driven by Susan Deaton killing her. Nixon escaped. In february lie was indicted in the shooting death of Carlos Degas also in Virginia. He was named to the nations Quot ten most wanted Quot list of fugitives soon after his escape. He was being held without bail at los Angeles county jail pending extradition to Virginia Jordan said
