European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 27, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes . Friday May 27,1994 Kab jailed . Washington a a retired soviet army officer claims Crew members of a . Reconnaissance plane shot Down near the soviet coast 41 years ago were plucked from the sea by the Kab declared spies and secretly thrown into prison. A a a a the Fate of 13 members of the plane s 17-Pefson never been resolved. . Search teams failed to find them although in recent months new indications have pointed to the possibility that some May have been captured. The retired soviet officer Gavril i. Korotkov cited one american by name air Force 1st it. Warren j. Sanderson who at age 29 disappeared with 16 other men aboard an rb-50 customized bomber on a secret reconnaissance Mission out of Yokota Japan on july 29,1953. Details of the shoo Down have been reported before Korotkova a remarks however Are the most specific so far by a for in the stars and stripes 10 years ago May 27,1984 a Iran pledged that its air Force would not hit commercial ships in the persian Gulf if Iraq made the same Promise the offer came after Iraq claimed its Jet planes and warships had attacked a Convoy of ships off Iran. 20 years ago May 27,1974 a Federal Reserve chairman Arthur Burns warned that a the future of our country is in jeopardy Quot if the recent rate of inflation is not moderated. 30 years ago May 27,1964 a the House foreign affairs committee for the first. Time approved the Johnson admin Istrati Oris full foreign Aid request a sum of $3.8 billion. 40 year Sago May 27,1954 a two explosions and a fire killed about 100 sailors and injured 125 More aboard the . Aircraft Carrier Bennington which was cruising off Newport . 50 year Sago May 27, 1944 a the Pilot and Crew of a b-17, returning from a raid Over Berlin with just three engines operating landed after rigging two parachutes As brakes. World War in 1 50 years ago today May 27 1 a 9 a 4 4 soldiers at the . Army a 41st inf div invade Biak Island toward the Western end of new Guinea the americans meet a misleadingly weak resistance a the japanese Garrison of. -11,000 is almost equal to the Landing Force. On Italy a Western front american troops seize Artena the free French take Maseno and the canadians Cross the Liri River and attack Ceprano. Source 2194 Days of War w. H. Smith publishers inc. The world almanac of world War u. Bison books corp., 1981 a Mer soviet authority on the role of the Kab a which still denies taking any survivors a and on the Fate of Sanderson. A . Official speaking on condition of anonymity said Korotkova a assertions Are considered credible. He said . Representatives at a meeting Neiert week in Moscow will press the russians for Access to Kab archives. The soviets never disputed that they shot Down the plane they contended it violated their airspace but they never admitted to any knowledge of survivors. For its part the . Government acknowledged that the rb-50 Mission was part of a once secret cold War Campaign to learn the locations and capabilities of soviet Border defense radars. Korotkov makes his assertions in an interview with a British television Crew preparing a report on this and other mysterious cold War aviation incidents in which the Fate of missing american service members remains unresolved. The report spies in the sky will be shown today on the arts and entertainment Cable network in the states. It was produced for the British broadcasting corp. By Brook associates of London whose reporters interviewed Korotkov in september. Y. The report also provides new evidence that the air Force flew secret spy missions Over soviet territory Between 1954 and 1957 without a go ahead from president Eisenhower who had insisted that he approve All overflights. A a y the rb-50 was part of a separate operation not involving flights Over soviet territory. The Case is among 19 cold War a shoot Downs of . Aircraft that Are being investigated by a .-russian commission. Last March a commission official said resolving the 10 could account for the Fate of 89 american serv ice members. At the time of the shoo Down Korotkov was assigned to an army analytic group at Post yet a soviet naval base not far from where the plane went Down. Korotkov said his group asked soviet military counterintelligence officers for permission to interrogate survivors of the. Rb-50 but was turned Down. He said he was sure that Sanderson was captured was sentenced to 25 years for spying and died in prison. He did not say How he knew initially was listed by the air Force As missing. But in 1955 his status and that of 12 others was changed to presumed dead. Only one Man capt. John e. Roche was known to have survived he was picked up by a . Search and Rescue squad the bodies of two others were recovered off the coast of Japan another died inside the plane during a Brief but deadly attack by a soviet Mig-15 fighter. College removes Malcolm x mural Rina symbols that upset jews san Francisco a a mural with anti semitic symbols that stirred controversy at san Francisco state University was removed for Good Early thursday in a second and final Effort to wipe out the image. About 60 Campus officers in riot gear were on hand when University workers applied a solution that removed the paint then painted Over the Concrete Wall. A a a v Quot president Robert Corrigan ordered workers tuesday to paint Over the 10-foot-Square mural honouring Malcolm x. Corrigan called it a utterly abhorrent a with its stars of David near Dollar signs a Skull and crossbones and the words a african a on wednesday 80 officers looked on when a multiracial group of students defied Corrigan by washing and scraping off hours old paint covering the work outside the student Union a we had a moral and Legal obligation to rid our Campus of the divisive and hateful images within the mural Quot Corrigan said in a statement. A group of students booed cried and argued with one another As University workers slathered greyish paint Over the mural at 2 30 . Wednesday. A we done to care if they care a said student Loretta Carbone who helped restore the mural showing a portrait of the slain Black Leader. A a it a our school its our Malcolm x Plaza its our student jewish and other students said the murals message was bigotry. Protesters said the symbols reinforced negative jewish stereotypes about Money and implied jews were involved in the it -v/.v.v. a. By it. Foj it i i Iii it to. My j it student Bill Silverfarb stares atthe fresh paint hiding the portrait of Malcolm x. A slave Trade. / san Francisco state has about 27,000 students. About 7 percent Are Black 10 percent Are jewish. The mural outside the student Union was commissioned by the University but student leaders said they did no to know it would contain the symbols. The mural wus unveiled May 19, which would have been Malcolm xes 69th birthday. It is next to a Plaza named after him. Corrigan had Given local artist Senay Dennis a Choice a paint Over the sym Bols or the entire mural would be covered. A a a a. /. Dennis refused to alter his work. He insisted it was not meant to offend jews Only to represent what he called Malcolm xes anti israeli sentiment. To student Juanita Stovall Corrigan a decision sent a Clear message the school does no to respect Black students. A Corrigan supports the Gay students the jewish students the latino students Quot she said. A Why does no the support us a s Assassin Nashville Tenn. A a parole Board denied James Earl rays request to be released from his 99-year sentence for assassinating the Rev Martin Luther King or. The Tennessee Board of paroles heard 3 y hours of hearings wednesday in which Ray argued he did no to kill King his cd wife testified that he did and two of King s civil rights colleagues urged that Ray should be freed so the truth behind Kings assassination could be revealed. Ray was so distraught after the Board voted 3-0 against parole that he sputtered a i want to waive my right to Ever appear before this he was Cut off by his attorney William Pepper and Board chairman Charles Traughber. It was the first parole hearing for Ray who has been imprisoned for 25 years and 10 months. He was not allowed to talk to reporters. Ray needed four votes from the seven member Board. One of the Board members who had investigated Kings assassination disqualified himself. The remaining three did no to vote when the outcome became Clear. Two Board members a Traughber and Tom Biggs a said they would consider parole in june 1999. King was shot april 4, 1968, As h stood on a Motel Balcony in Mempel where he had come to support a strike b sanitation workers. Ray 66, claimed his attorney Cor Vinced him that head already been Cor evicted by the Media and that Pleadin guilty in return for 99 years was Bette than risking a trial and possible Deal sentence. The . House committee on assassinations concluded in 1978 that it killed King but May have been helped 1 others. Committee records Are Seale until 2029
