European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 27, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Friday. May 27,1994 Kab jailed . Says Washington a a retired soviet army officer claims Crew members of a . Reconnaissance plane shot Down near the Loviet coast 41 years ago were plucked from the sea by the Kab declared spies and secretly thrown into prison Quot a a a a a a a a the Fate of 13 members of the plane s 17-person Crew has 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 re ported before. Korotkova a remarks however Are the most specific so far by a for 1 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 year Sago May 27,1974 a Federal Reserve chairman Arthur Burns warned that Quot 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 administrations full foreign Aid request a sum of $3.8 billion. 40 years ago May 27,1954 a two explosions and a fire filled about 1q0 sailors and injured 125 More aboard the . Aircraft Carrier Bennington. Which was cruising off Newport , 50 years ago 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. R world War ii 50 years ago today May 27 1 a 9 a 4 4 soldiers of the . Army s 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 s 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. Tho word almanac of world War if. Bison books corp., 1981 a Mer soviet authority on the role of the Kab a 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 next 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 4 admitted to  of survivors. For its part the . Government acknowledged that the rb-50. Mission was part of a Onice secret cold War Campaign to learn the locations and capabilities of soviet Border defense radars. Korotkov makes his assertions Iri 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  report also provides new evidence that the air Force flew secret spy missions Over soviet territory Between 1954 and 1957 without a to ahead from Percsi Dent Eisenhower who had insisted that he approve All  rb-50 was part of a separate operation not involving flights Over soviet territory the Case is among 10 cold War 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  interrogate survive is 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 this. A a Sanderson 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 bearing 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 a. A a a president Robert Corrigan ordered workers tuesday to paint Over the 10-foot-Square mural honouring Malcolm x. Corrigan called it Quot utterly abhorrent a a with its stars of David near Dollar signs a Skull and crossbones and the words a african  on wednesday 80 officers looked on when a multiracial group of students Der find 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 a 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 a a i. W2 r y j % \ a 1 a Vas a a \ i s j a a f a a it v h a a j a i a r a a i y i la or r a ,1,5. I student Bill Silverfarb stares at the q Esh 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 arc 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 is 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.  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 a 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 3vt hours of hearings wednesday in which Ray argued he did no to kill King his sex wife testified that he did and two of Kings 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 Avant 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 he stood on a Motel Balcony in Memphis where he had come to support a strike by sanitation workers. Ray 66, claimed his attorney convinced him that head already been convicted by the Media and that pleading guilty in return for 99 years was better than risking a trial and possible death sentence. The . House committee on assassinations concluded in 1978 that Raj killed King but May have been helped by others. Committee records Are sealed until 2029