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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 29, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 14 stars and stripes sunday april 29 2007 in the states Man arrested in mugging of elderly woman in by by Tom Hays the associated press new was brutally mugged in a crime that out raged new yorkers but the 101yearold victim said the at tack Hast intimidated her in not fearful at All Rose Morat said Friday As police made an arrest in the Case whatever is going to happen is going to Hap pen Jack Rhodes 44 was arrested on charges of robbery grand Lar Ceny burglary and assault police said they did not have an address for Rhodes who was also accused of robbing an 85yearold woman the same Day Morat was attacked police said i am so sorry for what happened Rhodes said As he was led out of a police station the new York Post reported Satur Day police began questioning Rhodes after noticing he matched a photo of a person wanted for questioning in robberies of women in Queens he was initially held on a charge of Possession of a crack pipe there was no Telephone listing for Rhodes in the new York metropolitan area and police did not know whether he was represented by a lawyer if if s the right Man if s wonderful Morat told the associated press when reached Friday by phone morals March 4 Holdup was captured on a surveillance tape it shows Morat who was using a Walker trying to leave her apart ment building to go to Church the mugger who looms Over her and is holding onto a bicycle pretends to help her get through the Vestibule then he turns to grab morals head delivers three hard punches to her face and swipes her purse the dazed victim tries to reach for her purse when the mugger Rhodes hits her again pushing her and her Walker to the ground he got away with s33 and ass House keys she suffered a fractured cheekbone and spent time in the Hospital Morat told the a on Friday that Shes feeling better though her doctor has told her to try to slowdown she previously declared that if shed been just a bit younger shed have gone after the Guy officials world Bank panel finds ethics breach the Washington Post new world Bank committee investigating president Paul d Wolfowitz has nearly completed a report that it plans to give the institutions governing Board concluding that he breached ethics rules when he engineered a pay raise for his girl Friend three senior Bank officials said Friday Friday evening the committee was debating whether to explicitly recommend that Wolfowitz resign according to the sources who spoke on condition Mey not be named citing an ongoing probe into leaks Wolfowitz is scheduled to appear before the com Mittee with his attorney on monday morning and mount his defense and the Banks 24member Board of directors will Convene that afternoon to Dis cuss the report the sources suggested that a vote by the Board could come that Day through his attorney Wolfowitz vowed to continue the fight to keep his Job he will not resign under this Cloud said his attorney Robert s Ben Nett when told of the imminent completion of the committees report Bennett excoriated tie panel for reaching conclusions before giving Wolfowitz the Chance to defend himself Bennett said Wolfowitz planned to submit Docu ments to the committee on monday that make Clear that the pay raise he arranged for his Girlfriend Shaha Riza had the full understanding and assent of the institution ethics committee Scotty y ashes take rocket ride remains of Star trek Star Apollo 7 astronaut soar to suborbital space by Alicia a Caldwell the associated press Upham Njal the cremated remains of actor James Doo Han who portrayed Engineer Scotty on Star trek and of Apollo 7 astronaut Gordon Coo per soared into suborbital space saturday aboard a rocket it was the first Success Ful launch from space port America a commercial spaceport being devel oped in the Doohan Southern new Mexico desert Suzan Cooper and Wende Dpi Han fired the rocket carrying Small amounts of their husbands ashes at am local time go baby go baby said Eric Knight of the commercial launch company up aerospace inc of Farmington Conn since it was a suborbital flight the rocket soon plummeted Back to Earth coming Down at the White Sands missile Range we nailed it we stuck the Landing said Knight up aerospace launched the first rocket from the desert site in september but that space loft Al rocket crashed into the desert after spiralling out of control about nine seconds after of Tiff company officials blamed the failure on a faulty Fin design family members paid to place a few Grams of their rela Tives ashes on the rocket Celes tis a Houston contracted with up to Send the cremated remains into space Charles Chafer chief executive of celestis said last month that a cd with More than 11000 Condo Lences arid fan notes Veas placed on the rocket with Doohan re Mains Doohan died in at age 85 the remains of Star trek creator Gene Roddenberry were sent into space in 1997 the launch from tie fledgling spaceport currently a 100foot by 25foot Concrete slab in a Patch of desert More than 50 Miles North of Las graces keeps the new Mexico project ahead of its nearest competitor Ines Texas Jeff Bezos founder of Ama noncom is said to be developing the spaceport North of Van Horn Texas Bezos Blue origin is work ing to develop tourist space flights British billionaire Richard Branson also has announced plans to launch a space tourism company which is expected to have its Headquarters at the new Mexico spaceport it features hundreds of ways to May and win Over Worth of incredible prizes  
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