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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, April 29, 1994
THE NEWS in brief
WASHINGTON
The military's investigation into the shootout of two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters in northern Iraq is expected to be completed by the middle of May, a Pentagon representative said yesterday.
Black Hawk helicopter shootings investigation to be finished by May
Two U.S. Air Force F-15 pilots shot the Army choppers out of the sky April 14 after mistaking them for Iraqi Hai helicopters. All 26 aboard the two helicopters, including 15 Americans, three Turkish officers, two British officers, one French officer and five Kurds, were killed.
Defense Secretary William Perry has not received a formal briefing on the investigation, which he declared to be a high priority, said representative Kathleen delAski.
DeLaski could not comment on the accuracy of a report in the Washington Times that said the F-15 pilots told investigators they believed they were shooting down two Iran helicopters that were chasing the Black Hawks.
The Times, in a story yesterday, said the first U.S. chopper was shot down by the squadron commander, a lieutenant colonel.
The second Black Hawk helicopter then went into a defensive flying maneuver and attempted to land, but 40 seconds later was shot down by the second F-15 pilot, a captain.
The report quotes an Pentagon official as saying that from a psychological standpoint it would have been difficult for the second pilot, a less senior officer, not to have followed the pattern of action set by his squadron leader.
Also, the report stated that investigators were questioning the pilots' decision-making in light of the fact the second chopper was trying to land. Most Air Force pilots are not schooled in Army flying tactics and may not have recognized the defensive maneuver, the report stated.
The Times reported last week that investigators found the switches turned off on the helicopter systems that send electronic signals to aircraft identifying them as friend or foe but that it isn't clear whether this was done purposefully or whether the impact of the crash had moved the switches.
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R. I.
NOW president to give address
University president Robert Carothers drew fire for rejecting the selection committee's recommendation of Ireland, then had a change of heart.
NOW president Patricia Ireland will deliver this year's commencement address at the University of Rhode Island after all.
He called Ireland yesterday, and she accepted his invitation to speak at the May 22 commencement.
"I think it's a sign of a good leader to have taken into account the strong desire of the community that I come
there," said Ireland, president of the National Organization for Women.
Carothers said he was swayed by a "groundswell of interest in Ms. Ireland from the campus community."
Lynn McKinney, an education professor and chairman of the selection committee, said Carothers rejected Ireland in January as "too controversial."
Carothers denied saying Ireland was controversial but refused to say what his objection was.
HARRISONBURG. Va
Girl faulted in mother's murder
After a closed trial, the jury found Wednesday that Stephanie Fries was an accessory to second-degree murder in the 1993 death of her mother. Marilyn Fries.
A 12-year-old girl was convicted of helping her sister and boyfriend stab their mother to death the night before the girls were due to start military school.
Marilyn Fries, 35, was stabbed 16 times in the back and neck in the family's home.
In December, a juvenile court judge convicted Stephanie Fries of second-degree murder. Her 14-year-old sister, Camellia Fries, and Stephanie's 15-year-old boyfriend, Shawn Roadcap, were convicted of first-degree murder.
All three appealed in county court. A jury convicted Camellia Fries and Roadcap of first-degree murder on April 15.
All three were tried as minors, so their sentences cannot last past their 21st birthdays. Stephanie Fries' sentencing was set for June 2.
At Stephanie Fries' trial, authorities played a tape recording that they said was Roadcap's confession that he and Stephanie Fries held Marilyn Fries down while Camellia Fries stabbed her.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
Ashes flew in space shuttle
"Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry joined his characters in slipping the bonds of Earth — his ashes were taken into orbit aboard a space shuttle sometime after his death in 1991.
NASA confirmed yesterday what his widow, Majel Barrett Roddenberry, divulged at a local Space Congress banquet Tuesday night — that Roddenberry's ashes flew on a shuttle and were returned to Earth.
"It is true," NASA spokesman Brian Welch said. "It was approved as a personal effect" of an astronaut.
Welch said he did not know when the ashes were flown or which astronaut took them aboard. He believes it was a NASA first
Roddenberry died in October 1991 at age 70.
Mrs. Roddenberry said her husband "would have given anything to have been able, just once, to go into that great galaxy he dreamed about, where so few men have gone before. While he lived, it was not possible."
Mrs. Roddenberry played nurse Christine Chapel on the original "Trek" and has occasionally appeared on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" as Lwaxana Troi, the mercurial, telepathic mother of Counselor Deanna Troi.
Combiled from The Associated Press.
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