UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, August 23, 1996
2 military planes crash in Md.
Pilots only crew on board; wrecks were unrelated
The Associated Press
ELLIOTT, Md. — An A-10 Air National Guard plane crashed in a marshy area on Maryland's Eastern Shore yesterday, hours after another military plane crashed in
the ocean off the Maryland-Virginia coast. In both cases, only the pilot was on board.
Air Force spokeswoman Maj. Laura Feldman said the second plane went down in Dorchester County about 1:25 p.m., less than four hours after the earlier crash. The weather yesterday was clear.
The pilot in the Atlantic Ocean crash was missing. The second pilot was being taken to a hospital, said John Hoffman, a National Guard spokesman in Washington. But he didn't know the pilot's condition and couldn't say for sure whether
The plane that crashed yesterday morning was a single-seat Marine Corps FA-18 Hornet that was on a training mission. The attack jet was based at Andrews Air Force Base in suburban Maryland as part of a Marine Corps Reserve unit, said Gunnery Sgt. Don Hooper.
the pilot was alive.
The precise location of the crash, which happened around 9:30 a.m., was unclear. Coast Guard Petty Officer Matt Borders said it was 40 miles east of Ocean City, Md., but other reports put it off the Delaware or Virginia coasts. Commercial fishing
boats reported seeing debris in the water. Borders said.
The second plane was on a maintenance test flight following repairs when it crashed roughly 75 miles southeast of Washington, between Fishing Bay and the Wicomico River. Feldman said the plane took off from Willow Grove Air Reserve Base in Pennsylvania.
American neo-Nazi convicted in Germany
Judge sentences man who sent anti-Jewish propaganda from Neb.
The Associated Press
HAMBURG, Germany — American neo-Nazi Gary Lauck, German fascists' main supplier of hate literature, armbands, flags and other paraphernalia for two decades, was convicted and sentenced to four years in prison yesterday.
After a three-month trial meant to demonstrate Germany's hard line against extremism, the judge explained his verdict by quoting from Lauck's newsletter, which calls Jews "subhumans" and "rats."
Lauck, whose cropped moustache and parted hair are meant to resemble Adolf Hitler's, did not testify. His lawyer argued that the trial was illegal because Germany has no right to tell a U.S. citizen what to do in the United States.
Lauck, who calls himself a Nazi, prints his material in the United States and mails it overseas. Pro-
Hitler, anti-Jewish material denying that the Holocaust occurred is protected by the U.S. Constitution but illegal in Germany under laws Americans helped formulate at the end of World War II.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Glyn Davies said Lauck was tried in accordance with German law and U.S. officials had access to him.
Lauck was arrested on an international warrant from Germany while attending a convention of neo-Nazis in Denmark in March 1995. He was extradited to Germany in September under a little-use Danish law against racist statements.
"Neither the communists nor the Nazis ever dared to kidnap an American citizen," Lauck shouted in German before he was led back to his cell yesterday. "The fight will go on!"
Lauck, who is of German descent, heads the National Socialist German Workers' Party-Overseas Organization — the name Hider gave the Nazis' overseas branches. Lauck's group was banned in Germany in 1974. He also distributes the NS-Battle Cry newsletter, which is illegal in German, from Lincoln,
Neb.
Lauck has said Jews were the "main belligerents" in World War II and were treated too nicely in Nazi concentration camps.
German prosecutors say Lauck has been the main supplier of neo-Nazi literature, armbands, flags, posters and videos to Germans for 20 years.
He was convicted of inciting racial hatred and distributing the propaganda of organizations that violate the German constitution. Lauck's lawyer, Hans-Otto Sieg, said he would appeal.
Lauck, 43, will spend no more than 2 1/2 years in jail because the court deducted time served since his arrest.
"Lauck will pick up where he left off the day he returns to America," Judge Guenter Bertram said, but Germany must show that no one could run rings around its laws.
Anti-foreigner and anti-Semitic attacks surged in Germany with the hardships brought on by re-unification in 1990. The attacks declined when the government tightened immigration laws in 1993, banned several extremist groups and put some members on trial.
There were 2,000 neo-Nazis in Germany at the end of 1995, down from about 3,000 in 1994, according to Germany's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which tracks extremists.
Lauck's group has been in disarray since his arrest, mailing the newsletter only occasionally and struggling to keep up its supply lines, said a source at the office, speaking on condition of anonymity.
In Omaha, Neb., the regional director of the Anti-Defamation League said he was pleased with the verdict but concerned about the future.
"This could give him a good boost in his martyr status, especially in Europe, where his influence is strongest," Bob Wolfson said. "It gives him battle scars, and in certain circles he needs that. I don't anticipate that a visit to the German prison system will deter him."
German politicians hailed Lauck's conviction. Interior Minister Manfred Kanter, a conservative, called it an appropriate response against a mastermind of international neo-Nazism. Herta Daeubler-Gmelin of the opposition leftist Social Democrats said, "It's about time he went behind bars."
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