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Crash of secret aircraft
caused general’s death
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Defense
sources said Tuesday a three-
istar general killed in a crash on
a Nevada test range last week
was flying a top-secret experi
mental “Stealth” F-19 fighter
designed to elude radar.
Lt. Gen. Robert Bond, 54,
vice commander of the Air
Force Systems Command, and a
fighter pilot during the Korean
and Vietnam wars, was killed
when the plane crashed Thurs
day at Nellis Air Force Base,
Nev.
Pentagon spokesmen said
Bond was qualiFied to fly single
engine aircraft.
Officials of the Pentagon, the
Air Force and the Systems
Command declined to com-
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the type of plane, saying only
that it was a “specially modified
test craft.” Some Pentagon offi
cials insisted that identification
of the plane as the F-19 was
wrong.
Defense Secretary Caspar
Weinberger was asked at a Na
tional Press Club luncheon
about the crash that killed Bond
and replied, “I will not be mak
ing any comments about pro
grams that are classified.”
In the absence of official con
firmation, speculation arose
that the aircraft could have
been a late model Soviet-built
MIG fighter that had been ac
quired by the United States, the
sources said.
But the sources, who re
quested anonymity, said it was a
F-19, which has been under de
velopment by Lockheed Corp.’s
Advanced Projects Facility at
Burbank, Calif, since the late
1970s. The program was
started during the Carter ad
ministration.
About 20 of the planes have
been built and all are based at
Nellis, the sources said. The sin
gle-seat fighter, said to have a
small twin tail, embodies special
features in its design and paint
that give off a low radar signa
ture to make it difficult to ob
serve, the sources said.
Some of those characteristics
are embodied in the SR-71, the
high-flying strategic reconnais
sance plane also built by Lock
heed.
One-woman university
offers unique subjects
United Press International
BOSTON — When Sandi
Serkess graduated from col
lege a decade ago, there were
no jobs open for the teaching
training she was so anxious to
use.
Faced with an oversupply
of elementary school teach
ers, she found employment
and frustration in one job af
ter another — from clerk to
stand-up comedienne.
Now at age 31 she de
scribes herself as a “one-
woman university,” teaching
25 different subjects in a 10-
week semester and qualified
to teach 25 more. She says the
ideas all come from her rocky
emotional and professional
past.
“My teaching dream has fi
nally come true,” she said.
The classes she teaches in
clude basics such as grammar,
writing skills, vocabulary
building and spelling and ex
tending through a huge rep
ertoire dealing with psychol-
ogy, business skills,
preparation for graduate
school exams and the histo
ries of psychoanalysis, eco
nomics, holidays and humor.
“But I’m always looking
out for new subjects,” she
said. “I’d try teaching almost
anything.”
Miss Serkess, who has writ
ten a book on improving
memory, teaches at the Cam
bridge and the Boston Cen
ters for Adult Education. She
has a master’s degree in coun
seling.
“My courses are my autobi
ography,” she explains, going
through a list four
long. “If you read thei
you’ll know me.
“Sharing anxieties inasy
porlive environment etica
ages adults to tackle i
they fear, whether it beJ
mats, fractions or thei
problems found in even:
math.
“Together we bait
checkbooks and learn to
the most for the monci
shopping trips.”
Some classes focus
group behavior, comimt
lions systems and sexual
rassment in the workpl
she said.
Some classes deals
unspoken rules, handling
office pest and answer
such questions as, ‘Is it;
to be an eager beaver?"' /ol 79 No
High court asked to hear custody case Grc
United Press International
WASHINGTON — An in
terracial couple who convinced
the Supreme Court that child
custody rulings must be color
blind asked Chief Justice War
ren Burger Tuesday to help
them regain the wife’s 6-year-
old daughter.
Linda Sidote Palmore, of
Seffner, Fla., asked Burger to
let her immediately go back to a
Florida court to argue she is en
titled to regain custody of her
daughter from her former hus
band, Anthony Sidote.
The nation’s highest court
used Palmdre’s case last
Wednesday to rule unani
mously that race cannot be con
sidered in family court when a
judge decides where a child
should live.
But Sidote, of Bryan, won an
order from a Texas judge last
Thursday, one day after the
high court ruled, preventing
Palmore from taking any action
to regain 6-year-old Melanie.
The Brazos County judge is
sued an order preventing Palm
ore from interfering in any way
with Sidote’s possession of the
minor child or even talking
about the case to anyone.
Palmore asked Burger to al
low her to ignore the Texas
judge and a high court rule that
says a case does not become fi
nal and enforceable until 25
days after it is issued by the
court.
She asked Burger to order
that Sidote not frustrate or cir
cumvent the high court’s ruling
by pursuing the case in Texas
courts when Florida courts have
jurisdiction over the custody
battle.
The Supreme Court had sent
the case back to the Florida
court last week.
“The effects of racial preju
dice, however real, cannot jus
tify a racial classification remov
ing an infant child from the
custody of its natural mother” if
she is otherwise able to maintain
custody, Burger wrote.
Palmore and Sidote were di-
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his weel
will
voiced in May 1980
tody was originally aw;
the mother. The next
married Clarance Pall
Sidote, 29, sought custi
the child.
Florida Judge Moriscii
sided with Sidote, ruliijKM.
“despite the strides tb;|hi <>lhei w
been made in betterinjK their di]
lions between the racescfI have the
country, it is inevitablethiBgrain, 3
anie will ... suffer from tust be pro
cial stigmatization thatiss®0 studen
come.” resident Fra
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Bell hike may hurt long distance services
United Press International
AUSTIN — The Public Util
ity Commission granted South
western Bell Telephone an
$816.7 million rate increase
Tuesday — far less than the
$1.7 billion it first requested
but more than triple its last rate
hike in 1982.
Although the new rates, ex
pected to take effect in mid
May, will boost local residential
phone bills by an average of
only 38 cents per month, it was
expected to greatly increase
long distance charges levied by
long distance specialty compa
nies.
As part of the rate hike, Bell
also won a 10 percent increase
in its intrastate LD service.
The commission’s 3-0 vote
on the compromise plan
capped the longest running
rate case in the utility regula
tory agency’s history and
marked the largest rate in
crease ever granted by the
three-member panel.
Bell originally Filed for a
$1.7 billion increase last June
to address the effects of the
Jan. 1 divestiture from Ameri
can Telephone 8c Telegraph
Co., but later trimmed its re
quest to $ 1.3 billion.
The commission’s decision
pleased neither the company
nor consumer advocates, and
could face an appeal in the
courts.
But Bell vice president Rich
ard Harris said it would be a
week or more before the com
pany decides on an appeal. He
refused to speculate on when
Bell might file another rate
case with the PUC.
“The total dollars approved
today by the Texas Public Util
ity Commission are not suffi
cient to meet Southwestern
Bell’s documented needs in
this rate case, a rate increase of
$1.3 billion,” said Harris. “Our
need is still there despite the
PUC’s decision.”
Carol Barger, director of
Consumers Union Southwest
district office, and Jim Boyle,
PUC public counsel, both
blasted the rate hike as exces
sive.
Of the total revenue granted
Bell, AT&T Communications
and other long distance spe
cialty companies would be re
quired to pay Bell more than
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'e do everytl
Harris warned that b 011 out of he
ing the LD companies toi|lf studen
the brunt of the rate t ' e work to g
might cause some of thrPpceciate us
drop off the Bell systeiri|^ 00n tods
eventually cause Texas | r sen i° r cl
sumers to pay more for IF has only
service. ; : Hce staff.
long distance charges levied by Jan. 1 divestiture from Amen- today by the Texas Public Util- oaky companies would be re- sumers to pay m
long distance specialty compa- can Telephone & Telegraph ity Commission are not suffi- quired to pay Bell more than service
Houston oil companies to fund organ donor a
United Press International through the use of corporate about problems doctors and The program, launched in down the cost of ti
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A
Houston-based airlift program
for organ transplants will pro
vide free flights for the Univer
sity of Tennessee Center for the
Health Sciences, one of the na
tion’s major transplant centers,
officials said Tuesday.
The project, made available
through the use of corporate
jets and chartered flights owned
or paid for by oil and natural
gas companies, is dubbed Oil
Industry Lifesaving Flights, or
OIL Flights.
J.B. Coffman, president and
chief executive officer of Ami-
noil Inc. of Houston, founded
the program after learning
about problems doctors and
families experienced when try
ing to line up emergency flights
to transport highly perishable
donor organs such as hearts or
livers.
“It was easy to determine
there was a need, and that the
need was on a nationwide ba
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The program, launched in
January, has 45 participating
companies and 51 aircraft in 18
cities, Coffman said. The pro
gram will supplement a Mem
phis program involving 14
firms with aircraft that carry or
gan retrieval teams, donor or
gans, patients and families.
“We are limited to flights that
require very rapid transporta
tion,” he said. “The heart can be
out of a donor only four hours
— the pancreas or liver, about
eight hours.”
Dr. James C. Hunt, chan
cellor of UTCHS, said the pro
gam would also help bring
down the cost of transplanl
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day to break diplomatic Koreans and
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condemned the Jewish iU] 300
annexation of the old Jf|i shmass .
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