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Show The Salt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD Thursday. December 29 , 1994 A6 North Korea Releases U.S. Pilot’s Statement U.S. Bombers: Can Military Let Go ofPast? @ Continued from A-1 @ Continued from A-1 return to my homeand be with my nothing that cando it plane,” ly 1 Ky., family again In Washington, Clinton denied says Capt. Kelof Brandenburg Hall's helicopter was involved in tor in the 96th a B-52 n nb espionage. “He was on a routine Squadron of course nuclear war and bombers “for today’s air- $ le launched weapons of choice of The F-117Astealth fighter. for example. played the main strate- training mission. That’sall,” Clinton said. Clinton and administrationofficials avoided threatening retaliation, even whileinsisting the helicopter strayed into North Korean territory because of navigational errors. After Hall’s statement was released, a Clinton administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, acknowledged that the helicopter could be viewed as illegally entering North Korean air space, butreiterated that the action wasaccidentaland not part of a spying mission. Furthermore, US.officials have expressed regret over the incident. { gic bombingrole in the 1991 Per- i“ inte Stauon hubura Ave, NE sian Gulf War, while B-52s mostly dropped “dumb.” or unguided. bombs on Iraqi armored forces The Air Force says bombers are vital to U.S. national security Others disagree “They re an anachronism, ” said Peter Boyes. a retired Air Force colonel whoflew B-17 bombersin World War II. Boyes says the bombers’ survival is a classic example of the military reluctant to let go of the past “The Armykept horse cavalry until 1944,” he said Even if billions more dollars Tannen Maury/The A Park Service employee spruces up the Atlanta birthplace of Martin Luther King Jr. King Family Bans Park Service From His Birthplace are spent, as now planned. to fix shortcomings on the two newergeneration bombers — the B-1B Lancerand the B-2 Stealth — the US. fleet will be operating far be- lowits potential for years The real world of todayis not what it was in the bombers’ hey- day. Until September 1991, U.S bombers stood on 24-hour alert. ready to head for the Soviet homeland on a moment's notice. But the demiseof Soviet communismeliminated the need for such hair-trigger readiness: it also changed the rationale for spending tens of billions of dollars on newbombers Hundreds of B-52s. in fact have been retired to an aircraft boneyard.” waiting to be cut up for parts, at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base at Tucson, Ariz. The Air Force says the key to making optimaluseof the bomber THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA — Martin Luther King Jr.'s family banished the National Park Service from his birthplace and tomb Wednesday, escalating a dispute with the agencyabout howto preserve King's legacy Dexter Scott King, a son of theslain civil-rights leader, said that after Wednesday, the park service could no longer conduct tours of the family-run Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, where King’s crypt is located, or takevisi- tors inside the house where King was born. He said the King Center wouldtake over the tour operation but did not say when Theirintent is to annex this area to control the dissemination of history,” Dexter King said at a news conference, standing near his father’s tomb. “Our history has always been diluted. Wecantell ourhistory. We knowbest.” Thedispute centers on the park service's plan to build an $11.8 million visitors center across the street from the King Center in time for the 1996 Olympics The King family opposes the visitors center because it wants to build an interactive museum focusing on King’s life at the same site. The park service fleet is equipping it with “precision guided” weapons such as acquired the site from the city of Atlanta in a deal missiles that are guided to their targets by lasers. Several such weapons are being developed, but activist may not be fully readyuntil near the turn of the century worked out in Congress with the help of Democratic Rep. John Lewis, a formerKingaide and civil-rights The dispute has divided Atlanta's black communi- ty In a Dec. 18 column, Atlanta Journal-Constitutioneditorial page editor Cynthia Tucker called the proposed King Park “a sort of I Have a Dreamland, to make profit from a Disneyesquetrip through the civil-rights movement.” That brought a rebuke last week from Dexter King, who said black journalists such as Tucker owe their jobs to his father. At the same newsconference, Coretta Scott King said, “The sameevil forces that destroyed Martin Luther King are nowtrying to destroy my family.” Two prominent civil-rights leaders on the King Center board, Joseph Lowery and former Atlanta Mayor AndrewYoung, supportthe center's plans for the disputed property. But some business leaders and Atlanta officials support the government's project. which will provide improvementsto the neighborhood. A statement issued through the office of Mayor Bill Campbell on Wednesday said the King Center “did not meaningfully participate” in the park service’s two-year planningprocess and should not seek changes now. Dexter King replied that the park service “came in as tour guides, but in their dark ambition have becomelandlords.’ He said the family did not realize the park service's intentions“until it was too late.”” Mosttourists at the historic district, just east of downtown Atlanta, were unaware of the dispute. The area attracts 1 million visitors a year. It was not clear why North Ko- rea released the statement four days after it is said to have been written and just after Hubbard arrived for the highest-level direct talks yetin thecrisis. But there have been indications of a power struggle between the North’s civilian leaders, who probably would want to release Hall, and military hard-liners who are reported to be upsetat the nu- clear agreement signed two monthsago. The Korean Central News Agencysupplied a text of whatit called Hall's confession “I am Chief Warrant Officer 2 Bobby Wayne Hall, pilot of an OH-58C which was shot down . after illegally intruding deep into the territorial airspace of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,” the statement began. Hall said the helicopter went off courseafter flying as planned from Chunchon to Weontong in South Korea, KCNAreported. Hall said fellow Chief Warrant Officer David Hilemon was thrown from thehelicopterin the crash and killed. Hilemon’s body was released last Thursday and taken to the United States by Rep. Bill Richardson, D-N.M. Richardson, who was promised a weekagothat Hall would bereleased “very soon,” said in Washington that the nuclear agreement with North Korea could besidetrackedif Hall still was in detention when Congress convened next Wednesday. The House Intelligence Committee memberwas touring North Korean nuclear installations when Hall’s helicopter went down. Another member of Congress who hasvisited North Korea recently, Sen. Frank Murkowski, R- Alaska, said North Korea was in the midst of a power struggle, with Kim Jong Il unable to take control after the death of his father, dictator Kim II Sung, in July. “It’s going to play out over a period of time,” he said. Mixed-Up Bigamist Had No Time to Himself THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GLENDALE, Ariz. — Vernon Pierce needed a notebook to keep track of the stories he told his four wives and the other women he was dating. But even that wasn't enough. The tangledlovelife of the 33year-old ex-model began to unravellast summerwhenoneof the four women to whom hewassimultaneously married sent police to Pierce’s home to check up on him. The police found another wife knocking onhis door. “Obviously, there was a lot of lying going on. I did the best I could, but I still made mistakes,” Pierce said Tuesday before surrendering to police in this Phoenix suburb. He wasfree on $1,500 bail Wednesday on bigamy charges. Police found recordsofat least four marriages, one in 1989 and three this year. Pierce said he was dating other women, keeping track of some of them on a 3-by-5-inch card labeled “Who to Marry.” He also carried a little black book in his wallet to keephis stories straight. Pierce said he told his wives that his job required him to tray- el. The truth, ue said, was altogether different: ‘I didn’t have a job. I didn’t have time.” While some men might envy his escapades, Pierce said it wasn’t always fun. “People say guys fantasize about something like this, and I guess I did,” he said. “But you don’t have your ownlife.” STOREWIDE | i roa on thi is merchandise. Basic, ‘on-seasonal merchandise is not included. Selection veree bysoreLinited fostock onand So Wace Sa ain Salt Lake City at wareFaFashion Place Mall. Call 266-2006. 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