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Show 12A The Salt Lake Tribune, Wednesday, February 5, 1936 Ihniii llm Mrnarr Itv Hank krtclinin Hail road Families Pull Up HKtS Trial Begins For White Supremacist Murder-Pl- BN Closures Rattle Montana Town ot LIVINGSTON, I'OISE (UPI) The government began its effort Tues-d,i- 10 prove a white supremacist church leader paid 1, GO in a murder plot to decapitate an FBI informant hate group "The Order. rig l ist the violent Assistant U.S. Attorney Ron Howen started calling witnesses he said would prove that Elden "Bud" Cutler member Thomas Martinez. schemed to kill He said the testimony also would show Cutler sought the murders of three other opponents of the Order and the Aryan Nations. None of the alleged murder plots were ever carried neo-Na- out. ' Cutler, 60, Hayden Lake, Idaho, is a former security of the Aryan Nations church, a leading chief st group that helped develop the Order Cutler was charged with retaliation against a witness, e tampering with a witness and the use of interstate facilities in the commission of a murder for hire. DeTense attorney David Nevin maintains Cutler was coea ed into the Martinez murder plot. He said two undercover FBI agents, posing as white supremacists, planted the idea of the killing in Cutler's head and helped him find the money for the "hit. com-me:e- Dennis new friend has turned out to be quite a vocabulary builder!" Red Flag Lifts War Games to New Heights As Pilots Take On Mock Soviet Defenses By Robert Macy Associated Press Writer In what is considered the ultimate computerized war game, combat pilots from around the world attack airfields that resemble Soviet-blo- c targets and engage supersonic jets that replicate Soviet MiGs. Operation Red Flag, a operation held four times a year, the teaches pilots in its classroom airspace over the Nevada desert how to survive and prevail in modern warfare. The current exercise, which runs through Feb. 15, features 27 types of aircraft from all four U.S. military branches, in addition to the Canadian Air Force. More than 300 aircraft are expected to fly some 5,000 missions. For 10 years, thousands of American pilots and hundreds of their counterparts from 16 friendly foreign countries have dodged simulated Soviet defense systems and engaged in dogfights with "red aggressors in the war over 3,800 square miles. Forty-on- e pilots have died in Red Flag operations, testimony to the intensity of the simulated combat j LAS VEGAS, Nev. Red Flag is the highest rung, next to combat, said Col. John Madden, a former combat pilot who directs the $19 million annual program. Its the closest thing to combat Ive ever The range runs north from Las Vegas for 150 miles and is 120 miles wide at the northern edge. From 80 to 100 aircraft fly through the target area within a period. The ability to replay the battles will leap forward in September with completion of a system that will five-minu- at a closing speed of nearly 900 mph. A second screen showed the view from the blue planes cockpit. With the aggressor in his sights, the blue plane fired. An outline of a coffin flashed across the target, indicating an enemy kill. Mont. (AP) - The rumbling of diesel locomotives was replaced by an eerie silence here Tuesday as Burlington Northern Railroad closed shops that have serviced locomotives for nearly a century. The railroad is consolidating its locomotive repair shops in other states for economic reasons, and it closed the shop doors for good after the last shift laie Monday night. Once, more than 1,100 mechanics and carmen had worked around the clock to keep BNs fleet of gleaming green locomotives ready to thunder over the mountain passes to the west or speed lumber, grain and coal back to the population centers in the East. By Monday, when the final whistle blew after six years of layoffs, there were only 360 employees left. But the BN shops were still the major source of livelihood in the southern Montana railroad center of 7,000 people. And even though the community had been preparing for the shutdown for three months, the shock still hurt. Mayor John Printz, who took office last month, said the actual shutdown Tuesday was "just as a big a shock today as it was then when BN officials announced the closure Nov. 5. I kind of thought they were bluffing, but I guess they proved they weren't, he said. The greatest shock Tuesday seemed to be on the 360 families fected by the closure. track 136 aircraft over the entire range. It will give us the big picture of chat went on out there, Capt. Hal Westbrook explained. The full battle scenario is available on screens, giving a horizontal look, a vertical view and an overhead Gods-ey- e view, Westbrook said. The screens show the airspeed of each plane, its position, altitude and threats launched against it. Westbrook pointed to a blue and a red F-- 5 approaching each other af- Nearly half the workers have accepted transfers to other BN shops, mostly in Iowa, Illinois and Nebraska, and most will leave their families behind to try to sell houses and pack family goods. City Attorney Bob Jovick, who helped organize an unsuccessful to try to persuade BN to change its mind, said the closure is particularly difficult because of the "uprooting of families in the community, "We knew it was an uphill battle and we lost," he said. This is a very sad day that we were trying to el-fo- rt avoid. A week ago, Charlie and Lorraine Gilberg celebrated their 19th wedding anniversary. On Tuesday, Gilberg was headed for West Burlington, Iowa, and his new job, while his wife and two sons remained in Livingston until the end of the school year. "Its a wonderful anniversary present, Mrs. Gilberg said. "I guess well survive, but its disrupting our whole lives. Gilberg wanted to retire in Livingston, a picturesque town nestled along the Yellowstone River beneath the Absaroka, Crazy and Bnuger mountains, about 50 miles from Yellowstone National Park. But he said, "when you've given 29 years of your life, youve got no choice but to go. Whether we like it or not, big business is in control." Other workers plan on staying in Livingston, even without jobs. Kevin Albrecht says his income might drop by as much as but he loves the state too much to leave. "Montana thats all you have to say. You're not crowded here, youve got a little bit of freedom," BN spokesman Brian Sweeney of Overland Park, Kan., said the decision was for strictly economic rea- two-third- s, tsmsm QnaaamaiB In our February 5th through February 8th ad on page 3, the Lionel Ritchie "Say You Say Me" album title will not be available for purchase, the reason being that Lionel Ritchie was not satisfied with the recording of two cuts and felt that his fans were entitled to the best that he could create. We regret any inconvenience that this may have caused our customers. C5uOCS3UtCr' F-1- 6 MERGING LANE AHEAD seen. In three tours of duty in Southeast Asia, Madden registered three MiG kills and one enemy plane damaged, ranking him No. 3 among Americans in MiG kills. The simulated war games began following heavy losses of U.S. pilots in Vietnam. In the first Red Flag exercises a decade ago, nine types of aircraft participated, with 55 flying 1,300 sorties. planes A typical Red Flag operation features strike aircraft sweeping between mountain peaks to knock out enemy defenses such as surface-to-ai- r missiles. The defenses have video cameras to film the pilot's attack, and determine whether he was able reach the target, knock it out, and escape alive. This allows us to see ourselves in the eyes of the enemy gunner," Madden explained "It's all there to see on the videotape. This is the only range in the world where pilots can go and see the vast variety of Soviet threats. We present a direct replica of what a pilot would face in combat. Intelligence tells us what they know about Soviet defenses and we try to replicate it." Ford Aerospace has a $16 million contract to set up the toughest defenses possible on the Nellis range. The intensity of the defenses increases with each day of a Red Flag operation; knocking out the missile sites and bunkered positions is a major Look left and right these days and von see dots and 11 stripes merging all goal. over, making Reconnaissance aircraft such as AWACS are used to help choreograph the attack and set defensive systems Other aircraft provide electronic jamming and countermeasures Giant transports provide airlift support, including parachute drops to friendly forces. Helicopters sweep across the e desert on mis- spring's patterns street. two-wa- y Here comes one now in pinkwhite polyesterruyon search-ar.d-rescu- sions Giant whip across the range, altihugging the desert at tudes looking for targets such as airfields and vehicle convoys tankers circle the east and west sides of the vast range, refueling planes as they would under combat conditions The threats don't originate from the desert floor alone. In each exercise, 40 jets, with configurations . enand similar to MiG-21- s othand In with dogfights gage er friendly forces The "red agressors," specially-traineAmerican pilots who fly and fight like their Soviet counterparts, attack "blue friendly" forces and trv to prevent their penetration into the target area According to the game s scenario, 40,000 Soviet troops have attacked a friendly nation "We want our pilots fighting someone as similar to a Soviet pilot as vou could get," Madden said "We have 40 aggrtssor aircraft and pilots and they'll outnumber the blue air 2 to That's because the Soviets or have more fighters than we do " Huge screens monitor the flight of every plane on the sprawling Nellis range, as well as other military and commercial craft in a 542 mile radi- a sizes 200-fo- S70 by Sans Age from Fashion Dresses, KC-13- 5 where prints are taking a whole new direction. 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