Show A6 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Monday April 26 2004 World & Nation Q i I Veterans remember darkness of April 28 1944 The eight-da- y exercise was the US 4th Infantry Division's practice for the invasions using the heach at Slaplon near Stokenham because of its similarity to the Normandy landing sites The exercise involved 3000 ships and 30IKX) men Only one British corvette provided escort for the convoy of US Navy ships to Slaplon Sands Nine German boats happened torpedo upon the convoy sank two ships STOKENHAM England (AP) — Sixty years ago US 74V soldiers and sailors were landkilled when their attacked was by ing practice German torpedo boats off the south coast of England It was one of the least- known Allied disasters of World War II On Sunday at St Michael's and All Angels church in the coastal village of Stokenham American and British veterans' attended a memorial service for the men of Exercise Tiger who died in the early morning and badly damaged a third The attack killed nearly four times as many men'as the division later lost in the D- Day landing June 6 1944 The survivors were warned to keep it secret and the not announced until nearly two months after the Normandy invasion Full details were not known until 1974 when the records were declassified The convoy was lightly guarded and because of a typographical error the American ships were bn the wrong D-D- ay I)-D- IMBay casu-altieswe- re slow-movi- fast-movi- disaster radio frequency and unable to receive warnings Because the soldiers were in full battle dress many bodies were found floating feet up After Sunday's memorial service the veterans and local residents attended a wreathlaying ceremony at a US Sherman tank that had been lost at sea during the opera- - ' lion It was recovered in 1984 to become a beachside top-hea- ‘ AP photo US Former US serviceman Richard Ferguson stands alongside the flag during a memorial service in Stokenham southwest England on Sunday for the men of Exercise Tiger who died on April 28 1944 Judge’s ruling throws Oklahoma city conspirator’s defense into disarray Investigators re-exam- ine 1980 slaying of Ohio nun TOLEDO Ohio(AP) — the Investigators lf8C) slaying of a nun whose body was found in a chapel surrounded by candles alter another woman alleged she was abused by Roman Catholic priests during satanic-ansadomasochistic rituals a newspaper reported Sunday Investigators said they could ' not substantiate the woman's allegations but her mention of the Rev Gerald Robinson spurred police to take another look at the nun'sinurdcr — in McALESTER Okla (AP) — Barely 10 days before they start presenting their case to al jury attorneys for Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols find themselves without much of the evidence they planned to use District Judge Steven Tay- lor ruled much of the defense evidence inadmissible last week He didn’t however bar them from offering eviAP photo dence they say indicates exebomber Timothy A Turkish Cypriot reads a local paper which shows that Turkish cuted received substantial McVeigh Cypriots voted "yes"' for a UN reunification plan while Greek from help conspirators other in on '‘no” Kyrenia Cyprus Sunday Cypriots voted than Nichols with April 19 1995 bombing Jurors may hear sugges- tions of another conspirator through witness accounts of the John Doe No 2 ' dozens whom of people said With the defeat of the plan KYRENI A Cyprus (AP) — saw with Hasiin Bcvdnla u Turkish they which required agreement McVeigh before the bombing Authori- from both sides all of Cyprus C ypriot tc Ic exporter near ties have said the man depictwill enter the EU but the bankrupts) vvas glum Sununion's laws and benefits will ed in an FBI sketch turned day a day alter Greek Cypriout to have nothing to do ots' sank a UN plan to apply only to the internationwith the bombing and it with ally recognized south reunify Cyprus The panelists also may hear that his divided business been would has hopes Cyprus more 1974 in island boost the grisly testimony about a since invaded when a Turkey get dismembered d leg found in to put down a enters the European Union federal the Now Beydola and other building's rubble coup by supporters of union that Nichols' defense atlor- with Greece For three Turkish Cypriots are waiting neys may suggest was that of decades international isolalo hear how the FU will keep an unknown coconspirator its promise to reward them fo'r tion of the north meant Bey- Oklahoma's chief medical dola could export only to supporting die l':N plan Dr Fred Jordan examiner T urkish — in the sole the Turkey Cypriots country on Friday that the testified his north overwhelmingly voted recognizing breakaway leg did not match any of thestate After Turkey’s 995 "vcs while Greek Cv prints j 168 bombing victims and in similar numbers in tic customs union agreement be from an unidentified could EU in "no-voted twin with south the even those ' 169th victimdeclined Saturday exports Turkish Cypriots now hope for better future which he hud always been a suspect Robinson 6ft was charged Friday with murdering Sister Margaret Ann Pahl who was strangled and stabbed about 30 times on April 5 1980 Her body was found in a hospital chapel surrounded by lit can: dies with her arms folded across her chest' Authorities said the ngn's murder was part of a ‘‘ceremony" that look place in the chapel where shu'was the caretaker but they would not elaborate However they allege Robinson acted alone in the slaying Her body had been posed to look as though she had been sexually assaulted but investi- so-call- ed l i short-live- : May 6 but lead defense attorney Brian Herman son says McVeigh's attorneys suggested at his federal bombing trial that the leg which wore boot a military-styl- e ' belonged to the real bomber who was killed in the blast Taylor denied Nichols’ motion to dismiss the murder case in a strongly worded decision that also restricted hisattoriieys' ability to present their conspiracy theories Taylor ruled there was no basisfor claims that evidence important to Nichols’ defense was withheld by prosecutors ‘‘There is nothing new here just more suggestions of a government conspiracy to cover up evidence in this case There is no proof of that” he said Nichols already serving a life sentence on federal bombing charges is being tried on 161 state counts of murder and could be sentenced to death if convicted Defense attorneys allege McVeigh shielded other coconspirators and set Nichols up to take the blame but Taylor's ruling shook up their case They are scheduled to begin presenting evidence the defense witness list ' remains ‘‘a work in progress” ' first-degr- ee ‘‘Our witness list is changing because of the ruling you made” Hermanson told Tay- lor during a courtroom exchange with prosecutor $uzanne Lister Defense attorneys had indicated they would call up to 800 witnesses on Nichols’ behalf Defense lawyers were pre- ' pared to offer evidence that McVeigh had close ties to a gang of white supremacist bank robbers and a white supremacist enclave in northeastern Oklahoma but Taylor sail much of the evidence was based on inadmissible rumor and innuendo ' Defense attorneys have tried to humanize Nichols by ' portraying him as a neat and who man was gentle family manipulated by McVeigh the bomb plot's mastermind Nichols was with his wife and daughter at their home in on the day Herington-KaMcVeigh detonated the homemade bomb out- side the federal building ammonium-nitrate-and-fuel-- oil " 1 gators' said Saturday they ' found no eyidencc of sexual ' activity Robinson was the hospital chaplain and performed the nunfuneral for the 7 year-old Investigators said they reexamined the evidence and concluded that the murder weapon w hich they did not identify was “in the control of 'the suspect "They employed a rarely used technique called 1 -- - ION D Vi' APR AFFORDABLE! 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