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T7" DCN IO APn A Lcs Hems 7 Detroit 17 13 20 New York Giants 17 24 0 s- tm BK fm -i a-f (m 44d Sid Bream's first-inning grand propels Atlanta to a 9-1 win and a 1 Vfc-game lead in NL West, 1C A Gannett Newspaper Pensacola, Florida Monday, September 16, 1991 Northwest Florida (OX fHSL 4 POWs from Persian Guilf arrive for teste i tit -v Wetzel spent two weeks in a hospital in Baghdad before he was taken to the prison. He suffered two broken arms when his plane was shot down. Prisoners were isolated and typically got only one meal a day usually two pieces of pita bread and some watered down broth. As they arrived, they asked about the other former POWs participating in the study Capt. Russell Sanbom, Capt.

Michael Berry-man, Chief Warrant Officer Guy Hunter and Major Joseph Small, all Marines, and Navy Lt. Lawrence Slade. They came into the airport quietly, almost unnoticed which is how they seemed to prefer it. Dollar Rent A Car welcomed them with fruit baskets and a car of their choice at no extra cost. Wetzel gave a wry smile at Zaun and said, "I'd like a convertible give him a By Sara Lamb News Journal Jeffrey Zaun is trying to find more time for family and prayer.

Bob Wetzel is trying to find more time for a new bride. Both are carving out life after the Persian Gulf War and an identity that isn't summed up in three letters: POW. "It's hard to do something more prominent than get shot down" and captured as a prisoner of war, Zaun, 29, said Sunday night at the Pensacola Regional Airport. Zaun and Wetzel both Navy lieutenants were flying jets deployed on the USS Saratoga and were captured after they were shot down over Iraq. Zaun was the focus of nationwide concern after he appeared on an Iraqi TV broadcast Jan.

20. Five other men captured by Iraq during the war arrived in Pensacola on Sunday to take part in a study at the Naval Air Station. The seven sailors and Marines will be tested and examined as part of the Repatriated Prisoner of War Study run by the Naval Aerospace Medical Institute. The men will be examined for their physical and mental well-being, undergoing neurological tests, routine psychiatric tests and questions about their captivity. Zaun talked briefly Sunday about the videotape the Iraqis made during his captivity.

He said he had been beaten before the tape was made. At the time, he didn't know the Iraqis planned on taking any prisoners. "They basically told me they were going to kill me and I pretty much believed them," Zaun said. He said he tried to use words and a voice that conveyed his message was insincere. The tape, used as a propaganda effort by the Iraqis, quoted Zaun saying: "I think our leaders and our people have wrongly attacked the peaceful people of Iraq." 4 Bruce diraner News journal Navy Lts.

Jeffrey Zaun, left, and Robert Wetzel check in Sunday night with Robin Fenner, manager of Dollar Rent A Car at Pensacola Regional Airport. net i GtLflFini jo SIDOr -TQCsJ JID(o Muckraker says he's mellowed ,1 liwU-S mi--f. am I': Violence followed Pooley By Roger T. Robinson News Journal 1-1 fl ILTON Ben Henry 1 Pooley's return as a I Ij radio news uuu commentator is the latestdevelopment in a saga that allegedly spawned four attempts on his life. Pooley, police and others believe the attempts to kill Pooley stemmed from his sometimes savage attacks on local politicians while he was a radio news commentator at station WEBY-AM in the early 1960s.

Former County Commissioner Clifford Wilson unsuccessfully sued Pooley and the station's owner, the late Clayton Mapoles, for slander in the 1960s. But Pooley's attacks on other politicians eventually prompted the Federal Communications Commission to yank Mapoles' license and the station closed. Pooley's conduct also contributed to adoption of the FCC's so-called fairness doctrine, which requires equal air time be alloted to aggrieved parties. Clayton Mapoles' son, County Commissioner Byrd Mapoles, reopened WEBY in the mid-1980s. On April 24, 1979, Pooley was sleeping in his mobile home when several sticks of dynamite exploded beneath the trailer.

The mobile home was destroyed, its toilet was blown over the roof of a nearby house and one of Pooley's dogs was killed. Pooley wasn't :1 By Roger T. Robinson News Journal mILTON Longtime Santa Rosa 1 County residents JVL might think they've gone back in time if they're listening to Milton radio" station WECM-AM on Sept 30. -On that day, Ben Henry Pooley, a Santa Rosa political and radio legend, is to return to the air after a nearly 30-year absence with an 8:15 to 8:40 am. local news and commentary show Monday through Friday.

Pooley, one of the county's more colorful and controversial public figures, was forced off the air in the 1960s when the Federal Communications Commission snatched the license of the station where Pooley worked. The FCC action came as a result of Pooley's opinionated assaults on local elected officials, notably county commissioners. Pooley nicknamed each commissioner and often used innuendo to imply wrongdoing. Former County Commissioner Clifford Wilson, for example, was known as "Super Octane" or "the young gas-guzzling commissioner from Harold" on Pooley's show. Pooley implied Wilson used county gasoline in vehicles owned by Wilson's lumber and sawmill operations.

Wilson sued Pooley and the late Clayton Mapoles, then-owner of WEBY-AM, but the case was dis-' missed. Later, however, the FCC revoked See RADIO, 8A: Ben Henry Pooley of Milton is ready for his return to the airwaves after a 30-year absence. Steve MawyerNews Journal trying to hire convicted murderer and prison escapee Curtis "Boo" Adams to kill Pooley. On April 20, 1988, Wilson was charged with trying to hire a Pace logger to kill Pooley for $8,000. A jury found Wilson not guilty in December 1988.

hurt. No arrests were made. In August 1984, former County Commissioner Leroy Johnson, was arrested in what law officers called a murder-for-hire scheme aimed at Pooley. Johnson was the father of state Rep. Bo Johnson, D-Milton, who is scheduled to informant posing as the hit man.

Leroy Johnson died from an apparent heart attack a week after his arrest, closing the case. In September 1987, William Chester Cole, on parole from prison, was convicted and sentenced to 35 years in prison for become House speaker in 1993. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Sheriffs Department set up a phony crime scene to make those allegedly involved think a hit man killed Pooley. Authorities hoped that would induce payment to an INDEX Night shuttle landing: Pilot's nightmare? High-tech equipment to help break shuttle's free fall Local. Alabama Lottery Movies.

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Astronauts launch probe CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) Discovery astronauts dispatched an observation Sunday to examine the effects of pollution on Earth's ozone layer, but ground controllers ran into trouble communicating with the space-! craft The glittering, copper-colored satellite; drifted off into orbit shortly after midnight Mark Brown unleashed the observatory from the end of the shuttle's mechanical arm as the ship flew over the Atlantic Ocean. The observatory was released a little later than planned because controllers had trouble; getting a signal to pass between the craft's main antenna and a second satellite through which data is transmitted to Earth. Project deputy manager John Donley said the interruptions were caused by a procedural; problem on the ground that was corrected. Another problem was discovered later Sun-1 day one of two satellite transponders used to receive data from Earth failed. Controllers had to go to a backup transpon-' der, which worked fine.

WEATHER from the runway, more precise guidance information is fed to the spaceship by Microwave Scanning Beam Landing System equipment near the runway. This system determines the shuttle's altitude and distance and direction from the runway. The information, beamed to instruments in the shuttle's nose, will be used to compute steering commands that keep it on its proper flight path. The landing facility itself will be lit by powerful Xenon lights that shine in excess of one billion candlepower. Like the giant floodlights seen at store openings, the Xenon lights will turn darkness to near-daylight The high-tech equipment and the powerful lighting systems are among the most advanced in the world, Wetherbee said, but it's the frequent practice runs in a specially designed training aircraft that make astronauts comfortable with nighttime shuttle landings.

"Anytime you do something 1,000 times, you tend to get pretty good at it." By Gannett News Service CAPE CANAVERAL Discovery is to make the first night landing Wednesday at Kennedy Space Center, a task that sounds daunting for the space shuttle's pilots. Discovery will plunge through darkness at 25 times the speed of sound with engines out, free falling at 8,000 feet per minute. A three-mile runway surrounded by alligator-infested swamps is the touchdown point, and the world's largest, heaviest glider has one chance. "With the space shuttle, you have what we call dead-stick landing," said former shuttle pilot Robert Overmyer. "You don't have an engine to bail you out if you have a problem." The only thing as frightening, added veteran NASA astronaut James Weth-erbee, might be a night landing on an aircraft carrier.

"The shuttle approaches might be easier than flying into a carrier at night because the carrier can be moving and the deck can be pitching," said Wether- After the engines are silenced, Discovery will become the world's largest glider. bee, a Navy lieutenant commander who piloted Columbia on a January 1990 mission. The landing is scheduled for 1 a.m. An array of sophisticated equipment aboard Discovery and at the Shuttle Landing Facility will help guide the spaceship to a precise touchdown. While the Orbiter is gliding over the Gulf at about 100,000 feet, a Tactical Air Navigation facility at the Space Center runway will begin beaming guidance information to the spaceship.

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