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DAKOTA Friday, May 19, 1989 The Bismarck Tribune Page5A McGovern haunted by fear he killed innocent family rr- A 'M 1 mi i engine, on a short runway on an island in the Adriatic Sea. That feat earned McGovern the Distinguished Flying Cross. McGovern, 66, is a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, a liberal Washington think tank, and lectures frequently on college campuses on foreign policy and domestic issues. The annual Charles A. Lindbergh Memorial Lecture, which he delivered Thursday, celebrates the aviation pioneer's historic solo flight across the Atlantic on May 20-21, 1927.

McGovern said he proudly supported the U.S. war effort against Germany and Japan but opposed American involvement in the Vietnam War, which he called "the most costly single blunder in our national history" and "a war we did not deserve to win." McGovern said Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's initiatives "may enable us to end the cold war and reverse the arms race." recalled the incident "that still continued to haunt me many years later" during a taped interview for an Austrian television documentary about World War II. After the interview was broadcast, he said, "an elderly Austrian farmer telephoned the TV station and said that the farmhouse I had described bombing was his. "He saw the bomb coming and sought safety.

No one was hurt. 'We hated Adolf he said, 'and if bombing our farmhouse helped in any way to bring him down, tell Sen. McGovern we are "So after 40 years, I was exonerated from the incident that had bothered me since World War II," McGovern said. Earlier in the war, McGovern's plane lost two of its four engines during a raid on the Skoda ammunition works at Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, in December 1944. The 22-year-old pilot nursed the crippled plane to a safe emergency landing, despite flames in a third ASSOCIATED PRESS Saved Dave Murphy, 15, of Pottstown, away by the strong currents in the rain-hangs onto a tree branch Wednesday swollen Schuylkill River.

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WASHINGTON (AP) Former Sen. George S. McGovern says he was haunted for 40 years by the fear which proved unfounded that he had killed an innocent Austrian farm family when he jettisoned a loose explosive from the Army bomber he was piloting near the end of World War II. McGovern, the liberal, antiwar Democratic candidate from South Dakota who was soundly defeated by President Nixon in the 1972 election, recalled the troubling wartime Incident in a lecture Thursday night at the National Air and Space Museum. McGovern flew 35 combat missions against Nazi German industrial targets as pilot of the "Dakota Queen," a B-24 Liberator bomber with the Army's 15th Air Force based in Cerignola, Italy.

Returning to his home base from a bombing run over Austria on March 14, 1945, McGovern said, his crew reported that the plane still carried a live bomb which had caught in its rack and was dangling from the bomb bay. The crew finally succeeded in dislodging the bomb before the plane landed, McGovern said. "We saw it fall and hit in the middle of a farmyard just as the clock showed 12 noon," he said. "The house, barn and other buildings flew in all directions. I envisioned a young farm family sitting down for their noon meal blown to pieces.

"When I landed back at our base in Italy, I was handed a cable saying that Eleanor had given birth to our first child, our daughter Ann. The thought went through my mind that we had brought a child into the world and that same day I had killed someone else's children," he said. In 1985, while he was a guest professor at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, McGovern said he Kissing rock sold along with school CARTHAGE, 111. (AP) Robert Morris College its dormitories, classrooms, library, gym and the fabled "kissing rock" sold at auction Thursday for $400,000. The College Education Foundation, a non-profit group of area businesses, won with the only bid for the 20-acre parcel.

If the college's trustees approve the bid, the group wants to find another school to take over the facilities. Loud applause broke out with the foundation's successful bid as teary-eyed students stood in the grass outside the auction hall on campus and peered in the windows. The "kissing rock" sits just inside the main gate of the Carthage campus, and folklore has it that any student who sits on it is fair game for a kiss. "We're glad this day is passed," said Richard Pickett, president of Robert Morris College, a two-year business school that used to be based in this western Illinois city but now has its main campus in Chicago. "We're disappointed it didn't bring a more reasonable figure," Pickett added.

"But it's time Robert Morris College gets on to other things. I don't have to worry about Carthage anymore." Terry Newell, a Carthage car dealer and president of the education foundation, said he was confident the Robert Morris trustees would approve the bid. "I feel It will be accepted and we'll have no problem raising $400,000," Newell said. "We're going to try and get somebody to come In and replace Robert Morris College. We want to keep it whole, viable and an educational institution if possible." Newell said his group would consider any offer, including turning the campus into a prison.

He said the same process was used in 1965 when the old Carthage College closed. His group bought the campus for $1.1 million at that time, then sold it for the same price to Robert Morris College, he said. "We'll look at any possibility, but our top priority is to keep it a school," Newell said. About 50 protesters outside said they were concerned the school would be auctioned off in smaller pieces if a buyer for the whole parcel could not be found. "We don't want the school sold in pieces," said Beulah Shirey, a Carthage resident who joined the other protesters, some carrying signs reading "Carthage Divided We Fall" and "Carthage Pride." In December, school officials stunned Carthage residents with their decision to close the campus because of a deficit of $460,000.

The school was one of largest employers in this city of 3,000. The college, which will close this summer, has about 370 students and 110 faculty and staff members. About 1,350 students attend the Chicago campus. City officials feared not only the loss of the school's $2 million annual payroll, but the other benefits to the local economy estimated at four times that amount. Our 3.97.

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