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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2019
WORLD IN BRIEF
Republican support for Trump’s move,
which even some of his allies view as a
stretch — and a slap at lawmakers’ control
over the power of the federal purse.
Associated Press
Israel fl ying to moon
after SpaceX launch
Kriegshauser family
The Mi Amigo crew in front of a training plane at Geiger Field in Spokane, Wash.
Fly-past honors WWII airmen
who died saving UK children
By DANICA KIRKA
and JO KEARNEY
Associated Press
SHEFFIELD, England
— U.S. and Royal Air
Force planes roared over
the English city of Sheffi eld
today to honor 10 American
airmen who sacrifi ced their
lives to save British children
playing in a park beneath
their crippled bomber during
World War II.
The fl y-past brought tears
to the eyes of 82-year-old
Tony Foulds, for he was one
of those children at that park.
The spectacle over Shef-
fi eld’s Endcliffe Park was
the culmination of decades
of lobbying by Foulds, who
wanted an aerial display
befi tting the young fl iers who
died that day. As thousands
of spectators watched from
the park below and the BBC
broadcast live on its morning
news program, the climax
came when four U.S. fi ghters
passed overhead, with one
veering skyward in the miss-
ing man formation to honor
the fallen.
“That was worth waiting
66 years for,” Foulds said
as he dabbed his eyes with
a wadded tissue and recalled
the dream he’d had since he
was 17.
The crowd burst into
a cheer of “Hip, hip hoo-
ray!” for Foulds, who has
tended a nearby memorial
for the airmen for decades,
wracked with guilt because
he believed he was responsi-
ble for the deaths of Lt. John
G. Kriegshauser and the crew
of the B-17G Flying Fortress
nicknamed “Mi Amigo.”
Kriegshauser, a 23-year-
old pilot from St. Louis, Mis-
souri, was on his 15th mis-
sion on Feb. 22, 1944, when
Mi Amigo was hit by enemy
fi re during a daylight raid on
the Aalborg airfi eld in occu-
pied Denmark, a key fi ghter
base that protected Germany
from Allied bombers. The
crew nursed the damaged
plane back across the North
Sea, trying to reach their base
in Chelveston, England.
But the weather was
poor, and when the plane
broke through the clouds it
was over Sheffi eld, 80 miles
northwest.
Tony was almost 8 years
old that day and had joined
a group of children for a
schoolyard brawl in End-
cliffe Park, an oasis of green
surrounded on three sides by
terraced houses and dense
Trump ally Stone gets gag
order after ‘crosshairs’ post
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — An
Israeli spacecraft rocketed toward the
moon for the country’s fi rst attempted
lunar landing, following a launch Thurs-
day night by SpaceX.
A communications satellite for Indone-
sia was the main cargo aboard the Falcon
9 rocket, which illuminated the sky as it
took fl ight.
But Israel’s privately funded lunar
lander — a fi rst not just for Israel but
commercial space — generated the
buzz.
Israel seeks to become only the fourth
country to successfully land on the moon,
after Russia, the U.S. and China. The
spacecraft — called Beresheet, Hebrew
for Genesis or “In The Beginning” —
will take nearly two months to reach the
moon.
Within an hour after liftoff, Beresheet
was already sending back data and had
successfully deployed its landing legs,
according to SpaceIL.
The four-legged Beresheet, barely
the size of a washing machine, will cir-
cle Earth in ever bigger loops until
it’s captured by lunar gravity and goes
into orbit around the moon. Touch-
down would be April 11 at the Sea of
Serenity.
WASHINGTON — A federal judge
issued a broad gag order forbidding
Roger Stone to discuss his criminal case
with anyone and gave him a stinging
reprimand Thursday over the longtime
Trump confi dant’s posting of a photo of
the judge with what appeared to be cross-
hairs of a gun.
She promised to throw him behind
bars if he violates the court order in any
way.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jack-
son said that it would be “foolhardy” for
her not to take any action over the Insta-
gram post and that Stone would “pose a
danger” to others in the case if the con-
ditions of his release weren’t modifi ed to
include a gag order.
“Roger Stone fully understands
the power of words and the power of
symbols and there’s nothing ambigu-
ous about crosshairs,” the judge said.
“How hard was it to come up with a
photo that didn’t have a crosshairs
in the corner?” she quipped at one
point.
1 killed, 12 injured amid
aid standoff in Venezuela
House Dems introduce
measure to revoke
Trump border edict
AP Photo/Rui Vieira
Tony Foulds tends to a memorial honoring 10 U.S. airmen
who died in a plane crash in 1944.
woodland on the other.
After fi ve years of war,
including German attacks
on Sheffi eld’s steel and
armaments plants, the boys
were accustomed to hearing
planes. But the sound of this
aircraft wasn’t right.
The plane circled over the
stretch of green and one of
the airmen waved his arms
at the kids. They waved
back, thinking he was being
friendly. Years later, Tony
realized he was trying to get
them to clear the fi eld.
“No one will ever tell me
any different: I killed these
lads,” Foulds said. “And that
will always stay with me.”
In January, BBC pre-
senter Dan Walker chanced
upon Foulds tending the
memorial, as he does some
260 days a year, and took
up his call for an aerial trib-
ute. Walker started a Twitter
campaign under the hashtag
#gettonyafl ypast.
On Friday, another group
of hashtags were trending on
Twitter: #TonyGotAFlypast,
#RememberTheTen,
and
#sheffi eldfl ypast.
“Tony has pretty much
single-handedly spent the
best part of seven decades
ensuring the memorial in the
park is kept up to standard,
and ensured that the mem-
ory of the Mi Amigo and
those brave crewmen is kept
alive,” said Lee Peace, a
reporter at The Star newspa-
per in Sheffi eld. “Once peo-
ple heard about the story, it
just took off.”
Also in the crowd Fri-
day were several family
members of the crewmen.
Kriegshauser’s
nephew
Jim and a relative of 2nd
Lt. Melchor Hernandez,
the crew’s bombardier, sat
beside Foulds and both
stretched out a comfort-
ing hand as he repeated his
remonstrations of guilt.
Hernandez’s
relative,
Megan Leo, said he was
the eldest of six children, a
fi rst-generation American
whose parents came from
Mexico. She said the story
of his sacrifi ce had always
been told in her family.
“I think for this story to
now be capturing so many
hearts, it just reminds me
of how many other stories
we don’t know, of all the
men who died back then
and in the years after fi ght-
ing for our countries and for
peace,” she told the BBC, as
she thanked Foulds. “We’ve
always remembered them,
but to know that 6,000 miles
away from my home there’s
a man who’s dedicated his
life to remembering them
means so much. It’s the most
amazing thing.”
As the jets roared into
view, Foulds waved his arms
over his head like a wind-
shield wiper, hoping the
pilots would see him.
Painted on the sides
of the planes were the
names of the crew, young
men from every corner of
America.
In
addition
to
Kriegshauser and Hernan-
dez, there were 2nd Lt. Lyle
Curtis of Idaho Falls, co-pi-
lot; 2nd Lt. John W. Hum-
phrey of Wyoming, Illinois,
navigator; Staff Sgt. Rob-
ert Mayfi eld of Raymond,
Illinois, radio operator; Sgt.
Vito Ambrosio of Brook-
lyn, waist gunner; Staff Sgt.
Harry Estabrooks of Mound
Valley, Kansas, fl ight engi-
neer and top turret gunner;
Sgt. George M. Williams
of Faxon, Oklahoma, waist
gunner; Sgt. Charles Tut-
tle of Raceland, Kentucky,
ball turret gunner; and Sgt.
Maurice Robbins of Manor,
Texas, rear gunner.
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CUCUTA, Colombia — Heightened
tensions in Venezuela left one woman
dead and a dozen injured near the bor-
der with Brazil today, marking the fi rst
deadly clash related to the opposition’s
plan to deliver humanitarian aid that
President Nicolas Maduro has vowed not
to accept.
Emilio Gonzalez, mayor of the Vene-
zuela border town of Gran Sabana, iden-
tifi ed the woman killed by a gunshot
as Zoraida Rodriguez, a member of an
indigenous community.
He said members of the Pemon eth-
nic group clashed with the Venezuela
National Guard and army, who were
moving tanks to the border with Brazil
a day after Maduro ordered the crossing
closed.
The violence came just hours before
dueling concerts were expected to
begin on the country’s western bor-
der with Colombia, where tons
of donated food and medicine are
stored.
WASHINGTON — House Democrats
introduced a resolution today to block the
national emergency declaration that Pres-
ident Donald Trump issued to fund his
long-sought wall along the U.S-Mexico
border.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.,
immediately announced that a vote would
come on Tuesday.
The move sets up a fi ght that could
result in Trump’s fi rst veto. It starts the
clock on a constitutional clash between
Trump and Democrats and sets up a
vote by the full House as soon as next
week.
The Democratic-controlled House is
sure to pass the measure, and the GOP-
run Senate may adopt it as well despite
Trump’s opposition.
Any Trump veto would likely be sus-
tained, but the upcoming battle will test
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