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. alow eck ‘DAILY NEWS , SEY “ F . “7 cate, * a Goan 2 Tuesday, January 6, “1987 a _cLiving. 1 Tee. ‘Fiat was down - spending a few warm holidays’ with a friend. His name is Gerald Rutberg, and I've known him since we were promising young men together: Rutherg would have made a great newspaperman. He had all the moves of a crack investigative reporter. He could - be getting to the bottom of the Iran arms deal today but he chose to atudy the law instead. “What I do,” he has explained to me, ‘ * “is try to keep people: out of the joint.” —_ Even if he lived, the doctors said, he. When the tumor was removed it turned For the record, he has a winning likely would-be paralyzed from the out not to be malignant after all.- = percentage, waist down. Rutberg emerged from the operation. It was maybe two’ years ago when J.- —_ Rutberg couldn't: make it that way, still able:‘to walk. In a matter of months got a call from another of Rutberg’s his friends agreed. This is a man of he was as active asever. - friends telling me that Gerald had gone’ enormous energy who has been known “The first time I went to softball to the Mayo Clinic to find out why he to decide to go-to a Super Bow! 3,000: practite after the operation, and ran was in-:so much pain all the time, miles away on the day of the game and over and caught a line drive down the “He's been living on aspirins,” the pull off the whole thing, complete with left-field line, I appreciated life more friend told:me. tickets-on the 50-yard line. ~ thamT ever had before,” he said. The news was terrible.. Rutberg; s0~. the initial diagnosis went; had cancer. . He would have to undergo a danger“ ous operation to remove the tumor; ” = We: prayed. We: all cried: a‘ little, tagether, and then, privately: Rutberg is -a lot of people’s best friend. We got the miracle we- prayed. for. . Feds to hear pilot’s UF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS a de 10.3 sctnn needed. Teriucni | decreas’ ANCHORAGE—A Japanese.pilot's account of. @ltitude to 31,000 feet, but e lights went . being shadowed for almost an hour over Alaska by- down with him “in-formation,” Steucke said: a UFO the size of two aircraft-earriers has been’. - South of Fairbanks, -Terauchi-turned the-plane. turned. over to Federal Aviation Administratiqn. ina i cu. to ad siheiettadpof tie “ es 77 follow. They and-movéd to. the left of the officials in Washington. ° “ie: jet, Steucke, said: Because of public interest’ in ‘the: case; the ~The FAA. and'the military use the same long: agency interviewed the Japan Air ‘Linés cargo’. range radar.in Fairbanks, Steucke said..The FAA. pilot, Kenji Terauchi, a second time; FAA spokes., also uses sophisticated computer systems to re- © man.Pauk Steucke. said. yesterday. 7." move clutter from‘radar ee but the military = Terauchi told: investigators three lights. fal” does not, he said... : lowed his Boeing 747 cargo jet Nov. 17 after it There was just this one other thing. Doctors told Rutberg he might never be able to father children. The operation m ie Soe. ~ Steucke said. in an age-of miracles ... a whe had had been iniown, to render. pa-- tients smpetent © oreiialiiee or both. fe ; - Miracle No. 2 I saw her for the first time a few af before Christmas. Her name is-.Les and she has just turned 15 weeks.. “5% She has beautiful eyes. at “She hardly ever exes R said. Sh: He held his child in his arms and ste’ *. turned those eyes on her daddy. Rutberg calls his daughter ° Pazoozer.” me when.she’s 16 and Ym still” callis i ‘her that,” he laughed. yer Leah’s mother is Beth, who is alse, lawyer... = E HAD lunch together and ‘the : brought Leah along. Other di- ners stopped. by our table ‘to remark on how well-behaved the. little * baby had been. - The new parents, fully aware of thieir blessings, beamed with pride. * & Copyright 1984 Cowles Syntleate Ine Tee “The. inlay ‘decided about a — inte this _ exercise that what ‘it was seeing was clutter,” he’ - said. The. Air Force did not send up an interceptar and is: not t investigating the matter, Steucke sald | At. thet. Anchorage FAA center, controllers - following the flight noted occasional second blips,” or “split targets,” on the screen near Flight 1628,” Steucke- ‘Said:. “#4 The lights. vanished, heading eit, whan the: JAL jet was about 80 miles north-of Anchorases: crossed from-Canada into Alaska near Fort Yukon and stayed with him for 55-minutes, Steucke said. The pilot said the sky was.clear and the jet was cruising at 525 knots when he saw: the wavering lights eight miles in front of his aircraft: 8-foot-long lights. - He said two of the. lights were about: 8 feet” across, while the third appeared to be part of a darkened globe with: a: diameter of perhaps two- aircraft carriers placed end-to-end, - -Steucke said. The pilot reported the» lights were - yellow, amber and green, Steucke said, but. not Ted, the international color for aircraft beacons. The pilot said the large unidentified flying object registered on his cockpit, weather’ radar. But images on military radar screens at the time. ! were dismissed as “clutter,” and a blip- that appeared on FAA screens was contidared aco incidental.“split image” of the plane, Stéucke said. “His main concern was trying to-: ‘determine whether he was -overtaking: another Steucke said. He said the pilot. dimmed cockpit lights to insure he was pot seeing: a -Teflection. After about six minutes, Terauchi reported the lights and air:traffic controllers told him to take + s F we LOST HAIR! SPECIALIZING IN; - TREATMENT OF ACNE. WRINKLES, PSORIASIS, * *- VITILIBO, ALL DISORDERS - OF SKIN. HAIR, MAILS. ~ ADMINISTERED IN OFFICE BY DR.S.MANDEL.M.D. | DERMATOLOGIST - CELEBRATE THE NEW YEAR WITH A NEW JOB! ‘Find the position that’s right for you in the Daily News NEW YEAR PaeMSwTMoa soy @ a wT e ene