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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 obj…