Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, February 16, 1991                   TAG: 9102160472
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PEOPLE

He and Noel Blanc were injured Wednesday when the helicopter they were in was struck by a stunt plane as the helicopter was taking off from Santa Paula, Calif., northwest of Los Angeles.

The two men in the plane were killed. They were Lee Manelski, a TWA pilot, and an 18-year-old student pilot whose name was not immediately released.

Douglas suffered bruises and a cut on his scalp, a hospital spokesman said Friday.

Blanc, who owned the helicopter and was its pilot, had a badly fractured leg, broken ribs and a punctured lung, his assistant said.

He was in stable condition. A third helicopter passenger, Michael Carra, a police officer in Beverly Hills, suffered slight injuries and was not hospitalized.

\ John Ulett, a rock station disc jockey who broadcast a fake report of a nuclear attack, has been fired as public address announcer for the St. Louis Cardinals.

Ulett, 31, confirmed Thursday that he will not be retained by the National League team for the 1991 season, ending an eight-year stint.

Ulett aired a report on radio station KSHE Jan. 29 that the United States was under nuclear attack after several callers suggested the United States use nuclear weapons on Iraq to hasten the end of Persian Gulf War, he said.

At the time, Ulett said he played the fake warning to make people think about the horrors of nuclear war. The station suspended him for a week and the incident is being investigated by the Federal Communications Commission.

FCC Chairman Alfred C. Sikes said that the potential penalties range from a fine to revocation of the station's broadcast license.

\ Robert Mitchum has canceled plans to attend the Berlin Film Festival, which has put together a retrospective of his work, a festival official said.

The 12-day festival, which opened Friday, is one of Europe's most prestigious cinematic events. Officials had repeatedly tried to persuade the actor to attend the 17-film retrospective directed by Hans Helmut Prinzler.

Prinzler said Mitchum did not say why he had decided to stay away.

\ Donald Trump is being sued by a private detective for more than $5,000 in unpaid fees for keeping tabs on an investigator hired by the real estate magnate's former wife.

Rob Kimmons, owner of Information Bank of Texas Inc., claims Trump failed to pay him for monitoring another Houston private eye retained by Ivana Trump to watch her husband and his girlfriend, Marla Maples.

"It just shows you, who knows who really has wealth?" Kimmons said. "We work so many cases involving the cream of the crop, who you would think were financially set for life, and the next thing you know, they're in bankruptcy."

The Trumps were divorced in December, following revelations of Trump's extramarital relationship with Maples.

Kimmons said his agency was hired by Trump last summer and has not received the $5,394.90 owed for three weeks of work.

Judd Burstein, a New York lawyer who represents Trump, said, "Our defense will be that services performed were worthless."