Page 6 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1977
Hanafi terrorist trial begins
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The murder-
kidnap trial of 12 Hanafi Muslims
charged in the March takeover of
three buildings began in a packed
courtroom yesterday amid tight
security.
Superior Court Judge Nicholas
Nunzio quickly dismissed a defense
motion that the government inter
fered with questioning of witnesses
by the defense.
Questioning of prospective jurors
was expected to begin Wednesday
and the trial of Hanafi leader
Hamaas Abdul Khaalis and his fol
lowers could take two months.
They were accused of killing a
radio station reporter and taking 149
hostages in a three-day siege which
ended peacefully.
Nunzio clashed with the defense
attorney, Harry Alexander, a former
superior court judge who represents
Khaalis.
Nunzio sustained more than 50
objections by the government to de
fense questioning.
“I have ruled. I have ruled,”
Nunzio repeatedly told Alexander
and other defense attorneys when
they complained about the proceed
ings.
The 12 defendants sat on one side
of an L-shaped table, with their at
torneys on the other side. This
brought strenuous objections from
the defense, but to no avail.
More than a dozen federal marsh
als were present. Reporters and
spectators had to walk through
metal detectors to get in.
When Khaalis, dressed in a blue
denim outfit, entered the court
room he waved to more than 20 fol
lowers seated in the audience. He
was saluted by several women who
had their faces covered in tra
ditional Muslim fashion.
His 11 followers, indicted with
Khaalis May 4, could have been
tried later, but in a show of unity
last week they overrode motions by
their court-appointed lawyers that
they be tried separately.
More motions were planned for
the first two days of the trial with
jury selection to follow, probably
Wednesday.
Twelve jurors and 12 alternates,
to be sequestered throughout the
trial, are to be selected from an in
itial pool of 650 jurors. They will be
screened on the basis of their an
swers to a questionnaire about pre
trial publicity, possible prejudice
and ability to sit on a sequestered
panel.
Metal detectors were used to
search persons both as they entered
the D.C. Superior Court building
and again as they entered the court
room.
The courtroom was renovated for
tighter security before the 1974 trial
of five of six men charged with the
death of seven of Khaalis’ family
members.
During the siege, Khaalis de
manded to see the man charged
with the murders so he could mete
out his own punishment, but that
demand was not met.
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Three continuing education work
shops for veterinarians and their
technicians will be held at Texas
A&M University this weekend.
A bovine parasitism workshop, in
structed by Dr. F. C. Faries Jr.,
meets 9-12 a.m., 1:30-5:30 p.m. and
7-10 p.m. Saturday.
Also beginning Saturday is a two-
day clinical bacteriology and mycol
ogy workshop taught by Dr. Russell
B. Simpson. It runs 9-5 Saturday and
concludes at 1 p.m. Sunday.
The courtroom was remodeled to
accommodate the 12 defendants and
their lawyers. Two of the 12 asked
to defend themselves, but Judge
Nicholas S. Nunzio said the court-
appointed attorneys should con
tinue on the case for guidance.
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A spiralled flagellum of African Sleeping Sickness is
engulfed by the round white blood cell at the bottom of|
photo. The blood cells act as a blood defense mechania
against infection. Biology graduate student Steve Menii
took this microscope picture, magnified 20,000x, at
A&M’s Electron Microscopy Center. Carried by the Tsetj
fly, the disease has stranded parts of central Africa m
nomically with its potentially fatal infection.
The third program is a clinical
pathology seminar on interpretation
of the leukogram in dogs and cats.
Instructor Dr. John P. McGrath said
it lasts 9-5 Sunday.
Part of a nationwide network of
continuing education for veterinari
ans, assistants, health officials and
livestock producers, the workshops
award both continuing education
units and hourly equivalents recog
nized by some scientific academies.
Khaalis hired a colorful, out
spoken former Superior Court
judge, Harry T. Alexander, who re
tained his title after resigning from
the bench. He had demanded to be
called judge in the courtroom, but
Nunzio ruled it would be wrong to
call him a judge in front of the jury.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Martin
J. Linsky and Mark H. Tuohey III
predicted the trial would last from
one to two months.
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