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Tuesday, February 16, 1988/The Battalion/Page 7 4 charged in case of sedition o on trial under heavy security FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) — ' Fourteen men, including 10 charged [with seditious conspiracy, go on trial pday in U.S. District Court under uywillbt Sight security, s Chrjj ■L ate Monday, several of the de fendants who are already serving > n follow, W on sentences or were held with- ug tests.9 * 50nc * were brought to the I'ed- ^1 building under heavy guard, rill b l( BTwo of the 14 have been on the J dogsaf|!Bi s ^ Most Wanted* list — Rich- he TVliU'Bl Joseph Scutari and Louis Ray that dn,® 111 ! 1 ’- aeentrjtiiBttitari, who was acquitted in the ne in uriii t H r S case > * s serving (50 years in fed- loodsH, ®! prison after pleading guilty in hassoiBt* Seatt,e racketeerin g case - »Beam, who was arrested in Mex- enreaa:B‘ n an incident in which his wife ! itchej] Btt a Mexican policeman, is a for- thenntott* r S rand dra gon of the Knights of n you’re^l an in Texas and erthar B 016 an essa V outlining a point-sys- tai n of* f° r becoming an Aryan Warrior | samn|(; M P°i nts were earned for killing tiring M alreprob tuples v: people, ranging from one-tenth of a point for a policeman to a full point for killing the president, govern ment investigators have testified. After four Fort Smith patrol cars blocked streets beside the building, three unmarked cars and one van rolled up to the federal building and plainclothes officers carrying sub machine guns stepped out. The defendants, in manacles, were taken in pairs into the building. The trial constitutes the fourth strike by the government against white supremacist terrorism in the United States during the last several years. Earlier trials took place at Seattle, Denver and Fort Smith. Seditious Conspiracy is a conspir acy to overthrow the government of the United States by violence. T he indictment was returned in April by a grand jury. The defendants had links to a va riety of white-supremacist, Jew-hat- ing, black-hating, militant and some times religious organizations. To carry out their schemes, va rious defendants robbed, bombed, killed, counterfeited and comitted other crimes, the government con tends. Two defendants are charged with transporting across state lines money stolen in a Ukiah, Calif., armored truck holdup in which $3.6 million was taken on July 19, 1984. About a dozen men participated in that holdup. • Five defendants are charged with a 1984 plot to kill U.S. District Judge H. Franklin Waters of Fort Smith and FBI Special Agent Jack D. Knox of Fayetteville.. Waters was the trial judge and Knox a key figure in the prosecution of people in the 1983 harboring of Gordon Kahl, a Posse Comitatus member who was wanted for the murder of two U.S. marshals in North Dakota. Kahl was killed June 3, 1983, at a shootout at a home at Smithville, Ark. An Arkansas county sheriff, Gene Matthews, also died in that shootout. The government says some of the defendants were associated with the Arkansas-based supremacist group known as the Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord and with Ku Klux Klan groups in several states, including Texas and Michi gan. Besides the Ukiah robbery, overt acts attributed by the government to the 10 who are charged with sedi tious conspiracy are holdups and bombings of utility facilities. David Eden Lane, 49, and Bruce Carroll Pierce, 37, who are de fendants, were convicted in Novem ber in Denver of violating the civil rights of Denver radio talk show host Alan Berg. Berg, a Jew, ridiculed white supremacists during his show. MSC Beauty Shop Haircuts $9 with this coupon Perms $5 OFF Open M-F 9-6 Sat. 9-2 268-2051 Located in the lower level Memorial Student Center exp. 02-27-88 rcumsiaw ed.theti tobetesd nits ski kofthn* ssure or, ? purse a: w a race.; ie larger inning tw nakes :: do non “egoe: es totki t Texas'l lake its i iorthen:: •ecauseif orida la Crowd chases after suspect of burglary FORT WORTH (AP) — A lan suspected of burglarizing a an said he was glad to see police Thrive. An angry crowd was try- to get at him, but had been muaded by a woman with a toy un to back off until officers got lere. The man, 29, was being held in ie Tarrant County Jail on Mon- ay pending the filing of charges, oug Clarke, a spokesman with ie Fort Worth Police Depart- lent, said. “1 was never so glad to see the lice in my life,” a Fort Worth folice report quoted the man as lying- About a dozen people, one car ing a big stick, chased and rned a man suspected of bur- [larizing a van. As the crowd neared the man, Ie screamed for a woman in a learby house to call police. Survey showing high levels of nitrates causing concern DALLAS (AP) — A state survey shows high levels of nitrates in doz ens of West Texas wells, causing concern about the drinking water for more than one million rural Tex ans. A preliminary study by the Texas Department of Agriculture indicates that 47 of 75 wells sampled in Co manche, Knox and Haskell counties exceed the federal standard for ni trates. Some of the water tested had con centrations of nitrates that were 15 times the standard set by the federal Environmental Protection Agency. Nitrates can be found naturally in some soils, but also are in fertilizer and around septic tanks and feed- lots. High levels of nitrates can cause the sometimes fatal “blue baby” syn drome, in which the transfer of oxy gen is restricted through the infant’s body. Health officials in the studied area say they have received no reports of unusual infant deaths or illnesses. But state agriculturists still are concerned about the high level of ni trates in areas that contain intensive farming. “We’re especially concerned about the rural drinking water supply, said Rick Piltz, of the agriculture agency Office of Natural Resources. “We have about 1 million Texans drinking out of private wells, mostly in rural areas, and these wells have no protection under (federal laws) that require the testing of public drinking water supplies,” Piltz said. He said the groundwater study will be expanded to other counties, mostly those in the southern High Plains. In the wells tested, nitrate concen trations ranged from slightly above the EPA standard of 44.3 parts per million to 15 times the limit. Five of the 75 wells also exceed standards for pesticides, Piltz said. He said the owners of the wells have been contacted by the agricul ture agency. Knox County Judge David Per due expressed little surprise of the study’s findings. “Considering what we put on our soil as far as fertilizers, and with the advent of oil and with all the other stuff that’s dumped down the wells, who knows what in the world you’ve got when you mix all that together,” he said. Neither the state nor federal gov ernment regulates private water supplies. Alarm at pollution levels in Ne braska prompted lawmakers there in 1986 to pass a series of groundwater protection laws. 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