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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
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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.
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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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