UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, September 1, 1993
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BERLIN, Germany
Neo-Nazis may unite in national network, German official says
The chief of Germany's internal security agency says that neo-Nazi groups have taken the first steps toward forming a national network and that his agents are busy infiltrating them in a massive undercover operation.
But the acts of hatred go on unabated: gasoline bombs are hurled at a Turkish club and an Afghan immigrant's small grocery is firebombed. Swastikas and "Foreigners Out" are painted in black enamel on walls.
Authorities say the anti-foreigner violence is largely unorganized—most of it, at least.
But Eckart Werthebach, director of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, has noted for the first time the emergence of "action alliances" among previously splintered neo-Nazi groups and said his agency was responding with large-scale infiltration.
"These are the first steps toward a network" he told the ZDF television network Sunday. "The aim is, in fact, to form a united front."
A short drive from Berlin, an entire hamlet in eastern Germany is under investigation for allegedly paying a neo-Nazi youth $1,200 to firebomb a vacant, newly built shelter for foreign asylum-seekers.
On Monday, the villagers' council explained in a statement why they remain opposed — nine months after the firebombing — to a shelter for foreigners in their mudst.
They said theirs was "a remote place with absolutely no public transportation links, with nearly no social-help agencies, with more than 600 vacation bungalows and without a police station far and wide."
Extremists have carried out more than 1,300 acts of violence this year, mostly against foreigners, killing seven people. Last year, a total of 2,584 acts of far-right violence were committed, in which 17 people were killed.
THE NEWS in brief
having dealt a heavy blow to one Chinatown based gang blamed for smuggling illegal Chinese immigrants into the United States, authorities caution that other gangs night step in to take over the lucrative business.
NEW YORK
Arrests may not curb gangs
The alleged leader and 15 members of the Fuk Ching gang were charged with a litany of crimes including murder, kidnapping, extortion and smuggling in indictments issued Monday by federal prosecutors.
Although they called it a key step toward destroying Chinese gangs in New York, law enforcement officials said other gangs may seize the opportunity to take over Fuk Ching's turf, especially smuggling, in which Chinese are charged between $25,000 and $30,000 for passage to the United States.
Fourteen alleged Fuk Ching members were arraigned Monday in federal court in Manhattan. The alleged leader, Kwok Lay Kang, and a key aide were arrested in Hong Kong on Friday and extradition proceedings were under way to return them to the United States.
Kwok, 27, fled to his native China last January after a series of gang-related murders in the New York area, said James Fox, an assistant director of the FBI and head of its New York office. He later arrived in Hong Kong.
LOS ANGELES
Witness identifies assailant
A man accused of beating tracer Reginald Denny during last year's riot had declared earlier that day that he was "going to hit and kill people," a witness of the rioting testified yesterday.
Gabriel Quintana, a gas-station attendant working at the corner of Florence and Normandie avenues on April 29, 1992, said defender Damian Williams approached him that afternoon and made the threat.
The witness identified Williams, 20, as one of Denny's attackers.
Williams and Henry Keith Watson, 28, are on trial on charges of attempted murder, assault and robbery for attacks on Denny and seven others during the riots. Denny's beating was broadcast live by a TV news helicopter.
The rioting erupted in South Central Los Angeles several hours after a jury acquitted four police officers of all but one count in the March 3, 1901, beating of African-American motorist Rodney King after an auto chase.
FARRAGUT, Iowa
FARRAGUT, Iowa Heavy rains return to Midwest
Twice in July, the Nishamabotna River breached a levee and flooded Roger Stoooker's 340 acres of corn and soybeans, turning his farmhouse into a muddy island.
By the weekend, it seemed the worst was past. The fields were dry and the Fremont County farmer was getting around to cleaning out his flood-stained basement.
"Two days ago, there wasn't a drop of water around here," Stooker said yesterday as he steered his four-wheel-drive pickup across what he insisted was a sovibe field. The truck left a wake.
Then, the rains returned.
In a normal year, some of the soybeans would be shoulder-high. No plants were visible through the murkv water.
Strong thunderstorms that developed Sunday from the remnants of Pacific Tropical Storm Hilary dumped up to 6 inches of rain in the Nishnabotna watershed upstream from Stooker's home. Heavy weekend rains also pounded eight other states in the Midwest, which has suffered from flooding throughout the summer.
Dick McClure, an extension agent in southwestern Iowa's Fremont County for 30 years, said soybeans in a normal year are hip to shoulder high by Sept. 1. The county normally has 210,000 to 220,000 acres planted in corn and soybeans.
Compiled from The Associated Press
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