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Thursday, Jan. 30, 1986
Sailor denies killing was racist
United Press International
NEWPORT, R.I. — The commander of the USS Miller denied yesterday that widespread racism aboard his ship prompted a black sailor to stab his white superior officer to death while at sea last summer.
Cmdr. William Arnold Coleman Jr., who is black, disputed defense testimony that racism was the reason Petty Officer 3rd Class Mitchell Garaway stabbed Lt. James Sterner, 35, of Woodbridge, N.J.
Garraway, 21, of Sutitland, Md., is being court-martialed on prematureed murder charges in the slaying of Sterner, who bled to death June 16 aboard the Miller while on a patrol near Bermuda.
If the government can prove the slaying was premeditated, Garraway could be the first person executed by the Navy since 1849.
Earlier, defense attorney Trevor Brooks asked court-martial Judge John Studer to permit the eight-member military jury to read a psychiatrist's report that concluded the sailor's act was not premeditated. Studer reserved judgment.
Martin Kelly, a psychiatrist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston who evaluated Garaway after his arrest, testified Tuesday that Garaway has a schizoid personality but is not mentally ill. Kelly's report on the case concludes Garaway did not kill Sterner intentionally.
Coleman, one of three rebuttal witnesses,
testified that the Navy had a lot of racism in. But
hesaid, "I was fortunate that I inherited a ship . .
that had the highest morale of any ship I served on
in my 20 years in the Navy."
Brooks, who rested his defense yesterday without calling Garrayway to testify, is expected to
call one rebuttal witness today before closing arguments are held and the case goes to the jury.
Coleman said Garraway complained to him in February 1985 about racial prejudice aboard the ship, but Garraway was not specific. The Coleman said he warned his 170-member crew about racial acts after someone pinned a Ku Klux Klan sign on a black sailor's bunk. But Coleman called the matter an isolated incident.
The defense contends the stabbing was impulsive and triggered by Sterner's racial prejudice toward Garraway. Garraway was also upset at his superior officer for denying him a promotion that he already had earned.
Garraway pleaded guilty to killing his superior officer. The government rejected the plea in order to court-martial him on the more serious charge of premeditated murder.
Air Force clerk nabbed for spying
United Press International
MARYSVILLE, Calif. — An Air Force clerk at a military base where the top U.S. spy plane, the SR-71, was stationed in custody yesterday facing unspecified espionage charges that carry a possible death sentence
posing as Soviet spies.
that carry a first Class Bruce Ott. 25, was charged with attempting an unauthorized release of national defense information in what reportedly was a sting by U.S. agents
Ott, who may have had access to information about the supersonic SR-71 "Blackbird" spy plane, apparently never succeeded in releasing it, said Maj. James Swanson, chief legal officer at Beale Air Force Base, 120 miles northeast of San Francisco.
"We have no indication at this point that there has been any actual compromise of national defense information," Swanson said.
Officers declined yesterday to say if Ott tried to release information in nearby Davis, where he was arrested a week ago by federal agents.
Beale spokesman Capt. Joseph Saxon said Ott was being held at the base pending a hearing within the next 30 days to determine if he will face a general court-martial.
Military Justice that carries the death penalty. The code provision, passed by Congress last year in the wake of a Navy spy scandal, calls for the death penalty for anyone convicted of lurking as a spy or acting as a spy on or near a military base.
Saxon refused to comment on the charge, but Capt. Jordan Weitberg, Ott's attorney, said it was under a section of the Uniform Code of
Ott, an administrative clerk with a security clearance for secret documents, was with the 1st Strategic Recommission Squadron, the only unit in the world flying the SR-71 spy plane.
Study says equality supported by whites
United Press International
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — White Americans are more supportive of racial integration than in the past but they often oppose methods to achieve it, a study that examined 40 years of racial attitudes indicated.
Three researchers at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research reported the findings this week in "Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations," published by Harvard University Press.
"In the early 1940s and no doubt the preceding decades, the majority of white Americans appeared to support segregation and discrimination against black Americans," said the authors, Howard Schuman, Charlotte G. Steeh and Lawrence Bobo.
The study is the first to examine racial attitude data collected over the past 40 years by three large survey institutions: the Institute for Social Research, the National Opinion Research Center and the Gallup Organization.
"Since then, whites have become steadily more accepting of the principles of equal treatment."
The study found a substantial increase in the number of whites who endorse federally enforced desegregation of hotels and restaurants, but a decrease in approval of steps to implement school integration.
"The study of trends and events over the past four decades shows a mixed pattern of progress and resistance, certainty and ambivalence, striking movement and mere surface change," the authors concluded.
Other issues, such as economic assistance to blacks, show little or no attitude change, the researchers said.
"A reason for the high support for the desegregation of hotels and restaurants may be that public accommodations represent a transient and relatively impersonal sphere of life," they said. "A second important positive sign is the continuing, though modest, increase in the support for local open housing laws."
By 1972, virtually the entire white population felt that blacks and whites should be judged equally in terms of employment.
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Beaux Arts Trio 8:00 p.m. April 6
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