University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, February 17. 1988
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Pickerets support defendants at white supremacists' trial
The Associated Press
FORT SMITH, Ark. — A dozen white supremacist sympathizers kicked the courthouse and dozens of extra officers were put on security duty as jury selection began yesterday for the trial of 14 men accused of plotting to overthrow the government or kill federal officials.
The trial, which centers on the charge of seditions conspiracy, is the fourth federal case in recent years targeting white supremacist activities in the United States. Earlier trials were in Seattle, Denver and Fort Smith.
Ten of the defendants are accused of sedition, conspiracy, which is conspiracy to overthrow the government by force. Five are accused of a conspiracy to kill a federal judge and an FBI agent and two are accused of money stolen from an armored truck in California in 1984.
The defendants have been identified by the government as white supremacists, members of a variety of right-wing, racist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan and The Order.
Prosecuters contend the defendants robbed, bombed, killed, counterfeited and committed other crimes to reach their goal of establishing an Arvan nation.
About 40 extra security officers were on hand as lawyers and U.S. District Judge Morris S. Arnold began interrogating 127 prospective jurors.
Outside the three-story courthouse, pickets carried a large banner that said, "Repeal the anti-free speech sedition law." On the banner was a six-potted star like the Star of David, a Jewish emblem. Supremacists have made Jews and blacks targets in some actions.
"If the indicted leaders are convicted and sentenced to lengthy prison terms . . . some of these organizations will have trouble surviving," the Jewish Anti-Defamation League said.
In the weeks leading up to the trial, the Ku Klux Klan held 15 rallies in Arkansas cities. In most cases the turnout was small, and Klan backers were met in some cases by hostile observers.
LONDON — A car exploded in flames about 120 feet from Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's official residence early yesterday. According to news reports, the driver committed suicide to protest unemployment.
Car explodes near Thatcher residence
Officials at Scotland Yard declined to comment on the unattributed report.
The Associated Press
Press Association, the British domestic news agency, reported that the driver, a 41-year-old man, left a suicide note saying. "Too young to retire, too old to live."
Police bomb squad officers raced to 10 Downing St. about 1 a.m. fearing a possible terrorist attack, but authorities said no explosives were found.
The car stopped at the entrance into Downing Street but did not try to enter the dead-end street, which is fenced off with metal security barriers, police said. The interior of the
car then was engulfed in flames, they said.
Thatcher's residence and office is situated about 40 yards down the street, therefore the prime minister was not in any danger, according to a Scotland Yard statement.
Thatcher's office confirmed that the prime minister had been at 10 Downing St. at the time but was not involved in any way.
A London radio station, Independent Radio News, said the driver had been out of work for over a year and had killed himself to protest unemployment. Scotland Yard refused to comment on the report or to identify the badly burned man pending an autopsy today.
The London Evening Standard identified the driver as Derek Bainbridge from Workspo in central England and said he gave his job as a $131-a-week road sweeper 14 months ago.
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maximum penalty of five years in jail and a $1,000 fine.
GUNMAN KILLS SEVEN: A former employee of a Sunnyale, Calif., defense contractor fatally shot seven people yesterday and wounded five others at the company's offices, including a woman who had spurned him, authorities said. The man, identified by police as Richard Wade Farley, 39, surrendered after barricading himself inside the building for about six hours.
CONGRESS HEARS SHUTTLE PLANS: NASA told Congress yesterday that an emergency crew escape hatch and an escape system designed for level flight in the shuttle Discovery could be installed in time for the first post-Challenger mission this summer.
ENGINEER PLEADS QUILTY: Rick L. Gates, 33, a Conrail engineer who tested positive for marijuana use after he ran a stop signal and caused an Amtrak crash that killed 16 people, pleaded guilty yesterday to one count of manlaughter in Towson, Md. The sentence carries a
GINSBURG CLEARED: The Justice Department investigated 16 instances in which Douglas H. Ginsburg, former antitrust chief and Supreme Court nominee, dealt with cable industry matters while holding cable stock, but found either his participation or chance of gain was too
small to violate conflict-of-interest laws, according to a report issued yesterday.
HUMPHREY SEKES SENATE SEAT: Minnesota Attorney General Hubert H. Humphrey III, son of the late vice president, has announced that he will seek the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Republican David Durenberger.
PHYSICIST FEYMAN DEAD: Richard P. Feynman, the brilliant, mischievous, atomic physicist who called his Nobel Prize "a pain in the neck" and helped shatter NASA's claim that cold weather didn't doom the shuttle Challenger, died of cancer yesterday at the age of 69.
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