European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 9, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes sunday october 9, 1977 2 sex cops May face new trials Huntsville Tex. A pressure i intensifying for Federal authorities to charge two sex Houston policemen with Vio lating the civil rights of a mexican Ameri can prisoner by causing him to drown. The two who were convicted in a state court of a Misdemeanour charge and received one year sentences and $2,000 fines in the drowning could receive life in prison if convicted under Federal civil rights Law. The jury that convicted the men recommended on Friday that their sentences be probated and that the fines be suspended. Under Texas Law the judge has to accept the jury s recommendation. Gov. Dolph Briscoe and John Hill state attorney general joined the Call for a fed eral investigation in letters mailed to the Justice department shortly before sentencing. Terry Denson 27, and Stephen Orlando 21, had been charged with murder in the drowning of Jose Campos Torres 23, a construction labourer whose body was found May 8 floating in Buffalo Bayou in Down town Houston. Some Texas mexican american leaders met with Justice department officials in Washington on Friday to urge Federal prosecution of Denson and Orlando. A Federal spokesman said the Agency was actively reviewing the possibility of filing civil rights violation charges. Under Federal civil rights Law charges can be brought against a police officer who causes the death of a prisoner in custody. Maximum penalty on the charge is life in prison. Mexican american leaders and Houston mayor Fred Hofheinz asked for Federal intervention thursday after Denson and or Lando were convicted of negligent homicide a Misdemeanour. Two policemen who were granted immunity from prosecution testified that Campos Torres was beaten by six officers after being arrested for disorderly conduct and that he was then tossed into the Bayou. Joe Cornado executive vice president of the Houston mexican chamber of com Merce said he was very disgusted by the action taken by the  this is an insult to the mexican Ameri can Community he said. We re going to do something but we re going to do it in a Legal  state rep. Ben Reyes added when i heard the sentence sit made me feel sick for about 15  despite the reaction to the verdicts and subsequent sentences members of the jury which had no mexican american members said they believed their actions were proper. Italians prefer fresh meat shun cheap Frozen dec tons Rome up a Mountain of cheap Frozen meat is piling up in italian state warehouses because italian Consumers be Lieve Only in fresh meat the Agency for agricultural Market interventions said. It said retailers have bought Only 1,200 tons of the 40,000 tons of Frozen meat the european economic Community supplied at special prices last March in an attempt to ease Italy s huge food Trade deficit. Nixon is guest speaker at fund Raiser Richard Nixon escorts Athalie Clark at whose Corona Del mar Calif., Home the former president appeared As guest speaker for a fund raising event at tended by 50 wealthy republicans an their wives. A photo Grill named for . Cannibal Berg and is honoured for bipartisan gesture Washington up a group of col Orado journalists Friday honoured agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland As the first Winner of a newly created leadership and humanity award named after Alferd e. Packer the Only convicted Cannibal in american history. The award was a bumper sticker read ing Alferd e. Packer grills serving people  Packer was a Mountain guide who was convicted in 1874 of eating five prospectors he was leading through the Colorado mountains after they had been marooned by a storm. At his trial a judge summed up there was Only six democrats in Hinsdale county and you you Man eating s.o.b., you ate five of them. I sentence you to hang by the neck until you Are dead dead dead As a warning against further reducing the democratic population of this  was selected for the award be cause several of his aides last summer put up a plaque in a department lunchroom naming it the Alferd e. Packer Grill. The Secretary himself later took part in a Dedi cation lunch. But the plaque was removed after a general services administration official protested it was in bad taste to name a lunchroom for a Cannibal. In accepting the award Bergland said the attempt to name the agriculture Grill for Packer showed a bipartisan spirit be cause Packer is frequently considered anti democratic. The award was delivered by Samuel j. Archibald a professor at the University of Colorado school of journalism on behalf of the University s chapter of Sigma Delta Chi society of professional journalists. A talks in Iran reported Tehran a Iran and West Ger Many Are holding talks on supplying four nuclear reactors to Iran a newspaper re ported  gets cd for racial attack Camp Pendleton Calif. Up sgt. Herman Fletcher 24, one of 14 Black marines who said they thought they were breaking up a Kun flux klan meeting when they attacked a group of Whites was sentenced to 60 Days hard labor and Given a bad conduct discharge Friday. Fletcher of Huntsville ala., also was fined $530, ending a we Klong court mar tial for conspiracy and attempted murder. The Black marines said at the numerous hearings and trials that they had been harassed y Kun flux klan members and that they thought they were breaking up a meeting of the klan during the nov. 13,1976, attack. They got the wrong room however assaulting a Barracks Beer party and Hospi Tal izing seven White marines who were injured by makeshift clubs and stabbed with screw Drivers. Midge admits fund report Long overdue Washington up presidential aide Margaret Midge Costanza acknowledged saturday she has missed two Legal deadlines for filing a report on an april fund raising party she staged to reimburse herself for 1974 congressional Campaign debts. The report has yet to be filed she con ceded saying the information from her accountant would be provided to the Federal election commission on tuesday. There is no excuse for not doing it she said. And it s being  vice president Walter Mondale was the featured guest at the $500-a-ticket affair which raised More than $20,000 to cover a $17,615 Campaign debt. All but a few Hun dred dollars of the debt was owed to cos Tanza herself. A former vice mayor of Rochester n.y., Costanza was responding to a Story in saturday s Washington Post about the fund Raiser and the tardy reporting. The report is being done right now in Rochester by a spa Steve Smith who has filed my reports for me since 1974," she said. Yes i have failed to file my report she said. But anybody who knows what i have been doing for the last nine months knows it is difficult for me to get All this in formation to him the accountant in  the first Fec filing deadline for the april 7 fund Raiser passed april 10. The second Legal deadline july 10, also was missed