European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 31, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday december 31, 1985 10 in racist group convicted As racketeers Seattle a a Federal jury Mon Day convicted 10 people of racketeering fur the a i like group the order in a crime Campaign that prosecutors said was engineered to topple the government and establish a bastion of White racial purity. The verdicts meant a clean sweep on the racketeering charges for Federal prosecutors who had accused the nine men and one woman of participating in a while Suprema Cist plot that included the murder of Denver radio Host Alan Berg and More than 54 million in robberies in 1983 and 19s4. The jury in a Complex verdict also found the 10 defendants guilty of conspiracy to racketeer and six defendants guilty of additional individual criminal counts. It was not immediately known which individual crimes inc jury decided were committed by the defendants to support the racketeering convictions. To be found guilty of racketeering each defendant had to be found to have committed at least two crimes such As the Berg killing. The All White jury delivered its verdicts after deliberating for More than 55 hours Over two weeks. The panel received inc Case dec. 16. Sentencing was set for feb. 6-7. Conviction under the Federal racketeering Law car Ries a maximum penalty of up to 20 years in prison and a 125,000 Fine. It also allows prosecutors to seek forfeiture of All the As sets gained by the criminal Enterprise. The defendants showed Little reaction As the verdicts were read. Andrew Barnhill and Ardie Mcbrearty winked As they left the courtroom while Randall Evans said Christ is  i can t quarrel with any of  assistant . Attorney Gene Wilson said of the verdicts. Neil Halprin Mcbrearty s lawyer said he was cynical about the verdicts. "1 knew it a is going to be real difficult for the jury to separate the 10 defendants he said. It would have been very difficult to see someone with people accused of Mur Der and armed robbery and not convict them because they were  the trial which began sept. 9 before . District judge Waller Mcgovern included 295 prosecution witnesses 43 de sense witnesses and More than 1,500 exhibits. Among the government witnesses were a dozen former order members or associates who painted a picture of quasi religious right Wing extremists with plans of waging War against the Federal government and establishing a Homeland for White people. The Leader was the late Robert Mathews a one time tax protester and family Man who be came a revolutionary Bent on giving White children a future according to the wit Nesses. According to the testimony. Order members were assigned assassination targets such As prominent jews and television network presidents who were considered enemies of the White race. The group followed the plot of the Turner diaries a White supremacist novel that depicts a band of aryan warriors wag ing War against the government and financing their efforts through armoured car robberies and counterfeiting. The Federal government was referred to As zog the zionist occupied government. Order members considered approach ing the syrian government or other Arab groups for financial support. Sect members considered bombing the luxury olympic hotel where the Trench Baron Elic de Rothschild part of the Rothschild banking family was to speak to a jewish organization dinner in november 1983. The group gave Large chunks of stolen Cash up to $300,000 at a time to leaders of other right Wing groups around the country. Members of the militant group were Given electronic voice stress tests to Weed out government agents and other Security risks. Leaders of the order considered exec uting at least two of their own members or sending them on suicide missions for break ing Security regulations. A declaration of War written by Mathews vowed that any traitor would be hunted Down like a dog and have their head removed from their  the Decla ration was written Days before Mathews died dec. 8, 1984, when his Whitbey is land hideout was ignited by a flare during a standoff with Fri agents. Prosecutors supplemented their Case with hotel Telephone airline and other records and with expert testimony on fingerprints and ballistics. Sonic of that evidence was crucial. For example there were no witnesses to the Berg killing in which defendant Bruce car Roll Pierce 31, Slayden Lake Idaho was accused of being the trigger Man. So prosecutors used a fingerprint on a hotel registration to Trace Pierce to Denver on the Date of the killing and ballistics evidence to show shells from the murder weapon were found at a Montana House Pierce rented after Berg s death. Six defendants called no witnesses or at most briefly questioned an Fri agent. Defendant Gary Yarbrough. 30. Of Sandpoint Idaho called one other witness while David Den Lane 47. Of Denver and Jean Marga ret Craig. 52, of Laramie wyo., called about seven cach. Only Mcbrearty 58, of Gentry ark., who called 26 witnesses including himself mounted a full defense. He said he per formed tasks for order members but de Nied he knew anything about the group s shadowy Side. Convicted of racketeering were Pierce Randolph Ducy Yarbrough Barnbill Richard Kemp Lane Mcbrearty Evans Frank Silva and Craig Learned it Well sportscaster Warner won demonstrates How he used the Heimlich Man Euver on Frank Field the Weatherman and health reporter for webs to in new York. While dining at a restaurant. Held began choking on a Sand wich and Wolf stepped in with the Heimlich Man Euver possibly saying Field s life. Field had shown Wolf How to use the technique. Federal judges7 inadequate pay causing resignations Burger says Washington a most Federal judges Are under a great financial Strain and arc struggling to make ends meet. Chief Justice Warren h. Burger said sunday. Although inc nation s interest May be served by de creasing government spending americans arc ill served by the Folly of inadequate judicial  Burger said in his annual report on the judiciary. He blamed inadequate salaries for the resignations of 50 judges since 1970 More he said than during the preceding 180 years. Burger said 80 percent of the 55.1 Federal judges polled in a recent Survey said they were unable to live on their salaries alone and have to supplement their incomes by depleting savings and investments. Burger is the top paid Federal judge with an annual salary of $108,400. The supreme court s eight other members arc paid $104,100. The yearly salary of Federal appeals court judges is $83,200. Federal trial judges earn $78.700 annually. The chief Justice said salary erosion due to inflation since 1969 has dropped inc pay of Federal judges by one third in real  he said the average White Collar Federal employee s buying Power dropped Only 4 percent during the same period. Members of the judiciary May be under More pressure than similarly recompensed members of the executive and legislative branches due to the initial financial sacrifice in entering judicial  Burger said. Partners in the nation s major Law firms routinely receive six figure annual incomes. Chief Justice Warren e. Burger health officials warn of contaminated dolls los Angeles a one million comfy kid dolls made in Taiwan and sold nationally by mail order contain the insecticide malathion and other potentially dangerous chemicals los Angeles county health officials have warned. However representatives of a Federal Agency and inc distributor said the dolls Are not dangerous. It was the second time in a month that the county has issued a warning about tainted dolls made in Taiwan. La is the department s position that Chil Dren should not be playing with these dolls that they represent a potential risk to the health of the child on the basis of Long term effects Anastacio Medina an official of the los Angeles county department of health services said Friday. The importer Abernathy and Cost her of Westbury n.y., sold about 1 million of the dolls by mail order across the country said Medina chief of inc department s Hazar Dous waste control program. Labels indicated the dolls were made in Taiwan. Three people called Friday to say that their children suffered lethargy irritation vomiting or other minor symptoms after playing with the dolls they got for Christmas he said. Parents began bringing the foot Long yarn haired toys o health officials about two weeks ago after noticing a nauseating kerosene like smell Medina said. Tests from private laboratories found stuffing in six dolls contained phenol and naphtha ene along with other chemicals four dolls also were contaminated with Low Levels of malathion which he de scribed As a Low toxic fast dissipation pesticide. I in phenol can cause respiratory nerve and skin damage according to Jose Ochoa i Hygie St in the county health department tests by the Federal consumer product safety commission found that Petroleum solvents in the dolls were considerably below hazardous Levels said Al Limburg Deputy Western regional director. As far As we re concerned they re perfectly Safe said Tina Scott a customer service supervisor for Abernathy and Closter. If anyone s not satisfied with their shipment they can Send it Back for a Complete  earlier this month county health officials found that 8,000 other dolls contained stuffing that contained a residue of toxic pesticides including phenol lindane and Bep Bachlor Ochoa said. Health officials managed to account for 5 most of those dolls a 24-Inch Model is called Little Prince and a 16-Inch Model called outer space