European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday August 15, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 5 lawyer Edward Bennett Williams Dies Washington not Edward Bennett Williams a celebrated trial Law yer and influential Washington insider whose clients ranged from the teamsters Leader James r. Hoffa to sen. Joseph Mccarthy died saturday after a Long ill Ness. He was 68. Williams had been hospitalized since wednesday at Georgetown University Hospital. His death followed a Long Bat the against Colon cancer. At the time of his death Williams pre sided Over the Washington Law firm of Williams & Connolly and was the owner of the Baltimore orioles baseball team. He had also been president of the Washington redskins football team for 20 years. He was also chairman of the Board of trustees of holy Cross University in Worcester mass. He was the bravest person i be Ever known and he was the Best said Joseph a. Califano jr., a former Law partner who was Secretary of the department of health education and welfare in the administrations of presidents Johnson and Carter. Williams was Well known to some of the most powerful figures in american Public life. He once represented the democratic National committee. Presi Dent Nixon was overheard on one of the watergate tapes saying that Williams should be  the two men later reconciled. A Large Man with a fiercely pugnacious look and direct style Williams was known to his friends for his personal toughness and resilience both in his Legal career and in the courageous Man Ner in which he fought his illness. Williams was born on May 31,1920, and grew up in a poor neighbourhood in Hartford Conn. He attended the College of the holy Cross on an academic scholarship and later Georgetown Law Edward Bennett Williams up school. He joined a prestigious firm but left soon afterwards to open a practice in criminal Law in a one room firm. Williams started his career As one of the country s most highly regarded attorneys when he represented Mccarthy the Junior senator from Wisconsin in two libel suits and in the Senate censure proceedings that followed Mccarthy s hear Ings on alleged subversion in the military in 1954. The Senate censured Mccarthy but Williams earned him respect. Williams said that he did not endorse the behaviour of the clients he defended. All my clients have imperfections he once said. Williams often discussed his illness As a contest. I Don t like to lose he said. Either it s going to beat me or i m going to beat  Williams considered a Brilliant us per lawyer who stood As a pillar of the Washington establishment had no particular political Power bloc of his own but both republicans and democrats sought his Fen ship and counsel and he seemed always to be in Good standing with the occupant of the White House Oval office. Anyone who is fortunate enough to get close to de Williams is Well served said Edmund s. Muskie the former democratic senator from Maine who was also a former Secretary of state. But Williams insisted that his political connections were merely professional friendships and defied a bit disingenuously anyone to Tell him How his knowing a president or Many senators could help him in the courtroom. I m not a lobbyist and i m not a fixer so my political connections have never benefited me he said. I do most of my work in a goldfish bowl of the  in the courtroom in his passion to see that his clients received every Benefit of the sixth amendment guarantee of a defendant s right to a fair trial Williams found himself in sometimes giddily diverse company and More often than not he won his cases. He defended the likes of Mccarthy whose communist Hunting Zeal brought him to disgrace and censure by his sen ate colleagues teamster Bosses Dave Beck and Hoffa accused of racketeering and bribery the mafia mobster and Gam Bler Frank costello whom Williams saved from deportation Bobby Baker the Lyndon b. Johnson protege who wound up in prison for political corruption the fugitive financier Robert Vesco John b. Connolly the former Treasury Secretary who was exonerated on charges he took an illegal gratuity from a lobby ing group and Adam Clayton Powell a democratic representative from new York accused of tax evasion. The Powell Case typified Williams courtroom skills. He won dismissal of the first two of three charges against Powell. Then by raising enough doubt about the remaining one obtained a Hung jury. His fellow lawyers marvelled at Wil hams Way with juries holding them in Thrall with a rare combination of court room qualities. He made it evident he had almost total recall and when he Rose to address a jury he spoke quietly but forcefully for As Long As two hours without notes citing dates names Page numbers and figures flawlessly. Williams was also admired As an uncommonly shrewd judge of human nature one who eschewed the use of sociological or psychological studies to pick a jury. Williams was the son of Mary Bennett and Joseph Barnard Williams a depart ment store floor Walker who lost his Job in the depression and was often without work. The Young Williams helped out by working at a Gas station but continued to do Well in local schools and earned a scholarship to holy Cross. Upon graduation in 1941 he entered the army but received a medical discharge two years later after suffering Back injuries in the crash of a training plane. Williams opened his own Law office but not before marrying Dorothy Guider the daughter of one of his former Bosses. They had three children. She died in 1959 the following year Williams married one of the lawyers in his own firm Agnes a. Neill and they had four children. Congressman a Dales wife an apparent suicide by the Washington Post Washington Ella Royston Udall wife of rep. Morris Udall d-ariz., was found dead in the front seat of her car Early saturday an apparent Sui cide from Carbon monoxide poisoning Udall s con Gressional office announced. She was 59. Udall one the most senior members of the House and a 1976 candidate for the democratic nomination for president found his wife around 10 . In the garage of their Mclean va., Home with the engine of her car still running said Bob Neuman a longtime aide to Udall. She was taken to Fairfax Hospital where she was pronounced dead at 11 03. Udall was not available for comment but Neuman said he was stunned. He s doing Fine but it s very hard Neuman said. He said there had been no indication that mrs. Udall was unusually depressed. He said she left no note. Mrs. Udall was described by reporters and aides travel ing with Udall in his 1976 bid for the democratic Nomi nation As irreverent outspoken and sometimes Brash. In a Washington Star profile of mrs. Udall that year she was described As looking like Martha Mitchell and sounding like a Cross Between Sophie Tucker and your favorite Down to Earth Cousin from  mrs. Udall grew up in Washington and attended stray or business school. She once said her first marriage to Vincent Fabrizio a professional musician broke up because of financial pressures. In the Early 1960s she mar ried g. Richard Ward a former Kaiser industries executive and that marriage ended in divorce in 1968. She met Udall on Capitol Hill in the mid 60s when she was the staff director for a postal subcommittee of which he was a member and they were married in 1968 shortly after their marriages broke up. In addition to her husband she is survived by one son Vincent Fabrizio or. Of Alexandria. Pilgrims flock to lube Doc Texas of witness Miracle of Virgin Mary Lubbock Texas a pilgrims from around the country gathered at a roman Catholic Church on saturday to wait for a Miracle during a weekend of worship in Honor of the Virgin Mary. National attention has been focused on St. John Neu Mann Catholic Church since three parishioners began claiming they were receiving messages of peace and Hope from Mary during weekly recitations of the Rosary. Among those messages were reported promises of miracles of physical and spiritual Healing that would occur on monday s feast of the Assumption the Day catholics celebrate Mary s ascension into heaven. I believe something s going to happen said Chrissy Grelier a College student from Birmingham Ala. I Don t know if miracles will be physical but maybe  Grelier told of her family s own religious conversion during a pilgrimage to med Gorje Yugoslavia where six youths have claimed to see App actions of the Virgin. It changed my father s life she said. St. John Neumann pastor monsignor Joseph James and several parishioners had just returned from med juror be when three of the parishioners began reporting the Mary messages. Church officials have planned four Days of worship capped by a monday evening mass and Rosary. Rosa Ries will also be prayed every two hours that Day begin Ning at 8 . On saturday pilgrims Many of them handicapped weren t waiting for the organized worship services to begin. They crowded into the Church s tiny Chapel to Light candles and Pray on their own. Outside other people milled around the Church s courtyard picking up crude crosses made from scrap Wood left from the construction of a rooftop altar for monday s outdoor service. Meanwhile Church officials have planned for 20,000 people to attend the event but say that number is Only a guess. We Don t know How Many people will be Here said Deacon Joe Richards. Twenty thousand May be too Large or there May be More than  most hotels in Lubbock Are filled for the weekend officials said. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Aug. 15, 1948 the United states emerged As the Champion of the Xiv olympic games in London win Ning 38 first place medals. Japan and Germany had not been invited to participate in the games and rus Sia chose not to attend. 30 years ago today. Aug. 15, 1958 a dutch Kim jetliner went Down in the Atlantic with 99 passengers including some 50 americans and five children aboard. Air line officials said there was Little Hope that anyone survived the crash. 20 years ago today. Aug. 15, 1968 vice president Hubert h. Humphrey speaking to a group of College Honor students accused the nation s Young people of engaging in escapism with their focus on the Vietnam War. 10 years ago today. Aug. 15, 1978 at least 50 people were injured and a freight train was derailed when an earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale hit the Santa bar Bara calif., area