European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 24, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes Page 5 Bush a act leaders discuss mail bombs Washington Iasi a act leaders Mcl with president Bush monday and said afterwards that there May be some movements in the Effort to find the terrorists responsible for mail bomb Ings in the South. Their assessment came As Fri agents searched a warehouse in Enterprise. Ala., in an action a spokesman said coulis very Well be linked to the bombing in pcs ligation. Slor below or. William f. Gibson a Greenville. . Dentist and chairman of the a act Board of directors said after meeting with Bush. Attorney general Dick Thornburgh and Fri director Wil Liam sessions we got indications that there arc some movements in the cases. Ican t say anything we were fairly Well satisfied that the Federal Bureau of investigation and the Justice department were doing their added a act executive director Benjamin l. Hooks. White House spokesman Marlin Filz water said Thornburgh simply said that we w arc making Progress that he was hopeful hut he could not give any specifics at that mail bombs claimed the lives if a fed eral appeals judge in Alabama and a Savannah. A. Civil rights lawyer in no vember. Other bombs were mailed to the Federal courthouse in Atlanta and the a act Branch office in Jacksonville. Fla. But were intercepted before exploding. Among the 17 a act officials at the White House meeting were Willy Den Nis head of the Jacksonville office and Erl Shinhoster. Director of its Atlanta regional office where a tear Gas bomb exploded last aug. 21. Hooks who also met with Bush on Jan. 9 to discuss the attacks said. We Are concerned about the climate. That has caused race relations to deteriorate and increased acts of he suggested that last week s arrest of District of Columbia mayor Marion Barry on cocaine charges not Dis cussed at the White House meeting May be part of a pattern of undue harassment of Black elected officials and part of the rising tide of racism in Hooks said newspaper accounts made it sound like the search had finally paid off. W e spent All of these years trying to find him with a Grain of cocaine and by god we did it. Did t we we Haven t found All the people who be stolen All the Money from the savings and loan associations and arc driving Rolls royces and jaguars so obviously Many of us in the Black Community will have some Peculiar feelings As we go he said. Bush has said nothing of the Barry arrest except that it was very Hooks also said the Kun flux klan and skinheads have picketed the a act National Headquarters in Baltimore twice in recent weeks. We re concerned about the mood the kind of relationships that arc developing schisms Between Blacks and Whites in added Gibson. We encouraged the president to use his office. To get the word Over that we feel that there needs to be More relation Sand negotiations and discussions be tween Black America and White Ameri said Jibson. They said they asked Bush and Thorn Burgh to use the Justice department s Community relations service and a re Vised . Commission on civil rights to promote such a dialogue. Bush was amicable toward those Steps. Gibson said. Fri searches Home business of Ala. Man. Enterprise Ala. A Fri agents and a fort Rucker bomb Square searched a Man s warehouse Sal Vage business and Home monday in the investigation of mail bomb slay Ings in december of a judge in Bir Mingham and a civil rights lawyer in Georgia. Fri special agent Chuck Archer of Mobile said the owner of the properly. Wayne o for Roll of nearby new Brockton was questioned and released. At no Lime today was anybody taken into he said. Archer speaking at a Brief evening news conference. Said agents probably would spend most of monday night searching the Salvage store. To the Best of my knowledge these Are the first searches in the i Vestiga he said. He declined to say what brought the investigation to the Salvage shop of o for Roll. A Man in his 50s described by neighbors As a Bible Reading for Mer Baptist preacher who once sold insurance and took up the junk business about three years ago. However the new York times reported an unidentified source close to the investigation said o for Roll s name turned up in a review of cases heard by . Circuit judge Robert Vance. O for Roll sued his former employer. Gulf life insurance co. Of Jacksonville Fla. In 1986 Over insurance benefits he claimed he was owed when he left the company the source said. Package bombs sent through the mail exploded and killed Vance at his Mountain Brook Home near birding Ham on dec. 16 and a Black lawyer. Robert Robinson of Savannah on dec. 18. Oiler mailed bombs were found and defused at the 11 the . Circuit court of appeals in Atlanta the court Vance served and the a act office in Jacksonville. Fla. The Fri has said one or More White racists appear to be behind the incidents. Fri agents with bomb sniffing dogs along with police and an army bomb squad from fort Rucker. Searched o for Roll s Salvage business and warehouse in Enterprise along with his new Brockton Home. Tina Somme Rvilla who lives across the Street from the warehouse said the Fri questioned her about Farrell who has a wife and two daughters. They arc just average people Sommerville said. That s what makes this so strange. He was always Reading the John caulk a. O Farrell s son in Law said late Mon Day that family members had not seen or heard from him since monday morning. He said he and his wife. Tammy and o Ferrell s other daughter. Danielle were 3ucstioncd by Fri agents about an old typewriter but id not learn Why the Fri was interested in it. Appeals court upholds fax fraud convictions of Larouche Richmond. A. A the tax and mail fraud conspiracy convictions of political extremist Lyndon m. Larouche or. Were upheld monday by a Federal appeals court. A three judge panel of the 4th . Circuit court of appeals also upheld the comic Lions of six Larouche associates in a Case that stemmed from More than$30 million in Loans raised by la Rouchl s political supporters. In a unanimous ruling the appeals panel rejected claims of procedural flaw sin the trial of Larouche. Who ran for president in 1980 and 1984 and has endorsed theories of High level conspiracy against him by world leaders. Former attorney general Ramsey Clark chief attorney for Larouche s a Sands of time peal argued that District judge Alberto. Bryan or. Of Alexandria allowed Only 34 Days from arraignment to trial and failed to adequately question jurors on How much they knew about the defendant. But the panel found no abuse of discretion in Bryan s refusal to delay the trial. Larouche was convicted in december 1988 on 13 counts of mail fraud and conspiracy and attempting to defraud the internal Revenue service. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Also convicted were William Wen. Edward Spannaus. Michael Billington Dennis Small. Paul Grcen Borg and Joyce Rubinstein. Wirtz and Spannaus were each sentenced to five years in prison and fined $1.000. The others received three year sentences and various fines. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Jan. 24. 1950 Soviel Border authorities forced a slowdown of . Military trains and of German truck traffic bound for Berlin. One . Military train travelling from Frankfurt to Berlin was held up nearly seven hours. 30 years ago today. Jan. 24. I960 a Rockfall sent Rescue workers running for their lives and halted Rescue operations for 440 miners trapped in Coalbrook. South Africa. 20 years ago today. Jan. 24. 1970 a group of women broke up a Senate hearing on the safety of birth control pills asking questions and shouting obscenities. A recess was called As police cleared the area. 10 years ago today. Jan. 24. 1980 a stale department spokesman denied that any High level officials discussed plans la reduce the military1 presence in West Germany during the recent visit of foreign minister Hans Dietrich guns Char. End of the ride Jeremy Jussell lakes a spill in the new fallen Snow sunday in Colorado Springs Colo. The boy and his friends kill a Little extra acceleration from their sleds by looming Down a jump they had built
