European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 28, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday May 28, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 7 Auto dealer mixes sales religion customers churches Benefit Acle threatens suit Fairfax a. Not one night last August the letters pm b and p popped into Freddy action Jackson s head. Business at his car Dealership has never been the same since. I started with the a said Jackson whose dealer ship Brown Lincoln Mercury is the subject of a Dis Pute Between a National Christian organization an civil rights and jewish groups i wrote everything Down that began with c that had to do with Christ or Christian. I did the same thing with the letter m. I stayed up All night trying to figure out what those letters  the next morning he said he had it Christia members buying  christians would buy cars at bargain prices and percentage of his profit would go to their Church. Jackson admits business has improved since he inaugurated the plan. We re in business to make a profit he said. You senator and your congressman when they run for elec Tion they go to a Church or a sunday school class because they want the votes of the people there. It s the same  but the american civil liberties Union and the anti defamation league of b Nai b Rith say Brown Lincoln Mercury discriminates against non christians. A lawyer for the Acle Victor Glasberg told the Federal Trade commission this month that the policy violated equal Opportunity credit Laws. A spokesman declined to say whether the commis Sion was investigating. A spokesman for Mary sue Terry Virginia s attorney general said the plan apparently did not violate state or local Law. Glasberg said that unless Jackson makes the Sam Sale terms available to All the Acle will sue. A counter suit is threatened by the Christian coalition a National organization whose director Ralph Reed Calls the attitude of the two other groups equally repugnant. We Are sick and tired of christians and Christia values being expunged from every area of Public life he said. This in t separation of Church and state this is a private  under Jackson s plan a Christian who fills out a certificate naming his Church and his pastor gets a set Price of $600 Over Cost on lincolns and $250 Over Cost on Mercury. Pastors get a similar discount. Depending on the car 10 percent or More of the amount Over Cost then goes to the Church of the buyer s Choice. At the end of the year the Church with the mos purchases gets a $2,000 Bonus. Three years ago the anti defamation league was involved in a similar dispute in Pensacola fla., where Jerry Harrison an Exxon station owner had put up sign Reading for christians Only 10 percent Dis count on  the league complained to Exxon and the company asked Harrison to take the sign Down. An agreement was reached and Harrison removed his original sign but replaced it with "10 percent Dis count for those whom Jesus  to shirts russian style Maureen Folz displays a to shirt with shirts last week at a Booth on the a smiling face and the word glasnost Stanford University Campus where. N to. A _4 nor Cevint prac flan in is Hail Ferha written in russian. The shirt on the table has the russian word for Stan Ford on it. Folz was Selling the t soviet president Mikhail s. Gorba Chev will speak june 4 before return ing to the soviet Union. Earth first draws notice with militant Campaign san Francisco a the Loose knit band of Radical environmentalists known As Earth first has gained notoriety for toppling Power lines and Bill boards and driving spikes into Trees to destroy logging equipment. Such tactics Are the Only Way to pre vent irreversible destruction of the environment including the harvesting of old growth forests supporters say. But the Radical actions dubbed Mon key wrenching for the tactics described in the 1975 novel by Edward Abbey the Monkey wrench gang have made enemies of loggers Utility Compa Nies ranchers and other targets. They Are a violent terrorist group said John Ross executive vice president of the California cattlemen s association. Two key Earth first organizers we rearrested in Oakland Friday for investigation of transportation and Possession of explosives after a pipe bomb exploded in their car injuring both. Bail was set for each at $100,000. Darryl Charncy 33, suffered a facial Cut. In addition to the Possession charge he was booked for Possession of a destructive device in a Public place and for Possession of a Booby trap. Judi Bari 40, remained in stable condition at Oakland s Highland Hospital with a fractured Pelvis and internal injuries. She was booked on All but the Booby trap charge. We suspect they intended to use the device in some Way shape or form said Oakland police it. Mike Sims. Fri investigators Are looking for a Lin Between the car blast and a May 10 pipe bomb that partially exploded in a Louisi Ana Pacific lumber co. Mill in clo Verdale about 80 Miles North of Sanfrancisco. Minimal damage resulted. Earth first supporters however suspect that Bari and Cherney were them selves targets of a terrorist act accusing both Law enforcement officials and log Ging interests of responsibility. This smacks of Fri tactics that were used against political activists like the Lack Panther party and the anti apart Heid movement in the 60s and "70s,"said Earth first activist Karon Pickett. Bari s lawyer Susan Jordan called the arrests absolutely insane. All their past their present has been devoted to non violence she said. In a jail interview with the Oakland Tribune Charncy said that by arresting him the police and the District attorney Are hiding the fact that they arc incapable of going after the would be  this whole thing Recks of an Fri operation he said. Charncy said both he and Bari have received numerous death threats in re cent months As they worked to drum up support for Redwood  a three month series of non violent pro tests planned for this summer. Modelling their plans after the missis Sippi summer civil rights protests of 1964, supporters Hope hundreds of pro testers will flock to Northern California forests to participate in blockades an sit ins against logging. We fully expected this oppression to come Down if we were  Cher Ney said. Friends describe Bari and Cherney a committed to non violence. Folksinger Utah Phillips credits Bari with helping unite loggers and environmentalists on economic reasons to oppose Clear cutting of old growth forests. Bari also led a recently successful drive to renounce tree spiking in North Ern California. A labor . Bari saw the controversial practice As an at tack on the working class Phillips  Campaign Canie after a Mill worker was seriously injured three years ago while cutting a spiked tree. Earth first was founded in 1979 wit the slogan no Compromise in defense of Mother  the group is loosely organized with no officers Board of directors or formal members. Supporters refer instead to the  severe storm spawns Tornado in West Virginia Charleston . A rain Strong winds and lightning saturday knocked out Power to about5,000 people swelled Rivers blew Over Trees and whipped up a Tornado authorities said. No injuries or deaths were reported in the severe storm which included a funnel Cloud sighted in a Small Rural Community in Fayette county about 30 Miles Southeast of Charleston. The storm left people in five counties without Power before it subsided saturday night. Meteorologist Barry Gooden of the National weather service said More rain was expected in the area sunday. Jack Shaver a spokesman for appalachian powerco., said High winds knocked Trees into Power lines and downed some poles. Emergency Crews were sent out to restore service by Early sunday he said. The state police said in a written statement that a Tor Nado touched Down in the Gauley Bridge Community. Where Trees were blown Over Power lines were downed and streets were covered by up to 3 feet of water. A tree knocked a Power line onto the roof of Testate police office at Gauley Bridge cutting electricity and Telephone service the statement said. A dispatcher for the Fayette county sheriffs depart ment said no storm related injuries or deaths were reported. The Gauley Bridge fire department also had no such reports