European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 26, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday september 26, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 5saddam s limousine stalled near Detroit Livonia Mich. A Saddam Hussein May have Kuwait but he does no to have his Bombproof $300,000 armoured Cadillac limousine. The Black Limo fitted with tear Gas dispensers and bulletproof tires is being held at a repair shop in a Detroit suburb on order of the . Customs service agents announced monday in Chicago. A we have reason to believe that this car might have been used by iraqi president Saddam Hussein a said Donald Watson the Agency a assistant commissioner of enforcement in Chicago. A in any Case he a not going to get it  the customs service titled its press release on the car a is Saddam Hussein walking a the customs service said it ordered the car held under authority of president Bush a executive order freezing iraqi assets in the United states. The government of Iraq bought the car in 1988 from of Gara Hess amp Eisenhardt a maker of armoured vehicles in Cincinnati the customs service said. It said the car shipped to Baghdad in november 1988, is Bombproof Able to withstand Rifle blasts and comes equipped with bulletproof tires and tear Gas dispensers. The Limo was returned to this country in june for routine maintenance and was ordered held in Livonia where its engine is being rebuilt. Gallery director go on trial for obscenity Cincinnati flip _ an Art a Quot Cincinnati up a an Art museums unprecedented trial on obscenity charges opened monday with a sex in protest outside court and questions to prospective jurors on homosexuality Playboy Magazine and the argument that Art should please the Eye. No jurors were seated and none were dismissed in the first Day of jury selection in the trial of the contemporary arts Center and its director Dennis Barrie. Both were indicted in april for showing photographs by the late Robert Mapplethorpe. After lawyers questioned prospective panellists for four hours Hamilton county municipal judge David Alba Nese recessed the trial until tuesday. If found guilty of pandering obscenity and using children in nudity oriented material the gallery could be fined $5,000 on each count Barrie could be jailed for six months and fined $1,000 on each count. Outside the courthouse homosexual activists marched chanted and briefly blocked traffic during the noon recess by staging a a sex in in the Street simulating sex acts a for everybody a enjoyment and outrage a said Scott Maclarty a spokesman for the Gay and lesbian March activists. The trial involves seven of 175 Mapplethorpe photographs that were displayed at the gallery last Spring. Five Are of men engaged in homosexual acts and two Are of children with their genitals displayed. Defense lawyer Marc Mezibov expressed Surprise at the Lack of knowledge of or interest in the Case displayed by potential jurors. A i think underlying the prosecution is the Specter of homophobia and aids he said. Mezibov seemed to have found a sympathetic respondent in one Middle aged Man who declared about sexually explicit photographs a if you done to want to look at it done to look at  another potential juror told Mezibov that even work that is not pleasing to the Eye has a right to be displayed in an Art gallery. A i certainly  pay Money to go see pictures of homosexuals a he added. A in my mind it Isnit the Best  another defense lawyer Louis Sirkin asked for a mistrial saying prosecutor Frank Prouty contaminated the jury Pool with questions about a child pornography when the actual charge is a using minors in nudity oriented  Albanse overruled the motion and also rejected a defense attempt to have prospective jurors limited to Cincinnati residents. Sirkin had argued that the a contemporary Community standards that should apply to the jury a determination of what is obscene should be those of Cincinnati residents. Among Prouty a questions to the panellists were whether they had Ever been to an Art gallery seen Playboy or Penthouse magazines or donated Moncy to arts organizations. He also asked the prospective jurors if they believe that Lylw Cli Mill to lir Khom link 4 u in. I a _ artists protest at the Hamilton county courthouse that a Law should be upheld a a whether the Law is Good or  about 300 people from More than a dozen homosexual groups As Well As artists opposed to censorship demonstrated outside the courthouse. They held a Street theater in which they enacted famous works of Art that include nudes a such As Michelangelo so a creation a performing a Cincinnati versions that had the genitals of the nudes covered. One of the protestors Carol Lippmann of the aids coalition to unleash Power accused Hamilton county sheriff Simon Luis and Albanse of a using the Mapplethorpe trial to demonstrate their hatred of the Gay and lesbian  police capt. Joe Koch said officers did no to make arrests because a the crowd moved  the defense suffered a setback earlier this month when Albanse ruled that the trial would focus Only on the seven photographs rather than on the exhibit As a whole. The bulk of the exhibit was comprised of non controversial still lifes and portraits. The exhibit Drew a record 81,003 people in Cincinnati and then moved to Bostons Institute for contemporary arts where director David Ross expects a record 100,000 visitors before the show closes oct. 4. Mapplethorpe died in Boston on March 9, 1989, of  sons dismiss Khrushchev Memoir Springfield mass. Apr the sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg said monday their parents did no to help the soviet Umon develop an atomic bomb and dismissed Nikita Khrushchev a memoirs thanking them As a totally  Robert and Michael Meeropol who have worked for years to Clear their parents names said they weren to shaken by the remarks by the ousted soviet Leader contained in tapes he made during seven years of House arrest before his death in 1971. A this stuff has been going on All the time a said i years old listening to a the Lone rangers the Fri arrested my father. After that you know shocks done to happen to us. We expect  Khrushchev says in the memoirs that he heard from soviet Leader Josef Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov then minister of foreign affairs that the Rosenbergs a provided very significant help in accelerating the production of our atom  a let this be a worthy tribute to the memory of those people a he said. A my reaction to the implication of help is that its wholly absurd a said Robert Meeropol 43, a local lawyer. The Rosenbergs who maintained their innocence were executed june 19, 1953, for conspiracy to commit espionage. Their sons who took their adoptive parents last name have used the Freedom of information act to Force the release of hundreds of thousands of pages of Bush bolsters hispanic education Washington apr a too Many hispanic americans Are not getting the first rate education they need and deserve a president Bush said monday and he directed Cabinet agencies to push educational opportunities for hispanics. Flanked by education Secretary Lauro Cavazos and Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan Bush used a White House Lawn ceremony marking National hispanic heritage month to Issue an executive order on educational excellence for one of the fastest growing minorities in America. A it is my fervent Hope that this will ensure that hispanic education is the priority it must be and will be a Bush told 1,200 hispanic leaders and educators. A we must help education to help hispanic children enter the 21st Century prepared to take their rightful place at the american table of  the executive order an outgrowth of a hispanic task Force report sets up an advisory committee to keep the education Secretary abreast of ways to improve Federal educational efforts. It also directs Cabinet agencies to work with individuals and educational business and Community groups that serve hispanic americans thereby increasing participation rates of hispanics in Federal education programs. A tragically too Many hispanic americans Are not getting the first rate education they need and deserve a the president said. A the nations hispanic population reached 20.1 million in March 1989, a 39 percent increase Over 1980. Classified documents in the Case. They said their research of their parents trial and execution turned up affidavits by scientists who said none of the evidence brought by the government amounted to substantially useful information about the  of time in the stars and stripes 40years ago today. Sept. 26,1950 it. Gen. Walton ii. Walker 8th army commander said Victory in Korea was in sight and it would mean a a free and untrammelled society for All koreans with the dignity of the individual restored.�?�30years ago today. Sept. 26,1960 a an attempt to launch Pioneer i into orbit around the Moon failed when one of the upper stages of the rocket malfunctioned.20 years ago today. Sept. 26,1970 a Pentagon officials said they had firm evidence that the soviet Union was establishing a submarine base in cuba.10years ago today. Sept. 26, 1980 a president Carter met with congressional leaders amid rumours that the administration was considering sending spare parts to Iran As part of a Deal to free 52 hostages in their 328th Day of Captivity in the . Embassy in Tehran