European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 18, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4. A the stars and stripes sunday november 18,1990 appearing before ethics panel the Senate ethics committee held a Sec to help Charles Keating former head of lawyer William Taylor i before being John Glenn of Ohio Donald  or. Ond Day of hearings in Washington on the failed Lincoln savings and loan As questioned by the panel. At right sen. Of Michigan and Dennis Deconcini of Friday to investigate the actions of five Socia Tion. In left photo sen. Alan John Mccain r-ariz., leans Over to con Arizona will also appear before the panel senators accused of using their influence Cranston Rightd-Calif., talks with his Fer with lawyer John Dowd. Democrats All five have denied any  Federal agents charge racial Bias Washington a Black agents at the Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms have filed a lawsuit saying the Agency discriminates in its hiring promotion and evaluation of Blacks. The suit claims the Agency s a discriminatory policies patterns and practices. Are manifestations of Long standing discrimination on the basis of a characteristic common class being  the suit filed Friday with the . District court in Washington seeks declaratory injunctive and Back pay Relief for agents currently employed at at and for As Many As 300 individuals who according to the suit have sought and been denied employment by the Agency. The Bureau established in 1972 under the jurisdiction of the Treasury department is responsible for enforcement of Laws relating to alcohol tobacco firearms explosives and interstate trafficking in contraband. Treasury spokesman Jack Killorin declined comment on the allegations saturday saying a it is in the Legal  Michael j. Riselli one of two lawyers representing the agents said at was recently involved in investigating racially related bombings in Georgia and Florida. A a it a pretty striking and significant that you be got an Agency that from time to time gets called upon to help in civil rights cases. That does no to handle its own problems in that area a Riselli said a a it a been a Long standing  Riselli said agents Larry d. Stewart of Marietta ga., and Mark Jones of Lorton va., had tried to get the Agency to Deal with the concerns in individual informal complaints which they filed in june and August 1989. Stewart and Jones Are the Only named plaintiffs in the class action suit. According to the suit at employs about 2,000 special agents of whom 160 Are Black. Forty of those 160 have been hired since april when Stewart and Jones filed a formal civil rights complaint with the department Riselli said. The lawyer said most Black agents Are assigned to positions with lower govern ment Job classification. A a there a never been a Black agent appointed to an executive position and Only three have Ever been appointed to gm-15 a Merit pay or managerial positions Quot Riselli said. Moreover Riselli said that a Many Black agents Are hired specifically to perform undercover work often involving drug cases yet they done to count that service in evaluation for  he said Stewart has been with at since october 1978 and is a supervisory criminal investigator. Stewart has a bachelors masters and doctoral degree but has been rejected for an executive position More than 25 times Riselli said it s not a ufos just another and Chula Vista Calif. A dozens of startled residents in Southern san Diego county called police to report a ufos which turned out to be a Blimp on its Maiden advertising voyage. Brightly lit in the night sky to attract attention the Blimp did exactly that Friday night. Police in Chula Vista National City and san Diego say they got a number of Calls from residents worried about an invasion from outer space. A people think they Are seeing ufos and its weird a a Chula Vista police dispatcher said. Quot they see a big thing glowing in the sky and then want to Call us. The suspected flying Saucer is owned by san Diego based Virgin lightship which is part of the London based business group that includes Virgin Atlantic airways. It arrived last week at its new base at Brown Field in otay Mesa and was making its first voyage through the area As an advertising ploy. Company officials say up to 23 of the blimps Are scheduled to be built within five years to advertise for clients throughout the United states and Europe. They rent for about $250,000 a month. Chula Vista is about 10 Miles South of downtown san Diego. Supreme court asked to Block can from airing Noriega tapes Washington apr the Justice department and lawyers for Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega argued to the supreme court on saturday that the constitutions guarantee of press Freedom is no License for the broadcast of attorney client conversations. The government and defense team each filed arguments in an Effort to Block at least temporarily the Cable news network from airing tape recordings of conversations Between the jailed Noriega and his lawyers. On thursday can petitioned the supreme court to set aside an order in Miami by . District judge William Hoeveler that bars the network from broadcasting portions of seven tapes until Hoeveler decides whether the material would impair Noriega a right to a fair trial. Can says the original recordings were made by Noriega a Federal jailers and hence it is the government a not the network a that has posed the threat to his fair trial rights. The government has said that whatever the circumstances behind the recordings Noriega a prosecutors have not had Access to them. To restrain the network from broadcasting the tapes can argued would cause a irreparable harm to the first amendment rights of a free press. In a Wrilen response solicitor general Kenneth w. Starr said can is effectively arguing that a even if the contents of the tapes made it inescapably Clear that publication would Render it impossible to ensure Noriega a and the Public a a fair trial the first amendment would still preclude injunctive  but a this courts decisions do not Sanction such an extreme vision of the first amendment a Starr wrote. A the first amendment is part of the Rule of Law not above  for the High court to try now to resolve the clash Between free press and fair trial rights would be a at the least premature a Starr said. A there will be tune enough for the lower courts and this court to consider whether a lasting prior restraint Over publication of privileged attorney client communications is Demussi ble to ensure a fair triad when we know whether in no a tapes contain such communications and whether Given their contents such an injunction would be the Only effective  Noriega a lawyer Frank a Rubino wrote in a separate Brief that a the fundamental question presented tvs court is whether any defendant can receive effective assistance of counsel and a fair trial if each Day he Ana his lawyers face the possibility of their most trusted confidences being revealed to 400 million viewers of Carie news  on Friday Rubino filed a Broad motion with Hoeveler asking dismissal of All drug charges against non Eft who is accused of taking $4.6 million in payoffs to protect the cocaine Trade through Panama. Rubino argue that freezing Noriega a financial assets and taping Quot prison phone Calls constituted government imsconau61