European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 5, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes wednesday june 5, 1991. X a a at Lan i a apr Oliver. North a former White House National Security aide who fell from Grace in the Iran Contra scandal was hailed As a Prophet monday by thousands of Flag waving Southern baptists standing against a backdrop of a 40-by-60-foot american Flag North received a series of standing. Ovations As he compared his own travails to the crossing of the red sea. He urged some 15,000 Southern baptists to become More politically Active to fight Back against a a veritable Sodom and gomorrah on be Banks of the  North at times holding a Bible aloft said there is a a desperate need for revival in this nation that we might turn Back to him.�?�. I he former Marine lieutenant colonel spoke to the pastors conference of the Southern Baptist co riven. Torr. The gathering preceded the three Day Deomina Lional convention scheduled to open tuesday. North stalk provided a preview of the patriotic Tenor of this years convention which will feature a revival. Wednesday evening with the theme of a a Call to prayer for spiritual Awakening in american and a talk thurs. Day by president  convention is the first one since 1979 in which the denominations moderate faction is not expected to Chal a tenge the convention s fundamentalist majority. Last month thousands of moderates formed their own group the cooperative Baptist Fellowship and have announced plans to bypass the denominational gathering la mile away from North stalk the Man who has. Been chief executive officer of the denomination throughout the fundamentalist moderate controversy announced his intention to retire. I Haroid c. Bennett president of the conventions executive committee since 1979, said monday Ghat he planned to retire in october 1992. A will be 68 by that time a he said. He said a the controversy Between fundamentalists who  concerned about a a Liberal interpretations of the Bible and moderates who accuse the denomination of attempting to usurp the ability of individual baptists to freely in a Terret scripture did not play a part in his resignation. But he refused to comment on whether the growing fundamentalist control of the denomination was either Good or bad for the convention. Few moderates appeared to be in the Georgia world Congress Center on monday As a Medley of patriotic songs from a Yankee Doodle Dandy to a god bless America Quot was Sung before North was introduced As an a american  i love Oliver North a said Ruth Glades. Of Griffin As she waved her  testified in 1987 before Congress  efforts to sell arms to Iran in Exchange for american  Oliver North Bible in hand rails against a a veritable Sodom and gomorrah on the Banks of the Potomac tages and to use the profits to help the nicaraguan rebels. He was convicted in 1989 for helping to fabricate a chronology of the Iran Contra affair destroying documents and accepting an illegal gratuity. The convictions were set aside by an appeals court. Last week the supreme court let stand the appellate courts order that the trial judge in North a criminal Case must review the testimony to determine whether  influenced by what North told Congress under a limited Grant of immunity. On monday North was unrepentant about his involvement in the affair. He compared himself to Moses and government attempts at criminal prosecution to an inquisition. A this Long incredible ordeal has been a Little like a red sea to us Quot he  Tenn. A the Man who has Quot been tried twice Tor the 1963 slaying of civil rights Leader Medgar Evers must be returned to Mississippi to stand trial a third time a Tennessee appeals court has ruled. Both of Byron de la Beckwith s earlier trials ended in Hung juries. The. Charges were dropped in 1969, and he moved to Tennessee a few years ago. Hie state should act quickly upon a demand for extradition a the Tennessee court of criminal appeals wrote in its ruling monday. Beckwith 70, was first arrested dec. 17. He was freed on $15,000 Bond on dec 18, but was arrested again dec. 30 on a warrant signed by gov. Ned Mcwhorter. Beckwith has been held in Hamilton county jail in Chattanooga  since then. A Evers a Field Secretary with the National association for the advancement of coloured people was shot Toman in Evers killing death on the Lawm of his Jackson miss Home. Last fall a Hinds county grand jury in Mississippi reopened the investigation into Eversz death amid charges of evidence and jury tampering. Beckwith sub sequently was indicted a third time. A Beckwith a court appointed attorney Russell bean argued Jast month before the appeals court that Buck with was not a fugitive and that his constitutional rights would be violated by the Hasty extradition. Bean also argued that Mcwherter rushed the extradition process under political pressure from Mississippi gov. Ray mucus and that Mcwherter failed to prop Erly review the documents. The appeals court rejected those arguments ruling that a person who must be transferred from one state to another to stand trial fits the description of a Fuei a Tive. 7 to sales of nazi Barf to shirts to Stop los Angeles apr a White supremacist agreed monday to Stop Selling to shirts that depict cartoon character Bart Simpson As a  copyright infringement lawsuit was filed against Tom Metzger on May n in . District court by 20th Century boxes licensing and merchandising corporation. T under monday s settlement Metzger is harred from Selling or using copyrighted material from a a the Simpsons Quot a cartoon television series. Pox sued met Ger when the anti defamation league of by Nai Brill informed the studio that Metzger a White aryan resistance group was Selling the to shirts. \ 7. Vohen the suit was tiled Metzger acknowledged that he had advertised the in shirts in one Issue of the groups newsletter but said he stopped As soon As Fox wrote him. Hie anti defamation league alerted Fox in january that met germs group based in Fallbrook Calif., advertised a nazi Bart Quot to shirts. The shirts depicted Bart wearing a Swastika armband giving the nazi Salute and delivering the message a pure  but he assured the Southern baptists that god remained faithful to him and his family and encouraged them to be More politically Active on issues such As school prayer. A he struck a particular chord when he said the Constitution was designed to protect religion from government a not government from a godly  Les Roberts a director of missions from Phoenix who handed out flags at the door said the denomination is Riding a wave of patriotism from the nations Success in the persian Gulf War. Southern baptists Are tremendously patriotic. They always have been. There is a commitment to country and to god Roberts said. �?o1 think Oliver North represents a commitment to god.�?�.  to get free admission to Parks. From wire reports a a Washington a All National Parks Cele rating the coalitions Victory in the War against Tjay a will offer free admission this weekend to any no a Active duty or in the reserves. A a this is being done As a tribute to ail those who served in desert storm a Interior department spokesman Steven Goldstein said monday. Entrance fees normally $3 to $10 per Carload will be waived Friday saturday and sunday for service members reservists and their families Goldstein  hiker rescued after fall Calif. A a woman who Tell 150 feet of la Cliff while hiking was rescued monday alter spending the night on a ledge. Mary Brett Rogers 21, of Berkeley was in Sta-0 e condition at a Hospital with a leg injury and a possible concussion. Rescuers found Rogers shortly past Midnight alter a live hour search in the Las Tampas Ridge near san Ramon East of san Francisco. They decided it would be too dangerous to pull her up in a Basket in the foggy darkness and waited until Dawn. Hot drinks Tood. A sleeping hag and blankets were lowered to her. Three rescuers including a paramedic climbed Down to Aid her. She was pulled up alter 7 . And carried by Stretcher Down the Trail. ,. Rogers was hiking with two friends when she fell. \