European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 5, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday october 5, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 7panel chairman praises Gate past disclosures to Congress noted Washington apr Senate intelligence committee chairman David Boren said Friday that embattled Cia director designate Robert Gates had often cooperated with Congress on sensitive matters. A there was no single person in the intelligence Community without exception a who tried harder to level with Congress about the Iran Contra affair and other spy Agency activities than Gates Boren said As the committee resumed its hearing into Gates nomination. A i am perhaps the Best witness for this a the Oklahoma Democrat said citing his five year tenure As chairman of the intelligence committee. He said he Wasny to certain yet which Way he would vote on the nomination. But Boren also said Gates experience in the Cia cuts both ways a he knows the intelligence Agency inside out but his tenure coincides with a troubled time at the Cia. Boren said the Iran Contra scandal was a breach of Trust that a left a lasting memory on him As a member of the intelligence panel that is weighing whether to approve Gates As director of Central intelligence. A i was determined that it  happen again a Boren said. Boren voiced concern Over an erosion of support for Gates based on his links to the late Cia director William j. Casey whose conservative ideology often shaped the Agency a intelligence views. Testimony during three weeks of hearings have revealed deep splits at the Cia Over that legacy of politicization. Boren described for the committee the a a scores of times when the intelligence oversight panel was let in on sensitive intelligence by Gates a a things i guarantee you we would never have had hints about when or. Casey was in  Boren said his unusual testimony was prompted by the decision on thursday of one panel member a sen. Ernest Hollings . A to vote against Gates because he represented links to the controversial Casey Era. As Boren spoke Gates sat at the witness table directly across the chairman. In later questioning sen. Sam Nunn d-ga., asked Gates whether he believed allegations that president Reagan was misled by intelligence into believing arms sales to Iran in 1985 and 1986 were a Good idea. A i do not believe he was misled by Cia intelligence a Gates said of Reagan. A information was provided through the Channel of another country to which the White House paid More attention than it did to american intelligence during that  records from the Iran Contra affair said that country was Israel. But Nunn suggested that Gates should have acted More forcefully to ensure that the president was getting Good information. He noted that Cia colleagues of Gates Secretary of state George Schultz and others in the administration All believed Reagan was being misled. A so you re sandwiched All around a the senator said. At another Point Gates promised that he would make it a High priority if confirmed to Correct the lingering perception that Cia analyses arc slanted to fit administration political views. On thursday Gates suffered a setback when Hollings announced that he had decided to vote against the nomination. A your experience is what disqualifies you a Hollings told Gates. A yes you did too Good a Job for Bill Casey. You re not the right Man at this particular  Nunn said he had gone from favouring Gates before the bruising hearings began to a a Neutral after hearing the nominees Point by Point defense on thursday. A there is a perception at the Cia by an awful lot of people that the policy was driving the conclusions on a number of occasions a Nunn said. A that has to be dealt with. The Bottom line is whether Bob Gates is the person who can do that  Nunn predicted the final committee vote scheduled for oct. 18, a will be pretty close one Way or the other and i  predict How it will come out. And it May be another Story on the Senate floor one Way or the  �?0 a suspect to face retrial for Evers slaying Jackson miss. Apr White supremacist Byron de la Beckwith was returned thursday to jail in Mississippi where he will stand trial a third time for the 1963 slaying of Black civil rights Leader Medgar Evers. Beckwith 70, spent 10 months in a Tennessee jail fighting extradition. A it has been a Long wait a said Bobby Delaughter assistant Hinds county District attorney. A this has been two years in the making two years of patience persistence hard work and excitement As Well As  Beckwith shouted a speak of the Devil at reporters during an initial court appearance Friday. . District judge r. Allan Edgar on thursday rejected requests by Beckwith for a temporary order and a writ of Hareas Corpus that would have blocked his return to Mississippi. As he left Tennessee he told reporters a i did no to kill him. Did you kill him a a and if you did no to kill him can you prove you did no to kill him i done to know who killed the racial epithet and i done to care.�?�. Beckwith paused expressing Chagrin. A i told my wife i Wasny to going to say racial epithet again a once Back in Mississippi where he ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor in 1967, Beckwith said a it feels Good. Everybody ought to be glad to be in missis Sippi. I love  Hinds county circuit judge l. Breland Hilburn appointed two attorneys for Beckwith and scheduled arraignment for tuesday. No trial Date has been set. Eversz widow Myrlie Evers of los Angeles said she was delighted by the extradition. A we Are just one step closer to Justice a she said. Beckwith a former fertilizer Salesman and avowed White supremacist had been held without Bond since dec. 31, when he was arrested at his signal Mountain Home on a governors warrant in Eversz death. Evers Field Secretary for the National association for the advancement of coloured people was shot to death by a sniper on june 12, 1963, in front of his Home in Jackson miss. A Rifle with Beckwith a fingerprint was found nearby and he was tried twice in 1964 for the slaying. But in each Case an All White jury was unable to reach a verdict resulting in a mistrial. In 1969, Mississippi authorities dismissed the murder charge. After serving five years in a Louisiana prison for illegal Possession of dynamite Beckwith married his second wife Thelma Neff in 1983 and moved to signal Mountain Tenn. In 1989, new information surfaced indicating possible jury tampering in Beckwith a 1964 trials. In december 1990, a grand jury returned a new murder indictment. Legal wrangling delayed his return to Mississippi. A Deputy escorts Byron de la Beckwith 70, into a detention Center in Jackson miss. Gays plan broader protests in California a a a a to nor Funru Nyrl a Kent state government. Of by the los angles times los Angeles a saying that California gov. Pete Wilson a veto of Gay rights legislation had galvanized diverse segments of the Gay Community activists announced plans thursday to broaden their protest by taking an anti discrimination Law directly to californians voters. They also pledged to continue nightly protests stage a March on the state Capitol next week and Boycott California businesses during the height of the Holiday shopping season. A Loose knit coalition of Gay groups is planning the actions in an Effort to harness anger at Wilson s veto and translate it into a political Force. Activists say they have found a groundswell of mainstream outrage that they Are scrambling to  this has really touched a nerve a Carol f. Anderson an attorney with the Gay and lesbian Alliance against defamation said of Wilson a decision sunday to veto a Bill that would have banned Job discrimination against homosexuals. A it has made activists out of non activists a Anderson said. A these Are historic Days of rage a said Steve Martin president of the Stonewall Gay democratic club. Our Community will never be the same. We have been mobilized. We have been  demonstrations that have filled the streets of Hollywood the last four nights have appeared to attract Many Gays and lesbians who previously avoided political activism according to participants. And looking beyond the crowds in the streets people such As doctors lawyers and stockbrokers As Well As traditionally Active organizers Are writing letters switching political parties and planning legislative drives. Among the activities being planned by Gay organizers is a Campaign to place an initiative on the november 1992 ballot that would achieve the same Protection against Job discrimination As the vetoed legislation. Organizers also want to intensify pressure on Wilson by marching on the Capitol in Sacramento on Friday to dramatize their fury and disrupt state government. Organizers Are calling a statewide general strike that Day urging Gays and lesbians not to go to work or school. Whether the momentum of what advocates describe As a a a snowballing movement is sustained remains to be seen. Gay activists May find themselves forced to Deal with a backlash one of the leading centers in los Angeles offering Legal and health services to homosexuals reported a spate of hate mail and threatening Telephone Calls. A the extremists who Gay Bash have been Given a Green Light from Pete Wilson a said Torie Osborn executive director of the los Angeles Gay and lesbian Community services Center. Wilson in announcing the veto warned a a bigots not to interpret his action As a carte Blanche for violence against Nomos duals. Hundreds of people have turned out to demonstrate in los Angeles Anu other cities every night since Wilson made the veto Public