European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday january 21, 1992 Gotti trial attracts Media from All Over the world new York up a journalists from around the world Are converging on a Brooklyn courtroom for the trial a on murder and racketeering charges a of reputed mafia Kingpin John Gotti As prosecutors again try to Spear the a Teflon  More than 500 prospective jurors will appear today in . District court to begin the selection process in the trial of Gotti and two co defendants a considered by Many Law enforcement experts to be the governments Best shot at bringing Down the reputed head of the nations largest crime family. Gotti has won acquittals at three highly publicized trials in the last six years but Media coverage for his latest and greatest Legal Battle promised to exceed publicity attracted by prior court appearances. Federal court officials said some 40 news organizations have applied for credentials to the trial. Jury selection is expected to take two to three weeks. Sensing conviction and the end to gottis reign reporters from the City a four daily newspapers 13 local television and radio stations the Washington Post the Philadelphia inquirer the los Angeles times French and italian papers and several wire services plan to cover the trial court officials said. Gotti Frank a Frankie Locso Locascio and Thomas Gambino a son of Carlo Gambino the late founder of a powerful crime family a will be tried on a december 1990 indictment charging them with murder racketeering gambling loan sharking and bribery. Gotti has been behind bars since the indictment. Called a Dapper done for his preference for tailor made suits and Matching ties and breast pocket handkerchiefs Gotti has suffered a series of pretrial setbacks including the detection of his second in command Sammy Quot the Bull Gravano who has agreed to testify against his former Boss and the severing of his longtime attorney Bruce Cutler from the Case. Last week prosecutors filed a motion seeking to have Locascio s lawyer disqualified on the ground that he is a House counsel Quot for the Gambino. A charge vehemently denied by the defense. Quot Gotti s new lawyer Albert Kreiger. Swung Back asking the court to disqualify the prosecutor in the Case John Gleeson arguing that he is conducting a personal vendetta against Gotti. Gleeson was a member of the governments team that lost a Federal racketeering Case against Gotti and six associates in 1987. Pallbearers carry the remains of three unknown Confederate soldiers to the Capitol Rotunda in Richmond a. 3 Confederate soldiers honoured 128 years after their deaths Richmond a. Apr three unknown Confederate soldiers who died in Battle 128 years ago Lay in state in the Capitol Rotunda sunday honoured by men wearing Confederate Gray and women in hoop skirts. After lying unnoticed for More than a Century the remains were found by relic Hunters on a Battlefield site outside Richmond. The sons of the Confederate veterans and Many civil War buffs took the first Steps toward giving them proper burials. The 19th Century met the 20th at the former capital of the confederacy As several Hundred people crowded in for a memorial service. The Capitol Flag flew at Hal staff. Sixty four groups Laid wreaths around the Plain Pine coffins draped with Confederate flags. A preacher wearing a top hat said a prayer. A their identities Are unknown to us and known but to thee a said William a. Young jr., a Richmond lawyer portraying the Rev. George w. Finley a prisoner during the War who became a preacher after it ended. A we do know that they were Ordinary soldiers that their lives were precious and that they died beneath the motto a Semper Fidem Virginia a a always faithful to Virginia a Young said. The soldiers were believed to be members of Parker a Battery of the army of Northern Virginia under the command of Gen. Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard said w. Baxter Perkinson sr., a sons of Confederate veterans Leader. They were believed to have been killed in 1864 in fighting around Ware Bottom Spring Church in Chesterfield county now part of suburban Richmond. About 700 confederates and an equal number of Union soldiers died in that Battle. Perkinson made the coffins each with Cross carved into the lid. Civil War remains Are unearthed frequently in Virginia but most Are never turned Over to authorities historians said. A set of remains found nearby Lay in state last june. It was the first time a body Lay in state at Virginia a Capitol since civil War Gen. Thomas a a Stonewall Jackson died in 1863. As the ceremony ended an Honor guard of pallbearers with sidearms and sabers carried the coffins from the Rotunda for a trip to the Violet Banks museum in nearby colonial Heights where they will stay until a final burial. The soldiers in Confederate Gray gently Laid the remains in a Van and a station Wagon. The stars and stripes a Page 7contest s Champion is a howling Success from wire reports , Calif. A the contest was a howl and Debbie Mcmaster was the Winner. She earned a trip for two to Mexico for producing the Best Call of the wild at the third annual y Ukon Jack championship howl off on saturday. Mcmaster of Truckee has a pet Wolf and has practice howling with it for cars said contest organizer Tim Beeman. A you would t have known it was a person if you did no to see  he said. The howl lasted 30 seconds and had a lot of a texture and tone to  Quot she and her husband Are Gold miners and they communicate with each other in the outdoors by howling to let them know w Here they Are Quot Beeman said. Georgia Lloyd of Truckee finished second and Alex Hurley of Tahoe City Calif., was third. There were 42  drug study halted nut Ley . A a study comparing a new aids drug with one used by Many patients has been called Oil because the new drug proved less effective the drugs manufacturer said saturday.  Roche a study comparing its new drug dec or  to the commonly used at or  showed fewer people died while on at said spokesman Paul Cost re idler. Of the 320 people who took dec 59 died compared with 33 of the 315 who took at he said. I he Nutley based drug maker slopped the comparison study in late december a year earlier than  blamed in death Chicago a the film juice is at least partly responsible Tor the death of a 16-year-old girl who was gunned Down outside a Chicago theater on the movie s opening night a prosecutor said sunday. Violence was reported last weekend at Heaters across the nation showing the film which tells the Story of four Harlem teens who become involved in a Holdup and murder. Lesa Cherry 16. Was apparently leaving the Chestnut station Heaters on Chicago s North Side when gunfire erupted Friday night. A 14-year-old gang member has been charged with first degree murder in a juvenile petition said Cook county state s attorney Jack o Malley. Chicago police downplayed any connection Between the film and the girls death but of Malley said he believes the film is partly responsible for the violence. Of Malley said films in the same vein Quot act As a Magnet. Kids Are showing up at the Heaters  scientist quits hous ton a Sylvia Earle chief scientist of the National oceanic and atmospheric administration said she will resign Jan. 31 to spend More time on research in the persian Gulf and More time with her family. Earle announced her resignation at the 1992 Trade show of the diving equipment manufacturers association. Earle who took the Post oct. 26, 1990, was responsible for the health of the oceans and the atmosphere As Noaak a chief scientist. Her Deputy William Hook will become acting chief scientist. Earle said she had been asked to be an adviser to Noaa in its investigation of the continuing environmental aftermath of the persian Gulf War. She said she hoped to have More time for that project and her  sentenced Newark . A the owner of an apartment building where authorities found human fees in the elevator and blood on the Walls has been ordered to live there for a month. Frank Oliver 63, of Wayne was sentenced Friday to spend 30 Days in the Morristown building on a conviction for maintaining a nuisance. It s your House. Clean it up a said municipal judge Michael Noonan. Prosecutor Paul m. Bangiola said the building was a the worst building in Morristown by Light years. It s become a Haven for criminals and drug