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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes wednesday april 1, 1992 Gotti s outraged lawyers seek mistrial Over remark by Laurie Goodstein the Washington Post new York a pandemonium erupted in the closing minutes of the 10-week trial of reputed mob Kingpin John Gotti when . Attorney Andrew Maloney told jurors that they would be a less than human not to fear the Man they Are being asked to judge. Jumping to their feet in outrage gottis attorneys called for a mistrial and suggested that Maloney a last minute Man Euver had Given them what they had sought All along a solid grounds for an Appeal should their client be found guilty. Jurors were expected to begin their deliberations As Early As tuesday on charges of murder racketeering conspiracy and tax evasion against Gotti and his alleged unde Boss Frank a Frankie Locso Locascio. The jury of six men six women and four alternates Are being kept Anonymous and sequestered for the duration to avoid the potential for gottis associates to intimidate them or tamper with the process actions the government said have occurred in earlier Gotti trials. Maloney made the opening arguments but in the ensuing weeks became a silent presence at the prosecution table while assistant . Attorney John Gleeson wove the complicated Case pinning Gotti As head of the new York based Gambino crime family. Ridiculing Maloney at one slow moment in the trial Gotti pointed to him and asked a a who she a but tuesday Maloney put the final rhetorical flourishes in a rebuttal to the closing arguments of gottis attorneys. A if you accept the proof of what you Are dealing with Jamestown a. Apr archaeologists have unearthed skeletons and the remains of buildings at the site of the first Indian Village destroyed by English colonists in the new world. It the Paspa Hegh Village was the closest Indian settlement to Jamestown the first surviving English Colony in America. It provided a welcoming feast for the colonists after they established the settlement in 1607. But three years later lord Thomas de la Warr the Colony a first governor ordered settlers to drive out the villages inhabitants an attack that historians say poisoned relations Between the colonists and indians. Seven skeletons five partial skeletons and the remains of More than 40 structures mostly Oval Long houses have been unearthed at the site since february. The skeletons apparently Date from about 1500 to 1610, said project supervisor Mary Ellen Hodges. None shows signs of the attack but archaeologists say it occurred within a half mde of the excavation site. The site is being turned into a Golf course and the archaeologists Are working one step ahead of the heavy equipment under an agreement with developers. The Paspa Hegh site had been occupied for about 12,000 years said Here the Boss of a murderous treacherous crime family and his unde Boss a Maloney told the jury Quot you a be less than human if you did no to feel some personal concern. At that five attorneys at the defense table immediately Rose and shouted in unison Quot objection a cradling his head in his hands . District judge i. Leo Glasser said  a a in a going to direct the jury to disregard the last remarks by or. Maloney a the judge said. Minutes later Maloney finished his speech and All the defense attorneys were again on their feet calling for the judge to declare a mistrial. A the damage literally cannot be undone a said Albert Krieger gottis main attorney. A any semblance of a fair consideration by this jury is  Anthony Cardinale attorney for Locascio said that the government is a trying to frighten the jurors into doing what the government wants it to do. I also move for a  Maloney is not the first to contend that Gotti and his associates Are a fearsome lot who kill relatives and business partners who dare to Cross them. Those very charges Are contained in the indictment. But it was the most direct suggestion to the jurors that they Are potential targets. Glasser denied the motion for mistrial in a closed conference after the courtroom mayhem. Now the jurors will decide whether Gotti and Locascio Are to serve life sentences behind bars far from the Brooklyn neighbourhoods where the jurors will return when their duty has ended. Nick Luccketti director of the James River Institute of archaeology which is conducting the dig. The Paspa Hegh indians were one of about 30 tribes that came under the Dominion of Powhatan the areas primary chief starting in about 1580. His Dominion encompassed the coastal Plain of Modem Virginia. The Village with about 100 inhabitants had about 40 fighting men but the English shot or stabbed nearly 60 people said Helen Rountree professor of anthropology at old Dominion University in Norfolk a. The Village was burned to the ground along with its Cornfields. Rountree said the raid which occurred after months of Low level hostilities Over the colonists demand for com was the first major attempt by the English to take Over Indian territory and their first recorded killing of Indian women and children in the United states. A in Indian eyes it put the English beyond the Pale a she said. Luccketti said local indians will choose an adjacent site to re Bury the skeletons ceremonially when they return from lab analysis. William Miles chief of the a Monkey tribe said indians believe the Bones should be left alone. The reburial is a grudging Compromise.  in East Chicago end 3-week-old strike from wire reports East Chicago ind. A teachers ended a 3-week-old strike monday and classes were expected to resume tuesday. Negotiators reached a tentative agreement after 15 hours of talks. Local 511 of the East Chicago federation of teachers representing 470 teachers ratified the agreement monday morning. School officials were expected to approve it tuesday when classes for the districts 7,000 students could resume superintendent Norman Comer said. The agreement Calls for a 4.5 percent wage increase for the 1992 Calendar year and 5.5 percent in 1993, said Union president Victoria Candelaria the teachers wanted a 7 percent raise this year and 6 percent next year plus a boost in the districts contribution to their health  of attack probed Brownsville Texas the coast guard is investigating a report that a . Fishing vessel was fired on by a mexican patrol boat. Coast guard personnel boarded the fishing vessel Windfall after it put into port at Brownsville on sunday. A the boats master reported that a mexican vessel fired1 at his boat Early Friday morning a the coast guard said in a statement. Coast guard investigators said they found gunfire damage to the Windfall and Bullet fragments on the vessel. The coast guard said monday that it is continuing its  s for scam Greenville miss. A a Man tricked by a con artist into revealing his Telephone calling card number did not discover the scam until his Bill arrived in the mail. It totalled $30,146. A they called the soviet Union Africa the Orient everywhere Quot Mike Jacobs said. A they called All Over the world and sent me the  Jacobs received a Call in february from a person identifying himself As a Security representative for Sci. The Man said there had been a Telephone credit card theft through the company a computer and Jacobs was one of the victims. Jacobs said he answered All the Many a questions and gave him his Sci and at amp to card numbers. He got a 60-Page phone Bill in March. A it will take at least three months to straighten the whole thing out a Jacobs  Chance to soak irs St. Paul Minn. A taxpayers fed up with the internal Revenue service can exact a Little revenge on april 15. Irs employees ranging from an auditor to an agent will participate m a Dunk tank event set up by the St. Paul area chamber of Commerce. For $2, taxpayers will get five tries to drop an irs employee into the water. A watch them take a Bath for a change see their a forms As they splash in the water �?~1040�?T times a says a chamber flier. Quot we really Are expecting a big crowd because this is the Cnance for people to soak the irs As they feel they be been soaked a said Pat Tapp director of special projects for the chamber. A those irs people Are really Good  Dies in farm pit Pine City Minn. A a 5-year-old boy died after falling into an open pit of liquid manure behind the Bam on his grandparents farm. A it looks like just a be tragic Accident. The child just wandered away and went into this liquid manure pit a Pine county sheriff Don Faulkner said sunday. Hassan Merrick apparently drowned or suffocated Faulkner said. Hassan was visiting his grandparents when he disappeared sunday evening and they notified authorities. The boy lived in Minneapolis about 50 Miles South of his grandparents farm outside Pine City. Police and volunteers searched for four hours before discovering mud tracks that led to the pit the sheriff said. The boy was pronounced dead on arrival at children a Hospital of St. Paul. A James Harter an excavator with the James River Institute of archaeology displays a piece of pottery unearthed last week. Remains found near raided Indian site  
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