European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 27, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Saturday february 27,1993 sgt. Stacy c. Koon comments thursday after opening statements in the Rodney g. King civil rights trial in los Angeles. At right is Koonts attorney Ira Salzman. Audio tape describing Chase begins trial of 4 in King Case los Angeles apr the first full Day of testimony began Friday in the Federal civil rights trial of four policemen with prosecutors using audio tape and a dispatcher to describe the Chase that led to Rodney g. Kings beating by police. Conspicuously absent from the prosecution s witness lineup were California Highway patrol officers Melanie and Tim Singer whose decision to pursue a speeding car set in motion the violent events of March 3, 1991. Both testified in last years state trial of the four los Angeles police officers but contradicted each other on key Points and were undermined by the defense. The officers were acquitted of most charges in that trial. The defense says it will Call the singers this time presumably As hostile witnesses. Cup dispatcher Deborah Asencio testified she heard the singers report Quot a roller a meaning a speeder coming up Chino them on a freeway. The tape of their continuing reports As they left the freeway and pursued the car through City streets was played for jurors. Asencio said it was Clear that the highest Speed reported by the singers was 65 Mph. Defense lawyers ave claimed that King was driving at up to 110 Mph. Prosecutors launched their Case on the heels of an opening statement claim that police delayed medical treatment for King after the beating. The defense sharply denied that. Assistant . Attorney Steven Clymer sprang a new claim that two of the officers a Timothy e. Wind and Laurence m. Powell a took a 1 i hour Detour while moving King from one Hospital to another stopping at their station to show the beating victim to colleagues. Not so said the defense. Attorney Michael Stone said his client Powell and Powell a partner wind were following a very strict protocol a and did no harm by slowing Kings move from a Small Hospital to a larger Hospital jail Ward and trauma Center. A Only stable patients will be transferred from one Hospital to another a Stone said adding a and he Wasny to in an ambulance. He was in a police  Stone said that by stopping at the foothill station to do a Remote booking and obtain a a parole hold on King a convicted Felon the officers engineered his Quick admission to the Hospital jail Ward. Powell wind officer Theodore j. Briseno and sgt. Stacey c. Koon arc accused of violating the Black Motorist s civil rights when he was clubbed kicked and stomped after a car Chase in 1991. The beating was videotaped by an onlooker. The defendants could get up to 10 years in prison and $250,000 in fines. The four White officers were acquitted of brutality charges in state court last Spring touching off riots that left 54 people dead and caused $1 billion in  orders mental exam in death threat on Clinton from wire reports Norfolk a. A a Federal magistrate on thursday ordered a psychiatric evaluation of a gun dealer charged with threatening to kill president Clinton. . Magistrate judge Tommy Miller denied a defense request to drop the government s Case against Michael Bernard Shields 28, of Virginia Beach. The attorney for Shields contended his client did not make a serious threat against Clinton a life. A if anything has occurred Here it was the spontaneous and unthinking comment by a Young Man who has tried to do the right thing but came under stress a not the calculated cold plotting of a real Assassin a attorney Andrew sacks said after the Brief hearing. Secret service special agent Glenn Garbis did not Sec it that Way. Garbis testified that he had talked to Shields after being notified of the alleged threat made to officials from the Federal Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms. Shields a Felt Clinton was a problem and that he needed to be eliminated by Force if necessary a Garbis said. The threat was made a Over and Over again a the agent  like in the movies Akron Ohio a a 6-year-old boy whose friends dared him to lick an Iron fire hydrant in 6-degree weather Learned the hard Way it Sticks. The Boyjian seen the 1983 movie a Christmas Story in which a youngster is a double dog dared to stick his Tongue to a Frozen flagpole paramedic Doug Fela said. The boy whose name Wasny to released accepted a similar dare from his friends wednesday morning. A the  really talk when we got there but he was crying pretty Good a Fela said. A some bystanders had tried to pour water on his Tongue and that just made it  paramedics used Saline solution to free  sides with animals Washington a animal rights groups won a significant court Victory thursday when a Federal judge in Washington struck Down the governments rules on the treatment of Laboratory dogs and primates finding they were too lenient. If the ruling by . District judge Charles r. Richey survives a possible Appeal it would affect thousands of University and corporate research centers across the nation by requiring them to meet More stringent standards for the care of Laboratory animals. A a a dog is Many a Best Friend is an old adage which the defendants have either forgotten or decided to ignore a Richey wrote. He ordered the agriculture department to rewrite the rules it had been told to adopt when Congress passed the improved standards for Laboratory animals act of 1985. Richey found the government had failed to put the Law into  Between Cia attack Bosnia see radioactive material found by the Washington Post Washington a a pakistani suspected of ambushing Drivers outside the Ciao a Headquarters May have been motivated by the bosnian civil War a prosecutor said thursday. Commonwealths attorney Robert f. Horan or. Said Mir animal Kanji who has disappeared told his room mate a week before the attack that he was unhappy about the treatment of muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In addition he said he was going to a make a big statement by shooting up the Cia the White House or the israeli embassy Horan reported. The revelations of a possible motive for the Jan. 25 shootings in which two men were killed and three wounded surfaced thursday in a court hearing. During the session Horan tried to persuade a judge not to release the Roommate Zahed Ahmad Mir from the county jail without some restraint to prevent him from returning to Pakistan his Homeland. Horan said mires testimony As a material witness would be necessary if Kanji is brought to trial. Horan the chief prosecutor of Fairfax county va., also said Mir was with Kanji on Jan. 22 when he bought the ak-47-Type Rifle that has been linked to last he the Roommate is innocent Only in a Legal sense not in a moral  a prosecutor Robert of Horan or. Months shootings. Kanji also used Mir s credit card Jan. 18 to buy a bulletproof Vest from a mail order Catalon Horan said. A the knew All that and he did not Call police a Horan said of Mir 39. A the is innocent Only in a Legal sense not in a moral  mires court appointed attorney asked for thursdays hearing to seek the release of his client who had been confined for 17 Days without being charged with a crime. But after the hearing Federal prosecutors charged Mir with filing a fraudulent resident application and lying to immigration and naturalization officials. That action allows Federal officials to detain him. An International manhunt has been under Way for Kanji who returned to Pakistan the Day after the shootings. Los Angeles a a Container of potentially lethal radioactive material believed to have been stolen by an employee from an Oil exploration company in suburban South Gate was found beside a freeway thursday after the company received an Anonymous phone tip. Searchers from Flo log inc. Said the missing vial of cesium-137, an isotope used in Oil exploration was found in a Patch or ice beside a Entrance to the Long Beach freeway in South Gate about 24 hours after the company received the Call. A the caller asked us if we had found what we were looking for a said Ken kitchens a Flo log equipment manager. Kitchens said that when the caller was told that the vial was still missing a the told us to look on an off ramp of the 710," also known As the Long Beach freeway. Kitchens said that because of the length of the freeway and because the caller had said a off ramp a rather than a on ramp a it was not until noon thursday that Flo log employees using hand held Geiger counters found the Sli Inch titanium vial in the freeway landscaping