European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 20, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday january 20, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 7accused train gunman indicted on 93 counts from wire reports Mineola . A a grand jury handed up a 93-count indictment tuesday against the Man accused of killing six commuters and wounding 19 others on the Long Island rail Road. After three Days of testimony from victims of the shooting the Nassau county grand jury indicted Colin Ferguson on two counts of murder for each victim 19 counts of attempted murder 25 counts of civil rights violation 34 counts of assault and other charges. If convicted of All charges Ferguson could be sentenced to 175 years in jail. Authorities believe racial hatred prompted Ferguson to Spray bullets through the crowded train at Rush hour dec. 7. Ferguson 36, of new York City is Black. The victims were White and asian and he carried Handwritten papers detailing perceived injustices by Whites asians and fellow  ban takes effect Washington a radar detectors Are now illegal nationwide for Drivers of some 3.5 million Large commercial trucks and buses. The transportation department regulation taking effect wednesday applies to trucks weighing at least 10,000 pounds or carrying hazardous materials and any bus designed for 16 or More  department announced the ban in december 1993. The Rule was supported by Highway safety groups and the american trucking associations representing 40,000 truck lines which contended that the detectors Only purpose was to break speeding  panels cheaper Washington a a manufacturer has produced solar panels that can Supply All the daytime electric Power needed for a Home at nearly half the present Cost the department of Energy said tuesday. The department said the panels produced by United solar systems corp. Have achieved record efficiency in converting sunlight into electricity. Current panels have about a 6 percent efficiency in converting sunlight falling on solar cells into electricity. At a news conference officials of the Troy  company said they achieved a record 10.2 percent efficiency. Stanford r. Ovshinsky of Energy conversion devices inc. Said  states had set 10 percent efficiency As the Standard for a photovoltaic module that can be produced in High . Swears in governor Trenton . A Christie Whitman was sworn in tuesday As new jerseys first woman governor promising to sweeten the tax Cut pledge that helped elect her. A i will not hedge. I will not backtrack. I will keep my promises to you a Whitman a Republican said after taking the oath of office. Whitman said she would make income and corporate tax reductions retroactive to Jan. 1, and a without cutting the state services on which so Many of us depends and a without driving up property  As during the Campaign however she was Short on specifics about How she will finance the tax cuts. She must submit a budget for 1994-95 to the legislature by March 15. Whitman 47, became governor by defeating democratic gov. Jim  tests tout garlic Clearwater Beach Fla. The Low rate of heart disease in France May Stem not Only from the popularity of red wine but also from the garlic that flavors French cooking. Researchers suspected something in red wine was responsible for the so called a French Paradox a the finding that people in France have a Low rate of heart disease despite their High fat diet. Tests of red wines effect on rats found that the equivalent of two glasses of wine helped protect against heart effects. A compound in the wine called poly phenol is believed to prevent the formation of platelets in the blood which can Lead to hardening of the arteries and heart attack. Poly phenols also Are found in certain fruits and vegetables including garlic. Florida county to slap on teen agers Miami apr Dade county commissioners voted tuesday to Clear the streets of teen agers late at night in an Effort to control  a these Are abnormal times and we ought to Send the message to our children that we Are concerned about their safety a said t. Willard fair who spoke in favor of a teen age curfew before the commissioners voted 10-3 to adopt one. The curfew which takes effect in 30 Days requires people younger than 17 be off the streets Between la . And 6 . On sundays through thursdays and Midnight and 6 . Fridays and saturdays. It makes exceptions for Young people travelling to and from jobs or attending school related activities of other organized functions. Violators parents can be fined up to $500. A a in a really pleased that we re trying to solve problems and not dealing with the political consequences a said commissioner James Burke who sponsored the Law. Critics say the measure is unenforceable unconstitutional and racist and the american civil liberties Union will Challenge it said the organizations state executive director Robyn Blumner. A this s the imposition of martial Law on a targeted population. Without any accusation of wrongdoing a Blumner said. She had complained previously that such a Law would Likely be enforced mainly against minority youths. Burke who is Black said that was probably right. A we Are not going to talk around the subject a he said at an earlier hearing. A the people who Are dying Are Young Black men. The people getting into trouble Are Young Black  three Dade county cities a Hialeah opa Locka and Miami Springs a have experimented with curfews but Only opa Locka continues to enforce one. A state appeals court declared the Miami Springs curfew unconstitutional two years  Batesville miss. A the third trial of a White supremacist on charges of murdering civil rights Leader Medgar Evers 30 years ago began tuesday with prospective jurors urged to a search your souls to see that Justice is done. Byron de la Beckwith 73, sat facing those summoned for jury duty smiling occasionally and listening intently As they were questioned. Of the first 137 potential jurors screened tuesday 70 were dismissed including 24 for health reasons and 17 who said serving would cause them financial hardship. Beckwith a lawyers complained to Cir Cuit judge Breland Hilburn that he was excluding too Many potential White jurors from the Pool. Hilburn did not immediately respond to the complaint. During a recess District attorney de Peters said he would work to keep race from becoming the trials main Issue. A the Issue is whether or not a person in a cowardly Way shot a person in the Back from ambush at night with his family just a few Yards away a Peters said. All White juries deadlocked in two trials for Beckwith in 1964. Charges against him were dismissed in 1969, and the Case was dormant until 1989, when documents from a now defunct state Agency that perpetuated segregation prompted prosecutors to take another look. Eversz widow Myrlie also campaigned for years to get the Case reopened. Evers was Field Secretary for the National association for the advancement of coloured people in Mississippi and a Champion of Black voting rights when he was gunned Down in his driveway in Jackson on june 12, 1963. For Many the Case dredges up Mississippi a racist past. A i urge you to search your souls a Hilburn told the prospective jurors who were evenly divided among Byron do la Beckwith and his wife Thelma arrive at the Batch Villa miss., courthouse tuesday with attorney Jim kitchens. Blacks and Whites a you May have to make sacrifices in order to make sure we have a fair  Hilburn said he hoped a 12-member jury could be picked within two weeks. Jury selection was moved from Jackson to Panola county for fear publicity would make it impossible to get an impartial jury. After a jury is seated the trial will be moved 150 Miles South to Jackson and held at the Hinds county courthouse where Beckwith a previous trials were held. Beckwith continues to preach segregation but said he is not the sniper who killed Evers. The snipers Rifle belonged to Beckwith and his fingerprint was found on its sight. But the former fertilizer Salesman said that the gun had been stolen from him and that he was in Greenwood at the time of the slaying. Seminary housing to accept Gay couples new York apr a leading episcopal divinity school is opening its Seminary housing to homosexual couples despite Church policy declaring sex is appropriate within marriage Only. Unmarried heterosexual couples Are still prohibited from living together on Campus under the policy adopted by the general theological Seminary the divinity school with the oldest and closest ties to the episcopal Church. Bishop Craig b. Anderson Seminary president said the policy approved last week by the Board of trustees will help the Church address the Issue of homosexuality. A it does provide the Seminary Community with a realistic and open framework for living within the tension produced by the discontinuity Between the teaching of the episcopal Church and the experience of Many of its members in the area of human sexuality a he said. General theological Seminary founded in 1817, is the Only episcopal Seminary in which some of the trustees Are elected by the churches policy making body the general convention. Homosexuality has been a contentious Issue in the episcopal Church. At the last general convention in 1991, delegates passed a Resolution affirming a that the teaching of the episcopal Church is that physical sexual expression is appropriate Only within the lifelong monogamous a Union of husband and wife in heart body and  a