European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Friday january 28,1994 Flag protest rising Over super bowl i Atlanta a a scene Long dreaded by Atlanta s civic boosters could take place at the super bowl this week end civil rights leaders Are threatening protests Over the flying of the state Fla with its Confederate Battle Emblem at the Georgia dome. We see this super Dowlas a prelude to the 1996 olympics and it would be a shame and a disgrace to stand under this Flag when the world comes to Atlanta said the Rev. Tim Mcdonald pastor of first Iconium Baptist Church. The potential embarrassment to this proud City of the new South moved gov. Zell Miller last year to try to Force the legislature to change the Flag. But he met fierce resistance around the state. Mostly Black jury to try in Evers Case Jackson miss. A in a sign of How far Mississippi has come since civil rights Leader Medgar Evers was killed by a sniper in 1963, the White supremacist accused of the crime will be judged by a mostly Black jury. Opening statements were scheduled for thursday in the murder trial of Byron de la Beckwith 73. The former fertilizer Salesman was tried twice before All White juries in 1964, but neither panel could reach a verdict. The trial is expected to conjure up one of the ugliest periods in Mississippi history and some Hope Lay it to rest. The ironic thing is that the younger generations really Are very ignorant of the civil rights movement As a whole. I have students in my classes who know nothing about Medgar Evers or this Case said Charles Sallis a professor at Millsaps College in Jackson. I think what is happening today will be a Good  Evers widow Myrle said a conviction would be important not Only for missis Sippi and the nation but also for me arid my family. That night is like a movie that is on replay every Day. I have not forgot ten.". ". Evers a 37-year-old Field Secretary for the Mississippi chapter of the National association for the advancement of col ored people was shot in the Back in his driveway As his wife and three Small Chil Dren waited for him to come inside. Beckwith s fingerprint was found  Deer Rifle abandoned in a lot across from Evers Home. Beckwith insisted that hews 90 Miles away at the time of the slay ing and that the Rifle had been stole from him. The Case was reopened in 1990 be cause of allegations of jury and evidence tampering during the earlier proceedings new witnesses Are expected to include a woman who prosecutors say heard Beck with admit to the crime in 1966. If convicted Beckwith could get life imprison. The jury eight Blacks and four Whites was chosen 140 Miles away in another county because of publicity about the Case in Jackson. Such a racially mixed jury would have been impossible without the efforts of Evers and other voting rights advocates. Mississippi juries Are chosen from voter Rolls and 1964 Only a Small percentage of Blacks were registered. Most were blocked by hurdles such As a poll tax and literacy requirements. The Feder Al voting rights act came a year later. And when the Georgia House walked the idea appeared dead. Those who find the Flag offensive View its Confederate insignia As a Symbol of. Deep South racism. The legislature added the Confederate Symbol in 1956 in a gesture of Defiance Over the . Supreme court s school desegregation nil ing. Defenders say it honors the state s his tory. \. With about 2,000 out of town journalists look my for something to write about before the Dallas cowboys meet the Buffalo Bills on sunday a group of ministers announced plans wednesday for an anti Flag demonstration sunday. They also invited National football league players to join them. The players must understand that whether they want to be or not they Are being used to support a racist past Mcdonald said. Bruce Smith of the Buffalo Bills said he and his teammates Don t like the idea of playing under the Confederate Symbol at the state owned football stadium but he planned to focus on football. Racism exists period said Smith who is Black. It s unfortunate. It s ignore Ranee. It offends  in recent weeks Community leaders have tried to get the nil and state officials to remove the Flag for the game. Turning up the heat in gunfight  Tex Michling left Robert Mckinley Center and Robert Habina unload a Container of rifles to be melted Down at us s Edgar Thomson works in Brad Dock a. The weapons were among More than 1,500 confiscated guns destined to be come scrap Metal and eventually a refrigerator other appliances or a car body. Some accuse the nil of hypocrisy not ing that the league stripped Phoenix of last year s super bowl after Arizona re fused to adopt a Holiday honouring Martin Luther King or. But league officials Call it a local Dis Pute and City and state officials seem reluctant to reopen old wounds. Mayor Bill Campbell said More pressing issues such As jobs and Educa Tion cry out for attention. I have yet to hear anybody in the Community Tell me the Flag flying there is going to affect their lives at All said Campbell who is Black. You can spend your life fighting a Symbol and miss the important  court in no. Gives reprieve to doomed dog by the new York times Hackensack no. New Jersey s supreme court on wednesday spared the life of the state s celebrated death Row dog Taro until March 1. Since fall the state House in Trenton has been flooded with letters and Calls appealing for canine clemency including one from French actress Brigitte . Christie Whitman s predecessor Jim Florio said last year that he was powerless to intervene while.,Faro  in the state courts. Wednesday s Brief order ends judicial review of All pending issues. The High court without comment refused to re View an october ruling by a state appeals court that Taro a 5-y, male Akita was vicious under the state s vicious dog Law and should be put to death. The dog s journey through the Legal system was set off by an episode in de Cember 1990, when it injured the lower lip of a 10-year-old Niece of the dog s co owners Lonnie and Sandy , of Haworth . Haworth authorities argued that Taro bit the girl. The Behrers con tend the dog scratched the child when she provoked it. Agent says she pleaded with cultist san Antonio a a Federal agent testified wednesday that she desperately negotiated face to face with an armed Branch Davidian to let her help a wounded Comrade As blood from another agent dripped from the roof onto her head. Bernadette Griffin said she and three other agents with the Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms entered the com Pound feb. 28 during a cease fire after a 45-minute gun Battle. They went in to res Cue wounded agent Kenneth King who they thought was on the roof. Griffin said she came within 30 feet of cult member Jaime Castillo who was holding an assault Rifle. With her gun in her Holster she said she tried to climb a stove to get to the roof but Castillo would t let her. He said if we wanted to get onto the roof of the compound we would have to get our own ladder and come Back Griffin testified at the murder trial of 11 Branch davidians. She acknowledged under Cross examination that she never saw Castillo shoot at anyone. As two agents then left to fetch the ladder she said she looked at Castillo for 30 or 40 seconds. She said she and an other agent then noticed King writhing in pain on the ground in a compound court Yard and went to help him. I heard someone say to bring my Black ass Back out so they could see me said Griffin who is Black. She said she believed it was Castillo talking. I said he King is making a lot of noise and he s in pain. We re trying to move him As fast As we can blood was dripping Down on my head from whoever was on the roof at that time she said. I Felt they were going to kill us anyway so i went Back to help King. King testified that he was shot six times while on the roof then rolled off into a courtyard and radioed for help. Several other agents have testified they were shot while on the roof. Castillo was the second defendant to be identified in court by a Federal agent. Two witnesses have said they saw Liv Ingston Pagan shooting with an assault style Rifle. Eleven Branch davidians Are being tried on charges of killing four at agents during the raid at the sect s com Pound near Waco. They face up to life in prison if convicted. The government says the raid was in tended to seize illegal weapons. Davidi ans say they shot at the agents in self de sense. An ensuing 51-Day armed standoff ended when fire engulfed the compound. Cult Leader David Koresh and More than 80 of his followers died in the Blaze. Woman held in killing of Date who urged abortion Highland Beach Fla. A a woman allegedly stabbed her Date to death after tie told her that she should have an abortion. Mary Kathleen Juhnke 23, was arrested tuesday while erratically driving a car owned by the victim 49-year-old Richard p. Ramaglia. Juhnke told authorities that she and Ramaglia had met a few Days earlier through a personal and. On tuesday she said she told him that she was 13 weeks pregnant and planned to put the child up for adoption investigators said. Juhnke said Ramaglia told her that giving up a child was wrong and that she should have an abortion authorities said. That s what got her upset said sheriffs detective sgt. William Springer. She took a Butcher knife and stabbed Ramaglia in the Side Springer said