European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 8, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . 1 tuesday february 8,1994 a a 1evers trial showed new Mississippi Jackson miss. Apr Byron de la Beckwith a third trial in the murder of civil rights Leader Medgar Evers gave the world a glimpse of a changed Mississippi a state coming to terms with its racist past. Contrasts were everywhere the verdict the jury the police and the crowd. In the same courtroom in 1964, two All White juries deadlocked. This was a the first fair trial in the Case a said John f. Marszalik author of an encyclopedia of civil rights. A the jury viewed this As a simple Case of Justice if he was guilty he was guilty. That was not the attitude Back in the 1960s,�?� Marszalik said. David Sansing a historian retired from the University of Mississippi marvelled at the courthouse changes. A did you see the number of Black deputies the Black bailiffs in that court and the people in the gallery a he asked. A thirty years ago probably the Only Black in the building was a janitor and Likely he was told to make himself  on saturday a racially mixed jury convicted Beckwith of killing Evers in 1963. He was sentenced to life in prison. His lawyers Are working on an Appeal. Beckwith had bragged about killing Evers in later years leading prosecutors to reopen the Case present new witnesses and win a conviction. Eversz widow Myrlie Evers sat through much of the trial. During one break she recalled that she had not even been allowed in the courtroom during the first two trials. A those jurors rewrote a major chapter in Mississippi a history a and it was a Bleak chapter filled with violence lynchings and injustice a said Charles Lowery history professor at Mississippi state University. Sansing noted that it was the local District attorney not Federal officials who pushed to revive the Case. That a a contrast to the civil rights Battles of 30 years ago when Federal marshals were sent into the South to enforce school integration orders. New Orleans a the top two finishers in new Orleans mayoral race launched their Runoff campaigns with attacks As relentless As the City a Mardi gras celebrations. Sundays speeches were anything but festive As state sen. Majc Morial blamed front runner Donald Mintz for scurrilous Anonymous Campaign fliers. A a they re racist they re anti semitic. They engage in vicious character assassinations a Morial said in his first appearance after saturdays primary. A it raises serious questions in terms of the Mintz Campaign and its truthfulness a saying one thing and doing another a he said. Mintz in turn challenged Morial to sign a pledge to run a clean Campaign in the March 5 Runoff. A what we need to concentrate on and what the voters Are really concerned about arc the real issues a said Mintz whose top adviser was indicted Friday for allegedly distributing Anonymous and therefore illegal Campaign literature. Although the Misdemeanour indictment did not specify the pamphlet one of the fliers accused Morial of being a bisexual who abused drugs. Morial rejected Mintzis Challenge for a clean Campaign. A emr. Mintz is a hypocrite a Morial said. A emr. Mintz has run the dirtiest Campaign in be seen in 25  some of the fliers also attacked Mintz with anti semitic remarks. Some of the other eight candidates suggested that the Mintz Campaign May have put out anti semitic fliers to draw away suspicion. Mintz who is jewish said that he had nothing to do with the fliers and that he had severed ties with the unpaid adviser Napoleon Moses. Mintz a former port authority chair Man won 56,269 votes or 37 percent in the primary Morial the son of the late dutch Morial the City a first Black mayor got 49,530 votes or 32 percent. Both men Are democrats As is state rep. Mitch Landrieu son of former mayor Moon Landrieu who was third with 10 percent. Mintz and Morial Are seeking to replace mayor Sidney Barthelemy who cannot run for a third consecutive four year term. Mintz lost to Barthelemy four years ago and if elected he would be the first White mayor in 16 years in a City whose electorate is roughly 60 percent Black. Near desegregated project by Sam Howe verhoven the new York times a Houston a everybody from the boy scouts to the Jaycees to a nudist dub from Austin participates in the adopt a Highway cleanup program administered by the state of Texas. But now that members of the Kun flux klan have applied to help out the state wants to hand them a Federal injunction not a garbage bag. A Waco based group the knights of the Kun flux klan has petitioned to adopt a two mile stretch of Highway that runs right past a recently desegregated housing Complex in the East Texas town of Vidor. In return for keeping both sides of the Roadway clean the klan would be rewarded with a sign recognizing its efforts. But the Texas attorney general Dan Morales has filed suit in a Federal court to keep the group from participating. A Given the klan a record of harassment and hatred within Vidor their efforts toward Community service and Public Charity Are ludicrous a Morales said. The attorney general argues that the Texas Highway department which oversees the program receives Federal Money and thus cannot Aid groups that discriminate against minorities. Michael Lowe the Leader of the knights of the Kun flux klan insists that its members Are interested in performing a Public service and that the group has the same right As any other Community organization to adopt a Highway. The klan is barred from holding demonstrations within 500 feet of the Public housing Complex into which armed Federal marshals moved four Black families last month. A state judge issued a temporary restraining order on two klan groups after the state commission on human rights citing numerous klan rallies near the Complex in the last several months said there was a danger of violence if klan members were not kept away. A a approval of the adopt a Highway petition that is now in dispute would not necessarily conflict with the restraining order on demonstrations but it could Lead to klan members forming garbage pickup patrols just a few feet from where the Black families have moved into the apartment Complex. Lowers group May have Legal precedent on its Side. Two years ago the state of Arkansas tried to keep another klan organization from adopting a stretch of Highway near the Missouri Border but a Federal judge ruled that the klan could not be barred from forming the trash patrols. A Lowe is represented by a Black civil rights lawyer Anthony Griffin in a Long running fight against an Effort by the state of Texas to Force him to surrender his membership lists. Griffin whose acceptance of Lowe As a client has generated wide attention said he hated the klan but was defending the group on a Point of constitutional principle. He said he might also defend Lowe in the adopt a Highway dispute. A a they re entitled to adopt a Highway if the program allows groups like the kiwanis to do it a Griffin said. A but if they do maybe we should All get in our cars and go to that stretch of the Highway and engage in some civil disobedience. We could dump trash All Over the Road and then watch the klan pick it  just Swine with feline Toonce a 2-year-old cat joins a litter of 3-Day-old piglets under a warming lamp at a farm in Petersburg Iii. The Kitty was raised with pigs and often hangs out with the Little linkers. Hog Farmer staff Worthington says Toonce a thinks she a a pig.�?�. Subs reportedly spy on sunken vessels arms a a l a a. A a. R. Quot i a a. W a. New York a the United states for decades has specially equipped spy submarines that gather information 011 other countries weapons and ships lost at sea the new York times reported monday. The newspaper quoted unidentified naval experts As saying the submarines can examine Distant objects on the Ocean floor and retrieve some of them. The objects include lost ships submarines planes weapons rockets spacecraft and nuclear warheads. A the submerged subs drop Miles of electronic cables to the Ocean floor and use them for deep reconnaissance and recovery the newspaper said. The times said an Engineer who helped organize the Navy a sub spying operation recently described it to a subcommittee of the Senate Energy and Nat ural resources committee v i t968, one of the Navy subs the halibut examined the wreckage of a soviet submarine in the Pacific a six years before a widely publicized Effort by the Cia to raise it from the Ocean floor the times reported. A halibut was Able to locate examine and evaluate the Accident and to obtain significant intelligence information concerning the submarine a said John p. Craven according to a copy of his written testimony quoted by the newspaper. Craven was the director of the Navy a deep submergence systems project in the 1960s. The naval experts said the disclosure of the previously secret submarine project could affect military budgets and International diplomacy