European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 24, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . 1 Friday june 24,1994mob new York apr thwarted in trying to solve the disappearance and slayings of three civil rights workers in Mississippi the Fri in 1964 turned in desperation to the mafia a newspaper reported. Fri director j. Edgar Hoover pitted one adversary organized crime against another the Kun flux Kjan the ploy paid off. _ Gregory Scarpa sr., a Brooklyn mobster turned Fri informant terrorized a Klansman under suspicion in the slayings into revealing the location of the bodies the new York daily news said citing unidentified Federal Law enforcement officials. In an account marking the 30th anniversary of the Case the newspaper said Scarpa put a gun borrowed from an Fri agent into the suspect s Mouth and threatened to a blow your. Brains out1 if he did t confess. The Case began with the slayings of two White new yorkers Andrew Goodman 20, Michael Schwemer 24, and a Black Mississippi civil rights Volunteer James Chaney 21. It inspired at least four books and a movie Mississippi burning. Fri spokesman Paul Bresson refused to comment on the Story. Former Fri inspector Joseph Sullivan who led the investigation into the slayings denied Scarpa had anything to do with the Case. Goodman Schwerner and Chancy vanished in Neshoba county miss. Their whereabouts remained a mystery for 40 Days. After reportedly using information from the terrorized suspect who was an appliance dealer Fri agents found the bodies aug. 4 in an earthen dam not far from Philadelphia miss. Four months later Federal agents arrested 20 men among them the local sheriff a Deputy and Samuel Bowers jr., an Imperial wizard for the klan. In 1967, an All White jury convicted Bowers Deputy Cecil Price and five others of conspiracy to violate the civil rights of the three volunteers. The seven served prison terms ranging from three years to 10 years. The appliance dealer Wasny to charged. Many Philadelphia residents believed the Fri paid an informant As much As $30,000 to reveal the truth the daily news said. The Fri has never said where it got its information. The daily news sources said Hoover under pressure from president Johnson to crack the Case secretly and illegally recruited Scarpa to help out. Scarpa who died june 8, was a Captain in the Colombo crime family. He specialized in loan sharking and Airport hijackings the newspaper said. He saw himself As a Patriot and was a paid Fri informant who provided information about other organized crime figures the daily news said. At hoovers insistence Scarpa made a secret trip to Mississippi and kidnapped the appliance dealer who investigators considered a a weak links in the plan to kill the three volunteers the paper said Scarpa shoved the pistol into his Mouth and demanded that he talk it said. 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A Smitti Puri stirs inc. The world almanac of world War ii. Bison books corp., 1981 a by new Day Gaithersburg my. A a Federal panel on wednesday recommended approval of Home blood tests for the aids virus and of saliva based aids tests for use by paramedics. A decision now will be made by David Kessler commissioner of the food and drug administration who usually has followed the recommendations of his advisory panels. If he does so this time new tests for human immunodeficiency virus infection might be available within 12 months. During nearly 12 hours of hearings wednesday a procession of aids experts and activists backed the tests As a Way of expanding Access to testing for the poor and members of minority groups. But members of the panel citing con earns about confidentiality and counselling of people who tested positive for his said they thought Pilot studies of the tests should be done As part of the initial marketing. Unlike Home pregnancy tests the Home his test would require the user to Send a blood Sample to a lab and later Call for the results in particular there has been concern that some people might behave in dangerous ways after hearing through a phone Call that they were infected. Panel members also expressed concern that the Home test kits Likely to be priced at $30 to $40, would be too expensive for the poor. Former . Surgeon general c. Ever Cut Koop endorsed a test kit developed by direct diagnostics inc., a subsidiary of Johnson amp Johnson. The user would prick a Finger with a Small lancet and drip three blots of blood onto a special card which would be mailed to a lab. Each card is coded so the user can remain Anonymous. After two weeks the individual could calf a toll free number and get the results. The operator a who would be a trained Counselor a would offer his positive callers details about aids services in their area. There were virtually no reservations about the saliva based tests. Epitome co. Of Beaverton ore., has invented Ora sure a Lollipop stick device that extracts saliva for Laboratory testing. It is wrong 3 percent to 5 percent of the time and All positive findings would need to be confirmed with a blood test. Advocates say its simplicity would allow outreach workers to offer testing in places where people at High risk for his tend to congregate such As bars and Street Corners. How now howitzer Pete Poole the training noncommissioned officer at the army Reserve Center in St. Joseph mo., on wednesday helps unload a 155 my m114a2 howitzer that has been donated by the army to a local american legion Post for a display. Girls us Washington a family members or acquaintances were the attackers in More than 90 percent of rapes of girls younger than 12, according to a study released by the Justice department on wednesday surveying victims in three states in 1991, researchers found that 96 percent of those younger than 12 were attacked by family members friends or acquaint Anees. Surveying state prison inmates convicted of rape they found in the same year that 94 percent of their victims under 12 were related or known to them. The percentage of rapes by strangers increases As the age of the victims increases reflecting the More sheltered lives of younger females according to the departments Bureau of Justice statistics. Girls younger than 18 Are victims of More than half the rapes reported to police and girls younger than 12 were the victims in 16 percent the Bureau said. One in five rape victims younger than 12 is raped by her father. Based on Law enforcement interviews with victims in Alabama South Carolina and North Dakota strangers accounted for 33 percent of rapes. Based on interviews with state inmates around the nation strangers accounted for 47 percent of rapes of victims 18 or Puder. Both the statistics Bureau and private experts said the actual percentages of underage girls raped Are undoubtedly higher than these numbers gathered from police reports because the younger the rape victim the less Likely the crime is to be reported to police. The statistics Bureau using police reports from 11 states and the District of a Columbia said girls younger than 18 were the victims in 51 percent of rapes in 1992 even though girls of that age made up Only 25 percent of the . Female population. A people tend to think rape happens to adults a said professor Dean Kirkpatrick director of the crime victims research and treatment Center at the medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. A a Good thing about this study is that it will help educate people that rape happens to children and probably More often than to  the government warned that us calculation that girls under 12 accounted for 16 percent of rape victims a or a total of 17,000 of the 109,062 rapes reported to police in 1992 a a is a conservative estimate because it was derived from statistics on rapes reported to Law enforcement officials and did not include unreported  also the Bureau said the 11 states and District of Columbia a Awre probably not nationally representative but merely the Only states that kept rape data by age