European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 19, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday september 19, 1994 the stars and stripes r Page 5 key . Simpson los Angeles apr after More than two weeks of Peculiar grand jury witnesses news Media leaks about blood and hair and the judges vacation the . Simpson Case is getting Back to courtroom business. Although the trial does no to officially Start for another week the Case virtually resumes today with a critical hearing climaxing a series of events that by turns have been tragic bizarre dramatic and comical. Going to court for the first time knowing he does no to face death if convicted Simpson will wage his strongest fight yet against the charges and evidence against him. An All out Victory would set him free. Partial victories could hamper the prosecutions Case. Like previous hearings the session that begins today will be a Media event broadcast live to a National television audience with lawyers playing both to the judge and to potential jurors. The trials official Start with jury selection is sept. 26. But Legal analysts said the hearing that opens today should top what looks to be several weeks of tedious  jury questioning. And that will be followed by a grueling hearing to determine what evidence will be admissible. Quot things get rolling monday a said Stanley Goldman professor at Loyola University Law school. A a what gets rolling is far More interesting than anything that goes on in the next two  Simpson 47, has pleaded innocent in the june 12 slayings of former wite Nicole Brown Simpson 35, and her Friend Ronald Goldman 25. He remains jailed without bail. A Simpsons attorneys will argue today that the charges Shoula be dropped because much of the evidence used to bind Simpson Over for trial was either illegally obtained by police or shed Little Light on whether he committed the murders. If that argument does no to Fly a Legal analysts say it almost certainly wont a the defense will take aim at the evidence itself. Borders bust open in Ireland on the Irish Border apr with the kind of Teeth gritted exertion that built the pyramids 20 irishmen backpedal a Ana stumbled grunted and cursed dragged each monumental Block along the ground and pitched them one by one into a ditch. Shovel bearers filled the craters with dirt and debris and another Road had been opened across the heavily guarded Border Between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. For local catholics who want Ireland United and Britain out of the North this illegal exercise tests political Progress since the Ira declared an open ended truce two weeks ago. / Quot opening these roads is As significant to us As smashing the Wall was to the berliners a said Dominic Doherty. By Early Friday Businesslike British army engineers who Jong ago closed the Road to thwart the Ira had set new obstacles in the path. Quot does no to matter. This is about showing the brits whose country this is a said Gary Donnelly a 23-year-old construe Tion worker from Londonderry Northern Ireland a second largest City a few Miles East of cos Quin Roarty and be Namore roads. All have been forced open and re closed three times this. Month. A Quot we know  close them. They bring More blocks in with heavy machinery. We haul them away by hand. Its Good healthy work. Well be Back As often As it takes  get fed up before we do a Donnelly said smiling. In response to the diminished Ira threat British officials ordered 10 roads reopened Friday in county Fermanagh to the South but none around Londonderry for Security reasons. Local residents believe the roads will remain open whenever Britain accepts without reservation the iras open ended truce. The Only legally open Border roads Are monitored by the British army. The Royal Ulster constabulary Northern Ireland a mostly protestant police Force used to intervene in riot gear and under heavy British army guard to Young Republican and sinn fein supporters rip open the Security Fence around a British military base in West Belfast is troops turn water hoses on them saturday. Opening these roads is As significant to us As smashing the Wall was to the berliners a Dominic Doherty arrest Quot Border  Donnelly and two others were briefly arrested a week ago but in general the Ruc and the army Are staying away while roadblocks Are wrecked. Daily demonstrations outside British military bases and the reopening of Border roads Are designed to keep up Ira morale while drawing More conservative Irish nationalists repelled by Ira violence into their ranks. Most of those doing last weeks Border busting were hard Core sinn fein supporters from the Catholic West Side of Londonderry which virtually All catholics Call Derry its old Irish name. Quot this is our last Campaign a said Barney Mcfadden a sinn fein activist from Londonderry who at age 73 is As old As the province of Northern Ireland. Quot we be won the War. Now we be to win the  later Back at Peadar of Donnell a raucous pub in Derry the Border busters bought pints of Beer for Vincent Strunks a hefty local character who demanded a few drinks before singing a song he had composed Quot just like the Berlin Wali Wco ii bring the Border Down. A and the army nor the Ruc will a Ever put us Down a what they replace we will displace with All that we can Muster a for now me lads they be met their match in the Derry Border busters. A zairian troops extorting gravediggers As bodies rot Goma Zaire a in another frustrating turn of events hundreds of corpses Lay rotting sunday in Goma after bands of armed zairian soldiers began extorting Money from gravediggers. The Rome based Charity Caritas International was forced to halt its planned burials after the United nations could not protect the gravediggers from the menacing soldiers. A a this is disgusting but what can we do a said Albert Kuiper a Security adviser to the . High commissioner for refugees. The problem began thursday when groups of zairian soldiers went to a burial site near the Goma Airport and demanded that gravediggers share their income with them. The gravediggers who get $2-a Day plus free rations from the United nations sought . Protection. But the Agency could not help since it had no peacekeepers in Zaire. This summer . And French soldiers dug Graves with bulldozers. But with All americans gone and Only about 200 French troops remaining Graves Are now being dug by local workers. Quot what a problem a even the dead Are being forced to bribe a Kuiper said. Shuttle Crew flies through science work space Center Houston a discovery a six astronauts spent their extra Day in space studying the effects of shuttle exhaust while a $25 million laser showered Earth with flashes of Green Light. The Mission was supposed to end sunday after nine Days but the astronauts conserved enough Power for a 10th Day. That left More time for extra science work. Landing is set for 2 24 . Edt today. The Crew was awakened sunday with a Billy Joel tune Quot Good morning space shuttle discovery. Your orbiting environmental research Laboratory has now completed 137 revolutions of the Earth a Mission control told the Crew. Astronaut Carl Meade positioned discovery a 50-foot robot Arm and a 32-foot Extension in front of shuttle steering jets saturday for researchers studying the characteristics of exhaust plumes. Nasa wants to know How the plumes will affect solar panels and other structures in space before sending shuttle at lands to Dock with the russian Mir space station in May. A communications glitch similar to one that slowed the Experiment last week struck again saturday. But the astronauts As they had previously worked around the problem and fired the jets 18 times at instruments carried by the 82-foot-Long Boom. The shuttles primary cargo a $25 million laser machine had fired More than 1 million pulses As of saturday for a study of global climate. Researchers were Clat Edv especially those who had lost data because of a recorder that never worked during the flight. Plane toting targets downed off Taiwan Taipei Taiwan apr taiwanese Navy ship accidentally shot Down an air plane during an exercise killing the four people aboard the Navy said sunday. The twin engine Learjet 35 was being used to Tow Dummy targets saturday when it was hit. It plunged into the sea near Chipen Beach in to Waitung Southeastern Taiwan the Navy said. Quot some minor accidents arc inevitable in military exercises but we did not expect to see such a big one a said adm. Kun Chung Lien the Navy commander. Quot it is a bloody lesson for  the four victims were retired taiwanese air Force officers employed by the private Chinying company that leased the aircraft to the military the Navy said. Their bodies were recovered sunday morning