European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 23, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday november 23, 1994 the stars and stripes Page 5 Fence As ploy blasts America by Nadia Abou Al Magd the associated press Cairo Egypt every night a Model of the statue of Liberty explodes in a downtown theater in a fit Ting Climax to the play mama Amrita. The explosive ending always draws cheers which says much about attitudes among the audience of egyptians and other arabs. The play is Only one of several work gaining popularity by aiming barbs at America. Mohammed Sobhi director and Star said the scene is meant to depict the falseness of the Symbol of Liberty which does not exist outside the Borders of the United states unless there is Oil or  three recent movies the land of dreams Abracadabra America and visit of or. President criticize . Policies and chide egyptians for want ing to emigrate to the United states. This does t mean All egyptians Are anti Ameri can. There is a fascination with things american from jeans and to shirts to Mcdonald s restaurants. But in Egypt a Strong . Ally and one of the to recipients of . Foreign Aid Many people see the United states and its cohort Israel As trying to Domi Nate the Middle East at the expense of the arabs. In mama Amrita a dark comedy heavy with symbolism the hero represents Egypt. He and his Broth ers other Arab nations Are in a struggle with a Rich businesswoman America and her Cousin Israel who Are out to usurp the Brothers inheritance. In the end the hero s mind is taken Over by myst not a terrorist yes i m egyptian pm Arab but i m not a terrorist. Hove America t love peace \ character in egyptian play rious injections after he marries America. He goes Tosee the statue of Liberty Symbol of Freedom but it explodes in front of him. He is arrested by a policeman who declares if you Are egyptian and Arab you must be a  i am not a terrorist the hero protests. Yes i egyptian i m Arab but i m not a terrorist. I love America. I love  his screams go in vain and he is led away. Sobhi said it s not Only egyptians who applaud the play s cynical View of America. Half the spectators Are persian Gulf arabs who find that the play expresses what they cannot say and Don t hear Back in their Home countries he said. .-,/.-. ./.-. Madiha Elsafty a sociologist at the american University in Cairo sees the Success of anti Ameri can works As part of a trend of resentment toward the United states. She noted that Many people Are bitter that the United states while claiming to Champion human rights has done Little to Stop oppression of palestini ans and bosnian muslims. Mustafa Al said a Cairo University political scientist said egyptians also feel Washington did not de liver promised Prosperity after the 1979 Egv Tian israeli peace treaty. Egypt gets $2.1 billion in annual . Aid the mystery injections of mama Amrita but an anticipated Rush of Western investment never materialized there is definitely a feeling of disappointment experienced by the majority of egyptian people As to what they expected the . Could do Al said said. The movie visit of or. President also reflects bitter View of american Aid. It comes from a novel by leftist writer Youssef Al qaid about then president Nixon s visit to Egypt in 1974. In the film an entire Village goes wild when the Rumor spreads that Nixon will visit and bring . Assistance. Peasants abandon their traditional gala Bias and Wear jeans and to shirts and soon people Are fighting Over who will get the american Aid. Nixon never comes and Al qaid said his novel was meant to warn egyptians against the destructive american dream and urge them to reject  Kkt chief joins Case on altering state s Flag by Cox news service Atlanta a Black Man suing Testate to strike the Confederate Battle Emblem from Georgia s Flag has called on the Kun flux klan to help the cause. David Holland director of the South Ern White knights of the Kun flux klan testified monday in Federal court that his group uses the Battle Emblem As a Symbol to promote segregation White supremacy and states  Holland was a Surprise witness called by James Andrew Coleman who is seek ing a  from . District judge Orinda Evans to lower the Fla until a jury hears his Case. The suit cleared an important hurdle when Evans denied a motion to dismiss the Case. After hearing three hours of testimony from four witnesses she recessed the hearing until a later Day. Coleman an unemployed Atlanta Man who ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 1993, said in his Federal suit that the general Assembly changed the Flag in 1956 As an act of Defiance against the . Supreme court s desegregation rulings. He said it places me in fear. It gives me a fear of  much of the hearing resembled a history lesson on the Georgia Flag and on the Gen eral Assembly during the 1950s, when it passed Jim Crow legislation and tried to funnel Public Money to Whites Only private schools. James Mackay a former de Kalb county legislator who voted against Chang ing the Flag at the time said placing the Confederate Emblem on the Flag was part of a movement across the South. As Symbol of resistance to the Law of this  but de Jackson of the University of Georgia s Carl Vinson Institute of govern ment said he could find no direct Evi Dence that the Battle Emblem was a part of the South s resistance to integration. Jack son was called by assistant state attorney. General Ray Lerer As an expert on the Georgia Flag. In this file photo Jacqueline Kennedy leans Over a wounded president Kennedy while an unidentified secret service agent stands Ona bumper of the presidential motorcade car after the Dallas shooting 31 years ago. Police had warning of Juk plot Miami files confirm tip off came Days before assassination by the associated press at least a week before John f. Kennedy was assassinated the secret service was told of a plot to shoot the president from an office building with a Rifle files released by the Miami police depart ment confirm. The right Wing organizer who revealed the alleged plot also told a police informant the Day after the nov. 22, 1963, assassination that Lee Harvey Oswald would never talk about it. The next Day Oswald was shot and killed by Jack Ruby in the basement of the Dallas police department. The Miami police files confirm and add to an account by a retired police intelligence officer it. Everett Kay who said three years ago that he had Learned of an assassination plot from informant William Somersett. The Fri and secret service would not comment at the time. A newly released nov. 15, 1963, memo from Miami detective so. Hebert shows the secret service was aware of the alleged plot before the assassination. Agent Jamison of the secret service called to state that he had been requested to Contact a William Somersett with reference to information Given to the Fri by Somersett and relayed to the secret service the memo says. Three Days later Kennedy visited Miami where his motorcade was can celeb. He then flew to Texas and to his death when he was shot in Dallas. Authorities accused Oswald of firing a High powered Rifle from the Texas Book depository. Secret service spokesman Jaime Cagigas in Washington said Mon Day that he would Check on the Miami re port but was not familiar with the Case. But if we hear that someone is going to go up on a building and take a shot at the president he said i guarantee we would Check it  Somersett who reported on the activities of White supremacy groups secretly taped a conversation with Joseph Mil Teer a wealthy member of the White citizens Council in Georgia. During a meeting in Miami on nov. 5, 1963, Milteer said Kennedy is a marked Man according to the police transcript. Kay had played the tape for the associated press three years ago. When Somersett asked How an assassination would be done the transcript said Milteer replied from an office building. With a High powered  he explained that it would be easy to take a gun in pieces into an office building and he dismissed Somersett s concern that an assassination would cause a juror. Hell they la pick up somebody within hours after if anything like that would happen. Just to throw the Public off Milteer said on the tape. Although Kay said he rushed the tape to the Fri the information was never revealed in the Warren commission s re port on the assassination. There is no indication Milteer was interrogated until five Days after the assassination. He pro fessed no knowledge of the plot the Miami police files said. Neither Milteer nor Somersett was Ever called by the Warren commission. Both Are now dead. Federal authorities and congressional investigators reviewed the tape in the 1960s and 1970s, but never reported finding any link with the Kennedy assassination