European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 07, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday september 7, 1995 at glance Citadel president Claudius Watts said tuesday that it does t matter whether another woman Nancy Mellette joins a lawsuit seeking to break into the school s All male. Corps of cadets because the courts should Rule by fall 1996 whether an alternative program is Constitution Al. See Story on Page 7. Missile defense plan the Senate set in motion wednes Day a plan to erect a National missile defense system. L Vav. " " " " pages Iraq s germ Arsenal Iraq has admitted that it concocted one of the most extensive arsenals of biological weapons in history the los Angeles time s reports. / page6. Justice urged White separatist Randy Weaver appealed wednesday to a congressional panel for accountability Ifor the killings of my wife and son Dur Ingi a 1992 standoff with Federal agents a o  Neo nazi extradited Denmark extradited american Neo nazi Gary Lauck to Germany on tuesday to face charges of distributing illegal racist propaganda. Page 13 . Ranks no. 1 the United states is the world s most competitive nation for the Sec Ond year running a Survey shows. Page 14 Index Abby Ann Landers .21 classifieds. 24-29 comics .21-23 commentary. 17 crossword. 22 faces n places. 20 Horoscope 25 Jumble. 25 letters 16 Money matters. 14 sports 29-36 to listings. 35 weather 15 More of trial Testi indy zeros in on Fuhrman s slurs los Angeles a As protesters outside the courthouse chanted Stop racist cops a screenwriting professor Testi fied in the . Simpson murder trial that retired detective Mark fun Hornan used a racial slur against Blacks As late As 1988. Laura Hart Mckinny contradicted Fuhrman s testimony that he had t used the word Nigger in the last decade were there times after 1985that he continued to use this word defense at Torney Johnnie Cochran or. Asked yes Mckinny answered. And How Long did it continue to be used Cochran asked. In the transcripts through 1988," she said. V./. The line of questioning came Over objections from prosecutor Christopher Darden who conducted a Brief but antagonistic Cross examination. The harsh tone was in Stark contrast to the gentle treat ment Darden gave other witnesses who testified tuesday that they heard Fuhr Man make racist comments. Mckinny told Darden she had instructed her lawyers to establish the value of the tapes. But she denied that the tapes were Hurricane from Page 1 for Sale or that she had talked to the Televik. Sion show inside edition. Asked Why she needed to know the Market value of the tapes if they weren t for Sale she answered / it s important to know what the value of the tapes Are and i authorized my attorneys to to  Darden asked Mckinny Why she. Did t ask Fuhrman to Stop using racial epithets. For the same reason i did t Tell him to Stop when he told me of police proce dures cover  other information that i Felt were important for me to have a Clear understanding and context of this material that i was writing she said. The defense has made Fuhrman bashing the Centrepiece of its strategy alleging that the detective is a racist who May have tried to Frame Simpson for the june 12, 1994, slayings of his second sex wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her Friend Ronald Goldman. The protesters outside cheered As Coch ran and fellow defense attorney Robert Shapiro arrived at the courthouse wednes Day. Cochran was handed roses. Demonstrators said they wanted to show their Dis Content Over the Fuhrman tapes and the los Angeles police department. The March came a Day after the Black majority Simpson jury heard Fuhrman say the word Nigger on tape. When the defense played the single court approved snippet from the tapes that disrupted the trial and rocked the City jurors took no notes. They hardly blinked. There had been so much of Fuhrman s racist venom spewed throughout the Day in testimony from three women who encountered the detective Over the last dec Ade that the Long awaited much de bated excerpt seems anti climactic. On tuesday a los Angeles City coun Cilman apologized in a newspaper and for racist comments made by Fuhrman. Councilman Joel Wachs said he hoped the half Page and in the los Angeles times would help heal wounds caused by Fuhr Man s remarks. This City owes you an apology Wachs said in the $10,000 Adad dressed to the people of los  the Mark Fuhrman tapes have Dis graced us All. Good and bad alike we have All been scarred by his bigotry violence and racism said the and. Iranie sett off or icicle a blast fall a meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center in Miami. Hardest hit by Luis were Antigua and its sister Island Barbuda. The storm devastated the islands tuesday prime minister Lester Bird said according to puerto rican gov. Pedro Rosello who spoke to him by phone. Two hotels were washed away a night club was flattened and hundreds of Homes were damaged he said without specifying the names of the hotels. The Hospital was destroyed and Bird appealed to Rossello for a Mobile medical unit. Looters wednesday ran through the capital of Antigua their hands full of jew Elry and compact discs. Soldiers prevented reporters from reaching heritage Quay a tourist shopping area where the looters appeared to be coming from. The army tried to Seal off the downtown area. In puerto Rico an Island of 3.5 million people frightened residents spoke of the legendary Wrath of the Taino Indian god Juracan from which the English word Hurricane is derived. About 200 evacuees spent the night at schools and refugee centers. "  we Learned from Hugo Figueroa said. Eastern puerto Rico was the hardest hit in 1989, when Hurricane Hugo devastated the Island. In the . Virgin islands where100,000 people live gov. Roy l. Schnei Der declared a state of emergency and irn a posed a dusk to Dawn curfew to prevent looting. Airports were closed. A three deaths have been blamed on the powerful storm a French tourist was swept away from a jetty in Guadeloupe where he was photographing the wild sea an elderly Man in puerto Rico fell off a roof while trying to take Down a to Antenna and another puerto Rico Man was electrocuted. Meanwhile with Hurricane Luis posing less of a threat to the United states Nasa proceeded wednesday toward to Day s launch of space shuttle endeavour on a science Mission that already is More than a month late. Mission managers decided wednesday morning that there was no need to move endeavour from its launch pad Back into the hangar because of Luis expected path away from the . Mainland. Equated teat Sharti ,000 Tow d int 8 Hiroshima was Quai to about i of qty Tor of int a Lagoon anger from Page 1 \ tahitian capital of Papeete and protes ters in other countries burned. French flags marched and chained themselves to fences.  " if it is Safe Why Don t they set it off in their own Back Yard said Chris Gatey among about 150 protesters outside the French consulate in Sydney Australia. In Paris Greenpeace and leftist Politi Cal parties called for an evening rally while the front Page of leftist newspaper liberation showed a melting likeness of president Jacques Chirac. The French president argues that the tests Are needed to update France s nuclear Arsenal and develop simulation technology that would Render test blasts obsolete. He promises to sign a test ban treaty next year. But reaction to the first of As Many As eight tests was Swift. Countries that registered their opposition included the United states Russia Japan Australia. Greece new zealand Spain Denmark Ireland the Netherlands Belgium Sweden nor Way Finland Iceland South Korea the Philippines Indonesia Ecuador and the 15-nation South Pacific forum. This is not the action of a Good International citizen. It is not the action of a Good neighbor australian foreign minister Gareth Evans said. New zealand prime minister Jim bo1g or said he was recalling his ambassador from Paris for consultations As a Mark of new zealand s  the United states said it regretted the French test. We continue to urge All of the nuclear Powers including France to refrain from further nuclear tests and to join in a global moratorium As we work to Complete and sign a comprehensive test ban treaty in t996," a White House statement said. Anti nuclear activists in Tahiti about 750 Miles Northwest of muru Roa deplored the test and French police remained on standby in Case of possible Street protests. Russia which along with the United states and Britain no longer conducts tests said the muru Roa blast is counterproductive since it undermines the integrity of nuclear Powers observing the moratorium for nuclear  Germany reacted cautiously to the tests by its top partner in Europe. But about a dozen German protesters chained them selves across a Highway near Saa Brucken halting traffic for several hours. The British government which maintains a nuclear Arsenal but plans no fur ther testing remained Low key. The for eign. Office called French testing a matter for them and for them to justify. We understand the concern the decision has caused in a number of  though it was not a part of the three year moratorium China has said it will abide by a comprehensive test ban negotiators Are trying to Complete by 1996