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~ee~ wH get &Q()Q "Iowa's alternative erybody on OUr ht reaching the newspaper " tn~e . "If we play ~~e of plaYing 11,!1 I ~ent begins Thur. laturday. Vol. 108, No. 1 Monday, June 2, 1975 Iowa City, Iowa 52242 10' :er lament nthe Region IV Id, Minn., this New Wounded Knee trial opens Terry Lannmers By KIM ROGAL The purpose of the Friday hearings, according The prosecution denied all charges of govern· today. Iwks in singles. Associate News Editor to Schreiberg, was to prove to Judge McManus ment misconduct. and the "dismissal hearing" Both sides claim that this will not be an or (aulz and Amy that the government should drop its case In the end resulted in Judge McManus's ruling dinary case - both claim that external altogether against the three Indian defendants. that the trial should go ahead, with jury selection "political" factors have unalterably biased the )Iay by finishing The Cedar Rapids trial of leaders of the In the hearings. the defense hoped to establish scheduled to begin today. McManus said he evidence, ational May 2-4. American Indian Movement (AIM) begins a "selective prosecution" on the part of the would reserve the right to rule later on the No court case is predictable at the outset. but that meet and today, with Friday's pre-trial hearings in· government, in singling out AIM leaders for motion to dismisss the case. the arguments in this one will undoubtedly follow trial. dicating a strange reversal of conventional cour The 1974 leadership trial of AIM leaders Den· the trend set in the pre-trial hearing. The govern troom roles. The prosecution admits to being on "The theory of the pre-trial." Schreiberg said, ment will be attacked for crimes both ancient "was to establish a reasonable doubt as to the nis Banks and Russell Means did result in a the defensive. while defense attorneys are con decision by U.S. District Judge Fred Nichol to and modem - from the white man's first en tinuing a strategy proyeri successful in recent prosecutor's purpose." croachments on IndIan soil, to the FBI's recent The defense attorneys hoped to show a history dismiss all charges -{)n the grounds of govern· Wounded Knee trials -of placing the U, Sogover ment misconduct . use 0{ paid provocateurs and infonnants, And ~A. nment on trial. of repeated "discrimination" and "political Chief Prosecutor Hurd backed against a wall. Chief prosecutor Richard D. Hurd. asst. U.S. harassment" directed by government agents The Cedar Rapids judge has agreed to hear the will continue to point at the defendants and rZER Attorney for South Dakota, claimed at the specifically against members of AIM . prosecution's case, but the issue of government repeat the four words he used most frequently In Friday hearings that "it may be impossible for The defense argued that the criminal charges misconduct in the Banks and Means trial has the pre-trial hearings : "Was a crime commit the United States to receive a fair trial" because against Carter Camp. Stanley Holder, and already set the tone for the case that will begin ted?" of the "political" nature of the Wounded Knee Leonard Crow Dog. all AIM members, fits into 49 this pattern of alleged "political harassment" by trials. In a final impassioned statement to U.S. the government dating back to the original 1973 takeover on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Analysis Dakota. • Racist showers at YMCA? At that time a group of Indians, both residents District Judge Edward McManus. Hurd com of the Pine Ridge Reservation' and non-resident By KIM ROGAL groups would request the same takeover, said the YMCA Assocla te News Editor plained bitterly that "it's so tough to get convic· AIM members, seized and occupied a number of thing. We didn't want to Board's pollcy decision was tions against these Indian leaders." stores and a church in the town of Wounded Knee establish a precedent tha t we based on "racial and religious CEDAR RAPIDS - The Defense attorneys agreed with the prosecutor -the historic site 0{ an Indian massacre in 18lIO. couldn't live with later," Casali discrimination." that the government. not the defendants, are After a 71 day occupation , the Indians Cedar Rapids YMCA said. "I don't care about their being tried. relinqueshed the buildings, but since that time "discriminates against POol" showers - I'm not looking for people" according to Fran "If any of them have mem Chief defense attorney Kenneth Tilsen. after Pine Ridge has been beset by repeated violence, berships at other Y's they can an issue," said Holder , "We've resulting in the arrests of AIM and government Schreiberg, a defense attorney got a nice river to wash in right the hearings, summed up his strategy for the in the Wounded Knee trial. use the facilities under a coming trial. saying. "we intend to keep at· sympathizers alike. The Cedar Rapids trial is a near the camp. But those Schreiberg's charge is based reciprocal agreement. tacking, to reveal Hurd 's and the U.S. govern· "Ieadership trial." focusing on only three of thc Otherwise they have to pay the showers don't belong to the many participants in the events surrounding on the fact that a group of YMCA anyway. They stole that ment's arrogant racist attitudes." American Indians, camped daily rate." The defense has every reason to be optimistic Wounded Knee - and charging those defendents water and the land that the with specific crimes, outside of Cedar Rapids for the Stan Holder, an AIM leader YMCA building is built on from -and aggressive. trial, has requested and been According to Fran Schreiberg, a defense attor Aside from the general question of "selective and one of thoee on trial for the Indians. The YMCA is just a DRY ney , government prosecutors in general "get prosecution" the defense also introduced a bat· denied permission by the Cedar aUeged crimes in connection pack of thieves, making a prom Rapids YMCA to take free Photo by Kim Rogal convictions about 75 per cent of the tinne when tery of specific evidence by which they attemp with the Wounded Knee on their stolen water," )AP ted to prove that the government used false and showers at their downtown they have indictments. But in the Wounded Knee facilities. • cases they've had some 650 arrests, about 162 in· perjured testimony jn past trials, willfully e On trial today violated court orders. illegally used electronic About thirty Indians, mostly Can't make it to Riviera? ~ g , dictments - but their success rate has been only members or supporters of the about 7.7 per cent. They've lost 92.73 per cent of surveillance. concealed the existence of paid in· 17S. Limit 3, "eonard Crow Dog, a defenden! in the latest Wounded Knee formers within the defense committee, and American Indian Movement these cases." (AIM), are living in tents at the Trial. offers an I ndian prayer to his followers at the Seminole "That must say something about the govern covered up the role of the military during the SlUl shines in River City! Vallpy ca mpsltp outsidp of rr!lar Rapids. ment's case," said Schreiberg. Wounded Knee occupation. Seminole VaUey campsite near Cedar Rapids. According to Severt By ROB FULK except Sunday, which is a day of Youngbear, a defense witness, and MARY SCHNACK rest. anyway. And if you're a ON'S • "the YMCA Board of Directors Staff Writers real tuna about swimming and met and voted unanimously not Some people just can 't make hate thrashing your way OIl; through a solid mass of squir 'Hot time; summer In the city' to a pprove our request." it through the summer without Schreiberg said "the OIten at least one smashing game of ming youth. tru:re are adult lap 13 Ry RJlOJIIOA DICKEY' academic year. Generally, the ministration chooses courses to the Taft Foundation. over the summer. They never sible reason given us was that polo. This could be the reason swim periods at the City Rt!C Center, II a.m.-) p.m. and 1 l\I ,\RTHA HA NSON departments r'otate summer offer during the summer on the Tuition for the summer have been." the Indians were not members that UI enrollment is so low this i, and time of year. "Yes, but what is 9-9 :40 p.m. Monday through limit 1. assignments. basis of student demand in the session is being assessed dif· Maggie Van Oel, who Is in of the YMCA, That'. their ex· BARB NORGREN Professors are not required to past. However, he said faculty ferently this year. Fonnerly, cuse for being racist. In one of there to do her in summer?" Friday. 25 cents admission , charge of donns on the east Season tickcts are also accept summer appoinbnents, members sometimes initiate students paid a set fee for a full campus, describes summer the anti-poverty demon ask our highbrow friends as but Barnes said, "This is a loyal experimental classes during the academic load (5-8 hours) or for they slide annually out the door, available at the City Rec Cen· From September to May, school as being "meUower" strations in Washington there ter for the fanatics among us . over 20,000 students populate faculty." Some faculty mem summer. a partial load (0-4 hours), This were demonstrations over headed for Oberammergau, than the regular academic year Katmandu and Teaneck. $10 for an individual . $17.50 for a the UI campus. For many of bers teach and help with doc· The university al$o offers 57 year students wlU pay by the because the students are older.