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Inside the News ^■■■■■IMBnii Opinion • Matt remembers break harassment State • Former auditor faces inquiry 4 Japanese flight attendants flying high Nation* Deputies suspended for beating man, woman 9 Page 2 Wednesday, April 3,1996 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 82, Issue 108 The News' BG Men's Briefs Chorus NL Scores sings on Cincinnati 4 Montreal 1 Letterman Pittsburgh 4 Gemil Pmlich Florida 1 The BC News Some members of the Univer- Colorado 5 sity's Men's Chorus had quite an Philadelphia 3 experience over spring break when they appeared on "The Late Show with David Letterman." AL Scores Shaun Moorman, president of New York 7 the men's chorus, said some members of the group were wait- Cleveland 1 ing in line to try to get tickets for the taping of the show when they Baltimore 4 starting singing to entertain the 2 audience waiting outside. Kansas City The chorus was In New York City for part of their annual Detroit 10 spring break tour, which tries to 6 recruit new members to the Uni- Minnesota versity, Moorman said "This helped to raise the tour to a new level," Moorman said. Jury convicts wom- "The morale of our group shot sky high after the appearance." an of six counts of Steve Kovach, senior member child abuse of the chorus, said the 35 seconds GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) of fame on the show was a The Freemen's religious beliefs may frustrate federal efforts to all over In attempts to solve the problem. - A Jury convicted a woman "blast." get them to leave their barricaded ranch. People have come from Tuesday of doing nothing to "There was a group of us sing- stop her boyfriend from ing in front of the theatre and one burning her young son with woman from Philadelphia saw us cigarettes and throwing and liked us," he said "When she Standoff continues with Freemen him into a door. Jurors In Westmoreland got into the show she told Dave County Court needed only that he should bring us on, which Group now leaning more toward racist Christian Identity beliefs 90 minutes to convict Gloria he said he might" Moorman said Letterman kept Highhawk of six counts of David Foster phone line to the ranch com- blacks are subhuman "mud Skurdal and Dale M. Jacobt, child abuse against her son joking that if the show got bor- The Associated Press pound, the Freemen are show- people." when the boy was 22 months both said to be spiritual leaders ing, he would have the "college ing signs of leaning more heav- This theology may be back- of the group. old. guys" on. Moorman said the Highhawk testified that JORDAN, Mont. - The ily on the racist Christian Iden- bone of the Freemen's efforts "Schweitzer seemed to be members waited and were about Freemen's religious beliefs, tity teachings that form the to set up their own government the clever operator," said ran- she would have intervened to give up on getting on the show if she had seen Jack Blgley even more than their anti- basis of their politics. and claim America for "true cher Kenneth Coulter, who hurt the boy at her house In when a producer came out to tell government political views, "It's very frightening," said citizens." lives four miles from the New Kensington on Nov. 14, them they were going to be on for may frustrate federal efforts Eric Ward, associate director Being cooped up on the ranch Freemen's ranch. "Skurdal Is 1992. Blgley was charged a short appearance. to get them to leave their bar- of the Northwest Coalition reinforces the Freemen's us- more or less their messiah and but died In 1994 before he About 21 members of the men's ricaded ranch. Against Malicious Harass- against-them world view, Ward preacher." could be tried. chorus appeared on the show and The Freemen's rejection of ment The Seattle-based human said The Freemens' only public Separately, Highhawk sang "Brothers Sing On" as well government and Its monetary rights group is well-known in "It's like a cult," Ward said. statement was a printed note has been charged with giv- as the men's chorus "tag" men- system ultimately led to the the region for keeping track of "These are people who have posted Monday at the ranch's ing another man a fatal dose tioning Bowling Green State of heroin. That man, Steven charges on which two of their neo-Nazis, white supremacists isolated themselves from the gate, asking TV camera crews University. leaders were arrested March and other fringe groups. rest of society. There's no to stay a half-mile away. It was Wilson of New Kensington, "This was the most incredible was a quadriplegic. 25, leading to the standoff at "They believe there's a moderating influence. They're signed "Rodney Owen," Skur- experience many of us had," the group's 960-acrc ranch. world conspiracy that has sin- feeding on one another's fears dal's first and middle names. Prosecutors ask that Moorman said. "It was great for Among other things, the two gled them out and that satanic and paranoia. That becomes an The use of first and middle the men's chorus and the Univer- smokers not be ex- were charged with bad check powers will be turned against explosive situation for those names appeared to extend to sity." schemes, and conspiring to them," Ward said. "It creates who have to deal with this Schweitzer, who demanded at cluded from lawsuit Kovach said the appearance on kidnap and murder a federal the idea of being crusaders or group." his arraignment last week to be NEW ORLEANS - Pros- Letterman had a "tremendous ef- judge involved in the foreclo- even martyrs for the cause." One of the men arrested by referred to as "LeRoy Mi- ecutors asked an appeals fect" on the tour. sure against the ranch. The Christian Identity federal agents was LeRoy chael." court Tuesday not to ex- "Many of the members of the But after a week of being movement holds that white Schweitzer, alleged to be be- And a woman who tried to clude millions of smokers men's chorus are here now due to confined to the snow-covered people from northern Europe hind the group's bad-check get the FBI to let her onto the from a landmark lawsuit, these tours, and through this ap- arguing that It would delay ranch, watched by federal are God's chosen, while Jews schemes. Those still at the compound Monday also follows agents who have a direct tele- are the offspring of Satan and compound included Rodney O. that naming practice. for years a decision on See CHOIR, page four. whether tobacco companies deliberately hid knowledge that nicotine Is addictive. But Kenneth Starr, an at- torney for the cigarette Agents face inquiry for'Good OP Boy Roundups' manufacturers, told the panel that smokers' cases Marty Gordon cist incidents and didn't try to should be tried separately The Associated Press FBI, ATF, IRS, Secret Service barred from racist behavior stop them or may have misused because different circum- racist conduct. dup' in 1996 or at any time in the policy that's going to have some government vehicles at the stances are Involved with WASHINGTON - Treasury Reviews by inspectors general future." constitutional issues attached to Roundups. The other 16 are be- each plaintiff. Secretary Robert Rubin referred at the Treasury and the Justice The new rules against racist it," Victor G. Oboyski, president lieved not to have witnessed the A class action suit Is 31 agents for further inquiry or departments found that 45 Jus- behavior immediately take effect of the Federal Law Enforcement acts but showed bad judgment by proper only If the findings possible discipline Tuesday for tice employees and 120 to 200 for all Treasury agents except Officers Association, said in a attending more than one Roun- apply equally to all plain- participating in "Good or Boy Treasury workers attended the for unionized employees in the telephone interview. He said dup, especially after 1989, he tiffs, he argued. Roundups" that included racist Roundups over the 16-year U.S. Customs Service, for whom agents "are going to be required said behavior. period. it will be an Issue In contract ne- to be politically correct" in their Of the IS employees referred At the same time, the Treasury The reviews found no evidence gotiations, the officials said The freetlme. for disciplinary inquiries, seven Department barred Its 19,500 law that the Treasury or Justice em- other Treasury agencies include Rubin's action affecting the 31 work for the ATF, one Is with the Quote of enforcement officers from at- ployees engaged in overtly racist the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Treasury agents is being taken Customs Service, one with the tending future Roundups and a- acts.