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Metzger Trial
Gets Under Way
Los Angeles (JTA) — The
trial of white supremacist
Tom Metzger got under way
in Los Angeles County
Superior Court last week,
after a full week of jury
selection and almost eight
years after he and three
other defendants joined in
a cross-burning ceremony,
allegedly to provoke a
violent clash and intimidate
blacks in a racially mixed
community.
Although the charges
against Mr. Metzger consist
only of one felony and two
misdemeanor counts of
violating the municipal fire
code, unlawful burning and
unlawful assembly, the trial
of the former Ku Klux Klan
grand dragon and current
leader of the White Aryan
Resistance movement, is re-
ceiving widespread media
coverage.
One reason for the trial's
importance was cited by
Special Prosecutor John
Phillips, whose insistence
that white supremacist ac-
tivities should no longer be
tolerated has kept the case
alive since 1983.
The case has taken an
unusually long time to come
to trial, in part because the
charges were dismissed by
one court and then
reinstated on appeal.
Originally, 15 men were
arrested for participating in
the burning of three 15-foot-
high crosses, but charges
against several were
dropped after their convic-
tion of murder and other se-
rious crimes as part of a na-
tional wave of white racist
violence.
The cross-burning took
place in a canyon overlook-
ing the community of Lake
View Terrace, in the
foothills of the San Fernando
Valley, adjoining Los
Angeles. Otherwise a little-
known town, Lake View
Terrace has also been in the
news as the site of the
videotaped beating by white
policemen of black motorist
Rodney King.
As it happened, the cross-
burning was also
videotaped, in this case by a
free-lance journalist who
had infiltrated the Aryan
warriors. The tape, to be in-
troduced into evidence later
in the trial, shows robed par-
ticipants raising their arms
in Nazi salutes.
Jury selection was a
dragged-out process, as
scores of prospective jurors
were eliminated because of
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KKK.
Attorneys traded charges
of trying to racially tilt the
makeup of the jury, with the
defense accusing the pros-
ecution of arbitrarily remov-
ing whites, while pros-
ecutors charged that the
defendants were attempting
to keep minorities off the
panel.
Final selection yielded a
jury of six white women and
six men and women of
various minority groups.
One uninvited participant
in the proceedings was Iry
Rubin, head of the Jewish
Defense League, who got
into a shouting match with
one of the defendants outside
the courtroom.
Just before the start of the
trial on Aug. 7, Judge J.D.
Smith was asked to in-
vestigate an accusation that
Rubin had tampered with
jury members. A prospective
juror told the court that he
observed Mr. Rubin, in a
courthouse elevator, talking
to a juror about the criminal
record of one of the defen-
dants.
The juror was called into
Judge Smith's chambers,
but was allowed to stay on
the panel after stating that
he was not influenced by
Rubin's statements.
Stir Caused
On El Al Flight
Tel Aviv (JTA) — An El Al
flight from Berlin to Tel
Aviv took an unusual turn
last week, when a 30-year-
old• Argentine passenger
suddenly tore off her dress
and began running wildly up
and down the aisle, shriek-
ing, "Bring me Shamir. I
want Shamir."
Cabin attendants who
tried to calm her said she bit
several of them before being
overpowered.
The pilot radioed ahead,
and police were at the air-
craft steps to escort Julia
Lilian away for interroga-
tion. Eyewitnesses said she
"jumped and danced her way
merrily" to the Ben-Gurion
Airport police post.
Passengers described the
woman as "clearly drunk,"
after having finished a large
bottle of whiskey during the
flight. But the police releas-
ed her on her own bond, re-
portedly finding no evidence
that she was inebriated.
The woman's only baggage
was a plastic bag she carried
containing $30,000.
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