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FRIDAY. APRIL 22, 1983 PAGE 2A Space mission aborted Nine indicted in anti-Klan demonstration Charged with conspiring to disrupt 1979 rally The indictments were returned sealed on Thursday morning and were unsealed after arrests in the afternoon. The grand jury was dismissed after returning its indictments. It had considered the case since March 22, 1982. The grand jury said that some Klan members traveled to the march in a van which contained a five-foot-long chain, billy clubs, sticks, knives and a pick handle.

It said other defendants brought to the march a automatic pistol, a pistol, two rifles, a .32 -caliber pistol, a .357 -caliber pistol, an AR-180 rifle, a loaded shotgun, seven dozen eggs and tear-gas. 1 I Ill II 1111111 Glenn gestures Thursday during presidential candidacy speech made in gymnasium of John Glenn High School John Glenn announces candidacy for president WINSTON-SALEM. N.C.(AP) A federal grand jury indicted six present and former Ku Klux Klansmen and three American Nazi Party members Thursday on charges of conspiring to disrupt a 1979 anti-Klan demonstration in Greensboro. N.C.. where five Communist Workers Party members were shot to death.

Another former Klansman was charged on March 24 with participating in the conspiracy, and pleaded guilty. Five of those indicted Thursday had been acquitted of murder and rioting charges in state court in 1980. In Washington, William Bradford Reynolds, head of the civil rights division of the Justice Department, said the nine new defendants were named in a 14-count indictment. Four were charged with interfer ing with federally protected rights resulting in death, which carries a top penalty of life in prison. Among those indicted was Virgil L.

Griffin. 38, of Mount Holly. N.C.. who was grand dragon, or chief, of the North Carolina chapter of the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and who also headed the inner circle of the Klan. He was charged in two conspiracy counts.

Atl nine defendants were charged with conspiring to interfere with federally protected rights of the Communist Workers Party demonstrators to participate in a parade authorized by the city of Greensboro on Nov. 3, 1979. Gunfire erupted when a nine-car Klan-Nazi caravan passed the marchers, and five people were killed and six marchers and a television cameraman were injured. The indictment named David W. Matthews, Roland W.

Wood, Jerry P. Smith and Jack W. Fowler Jr. as firing shots that resulted in the deaths of demonstrators James Waller, Cesar Cauce, Michael Nathan, Sandra Smith and William Sampson. MOSCOW (APi A Soviet spaceship carrying three cosmonauts was unable to dock with the orbiting SaIyut-7 space station and their mission canceled on the second day in space, the official news agency Tass early Friday.

A report from the mission control center outside Moscow said the cosmonauts in the Soyuz T-8 spaceship "started preparations for landing 'J after the link-up maneuver failed. Tass said the mission was canceled because the Soyuz deviated from its correct approach course to the Salyut 7. A source at the North American Aerospace Defense Command in Colorado Springs. had said earlier that the Soyuz T-8 rendezvoused in orbit with the space station Thursday, but failed to dock. Slightly off course Radar showed at about 4 pm.

CST that the Soyuz was only about one kilometer or 0 62 of a mile from the Salyut 7. The source at NORAD. who asked not to be named because he is not an official source of information, said the two craft were "in virtually the same orbit According to calculations by engineers at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, the Soviets could have rendezvoused at about 9 20 a m. EST Thursday. The docking had been expected by experts to follow quicklv.

allowing the cosmonauts to move aboard the large Salyut. Something obviously awry However, as the day wore on. it became obvious that the mission was not proceeding as expected. At 9 30 am. the calculated dis tance apart was more than 60 kilo meters, or about 37 2 miles.

Later, the craft moved to within a few hundred yards but did not link up. the source said. Del Kindschi. an official spokes man for NORAD. said the orbits of the two craft were very close.

The Salvut's orbit was 300 kilometers bv 287 kilometers and the Sovuz's orbit was 300 by 286. "Don't see anything abnormal" "We don't see anything abnormal about the orbit." said Kindschi. NORAD uses powerful radar to keep track of all manmade orbiting objects. Earlier, a British observer had reported that the spacecraft were much farther apart. Geoffrey Perry of the Kettering Satellite Monitoring Group in Eng land said the space station was about 50 miles ahead of the manned Soyuz at 3:43 p.m.

EST. He said the craft were visible to the naked eve. The Kettering group had calcu luted that the docking would take place six hours earlier, at about 9:43 a in. EST, but both the sighting and the NORAD radar confirmed that the link up had not occurred. There was speculation that the Soyuz crew was having trouble be cause of the size and complexity of their 40-ton target.

the future. "Those values are truly the heart of the American experiment and they must be the soul of our government as well." He said the administration of President Reagan "likes to talk about those values. Unfortunately, its deeds have fallen far short of its words." He criticized the administration for pursuing policies that "aren't expanding opportunity, they're diminishing it. They aren't promoting excellence, they're discouraging it. They aren't fostering compassion, they're reducing it." Evans gets temporary stay of execution Chinese kill Viet troops PEKING (NYT) China announced Thursday that its frontier guards killed 16 Vietnamese soldiers in clashes Wednesday along the border of Yunnan province.

According to the New China News Agency, five Vietnamese soldiers were killed and a sixth wounded when they took advantage of a rainy mist to cross the frontier late Wednesday afternoon to Jinping County and ran into patrolling frontier guards outside a local village. That evening, shortly after 9 p.m., other Vietnamese soldiers tried to rush the company guard post, but withdrew after the Chinese opened fire with machine guns and rifles, leaving 11 Vietnamese dead, the news agency reported. Substantial skirmish It was the first substantial ground skirmish reported from the tense border, where Chinese frontier guards began shelling Vietnamese positions last Saturday and Sunday, ostensibly in reprisal for "armed provocations" by the Vietnamese. Evans was fed his last meal of steak, shrimp, french fries, rolls and chocolate cake about 4:30 p.m. The inmate's meal request except a six-pack of beer was honored, said Prison Commissioner Fred Smith.

Alcohol is not allowed at a state prison facility, he said. Evans was given beer four years ago when he came within six hours of electrocution. "I was not commissioner then." said Smith. "Today I am commissioner and he (Evans) will abide by the rules of this institution." Warden paid for food Prison warden J.D. White, the man who was to pull the switch to end Evans' life shortly after midnight, bought Evans' steak and shrimp "out of his own pocket" because the foods were not available in the prison mess hall.

Smith said. Father Kevin Duignan. a local Catholic priest who has counseled Evans for four years, performed "typical last rites of the Catholic church" in anticipation of the electrocution. A private ceremony "about midnight" had been planned planned by Evans family and friends, the priest said. Groups opposing the death penalty began a prayer vigil near the entrance to the state's maximum security prison about 8 p.m.

They were not celebrating Thursday's stay of execution, and their mood was not optimistic. They continued their vigil, singing religious songs. Evans was "strong" and "resigned to whatever happens." said Duignan. Ms. Johnston, Duignan and Joe Ingle, a minister and director of Southern Coalition on Jails and Prisons, spoke with reporters about their meeting with Evans.

Members of the inmate's family chose to avoid the media and declined to make statements. Evans related to prison officials Wednesday night through a chaplain that "he had resigned himself to the execution and he has personally given up hope," state Prison Commissioner Fred Smith said. Grand jury asks election monitors gained a moment in the limelight 21 years ago when Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth. Hometown proud At the entrance to the town is a sign reading. "New Concord.

Home Of Muskingum College And John H. Glenn The First American To Orbit The Earth." Recalling his youth in New Concord. Glenn said, "All Americans share these simple values we learned in this small town the values of excellence, honesty, fairness, compassion for those who have less, and confidence in facing Ouster of forced by (continued from page 1A) from Allen Saturday night in which Allen demanded an evaluation of Gadsden State Junior College Presi dent Arthur Dennis. launched into this tirade about Dennis again." Gundy said. "This had been a kind of compulsive thing on his part.

My response to him was it was an inappropriate discussion. I would provide the board with my evaluation on Dr. Dennis when I had agreed to and that the discussion would take pace in the proper environment." Allen demanded a decision that night, said Gundy, who is to provide the board with evaluations of presidents in May and June. Allen believes Dennis is ineffectual with the faculty, a poor administrator and not liked in the community. Gundy said.

"It's been going on since I took office," Gundy said. Other sources said Allen was also involved in a plan to form community colleges in Huntsville and An-niston. The sources said Allen also hoped to have a friend, Tommy Boothe. named president of Gadsden State and for Allen to then be named dean. Isabelle Thomasson of Montgomery said she knew nothing of that plan, but that Allen approached her and told her he had "five votes" for Gundy's ouster.

"I might have been the sixth vote because of (disagreements with Gundy's) staff," she said, when asked if she was one of the five. But she said she was not among the five. "Jim Allen mentioned to me that he had heard I was a little unhappy with the situation in the chancellor's office and that they had five votes to recommend that he be replaced," she said. She added that all she knew of Allen's plan was that "Jim was going to discuss whether the group would talk to Gundy about his possible resignation." Wild things' When told of desires by two state board members to form two new community colleges by combining junior college branches and techni cal colleges, she said, "I've never heard of such a wild thing in my life." "I have been a strong supporter of Dr. Gundy, she said: "If there was any of this mess going on.

I would never have told Jim I'd vote with him." According to sources who either work in the post-secondary system or with it, Allen wanted to fire Arthur Dennis, president of Gadsden State, and replace him with Tommy Boothe, who is currently president of Brewer State Junior College in Fayette. NEW CONCORD. Ohio (AP) -Calling for renewed dedication to "the simple values we learned in this small town." Sen. John H. Glenn returned home Thursday to declare his candidacy for president of the United States.

For the 61-year-old former astronaut, whose flight into Earth orbit made him a national hero two decades ago. the declaration was a bid for yet another American dream. "Issue is leadership" "The issue is leadership." Glenn said in a speech in the John Glenn High School auditorium in this town of 1.800 midway between Columbus. Ohio, and Wheeling. W.Va.

An opponent of the MX missile and a recent convert to support of the SALT II arms control treaty signed during the Carter administration, Glenn said, "The first duty of gov-emmment is to keep our people alive, independent and free. "Yes, I'll stand up for the military and I'll also stand up to the military when that is what our national interest demands." Glenn also called for deferring the 10 percent cut in income tax rates scheduled to go into effect July 1 and for repeal of the law that would index tax rates to adjust for inflation. He said those measures would save $225 billion over the next four years. Glenn was greeted outside the high school by the John Glenn High School band dressed in maroon and white uniforms. Nestled in gently rolling hill country in southern Ohio, New Concord "At this point, we are convinced that such an election is being denied the citizens of Perry County, both black and white." said the predominantly black grand jury.

"The primary problem appears to be with the tampering of the right to vote of the black citizens of this county." The report, signed by foreman Jesse Billingsley. mentioned "dual problems" and listed "intimidation at the polls" and "abuse and interference with the absentee balloting process." "These problem areas lie within gray and uncertain areas of the law and are generally confined to those segments of our society which are aged, infirmed or disabled," said the report. The grand jury members endorsed "vigorous prosecution" of voting law violators and suggested the assistance of an outside agency, "preferably federal" to monitor tuture elections. The grand jury, empaneled not long after the election, met twice to look into the alleged irregularities and questioned up to 75 persons, according to Johnson. Absentee voting criticism Much of the criticism involved the absentee voting process in Perry County, a rural area where more than 1.000 absentee ballots were cast this past year.

It represented 15 percent of the total vote in the most recent general election. Johnson said the complaints ranged from receiving unrequested absentee ballot applications to the submission of absentee ballots without permission. A legislative committee met for two days in Selma in December and heard testimony on absentee voting complaints in Dallas, Perry and Wilcox counties. (continued from page 1A) Before the events in Cox's courtroom, Graddick welcomed the U.S. Supreme Court's decision not to block the execution.

"The U.S. Supreme Court has recognized that every legal right guaranteed to John Louis Evans has been protected," Graddick said. "He has been given a fair trial, a sentence appropriate to his crime, and a full review by both state and federal appeals courts. It is time now for this case to end and for justice to be administered." Evans admitted shooting Nassar in the back while he and Wayne Eugene Ritter were robbing the store. Nassar's 7- and 9-year-old daughters witnessed the shooting.

Evans and Ritter were paroled from an Indiana prison in September 1976. They reached Mobile in January 1977 in a cross-country crime spree, according to their statements to police. In their confessions, both men said they committed some three dozen violent crimes, such as kidnapping and robbery, in seven different states. Ritter has appeals left Ritter is scheduled for electrocution May 13. Ritter's attorney John Carroll said Ritter "still has virtually all of his remedies" in court available.

Because the case "never actually got out of the Alabama Supreme Court," Carroll said Ritter has seven or eight appeal processes left. Gundy board In return, Allen would be named a dean at the school, the sources said. Allen could not be reached for comment Thursday night. Gundy said he had heard of the plan but has not talked to Allen about it. Dennis said Allen has not talked to him about wishing to replace him.

Mrs. Thomasson said: "I know he has been down on Art Dennis because I've been pushing at Jim Allen every time I've seen him because I think he's (Dennis) one of the finest people and presidents and administrators I know." Mergers planned According to the sources, in an effort to gain votes Allen agreed to a plan to tie the Gadsden State off-campus center at Anniston to Ayers State Technical College, making Ayers a community college, and naming a colleague on the state school board, John Fulmer of Anniston, as its president. Dennis said he has heard of no plans to combine his off-campus branch with Ayers. Community col leges have both a junior and a tech nical division. Gundy said he has heard about that plan from different sources.

Allen discussed parts of the plan with him. Gundy said, but he could not recall which parts. In addition, the sources said another state school board member, Evelvn Pratt of Huntsville, wanted to tie the Calhoun State Junior College branch in Huntsville to Drake State Technical College, making it a community college. Sources said she planned to support Drexel Boothe for president. Drexel Boothe, who is Tommy Boothe's brother, worked in Pratt's cam paign for the state Board of Education this past year.

Neither Boothe could be reached for comment. Mrs. Pratt laughed when told of the proposal and said, "I don't know anything about that." Asked if she had any problems with Gundy's administration, she replied, "He's a very fine man, a very fine man and a fine individ ual." No comment Asked if she had been approached about joining other board members in an effort to fire Gundv. she said "I'm not going to comment on that." According to sources, Allen, Mrs. Pratt, Fulmer and board members Mrs.

S.A. Cherry of Dothan and John Tyson Jr. of Mobile were Al len's five votes. Tyson denied being part of that (continued from page 1A) jury, including "specific defendants and specific charges. He said it would be speculation on his part as to why no indictments were returned and added he is also prohibited by state law from disclosing any grand jury information.

The jury foreman refused to comment on any grand jury action that was not included in the report. In its report, released Thursday by Johnson, the grand jury said its investigation had been "extensive and exhaustive" and had been part of a local concern to ensure fair elections for all Perry County residents. Page Ann Landers 9C Bridge 4C Business Finance 4-6B Classifieds 4-10D Comics 8C Crossword 8C Dr. Solomon 7C Editorials 8-9A Horoscope 8C Movies 2-3C Obituaries 3-4D Potpourri 2C Southern Flavor 1-10C Sports 1-3B TV Log 8C Emergency Hospital: JACKSON From 7 a.m. Friday To 7 a.m.

Saturday HELP-A-CRISIS 279-7837 Visitors say murderer was 'resigned' to fate (continued from page 1A) Evans spent the day "optimistic" that the electrocution would be stopped, said Jennifer Johnston, a friend of Evans. Evans told Ms. Johnston, who has known him for four years, that he "woke up optimistic that the stay would come today." She also said Evans knew his death was a "good possibility." Father Kevin Duignan, a local Catholic priest who has counseled Evans, said the condemned murderer was mostly quiet and solemn, but still "cracked jokes group..