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Supremacist show opposed by students FULLERTON. Calif. (AP) — About 400 California Stats University students urged official# to bait production of a white supremacist TV shoo on campus, but the former hu khix Kian loader who produces the show swirl that will not stop him from spreading his message nations life Tm glad to star that upper middle-class kids are not dead and aiill have hloort in their vein*.” said Torn Metzger, former head of the I aliforma klan. "Thmrtt not Zombies But I m surprised they‘re protesting First Amendment rights and Sow speech," I singCmup W Coble equipment housed in the tiascment ol the university library. Metzger has taxm producing his Kace and Henson shows the past two veers and Itroad casting them twice a month on public in.conk television throughout Southern California Hie shows have also bam seen in parts ot Oregon. Washington. Texas and l*emtsyfvania and wherever member# of his White American Political Association can get lti« pm grams aired be said Thi# show is going to keep going on.*' Metzger said. Show# have focused oil the supremacy of the white rar e Coining segments that will be filmed on locution will view rm ml integration in Hollywood amt the illegal alien problem at the San Diego isirder Metzger said The t hauling students protested In the college square at noon Wednesday then marched past the school library Although no segments of "Race and Reason" liave been taped on campus since February lacanse Croup W's equip "amt is in disrepair, students said they wan! to stop Metzger from resuming production. said (Jerry Keating. « university spokesman "They urgerl administrators to keep Tom Metzger off campus tss ause he stand# for hatred and bigotry." Keating said "This campus should nut be a propaganda of hatred.”, said | at kie Carrie, president of the (ad State Fullerton Voung IhnuRnti. University President lewell Plummer Cobb was away from campus this week and unavailable for comment, said a sis fvlarv Cobh has said that no matter how she feel# about the program the strength of America is the First Amendment Keating suid the university's contract with Croup W is up for renegotiation and the obligation to produce programs such a# Metzger # is on* of the bargaining points Croup W has plac ed $200,1)00 worth of video and TV equipment in the school, which has contrac tual obligations to assist taping public access shows. The school's ability to produce shows and the use of equipment would be threaten «d if it refused to tape the public access shows Keating said. We support the public access principle, but having to tape programs for people espousing racist views is very dif ficult tor a campus that has higher standards of thinking." Keating said. Nancy .Shane. Group W spokesman, was not in her office Wednesday and unavailable for comment, a secretary said. Metzger s show prompted another campus protest earlier this month On Tuesday, officials for Cos Cable in Spokane. Wash.. said, after consulting with attorneys, that they would run a "Race and Reason" show that espouses the survival, promotion and expansion of the white race Federal Communications Commission spokesman Ronald Parver said federal law guarantees public access to cable TV channels. In 1980, Metzger refined to Jews as parasite people" while running as a Democrat for the 43rd Congressional District. He won three percent of the vote Battle over waste disposal may go to Supreme Court SAI.KM (AP) — The battle over how to dispose of low-level radioactive waste at an Albany* area metals plant has entered a new public, stage1, hut par ticipants agree that a final deci sion could still he years in the future "It's going to the (Oregon) Supreme Court, no matter what happens." said Allen Nistad, hearings officer for proceedings to determine the future; of the Teledyne VVah Chang Albany sludge. Nistad. a member of the Oregon Energy f acility Siting Council, presided Wednesday over the first day of cross examination hearings on the issue. Wah Chang's statements that its waste does not pose a public radiation ha/,ml wore challeng ed by environmental activists |ohn Arum and Lloyd Marbet, (d directors of Furelaws on ll< till'd. Arum challenged as "biased" and "mistaken" the conclusion of environmental studies per formed by Mattelle Pacific Nor thwest laboratories under con tract to Wall Chang. "This waste will contain radium for tons of thousands of years." he said. "Tremendous uncertainties exist in this analysis." At issue is whether 85.000 cubic yards of sludge at Wah Chang's plant site at Millershurg contains sufficient radioactive materials to require disposal under jurisdiction of the siting council. Youth toting water weapon almost taken for ‘assassin’ BEAVERTON (AP) — A teen ager who used a motor-driven squirt Run to play the game "Assassin” was cited for disorderly conduct after a sheriff's deputy mistook the toy for an automatic weapon. Deputies responding to a report of a man with a gun Wednesday spotted Mathew kelly. IH. and another youth in a car at a Beaverton apartment complex. When one of the youths got out of the vehicle, deputy Den nis kisor took cover behind a car. . - "I saw he had the weapon. I sen him insert a clip and con ceal tlm weapon inside his jacket." kisor said kisor drew .his service :revblve.r. ."He: started walking toward me At this point. I veil i wl.:'Poli(;p (ijTiotr. breeze.-' kisor said the. Vnuth instead reached inside, h is jacket mid pulled out the gup.' saving it r was only a squirt qun. which he then dropped at kisor's order. "If I had followed my train inn. I would have killed him.” kisor said. He said he would have been justified in shooting the yoidh lx-cause he reached for the gun after being told to freeze. kisor said "experience and an excellent position of conceal ment" prevented him from firing. The weapon turned out to be a black plastic, motor-driven squirt gun. a replica of a sub machine gun. Th« .’clip" was the water reservoir. Sheriff's department spokeswoman Sherru Colouri said deputies learned the-young men were involved in a game known as "Assassin.", in which players attempt to "kill” others ; with squirt guns. » •: k.elly is scheduled-to appear April .10 in Washington (anility District Court. r—“CLIP COUPON-—^ I 1 FREE Soda plus i 15c 0FF any slice 11:30 - Midnight. 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