The Nation - News from April 25, 1985
A white supremacist leader was indicted in Hot Springs, Ark., for the torching of a gay church and a Jewish center. James D. Ellison, leader of the Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord, pleaded innocent in connection with the fires in Missouri and Indiana. He was ordered held without bond. Meanwhile, Gary Lee Yarbrough of Sandpoint, Ida., and Robert E. Merki of Boise, both members of the neo-Nazi group The Order, pleaded innocent to a racketeering indictment in Seattle. Another defendant, David Eden Lane of Denver, agreed in Boise to be extradited to Seattle.
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