3 02-28-88 09:51 pcs Testimony set to resume in supremacists' trial. FORT SMITH, Ark. (UPI

   3  02-28-88 09:51 pcs Testimony set to resume in supremacists'
trial.

   FORT  SMITH,  Ark.  (UPI)   _   A   former   member   of   the
religious-paramilitary group known as The Covenant, the Sword and
the Arm of the Lord is testifying against 14 members of the group
accused  of  plotting  to  assassinate  a  federal  judge and FBI
agent..

   Mike Morris testified that he quit the CSA when  leader  James
Ellison  warned that there would come a time when no one would be
allowed  to  leave  because  of  their  knowledge  of  the  CSA's
activities.

   Ellison,  who  is the government's key witness, last week gave
testimony linking five defendants  to  an  aborted  assassination
attempt against a federal judge and an FBI agent.

   Morris, who began his testimony Friday, was expected to return
to the stand Monday for cross-examination.

   Fourteen  white  supremacists  have  been  on  trial for three
weeks, 10 of them accused of seditious  conspiracy  to  overthrow
the  federal government and five accused of plotting to kill U.S.
District Judge Franklin Waters and FBI agent Jack Knox.  Two  are
also accused of interstate transportation of stolen money.

   Waters testified briefly Friday about a trial he presided over
for  supporters of tax protester Gordon Kahl, who was killed in a
1983 shootout with authorities near Smithville, Ark.

   Knox was the lead investigator in that case.

   Kahl was killed  while  being  sought  in  the  February  1983
shooting deaths  of  two  federal marshals in North Dakota.  Kahl
had been a member of Posse Comitatus, a paramilitary  group  that
opposed individual income tax and rejected federal authority.

   Waters  testified  Friday that he did not recognize any of the
defendants charged with conspiring to kill him and Knox and could
not be sure if any ever appeared in his court.

   Accused  in  the  assassination  scheme  are  Kahl  supporters
William  Wade, 68; his son, Ivan Raymond Wade, 35, of Smithville,
Ark.; Lambert Miller, 47, of Springfield, Mo.; David M.  McGurie,
25, of Greenville, Ill., and Richard W. Snell, 57, of Muse, Okla.