NATION IN BRIEF : OREGON : Racist Doctrine Tied to Beating Suspects

Allen David Mazzella, a California white supremacist, told a jury how he passed on the violent racist teachings of Tom Metzger to three Portland, Ore., skinheads hours before they beat and killed Mulugeta Seraw, a 27-year-old Ethiopian student. Mazzella, 21, testified on behalf of the victim’s family, who are suing Metzger, 52, of Fallbrook, Calif., and his son, John, 22, for $10 million, contending the leaders of the White Aryan Resistance and its Aryan Youth Movement sent Mazzella and two other white supremacists to Portland in 1988 to recruit new members and teach a doctrine of hate and violence against blacks and Jews.