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i United Press International
pAKDALE, La* -— Authorities
say racial tensions sparking a gun-
battle between a mob and police
haye “cooled down with the re
covery of a black bystander who
w|s seriously wounded in a bar
rage of bullets.
■‘Henry Green was one of three
persons hit in the exchange of gun-
fiif between police and a mob of
10p to 150 felabks Monday night.
Hp itfas struck in the face, neck
arid side, "and was reported in
guarded condition at Charity Hos-
pifal in New Orleans.
I “We’re gonna see what hap-
pdlis tonight/' Oakdale Police Sgt.
Viigil Clramberpin said late Tues
day. “But.everything seems to be
|ca}ni.. It seems to have cooled
'd<jwn.” . ,,
Parish Sheriff
bhn Durio said racial stability
ould depend on the condition of
he black onlooker most seriously
■ounded in tng shooting.
“We don’t expect anything as
mg as Mr. Green continues to
improve,” Durio said. “We do ex
pect trouble if he takes a turn for
the worse.”
As a precaution, schools were
closed through next week and an 8
p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew remained in
effect for the second day.
Ten units of riot-trained state
troopers remained on alert in the
area, said state police spokesman
Lt. Ronnie Jones.
Tension began building Satur
day after shots were fired at two
white youths riding through a
black neighborhood, Durio said.
Violence erupted about 11 p.m.
Monday when a group of 100 to
150 blacks gathered near an aban
doned gas station at one end of
town and began randomly firing
guns, Durio said.
A gun blast struck a patrol car,
and backup units of state police
and police from neighboring
parishes were called in to quell the
disturbance by dispersing the
crowd and patrolling streets.
Officer Larry McCullough was
in stable condition at Oakdale
General Hospital, where he was
treated for shotgun pellet wounds
in the stomach and left side. Car
los Jackson was wounded in the
arm but did not require hospitali
zation.
Deputies detained three men
for questioning but released them
without charges.
“It definitely has racial over
tones,” Durio said. “But it’s not
widespread. It’s an isolated inci
dent.”
Oakdale High School principal
Glenn Williams said a “shoving
match” at the cafeteria may have
been related to the weekend
shooting incident.
Charles Strother, the father of
one student involved in the argu
ment, later approached the school
carrying a shotgun and a pistol.
Williams said he talked Strother
into putting the guns back into his
car and leaving the school.
Strother was charged with car
rying a weapon on school grounds
and released on $1,500 bond,
Durio said.
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — Sen. William Armstrong, who
oipecl tWo'other conservative Republicans in stop
ping President Rbagan s budget in the Senate, says
iht! thfe would have looked like “boobs” if they had
op malda approved the plari.
d to cost Jhe Colorado senator said he concurs with the
Bdtobeli| (idministration’s general goals, but could not agree
l.-ivith the large deficits written into Reagan’s prop-
eardoftk osed spending package.
things ic fn an interview Tuesday, Armstrong said he has
Final Chl(t discussed with administration officials the possibility
jrd out * ofidentifying mbre cuts that would bring the budget
im up will into balance by 1984 — the year Reagan wants it
vorkonolt balanced. The officials have been receptive if not
! supportive of his arguments, he said,
fixedupi: Armstrong said he has talked with Vice President
I rove a nn George Bush, budget director David Stockman,
wanted till Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, congressional
lest dote liaison Max Friedersdorf and others in the days since
be Reagan budget was rejected, 12-8, by the Senate
jBudget Committee.
Armstrong said they agree on the timetable for a
h ialanced budget and plan to identify the other cuts.
, iButsince they hauyen’t done so yet, the plan before
Theconimitiee shewed a $4§ v l2illion deficit in 1984-
tbecomnlithee shewed a $4§ v l2illic
almost as big as the Jimmy Carter deficits Republi
cans denounced.
He said the Republicans made a “verbal contract”
with their constituents to balance the budget. To
accept that budget resolution last week “would make
us look like a bunch of boobs,” he said.
A spokesman for the Office of Management and
Budget said Stockman understands Armstrong’s
viewpoint and the need for identifying the additional
cuts, “but has made no commitments.”
Armstrong was joined by freshman Sens. Charles
Grassley, R-Iowa, and Steven Symms, R-Idaho, last
Thursday, in opposing the $704 billion fiscal 1982
budget. Nine committee Democrats, opposed to the
Reagan tax cut that also was included in the proposal,
voted against it.
Prior to committee rejection of the plan, the full
Senate had easily approved $37 billion in mostly
Reagan spending cuts. Those cuts were contained in
the larger budget resolution, which also dealt with
total spending over the next three years, the size of
the tax cut and the size of the federal deficit.
The House Budget Committee last week
approved a budget resolution that showed only a $25
billion 1982 deficit — compared to the $54 billion
Senate deficit. The House measure planned for a
balanced budget in 1983, a year sooner than Reagan
would accomplish it.
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ATLANTA-^ Atlanta’s public
safety commissioner took angry
‘veeption Wednesday to an FBI
igent’s comment that some of the
!3young blacks slain in the last 20
ponths were killed by family
;niembers because they were “nui
sances.
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Commissinher Lee P. Brown
told reporters at his weekly brief-
ng the remarks, made by FBI
gerit Mike Twibell to a Macon
ivic club Tuesday, were “unpro-
essional,- uncalled for and won’t
be tolerated.
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That’s an irresponsible state
ment,” Brown said'Wednesday.
We;do .liot.-kpow who killed the
children. I know today none of the
cases are solved., Today we do not
have sufficient evidence to indict
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| nie who gives out information that
Xwpardizes our investigation,”
B|o\vn said, “I will publicly de
nounce him and fire him and see
to it that he never gets another job
in law enforcement.”
There has been speculation in
the press for months that police
felt they knew who was responsi
ble for several of the slayings, but
did not have the evidence to pro
secute.
Twibell told the club members
that his boss, FBI Director Wil-
, Ham Webster was correct Monday
when he told interviewers there
were four suspects in at least four
of the cases.
Twibell said some of the chil
dren were from broken homes and
that their slayings were domestic
killings.
In addition to the 23 young
blacks who have been found slain,
two others are officially listed as
missing.
Webster’s comments came
under fire from Atlanta city offi
cials who viewed them as an “at
tack on the credibility of our gov
ernment.”
“There’s no great crime wave
sweeping Atlanta,” said Twibell,
who claims to have first-hand
knowledge of the investigation
into the 20-month-old mystery of
25 missing and murdered young
blacks. “About the same number
were missing in ’78. The only dif
ference is now the bodies are
being recovered.”
Twibell said Webster would re
lease more information on the
matter later.
The FBI in Atlanta refused
comment on Twibell’s talk.
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FBI interest checks blamed
Capitol Hill posts delayed
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Roadblocks on Capi
tol Hill and prolonged FBI “conflict of in
terest” checks are keeping some high-level
jobs in the Reagan administration from
being filled.
The vacancy problem is beginning to
cause some concern, acting White House
press secretary Larry Speakes said
Tuesday.
“We are anxious to get our appointments
cleared,” he said. “I judge there will be
discussions with the committee chairmen
who are holding up some of the nomina
tions.”
Sen. Jesse A. Helms of North Carolina,
third-ranking Republican on the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, has held up
action on four key State Department
appointments.
But Speakes said “there is no frustration
with Helms about the nominations.”
At the same time, Speakes told reporters
that of the nominations for 23 positions in
the State Department, eight have been
confirmed and nine others have been sub
mitted to the Senate. He said hearings have
been scheduled on six more over the next
two weeks.
Many of President Reagan’s nominations
are being held up by FBI agents who are
checking to make sure nominees have no
“conflicts of interest,” aides said.
The president is still confined to the
family quarters of the White House as he
recovers from the chest wound he received
March 30.
Reagan’s personal physician, Dr. Daniel
Ruge, said he’s “doing fine” and has no
fever.
The president had no formal appoint
ments Wednesday but was expected to
meet with some of his aides, and will be
getting his daily national security memo.
On Tuesday, he received a report of de
creased Soviet military activity in Poland,
but the Soviets “still are capable of inter
vention,” Speakes said.
Today Reagan will meet with NATO
Secretary General Joseph Luns.
The president plans to remain at the
White House Easter weekend.
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