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Page 8 THE BATTALION MONDAY, MAY 4, 1981 National Si Louisiana school board to work on integration plan United Press International NATCHITOCHES, La. — The Natchitoches Parish School Board meets in emergency session today to formulate a response to a federal judge’s order desegregating public schools by fall. U.S. District Judge Nauman Scott, still embroiled in a desegregation controversy in Rapides Parish, promised to use busing only to the extent needed to achieve integregation in Natchitoches. “I can assure you that this court will use busing only as far as necessary to do so,” he said. School Superintendent Levy Thompson de clined to give specific options open to the board but said it “was prepared to limit busing. ” “We’ll try to do the best we can,’’ he said. “We have discussed among ourselves many options. It’s a question of the board deciding which way we want to go.” Board member Harvey Birdwell promised compliance with the judge’s order. “Scott’s being fair and giving us a chance to show some progress,” Birdwell said. “We intend to cooperate in any way we can, and I believe we can come up with a workable plan. “The plan that would be most unneccesary and unpopular is busing and pairing of schools. ” In Rapides, Scott ended a 10-year integration issue last fall by ordering massive busing and the closures of several schools. His action made nationwide headlines when parents resisted his orders in rural Forest Hill and later when a state judge joined the fight for three white girls in Buckeye. Six cases stemming from the Rapides battle are under consideration by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. Rick Harrington, Natchitoches Parish assis tant district attorney, said the judge’s order re ceived Friday was a surprise in light of last- minute shuffling in the lawsuit behind it. “I was surprised by the timing of the ruling, ” Abscam verdicts face challenges United Press International NEW YORK — Abscam, the most active prosecution of con gressional corruption in American history, still faces a crucial cour troom challenge that will deter- tloupot'sh BOOKSTORE At Northgate Across from the Post Office VUE BUY BOOKS EVERYDAY! AND GIVE 20% MORE IN TRADE ON USED BOOKS I Rg-€co Club Awards Banquet Tuesday May 5 — 7:00 p.m. Bethel Lutheran Church Featuring: JOHN HCNRV FAULK of Hee Hauu' and California field study tour slide shouu tickets on sale in Rgri. #112 price: $4.00 mine the basic legality of the en tire operation. Friday’s bribery-conspiracy conviction of Sen. Harrison Wil liams, D-N.J., capped a two-year FBI undercover probe in which agents posing as wealthy Arabs spread hundreds of thousands of bribe dollars along a trail that led to the conviction of seven con gressmen. “Abscam was far from the big gest corruption scandal in Amer ican history, but it was the most successful attempt to prosecute high-ranking elected officials for corruption,” said Stanley Arono- witz, a political science professor at Columbia University. However, the Abscam convic tions of two Philadelphia city councilmen have already been re versed on appeal and court rulings could upset the rest. U.S. District Court Judge George Pratt, the presiding judge at the Abscam trials of five con gressmen, including Senator Wil liams, is conducting a series of due process hearings in which the de fendants are challenging the en tire operation’s legality. Other de fendants are filing separate but similar challenges to their convic tions. 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INTERNATIONAL WEEK COMPETITION RESULTS CULTURAL DISPLAY 1st Honduras - 91.33 2nd Mexico - 90.00 3rd Guatemala - 89.33 4th India 5th Hong Kong 6th Bangladesh FOOD FAIR (CLASS A) FOOD FAIR (CLASS B) TALENT SHOW Hong Kong - 92.50 Taiwan - 82.50 Venezuela - 81.67 Mexico Vietnam Korea Puerto Rico - 80.42 Bangladesh - 62.92 Turkey - 60.83 Honduras Malaysia Guatemala Bolivia - 90.83 Korea - 90.00 Nicaragua * 89.17 Lebanon El Salvador (5th) Mexico (5th) Harrington said. “I’d expected he’d have waited until he was in a position to rule on a lab school. ” Plaintiffs in the desegregation suit last week amended it to include as a defendant the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. The action added the Northwestern State Uni versity Middle Lab School. Scott’s order said nine of the parish’s 24 public schools were more than 90 percent one-race. “The school system of Natchitoches Parish is not unitary and an appropriate plan should there fore be adopted and implemented prior to com mencement of the school year 1981-82,” Scott said. “It is therefore ordered that each of the parties submit a plan or alternative plans to the court on or by May 15, 1981. We shall also receive and file any plans which may be submitted by third ties.” Scott set a hearing in his Alexandria court Maj 21 for consideration and adoption of a final plan, Alexandria attorneys Louis Berry and P. Spencer Torry filed the desegregation suit it September on behalf of 18 residents, mainlyln- dians and blacks near the Cloutierville aid Gorum area. The two attorneys, who also initiated the in tegration proceedings in Rapides Parish, altered their Natchitoches suit in March to satisfy Scott the group had legal grounds to sue. Scott ruled the original plaintiffs were not proper parties to represent the asserted group is a “class action” suit. The attorneys added 23 additional plaintiffs, all black, and Scott certified the suit as a class action. mine, were part of a blatantly illegal government effort to manu facture the crimes the congress men were convicted of. The government contends that it merely set out the bait and otherwise honest officials would have walked away from the cash and business deals offered by the “sheiks” and their representa tives. A principal target of the defen dants is Melvin Weinberg, 56, a convicted con man who played a key undercover role for the FBI during the Abscam operation. De fense lawyers have variously de scribed him as “diseased,” “malig nant” and “totally crooked.” Weinberg began working for the FBI as an informant in 1969 and wound up earning $3,000 a month from the bureau as the “financial adviser” to Abdul En terprises, a phony company that supposedly invested Arab wealth in the United States. Two New Jersey Justice De partment lawyers with deep reser vations about Abscam tactics have already testified in previous trials that Weinberg complained that a criminal case could not be made against Williams unless the con man “put words” in the senator’s mouth. Weinberg’s actions during Abscam are a key element in de fense claims that the government failed to exercise proper control over the operation. River searched for clues in Atlanta youths 9 deaths United Press International ATLANTA — Volunteers in canoes and other small boats sear ched the Chattahoochee River for clues in the slayings of 26 young Atlanta blacks Saturday while the city mourned the latest victim. A funeral for the latest victim, Jimmy Ray Payne, 21, was held Saturday. His body was found in the Chattahoochee last Monday. A black jacket, similar to one worn by one of the victims, Timothy Hill, 13, was found by one canoeist Saturday and turned over to a special task force estab lished to investigate the crimes. The jacket was found far upstream from where Hill’s body was disco vered March 30. In addition to the 26 young blacks found slain, another, 10- year-old Darron Glass, is listed as missing. About 45 people, including members of the Atlanta Canoe Club, took part in Saturday’s search, which involved 15 boats and covered a 15-to-20 mile stretch of river. The searchers poked around fallen trees and checked inlets. It was the 29th weekend search by the volunteers, but the first us ing boats. Five bodies have been pulled from the Chattahoochee during the 21-month-long string of slayings. The bodies of three other victims have been found in or near the South River, another suburban stream. All wore life preservers in case they accidentally tumbled into the frigid waters of the river, probably best known as the site of the “Ramblin’ Raft Race,” a massive floating beer party that had wod its way downstream in previous springs. It was canceled this yea because it had grown too large, While the searchers scourei the river and its banks police were trying to keep up with a rasM missing persons reports. Authorities have fielded aboul a dozen reports of missing young blacks during the week, but I have been found safe. The latest two, located Saturday, wereCei ric Simmons, a retarded 21-ye» old, and 14-year-old Joe Allen Moss. Despite the work involved in running down the missing persons reports, Public Safety Commis sioner Lee P. Brown said If would do nothing to discourage them. “It is our desire tobenoti- fied erroneously rather than have a child killed, he said. Poll says Demo decreased since majority last year United Press International NEW YORK — The number of Republican voters is increasing, but Democrats are still in the ma jority nationally, says a New York Times-CBS News Poll released Saturday. The Democratic lead over Re publicans is now only half as big as it was when last year’s presidential campaign began, the poll said. A New York Times-CBS News poll in January 1980 showed that 53 percent of those surveyed said they were Democrats or Demo cratic-leaning independents, while 33 percent said they were Republicans or Republican leaning independents. The latest poll, conducted in late April among 1,439 adults, put the Democratic margin at 49-41 percent, with the rest saying they leaned to neither party. Among those who said that they definitely belonged to one party or the other, the Democratic lead shrank from 38-22 percent in January 1980 to 34-22 percent. The most dramatic shifts were among Southerners, whites and conservatives, the poll said. Southerners went from a 59-30 percent Democratic edge over the Clint I Aggies, baseru up the C Ur B0S1 I ting that | second c final gair inbound of the b; : Igerly av Maxwell Republicans in January 49-41 percent Democratic advan tage, the poll said. It said whites went from a4Mi 1 percent Democratic edge overtte 1 Republicans to an alignment ofii j percent Republican and 44 per- j cent Democratic. Conservatives went from a 4 42 percent Democratic edge over Republicans to a 54-40 percent Republican advantage over ttf Democrats. i i r m If DIETING? Zoo ‘happy about birth of oranguk T C Fe Even though we do not prescribe diets, we make it possible for many to enjoy a nutritious meal while they follow their doctors orders. You will be delighted with the wide selection of low calorie, sugar free and fat free foods in the Souper Salad Area, Sbisa Dining Center Basement. OPEN Monday through Friday 10:45 AM-1:45 PM QUALITY FIRST United Press International STONE HAM, Mass. -A21' year old orangutan has given birll at the Stoneham Zoo — and there is rejoicing in the zoo world. “It’s an endangered species that’s why we’re so happy,” sail Richard Naegeli, director of zoos for the Metropolitan Distrid Commission. “The baby is coming alongjosl fine and the mother is doingwell, he said, after Betty, the mother, gave birth to a three-pound male Thursday. It was Betty’s fourth offspring One born at Stoneham in 1975is now in St. Louis. Anotherdiedal birth and a third lived for sis months before dying of anemia Naegeli pointed out the gradtial destruction of the big forests in Borneo and Sumatra where the orangutans normally live is des troying the natural breeding grounds of the species. The public will get a chance to name the new arrival. r- !$ // EASB& PIZZA SPAGHETTI LASAGNA Happy Dead Week" ALL DAY ALL NIGHT 2 FOR 1 PITCHERS! L ye Bring your Aggie I.D. and enjoy our 11 a.m. -12 a.m. BEER BREAK! 807 Texas Ave. 696-3380 Monday thru Friday May 4-8, 1981 (Side effects from studying) I