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THE BATTALION
MONDAY, MAY 4, 1981
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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-
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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.
The defendants are arguing
that the “sheiks, ” their satchels fil
led with cash and, in Williams’
case, the lure of two non-existent
Arabs willing to pay him $12.6
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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
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percent Republican and 44 per- j
cent Democratic.
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42 percent Democratic edge over
Republicans to a 54-40 percent
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STONE HAM, Mass. -A21'
year old orangutan has given birll
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“It’s an endangered species
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Richard Naegeli, director of zoos
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