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Page 10 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1981 State / National Witness’ credibility attacked United Press International NEW ORLEANS — An FBI agent, under close questioning by defense lawyers attacking the cre dibility of the Brilab prosecution’s star witness, characterized con victed insurance swindler Joseph Hauser as a “good briber.” Agent William Fleming spent seven years tracking down Hauser and 14 months directing the ac tions of the swindler-tumed- informant in the undercover oper ation. Hauser was not present in fed eral court Monday but his name seldom was absent as attorneys for reputed Mafia don Carlos Marcel lo and four other defendants toiled to tear apart the government’s case. As the racketeering trial en tered its seventh week, Fleming testified the government used Hauser in its investigation be cause he had proven himself “a good briber.” Hauser could have been sent- MSC OUTDOOR RECREATION EQUIPMENT RENTAL to] enced in Arizona to 50 years in prison for diverting $3.5 million in Teamster funds into his insurance company, Fleming said. Howev er, the sentence was reduced to 30 months and a $40,000 fine in re turn for a guilty plea and a promise to assist the agents in the sting operation. “I felt that Mr. Hauser could be helpful to the United States gov ernment,” the agent said. “Why?” asked Marcello’s attor ney Henry Gonzales. “Because he’s a good briber,” Fleming replied. As part of a point-by-point attack on Hauser’s credibility as a witness in the trial, Gonzales drew from Fleming the fact that two FBI agents were assigned to Hauser to make sure any testi mony he gave was backed up by someone reliable. “Anytime you work with a per son who has been convicted, you’re going to have a credibility problem,” Fleming said. Gonzales outlined Hauser’s convictions on felonies in Los Angeles and Phoenix. The insur ance swindler was a “potential de fendant” in grand jury investiga tions in Boston and Miami and was under investigation by the Inter nal Revenue Service, Gonzales said. Fleming, however, said the absence of indictments in those investigations was not part of any plea-bargaining deal. He described Brilab as an oper ation devised to “criminally in volve” labor leaders with whom Hauser had dealt in the past. “The idea,” defense lawyer Michael Fawer offered, “was that you would unleash Joe Hauser on them for that purpose.” Fleming objected to the phrasing. “We were going to recontact people he’d paid in the past,” he said. Hauser is the key witness in the government’s case against Marcel lo, former state Commissioner of Administration Charles Roemer, veteran state aide Aubrey Young, Washington lobbyist I. Irving Davidson and New Orleans attor ney Vincent Marinello. The five are accused of using bribes and kickbacks to win state insurance contracts. During the year-long undercover operation, Hauser and FBI agents posed as crooked insurance men offering cash in return for multi-million- dollar contracts. Phone: 845-4511 DIETING? 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The staff of a Senate redistricting committee had offered senators alternative reapportionment plans in an effort to temper an anticipated hostile reaction from those adversely affected bvtli rawing of district lines. tne3 li The congressional redistricting pla n v leave each of the state’s 24 present congress,™ in separate districts, but each of the senatoS redistricting plans pairs at least two senatorsil! the same district. if™ ff*L p I an L w ?. u,d > ]air R 'p»Ni» Sen. Walter Mengden and Democratic Sen U Ogg in Houston, and would place Sens M Leedom and Dee Travis, both first term Repub|“ cans, in the same Dallas County district * The second of the plans would pair MenetU with Sen. Mike Richards, R-Houston, butwouU not pair the Dallas senators. h United I gWASHlN' ^agan adn jposed to penalizin [fore age io work lor [ e a tax cu But altho igram as )S e wanti icials cone that futu: fer some |justment i Impute be “We do trial Seem ihave a p lement age 75 march to protest jury failure to indict officers United Press International NEW ORLEANS — About 75 protestors, angered by a special grand jury’s failure to indict police officers in the shooting of three blacks, marched Tuesday on the district attorney’s office and vowed to keep the controversy alive. “There will be no more talk,” said group leader Kalamu Ya Salaam. “There will be no more dialogue. There will be no more peace. You will see us on other occasions — or you will see the work that we do. An Orleans Parish grand jury decided Monday to issue no in dictments in the shootings during two simultaneous raids last November. A federal grand jury investigation into the same inci dent was continuing. “The only reason we came, said Salaam, “is to make sure the city understands that we are dis pleased with the so called findings of the grand jury. The grand jury is an unnecessary' apendage. It is a smokescreen. He said District Attorney Har ry Con nick, who expressed dis- grand jury’s should fik officers in satisfaction with the failure to indict, charges against the volved. “Harry Connick is derelict in his duty if he knows some of the policemen were wrong and yet he refuses to file charges on them,” Salaam said. The marchers converged on the building housing Connick s offices. But when they found the doors locked, they moved in a double line to police headquar ters. There they were halted at the entrance by two police officers. The group returned to Con- nick’s offices and milled about handing out leaflets until they dis banded. The demonstration lasted only 16 minutes but leaders of the Police Brutality Committee prom ised a larger, longer protest Sun day at 6 p.m. at the Fischer Hous ing Project in Algiers. Bit of all, Jjnove from t .for anyone 'rial Securit Human ichard Scf Schweik (essional L plan pi file shootings occurredrtionly effect tlic project during raids seek jtirees wc the killers of patrolman Greg, ;elay in pa Neupert, 23. Police said eaclT the three victims tried toopenli on officers during the ana attempt. ing incre; For futu Killed in the raids were SI Lynn Singleton, her Reginald Miles and James“d anche" Billy Jr. Police alsoldl fourth black, Raymond F, nand, in another incident said Ferdinand pulled a In them. Police said Miles and Billy suspects in the murder Neupert, whose body was near the project a few days« In its 10-page report, the jury said there was “no legal f o r p ros ecu t i ng anyone for the ings. 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Dr. Howard Jones of the East ern Virginia Medical School’s in- vitro fertilization clinic announced Monday the first successful pre gnancy in the United States through conception outside the womb. The name of the woman, who was unable to become pregnant normally because her Fallopian tubes had been removed, was not released. Jones would not confirm reports the pregnancy began seven weeks ago, but he did say the period of “highest risk is be hind us.” He said the scientific details and the current status of the prog- '| of Take the $25.00J Challenge - «igmg ove ram would be reported “atappaBile Color priate medical meetings and "bybits and journals, and the woman’sidffii-e Chief l tity would become known “ini!| l n addit time when she and her faBfen'ice, wf are ready to handle the pressparter of i of publicity. ingfive For There have been only j was expecte documented births resultingbder of its b in-vitro fertilization, one in E% Authori land and three in Australia. j®4,000-foot-l said a report of a fifth test-tiifo keep ci baby in India had never beencajopportunist firmed. “In vitro” means theeg dogs, lemoi fertilized in a petri dish and lhSinkhole” implanted in the woman. 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