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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1981
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United Press International
DALLAS — German jour-
Hclmut Uhl thinks the
1 States may be a nice
fee to live, but he’s had his
mbles visiting.
Uhl, 30, who is planning to
rite a book on travel in the
mericas, has been a victim of
lievery three times since his
[rival.
is camper was broken into
'the safest place in New
lork, he was robbed by a
Minmate in New York and be
ad his camper broken into
Nashville, Tenn.,
iiiereall his notes and diaries of
iis year-long journey through
America were stolen.
Uhl is now living with a friend
Dallas. He was forced to cut
is travels short after running
i«t of money.
It’s a nice place to live,” Uhl
aid. “It's more free. ’’ Howev-
■r, Uhl said he would never live
idtherNew York or Nashville
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lation, ii
;cture on
because of his experiences.
Uhl arrived in New York Oct.
31 and parked his camper in
Brooklyn Heights.
“I was told by a friend not to
worry; this was the safest place
in New York,” Uhl recalled in
broken English. “That night
somebody broke into my cam
per and stole about 100 casset
tes, a stereo with a booster,
some clothes, tennis racquets,
two cameras and about $200 in
cash that was gasoline money. ”
Uhl said the thieves over
looked $500 in cash and travel
ers checks that were stashed in a
duffel bag along with his notes
of the journey. But before he
left New York he discovered he
had been robbed of another
$100 by a roommate.
He left for Nashville, where
during a tour of the Country
Music Hall of Fame, somebody
picked up where the New York
thieves left off, breaking into his
camper and stealing the duffel
bag.
Uhl said the notes for his
book on cheap travel through
out the United States and South
America included irreplaceable
information about hotels, train
and bus schedules and two tele
phone books with unlisted
numbers of various European
political figures and top Ger
man soccer players.
After the third incident, Uhl
said, he was forced to use his
last $80 to leave immediately for
Dallas.
“We had no money to eat
food, drink beer or whatever,”
he said.
Despite his bad luck, Uhl
said he still plans to write his
travel book.
“I have a lot in my brain still, ”
Uhl said. “I will start to write
now all I remember.”
Uhl said the robberies didn’t
surprise him. “ I think it’s nor
mal. It happens everyday. It’s
the same in Germany,” he said.
Lawyer talks about McAllen
Police brutality too common
iwank charity auction
lelps out schoolteacher
United Press International
DALLAS — For four years,
civil rights attorney Jim Harring
ton successfully pursued brutality
lawsuits against the McAllen
Police Department without the
videotapes that later rocked south
Texas and led to federal charges.
But even without the black and
white tapes graphically depicting
the beatings and abuse of prison
ers, Harrington, as the attorney
for the American Civil Liberties
Union Foundation South Texas
Project, filed lawsuits on the basis
of citizen complaints.
The videotapes — filmed from
behind the police booking desk
ostensibly for the protection of the
officers — led to a massive investi
gation that last week resulted in
indictments of five former officers
on federal civil rights charges
stemming from prisoner beatings
between 1977 and 1979.
Federal prosecutors say the in
vestigation is continuing.
Harrington either won or set
tled 25 of the cases for more than
$400,000 in damages. He said
jurors consistently ruled in favor
of his Mexican-American clients
and later asked him to do some
thing about the brutality problem
in McAllen.
Harrington said the videotapes
were introduced in court as part of
the 26th case.
That following night the tapes
were telecast in the south Texas
city of 60,000.
In a speech Wednesday night
to about 50 members of the Dallas
ACLU, Harrington said the prob
lem of police brutality extends
beyond McAllen. “It’s a national
problem,” he said.
He said the McAllen situation
was unique because it was cap
tured on videotape.
Harrington said a recent Civil
Rights Commission report shows
the Justice Department receives
10,000 police brutality complaints
annually but only files about 100
lawsuits a year.
Wednesday night Harrison also
showed a 25-minute film on McAl
len police brutality that included
interviews with policemen and
city officials interspersed between
booking desk tapes that caused the
audience to flinch.
Harrington said brutality and
misconduct are “symptoms of the
problems.”
“You don’t solve the problem by
taking a brutal cop and firing him,
although that should be done,” he
said. “Because whatever caused
that cop to be brutal will cause his
replacement to be brutal.”
He said he believed there were
three problems leading to the
brutality:
— Lack of training on how to
relate to the community.
— Management as officers were
not adequately disciplined when
accused of brutality, drawing only
“token” punishments.
— Siege Mentality because
policemen perceive themselves as
being against the rest of the world.
United Press International
HIGHLAND PARK — A regis-
quarter horse sold for
I, a 1982 Oldsmobile went
114,000 and White House re
cards signed by Nancy
d[in went for $350 in a charity
Hon held by school officials in a
mkDallas suburb to help one of
tir teachers.
The auction raised over
1,000 for McCulloch Middle
.SOOIl pool teacher Jim Wild, who be
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came financially strapped after his
wife, Nancy, underwent 11 opera
tions for cancer in 10 years.
“We’re just ordinary people,”
said Mrs. Wild, who attended the
auction in a wheelchair. “When
we first heard they were doing
this, I said Absolutely not,’ but
they did it anyway.”
All the classy white elephants
auctioned off — no battered para
keet cages or out-of-style over
coats — had been donated by
Highland Park residents during
the past three weeks.
Wild wept openly when an offi
cial began the auction with a per
sonal letter from President
Reagan.
“Nancy and I feel privileged to
be able to send our best wishes,”
Reagan wrote. “Yours is the most
inspiring story because you did
not allow adversity to dampen
your spirit.”
yilman urges U.S. to hike
elf-sufficiency to 90%
United Press International
DALLAS — Robert O. Ander-
3, chairman and chief executive
leer of Atlantic Richfield Co.,
vvillbe- led for the United States to in
ease its energy self-sufficiency
90 percent by 1990.
Anderson, chairman of the na-
sfs llth-largest industrial corn
el)’, told businessmen at a meet-
Southern Methodist Uni-
irsity Wednesday that the Un-
dStates is currently 84 percent
lergyself-sufficient. He said the
mtinental shelves off the United
tales probably contain enough oil
make the nation energy self-
iicient.
“There is no reason we can’t go
90 percent energy self-
liciency by the end of the de-
ide,” Anderson said. “I don’t
link we will do that with
lashington’s help. But we can do
ffWashington stands aside.”
The oil companies must be
aed less if they are to increase
induction, he said.
To attain the 90 percent self-
Iciency, between 2 and 3 per
mit of energy requirements may
met by coal, 2 percent from
jntheticfuels such as liquefaction
jods.
x.
P.M.
Jtter
gasification of coal, and
ps another 1 percent from
iclear sources, Anderson said.
am assuming that nuclear
■ants are at a standstill,” Ander
son said. “Nuclear at this point, Anderson said additional ener-
given the mood in this country and SY requirements could be met
the media’s treatment, is in the through the development of solar
next century.” energy and through conservation.
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