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■"Police brutality
ase reopened
'United Press International
DALLAS — The Justice De-
artment traveled a long and
implicated road to reach Mon-
^ 'ay’s opening of the trial of
:ven white New Orleans police-
ien accused of beating blacks
hile investigating a fellow
fficer’s slaying.
ill 'The federal indictments con-
’ f four black men who said
tey were illegally jailed as
atential witnesses, threatened
i’th guns, beaten and almost
iffocated by bags placed over
teir heads during interroga-
3iis that lasted up to 18 hours.
b\ ihtj yi seven officers were
I <j a|1 eared by a New Orleans police
epartment investigation and
, lm! ic local grand jury twice re-
ised to return charges, as did
ic first federal grand jury to
v ( insider the case.
A subseouent federal grand
iry handed up indictments on
ily 8, 1981, but those were
irown out by a federal judge
ho said government lawyers
ad coerced the jury.
U S. Attorney John Volz of
ew Orleans, however, last year
ersuaded the 5th U.S. Circuit
oiin of Appeals to revive the
d JlUUarges.
Attorneys for the policemen
iccessfully petitioned for a
ionDtpaange of venue to Dallas,
ague |The case began on Nov. 8,
ce! 980, when the body of Gregory
eupert, 23, was found next to
he cr f’i
his police car in Algiers. He had
been shot to death.
Within a week, police officers
had shot and killed four people
in the Algiers area — a man they
said pulled a knife on them, and
two male suspects and a girl
friend of one who allegedly
fired first when police staged a
predawn raid on a residence.
Four men — Clarence Green,
Ervin Hughes, Robert Davis and
Johnny Brownlee — told federal
authorities they were taken in
for questioning and suffered
lengthy interrogations and
beatings.
The seven defendants are
officer Stephen Reboul, homi
cide division Commander Sgt.
John McKenzie, and Detectives
Dale Bonura, Ronald Brink,
Stephen Farrar, Thomas
Woodall and Richard LeBlanc.
All seven were charged with
conspiracy, a felony carrying a
maximum penalty on conviction
of 10 years in prison and a
$10,000 fine. Bonura was
named on three counts of depri
vation of rights, a misdemeanor
that could lead to one year in
prison and a $ 1,000 fine. Reboul
was charged with one count of
deprivation of rights and the
other five were charged with two
counts each.
No charges have ever been re
turned in Neupert’s slaying or in
the deaths of the four Algiers
residents.
Tax war starts
in Legislature
United Press International
AUSTIN — A battle over the
prospect of new state taxes is
brewing i
jrewing in the Legislature this
week and is expected to emerge
the day after Gov. Mark White
E resents his proposed two-year
udget to lawmakers.
The Senate has scheduled a
rare “committee of the whole”
discussion Thursday to review
requests for increased funding
for highways, public education,
prisons and other programs.
Some legislators claimed the
Senate meeting was aimed at
putting pressure on the House,
; all r
new taxes),” he said.
Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby, the Sen
ate’s presiding officer, has advo-
cated tax increases, but denied
the Thursday Senate session was
aimed at pressuring House
leadership.
Wednesday White is sche
duled to deliver his executive
budget to a joint legislative ses-
where all new tax measures must
The governor has refused to
say whether his budget will in
clude new tax recommenda
tions, preferring to hint at alter
natives that might generate
more revenue.
originate, to agree to pass new
taxing proposals to offset
/indlit
White planned to confer with
dwindling state revenues.
House Speaker Gib Lewis
said last week that at this point,
he’s very determined to avoid
new taxes.
“I would like to be able to live
within our means, but my feet
certainly are not in concrete on
that. If I saw we’d be deteriorat
ing services to education, to the
poor, to people who need state
services, then I might agree (to
t >la
ler Robert D. Bullock
before the budget presentation
for an update on anticipated
state revenues, which were ex
pected to drop by more than
$1.5 billion from earlier esti
mates because of decreases in
world oil prices, the national re
cession and declines in the
Texas border economy.
Bullock was scheduled to
announce his new revenue esti
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Police investigate killings
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<he HOUSTON — Police say
,l()ni dthout more evidence or a sus-
ect. they have no link connect-
k“F ig the deaths of four women,
|( > 3und beaten or stabbed in their
omes in a west Houston neigh-
alilii . prlood.
lepartafcSrhe funeral for Elizabeth
aubus, estranged wife of the
■per Arkansas Gov. Orval
nit for^aubus, was scheduled at noon
eed-Mfclday. She was to be buried in
Memorial Oaks Cemetery plot
te bought two months ago.
.Mrs. Faubus, 44, found
bludgeoned last Thursday in the
tub of her home, was the latest of
three women found dead in
their bathtubs.
Authorities said although
Mrs. Faubus sustained multiple
i cu
Faubus, 73, flew to Houston
Friday from his home in Little
Rock, Ark. Police took him to
Mrs. Faubus’ home to view the
scene and to tell him what they
knew about the case.
head injuries, her death was due
to suffocation, with indications
that a fatal amount of pressure
had been applied to the front of
her neck. Although medical in
vestigators said Sunday they felt
“something other than hands”
was used to kill Mrs. Faubus, no
other weapon has been found.
“It was a very brutal murder,”
Faubus said. “How in the name
of God can people do things like
that to other people?”
about a block away from the
apartment of Ruth Kottler, 61,
the first victim in the series of
killings.
Detective J.C. Moshier, chief
investigator in the case, said
police had received several tips
and information on the cases,
but had no “earth shaking”
leads.
Saturday a fourth woman was
found dead in the neighbor
hood. Bonnie Grace Wright, 40,
was found stabbed to death in
the kitchen of her townhouse,
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alias flight delayed by rat
iiscovered on food tray
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..,l[ DALLAS — An American
irlities flight was delayed 40
■ 1 inutes last month to remove a
- , it which had boarded the first
back, saying: “There’s a mouse
up there.” Later, Brydon said,
she informed passengers it was a
rat because it was at least 6 in
ches long.
, ass section on a food service
73 Old' a y
( * l j' | Passenger Don Brydon said
an( j first he feared there was bomb
aUI ( .' a hijacker on board when the
n ' j C-10 taxied to a remote area of
allas-Fort Worth Airport.
I siu crew kept looking
ept
' ils . ound and behind them. Other
''ew members paced back and
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not unusual,” Brydon said of a
Feb. 10 flight bound for New
York. “She said they come out of
the flight kitchen, and one once
ran up her arm out of a food
service tray.
He said the two Sky Chef faci
lities, where some 20,000 meals
a day are prepared for nation
wide flights, “have an outstand
ing record out there” which was
better than competitors in the
airline food service industry.
But an American flight atten
dant based in San Francisco con
firmed there were sanitary
problems in the huge Sky Chefs
facilities.
iisi' irtL, it W as a decidedly abnor-
operation before takeoff,”
.(stu^
said.
e said a flight attendant ran
m K v Sward — and immediately ran
ig a
“I decided not to eat. I guess
they trapped or killed it. I did
have another drink, though.”
American spokesman Paul
Haney confirmed the incident
but said rodents on planes are
extremely rare.
The flight attendant, who
asked not to be identified, said
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supposed to report these
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