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iformant program
ilasted by ACLU
Warped
by Scott McCullar
nited Press International
jVISVILLE — Of ficials at a
Texas school insist their
Julds for expelling 14 stu-
|do not amount to a drug-
snitch program,” but civil
Jgroups blasted the widely
|ized campaign, calling it
stitutional and harmful.
Eei (Despite this, educators across
ustjBtion say they were study-
th Lewisville High School
■ of using paid informants
Ip them combat the epide-
■'youth drug abuse.
T.ewisville is doing what
ks in Lewisville,” said Jim
|l, FLA coordinator for the
"War on Drugs,” a state-
campaign founded and
jdvfunded by Dallas compu-
ftgnate H. Ross Perot,
here are 2,200 kids in
in Lewisville,” he said,
ight to go to school in a
Tee environment must be
:ted. In this case, the prin
ts been courageous and
rned. It seems like a good
nn for the situation in that
city. A lot of educators are look
ing at it.”
Yet it is the use of informant
money that inflames critics.
“if money is not the heart and
soul of the program, then do
away with it,” said Jack Novik,
assistant director of the Amer
ican Civil Liberties Union in
New York. “But they can’t do
away with it, because they
wouldn’t, get the same re
sponse.”
And the response has been
good.
Students were offered up to
$100 for information leading to
the arrest and conviction of
other students who use or sell
drugs. Since September 1982,
the Dallas school paid out about
$450 from funds raised by its
Parent, Teacher and Student
Association. At least 30 students
were turned in. Fourteen were
expelled and all face criminal
charges.
But detractors say the prog
ram may have wider implica
tions.
“Conceptually there’s no dif
ference between offering $100
to turn in somebody w4th a joint
in their pocket than offering
$100 for somebody who steals a
hubcap or engages in illicit sex,”
Novik argued, “ft’s teaching
children values which conflict
with the principals and values
embodied in the Constitution,
values of freedom and privacy.
It conflicts with some basic no
tions about how w'e deal with
ourselves. There is also the con
cern of Hitler Youth-type
spying and distrust.”
Law enforcement officials,
however, insist it is the atmos
phere which makes the program
click.
“It doesn’t bother me that
kids are turning in their best
friends,” Lewisville Police Chief
Steve McFadden said. “I’m not
interested in the politics of it.
What they are doing is working.
A doper turns in his best friend,
and that’s one less doper.”
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United Press International
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his grandfather, Travis Can
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Montgomery County Court
at Law Judge Jerry Winfree
ruled Monday after a 25-minute
hearing at which the boy was
present but did not testify. His
grandmother, aunt and other
friends and relatives joined him
at the hearing.
Montgomery County Chief
Deputy Steve Graeter said the
boy admitted the attack and that
it appeared the boy was strug
gling with his uncle and his
father walked in on the incident.
Although the youth gave au
thorities a statement, he is too
young under Texas law to be
tried or convicted as an adult.
Student found
in trunk of car
United Press International
AMARILLO — A Texas Tech
University student, who was
found unconscious in the trunk
of a car, was in satisfactory con
dition today recovering from in
juries suffered in a struggle with
her abductor, police said.
Beverly Jane Reed, 21, of
Lubbock, was abducted from
her apartment Sunday night by
a man who tried to strangle her,
then bound her hands and feet
and locked her in the trunk of a
car, police said.
An abandoned car was found
Monday night by an officer
from Tulia, Texas, about 70
miles south of Lubbock where
the school is located, authorities
said.
Tulia Police Chief Tom
Rolen said the officer later
found a man hiding in bushes
near the abandoned car and
took him into custody.
“T he car was towed back to
the station and it was there offic
ers heard whimpering sounds
coming from the trunk,” Rolen
said. “The trunk was pried open
and the girl was found nude and
tied. She was rushed to the hos
pital in Amarillo (40 miles north
of Tulia). The woman bore
strangulation marks and exten
sive bruises”
Rolen said tests at the hospital
showed the woman had not been
sexually assaulted.
He said the man arrested at
the scene was charged with
aggravated kidnapping and
bond for him was set at $75,()()().
He was identified as Herman
Ray Winniford, 25, a former Air
Force sergeant and Texas Lech
student.
Rolen said Winniford admit
ted to them that he tried to
strangle the woman at her apart
ment. The police chief said the
two were acquainted through
classes they attended together.
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