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Page 16/The Battalion/Wednesday, April 20, 1983 Warped by Scott McCullar Pulitzers awarded; Post, Times on top Mafia kingpin denied help United Press International WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Byron White Tuesday refused to help Mafia kingpin Carlos Marcello, 73, win release from jail, where he is awaiting the start of a sentence for a conviction in the FBI’s Bri- lab probe. Without comment, White re jected a bid by lawyers for Mar cello and Charles Roemer III, former Louisiana commissioner of administration, to avoid jail until they finish filing appeals of their racketeering convictions. Marcello was ordered to jail last Friday to await the start of his seven-year prison term. Au thorities had expressed fears the reputed “Little Man” of Gulf Coast organized crime might try to flee the country. Roemer has been ordered to surrender to prison officials next Monday to start serving a three-year prison term for a Bri- lab conviction. In the Brilab investigation, undercover FBI agents posed as insurance salesmen willing to pay bribes for lucrative state in surance business. In papers filed with the Sup reme Court, the men’s New Orleans lawyers had claimed a lower court did not follow prop er procedures when it ordered the pair to jail. They urged White to nullify orders by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals permitting the jailings, at least until they can file for a rehearing of the circuit’s court decision upholding the the secret is out... Rumours has it!! ITT". ^5 T "ITT convictions. “This court should not countenance the improper pro cedures adopted by the court of appeals,” said New Orleans lawyers Arthur Lemann and John Martzell in papers filed with the high court. “It is not only unprecedented and unau thorized, but it creates obvious due process pitfalls.” “In short, it was a Star Cham ber proceeding,” they said, re ferring to an abolished royal En glish court notorious for its sec ret sessions and use of torture to force confessions. Federal court rules dictate that after an appeals court up holds a conviction and jail sent ence, it has 21 days to order the trial judge to sign papers order ing the convicted felons to jail. United Press International NEW YORK — The New York Times and The Washing- on Post added to their bounty of Pulitzer Prizes by winning two of journalism’s most prestigious awards each. The only prize to a Texas newspaper went to James B. Dickman of The Dallas Times Herald who won the feature photography prize for a special report on El Salvador. The prizes to The Times and The Post included one they shared for their individual cov erage of the war in ^Lebanon. The prizes brought to 54 the number °f Pulitzers won by The Times and to 18 for The Post. New York Times columnist Russell Baker, a 1979 prizewin ner for newspaper commentary, won this year’s biography award for his autobiographical book “Growing Up.” Washington Post reporter Loretta Tofani won the prize for general local reporting for a series on inhumane conditions in a suburban Maryland jail. The coveted public service prize went to the Jackson, Miss., Clarion-Ledger for its series on public school education in Mis sissippi. The Boston Globe w T as awarded the national reporting prize, its ninth Pulitzer, for a 56- page Sunday magazine supple ment titled “War and Peace in the Nuclear Age.” Controversy was rekindled this year because the Pulitzer Board moved the Globe entry from the public service category to the national reporting sec tion. Two Knight-Ridder news papers — The Fort Wayne (Ind.) News-Sentinel and the Miami Herald — also won awards. The Fort Wayne newspaper received the general local re porting prize for coverage of the worst floods to hit the city in nearly 70 years. The Pulitzer jurors said the daily coverage of the weeklong floods in March 1982 “required personal cour age, resourcefulness, and indi vidual sacrifice.” “We’re speechless, but we’re delighted," said Stewart Spencer, executive editor of the News-Sentinel. The Miami Herald won the editorial writing award for its campaign against the Reagan administration’s jxdicy of de taining illegal Haitian immig rants. In awarding the public service award to the Jackson Clarion Ledger, the Pulitzer board said the new spaper’s 24-day series of news stories, analysis and edito rials last November on public education in Mississippi “helped change the course of education" mnn simiim lai ^ FALL of the HOUSE of USHER i starring VINCENT PRICE U presented by JJU /Vise CEPHEID VARIABLE ^ ! THUR. APRIL 21 RUDDER 701 7:30-& 9:45PM ADMISSION - SI.00 in the state. Richard LocheroftheCliii go Tribune won the prize editorial cartooning forsubjdi ranging from President Reap to the Middle East to hometa puters. Loren Jenkins of Washington Post and Thoa I Friedman of The Nevd 1 imes shared the prizeforim II a t ional reporting for theirii vicinal coverage of thera Lebanon, particularly the sat re last September at Palestinian refugee camps west Beirut. Nan Robertson of The York Times won the feit writing award for her “dram personal account of howshe struck down by toxic shod] drome” on Thanksgiving 1! Robertson lost the end eight fingers to the disease the Pulitzer jury credited article with saving the lilt woman w ho read a reprintit Lawrence (Mass.) 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