Page 8/The Battalion/Wednesday, June 15, 1983
Warped
by Scott McCullar
Police get guilty verdict
Dentist gets $2.1 million
United Press International
DALLAS — A federal court
jury awarded a dentist more
than $2.1 million in damages be
cause three University Park
policemen brutally beat him.
Earl Paschall’s constitutional
rights were violated by his arrest
and when of ficers assaulted him
at the police station, the jury
ruled Monday. Otto B. Mulli-
nax, Paschall’s attorney, said he
was pleased with the verdict and
hoped it would send a message
to University Park officials that
“the rogue cops” were “grossly
misusing their authority.”
The posh city of University
Park, one of the wealthiest areas
of Dallas, was not named in the
suit, filed against officers
Richard Acree, F.R. Carr and
John McDonnell, who are still
on the force.
University Park Police Chief
David Biedelman was out of the
city and could not be reached for
comment. Other police officials
ref used to comment.
Mullinax said the suit may not
end the matter, because Paschall
and others have appeared be
fore a federal grand jury investi
gating the Dec. 16, 1981, arrest.
Assistant U.S. Attorney
Cheryl Wattley said Paschall
filed a civil rights complaint with
federal authorities, and the Jus
tice Department was investigat-
dur-
ing. Paschall was arrested
ing a Christmas party. He and
guests testified that Acree, who
was off-duty, came to his home
and assaulted one of the guests.
The dentist said when he pro
tested, McDonnell and Carf,
who had been called to assist,
began beating him. They hand
cuffed him, arrested him, took
him to the police station and
then beat him unconscious and
dragged him by the hair into a
cell. They also pulled ot some of
his hair and threw it on the floor
of his cell, he testified.
The beatings left him perma
nently injured and unable to
Mayors warned gas revenues
may not up funding to cities
United Press International
DENVER — Transportation
Secretary Elizabeth Dole is put
ting the nation’s mayors on
notice that they should not ex
pect additional federal money
for public transportation sub
sidies despite the new federal
gasoline tax.
Dole, addressing the 51st
annual U.S. Conference of
Mayors Monday, acknowledged
billions of dollars will become
available for public transporta
tion due to the gas tax.
But, she said, “The federal
role should focus on capital
programs, and operating sub
sidies should be phased out. The
feeling (in the Reagan adminis
tration) has been that operating
subsidies do not produce
enough flexibility at the local
level.”
A resolution being consi
dered by the mayors conference
calls on the federal government
for “full funding for public
transportation capital and oper
ating assistance.”
The federal gasoline tax,
approved by Congress last year,
earmarks 1 percent for public
transportation. Dole said the
legislation provides the first
“assured” feral capital funding
base for urban transportation
systems.
While the legislation will help
build “more efficient, more eco
nomical and more responsive”
transportation systems, she said,
“it cannot be done with federal
money and federal programs
alone.”
Sen. Ernest Hollings of South
Carolina, one of six Democrats
running for president, addres
sed the conference earlier and
criticized the Reagan adminis
tration for failing to formulate
an urban policy. Hollings sided
with the mayors in arguing the
third year of President Reagan’s
tax cut should be canceled, and
called for a one-year freeze on
The conference’s first plen
ary session opened with an
attack on the Reagan adminis
tration by Detroit Mayor Cole
man Young, president of the
mayors conference.
Young said the administra
tion has taken a position of “be
nign neglect” toward the na
tion’s cities.
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Reagan again pushing
merit pay for teachers
United Press International
WASH INGTON — President
Reagan was travelling Tuesday,
advocating merit pay for
teachers and other reforms to
educators, government officials
and tax-paying parents.
Reagan’s two-day trip includes
lunch Tuesday with teachers in
Tennessee and an address
Wednesday to a PTA conven
tion in New Mexico.
work full time, Paschall said.
The suit said the beatings caused
spinal injuries resulting in
numbness in his fingers and ver
tigo.
The jury ruled Acree and
Carr did not have probable
cause to arrrest Paschall, that the
officers should have known the
arrest was unlawful and that the
arrest caused harm to the de
ntist. In addition, the panel also
ruled that Acree and Carr used
excessive force during the arrest
and physically harmed Paschall.
While at Farragut High
School outside Knoxville,
Tenn., Reagan plans to partici
pate in a panel discussion f ocus
ing on a sharp indictment of the
nation’s schools by the National
Commission on Excellence in
Education. The event is billed as
“a listening opportunity” for the
president. At his first such out-
of-town forum last week in Min
neapolis, Reagan, then an active
participant, had to defer to Edu
cation Secretary Terrel Bell to
recite his education initiatives.
The Tennessee stop was in
tended to spotlight an adminis
tration-backed call for master
teacher plans that would pay
bonuses to top-rated educators
as an incentive to attract qual
ified people and encourage
them to excel. The idea is a less
radical version of Reagan’s
broader proposal to pay
teachers on the basis of merit
rather than seniority, which has
struck a sensitive nerve with
teachers' unions.
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ture, only to see it derailed by
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however, is one Reagatilj
yet fully addressed.
Reagan, who came into office
vowing to attack the size and in
fluence of the federal govern
ment, maintains the deteriora
tion of the educational system
over the last 20 years can be
attributed at least in part to fed-
The president has si
that money could be
f rom areas with loherpi
such new initiatives as
teacher bonuses and
school days. But he has
identified those “lower
All charges agaist the dentist
were dismissed prior to the four-
day trial on the suit.
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gives everyone equal chana
most federal entitlements and
discretionary spending and a “3
percent growth freeze” in de
fense spending.
He also criticized Reagan for
“turning back from good prog
rams” designed to help Amer
ica’s cities.
United Press International
LOS ANGELES — The 5.6
million 1984 Olympics tickets on
sale Tuesday under a compute
rized mail-order system — 70
percent of all seats for the sum
mer games — will be as available
to a gas pump attendant as to an
oil company president.
Peter Ueberroth, president
of the Los Angeles Olympic
Organizing Committee, said
Monday even President Reagan
and Mayor Tom Bradley, who
will be given seats as official
hosts of the mammoth sports
festival, must fill out order
forms for tickets for their fami
lies.
The tickets range in price
from $3 for the cheapest seats at
several events, including pre
liminary basketball and vol
leyball games, to $200 for the
best viewing spots for the open
ing and closing ceremonies at
the Coliseum. During the 1932
Olympics, held at the same sta
dium, ticket prices ranged from
$1 to $3.
orders for 30 '‘preniiunnj
expected to sell out!
Tickets must be ordered on
brochures being distributed na
tionally at 3,300 Sears, Roebuck
and Co. stores and at 400 bran
ches of the First Interstate Bank
and Manufacturers Hanover
Trust in Southern California
and greater New York. Officials
insisted the system would limit
the potential of brokers to buy
up and resell tickets at higher
prices and eliminate favoritism
for special interest groups. Tick
ets for most events will be avail
able in unlimited quantities. But
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Candidate backs his pledg
United Press International
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — A
candidate for the Westchester
County Legislature is offering
voters a “money back” guaran
tee that he will not break his
campaign promises.
“If somebody contributes to
my campaign because of the
things I say, they should expect
that their money will be well
spent,” Paul Feiner, 27, said
Monday.
“If I don’t keejj my promises.
I’ll return the money out of my
own pocket. I’m staking my
financial well-being on this
promise. How many politicians
would be willing to do that?” he
said.
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terested in Feiner’s “money-
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