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United Press International
AUSTIN — Texas Army Na
tional Guard helicopter pilots
will try to spot marijuana fields
for state police while on routine
flights, officials said Monday.
DPS and Guard officials said
a “memorandum of under
standing” is expected to be
signed within 30 days.
The agreement will permit
the Guard to gather drug-re
lated intelligence for DPS dur
ing regular duty hours, but for
bids the Guard from taking an
enforcement role.
Pilots of 105 Guard helicopt
ers will be trained by DPS to
taut commander of the DPS
Narcotics Service. “But we now
have a vehicle for cooperation,
so the military won’tjust turn its
head away when it sees some
thing.”
Scott said there would be no
additional costs to the state.
Filmmaker plans new NBC miniseries
First Olympic team subject of show
United Press International
Bk'F.W YORK — Decades-old
tliary notations about a chance
encounter with a member of the
, first U.S. Olympic team trig-
k I Af8 ered fil inma ^ er Gary Allison’s
) I V| idea for a miniseries about the
1896 Games in Athens.
X ■rThe First Olympics —
i ar y rn Athens 1896,” starring Angela
arm, Lansbury, David Ogden Stiers
in con ("M-A-S-H”), Louis Jourdan,
ip nien[ Honor Blackman (“Gold-
finger”) and Gayle Hunnicutt,
'‘irgts J| lair May 20 and 21 on NBC
esl im/W\llison began work •*
y g f ‘‘ five-hour miniseries
nultLm e ‘g hl y ears a g°-
, su it jJphe filmmaker had just
ructi, j scored a hit with his motion pic-
danctuLj
ard L
on the
almost
lure “Fraternity Row,” and his
agent urged him to get to work
right away on another project.
"I was working on two other
scripts, interesting as subjects,
but they had been other peo
ple’s ideas,” Allison said.
In search of a story of his
own, he turned to the diaries he
has kept since he was a young
boy.
“The minute I landed on it I
knew it was wonderful.”
The notations described a
chance meeting he had in the
early 1960s in Maryland with
Robert Garrett, who won gold
medals in both the shot put and
discus competition in the 1896
Games.
Garrett (played by Block) was
not the first member of the
1896 U.S. Olympic Team whom
Allison had met. In 1956, he
met William Welles Hoyt, 1896
pole vault gold medal winner, at
a party given by Allison’s par
ents at their Galifornia home.
Allison recalled in his diary
that when he told Garrett about
meeting Hoyt, the old man’s
eyes lit up.
‘“Is my friend Bill Hoyt still
alive?’ he asked me.”
Allison had his mother track
down the tall, shy old man only
to learn that he had died about
a year after that party in Cali
fornia.
He broke the news to Garrett
in a telephone call.
“When I told him Hoyt was
dead, he said, ‘Then I’m the last
one.’”
He began doing research on
the 1896 Games, only to find
that little had been written
about them other than statistical
information in anthologies.
By that time, Garrett also had
died. So Allison began hunting
down the decendants.
“We were talking 15 families
— 13 team members, the coach
and the man who created them
all, Dr. William Sloane (Stiers).”
The families provided Alli
son with pictures that have
never been published, and one
family had a complete set of
programs printed in Greek and
French, something Allison said
even the Greek government
does not have.
“As I found the families, I
was always greeted with, ‘At
long last, somebody’s finally in
terested.’
“Sport, as a social interest,
was just being born worldwide
— more potent in Europe, vir
tually absent in America.”
One man found a picture of a
discus and had a team member
bring it to a local blacksmith, Al
lison said. The smith made a
similar object that weighed 27
pounds.
identify marijuana fields from
the air, said Maj. Gen. Willie
Scott, state adjutant general.
Guard pilots are to report to
DPS, which will follow up with
an investigation.
“We do not believe that the
military should be directly in
volved in the law enforcement
function,” said Bill Pruitt, assis-
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FCC: cities overcharging cable
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United Press International
(WASHINGTON — Scores of
dies nationwide are forcing ca-
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aa The FCC began its investiga
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Jim McKinney, head of the
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ever, to speculate on the likeli
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Tonawanda were being investi
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armedf NEW YORK — The still un-
yptic named daughter of Rolling
ble-ci Stone Mick Jagger and his girl
friend, model Jerry Hall, has
o ot the lips of her famous father,
kle : Hall said.
by fr? Hall, 27, of Mesquite, Texas,
|e. was discharged Sunday from
t ben Lenox Hill Hospital, where she
‘I’ve gave birth to a 8-pound, 2-
Jes f |,: ounce girl at 1:37 a.m. Friday,
t gu) She was seen returning from
the hospital to Jagger’s West
/.e wii Side apartment.
3I0, T “The baby has the cutest lips
;r Sr 11 just like her daddy,” Hall said.
^ua The child is Jagger’s third
itic 1 daughter.
the V Hall said she opted for natu-
\ugb|al birth, a method that calls for
tie aJ the use of medication only if it is
'd pi'lieecled to address a specific
> hot'problem, said Carolyn Villamil,
fticalsimo heads the hospital’s midwi-
very practice program.
I “There can be an increased
maternal-paternal attachment
because the mother is not
knocked out with a lot of medi
cation,” Villamil said. “She can
heat the first cries of her child,
11 she can hold and touch that
1 cali f|Jagger’s oldest daughter,
■t al Jade, 12, was born to Jagger
-ted; and Nj cara g uan wife, Bi-
anca Perez Morena de Macias.
Jihecouple divorced in 1979 af-
JJaiJ ter eight years of marriage.
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jit; rock star was ordered to pay
cflUS 1 finger Marsha Hunt $16,800
gnatjfor support of their 9-year-old
aughter, Karis.
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