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IDALLAS (AP) - Even
though he leads one of the na
tion's largest police departments,
Dallas Police Chief Bill Rathburn
still has not met the legal require
ments necessary to be a Texas
peace officer.
But he's working on it.
Rathburn took over Dallas'
2,800-member force in March. But
until he completes a 10-unit
course, he will not be able to wear
a police uniform or carry a gun.
'T have to go through what is
kind of like a correspondence
course/' Rathburn said. The chief
has to complete a course which
covers areas such as the penal
code and the code of criminal pro
cedure.
The course is written by the
Former Los Angeles officer
works for Texas accreditation
Texas Commission on Law En
forcement Officer Standards and
Education.
A study guide is used to com
plete each unit.
But the answers must be hand
written to ensure authenticity, and
there are several questions to an
swer.
"Just for the penal code as an
example, I had to answer 162
questions," Rathburn said. "It
took me 55 pages of legal tablet,
handwritten."
But Rathburn's lack of techni
cal certification has not kept him
from placing his personal stamp
on the police force he's headed for
six months.
Since leaving the Los Angeles
Police Department, where he
worked for 27 years, Rathburn has
made several revisions designed
to save money or lower the city's
crime rate.
He has expanded the homicide
section from 22 to 36 detectives
and started a pilot neighborhood-
oriented police patrol plan in
southeast Dallas.
Some critics say Rathburn
should have become more familiar
with his department before mak
ing changes. But many city and
police officials say they are im
pressed with the chief's initiative.
"He's doing a good job," said
City Council member A1 Lip
scomb, a strong supporter of for
mer Police Chief Mack Vines. "I'm
saying that because the private
sector, the neighborhood groups,
the political groups and his troops
are saying that."
Now all Rathburn has to do is
prepare for his final exam. If he
passes, he can carry a gun. Until
then, the chief's primary weapons
will remain his pencil and paper.
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Soviets plan loose confederation
MOSCOW (AP) — More than 2,000 law
makers met today in an extraordinary session
of the Congress of People's Deputies and im
mediately began weighing a plan to radically
transform the Soviet Union into a loose confed
eration.
President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kaza
khstan read a list of proposals for creating a
new union that he said were worked out on
Sunday between President Mikhail S. Gor
bachev and leaders of 10 of the 15 republics.
The Congress — the country's supreme leg
islative body — then recessed for four hours to
consider the plan.
The move was seen as a pre-emptive strike
by Gorbachev and republic leaders against con
servative forces.
Congress is still dominated by Communists,
whose long-dominant party has been ejected
from the national government and seen its as
sets seized in the aftermath of the failed August
coup by party hard-liners. ,
The plan read by Nazarbajev urged the
signing of a treaty to form a union of sovereign
states, with each republic free to define its own
form of participation and all republics agreeing
to join in economic union.
He said the plan seeks "to prevent the un
controlled dissolution of the union."
Immediately after the Congress adjourned,
hard-line lawmaker Col. Viktor Alksnis ran up
to a microphone that was turned off. The
colonel, head of the conservative Soyuz group
of deputies, shouted for the deputies not to
leave.
Another deputy grabbed the powerless mi
crophone and said, "Why should 10 people de
cide for thousands?"
Nazarbayev said the plan was worked out
between Gorbachev and the leaders of Russia,
the Ukraine, Byelorussia, Kazakhstan, Uzbek
istan, Azerbaijan, Kirghizia, Tadzhikistan, Ar
menia and Turkmenia.
Georgia also participated in the discussion,
he said.
Absent were Moldavia and the three Baltic
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CHINA, Texas (AP) - The
trim and tiny white house in this
southeast Texas farm town doesn't
look much like a place for healing.
But inside, Verlie and Wilma Berg
eron arc 'lY^vrij? faith hehhng/a*
supplemehFVeymodern medicine.
When aiflflg people cross the
threshold at the Bergerons' home,
the retired couple offers ancient
prayers and soothing words of the
"traiteurs," or Cajun faith healers.
The Bergerons and other Ca
juns like them believe they are con
duits between sufferers and God
— or that through their prayers,
those who believe can be healed.
Their musical accents hint at
childhoods in the bayous of
French-speaking Louisiana, whose
border is about 45 miles from Chi
na. A 3-foot statue of the Virgin
Mary in their living room bears
testimony to their Catholic faith.
"When we were growing up
there wasn't any such thing as go
ing to a doctor when you were
sick," Verlie Bergeron said. "H you
got sick you went to somebody for
a treatment."
But the Bergerons do consider
modern medicine a God-given gift
of the era.
"We always tell people to keep
taking their medicine and do just
what the doctor tells them to do,"
Wilma Bergeron said.
"You know a doctor can't do
anything for shingles," she adds.
"A treatment can take the pain
right out of the shingles."
The couple has learned specific
sets of prayers for shingles, blood
and bleeding problems, general
healing and relief of suffering.
Plane makes
emergency
landing
TYLER (AP) — An American
Eagle commuter plane made an
emergency landing Sunday after
losing power to its right engine.
The twin-engine J-31 Jet
stream, carrying 14 passengers
and two crew members, landed
without incident at Tyler Pounds
Field Airport about 5:30 p.m. The
plane had been en route from
Longview to Dallas.
Neither pilot would comment
about the unscheduled landing.
But passengers said the engine
failed within sight of the airport.
"(One of the pilots) just told us
he had lost complete power to the
right engine and calmly reassured
us not to be afraid," said passen
ger Theodus Davis, 74.
The passengers were flown to
Dallas on another plane about 45
minutes after the forced landing.
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