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Klansman awarded
damages in beatin|
HOUSTON (AP)—A federal jury in
Galveston has awarded a Ku Klux
Klansman $55,000 in damages for jailers
placing the mart in cells with African-
American inmates who beat him.
While awaiting trial in Galveston
County Jail for kidnapping and robbing
a Dickinson man in January 1993, jailers
placed Larry Kevin Webster in cells with
African-American prisoners despite his
documented Klan membership and
recognition by his cellmates.
It culminated in a November 1993
beating during which Webster, 42, was
kicked in the face and suffered an elbow
injury. He was treated in the emergency
room at a local hospital.
Webster, who has been in Harris
County Jail since November on a parole
violation, represented himself in the
four-day civil trial.
The verdict holds Galveston County
sheriff's Maj. Eric Nevelow, who com
mands the jail, and Sgt. Leslie Hobbs,
who ran the prisoner classification pro
gram, personally liable for the damages.
Don Glywasky, who defended the
deputies, said the jail was too crowded
at the time to put Webster in cells away
from black prisoners.
"He wanted administrativesep
tion," Glywasky told theHowsfonft
icle in Wednesday's editions, "fc
of the overcrowding, they couldiiln
regate him."
During the trial, Webster pres
videotaped testimony from ola:
mates about crowded and dany-
conditions in the jail.
One African-American forma
mate, 1 lerbert Wallace, testified llialj
ers threatened to throw him in a cell
of racist skinheads. To avoid thatfe
his cell door shut with a sheetandsi
on fire hoping the stunt wouldlandli
in a cell for problem inmates.
He later received a 15-yearps
term for arson in the sheet-bum:
incident.
Glywasky said he would likely tn
settle the case with Webster so thee®
tv, rather than the deputies wouldp
the $55,000.
Webster was sentenced to tenya
in prison for the Jan. 5,1993 abdic
and robbery of Russell Joseph Flak
a 75-year-old good Samaritan, whoe
Webster and his family money, food:
clothing after reading about hisk
luck in a newspaper.
Census recount ordered to remedy cut comer
CHICAGO (AP) — The U.S. Census Bureau has
ordered a recount of. thousands of city households be
cause some workers may have cut corners to boost the
number of completed questionnaires.
Officials say there was a sudden surge in the com
pletion of census forms in parts of the city where head
counters had met resistance.
Many of the forms filled out during June showed
census takers relied on neighbors to provide infor
mation about occupants of houses and apartments,
rather than talk to the occupants themselves, the Chica
go Tribune reported Wednesday.
"We have some doubt about the quality" of the
count there, said Steve Jost, a spokesperson for the
census bureau.
Census officials say they do not know if the ques
tionable practices raised or lowered Chicago's popu
lation count. Those numbers will be released next year.
They also said they do not yet know what rules,
if any, were skirted, but hope to answer that ques
tion during the recount, which will be completed
in August.
"This is the kind of problem we know how to
solve," Jost said. "We planned for this — that there
are going to be some people out there who don't
want to follow directions or may not have been
trained properly."
The recount covers 9,000 households in the
wealthy neighborhoods of Lincoln Park and li
View, as well as the West Side.
City officials blamed the problem in affluent at;
in part on doormen who refused to let census tale
into apartment buildings.
The Chicago recount is one of a handful ordes
by the census bureau. The largest recount is tab
place in Florida, where suspected comer-cutting It
led census officials to retrace information gate
from 71,000 households.
Despite the problems, Rep. Carolyn Maloney,D
N.Y., the ranking Democrat on the House sub®
mittee on the census, said she believes the countovei
all has been efficient and thorough.
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Police arrest Ugandan cult leader
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Po
lice arrested a cult leader who had
been on the run for 10 months after at
least 24 decomposed bodies were
found buried in his camp, police said
Wednesday.
Wilson Bushara, 41, fled in Sep
tember when police raided his camp
in Bokoto, 30 miles north of Kampala,
and arrested 1,000 members of his
World Message Last Warning cult.
Bushara was arrested Monday
with 29 followers in Iganga, 80 miles
east of Kampala, police spokesman
Asuman Mugenyi said.
Police said they do not believe
Bushara's group is linked to the
Restoration of the Ten Command
ments of God, a Ugandan doomsday
cult accused in the deaths of 778
members, 330 of whom were bite
alive in a March fire at their com
pound.
Bushara began attracting crowds
last year by offering them space®
heaven after death in return for cast
Mugenyi said Wednesday tlul
Bushara likely will be chargedwib
sexual abuse and managingunlawfii
assemblies.
News in Brief
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Missing man found in chimney
MOUNT PLEASANT,
Texas(AP) — A body found
lodged in the chimney of a
marriage counseling ser
vice is believed to be that
of a man missing for more
than four years.
The “substantially
skeletal” body, which
was discovered and re
ported Monday night,
was dislodged from the
inside of the building
Tuesday after a four-and-
a-half hour effort.
Hair and clothing on the
body match the descrip
tion of a man who had
been missing since Janu
ary 1996, Mount Pleasant
Police Chief Richard Park
er said.
A preliminary report
from the medical examin
er’s office showed the body
to be a man in his mid 20s
— matching the missing
man — and one that had
been decaying for several
years, Parker said.
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fire logs still under consideration,
Genevive G. Stubbs is quoted assai
ing that the district attorney’s offifi
has forced the removal process!
progress slower than many Collef
Station residents consider ideal.
The attorney general’s office,n(
the district attorney’s, is involved
advising the University concerri
potential civil liability undertherui
of spoliation, which has been aft
tor in the retention of the logs;
this time.
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