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FRIDAY Apartment life just can't bee this bad Swarm evicted from condo wall TPTMYS HIGH: TONIGHT'S LOWi Holyfield credibility will get no boost But Old George is another story 71 57 Complete weather forecast on 8B ri 1 1 i TFTO NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE A GANNETT NEWSPAPER 35 cants Volume 87, No. 109 Copyright, 1981 Second Clan postagB paid ia Nulnilk, TN it 11 11 1L JPolice DM case witness mot called CI-' Couldn't find him, prosecutor contends By BRAD SCHMtTT Staff Writer A prosecutor failed to subpoena the only eyewitness in a DUI case against a Metro police officer charged with crashing his cruiser, a move that let the officer walk free. James F. Walsh the County assistant district attor- general who prosecuted the said court officers were nhle to find John Guthrie of tentionally botched the case because McGrapth is a police officer. Walsh and Johnson vehemently denied that was true, pointing to dozens of recent cases where police have been successfully prosecuted.

Walsh said Guthrie was not called because court of fleers could not find him. The home number listed for Guthrie on the police report was disconnected, Walsh was told. People who answered the phone at Guthrie's listed work number said he no longer worked there. Furthermore, when the grand jury indictment was typed, Guthrie's last name was spelled "Buthrie," records show. But Walsh said he thought Guthrie's testimony "wouldn't be necessary" because he thought there was "monumental circumstantial evidence.

"Investigating officer TRobert Groves went to the scene, where he talked with some superior officers. He recognized the fact that the defendant's car was the cruiser involved in the accident. "He had a conversation with those officers and "There's no question we should have had that witness," Johnson said. "It's safe to say not enough was done to locate that witness." Guthrie told an officer and The Tennessean that Sgt Keith McGrapth off duty but in uniform swerved his cruiser off Interstate 24 onto the shoulder and crashed into an abandoned car, demolishing that car, early on Feb. 2.

A blood-alcohol test ordered by superior officers while McGrapth was being treated for accident-related injuries for police internal use only showed McGrapth was too drunk to legally drive, officials said. But Criminal Court Judge Seth Norman dismissed DUI charges against McGrapth at his trial earlier this month because Walsh failed to prove McGrapth was driving the cruiser. "They brought nobody in to prove to me the man was driving the car," Norman said. The dismissal kicked off rampant speculation within and outside the Police Department that prosecutors in Bush plans 'education revolution' Tennessean News Services and Staff Reports WASHINGTON President Bush unveiled his blueprint yesterday for "a revolution in American education," including a voluntary nationwide exam system, aid pegged to academic results and $550 million to start new schools from scratch. "We must transform America's schools.

The days of the status quo are over," Bush declared as he presented his "America 2000" education strategy to an East Room audience of governors, business leaders and educators. "The time for all the reports and rankings, for all the studies and surveys about what's wrong with our schools, is past" Bush said. The plan, crafted by new Education Secretary Lamar Alexander in his first month on the job, calls for relatively little new federal spending. It relies instead upon states, governors, teachers, parents, students and communities to take steps to embrace the pew education goals that Bush and the governors pronounced early last year. Still, Bush said he will ask Congress for $690 million, mostly for $1 million seed grants to open a prototype "New American School" in each of the 435 congressional districts by 1996, plus two for each state corresponding to the number of senators the same allocation formula used for electoral votes.

He invited communities to vie for the grants to create the non-traditional new schools, some of which may be operated by private businesses. Former U.S. Secretary of Education Lauro Ca-vazos, In Nashville yesterday morning to speak at a Tennessee College Association meeting, said a iNshville, the only person police MCGRAPTH say witnessed the Feb. 2, 1990, crash. The Tennessean found Guthrie this week by calling directory assistance.

District Attorney General Torry Johnson conceded yesterday his office could have tried harder to find Guthrie. I Turn to PAGE 10A, Column 6 1. -X national test was a bad idea, but that school choice was a good idea. Cavazos said he did not object to evaluating indi vidual students to determine their strengths and weaknesses. But a national test was problematic because tests often are culturally, racially or gend' er biased.

Using multiple evaluations would be better, he said. Cavazos, who is Hispanic, said minorities often I I Turn to PAGE 2A, Column 1 ON2A President Bush's education initiative parallels Gov. Ned McWherter's 21st Century Classroom reform proposals, Education Commissioner Charles Smith says. with Lamar Alexander. Anderson's ex granted custody But singer pleased with visitation By KIRK LOCCIWS Staff Writer Singer Lynn Anderson left Circuit Court smiling yes HP UALTY OF WAR A 4-year-old is treated by an Iraqi doctor Iraqi hands.

The child and three of his brothers sustained severe burns while playing with gunpowder from artillery rounds they discovered in as his mother looks on at the Safwan, Iraq medical clinic, which was reopened by the United States military and recently transferred into the fields around Safwan. Story on 7A. Saturn cafeteria Sequatchie pair shot in head, autopsy says 1 workers' strike decision looms terday, even though a judge had just given custody of two of her children to her ex-husband, wealthy investor Harold (Spook) Stream III. Anderson was pleased because Judge Muriel Robinson Rice provided her with "extensive" visitation rights and did not impose the rigid conditions which Stream had wanted to place on Anderson's visits with their son, 11, and daughter, who turns 10 today. ANDERSON By DON HINKLE and WILLIAM E.

CREER Stiff Writers. 1 striKe looms at saiurn, dui not fie' autoworkers who might be talking the picket lines. About 125 contract employees at By CINMY WHITEHOUSE State Writer Preliminary autopsy reports show a Sequatchie County couple died of gunshot wounds to the head about the time they disappeared from their home in March, state medical examiner Dr. Charles Harlan said yesterday. 1 Investigators are still searching for a second suspect in the robbery and slayings of Clarence (Joe) Harvey, 57, and his wife, Mat-tie (Teah) Harvey.

Their niece, Cheryl Holland, has been missing since three days after the couple's home was found ransacked and gutted by fire March 4. "We've got leads in different locations, but no idea where she is exactly," said Assistant District Attorney Tom Hembree. The bodies were found Wednesday night in the trunk of their Oldsmobile at the bottom of the Tennessee River near a Bridgeport, ferry. Edward Arnold Wooton, 20, was arrested April 11 after telling police he and Holland, 26, both of Rossville, robbed and shot the Harveys, put their bodies in the car trunk and ran it into the river, about 200 yards from where divers retrieved the vehicle. Holland grew up on Lewis Chapel Mountain next door to the couple, who were believed to have kept large amounts of cash in I Turn to PAGE 2A, Column 1 'the Saturn Corp.

cafeteria yester Workers Union Local 1853 last September, authorized the possible walkout UAW officials would not release the exact tally last night If the cafeteria workers strike, it would be the first work stoppage authorized by a union at the massive Spring Hill plant since it was announced in 1985. The question Is: Would Saturn workers honor the pickets by their union brethren? The unprecedented contract that Turn to PAGE 2A, Column 5 "I'm just glad that it's over," Anderson said. "Of course, I wish it could have been settled without putting my friends and family and kids through such nonsense." Anderson's lawyer, Mary Frances Rudy, called Rice's ruling "a victory" because "we got more than what we were offered." Anderson, 43, who says her country music singing career has been "destroyed" by the custody dispute, hopes to recover her legal fees from Stream, 42, who earned $600,000 last year from investments. Rice said Anderson "has made some mistakes," prin- Turn to PAGE 10A, Column 1 day authorized a strike against their employer, Morrison-Milco, unless an April 30 negotiating session results in better benefits and wages. Approximately 98 of the cafeteria workers, who voted unanimously to join the United Auto COLLEGE ATHLETICS Tennessee athletic officials, sources '1HONORS tv-.

for skipping class DAYBREAK 0i( to counsel CONTENTS say, will not offer substantial argument against NCAA findings on four allegations of improper recruiting tactics by assistant coach Jack Sells. However, the BANKING NO "easy fixes' but First American can become strong again, Chairman James F. Smith Jr. tells shareholders. He calls 1991 "a year of transition" for the bank that lost $62 million in 1990 on troubled real estate loans.

Not promising a profit this year, Smith forecasts better times next year and a possible return to commonly accepted profit levels in 1993. First American would have needed $16 million in first-quarter profits, well over its actual $1.37 million, to achieve those levels now, he says. On 1E. 1IEALTH A blood test detects cancers of the breast, ovary, skin early enough for effective treatment, says Dr. Samuel Bogoch, the Boston researcher who developed the test.

His studies cover more than 4,000 patients over the past 10 years. On 8A. Self-destructing syringes may help' slow the spread of AIDS. Former U.S. Surgeon General C.

Everett Koop calls the syringes "the first small technological step toward controlling the spread of HtV infection." On 8A. ii i other high school stu-; dents, against drug use, Jawanza Whit- Jield receives a of light" award from President Bush at the White Mouse next Friday 'xtoless he's busy counseling. Whitfield, pf9, now attends Fisk University. On 63, Boxing 1C Horoscope 2SD BwiiMM 1-4E WMkand ShowcaMl-280 ClassifM 4-22E MetroState MB Comics 2S-27D Movies Crossword .270 Newsmakers 3A Opry Update .230 Scoreboard 7C Deaths SB Sports 1-C Editorials 16-18A Television 20-210 ON 2A: The Work) In Five Minutes university is expected to contest a charge dealing with an alleged Invitation-only summer camp for top-level football re cruits. On 1C.

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