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StateRegional News si 10 THE PALM BEACH POST TUESDAY. JANUARY 2, 1990 7 F.I.T. coach, 5 others arrested in bar brawl In Brief Bomb scare sparked melee after game in Rhode Island Eagle eggs used to restock other states When police finally cleared the bar about 1:30 a.m., the sound equipment for the band was searched. No bomb or evidence of tampering was found, police said. Both Folliard sons, who live with their father in Melbourne, were treated for minor injuries at Rhode Island Hospital before being jailed.

Thomas Folliard Jr. was charged with simple assault and obstruction of a police officer, and Kevin Folliard was charged with obstruction and resisting arrest. Also arrested on similar charges were Kevin Slattery, of Waltham, Daniels, of Northampton, and Murphy, of East Moriches, n.y. The elder Folliard played basketball for Providence in the early 1960s, then coached for 10 years at Bryant before taking coaching jobs at Stonehill College in North Easton, and thenF.I.T. F.I.T.

defeated New York Tech 97-74 Saturday night in a tournament hosted by Bryant, The six were released late Sunday morning on bail pending a Jan. 12 court hearing. By Sunday afternoon Folliard and his team had checked out of the Marriott and caught a plane home. McGiver, 24, a member of the Folliard party. A police officer wrestled McGiver to the ground.

Folliard began yelling at the officer, and patrolman Michael Harris tried to remove him from the scene. Then, Thomas J. Folliard 27, jumped on Harris' back, shouting, "Stay away from my father." Two of Folliard's companions grabbed Harris and tried to take his nightstick. Meanwhile, two other men attacked patrolman Steven Shaw, who had come to Harris' aid. One of the alleged attackers, Christopher Daniels, 25, was arrested.

The fight with police prompted a series of other brawls, and police ordered every available officer to the hotel. Thomas Folliard Jr. jumped on another officer, Sgt Alan Ziegelmeyer. When he was restrained, his brother, Kevin Folliard, 25, jumped on Ziegelmeyer before being subdued. Their father tried to grab the officers as his sons were being arrested, but he was also restrained.

As the coach was being handcuffed, one of his players, David Murphy, 20, jumped in. Murphy was restrained and handcuffed to his coach. The Associated Press The Florida Institute of Technology's basketball coach and five others, including the coach's two sons, were arrested in a Rhode Island hotel lounge after a brawl that was triggered by a bomb scare. "This was a disturbance of major proportions," police Maj. Edward J.

Collins said of Sunday morning's half-hour melee among bar patrons, Marriott Hotel security guards, Providence police and members of the F.LT. team, which hours earlier had won a holiday tournament at Bryant College in Smithfield, R.I. Thomas J. Folliard, 49, the team's coach and a former Providence College star, was charged with obstructing a police officer, a misdemeanor, and held overnight. Police described this chain of events: About 1 a.m., the police emergency line received two calls which police said were made from a pay phone in the Marriott lobby saying that a bomb had been planted in the sound equipment of a band playing in the Cahoots Lounge at the hotel.

As police evacuated the bar, a fight broke out between hotel security and Gregory Palm Beach Post Wire Services HAINES CITY To increase the number of endangered American bald eagles, biologists are stealing eggs from nests in Central Florida, then releasing the young in states where eagles are rare. So far, it's worked 129 times. And the Florida eagles whose nests are burglarized by biologists lay a second set of eggs within 30 days, this time to be left to hatch. "We're effectively doubling their output each year," said M. Alan Jenkins, of the George Miksch SflttDiiIAvian Research Center in Baftlesville, Okla.

The organization has been taking eggs from Florida since 1984. Each nest averages two eggs, whieh. are flown to Oklahoma and hatched by hens. The 129 eaglets have been released in Southern states including Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. Union salaries questioned MIAMI Seven executives of union at Port Everglades and the Port of Miami draw salaries much higher than those of most labor leaders across the country, federal documents show.

The salaries mostly come from dues paid by 1,300 dock workers. Association Local 1416 in Miami, was paid 1 187,534, according to Labor Department documents. 'If the figures are correct, there's no question that the union leaders are exploiting members for their own benefit," said Raymond Maria, acting inspector general for the U.S. Labor Department Pittman, who is paid more than even AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland ($175,000 last year), said he exploits no one. "My men voted for the salaries," he said.

Arthur Coffey III, president of ILA locals 1922 and 1922-1, was paid $155,963 last year. "I work hard, and I've done an excellent job," he said. Nationally, AFL-CIO officials say the presidents of 90 big unions are typically paid $100,000 to $150,000 a year. The FBI is investigating members and former members of locals 1922 and 1922-1 for alleged extortion and racketeering at the two ports. Investigators say the focus is on allegations that for years, the unions have demanded payoffs and kickbacks from companies at the ports.

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