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ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1993 U.S. To Send 1,500 Inmates Back To Cuba! ime Advocate Longl Still Favors Busing are in 37 federal facilities. The largest Cuban inmate populations are 200 at Leavenworth, followed by 100 at Lompoc, he said. The precautions were taken to prevent uprisings that have occurred in the past among Cubans opposed to returning to their homeland run by Fidel Castro, he said. "We didn't want them reacting to prison gossip," Stern said in explain-.

ing the actions that began at 3 a.m. Tuesday. He said the lockdowns would continue to this morning. The inmates to be sent home under the U.S.-Cuba agreement would WASHINGTON (AP) About 1,500 Cuban inmates in federal prisons will be repatriated, Justice Department officials said Tuesday, adding they had locked down all Cubans in top-security prisons to guard against rioting over the move. Guards locked down all 2,592 Cuban inmates in maximum- and medium-security federal prisons after telling them before dawn about the plans to send 1,500 back to Cuba, Justice Department spokesman Carl Stern said.

Cubans in lesser security prisons were not locked down. Stern said 4,500 Cuban prisoners Pumpkins From page one "There just aren't going to be enough pumpkins to go around," he said. And many pumpkins probably will show some sign of rot from too much water, he and others said. Some large pumpkin farms, such as Rombach in the Chesterfield area, lost all of their crops this year to flooded fields. Chip Rombach said his family lost 168 acres of pumpkins to floodwater from the Missouri River.

"We're just going to hang in there 'm'. Rockoorf and try to come back strong next year," Rombach said. John Relleke, who raises pumpkins and gourds on his farm near Granite City, said the wet weather had kept his workers from getting into the fields to harvest the pumpkins. "They're a vine crop, and they really do better in dry weather." He said he hoped to have enough pumpkins and gourds to satisfy customers at the annual Holiday Harvest event on his farm this weekend. Wesley Fordyce of the Florissant area said his farm was producing "an acceptable number" of pumpkins.

Fordyce said he expected to have enough pumpkins to satisfy regular You should be in ROCKPORT IM I Liddell, 54, is the longtime spokeswoman of the group of black parents who filed the suit. The name of her oldest child, Craton, now 34, appeared at the top of the suit and on thousands of documents in the case. Craton graduated from Northwest High School in 1978, before the city-county program began. Liddell's four other children attended magnet schools set up under the program. Her youngest, Michael, is a senior at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School.

"One of the best things going is the magnet school program," Liddell said. She said the magnet schools and busing had given thousands of students opportunities they otherwise wouldn't have had. But, she said, "the quality of education in the city public schools has not increased that greatly." She suggested that Davis "lead the board in putting discipline back in the schools." Liddell said the plaintiffs reluctantly agreed to bring the county into the program after the school board proposed doing so. The county districts, she said, are participating "not out of "I didn't realize what I said would cause such controversy," Bosley said earlier Tuesday. "Now people are jolted into conversation, and that's good." The first question most people ask when buying a house is about the schools, Bosley said.

Bosley said that if test scores of children in St. Louis schools and transfer students in county schools were compared, "you would not find any difference." 'It Ain't Over' This year about 14,000 children from St. Louis are bused to St. Louis County school districts; 1,200 county students attend city schools. Under court order since 1981, the state of Missouri will spend more than $2 billion by June 30 for St.

Louis and Kansas City school desegregation. Two years ago, former Attorney General William L. Webster asked the U.S. district court in St. Louis to end the program.

He offered state payments for building construction, magnet schools, transportation and other programs until the year 2001. Carnahan has formed a panel to negotiate with federal judges an end to St. Louis and Kansas City programs. The state plans to use desegregation cost savings to help finance aid to all school districts. But officials of the St.

Louis NAACP, a party in the suit seeking an end of court control, set no timetable to do that. They said that could come only when the federal court desegregation orders were fulfilled. "It ain't over 'til it's over," said DeClue. Milk for the Cash Cow The leader of a former anti-busing faction on the St. Louis school board, Thomas S.

Bugel, said he was glad Bosley and school board president Eddie Davis had come around "to the majority's position." Davis supports Bosley's call to end busing. SOUTHERN COMFORT OR MASS0N BRANDY BEEFEATERS GIN i 750Ml6" HEATHER IRISH CREAM 1 JACK DANIELS 17523" 6" 0 750ML REG. 10,99 STOLICHNAYA 750MI II4 SC0RES6Y 1 ..13 be those who arrived during the 1980 Mariel boatlift and later committed serious crimes in America, SterA said. Those going home have comi-pleted their U.S. prison sentences but are still incarcerated because they have been declared deportable, he said.

The repatriation program began in 1984 through an agreement between the U.S. and Cuban governments. "We have an understanding witfi the Cuban government to continue that effort," Stern said, adding that he did not know exactly when that understanding was reached. customers at his Weezer's Produce; stand at Shackelford and New Halls Ferry roads. In general, consumers will have to look longer and harder for pumpkins this year, said Chris Doll, the Univerf sity of Illinois' Metro East extension adviser on fruits and vegetables.

il "Unless marketers use pumpkins i this year as loss leaders, the price is going up," Doll said. "It's supply and demand. "Pumpkins have had a tough row to hoe this year," said Bill Whiteside; a University of Illinois extensioit educator. 1 The Associated Press contributed information for this story. FOR MEN our shoes: MT7 1 00 PROWALKERS WHITE, BLACK, BONE AND GREY LEATHER SIZES (N) 9-12, 13 (M)6', 12, 13, 14, 15 (W) 7-12, 13, 14.

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and School Board President Eddie Davis that they want to end the city-county desegregation program. "I don't think Bosley or Davis needs to be taking away opportunities from children and parents who have no faith in the St. Louis Board of Education," Liddell said. "If parents had faith in the school system, they would not be putting their kids on buses for an hour ride to the county." She called on Bosley and Davis to ask parents why they send their children to the county. She also said the two men should talk to the original plaintiffs in the case.

NAACP From page one that the state was at fault by contributing to racial inequities years ago in the public schools. His aim will be to show that the city and state have taken all necessary steps to achieve educational equity. Nixon told the crowd in the church that, after 13 years of court-ordered busing, "the time has come for us to re-examine what we have accomplished. In the last few days, we have seen political leaders state publicly what would heretofore have been impossible." Churches Committed to Community Concerns, an ecumenical group of 16 city churches, organized Tuesday night's meeting. Task forces on four issues education, jobs, housing and crime released their reports.

An education task force member, Marybeth McRyan, said, "It's time to tear down the ways that separate north St. Louis from south St. Louis, the black from white, the Baptists from Catholic. We want community schools of the same quality as the magnet schools." 'People Are Jolted' Boon and three other NAACP officials were careful at a news conference Tuesday to avoid a personal attack on Bosley, the city's first black mayor. Bosley sparked the debate Monday by calling for an end to the 12-year school busing program.

But Boon said Bosley was suggesting something tantamount to a return to the "separate but equal" provisions banned by the Supreme Court in 1954. "We will not listen to that," Boon said. James A. DeClue, chairman of the NAACP education committee, said that to say St. Louis schools have met the court test for integration "is completely out of line." School Board Sells KSLH To Lutheran Synod The St.

Louis School Board voted Tuesday night to sell the district's radio station, KSLH, for $1 million to the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. The Synod owns station KFUO850AM and KFUO99.1FM. Now, the Synod can expand its religious program on the AM band to 24 hours a day by switching to KSLH (91.5FM), officials said. KFUO's FM band carries classical music. The school board got 13 bids on the station after decidirig several months ago to sell it.

The bids ranged from $250,000 to $1 million. Students at Webster University helped staff KSLH, which played jazz music. KSLH shut down temporarily in recent years when the city schools underwent budget cuts. The station cost the district about $250,000 annually when it was in full operation a few years ago, officials said. The station started broadcasting in 1950.

The district used it daily for in-class instruction at its zenith during that decade. The Phantom Is Here! 2 Minnie Liddell "All parties agreed to it" the goodness of their hearts, but because they contributed to segregation in St. Louis. They shifted black kids for years into the city. They're part of the remedy of providing opportunities for black kids." As for the argument that busing has hurt city neighborhoods, Liddell recalled that for years black children were put on streetcars and buses to go to segregated schools.

"Neighborhood schools never existed for black people except when it was convenient for the school board," she said. "When white school board members were saying it, it was given short shrift by the news media. The news media has been unwilling to give opponents a fair hearing," Bugel said. "If it had not been for that double standard, this failed social experiment would have been ended earlier. Not unless you're liberal, or a member of a minority, do you get the same kind of coverage," Bugel said.

Bosley said, however, that when Webster and Bugel were calling for an end to busing, "some of the underpinnings of their stance was they didn't want black kids going to school with white kids, or black kids in their neighborhoods. I want that." Former state Rep. Francis M. "Bud" Barnes, R-Kirkwood, said he expected to see a plan allowing students to finish their education where they are, but a ban on new students in the desegregation system. A compromise could be continued state funding of magnet schools, Barnes said.

But the end to busing "would be a great shock for county school districts," he said. "The state aid they have been getting for the transfer students has been a cash cow for them." Gary Orfield is a Harvard professor and desegregation expert who advised two judges in the St. Louis case. Ending the program, he said, could mean that city schools "end up with much less money, segregated Northside schools and choices of black and white families radically reduced." The desegregation order included money to improve all-black schools, Orfield noted. What, he wondered, would happen to schools without that extra money and with more students.

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