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Flamboyant thief captivates France OK. 13, 1971 71 By A. GONZALEZ JR. PARIS (NBA) Jacques Mesrine is France's Public Enemy No. a 41-year-old Clyde with several dozen loving Bonnies, the Jesse James of the Left Bank.

He makes headlines just as easily as he eludes the frantic French police, who have been chasing him from one end of the country to another since 1977 when he last broke out of jail. No minor punk, this lean, tough, wavy-haired hood is accused of at least 40 major crimes to date, including the murders of two Canadian forest rangers and a French pimp; and the burglarizing of the mansion of the governor of Majorca. At one point, he staged a spectacular French courtroom escape when he sudenly produced a pistol in front of his judge and took off. MESRINE'S flair for flamboyant crime is matched only by his uncanny ability for public relations. He explains his love of crime in a best-selling autobiography, "L'Instinct de Mort," a 333-page confession which came out just over a year ago and has sold more than 15,000 copies in France.

"The guy's a born writer." says Louis Nucera, literary director for the Lattes publishing company, which put out the book. French film star Jean-Paul Belmondo has just put up $100,000 for film rights to the book, 50 percent of which should go to Mesrine. The fee is in escrow now. But Mesrine will probably stop by and steal it one of these days. Not content with getting his underworld point-of-view across to the public in his own words, Mesrine has recently taken to giving clandestine interviews while on the run.

Isa belle de Wangen, a courtroom -reporter, was the latest journalist to meet the fugitive, being escorted to his hideaway just outside Paris while blindfolded. They talked for six hours and her account of the ex- traordianry meeting was sold to Paris Match magazine for $6,000, resulting in a sell-out issue. It also resulted in a criminal lawsuit against the publication alleging it "glorified crime." "It was quite a festive occasion for him," Miss de Wangen recalls today. "He really likes to entertain people and to eat well. He is charming, polite and very much a gentleman in the Haitian refugees claim the U.S.

ignores their plight By TOM TIEDE MIAMI.F10. (NBA) Late last summer 101 Haitian refugees landed by boat at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo, Cuba. They told of fierce government repression in their homeland. They spoke of totalitarian brutality.

Despite the exile's appeals for asylum, however, U.S. authorities sent all but four of them home. The incident received only scant notice in most of America. But it was registered as a most alarming event in Miami's Haitian community. The Haitians believe the deportation of the refugees was another indication that the U.S.

policy regarding political asylum is outdated, unfair and cruely prejudicial. The criticism is America has historically accepted almost all exiles from Communist states, it is increasingly reluctant to serve as a haven for refugees from right-wing dictatorships. No Cuban refugee has ever been refused, for example, but almost all exiles from friendly Haiti are turned away. Haitians here say their charge can be verified by a reading of official records. They say it is not just by chance that nine of 10 exiles from leftist states are 'granted U.S.

asylum, while an equal proportion of exiles from such countries as Haiti, Chile and the Philippines are refused all but momentary entry. HAITIANS say the imbalance is an entirely arbitrary one. Jean-Bart Rube of Miami's Haitian Refugee Service says U.S. law forbids bias in the immigration procedure: "Everyone is supposed to be given equal consideration. But that's an illusion.

Political and diplomatic considerations are the deciding factors." The critics cite statistics regarding South Vietnam as an illustration of the alleged discrimination. Prior to Railroad profession isn't what it used to be BROWNWOOD, Texas (AP) His sweat-stained cowboy hat was tipped over his eyebrows to block the burning rays of the late summer sun and he frowned as he said, "No wonder there's so many derailments these days. "Hell, there are too many folks without experience and nobody really inspects the tracks or the trains Patrick Henry Roberts, a railroad man for years, is convinced there no longer is the dedication that once was the symbol for the rugged, harddrinking, fist- fighting workers that kept the trains going when rails provided the major lifeline of the nation. Roberts, 77, and retired for the past decade, sat in the spacious backyard of his Brownwood home, where on a quiet night you can hear the screech of the diesel engines, and he remembered. He recalled how once a good brakeman or conductor could sense impending trouble with a car, just by the way it moved over the tracks.

He remembered how the cars of a train were checked slowly and carefully after stopping at a major terminal. "Now days, as far as I hear, some guy just squats down and looks as the cars roll by, and how the devil can you spot a problem that way?" he asked. Roberts said he decided to retire after two trains on which he served as conductor had within the space of a few days. Once' there was a derailment and then a middle-aged college professor committed suicide by leaping in front of a speeding freight. "Then when they started pulling 100 or 125 cars, I knew it was too much and time to start growing a garden before they had to plant me somewhere," he said as puffed on a cigarette with the smoke drifing out and over the pinch of snuff in his lower lip.

When things got tough in the old days, Roberts said, "We took any kind of job to keep going. We were brakemen and conductors, but when there wasn't any work for us, we go to laying track or anything. "By God, once I walked from Temple, Texas, to Cleburne, Texas, (about 100 miles), counting every damn tie on the line and marking with a paint brush those that needed replacing or repairing. "At night I slept in the tool sheds at station stops along the way. Made a lot of money a day." Roberts, who followed his immigrant Irish father into railroad work, spent most of his years in Texas, although he did move to California to help build railroad bridges and to Arizona and New Mexico to lay tracks.

He still has the muscular arms and solid build of a man who has driven spikes and struggled with the heavy ties. A stroke slowed him for awhile, but he now is back working in the garden and making his daily trips to the neighborhood grocery. He admits he misses the wail of the coal-buring engines and the clack of the wheels on the tracks and the rough-and-tumble days and people like Cowboy Joe. "He was a good brakeman, but his hobby was breaking horses. He'd get to work just in time to catch the train, still wearing his boots and spurs and chaps.

But he could trot along the top of those freight cars as fast as any of us and never hooked those spurs on anything. "And there was Birddog. Another good brakeman, but had to stick his nose into everybody's business. That's why we called him Birddog. "He got a settlement from the company once for an injury suffered on the job.

Not long after that we had a derailment and Birddog was hurt again. We asked him how bad it was and he said, 'Don't know till I talk to my Roberts then leaned back in his chair and said, "Boy, my throat is dry from all this talking. Think it is about time for a cool one to ease the pain." Communist victory there, South Vietnam's exiles were seldom allowed political shelter in the U.S. Since the Communist takeover, though, the U.S. has become haven to more than 150,000 Vietnamese.

Then there is Chile.Thousands of residents have fled that country since the imposition of a military government in 1973. Many of the exiles have asked for asylum in America, and the United Nations has urged all nations to help out; yet the U.S. has granted legal residence status to only a handful of the applicants. BUT of all the examples, Haitian activists in Miami say their own nation is the most revealing. According to figures compiled by the -Immigration and Naturalization Service, 500 Haitian refugees have landed in Florida in the last three years.

Of these, all but about 60 have been, shipped back home. "God only knows what happens to them when they get there," says Jean-Bart Rulx. "We expect some may be killed. That should not be surprising. I myself am a refugee from Haiti, and the reason I left was for my own safety.

Four years ago my father disappeared. Just disappeared. That's the way it is on the island." U.S. officials do not agree that returned Haitians face danger. Edward Sweeney, INS director for this region, says that State Department people sometimes accompany the Haitians home "just to make sure." American authorities who accompanied the Guantanamo exiles to Haiti say the returnees were treated well.

Sweeney says Haiti "is not Russia." He says in fact that "politics have very little to do with the Haitian refugee situation." Sweeney believes most Haitians who come to America are looking for an economic rather than a political haven: "They want work, and that is not a valid reason to allow them residency." WRENCHES A MILLION FROM SEARS Peter M. Roberts, a grocer and apartment manager in Chattanooga, holds a socket wrench which he patented 15 years ago and a check he received in Chicago on Wednesday. Sears paid him $1 million after a federal court ruled the retailer had obtained the patent fraudulently. His wife, Marine, shares the moment. (AP Laserphoto) traditional sense of the word.

He's the kind of man who opens doors for women and lights their cigarettes. When he smiles, he can just about getanything he wants." MESRINE has broken out of jail four times. When his father was dying, he donned a disguise and, pretending to be a doctor, sidled past the police to have a last visit. After holding up the casino at Deauville (the equivalent of knocking over a Las Vegas hotel), he strolled into a local police headquarters, flashed a phony ID card and asked to see the chief. The chief was away from his desk so Mesrine promised to return and left before the hapless cops realized who he was.

"People admire his courage doing stunts like that," admits a police official grudgingly. "They don't admire what he does. If he came into their living room, they'd be afraid of him. But they respect his sense of machismo." WHY this talented son of well-to-do parents should have turned so wholeheartedly to a life of crime is the biggest mystery about Mesrine. In his book, Mesrine mercely cites "bravado, taste for risk and money" as the lures which pulled him down into the underworld.

"I am sure," he writes, "that if I were asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said 'gangster' as other children say fireman, lawyer or doctor." The French police have a squad of about 50 harried and frustrated officers constantly working on the Mesrine case. Every day they process several dozen phone calls from excited Frenchmen who are sure they've just seen the fugitive in a cafe or lurking outside a bank. Time after time, when the Jeads are tracked down, the police find they've just missed him. His most recent escapade was a very close call. He and an accomplice took a prominent judge prisoner in his own home in an effort to force France to relax its tough laws on top security prisons.

This is a constant Mesrine he claims he was badly in security prison and wants a better deal for the con inside. THE cops showed up in force, and Mesrine escaped with traditional bravado, commandeering a car and slipping through the police lines. But his partner was captured and even now is being grilled by the cops in a determined attempt to find out where Mesrine has been hiding. The police are confident that he'll surface again, and that with each new crime, their chances of catching him soar. "He's got to steal," says one observer.

"It's an economic necessity. Also, he's a prisoner of his own pride. We think he's most to try something very spectacular, like kidnapping a high government official. And when he does, we'll be there." done tomorrow! Articles for Sale In 785-5538 I'VE 6OT AWJ6C0L- LFCTirX! TTSiSOTLAPY BWirS, eCETLES AND WOOLLY ttJOfthASm? SHOW IT TO YOU Burr, THIUK YOU'RE IT. 1 Business Service Directory IIKATINO SERVICE on central air heal, window units commercial units.

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