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a Friday afternoon PARTLY CLOUDY Variable cloudiness through tonight, becoming mostly sunny on Saturday. (Complete weather on pace 16). 72nd Year No. 320 Florida's Capital Newspaper Jury clears of cons piracy I By MICHAEL WHITELEY Democrat staff writer Bureaucracy stands in the way of sound judgment of people who work for the state's social agencies and people served by those agencies, a Leon County grand jury has found. In a report issued Thursday after six months of investigation, the grand jury found no criminal conspiracy or actions on the part of workers in the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services.

What it found was that the department is wallowing in layers of bureaucracy that prevent proper screening of both workers and clients. The grand jurors said that was one reason for poor judgment on the part of a foster home worker who befriended and sheltered a former foster parent charged with sexually abusing his ward. But the grand jury found no criminal conspiracy between former case worker Donna Spitler and former assistant state attorney Roger Coe to have Coe's 15-year-old victim placed in the home of close friends of his. Ms. Spitler, who allowed Coe to live with her while he was freed on bond after being charged with lewd conduct with young boys, has been transferred to a clerical position in Wakulla County.

The Coe incident prompted the investigation of both the people and policies in the agency in an effort to find out if children were being criminally abused. The Democrat reported extensively on the investigation last month, and the grand jury was critical of that report. The grand jurors found that the Coe case was an isolated incident. They also said the possibility of manipulation by Coe "was not the product of criminal conspiracy." Rather, the case resulted from "naivete, negligence and laxness, largely due to a previously existing trusting professional relationship with (Spitler) and Coe," the jury said. The grand jury's report quoted the first paragraph of The Democrat story and said it was too narrow in scope.

The story began with the statement that the grand jury was investigating foster home policies and workers in an attempt to determine if children had been given to foster parents who sought them as sex partners. Warren Goodwin, the prosecutor who guided the grand jury, said the jurors "certainly investigated that possibility, but our investigation was broader in scope. We looked at other things, such as the possibility that some foster parents were getting kids for the bare economic benefit." Coe, a former Boy Scout leader and football coach, was charged with having a lewd relationship with a boy who had been placed in his custody by court order. Through conversations with Coe's friends and investigators in the sexual abuse case against him, The Democrat learned that on his release on bond last spring, Coe went to live with a Tallahassee family. Coe later left the family and moved in with Ms.

Spitler. Coe's friends requested that one of his victims be placed in their care as a foster child, and Ms. Spitler took on the case (See JURY, page 16) In Israel, It's like days of Messiah' iff It 1 Earl Warren tan war Country singer Dolly Parton greets fan before show Thursday in Tully was one or cniiaren rrom a poor family in Tennessee foothills The new Dolly Parton turns 'em on at Tully Egyptian people are," one of the Egyptians told a reporter. Meanwhile, Israeli radio's Arabic language service said it was devoting its programming to Egyptian music in honor of Sadat's coming visit and broadcast the hit tunes "You Are Dearer Than My Eye" and "Visit Me Once A Year." Sadat will fly Saturday night to Ben-Gurion, where he will be greeted by Prime Minister Menahem Begin, President Ephraim Katzir and a military band playing the Egyptian national anthem. Sadat is to speak Sunday in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament.

Begin then will address the body. The two leaders may meet privately, as well. The Egyptian president, despite stiff opposition from Arab leaders and two key resignations in his government, Thursday formally accepted Begin's invitation to visit Israel. U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Hermann Eilts gave Sadat the invitation at his residence in Ismailia.

A party of 60 Egyptian officials and security experts was to arrive in Israel today to prepare for the first-ever visit by an Arab leader to the JERUSALEM (AP) A party ot 60 Egyptian officials and security experts flew to Israel today to prepare the way for President Anwar Sadat's historic but risky weekend visit, the first by an Arab leader to the Jewish state since independence in 1948. "It's like the days of the Messiah," airport workers were heard to exclaim as the Egyptians descended the ramp from their government's Boeing 737 to the tarmac at Ben-Gurion International Airport, 30 miles west of Jerusalem. About 100 workers on hand applauded vigorously. The arrival of the Egyptians, led by Sadat's office director Hassan Kemal, was broadcast live on Israeli television. They were greeted by Kemal's Israeli counterpart, Eliahu benEllisar, and Ephraim Evron, foreign ministry director-general.

"We are very happy to be here, and especially at the welcome accorded our Egyptian plane," Kemal said in an Arabic-language greeting. "We left Egypt with a prayer in our heart and faith in Allah, and we shall have faith because our intentions are pure and we do want peace." "You can't imagine how happy the Women i Sadat on Lebanese poster hat, Day an eyepatch Jewish state. Sadat had not been expected before Nov. 24, and preparations for the visit became almost frenzied. By ELLEN TEMPLETON Democrat staff writer Even with the outlandish wig, chiffon and jersey costume and dangling rhinestone earrings, Dolly Parton is as real as moonshine whiskey and chewing tobacco.

"I'm just a gaudy person," Dolly said in an interview Thursday afternoon before her evening performance in Tully Gym. She grew up in a dirt-poor family of 12 children in the Smoky Mountain foothills of eastern Tennessee. Today the girl who picked out tunes on a homemade guitar and used mercurochrome for lipstick has enough money to buy all the guitars and expensive makeup a star could ever want. Her glittery outfits, wigs and high heels are the realization of her childhood dreams, and as much a part of her as her songs and her legendary chest. And why shouldn't she wear what she wants to? Dolly Parton has become one of the most popular singer-songwriters around today.

At her concert to a full house in Tully Gym, she was as endearingly gaudy as ever, and she had her act down pat. After Nitty Gritty Dirt Band member John McKuen warmed up the audience with his own easy brand of guitar and banjo picking, Dolly came out, sang a song and captured her fans by saying, "I see some of you out there have I know what you're looking at." When the crowd roared, she added, "I'm talking about my wigs. What are you thinking about?" The quips are familiar to anyone who has ever been to a Dolly Parton concert. When she pokes fun at herself, it seems to be her way of getting past all the tired old Dolly jokes, so she can get down to the business of singing and having a good time. These days her country hits are mixed in with liberal doses of pop music.

She also has a hot backup band called Gypsy Fever. The band boasts guitarists who, prior to the concert, tuned their instruments while playing snatches of Eric Clapton's rock song, "Layla," and old Allman Brothers hits. Why the change in style? "It's a lot more to me than a (See DOLLY, page 16) in Houston argue about validity of meeting I I Declare hv Malcolm B. Johnson Equal Rights Amendment, resistance which has stalled the amendment three states short of ratification. Former Rep.

Bella Abzug acknowledged in a press conference Thursday that some women say, "Everything is fine. I don't want equality." But the conference, she said "accepts that there is inequality," and is trying to end it. With debate at the conference limited to roughly 15 minutes on each issue, any resolution of this basic dispute is highly unlikely this weekend. Instead, each side will concentrate on trying to convince the general public that its position is the one held by most women in the country. The feminists plan a big rally Friday night.

Their opponents have their own rally scheduled Saturday. The antifeminists are trying to stress the most controversial aspects of feminism, such as its support for homosexual rights, in an effort to paint the feminists as primarily supporters of lesbianism who are hostile to family life. An antifeminist newspaper ad Thursday showed a picture of a little girl with thecaption, "Mommy, when I grow up, can I be a lesbian?" Ms. Abzug appeared to recognize this tactic when she opened her press conference by pointing out that only seven of the 46 members of the governing commission are single (one is a professed lesbian and that among them they have "74 children and 17 grandchildren." Privately, feminists concede that if their foes can successfully portray the women's movement as the political problems of feminism will be almost By JON MARGOLIS Chicago Tribune HOUSTON Thousands of women continued to arrive in Houston today to begin three days of arguing over whether they should be here. Beneath all the dispute over such specific issues as abortion, the Equal Rights Amendment and homosexual rights, the two factions of women descending on this city are really arguing about the validity of both the National Women's Conference, which opens Friday, and the womens liberation movement that inspired the conference.

The conservative, anti-feminist women who are a minority at the conference challenge the validity of both the conference and the movement. "Whatever comes out will be totally meaningless," said Darlene Degenhardt of McHenry, 111., a delegate aligned with Phyllis Schlafly's anti-feminist faction. The backlash among conservatives is so intense that many conference leaders fear violence. Officials say they are spending $40,000 to maintain order between conservatives and feminists. Ms.

Degenhardt and her allies contend that the conference is a fraud because the feminists who controlled the planning rigged most of the state meetings which chose the delegates to the national meeting. Beyond that, they say, the whole purpose of the conference is improper because women already have the kind of equality that most of them want. They disagree with the basic assumption underlying the conference that women face "barriers that prevent (them) from participating fully and equally in all aspects of national life." It is this opposition that underlies the resistance to the Plays Two plays are in town. Find out if you should go to the theater this weekend. STORY, page 15.

Upset Godby surprised Leon Friday night and beat the Lions 20-13. STORY, page 22. Chuckle Most people don't mind going to work. It's that long period before quitting time that bothers them. Index Bridge 18 Business-finance 8 Classified ads 25-32 18,19 Crossword 18 Editorial columns 4,5 Garden news 14 Local news 17 Obituaries 16 People news 10,11 Sports 2025 Television 19 Theaters 22,23 Weather 16 Keep cabinet, clip some wings THE ONLY THING the Florida cabinet system needs is to have the political wings of some of its members clipped to keep them from flying too high and straying too far.

It is especially so for the attorney general, the state treasurer and the state comptroller. You've read this here before, but it becomes timely to discuss it again because the Constitution Revision Commission next week has scheduled debate on abolishing or remodeling the cabinet system. This is the scheme of government by which the people choose by statewide election six administrative officials, not politically beholden to the governor, to help him decide on policies in various major fields. Most governors have found the cabinet at times a nuisance, an inhibiting of dissonant force in the way of what they want to do. Gov.

Reubin Askew is one of those. He has asked for an end to independent election of cabinet officers, making them appointive by and responsible to the governor. Most academic political scientists, also, look askance at the independent cabinet partly because it is alien to their text books, and partly because their current dogma is that all governmental responsibility should rest in one man (the governor) so the people know whom to blame. (See I DECLARE, page 16) Klan is growing again, critic warns WASHINGTON (AP) The Ku Klux Klan other etouds considered anti-Jewish and esti is growing after a decade of decline as it switches from heated, anti-black rhetoric to slick public relations, says the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. "For the first time since the late 1960s, there has been an increase in Klan membership and visibility," said Irwin J.

Suall, director of Jewish organization's domestic factfinding unit. The membership of three major KKK factions has risen about 20 percent in two years and now totals about 8,000, compared to 6,500 klansmen in 1975, Suall said in an interview. "It's not an alarming increase, but it is significant," he said. The Anti-Defamation offices around the country monitor the activities of the Klan and Klan and that it is now respectable to be a member of the Klan." Duke, a 27-year-old college graduate and imperial wizard of the Louisiana-based Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, has attracted national media attention as "a new breed" of klansman. However, Suall said Duke's organization, like other KKK groups, continues to be mili-tantly anti-black and anti-Jewish.

"We have seen no evidence that there's been a change of heart, only a change of tactics a temporary change of tactics," he said. "If the climate changes and they feel it would be possible to perpetrate acts of violence and get away with it, we think they'd do it," he added. Duke was not immediately available for comment. Suall said another factor contributing to the growth is Klan's exploitation of America's current race-related issues, such as busing, crime, unemployment and affirmative action. The end of FBI surveillance, after years of a campaign to undermine the Klan, has also made membership less risky, he added.

However, Suall said the Klan's current strength is slight compared to the height of the civil rights movement in the mid-1960s, when the Anti-Defamation League estimated about 40,000 active klansmen. The league official said the KKK fell into decline largely because it failed to defend segregation in the South. "They engaged in violence and they lost, and their mass following was demoralized," he said. mate the number of members and supporters, Suall said. He said the the league gauges the strength of groups by counting the number of people who attend rallies and speeches as well as through interviews with members and former members.

Suall attributed the membership increase to several factors, including the emergence of David Duke as a leader of one Klan faction. "Duke is extraordinarily clever in manipulating the media," Suall said. "He tones down his views for public consumption, and he is being given platforms all over the United States. "The impression has been spread around that there's been a national resurgence in the 0.