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2-C. THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, May 4, 1981 Changes In Muling On Eetardecl -Stiideiits Sought munications and policies subjected to "advance approval" by the GARC It said the statistical reports requested in the GARC motion would be "burdensome." In unusually frank language, it added, "This attempted' usurpation of governmental authority and responsibility by a private special interest organization (which would truly be a case of appointing the wolf to take care of the sheep) is factually unnecessary. The court's order of April 3 is clear and unambiguous. It is certainly capable of implementation without the time, burden and expense involved in the implementation plan which the plaintiffs call tor." No decision has yet been made by Ward on whether to bold a hearing on the plaintiff's request for' an amended ruling or to rule on the basis of the briefs submitted. Review, upon request of the parents of mentally retarded students, of previous decisions of the state's administrative hearing officer denying extended-year schooling.

The state department of education to inform local school systems of the criteria for determining the extended-school-year needs of handicapped students. While the GARC motion characterized the requests as "limited in scope," a reply to the motion made by the state attorney general's office disagreed with that assessment of the motion. 1 The response said, "In essence, the plaintiffs ask the court to give them supervisory powers over state and local governmental agencies," and predicted that granting of the requests would subject governmental agencies to the "unheard of indignity" of having their intergovernmental com local school board policies on education of mentally retarded students. Ward's ruling, however, did not order either Caine or any other member of his class, meaning mentally retarded students, to be provided free year-round education, saying that question should be decided by state and local educational authorities on a case by case basis. The issue looked as if it were headed to the U.S.

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals In New Orleans. However, an appeal cannot be made until the requests made in the GARC motion are either granted or denied. Responding to the GARCs motion, Alfred Evans of the state attorney general's office said, "Frankly, it is in the interests of all concerned to get a definitive answer by the Fifth Circuit or the Supreme Court of the United States to settle the issue. All this (the motion) does is delay a final adjudication of the matter." Representatives of the GARC could not be reached for comment. The GARC motion requests Ward's April 3 order to be amended in six different way, including requests tor.

Both plaintiffs and defendants to meet and draw up a plan to implement Ward's order. All local, school systems in the state to notify all parents of retarded students of Judge Ward's order, and for this notification to be reported to the state department of education. The state department of education to compile statistical data, by school district and level of disability, on what programs are being offered to. mentally retarded students, and how many students are being offered schooling beyond the traditional 130-day school year, and for this information to be passed on to the GARC. By Sharon J.

Salyer Conililutim) SMI Writ The Georgia Association of Retarded Citizens has filed a motion requesting that U.S. District. Judge Horace Ward amend his April 3 ruling re-' garding the schooling of mentally retarded stu-- dents beyond the traditional 180-day school year. Ward's ruling said that state and local school board policies which prohibit year-round schooling for mentally retarded students violate federal law. The ruling was the result of a class-action suit filed in 1978 by the GARC and the parents of Russell Caine an 11 year-old Savannah youth whom educational experts consider to have a developmental age of 2 years.

The suit requested that the Savannah-Chatham Board of Education provide free year-round schooling for Caine, questioning both state and Alleged Child-Sex Victims Due At Trial By Carole Ashkiaaze Comliiulkxi Staff Writar 1 "IP v' it aw Several teen-age boys described by police as victims of a homosexual sex-for-hire ring are expected to confront their alleged assailants at their trial this week in Fulton County Superior Court. John David Wilcoxen, SO, of 1980 Comp-ton Drive S.E. and Francis Nathaniel Hardy, 49, of 2969 Grand Avenue S.W., indicted last month on charges stemming from a continuing investigation of alleged child-molestation activities, were scheduled to go on trial Monday. The two are accused of operating a child-. molestation ring from their homes, in which boys allegedly were paid $5 a "trick" to perform unnatural sex acts with them or with one another, and $10 to pose for nude Polaroid mm- Bureau of Investigation, who have said that it does not appear to be related to the deaths or disappearances of 27 black children and young men.

But it appears to have been part of an operation of "staggering" proportions, involv-ing hundreds of white youths from several metro counties for as many as 17 years, police said. A third aan, Lionel SL Louis, was convicted last month and sentenced to 12 years in prison on a variety of drug, sodomy, child-molestation and stolen-property charges. Attorney Bill Brooks, representing Wilcoxen and Hardy, denied at a pretrial hearing two weeks ago that their cases were related to St Louis'. But Assistant District Attorney Wallace Speed said that each case involved the alleged sodomy or molestation of teen-age boys, that all of the episodes listed in the indictments took place in the three defendants' homes, that the defendants knew and had dealings with one another, and that the "sexual idiosyncrasies" were the same down to the nude snapshots allegedly taken by all three. Wilcoxen is accused of one count of sodomy and two counts of child molestation, which is defined as sodomy oa a child under the age of 14.

Hardy is accused of two counts of child molestation. AH Ik hi Several of those who are expected to testify against Wilcoxen and Hardy talked with The Atlanta Constitution last month with the provision that their names be withheld. One said he bought potato chips. Cokes and ice cream with the money he earned for "doing something that made me feel kind of stupid and shaky." The operation involved only white boys, according to police and agents for the Georgia Battles Celebrating The Weekend ft i )' '( I A Ne UGA Radioactive Waste-Burning H-'. ATHENS AP A citizens' group op-' posed to plans by the University of Georgia to burn radioactive waste on campus has turned jl to city officials for assistance, a spokesman The group, which has appeared twice be-'o fore the mayor and the Public Safety Commis-f sion, says the long-term effects of low-level radiation have not been thoroughly researched.

It warns that area residents and students will face possible health hazards including can- Extradition Hearing Upcoming COLUMBUS (AP) New York prosecutors are preparing their case for the extradition of a 25-year-old white Army private reportedly named in a sealed indictment concerning three of the slayings" of black men late last year in Buffalo, N.Y. An extradition hearing is scheduled for Friday for Pvt. Joseph C. Christopher, of Buffalo, who is being held on a fugitive-from-justice warrant, Muscogee County Chief Deputy Jim McLendon said. Erie County, N.Y, District Attorney Edward Cosgrove said he was sending a top aide, John J.

DeFranks, to Georgia to coordinate the investigation and make sure prosecutors were prepared for the hearing. Georgia Gov. George Busbee signed extradition papers on Saturday to return Christopher to New York. Superior Court Judge John Land set the May 8 hearing date before the papers were signed, because Christopher's attorneys told him last Thursday their client would not return voluntarily. The weekend brought out participants in a variety of activities and festivals in and around Atlanta.

At the International Festival of the Arts, held at the north campus of DeKalb Community College, members of the India-America Association demonstrated Indian dancing (above left). At Stone'' Mountain Park, 12-year-old doggers Jill Dunn and Ken Johnson, both from Conyers, demonstrate their skills (above). At the West End Festival, Nicole Richie has her face painted. Bob Hinton drives a remote-controlled boat in the Miniature Offshore Classic as Raymond "Speedy" Gonzales looks over his shoulder and offers advice, while one of the boats in the competition makes its way around the lake (below). (Staff Photos Andy Sharp, Calvin Cruce, and Nancy Mangiafico) Man Dies Of Gunshot Wounds Authorities in Gwinnett County said Roy Douglas Greeson, a white male in his early 50s, died Sunday from gunshot wounds apparently inflicted In a domestic quarrel at bis home in Auburn.

Greeson was hit in the neck and shoulder and died shortly after p.m. No arrests have been made. ar-Hue ounung is auowea. The university has received approval from the state to incinerate hundreds of gal-; Ions of toluene, a radioactive chemical which is a byproduct of biological research. Commercial waste dumps have handled the institution's radioactive waste in the past but will soon stop accepting the chemical, presenting university officials with the problem of how to dispose of the highly toxic, inflammable substance.

School officials maintain that radiation generated from the burning would be too low to pose any kind of health threat in the area and that background radiation levels would rise by less than 1 percent Even so, the group views the disposal plans with skepticism. "I don't think it's a good way to dispose of this waste," said Ole Hendrikson, a graduate student in ecology at the university. "It's spreading it out where people could be potentially harmed by it I don't think it is in the best interest of public health and safety." Criticism of the project has also come from Dr. Karl Z. Morgan, a professor at Georgia Tech who says that the burning could increase the risk of cancer for people exposed to it But Lowell Muse, the university's radiation safety officer, said the amount of Two Face Robbery Sentencing MOBILE, Ala! (UPI) Sentencing has 4 neen set iot May zo lor two Atlanta men who were convicted of the Feb.

9 robbery of the Unlontown Bank in Perry County. David Earl Johnson, 49, and Eddie Lee Schofield, 20, were convicted last week in the holdup, which ended in a high-speed chase on VS. Highway 80, near Selma. They were tried in U.S. District Court at Mobile.

Bank officials said the 136,269 stolen has been recovered. 4J i. raoiauon released will be slight and that all safety procedures would be closelv followed in 'J order to meet state regulations. Ex-Judge In Critical State With Gunshot Wound it before retiring in 1978, was being maintained on a respirator In the Intensive care unit Miller County Sheriff C.C. Phillips said the prominent jurist had been shot once In the chest but that it had not been determined whether the gunshot wound was accidental or self-inflicted.

Geer, an ancle of former Lt Gov. Peter Zack Geer, has been suffering from emphysema for several years. ALBANY (AP) Former Superior Court Judge Walter I. Geer was in critical condition Sunday night at Palmyra Park Hospital with a gunshot wound, authorities said. Geer, 67, had been admitted to the hospital April 27 with a single gunshot wound in the chest, but word of his injury was not made public until this weekend.

A hospital spokesman said Geer, who served on the bench for 28 years in the Pataula Judicial Circuit in southwest Georgia 8 Die In Georgia Traffic Accidents Over Weekend Budget a stop sign on Woodvalley Road in Arlington and her car was hit broadside by another vehicle. John C. Davis, 82, of Tucker was killed Saturday morning when be was struck by a vehicle while standing at the intersection of Highway 29 and Main Street In Tucker. James Wilburn Knox, 65, was killed Saturday when the car he was driving on Arnold Mill Road ran into a ditch near East Point in rural Fulton County, troopers said. Meanwhile, divers searched a reservoir at the Fort Gordon recreational center near Augusta for the second day Sunday In an effort to find the body of a man who apparently had drowned.

Members of the Columbia County Rescue Squad launched the search Saturday afternoon after receiving a report that an unidentified man had drowned, County Coroner Tommy King said. tnm Prm DiimKM Georgia traffic accidents claimed the lives of at least eight people over the weekend, including an Auburn, Ga resident who was killed when bis vehicle collided with a police car during a chase. The Georgia State Patrol reported Sunday that Michael James Stone, 18, who apparently was being pursued through Carl, was killed late Saturday when his car ran off the road and struck the police vehicle. In other weekend fatalities, 7-year-old James Hopkins was struck by a car while walking across Northslde Drive In Atlanta on Saturday afternoon, Atlanta police spokesman Roger Harris said. The car failed to stop, and three men in another vehicle chased the car and forced the driver, identified as Eldrin Golden Gay, to return to the scene, Harris said.

Gay was charged with vehicular homicide, driving under the influence and leav- ing the scene of an accident he said. Leslie Susan Edwards, 20, of Camilla, was killed Saturday night when she was thrown from the car she was driving when it left Georgia near her hometown and overturned four times, the Georgia State Patrol said. Olin Wayne Adams, 27, of Evans, lost control of his motorcycle on a curve and was killed Saturday night troopers said. The accident occurred eight miles north of Appling on Georgia 63. The patrol said Adams was not wearing a helmet Troopers said James Striggles, 48, of Waynesboro, was thrown from his car and killed Saturday night.

Striggles lost control on a curve on Georgia 56 two miles north of Waynesboro, the patrol said. Dorothy Mae Jones, 49, of Arlington, was killed In a two-car accident in her hometown in southwest Georgia on Saturday. Troopers said the woman ran i Confined From Page 1-C year's enrollment is projected to be 70,596. School officials say the elimination of the staff positions will be accomplished through attrition rather than through layoffs. Additionally, the proposal calls for a 1654,730 increase in the transportation budget, to pay for the salary Increase called for in a contract the system has with National Transportation Service, the company which provides bus service for the school system's students.

The budget does not provide for any major expansions or additions in its instructional program, calling only for slight Increases in allocations for supplies, textbooks and library books. The biggest financial question mark hanging over the school system for the 1981-82 school year is whether Congress will approve the Reagan administration's proposed cuts in the education budget Superintendent Alonzo Crim announced in March that if the cuts are approved as proposed, the school system would lose $7.2 mil-ion in federal funds, affecting 18 of the school system's programs. During last month's meeting at which Crim unveiled his 1981-82 budget proposal, he warned that the 25 percent reduction in the system's federal funding would have "serious Implications" for the school system..