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VOLUME 252 NUMBER 65 DAPPLE FOR TEACHER' Today: Shower, some sun; 75 -Tomorrow: Partly sunny; 60s High tide: 12:37 a.m., 1 p.m. Full report: Page B8 76 pages 50 cents WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1997 tudent James Jones wants his cash back Boston officer seized $3,330 in 1991 it has not been seen since Spotlight 1 i- aresoann able to produce any records showing Garcia ever deposited the $3,330 in department as required by police regulations designed to track funds seized by officers. The vanishing $3,330 is the latest case of missing money documented by High enrollments strain middle grades In separate interviews, both Jones and his attorney, Charles H. Trevillion, said they have no knowledge of what Garcia did with the $3,330, still unaccounted for six years later. All Jones knows, he said, is that, despite a judge's order, "I never got it back." And Jones is apparently not alone.

Garcia's specialty was raiding after-hours clubs, where he would grab the illegal booze and the cash from card games. In 11 raids he made from 1990 to 1992, the Globe found he seized but did not report another $1,914, according to the department's most current records. Asked in a telephone interview Monday what happened to Jones's money, Garcia said the matter was "none of your concern. The department has dealt with it." Pressed en whether he properly accounted for seized money, he said, "Never call here again, you expletive punk," and hung up. Police officials yesterday also declined extensive comment about Garcia, a 23-year veter-SPOTLIGHT, Page A10 Thii Spotlight Team report was researched by Editor Gerard O'Neill and reporters Dick Lehr and Mitclwll Zuckoff.

It was written by 1 Lehr. In the late summer of 1991, James R. Jones was suddenly flush with cash $3,654 he'd gotten from Social Security in a lump-sum payment. But Jones didn't have a personal bank account at the time, so he hid the money inside a suit jacket hanging in his Roxbury laundry business. Then along came Boston Police Sergeant Detective Jose Garcia.

Garcia had his eye on Jones's Deluxe Ace Laundry, and on Sept. 20, 1991, the detective carried out a morning raid during which he seized betting slips and $3,330 in cash. That money, according to police records and principals in the case, has not been seen since. Despite a judge's direct order to Garcia a month later that he return the cash to Jones, Garcia has never done so. Today, the Boston Police Department is un- Officer Jose Garcia By Jordana Hait GLOBE STAFF the Globe Spotlight Team during the past year and a half, an effort that triggered an ongoing federal corruption probe.

So far, two other veteran Boston police detectives have been indicted on charges of stealing more than $250,000 under the cover of their badges. Their supervisor has been reassigned and a third detective is now cooperating with investigators. Plymouth students are no longer allowed to carry their backpacks in the crowded hallways. With 2,100 youngsters in a school built for 1,500, students start lunch as early as 10:06 a.m. to make sure the next five shifts get to eat.

Plymouth is among the state's fastest-growing communities bedroom suburbs, farm country, and old-time vacation spots that are expanding in all grades as families with school-age children move in. New schools and classroom additions are opening at a record pace, particularly in southeastern Massachusetts, only to be filled almost immediately. Some principals us storage closets and gyms as regulai classrooms. Art teachers in some districts, forced to give up their classrooms for use as homerooms; travel classroom to classroom wheeling a cart of art materials. ENROLLMENT, Page B5 JUSTICE, AT LAST As schools open this week, many Massachusetts communities are coping now with an enrollment surge in middle schools that is expected to spread to middle and high schools statewide over the next decade.

Enrollments at the state's high schools are slated to leap 23 percent by 2007, the fifth largest projected increase nationwide. That is well above the average 13 percent jump projected nationally in grades nine through 12, according to federal data. Boston's teachers start the year without a contract. Bl. Plymouth Intermediate Community School, the state's largest middle school, is fast becoming the poster child for school overcrowding and a harbinger for other communities.

Local man uncovered Teamsters scandal I France moves against Diana photographers i Si I By Kevin Cullen GLOBE STAFF By Joann Muller GLOBE STAFF If Ron Carey is deposed as president of the Teamsters, it will be partly the work of a tenacious former beer-jxuck driver from Arlington. John Murphy, 49, now a paid Teamsters official with1 Local 122 in South Boston, in January uncovered a stunning document that has thrust the 1.4 million-member union into chaos. Murphy's amateur detective work unearthed information that fueled allegations of a complex scheme to funnel money from the union into Carey's campaign coffers money that was allegedly diverted just weeks before Carey's narrow victory over James P. Hof-fa in November's bruising election for Teamsters president. The alleged money-laundering scheme, which was hatched in Boston, has prompted an FBI probe, a grand jury and a government decision to throw out the results of the Teamsters' taxpayer-financed election, forcing Carey to run again.

And the scandal threatens to grow, as investigators begin exploring poten-TEAMSTERS, Page A14 if" Police accused one of those two, Romuald Rat of the Gamma photo agency, of obstructing the work of the first officers on the scene. Rat's lawyer, Philippe Benamou, said his client was checking Diana's pulse while taking pictures of the wreck age. I "He took Diana's pulse. He want ed to see if she was dead or alive said Benamou. "He saw that she was alive, and police were arriving at the same time.

It happened so Heads of state, movie stars, and an array of dignitaries are expected to attend Diana's funeral in London Saturday morning. The White House announced yesterday that Hillary Rodham Clinton would represent the United States. i But the presence of well-known" figures from around the world is not DIANA, PageA8 LONDON As grieving Britons continued planning for Princess Diana's funeral which is unfolding as a grand, unusual event a French judge yesterday placed seven photographers under formal investigation on allegations of involuntary manslaughter and of failing to assist the victims of the crash in which she died. Complete Princess Diana coverage, A8, Bl, B4. Judge Herve Stephan released five of the photographers on their own recognizance.

The other two were freed on $16,000 bail but forbidden to work as journalists while the case is pending. GLOBE STAFF PHOTO BILL BRtTT Roderick L. Ireland holds his grandson, Marcus Alexander Pry or, just before being sivorn in yesterday as the first blackjnember of the state's Supreme Judicial Court, B2. As papal visit nears, some say Castro turning to God Success, in black and white Gary, and its mayor defy racial fears SslTr i 1 By Steve Fainaru GLOBE STAFF By Michael Grunwald GLOBE STAFF formation in the relationship between the church and state over the past three years. Not long ago, Masses were held behind closed doors.

Those brave enough to attend slipped in quietly and seldom talked openly. Church membership was forbidden within the Communist Party, and thus became a pretext for denying employment. Before July, no public Mass had been held in Cuba in 35 years. Government pressure against the church had already started to ease before the January announcement of the pope's visit. Since then, however, the reforms have accelerated, according to many Catholics.

With government approval, the church has organized door-to-door campaigns in which volunteers hand out pictures of the pope and invite Cubans to church. CUBA Page A12 GARY, Ind. There actually is one thriving business in desolate downtown Gary these days: the Bio-Blood plasma donation center. It offers easy cash to the desperate $20 a visit during the summer special, with added bonuses for frequent donors. And Gary has more than its share of desperate, people.

But something odd is happening in this once-vibrant steel city, even though a study last week named it the worst place in America to raise children. People are finally feeling better about Gary. And in a city where 90 percent of the residents are black, at a time when race is supposedly the burning urban issue, the source of this newfound optimism is a white mayor, Scott King. "The guy is giving people hope," said Kenneth Wade, a part-time secretary who donates plasma twice a week. "As long as he keeps getting things GARY, Page A4 HAVANA Does Fidel Castro believe in God? Four months before Pope John Paul II visits Cuba, the president's faith has become a source of speculation within the Roman Catholic Church, which has forged an uneasy alliance with Castro's Communist regime to stage the first papal visit here since the 1959 revolution.

The questions about Castro's faith highlight a significant change taking place in Cuba, which is experiencing a marked relaxation of curbs on religion and religious practices. Moreover, in a country where almost every act is political, the pope's visit is certain to be one of the most charged public events since the revolution, the culmination of a historic trans .4 Yf 4l "flL It GLOBE PHOTO GREGG GEARHART Scott King, a white mayor in mostly black Gary, says his popularity is proof that race really doesn't matter. GLOBE PHOTO RAFAEL PEREZ "Freedom," says Cardinal Jamie Ortega, the archbishop of Havana, "is the right to choose." FoodD Globe Online www.boston.comglobe LivingArts Fall back Summer is nearly gone, and ahead are the shorter days and cold nights and kaleidoscope of autumn's color. Sports Open advance Irina Spirlea tops Monica Seles to become the second Romanian to make the final four of the US Open. MetroRegion Hidden abuse Domestic abuse of gays is detailed.

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