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7111 711 ir -c 41 rrrrr --r r--r---r rrw Mayfest all set to pop its top 1B LSU Indiana complete Final Four Sports 1D Some overstay 'visit' Monday Evening March 239 1981 PRICE 2Ss Classified Dial RES-ULTS Circulation Dial DEL-IVER Other Depts 336-9271 Copyright 1981 Fort Worth Star-Telegram 18A Mayfest all set to non its ton 1B LJ in 0 17 0 411 ah 0 I 2 1 Long-stalled sing may be shifting to reverse 1 the things that have been done in the name of civil rights and desegregation" 'Ronald Reagan said just two weeks after winning the presidency "I happen to believe however and I think a great many of the black leaders agree also that busing has been a failure" Secretary of Education TH Bell favors a federal law or constitutional amendment forbidding busing as a remedy for segregation or forbidding the Justice Department to do anything to require or promote three years of busing 89 percent said that they had "just accepted it" But the poll also found that 77 percent opposed busing as against 17 percent in favor numbers that have shown no significant change in recent years Among blacks the figure was 45 percent opposed to 37 percent In favor Opponents say busing has been a failure creating disciplinary problems and fanning racial antagonisms instead of easing them "I want everyone to understand that 1 am heart and soul in favor of involved to return to their neighborhood schools beginning April 10 And in balks jusrthree days later the city's school board and a coalition of black leaders approved a proposal designed to end court-ordered busing of some 13000 youngsters in the lower grades and the reopening of neighborhood schools in minority areas Both actions are subject to further court review and it could be a long time before the two matters are settled court-ordered busing plans still have such strong advocates as the "The problem with busing" said Bell "is that at the end of the bus ride you're still back in that racially isolated neighborhood" Some in Congress prefer a law that would bar the Justice Department from bringing suit to require busing to achieve school desegregation Private organizations would remain free to do so Both the Senate and House voted last year to attach such a provision as a rider to a crucial appropriations Please see Constitutional on Page death 0 many is fli dive' -Y--- It '-1' Nvii 1 I 4 ill 41i i A I) 1 t'll) I A 1 1: 1-'' i 0-1'1 4 I' i 4 5 4: 164 4 4 IR1111 li i i-' t-- 'lc 1 lwvtv6o If tol i E-: i' 8:: 0 1 9''' 1 '''''IL1 e9 '1 ckvoiv11 4N 7 ii i'''' 4' 40y6' tt gl-i- -t 4 'f: t''''' 10- i 7771:1 ti 'r 1: V4 5 1J 0 I ssooiittdd PPss By MARJORIE HUNTER New York Times News Service WASHINGTON After being almost stalled in recent years busing as a vehicle for school desegregation now shows signs of shifting into reverse In California on Mardi 11 the State Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a state anti-busing amendment approved by the voters in late 1979 As a result school officials are preparing to dismantle Los Angeles' bitterly opposed busing program and allow the 58000 children Column one Crime risk greater for young Elderly not targets as often data show BY JOAI4 SWEENEY Los Angeles Times News Service LOS ANGELES Contrary to popular belief the young rather than the elderly are the most frequent victims of violent crimes and of thefts according to an analysis released recently by a University of Southern California sociology professor Nationwide 16- to 19-year-olds were eight times more likely to be victims of violent crimes than persons 65 and older Professor LeMar Empey said The violent-crime rate against people 65 and older was 75 per thousand persons in 1977 the last year for which data were available the rate against 16- to 19-year-olds was 68 per thousand It was 565 per thousand against children 1 to 15 years old Empey's analysis done for a revision of his book American Delinquency was based on annual crime-victim surveys released by the National Criminal Justice Information and Statistics Service of the Department of Justice Because the data are based on reports by victims murder is not included However Empey said data from the National Center for Health Statistics indicate a similar trend for murder the young are far more likely to be slain Thefts also are more common against the young Empey said That rate is 150 per thousand among 16- to 19-year-olds and 144 per thousand among 12- to 15-year-olds it is 24 per thousand among the elderly Statistically the most likely victim of conventional crime is young male poor a minority member and a ghetto dweller Empey said: "That's the prototypical victim and the prototypical conventional criminal' it is a case of the young preying on the young Please see Stereotypy! oil Page 2 By-MARK THOMPSON Star-Telegram Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Texas death penalty has become "an ineffective deterrent" to crime US Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist said today in a frustrated dissent from his colleagues' refusal to review a lower court decision ordering a new trial for convicted murderer Jerry Lane Jura The majority of the high court by refusing to review the case sent it More bones back to Texas for a new trial where state authorities will have to prosecute Jurek without the aid of a con- found at site troversial second written confession 1 he signed shortly after the murder was committed in DeWitt County in 1973 near Alvin "For eight years the state of Texas has repeatedly presented its case By TOM ANDERSON against Jurek to the state and federal Star-Telegram Writer courts" said Rehnquist in the only dissent to the court's action Investigators searching a marshN By TOM ANDERSON Star-Telegram Writer Investigators searching a marshy Mine workers president Sam Church stuffs a mouthful of tobacco before Monday's negotiating coal contract A tentative settlement announced Story on Page 2A National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and supporters of busing cite recent studies indicating that busing programs have improved young blacks' academic standing In a recent New York Times-CBS News Poll 31 percept of respondents said their community had busing programs In communities where busing had been in effect for more than three years the poll indicated that acceptance or at least toleration of the practice had risen sharply In Southern communities with at least Loading up to required military service should be struck down as unconstitutional because it does not apply in like fashion to females The court's ruling which will probably come in late June will not determine whether women should be assigned to combat duty It will not even decide whether men and worn-en must be drafted The only issue is whether women may be excluded altogether from the legal requirement to register for the draft Limited as the decision may be no one is underestimating the importance of this court test It's the Stalingrad of all sex-discrimination cases a case that could help set both the Index Index Amusmts 6B Cissy Stewart 2B Classified 9-24C Comics 15A Crossword 10C 'Dear Abby 2B Deaths 9C Ed Brice 11A Features 11A Horoscope 7C Lifestyle 1-4B Moneywatch 8C Opinions 16A Sports 1-6C Trinkle 11A TV 5B Weather FAIR AND COOL Fair and cool tonight Mild Tuesday Low tonight lower 40s High Tuesday around 70 Details on 12A 76TII YEAR NO 51 50 PAGES IN 4 SECTIONS tirr 6 4 6412: AP-ge 141810 mW110 nnlbir session on a soft was later Hen-only draft nears test I A I area near Alvin for the remains of three missing Fort Worth girls hope a muddy spot they began digging through Friday will produce additional human bones Fort Worth police major case squad officers George Iludson and LE Anderson directing a group of Texas prison inmates say the current search site has yielded more bits and pieces of human remains The officers said three teeth half a human jawbone and a human rib were unearthed on Friday Investigators believe the remains may be those of Mary Rachel Trlica 17 Lisa Renee Wilson 14 and Julie Ann Moseley 9 The girls disappeared Dec23 1974 from a shopping trip to Seminary South Officers said positive identification of the piecesof hone found since March 1 will have to wait at least until Wednesday At midweek a dentist and an investigator from the Ilarris County medical examiner's office Please see Investigators on Page2 ft 11 At fttlIrrt7 to fr I I itht tout! '4111' Associated Press 11 11111 setts I 1111111 sotto twts I I 1 I 0 0 0 "Despite the fact that every court has concluded that at least one of Jurek's written confessions was voluntary the people of the state of Texas now find themselves no closer to enforcing their capital punishment statute than they were when they began eight years ago" No Texas convict has been executed since the state's revised death penalty was enacted into law and upheld by the Supreme Court five years ago Jurek one of the more than 130 residents on the state's Death Row was ordered executed by a jury early in 1974 after he was found guilty in the kidnapping attempted rape and murder of 10-year-old Wendy Adams Following his arrest in Cuero he orally admitted he had killed the girl after he failed a polygraph test The night after the killing he signed a written confession saying he had killed her because she had made Please see Jurek on Page 2 1(4 11'1 1 1 i II 11 11 1111111111Hr ri 1 Sir 1 itiit I 0 Ito moZmov 0 011 Down it comes Athletic Club reduced to rub 11'1111111'e IS 11 islets 47- ow esti sill Ito 'sk KVA: rro ble by an office building Oil depletion views shock supporters 11 1 By JIM MANN Los Angeles Times News Service WASHINGTON In recent years the legal battles over the rights and roles of American men and women have been waged on a number of fronts in saloons and Little Leagues colleges and legislatures squad cars and locker rooms Now this skirmishing has reached the biggest and symbolically the most important institution of all the armed forces of the United States In a hearing scheduled for Tuesday the Supreme Court will take up the question of whether the nation's draft law which subjects only males was strictly his own view the remarks set off a tremor among some oil industry supporters "I am surprised and shocked that anyone within the Reagan administration would even consider or pub licly say they were for doing away with the depletion allowance" Rep Kent Hance a Lubbock Democrat said later "I think it's bad judgment on their part" The oil industry considers the depletion allowance its equivalent of business depreciation a tax break given because the natural resource used to generate oil income cannot be replenished Current tax policy gradually is reducing the amount that independent producers and oil royalty owners can deduct from their gross oil income on their income tax until 1984 when the phase-down will reach 15 percent of the first 1000 barrels of daily production This year the depletion allowance is 20 percent future composition of the armed forces and some say the fate or boundaries of the entire movement for sexual equality in the United States The Department of Justice is claiming that to mix in thousands of female Private Benjamins with the usual male draftees "could affirmatively impair defense efforts" Anti-draft groups say the Supreme Court case is their main chance to stop draft registration And feminist groups see the case as the key test of whether women will be consigned to a kind of "second-class citizenship" The case could affect other areas of Please see Menonly on Page 2 It 1 I rti )1 otos ifitt lb t-1-11 The 50-year-o1d 15-story Dallas building in downtown Dallas was 11011r 11 :2 I T) f) v1 I eno 1- 7 eti 1 1 4 8:1 i 'I oPr'fo A '14tzi's' 8 --4- 71 --0 4 4044 kk '5 i I 'I" Nos -no coo lots 111 f- 44111 cI 4-t 4 11 0 dsi'': '''''7si 6 4 i I a ez 'RD 1111' 4 1 lril 1-49 y4 4: 'i' 7 it: A 4 1141 4It i lo A iiL 0 4r16 oe lio i tor-t A '1-'7 471 Ar11'' 4 1 -44 VusIsirdr- 411a 4 A 4 )' a 404514kk- 011 a 1141 "'0 so qIt 11:2: tt tL1 4 IL By SOLL SUSSMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON The oil depletion allowance that sacred cow of Texas oil men gets a low mark from budget director David Stockman "My personal opinion is that it's an obsolete benefit that we probably don't need in the tax system any longer" he said last week at a Senate Finance Committee hearing Stockman was asked to give his personal view on the depletion allowance by Sen Lloyd Bentsen The Texas Democrat said he was hearing a "continual rumor" that the Reagan administration was studying whether to phase out the longstand ing allowance that the oil industry considers an incentive to produce "The administration has no position in the sense that we have not recommended any change in the depletion allowance" Stockman re plied before he was pressed to give his personal opinion Even though he emphasizedthat it implosion Sunday afternoon A 50-story is scheduled to be built on the site 4' Al AL Aar Ait mt At bdia AiLikade-mitas Mk gin -mn ANIL min tal hdna la mi- sm ito.