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I 72nd Year No. 201 Good Morning! It's Thursday, May 8, 1980 16 Pages - 1 5 Cents
IHow officials 1
I fight drug use
I at local schools
ByJodyMcPherson
Missourian staff writer
E Rock Bridge High School Principal Wayne Walk- -
B er tells this story:
g A student went home so drunk after a ball game
fi that she threw up on her living room floor. Her
K mother assumed that the girl was only reacting to
1 the excitement of the game. After all, she behaved
the same way after every game.
m When Walker told the mother that school officials
H had observed a drinking problem with her daughter
H over several years, she would not believe him. The
S girl had been drinking heavily since she was in sev- -
m enth grade, and hermother never knew.
I Drugs
f; and our school kids
Insight
itus story says several
things about drugs and alco-hol
in Columbia and the
school- ag- e youngsters who
use them.
It demonstrates the po-tential
for harm in the use of
alcohol and drugs.
v It illustrates the inesca-pable
link between home and
school. I
- p In telling it, Walker
. demonstrates the concern
shared by administrators
-- and teachers in the city's
fr secondary schools.
$ v Finally, it points out the irrelevance of disci- -
? plinary rules and procedures in dealing with what
:- - has become a fact of life.
& Superintendent of Schools Russell Thompson
K says, " The drug problem is a worldwide problem at
fi this time, and society hasn't really determined
f2 what stance it wants, to take on drugs.
H " Society has not clearly defined for young people
" whether drugs are bad or not."
M Officially, the stance of the Columbia Public
0: Schc& s is clear enoughThe schools' statement of
f policyis, " Because of the physical, emotional and
- -- 1 legal consequences involved in me illegal use, sale
,
' or possession of drugs or alcohol, students are pro- -'
; hibited from such involvement in or on the school
--' premises and at school- sponsore- d activities."
The penalties prescribed are suspension from
J school for not more than 10 days or transfer to an
alternative educational program.
--;;' " Any time a student is caught violating the rules
Jf about tobacco, drugs or alcohol, the rules are en-- y
forced," says Jim King, assistant principal at Rock f Bridge.
ja But it's an unusual occurrence when a student is
caught. Walker estimates there have been only six t to eight instances in the past year in which students
were caught under the influence or in the posses- -
sion of drugs or alcohol. Hickman High School
North Hall Principal Gerald McCollum gives the ', same estimate for Hickman.
- Discipline in the junior highs is even less frequent
two or three instances in the past year in each
' v? school.
While the enforcement record reflects the num- L- S
ber of students who get caught, it does not reflect
1 '' the number of students using drugs or alcohol at
school. A month- lon- g investigation by three Colum- -
' bia Missourian reporters shows the use of drugs, in--
eluding alcohol, is widespread among secondary
, school- ag- e youngsters.
lr " The administration has to be concerned about
- the rights of students," says Thompson. " Legally,
. they can't be falsely accused. We must have clear- -
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Schutzhunds stop burglary
and return suspect to police
ByJuliCragg
Missourian staff writer
Barney and Marguerite Birger of Collinsville,
III., were asleep Tuesday night in their first floor
hotel room at the Ramada Inn, 1100 Vandiver
Drive, when someone kicked open their door.
The intruder had chosen the wrong room to
break into. Also asleep inside were two large Ger-man
shepherds trained as Schutzhunds lovable
peis, aggressive izunuy pro-tectors.
Hero, 11 months, was tied at
one end of the room. Four- year- o- ld
Gauner lay against
the door. When the man's kick
opened the door, Gauner was
shoved across the floor, and
both dogs started barking.
The couple inside woke in-stantly
and saw the man's
face outlined in the light out-side
before he pulled the door
closed.
" He backed out real fast,"
says Birger.
After pulling on some
clothes, Birger took the dogs
and started out on the intrud-er's
trail, stopping in the mo-tel
office to inform the em-ployees
what had happened.
Led by Gauner, an experi-enced
tracker, they found the
hidden fugitive. " I held my
two dogs while they were rea- -
he was. He might have been a drunk."
Later the Birgers learned the man was wanted
by authorities in Illinois and they were told he was
a criminal mental patient.
Birger and the dogs marched the suspect ahead
of them back to the hotel, where four Columbia po-lice
cars soon amassed in response to the call made
by hotel employees.
The next day, the Birgers and their dogs at-tended
a Schutzhund seminar at the country home
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dy to attack on signal," Birger says. The dogs are
trained to stand and bark as long as the aggressor
remains motionless.
" He ( Gauner) made a gesture to go for him be-cause
the fellow moved his hand. I held the dog be-cause
I didn't know for sure how bad ( dangerous)
oi ooiumoian jerry aiavens,
national president of the Unit-ed
Schutzhund Clubs of Ameri-ca.
Schutzhund is a German
word which means protection
dog. Most dogs given this
training are German shep-herds,
but any dog can benefit
from the training and Dober- ma- n
pinschers frequently re-ceive
it.
Schutzhund training is re-garded
as a sport by the par-ticipants
who diligently train
their dogs for competition.
Some members are working to
get Schutzhunding accepted as
an Olympic sport.
Introduced in the United
States about 10 years ago,
Schutzhunding has become in-creasingly
popular in the last
four or five years. There are
more than 70 clubs with a total
membership of approximately
2500 in the United States, says Slavins, Route 2.
The sport has an 80- ye- ar history in Europe.
There are about 68,000 dogs handled by approxi-mately
25,000 people in Germany, Slavins says,
( See PUBLIC, Page 16)
. Ashland police learn a lesson :
ii.
I Lock it up and pocket the keys
H By David Ring
H Missourian staff writer
11 ASHLAND The Ashland Police
H Department was minus its means of
m transportation for eight hours Tuesday
If night and early Wednesday morning.
The police car belonging to the two
it man- for- ce was stolen Tuesday at about
H 10 p. m. when Maj. Ed Dunwiddie, an-il
swering a disturbance call at a mobile
H home court, inadvertently left the p-oll
lice car running.
ffl While Dunwiddie was breaking up
H two fights at the trailer court, someone
H made off with the car.
m What followed was an all- nig- ht
search by Dunwiddie, Ashland Police
Chief Earle Brubeck, Fire Chief Dale
Christian, Mayor Jerry Arnold, Boone
County sheriffs deputies, Missouri
State Highway Patrolmen as well as a
group of area teen- age- rs and men.
Not all of them made it through the
night, but Dunwiddie and Brubeck per-severed
and at 6 a. m. found ' the car,
still intact, hidden behind two large
water tanks in the countryside.
" Once we got out in the daylight we
spotted it from a quarter- mil- e (. 4 kilo-meters)
away," Brubeck said, noting
that they had passed the same spot a
few times during the night.
The chief did not seem particularly
miffed by the incident, laughing as he
called it the strangest experience he
has come across during his tenure.
His immediate concern had been for
the safety of Dunwiddie. " My initial re-action
was, is he all right?" he said.
" Then we worry about the auto-mobile."
Brubeck, who has been police chief
for about two years, said he was inves-tigating
the case.
For now, Ashland residents can once
again rest assured. Their police car
wUl once more be circling their quiet
community of 860, searching out
wrongdoers and trying to stay out of
trouble.
1 III town
I today
m
II 7 p. m. Columbia Planning and
EE Zoning Commission, Council
H Chamber, Fourth Floor, County-- p
City Building.
Eg 7: 30 p. m. Theater, " Goodbye,
III My Fancy," South Campus Audi--
torium. Tickets $ 3.50 for general
III public, $ 1.75 for students.
IH 7: 30 pjn. Concert, Annual All--
W City Elementary School Concert,
Hickman High gym. Adults $ 1,
HI children free.
W 8 pan. Recital, Susannah
III Gaines, vocalist, Windsor Audi--
lp torium, Stephens College. Free.
W. 8: 15 p. m. Recital, Karl Haas,
W pianist, Jesse Auditorium. Free
M tickets available at First Nation--
W al Bank and Trust, 8th and
Me Broadway.
m Movie lfaiJsgs en Page 15
Libyan terrorists hole up
in embassy , defy expulsion
- New York Times
WASHINGTON Four Libyans ac-cused
by the State Department of tak-ing
part in a campaign of harassment
and intimidation of fellow countrymen
living in the United States have defied
a federal demand that they leave the
country and were holed up in the Li-- --
byan embassy here Wednesday.
State Department officials asserted "
that the four, who until recently were
students at various American universi-ties,
were linked to an international
campaign of terror that has resulted in
the murders of four I J byan dissidents
in London and Rome in the last two
months.
The same officials said scores of the
3,0K or so Libyans living in the United
States, mainly students, have been
threatened with " extermination" un
less they return home immediately.
Few have.
" By ordering the expulsions we are
seeking to deter the sort of violence
that occurred in Europe from happen-ing
in this country," a senior State De-partment
official said at a news confer-ence.
A complicating factor is that the Li-byans
say their embassy here is not an
embassy any more, but as of a few
months ago became a " jamahiriya,"
or congregation, and that the four men
thus are not diplomats and are not sub-ject
to ouster without a court heanng.
Departmental officials said no final
decision had been made on the disposi-tion
of the four should they stay inside
the building, although they said the
four would be detained and expelled
from the country if they went outside.
It seemed apparent that no attempt
would be made to enter the building.
Marines
aid control
of refugees
KEY WEST, Fla. ( UPI) U. S.
Marines were ordered to refugee- swamp- ed
south Florida Wednesday
because the Cuban exile sealift was
ferrying more Cubans across the
Florida Strait than overwhelmed
federal and state officials could han-dle.
Anxious to move on, more than 5,- 0- 00
refugees packed the huge Trum- bl- e
Point seaplane hangar on the Na-val
Air Station annex by early
afternoon. Weary Florida National
Guard troops broke up frequent
fights as Cubans jostled for seats on
buses to refugee centers.
The 400 Marines were dispatched
from Camp LeJeune, N. C., to relieve
the 705 Florida guardsmen under
pressure by employers to return
home. National Guard Gen. K. C.
Builard said the Marines were ex-pected
to arrive before nightfall.
Federal officials said about 75 U. S.
marshals were brought in Wednes-day
to help Guard forces maintain
order.
The Pentagon also decided
Wednesday to reactivate Fort Chaf-fee,
Ark., as a refugee center be-cause
Eglin Air Force Base in the
Florida Panhandle was overwhelm-ed
with refugees being processed
from Key West
President Carter Tuesday de-clared
a state of emergency in Flor-ida
because of the surging tide of ref-ugees
from the Cuban port of Mariel,
and said up to $ 10 million in federal
funds will be available to pay for ref-ugee
processing. The dispatch of the
Marines was seen as the first step in
the eventual federal takeover of the
Cuban refugees cling to a newly- erecte- d fence at Trumbo Na-val
Station, Key West, Fla., where over 3,000 are being housed.
Classifed " C- 2-," these refugees are being sent to Eglin Air
Force Base, Fort Walton Beach, Fla., for further questioning
because of possible criminal records or because they have no
family in the United States.
refugee processing program.
A pushing match erupted in the
crowded seaplane hangar Wednes-day
morning, but the disturbance
was quelled by guardsmen and Flor-ida
Highway Patrolmen. Authorities
said it was one of many flareups
breaking out in the bus lines.
" They don't want to lose their
place in line," said Lt. Col. Richard
Capps of Jacksonville. ' They're not
bad people. They just want to get out
of here."
Capps said 2,500 people were
moved out Tuesday night from Key
West " but we received another 3,200
at the same time." He said tents
pitched outside on the hangar Tar-mac
would expand the hangar area
capacity to about 10,000 refugees.
U. S. Customs officials said 61. ves-sels
with 2,456 refugees docked at the
old Navy Station between midnight
and noon on Wednesday, bringing
the unofficial refugee total to over
23,500 since the exile sealift began 18
days ago.
Builard said the Marines and
guardsmen would work " side by
side," providing security at the hold-ing
areas and logistical support until
the Marines begin their takeover.
Two Air Florida Boeing 737s and
one DC-- 6 from Mackey Airlines con-tinued
to shuttle refugees to Eglin for
processing Wednesday. Buses
shipped about 40 percent of the refu-gees
those with relatives in South
Florida to local centers.
INS officials said 122 of the 199 ref-ugees
suspected of having criminal
pasts had been sent to the federal
prison in Talladega, Ala., by
Wednesday morning.
Senate confirms
Edmund Muskie
secretary of state
WASHINGTON ( UPI) - The Senate
confirmed Edmund Muskie as secre-tary
of state Wednesday 94-- 2 in an
emotional session where Democrats
and Republicans alike praised their
longtime colleague as the best man for
a tough job.
He is expected to be sworn in today.
Muskie, who served 22 years in the
Senate, made a farewell speech in a
voice mat broke several times. He re-ceived
a long, standing ovation from
the senators and people in the galle-ries.
Just a few hours earlier, the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee ap-proved
his nomination 12-- 1. During
that session, Muskie pledged to be-come
President Carter's No. 1 foreign
policy adviser and spokesman a
notch above national security adviser
Zbigniew Brzezinski.
Then he went before the Senate.
" This is the moment I have dreaded
for 10 days," he said. " The moment in
which I have to say goodbve to the Sen-ate."
One by one, he listed the senators
with whom he has served saying, " I
can't think of any stronger motivation
for excellence than the awareness that
I must meet your test. "
The only two senators to vote against
confirmation were Republicans Jesse
Helms of North Carolina and Gordon
Humphrey of New Hampshire, and
Helms said it was " easily the most
painful vote I have ever cast." He said
he was protesting President Carter's
foreign policy and voted against Mus-kie
in committee as well.
Muskie voted " present" on his own
nomination, which does not count as a
vote either way.
Sen. Frank Church, D- Ida- ho, chair-man
of the Foreign Relations Commit-tee,
introduced the Muskie nomination
on the Senate floor.
" I can think of no man better
equipped to pursue the process of con-sultations
between the executive and
the legislative to achieve unity" in
American foreign policy, Church said.
Democratic leader Robert Byrd of
West Virginia, noting the problems the
nation faces, said, " I know of no man
in America better suited to meet these
challenges."
Senate Republican leader Howard
Baker of Tennessee said, " I see great
progress for this country's foreign poli-cy
under the guidance of Ed Muskie, a
colleague and a friend."
Sen. Robert Stafford. R- V- t., summed
up what seemed to be the general feel-ing,
" I will sleep better tonight be-cause
Ed Muskie is the secretary of
state."
Officials said Carter faced with
Cyrus Vance's decision to resign in op-position
to the military rescue mission
' This is the moment I
have dreaded for 10
days. The moment in
which I have to say
goodbye to the
Senate.'
Edmund Muskie
into Iran chose Muskie in part be-cause
he knew he would have no trou-ble
getting the nomination through
Congress.
During Wednesday's committee
hearing, Muskie outlined some of his
ideas on foreign policy, which are simi-lar
to Vance's. He also made clear that
Carter has promised him the No. 1 for-eign
policy role.
' The first and most important of my
priorities is that the secretary of state
is the principal adviser to the nresident
on foreign policy issues and is the pres-ident's
principal spokesman for his for-eign
policies." Muskie said.
'" President Carter has made it clear
that he expects me to play this role and
I intend to do so. I intend to be very ac-tive
in this role."
He added, " I am not interested in be-ing
a caretaker."
Muskie said one of the first things he
probably will do as secretary of state is
to meet with Soviet Foreign Minister
Andrei Gromyko in Vienna next week,
where both will be attending a treaty
anniversary ceremony.
As for the Russians in general, Mus-kie
said, ' While ( Soviet; aggression
continues we must not relent in impos-ing
a heavy price. As Soviet policies al-low,
we must never be blind to opportu-nities
to work for peace."
Muskie said he favors the SALT II
treaty with Moscow, but does not ex-pect
Senate ratification of the pact for
some time, in light of the Russian inva-sion
of Afghanistan.
On Iran. Muskie said he backs
" peaceful means" to free the Ameri-can
hostages held in Tehran but " we
will not and should not eliminate any
options."
He said the United States should con-tinue
putting pressures on the Tehran
government because ' ' the hostages are
as much a dilemma for Iran as for the
United States.
He concluded his formal statement
to the committee with the words: " I do
not believe there can be unanimity on
the great and complex questions be-fore
us. But there can be a spirit of co-operation
as we address them. I ap-pear
before you in that spirit. ' '