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American youngsters who complain about having to ride a school bus probably wouldn’t trade places with their counterparts in Columbia, South America. Children who attend a rural school near Sumapaz, about 100 miles south

Strip-search debate Recurring thefts prompted action, teacher says

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Recurring problems with thefts in her classroom prompted teacher Ira Smith to order the controversial strip-searches of third-grade students at Frayser Elementary’ School. Mrs. Smith’s statement was supported by the Jefferson County Teachers Association, which said the statement shows the search resulted from a teacher’s honest concern about her class. A lawyer representing parents angered by the search disagreed, charging that the search showed that teachers have not learned that they have to work within limits. Mrs. Smith's statement, released Monday by JCTA President Barbara Burrows, gives Mrs. Smith’s account of the events in her third-grade class. It said that stealing was a recurring problem.

Cities, towns eye battle in legislature

. INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The Indiana Association of Cities and Towns was expecting bigger things from a committee studying the state’s tax structure. Bloomington Mayor Francis X. McCloskey says. McCloskey, president of the municipal league, gave only a lukewarm endorsement to the report of the Fiscal Policy Advisory Committee. “We do consider it somewhat of a matter of progress that the council does recognize that we do have problems,” he told reporters Tuesday. “But in all candor, it really does not go to the needs of cities and towns and county government, as we know it,” he added. McCloskey, joined by Mayors James Riehle of Lafayette and

One hijack drama continues

By The Associated Press Iran’s Shiite Moslem government negotiated today with militant Lebanese Shiites in an attempt to end their hijacking of a Libyan airliner and free 38 exhausted hostages, Radio Tehran reported. Three other hijacked airliners from Venezuela landed in Cuba Tuesday, the hijackers surrendered, and the planes and more than 100 hostages were to be returned to Venezuela today. “I haven’t any nerves left,” the pilot of the Libyan Boeing 727 radioed Tuesday night, 24 hours after his plane was taken over. “I can’t take any more. The nerves of all my passengers are shattered. Please give them whatever they want and let’s get it over and done with While the hijackers held the exhausted passengers and crew prisoner on the Tehran airport runway, they demanded that the Iranian government negotiate with the Libyan government to solve the

At one time, the sztatement said, $lO worth of raffle tickets disappeared from the room. Money, pencils and paper also disappeared. “A lot of the things I could deal with; some of the things I could not,” Mrs. Smith said in the statement. When $4 that a student had collected for a 4-H raffle disappeared N0v.30, Mrs. Smith said she asked students to check the garbage can and take things out of their desks, and she checked their lockers. Later, at another teacher's suggestion, the children were taken into bathrooms to see if the money was hidden in their clothing. A third teacher, passing in the hall, was asked to help with the search. “She agreed and we went into the restroom and the boys unfastened their pants so we could see around the waist whether or

Jone Wilson of Logansport, reviewed the council’s recommendations. The 22-member committee appointed by Gov. Robert D. Orr said in its report the state could avert the projected $8.7 million deficit expected by June 30 by speeding up collections of sales and income taxes and by imposing a surcharge on corporate taxes. The report will be studied by Orr and will form the basis for any fiscal recommendations he makes to the 1982 Legislature. “The report lacks a real sense of immediacy,” McCloskey said. “We’re here today to shore up Hoosier opinion for improvement of the financial positions of cities and towns.” The Bloomington mayor said there has been much talk about

mystery of the disappearance three years ago of Imam Moussa Sadr, the spiritual leader of the Lebanese Shiites. Sadr vanished in 1978 at the end of a state visit to Libya. Lebanon’s Shiites claim Col. Moammar Khadafy, Libya’s Sunni Moslem leader, has kept him pirisoner ever since, but the Libyans say he boarded a plane for Rome at the end of his visit and they don’t know what

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of the capital of Bogota, must cross this river in order to get to and from school each day. The children slip inside some straps hooked to the cable and pull themselves across the swift river. (AP Laserphoto)

not there was a bundle of money,” the statement said. “It took a couple of minutes. I did not touch anyone or even ask them to take their pants off or anything like that.’* Frayser Principal Margaret Wright said the three teachers took 26 students into the bathrooms to try to find the money. It was later found in a student’s locker. “I felt that the student (who had his money stolen) had a right to look to me as the authority figure in the classroom...to see that the rules in our society against stealing can be enforced,” Mrs. Smith said in the statement. “Therefore, I considered it my responsibility to do everything within my authority as a teacher and in my position as one who stands in the place of a parent to correct the wrong that had been committed. Anything less would have been

the 1982 legislative session being devoted only to “housekeeping” matters. “Unless we go in there fighting, we’re in for defeat,” he said. Ms. Wilson said she expected the report would go further than it did. “We were hoping this would perhaps address some of the problems in a little different manner,” she said. McCloskey said the report didn’t offer any clear solutions to ease the fiscal squeeze on local governments. “The very least the state could do for us is to give us some further flexibility in the area of the local option tax.” Currently, counties have the power to levy up to a 1 percent

happened to him. Three Lebanese Shiites hijacked the Libyan airliner Monday night on a flight from Switzerland to Tripoli and forced the pilot to fly to Beirut. There they released a pregnant Libyan woman and her two small children, demanded a U.N. investigation of Sadr’s disappearance and took aboard two more armed Shiite militants.

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a dereliction of duty to my students.” Mrs. Burrows said, also in a prepared statement, “The bottom line is that teachers who were emphasizing the importance of honesty, and who were protecting the property of their students, are being publicly persecuted. ” Of the angry parents, she said, “Had their children been the victims of the theft, I could only imagine their reaction.” But lawyer Yussman said, “Obviously,* there’s nothing that the teachers did that was justified. “I think that it’s going to take a court decision for the JCTA to understand what its limits are,” he said. School Superintendent Donald Ingwerson has temporarily reassigned the three teachers to non-classroom duties while a school investigation is being completed.

local option income tax and use the revenues to reduce property taxes. The lACT wants to be able to generate new revenue for municipal services instead of using the proceeds to reduce the property tax burden. association also wants to city and town officials a say in whether the tax should be imposed.

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