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Tuesday, August 25, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
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AIDS victims back in class
The Associated Press
ARCADIA, Fla. — Three brothers carrying the AIDS virus returned peacefully to their school under court order and police guard yesterday despite threats and a boycott by frightened parents that kept up to half the school's pupils at home.
Richard Ray, 10, Robert, 9, and Randy, 8, returned to Memorial Elementary School for the first time in nearly a year, escorted by their parents and an attorney.
Only 337 youngsters showed up out of a projected first day enrollment of 632, or 53 percent. District-wide attendance was only slightly higher, 63 percent, and school bus ridership was only a quarter of last year's first day.
The boycott did not faze the boys' parents.
"My kids are going to school," their father, Clifford Ray, said firmly. Their mother, Louise Ray, admitted to some "anxious moments," but also said the children will continue at the school.
DeSoto County school officials barred the boys last fall after they tested positive for antibodies to the
AIDS virus.
Doctors believe the brothers, all hemophiliacs, were exposed to the virus through plasma-based medication they took so their blood would clot in case of injury. They do not have any symptoms of AIDS.
The Ray family sued the school board in June, claiming discrimination. On Aug. 5, a federal judge in Tampa ordered restatement.
Despite assurances from health experts that a casual school environment poses no risk, many parents in this rural community of 10,000 fear their children will be exposed to AIDS.
Angry parents distributed petitions and sponsored rallies in a vain attempt to keep the boys out of regular classes, and called for a bovett if they did attend school
Larry Browning, superintendent of the DeSoto County School district, which has nearly 4,000 school children, said he thinks some parents might be waiting until the uproar dies down before sending their children to school.
Earlier, as classes began, the Rav boys were whisked past a
crowd of reporters and camera crews into their fifth, fourth, and second grade classrooms in an attempt to gain "some normalcy" said Bill Earl, a Ray attorney.
In school, Earl said, pupils and staff were friendly and cooperative
"They're under enormous pressure," he said. "They are excited to be back in school but a little bit nervous."
But outside, in the parking lot,
tempers boiled over when two
unidentified men started shoving
and shouting at a TV camera crew.
Police stepped in, escorted the
men to a car and pushed reporters
off school grounds.
Parents who defied the boycott acknowledged they were frightened and confused but determined that their children would get an education.
Clarence Champeny, 33, left the decision to his 10-year-old son, Carl, who is in class with one of the Ray boys, and his daughter Christy. 12.
Cindy Ross took her three boys, ages 4.6 and 8, to school.
Teens remember Samantha Smith
The Associated Press
FREEPORT, Maine — A group of Soviet teen-agers arrived yesterday to continue the citizen diplomacy that Samantha Smith began in 1982.
Later, the Soviets traveled to the Capitol in Augusta where they and a
The 10 Soviets, who are traveling along the East Coast at the invitation of the Samantha Smith Foundation, stopped first at the headquarters of L.L. Bean Inc., the mail order store whose retail center here has become a tourist mecca.
group of U.S. students paid tribute to Samantha.
Samantha gained international attention when she wrote a letter to Soviet leader Yuri Andropov in December 1982, expressing concern about war between the superpowers.
Samantha, 13, died with her father Aug. 25, 1985, in a fiery plane crash two years after she traveled to the Soviet Union in the name of peace.
Andropov replied in a letter pledging his country never would be the first to use nuclear weapons. At his
invitation, Samantha and her parents visited the Soviet Union in the summer of 1983.
Arriving in Freeport on the way to a week of camping near the central Maine coast, the youngsters from Leningrad spent an hour browsing and buying at Bean's.
Tatyana Nikitina, 16, who said she was "looking for sports shoes for my sister," recalled meeting Samantha four years ago at Camp Artek on the Black Sea.
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Marine gets 30 years for spying
The Associated Press
QUANTICO, Va. — A military jury on Monday sentenced Sgt. Clayton Lonetree, the first Marine accused of spying, to 30 years in prison for disclosing U.S. secrets to the Soviets.
The eight Marine officers sitting as jurors also fined the former guard at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow $5,000, reduced him to the lowest pay scale and ordered that he forfeit all pay and allowances and be dishonorably discharged.
If Lonetree fails to have his espionage conviction thrown out on appeal, he will be eligible for parole in 10 years. He faced as much as life in prison.
The jurors had begun deliberating on the sentence after Lonetree told them he would accept whatever punishment they decided.
But he also said he was a patriot. "I was a defended anti-communist," he said, seeming to have difficulty making himself speak.
Defense attorney Michael Stuhff said the sentence was substantial.
"I think the 30 years is certainly a very substantial jolt, a substantial sentence. It's been a long, hard fight. But this is a battle; this ain't the war."
Marine Maj. David L, Beck, the chief prosecutor, declined to comment on the sentence but noted that under either a life sentence or the 30-year sentence that Louetree received, parole would not be possi-
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military prosecutors had argued that the convicted spy should spend life in prison for betraying his country, but defense lawyers pleaded for leniency.
ble for 10 years.
"A message needs to be sent out, a punishment needs to be made, that crimes like this will not be tolerated." Beck said. "This accusated has disraced the uniform he wears."
Stuhff said a life sentence would serve no purpose.
"What do you achieve by being unduly harsh on Sgt. Lonetree?" Stuhff asked the eight officers on the jury.
Lonnette, 25, of St. Paul, Minn., was convicted Friday of 13 counts alleging he gave the KGB the identities of CIA agents and floor plans of the U.S. embassies in Moscow and Vienna, where he served as a guard, in exchange for sex with a Soviet woman and cash from a Soviet spy.
Defense attorneys Lonetree should be given credit for coming forward to reveal his involvement with the KGB. He told the CIA station chief in Vienna of his involvement on Dec. 14.
In calling for a life sentence, another prosecutor, Marine Maj. Frank R. Short, asked the jurors to consider Lonetree's oath to defend his country that he betrayed by passing secrets to the Soviets.
"How about let's start with no punishment and add a month for every little thing he did, then take some back because he turned himself in," said a military defense attorney, Marine Maj. David H. Henderson. "He could have walked, gentleman, he could have walked scot-free, but he didn't do that."
"This accused traded, like so many pawns, the people he betrayed by putting them on an KGB target list, for him to kill." He and his own selfishness," Short said.
Lonette was the first Marine in the 212 years of the Corps to stand court-martial for espionage.
“Part of the job for the court is to set an example for the next 212 years, so this won't happen again,” Short said.
In his statement, Lonetree said he was born in Chicago and lived with his Navajo mother, but he started grade school in St. Paul when he lived with his father.
"Every time I done anything, he criticized me," Lonetree said. "The only time he spoke to me, he was drunk."
He was later taken to an orphanage in Farmington, N.M., and spent several years with very little contact with his parents.
Lonette's lawyers promised an appeal, alleging that bias by the military judge, v. Capt Philip F. B. of Virginia, from proving Lonette's innocence.
Lonetree smiled slightly as he was
left from the court, but said nothing.
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