European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 19, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday May 19.1988 stud ends wrap up civil rights history on video Atlanta a the civil rights rap a six minute rap and video excursion into the civil right movement makes the history lesson a whole new song and dance. The video stars 30 High school Stu dents from Massachusetts and is aimed at a Young audience. It covers some of the major events of the civil rights movement setting to rap prose the Sto Ries of the Montgomery bus Boycott the supreme court decision that ended school segregation and the 1960s sit ins. The video to be shown at the 12thannual Atlanta film & video festival that opens wednesday night begin with the rappers from Lincoln Sudbury regional High school Moon walking Toa driving beat. It offers historical raps such As the following verse about the 1956 bus boy Cott in Montgomery ala., which propelled the Rev. Martin Luther King or. To National prominence this Short rap tells of Rosa Parks who caused some Bricf on set of some Sparks. Rosa was t Gonna moan Shewaun t Gonna fuss. Bus she just sat Down at the front of the cops they came and threw her of the line. Rosa was told that she had to pay Afine. Blacks All said we refuse to ride they had their dignity they had their Pride. It took awhile but after a time Blacks up front was no longer the civil rights rap is the product of rapping up history a non prof it project devoted to developing innovative educational material to make history More attractive to a new Genera Tion. The video shows the Young Acton portraying the events in the nag and includes shots of the rappers perform ing and documentary footage from the 1963 March on Washington. It end with King s i have a dream speech. History teacher Thorn Thacker conceived the idea out of his desire to involve students in learning said Rich Ard Delaura. A Friend of Thacker s who put the teacher s words to music an produced the song. The students including six rapper who Call themselves the go Iii Crew recorded audiocassettes of the song an sold them to raise Money to produce the video. Officials confirm ids of bus crash victims Radcliff by. A the names of the dead were known less than a Day after a fiery bus crash killed 27 people but official confirmation of the deaths just brought it fresh again to the victims families a minister began removing the bodies tuesday afternoon from a National guard armory in Carrollton,100 Miles Northeast of Radcliff that served As a mor was a lot of grief inside Rad lift first As Sembly of god Church where most of the victim families gathered tuesday morning to be told that the last of the burned bodies had been identified said there. Dan Mattingly minister of Christian education at the Church which owned the bus. Some began to break out in tears and grief mat tingly said. They pretty Well knew it but to actually hear it once and for All one time 100 percent sure on the confirmations it just hit again. It just brought it fresh again in their City of Rad lift scheduled a memorial service for thursday evening at a High school football , offers of Money and donations of time have poured in for survivors and their families Hospi Tal officials said. Scores of people have called Humana Hospital University of Louisville 30 Miles Northeast of Radcliff offering food baby sitting and even rooms in their Homes to families of to hospitalized victims said spokeswoman Taylor wishing to donate Cash Are being referred to one of four funds set up to Aid the victims and their families she said. One survivor 14-year-old David Wall scr offered thanks from his bed at Kos air children s Hospital. Thanks to All the doctors thanks to All the nurses thanks to everyone who cares. Thanks for All the love and thanks for All the prayers he said through his Mother. The bus collided head on saturday night with pickup truck being driven North in the southbound lanes of interstate 71 near Carrollton. The fuel tank on the bus ruptured and burst into flames Autho ties bus was resuming from a Day at an amusement Park just North of Cincinnati. Autopsies showed the27 died of smoke inhalation. Up graphic fourteen of the bus riders remained hospitalized wednesday with Burns including eight in critical con , state and Federal authorities were continuing the investigation but few details of their work were released. State police capt. Cal Brittain said investigators believed they knew How the pickup truck Driver Larry w. Mahoney came to be driving on the wrong Side of 1-71, but would not elaborate. Mahoney 34, of Worthville was charged monday with 27 counts of murder. Tests showed his blood contained nearly 2w times the amount of alcohol needed to be declared intoxicated Autho ties said. He was in fair condition at the prison unit of human Hospital University of Louisville Rice said. The first victim to be taken from the armory tues Day was april Mills 14, daughter of an army sergeant she was to be buried in Fem Andina Beach Fla. Another victim was to be buried in Tyler Texas. The process continued throughout the least eight were to be buried in Radcliff a town of 14,000 people. Tiny yellow flags marked their plot sin North Hardin memorial gardens cemetery near the cemetery adjoins North Hardin High school which three of the victims attended and was less than two Miles from Radcliff Middle school which lost 16 pupils in the of the Tictin came from Radcliff. They an 1. Jennifer Arnett 13. 2. Cynthia Ann Atherton 13. 3. Suidan Brewer 12. 4. Muy Catheryn Daniels 14. 5. Julie a. Earnest 12. 6. Kashawn Etheredge 14. 7. Shannon Rae fair 14. 8. Dwal Lle Dawn Fischel 12. 9. Lori Kathleen holier 11. 10. Anthony Marks is. 11. April Mill 14. 12. Puff Lis Morgan 13.13. Bum. Mutate 14. 14. Patilda Susan Nunnally 10. 15. John Pearman 36.16.crystaluocy.il. 17.dtnlme.vosjood,13. 18. Amy Christine Wheelock 14.19. Urls Lens. Williams 14. 20. Robin j. Williams 10. 21. Marilyn Joy Williams 35. 22. Chad Witt 14. Also 23. Joshua Conyers 14, Vine Grove by. 24. William Joseph Nichols jr., 17, it Knox by. 25. Emily Thompson 13, Vine Grove. 26. Richard Keith Conn 19, Vine Grove. 27. Charles John Kytta 34, Elizabethtown by. Compromise Bill bans most lie Detector tests Washington a Compromise legislation that would prohibit most lie Detector tests for private employees and Job applicants a technique denounced by critic Sas Modem Day witchcraft was approved unanimously tuesday by House and Senate bipartisan support for the Bill virtually assured final congressional passage possibly within the next few weeks. President Reagan is expected to sign the measure into Law despite the persistent opposition of a minority of conservative republicans. Sen. Orrin g. Hatch a Utah who became an unusual ally of sea Edward m. Kennedy d-mass., in pushing for the lie Detector ban said he would urge Reagan to sign the Bill which is endorsed by labor Secretary Ann Mclaughlin and backed by an initially sceptical business Community. Rep. Pat Williams d-mont., predicted Swift Over whelming House approval of a measure be said would Stop the explosion the epidemic of lie Detector tests administered annually to about 2 million private employees and Job applicants. Kennedy chairman of the Senate labor and human resources committee said the Bill effectively would pro Hibit As much As 85 percent of private polygraph tests which he has called inaccurate instruments of inti Mida Bill would not cover Federal state or local govern ment employees. It also would exempt private contractor involved in government intelligence or National Security Williams and other House negotiator accepted with out dissent a Senate amendment sought by business interests and drafted in consultation with organized labor that would cover instances of economic loss or injury suffered by an employer. The amendment would allow employers to administer carefully controlled lie Detector tests As part of a the investigation within the company. The conditions for such tests Are that the employee had Access to the stolen property that the empty verbal a reasonable suspicion that the worker was involved an that the employer give details of the incident and Evi Dence supporting the suspicions in a written statement Senate negotiator accepted a House provision allow ing employers to give polygraph tests to guards and other Security personnel As Well As certain controlled drugs As Long As strict standards Are met an the results Are not the sole basis for Adverse action against 811 permissible tests would have to be administered under stringent guidelines to be developed by the labor depart mra Lihsi would require thai each to take at least 90 minutes and be conducted by a licensed said business executives Opp prison to the my was overcome when they realized that these Quida polygraph tests Are inaccurate unfair and very Detri mental to their Senate debate on the Bill earlier this year. Hatch declared that some 320,000 honest americans Are branded As liars every single year because of these de vices Kennedy said the polygraph bad become to the 20th Century what witchcraft was two centuries
