European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 06, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday january 6, 1991. The stabs and stripes Page 7. A a a a. .1 a. A a. A 1 a a. A a. A _ a a a. A. A 1 a. A report says . Leads world in imprisonment proportion David Duke at news conference. Duke says hell seek statehouse Kenner la. A state rep. David Duke a Tor mar Kun flux klan lead.-, or announced plans Friday to run for Louisiana governor but he wont make it official for awhile. Gov. Buddy Rocker and former gov. Edwin Edwards also have announced their intentions to run in the non partisan governors race. Republican Duke called a news Confer once to let reporters know of his plans in Advance of a new Orleans fundraiser later Friday. He said he intends to run Lor governor but w on to be ready to make it official for 60 Days or so. A i want to make it Clear to the people of Louisiana that l do intend this year to make a run Tor the governorship of our great state a said Duke. It would be Duke s second statewide Campaign in As Many years. He ran unsuccessfully in october for the . Senate losing with 44 percent of the vote to Democrat a Bennett Johnston. Dukes party spurned him in the Senate Campaign because of his klan past and opposition to affirmative action set aside and other assistance programs for minorities Quot. A. A a a Duke said he would Welcome Republican support in his race for governor. Two other democrats also have announced for governor a Kenner mayor Aaron Broussard  Lambert. Tax protesters leave pennies to think about port Ewen . Up Edvard and Laurie Svano protested their $850 property assessment Friday by paying it with a truckload of pennies the couple arrived at the port Ewen town Hall in a Gray pickup truck w Ith the 85,000 pennies and carried the rolled bagged coins into the tax collectors office. A Laurie Svano said they chose the unorthodox payment in response to Ulster. County s recent 19 percent tax increase. A they apologized and said they realized the tax rate in t my fault personally a said Joan Killeen tile tax collector for port Ewen located 100 Miles North of new York City. The couple said they rolled the coins out of respect for the officials who would Hae to Deal w Ith them. Washing ton a with More than 1 million people behind bars the United states imprisons a larger share of its population than any other nation a private group said Friday. The High incarceration rate results from a High crime rate and increasingly harsh Public attitudes toward dealing with lawbreakers said the report by 1 he sentencing project a non profit research or Gamza Tion that promotes sentencing reforms and alternatives. More than i million americans arc in jail or prison either awaiting trial or serving time the report said. It said that 426 of every 100,000 . Residents Are incarcerated at an annual Cost of $16 billion. For Black american men the rate is 3,109 per 100,000. Drug related crime is the biggest cause of the prison population explosion and helps explain the disproportionately High rate of Black male incarceration the report said. Thirty eight percent of the people arrested on drug charges in 1988 were v a a i 4 a. Is Black up from 20 percent in ns4. South Africa has the world s second a highest imprisonment rate with 534 people imprisoned per 100,000 residents the report said. Its incarceration rate Tor Black males is 729 per 100,01 0. A the soviet Union ranks third in Overall incarceration with 268 per 100,000 rest dents. A incarceration rat Sun Europe generally Range from 35 to 120 per 100.000 rest dents and in asian countries from 2.1 to 140 per 100.000, the report said. A Marc Mauer assistant director of the sentencing project who wrote the report said it shows that a the same policies that have helped make us a world Leader in incarceration have clearly tailed to make us a safer nation a. Commenting on the report rep. John Conyers d-mich., and chairman of the House government operations commit tee said a we be got to Stop jailing and Start rehabilitating. We can build All the jails we think we need and slam the doors Down on thousands of  it wont make a bit of difference until we address the fundamental causes of  the . Incarceration rate jumped ahead of South africans and the soviet Union s Over the last decade As states and the Federal government adopted mandatory minimum sentences tightened parole eligibility criteria and old amp Hvisc relied no re on imprisonment and less on alternatives the report said.,. It acknowledged that the . Crime rate is higher than m Many  he nations murder rate is at least seven times higher than in most european countries. T Here were six times As Many robberies and three times As Many rapes in the United Stales As in West Germany prior to unification with East Germany. The report noted that the Overall . Crime rate has fallen 3.5 percent since 1980, while the nation s prison population doubled. Christian Brando right stands silently while his lawyer Robert Shapiro answers questions from reporters. Brando s son prosecutors agree on manslaughter plea bargain by Sheryl Stolberg los Angeles times Santa Monica Calif. With their Star witness in Tahiti and their murder Case in shambles los Angeles county prosecutors Friday struck a plea bargain with actor Marlon Brando a eldest son who pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter  killing of his half sister so Lover. A _ a in. A proceeding that took 10 minutes Christian Brando entered his guilty plea which included a special allegation that he committed a crime with the use of a. Handgun before a packed courtroom in Santa Mohica adjacent to los Angeles. Brando 32, was somber throughout. His Only comments came in one word sentences a a a yes and a a guilty a when asked if he waived his rights and How he pleaded. Later As his lawyer Robert Shapiro addressed reporters outside the court nouse the tree a welder slipped away in a chauffeur driven Mercedes Benz. His father who was at his Side through most of the court proceedings in the Case did not attend the younger Brando faces a maximum of 16 years Instate prison in the May 16 death of 26-year-old Dag Drollet the Lover of Cheyenne Brando 20. Los a Geles county Superior court judge Robert w. Thomas a scheduled sentencing for feb. 26. In the meantime Brando remains free on bail. Cheyenne who had dinner with her half brother on the night of the fatal shooting was a crucial witness in the Case because she was the Only person who could testify about christians state of mind before the shooting but in june shortly after telling authorities she believed the killing was a murder Cheyenne left for Tahiti. She has since tried to commit suicide twice and has been declared mentally incompetent by French authorities. Her lawyer said Friday that she recently received Perm Baton to go to France for psychiatric treatment. Prosecutors in los  spent six months trying to compel her  to testify. But judges in los Ang Clex county Superior court the 2nd District court of Appeal the California supreme court and . District court turned them Down. ,. Prosecutors gave up after a last ditch meeting thursday in which they tried to persuade cheyennes lawyers to have her return voluntarily. The chief prosecutor Deputy District attorney Steven Barshop said he will request the maximum prison term for Brando. The guilty plea which came to Days before trial was to begin May be More of a beginning than an end to the Christian Brando drama. The younger Brando faces a lengthy sentencing hearing which lawyers estimate could last three Days. Marlon Brando who was Home when the fatal shooting occurred at his Hilltop los Angeles estate is among those expected to testify at the sentencing As is Drollett a father Jacques. Drollet also said that lie feared Christian Brando would serve Little time in prison. A Marlon Brando is Rich and Well known and his lawyers Aryl Ery Claver a he said. �?o�?~1 hey w ill Lund a Way to get