European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes saturday january 25, 1992 a Birmingham Ala., mayor Richard Arrington Center marches in chains thursday with the Rev. Elijah Jarrett left and the Rev. Abraham Woods right before turning himself in to Federal marshals. Mayor of Birmingham begins prison sentence for contempt from wire reports Birmingham Ala. A mayor Richard Arrington symbolically chained to supporters walked three blocks l rom a Church to the Federal courthouse and surrendered thursday to begin serving a contempt of court prison sentence. Surrounded by about 1,000 supporters and spectators Arrington walked to the courthouse shortly before 5 . Thursday. A what do we want Freedom a the crowd shouted. The mayor at Odds with the . Attorney at Birmingham was held in contempt last week for refusing to turn his personal appointment records Over to a Federal grand jury looking into possible corruption at City Hall. He has claimed that . Attorney Frank Donaldson and one of Donaldson s assistants. Bill Barnett wanted the records to build a Case against him. Donaldson has repeatedly denied the claim. Barnett has declined to comment under a policy Laid Down by Donaldson. Arrington was accompanied by his attorneys to the courthouse to be processed. He then left for a mini mum Security Camp at Maxwell fab in Montgomery 90 Miles to the South. He entered the prison without speaking to reporters said prison spokesman James e. Burrell. The mayor underwent in processing including posing for a Mug shot and having his fingerprints taken. Arrington is to be behind bars from thursday nights until monday mornings for 18 months a giving him four Days a week to work on City business a or until he obeys a Federal judges order to provide the records subpoenaed by a Federal grand jury. Quot in a very tired and in a hoping to gel a Chance to think while in prison the 57-year-old mayor  to Robb Norfolk Vul. Apr a former press Secretary to sen. Charles s. Robb pleaded guilty thursday to conspiring to disclose contents of an illegally taped Telephone Call of then it. Gov l. Douglas Wilder. Steven d. Johnson 34, was fined $5,000, the maximum by . District judge John a. Mackenzie. The tape concerned reports linking Robb to drug parties in Virginia Beach. Robb denied attending any such parties. But Wilder in a transcript of the tape said he believed the reports would destroy Robb politically. A statement of facts in Johnson a plea agreement said he and other Robb aides discussed leaking the tape to discredit Wilder now governor of Virginia and deflect attention from controversies surrounding Robb. The discussions occurred despite a n internal Robb memo that said disclosure would be illegal the statement said. Peggy Wilhide Robbs press Secretary said the Arrington in his fourth term As Birmingham a first Black mayor said he wants to read some books and work on a speech. Hundreds of Blacks attended a rally at the 16th Street Baptist Church before joining Arrington in the policy escort cd March to the courthouse. Arrington was held in contempt of court on Jan. 17 for refusing to cooperate with an investigation of alleged corruption at City Hall. A Federal appellate court and a state supreme court Justice refused to stay his prison term. Arrington has said that the . Attorneys office in Birmingham singled him out in its investigation because of racial and political reasons and that prosecutors want to concoct a Case against him. Arrington said he probably will decide monday whether to surrender the records something he has said he eventually will do or to return to prison next weekend. Tarlee Brown an Atlanta architect who once was a business partner of Arrington a pleaded guilty in september to scheming with a former City consultant Marjorie Peters to defraud the City. Brown said he paid Arrington $1,000 in october 1986 and $4,000 in february 1987 As part of an agreement to give the mayor 25 percent of his profits on City projects. Arrington denied taking any Money from Brown. Peters was convicted in october of defrauding the City of $220,000 by altering and forging invoices from architects for a civil rights museum now under construction. She also was convicted of income tax violations of withholding tax violations and of using a false social Security number to obtain Loans and credits. She is appealing the  guilty plea democratic senator was not aware of his staffs discussions about the Wilder tape when they occurred. Last april Johnson played the Wilder tape for a reporter from the Washington Post and subsequently Lent a copy of a transcript of the tape to the reporter the statement said. Johnson of Charlottesville and two other Robb aides resigned last summer after the transcript was made Public. Robert w. Dunnington a Virginia Beach restaurant owner pleaded guilty last october to recording the Call from Wilder a cellular Telephone in 1988. Dunnington was sentenced to 30 Days in a Halfway House and was fined $500. Only Johnson and Dunnington have faced charges in the Case. Robb has said he issued an order that the tapes contents not be released. Johnson said he never received that order.  get chilling but thrilling View of Sun from wire reports Barrow Alaska a Barrow residents had their first View of the Sun in More than two months on thursday afternoon although they had to Brave wind chilled temperatures of 50 degrees below Zero to do it. The last time the Sun peeked Over the horizon was nov. 19, thursdays skies were Clear and onlookers described the Sun As a big Golden Globe that Rose slowly while the sky was streaked with red. At its Apex about one third to one half of the Sun was above the horizon. It Rose at 1 17 . And set 45 minutes later. Barrow is a City of about 3,500 residents located Well above the Arctic Circle about 500 Miles Northwest of  raid settlement los Angeles a a Federal judge has approved a $600,000 settlement in the last of several lawsuits stemming from a raid in which City police looking for drugs ransacked two apartment buildings. More than 80 officers used axes and battering rams in the aug. 1, 1988, raid on the buildings. Less than an ounce of cocaine and 6 ounces of marijuana were confiscated. The $600,000 would go to Cheri and Henry Lang owners of one of the buildings. If City Council endorses the settlement total damages paid by the City to More than 80 plaintiffs will exceed $3.8 million. A this Case represents the worst instance of out of control police destroying property that Ever has occurred in the history of los Angeles a said Stephen Yagman one of the Langsy  filled with cocaine Springfield to. A a car pulled Over thursday for tailgating was found to contain 239 pounds of cocaine with a $43 million estimated Street value. State trooper Darren Call said he became suspicious after stopping a station Wagon on interstate 44 in southwestern Missouri for tailgating a truck. Call said the Driver agreed to let troopers search the car and they found the cocaine in about 40 plastic wrapped packages hidden in a compartment beneath suitcases and a Rug. Charges were pending against three colombian nationals said capt. Mike Pace of the Missouri state Highway patrol. Interstate 44, which extends from Texas to St. Louis is considered a major route for couriers ferrying cocaine and marijuana from the Southwest and West to Eastern  bark recovered Eugene Ore. A a ton of stolen Yew bark which contains a substance used in a cancer fighting drug has been recovered As part of a Federal undercover investigation. Assistant . Attorney Frank Papagni said wednesday that no charges have been filed but that the Case May be presented to a grand jury. He said the bark once completely dried would be Worth nearly $6,000. It was seized late last week at a trucking freight facility. The bark of the Pacific Yew is used to make the cancer fighting drug Taxon which is undergoing research. As interest in Taxon has soared reports of bark theft have increased. There have also been reports of Black Market  under repair Jacksonville Fla. A repair Crews worked around the clock thursday to fix a Busy interstate 95 drawbridge that was closed because of cracked steel plates. The Span could have fallen into the St. Johns River taking Drivers with it if any one of the four affected plates had cracked All the Way through authorities said. The 37-year-old Bridge was closed tuesday. Repairs Are expected to take two weeks