Yakima. From Central Washington's television news leader with Ken Crockett
and Heidi Tauber this is KIMA Newsbeat at 11. Good evening a prison takeover in
Alabama has reportedly ended tonight with the release of all 22 hostages.
Initially about 40 guards and other employees were trapped by the uprising
but 17 were able to work their way to freedom. The inmates demands were clearly
spelled out to one CBS reporter. The prison riot had attracted hundreds of law
enforcement officers from all over Alabama. This is a relatively new prison
barely two years old housing a thousand state inmates. The break came late
tonight prison officials saying if they were right the riot was ending. We stand
now the hostages we believe have now all been released but the inmates we think
are all going back. When we know that the commissioner will meet with all of you
and give you a definitive statement on everything is transpired. What transpired
began this morning about 200 of the inmates had taken over a portion of the
prison they had taken hostages they had some weapons at least four prison
officials had been hurt. Negotiations are progressing satisfactorily at this point
we feel that there are 22 hostages. Cross me 10 females and 12 males. Throughout
the evening after dark a number of ambulances and official vehicles were
allowed inside. It seemed that a showdown could be near. However there never was a
showdown instead the inmates back down. One of the demands they finally came up
with was that a TV photographer be allowed to go inside the prison with them
to hear them complaints. I talked with that photographer a few moments ago here
are the complaints they listed poor conditions food and housing sexual
harassment they said unfair penalties for possession of illegal drugs within
the prison guard harassment unfair promotion meaning some being placed on
trustee status what others felt they should be and problems with homosexuals.
All of these are fairly standard types of problems prisoners very often
complain of they certainly did complain outside of Birmingham today and it
almost led to a disaster that apparently is over tonight. One of the 23 people
indicted in Seattle today on racketeering charges is believed to have
killed a Missouri Highway Patrolman this afternoon. The gunman pulled an
automatic rifle during a traffic stop CBS has the full report on today's
indictments and the shooting. Details are sketchy but it's known one police
officer is dead and another wounded after being shot by a man identified as
David Charles Tate. Tate remains at large. David Tate is one of 23 people
alleged to be associated with the neo-nazi group the Order who were
indicted today in Seattle on a variety of charges. Tate was accused of murder
counterfeiting and dealing in stolen property. The Order a white supremacist
organization has been charged with plotting the violent overthrow of the
government of the United States. To that end the organization has been accused of
robbing armored cars to finance its goals and of murdering Denver talk show
host Alan Berg who opposed and ridiculed its aims. Death and destruction the
indictment says were the Order's stock in trade. Our seizures of explosives make
this group as violent a group as we have faced within the last year. In announcing
the indictments the FBI said it was sending a warning to anyone attracted to
the propaganda of the radical right. We have a justice system that is responsive
and swift when you have hate groups and groups espousing bigotry cross from the
threshold of rhetoric to the commission of violent acts or conspiracy to commit
violent acts. David Tate is one of six people indicted here today who is still
on the loose. The FBI says the Order has been neutralized but the case will stay
open until all the fugitives have been apprehended. Richard Wagner CBS News
Seattle. There's less than an hour before federal income tax returns must be filed
and tonight the Yakima Post Office was a busy place. Parking places were in short
supply and those not wanting to get out of their cars found a long line of
motorists driving by the mailboxes at the main post office at 3rd and
Washington. It was a scene repeated all over the country tonight as an estimated
10 million Americans waited until the last minute to settle up with the
government. Procrastination is a major reason reason people wait to file their
returns but having to pay Uncle Sam more taxes is another. I had to pay money in.
I'm not gonna give the government any money ahead of time. We just now got it prepared so just dropped it off.
No special reason just hold out as long as I can under that money or I have to give it away.
I'm not gonna give them my money any sooner than they need it. April 15th may
be the deadline for filing a tax return but it will be the end of April before
tax freedom day comes. That's when people will have earned enough money this year
to pay all of their federal state and local taxes. Members of Yakima's Jack
Rabbit Alliance and some other sympathizers staged a peaceful protest
in front of the Larson building today to bring attention to how tax dollars are
spent. Members of the group believe that many tax dollars are wasted and they
want less tax money spent on what they call weapons of destruction. The theme
in the majority of protesters with one notable exception are holdovers from
past tax day protests. The organizer of the effort Albert Snow says that he
thinks progress is being made as a result of the group's persistence. And I
think that each year I think the momentum for the cause that we're out
here for is gaining strength and I think eventually we'll succeed. I really do.
Snow says not everyone is completely against paying income taxes they just
don't like the way the money is being used. The protest was livened up somewhat
by the late arrival of one demonstrator who wore a Ronald Reagan mask and
carried an appropriate sign. Five floors above the protesters in the local
Internal Revenue Service office it was last day business as usual with last
minute taxpayers seeking answers to questions that were holding them up.
Bob Romero reporting for Newsbeat. A homeschooling bill considered too strict by
some parents who teach their own children has passed both houses of the
legislature and is on its way to Governor Booth Gardner. The bill is
considered a compromise between fierce opponents of homeschooling and those who
advocate teaching at home entirely free from state control. The proposal says
that parents teaching their children at home must have at least one year of
college otherwise their children must be supervised by a certified teacher. The
measure also requires students taught at home to take a state approved test or be
evaluated by a certified teacher annually. Tri-Cities area teachers staged a mock
funeral tonight for what they call the death of excellence in education.
Newsbeat's Julie Humphreys was there.
A six-foot velvet lined coffin was symbolically brought in and filled with
memoirs of better days for education. In Kennewick we even have cockroaches in
our schools and so as a symbol of the erosion of education in this state I
wish to be a cockroach killer and hope that the cockroaches will check in and
never check out. Each education official had a little different message to send
Governor Gardner about what they consider his failing pledge to make
education a priority in 1985. Friends as I gaze into this coffin tonight I see
the blighted hopes and dreams of thousands of small children. I see the
efforts of many brought down by the indifference of a few. This wake was held
in lieu of a walkout because Kennewick school officials felt it would have more
of an impact without disrupting classes. The most voiced concern here teachers
pay. A day when teachers would be paid a wage attractive enough to stop the flood
of teachers leaving for the more lucrative jobs of garbage collecting
encyclopedia sales and new cars.
But drama aside educators want all citizens to write or call the governor
and ask him not to shortchange funding for the state's primary responsibility.
In Kennewick Julie Humphries reporting for NewsBeat. Coming up the future looks
brighter for the world's fifth artificial heart recipient. And miraculously no one
was hurt when a skyscraper caught fire in New York.
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