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Activist housewife
nabbed in
LOS ANGELES (AP) A 51-year-old
housewife who headed a booster group
called Ladies Assisting Cops En-
thusiastically has been charged with
selling PCP to undercover officers
posingas high school students,
authorities say.
Lois Szukala, who once joined a
petition drive supporting tougher
penalties for drug abuse, was among
228 alleged drug dealers arrested
through the Police Department's
"School Buy Program."
EACH FALL and spring, the depar-
tment installs youthful-looking rookie
officers at nine of Los Angeles' 55 high
schools. They pose as drug-hungry
students, and at the end of their 3 -
month stint, help in a single-sweep
roundup of drug contacts.
Szukala was arrested at her home in
El Sereno on April 29 and charged with
seven counts of selling PCP, a
hallucinogen known as angel dust, and
one count of selling a substance she
represented as the hallucinogen.
She faces a May 31, Superior Court
arraignment and remained jailed
yesterday, unable to post $15,000 bail.
POLICE Capt. Robert Taylor, head of
the Juvenile Division which runs the 9-
year-old school buy program, said
yesterday that a student cop at Lincoln
High School was led to Szukala by her
22-year-old son's girlfriend.
The girlfriend, a 15-year-old
runaway, hassheen charged with
possessing PCP for sale.
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"The officer was offered PCP and
taken to her house by the runaway,"
Taylor said. "She(Szukala) didn't work
at the school-she was a housewife, a
m'other and a community activist who
worked with LACE for about eight or
nine years.
I KNOW she had a very good
reputation in the community and within
the organization," he said. He added
that she once canvassed door-to-door
for signatures supporting stiffer drug-
penalty laws.
Szukala was appointed LACE
president in February but resigned af-
ter her arrest, said Police Capt. Clayton
Mayes. Her colleagues in LACE and
police at the Northeast Division, where
the volunteers worked, described her as
a devoted activist.
"This was an absolute shock to me,"
said Capt. Dick Stevens. "The tragedy
is that the woman spent hundreds of
hours in police community work,
cooking in the kitchen for banquets,
coming into the station and making cof-
fee and sandwiches during emergen-
cies and leading the effort for her
neighborhood watch program to
prevent crime.
"What might have caused-her to get
involved in something like this com-
pletely baffles me," Stevens said.
"She was a friend."
LACE member Esther Nunez, an
eight-year acquaintance of Szukala,
said she thought the woman was duped
by girls she had befriended.
"The girls had a lot of boyfriends
over to Szukala's house" Nunez said.
"You wouldn't believe the people that
would come through here ....
"She's a good person;" Nunez added.
"She always got involved and like to
help people. She hated to see kids on the
streets and would counsel them and tell
them to stay away from drugs."
IN BRIEF
Compiled from Associated Press and
United Press International reports
Senate conmittee rejects budget
WASHINGTON - Ina surprise move, the GOP-led Senate Budget Comm-
ittee yesterday rejected a bipartisan 1984 budget compromise and adopted a
modified version of a low-tax, high-deficit budget backed by President
Reagan thatwas defeated by the Senate just last week.
The $149 billion budget, which goes to the full Senate for a vote today, calls
for raising only $2.6 billion in new taxes next year, virtually the same as
Reagan requested in his 1984 budget proposal.
It would increase defense spending 7.1 percent next year, compared to the
10 percent Reagan wanted, and would spend $11 billion more on non-defense
domestic programs than Reagan sought. The plan projects a record deficit
of about $191 billion in 1984.
Despite arguments over who is to blame for soaring budget deficits, the
House quietly went along yesterday with Reagan's request to increase the
national debt limit to almost $1.4 trillion.
Senate OKs immigration revision
WASHINGTON - The Senate approved yesterday a major revision of the
nation's immigration laws that would make millions of illegal aliens already
in the United States eligible for U.S. citizenship.
The 76-18 vote came over the objections of Democratic liberals who
charged that serious new discrimination will result from the enforcement
arm of the legislation, which provides sanctions against employers who
knowlingly hire illegal aliens.
The measure, introduced by Sen. Alan Simpson, (D-Wyo.), would be the
first rewrite of immigration laws in 20 years. It is intended to stem the tide of
illegal immigration and grant amnesty to undocumented foreigners now in
the United States.
It is almost identical to the immigration reform package approved last
year by the Senate but not acted upon by the House. A slightly differnt ver-
sion is now pending in the House.
The measure offers legal status as temporary residents to illegal aliens
who entered the United States before Jan. 1, 1980. Those who entered before
Jan. 1, 1977, could become permanent residents and then, after five years,
could apply for citizenship.
Syria vows revenge over
Lebanon's peace pact signing
Syria yesterday vowed to take revenge on Lebanon for signing the U.S.-
mediated troop withdrawal accord with Israel and slammed the door on
President Reagan's envoy Philip Habib saying it had nothing to discuss with
him.
"Syria and the Lebanese National Front will not let the agreement go
without retribution," the newspaper of the ruling Baath Party said in
Damascus.
In order for the withdrawal pact to take effect, Syria must agree to
simultaneously pull its 40,000 troops out of Lebanon along with 10,000
Palestine Liberation Organization forces.
Lavelle cited for contempt
WASHINGTON - The House voted unanimously yesterday to cite former
Environmental Protection Agency official Rita Lavelle for contempt of
Congress because she has refused to testify on possible wrongdoing within
the agency.
The 413-0 vote followed arguments by both Democrats and Republicans
that Lavelle, by ignoring subpoenas, was in open defiance of Congress' con-
stitutional authority to oversee the workings of government.
Lavelle, fired as assistant Environmental Protection Agency ad-
ministrator Feb. 7 by President Reagan, was the second top agency official
cited for contempt as part of congressional investigations of the Superfund
Toxic waste cleanup program. Anne Burford, who resigned as EPA ad-
ministrator March 9, remains under a contempt citation the House voted in
December.
The citation against Lavelle will be forwarded to the Justice Department
for presentation to a grand jury. Contempt of Congress is a misdemeanor
punishable upon conviction by a maximum fine of up to $1,000 and as much
as a year in jail.
Minorities lead mn mayoral races
Longtime political powerhouses were rejected in city elections in Philadelpia
and Denver and in both cities minority candidates have a good shot at the
mayor'a job.
W. Wilson Goode, the son of a sharecropper, predicted yesterday he will
become Philadelphia's first black mayor by beating Republican John Egan
and Independent Tom Leonard in the November general election.
Goode on Tuesday beat Frank Rizzo, an ex-cop and two-term mayor who
was attempting a comeback after a forced retirement under city law.
Denver will get a new mayor for the first time in 14 years, with a young
Hispanic lawyer and a veteran politician facing a June 21 runoff.
Federico Pena, 36, a former state legislator, polled 48,102 votes, or 36.4
percent, and Dale Tooley, 49, a former district attorney, got 40,733, or 30.8
percent. With none of the seven candidates winning a majority, a runoff was
required between the top two finishers.
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