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.S. swaps for 34 cons
United Press International
SAN DIEGO — The U.S.-
[lexico prisoner exchange has
uded with little fanfare, and more
half the Americans who were
behind bars in Mexico when it
foot-dt egan are still there,
apart) The unusual convict swap was
njectj ampleted Monday night with the
drilled rrival of 34 U.S. citizens, 33 men
nd a woman, freed from Mexican
risons to U.S. custody, aboard a
bartered plane from Mexico City.
Only 13 persons awaited the
il tbe9 lane, in contrast to the hullabaloo
tat greeted the first planeload of
fndeita risoners Dec. 9 when hundreds of
s win anner waving relatives, friends, a
ir (lies mgressman and scores of reporters
Teiasj imed out.
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Americans released to 281 under
the treaty and left 304 in prison in
Mexico, federal officials said.
More had been expected
Monday, but five were so close to
completing their Mexican prison
sentences that they decided to re
main behind, said Jim Meko, a
spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of
Prisons.
The Americans left behind re
mained for a number of reasons.
More than 200 were ineligible be
cause their cases had not yet been
completed in the Mexican courts,
down to the final confirmation of
their sentences, a process which can
take two years or more.
About 20 per cent of the eligible
Americans preferred Mexican pris
ons, where money can buy
amenities forbidden in U.S. prisons.
Some wanted to avoid the stigma of
a U.S. criminal record, and others
were close enough to the end of
their Mexican sentences that they
decided to skip submitting them
selves to American parole restric
tions.
Thirty-six Mexicans serving terms
for crimes in the United States were
returned Monday, bringing the total
number of Mexican returnees to 72,
four percent of the Mexican prison
ers eligible.
Most of the returning Americans
were drug offenders, but two re
turning Monday were convicted
murderers.
The Americans are bound to
serve out their Mexican sentences
under U.S. jurisdiction, but by U.S.
rules — unlike those of Mexico —
they are eligible for parole.
McNiel favors
lax loan rules
Don McNiel, 6th Congressional
District candidate, says he is op
posed to the Panama Canal Treaties
because “even though the canal isn’t
needed today, it may be needed
tomorrow.”
McNiel’s Tuesday talk was pres
ented by the Texas A&M University
Young Democrats.
McNiel also said parents should
be able to earn larger salaries with
out damaging their children’s
chances of receiving a federal gov
ernment loan or grant for education.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1978
He said that pay-backs of these loans
should be scaled to a percentage of a
student’s starting salary after gradu
ation and increase as his salary in
creases. “College students should
have more time to pay back loans,”
McNiel said.
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Campus Names
ROTC instructor
receives promotion
Army non-commissioned offi
cer, Henderson M. Mendenhall,
has been promoted to sergeant
first class.
Mendenhall, a three-year
member of the Army ROTC de
tachment at Texas A&M Univer
sity, has 16 years of military serv
ice and was recently assigned
another year at Texas A&M.
The ROTC instructor has
served with infantry units in
Germany, Alaska and Vietnam.
Specially trained in mountain
and glacier, cold weather and
winter warfare, Mendenhall was
an army ski instructor in Ger
many and Alaska.
Texas A&M senior
given merit award
Texas A&M senior Kent L.
Van Riper of Sugarland has been
recognized for achievement of
the Society of American Military
Engineers (SAME) student post.
The Texas A&M post, of which
Van Riper is president, hosted
the Texas Regional SAME Con
ference in late February. It was
the first time a student post has
ever hosted a regional confer
ence.
Van Riper received the SAME
Award of Merit for 1978, recog
nizing the achievement.
Fie is an industrial distribution
major and Comapny K-l execu
tive officer in the Corps of
Cadets.
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