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THE BATTALION Page 7
TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1979
Jury hung, Davis on bond
(Continued from page 1.)
■‘‘I m glad it is over and I just hate
s ‘ aV( »r tin-that it is going to have to he done
• shouldiover again,” Mrs. Carter said.
ec ' Monda, I Chief Tarrant County criminal
''lost toinu,prosecutor Tolly Wilson said Davis
vt “i's also iwill he tried again, but both he and
Elense attorneys said a new trial
piesent sp^likely could not begin until next
Posed, Midyear, at the earliest.
il Moore, who after declaring the
believet mistrial said defense tactics in
drivers of . stretching the trial to 11 weeks was
B “abuse” of the legal system, was
is|ed if he would preside over
' with the rt ,mother trial,
regulation.! “Hell, no!” he said,
he mosteffn; During the trial Moore showed
his displeasure at its length but did
ir most ofilnot speak publicly on the subject
until the mistrial was declared.
“It’s an abuse of the system,” he
/
said. “I’m not going out on a limb
now (to blame anyone for the trial’s
length). I don’t want to criticize any
member of the bar.
Eidson, who has sat on the front
row during deliberations, left the
courtroom with a four-man body
guard. In an earlier interview with
UPI, Eidson said he would be ap
prehensive until Davis “was broke
or dead.”
In a courtroom news conference,
Haynes said: T would have to say
I’m highly emotional. This is a
victory for the system more than it is
a victory for anybody.”
Testimony began Nov. 6 and
jurors listened to almost 100 witnes
ses — including Davis — and eight
hours of closing arguments Tuesday
before receiving the case.
The jury was permitted to con
sider either conspiracy or solicita
tion counts in their deliberations
but were instructed they could con
vict on only one.
Jurors were forced to choose be
tween McCrory’s claim that his boss
pressured him to arrange the slay
ings of 15 enemies in a scheme of
paranoia and revenge, or the defen
dant’s explanation he was just “play
ing along” with the FBI in the taped
conversations.
Davis was arrested Aug. 20, 1978,
after leaving a restaurant parking lot
where he handed McCrory $25,000.
McCrory testified the money was
for relay to a professional killer
whom McCrory had fabricated —
initially to pacify but later to lure
the industrialist toward arrest and
end the scheme.
Iran’s armed forces to obey
government, protect country
United Press International
TEHRAN, Iran — The chief of
Iran s armed forces Monday
pledged full support to embattled
Premier Shahpour Bakhtiar and re
peated his promise that the military
will not attempt to overthrow the
civilian government.
Gen. Abas Qarabaghi said, “The
question of a coup d’etat or any kind
of indiscipline in various military
units is not true. The army will obey
the orders of the government. ”
Qarabaghi also said steps had
been taken to prevent pro-shah
elements in the country from
threatening anti-shah demonstrators
and said those involved in recent at
tacks would be arrested.
“I assure all countrymen that all
More fighting
i Israeli shellfire leaves six dead in Lebanon
n operatioi B %/
operatii
_ United Press International
id. 140sucl | BEIRUT, Lebanon — Heavy weekend fighting between Israeli
ed, but tk (commandos and Palestinian guerrillas Monday left southern Lebanon
s has seeroj at its most volatile point since a full-scale Israeli invasion 10 months
working aj ago.
peace hasB Israeli artillery and gunboats swapped shell, machine gun and
ed techniijf;rocket fire with Palestinians in the rugged hill country Sunday — 48
that havej hours after Israeli ground forces briefly penetrated the frontier to
the I aslll ; battle the guerrillas in the southeast.
bor negotiafl The violence was the worst since Israel invaded in March 1978 and
on disputefepccupied the south for about three months. The latest Israeli incur-
||ion, similiar to the attack 10 months earlier, was prompted by Pales-
eace is nkeI tinian guerrilla attacks inside Israel.
Linkingn At least six people were reported killed and 14 wounded in Sun-
communihBay’s Israeli shellfire on the guerrilla-controlled market town of
efine what L Abatiyeh, target of some of the fiercest fighting.
deVelopuvB “At the height of the shelling, five shells were exploding every
Ive conflicbHninute,” a panic stricken Nabatiyeh resident told a Lebanese re
s’, at home I porter.
bring Reporters on the scene spoke of “at least several casualties” in
Huerrilla-controlled towns closer to the southeast frontier than
ce acadeimMjabatiyeh, which is some eight miles from the border. However
>ple as Dr Jr
ott king.l
rew YoimjB
ent before ■
r to the la
rcited aboutL
.'alter AikR.
nt to thecil
reliable figures were not immediately available.
The guerrillas unleashed fierce fire on Israeli-allied Lebanese
rightist militiamen in the southeast, the reporters said. The
militiamen had been pitching in with the Israeli gun barrages,
The Palestinians also lofted several Soviet-made 122-mm rockets
into northern Israel, the reports from the south said.
During the duels, which began shortly after midnight and con
tinued through Sunday afternoon, Israeli gunboats briefly opened fire
on Palestinian controlled areas just above the southwest port of Tyre,
reporters in the area said. The guerrillas returned fire.
There were no immediate reports of casualties in the southwest
clash, which sent a number of projectiles into coastal citrus groves.
One early report said the Israelis had also mounted an abortive land
ing attempt, but there was no independent confirmation.
rogress made
in Mideast talks
1 at Camp
.ve’re tallii
United Press International
I ■iTRLSALEM — U.S. envoy
*u bnd Atherton Monday returned
rigbt i ;o th e bargaining table to negotiate
it of tin v fh the Israelis, postponing his de
li om t'l 1 ' jh'rture to Cairo in efforts to clear up
liich ma) he remaining obstacles to an
ler positioi Banded draft peace treaty with
dent and
Ipt-
David to®he cabinet Sunday failed to
an could g ree to proposals aimed at resolv-
battldi' ^ a dispute on whether the treaty
>ut withaphould take precedence over
get a frar ;gypfs defense commitments to its
irab allies — a major obstacle
some oppHjocking conclusion of the draft
lovement, aC (
e sa ’^’ ll 'j» ut tbe cabinet reportedly
DefenseOifi| orse d recommendations by the
work on ®H 0 tiating team to accept Article 4
idy being f the draft. It calls for a review of
nnent. ecurity guarantees,
in that in This show of progress, according
e act as an| |he Jerusalem Post, encouraged
tates intif jotb sides to try to work out a com-
academy'rpmise on Article 6 — the
mediator, riorities clause,
goals and Israel wants the United States to
Irify beyond any doubt that Egypt
ientists «%uld be entitled to attack the
ch.and 20®jsh state only if war was
Lane sajiggered by unprovoked Israeli ag-
shifted tression, the Post report said,
resolution The wording of the draft article
iarly gives the treaty preference
Now you know
United Press International
ie most popular man-made attrac-
on in the United States is San
ancisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.
over Egypt previous defense com
mitments to its Arab allies. Cairo
does not want to surrender those
commitments and Washington has
agreed with the Egyptian stand.
The cabinet apparently was
adamant in its refusal to accept
Atherton’s compromise proposals
regarding Article 6, wanting a U.S.
interpretation of it that more clearly
identifies with Israel s view.
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