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>j: Page 8 THE BATTALION FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1981 ! State Since 1980 Senate OK s taping for trial evidence PHOTO & CAMERA.INC. Celebrates their i < 1 st BIRTHDAY Filters 20% XG1 *239.95 OFF PENTAX NIKON Super EM *269195 Only *249.95 Marsand & Temba 0lympus>^ Gadget Bags ™ /o Oft *259.95 All Small Camera Accessories 10% off TRIPOD 10% OFF Birthday Special! Including Straps, Cable Releases & Lens Caps All Lenses VASHICA Great by Buy! *265.00 A Bargain! ON SALE TOKINA NUMBER ONE IN GERMANY. T0% OFF on all Kodak Color These SalePrices^are good Sat. April 18th only! United Press International AUSTIN — A bill allowing Texas juries to hear as evidence the tape-recorded confessions of suspects given during police inter rogations was approved 30-0 by the Senate Thursday. Sen. Bob Glasgow, D- Stephenville, the sponsor of the bill, called it “the most important bill for law enforcement in Texas. ” But opponents argued during the debate the proposal would allow police to coerce suspects to confess, and then record only the confessions, and a spokesman for the Texas Civil Liberties Union said if the bill passes it will dis courage suspects from answering any police questions at all. “If this bill passes in its present form, any person who has his Miranda rights read to him by a police officer would be very fool ish to say another word,” said TCLU Director John Duncan. “If charges are eventually brought, the suspects are in effect We Gots What Ya Likes In The Way Of Bikes! Takara - Ross - Campagnoio Cinelli - Shimano and much more Cycles, Etc. Plus the Best Reoairs & ^lus the Best Repairs & Prices Around — Call Us! 403 University — 846-7580 North gat* (Aero** from Post Office) Tfe o Prescriptions Filled Glasses Repaired 216 N. MAIN BRYAN Mon.-Fri. 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HOWDY SHIRTS and BUTTONS on sale in the MSC waiving their Fifth Amendment rights and doing so without the advice of counsel.” Glasgow’s bill, which now goes to the House, would not require police to advise suspects their statements are being taped or that the tapes could be used as evi dence at their trial. Current Texas law permits the use of taped confessions only to impeach the testimony of a defen dant during his trial. Glasgow’s bill allows prosecutors to use the tapes to obtain indictments, and as a key prosecution tool. “Texas is the only state in the union that does not allow police officers to testify about the oral statements made in a custodial in vestigation,” Glasgow said. He said some defense attorneys had opposed his original bill per mitting police to testify about a suspect’s oral confessions, so he amended it to require that the statements be tape-recorded or videotaped. Sen. Hector Uribe, D- Brownsville, cited incidences in McAllen, Texas, of police beating suspects, and said under Glas gow’s bill police could avoid tap ing such actions in coercing sus pects to confess. “A police officer is not going to begin to roll the tape until he is sure he’s got a confession, so what you’re going to see is the last four or five minutes of a four-hour in terrogation,” Uribe said. The Senate rejected 21-9 an attempt by Sen. Oscar Mauzy, D- Dallas, to require police to inform a suspect his statements were being taped and could be used as evidence against him. “You don’t want to tell a person being questioned that he’s being taped, you want to do it surrepti tiously,” said Sen. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin. “What we’re trying to do is get back to a viable, usable oral state ment law,” Glasgow replied. High stackin’ Uni SAN ANIONIC San Antonio Spur curse instead of tl The Spurs and iventh and final g ence playoffs. I. “This has been: coach Stan Albecl i It’s the law of ave The Spurs have Houston while pk true for the Rod jnes at their hon “The Flunkees” took first place in the Up- silon Pi Epsilon card stacking contest held Thursday in the Zachry Engineering Cen ter lobby. Keith Stephens topped off the stack in the 30 minute time limit. Their winning stack of 10 feet 5 inches put them Staff photo hy Brianlt hy the now-elimh H Houston coach ahead of the “Video Wizards” second plact see the trend cont stack of 7 feet 2 inches. Finishing last in the nio and allowing three team competition was “Colunga'siplayoffs. Crew” at 1 foot, 4 inches. Upsilon PiEpsilcn; ; ^e 11 just have is the computer science honor society. Thii§f^ is sa '^' is the contest’s third year. “Give credit tc jntrolled things • (lay s )D]-96 San A Employees’ names subpoenaed United Press International SAN ANTONIO — Federal in vestigators Thursday said a grand jury looking for public employees who are illegally receiving welfare payments may not receive enough information for indictments until mid-summer. Sponsored by the MSC Traditions Council FBI agents and U.S. Justice Department officials said they have subpoenaed names of 113,000 federal, state and local employees, hoping to compare those names with welfare rolls. FBI agents and the U.S. Attor ney’s office usually do not announce pending investigations but wait until the inquiries are completed. The federal investigators said they are seeking the list of welfare recipients in “Project Match,” an attempt to compare lists of public employees to welfare rolls in eight south Texas counties. “If we get prosecutions in this case, the impact on the commun ity will be that those who had thoughts of illegally applying for welfare might have doubts about doing it,” said FBI agent and in vestigation supervisor Albert Robinson, explaining why there had been public announcements of the inquiries. Meanwhile, Texas Department of Human Resources officials in Austin said the agency may chal lenge federal grand jury sub poenas asking for confidential lists of welfare recipients, despite a de sire to cooperate with federal agents conducting the investiga tion. Bill Wagner, TDHR spokesman in Austin, said the agency is bound hy state and federal law to pros the confidentiality of all clients^ ceiving welfare benefits. “If we challenge the subpoee we’re challenging them strict a formality,” said Warner, Heft[ plained the computer tapes quested by an April 7 fed grand jury in San Antonio req submission of the tapes by Maw Approximately $92 mil food stamps and Aid to with Dependent (AFDC), which are the twofedn; al programs being concent®* upon hy prosecutors, are< buted to 190,000 people in counties encompassing thefo Antonio metropolitan area. “As far as I know, the inve.# tion is for the San Antonio only, not the rest of Texas,' Robinson. Robinson said that after the# fare recipient list and public® ployee lists are received, a com? ter program will have to vised in Washington to c . the lists. He said it will be summer before the compari* are presented to the grand ju' Although some public ployees’ income levels wo* allow them to legally received stamps, Robinson said, similars vestigations in New York, I more and other cities have duced a substantial number olio dictments for fraud. Text socc The Texas A& hosting the Fii ■occerTournami The four team to the first internat nament to be he Teams from Baylor, TCU anc meet today throi round-robin eve begins today at S Texas A&M ag 4:30 p.m. TCU v EPIS( EAS 7:00 a. i Maundc Mf Apartments • Duplexes • All Types Of Housing Call for appointment or come by A&M APT. PLACEMENT SERVICE fM 693-3777 2339 S. Texas, C.S. “Next to the Dairy Queen” Cante ST. THC AGGIE + BLOOD DRIVE “k is COMING!! April 20-23 +