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£ national Prison author sentenced United Press International NEW YORK : —Jailhouse au thor Jack Henry Abbott, who has spent most of his adult life behind bars, was sentenced Thursday as a persistent felony offender to 15 years to life in prison for the stabbing death of a newly wed waiter. State Supreme Court Justice Irving Lang imposed the sent ence for the slaying of waiter Richard Adan, 22. In addition, Abbott will first have to serve up to eight years in prison on unrelated federal and Utah state criminal charges. Thus, Abbott, 38, faces 23 years •y protege laile LATE SHOW TONIGHT & SATURDAY 12 MIDNIGHT in jail. Abbott, the literary of author Norman Mailer, was convicted in January of man slaughter in Adan’s fatal stab bing outside a lower Manhattan restaurant July 18. The manslaughter charge has a prison term of 12'A to 25 years but Lang decided Abbott was a persistent violent felony offender. Thus, he could be sentenced to a maximum term of 25 years to life. Lang called Abbott’s man slaughter conviction “an indict ment of a prison system that brutalizes rather than rehabili tates.” But, he said he could not ignore Abbott’s violent back ground and past conduct in im posing the sentence. Mailer was in the courtroom for the sentencing. Abbott, the author of a critic ally acclaimed prison diary, “In the Belly of the Beast,” refused to leave his cell at Rikers Island jail last month for a court hear ing in his case. Lang threatened to issue a court order to force Abbott to appear Thursday. Abbott’s lawyer said Wednesday he ex pected his client to voluntarily appear in court for sentencing. The prosecution, citing two of Abbott’s previous felony convic tions, asked Lang to declare him a persistent violent offender. Abbott was convicted of bank robbery in 1971 and of assault with a deadly weapon of a con vict in I9f)7. Abbott stabbed f ellow inmate to death in a Utah prison. Since age 12, Abbott has been out of jail only 9‘/i months. Mail er, who was impressed by Abbott’s writing, nelped the convict obtain release from a Utah federal prison and gave him a job as a literary researcher in New York. Abbott was on parole and was living at a federally f unded hall way nouse in lower Manhattan, near the restaurant where the slaying occurred. Adan and Abbott became in volved in an argument about the use of an employee rest room. The two men stepped outside the restaurant and Abbott stab bed and killed Adan moments later, officials said. staff photo by JohnRm Chairman Christy Jackson, a food sciences major from Houston, helps Robert Smith, United Press [EW YORK optiators are ; their industry i vesting at least new ships, rece n Although it the recession, t industry is sure growing, said R heads the 28- Lines Internath j Bahna, lorn World Airlint Ciinard USA, c the old transatl atnrs that has cruise age. H Bahna said are backing up outlook with t ships especially traffic. Many cr nlw are remo< these, Bahna sa junior electrical engineering mui from Houston, with the purchase a Howdy button in the MSC. Citrus seeds may join war on crop-destroying insects United Press International NEVV YORK — Farmers someday may use orange, lemon and grapefruit seeds against in sects. Dr. Isao Kubo of the Univer sity of California at Berkeley told the American Chemical Off All Loose Diamonds Set In Aggie Senior Rings (April 13-30) Society that waste products f rom citrus fruits show promise against two insect pests down on the farm. He called the potential bug killers Jimonoids and said they are found in seeds, juice and rinds. Kubo told fellow scientists at a recent national ACS meeting that citrus limonoids inhibited growth of larvae of the cotton bollworm and the fall army- JlThe money special cruise si ly from shipbui Europe who \\ employment in that tradition; many passengt said. ■ Only Cun America, Penii and some Sea among the olde Judg d He figures a pesticide that stunts an insect’s growth would cut down damage. Smaller in sects can’t do as much crop harm as large ones. They eat less. But there’s more to it, said the report on the investigations at Berkeley. The resultant pygmy bugs also probably would lie less resis tant to natural predators, para sites and adverse physical condi tions, the scientist said. Liminoids will he put to furth er tests this year in field experi ments on corn or cotton — tests Kubo says are warranted due to the fact that the natural subst ances apparently are bad for bugs but harmless to humans. Kubo estimates 30 tons of the substance could be extracted ev ery year from grapefruit seeds alone. Residence Hall Association Presents A NIGHT OF GAMBLING, FRIZES, AND ENTERTAINMENT Major prizes donated by DIAMOND AND TOTAL PRIZE ROOM 707 WORTH OVER $3000! Friday, April 16 8:00-12:30 th PLACE: MSC, 2nd floor and Lounge TICKETS-* $3.00 advance $4.00 door TICKET SALES: APRIL 12-16 MSC,Shisa,Commons,Duncan,A&A,Zachry,Academic In the tests, Kubo said larvae of bollworm and armyworm would not feed on cotton leaves tainted with limonoids when un treated leaves were available. When there was no choice, they munched on leaves dosed with limonoids. That diet curbed growth. The results were dwarf versions of full-grown in sects. In tests to date, limonoid from seeds of the neem tree kil led the bollworm and army- worm larvae — a lethal step beyond just stunting grot# But Kubo said the cheitil structure of that limonoidisB complicated for large-scale* duction. - 'll® I he citrus limonoidsareof, plicated, too, but they arearfj able in a steady way from»» TYY Cl T"| of grapefruit, oranges il lAJ-CLJ-A lemons. More intelligence a b ()lll il/^v war on insects came in twooilfl Cl J. JL reports presented at the* conference in Las Vegas,(if® One report explained ■ United Pres: some plants wage sophistica|; NEW ORLE war against bugs — liter who admitted r burning them. The otherst)l dust manufact that trees trick bugs bychanjt able of produ composition of leaves to tit pounds of the them non-appetizing. each month ha: Dr. Thor Arnason, Univei*to 12 years in f of Ottawa, and Ur. C. HJk 1 owers, University of Bit JJ-S. Distrk Columbia, Vancouver, toldw Godins Wedne plant chemicals absorb suiild Alfred Jerome and use it to fry insects to dec consecutive six ArnsaSon said members Guillard last we the sunflower clan — dais ty to conspiring black-eyed Susans, marigoldij PGP and distrib are probably the biggest user i 1 to f ec i e this brand of warfare. agents. Dr. Jack C. Schultz, of Dr mouth College, said the tr|, UuUlard 2b changing chemical comnosii J deral autl j on of leaves to get rid of inseJ dust a different defense ntechanis moved h * so P er He said research at the Hi | atl ° n - P re bard Brook Experimer v.cted of sirmla, Forest in New Hampshire? forn ! a and dr vealed that the changesoccui' P en< J m g again; • nonri response to chewing insects. Insects such as caterpiW start chomping lower leaif The tree changes the compel tion of those leaves. TheealtJ pillar then moves up * around, looking for less tmfj leaves. 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