Page 8/The Batta I ion/Wednesday, April 20, 1983
Months spent in jail
could be ‘for nothing’
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Lisa Barber, a biomedical science freshman from
Houston, plays pin-the-blackheart-on-Joan Jett at
Rudder fountain. Tracy Cochran, left, the projects
chairman for MSC Town Hall, and Kyle Benson, right
a junior accounting major from Longview, watch.
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts will be at G. Rollie
White Coliseum on April 28. The three participants
who pinned their hearts the closest won two tickets.
Vietnam vet lauds
Texas dioxin study
United Press International
AUSTIN — The commander
of the United Vietnam Veterans
in Texas praised the state’s
efforts to identify problems
caused by Agent Orange expo
sure — efforts he said the U.S.
government was hesitant to pur
sue because of the potential ex
pense it would face in medical
aid.
Vietnam from 1962-1970. More
than 60,000 veterans have filed
suit alleging ill effects to them
selves and their children from
their exposure to the herbicide.
“What it (the Texas study) will
do, hopefully, is to provide the
missing link that the Veterans
Administration and the U.S. gov
ernment claim is not now in exist
ence, and that is to furnish credi
ble, medical evidence to link
dioxin to the health problems
suffered by the veterans,” Dan
Jordan said Monday.
To mark Vietnam Veterans
Day in Texas, lawmakers and a
veterans organization sponsored
a photographic exhibit in the
state Capitol that graphically de
picted birth defects and other
physical problems allegedly
traced to exposure to the dioxin-
based Agent Orange.
The research program was
the result of a bill passed in the
1981 legislative session. Another
measure introduced this session
would strengthen the program
by setting up an advisory com
mittee of veterans, doctors and
medical researchers to oversee
Agent Orange studies.
The federal government used
the chemical as a defoliant in
Exxon employee
finds second bomb
United Press International
DALLAS — An Exxon service
station employee, who pulled a
garbage bag out of the opening
of an underground gasoline
storage tanks, said it never
occurred to him initially that the
object might be a bomb.
Dallas before a small bomb ex
ploded in a trash can at a sub
urban Grand Prairie station Fri
day afternoon. No one was in
jured but the blast shattered the
rear window of a nearby police
car.
“I thought someone had stuf
fed a garbage bag down in the
opening of the tank,” Richard
Ryan said Monday after finding
the second bomb hidden in a
Dallas-area Exxon station in
three days.
A police bomb squad took
Monday’s pipe bomb to the de
partment’s shooting range and
detonated it. Spokesman Ed
Spencer said fragments of the
bomb would be analyzed by the
FBI to see if the two cases were
related.
“I pulled the bag out and took
it into the station and began cut
ting it open. I hit a pipe and
realized it might be a bomb. I
walked back outside with it and
set it out near the street and cal
led police.”
Agents for the FBI refused to
comment on the case. Police
Monday had no suspects in
either case.
An Exxon spokesman said
there was no extortion attempt
connected with Monday’s inci
dent.
A demand for more than
$100,000 was telephoned to Ex
xon regional headquarters in
Spencer said police explosives
experts, could not determine
when the bomb had been set to
explode.
“I was told it had the potential
of giving off a pretty good blast,”
Spencer said. “We don’t have
any suspects and don’t know
where the bomb came from.”
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HOUSTON — A man who
spent nine months in jail to
appeal his trespassing convic
tion may have stayed behind
bars for nothing because no offi
cial record was kept of his trial.
In a case the 1st Texas Court
of Appeals has called “shocking
to our sense of justice,” Cleve
land Hicks Jr.,24, spent seven
months in the Harris County Jail
awaiting his June 1982 trial be
cause he could not pay the $400
bond.
After his conviction and a six-
month jail sentence, he decided
to appeal, and because he could
not afford the $2,500 bond set
by County Court at Law Judge
Jimmie Duncan he went back to
jail for nine more months.
The appeals court criticized
Duncan for not releasing Hicks
after the trial stage, even though
he had asked to appeal, because
he knew Hicks already had
served the maximum sentence
plus one month.
After he got a new lawyer,
Hicks was released on a $100
personal recognizance bond.
Duncan said he was surprised
Hicks was still in jail. But now
some officials say Hicks may not
get a genuine appeal.
Attorney Ron Mock, the
court-appointed lawyer who
represented Hicks at his first
trial, said that by law the appeals
court will have to affirm the con
viction because there is no offi
cial record of the trial for them
l.mi
to review.
Mock said he does not re
member why he did not ask that
Hicks’ trial be recorded. In some
misdemeanor courts, court re
porters record trials without
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Jordan said the government
would have to pay affected veter
ans more than $100 million a
year for several decades if it
admitted responsibility for
Agent Orange-related maladies.
“It is ultimately a question of
economics,” Jordan said at a
news conference. “We’ve seen
historically a pattern of govern
ment handling of incidences like
this, especially in situations in
volving veterans, where the gov
ernment has stonewalled, has
drug its feet, has attacked scien
tists and disputed their stand on
the issues.”
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