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Page 8/The Battalion/Thursday, June 2, 1983 Warped by scon McGuiiar Abortion used to build HW1, UTS SEE, WE NEED SOtfE L/FESAVERS, SOME FINGERNAU. CLIPPERS, A TV GUIDE, SOKE... SETTER GET U5 A FEW GUNS. YES, A/OW THE ITEM A10ST RELATED TO IMPULSE KILLING IS AVAILABLE for impulse buying, think rou MIGHT BE INVOLVED /NANARGUE* 50 THINK NOW, INSTEAD OF LATER, AND BUY A COUPLE WITH THE GROCERIES. YOU WON'T REGRET OH, GOOD, WE CAN TRY OUT THE NEW GUNS! ~v family of desired sex United Press International DETROIT — Some parents are custom-tailoring their fami- Jury selected in rape trial United Press International SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — A twelfth juror was selected Wednesday to hear the controv ersial case of five men accused of gang raping and beating a for mer Ohio beauty queen, then leaving her to wander nude in the freezing cold. The additional juror was THE GROVE All movies begin at 8:45 p.m. fflNkA Thursday Night two classic adventures this weekend! Friday and Saturday Night CASABLANCA Sunday Night Love at First Bite Monday Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Tuesday selected Wednesday, the fifth day of the selection process, as the existing pool of potential jurors dwindled. Sixteen people will be selected. Five eastern Massachusetts men, all 22, are accused of rap ing the unidentified victim, 38, and leaving her in a wooded area in Holbrook, Mass., in January 1980. The trial will be held 80 miles east, in the Nor folk County seat of Dedham. Only 10 of the 260-member jury pool were left to be ques tioned Tuesday. Judge John P. Sullivan ordered marshals sent to the “highways and byways” if the 10 remaining people did not fill the additional jury seats. Sullivan expected jury selec tion in the widely publicized case to continue into Thursday. The trial should last 2 to three weeks, he said. lies by aborting a fetus if pre natal tests show the child is not the desired sex, researchers say. “It is possible to determine the sex of the child before the child is born by doing amniocen tesis,” Anne B. Swanson, associ ate chemistry professor at Edge- wood College in Madison, Wis., said in an interview after addres sing the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Amniocentesis, usually per formed on older pregnant women to determine if the fetus has Downs syndrome, involves insertion of a needle to with draw amniotic fluid from the womb. “It is possible to abort a fetus which is one sex or another,” Swanson said. “Some parents do it. And there are some physi cians who do it in this country. “But it is not common. And most ethicists are opposed to this — aborting a baby just because it’s not the sex you want,” she said. John C. Fletcher, National In stitute of Health assistant for bioethics, told the convention that sex selection would increase with new pre-natal diagnostic techniques. “I believe that practice to be ethically unjustifiable and against the best interestsoitj and women in thisoranva society,” he said. “Because of the teclo feasibility and the agin population, there will beanJ creasing demand for pretj diagnosis,” he said. Thel) we could increase the fitnegH United t the human species by plariTIOUSTt genetic measures will becomjfying heats stronger issue again." Ld field ( Parents could opt for aiHect is no tion because the fetus has a Be object linked genetic defect. Ifthr jAnd on t feet is carried on the Y.ortthe 62nd a chromosome, a baby boy ^Washington have the defect, but abah*ot to lose, would not. Tide, Widow fighting IRS over possible house sale appear to h ■ The SI Washington favor ites to wliU for a < ■school 1 United Press International DALLAS — An elderh kinko's copies PROFESSOR! PUBUSHING Here's how it works : Professors organize a selection of class readings (check copyright law for legal use of material) and drop the master off at Kinko’s Kinko’s will - - Duplicate it - Assemble Custom Notebooks - Distribute them to your students at a reduced rate Our Professor Publishing Plan is available at no cost to you or your department. 7 woman said Wednesday she will not let the government seize her home despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing its sale to pay taxes owed by her dead hus band. Lucille Mitzi Bosce Rodgers, 68, said her nightmare began in 1976, two years after the death of her husband. An Internal Re venue Service agent telephoned, she said, and asked if she still lived in their three-bedroom brick home. Several weeks later, she said, an IRS agent knocked on her door “with a subpoena. They said they were suing me for my house.” Citing the case of Rodgers and another Dallas woman, Jorene Ingram, the IRS went to court to allow seizure of the houses to pay the debts. Lower courts ruled against the IRS. On appeal, however, the Supreme Court on a 5-4 vote Tuesday reversed those rulings and said the IRS can force the sale of a married couple’s home to pay a tax debt owecl by one of the spouses. The court said the surviving spouse must be compensmed for her share of the property, and only the debtor’s share can be used to pay the debt. “I’m a little old lady,” said Rodgers. “I haven’t moved yet. They’re not going to get my house. “I just don’t understand how a person isn’t protected (from the government),” she said. Rodgers said she and her second husband, Coleman A. Rodgers, 79, have no other place to live. “Social Security is about all we have,” said Rodgers. She said the home cost $39,000 29 years ago hut she did not know its current market value because “I’ve never been fh t-2 interested in selling. Ilsjus] ordinary house.” Texas’ homestead Ian | tects a house “from forcedj for payment of all debts, the Texas attorney generals the federal tax decisionwi® supercede it. ■,J J " ltc ' d ! An IRS spokesman inDj r . said the agency likely will IT ll ! c using its new power. lrn P ( T he IRS says Rodgers'ag n § a ( husband, gas station ownerfB“i’ > lip S. Bosco, owed S927,foM oime(1 t j federal wage taxes, .mereML strea penalties when he d.edin L r , ant tha I he tax debt was never pr I| e L n Rodgm-s and her lawyers*^ I he Supreme Court or ^ lhe H ' a new trial. ftkafou. Justice William Brer® wrote that the new trial musiBlt’s no b lance “both the governmenjomplete g terest in prompt and certaintiBtit with 1 lection of delinquent taxi ook nice or the possibility that inn loijple to rr third parties will be harmed by the effort.” HThe last Ex-inmate unhappy with of Si million for false conviction ■The :onl a com ■on Jenk ' 7-2 Give us a call for more information 201 College Main 846-8721 United Press International NEW YORK — A 66 year-old man, saying he “lost so much that can never be replaced,” is unhappy with a $1 million court award for the 24 years he spent in prison for a murder he did not commit. pays his DARKROOM QUESTIONS? Isidore Zimmerman, who came within two hours of being executed during his prison stay, says he will end up with about $500,000 after he lawyers. “1 feel I should have gotten much more,” Zimmerman, a re tired doorman, said Tuesday. “I lost so much that can never be replaced. I would have had chil dren. I would have cherished someone calling me ‘Daddy.’ I am very unhappy.” A judge made the damages award last week, and it was announced Tuesday. BOB BROWN UNIVERSAL TRAVEL COMPLETE, DEPENDABLE DOMESTIC AND WORLDWIDE TRAVEL Airline Reservations ■ Hotel/Motel Accomodations Travel.Counsel ■ Rental Car Reservations ■ Tours ■ Charter Flights ■ FREE Ticket Delivery 846-8718 Pam & JoAnn 410 S. Texas/Lobby of the Ramada Inn/College Station settlementlsV Wainey, i Hes tlm Wednesday Zimmerman had soughiilll in troul million in damages fora:.jits to Ter conviction that imprisonedMon to sta from 1938 to 1962 butsaM... the rulklp thou & so man,# v a er appointments in my e fp said. The nightmare wiUM p with me the rest of my life * Zimmerman says healsocF. ' pay $300,()()() in medical bill'^ ( j ie treatment of a glandular dixv a |^ e( j p and psychiatric care. 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