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UNDERGROUND DELI AND STORE THE DIET PLACE OPEN BREAKFAST LUNCH \ 7:30am - 10:30am 10:30am - 3:30pm Mon— Friday “QUALITY FIRST” Page 6/The Battalion/Wednesday, January 18, 1984 Hanging ruling incorrect R.l. by Paul Dirmeyei United Press International JAY’S GYM ♦TOTAL FITNESS FOR MEN & WOMEN* Clean, spacious, professional atmosphere Individualized Instruction & Evaluations Circuit Training Bodybuilding/Powerlifting Carpeted Locker Rooms/Showers Over 6000 lbs. of free weights Nautilus principal machines Variable resistance, multi-cam equipment Open 6 days a week to men & women Special Spring Semester Rate Call For More Info 3609-A S. College (across from Chicken Oil Co.) 846-6272 SAN ANTONIO — A spokeswoman for the medical examiner’s office Tuesday said it would be at least two more days before a ruling was issued in the mysterious death of a gen eral, found hanging in a stair well at Fort Sam Houston. Karen Monroe of the Bexar County medical examiner’s office said reports Tuesday that the death of Gen. Robert Ownby had been ruled a suicide were in I'VE TRIED AMD TRIED TO FJGWE OUT WHAT y/S Initials nieaaj. wr z A 11 )~r- 1 CsAAJT. DO YOU KAjOIa) WHAT R.l. 5TAAJDS FOR?!? ... /rAppears he STANDS error. “There has been no official ruling but somehow it got out that there had been one,” she said. “It’s going to be at least two more days.” The body of Ownby, 48, the youngest two-star general upon his promotion in February 1982, was found last Wednesday hanging in a stairwell at the U.S. Army Reserve Center at Fort Sam Houston. His hands were bound behind him with a belt, and a note pin ned to his sweater said he had been “executed for the crimes of the U.S. army against the peo ples of the world.” FBI officials say the death is being investigated as a possible suicide, but the FBI will not make a ruling on the death until completion of several tests. Lawyers battle in heroin case United Press International NOW OPEN r FRIED OYSTERS OR SHRIMP 2 for 1 Offer good thru Jan. 25 with this ad. Sdumwi'b Landing SEAFOOD RESTAURANT & OYSTER BAR Open 11 a.m. - 11 p.m. Mon.-Sat. Grand Opening Special 606 Tarrow College Station 764-7439 Off University East Right at light on Tarrow & Univ. WASHINGTON — An Adams County prosecutor and a Denver attorney argued Tues day over whether a federal ques tion is involved in a ruling that disallowed evidence in a heroin case because police refused to name their informant. Adams County attorney Steven Bernard urged the Sup reme Court to overturn lower rulings that disallowed 15 bal loons of heroin found in the pockets of drug suspect Antonio Guadalupe Nunez. “I think this is clearly a Fourth Amendment case,” argued the Brighton, Colo., attorney. “There will be a de trimental effect on law enforce ment in revealing the names of informants on a regular basis. “It will lead to a drying up of informants,” he said. But defense attorney Ken neth Stern of Denver said an Adams County district judge re lied on the Colorado rules of evi dence in making his ruling, and therefore no federal review was necessary especially because Nunez’ rights were not hurt by the decision. “If you look at the four cor ners of the Nunez opinion, not one federal authority is cited and not one federal case,” he said. and revealing the identity would jeopardize the tipster’s life. Judge Phillip Roan then threw the evidence out of court and the Colorado Supreme Court upheld his decision. Pro secutors appealed, with the sup port of the federal government and the Colorado District Attor neys Council. An Adams Countyjudge said Nunez’ rights would be violated if he could not learn the identity of the informant whose tip led police to search Nunez’ home on Nov. 7, 1981 and challenge the truthfulness of the tip. Prosecutors and civil liberta rians have been closely watching the case, one of several Supreme Court challenges to rules on how authorities obtain evidence in criminal cases. The prosecution of Nunez on heroin charges has been in abeyance pending the Supreme Court’s decision. eral rulings on the disclosurt the identity of informant. Bernard said that since; state of Colorado dted feds law in making its decision,tli federal rules of evidence m prevail. He said the named informant need notbereveii if there is no challenge toi credibility of the law mem officer whose swornta mony was used as the source the search warrant. Denver Police Sgt. Don De- Novellis refused, saying the in formant would not be a witness at Nunez’ heroin possession trial Several of the justices ques tioned the two attorneys Tues day during the hour-long argu ments, which were Filled with re ferences to other state and fed- "Are you saying that if informant told police thatti ! ijven day at the homeofNui te saw him engage in packaji dope,” said Chief Justice i; t en Burger, "and thengaveil information to police and police used that informatioj ? ;o search the house, and ound packages of heroin ini pants, then, well, what's problem with veracity then" Cowboy buried atop Deer Mountain United Press International COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The friends of John A. Mancini laid the Colorado cow boy to rest Tuesday as he had wished, dressed in his stove-pipe boots and blue jeans, pipe in hand, and dropped into a “crack” on Deer Mountain. Mancini’s funeral procession left a Colorado Springs funeral home at midmorning and made its way by car 50 miles to the mountain near Lake George. His plain wooden casket was car ried the final distance up to a rolling meadow through deep snow on a horse-drawn sleigh. “I’ll ride horseback into the gravesight,” said Bert Reissig, supervisor of Swan-Law Funeral Home. “By court order I have to accompany the body.” Reissig said grave diggers during the past few days blasted through rock and frozen dirt to form a six-foot regulation grave — which Mancini called a “crack” — at the Deer Mountain site. Reissig said the gravesite is a pleasant spot. “It’s not a steep climb,” he said. “It’s flat meadow land going up there, and it turns into a small valley. I’ve got a ranch in Woodland Park. I think I’d like to be buried there.” Mancini, 58, died of a stroke Jan. 8 at a Colorado Springs hos pital. His ex-wife, Patricia Bow er, and son, Bob, 15, both of Wheatland, Wyo., claimed the body, dressed it in a business suit, and arranged for burial at Fort Logan National Cemetery south of Denver. But several of Mancini’s iriends, recalling his love for Deer Mountain and his desire to be buried there, Filed a petition with Fourth Judicial District Judge Richard Hall. Hall post poned the scheduled burial until a hearing could be held. At the hearing, statements by Mancini’s relatives indicated Mancini had suffered bouts of mental instability and delusion about his cowboy past. Hall, however, eventually sided with Mancini’s friends, who maintained firmly that Mancini was indeed the cowboy he always claimed to be. Hall ruled burial on the mouffli was “consistent with his (Mi cini’s) lifestyle itself, and iii understandable and approp ale expression on his part The judge said he was I only satisfied the wishes o( decedent were made den known, I do not find tho wishes were the result of met incompetence.” Diane Payton of Colon! Springs, one of the friends*: pressed for the mountain bun said no headstone will b< on the grave. It will be only by a pile of stones. “That’s the way John want it,” she said. Juniors, Seniors Guatemalan guerrillas attac police stations, 14 wounded Grad, Vet, Med students United Press International Get your picture taken on-campus at the GUATEMALA CITY — Heavily armed guerrillas car ried out simultaneous attacks on five police stations in Guatemala City, wounding eight officers and six passersby, government ofFicials said Tuesday. 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