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Friday, February 17, 1984/The Battalion/Page 13 ) Rl. nternational Everyone is i leadership 08 Harris risoa at 2i- [. IP: The k ;le #2. Con' nation. n in the Sm. Jean at % I WAT mu) fi£ IS A REAL PERSON! * ou ~ Burglar bars trap man, two sons in home blaze :ld at 7 p.m. rengths wd- hunt will be ne inforraa- re posted in lips are still ! Streetv at Officer testifies that Geter Implicated friend in case United Press International SAN ANTONIO — A fire to day killed a man and his two young sons, who were trapped in their burning home by bur glar bars that failed to release From the inside. Benedict Keller, 35, a techni cal sergeant at Lackland Air Force Base, died before noon today at Wilford Hall Medical Center. His sons, 2-year-old Gregory and 6-year-old Benedict Jr., PIZZA were pronounced dead on arri val at the hospital. Diana Keller,wife and mother of the victims,was at work when the morningfire erupted. Neighbors said they heard Kel ler’s screams for help from a back bedroom but were unable to pry the bars off from the out side. Two Bexar County sher iffs deputies finally pried the bars off and pulled the victims out through the window. Two Bexar County sheriffs 693-5533 epi ff ; pried the bars off and pulled the victims out through the window. The cause of the fire, which broke out about 9 a.m., was still unknown. Preliminary damage estimates to the house were placed at $100,000. Investigators said they were trying to determine whether the burglar bars were improperly installed or if Keller was too weakened by smoke to release them. PIZZA United Press International Grad stu- ‘ding lo go DALLAS — A Plano po- eman testified Thursday lack engineer Lenell Geter nied involvement in any of t robberies in Plano and sug- in joining ftsied police look at his room er. Contact late, Anthony Williams, but officer also admitted he ight have misunderstood Geter. District Judge John Ovard is aringa defense motion to dis- iss the entire case on an un- ecedented motion filed “in interest of justice.” Geter was arrested Aug. 24, B82, in Greenville for a fast- Bbod restaurant armed robbery ftthe Dallas suburb of Garland, e dassroomi He was eventually sentenced to lilein prison. :iel also r«| Geter was later freed on other chffl and ordered to stand trial iddress gro*E again amid national publicity to 0 much of as I s charges that the conviction en up by ext was result of a racist judicial ies. Istcm and sloppy and unfair icndations»investigation by police agencies the UIL’sl# thearei i- t(|' ee a ta Marflfti Plano officer Gary Cochrane, in They mi who is accused by the defense of itherUILp P arl °f an effort by police J by a state*! p uperinteni' demented, earliest the ould takeelff to make Geter and five other black South Carolina men em ployed in Greenville suspects in a string of robberies in the Dal las area, said he talked to Geter after his arrest in Greenville. “I do not recall exactly what I asked him about my robberies, but he (Geter) said something to the effect he had no involve ment and we needed to look at Williams,” Cochrane said under examination by Edwin Sigel, one of Geter’s attorneys. Questioned further by Sigel, who was trying to show that Geter only identified Williams as his roommate because Coch rane had Williams’ picture, Cochrane said: “There is a possibility some thing may have been lost in translation. ... It was my under standing Geter was trying to im plicate Williams. ... It is possible I might have misunderstood.” Cochrane also said that dur ing photo lineups he later con ducted, witnesses to the three robberies in his jurisdiction cleared both Williams and Geter. The defense has said that it will show there was a conspiracy among law officials to pin the robberies on the South Carolina engineers, that the prosecution did not reveal evidence favor able to the defense at Getef’s previous trial and that Geter was subjected to unfair and sug gestive photo lineups and vic timized through police surveil lance of his residence long before any robberies were com mitted. On cross-examination by As sistant District Attorney Nor man Kinne who sought to dis pell the conspiracy theory, Cochrane said he was not part of any conspiracy to get Geter. mendations Mardi Gras begins ieiiI 'W arly in capital coaches I to specialiif; rticipate inti United Press International WASHINGTON — Thou sands of Mardi Gras revelers irig prograr Thursday began their 38th an- varsity co! nLal “non-stop, three-day [ht per wed R r ty” in Washington’s festive activities [forerunner of the legendary team week, carnival season beginning next al program weekend in New Orleans. |Thirty festival queens with ti les like “Miss Crawfish” and liss Swine” are among the jousands of Louisiana resi sts and officials who have ten over a downtown hotel as fficial headquarters for the [1 pool play' volleyball I ther UIL lendatiori sh districts ol competM e three-day celebration that cul- ■nates in Saturday night’s gala ball hosted by a secret society called The Mystick Krewe of ifiuisianians. ■Began 38 years ago “just to we Washington a taste of Loui- iiana celebrations,” this year’s relorful festivities are chaired r incidents' b y Re P- GiU is Long, D-La. * Universit) , fl"The guests at all three t | iro; Jevents are in the thousands, ■obably between 2,000 and -JORTHEFPM people, primarily Louisia- Ty lO-speeii|.' ans ” said Jean Smith, a Long from in m [ P e ' Help me, half the state flies up here. Western Fl'‘ ‘Louisiana Gov.-elect Edwin stoi |lwards, Lt. Gov. Bobby Free- Hali bike rat* an an< ^ ot her state officials are rcher lO-sjx"" 1 ”'' U '' n from in ff ( - T. rand voltn^ 1 llAZachn OF A1 lot of state legislators, mayors and public officials of all sorts. “Just everybody, really. I don’t know how they run the state during Washington Mardi Gras.” New Orleans’ famed carnival season, which annually draws more than a million people for what has been dubbed the world’s largest free party, be gins Feb. 26 and lasts through Fat Tuesday, March 6, the last day of revelry before Lent be- gins. But Louisianians love a party and politics so thousands of them travel north for the invita tion-only, Washington version of Mardi Gras. “There are private parties constantly. It’s a three-day non stop party. There are all man ner of receptions cocktail par ties before and after every event. 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