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j: JUSTIN — City council
members, upset because they
were not notified of 3M Co.’s
plans to build a major research
center in an environmentally
sensitive area of Austin, may
, ; speed up limited annexation of
d , b Uflsite.
esera (y ounc jj members Mark Rose
Tie sintdand Roger Duncan said they
jdaqiirawillask the council Thursday to
five r.|'strip” annex along the 150-
war tjdacre site, which is only two miles
; 011R ii from Lake Travis.
Euniti 'The limited annexation
and Mi
ing authority, but the city would
not be required to extend utili
ties and would collect no tax on
the property.
The 3M land is outside Aus
tin’s city limits, but within the
city’s 5-mile extraterritorial ju
risdiction where it already en
forces some density and water
control standards.
“I’m pretty upset that we
didn’t have the opportunity to
discuss that site with them,”
Duncan said. “All the city plan
ning structures are of no impor
tance to the people who think
they are in charge of this citVs
growth — the developers, the
banks, the Chamber of Com
merce, the real estate brokers
and now the governor’s office.”
The announcement that 3M
had chosen Austin for its new
facility was made last week by
Gov. Mark White and Lewis W.
Lehr, chairman of the Minne
sota-based company.
“I was shocked,” council
member Sally Shipman said.
“They chose Austin because of
the quality of life here, but if
CURE urges ban on physicians’
articipation during executions
Wednesday, February 29, 1984/The Battalion/Page 9
Foreman
in hospital
for reaction
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HOUSTON — Attorney
Percy Foreman, known for de
fending notorious people in the
last 60 years, was listed as being
in fair condition Tuesday in a
hospital, where doctors are
watching him following an insu
lin reaction.
Foreman, 81, was rushed by
ambulance from his law office
Monday to the hospital, officials
said.
Foreman was placed in the
coronary care unit at Hermann
Hospital, but a close friend said
the flamboyant lawyer was
“doingjust fine.”
“He’s calling for cases and
files and wants to work out of
his hospital room,” said the
friend, who asked not to be
named.
Foreman takes insulin to
treat diabetes, a condition he
has had for about 40 years.
Officials estimate he could
remain in the hospital for up to
three weeks.
Foreman, who received his
law degree in 1927 from the
University of Texas, rep
resented James Earl Ray, the
convicted assassin of Martin Lu
ther King Jr. He also was the at
torney for Jack Ruby, suspected
of killing Lee Harvey Oswald,
forthree days, but he dropped
the case following a squabble
with Ruby’s family.
Ray fired Foreman and ac
cused him of railroading him
' into the guilty plea to boost sales
of a book being published about
the trial.
In one of his most publicized
cases, he successfully defended
socialite Candace Mossier and
her nephew, Melvin Lane Pow
ers, accused in the 1964 slaying
of Mossler’s millionaire hus
band, Jacques Mossier, in Mi
ami.
Mossier and Powers went
free, but haggled for years with
Foreman over his fees.
With an associate, Foreman
defended Lilia Paulus, one of
the principals in the John Hill
murder case, a grisly subject
Tommy Thompson wrote
about in his best seller “Blood
and Money.” Paulus was con
victed and sentenced to 35
years.
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we’re going to maintain that
quality of life we’re going to
have to aggressively pursue ma
naging our growth.
“And how can we do that if
there’s no effort to open the
lines of intergovernmental com
munication?” she added.
Shipman said she would have
preferred that 3M build in the
so-called Interstate 35 growth
corridor, noting the company’s
site has no water or sewers and
an inadequate road system.
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AUSTIN — A prison reform
1/ group Tuesday urged the
y Irexas Medical Association to
' forbid physicians to participate
«. in any way in executions, claim-
ing the mere presence of a doc
tor in the death chamber was
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pronouncing legal death.”
However, officials of the
group Citizens United for the
Rehabilitation of Errants
claimed a former Texas Depart
ment of Corrections physician
overstepped the rules by partic
ipating in the execution by in
jection of Charlie Brooks in De
cember 1982.
CURE lawyer Barry Odell
said Dr. Ralph E. Gray acted
immorally when he inspected
Brooks’ veins prior to the exe
cution, checked the inmate’s
eyes and chest for signs of death
and possibly wrote the prescrip
tion for the drugs used to kill
Brooks.
“The obvious fact is that Dr.
Gray wasn’t there solely to pro
nounce legal death,” Odell said
at a Capitol news conference.
“...Dr. Gray examined Charlie
Brooks while he was receiving
the lethal injection into his
body.
“The purpose of having a
doctor there is to ensure the
success of the execution, not to
declare a person legally dead.”
A county medical society
ruled Cray, who retired from
TDC shortly after Brooks’ exe
cution, acted properly and
within the bounds of TMA
rules.
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