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Thursday, March 8, 1984/The Battalion/Page 13 $ Lawyer pleads guilty in killer escape trial 1 hand ai ai d. Media cannot aft e their p„ he added' I ^ n ' tec * ^ ress International I CLINTON, Tenn. — Ai- aarefootft lorney Mary Evans, who fell compleiK so deeply in love with the is becomj killer she was defending that the comp the helped him escape, Id-square fi aleaded guilty Wednesday in u p behindi return for a suspended sen- tliecompac ence. Her lawyer said that J Smiley a me would enter a mental hos- nadefortli pital- I Evans, 27, refused to re- to hasaj! iurn the periodic glances of rs visiting: inmate Tim Kirk, 37, the con- id Smileys deled murderer whose es- mally full, rape she engineered last year. But Kirk’s lawyer said the muscular convict agreed to he plea bargain so he could jo what was best for Evans, recause he feels very deeply "or her. The couple spent 139 days lildren f« together on the run before new," lies being arrested, in Daytona dren willu Beach, Fla., last August. lifTerent fit Attorneys agreed to a plea echnologii bargain that would drop four munis of armed robbery and districts wk kidnapping against the slen- curricular Jer blonde attorney, so she jortsandi :«uld receive life in prison, mics, accus Under the agreement Evans isingiheird would receive three year’s merit. probation, during which time nprove edn she would undergo extensive ay must lemics by ar activity weekends. psychiatric treatment. Kirk pleaded guilty to armed robbery and escape. Criminal Court Judge James Scott said he would de cide March 27 whether to permit the plea bargain, and institutionalize Evans after hearing testimony from psy chiatrists. She arranged to have him taken to an Oak R idge psych ologis t ’s office March 31, 1983, for examination, and when she arrived she slipped him a pistol, helped him tie up the psychologist and three guards, and fled with him, authorities said. “The doctors have recom mended a prolonged hospi talization," said Robert Ritchie, her attorney. “The mental illness from which she has suffered goes back a number of years, and when she was assigned to the mur der case, there was a tremen dous source of stress.” District Attorney General James Ramsey said he fell he could not obtain a conviction because psychiatrists agreed that Evans was insane when she threw away her prom ising career to flee with Kirk. Evans was appointed to de fend Kirk against the prison murder charge, and authori ties said it was during their lengthy meetings that she fell in love with him. She arranged to have him taken to an Oak Ridge psy chologist’s office March 31, 1983, for examination, and when she arrived she slipped him a pistol, helped him lie up the psychologist and three guards, and fled with him, authorities said. “All the psychiatrists, both for the state and defense, who examined Miss Evans have determined that she suf fered from a mental disease from the date of the escape,” Ramsey said. ft Standard’s billion-dollar baby United Press International PITTSBURGH — Standard Oil Co. of California (Socal) launched the biggest merger in business history Wednesday with newspaper advertisements and letters asking Gulf Oil Corp. stockholders to turn in their shares within a month. The $13.2 billion deal, in tended to save Pittsburgh-based Gulf from purchase by Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens, still must win the approval of gov ernment antitrust experts and confront rising congressional opposition to oil industry merg ers. But Socal went ahead with the offer, asking stockholders to tender their Gulf shares for $80 apiece by midnight April 3. Socal, the nation’s fifth-larg- est oil firm, agreed Monday to buy No. 6 Gulf in a deal that would produce the nation’s big gest gasoline marketer and third-largest oil company in terms of sales, industry experts said. The plan sets the stage for other huge mergers, hut also could be a test case for future oil industry mergers and their effect on the nation’s energy in dependence, Wall Street ex perts said. “If Congress gives it the green light, we could he seeing just the first phase,” said R. Bryan Jacoboski, oil expert for Paine Webber in New York. “But Congress could kill it and we’d be seeing the final chapter of merger mania.” A bill prohibiting mergers among major oil firms was in troduced in Congress Tuesday, and another was expected. The plan came on the heels of Texaco Inc.’s $10.1 billion offer for Getty Oil Co., the pre vious record, and followed a number of recent mergers, in cluding Marathon Oil-U.S. Steel, Conoco-Du Pont and Cit ies Services-Occidental Petro leum. “That's five large integrated oil companies gone bye-bye,” Jacoboski said. “And none of these deals has resulted in addi tional oil and gas.” Robert Pitofsky, a former FTC commissioner, said, “If this one were to go through — and it’s not clear it will — it would really be a signal to many companies that are in the top five in many industries that they could probably merge.” Giant Texaco, an object of takeover rumors, bought nearly 10 percent of its slock Tuesday from the Bass family of Texas in a move that would make an acquisition difficult. Wall Street experts specu lated Pickens and his investors group would raid another oil firm, financed by selling their Gulf shares to Socal. ( GRADUATES MOVING TO HOUSTON? 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II A spokeswoman termed the Jcision preliminary and said fficer.” lawyers were looking at it. ne cam (Plaintiffs lawyer Stuart Nel- n aski kin said the ruling was clear, n. BoffTourageous and correct. threailSeveral Baylor administra- fiois testified that they believe , on the K' vs would not be welcomed in oik to * llc *' Arabia because of Arab- told Mi« aeli tensions. The school said no Jews par ticipated, and in the ruling DeAnda said it was significant that Saudi Arabia had never told Baylor it could not include Jews in the program. DeAnda said he found Jews were not rotated into the visit ing program “because of a de sire to avoid rocking the b^at vis-a-vis the Saudis.” In the pro gram, Baylor doctors pulled three-month duly at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Riyadh. DeAnda awarded Dr. Stuart A. Linde, 40, a Baylor assistant professor, $248,942 in back pay and leave time that he would have accrued during four three-month rotations. The judge ordered that he be given “preference” for the next rota tion. The second plantiff, Dr. Lawrence M. Abrams, 37, was awarded $156,840 in back pay and leave lime. Stroke seeks re-election p, sayinjj ispital. A1 >ffs roonitir is state GOP chairman isisted 1 United Press International I AUSTIN — Houston busi nessman George Sirake said he sWednesday he would seek re- it. Inflection later this year as chair- icre newfljan of the Texas Republican Party. about mDi a na Denman of San Anto- 'irst calldnio, vice chairman of the slate nt an ait GOP, also said she would seek j-election to her present posi tion when the party holds its state convention Sept. 21 and 22 in Corpus Christi. Strake was elected as chair man by the Republican Exec utive Committee in 1983. 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