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Page 4/The BattalionAThursday, March 8, 1984 Autry has hopes for stay of execution once again United Press International HUNTSVILLE — Convicted killer James David Autry, facing execution next week, Wednes day was clinging to hope that his fourth date with death by le thal injection would mirac ulously be put off. “I’m scared but I’m still hope ful I’ll get a stay,” Autry said. “...I have hope the governor or the U.S. Supreme Court will stop the execution.” Autry is scheduled to die at 12:01 a.m. March 14 for the 1980 robbery-shooting of Shir- We buy, sell, and repair used trucks Pickups-Plus 512 W. Carson 775-6708 ley Drouet, a Port Arthur cop- venience store clerk and mother of five. Autry’s attorneys are seeking a stay from the U.S. Supreme Court and a reprieve from Texas Gov. Mark White in addi tion to asking the State Board of Pardons and Paroles to com mute Autry’s sentence to life in prison. One reason for Autry’s hope is a new personal relationship with a Dallas woman, Shirley Tadlock, 31, a mother of three. “If I’m executed, she wants to be there. She wants me to know someone is there who cares,” Autry said. He called the woman a “good close friend” who began writing him after hearing about his close brush with death Oct. 4, when he came within 30 min utes of execution before Su preme Court Justice Byron White granted a stay. Tadlock brought her three children to visit Autry three weeks ago. The contact appar ently intensified his regret that he never married and never had children. “I wish I had had my own family,” the shy inmate said amid a jam of reporters near his death row cell. Autry said he also regretted the death of Drouet, who left five children without a mother. “I think about them but I know they don't want to hear anything I have to say. All I can say is I’m sorry,” Autry whis pered. After facing previous execu tion dates, Autry said he is gripped with the fear of dying. Club formed for A&M men By JANET M.DUREN Reporter Unlikely as it may sound, among Texas A&M’s 150- plus student organizations, Chris Smith, a junior journa lism major, couldn’t find one that filled his needs. Perhaps even more un likely, he found 50 other stu dents to agree with him. So Smith and friends have formed the Aggie Men’s Club, an organization that, in president Jeff Lewis’ words, “meets guys’ needs to have group brotherhood and fellowship in a Christian at mosphere.” The group’s goals sound the same as those of many other clubs: service, fellowship, and brotherhood. What sets the AMC apart from other clubs is its ban on alcohol at club functions. The brotherhood is uni fied by the caring the mem bers have for each other, not by having wild parties and getting drunk with each other, Lewis says. Members of the group say there is a time and place for drinking alcohol and they don’t think official AMC gatherings are that time or place. This does not mean AMC won’t have dances and par ties. Vice president Daryll Da vidson says alcohol doesn’t have to be a part of one-on- one contact at social gather ings. “You know that I’m not drunk and that I’ll remember you the next day,” says David son. Secretary Jim Becker says AMC is not making a judgment of personal values by not allowing drinking. “You simply don’t have to be holding a beer to have fun,” says Becker. Nor do you have to forsake other organi zations to have fun in AMC, he says. AMC’s officers stress that they are not making a statement against local Greek fraternities. Although several members have turned down bids from fraternities, AMC is open to any male student. Becker says a lot of AMC members, who must pay dues each semester, are involved in at least one other campus or ganization. All of the officers are Fish Camp counselors, and Becker says he thinks many members are also coun selors. AMC is unlike Greek fra ternities, which are national brotherhoods, says Treasurer Sean Royall, a sophomore economics major. This club is a local brotherhood which forms its identity around its members’ being Aggies. Becker the non-profit or ganization has planned local service projects, adding that the Bryan-College Staii community has reacted thusiastically. Service goals for thegtj are to: • Participate in a i Brother program in thefal • Compete in a Univers traditions essay contest • Go to the grocery aj for shut-in residents. • Work in the Big Event • Help in Special Oty pics, a local athletic eventj mentally retarded and phi cally handicapped childrei • Visit and entertain nior citizens and nuts home residents. Becker says AMC memh are doing something for pi pie because the group nuj to. He says without the menium of an organa group it is hard foronept son to make a difference. The personal rewardsl the members will be gra Becker says. ByJA Transitions “Your Full Service Salorr 4403 S. Texas Ave. (next to Luby’s) • All Haircuts $10°° with this coupon • Highlighting, Colors, & Frosts 20% with coupon off One fugitive shot, partner captured after manhunt The g Africa pi policy — discrimir said Do speech sored by rum. “1 dot person a unless h skin, whi ceiving < said the t journalist Woods South Af mocracy the popu governmi Woods sa leap of th consider g nonty other Woods sa Woods ment beli be separt United Press International • Tanning Booths • Waxing • Ear Piercing Body Wraps Manicures Pedicures MARION, N.G. — A fugitive from a Tennessee prison who swore he would never be taken alive died in a point-blank gun- battle with sheriffi s deputies Wednesday and his partner was found hiding under a garage. Ronald Lee Freeman, 41, Ken’s Automotive 421 S. 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Freeman and Clegg broke out of Fort Pillow prison in \Vest Tennessee Feb. 18, opened fire on pursuing offi cers and three days later killed a Sunday school teacher and ab- OPEN SATURDAYS 10% Discount with Student |.D. on parts (Master Card & VISA Accepted) THE BATT DOES IT DAILY Greyhound’s Spring Break Go anywhere Greyhound goes. Monday through Friday ducted his wife. They freed her unharmed in Knoxville and dis appeared into the mountains, surfacing again Tuesday when they shot a North Carolina state trooper who stopped them for speeding near Marion. McDowell County Sheriff Bob Haynes said state trooper Wilbert B. arrant saw Clegg’s boot sticking out from under the garage where Dale keeps his 1925 Model T Ford and officers pounced on him. The garage is raised about a foot off the ground and Clegg had crawled under it and pullecl scrap plywood behind him for concealment. Dale, who was with the offi cers, said, “The deputy just kicked the plywood down and said ‘Come out from here.’ He was under there so tight they had to pull him out by the hands.” District Attorney Alan Leon ard said Clegg, who also swore he would never return to prison, handed over three loaded pistols. Freeman, apparently wounded in the shootout with a state trooper Tuesday morning, burst into the house of blind Molly Harvey, 62, on the edge of the junkyard at 4 a.m. Wednesday, demanding food and telling her, “My buddy and THE UNDERGROUND Sbisa Basement Canned Soft Drink Special 1 became separated on (lit road tracks.” Harvey collapsed wilhali attack and when dq stormed into the house man opened fire on them, ing out a window in a bullets. Harvey later died He fled 100 yards to house of Eddie Duncan, he tried to crawl throui window where Duncan's ter was sleeping. But awakened by the sh Harvey’s, met him with Leaving a trail of blood baying hounds to follow, man staggered through and underbrush to a frame house on Wasl Street, empty for six and waitcci in a bedroon I hind a door for his pursufl I Trooper Larry Carver I deputies Gene Patrick andl I Burleson went in after hia 1 Carver told UPI hell looked into the room »i I Freeman was hiding and | nothing. “There was just a coudl the room and a doorinthei B ner and he was apparenthl I ing behind the door. I went I to check underneath theln I and then 1 heard a commoi I I was starting up the badsii I The door was open. Thei | thing, shots were fired.” Carver, hit in theshouldfl I a stray bullet from oneol I deputies, fell to the ground | Leonard said the del told him they w around when “a hand ap| ently came out and started ing shots from behind door.” The Cc uncil at ill conside stance to onsible ( of th ajjue. 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Schedules sub|ect to change without notice 1984 Gteyhound Lines. Inc. MINI OLYMPICS sponsored by the INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION The ISA would like to thank all the countries that participated in the Mini-Olympics. It was a very good way to meet new friends and a healthy outlook on sports and sportsmanship. The countries that partic- ipated are: Argentina Bangladesh Brazile Bolivia Canada Chile Rep. of China Colombia Europe Arabs Students Greece Guatemala Hong Kong India Indonesia Israel Korea Malaysia Mexico Nigeria Paraguay Puerto Rico Taiwan Turkey Venezuela Vietnam: Host Country Results: Indoor games: Badminton M/S 1. Indonesia 2. Malaysia M/D 1. Indonesia 2. Vietnam M/X 1. Vietnam 2. India W/S 1. Vietnam 2. Vietnam W/D 1. Vietnam 2. Colombia Basketball M 1. Greece 2. Puerto Rico Racquetball M/S 1. Mexico 2. Bolivia M/D 1. Mexico 2. Vietnam W/S 1. Colombia 2. Puerto Rico W/D/ 1. Colombia 2. Israel Swimming 100 y 1. Europe 2. Venezuela relay 1. Venezuela 2. Europe Table Tennis M/S 1. Taiwan 2. Indonesia M/D 1. Taiwan 2. China M/X 1. China 2. Vietnam W/S 1. China 2. Vietnam W/D 1. Vietnam 2. Volleyball Men 1. Vietnam 2. Venezuela Women 1. Vietnam Mix 1. Puerto Rico 2. Colombia Outdoor games 2. Vietnam Track 100y 1. Venezuela 2. Vietnam relay 1. Venezuela 2. Bolivia 1 mil 1. Puerto Rico 2. Indonesia Tennis M/S 1. Indonesia 2. Vietnam M/D 1. Indonesia 2. Puerto Rico W/S 1. Colombia 2. Vietnam W/D 1. Colombia 2. Bolivia Soccer Men 1. Mexico Legend M/S Men’s singles W/S Ladies singles M/D Men’s doubles W/D Ladies doubles 1 M/X Mixed doubles Note: For those countries that have not picked up their certificate of participation or their trophies, please come by the International Officd in Bizzel Hall. 9 21