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vy.V \ ■ ; t>/. .y i ;•« ' ! ■ • • - - - Page 10/The Battalion/Monday, March 19, 1984 Defendant predicts quick ethics trial United Press International Rep. George Hansen, R- Idaho, who faces trial Monday on charges of failing to disclose $333,978 in financial transac tions, says his ordeal “could be over before it starts.” The maverick seven-term congressman, who said he is not nervous about the trial, is the First public official to be tried for violating the Ethics in Govern ment Act. If convicted, he could get a maximum five years in prison and $ 10,000 fine for each count. The trial is expected to last up to lid I he two weeks, but Hansen sai thinks it may take half as long. “It could be over before it starts,” he said recently. The ethics law requires con gressmen and other high- ranking government officials to file annual reports disclosing their income and other Financial transactions. But Hansen’s lawyers claim the omissions from the ethics disclosure statements are not a willful violation of any law be cause Congress did not intend to use the statements for anything. U.S. District Court Judge Joyce Hens Green is expected to rule shortly before the trial on papers seeking the federal grand jury testimony of a man who tried to extort $440,000 from Texas silver billionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt. The Justice Department in dicted Hansen last April 7, charging him with failing to dis close: • A $61,503 personal loan from Hunt in 1980 and three other transactions. • A $87,475 profit for himself and his wife on purchase and sale of silver futures contracts in 1979. • A $50,000 personal loan in Mrs. Hansen’s name from a Dal las bank, guaranteed by Hunt, also in 1979. • Personal loans totalling $135,000 in 1981 by individuals in southern Virginia. He' said the money was for the Associa tion of Concerned Citizens that promoted his book assailing the Internal Revenue Service. 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CAIRO, Egypt — Egypt and Sudan invoked a joint defense pact Sunday and said their forces had teamed up to defend strategic positions inside Sudan in the wake of a Libyan aerial bombardment of Khartoum. In Tripoli, the Libyan gov ernment of Col. Moammar Kha- dafy denied it was behind Fri day’s bombing of a Khartoum suburb and said the incident was part of a U.S.-backed conspiracy against Lib'/aa. A bomber, identified by Egypt and Sudan as a Soviet- maclt made TU-22 based in Libya, dropped five bombs on the Omdurman section of the Sudanese capital, reportedly killing five people and sharply escalating tension with Libya. The Sudanese government said it was requesting an emergency meeting if the U.N. Security Council to consider the Libyan “aggression” and that it had lodged a complaint against Libya with the Funis-based Arab League. Sudanese President Jaafar Numeiry, in a speech to army officers in Khartoum late Satur day, said Egypt and Sudan had put into effect a mutual defense pact signed in 1976 after a Li byan attempt to overthrow him. “The common def ense forces have already moved in to defend strategic positions in Sudan,” Numeiry said. In Cairo, Egyptian Foreign Minister Kama! Hassan Ali also said the pact was in force and Egypt was taking “military mea sures to repel any aggression against Sudan in cooper; with the Sudanese army ta A highly placed govera source said the United! was considering airliftingi sive military equipme Sudan. In Washington,the! Department had no con U.S. Ambassador in Nicholas Veliotes met Si with President HosiniMul Defense Minister Field Mi Abdel Halim Abu-GhalaaiN Foreign Minister Ali. WE COh OWN ius£ n D TO BASEB- THt 5N(. |IIIII||||IIIIH||1IIIIII|||IIIIII|||IIIIII|||IIIII||||IIIII||||IIIII||||IIIII|||||IIII|||||III|||||||||||||||||||||||||| TTISC Cnafct Cerden Hop on over to the MSC Craft Center for some Easter fun! Our one-day Easter Workshops will help you fill all of your Easter baskets with beautiful gifts that you personally handcraft. For further information call or come by the MSC Craft Center—located in the basement of the Memorial Student Center, 845-1631. EASTER WORKSHOPS CHECK THE Mother’s third trial begins CUSS FIEDS For All Your Needs United Press International DENTON — Prosecutors and a defense attorney today will attempt, for a third time, to try a 25-year-old woman on charges she beat to death her infant daughter. Two previous attempts to try THE UNDERGROUND Sbisa Basement Glazed Donut Special Monday 3/19/84 — Thursday 3/22/84 $1.49 per dozen OFFER GOOD TO THE LAST DONUT “The Best Food. 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Grant earlier tentatively approved a state motion seeking testimony from Janet Bailey, 21, and said he would issue a final ruling in Denton. Bailey is serving a two-year prison term for forgery. Grant declared a mistrial Nov. 14 before jury selection be gan in Allman’s first trial in Jef ferson, which is about 16 miles north of Marshall. Potential jurors in the case were irrepar ably prejudiced against Allman when she was brought into the courtroom handcuffed, the judge ruled. A second mistrial was de clared after Allman’s attorney withdrew abruptly Feb. 1. James Wedding said he faced an “in surmountable and irreconcil able” conflict when prosecutors called as a witness Bailey, who he previously defended on forgery charges. In addition to Bailey’ss mony, prosecutors were an I with a confession in whick [- man admitted hitting daughter because the in iWhile the M studen spring br ional cha team wer al pushir would not stop crying. Ado earlier testified thechildwl verely beaten one to fourli | before her death. Sherry Lynn’s death l\ was attributed to Sudi fam Death Syndrome, autopsy later disclosed sht fered a fractured skull, neck, broken ribs and an injury. The disclosure of Ski Lynn’s injuries prompted cials in Kansas City, Mo., vestigate the deaths of iB2. other Allman children. AlliThe team, later was charged with seti'in the nati degree murder in the I :Std New 1 smothering death of hti li iois, Iowa month-old son, Marvin Oklahoma v Allman. Jmversity of nent champi No charges were returnf|p res i lme . the 1978 death of 1-montli® Joseph Allman, who All said smothered accideni when she rolled overhiminl sleep. Another Allman ii died following a premat birth. Allman originally was I mentally incompetent to <■ trial, but Grant ruled set|P® xas ^ months of treatment at! Ir 0 .8 State Hospital had enabled to understand the chai I against her and aid in her fense. Salvadorans rally cheer ultra-rightist United Press International f-3 win to si jyhawks. nSmith picl without a h cored four t ning and ad he sixth, inc mmer by Bi j)hr, 2-1, w, In the op Swain hit tw( ies blank iSherman SAN SALVADOR, El Salva dor— Some 30,000 Salvadorans singing “Liberty is written with blood” Sunday attended the largest rally of the presidential campaign to cheer ultra-rightist candidate Roberto d’Aubuisson. in the Flor Blanca National!! cer Stadium in San Salvafp w j nner v came one week before the# t00 p l j le dal election. jKansasdrc His main opponent ismoWL. ^ ate candidate Jose NapolKj t0 jg g Duarte of the Christian De<T[ n ot [j er < rat Party, who d’Aubuisson j nce act j ()n cuses of being a communist | D’aubuisson has beenacc# The enthusiastic demonstra tion of support for d’Aubuisson by Robert White, former l ambassador to San Salvadol MSC ARTS COMMITTEE PRESENTS M 4 * MJuried Student arts completion Entries accepted March 19-23, 10 am-2 pm *Edible Art Contest Sculpture using edibles and toothpicks ONLY! 1st Prize- Lunch for 2 donated by Bennigan’s. Rudder Fountain, March 27 at noon. •*Entry forms in MSC Gallery, 845-1515 running death squads held sponsible for many of the 40, political killings in the com since 1981. A d’Aubuisson victory cd be an embarrassment fof Reagan administration’s In that democratic elections legitimize a governmentbesd a four-year civil war. Although the administra 1 has said it will support wh wins the elections, it has tanced itself from d’Aubui: most recently by denying^ visa March 5 to visit the Uw States. D’Aubuisson, wearing a blue leisure suit, was chef wildly as he entered thestadi* that was filled to capacity some 30,000 people weal hats in the blue, red and" colors of his National Repa^ can Alliance party. Standing in a jeep, heard the stadium track once aW with his vice presidential cad date, Hugo Barrera. The crowds, aligned in stands according to their nd provinces, chanted d’Aubi son’s name and waved f flags as he passed their secti< Over and over they sang Arena song, which begins the words, “Liberty is wP with blood, labor with sweat ped into C by com |exas Tech rt Worth. Darrin Ri me run in ird inning and lift TCU I The Frogs’ improved ile Tech’s 1 3-2. |TCU is no C play fc ies. The R 12 and ()-• Housto hit a hon 1o Seci \\ All? WHEN OVE