Page 12/The Battalion/Wednesday, May 2, 1984
Spanish learning made fun;
new comedy tape is made
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EL PASO —Jane Fonda, roll
over.
Now videotape buyers in
Texas and across the country
will be tempted by a new exer
cise: learning Spanish.
Ana Luisa Salas-Porras Wal-
cutt — sometimes wearing
dance gear but also variously
garbed in a bathing suit, trench
coat and long cigarette, hair
curlers and an evening gown —
is “the Spanish teacher you’ve
been waiting for.”
That’s what the shiny red box
says.
The videotape inside the box
is the longest commercial video
tape produced in El Paso, Wai-
cutt said.
She and her partner, Cheryl
Gordon, say the tape, called
“Survival Spanish,” is the result
of nine months of hard labor.
The tape, the two expert
Spanish teachers explained, is
designed to teach “survival
Spanish” quickly and easily.
They claim 45 hours of typical
classroom learning have been
crammed into 60 minutes on
the tape.
The video lessons are de
signed to teach enough Spanish
for a series of common situa
tions: visiting the doctor, buy
ing and selling, speaking on the
telephone. The action is pep
pered with skits and jokes.
In her favorite scene, Walcutt
perches on a diving board in a
bathing suit, looking unhappy.
“No puedo, no puedo (I
can’t, I can’t),” she wails.
The antics in the tape are
meant to make the lessons eas
ier and more effective for all
Language Unlimited, are ex
pecting success.
They have already lined up
four distributors.
Language training in this
country is 20 years behind the
time, Gordon said.
The only tapes that exist al
ready for learning Spanish are
films of a lecture, “with a guy
standing there with a pencil and
book, saying, ‘un lapiz, un li-
bro,”’ she said.
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tests administered to De Lo-
LOS ANGELES — New al
legations of governmental
misconduct surfaced Tues
day in the John De Lorean
cocaine trafficking trial, with
the defense accusing an FBI
agent of trying to intimidate a
witness for the former auto
maker.
Before the jury was
brought in at the start of the
trial’s third week, defense
lawyer Howard Weitzman re
vealed that FBI agent Jerry
West sent a letter to Utah
polygraph licensing authori
ties last November suggesting
they investigate Dr. David
Raskin’s competency.
At the time, Raskin was a
witness in a pre-trial hearing
on contradictory polygraph
ream
The ex-automaker passed
one test Raskin gave him, but
failed an FBI-administered
test.
Ultimately, U.S. District
Judge Robert Takasugi ruled
that no polygraph evidence
would be admitted during De
Lorean’s trial.
At the request of Weitz
man, who said he first
learned of West’s actions
from Raskin on Monday, Ta
kasugi ordered the agent to
take the witness stand.
Weitzman accused West of
“attempting somehow to im
pair Dr. Raskin’s credibility.”
from Los Angeles
sources that a probe ol
kin, a University of Utah
lessor, was under way in
stale.
The tip proved false :
said, but authorities in
told him they had n
complaints about Raskin’s
ministration of some lie
lector tests.
West said he then su
gested Utah officials con
contact prosecutors in the
Lorean case if they wished
pursue a probe of Raskin.
West denied the charge, in
sisting he merely contacted
Utah officials after hearing
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Brown found innocent
in deaths of TDC officio
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EDINBURG — Former con
vict Eroy Brown was found in
nocent Tuesday of charges that
he killed Texas Department of
Corrections farm manager Billy
Max Moore.
A Hidalgo County jury delib
erated about two hours before
stating that it didn’t believe the
prosecution’ main witness.
“Everybody said he had to be
fighting for his life,” jury for-
man Hector de la Cruz said.
“Everybody agreed it was self
defense.”
“I’m happy it’s all over with,”
Brown said, adding that he
would be going first to Houston
and then home to Waco upon
his release late Tuesday.
Brown, a trusty at the time of
the slayings, was acquitted of
the killing of TDC warden Wal
lace Pack in November 1982 in
Galveston. His first trial in the
Pack killing ended i
jury-
Brown was serving a 12-year
sentence for armed robbery at
the time of the killings. He has
completed that term but re
mained in jail pending resolu
tion of the murder charges.
Sen. Craig Washington, D-
Houston and Brown’s attorney,
told jurors Brown acted in self
defense against two corrupt
prison officials who threatened
to kill the former inmate to
keep him from revealing the
theft of prison tires, butane and
fertilizer.
Brown testified that he
grabbed Pack’s .38-caliber pistol
while Moore was handcuffing
him because the two prison offi
cials threatened to take him to
“the bottoms,” a place where
other inmates said prisoners
were beaten and tortured.
Brown, 33, had entered the
courtroom carrying a red Bible
and after the decision wasij
by District Judge Darrell!
thanked specators forthei
port.
Walker County Dismal
torney Frank Blazek sail
think the jury considereda
fully the evidence. I accejt
jury’s verdict.
Blazek had exhibited |
of Moore’s bloody corpsej
ing his summation, and:
Brown “a paranoid,
person” who killed two|
armed men and then
portray himself as “thei
dog.”
Washington attacked!
credibility of the state's!
eyewitness, inmate Janies I
ward Solomon, sayingthatij
mon lied to the jury to [
vor with prison offkij
Washington noted that!
mon was released from a p
term four years early aftern
lying in Brown’s first trial.!
mon since has relurnedl
prison on other charges.
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