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Page 8/The Battalion/Wednesday, May 2,1984
Manson cult disciple
receives no parole
United Press International
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif.
— Charles “Tex” Watson, the
Manson Family’s most mur
derous disciple, was denied pa
role Tuesday for the sixth time
despite his claims that he found
God and has paid the price for
the killings.
The board said in its unani
mous decision, “The enormity
and heinousness of the offenses
indicates an insensitivity to hu
man suffering and testifies to
the rage and human violence”
that Watson felt during the
murders.
Watson watched expression
less as the decision was read af
ter three hours of testimony
and 40 minutes of deliber
ations.
The board ordered Watson
returned to his cell at the Cali
fornia Men’s Colony until an
other parole hearing in 1985.
Watson, who became a born-
again Christian in prison and
now works as an assistant chap
lain at the facility, told the
three-member board that God
had forgiven him and he was
“paying the price” for the kill
ings.
“What I did 15 years ago in
taking these lives can never be
justiFied,” Watson told the
panel. He then added, “As far
as my faith in God and the for
giveness of God, I find justifica
tion.”
Watson, 38, was convicted of
seven murders during the
bloody August 1969 slayings at
the homes of Tate and grocer
Leno LaBianca. Originally set
to die in San Quentin’s gas
chamber, Watson’s sentence
was overturned in 1972 and
changed to life imprisonment.
Watson said Manson’s reli
gious beliefs were those “of a
maniac, a wild man.”
“I was deceived,” he ex
plained. “He was full of lies and
I took those belief systems
which are totally contradictory
to what I believe today.
Steven Kay, a Los Angeles
County prosecutor, told report
ers before the hearing that
“Watson wants to return to the
society he tried to destroy, and
that society doesn’t want him
back.”
He said Watson, who led the
other Manson Family followers
on the grisly rampage that
killed seven people, hanged the
pregnant Tate by a rope
around her neck and sus
pended her from a roofbeam
while she was still alive, stabbing
her repeatedly in the stomach.
Kay told the board that Wat
son put too much of the blame
for the brutal slayings on Man-
son and didn’t accept enough
responsibility for his own ac
tions. He said 90 percent of the
156 stab wounds inflicted on
the seven victims were made by
Watson.
Doris Tate, mother of the ac
tress, said her family had suf
fered “untold anguish” since
the killings.
“Sharon and my unborn
grandson are gone, I cannot
bring them back,” she said. “But
I can speak out for potential vic
tims and society as a whole.”
Mrs. Tate and Citizens for
Truth, a group that lobbies
against parole for killers,
brought eight boxes containing
petitions signed by 60,000 peo
ple opposing Watson’s parole.
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Anthropology Society hosts lecture
The Anthropology Society is sponsoring a lecture byHt
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SAN ANTONIO — A Si
amese twin girl surgically sepa
rated from her sister under
went follow-up surgery to close
an abdominal wound Tuesday
at Wilfred Hall Medical Center,
an Air Force spokesman said.
The infant, named Emily,
will make medical history if she
survives the April 22 operation
that separated her from her sis
ter, who did not survive, said
doctors at the Lackland Air
The twins shared a heart and
small intestines when they were
born April 18. Doctors said the
survival record for a Siamese
twin sharing a heart was only 10
days.
Capt. Cliff Enlowe, a spokes
man for the hospital, said doc
tors were guardedly optimistic
at Emily’s chances for survival,
and were encouraged Sunday
by the girl’s ability to breath
without a ventilator.
2 missing kids
found in Texas
United Press International
BURLESON — A showing of
the television movie about a 6-
year-old boy who was abducted
from a south Florida shopping
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leson-area resident called I
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ported seeing one ofthei
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missing children thatwassti
on TV following the broai
of the movie ‘Adam,’" a
department spokeswoman
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the location where this child'
L elieved to be.”
With assistance from
Houston police deparli
Burleson authorities found
sica Hajjizadeh, 4, and
year-old brother, Robert
zadeh. The two children
been missing from the Hoi
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tody dispute, the
spokeswoman said.
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Issa Hajjizadeh, and both
dren were in very good
lion,” she said.
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