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Basket design...
Photo by WANDA WINKLER
Kim Karrick, a freshman computer science Craft Center for classes making pine needle
major from League City, makes an 8-inch and Appalachian gift baskets, beginning
egg basket in her basket weaving class. Nov. 19. This picture was taken through an
Registration is now going on at the MSC 18-inch melon basket.
Salvadorans win RFK award
United Press International
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador —
The U.S. Embassy denied visas to
four Salvadoran women who are to
receive the Robert F. Kennedy Prize
for their human rights work,
spokesmen said Monday.
A letter from Acting Consul
Charles M. Parish Jr. to the Salvado
ran women said the decision made
by the embassy’s consular section
was under review by the State De
partment in Washington, which
could reverse the denial.
Embassy spokesmen were unavail
able for comment because of the
Veterans Day holiday.
Maria Teresa de Canales, one of
Prosecution:
Killer didn’t
suffer seizure
United Press International
DALLAS — A neurosurgeon tes
tified Monday that Abdelkrim Be-
lachheb was not in the midst of a
partial complex brain seizure when
he shot and killed six nightclub pa
trons.
Dr. John Mullen, a neurosurgeon
at the University of Texas Health
Science Center at Dallas, said a de
scription of Belachheb’s actions at
lanni’s Restaurant and Club was not
consistent with a seizure.
Defense witnesses in Belachheb’s
murder trial have testified the de
fendant’s damaged brain made him
prone to such seizures. They claim
the defendant, who has pleaded in
nocent by reason to insanity, was suf
fering a seizure at the time of the
June 29 shootings.
After hearing prosecutor Norman
Kinne describe the facts of the case,
Mullen agreed that if they occurred
during a seizure, it would be a “his
toric occasion.”
State District Judge Gerry Holden
Meier also was to decide if comments
Belachheb made to his arresting of
ficer could be admitted before the
jury.
Dallas police Sgt. Bill Parker, testi
fying outside the jury’s hearing, said
Belachheb asked him, “How did you
catch me so fast?” and said, “I think I
killed some people tonight.”
Defense attorney Frank Jackson
objected to admitting Parker’s testi
mony before the jury, claiming Be
lachheb had not indicated he had
waived his right to remain silent.
Mullen, asked why he did not be
lieve Belachheb was in the midst of a
seizure when the shootings oc
curred, said such seizures last an av
erage of 29 seconds, and the only ac
tions of which the victim is capable
are simple, uncoordinated, frag
mented and unsustained.
Kinne’s description included alle
gations that Belachheb cursed at two
women, killed six people and
wounded a seventh, loaded a clip
into his 9 mm semi-automatic pistol
and performed the acts necessary to
cock the pistol and fire it.
Mullen was a rebuttal witness for
the prosecution during the sixth day
of testimony before a jury of eight
women and four men. The case is
expected to go to the jury by mid
week.
Another rebuttal witness, Sarah
Frederick, said Belachheb was not
depressed or acting abnormally
when she saw him at lanni’s about
two hours before the shooting.
the women denied a visa, said she
had been told by an embassy staffer
that U.S. Ambassador Thomas R.
Pickering intervened after learning
of the consulate action.
“The ambassador himself has
taken up the case on his own, and he
will send the visa requests to the
State Department to help us in the
case,” Canales said.
The four women, members of the
Msgr. Oscar Arnulfo Romero Com
mittee of Mothers of the Politically
Imprisoned, Disappeared and As
sassinated, have an invitation from
the Kennedy Foundation to receive
the prize on behalf of the committee
next Tuesday in Washington.
The mothers committee has been
awarded the Robert F. Kennedy
Prize for its work in trying to im
prove the human rights climate in El
Salvador, where 50,000 have died in
political violence since 1979.
The committee holds weekly sit-in
demonstrations at churches or of
fices to draw attention to its cause
and to demand accounts of the 3,000
political disappearances.
Canales said a staffer in the em
bassy’s political section told the
women they were denied visas be
cause they could “put the security of
the United States in danger and that
our visit could have links with anar
chist or Communist parties.”
Search continues
for jet pilofs wife
United Press International
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S.
Virgin Islands — Civil Defense
authorities continued searching
Monday for a passenger missing
when a Lear 24 jet bound from
Dallas to Sao Paulo crashed into
the sea near St. Thomas with four
people aboard.
The missing passenger, whose
name was not released, was iden
tified as the wife of the craft’s co
pilot, Burt Lisle, of Dallas, who
died in the accident.
The other two passengers were
identified as the pilot, Reinaldo
Bauke, 39, of Brazil, and Jose
Martins, 29, a Brazilian citizen liv
ing in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Bauke
was treated for a broken pelvis
while Martins escaped with minor
injuries.
A U.S. Coast Guard officutl
said the co-pilot died as he at
tempted to rescue his wife from
the plane. The medical examiner
said Lisle had died of drowning
but added he also had experi
enced multiple bruises and cuts-
The Coast Guard pulled three
of the passengers from the water
15 minutes after the accident.
Search continued for the remain
ing passenger and the wreckage
Sunday afternoon for 13 hours.
The craft was reported to have
crashed in waters about 100 feet
deep, with visibility of approxi
mately 20 feet.
The pilot said the jet was being
flown to Sao Paolo from Dallas
for possible sale to a Brazilian
charter company. The craft was
registered in the name of the
Lisle Aircraft Corp. of Dallas.
Bauke said the craft’s altimeter
appeared to have registered the
wrong altitude as it approached
the runway to land for refueling.
“I looked (out the window) and
saw we were below where we
should be,” Bauke said. “We were
too close to the water. I gave full
gas but it was too late.”
He said the plane floated for
about two minutes before split
ting in two between the cockpit
and the passenger compartment.
World's Fair closes
to mixed reviews
United Press International
NEW ORLEANS — A cold front
failed to subdue boisterous crowds
celebrating the final day of the bank
rupt World’s Fair in the festive spirit
of a jazz funeral.
An estimated 70,000 people
packed the shores of the Mississippi
River Sunday evening to watch a
dual fireworks disjday at each end of
the riverfront, ending 180 days of
food, entertainment and exhibits.
The open-air amphitheater -—
scheduled to be dissembled soon
from its riverside berth — was filled
to capacity with fairgoers eager to
relish the last moments of what had
been billed as a six-month-long
Mardi Gras.
Local singer Irma Thomas added
the flavor of the closing ceremonies
of the U.S. Olympics, singing Lionel
Richie’s “All Night Long” at the
opening of a colorful fireworks dis-
play;
Visitors on the final day danced
along the 84 acres of avenues and
thoroughfares strewn with litter and
trash, waving umbrellas and han-
kerchiefs behind a jazz funeral that
wound through the fairgrounds.
Fair employees attending the fi
nale expressed mixed emotions
about the outcome of the failed ex
position, which filed for bankruptcy
last week.
“We are glad to leave New Or
leans,” said Bill Roland, facility man
age!' of the U.S. Pavilion, a veteran
of the Knoxville fair enroute to simi
lar jobs at World’s Fairs in Brisbane,
Australia.
“The City was very hard to work
with,” Roland said. “It was very diffi
cult to get people to cooperate.”
Most of the crowd at the closing
were local people making one last
visit to the fair, which they sup
ported despite financial problems
that culminated in $140 million in
debts.
l4enny Skidmore, a New Orleans
private detective wearing a private
coat and a Hawaiian flower necklace,
claitned to have visited the fair 84
tim^s.
“f didn’t come for the last three
days so I could come today and
make it the 84th time,” Skidmore
said. “I suffered, believe me.”
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