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“We got the Christmas spirit and decided to put up a tree for
the whole dorm to enjoy. We hope you don *t mind that we put
it in your room while you were gone. ”
Dynamite
warning
is issued
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Two
suspected terrorists may have
stashed 400 pounds of dynamite
somewhere in Conneticut during the
year they lived in the New Haven
area, a spokesman for the FBI has
warned.
“The potential danger of the
unstable dynamite is a true threat,”
said Alonzo L. Lacey Jr., head of the
FBI in Connecticut. “I want people
to be alert.”
Lacey said the dynamite is be
lieved to be part of a batch stolen in
1981 from a company in Austin,
Texas. About 740 pounds of the sto
len dynamite was seized last Thurs
day in New Jersey. Explosives ex
perts told the FBI any leaking
nitroglycerin would make the dyna
mite extremely volatile.
Susan Lisa Rosenberg, 29, and
Timothy A. Blunk, 27, were charged
with transporting weapons across
state lines by New Jersey police. The
police found the dynamite, rifles,
shotguns and ammunition in the
couple’s car and rented trailer.
Rosenberg and Blunk lived in
New Haven from September 1983 to
September 1984 and may have been
in the area longer, Lacey said.
Blunk, using the name William J.
Hammond, rented the trailer
Thursday morning from a U-Haul
company in New Haven and said he
was taking it to Camden, N.J.
Rosenberg is on the FBI’s most
wanted list and also is accused of
helping Joanne Chesimard escape
from a state prison in Clinton, N J.,
in 1979.
Appeals court overturns
Dallas death sentence
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AUSTIN — The Texas Court of
Criminal Appeals Wednesday over
turned the capital murder convic
tion of a Dallas man sentenced to die
for the beating death of a Texas
Tech University student. However,
the court upheld the convictions of
two other death row inmates.
The state’s highest criminal ap
peals court ruled that Ronald Curtis
Chambers, 29, was wrongly con
victed because he wasn’t informed of
his constitutional rights when he was
examined by a psychiatrist before his
1976 trial.
Chambers’s conviction in the 1975
death of Mike McMahan was set
aside and he was ordered into the
custody of the Dallas County sheriff
to await a possible re-indictment.
McMahan and his date were ab
ducted from the parking lot of a Dal
las nightclub in April 1975. They
were taken to the Trinity River bot
toms and shot. McMahan survived
the gunshot, but his assailant re
turned to crush his skull with a rifle
butt. His date survived the shooting
and testified against Chambers.
Although Chambers’s attorney
had advised him before the exami
nation not to talk about the crime,
the high court said the psychiatrist
who examined Chambers also was
obligated to inform him of his rights.
“Advising a client not to talk is not
the same as informing him at the be
ginning of interrogation that he has
‘a constitutional right not to answer
the questions put to him’,” Judge
Wendell Odom wrote in the court’s
opinion.
In two other death penalty cases,
the court affirmed the capital mur
der convictions of John Russell
Thompson in the 1977 robbery-slay
ing of Mary Kneupper of San Anto
nio and Calvin Joseph Williams in
the 1980 rape, robbery and strangu
lation of Emily Anderson of Hous
ton.
Thompson, 29, was convicted of
killing Kneupper during a robbery
of the Pioneer Stor & Lok in May
1977. Thompson’s lawyers argued
his conviction should be overturned
because the evidence was insuffi
cient to show he intended to kill
Kneupper.
Stock
Phillips considers takeover
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xs Petroleum Co.
ay its board of directors
will soon inform shareholders of the
company’s position on the hostile
$60-a-share cash tender offer for at
least 15 million Phillips shares by
Mesa Petroleum Co. and partners.
In London, the Royal-Dutch Shell
group denied market rumors that it
is raising funds in to defend Phillips
from a takeover by T. Boone Pick
ens, Jr., Mesa’s chairman. Pickens
once triggered a bidding war for
Gulf Oil Corp. and has spear headed
other moves to acquire large U.S. oil
companies.
In Bartlesville, Okla., Phillips (the
nation’s 10th largest oil company)
said it has not yet received any for
mal details of the tender offer by
Mesa Partners, a Texas partnership
made up of Amarillo-based Mesa Pe
troleum and the Midland-based
Wagner & Brown oil company.
Phillips advised its shareholders to
refrain from making any decision on
the Mesa offer until the board re
veals its position on the bid.
A Phillips spokesman said the
company’s board has not decided
when it will disclose its reaction to
Mesa’s announced objective of as
suming control of the Bartlesville oil
giant.
Phillips stock, the most active issue
in the early going on the New York
Stock Exchange Wednesday,
jumped from $7.25 to $55.25 a
share. Mesa Petroleum stock was
ahead 12.5 cents to $21,375 a share.
Mesa Partners said Tuesday it
plans to launch a cash tender offer
for at least 15 million Phillips shares
at $60 each and hopes to arrange fi
nancing to expand its bid to 23 mil
lion shares.
In the past month Mesa Partners
has acquired 8.8 million shares — a
5.7 percent stake — in Phillips.
If the partnership succeeds in
purchasing 23 additional Phillips
shares through its tender, it would
hold 20.6 percent of Phillip’s out
standing common stock.
Mesa said its bid is designed to in
crease ownership as a step to gain
control of Phillips.
The Phillips spokesman declined
to comment when asked if the Royal-
Dutch Shell Group, the world’s sec
ond largest oil company, is gearing
up to prevent Phillips from falling
into Mesa’s hands.
Pickens, who led a tender offer
and an aggressive takeover cam
paign for Gulf, lost out to Chevron
Corp. earlier this year, but made
about $700 million on the deal.
Chevron acquired Gulf for $13.2 bil
lion in the largest merger in U.S. his
tory.
The industry had been waiting for
Pickens, armed with his profits from
the Gulf foray, to pursue another
large oil player.
The Mesa partnership said it
would sell back its stock to Phillips
on an equal basis with all other stock
holders.
Two years ago Pickens acquired a
sizable chunk of Superior Oil Co.’s
stock, which Superior then bought
back at a premium in a controversial
practice known as greenmail. Pick
ens also went after Cities Service Co.,
which was eventually acquired by
Occidental Petroleum Corp.
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Williams, 24, who gave a three-
page written confession to police in
the slaying of Anderson, contended
in his appeal that the confession was
involuntary because he was beaten
and starved by police.
The court Wednesday also over
turned the 10-year probated sen
tence given Josie Paez of San Anto
nio in the 1979 slaying of her
husband, Larry Manuel Paez.
Mrs. Paez and another woman
were involved in a scuffle with Larry
Paez when he was killed; Mrs. Paez
was injured in the fight.
A Department of Human Re
sources worker who had been deal
ing with the Paez family visited Mrs.
Paez in the hospital and elicited com
ments about the slaying. The worker
then testified against Mrs. Paez at
her trial.
The court ruled that the social
worker, as an agent of the state,
should have warned Mrs. Paez of
her constitutional rights. The court
ordered the case returned to a Fort
Worth appeals court for further
consideration.
American
air trips
soaring
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American Airlines set a single-day
traffic record Nov. 25 by serving
36,859 passengers at the Dallas-Fort
Worth International Airport, airline
officials said Wednesday. Southwest
Airlines and Muse Air also reported
increases in November passengers.
American officials said that Nov.
25, the Sunday after Thanksgiving,
was the heaviest traffic day in Amer
ican’s history. The airline flew 141.3
million revenue passenger miles,
breaking the old record of 134 mil
lion set in January. The airline also
set a monthly record with system
revenue passenger miles totaling
2.97 billion in November, up 18 per
cent over the 1983 figure.
The airline said it boarded
810,054 passengers during Novem
ber at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport,
up from 685,632 a year ago. The
system load factor — the number of
seats occupied —- was 60.5 percent,
up from 59.3 percent a year ago.
Thomas Plaskett, American’s se
nior vice president for marketing,
attributed the November records in
part to heavy traffic to Hawaii. He
said 80.5 percent of American’s seats
to Hawaii were filled during the
month.
Southwest boarded 904,740 pas
sengers during the month, up from
851,409 in November 1983. Its load
factor was 57.1 percent, down from
62.7 percent a year ago.
Muse Air boarded 164,614 pas
sengers in November, up from
151,534 a year ago, and reported a
load factor of 47.9 percent, down
from 54.8 percent in November
1983.
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