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> aments in et Union. 1 marking ke out his at it. The hernenko x and de- tot shown y suffers condition inR. ns d the vote ' designed loans that gi ant per- ■ is barely iringa 10 ib Dole, R- yet”-the Juce farm udgetdef- ion would ral level of concerned person in e for rural >ck said. ur [ion iU Monday, February 25, 1985/The Battalion/Page 9 Slouch By Jim Earle “If there’s going to be a chance of a fight over a parking space, I’m going to be prepared.” Kidnap US off idol soys Mexican police aided suspect Associated Press WASHINGTON — An alleged Mexican marijuana grower sus pected in the kidnapping of a U.S. drug agent left Mexico over the weekend with the help of Mexican police, the head of tne Drug En forcement Administration said Sun day. DEA Administrator Francis M. Mullen Jr. identified the man as Clare Quintero, “one of those whom we suspect, one of those traffickers involved in the kidnapping" of Enri que Camarena Salazar, a DEA agent abducted at gunpoint Feb. 7 in Gua dalajara. Mullen, appearing on ABC-TV’s “This Week with David Brinkley,” said the DEA received information that Quintero boarded an aircraft in Guadalajara on Saturday night de spite attempts by Mexican judicial police to detain him with a warrant. “We have now learned he had as protection members of the (Mexi can) Department of Federal Secu rity,” Mullen said, referring to the Mexican equivalent of the FBI. “He is the individual who is re sponsible for the plantation where 3,500 tons of marijuana /ere located in Mexico,” he said. “1 his concerns usfand we wonder why he was al lowed to leave.” Mullen continued his criticism of Mexican law enforcement officials for their response to the kidnapping of Camarena, whose fate remains unknown. “I believe they’re actively search ing for him now,” Mullen said. “I do not believe that they were doing so at the outset. ... It’s my belief that this case should have been solved and should be solved.” Mullen said the slow start of the investigation by Mexican authorities gave major suspects “adequate time to depart the area.” He also crit icized a Mexican judicial order that barred police from questioning about 25 drug kingpins. Asked whether he thought there was a coverup in the case, he replied: “I won’t go so far as to say coverup, but there may be some complicity at the lower levels of law enforcement.” Mullen defended the car-by-car searches U.S. Customs officials be gan at border crossings following the kidnapping. He said the searches, criticized by the Mexican govern ment and U.S. business interests, had “worked” to spur the investiga tion and were being scaled back Sun day. Last Friday, Mexican Attorney General Sergio Garcia Ramirez said his nation was “fulfilling its legal and moral obligation” in the case and that Mexican police were using “all the resources at their disposal” to solve it. Foreman says jury rushed to finish before ‘happy hour’ Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — A jury that recommended the death penalty for a convicted murderer rushea through deliberations so some panelists could get to a local bar’s “happy hour,” the jury fore man says. The note from foreman Helen Ronca, complaining about rushed deliberations, prompted the con demned man’s attorney to ask the judge to question jurors in the case. Ronca said the panel didn’t con sider the evidence seriously enough, that some jury members had joked and others had said they wanted to get it over with to keep a “hot date” or attend “happy hour” at a local bar. Circuit Judge James Foxman agreed to question the jury after Carmen Corrente, the attorney for Police say fingerprint joke was harmless Associated Press DALLAS — A review of more than 300 fingerprint identifications made by Dallas police over the past 15 months has found no mis matches, and shows “no one was done any harm,” an assistant chief said. Officials decided to re-check fin gerprints matched to suspects after some officers played a practical joke on a fingerprint expert at the de partment in December. The officers gave what they knew to be unidentifiable prints and some fingerprints from the files to 12-year veteran Glen Thompson, the finger print unit’s top specialist. Thompson examined them and erroneously said they matched. “This thing was blown all out of proportion,” Thomas Hutson, an as sistant police chief, said. “We found no discrepencies. We didn’t find anything. No one was done any harm.” About a month after the practical joke mismatch drew publicity in Dal las, Tarrant County sheriffs dep uties arrested a Fort Worth murder suspect on the basis of a fingerprint match which later proved to be false. The suspect was arrested Jan. 13 and charged with the slaying of Lisa Griffin after a fingerprint was found on her abandoned car. But after further examination by other experts, the fingerprint was found not to match the suspect’s. Af ter three days in county jail on a murder charge accompanied by re lentless scrutiny from tne media, the suspect was released and all charges dropped. The Fort Worth case is very dif ferent from the Dallas incident, which did not involve a suspect or the outcome of any criminal investi gation, Hutson said. The officers involved in the prac tical joke will not be disciplined be cause no problems were caused, he said. “This was just one instance where they (officers) didn’t follow proce dure,” he said. “We’ve never gone out and arrested anybody without a verification” of a fingerprint, he said. Robert A. Teffeteller, 31, contended that jurors should be queried to de termine whether their recommenda tion for a death sentence was “tainted.” The 12-member jury recom mended Jan. 25 that Teffeteller be executed for the 1979 murder of Ormond Beach pharmacist Peyton Moore III. Foxman followed the recommendation and imposed the death sentence. After a Wednesday hearing, Fox man said he would hold a session next week to question jurors and clear up any “hint of suspicion.” Juror Thomas Rudderow said Ronca’s letter was “all poppycock as far as I’m concerned.” He described the deliberations as “a very sober ex perience.” Ormond Beach juror Donald Bas- ford agreed with Rudderow. rear-license plate was; stolen frdali a .Untverai^owrted I m.n« n ,ber3 59 .i„Partiug A „- ■LARY OF A MOTOR Ijjup MSC OPAS PRESENTS HISTORY OF MUSIC Part 1 24 Hours of Continuous Entertainment 7-8 Prebaroque 7:30-8 Opera 8-11 Baroque 8-11 Romantic 11-3 Classical 11-2 Modern 3-7 Anything Goes 2-3 Jazz 7-7:30 Russian Composers 3-7 Popular SUMMER'S COMING It's time to get serious about getting in shape Are you tired of crowded classes? Of workouts that don't really wear you out? Of exercising but not seeing any results? Come try out a class at BODY DYNAMICS for no cost and no obligation, and find out how good a workout can be. 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