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Page 14/The BattalioiVThursday, March 6, 1986
Editor: Bryan trial not
why policy changed
Associated Press
"Looks like Benny's going to play RAGE tonight."
DENVER — A Soldier of Fortune
Magazine editor said Wednesday
that a murder-for-hire case in Bryan
and an Indiana inmate’s escape plot
— both linked to recruiting through
the magazine’s classified ads — had
nothing to do with the magazine’s
decision to end such advertising.
Robert Black Jr., 39, was con
victed last week in the murder of his
wife, Sandra, at their Bryan home
and sentenced to death for offering
a mercenary $10,000 through a clas
sified ad in the magazine to kill her.
Jim Pate, associate editor of the
controversial and colorful magazine
for military buffs and mercenaries,
said it was coincidental the magazine
announced Monday it would no
longer take personal classified ads
that offer services for hire or “other
wise solicit employment.”
“The ad policy was not changed
specifically for this thing in Indiana
or Texas,” Pate said. “It was done
months ago. Unfortunately, it
popped up about the time this thing
was going into effect.”
Pate said the March 1985 ad
linked to the Bryan murder-for-hire
case read:
“Ex Marines, Nam vets, weapons
specialists, jungle warfare, political,
MB, high-risk assignments in U.S. or
overseas. World Security Group,”
followed by a phone number.
John Wayne Hearn, 40, of At
lanta, Ga. testified that the slaying
happened after he and Black dis
cussed several ways to stage it.
Hearn is already serving a life sen
tence for another killing.
Meanwhile, prosecutors for both
the U.S. Attorney General’s office in
Denver and the Colorado Attorney
General said they knew of no ong
oing investigation against Soldier of
Fortune for its advertising practices.
A state attorney general investiga
tor said it appeared to him the pub
lisher would be protected under the
state Consumer Protection Act’s ex
clusions involving advertising.
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from refinancing can be substantial.
For example, someone holding a
30-year, fixed rate mortgage for
$80,000 at 13 percent would pay
$884.96 a month. Refinancing
the entire amount at 10 percent
would cut payments to $702.06, a
savings of $182.90 a month.
Assuming closing costs for the re
financing totaled 4 percent, or
$3,200, the homeowner could re
coup the expense of refinancing in
about a year and a half.
The initial rate on adjustable-rate
mortgages, which usually are of
fered at two or more percentage
points below fixed-rate loans, has av
eraged less than 10 percent since
June, according to the weekly na
tional survey of 1,500 lenders by
HSH Associates, a financial pub
lishing firm in Riverdale, N.J.
But interest on fixed-rate mort
gages had not come back down to
single digits until the last several
months, when some mortgage bank
ers and lending companies in scat
tered areas began offering rates be
low 10 percent.
It has been the widespread move
below 10 percent that has sparked
recent interest in refinancing.
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Cause of fire in state high court building still unknown
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Strictly limited to
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asbestos in the building, officials
said.
Fire damaged the fourth floor,
and smoke and water damaged the
third and fifth floors in the section
of the building that houses the attor
ney general’s office.
Another part of the building,
which houses the Supreme Court
and the Court of Criminal Appeals,
apparently escaped damage.
Meanwhile, Fort Worth Fire De
partment officials were investigating
a small fire at the attorney general’s
office in downtown Fort Worth early
Wednesday.
Fire investigator Chip Owens said
the office caught fire after a flamma
ble liquid leaked under the front
door. The building’s sprinkler sys
tem extinguished the fire before
firefighters arrived about 6:03 a.m.,
he said.
Owens said no connection was
found between the two blazes.
In Austin, McNicholas said the
circumstances of the fires were “to
tally different,” indicating no con
nection.
Because the Austin courts build
ing was closed, the Supreme Court
justices were forced to hear oral ar
guments in the Old Supreme Court
room of the Capitol. That room was
used by the high court until the Su
preme Court building opened in
1957.
For the first time in recent mefn-
ory, the justices wore businsess suits
on the bench because several
couldn’t get judicial robes from their
court building offices.
Pool had said he wouldn’t mk®
arson as a possibility because,
don't normally start in hallmp||^l^*
After looking over the damage,
Attorney General Jim Mattox specu
lated that the fire may have been
sparked by overloaded electrical cir
cuits. A refrigerator and microwave
oven were in the hallway where the
fire apparently started, he said.
“It does not look to me to be of
suspicious origin,” Mattox said.
Shortly after the fire was extin
guished, Assistant Fire Chief Brady
the middle of the night.’’
Pool also noted that the buililj. , I
fire detection system had beenl^O^| |
connected within the past few®^
while a new system was beinjjj
stalled.
Van Blaricom said 80 firefigtlip^ 1
were needed because fightingT
fire involved going up and dm AsJ
stairs. The first alarm was turnetp
at 6:15 a.m., the fourth at 6:46aMMANlLA,
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