Wednesday, June 17,1987/The Battalion/Page 5
Police Beat
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The following were reported
[to the University Police Depart-
[ment from June 10 through
[Monday:
HARRASSMEN I :
• A student reported that sev-
leral students s<|uirted her with
[water while she was riding her bi
cycle by the Albritton Tower. She
[stated that the students then
Jlaughed at her and drove away in
|a pickup. The owner of the vehi-
Jcle was contac ted and said a letter
■ofapology would be written.
TERRORISTIC THREA TS:
• A student reported that he
[received an anonymous call and
[was advised that a bomb had been
[planted in his house.
• A student reported that he
received three phone calls of a
bomb being planted in his apart
ment.
ASSAULT:
• A student reported that one
of the girls attending the basket
ball camp on campus was struck
by a water balloon thrown from
the third floor of a dorm by a
white male.
BUROLARY OE A HABITA
TION:
• A student reported that
someone entered his room in
Haas Hall and removed a part of
his coin collection.
• A student reported that
someone entered his dorm room
and removed $ 120 in cash.
Judge decides
to dismiss case
against mayor
onference of mayors
names San Antonio
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■ SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Ten mil-
■iii people eac h year think San An-
ttjnio is a nic e place to visit and now
tic nation’s mayors believe it is the
best place to live.
■ The U.S. Conference of Mayors
honored San Antonio as the nation’s
niost livable c ity over 100,000, citing
Mayor Henry C. Cisneros for lead
ership in creating an Arts and Cultu
ral Advisory Committee and adopt-
ii g a Historic Landmarks District
(jnlinance.
■ Cisneros, who was with his wife,
Mary Alice, and their ill newborn
son, was unable to attend the meet
ing in Nashville, Term., where the
award was given Monday.
■ “All of us in San Antonio take*
pi ulc* in our people and our commu-
jjiy, and we are pleased and Iron-
dim: <|ed to receive this national recogni-
,nf tlm,” Cisneros said in a statement.
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■ Lily officials credited the 40-year-
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the state
old Hispanic mayor for
|economic development
struggles to diversify its petroleum-
based economy.
Acting city Mayor Alex Briseno
said, “San Antonio is a livable place,
a city that identifies with its cultural
heritage, encourages art activities
and histor ic preservation and does it
within the context of a dynamic
growing c ity.”
Lire city was founded irt 17 IS
when the Spanish viceroy wanted a
halfway point between missions in
East Texas and gar risons in north
ern Mexico.
Now, more than 10 million people
visit San Antonio each year, pump
ing .f I billion into the city’s coffers.
Many of those tourists have stayed,
said Fr ances Schullschik, spokesman
for the city’s Visitors’ and Conven
tion Bureau.
Tourism is the city’s number two
industry behind the military.
The top tourist attractions are the
River Walk, a winding park with res
taurants along the San Antonio
River, several Spanish missions,
Mexican markets and the Alamo.
BROWNSVILLE (AP) — Pros
ecutors were stunned Tuesday when
Mayor Emilio Hernandez's defense
attorneys produced surprise evi-
dence that brought dismissal of a fel
ony theft charge against the mayor.
“I’ve always said I know there’s a
Cod, and I’ve been vindicated,” Her
nandez said after state District Judge
Darrell Hester dismissed the charge
on the first day of testimony in the
trial.
Hernandez, 56, was accused of us
ing city funds to pay for election
campaign brochures in 1983. The
second-degree felony charge of theft
by a public official could have
brought a maximum sentence of 20
years in prison.
But as testimony was set to begin
Tuesday morning, defense attorney
Reynaldo Cantu met with special
prosecutor Sharon Mac Rae in the
judge’s chambers and presented
canceled checks and invoices show
ing that a supporter named Jamie
Walker had paid for the campaign
literature.
“It’s unfortunate that this infor
mation couldn't have come to light
earlier-,” Hester told the jurors be
fore dismissing them.
He commended the special pros
ecutor lor calling for dismissal of the
case.
After Hester- agreed to drop the
charges, a crowd of the mayor ’s sup
porters in the courtroom cheered
the outcome.
Defense attorney Cantu said “a
sloppy investigation” had been con
ducted by the 'Texas Rangers, who
have been probing allegations of city
corruption since November, but
have seen charge after charge dis
missed.
“What is disturbing about all of
this is that all it took to find this out
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Expert says domestic cotton industry
Is growing, looking better than ever
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CONROE (AP) — The domestic
cotton industry is booming and this
tar should be the second-best in the
J.st two decades, a top industry offi
cial said T uesday.
■ “Cotton is on the offense as never
before,” Earl W. Sears, executive
vice president of the National Cot
ton Council, said at the annual Na
tional Cotton Outlook Conference.
am so excited.
■ “The intrinsic: good cjitalities of
cotton are still unmatched in spite of
the billions of dollars spent on re
search by man-made fibers. It is on
this solid foundation that everything
is built.''
Sears said domestic mill consump-
Cdtirllii [lion for the In st cjuarter is up 39 per-
time
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cent from a year ago. Cotton’s share
of the liber market also is up three
percentage points in the last two
years, he said.
“And we were striving to hold out
market share or avoid a loss,” he
said.
In addition, the U.S. cotton indus
try is doing well overseas as prices
have become competitive in wor ld
markets.
“Foreign cotton acreage and pro
duction have declined for the second
consecutive year,” Sears said. “At the
same time, world cotton consump
tion today is growing at an accele
rated rate of more than 2 million
bales a year . This combination of
events has made our exports sky
rocket.”
Sears credited some of the cotton
resurgence to the 1985 Farm Act
that guaranteed price protection for
cotton growers.
“I can’t say enough about how
well the cotton program has worked
for our commodity,” he said.
“What’s more, if this five-year pro
gram is left intact, some economists
project that cotton production over
this period will increase by a total of
2b million bales.”
The future also is promising, he
said, with commitments for exports
already strong for next year.
Sears said an advertising cam
paign, “Grown and Made in the US-
A,”is contributing to the industry
success.
“The campaign was initiated to
right the wrongs caused to our in
dustry and its suppliers by the flood
of foreign cotton pouting into this
country in the form of cotton textiles
and apparel,” he said.
At the same time, the industry has
signed adver tising agreements in Ja
pan and Korea and similar pacts
with Italy, France and the United
Kingdom are nearly complete.
But Sears cautioned that the in
dustry must continue to strive for ef
ficiency, since government subsidies
are threatened by moves to reduce
the national budget deficit.
Bride injured, groom arrested at reception
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A groom landed in jail
up in a hospital after two
dozen police officers swarmed into their wedding
ffireption to <|tiell a fracas that witnesses said had
already been settled.
HThe groom and other members of the wed
ding par ty claim at least one of the officers re
sponding to a sheriff deputy’s distress call used
excessive force when making nine arrests at the
P 011 | leapt ion o I Leticia Gastanadas Arriaga and Fete
urllJ': Arriaga.
it ■ “They ruined everything,” the 18-year-old
]l bride said ol her Saturday night reception at-
s vvw (ended by 250 people
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T hey ruined the whole
T he groom’s sister and brother-in-law have
filed complaints against Fort Bend Gounty Dep
uty C).J. Brown.
Fort Bend Gounty Sheriff Gus George on
T uesday said, “We’re taking some statements
and we hope to wrap it up right now.”
“It’s a tough second-base call. All we can do is
use good judgment and then stand by it.”
Brown faces dismissal from (he force, he said.
Felicita Arriaga, the bridegroom’s mother,
said there was a problem trying to get secur ity
guards for the dance, so one ol the bride’s broth
ers, Harris Gounty sheriffs deputy Fred Gon
zales, agreed to provide security.
I he mother said the disturbance began when
Gonzales asked one of the groom’s brothers, 21-
year-old Modesto Arriaga Jr., for identification
when he ordered a beer.
George said Gonzales asked Fort Bend Gounty
Deputy Scott Gill, who was at the hall visiting
with the manager, for help and Gill called for
backup.
About 24 officers from the sherif f’s office and
the Richmond and Rosenberg police depart
ments rushed in.
“It got just plum out of hand,” George said.
Leticia Arriaga, who said the matter had al
ready been settled bef ore the mob of of ficers ar
rived, said she was knocked in the head with a
pair of handcuf f s.
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was to talk to the bookkeeper in
charge of expenditures for the cam
paign,” Cantu said.
The defense attorney said he
plans to ask Attorney General Jim
Mattox’s office to look into the
Rangers’ investigation.
Asked why they did not present
the exonerating evidence to the
grand jury, defense attorney Eddie
Medrano said, “The burden of
proof is not ours.”
Special prosecutor MacRae said
she first learned of (lie defense’s
newly revealed evidence at 9 a.m.
T uesday morning, and was shocked.
“T he evidence available to us at
the time made it appear that the
mayor had done something wrong,”
Mac Rae said.
“I have tried to he fair in this pros
ecution,” the San Antonio attorney
added. “I didn’t come down here to
railroad anybody.”
T he Brownsville mayor faces two
more trials this summer: an aggra
vated perjury case on June 29 and a
bribery trial on July 20.
Texas Ranger Rudy Rodriguez,
who has coordinated the city hall
probe, said he would welcome an ex
amination of his investigation.
“T hey’ve got a good alibi,” Rodri
guez said. “A dead man can’t tes
tily,” he added in an apparent ref er
ence to (he shooting death of Carlos
and Elizabeth Barrios.
Barrios fatally shot himself and
his wife May 3 at a Texas Depart
ment ol Public Safety office in San
Antonio, where they had gone to
speak with Rodriguez. Barrios, who
worked at the print shop where the
mayor’s 1983 campaign brochures
were produced, was considered a
key witness for the prosecution’s
case.
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