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Ml jMinnn Regular Manicures $10<» sllBhtiy hloher for Women's Cut 6c Style $ 18°° longer hair • REDKIN • MATRIX • SEBASTIAN • PAUL MITCHELL • DON SULLIVAN -8700 Walk>Ins Welcome Page 6/The Battalion/Wednesday, August 26, 1987 Warped by Scott McClAi nrruST V/v.p Oa-tt-N Ol By K jerry W lief after h of the first nsplant brothe A^M heali ): jisgociate p: Jerry rare lung d JBy the Jerry had ; and the dis lung,” Wa; told Jerry no more th “I told n sit around coirne true County official lobbies for nuclear waste dum AUSTIN (AP) — Andrews County is eager to be con sidered as the site for Texas’ first low-level nuclear waste dump, a lobbyist for the county said Tuesday. Former House Speaker Bill Clayton made the pitch for Andrews County, northwest of Midland-Odessa, at a meeting of the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Authority. Clayton’s presentation could be viewed as having a dual purpose since he also represents El Paso County, which filed suit earlier this year to stop a possible nu clear waste site in the adjoining county of Hudspeth, of ficials said. Executive Director Lawrence Jacobi Jr. said the staff had highly recommended a site in Hudspeth County, 11 miles northeast of Fort Hancock. El Paso County then obtained an injunction to block selection of the site, Jacobi said, and trial is set for Dec. 7. “We’re just on hold,” Jacobi said. “It really upsets the staff to have to sit down and just wait, but unfortunately we’re under injunction and have to obey the law.” Jacobi spoke with a reporter at the conclusion of a two-hour board meeting that included a one-hour pri vate session on litigation. Clayton said agency staff had met at Andrews with the county judge, mayor, school superintendent, cham ber of commerce representatives and newspaper editor. “There was a unanimous approach by the whole county trying to attract” a low-level facility, Clayton said. and let’s ju He said county officials were so excitediJjHQn' Febi prospect of attracting a disposal site that the J t0 sr( conduct drill tests at county expense. |L ere , “It appears to me when you’re dealingwith)Hl un was such as this, where there is a lot of emotion aihjfotht ben< . . . certainly one thing you take into consider^ '“i n thh community acceptance . . .,” Clayton said.“I(eBj n g to s believe that it is wholeheartedly accepted in liB avne sav County. not been a Jacobi said the agency wants to take anothf ^jjrnted Sta Andrews County. BWayne s “We need to work with Midland-Odessa seV en out even Amarillo” because of the Ogallala aquiieiH ( | ^ een , area, he said. M|y of hops Clayton also mentioned a possible site in CilH^ r S an County, but Jacobi said the staff had technical(4 coine a about that site — 25 to MO miles north of VanS P* (, P lc wt " because it rests on gypsum, win. h dissolvesv-; s "" u ' wet, also because of the water flow in that area ; wmmnsu a Bank m H. , . • , . , , . . „ , ■ Accordi Jacobi acknowledged that the El PasoteM on -pj. slow the site-selection process considerably,IiuiBoqo , K . ( ,, “No matter where we go, I’m convinced wewilltKv, ()U( this type of problem.” corneas, d cjeve a he He mentioned Andrews, and said,‘Tmsurt j|?iKj t j n „ to pie in Midland-Odessa would not be anymortl C Q in ^j nat j { about this than the people in El Paso are.” rece i V e ; Time is lost, he said, "in the sense thatwcQiB|'py ie SUI sue our major goal, which is to find a sitingaraflg^ f or t 111 • Horn the < ents from Defense attorney attacks transcript of trial’s testimony BROWNSVILLE (AP) — The lead defense attorney attacked the credibility of a grand jury transcript central to the aggravated perjury trial of Mayor Emilio Hernandez, who was indicted in a Texas Rang- ers-led probe of city government. Defense attorney Rey Cantu ob jected to use of the transcript from January grand jury testimony, but District Judge Darrell Hester al lowed its admission into evidence. Cantu questioned the qualifica tions of court reporter Bill Briggs. The defense attorney also pointed out errors and ambiguities in the transcript, depending on how one would interpret its punctuation. A hung jury in July caused a mis trial the first time the perjury case was tried. In that trial, the jury dead locked at 7-5 in favor of acquittal. The state alleges that Hernandez lied to a grand jury when he said he did not buy billboard advertising for the 1985 re-election campaign of a former city commissioner. Hernandez voluntarily testified in January before the grand jury, which was looking into allegations of wrongdoing in city government. Judge Hester last month denied a change-of-venue motion by Special Prosecutor Sharon MacRae, who had maintained that the mayor’s in fluence prevented the state from getting a fair trial. Juan Gonzalez, district sales man ager with Browning Ferris Indus tries, which was trying to win a gar bage contract with the city in 1985, testified that Hernandez told him that the Jesse Sloss campaign needed $3,000-14,000 in cash for billboards, but that the mayor did not ask him for it. Cantu questioned the credibility of Gonzalez’ previous testimony, and asked him if Hernandez and Sloss embarrassed him in front of two BFI executives by refusing contributions from BFI’s political action commit tee. The mayor in June was acquitted of a felony theft by a public servant charge stemming from the probe, but still faces a bribery trial. Officer, guo held aftert at robbery transplant; transplant; of the hea to 80 perc plants and of the liv least one y. I “Organ formed all Treybig sa PORT LAVACA(Mt^ayne lice officer and a fotmcrki wor |, er ta curity guard were being ff ren and < Tuesday on charges in sef indictments of conspiringloJ mit an aggravated armed! bery, authorities said. Port Lavaca Police Lt. I Lee Nowotny, 41, wasindi a Calhoun County grand] ansplant Because ierimenta Wayne sa inly remc left lung s for Jerry, The indictment alleged b | gooc spired with Port Lavaoj move the liceman John Ayce McNtiHL to tin former Victoria policenij;j on |y take i ven Wayne Slovacek in the! vated robbery of First Staid says and Trust Co. employeesoi 15, 1986. David Anthony Hamilto: of Port Lavaca, was arrested being indicted for conspirb commit an aggravated rote •' Before a transplai fequireme tain medi lass certa First State Bank and Tttf early November, a plantto not put into effect. Both Nowotny and Had were in custody in the 0 |iad to gc County Jail. Justice of the: Marlene Paul set bond Mold $100,000 on Nowotny ait $30,000 on Hamilton easier to “Jerry 1 better lunj Wylie says lung didn didn’t wor Transp the cost c $4,000 to ‘plant to $ liver trans Captive freed from Mozambiqu won’t rule out more charity worl HOUSTON (AP) — Houston nurse Kindra Bryan, who spent three months as a captive of Mozam bican guerillas, says she won’t rule out returning to the country for charity work, according to a pub lished report. “I’m real open,” she told the Houston Chronicle in a copyright story published Tuesday. “If God were to tell me I should go back to Mozambique, I’d be perfectly happy to.” In an interview conducted in Ha rare, Zimbabwe, where she was recu perating, she said, “I know I could handle it now.” Bryan and six other captives were released last week at the Mozam- bique-Malawi border by pro-West ern guerillas fighting Mozambique’s central government. Spokesmen for the rebels said the group was marched out of Mozambique for its own safety. want to do without anyone hi drive me. That’s what I want During her captivity, the traveled on foot more thi' miles. In the interview, Bryan declined to discuss the politics of her captivity and said her thoughts have turned toward returning home. “Because of what’s happened, I feel a little out of control of my life,” Bryan said. “Just to be independent —just to get in my car and do what I “Sometimes I thought!( handle it,” she told the ne»- “Now it just seems a normal!: be walking through the bush soldiers. It’s not suchabigde: During the ordeal, Bryan pounds and now weighs at* pounds, the newspaper saiC being freed by the guerilh group was flown to Haratt questioned by governmentoli Lawyer extends offer to represeri fomilies of boxcar tragedy victim, EL PASO (AP) — A lawyer has offered to represent families of the 18 men who died in the Sierra Blanca boxcar tragedy last month, but officials said another law firm already is handling the cases. George McAlmon of El Paso would not say Monday whether any of the relatives had asked him to represent them for free, but he said he might make an announce ment soon. Meanwhile, three men from the Albuquerque, N.M., law firm of Duhigg, Cronin and Spring were interview ing some of the victims’ relatives in Ojo Caliente in the state of Aguascalientes, the town’s mayor, Miguel Razo Hernandez, said Monday. A Border Patrol agent found the dead men and the lone survivor during a routine search ofboxcai! at Sierra Blanca, about 90 miles east of El Paso The men suffocated in an airtight car thatti: ; out in the broiling desert sun for hours, Tempt: in the insidated, steel-sided car soared toashi| degrees. The survivor, Miguel Tostado Rodriguez, alien smuggler had locked the 19 Mexican: mented workers into the car from the outside ; yard in El Paso. Lawyers have said that if the victims' fatP they could ask for as much as $9 million. Potf [ fendants include the Border Patrol and therailf 1 ! Bas Ipgil $