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Cesar Fierro, 30, of Juarez, Mex ico, said he recently wrote the U.S. Supreme Court asking that all ap peals be dropped and he be given le thal injection Sept. 15. “I spent two or three days think ing about it,” he said in a death row interview Wednesday. “I do want to appeal now. I was angry because I didn’t know anything about any thing.” Fierro said he was so angry he slashed his arm. He said part of his anger was because he was unaware he nad an execution date and had no attorney. “Later, I started sending out let ters asking for a stay of execution,” he said. “I started to think about my people.” Fierro, who said he was a migrant farm worker who learned to speak English while on death row, said his father lives and works in El Paso while his daughter and a brother live across the border in Juarez. Fierro was convicted of the Feb. 27, 1979, shooting death of Nicholas Castanon, an El Paso taxi driver. Castanon was shot once behind the right ear with .357-caliber Magnum while driving Fierro from El Paso to Juarez, records show. The driver’s body, dumped in an El Paso park, was minus a watch, wallet and jacket. A written statement from a juvenile who saw the shooting led to Fierro’s arrest five monthslater. “I didn’t do anything," Fierro said Wednesday. “They (police) had two other men. But saying I did it.” At the time < was at his apai i Fierro. He is among with execution Texas, where 5 ;y had a youngster >f the shooting, he merit, according to at least 16 inmates dates pending in *5 convicted killers have been put to death since execu tions resumed in 1982. The state total is the highest in the nation. Puzzle enthusiasts can ‘go to pieces 1 at show of mechanical teasers (AP) — Anyone who has ever tried to solve Rubik’s Cube or spent far too much time trying to get all the little balls into the hole knows that puzzles can be mesmerizing. “Puzzles Old and New: Head Crackers, Patience Provers and Other Tactile Teasers,” an exhibi tion of mechanical puzzles through the ages, shows that the modern fas cination with brain teasers is shared by earlier eras and other cultures. Billed as the first to examine the history of mechanical puzzles — the kind that require manual dexterity to manipulate and solve the 80(T object exhibit originated at the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los An geles when Shanon Emanuelli was curator there. Now it is at the Hud son River Museum in Yonkers, N.Y., through Sept. 27, where Emanuelli is now curator of 20th-century art. She says this jolly show is serving a dual purpose. Not only does it illus trate the aesthetic value and historic development of puzzles, it also is at tracting a new public among families with puzzle-loving children, mathe maticians, engineers and computer programmers who seem to enjoy working with puzzles more than most people. One element in the attraction is that, far from the usual hands-off museum show, this one includes nine mechanical puzzles which ex hibit goers can solve for themselves through trial and error. Documenting the exhibition and offering its own brand of fun is the 180-page book “Puzzles Old and New, How to Make and Solve Them” (distributed by the Univer sity of Seattle Press). The book was conceived by Jerry Slocum, a Cali fornian and the major lender to the exhibition and Jack Botermans, a E uzzle designer from the Nether- tnds. Slocum, who has what is believed to be the world’s largest collection of historical and contemporary me chanical puzzles, also has a library of thousands of books on puzzles. The two men spent several years developing the classification system for the various types of puzzles which are shown. For puzzle fanciers this is an im portant step, since there has been great confusion about how to de scribe and separate the many differ ent examples. For the general public, though, it is the puzzles themselves that pro vide the interest and fun. One type which could prove par ticularly fascinating to those with an interest in decorating are puzzle jugs, pitchers and cups. Bomb-threat »i T • causes plane to land early SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An American Airlines DC-10 carrying 276 passengers from Dallas to San Francisco was diverted to Stockton Airport Wednesday after a crew member found a handwritten bomb threat, an airline spokesman said. The pilot diverted Flight 295 tc Stockton Metropolitan Airport and landed about I p.m. PST, and the FBI detained passengers for ques tioning and began searching the air craft, said Tom Schwartz, a spokes man for Fort Worth-based American Airlines. No bomb had been found by Wednesday night, and there are no suspects as yet, FBI Special Agent Tom Griffin said in Sacramento. The flight left Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and was scheduled to arrive at San Francisco International Airport at 12:43 p.m. After the handwritten note was found in one of the bathrooms, the plane was diverted to Stockton, Schwartz said. All 276 passengers and 13 crew members were evacuated through emergency exits, Griffin said. One passenger suffered minor carpet burns and another was bruised slightly in the exit, Schwartz said. 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