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up Wednesday, September 9, 1987/The Battalion/Page 7 Texas inmate warped by Scott McCuilar seeks stay have an Aggie, W W ^ ^ ^ 7 Mke^at7p.m. of execution ;et in 302 Rudde:, ^■-lOUSTON (Al*) — Attorneys for 4S at 7 p.m. condemned prisoner Joseph Star- >lications for Mi vaggi asked a federal judge to spare i Pavilion until St the convicted killer from the Texas 'achry at 7 p.m c * e;,l h chamber where he faced exe- , .j cut ion before dawn Thursday. will meet | Pl||^^t ar v a ggi t 34 ; W as scheduled to die by injection for a 1976 burglary ludder at 7 p.m that left a Montgomery County man it. dead. tjohn C. Denson was shot three M Ttr hiKes and killed while his wife and N 1 KRNATIOV daughter were tied up in a blanket at cr at 12 p.m. an: thlir Magnolia home. HStarvaggi and two others were ide show on the cot victed of the slaying, while >erat7:30pm charges against a fourth man were hry at 7 p.m. d«'‘" ssed - jIETY: will have J Attorney Anthony Griffin said ludder at 8:30p: Tuesday evidence that showed Star- )Ruddcrat8p- va S' was a continued threat to so- ..i . en ,‘7 ciety was insufficient, that Starvaggi ill meet in 601R. h | (1 7 ineffective legal assistance at Klal and that jury selection was im- an informationi ploper. 0 p.m. |»Grirfin said he was uncertain 7ANS: will m«: whether he could win a stay from UiS. District Judge Lynn flughes, OR SOCIETY k ul sa ' d he was prepared to take the case to the federal appeals courts. ■^■“With the status of capital liti- !S( at < p.m, gauon as bad as it is, I don’t know,” REW: Ap iplia:: Griffin said about prospects for a n the Pavilion, stav. “It’s like going to a horror movie. 7 n m JMB'-Wc’re getting blitzed. . c 1 ' j '»“The object is to get a stay at some 1 a tae kwon C leyel.” ollie White at i |Criffin said Starvaggi’s case had Hlen delayed because of the death of speaker on AID; a federal judge who earlier had han dled Starvaggi’s appeal. Klder at8.30p.w| w Q reen an( { Glen Earl Mar- S: will meet in. t j n both of Houston, also were con- JpCted in the death of Denson, 48. in 145 MSC aiv Bpreen is on death row. ■Martin is serving a life prison t in the comae. j ru r RI he three were accused or break ing into Denson’s home and stealing its at die slice. jqTqqO worth of guns, iences Building. ^Denson was a Montgomery pJOunty juvenile probation officer. Applications! jStarvaggi, who has been on death 21 Pavilion. rovv since 1978, would be the 26th i ; Texas inmate put to death since the sties workout in .1 , t ' u , . . . state resumed the death penalty in 1982 and the sixth this year. ira|He is among at least 16 Texas d to The Baflali death row prisoners with pending c working execution dates. 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RGillem telephoned his wife, Linda, Sunday night from a restau rant in Bishop, a town of 3,500 in eastern California not far from the Nevada border, Llano County sher iffs deputy Kenneth Poe said. ■‘‘He called and said he was a little tired and a little confused,” said Poe, who has worked on the investigation since it began. “He said he did not know how he got there.” ^Gillem was last seen a week ago while driving along a new bus route 16 miles from Llano. The Llano In dependent School District truck Gil- lem was driving was found over the weekend in the parking lot of a San Antonio shopping center. Gillem’s coffee cup and Bible were inside the vehicle. Poe said after Gillem called home, his wife called Llano County sheriffs deputies, who notified authorities in Bishop. Gillem was placed in protec tive custody, was given a medical evaluation and probably will un dergo another examination when he returns to Llano, officials said. HOUSTON (AP) — Ten days be fore the Chernobyl disaster, Hous ton psychologist Dr. Rickie Moore was in West Germany conducting a seminar. A young couple in the group was celebrating the news that they were expecting their first baby. When Moore returned to Ger many a month later, she learned that the woman had been advised to have an abortion. She and her husband had walked in the rain a few days af ter the April 26, 1986, meltdown at the Soviet reactor that released high levels of radiation into the air. Rain, experts say, was a carrier of radioac tivity and caused hot spots through out Europe. The couple was hit by some of that fallout. In addition to the physi cal problems, they had to deal with the psychological fears that followed the event. How much radiation did they take? Was the food safe to eat? Would they die from the long term effects of the fallout? These questions and the pressures they create, Moore says, are wide spread in Europe. For nine of the last 16 months, the psychologist has been working with victims of fallout in Southern Germany, the Nether lands, Austria, Switzerland and France. She has been helping them face the reality of the disaster and cope with it. “The psychological effects of liv ing with that uncertainty as well as the difficulties of adjusting to a to tally new way of life as a result of having their food, air and water con taminated is monumental,” she says. Experts estimate that 200 million people in Europe were exposed to contaminated air. That exposure is expected to increase as more people ingest tainted food. Radiation levels were especially high in Poland, West Germany (Munich in particular), northern Italy, the Lapland area of Finland and the Turkish shore of the Bla’di? Sfea. Most of the reindeer in Lapland were contaminated and had to be destroyed. Experts say the radioac tive fallout may virtually destroy the “Many people react with a feeling of renewed hope. Yes, I can make a differ ence. I do matter. My child has a right to a full life.” — Dr. Rickie Moore, Houston psychologist Lapp culture, which depends on the animal for its economy. Moore says victims of radiation, in addition to the physical effects of vomiting, diarrhea and fever, suf fered a host of emotional reactions long after the initial exposure. They included agitation, tiredness, apa thy, a sense of powerlessness, de pression, sleeplessness and eating disorders. Some victims suffered severe shock just after the disaster. One woman Moore helped had been hiking in northern Italy just af ter the Chernobyl accident. She was outside in the rain, eating berries and fruit in what experts later deter mined was a hot spot. When she re alized she had been exposed, the re action was immediate. “She had a total collapse,” Moore . says. “She went to pieces. It took a lot of support to keep her functioning in her job working with hand icapped children.” Just after her exposure, the woman joined one of the psycholo gist’s seminars. In her work, Moore teaches peo ple who have been radiated the ABCs of survival — accept, belong and commit. First, they must accept they have been exposed and their food may be contaminated. Second, they recognize they belong to a group of similar victims and can find help from others. And third, to overcome their grief, they agree to commit to living life fully and work ing to prevent further catastrophes. To do that often means altering lifestyles completely. Moore says people who’ve been radiated frequently undergo value changes. Those with money no longer prize it above all else. The pursuit of worldly possessions loses its sparkle. And victims begin to evaluate priorities, placing emphasis on peace rather than pleasure. In her seminars, victims are en couraged to form networks. They laugh, sing and talk about issues that are important in their lives. And they recognize and accept that de pression and sadness will help them deal with a newly awakened sense of mortality. Sometimes participants bring their children, parents, spouses and friends to the seminars, healing old, painful wounds from the past. Cou ples often resolve problems and dis cover new ways of relating. As they break down walls of defense and de nial about the disaster, negative atti tudes are erased and they experi ence relief from fear. “Many people react with a feeling of renewed hope,” Moore says. “Yes, I can make a difference. I do matter. My child has a right to a full life. 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