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I v DALLAS (AP) — Billy Idol may
lave mellowed, but he’s still proud
lobe a punk.
I “It is definitely 10 years since
bunk rock happened,” Idol said in a
[ecent interview, as he neared the
Indofhis U.S. tour before heading
[or Australia. “For a lot of people,
It’s something they’ve only read
ibout in rock ’n’ roll books.
“The fact that there are a few peo-
ilelike me around does sort of keep
hat attitude and spirit going. But it
tas transformed itself as an ongoing
hing that’s just as alive in 1987 as it
rasin 1977.”
The 31-year-old Idol has changed
Iso, Critics say his latest album,
Whiplash Smile,” is his most human
md vulnerable effort, an emotional
leparture from his three earlier re-
ords which portrayed him as a rock
n'roll bully.
His bleached, blond hair still is
piked and his self-described “filthy
tumor” still is evident, as when he
icgins concerts by emerging from
ictween a huge pair of legs made of
rood. But offstage, Idol wears wire-
immed glasses and his trademark
neeris often replaced by a smile.
The change in image was widely
toticed by critics when “Whiplash
imile” was released last fall with its
lit singles, “To Be a Lover” and the
yrical ballad, “Sweet Sixteen.”
However, Idol dismisses the
hange as a natural progression that
lidn’t surprise his fans.
“It’s fantastic to think that what
re said in 1977 is true,” he said.
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then there’s a stranglehold. You can
tart new movements and they will
eep going. They won’t necessarily
elf-destruct even if the original
[roups did. The difficult thing is to
mpart the spirit that it had. And I
vas definitely a part of it.
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mells funny.”
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AMARILLO (AP) — Last Nov. 5,
Texas banker Glen Lemon took off
from the Liberal, Kan., airport in his
private plane and crashed just be
yond the end of the runway.
The fiery crash left behind scant
charred remains and insurance com
panies’ suspicions that the body re
covered from the crash was not that
of the banker.
Now, more than 10 months after
the crash, officials have exhumed
the Booker man’s remains and dis
pelled insurance companies’ conten
tions that Lemon had placed some
one else’s body aboard the aircraft,
set the autopilot and allowed the
plane to crash and burn.
“There’s no question about who
he is,” Dr. William A. Bass, a foren
sic anthropologist specializing in the
identification of plane crash victims,
said Sunday.
But the matter probably isn’t com
pletely over. One question remains:
Was the crash an accident or was it
suicide?
Before Friday’s exhumation at
least four companies were balking
on paying off Lemon’s $12.2 million
in life insurance, more than $8 mil
lion of which was purchased during
the nine months prior to his death.
They asked for an exhumation and
an autopsy to determine if the re
mains were Lemon’s and if he might
have committed suicide.
Lemon’s manner of death would
seem obvious — only part of his
trunk and a jaw were recovered after
the fiery crash — but little has been
taken for granted in the case.
Friday, Lemon’s remains were dis
interred and flown to the Dallas
County Institute of Forensic Sci
ences, where Bass and two dentists
examined them Saturday. Both den
tists — one hired by the Lemon fam
ily and the other a representative of
American Mutual, agreed with the
results, Bass said.
The company had filed a motion
in U.S. District Court saying Lem
on’s plane could have been set to
take off and crash without a living
person at the controls.
Robert Lemon, Glen Lemon’s
brother, said,“I was amazed they
spread this lie that my brother mur
dered someone or somehow ob
tained a body to put into this plane
and set it on autopilot and let it
crash.”
Dr. E.D. Rathbun, the Kansas
doctor who identified the body im
mediately after the crash, called the
staged-crash theory “pretty thin.”
Rathbun, an experienced pilot,
said before the body was exhumed
body,
fraud
that a living person had to have been
at the controls because the plane
otherwise would have swerved off
the runway before taking off.
Robert Lemon said his brother’s
actions on the last day of his life did
not indicate that he was planning to
kill himself.
Lemon had flown to his Amigo
Ranch the morning of Nov. 5,
Wednesday, to meet with the fore
man and discuss ranch business.
They flew to Eads, Colo., for a busi
ness meeting, then flew back to Lib
eral and discussed a pheasant hunt
scheduled the next weekend at the
ranch.
Lemon held three or four pheas
ant hunts a year for banker friends,
Robert Lemon said. The victim also
was looking forward to seeing his
granddaughter that weekend on her
first birthday.
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Air Force says
birds pose
hazard to jets
(AP) — Birds pose a common
and expensive hazard to military
aircraft, the Air Force said Mon
day after a B-1B bomber crashed
in Colorado when birds got into
its engines.
In fiscal 1986 there were 2,765
cases of birds hitting Air Force
aircraft, resulting in roughly $18
million worth of damage.
Two aircraft — an F-4E and an
F-16 — were lost that year due to
bird strikes, the Air Force said.
In fiscal 1985, there were 2,722
reported bird strikes, resulting in
damage totaling more than $5
million, Air Force officials said.
Most encounters with birds oc
cur during daylight hours and at
altitudes below 3,000 feet, the
service said.
GALVESTON (AP) — A former
co-worker of convicted killer Clar
ence Brandley testified Monday that
it was not Brandley, but another
Conroe janitor who abducted the
manager of the Bellville High School
girls’ volleyball team a short time be
fore she was found slain in 1980.
John Sessum, testifying on the
first day of a hearing that could lead
to a new trial for Brandley, identi
fied Gary Acreman, another Conroe
janitor, as abducting Cheryl Ferge-
son.
Sessum, Acreman and two other
men were working with Brandley at
Conroe High School the day of the
killing. All were janitors. Brandley
was the only black among them.
“He (Gary) went up there and was
talking to her,” Sessum said in testi
mony that contradicted testimony he
gave at an earlier trial and hearings.
“I heard her say ‘No, stop,
don’t!’ ” Sessum said.
Sessum said he left the area to get
a drink of water.
When asked if he should have
tried to help, Sessum replied, “I
guess I was scared. I could have
tried. I would have felt better if I
did.”
Sessum said he did not see Brand-
ley in the area.
Sessum said Acreman, who still
works in the Conroe area, told him
that if he implicated Acreman,
“There’d be trouble for me.”
His fears led him to lie each time
he spoke with police and each time
he appeared in court, Sessum said.
Edward Payne, Acreman’s father-
in-law, also gave testimony against
Acreman. Payne testified that Acre-
man told him about the slain girl’s
clothing in a trash container before
police located the items.
“Nobody knew about it except the
police and the killer,” said Payne,
who spoke with the aid of an artficial
larynx. “It made me think he knew
about the actual crime — the way he
shook.”
Under cross examination, he said
some of the things he says are lies.
“Sometimes I get confused,” he
said. “I’m a very lonely person. So if
somebody walked up and shakes my
hand, I’ll go along with him to be his
friend.”
He said he wanted to be a friend
of Brandley’s defense attorney and
be Brandley’s friend.
Calligrapher shares artistry of Japanese life
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Reiko Brown wants
to help people discover who they really are as
they attempt to read the writing on the wall — or,
in Brown’s case, the writing on the rice paper.
The average Texan might have a few prob
lems deciphering messages inked by Brown.
They look like abstract art. But they are creative
symbols that represent life —Japanese style.
Brown is a Japanese calligraphy expert. She
shares the ancient art she learned 50 years ago in
a Tokyo elementary school with fellow students
at the San Antonio Art Institute where she stud
ies ceramics. This month she is instructing a class
in which people will learn to paint basic charac
ters linked to Japanese culture and Zen philoso-
phy.
“Like it or not we live in a competitive society,”
Brown says. “We live fast. People need to find a
way to be themselves and just relax.
“To me, calligraphy is a way to find a peaceful
moment.
“I want my students to learn to find within
themselves a peaceful time and to understand
the Oriental mind.”
In keeping with the philosophy of Zen, tradi
tional Japanese arts such as tea ceremonies, floral
arranging and martial arts emphasize the impor
tance of self-discipline as a way to find enlighten
ment. Brown says calligraphy is no different.
Through strict discipline people gain self-confi
dence and patience.
Brown also says they usually develop a better
appreciation of life as they grow to understand
their potential. And that potential, she believes, is
limited only by attitude and imagination.
Her students, the majority of whom are artists,
use traditional Japanese materials such as rice pa
per, special brushes and an ink stone. She admits
that even the most talented of painters she has
taught initially have approached her class with
anxiety.
Brown teaches her art step-by-step and at a
slow pace in which students receive individual at
tention. She encourages them to work hard and
be patient.
“When you discover you can do something you
didn’t think you could, it’s a wonderful experi
ence,” Brown says. “I want my students to learn
that it is OK to take a chance and explore the un
known. If you don’t take a chance and try some
thing new, you’ll never find your opportunities.”
Brown speaks from experience. In 1958, she
left her native Japan for a brief vacation in the
United States. While visiting friends in Califor
nia, she met a man in the military, fell in love and
married. They settled in San Antonio and she
knew she never would return to Japan except to
visit. She became a U.S. citizen in 1963.
She says she grew to love the people there and
wanted to share her culture. So six years ago, she
began teaching calligraphy.
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