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Judge rules
to reinstate
Dallas officer
DALLAS (AP) — A judge’s ruling
requiring the city to reinstate a po
liceman fired in 1984 for fatally
shooting a fleeing, unarmed suspect
will hinder efforts to remove officers
who use unnecessary force, the po
lice chief said.
“I wouldn’t have fired him if we
didn’t think it needed to happen,”
Dallas Police Chief Billy Prince said
Wednesday. He has criticized city of
ficials for reinstating officers he has
fired.
Visiting Judge Snowden Leftwich
told lawyers for the city last week
that officer Jack Ross, 44, must be
reinstated with back pay.
Leftwich ruled Ross did not vio
late the police department’s policy
on deadly force. The judge withheld
an official ruling pending an
agreement about the amount of back
pay due Ross, said Ross’ attorney,
Bob Gorsky.
“The judge told us he had re
viewed the evidence and that he had
ruled that there was no justification
for Sgt. Ross’ (dismissal),” Gorsky
said, adding he did not know
whether Ross would return to the
force.
Prince said the Ross decision was
another reversal of his efforts to
purge the department of officers
who use unnecessary force.
Police said Ross shot Juan Reyes,
20, in the back of the head Aug. 18,
1984, after spotting Reyes and two
others beating Billy Jack Murphy.
The assailants fled as Ross ar
rived. Reyes jumped over a chain-
link fence, despite Ross’ commands
to stop. Ross fired his gun, killing
Reyes instantly.
The shooting was the 18th by Dal
las police that year.
Official says
differences
cause friction
MEXICO CITY (AP) — As
strongly as they are bonded as
neighoors sharing a border nearly
2,000 miles long, Mexico and the
United States are separated by a
chasm of differences in culture, his
tory, wealth and power.
“At no other border does so much
power face so little power,” Lorenzo
Meyer, academic dean at the Colegio
de Mexico, a graduate school and re
search institution, said in an inter
view.
The differences often result in se
rious misunderstandings and fric
tion between the two countries.
Mexicans, however, are rooted in
Indian cultures, Roman Catholicism
and 300 years of Spanish domina
tion. Their history is in stark con
trast to Americans’ Protestant roots
and their emphasis on the individ
ual.
While calling history and culture
the chief sources of friction between
Mexico and the United States, the
author and intellectual Octavio Paz
says that “no less a determinant has
been and is the immense economic,
technical, political and military in
equality.”
“This inequality has been the ori
gin of many abuses and injustices,
mistakes and resentments,” Paz
wrote.
What’s up
Monday
AGGNOG PERSONAL COMPUTER CLUB: will hold a
g ublic domain software copy party at 5:30 p.m. in Sterling
. Evans Library Learning Resources Department. For
more information, contact Eric at 845-4049.
COTTON BOWL MIDNIGHT YELL PRACTICE: will be
held at midnight Jan. 1 in the park across the street from
The Union Station on Houston Street in downtown Dallas,
Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battalion,
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fore desired publication date.
Expedition team
studies artic circle
for buried meteor;
By Jeff Pollard
Staff Writer
For most people, coming back
from a trip with bloody ears, de
hydration, a twisted knee and frost
bite would be enough to discourage
anyone from taking another trip any
time soon. For Austin Mardon, a
doctoral candidate in education, the
experience was enough to make him
want to do it again as soon as possi
ble.
“It’s just a job like any other job,”
Mardon said, “but 1 think I underes
timated what I was going into.”
The expedition team Mardon
joined, which was searching for me
teorites buried in the ice, constantly
had to endure minus-30-degree
weather while riding across uncer
tain ground.
“We often had to jump our ski-
doos (snowmobile) over crevices that
would just suddenly appear in front
of us,” Mardon said. “One time the
ice collapsed out from under me,
leaving a 1,000-foot crevice below. I
had to pull myself to my ride and get
away quickly.”
Mardon, who is a native Ca
nadian, already is planning to be
part of a joint Texan-Canadian ex
pedition to Ellesmere Island in the
Arctic Circle.
He said the group will conduct an
original scouting for meteorites in
the northern part of the island.
Though it won’t be as cold as his pre
vious expedition, there will be some
changes that will make it interesting,
he said.
“I’ve seen to it that some changes
were made in the equipment used on
the trip so that some of the problems
that happened before don’t happen
again,” Mardon said. “We also will
be traveling by foot this time, which
makes up for most of the differen
ces.”
The eight-person team also will
have to deal with polar bears wan
dering through the area, he said, so
the supplies will include weapons —
both problems the earlier group
didn’t have to deal with.
To pay for the trip, the group is
testing new equipment such as par
kas, stoves and rations in exchange
for funds, Mardon said. The rest of
the funds will be gathered from pri
vate sources, he said.
“We’ve applied for funds from
the Explorers Club and other
groups,” Mardon explained. “This
will be one of the few American re
search expeditions that won't i
the government a dime.”
As a part of his next expedin
Mardon is conducting two conn
among Texas students. Thefinti
science competition that will id
one junior high, one high schooli
one junior college experimentto
“One time the ice a
lapsed out from undi
me, leaving a 1,000-k
crevice below. I had I
pull myself to my ride an
get away quickly."
— Austin Mardu
expedition team med
carried on the trip. For the seat
contest, one flag will be selttt
from each grade level (1-12) i
they will be carried by the teams
then returned to the schools.
Mardon carried flags made
Bryan-College Station area studn
on his last adventure, along will
Texas flag and a Texas A&Mflaj
The Texas flag was presented
Gov. Bill Clements last weekinaa
emony in Austin. The flagprolal
will be returned to A&M to bed
played permanently.
“Although meeting withCletM
was exciting," Mardon said,“th(S
dents’ flags meant more to mel
cause they were people that 1 dt
with on a one-to-one basis."
Using the information gatbei
on his first trip, Mardon put
gether a slide presentation expb
ing what the expedition meffib
did and the conditions they bad
endure. He then took his prestt
tion to local schools. Mardon bait
other slide presentation schedt
for explanation of the team'sefft
to the physics honor society»
spring.
“We had to function in cond®
comparable to those in parts of
Soviet Union,” Mardon said.“Id'
think that we (Americans) are)
pared to handle that kind of s'
tion. Although we would be abk
function somewhat, there areal®
problems (equipment breakage"
ply drops, etc.) that still need®
corrected.”
Settlement from manufacturers
could provide $5 million for DISD
DALLAS (AP) — A multimillion-
dollar settlement from two manufac
turers of building materials con
taining asbestos could provide as
much as $5 million for the Dallas In
dependent School District, accord
ing to a district lawyer.
School board members voted to
accept the offer from U.S. Gypsum
and W.R. Grace, which supplied as
bestos-laden insulating and acousti
cal material to the district and 82
other Texas school systems.
Medical officials have linked as
bestos to cancer. The districts are
seeking to recover the cost of remov
ing it.
DISD lawyer Ben Niedecken said
Wednesday that other school boards
are expected to vote on the offer this
month.
The offer’s total amount was kept
secret by order of a federal district
court in Beaumont, where the law
suit was filed.
Niedecken said school districts
were dividing the settlement off
according to the districts’costs of 1
moving the asbestos products.
DISD officials have spent $5®
lion on contracts to remove asbtf'
and $2 million in related costs,»
John Russell, the district’s dW
of facility care.
The lawsuit by the 83 school®
tricts is among the first in the naK
in which damages are being p*
said Kelly McClure, an attor®
working with DISD on the case
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