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Friday, July 15,1988/The Battalion/Page 5 sight S official r s training improve i me mot) By Lyn Jenkins Reporter i is no such thing J r bad memory, onl or untrained memorj' Marx Howell of Department of Ft )ld members of the A| Extension Service. ■11 spoke on memon ent at the Slate Extent nee Thursday in theil tudent Center, le remember throiij >n and association, ni on being the strong Howell said, n you want to learn# tion, you associate it v ng you already hot ;aid. xample Howell used! hod was simplifying! of Japan’s Mount Fi f eet) by breaking it dot relating it to 12 mon; days in a year, the memory has beet; with a familiar expe: t must he reheant repetition, Howell* II said intensity, dura: |uency affect how peoi er events, istrating the intensb t, he asked the audit;- ■mber where they »t it they were doingw Kennedy was assai rets of the audiencesio vere able to recall in gn he events surround: it day. II said he only wanted > ideas, not impose the;: have got to exercisevt if you are going to ell said. ggested practicing ini with a friend to buik of remembering name >uch strategy is to lid >, make a mental puck reat the name, Ho«| ation aguan Trade Control™ :mt that the vehiclesam rian aid. >■ members say the nni les are a form of huna rr the Arabs, nvoy is sending some i by ship. 10 tons was loaded on vhen the group arrive: st Friday for its secoi: Tossing the border, filed a lawsuit in Lai le government last# empt to have its ;al, but U.S. District): Kazen has not issnt Je homes sidents >t-long gator wras fotiit L clogged swimming pot ' med Houston home, ot-long alligator was 5 is week from a bayoufs gh a residential area, r property owner reef a 7-foot-long alligator: 1 up residence in hist animals are captured,’ d over to the Texas Def Parks and Wildlife for ess populated areas,A d. ong has been witli r 5'/ 2 years and says In ten any alligator calls- j CouTse v 29,30 1 Hilton igister phone a day. What’s Up Friday TAMU SAILING CLUB:Will have a sailing outing all weekend at Lake Sommer- ville. For more information call Kevin Borden at 764-0688. TEXAS A&M RUGBY CLUBnWill meet Saturday at 9 a.m. at the Rugby and Polo Fields for the 12th Annual Summer Sevens Rugby Tournament. For more information call the Day Street Rugby House at 846-9772. DEPT. OF HUMAN NUTRITION:Will have a free cholestrol screening from 7 a.m.-4 p.m. in 145 MSG. For more information call Suzy Clay at 845-0955. Sunday TAMU INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCERS:Will teach beginning and interme diate dances from around the world. Singles and couples welcome. For more in formation call Ellen at 822-2415. Monday AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL:Will meet at 7 p.m. in 308 Rudder to watch a film on torture in Guatemala. For more information call Jill at 690-0909 or Steve at 268-3223. TEXAS GRASS ROOTS COALITIONiWill hold its next meeting at 7 p.m. at 909 Foster Ave. East. 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Judge throws out confession given by murder suspect Northgate Weekend Special 501 University Dr. 846-3278 Friday Saturday Sunday Supreme Pizza & Pitcher of £ 099 Soft Drink » V Supreme Pizza & Pitcher of „ ^ Beer $ 1 Q" No Coupon necessary 'Hut Pitcher of Beer only J2 75 personal pans No Coupon necessary 99< 'Hut fer Night Any food item on the Menu 2 for 1! 4 pm - midnight No Coupon necessary HHutl HOUSTON (AP) — Prosecutors plan to proceed with the case against a woman accused in the 1985 beat ing deaths of two men even though a judge has thrown out a confession she gave after being intensely inter rogated for hours without an attor ney. State District Judge Donald K. Shipley dismissed the confession given by Kelly Jo Koch, 21, on Wednesday following a two-day hearing on the case. “Pm not sure a cow booster (cattle prod) wouldn’t have been better,” Shipley said, referring to the inter rogation methods used on Koch. Koch’s intense, videotaped inter rogation in connection with the 1985 beating deaths of two men was the subject of a “60 Minutes” broadcast on CBS television last fall. Assistant District Attorney John Petruzzi said he will go ahead with prosecuting Koch, but he added she may need to be re-indicted on mur der charges. Without the statement, in which she said the pair were killed with baseball bats, prosecutors now must alter the document to say the victims died due to blows from an “un known blunt object.” The case dates to March 29, 1985, when the beaten bodies of Wendell Ray Birdsong and Gregory Elswick were found. Koch, then 18, was arrested by Harris County sheriffs deputies and accused of capital murder. Authori ties allegeded she got two youths to kill the pair, but charges against the two youths were dropped because of insufficient evidence. Petruzzi said Koch was mad at Birdsong, her boyfriend since she left home at age 14, for beating her and for taking her mother to see Koch dance topless. Her attorney, Mike DeGeurin, told Shipley his client asked for a lawyer soon after her arrest but that almost a week passed before one was formally appointed. The interrogation came just after she was taken to polygraph exam iner Morris Covin for a test. The tape played Tuesday for Shipley shows Covin and sheriffs Lt. Alfred Diaz alternately being kind to her and then menacing her with the prospect of going to death row. Present during the showing in Shipley’s court was psychiatrist Rich ard B. Pesikoff. Viewing her hysteria during questioning, rocking back and forth in her seat and crying, he said it was an example of a teen-ager literally being driven into a psychotic state. Koch had recounted a “dream” in which she saw Birdsong wearing a plaid shirt and lying with his arm on a coffee table. Diaz told the woman that was exactly how the body was found, but pictures of the murder scene showed Birdsong was not wearing a plaid shirt and had his arms folded on his chest. DeGeurin pleaded with Shipley to rule the statement — given not long after the interrogation — inadmissi ble. Border crackdown catches tax-dodgers EL PASO (AP) — Liquor-tax _ dodgers who drive across the Rio Grande and past the Texas Alco holic Beverage Commission booths can find they’ve uncorked a big bot tle of trouble. People trying to avoid paying taxes on Mexican-bought beer, wine and liquor can be fined up to $1,000 or jailed up to a year. They can have their car confiscated. It’s all for trying to avoid a tax that amounts to 94 cents for a case of beer, 61 cents for a fifth of wine or a six-pack of beer and $1.10 for a quart of liquor. Computer eats keynote speech for convention AUSTIN (AP) — A draft version of state Treasurer Ann Richards’ keynote speech to the Democratic National Convention was lost in a computer glitch. “I don’t trust machines and never have,” Richards said. The speech, which was about 95 percent complete, disappeared Tuesday while being revised by a speech writer for the Democratic National Committee. Working from earlier drafts and Richards’ notes, speech writer John Sherman of Vir ginia reconstructed the half-hour address, and late Wednesday the speech was electronically trans mitted to the Austin Democrat. Richards began practicing her speech Thursday in preparation for the Monday night address. Those taxes added up to about $600,000 collected last year at the three bridges in El Paso carrying tra ffic from Mexico, said Ruben Pena, assistant director of the commis sion’s ports of entry in Laredo. Pena was in El Paso earlier this week to help start up an aggressive enforcement program designed to catch liquor tax scofflaws. He said better enforcement might bring in up to $60,000 more in taxes each year. “We are going to perform spo radic 24-hour watches to catch these evaders,” Pena said while visiting El Paso to help implement the enforce ment program that began Tuesday. “We are warning them not to run by our tax booths because we’ll catch them.” Between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Tues day, 75 people declared liquor to U.S. Customs after crossing the Cor dova Bridge east of downtown El Paso. Nine tried to drive past the TABC booths about 100 yards past the Customs booths, but they were nabbed, Pena said. Customs inspectors helped com mission inspectors detect which cars were carrying liquor by using hand signals, Pena said. Of the nine vehicles stopped, seven were from Texas and two were from out of state. State resi dents are issued a citation to appear before a justice of the peace and face fines ot $100 to $1,000 or up to a year in jail. Out-of-state residents were ar rested, taken to the county jail and released on $500 bail, Pena said. ctually, a clinic-based HMO could be the best choice for you and your family. X % For those who spend a majority of their monthly income on medical bills, such programs can provide substantial savings. The same may be true for *JL> Pfr those already obtaining their medical care from the sponsoring clinic. But others have found the restrictions imposed by HMO participation too limiting. For example, you’ll have to switch from your current doctor to one employed by the HMO. You’ll lose your present PCS card. You’ll forfeit your present dental coverage. You may occasionally be required to leave the city for certain specialized tests and procedures - even when those services are available locally. 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