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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. This is a informative Christian political organization designed
to influence the Texas government by prayer and constituent input. For more in
formation call Lee Taylor at 693-6642.
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Judge throws out
confession given
by murder suspect
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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.
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