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Order prohibits
abortion foes
from picketing
In Advance
WEST UNIVERSITY PLACE
(AP) — Abortion foes aren’t sure
what tack they’ll take since local offi
cials passed an ordinance that for
bids them from demonstrating out
side people’s home.
City council members unani
mously passed the ordinance —mak
ing it a misdemeanor offense to
picket a residence — after receiving
numerous citizen complaints about
protesters at a doctor’s home, Mayor
Pro Tern Beth Ann Bryan said.
Passage of the ordinance also was
made possible by a U.S. Supreme
Court ruling this summer that such
bans are constitutional.
Lawrence Tackett, attorney for
Life Advocates of Houston, an anti
abortion organization, said he is fa
miliar with the court’s ruling but has
not read the West University Place
ordinance, enacted Monday.
Life Advocates’ treasurer, Judy
Vatterott, said that on Feb. 21, about
85 members of three anti-abortion
groups picketed the residence of
obstetrician and gynecologist Ber
nard Rosenfeld in West University
Place, a community surrounded by
Houston.
Vatterott said abortion foes also
picket almost every weekend at the
Houston Women’s Clinic where
Rosenfeld practices.
Rosenfeld said about 40 abortions
a week are performed at the facility.
Rosenfeld said his home was pick
eted a second time a few weeks after
the first incident, but has not been
picketed recently. He did not ask
council members to enact the ordi
nance, he said.
Mayor Michael Parks, an attorney,
said people wishing to demonstrate
in residential areas of the city will
need a parade permit. Violation of
the city’s new picketing ordinance
carries a fine of up to $300.
Faculty to make plans for local TFA
Texas A&M faculty members
will meet to organize a campus
chapter of the Texas Faculty As
sociation Monday. The meeting
begins at 5 p.m. in the College
Station Hilton in Bluebonnet
Ballrooms 5 and 6.
They will meet for a happy
hour at 4 p.m.
Louis Bolieu, a Houston area
TFA representative who will as
sist in the formation of the A&M
TFA chapter, will be the guest
speaker.
TFA represents faculty con
cerns including curricula, gov
erning, program priorities and
budget decisions.
Although si’^’Hr the ^acuity
Senate, TFA will have powertha;
goes beyond making recommen
dations to administrators, said
Jim Biehn, senior lecturer in tht
College of Architecture and Envi
ronmental Design.
The organization, which ij
open to all faculty, professionalli
brarians, researchers and coiui-
selors in Texas higher education
has legal representatives and loh
byists in Austin, Biehn said.
helped reverse administrative de
cisions to dismiss faculty mem
hers and to deny them tenure,
Biehn said.
Coffeehouse talent performs tonight
MSC Town Hall will present its
second Coffeehouse program to
day at 8 p.m. in Rumours snack
bar.
The informal show will present
local and Texas A&M student tal
ent. Among those performing at
tonight’s Coffeehouse will be
acoustic guitar players, comedi
ans and Cajun storytellers.
The first Coffeehouse show,
held two weeks ago, was an over
whelming success, said Vanessa
Vance, director of sales for MSC
Town Hall.
“Rumours was packed,” she
said. “The crowd last timeconsis
ted of every conceivable type of
person.
The show is free to the public,
A&M plays host to German comedy
The Department of Modern
and Classical Languages will pre
sent the three-act German com
edy, “Ingeborg,” today at 8 p.m.
in Rudder Forum.
The play is about a married
woman, Ingeborg, who is in love
with two men: Peter Peter, an old
high school infatuation and her
husband, Dr. Ottokar.
For years, Ingeborg thought
she married the man who refused
to reveal her identity in a secret
rendezvous, but Herr Peter tells
her that he was the one who re
fused to reveal Ingeborgs’s iden
tity, not her husband.
Herr Peter verifies his claimb)
describing a birthmark that was
revealed on the night of the ren
dezvous.
Meanwhile, Dr. Ottokar de
vises a plan with Herr Peter to
test his wile’s fidelity.
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of four counts of fraud
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MIDLAND, (AP) — The govern
ment overstepped its bounds in
charging an Odessa developer with
racketeering, the defendant’s attor
ney said after his client was con
victed of bank fraud.
A U.S. District Cotirt jury con
victed Louis Rochester, 70, on four
counts, finding him innocent on 21
other counts ranging from racke
teering to fraud.
A seven-man, five-woman jury de
liberated for almost two days before
finding Rochester guilty Wednesday
of mail fraud, misapplication of
funds, making false entries and per
sonally benefiting from a loan trans
action without disclosing that benefit
to all the parties involved.
But Dallas attorney David Schick
said federal prosecutors were ob
viously overreaching with charges of
racketeering.
Rochester, scheduled to be sen
tenced Dec. 12 by U.S. District Judge
Lucius Bunton, faces a maximum
five years in prison and a $250,000
fine on each charge. Schick said he
will request a probated sentence.
Rochester continued to maintain
his innocence.
“It’s been difficult,” he told the
Odessa American. “I don’t feel that
I’m guilty at all with the charges
against me.”
All four counts leveled against Ro
chester involved a real estate venture
between Odessa Savings Association
and James Pruett Construction Inc.
of Arlington.
Prosecutors alleged that Roches
ter, while an advisory director for
Odessa Savings and Mid-Central Fi
nancial Group Inc., the thrift’s hold
ing company, solicited and pro
moted a $7.2 million loan and profit-
participation agreement between the
association and Pruett for the real
estate venture in Arlington known as
Stagecoach Estates. The loan later
was increased to $8 million.
On Aug. 13, 1984 — the same day
the loan was secured by Pruett —Ro
chester and Pruett entered into a
side agreement in which half of Pru
ett’s interest in the 110-acre Arling
ton development was conveyed to
Rochester.
Rochester, who testified in his
own defense Monday, said the side
agreement never was disclosed to
Odessa Savings directors.
Government attorney
Blankinship said the governmci
was satisfied with the verdict.
Prosecutors alleged Rochesterd
vised a plan in 1973—‘andoperald
it until the July 1988 indictment
milk millions iof dollars in cash a*
credit from Odessa Savings and
depositors through fraudulentlyol
tained real estate loans, dividend
commissions and loan-related fees
He was accused of concealingb
true stock ownership in Odessafe
ings by placing stock in nomitt
names.
Transmission lines
spark controversy
AUSTIN (AP) — Texans could
not halt construction of an electric
transmission line across their prop
erty by filing a lawsuit at the county
level, under a proposal made Thurs
day by a legislative committee.
The select committee on a
statewide energy plan agreed to rec
ommend that the Texas Public Util
ity Commission be the major arbiter
in deciding transmission line cases.
The panel’s recommendations
were adopted informally and will be
considered again before being for
warded to the Legislature, which
convenes in January.
Under current law, property own
ers can turn to their county courts to
fight a decision by the PUG that an
electric utility’s transmission
should be built.
The recommended changewoil
remove this option, although ts
dents still would be able tocont*
their fight in state district courts
through the appeals courts if n#
essary.
Committee members said 4
change in law is necessary to pre«
delays in construction of transit
sion lines once the PUC has d
mined a given line is necessary
has approved a route fork.
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utilit ies seek a route for a transit
sion line, committee member Call
Lee Jordan of Austin said.
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