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Thursday, December 1,1988 The Battalion Paae 5 Police Beat /eekly get-together ai | 402 Rudder. II meet at 8:30 p,m,in I . in 114 Blocker. 1 at 9 p.m. at Brazos I i pre-finals party al' ral dance at 8 p.m.® | rear applications! s Library andtheslo-1 216 Reed McDomi date. Weonlypubbi o dose. kVdat’st/pis . Submissions an w I in entry will run. If you finale n their past. Wolit •nee through ami- he myths and mad- ;:k/Negro/colored stored.” ms Friday through older Forum. Short m. Friday and Sai nt. Sunday. Tickets ents and seniorciti- iO for the general e available at the nent ’t fly • system violates I ilion because it fait tch school district iJ ty to obtain money c ns. , called Edgewoodss cl in 1984by67seky low property value are funded latge'j ombination of hi, . and state aid, The following incidents were reported to the University Police Department from Nov. 18 through Sunday: BURGLARY: • A student reported that someone stole her cassette deck from a room in the Biological Sci ences Building. • A student reported that someone stole the stereo system from his car. • An officer caught two Tarl- ton Station residents with a stolen microwave oven and a stolen bicy cle on Church Street in College Station. The microwave had been sto len from a residence on Second Street and the bicycle had been stolen from Hart Hall. ATTEMPTED ROBBERY: • A Dallas man reported that while he was attending a high school football game at Kyle Field, a male tried to steal a gold chain from around his neck. The man said the would-be robber ran away after he fought him off. MISDEMF’ANOR THEFT: • A student reported that someone stole his 250-cc motor cycle while it was parked on Coke Street. • One moped, two backpacks, two bicycles and a front bicycle tire were stolen from various lo cations around campus. • A student reported that someone stole the license plate from his vehicle. • A student reported that someone stole two gold rings that she left in a restroom in the Bi ological Sciences Building East. • A woman reported that someone stole the contents of her purse, including her wallet, at a nurse’s station in A.P. Beutel Health Center. • Someone stole a digital bal ance from the Veterinary Diag nostic Laboratory. • Someone stole the Wail Journnl newsstand near Sbisa Dining Hall. • A student reported that someone stole his duffel bag from in front of the president’s house on Throckmorton Street. • A student reported that someone stole his 2-foot, 10-inch Burmese python from his room in Hart Hall. PUBLIC INTOXICATION: • One Texas A&M student and three non-students were ar rested for public intoxication at various locations around campus last week. MINOR IN POSSESSION: • An under-age College Sta tion resident was caught with beer on campus. CRIMINAL MISCHIEF: • While responding to a re port of someone driving on the grass in the Research Park, an of ficer found a student who said he was unfamiliar with the area and had gotten his vehicle stuck in the ditch next to FM 2818 while try ing to leave the park. • An Aston Hall resident re ported that someone broke his dorm window. • An officer caught two teen agers damaging vehicles on cam pus. The teenagers’ parents were notified. • Someone reported that the tires were slashed on a car at Rud der Fountain that was to be used as an object of aggression and be beaten to smithereens in the Cir cle K International fraternity “Car Bash”. INDECENCY WITH A CHILD: • A woman reported that her son was confronted by two men in the Married Student Housing Playground. The woman said one of the men bared his buttocks and anal cavity to her son. Lions Club takes aid to Guatemala despite day delay BASEBALL CARD SHOW BUY—SELL—TRADE Saturday, Dec. 3,1988 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Admission Holiday Inn ^ 4 00 1503 S. Texas Ave. College Station, Tx REYNOSA, Mexico (AP) — A Li ons Clubs convoy carrying 14,000 pairs of eyeglasses and other hu manitarian aid to Guatemala left the Texas-Mexico border Wednesday after a delay that began when the group said it refused to pay Mexican officials $6,000 to pass through the country. The 38 club members continued their southward journey Wednesday afternoon, ending an unscheduled 24-hour stop. Their trip resumed af ter they negotiated to pay $800 for a Mexican customs inspector to ac company their 12 vehicles to the Guatemalan border. Their convoy of six ambulances, two fire trucks, a school bus, a car a van and a pickup truck to be left in the impoverished Central American nation originated in Indianapolis, Ind., on Saturday. The convoy in cludes club members from Indiana, California, Sweden and Texas. They crossed the Rio Grande at Hidalgo into Reynosa on Tuesday morning, but spent the day in a cus toms lot after they said officials told them it would take three custodians at $2,000 each to travel with their caravan. The group turned back and spent Tuesday night in a motel in McAllen before returning Wednes day to Reynosa. This marks the fourth year the Li ons have traveled with humanitarian cargo for Guatemala, James Cam eron, 56, of Urbana, Ind said. “We’ve had a problem every year here at this border,” Cameron said. Last year, he said the Lions only paid $30 per vehicle to cross Mexico. “It’s real discouraging, because we’re all volunteers, and we’re just trying to help people down in Guate mala, and we re trying to improve international relations instead of running them down,” Cameron said. Customs officials with the Mexi can government said Wednesday that there had been a misunder standing Tuesday between the Lions group and customs employees at the international bridge. “Some of the customs agents must have been misinformed if they quoted that price ($6,000),” Jorge Martinez Galvan, assistant Mexican customs chief at Reynosa, said. “This fee ($800) for the customs inspector is to ensure that none of the cargo stays in Mexico,” Martinez said. Jim Ross, 62, a Lions member from Indianapolis, Ind., said getting through Mexican customs has been the greatest obstacle in the three previous years the group has taken glasses to Guatemala. “Once we get through this part of it and get into Guatemala, people are so grateful for what we’re bring ing down,” Ross said, adding that people in the interior of Mexico alsp have been helpful in past years. In addition to the used glasses, the group also is hauling 15,000 articles of clothing, 76 pairs of crutches, 26 walkers, six wheelchairs, 11 portable toilets, 19 pairs of wrist-support crutches and 200 hand-made stuffed animals for orphans. The used glasses gathered from donations around the United States are marked for the prescriptions they match. Most Guatemalans can not afford the $ 100 a pair would cost in the Central American nation, Cameron said. /t et.il l atrli^N Florist 707 Texas Ave. Next to Taco Cabana 696-671 3 0 o# We accept credit card orders by phone Complete Florist... Specializing in weddings and flowers for all occasions. 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Harris acknowledged his finger as on the trigger when Wood was tot, but stopped short of saying he iled the officer. But based on Harris’ testimony, tate District Court Judge Larry araka said he would determine that arris had admitted to the killing. Baraka did not rule on Adams’ re quest. i Adams was convicted of killing Wood and sentenced to death, but the sentence later was commuted to life in prison. He has maintained his ment, returned I* Inocence and his conviction was e company threat® uestioned in the Errol Morris movie necked vehicles ft' the Thin Blue Line.’, hat declined to W ts of up to $1,51' that these paymec / shop owners were 'e other companies 1 ■ business. las insisted that Of idistricts” would betli idge Clark’s ruling her courts. dieted heme company with unf* Harris testified he was biased in favor of the prosecution when he first implicated Adams. Harris said prosecutor Doug Mulder had prom ised “to take care of’ other criminal charges pending against him in re turn for his testimony. “Did Randall Adams kill Robert Wood?” attorney Randy Schaffer asked Harris, who was wearing an orange jail uniform, handcuffs and shackles. “No, he did not,” Harris replied. “Randall Adams knew nothing about this offense and was not in the car at the time (Wood was shot).” Harris had initially said he and Adams were both in the car when it was stopped by Wood and Officer Teresa Turko. Harris said he crouched down in the car as Adams shot Wood. But Wednesday Harris changed his story and said he was alone. In court testimony and in a taped television interview presented as evi dence at the hearing, Harris stopped short of saying he killed Wood. “You can draw your own conclu sions,” Harris said in an interview for Fox Television. “I’m not going to sit here and tell you that I did it . . . Why should I?” The interviewer asked Harris if his finger was on the trigger. “Yes, it was,” Harris said. Under questioning from prosecu tors, Harris said again that he is not admitting he killed Wood. But Baraka said, “As far as the court is concerned, he is telling me that he did.” Eight men indicted for mail fraud SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Eight men have been indicted on mail fraud and money laundering charges after consumers complained they were promised fishing boats, but got rubber rafts instead. The 34-count indictment re turned Tuesday was the result of an investigation by U.S. Postal Service inspectors and includes 30 counts of mail fraud and four counts of money laundering. The indictment alleges that peo ple were contacted by mail and led to believe that they were chosen to re ceive a valuable prize, such as a fish ing boat or a wide-screen television. 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