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Ik gle winner in hi* orida woman >5.16 million in Set Wednesday, December 1988 College Station, Texas USPS 045360 12 Pages udge: Railey liable for strangling DALLAS (AP) — From the begin- Ining, they were an odd couple, she a twice-divorced bouffant blond psy chologist and he a married minister and rising star in the mainstream I United Methodist Church. Friends described her as flashy land flighty. He wgs short, balding, intense and driven, and for awhile, | their liaison was unknow n. In a hushed courtroom this week, Ian angry young lawyer struggled to convince a judge that Walker Rai- I ley’s obsession with Lucy Papillon drove him to a bizarre murder [scheme that ran tragically amok. The lawyer succeeded. In a case that once drew national [television attention, a state judge has [ruled that Railey, 41, tried to choke [his wife to death and is liable to her relatives for some $16 million in ac tual and punitive damages. The twisted drama was muddled by the fact that Railey did not contest the civil allegations, spurned Mon day’s court proceedings and quite possibly may never pay a dime of the judicially ordered damages. Stranger still, he does not face criminal charges but has fled Texas and is believed to be living in San Francisco. And in one final bit of bewil dering irony, police and prosecutors can prove that Railey devised a clever but phony alibi the night of his wife’s attack but have no evi dence linking him to the crime itself. Peggy Railey survived but gro tesquely so. She was unable to iden tify her assailant and remains in what doctors call a persistent vegeta tive state from which she is not ex pected to recover. Expressing his frustration over the Railey affair, criminal prosecu tor Norm Kinne once declared, “This guy’s a liar. He’s trying to cover his tracks. He wasn’t where he was at the time he says he was. Now the question is, if he wasn’t there, where was he? “The conclusion that everybody’s drawn is that he was home choking out his wife. “But that doesn’t necessarily fol low. There’s no proof he was at the scene at the time she was strangled. There’s no evidence that he stran gled her or that he knew who stran gled her or that he arranged or par ticipated in any way.” The symbolic issue was the extent of Railey’s financial liability, but the more compelling issue was Lucy Pa- pillon’s love affair with the ex-min ister of the 6,000-member First United Methodist Church and what role that romance might have played in the attack on Mrs. Railey. Papillon, 46, unsmiling but self composed, insisted there was no con nection between the two, but plain tiff attorney Bill Arnold, his anger poorly concealed, endeavored to show otherwise. Here are excerpts from their brittle exchange, including Arnold’s liberal reference to the contents of a sworn deposition taken from Papil lon last May but never before re vealed. “Is it fair to say that from June of 1986 until the attack on Peggy Railey April 21 of 1987 that you met with Walker Railey at your home on an average of three times a week?” “Yes.” “Did you have intimate relations regularly on these thrice weekly meetings?” “Yes.” “Did you and Mr. Railey some times drink champagne in the af ternoons when he was at your home?” “Occasionally.” “Did you have intimate relations with Walker Railey one week before the attack on Peggy Railey?” “Yes.” Pressing that issue later, Arnold said .“Approximately, four days be fore the attack on Peggy Railey you are with him for three or four nights at the Doubletree Inn here in Dallas while he has sent Peggy and the chil dren to be with her parents. Is that accurate?” She muttered a qualified yes. Arnold recalled asking Papillon about her intensifying relationship with Railey and wondering if she ever considered “in the back of your mind that there might be some con nection” with the attack on Mrs. Rai ley. “Your answer was, ‘No, not once.’ Is that still your answer?” “Yes, it is.” Arnold read again from Papillon’s sworn statement,“Railey and his wife did not have an intimate relationship and Railey did not long for such a relationship before he had me be cause he did not know what he did not have. “I never gave Railey an ultimatum about divorce. Mrs. Railey was not aware of her husband’s affair with His voice heavy with sarcasm, Ar nold asked the witness, “Did I read that accurately into the record, Ms. Papillon?” “Yes,” she murmured. Just fir you Richard Shaw, a junior forest management major from Huntsville, re moves the plastic netting from a-Virginia pine to prepare it for sale in Photo by Kathy Haveman front of the Commons Tuesday. A&M’s Forestry Club is scheduled to sell Christmas trees through today. Pan Am regents vote for merger with UT EDINBURG (AP) — Pan American University’s Board of Regents voted Tuesday to support a merger with the University of Texas System. The next move in the process of joining the two institutions is up to UT, whose regents will meet in Aus tin Thursday and consider whether to take in Pan American, based in the Lower Rio Grande Valley city of Edinburg. Merging Pan American with UT ultimately is a decision for the state Legislature, which meets in January. Two state legislators from the Val ley have pre-filed a merger bill, but other merger bills are expected. “Now the task ahead of us is to forge a common bill among all our Valley (state legislative) delegation so that they all can work together to ward one common bill,” President Miguel Nevarez of Pan American said. Nevarez said he believes UT’s re gents will vote for the merger on Thursday. UT Chancellor Hans Mark and other officials from the Austin-based university have come out in support of a merger. If the Legislature were to approve a merger, Pan American, with campuses in Edinburg and Brownsville, would be the 15th school in the UT System. The Edinburg campus, with 11,228 students enrolled this semes ter, is the state’s southernmost four- year institution. Pan American Uni versity at Brownsville, an upper- level school, had 1,528 students en rolled for the fall semester. Regents of UT and Pan American last month agreed to develop a com prehensive merger pact. Included in the resolution passed by Pan Ameri can on Tuesday was a statement of intent to develop a total of 30 aca demic programs in allied health, en gineering, business, education and arts and sciences, including two doc toral programs. Pan American officials said join ing UT would bring additional edu cational programs and political clout to South Texas. The pro-merger vote passed Tuesday by an 8-1 vote, with regent Homer Scott of McAllen abstaining. Scott said he supported a merger, but wanted a more specific resolu tion outlining the needs of Pan American. If approved, the merger would probably take affect after the begin ning of the new fiscal year, begin ning Sept. 1, meaning that degrees issued after that time from the Val ley would be UT degrees, said Mel Hazlewood, a UT attorney who at tended the Pan American meeting. Joining the two institutions also would abolish Pan American’s board of regents. Pan American’s regents Tuesday also supported making the Brownsville campus a free-standing instutution. The Legislature last year ordered UT and the Texas A&M University System to look at the higher educa tion needs of predominately His panic South Texas. Since then, UT has courted Pan American and pro posed $10 million in collaborative programs with the Edinburg school. 7 ir n n a n n t. ie ;r- r ti 1 ve rs. Bush picks Texan for commerce post Finals schedule The following is the final exam schedule for this semester. The last day of classes is Wednesday, Dec. 7. Thursday, Dec. 8, is a reading day. Finals begin Friday, Dec. 9. Friday, Dec. 9 Friday, Dec. 9 Friday, Dec. 9 Friday, Dec. 9 7:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m. 10 a.m.-12 noon 12:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m. 3 p.m.-5 p.m. MWF 4 and after MWF 8 TR 12:30-1:45 TR 11-12:15 Monday, Dec. 12 Monday, Dec. 12 Monday, Dec. 12 Monday, Dec. 12 8 a.m.-10 a.m. 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 1 p.m.-3 p.m. 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. MWF 9 MWF 12 TR 8-9:15 MWF 3 Tuesday, Dec. 13 Tuesday, Dec. 13 Tuesday, Dec. 13 Tuesday, Dec. 13 8 a.m.-10 a.m. 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 1 p.m.-3 p.m. 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. MWF 10 MWF 2 TR 3:30-4:45 MWF 1 Wednesday, Dec. 14 Wednesday, Dec. 14 Wednesday, Dec. 14 Wednesday, Dec. 14 8 a.m.-10 a.m. 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 1 p.m.-3 p.m. 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. TR 9:30-10:45 MWF 11 TR 2-3:15 TR 5 and after Gorbachev arrives in New York City WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi dent-elect George Bush, once more calling on friends and government veterans to fill key positions, on Tuesday selected Texas oilman Rob ert Mosbacher to be commerce sec retary, named Washington lawyer Carla Hills as trade representative and said he would keep William Webster as CIA director. Bush also named Thomas Picker ing, a career diplomat who is cur rently U.S. ambassador to Israel, as U.N. ambassador, but said he had decided that the post would no longer carry Cabinet-level status. The vice president, announcing his latest choices at a news confer ence in the Old Executive Office Building, said he was completing his economic team with the naming of Stanford economist Michael Boskin as chairman of the Council of Eco nomic Advisers. Bush also told reporters he had decided to “take the offensive” on coming up with a budget strategy that attacks the federal deficit with out new taxes. “It is my responsibility to do that,” he said. “What that means in terms of form, I am not quite sure yet.” On the subject of Wednesday’s meeting in New York with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Bush continued to stress that he was going to the meeting “as vice president” but indicated that he planned to en gage in a careful review of U.S.-So viet relations once he takes office on Jan. 20. “I’m confident they (the Soviets) know our system well enough to know that it is only prudent to re view national security policy, and to review our relationship with them,” he said. “Stay tuned, we’re only about halfway through this act,” Bush said as he headed off stage. The five an nouncements were the first in a week and no more are expected un til after Bush’s meeting with Gorba chev. Hills, 54, who was secretary of housing and urban development in 1975-77 under President Ford, is the first woman Bush has designated for a high-level position in his adminis tration. Although the trade post was not originally a Cabinet-level job, Rea gan elevated it to such. Hills told re porters that Bush had agreed to re tain the post as a Cabinet position in his administration. Mosbacher, 61, is an old friend from Bush’s oil days in Houston in the 1960s. Bush said Mosbacher would bring “tremendous energies to promoting exports abroad” to the post. Currently the chairman of the Mosbacher Energy Co. of Houston, Mosbacher was finance chairman of Bush’s presidential campaign. “Robert Mosbacher will be an out standing U.S. secretary of com merce,” Texas Gov. Bill Clements said Tuesday. “President-elect Bush has selected an individual with a distinguished business career. A man who has long been considered a leader in the en ergy industry. A Texan who cares deeply about his country and his fel low man. “Robert Mosbacher brings to the Commerce Department a ‘Texas can-do’ attitude, a keen sense and understanding of the U.S. and world economies, and a life-long commit ment to public involvement and to enlightened public policy.” Sources said Bush had decided to delay his announcement of a de fense secretary, widely expected to be former Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Tower of Texas, until later in the week. Bush declined to add to specu lation about that post, but voiced “a great high regard for Sen. Tower” when asked by a reporter about re cent news reports concerning the Texan’s personal life. “If you’re talking about negative reports, I’m disinclined to believe anything of that nature,” Bush said. Meanwhile, New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu, chosen to be Bush’s chief of staff, said in a news confer ence in Concord, N.H., that the De fense Department’s top echelon would be named in a batch of as many as five appointments. “If it hits five, it would be unusual, but that’s not an outlandish number to think about,” Sununu said. Bush said his decision to keep Webster on as CIA chief was “open ended.” “I know this agency well,” Bush said. “He is the best man to lead the intelligence community.” Bush said that, in his administra tion, covert activities “from time to time” would be essential. However, he said U.S. law requiring notifica tion of appropriate congressional committees of such actions “should be meticulously followed.” He said neither the CIA director nor the U.N. ambassador, a position he also has held, would have Cabinet rank in his administration. “There is no point in the U.N. am bassador sitting around — as I did for awhile — talking about agricul ture policy,” Bush said. Pickering, the only one of the five new appointments who did not ap pear with Bush at Tuesday’s brief ing, is one of the State Department’s highest ranked diplomats and has served in several foreign posts, in cluding Israel and El Salvador. Senate conservatives led by Jesse Helms of North Carolina fought Pickering’s 1983 assignment as am bassador to El Salvador in part be cause of his previous ties to Carter administration policies. Bush announced the two top trade jobs — commerce and trade representative — in the midst of del icate trade negotiations in Montreal under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). NEW YORK (AP) — Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev arrived Tues day in New York, where he is ex pected to offer a “Christmas gift to the American people and to man kind” in wide-ranging proposals on arms control and other issues. Gorbachev is expected to put a moderate face on Soviet foreign pol icy and show himself eager to achieve progress with the new U.S. administration. The plane carrying Gorbachev, his wife Raisa and three top Soviet foreign policy advisers touched down at John F. Kennedy Interna tional Airport shortly before 3 p.m. A United Nations’ delegation, headed by Chief of Protocol Aly I. Teymour, was on hand to greet Gor bachev in a low-key airport recep tion. Gorbachev was accompanied by Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze and Politburo mem ber Alexander N. Yakovlev, and by Deputy Premier Vladimir Kament- sev. It was the fist visit by a Soviet leader to New York since Nikita Krushchev’s 1960 trip. Gorbachev, dressed in gray over coat and hat, exited the Aeroflot plane with his wife after the 10-hour flight and walked down to the tar mac, where they were welcomed by Teymour and U.S. Chief of Protocol Selwa Roosevelt. Addressing the crowd, Gorbachev said: “We are living in a world that is going, through some very crucial changes and we all, all nations, have their own concerns and interests. We shall be sharing our concerns and in terests in thinking over the current situation.” “I believe that we can safely say even now that the conversations and the meeting itself will doubtless pro mote greater dynamism in the dia logue and relations between our two countries,” Gorbachev added. The Soviet leader said he ex pected to meet with American busi ness leaders and officials of other countries and that he hoped these will be “useful and fruitful days. We are certainly prepared to make our contribution toward that end.” Buses merge shuttle routes during finals Shuttle buses will run com bined routes Thursday because there are no classes and little traf fic to and from campus is ex pected. Dell Hamilton, Bus Operations dispatcher, said the off-campus buses will run their regular nightly combined routes. The combined routes will be: Marion Pugh, Parkway and Anderson will be combined on the Anderson bus. Welsh and EM 2818 routes will be on the FM 2818 bus. Munson, Dartmouth and Scar lett O’Hara routes will be on the Scarlett O’Hara bus. Lincoln and 29th Street routes will become Lincoln. Villa Maria and Pinfeather will become Villa Maria. Inner-campus routes will re main the same, but only one bus will run each route. Hamilton said the routes will return to normal Friday and will run their normal routes until 6:30 p.m. Dec. 14. NT