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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.
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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.
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