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MONEY FOR World/Nation U.S. Marshals celebrate bicentennial anniversary FREE SCHOLARSHIP INFORMATION FOR STUDENTS Every Student is Eligible for Some Type of Financial Aid Regardless of Grades or Parental Income. ° We have a data bank of over 225,000 listings of scholarships, fellowships, grants, and loans, representing billions in private sector funding. ° Many scholarships are given to students based on their academic interests, career plans, family heritage and place of residence. 0 There’s money available for students who have been newspaper carriers, grocery clerks, cheerleaders, non-smokers...etc. ° Results GUARANTEED, CALL ANYTIME For A Free Brochure 1*800*888*9391 THE CRIPPLE CREEK LIFESTYLE •Swimming Pool •Convenient Laundry Center •Large Walk-in Closets •Hot Tub •Patios or Balconies •Tennis Courts • Leases Starting at $300°° CONDOMINIUMS 904 University Oaks College Station 764-8682 WASHINGTON (AP) — United States Marshals live in legend as the men who tamed the wild West, but their 200-year career is twined with more of the coun try’s history than just bringing bandits to justice. A marshal fired the gun that sent settlers scrambling for a homestead in the Oklahoma land run of 1889 at Guthrie; marshals ringed the Pentagon during the Vietnam war protests of the early 1970s and guarded the first black student at Old Miss during riots over de segregation in the ’60s. They smashed whiskey stills during Prohibition and arrested ganster A1 Capone twice; took the census until 1880; captured fugitive slaves before the Civil War and protected them during Reconstruction; and did the hanging for “Hanging Judge” Isaac Parker in Fort Smith, Ark., when Oklahoma was still Indian Territory and bank and train robbers hid in the brush. “At almost every point in history when the federal government was involved in a significant event, there Were marshals participating,” Marshals Service spokes man Stephen Boyle said. The country’s oldest law enforcement organization, the marshals begin celebrating their bicentennial Thursday, with the opening of an exhibit at the Su preme Court followed by a star-studded, black-tie gala at a nearby hotel. “This is our heritage, the preservation of history,” Clint Peoples of Waco said. Peoples is executive marshal for the bicentennial, and served as marshal for 15 years in North Texas and as chief of the Texas Rangers. “As a result, I hope there is more respect for law enforcement in all fields.” Sponsored by the United States Marshals Founda tion, a non-profit fund-raising organization, the eve ning’s special guest will be James Arness, who played Marshal Matt Dillon on television’s “Gunsmoke” for 20 years. One of those being honored is Deputy Marshal Rey F. Cestero of Savannah, Ga., for his assistance in apprehending two murder and abduction suspects in August. Included in the exhibit, organized by the Marshals Service and the Smithsonian Insitute, are the arrest warrant for Geronimo, an 1870 Ku Klux Klan robe and hood from a recruit in the Klan’s birthpace of Pulaski, Tenn., a 1790 whiskey still from the Whiskey Rebellion era, and one of the two machine guns from the St. Val entine’s Day massacre in Chicago — the bloodiest of Prohibition. The exhibit, which will tour a dozen cities over the next 30 months, also includes a Jesse James vest and sidearm, and original drawings by Wyatt Earp of four gunfights, including one at the OK Corral involving the legendary marshal. During their first 100 years, “They were the federal goverment at the local level,” Marshals’ historian Fred erick S. Calhoun said. “There was no infratructure of a bureaucracy, so when the citizens got mad they took it out on the federal marshals.” Partly as a result, at least 400 and as many as 700 marshals died in the line of duty, more casualties than any other law enforcement agency, officials say. Appointed by the president, the 94 U.S. marshals are a part of the executive branch, created by the first Con gress in the Judiciary Act of 1789 — the same law that established the Supreme Court and the federal judicial system. The marshals of the 1980s provide security in federal court and to federal judges, including Supreme Court justices when they travel beyond Washington. T hey op erate the witness protection program that gives new identities to those whose lives are jeopardized by testify ing for the government, and track down federal fugi tives. They also take custody of those accused of federal crimes and transport federal prisoners, running the government’s only scheduled airline service with two Boeing 727s and smaller aircraft out of their Oklahoma City hub, says director Stanley Morris. They are responsible for property seized in the war on drugs and other federal offenses, and currently have $750 million in their inventory, Boyle said. Marshals have managed horse ranches, restaurants, condominums, a golf course and a greenhouse. With just 3,000 marshals, deputies and staff, the service is smaller than the New York City Police Depart ment, Morris said, yet its ranks are stationed in every U.S. judicial district from Guam to the Virgin Islands. Calhoun, who has a doctorate in history from the University of Chicago, says the deadliest era in the serv ice’s history was before Oklahoma statehood, when about 100 marshals died in Indian Territory between 1872 and 1896. The 1980s war on drugs is deadly, too. “There’s not a day that passes that a federal judge is not under threat,” Calhoun said. “We’re dealing with drug trafficking and narco-ter rorism,” Morris said. “We are pressed into being at the frontlines in dealing with the major new challenge to our country and to our system of government.” Mandella transferret to new site JOHANNESBURG, Sow! rica (AP) — African Ni Congress leader Nelson Mt I was transferred Wednesdn ning from a clinic to livt house on a prison farm os Cape Town. Aside from stays inhosps marked the first time since that the 70-year-old oris South Africa’s most wide! black leader, has lived out cell. Prison officials said Maui wife, Winnie, children grandchildren would haven ited access to Mandelaatfe I quarters in a staff house onr; property. But Winnie Mandela re ? the offer and said shew! tinue to make the standarc minute visits to herhusbanc he is freed, according to the; Iv’s lawyer, Ismail Ayob. The government has bee: der intense domestic and©H tional pressure to release dela unconditionally. Butoa have indicated that hisoc | release is not imminent ani restraints on him will beet- stages so the government sess the political impact« possible freedom. The transfer was anno: by Justice Minister Kobie see, who said MandelawasE to a suitable, comfortabic properly secured home at Victor Verster Prison inPaari Mandela has been impr: since 1962 and is serving sentence for plotting a sab campaign against the white trolled government. Attorney urges Idaho court to retry Texan convicted of woman’s murder BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A Conroe man lied on the witness stand during the first-degree murder trial of his brother, and the brother is entitled to a new trial, the Idaho Supreme Court has been urged. But the state’s attorney says the brother twice has recanted his testi mony, and it’s a common tactic for a criminal defendant to later claim he lied on the witness stand. The Idaho Supreme Court on Wednesday took under advisement an appeal from Mark Henry Lank ford, 32, Conroe, Texas. Lankford and his brother, Bryan, 28, were convicted in separate trials of killing an El Paso couple more than five years ago. Both Lankfords were sen tenced to death. Bryan’s death sentence was over turned by the U.S. Supreme Court, which asked the Idaho court to re consider the case. Bryan Lankford’s second hearing before the Idaho Su preme Court was Nov. 15 and the court has not ruled yet. Mark Lankford attorney Greg Fitzmaurice attacked his conviction on several points. The two-hour hearing Wednesday served both as the Supreme Court’s direct review of the case and also as an appeal from district court decisions denying Mark Lankford a new trial. Fitzmaurice contended that when •Bryan Lankford testified in his brother’s case that Mark killed the Bravances, he lied. He said Bryan later called an area newspaper and admitted that. He said the testimony was critical to the case. “The key evidence was the testi mony of his brother linking him to the crime scene,” he said. Because of that perjured testi mony, Fitzmaurice said, Mark Lank ford’s trial was tainted and he should be granted a new one. But Solicitor General Lynn Thomas said District Judge George Reinhardt considered that claim when he denied Mark Lankford’s bid for a new trial, and decided not to believe him. "Hi \ 111 v testimony in Mara was the same as the testhnoiiJ own trial, and it wascorroboni the evidence and other will) Thomas said. The Lankfords were con* separate trials of the slayingscj rine Capt. Robert Bravanceii wif e, Cheryl of El Paso. Police allege the Lankfords ing from criminal chargesif abandoned their car in 1 County and came upon lit varices in a campground. The pair decided to rob lb vances and steal their arte Bravance and his wife to des! a club in the process. 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