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Thursday, January 19,1989 The Battalion Page 3 olice, kidnappers shoot it out; nan freed after enduring torture y do ^ofthe tstitution, ed in a [L PASO (AP) — Mexican kid jpers tortured a victim with beat- s and electric shocks after they re ed his two sons and a friend, ice said Wednesday. )anny Jose Duran, 28, was re- , sed by his captors Tuesday after IKl express' thers involved in the kidnapping It got in a shootout with state judi- I police in Juarez, El Paso police hersu- It. Paul Saucedo said. ” he kidnappers had demanded ||),000 for Duran’s release, but n’t get it. They freed Duran’s s, ages 3 and 5, and an unidenti- male friend after Duran’s wife ted more than $2,000 ransom on 11, the day the four were ab- cted in Juarez. Any motive besides the ransom Bniands remained a mystery, Sau- Hosaid. editZeMm/oiMMeanwhile, a suspect wounded in find muslin he right side of the chest during the hi otout had not yet been ques- Ined Wednesday, said Jose Refu- Public hearing begins on proposed property insurance increase ight up. gio Rubalcava, commander of the state police in Juarez. Antonio Mar quez Zepeda, 28, a professional wrestler and bus driver in Juarez, was charged with kidnapping, he said. The suspect was in stable condi tion Wednesday at Juarez General Hospital, Rubalcava said. Two other suspects escaped from the shootout scene in a pickup truck and then on foot, he said. The shooting started when the kidnapping suspects arrived at an in tersection in downtown Juarez to pick up $10,000 ransom for Duran. State police were waiting and moved in, Saucedo said. About an hour after the noontime shootout, Duran’s kidnappers put him in a car and drove around be fore dropping him off in the village of Zaragoza, southeast of Juarez, Saucedo said. He added that Duran was blindfolded throughout the weeklong ordeal and does not know where he was held. Duran hitched a ride to an inter national bridge, walked across and called some friends, who took him to Providence Hospital, Saucedo said. “It appears he had been tor tured,” Saucedo said. “His face was bruised, his hands were swollen and he had several burn marks around his body. They appeared to be from a cattle prod-type device.” Duran’s sons and friend were re leased unharmed near their El Paso homes about midnight Jan. 11, he said. The three were released after two men visited Duran’s home the af ternoon of Jan. 11 and demanded $2,000 cash. They said they knew where the cash was and took it, along with a videocassette recorder and a television set, Saucedo said. Police did not know of the kidnap ping until Duran’s wife — whom Saucedo declined to identify — called El Paso police Monday to tell them her husband hand been ab ducted and his captors were de manding $1.0,000 for his release. The sons and friend, all of whom officials declined to identify, said they had gone to Juarez and were abducted there by several men wear ing military uniforms, Saucedo said. El Paso police notified Juarez po lice of the kidnapping, and the two agencies coordinated the dropoff at tempt that resulted in the shootout. No one else was harmed, officials said. Police and FBI officials said they were being secretive about the vic tims’ names because of fear of retri bution. “We’re really worried about the welfare of the family,” Saucedo said, adding the family has been relocated temporarily. He said police don’t understand why the kidnappers chose those par ticular victims. >IP iirl reports Hall sex assault A&M days, noi e to the hool (wh irst dayai letter lease in, jg at j on an( | no charges have vec b y iL teen filed. ing that iday ami is a don day, ti hear it fn A 14-year-old girl reported iriday that she was sexually as- aulted by an acquaintance in lain Hall. Bob Wiatt, director of security ind campus police, said the mat- )r Sen Ki er bas t> een turned over to the "listrict attorney’s office for inves- Under current law, if a com- jlaintant is more than 13 years e the Bos )ld, the district attorney’s office nust prove that the complaintant id not give consent or had no re- :ord of being promiscuous in the ame type of sexual activity. Statutory rape is a second-de- ree felony with a penalty of 2-20 ears in prison. you feell^ kirning” )hn How, Doctor stresses importance of parent-child attachment By Melissa Naumann Reporter In a world of working parents and children in daycare centers, parents and children need time to get to know each other, Dr. T. Berry Bra- zelton explained Wednesday in a lec ture called “Working and Caring”. Brazelton, a clinical professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, explained that the major is sues in the United States revolve around children. “This is a transitional period, full of turbulence and anxiety,” he said. “But with all of this turmoil, who’s going to tend the children?” Brazelton has addressed Congress in support of child care bills, andhe has stressed the idea of “attachment” to complete the early child devel opment. “A parent needs time to really at tach to the baby and believe that he knows him as a person,” he said. Brazelton pointed out various early stages that are vital to the “A parent needs time to really attach to the baby and believe that he knows him as a person.? - Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, Harvard pediatrics pro fessor relationship between a parent and an infant. “These are powerful and critical behaviors,” he said. “After seven days, a baby chooses his mother’s voice over all other female voices. After 10 days, he chooses his moth er’s silent face over other faces. And, after 14 days, he chooses his father over all other men.” Since an infant’s early behavior is crucial to his later behavior, Brazel ton recommends four months to complete the attachment. “We have strong stages of rhyth mic, interactive behavior in the first few months,” he said. “Suppose par ents get torn away before attach ment is completed?” Brazelton’s fight for child care legislation has stressed the urgency of the issue. “How do we protect the attach ment process so it can go on in the fantastic way it begins?” he said. “As a nation, we’ve got to get on with it.” AUSTIN (AP) — The insurance industry Wednesday asked for a 9.1 percent increase in statewide prop erty insurance premium rates while the state’s consumer representative requested a 0.5 percent decrease in a hearing before the State Board of Insurance. The three-member insurance board will probably make a decision within the next few weeks, according to Chairman Edwin J. Smith Jr. The rate changes are proposed to go into effect March 1. The board’s staff has recom mended a 7.2 percent increase in property insurance rates. The staff recommendation includes an 8.2 percent increase in homeowners in surance. Last year, the board cut Texans’ annual property insurance premi ums by 3.6 percent. Kay Doughty, public counsel of the Office of Consumer Protection, said property insurance rates should drop again. She said the insurance industry can sustain a lower profit margin because its investment in come is substantial. She also said the industry has in flated its expenses in devising its rec ommended increase. But Rick Gentry, a spokesman for the insurance industry dismissed that claim. “I think anyone who is intimately familiar with the property insurance market in Texas realizes there is a great deal of competition. So one of the ways you compete is you try to hold expenses down to a minimum,” he said. An increase in property insurance rates is needed because of generally poor experience across all property lines, Gentry said. In addition, he said, insurance companies have to be allowed to make a reasonable profit. Gentry said if Ms. Doughty’s recommenda tion were enacted, insurers might leave the state. The Insurance Board sets the maximum property insurance rates, and many companies sell policies be low that rate. In 1987, 87 percent of the homeowners’ insurance market was purchased for an average 17 percent below the maximum rate, according to the board’s staff. The state is divided into three rat ing territories, with the coastal coun ties divided into a first and second tier. An annual insurance policy with a 1 percent deductible on a $75,000 home would the cost the following under the industry’s recommended rate increase: —In Corpus Christi, in the first tier of the seacoast rating territory, insurance for a brick home would cost $550, a $48 increase; and $717 for a frame home, a $62 increase. —In Houston, in the second tier of the seacoast rating territory, in surance for a brick home would cost $486, a $42 increase; and $622 for a frame home, a $54 increase. —In Austin, in the central inland rating territory, insurance for a brick home would cost $402, a $38 increase; and $483 for a frame home, a $46 increase. —In Lubbock, in the north-north west rating territory, insurance for a brick home would cost $608, a $51 increase; and $839 for a frame home, a $71 increase. Crisis center announces class times The Brazos County Rape Crisis Center will have training classes for new volunteers Feb. 6-18 in the evenings and on Saturdays. Volunteers will be trained to become hotline advocates, escort advocates or Friends of the Fam ily advocates. Rape Crisis Center volunteer coordinator Valorie Greer said interested people should call the center at 779-7273 Monday through Friday during business hours for an application and an agenda. fall if class te that os e against journals iter fori isli jhysically meals wot under ity dietici ae gets y- timing discipline ad will he ended ceeks. at preset! junk fed ies that i ;s and bf i keeps) an’t be b ; beveraj 11 be strk althy mi# Lauseuift ^e “shoul to live haj should# drink ak should ; should^ dti-vitaffl mandat should i ements > dents or book. zniorjoi ist for ? ...over 120 yrs. of BROTHERHOOD SPRING RUSH Graham’s Tau House Bryan Goff Course .2 , \ Carson St. 1/18 WED. 1/19 THUR. 1/22 SUN. 1/24 TUES. 1/27 FRI. 1/28 SAT. I.F.C. 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