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The music of several esteemed
erman and French composers
lied Rudder Theatre Monday
night during the semester’s first in
stallment of the University Chamber
Series, proving to this rock n’ roller
at electricity is not required for
tod music.
Texas A&M faculty members
leorge C. Adams and Werner Rose
jere joined by Julia C. Combs of the
University of Wyoming in present
ing a pleasant evening of old and
new compositions for about 250 peo
ple.
The evening began with a fine
leading of Georg Teleman’s “Con
certo in A Major for Oboe d’amore.”
Comb played the oboe d’amore
while Rose accompanied her on pi
ano. An oboe d’amore is a cross be
tween an English horn and an oboe.
It is meant to have a sweet sound,
which Comb certainly gave to it. Be
tween the third and fourth
movements of the piece, the tone
was skillfully moved from that of a
tragedy to a more jolly, upbeat
sound, with the piano and oboe
d’amour notes skipping along to
gether and then intertwining and
dancing around one another.
George Adams was able to show
case his ample talents on the bassoon
with his rendition of Bach’s “Suite
No. 3 in C Major for Solo Cello.” Al
though the piece was written to be
performed on the strings of a cello,
Adams was able to capture the in
tended feeling of the piece on his
bassoon. He even managed to re
create with wind the slight resonance
of the strings that would be present
if the piece were performed on a
cello.
Next to shine was Adams, who
took a turn at a solo with Franz
Haydn’s “Fantasie in C Major for
Piano.” Although this particular
piece apparently was not made to
conjurn up any particlar image, but
was intended to be enjoyed for the
sake of music in and of itself, I
couldn’t help envisioning a long
haired girl of about nine or ten years
of age frolicking in a sun-drenched
Field. She danced along playfully
with the music, slowing every now
and then to pick a wildflower. When
the music slowed down and became
a bit deeper, a bit darker for a mo
ment, I saw her taking a moment to
examine the stormclouds in the dis
tance. This may not have been the
piece’s original intent, but hey, I was
having fun.
After the intermission, a number
of pieces were performed that were
meant to implant a scene in the lis
tener’s mind of the listener. The first
movement of “Preludes for Piano,
Book II” by Claude Debussy is enti
tled “Mists.” The notes produced by
Adams on piano did indeed mimic
the swirl of mists in the wind. They
built, and then receded.
It was in the evening’s last num
ber, “Trio for Piano, Oboe and Bas
soon” by Francis Poulenc, that I
sensed a slight flaw. The piano
seemed a bit loud, which drowned
out the bassoon at certain points. It
was a minor mistake in an evening of
major music.
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STARKE, Fla. (AP) — The high-
st courts of the state and the nation
efused Monday night to block the
p uesday morning execution of Ted
-Bundy, who during the last three
days confessed to 20 murders in
■Vestern states.
I The 42-year-old law school drop
out was described as subdued and
motipnal as he met with psychiatrist
orothy Lewis, apparently as part of
is lawyers’ preparations for an ar-
ument that Bundy was mentally in-
ompetent to be executed.
After confessing during the week-
nd to two Colorado murders, he
jalked with Colorado investigators
gain Monday but disclosed no in-
jormation about three unsolved slay
ings in the state, officials said.
Bundy also met with James Dob-
Son, host of a California religious ra-
■io show, during the afternoon. But
It was not clear whether Bundy
ould allow Dobson to discuss the
iterview before the execution.
Bundy was scheduled to die in
lorida’s electric chair at 7 a.m.
uesday for the 1978 kidnap-mur-
Ber of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach
61 Lake City. He also was convicted
pf killing two sorority sisters in Tal-
hassee in 1978.
U.S. Supreme Court justices voted
8-4 to reject an emergency request
aimed at keeping Bundy alive until a
formal appeal could be filed with the
nation’s highest court. The justices
had four times previously rejected
formal appeals from Bundy.
Bundy’s lawyers argued that ju
rors in the Leach case were misled
about the importance of their role in
determining whether Bundy would
receive the death penalty or life in
prison for his crime. In Florida, ju
ries in capital cases recommend a
punishment, but the presidingjudge
is free to accept or reject the recom
mendation.
The justices rejected a related ar
gument by a 6-3 vote, and they voted
7-2 to turn down a request to delay
the execution until the high court
could hear an appeal claiming that
Bundy’s death sentence was tainted
because his lawyers were not shown
all the information considered in the
sentencing.
The attorneys also filed an appeal
in state court, claiming the jury in
structions were improper.
Bundy’s discussions with the de
fense psychiatrist meant he might
raise the insanity argument once
more.
The governor was ready for him.
Gov. Bob Martinez told reporters in
Tallahassee that three psychiatrists
were ready to examine Bundy if his
competency was questioned by any
one.
It is the fourth time an execution
has been set for Bundy.
But this weekend, he began con
fessing to a string of murders. He
has been linked to as many as 36 kill
ings and disappearances of young
women in Washington, Colorado,
Utah and other Western states.
But Colorado Attorney General
Duane Woodard accused him of
stringing along investigators to avoid
or delay execution.
Martinez said the execution would
go forward whether or not Bundy
has time to tell all he knows about
killings and locations of bodies.
“I think the way in which Ted per
haps is using the confessions to bar
gain for time with the law enforce
ment people has been difficult for
some folks to deal with,” the Rev.
David Ernst, pastor of the Tacoma,
Wash., church where Bundy’s family
worships weekly, said in an interview
Sunday.
A San Diego man, William Taylor,
asked Martinez to put off the execu
tion until Bundy could say if he was
involved in the January 1968 disap
pearance of his sister in Concord,
N.H.
Martinez aide Brian Ballard said
Monday that even the approxi-
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fter battle with commandos
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP)
— Hundreds of soldiers backed by
Inks and morters regained control
ol most of an infantry base Monday
ffight after 15 hours of gun battles
lith civilian commandos the govern
ment said were leftist guerrillas.
At 9:30 p.m., a handful of com-
landos were holed up in an officers
dub that soldiers had attacked with
nks and set on fire.
Moments earlier, a small armory
exploded, sending bright flames 100
»rds high into the darkness. Spo-
ftdic gunfire and an occasional mor-
Ir round could be heard from in
side the spacious compound.
H The battles began when an esti-
Biated 30 to 50 commandos used a
lolen Coca Cola delivery truck to
■rash through the main gate of the
||rd infantry regiment in La Tablada
||n the outskirts of Buenos Aires.
I At least 20 commandos were
Hilled or wounded, local news agen
cies reported. Hospital and provin
cial health officials said four soldiers
were killed and 27 soldiers and po
lice wounded, along with one local
newspaper reporter.
The casualty toll was much higher
than in the three military insurrec
tions against the government of
President Raul Alfonsin during the
past 21 months.
In the military revolts of April
1987 and January and December
1988, soldiers were extremely reluc
tant to fire on fellow soldiers.
The commandos did not identify
themselves or state their motives.
But a woman who called the inde
pendent news agency Diarios y Noti-
cias said she was part of the com
mando group and said it acted to
prevent a military coup.
“It was to defend democracy, and
now they’re massacring us,” said the
woman, who refused to identify her
self or the commando group.
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Military officials and government
spokesmen, including Alfonsin’s
press secretary, Jose Ignacio Lopez,
said the commandos were leftist
guerrillas and not soldiers or mem
bers of a right-wing group.
No similar incidents were re
ported at other bases throughout
this South American country of 31
million.
The officials offered little evi
dence to support their contention
that the commandos were leftists,
but party leaders and unions from
across the political spectrum who de
nounced the incident did not chal
lenge the government’s claim.
Hundreds of area residents who
gathered outside the base shouted
support for the troops. “Kill them!”
people shouted as troops led away
commandos captured after they fled
burning, smoking buildings.
.
Group loses light against papal visit stamp
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I WASHINGTON (AP) — A group
supporting the separation of church
| and state lost a Supreme Court chal
lenge Monday to a cancellation
lamp that commemorated a 1987
ijisit to the United States by Pope
r ohn Paul 11.
P The court, without comment, re
fused to revive a lawsuit by the
■ exas-based Society of Separation-
ists against the U.S. Postal Service.
The group’s leader, Ralph B.
Shirley of Austin, said the stamp im
properly used taxpayer money to
promote religion.
B At the request of a customer, post
offices in the nine cities the pope vis
ited in 1987 would use a special rub
ber stamp bearing the emblem of the
Vatican m Rome to cancel postcards
and first-class letters.
The cancellation stamps were
used only during the pope’s visit.
Shirley said, “The purpose of the
Postal Service in commemorating
the visit of the pope is clearly reli
gious. The pope’s visit is in no way a
secular event.”
A federal judge threw out the suit,
and the dimisssal was upheld last
July by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals.
The appeals court said the case is
moot — no longer posing a live con-
17-year-old boy goes to court
for involvement in theft ring
|i PHOENIX (AP) — A judge has
remanded a 17-year-old member of
a polygamist sect to Juvenile Court
Bor trial on charges stemming from
||is alleged involvement in a stolen-
truck ring.
j Meanwhile, a hearing to suppress
evidence against four other mem-
Jbers of the Church of Lamb of God
Continued Monday in Maricopa
County Superior Court, a clerk lor
Judge Frank T. Galati said.
Still charged with one count each
of conspiracy, control of an illegal
enterprise, and 20 counts of theft
are: Heber LeBaron, 24; his half-
brother Douglas Barlow, 28; Tarsa
LeBaron, 22; and Cynthia LeBaron,
age not known.
The defendants, relatives of the
late Ervil LeBaron, who founded
their church, were arrested last July
at a Phoenix motel after a patrolman
spotted a truck stolen in Texas, po
lice said.
troversy — since the stamps were
discontinued.
Generally, courts do not consider
cases without live issues.
Since the case is moot, a court
would take it up only if the Society of
Separationists can show that the
Postal Service could repeat the ac
tion in a way that would evade re
view by the courts, the appeals court
said.
It said the group has “not estab
lished a demonstrated probability or
a reasonable expectation that the
current pope or his successor will
visit the United States and that the
Postal Service will commemorate the
event with special cancellations.”
Shirley said the appeals court ig
nored the reality of what happened
during previous papal visits to the
United States.
Similar cancellation stamps were
used to honor Pope John Paul II in
1979, 1981 and twice in 1984, Shir
ley said.
The postal service limits the time
that the stamps can be challenged in
court by waiting until he is about to
arrive before announcing the
stamps, Shirley said.
“This is a sly trick of the postal
service to attempt to block review of
its unlawful acts” by the courts,
added the group’s appeal that was
acted on Monday.
The case is Shirely vs. Schraer, 88-
712.
mately 100 requests similar to Tay
lor’s would not make the governor
delay the execution.
It’s easy to see how people who
oppose the death penalty on princi
pal make an exception for Bundy,
said Kathleen Taylor of the Ameri
can Civil Liberties Union in Seattle.
“Anybody in their right mind
hates that man. You’re going get
that kind of emotional response,”
she said.
Once cocky and confident in the
courtroom, Bundy acted Monday
like a man who believed his time may
be running out, a prison spokesman
said.
“He’s more emotional and sub
dued,” than under the previous
three death warrants, Bob Macmas-
ter, a prison spokesman, said.
Salt Lake County sheriffs Detec
tive Dennis Couch said Sunday that
Bundy mentioned his involvement
in up to eight Utah killings, two
more than authorities had sus
pected. Earlier Sunday, Bundy con
fessed to two murders in Idaho,
where officials had never linked him
to any killings.
Idaho Attorney General Jim
Jones said a number of police agen
cies were asked to come to Boise to
talk about Bundy and determine
which old cases might be connected
with his confession.
Bundy also provided investigators
Friday and Saturday with details of
eight Washington killings and two in
Cblorado for which he has long been
suspected but never charged, au
thorities said.
Jobless rate
in Texas hits
12-month low
AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas job
less rate hit its lowest point since
1984 last month, said Mary Scott
Nabers, commissioner at the Texas
Employment Commission.
“We have seen a continuous de
cline in recent months and our latest
statistics place the state rate at 6.2
percent in mid-December,” Nabers
said in a statement released Monday.
“That’s the lowest rate Texans have
seen since December of 1984.”
The September rate was 7.1 per
cent; October, 6.8 percent; and No
vember, 6.6 percent. The last time
the rate was below 6.2 percent was in
December 1984, when it was 5.6 per
cent/according to a statement from
the TEC.
The total number of jobless Tex
ans dropped by just more than
33,000 in December to 518,900, the
commission said, and unemploy
ment has been gradually declining
throughout most of 1988.
Only three metropolitan statistical
areas had rates in December above
10 percent — McAllen-Edinburg-
Mission, Laredo and Brownsville-
Harlingen. Rates in these border
areas tend to be higher than aver
age, the commission said, and unem
ployment normally increases in the
winter months due to migrant work
ers returning to their homes there.
Rates of unemployment in the ur
ban areas of Texas as announced by
the Texas Employment Commission
for December included:
Abilene 5.4
Amarillo 5.2
Austin 5.0
Beaumont-Port Arthur 8.9
Brazoria 6.5
Brownsville-Harlingen 10.8
Bryan-College Station 3.9
Corpus Christi 7.4
Dallas 4.8
El Paso 9.7
Fort Worth-Arlington 5.2
Galveston-Texas City 7.0
Houston 5.4
Temple-Killeen 7.1
Laredo 12.6
Longview-Marshall 7.6
Lubbock 5.2
McAllen-Edinburg-Mission 16.4
Midland 5.4
Odessa 6.8
San Angelo 5.4
San Antonio 6.5
Sherman-Denison 5.7
Tyler 6.4
Victoria 5.3
Waco 5.8
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