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I WEATHER TOMORROWS FORECAST: Parity cloudy and cooler with a slight chance of showers in the afternoon HIGH: 90s LOW: 70s - Thursday. July 20,1989 Blame for death of comp bill falls on lawyers, Smith FROM STAFF ft WIRE REPORTS State leaders Wednesday pro claimed workers' compensation re form dead hours before the end of the special legislative session, blam ing either trial lawvers or Rep Rich ard Smith. R-Brvan Meanwhile. House and Senate Parliamentarian draws fire for lodge home; proposed addition to death sentence faHs/Pagr 3 negotiators continued talking in hopes of reaching general agreements in preparation for the next battle as the session's Wednes day midnight deadline approached. Senate conferees Masted Smith, the House’s chief negotiator on the workers' comp bill, saving he re fused to compromise on proposed changes to the insurance system that compensates workers who are in jured on the job. Sen. John Montford. D-l.ubhnrk. said the Senate had given in on ma jor portions of the bill, but Smith re fused to concede anything. "You show me one nation, mavbe Russia and Red China, where you take it our wav or nothing at all,** Montford said. But Smith blamed the Senate. "We’ve bent more than they have,'* he said. Gov. Bill Clements, in saying that he will call the Legislature hack into session in Novembei to resolve workers' comp, blamed the deadlock on the trial lawyers lobby. “We have gotten ourselves in the position where (the workers' comp system) is controlled by the tnal law yers," Clements said Trial lawyers represent injured workers in disputerl workers comp claims “The governor just doesn't know what he's talking about.” said Sen. Kent Ca pert on, I)-Brvan. co-chair man of the conferenc e committee. During an appreciation benefit Tuesday, Caperton predicted that the Legislature would reach an agreement bv the end of the session. Lawmakers have been battling since January over the method of compensating workers injured in on-tne-job accidents workers' comp since January. Complaining of high workers' comp insurance rates, reform of the system has been a top pnoritv of business. Meanwhile, employees say their injury benefits are too low and job-safety laws are lax. United plane crash kills 185, could be one of worst for U. S SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A United Airlines IK -10<.utMng people crashed Wednesday in an ex plosive ball of fire and cartwheeled down a runwav after the pilot tried to make an emergency landing. The fire chief estimated 185 to 195 peo ple were killed. At least 125 survivors were taken to hospitals, officials said. Ifiere was no immediate explanation for the discrepancy in numbers. Fltgnt 2$2, from Denver to Phila delphia via Chicago, carried 2M7 pas sengers and 11 crew members, said Deborah Jones, a United spokes man The plane crashed a half-mile from a runwav after circling for about a half-hour while pilots told C rngers to prepare for a crash ing. survivors said. The accident could lie the second-worst air disas ter in U.S. historv. The I5-vear-o|d plane had “com plete hydraulic failure” before the crash at about 4 p in., Federal Avi ation Administration spokesman Fred Farrar said The tail engine (ailed, and this may have cau srd hy draulic failure. Boh Kavnestord. an other FA A spokesman, said. Fire Chief Bob Hamilton esti mated the number of dead at 185 to 195. The search lor bodies was diffi cult because they were scattered in a field of corn 4 feet tall, he said. Law rence Nagm. a United spokesman, said he could not confirm the num ber of dead. Some people walked away from the wrec kage "I think it turned over a couple of timet," said Melanie Cincala of To ledo, Ohio, a passrnget on Flight 232. "I think it landed upside down. I can remember picking up a little' baby .. . and carrying the haov out of the plane." She said there was a fire on the plane, and a fireball "flashed past us." The plane burst into flames af^ ter she got off. she said. Graduate student Pin Horvath and senior mud taken from the Research Park pond James Lilly, both zoology majors, sift through looking for invertebrates for their ecology lab oviet riots leave 18 dead in five days MOSCOW (AP) — Rioters at tacked a hydroelectric dam. shot up two trains and assaulted Interior Ministry troops to steal weapons in ethnic violence in the Black Sea re- Sovtet (taper reports vets' views of Afghen War Page 8 sort region of Abkhazia, official sources said Wednesday. I mops trying to restore order be tween warring nands of (Georgians and Abkhazians fought back, confis cating 40 pounds of explosives and nearly l.CKH) firearms, a (Georgian official quoted'the Tbilisi newspaper Zarva V’osloka as saving. The death toll from five days of violence rose from 16 to 18 on Wednesday, the official news agency lass said. Hundreds have been re ported wounded. Thousands of vacationers were stranded as notert cut off road and rail transportation from the region 870 miles south of Moscow Authori ties organized evacuation bv sea and air. A man answering the phone at the Communist Party office in Sukhumi, the region's capital, said troops were gamins the upper hand on Wednes- dav Inflowing imposition of a state of emergency, which included a cur few. The man said shooting snipped in Sukhumi on Wednesday. But the line was cut off before he could give hit name or further details. Abkhazians are a minority in their homeland, a so-called autonomous republic inside the southern repub lic of (Georgia Both Abkhazians and Georgians claim ethnic discrimina tion h> the other. Mohs of more than 100 people have attacked troops and citizens "for the purpose of seizing arms and ammunition, "l ass said Wednesday Tass said a highway patrolman was fatally shot on the coastal high way. Gunmen also shot up two pas- senger trains in Sukhumi, said I ass. adding that no one was injured On Mondav, an armed hand at tacked the Ingun Hydroelectric Sta tion in the mountains near Djvari. Senator plans fight for super collider funds WASHINGTON (A,P) — The chairman of a Senate appmpriations subcommittee said he will seek $225 million to begin building ihc supercon ducting super collide! next year Sen. J. Bennett Jbhnston said be wants to “send a signal to those at home and abroad that the United States intends to assort a leadership position in high-energv phvsics." Because of budget constraints. Johnston tokl Sen. LJovd Bent.sen of T exas he was unable to support President Bush's request that the super conducting super collider receive $250 million in funding for the fisc al vear that begins (Vt. 1. Hut the $225 million Johnston will ask the Sen ate Appropriations subcommittee on energy and water development to approve is $25 million more than what the House set aside to begin building the collider at a site south of Dallas “Just as we make room in the budget for crit- xal national defense needs, we also must provide for basic research to secure American leadership in science and technokigv.'* Johnston told Sen. IJovd Bentsen in a letter T uesdav “Such leadership is essential for our economic growth, our industrial competitiveness, and our national security. The SSU is a kev element in a comprehensive program lor scientific excel lence." wrote Johnston, a Louisiana Democrat. Bentsen said he was pleased with Johnston's letter and intentions to ask the subcommittee to approve the $225 million at a meeting scheduled for Thursday afternoon. *T will he watching the subcommittee's actions closely and hopefullv we will be successful in gaining their approval of the $225 million, which would allow construction to begin in the coming year," Bentsen, a Democrat, said Wednesday "This would be our first step toward Senate ap proval of this work on the SSC." '.r M fm , ¥ Workshop at Brazos Center blames heavy metal for growth of Satanism By Holly Beeson STAFF WRITER fty PHeiaa hi. Lou Stoat Satanism ^nd other occult practices have dark ened America s doorstep, and some of the shadow has been attributed to heavy metal music “Cults. Witchcraft and Satanism." a workshop sponsored by the Brazos County Juvenile Services Department in the Brazos Center Wednesdav, was designed to educate people about what satanism is. how to recognize it and the impact of certain heavy metal groups on teen-agers Lou Sloat. director of the T exas Ritualistic Crime Information Network, said that although not all heavy metal music has a negative impact on its listen ers. some metal groups have a strong influence on them "Many youngsters listen to four to six hours of metal music every dav, 565 davs a year. 11.000 hours of this music between the 7th and 1 Ith grade, which is equivalent to the amount of.classroom education thev get from the first to the 12th grade." he said "You can’t listen to heavy metal music and wWh it on television over and over and not have some of those messages those groups are giving influence your life in some way." Iron Maiden. Metallica. W.A.S.P.. Black Sabbath. Ozzv Osbourne and Motley Crue are considered heavy. or “black.” metal groups. "About 150 heavy metal groups are involved in various aspects of the occult movement," he said. Sloat mentioned the follow ing lyrics: “We're possessed bv all that is evil... the death of vour God we demand ... we sit at Lord Satan's left hand ..." — from the album cover of “Welcome to Hell" by Venom. “You can hypnotize people with music, and when thev get at their weakest point, you can preach into their subconscious minds what you want to say." — Jimi Hendrix. “The only thing I got from Hitler was the idea of Nazi vouth. T he vouth of today are the leaders of to morrow. They’re youn£, they can be brainwashed and programmed " — Nikki Sixx of Motley Grue. Members of Satanic groups tend to be from mid dle- to upper-middle-class families, he said. Other “Wha. you re going to see in kids involved in these kinds of things are mood changes, depression, feelings of despondency and inferiority,"" — Lou Sloat characteristics include: • an interest in heavy metal music; • a rejection of traditional value systems, as well as a person's feelings, religion and manv times, life itself: • violent behavior: • abuse of drugs and alcohol, including halluci nogens and designer drugs; • a desire to shock people by doing uncharacte ristic or bizarre things: • a tendency to be destructive. A preoccupation with death and suicide is pre dominant. Sloat said “What you're going to see in kids involved in these kinds of things are mood changes, depression, feel ings of despondency and infenontv." he said. Satanic groups often engage in abusive activity against chiklren and parents, and draw satanir See Satan/ Page 6 Poles choose Jaruzelski as new president WARSAW, Poland (AP) — (ien. Wojoech Jaruzelski was < hoten for the powerful new presidency Wednesday, without a vote to spare, in an election many Solidarity legis lators boycotted because of his decla ration of martial law in 1981. The Communist Party chief, wearing civilian clothes and his cus tomary dark glasses, was met by ap plause when he arrived at the joint session of Parliament barely an hour after the vote and took the oath of office "1 want to he a president of recon ciliation. a representative of all Poles," he said in a brief acceptance speech. “1 will serve the nation. I will serve the fatherland, the one that has not perished, the one that is and will be." Members of the National Assem bly cast 270 votes for Jaruzelski and 235 against. Thirty-four legislators abstained. With a total of 557 valid votes, 270 was ruled the number required for election. Officials initially had said 269 were enough. Solidarity-hacked lawmakers make up about 46 percent of the two-chamber National Assembly, and the rest are Communist Party members or their allies.