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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."
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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.