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Page 4 The Battalion Wednesday, August 6,1989 The fhe l Battalion Classifieds Paper: Officer permitted • HELP WANTED BATTALION CIRCULATION The Battalion has immediate part time openings in the circu lation department. Students in terested in applying should call 845-2697 and leave their names and telephone num bers. rape to protect operation MGM LAWN CARE seeking sales representatives in new accounts department. Work your own hours. Bry an/College Station residential areas. Call Joel Petrazio, 693-8213. 183t08/l 1 HOUSTON CHRONICLE is currently taking applica tions for carrier positions for the fall semester. Early morning hours. Good pay and transportation allow ance. $5()0-$7()0/mo. If interested call Julian, 693-2323 or Andy, 693-7815. 183t08/10 MALE DANCERS needed. Must be dependable. Own phone, transportation required. Good pay. 693-3004. 180t09/01 DALLAS (AP) — A Groesbeck police officer watched his compan ions rape a suspected prostitute in Dallas because he did not want to blow his cover, according to newspa per reports. Officer Tomas Echartea, who was working on an undercover drug in vestigation for University Park po lice, told reporters he pretended to be sick to avoid participating in the attack. “You don’t want to ruin your credibility (with the suspects),” he told the Dallas Morning News. “If it had been a life-threatening situa tion, I would’ve blown my cover. I would’ve had to. You just can’t let someone be killed.” Dallas police officials said they were unaware of the incident but would begin a criminal investigation to find the woman to determine INTERVIEWERS, RESEARCHERS, record peoples opinions, couponing, demonstrations, mystery shop pers, siate-wide. Home Economics Social Sc Market Re search, 228 Summit Ave., Lyndhurst, NJ 07071. Call 201/933-7129, 7 days, 9am-11pm. 181t08/09 whether she wants to press charges. Detectives also will ask Echartea to give them a full account of what hap pened, deputy chief Ray Hawkins said. “I think he had some obligation as one human being to another to help her as best he could,” Hawkins said. “All women, even prostitutes, have a right not to be raped.” Officer Echartea reportedly said the incident occurred in Dallas sometime last June while he was working on a two-month investiga tion. The operation ended with the arrests of four University Park em ployees on charges of selling drugs. Groesbeck Police Chief Chuck Walker defended the officer’s ac tions, saying he could not have inter vened without risking his life and the investigation, the Dallas newspa per reported. “He can’t put himself in a life- threatening situation” Walker said. “If it were a life-threatening situa tion, his cover would have been im material then.” Dallas County District Attorney John Vance said he did not know whether state law requires Texas peace officers to intervene in felo nies they observe, the newspaper re ported. WHAT’S UP fed i Wednesday NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at 8:30 p.m. For more informationctf| tact the C.D.P.E. at 845-0280. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: the C.D.P.E at 845-0280. will meet at noon. For more information coma:' Thursday ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS: will meet at 6 p.m. For more informalnyf contact the C.D.P.E. at 845-0280. “I think it would be good if he did, but I don’t believe the law requires it of him,” Vance said. Dallas police spokesman Ed Spencer said the department does not have a written policy requiring undercover officers to try to stop fe lonies. Erchartea first recounted the inci dent publicly in an interview with the Waco Tribune-Herald. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at noon. For more informalionconla.! the C.D.P.E. at 845-0280. By J ASS Items for What's Up should be submitted to The Battalion, 216 ReedMcDm no later than three business days before the desired run date. We onlyput r the name and phone number of the contact if you ask us to do so. What's lips a Battalion service that lists non-profit events and activities. Submissionsarer;- on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no guarantee an entry will run. Ufa have questions, call the newsroom at 845-3315. SALES CLERKS with smiling personalities! Apply in person. 700 University Drive East, University Bookstore. 181ttfn COLLEGE STUDENTS needed full $3.35/hr, on-campus, Aug 21-Sept. ‘ *‘•07. around class schedules. 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(close to campus) 846-5933 i69ttfn HOUSTON (AP) — A juror must appear in court later this week to explain a telephone call he allegedly made to a defense attorney during the rape trial of a former Houston police officer. Juror James Everett Darby Jr. was subpoenaed Monday to appear before State District Judge Lupe Salinas on Friday. Darby’s court appear- 1 ance will coincide with the formal sentencing of the former officer, James Cebula, 29. Darby, a cab driver, was on ajury that gave Ce bula 10 years probation and suspended fines af ter finding him guilty of raping an intoxicated woman in a park last year. Since jurors are ordered by judges not to have dealings with parties to a legal action. State Dis trict Judge Michael McSpadden said, the brief conversation, regardless of how innocuous it may have sounded, could be construed as a violation and result in a contempt finding. McSpadden, who presided over the trial’s pun ishment phase in Salinas’ absence, said Darby now denies having called defense attorney Dick DeGuerin, a claim that also may come under scrutiny at Friday’s sentencing hearing. The call to DeGuerin, was placed July 30 — af ter Cebula’s conviction but the day before jurors returned the sentence. DeGuerin did not talk with Darby then but later called Darby’s number back and recorded the call. A transcript of the call shows this exchange: Darby: “ . . . this here’s going to be off the re cord today, OK?” DeGuerin: “All right. Who is this?” Darby: “This is Darby. I want to paralegal for you.” DeGuerin: “Well, let me tell you something. I can’t talk to you. We’re under strict instructions Darby: “Oh, yeah. That’s right.” DeGuerin: “— not to talk to any jurors.” Darby: “Oh, OK. I thought maybe since it was a different thing, you know . . .” DeGuerin: “No, I can’t talk to you. If you’ve got anything to say, you can. I can talk to you af ter the trial." During jury selection, Darby claimed to be a law student at Texas Southern University. School records, however, do not show that he ever was a student there. McSpadden is recommending as terms of Ce bula’s probation a 30-day sentence, full restitu tion to the rape victim for whatever counseling she requires, sex offender therapy and no early termination of the 10-year probation. The Houston Area Women’s Center favors those terms and proposes that Cebula be prohib ited from holding a job or doing community service that would bring him into contact with women and children, said spokesman Aileen Mc- Murrer. The Women’s Center also plans to present Sa linas with a 150-signature petition decrying the probationary sentence. WASHINGTON (AP) - U over teen-agers; "driver’s ed’s just for kids any more. Drivers aged 55 and over < took a refresher course hadfo traffic convictions and serious; dents than did their cohorts s didn’t return to the classroa according to a California studs leased Tuesday. ‘Pro-victim’ amendment gets support Experienced librarian will do library research for you. Cal! 272-3348 166t09/01 laser jet printing. Papers, resume, merge letters. Rush services. 846-3755. / 181tfn TYPING- WORD PROCESSING- Personal Attention- Excellent Service- Professional Results- 764-2931 170t08/10 FOR RENT Cotton Village Apts. Snook, TX. 1 Bdrm. $200., 2 Bdrm. $248. Rental assistance available! Call 846-8878 or 774-0773 after 5pm. i 4 7ttfn Room, private bath & entrance. 1 Blk. from campus, $170./mo. util. pd. 764-7363, 693-5286. 185t08/16 2 B/l ki b. Pecan Knoll 4-plcxes, 5 min. from A&M. Options: fireplace, fenced, tv/d conn., xtra storage. Now preleasing. 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Although victims’ rights already are outlined in law, putting them in the constitution would strengthen them, Richardson said. The rights in the proposed amendment include the right to res titution; to reasonable protection from the accused; to information about the conviction, sentence, im prisonment and release of the ac cused; and to fair treatment throughout the criminal justice process. “After all, a constitution that pro tects the rights of the worst among us surely ought to be able to protect the rights of the most innocent among us,” said Sen. J.E. “Buster” Brown, R-Lake Jackson, who spon sored the proposal. The Texas Crime Victims Rights Committee, formed to push for the amendment, is headed by Janie Wil son of We the People, a group formed after three young people were abducted from Lake Hawkins in 1986 and murdered. After that crime,, victims’ groups gathered 85,000 signatures support ing stricter laws for criminals and in creased rights for victims, Wilson said. “We didn’t know what rights existed for crime victims, but we knew whatever they were, they were not being honored and they were not being implemented,” she said. “This constitutional amendment is a direct result of our'quest for victims’ rights.” Bob Stearns of VIGIL, a coalition of victims’ rights groups pushing for the amendment, said the committee wants to make Texans aware that crime victims have rights. He said a “good job” could be done if the ad vocates could raise $100,000 to $750,000. Victims are neglected despite great odds that crime will touch peo ple’s lives, Richardson said. A crime is committed somewhere in the United States every five seconds, he said. Border strikes enter 2nd week; managers take case to courts McALLEN (AP) — Managers at U.S.-operated bor der manufacturing plants said Tuesday they are taking their case to the Mexican courts as strikes affecting 3,000 workers entered their second week in a turf battle between labor leaders in Reynosa, Mexico. Fifteen plants have been shut down over the past two weeks by Jose Rafael Morales de la Cruz, who heads a union local of maquiladora workers within the Confed eration of Mexican Workers, known as the CTM in Mexico. Morales closed down the operations because the workers are organized under a different CTM-affil- iated local under labor leader Abel Hernandez. Morales contends that Hernandez’s credentials as a CTM leader were pulled in June. Officials speaking for the 15 plants said Hernandez has credentials and that two Mexican federal court in junctions bar Morales from calling strikes until after hearings this month to resolve the dispute. Don King, general manager of West Bend de Mex ico, said the companies are trying to get Mexican Presi dent Carlos Salinas de Goftari to intervene, and that they will present their case at the hearings set for Friday and for Aug. 24. “All we’re asking is for the existing labor laws to be enforced and for us to be recognized as Mexican cor porations, which we are,” King said. He said the last 15 plants to locate in Reynosa chose Hernandez as their la bor leader but that Morales has tried to interfere. “You have to ask yourself why the last 15 companies to come to Reynosa have not chosen Rafael Morales as their labor leader,” King said. There are 42 maquiladoras employing about 25,000 people in Reynosa. Morales countered that he believes Hernandez is op erating illegally and the companies’ attorneys have given them bad advice. “I’m sorry that their lawyers have not told them the truth and that they are deceiving them,” Morales said. He said he has offered to negotiate with the companies, but they refused. King said the companies do not need to talk with Mo rales, because he does not represent the union operat ing at their plants. “You have to understand that our employees are not striking,” King said. “They are being prevented from working by Morales.” After Morales’ people hung the official red and white strike banners at the 15 plants, workers and manage ment were locked out under Mexican law. The companies’ position has the support of Juan Carlos Pena Guzman, president of Reynosa’s Chamber of Commerce, and Osvaldo Gutierrez Garza, head of the Reynosa office of COPARMEX, a national associa tion representing management. “The strikes are giving a bad image to Reynosa,” the chamber of commerce president said. “Mr. Morales wants a monopoly to control all of labor in Reynosa.” “The companies have a legal contract with Mr. Her nandez,” Gutierrez added. The American Associationofl tired Persons said the study is dence that proper training can k older people “remain safe dm longer.” “To lose the ability to driveoS traps older people in their home said A ARP President-elect Maxwell. “For older Ameria driving a car is more thanjusttra portation. It means independr and dignity.” Drivers over age 65 are sect: only to those age 15 to 24 in to! accidents, and, when the numki miles driven is taken into accoir the two groups almost are equal The Department of Transpon tion says the verdict isn’t in yet whether refresher courses acini change driv^Y performance older Americans. But James Hedlund of the tional Highway Traffic Safety^ ministration said the Califoit study “certainly gives us more pie tive information than we had fore.” The study compared driving cords for 40,339 graduates of Ci fornia’s eight-hour Mature Dif Improvement Program with those: 75,064 older drivers who did: take the course. All wereagedai above; with ages ranging intoili 80s. Factoring out differences betwi the two groups in gender, priordm ing record, age, and area of res dence, the graduates had 16 per® fewer accidents involving dealln injury and 15.7 percent fewertra® convictions. The report cautioned thatdri'i who signed up for the voluitf training were “a highly self-selecld group who would be expected...! have lower subsequent accidd rates.” Neverthless, it said, there “suggestive evidence” that i courses were responsible for all® some of the reduction in accidd risk. “We feel the results arequitesii gestive and promising,” said fe Peck, director of research for® California Department of Motor hides. Despite the positive results, nf ther Peck nor the AARP advocalS mandatory driver’s education older Americans, ers r T weel uled day, 4:30 T port ons, mor antic the ] letes M fron and touti tice have this: 48. A&n year a: recn terb; 198h Cam terb; TAN Pi Hea The change Basket opera. 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Will pay all expenses. Call Car- f 845-8850. 181t08/09 KERRVILLE (AP) — Kerrville sleuth Steve Rambam is on the trail again, and his latest assignment will take him to Ecuador, where the steamy political climate competes with the dense jungle to produce an atmo sphere hostile to Americans. Rambam, the 32-year-old private investiga tor who calls pal Kinky Friedman’s Echo Hill ranch home, has embarked on another of his humanitarian efforts — this time to find the missing son of an Israeli government official. “The boy’s probably dead; he’s been miss ing for six years,” Rambam says matter-of- factly. “Given the situation in Ecuador, if his parents haven’t heard from him in all this time, there’s no chance I’ll find him alive.” Rambam’s candor is standard equipment with this real-life detective, who was typecast in one of Friedman’s mystery novels. A private investigator since he was 18 and a champion of Israeli causes, Rambam now heads an executive protection service with of fices in New York, Orlando, Los Angeles, To ronto and San Antonio. Lately, he’s been in the news with his cam paign to raise the public consciousness about inadequate security at U.S. airports. Rambam, who successfully smuggled a fake handgun through San Antonio airport checkpoints, blasts the complacency of do mestic airports and says this country has es caped hijacking only by the grace of God. His attention to airport security is evolving into more than a personal concern. Rambam and Kerrville attorney Scott Monroe are put ting together a non-profit organization to en courage Texas legislators to take the lead in heightened airport security. While much of Rambam’s detective work is glamorous, high-profile stuff, such as coordi nating security details for foreign officials vis iting America, mostly he does traditional pri vate investigation. The majority of his cases are missing per sons, and most of those are teen-agers. The subject of Rambam’s latest search is Moran Ruebner, who was 23 when he disap peared from the Hotel Norte in Quito in 1983. Ruebner, a student, was traveling around the world after completing three years’ mandatory service in the Israeli army. Rambam dismisses any notion that Ruebner chose to disappear. “He was a good kid, not involved with drugs, and he had lots of contact with his par ents throughout his travels,” Rambam says. The missing person expert says the Ruebner case is a “freebie.” “This is my major good deed,” he says. “I want to do this for the family because it’s a sad story.” Ruebner’s parents are survivors of the Ho locaust who emigrated to Israel after they met and married in a displaced persons camp, Rambam said. “Moran’s parents lost all their families dur ing the war, and now they’ve lost their son. They know he’s dead, but they want his body.” Rambam is worried about his own safety, about whether he might be “disappeared” while he’s searching for clues in the unpre dictable South American political climate. The proximity to Colombia and the ran dom drug violence there also frightens him. “They have a murder rate higher than New York, L.A. and Detroit combined,” he says. “So the more publicity the better for want Ecuador to Know the U.S. is watclU 1 me on this one. “I want to make sure I come back.” Accompanying Rambam on his forayin' South America will be someone he’s worl# with before: Major Alan Klebanov, aninvei' gator with the Israeli army. “Ruebner’s father is a big shot in Israeli they want to find out what happened to ran,” Rambam says. “Israelis don’t leave bodies on the ba field.” Rambam plans to question hotel employ* 1 and people on the street in Quito. He’ll al* go into the jungle and to remote villaj? along Ruebner’s intended backpacking “I’m going to tell the Ecuadoran police I® I’m not trying to discredit them. I don’tv# any details, I just want Moran’s body.” With characteristic self-confidence, Ra 11 bam says he will find the missing man, eve# it means many repeat trips to Quito. ’ counts a 100 percent success rate on the mi* ing person cases that make up more than his business. TE Se Feai