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Special Ordered Pets Discount Prices • Snakes • Reptiles • Birds • Exotics • Supplies & More Gordon Edge 693-3094 Richard Ellis 693-6039 Page 8 The Battalion Friday, September 1,1989 J Austin police support use of new stun guns Warped by Scott McCullar UM, CAM, HOW COME THIS AUEW SH/P THAT 5EKVE5 AS OUR TV STKUON N0\fi CRASHED OH EARTH AA/yWAV? I WELL...UM, X S0K.TA ... KlNt>A PIP IT. MICHAEL E. JONES, M.D. Family Practice Member American Academy of Family Physicians OFFICE GYNECOLOGY OBSTETRICS YOUNG ADULT MEDICINE PEDIACTRICS 1 602 Rock Prairie Road, Suite 1OO College Station, Texas 77840 (409) 693-1500 Class of '80 1 09fo Student Discount enlist next us- r -f-CHUN KING yf r € ^ CHINFSP RESTAURANT ALL YOU CAN EAT BUFFET Mon-Fri. 11:30-1:30 Sun. 11:30-2:00 & 5:00-8:00 DINNER SPECIALS Chosen from our most popular items served with soup, rice & egg roll. DAILY LUNCH SPECIALS Different Each Day We serve beer & wine 1673 Briarcrest Drive At Ardan Crossing Oxford Street 774-1157 Open 7 Days a Week Lunch 11-2 Dinner 5-10 WELCOME BACK AGGIES! FILM SPECIAL 12 EXP $1.99 15 EXP $2.69 24 EXP $3.99 36 EXP $5.59 GOOD ON C-41 ROLL FILM DEVELOPING WITH A SINGLE SET OF STANDARD SIZE PRINTS ONLY OFFER GOOD SEPT. 4 - SEPT. 7, 1989 PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICES AT GOODWIN HALL & THE TEXAS A&M BOOKSTORE IN THE MSC . AUSTIN (AP) — Austin police will likely become the first in Texas to again carry stun guns and officers plan to practice using the restraint devices on each other. “They’re unbelievable,” said Offi cer Gene Parker, who tested a new version of the device, which is made by an Austin firm, on his beat this spring. “I can’t say enough good apout them.” _ Police Chief Jim Everett says he \/\/qIHq plans to approve the use of an up- d LI Lr dated stun gun. Three years ago, the department found an earlier stun gun unreliable. Officers will have to buy their own $150 stun gun, since the equipment is optional. Those who do will i in a ten hour training program r week, which will include officers ing stun guns on each other. Officers who have been on the re ceiving end of stun guns during training sessions describe the pain as intense, but short-lived. “It hurt when it was applied to my skin, but it quit hurting when it was taken away,” said Senior Sgt. Robert Pulliam, who added that the shock on his leg brought him to his knees. Complaints about stun guns used in the early to mid-1980s ranged from inadequate battery power to jolts that were either too weak or too strong. Inmate admits to involvement in murder plots SAN ANTONIO (AP) — After confessing to involvement in a mur- der-for-hire plot, a Texas inmate sent to prison from San Antonio has been sentenced to 12 more years be hind bars. The Texas Department of Cor rections prisoner, 23-year-old Kevin James Veschi, agreed to the sentence to avoid trial for at least three other murder-for-hire schemes. He was sentenced Wednesday in Brazoria County after he was found guilty in state district court of crimi nal solicitation to commit murder. Veschi pleaded no contest to the charge. His new sentence will be “stacked” on a life sentence and three 20-year sentences Veschi was serving for at tempted capital murder, armed rob bery and burglary. Authorities contend that the mur der-for-hire plots were devised from Veschi’s maximum-security cell at the Ramsey I Unit. He is accused of conspiring with convicted murderer Jonn Marco Civella to arrange the killing of John Bello, 43, of Freehold, NJ. WELL HE.FORE £ CLIMB- E.P INTO A COMPARTMENT TO SLEEP X THOUGHT X ruNCHEP THE AUTO MATIC PILOT BOTTCW... ...TURWEP OUT TO BE THE AUTOMATIC PILE-IT BOTTOH. PILED IT. 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Judge postpones hearing, restrains gambling ship BROWNSVILLE (AP) — A federal judge postponed a hearing Thursday on whether im migration officers may deport crewmen of the gambling ship Le Mistral, keeping in place a tem porary restraining order preventing the action. A hearing in U.S. District Judge Filemon V. Vela’s court in Brownsville was continued until Sept. 8. The proceeding on whether to grant a tempo rary injunction came after Vela granted a tempo rary restraining order Wednesday banning U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service officials from deporting the ship’s crewmen. INS officials had warned the ship’s owner, Is lander Cruises of Port Isabel, to comply with im migration laws. INS spokesman Virginia Kice said there were 46 crewmen on board from for eign countries. “The immigration laws covering foreign crew men are very specific and very strinj ent,” Kice said Thursday after the hearing. She said the INS declined to comment further on the matter because it is now in litigation. Laws prohibit foreign crewmen from staying in the United States more than 29 days without leaving and docking at a foreign port. INS re cords show foreign crewmen on the Le Mistral I have remained in port longer than 29 days, offi- I cials said. When asked about the trips required of his for- I eign crew, Islander Cruises owner Tem Fowlkes said, “We hadn’t missed a one.” “We take it (the trip) with the ship empty, just with the crew members on to qualify with this law,” Fowlkes said. Before the INS was served with the restraining order, District Director Jerry Sewell said he was hopeful authorities would not have to take action against crew members. Live Jazz • No Cover Friday: “Horn Talk” Saturday “Alex Koke Trio 9:30-12:30 Happy Hour I I a.m.-7 p.m SEAFOOD & STEAKS 505 E. University • 846-5388