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AUSTIN (AP) — A state appeals court
Vednesday affirmed the convictions of l 1 anti-
partheid protesters who took over the Univer-
ty of Texas-Austin president’s office.
The 3rd Court of Appeals rejected arguments
y the protestors that they were governed by a
uty greater than state law when they barricaaed
hemselves in the office three years ago.
The court said it could not be in a position of
legalizing criminal activity in the pursuit of po-
tical ends.”
The 11 were part of the so-called “UT 16” that
ntered President William Cunningham’s office
in Oct. 20, 1986, to protest the school’s invest-
ent in corporations doing business in South Af-
ica.
The group, protesting South Africa’s policy of
acial separation, barricaded the office doors and
disconnected the telephones and computers.
About 30 minutes later, police forcibly entered
the office and arrested the group without resis
tance.
In a Travis County Court-at-Law, the de
fendants were found guilty of disruptive activity
on a university campus, a misdemeanor.
Judge Leslie Taylor handed down jail terms of
three to six months in jail and fined the students
$200, despite the county attorney’s recommenda
tion that the students be given probation, pay for
damages and perform community service.
Taylor said the group used “terrorist-style tac
tics.”
The sentences drew a public outcry by many
who thought the punishment was too stiff.
In their appeal, the defendants said their ac
tions were a public duty above state law to help
stop apartheid. They also complained they were
not allowed to have expert witnesses testify on
the social, economic and political effects of apart
heid.
But the Austin-based appeals court disagreed,
saying other protest alternatives were available,
“for example, legislative action to control invest
ments by state universities or executive action
through the gubernatorial power to appoint re
gents who would follow a specific policy.”
The court also said the defendants were able
to testify on the subject that the expert witnesses
would have discussed.
The defendants also claimed the judge and ju
rors were biased against them. Duringjury selec
tion, one juror made a hanging gesture with his
tie, but he later said he was expxessing frustra
tion over the lengthy jury selection process,
rather than signaling an opinion on guilt.
Wake up call
Sophomore Texas A&M Corps bugler John
Matlock of B Company plays reveille for the
entire Corps of Cadets early Wednesday
Photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack
morning. Matlock wakes the Corps up at 6:40
a.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday and 10
minutes later on Tuesday and Thursday.
ay activists opposed to project
iffer money for survey rejections
DALLAS (AP) — As an AIDS sur-
ey that could herald a national
tudy on the deadly diseasfe begins, a
;ay activist opposed to the project
aid Wednesclay his group is offer
ing money to the first person who
efuses to participate in it.
Officials who begin surveying
,400 county residents this week said
they are satisfied with the sam-
ling, they may canvass about
0,000 homes nationwide in the first
ittempt to find the virus’ prevalence
n the general population.
The Dallas Gay Alliance will pay
100 for the first survey form
fought, uncompleted, to its head-
uarters, said William Waybourn,
ie group’s president, who believes
he study is worthless.
“Thereafter, for each one (ques-
ionnaire) not completed and
fought to use, we will contribute
50 to AIDS research,” he said. “We
hallenge the county, for every one
hey get completed, to donate the
ame amount to research.”
The government is paying survey
articipants $50 each.
The organization and other activ
ists piled 90 dummies on the steps of
the Dallas County Health Depart
ment Tuesday to represent the esti
mated number AIDS deaths here
during the survey period. Thou
sands more would perish over the
span of a three-year national study,
activists claim.
But one health official who likens
the need for the study to that of tra
cking hurricanes, said it was impru
dent for opponents to urge noncom
pliance.
“T
I hat just reflects a lack
of appreciation on what is
going on in AIDS treatment
and research.”
— Dr. Gordon Green,
Dallas Health director
“That just reflects a lack of appre
ciation on what is going on in AIDS
treatment and research,” Dr. Gor
don Green, director of the Dallas
county Health Department, said.
“Tremendous sums are being spent
on them. Millions are spent on AIDS
care.”
“The opponents are either misin
formed or doing a disservice. Hun
dreds and hundreds of patients are
being treated as we speak,” Green
said. “If this test goes national, we
will spend less than 1 percent of all
the federal money spent on AIDS ef
forts. It certainly seems reasonable
to spend 1 percent or less on the
problem, in order to wisely spend
the other 99 percent” on finding a
cure.
Dallas County was chosen for the
experimental survey because of the
high number of people suspected of
being exposed to AIDS, between
15,000 and 30,000. The county’s
population also includes a favorable
variety of ethnic and social groups,
health officials said.
Acquired immune deficiency syn
drome is caused by the HIV, or hu
man immunodeficiency virus. The
virus damages the body’s immune
system, leaving victims susceptible to
death from infections and cancer.
The National Household Sero-
prevalence Survey would be the first
to track the virus through the gen
eral population, according to Don
ald L. Zimmerman, the Research
Triangle Institute’s director of out
reach programs in Research Trian
gle Park, N.C.
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Teen gangs
battle it out
in Galveston
GALVESTON (AP) — Authori
ties arrested a 17-year-old man in
connection with a Wednesday shoot
ing officers say is linked to four
other gang-related shootings.
Five young men have been in
jured from what police believe is
gang infighting over drug traffick
ing territories, police Lt. Rick Boyle
said.
“Our investigation reveals that
there are two gangs involved from
the Cedar Terrace housing project
and the Palm Terrace housing pro
ject,” Boyle said. -
Boyle said that the Cedar Terrace
group is calling itself, “The Crips,”
while those from the Palm Terrace
refer to themselves as “The Bloods.”
The projects are six blocks apart.
“We haven’t been able to connect
them in any way to the groups in
(Los Angeles,) California with the
same names,” he said.
Cleveland Martin remained jailed
in lieu of $30,000 bond for the at
tempted murder of Marlin Jones,
16, who was shot in the chest
Wednesday morning. Jones was in
stable condition at John Sealy Hospi
tal in Galveston.
Boyle said a special team is investi
gating Tour other shootings believed
related to the gang fights.
Kevin Williams, 22, was shot in
the neck at Seahorse Inn on the Gal
veston Seawall about 11 p.m. Tues
day. He was in fair condition at
Sealy, officials said.
Three others were shot about
8:30 p.m. Monday when two men
walked up to a large group at the
Palm Terrace housing project and
allegedly opened fire. Ronald
McKinney, 17, a Ball High School
student, was shot in the forearm,
while Martin Jackson, 19, was
wounded in the right hand. Both
were treated and released from Gal
veston hospitals.
The third man, Kenneth Horne,
24, suffered a wound to the left leg.
He remained hospitalized Wednes
day in stable condition.
Boyle said this is the first report of
gang incidents in Galveston, where
authorities reported less than six
weeks ago that crack had not been
seen anywhere in the city.
“The information we’re getting is
that it’s not over,” Boyle said.
The two housing projects are the
largest of the city’s four complexes,
Walter Norris, executive director of
the Galveston Housing Authority,
said. Cedar Terrace has about 349
units, while Palm Terrace has 339
units.
Meanwhile, uniformed officers
continued to beef up security at Ball
High School, located about six
blocks west of the housing projects,
for the second day Wednesday.
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