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The National Transportation Safety Board, which also wants to interview more survivors of the wreck one week ago, is in the “wind down” E hase of its inquiry, agency spokesman Bob Bar- :tt said. The partial windshield “should give us a pretty good indication as to where the actual nose of the bus went into the water,” he said. He said investigators want to know if the bus, loaded with students, spun nose-first into the wa ter or hit at an angle after it collided with a soft drink truck. It could be six to eight months be fore the NTSB issues its report, Barlett said. Hidalgo County District Attorney Rene Guerra said he was waiting for a final briefing from the NTSB and Texas Department of Public Safety to determine whether the facts justify charges against the truck’s driver. Meanwhile, more South Texas residents passed by the site in Alton of the school bus crash that killed 20 students on a school bus one week ago today, while federal investigators made plans to interview more survivors. “I came to say a prayer for them and for the ones who are alive also,” said Juanita Garcia, whose son was a friend of 18-year-old victim Raul Flores Jr. At Mission Junior High School, Principal John Abbenante said Thursday that teachers and stu dents were trying to resume normal schedules. Ten students even rode the bus to school today, he said. “We’ve tried to normalize it, with understand ing,” he said, but added some students still had difficulties. “As a matter of fact, we escorted one home yesterday because she couldn’t make it through the whole day.” However, he said administrators and teack were wearing T-shirts in maroon and white,e school colors, in an effort to g;et in thespiritr Thursday afternoon’s junior high football gat A female student remained in intensivecarti Mission Hospital Wednesday, a spokesmans!': Eight other students and the bus driver werti the hospital’s regular ward, in stable to good tot dition. Two others were in stable to good conditiwi hospitals in McAllen and Edinburg, schooli trict spokesman Harlan Woods said. The NTSB would like to interview mores dents who survived the wreck but not enoii[ have yet returned to class, Billie NoonofMo High School said. Rafael Cantu, superintendent of Missionpt: lie schools’ said Wednesday money raised sol for 54 families who had children killed orinjun in the accident will allow each family to recei $500 for their various needs. Lucas fails to stop extradition to Florida HUNTSVILLE (AP) — As the parents of one of his alleged murder victims watched, condemned killer Henry Lee Lucas lost an attempt Thursday to block his extradition to Florida on more first-degree mur der charges. But his attorney, Rod Ponton, said it could be six months to a year be fore Lucas, a one-eyed drifter linked to hundreds of slayings around the country, sees Florida. Ponton in tends to appeal State District Judge Bill McAdams’ ruling. McAdams rejected Ponton’s argu ment that the Florida warrant was invalid and that Lucas did not have an attorney present when he spoke to Florida investigators. “He’s got substantial defense to the charges,” Ponton said. “We have work records . . . that show he was 150 miles away the day before and the day after (the slayings).” Florida authorities want to try Lu cas, 53, on three first-degree murder charges for slayings in 1980 and 1981. He is accused of the December 1980 shooting death of a gas station attendant, J.P. McDaniel, in Jackson County, Fla.; the February 1981 shooting death of Jerilyn Peoples at her home in Holmes County, Fla.; and the March 1981 strangulation and stabbing of Brenda Jo Burton at her home in Bonifay, Fla. Court documents indicate Lucas, who was interviewed in July 1988 by investigators from the Florida De partment of Law Enforcement, ad mitted involvement in all three slay- ings. “Henry Lucas is the world’s big gest liar and not the world’s biggest serial killer,” Ponton said, noting that of 295 murders Lucas has con fessed to, records show he was pre sent for none of them. “Mr. Lucas had a real tough life and the hrst people who paid atten tion to him were law enforcement people. This was his way of pleasing them,” Ponton said. “You have to be crazy to confess to hundreds of mur ders you didn’t commit.” Among the handtul of spectators in the courtroom were Harold and Ruby Murphy, of Graceville, Fla., whose daughter, Jerilyn, is among the three Florida murder victims. “We got him,” Harold Murphy, 62, whispered to his wife as McA dams gave his decision. “We kw he’ll get the electric chair in Florid: They definitely have enough ei dence to convict him in Florida know what he’s going to get when get him back there and I’ll be ft satisfied. The couple drove from Florida Texas to get their first look at Luca: “I’ve lived with thisft eight years, seven months days,” Murphy said. “I feel like! killed my daughter and I donts why he’s living.” Sea World (Continued from page 1) and Baseball in Orlando and Cy press Gardens in Winter Haven, Fla. The purchase also includes land sur rounding the three Florida parks and Sea World of Texas. Analysts say Harcourt Brace Jova- novich, a leading book publisher, is selling the parks in an effort to pay off a nearly $2.9 billion debt that ac cumulated when the Orlando-based company fended off a 1987 hostile takeover attempt hy British commu nications mogul Robert Maxwell. “They (Harcourt Brace) didn’t have a whole lot of choice,” said Rob ert Dunlap Jr., analyst for Brown Brothers Harriman in New York. But in giving up the theme park business, Harcourt Brace also is re lieving itself of the chronic manage ment problems and falling atten dance at the six parks. Attendance at the six parks dropped nearly 5 percent last year, due in part to bad weather, but the decline has continued this year, a company spokesman said. In 1988, sales at the parks were $435 million and pre-tax earnings were $62 million. This year pre-tax earnings were projected to rise to $90 million, analysts said. 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