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Thursday, November 16,1989
The Battalion
Page 13
Senior BANA major Brian Fitzgerald punches the
heavy bag in preparation for a bout this weekend
in the New York Invitational at the New York
' Sports Club. Fitzgerald, of Mesquite, received his
Photo by Frederick D. Joe
invitation after winning the Western Collegiate
Regionals and placing third in nationals in the
150-pound weight class.
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HPD places officer on leave
for shooting man six times
HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston police officer has
■ been placed on leave after shooting and killing a man
I pulled over for a routine traffic violation Wednesday —
I the third person he has killed in seven years on the
■ force.
Police spokesman J.C. Mosier said Officer Scott Ts-
Ichirhart, 27, fired after Byron Gillum, 24, reached for a
I gun wedged in the front seat of his car as the policeman
I wrote citations for lack of insurance and driving with-
lout a seat belt early Wednesday morning.
Tschirhart stopped Gillum about 1:05 a.m. near the
■ University of Houston campus, allegedly for speeding,
I although he had not clocked a speed, Mosier said.
Gillum’s grandmother, Ernestine Simpson, said her
(grandson was on his way home from his security guard
(job.
A UH police officer, Sgt. Jon Williams, was in his pa-
jtrol car parked about 30 feet away and saw Tschirhart
Upproaching Gillum’s car, UH Assistant Chief Frank
[Cempa said.
“He saw the officer draw his weapon, yelling some
thing and repeating it. He (Williams) couldn’t make it
out,” Cempa said. “Then he heard the firing.”
Gillum allegedly reached for the gun wedged in the
front seat. Tschfrhart fired all six rounds of his .38-cali-
ber service revolver, striking Gillum four times in the
back, once in the arm and once in the abdomen.
Gillum was able to crawl out a passenger side win
dow. He ran about 20 feet before he collapsed and
died.
Mosier said Gillum had no criminal record.
In November of 1983, Tschirhart killed a 22-year-
old man after the suspected auto thief rammed the offi
cer’s patrol car. He was not indicted in the shooting.
Tschirhart also fatally shot Bennie Lee Young, 24, on
July 12, 1085, after Young struggled with the officer as
the officer arrested a woman. A grand jury did not in
dict him in that case, but requested that the investiga
tion be re-opened, a request the district attorney’s office
declined.
Mosier has been assigned to a desk job with pay pen
ding an investigation by the police internal affairs divi
sion and the district attorney’s office.
rand jury’s decision sparks furor
HILLSBORO (AP) — A Hill County grand jury’s de-
§M:ision not to indict three white men in the death of a
black burglary suspect they chased through Malone
Bprased the taint of racism and vigilantism from the cen-
“*| tral Texas community, some authorities said.
But Malone’s former mayor says he wants federal in-
: vestigators to probe the death of James Oliver King Jr.,
who three men chased and held face down Oct. 9 in a
. plowed field for more than 15 minutes until authorities
IjHrrived.
The Hill County grand jury declined to indict the
en, finding they had no intention of killing King. A
alias pathologist ruled that King, 24, died of strangu
lation and suffocation.
Doyle Tanner, Danny Krumnow, a Texas Depart
ment of Corrections guard, and Malone Mayor James
Lucko chased King after he allegedly broke in the home
of Emma Piel.
The 68-year-old woman yelled for help and nearby
residents gave chase, some firing warning shots with
guns.
Tanner, Krumnow and Lucko were standing over
King when Hill County deputies arrived.
“There’s justice in Hill County,” Tanner said as he
left the county courthouse following the grand jury ses
sion Tuesday.
“I just hope things can get back to what they were,”
Lucko said. “There’s no reason for the town to sit there
and fight.”
Meier
2 j (Continued from page 3)
18th century, the trade between
| countries was complementary, simi
lar to that of a courtship, he said. In
the mid-19th century, trade was
more competitive, similar to a battle.
“Today what we have could be
classified as adversarial trade,”
Meier said. Adversarial trade is an
attempt to dominate the industry,
which could be compared to winning
a war, he said.
“Our objective in competitiveness
today must therefore be winning,
not just seeking comparisons,” he
said.
Meier said industry today is less
dependent on material, energy and
direct labor than in the past. The key
to the future of the United States
and its competing power is through
education, cleverness, imagination
and inovation, he said.
The lack of technological literacy
and the diminishing number of stu
dents interested in pursuing science
and engineering education are also
problems with which the United
States must deal.
Meier said minorities are poorly
represented in the science and engi
neering fields.
“That is where the perspective
students are . . . it’s not an equity is
sue; it’s one of survival,” Meier said.
“We are not reaching the students
that we should be reaching. Less
than half of the U.S. graduate stu
dents in engineering were born in
this country,” he said.
Meier said the fact that we have
too many foreign students studying
engineering isn’t the problem, but
rather the fact that not enough
bright American students are enter
ing doctoral programs.
Meier said the National Science
Foundation suggests people be
aware of the competive crisis as well
as the role people play in the world
of economic competition.
The educational programs need
to be improved in order to utilize the
country’s human resources to the
fullest, he said. People need to raise
the literacy of technology today.
People who haven’t decided their
majors should consider science and
engineering, Meier said.
Wilbur L. Meier is the head of the
Office for Engineering Infrastuc-
ture Development at the National
Science Foundation. The Office is
responsible for programs in engi
neering education, human re
sources, interdisciplinary activities
and advancement of engineering
through international cooperation.
The E.L. Miller Lecture Series
“Tomorrow’s Technology Today”
concludes tonight at 8 at Rudder
Theater with the panel discussion
“High Tech Trade: Can the U.S.
Compete?”
Walesa
(Continued from page 1)
day afternoon, when President Bush
appeared with him at an AFL-CIO
convention, hailed him as “Ameri
ca’s special guest” and promised
more aid for Poland.
“Clearly there are times when the
need for progress demands that we
put differences aside, and where Po
land is concerned, now is such a
time,” Bush said.
“Today, I appeal to the unions
and on the American labor
movement, the business community,
and government to look for ways to
support a partnership for progress
: in Poland for the sake of a nation
and a people that need and deserve
our help,” he said.
Walesa, addressing a joint meet
ing of Congress, drew resounding
applause when he said that “assis
tance extended to democracy and
freedom in Poland and all of Eastern
Europe is the best investment in the
future of peace, better than tanks,
warships and warplanes, an invest
ment leading to greater security.”
Walesa arrived in Washington on
Monday for a four-day visit marked
by numerous awards and a torrent
of praise as Poland and other East
European nations rapidly institute
democratic and market reforms.
In more concrete action, the Sen
ate voted Tuesday to authorize $657
million in economic aid to Poland
over three years and $81 million for
nearby Hungary, also dismantling its
centrally controlled economy.
The House went further, approv
ing an initial one-year installment of
$533 million for the two Soviet bloc
nations.
The steps to send economic aid to
Poland have been accompanied by
personal adulation for Walesa. He
received the Presidential Medal of
Freedom from President Bush on
Monday, an AFL-CIO human rights
award on Tuesday, and on Wednes
day became the second foreign pri
vate citizen to address a joint meet
ing of Congress, the first since the
Marquis de Lafayette in 1824.
Walesa began his remarks with
the opening words of the preamble
to the U.S. constitution, “We the
People. ...”
“I do not need to explain that I,
an electrician from Gdansk, am also
entitled to invoke them,” said Wa
lesa.
Walesa said Solidarity’s success
was attracting imitators throughout
the communist world, and inside the
Soviet Union itself, among “Hungar
ians, Russians, the Ukrainians, peo
ple of the Baltic republics, Armeni
ans and Georgians, and in recent
days, the East Germans.”
“We wish them luck and rejoice at
each success they achieve,” he said.
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