le Battalion >STATE & LOCAL 145-33 .Monday, November 20,1989 Ps Citizens ponder murder out. Lei l their much “ear, le, ays. Lei, : ones v aps.Le; family £ livingj teat scl; thing! Racism accusations worry tiny town carved as 's, thefe f the ho r week guest a L MALONE (AP) — The mother ofjames Oliver King Jr. sits at the |not of her son’s month-old ave, smoothing away pebbles and marking what would have been his 25th birthday. I She explains how she can hear him wailing and crying for his life as he continues to run despera tely, caught now between heaven and hell. | And many who live in this inall central Texas town where King died say they, too, are in a Netherworld of sorts. They are trapped between a lost innocence !na what they fear is the hopeless sk of convincing outsiders they ire not racists who killed a bur- iry suspect merely because he k ! was 11II “This is never going to go ”*IBway,” said James Lucko, mayor f the Hill County town of about |00 and one of King’s pursuers. ou may put it aside and forget |bout it for awhile, but it’s never oing to go away.” A few have promised as much, a credtl deluding one former mayor who have3 Ilans to organize a protest march reced ag a * nst vf* 6 racism he contends linp J uck down King. ° 11 He and a handful of others ngton.Mortray the burg leath in ghastly hi trms, saying he was chased down like an animal and smothered be cause of the color of his skin, j But others say those charges are fueled by a merchant’s grudge against the city and some business he has lost. J “It ain’t right,” said Martin |)egner, a former mayor and for mer city judge. “Please, let us get lack to our little ol’ country life.” I The words choke in his throat and tears are welling up in his eyes. .s “awfi is been: ilican a: Capen g. He v; or at leij up fra d kith ull ofil ary, ur made rglary suspect’s black and white he vr— Super collider design changes spark debate WASHINGTON (AP) — Suggestions that an engineering design might reopen the deci sion on where to build the $5.9 billion super conducting super collider are “absurd and will not happen,” Sen. Phil Gramm said Sun day. Gramm, R-Texas, said he has known for about two weeks a potential existed for a ma jor design change as scientists moved from the conceptual design to the engineering de sign of the collider. The Washington Post, quoting unnamed U.S. officials and independent scientists, said the change could result in a smaller, less pow erful collider that would be unsuitable for its chosen Ellis County site. As currently planned, the collider would be a 53-mile underground oval where atomic particles would be hurled at each other by su perconducting magnets. Scientists would col lide the particles in an attempt to break them down further to test theories about the build ing blocks of the universe. Congress recently approved the first $225 million to build the collider over an eight-year period. The site around Waxahachie, south of Dallas, was chosen in November 1988 after a lengthy selection process involving many states. The problem, Gramm and the Post’s sources said, is in the size of the mechanism that would inject proton beams into the 53- mile tunnel. Gramm said it was initially believed that the injector could be the same size as the one used at the Fermilab in suburban Chicago. But because the super collider would be 10 times as powerful as the Fermilab accelerator, scientists believe the injector should be en larged, the senator said. “There has never been a state-of-the-art, cutting edge project that has not had some design changes,” Gramm said. “This one is no exception. To suggest this modification might reopen the site selection is absurd and will not happen.” He said super collider designers have seve ral choices including: • Designing a larger injector and add cost to project. • Designing a larger injector but hold the project’s overall cost down by making the un derground oval smaller. • Designing a larger injector but hold the overall cost by reducing expenses in other areas. Gramm said the two-month Congressional recess will give him time to work with the De partment of Energy to address the problem. He said the newpaper’s story was a “worst case scenario” and nearly everyone inter viewed by the Post has opposed the project. Deputy Energy Secretary Henson W. Moore told the Post a study due to be com pleted in December should give more reliable information concerning the project. “T I here has never been a state-of-the-art, cutting edge project that has not had some design changes. This one is no exception. To suggest this modification might reopen the site selection is absurd and will not happen.” — Phil Gramm, senator Study says inmates with AIDS get better care in Texas prisons HUNTSVILLE (AP) — Texas prison officials say some parolees are committing crimes just to get back into prison where they can get current, humane, free and confidential AIDS care. “I’ve seen a couple of guys back in the system two or three times,” said Dr. Glenn Johnson, chief of profes sional services, which oversees health care in the Texas Department of Corrections. “They said they’re back be cause they can get treatment here.” “We’ve come a long way,” he said. “We’re providing people with humane care. It’s not part of their punish ment to be denied care or be subjected to mistreat ment.” The way the prison system handles AIDS victims has evolved since 1985, when AIDS patients were locked in individual rooms at the Ramsey III regional hospital. Prison officials now say they have a model AIDS edu cation and treatment program, the Houston Chronicle reported Sunday. TDC inmates interviewed in 1985 said guards would taunt them by saying, “You’re going to die,” or an nouncing, “We got AIDS coming through,” as they were led through a prison hallway. At Ramsey III, AIDS patients were kept in individual rooms without access to radios, televisions or clocks. In mates said they passed time by counting the number of bricks in the wall or the number of people who passed by their heavily screened windows. A 1988 U.S. Department of Justice study recom mended that correctional professionals nationwide con sider the Oregon and Texas prison systems’ approach of “meeting the challenge of AIDS in corrections.” AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, is a disease that weakens the body’s immune system and We’ve come a long way. We’re providing people with humane care. It’s not part of their punishment to be denied care or be subjected to mistreatment.” — Dr. Glenn Johnson, Chief of professional services makes the victim susceptible to deadly infections and cancers. In 1984, when the TDG began to keep such records, six inmates had AIDS. Today, 388 inmates are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, which causes AIDS. Thirty-six men and one woman have been diagnosed as having AIDS. Houston, San Antonio remain in competition for economic summit SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A team of senior advisers to Presi dent Bush visited Houston and San Antonio this weekend to gather information about the cit ies’ ability to host the economic summit of industrialized nations next year. The tour included stops at the Johnson Space Center, the Astro dome and the Alamo. The advis ers are to report to the president, who is expected to choose a site soon. Both San Antonio and Hous ton are considered finalists for the summit of leaders from the United States, Great Britain, France, West Germany, Japan, Italy and Canada. White House staffers Charles Hagel, Fred Sainz and Judd Swift met Houston Mayor Kathy Whit mire at Rice University Friday and visited the George R. Brown Convention Center and the As trodome. They also toured the Johnson Space Center before leaving for San Antonio. Whitmire pitched her city, say ing Houston is accustomed to en tertaining international visitors. 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