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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-
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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
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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.”
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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.
San Antonio Mayor Lila Cock
rell stood at the Alamo Saturday
and told the White House contin
gent: “Were standing here in
front of the beautiful and historic
Alamo, the shrine of Texas lib
erty.
“What better setting could
there be for photographic oppor
tunities with these heads of
state?”
After the team’s arrival Friday,
the mayor said they attended a
dinner at the residence of Charles
C. Butt, president of H.E. Butt
Grocery Co., in the historic King
William district.
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