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He had been strangled with a jump rope. David Earl Gibbs, 29, was isolated in an adjoining recreation yard, which was separated from Williams’ area by a chain-link fence. “It was clear from the way the rope was tied off, it was done from Gibbs’ side of the fence,” said special prosecutor David Weeks. He said Gibbs had fresh scratches and rope burns on his hands. Hampton said Gibbs apparently told some prison of ficials he was involved in the slaying. “He may have said something to some Texas Depart ment of Corrections employees about his possible invol vement...but he refused to talk to me,” Hampton said. “I went to his cell and he said he didn’t want to talk about it. But we’re going back. We have to — he’s the only witness.” “I’m sure we’ll take it to a grand jury,” Hampton said. “I don’t think they’ll try it. But if he gets out on appeal or say his capital murder conviction is commuted, then we’d want to have the indictment on the books.” Hampton said it was unclear whether Williams was murdered or had help committing suicide. Prison officials said Williams once tried to kill himself by slicing his stomach with a razor blade on Jan. 17, 1986 — four days before his first execution date. Williams was on death row for the 1980 rape-strang ulation of Emily Fields Anderson, 28, a vice president of a Houston travel agency. His death late Sunday came a day short of the 10th anniversary of his sentencing date. Williams had four execution dates, most recently in February 1988 when he came within 90 minutes of lethal injection before the U.S. Supreme Court granted him a stay. He had vowed he would never be put to death without a struggle. Hampton said officials also were unsure whether any other inmates could have been involved in a slaying plot. Girl slain during figli in Houston WHAT' HOUSTON (AP) — Police Monday sought a man believed: have shot a 14-year-old girl to de: in a car as she fled the scene o[ gang fight. Police said Anna Chavez, a si, dent at Sharpstown Middle was an innocent bystander attendt; a gang party when a fight brokec, between two men over another p about 12:30 a.m. Sunday. When the argument escalatedin; * , a fist fight, several other gang men jQ^Cl hers joined in and Chavez and so® ” other girls were whisked to a art leave the area, said Sgt. Rico Card Detectives said a man driving car circled the block, waited a fWTWwi I (E&W./IK fl HosT4c,r t fidWAiT, Will 3, SAR6M minutes in front of the house when fcffr the fight was underway and die drove off. But as the car drove away,am stepped into the street and lire seven shots from a 9mm pistolatili car, Garcia said. Witnesses told lice they believe the suspect thoi a rival was inside the vehicle. WHAT / t>o\N( SAT scores decline across state in 1990 AUSTIN (AP) — Students’ scores from the Scholastic Aptitude Test in 1990 dropped slightly in both math and verbal sections, the Texas Edu cation Agency reported Monday. Education Commissioner W.N. Kirby voiced disappointment at the results. “It appears that we are caught up in a nationwide pattern of declining SAT scores,” Kirby said. “This year, there were states which experienced a surprising drop in their results.” The mean score of Texas students taking the verbal section of the SAT was 413, down from 415 in 1989. The mean score on the math portion of the exam was 461, down from 462 the previous year. Nationally, the average verbal score was 424, down three points from 1989, while the national math average remained the same at 476. A total of 78,057 Texas students took the exam this year, a drop of 3,484 from 1989. The total represented 40 percent of Texas high school seniors, offi cials said. Of the test group, 47 per cent were male and 53 percent fe male. Kirby said that despite the down ward trend, it was important to note that minority youths in Texas held steady or improved scores. Also, more blacks and Mexican Americans took the SAT in 1990, he said. Black students, 10 percent of the test group, raised their verbal scores from 345 to 347 but had a slight de crease in math from 384 to 383, Kirby said. Mexican-American students, 14 percent of those tested, had a mean verbal score of 373, the same as last year, and a mean math score of 423, down from 424. White students, representing 66 percent of the test group, had a drop in the mean verbal score from 437 to 436, and a mean math score of 481, the same as last year. Kirby said the challenge for Texas schools is to go beyond the basic skills instruction and to emphasize more rigorous aspects of academics. Deepwater oil port proposed ubu msfl-i (IS 1 Officials: Terminal will protect coast AUSTIN (AP) — A proposed deepwater oil port 27 miles off the Texas coast could dramatically re duce the chances of environmental damage from future oil spills, Rail road Commissioner John Sharp said Tuesday. After two spills off Galveston this summer, Sharp said state officials should rally behind a plan being considered by 18 oil industry compa nies to build a $1.2 billion oil termi nal in deep gulf waters. “The potential for more disasters along our coastline is staggering,” Sharp said. More than 2 million barrels of crude oil a day enters Texas ports. Ship traffic in Galveston Bay makes the Houston Ship Channel the na tion’s third-busiest port. On June 8, the supertanker Mega Borg dumped 3.9 million gallons of oil into the water off Galveston. On July 28, a Greek tanker struck a barge in the ship channel, spilling 700,000 gallons of oil into Galvesm Bay- Sharp said an offshore oil term nal would allow giant supertanker to unload directly into a pipelint connected to the existing pipelint network along the Texas coast. The largest tankers now offloai oil onto smaller ships, which then carry it into the ship channel. “What we’re talking about is onlt one connection and not letting thu big tanker get into state waters a all,” Sharp said. “If you don’thavei dog that’s housebroken, don’t let him into the house.” Sharp said a comparison of safer records of a deepwater port in Lout siana and the Houston Ship Chame illustrate the difference such a pon could make for Texas. The Houston port recorded I accidents between 1981 and June o! last year, ranking first in thenatk in vessel collisions and groundings. Nerc Move 10 years ahead of the class. The new HP 48SX and a free ‘library card’ can get you there. 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