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Vines’ attorney, Bill Boyd, said Thursday that Vines would plead in nocent at the arraignment, sched uled for 10 a.m. before State District Judge Joe Kendall. Vines was indicted Wednesday on the misdemeanor count by a Dallas County grand jury that rejected the district attorney’s recommendation that Vines be indicted on seven fel- counts. former chief has denied any ony perjury The torn wrongdoing. If convicted, he faces a maximum one-year jail term and a $2,000 Fine. Boyd said he would not file any motions in the case, including a mo tion to quash the indictment, until it is determined what court Vines will be tried in. Vines on Wednesday criticized his quick ouster and said he will fight the misdemeanor charge. He was fired by City Manager Jan Hart less than two hours after the indictment was returned. “I am surprised and saddened by the precipitous action that has been taken by the Dallas city manager,” Vines said in a statement. “I plan to fight the minor legal charge re turned by the grand jury.” The misdemeanor charge alleges that Vines lied to a panel investigat ing a police shooting about a conver sation he had with his assistant, Greg Holliday, Aug. 2. Holliday said Vines called him late at night and tried to influence his testimony, which he was scheduled to give the next day before the special panel. On Aug. 3, Hart suspended Holli day and Vines with pay. Holliday later was reinstated. “It’s something you wish it never would have happened,” Holliday said Thursday, adding that he never considered not reporting the con versation. Hart said the city was initiating a nationwide search for a new police chief. The search is expected to take three to four months. Boyd said any legal action Vines might consider against the city would have to wait until the misde meanor charge is dealt with. “The chief is concerning himself only with defending the one misde meanor charge that he is facing and that’s all in the world that’s under way at the present time,” Boyd said. Vines’ publicist, Lisa LeMasters, did not immediately return a tele phone call for comment Thursday. Prosecutors had urged felony charges against Vines for statements he made in August to a panel investi gating the firing of Dallas police offi cer Patrick LeMaire. LeMaire was fired in June 1989, about two weeks after he killed an unarmed Mexican national. He was reinstated in July by an administra tive law judge who ruled his firing unjustified. However, he did not re join the Dallas force. During LeMaire’s appeal of his firing, reports surfaced that police internal affairs documents on his dismissal were altered. Hart ap pointed a special panel to look into those charges. When Holliday notified Hart about his conversation with Vines, she asked the district attorney’s of fice to look into it. Photo by Phelan M. Ebenk Sophomore Liz Brown got a surprise Wednesday when her La brador puppy greeted her with a wet kiss. Brown had beem ing for her boyfriend to pick her up. She was not expecting lie puppy, Sudan, to come also and surprise her from behind. Administrators try to alter campus newspaper SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Incarnate Word Col lege journalism students say school administra tors are trying to silence the campus newspaper with a push to get creative writing in the publica tion. “The English department complains there is no avenue for their students,” said Javier Bustos, editor of the Logos, the 55-year-old student newspaper at Incarnate Word. “We feel that’s not what a newspaper is for.” The college has ceased publication of a literary magazine. Now the publications board wants to find a way to publish poetry and short stories, Florence Guido-DiBrito, dean of student life, said. The board last week discussed the need for a publication allowing creative expression and opinions and considered designating creative writing space in the Logos. “We feel we’re the voice for the students,” Bus tos said Wednesday. “We’re their avenue.” He added that the newspaper has published articles criticizing the school administration. Incarnate Word President Louis Agnese said he has no problem with the student newspaper. “I’m not trying to squash the newspaper,” he said. “That’s something I don’t get involved in. It’s not an administrative issue.” Sean Cassidy, director of the communications arts program at Incarnate Word and a publica tions board member, said there is a strong tradi tion in journalism for mixing Fiction and news. “The bottom line is Javier is editor and he makes the editorial decisions,” he said. “I still think he should give serious consideration to a creative outlet for other students,” Cassidy said, pointing out the infrequent publishing schedule of the Logos. The newspaper staff hopes to publish three or four issues this semester. Bustos and other editors of the Logos also say they are upset that money from advertising they sell goes to the university instead of the new;*! per budget and that their office is ill-equipped p'i “We have freshmen here coining from b schools with award-winning newspapers,”Be! said. “We want to build our quality.” The newspaper has a $10,750 budget for J coining school year—down from the$12,2O0lJ year, according to Guido-DiBrito. The staff is expected to raise $500 through vertising revenue, and the rest goes intothqi eral fund of the college. The paper colleffi more than $3,000 in advertising revenue Iasi mester, Bustos said. It costs about $1,000 to publish an eight-; newspaper, he said. All typesetting and prim is done off campus because the paper has c:| one computer, one electric typewriter and:! desktop publishing equipment, Bustos said. I “They have not offered to give us any facilitl to produce a credible newspaper,” associateeil tor Lydia Yznaga said. Hunt clear to pay debts Bankruptcy court ruling results in liquidation DALLAS (AP) — One-time bil lionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt and his major creditors have tentatively settled a longstanding dispute over mineral rights that has held up the sale of more than $20 million in real estate. Hunt will receive cash, a handful of expired geothermal leases and a few oil and gas properties in the set tlement over non-producing mineral rights he owned before seeking bankruptcy protection. The agreement, filed earlier this week in federal bankruptcy court in Dallas, divides the disputed mineral rights on hundreds of properties be tween Hunt and the trustees over seeing the liquidation of his empire. Hunt retains all the minerals un der some properties and shares the right under others with the trustee, according to the settlement. Trustee Carter Pate retains min eral rights on the rest of the real es tate formerly owned by Hunt, in cluding the Circle T ranch in Westlake and beachfront property in Florida and Hawaii. The former billionaire, who was forced to sell nearly all his assets to repay his debts, is expected to re ceive little cash or future income from the mineral leases. “I’d love to say we killed a fat hog, but we didn’t,” Hunt’s son, Houston Hunt, told the Dallas Times Herald in Thursday’s editions. “We salvaged what we could, and that’s it.” The settlement has been joined by Hunt’s largest creditors: Minpeco S.A., a Peruvian minerals concern that won a $134 million judgment against Hunt and his brothers; and Manufacturers Hanover Trust, a New York bank. The Internal Revenue Service, which claimed nearly $1 billion in back taxes from Hunt and his brother William Herbert Hunt, agreed to be bound by the pact but is awaiting final approval from the U.S. attorney general. If the agreement isn’t challenged by other creditors by early October, it is expected to be approved by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Harold Abram son. The settlement allows Pate to sell about $20 million in real estate and stock, including two Kentucky ranches, the Circle T and a pair of Canadian oil exploration companies. “This agreement frees up $20 mil lion of sales to go on through,” Pate said Thursday. All proceeds from the sales go to the estate, he said. An estimated $100 million in property remains to be liquidated, he said. Hunt will receive $315,000 from the sale of Procan and Cancal, the Canadian oil companies he owns with his brother. In addition, he can keep half of the coal and lignite leases on the Buffalo Creek Ranch, which generates about $18,000 a year. He also retains a 60 percent in terest in the non-producing oil and gas leases on 17,000 acres in Atoka County, Okla. The sale of the Kentucky ranches and oil companies’ stock is scheduled to close next week, Pate said, adding that a deal on the Circle T is immi nent. Both Hunt brothers emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy early this year, but have continued to bat tle creditors over what assets they can keep. \ACGI s Cinema/ Friday, Sept. 14 7:30/9:45, & Midnight Saturday, Sept. 15 9:45/Midnight All shows in Rudder Auditorium Admission $2.00 Tickets are now available in the MSC Box Office. Aggie Cinema Information Hotline-847-8478. State ignores fault zones EL PASO, Texas JAP)—Mi state overlooked major geologiaij faults that surround a propotf; location for a low-level nuclei waste dump, a witness testife Thursday. Jeffrey Keaton, senior fif[ neering geologist consultant v£|l Sergent, Hauskins & Beckwitli said consultants who helped ti Texas Low Level Raclioacr Waste Authority study the kf for potential sites didn’t evencorj sider the Rio Grande Rift. The rift extends from sou::, ern Wyoming through ColoraiF crosses New Mexico and travel! along the U.S.-Mexico border:: Presidio. “The Rio Grande Rift was n« recognized as a major tectoffil fault zone in the state of Texaq Keaton said. El Paso and Hudspeth counts have sued the state, saying it d: ; not follow state health and safer code standards when it picked site near Fort Hancock, about?' miles southeast of El Paso, for* low-level nuclear dump. Scientists believe the rift is tl# result of two chunks of tin Earth’s crust pulling away fro: each other. Keaton said the rift is welldt- ument ed and was the subject of:; 1979 paper that appeared in tlj American Geophysical Union ft ; erature. f| “There’s no way those faut were unknown to professions working in geology,” he said, Keaton said there are a nuff her of other faults in the areatfe should have prompted the stas to exclude the Fort Hancock sitf in its search for a dump site. He said the authority excluder an area near Laredo because f faults of lesser magnitude that the Rio Grande Rift. “It can clearly be seen thatn** all faults were treated in thesam ! way for a reason that is unkno*' to me,” he said.