s.
r;a;.i.v
a
S3.
s figure.
n
fice,
l E I
nent
ril
Celebrating Our
20th Anniversary
r BUY T MEAL - AND - ~j
GET 1 AT 1/2 PRICE j
J Sunday-Thursday 5:00 p.m^B:45 j
—„_°£ ef expt !® 3 J. 1 ' 30 ' 90 _j
11:00 a.m.-8:45 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday
Closed Mondays
308 N. Main, Bryan 779-8702
COME AIMD
DISCOVER.
. . . aworldofopportunity with Ashland Chemical, a Fortune 50
leader in the sales, marketing, and technology of specialty chem
ical products. We are pleased to host an exclusive company
presentation
November 6, 1990
6:30 - 8:00 pm
Room 229
Memorial Student Union
All interested students are encouraged to attend and learn more
about the variety of exciting career opportunities we have for you.
Casual dress is suggested.
Ashland Chemical
An Equal Opportunity Employer
Allied Health
Professionals &
Administrators
Plan a future that soars.
Take your science-related degree
into the Air Force, and become an
officer in the Biomedical Sciences
Corps. You’ll learn more, you’ll grow
faster-you’ll work with other dedi
cated professionals in a quality envi
ronment where your contributions
are needed.
In short, you’ll gain more of every
thing that matters most to you. You
and the Air Force. Launch now-call
USAF HEALTH PROFESSIONS
COLLECT 713-271-8638
LS
ALS
cn
ATTENTION!
Visit Exciting
ITALY
this
SPRING
lI
Earn 15 TAMU credits
in Humanities
RESERVE YOUR SPACE TODAY
YOUR TIME IS
RUNNING OUT!
[!J
Study Abroad Office
161 W. Bizzell Hall
845-0544
i n
VOTE FOR AN
AGGIE MOM
And Elect the only
candidate who wrote the
book on family law and
who advises the Texas *4,
Supreme Court on
family law matters.
Sarah Ryan
Kim Branham '91
ELECT JUDGE
•73:73ii:4
S.
X 76701.
THE RIGHT CHOICE FOR
COUNTY COURT AT LAW JUDGE
Paid for by the Elect Sarah Ryan Campaign, David Branham, Treasurer, 2354 W. Briargate, Bryan TX 77802
Thursday, November 1 , 1990
The Battalion
Page 13
Attorney general
stresses fair trial
DALLAS (AP) — U.S. Attorney
General Dick Thornburgh stressed
defendants’ rights to a fair trial over
the media’s “ill-defined right to
know” Tuesday during a luncheon
with newspaper editors.
Thornburgh said he supports,
and as attorney general must de
fend, the media’s right to publish
without censorship. That right, how
ever, is not a prosecutor’s first con
cern, he told about 400 editors at
tending the 56th annual Associated
Press Managing Editors convention
in Dallas.
The APME meeting concludes
Friday.
Thornburgh said the tension be
tween prosecutors and reporters of
ten stems from each side’s different
agenda.
A prosecutor’s first duty, he said,
is to ensure a fair trial.
“A prosecutor’s duties do not en
compass the exposure of suspected
criminal activities for exposure’s
sake,” the attorney general said.
That stance, Thornburgh said, of
ten means facing what he called
“false” accusations of censorship or
“a cover up” from the public or the
press about pending investigations.
“As much as the defendant has
the right to remain silent before the
court, the prosecutor has the obliga
tion to remain silent outside the
court,” Thornburgh, who has
headed the U.S. Department of Jus
tice since 1988, said.
By leaking or releasing informa
tion on pending criminal cases, a
prosecutor jeopardizes not only a ba
sic civil right, he or she places the in
tegrity of the judicial system at risk,
he said.
The public’s right to a free press
also is important, he said.
“I share with you an abiding inter
est in the freedom of the press, no
matter how uncomfortable your
copy makes us,” Thornburgh told
the editors.
And in light of the nation’s in
creasing crime rate, an effective
press is an essential public right, he
said.
During such times, the public
wants to know if they have received
the “truth, the whole truth and noth
ing but the truth,” he said.
On a less serious note, Thorn
burgh joked that he expected to be
“mobbed” upon his arrival to Dallas
by Texas Rangers fans mistaking
him for pitcher Nolan Ryan.
In the current issue of “Spy,” a
humor magazine, pictures of Ryan
and Thornburgh are published be
low the headline: “Separated at
Birth.”
The magazine often includes pic
tures of famous people who are
thought to look alike under the
headline as a regular feature.
Oswald case resurfaces
Gun, clothes, papers
stir up controversy
DALLAS (AP) —Jurors got a
glimpse Wednesday of the re
volver Jack Ruby used to kill ac
cused presidential assassin Lee
Harvey Oswald and the clothing
he wore during the shooting.
The .38-caliber Colt Cobra re
volver and Ruby’s other effects
have remained for the most part
under lock and key since his
death 23 years ago.
A six-member jury was consid
ering who has legal authority
over the gun and Ruby’s other ef
fects. At issue are the distribution
of Ruby’s assets and whether Dal
las attorney Jules Mayer should
be removed as the estate’s exec
utor.
Earl Ruby, 75, has been wa
gering a legal battle since his
brother’s death, trying to wrest
control of the gun and estate
from Mayer. The Ruby heirs con
tend Mayer, 82, has failed to per
form his duties.
Mayer had fought a subpoena
from Earl Ruby’s attorneys or
dering him to produce the items
in Dallas County probate court.
Mayer and his attorneys con
tended it could constitute a secu
rity risk to transport the gun
from its depository in a North
Dallas bank vault to the court
room, located less than 500 yards
from where Kennedy was shot.
Earl Ruby disclosed Tuesday
the existence of a cache of Jack
Ruby’s business papers.
“They’re of no value,” Ruby
said while on the witness stand.
But John F. Kennedy assassi
nation buffs say the papers could
provide valuable information.
Ruby said that at his brother’s
request, he removed documents
from Jack Ruby’s Dallas nightclub
after his arrest in 1963.
“It’s absolutely new territory to
my knowledge,” said Gary Mack,
a Fort Worth researcher and con
sultant to The Sixth Floor, the
Dallas assassination exhibit. “I
don’t think the researchers have
ever known that Earl Ruby went
and cleaned out Jack’s office.”
The papers are of special inter
est because some theorists believe
Jack Ruby silenced Oswald as
part of a Mafia-led conspiracy to
kill the president, Mack said.
Earl Ruby continues to refute
that theory, saying that his
brother acted alone and never in
tended to kill Oswald but merely
make him suffer.
Ruby testified that neither the
Warren Commission nor subse
quent congressional panels exam
ined his brother’s papers.
“We don’t know what Jack
Ruby was up to in the days prior
to the assassination,” Mack said.
The papers contain contracts,
Ruby said, and are of no interest
to anyone.
It’s not likely the papers will
become public any time soon. On
the advice of a lawyer. Ruby has
kept the papers for years.
The Ruby family is contesting
an estimated $65,000 in expenses
Mayer claims he is owed for his
work on behalf of the estate. In
cluding attorney’s fees, Mayer
claims he is owed an estimated
$110,000 from the estate.
Other than the gun, which
Mayer valued at $115,000, Ruby’s
estate includes the clothing and
jewelry he wore at the time he
shot Oswald, some personal pa
pers and other clothing.
The IRS also wants a piece of
the estate, claiming that Ruby
owed $17,000 when he died.
That amount, the IRS said, has
grown to $86,010 with interest
and penalties.
Ruby was convicted of murder
in 1964 and sentenced to death in
the electric chair. But the Texas
Court of Criminal Appeals over
turned the conviction in 1966.
ALAN
Continued from page 7
came about halfway through the set
with an original called “Knocking
Off.” Using some delay effects, Alan
pounds rhythm on the body and
neck of the guitar, while picking
away at the strings to provide a mel
ody. The echo from the delay gives
the song an appropriate title, but
whatever it was named, it would
sound downright cool. ,
But Alan is a writer as well, and
while his guitar work is incredible,
his lyrics deserve a second look as
well. Alan played “Famous and
Poor,” a number about people in
America who “suffer from both dis
eases—fame and poverty.”
He also performed a Leiber and
Stoller (the pair that brought out
“Hound Dog” and “Jailhouse Rock”)
song written in the ’50s but never re
corded. “It’s called ‘Strike a Match,’
and it’s about two black folks who
can’t see each other in this dark club
they’re in.”
Alan’s most successful song to
date, still available as a 45 in Dallas
record stores, is “Thanksgiving at
McDonald’s in Time Square.” Writ
ten as sketches of some of the char
acters Alan saw as a reporter in New
York City, the song’s chorus chimes
in “Thanksgiving at McDonald’s,
Thank You, Lord, I pray, If I die be
fore I wake, Somebody please dump
my tray.”
Alan filled the set with punchy ly
rics and incredible guitar work. The
diversity of his set included an
acoustic rendition of some Led Zep
pelin metal as well as Bob Dylan’s
“Highway 61.” Alan closed the night
with his own song, “Happy Hour,” a
number about every bad bar and sa
loon that musicians have to play in.
“I like to try and surprise the au
dience,” Alan said. “There are lots of
ways you can reach people—use your
voice, be funny, play a lot of fancy
guitar licks. I’m trying to cover a lot
of bases—you need a hundred things
going on at once to get through to an
audience.”
Alan had no trouble reaching the
audience at the Front Porch Cafe.
Next time around (probably some
time in early spring), check out his
great guitar work mixed with some
intelligent and humorous lyrics. And
Warts and All can keep you laughing
until then.
LUNCH BUFFET
Daily 11:00-2:00, Sat./Sun. 11:30-2:30
DINNER BUFFET
.Daily 5-8 p.m., Served in West Room
with
coupon
All you can eat • More than 20 items
Expires 11-19-90.
PACIFIC GARDEN RESTAURANT
Between the Hilton & Chimney Hill Bowling
There is such a thing as a ...
FREE RIDE
Join us for Sunday worship service at
Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church (Sam & 10:30am).
Rides are offered at 10:10, every Sunday
at the COMMONS, UNDERGROUND/SBISA, and
UNIVERSITY TOWERS.
(Rides are provided by TEXAS A&M
LUTHERAN COLLEGIANS)
for more info: 693-4514
Call Now For
an Appointment!
ROUTINE $QQ00
CLEANING, 09
X-RAYS and
EXAM
(Reg. $59 less
$20 pretreatment
cash discount)
CarePlusN^tf
Dental Centers
Bryan
Jim Arents, DDS
Karen Arents, DDS
1103 E. Villa Maria
268-1407
College Station
Dan Lawson, DDS
1712 S.W Parkway
696-9578
■ ■
CAR ALARM
SALEH
mm
$10 Off Any Alarm System Installed
By 12/31/90 With This Coupon!!!
Featuring Alarms by:
*Invisibeam, Carbine,
Audio Equipment by:
VSE
*Earthquake, Sony, M&M, Hifonics,
Audio Control and many more.
CREATIVE AUDIO CONCEPTS
3700 S. College
Bryan, Texas 77801
B
I
'I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
1
I
I
I
I
I
(409) 268-8272 I
4
13 Years Judicial Experience
Conservative Republican
McLennan County Resident
Graduate of Texas A&M
Graduate of South Texas College of Law
Active Member of Church of Christ
REASONS TO VOTE FOR
BILL VANCE
1 • HE'S THE MOST QUALIFIED
CANDIDATE
2* ENDORSED BY WACO TRIBUNE-HERALD
AND BRYAN /COLLEGE STATION EAGLE
3. BRAZOS COUNTY HAS NOT
HAD A JUDGE ON THIS
COURT SINCE ITS CREATION
IN 1923.
4. HE'S AN AGGIE... CL ASS OF 1961.
Bill
Mm
DEMOCRAT FOR JUSTICE
10th COURT of APPEALS
Political ad paid by Commlttoo to Eloct Bill Vane. Karl M. May. Troa.ur.r, 5400 Bo»qu.. Suit* 490. Waco. TX 78710