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Thursday, July 11,1991 The Battalion Page 3 Ph.D [Quick/ 15 <5o5H- We cam (30 SACK TO oi*?] by Michael Mogonye WtfO/tf V/HATA\r[^^S oa)W~ fi/lQHTMP&B! D^Eam... mey( Escaped ape terrorizes homeowners LARGO, Fla. (AP) — An es caped ape got into a neighbor's house, terrorized the homeown ers, ran after their dogs and left the place a mess. The 3-foot Celabese ape named Roscoe escaped Sunday from its cage a few streets away and entered Shirley and Norton Craig's home. "It just blew by me," said Craig. "He was a mean-looking thing. He looked like King Kong in miniature." By the time police arrived, Roscoe was racing from the mantle to chairtops to behind the TV and to any other place that seemed safe. Wildlife Rescue director Ver non Yates corralled the ape be hind an aquarium. "I just walked over, grabbed him by the arm and walked him out of the house," Yates said. by Tom A. Madison Nerd House hm Hubcrt! If you mn me ms mt uai nmr AGAIN, J '[Y\ GOING TO TEMl OFF WUR. AMD KILL t i > 0U UJITH IT. FBI file of Leland reveals two closed investigations WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI investigated the late Rep. Mickey Leland 20 years ago after he testified in court about "police harassment of the black community" in Houston and again after his election to Congress when someone accused him or bribery, according to government files. In the first case, the government decided he had a "rooted alle giance" to an activist group but was not a threat to national secu rity. The second investigation was dropped after federal officials concluded the accusation was false. The information is in Leland's FBI file, obtained by The Asso ciated Press through a filing under the Freedom of Information Act. Major portions of the furnished documents were blacked out. Leland was killed Aug. 7, 1989, when the plane in which he was traveling slammed into a remote mountain ravine in Ethiopia. Leland, as chairman of the House Select Committee on Hunger, was heading toward a refugee camp to focus attention on famine- stricken Sudan. Two years before his death, the Federal Bureau of Investigation had begun a preliminary inquiry into his activities after receiving an allegation of bribery, conflict of interest and public corruption. The person making the charge is not identified in the FBI file. Volcano, unrest pose no threat to professor Continued from page 1 poverty." Shafer said though the Phil ippines is usually considered to oe a dangerous country, it is not any more dangerous than Hous ton or Dallas; but it suffers from different forms of violence. Communist guerillas could be bund in the mountains, but Shafer said they would usually only target members of the mili tary, police or politicians. "We weren't any of those, so We could travel where we wan ted," he said. Travel inside the city of Manila Was considered by most of the citizens to be more dangerous than travel outside the city, but Shafer does not agree. "There are armed guards at every grocery store and bank in Manila," he said. "It seems more dangerous in than out." During his second semester of baching there, Shafer and his wife moved to a house on a fountain in a rain forest to get J Way from the city. p The house was given to the Wafers by the University of the ‘‘hilippines — Los Banos Insti- bte of Development Commu nication. In exchange, Shafer taught journalism classes there. Shafer was in Singapore dur ing May when the volcano erupted in the Philippines, and he said the disaster might have actually improved the city of Ma nila in some areas. "When we left they weren't collecting garbage," he said. Before the volcano erupted, the town's streets were not cleaned. But after the eruption, the ash cleanup corrected the problem. "You could see four inch drifts of ash," he said. "It was more like white sand. The sky was al ways gray." Shafer said the earthquakes, volcanos and political unrest al most seem to strengthen the Fil ipino people. "I didn't find that in other countries," he said. "They're pretty cheerful, and you rarely see them argue. "They play rock and roll all the time," he added. "There's music everywhere." Shafer said he plans to return to the Philippines next summer and continue his research about female journalists in Third World countries. Scout denies use of excessive force by police officer FORT WORTH (AP) — The Explorer scout riding with a police officer accused of striking a handcuffed suspect at least 28 times with a baton denied the patrolman used excessive force. Scout Michael A. Tobey, 20, said in a statement to Fort Worth olice that Officer Edward James Parnell III acted properly when e restrained auto theft suspect Ernest A. Anderson. The beating, captured on videotape by a woman in a nearby garden, received national attention when it was broadcast on news shows. "I believe in my opinion, from being on the scene, that Officer Parnell did not use excessive force to restrain the suspect," Tobey said of the July 3 beating. In the statement, obtained by The Dallas Morning News, Tobey said Anderson repeatedly said he wanted to die and tried to dive from the window of the moving squad car into the traffic on Inter -state 30. Tobey quoted Anderson as saying, "Hit me in the head, kill me, I want to die." Tobey's statement is the first detailed account of what hap pened in Parnell's squad Car just before the beating. Tobey said the beating oegan after Anderson kicked out the back side window and pushed himself halfway through. Parnell then stopped the car and tried to push Anderson back inside. "I do not remember how many times Officer Parnell struck the suspect, but I remember after every hit Officer Parnell instructed the suspect to get back inside the vehicle," Tobey said. "The sus pect told us 'no' every time." Tobey belongs to a Police Exploring program that lets young people interested in law enforcement careers experience police work. The scout, who said he had ridden with Parnell before, said he had never seen Parnell strike anyone with his baton prior to the July 3 incident. Parnell has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the beating. He was released on $1,500 bond and is on paid leave during the internal affairs investigation. 'Faculty for the Future' grant helps minorities about 10 percent. "Today's workforce is more ethnically diverse," he said. "In Texas, it will become even more so, with an increase in hispanics and other minorites in the gen eral population." The ethnic diversity of Texas contributed to the appeal of A&M's proposals to the GE Foundation, Wichem said. A&M was the only institution awarded two grants by the foundation. "We have a large pool of mi- students." norities to draw from in Texas," Wichern said women make up he said. "This pool is relatively 40 percent of the business untapped, and Texas A&M is in school's undergraduate student a good position to tap it and put population, and minorities only this money to good use." Continued from page 1 Administration and Graduate School of Business, said A&M has been interested in increasing the number ojf women and un der-represented minorites in the college to better reflect the work ing population. "This is an attempt to make the business school more diver se," Wichern said. "That's what the 'Faculty for the Future' grant is all about. 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