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The 3-foot Celabese ape
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"It just blew by me," said
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Roscoe was racing from the
mantle to chairtops to behind the
TV and to any other place that
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out of the house," Yates said.
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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
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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."
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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. We're trying to pro
vide enough support for these
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