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U.S. Army investigates colonel
Officer's security clearance suspended, newspaper reports
CORPUS CHRISTI (AP) - The
U.S. Army has suspended the se
curity clearance of a Texas Nation
al Guard colonel under investiga
tion in connection with drug
smuggling activities, a newspaper
reported Tuesday.
Col. Richard Brito headed the
Guard's drug war until April
1989, when U.S. Customs request
ed his removal because of his
brother's alleged involvement
with narcotics trafficking, customs
officials have said.
A confidential memo said
Brito's security clearance has been
suspended "pending further in
vestigation to clarify allegations of
drug smuggling operations."
The Corpus Christi
Caller-Times obtained a copy of
the March 10 memo sent to Brito
by the U.S. Army Central Person
nel Security Clearance Facility in
Maryland.
Calls to Brito, the director of
plans, operations and training for
the Army National Guard in
Austin, were referred to Guard
spokesman Lt. Col. Edmond Ko-
mandosky.
"We can't deny its existence,"
Komandosky said of the memo.
"But it is being handled. We aren't
supposed to talk about it."
The U.S. Attorney's Office in
Houston has dropped an investi
gation of Brito, according to a
Texas Department of Public Safety
officer who investigated the case.
Federal officials refused to com
ment.
The Caller-Times reported ear
lier this year that the DPS and the
U.S. Customs Service were inves
tigating Brito in connection with
the suspected smuggling opera
tions of his two younger brothers,
Mario and William.
Mario Brito was convicted in
absentia in Grimes County of or
ganized criminal activity. William
Brito was charged with the same
offense but was never tried.
Both fled the state in 1990 and
remain fugitives. Each was also
charged in Brownsville with four
federal drug offenses in 1991.
DPS officer Von Allen and oth
er investigators said they were
looking into allegations that Brito
supplied his brothers with infor
mation that allowed them to
smuggle drugs into the United
States from Mexico.
The DPS has been looking into
Brito's alleged connection for
about four years, said Allen, a nar
cotics officer in Bryan who was in
volved in the investigation.
The U.S. Attorney's office de
clined to pursue the case, halting
another investigation by a
Brownsville grand jury.
"The U.S. Attorney's Office in
Houston didn't give us the OK to
indict," Allen said.
"Brito is a dead issue by orders
of the U.S. Attorney's Office in
Houston."
In Advance
Off-Campus
Center to hold
'92 Housing Fair
today in MSC
The Off-Campus
Center is sponsoring
the 1992 Housing Fair
today in the MSC from
9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Over 50
management
properties and some
apartment locator
services have set up
booths and are on
hand with information
about their properties
and services.
Helping to answer
students’ questions at
the fair are fifteen
service providers,
including the police
/ departments and the
utility companies.
The Student Legal
Department is
available to answer
questions concerning
the variety of leases.
For more
information call Off-
Campus Housing
Office at 845-1741.
Three stabbed, beaten to death
Close friends, residents say unknown killer knew victims
KERRVILLE (AP) -In the quiet
Hill Country community where
three family members were
dubbed and stabbed to death, the
neighborhood mood Tuesday was
a mix of shock, mild curiosity and
nonchalance.
But friends and close neighbors
of the elderly Clayton and Juliana
Kenney seemed to agree on one
thing: the family's killer was
someone who knew them.
"I think it's just isolated. From
what I can figure out, it was some
body who knew them," said Bud
Hainline, who lives about three-
fourths of a mile from the Kenney
home and occasionally visited
with Clayton Kenney.
"Of course we're concerned
about it," Hainline said.
"We're just anxious for them
to find out who did it."
Clayton Kenney, 83, Juliana
Kenney, 74, and Mrs. Kenney's
daughter, 44-year-old Adrienne
Arnot, were found dead Monday
morning.
Their bodies were discovered
by a nurse maid who came to the
house after receiving no answer
by telephone.
Juliana Kenney previously had
suffered a stroke and had to be
cared for by her family and hired
help.
Law officers found a knife and
a post or stick Monday on the
Kenney's property, an isolated
piece of land just north of Ker-
rville.
Investigators searched for more
clues Tuesday, questioning sever
al people who had worked for the
family, said Kerr County Sheriff
Frances Kaiser.
Autopsies indicated the three
were stabbed and beaten.
There were no arrests in the
case by Tuesday evening.
In their peaceful hilltop home,
as they watched deer nibble in
their back yard, Dorothy and M.B.
Abernathy recounted the mo
ments after the bodies were found
at the nearby Kenney home.
The maid, whose name has not
been released to the public, ran to
the Abernathy home seeking help.
"I heard the person out there
crying, and I thought, 'Oh some
body must have had an automo
bile wreck'," said Mrs. Abernathy,
who soon realized the situation
was more serious.
"She kept saying, 'The Ken
neys have been murdered. There's
blood everywhere.' "
Texas confines woman for 51 years
No one else would take care of her, state attorney says in defense
AUSTIN (AP) — Attorneys for
a woman who says she was
wrongly confined in Texas mental
institutions for 51 years said Tues
day that her life has been de
stroyed.
But a state attorney said Texas
should not be punished for taking
care of Opal Petty when no one
else would.
The Texas Supreme Court
heard oral arguments in the case
of Petty, now 73-years-old and liv
ing with her nephew and his wife
in San Angelo. The nine-member
court issued no immediate ruling.
In 1989, Petty was awarded
$505,000 from a Travis County
jury that found the Texas Depart
ment of Mental Health and Mental
Retardation guilty of negligence.
Her award was later reduced to
$250,000 because of state law lim
iting damages against state agen
cies.
An appeals court upheld the
judgment, and the Texas attorney
general's office appealed to the
state Supreme Court.
The state claims that the jury
award was wrong. Under the
Texas Torts Claims Act, a person
can recover damages from the
state only if "tangible property"
of the state is a contributing factor
to the injury.
"The state is being punished
for trying to take care of someone
no one else would take care of,"
said assistant attorney general
Toni Hunter.
The jury found the state was
negligent because it misinterpret
ed numerous diagnostic tests,
mental evaluations, and other sta
tus examinations of Petty.
Hunter said those tests are not
tangible property because they re
flect opinions and information.
But Justice Bob Gammage said,
"A piece of paper is tangible prop
erty. You can hold it in your hand.
What you're asking for it seems to
me is a distinction without a dif
ference."
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Evangelist refuses
to release records
DALLAS (AP) — An attorney
for Robert Tilton has indicated the
televangelist's ministry would not
provide financial documents to
the state attorney general by a
Tuesday deadline, saying Tilton
already has opened records to fed
eral investigators.
The Texas attorney general's
office disagreed with Tilton's Ok
lahoma attorney on whether the
ministry, which recently changed
from a corporation to a non-profit
association, was now outside the
state attorney's jurisdiction.
During a televised Sunday ser-
yice, Tilton announced his min
istry, formerly Word of Faith
World Outreach Center Church
Inc., had dissolved its non-profit
corporate status to become a full-
fledged church.
Texas Attorney General Dan
Morales, in a letter two weeks ago,
gave Tilton's ministry until the
close of business Tuesday to pro
duce the documents, including tax
forms and ledgers.
The documents were needed to
determine whether the ministry
was abiding by its status as a non
profit corporation.
Tilton has been under legal
scrutiny since ABC-TV's Prime-
Time Live broadcast a profile of
his ministry in November.
According to the broadcast,
Tilton deposited financial dona
tions sent with "prayer requests,"
hut the requests didn't reach the
minister.
The ministry has denied the al
legation.
J.C. Joyce, a Tulsa, Okla., attor
ney representing Tilton, urged the
Texas attorney general in a letter
to withdraw his request for infor
mation.
Gray McBride, a spokesman for
Morales, said the state would re
spond to the letter Wednesday
with its next step.
"That will be entailed in our re
sponse," said McBride. "But this
has transpired: They (Tilton's
ministry) have now stated they
will not respond to our request for
records, and ask that it be with
drawn."
He said earlier that a change in
the Farmers Branch-based min
istry's corporation status did not
derail the state's investigation.
"An alteration in the corporate
structure of an organization on
one day does not provide blanket
protection for accountability for
any actions taken the previous
day," said McBride.
Joyce said he stated Word of
Faith World Outreach Center
Church's legal position in the let
ter.
"The AG's office had claimed
civil authority in this case. All we
have done is we don't believe civil
authority should interfere in inter
nal affairs of the church," Joyce
said.
"So we changed our status to
be equal with reality. It has al
ways been a church," he said.
Joyce said Tilton has nothing to
hide, and that his church opened
its books to the Federal Bureau of
Investigation and U.S. postal in
spectors just days after the ABC
report.
"Those two agencies are still
looking through books," Joyce
said, adding that Tilton's ministry
had waived its attorney-client
privilege with him in regard to the
inquiry.
Joyce said that move allows the
FBI and postal inspectors to get
any information they need more
easily.
Dan Vogel, a spokesman with
the FBI office in Oklahoma City
said Tuesday he could not con
firm or deny that the agency was
examining the ministry s books.
The Association of
Former Students
Spring Senior
Induction Banquet
Tuesday & Wednesday, April 7 & 8, 1992
COLLEGE STATION HILTON HOTEL -
GRAND BALLROOM - 6:30 P.M.
All May & August ’92 graduates are invited
Complimentary tickets may be picked up in the
MSC Hallway, Acrossfrom Post Office
March 31, April 1 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Last Day
TICKETS GIVEN ON FIRST COME - FIRST SERVED BASIS
Student I.D. Required to Pick Up Tickets.
This is your invitation to the induction of the Class of ’92
Compliments of
The Association of Former Students