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Friday, April 3,
ANNOUNCING TAMU - STUDY ABROAD
SPRING ? 93 IN ITALY
ARTS 350:
ENGL 222:'
LBAR 333:
HIST 102:
MGMT2I1:
ACCT 230:
Art History
World Literature
Studies in Italian Civilization and Culture
Western Civilization Since 1660
Legal and Social Environment of Business
Introductory Accounting
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Rm. 502 Rudder
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Wednesday, April 8
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Jury convicts mafia boss
"Teflon Don" Gotti may face life term for murder, racketeering
NEW YORK (AP) - John Got
ti, the brash Mafia boss who blast
ed his way to the top of the na
tion's most powerful crime family,
was convicted Thursday of racke
teering and murder charges. He
faces a life sentence.
'TTl be OK,” Gotti told sup
porters after listening to the jury
forewoman announce "guilty” on
all 13 counts. His top lieutenant
also was convicted.
The federal district court jury
decided the mob boss had mur
dered five of his associates in the
Gambino crime family.
The stunning verdict, after just
13 hours of deliberations, crowned
the government's six-year crusade
to put the "Teflon Don” behind
bars. Three times since 1986, Gotti
had beaten charges against him.
Gotti, 51, was done in by his
own voice and the testimony of
once-trusted underboss Salvatore
"Sammy Bull" Gravano. Gotti
was heard on hours of secretly
recorded tapes, openly discussing
murder and other Mafia business.
"The Teflon is gone. The don is
covered with Velcro, and all the
charges stuck," said James Fox,
special agent in charge of the FBI's
New York office.
Gravano, 47, said he commit
ted 10 murders at Gotti's direction
and provided a chilling narrative
of the killings that boosted Gotti
to the position of mob boss.
Just before the jury forewoman
read the verdict, Gotti was smiling
confidently. He showed no reac
tion as she began announcing,
"Guilty."
At one point, Gotti motioned
to his lawyer to remain cool de
spite the result.
His attorney, Albert Krieger,
sat dejectedly at the defense table
as the word "guilty" echoed
through the courtroom. "I antici
pated the jury would spend more
time evaluating some of the is
sues," Krieger said.
Asked how Gotti handled the
verdict, Krieger replied, "He is a
realist, a person of enormous men
tal and emotional strength." The
verdict will be appealed, he said.
"Our country is sick to the core
if it is willing to pay for testimony
by literally absolving a person of
19 confessed murders," Krieger
said of Gravano's appearance.
Gotti and co-defendant Frank
Locascio, who have been jailed
without bond since the indictment
was unsealed in December 1990,
could be sentenced to life in
Brown pic
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as potential
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NEW YORK (AP) - Dem;
Jerry Brown came in fora
tuous round of hecklingWi
day from members of a]«
community group overhisdi
of civil
prison.
"Today's verdict by a coura-
is the end of
geous jury is tne end ot a very
long road/' U.S. Attorney Andrew
Maloney said. "Justice has been
loney said. 'Justice
served, and it feels awfully good.
leader
Jackson
potential!
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Investigation fails to uncover
secret missile sales to China
WASHINGTON (AP) - A U.S. investigating
team returned from Israel with no evidence to sup
port allegations that Israel had secretly transferred a
U.S. Patriot missile or its technology to China, the
State Department said Thursday.
"We consider the matter closed," spokeswoman
Margaret Tutwiler said.
She remained silent about the department's
thinking on a newly released official study that said a
major recipient of U.S. weaponry has been transfer
ring some equipment to third countries without au
thorization for nine years.
The report, released Wednesday, was prepared
by the State Department's Inspector General's office
as part of a routine audit of the department's bureau
of political-military affairs. The bureau monitors use
of U.S. weapons exports.
"The report was not written to draw conclu
sions," Tutwiler said, adding that there are many dif
ferences of opinion about the findings in the 69-page
document.
She refused comment on reports that Israel was
the offending country. The Wall Street Journal, citing
U.S. intelligence agencies, said in a recent article that
Israel had secretly sold air-to-air missiles to China,
anti-tank missiles to South Africa and cluster bombs
to Ethiopia and Chile. Israel has received about $1.8
billion in U.S. military aid annually for years, leading
all other countries.
Tutwiler said the investigating team "found no
evidence that Israel had transferred a Patriot missile
or Patriot missile technology.
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at a campaign appearance hi
the Jewish Community Rek
Council.
Brown's remarks werec
rupted by state Assembly
Dov Hikind who urged ate
people on hand not to''sit(p
and listen to this.”
"You insult the Jewish
munity by picking Jesse Jack
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governor.
The angry lawmaker
asked to leave the roomanc
members of the groupeset!
him to the door, but others ii
audience demonstrated thee
happiness with the choicebvl
ing and heckling throughou!
30-minute session.
In key primaries this
Brown trailed Bill Clinton
Paul Tsongas among Jewisb
Gifts prejudice choices
of doctors, survey says
WASHINGTON (AP) - Eight
out of 10 doctors say drug sales
men are offering girts to encour
age prescribing their wares, ac
cording to government investiga
tors. The offers can be tiny, like a
pen or a meal. Or they can be
huge, like a trip. They are worth
nothing or thousands of dollars.
"Some of these offers, in addi
tion to being inappropriate, may
be illegal," says a draft report by
Richard P. Kusserow, inspector
general of the Department of
Health and Human Services.
The report does not name
names.
"We found that gifts and of
fers of value related to studies.
speaking engagements and pro-
idance are uj
gram attendance are used by
pharmaceutical companies to pro
mote their drugs," the report said.
"We also round that promo
tional practices involving items of
value appear to affect physicians'
prescribing decisions," according
to the draft report, a copy of
which was obtained by The Asso
ciated Press.
Kusserow's office surveyed a
thousand doctors nationwide and
found that 82 percent of the 614
who responded reported getting
offers between the fall of 1990 and
the fall of 1991.
Jobless claims climb
despite revival signs
WASHINGTON (AP) — Orders to U.S. factories rose 05per
cent in February, the government reported Thursday. It wssthe
second straight small gain and, analysts said, a fresh sign&&
manufacturing sector was slowly reviving. jraP* 1
But another government report said first-time claimsfcjfite
benefits rose for a second week in a row in mid-March as'mm
es continued to hand out pink slips despite the emergingeamic
recovery.
In its report, the Commerce Department said orders for boft
durable and non-durable goods rose to a seasonally adjusted
$236.4 billion, the second straight 0.5 percent advance after fallioj
3.7 percent in December.
"These data confirm that the manufacturing sector is impror
ing, at a modest pace," said Marilyn Schaja, an economistwif
Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp. in New York.
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in front of all those people."
He said he has surpassed not only his ex
pectations, but everyone else's as well.
"I wouldn't have imagined that I would
be playing this good," he said, "I thought I
would do well, but I never thought I would
do this well."
Harris accomplished a rare feat for any
player last week against Sam Houston State
University when he hit for the cycle. His 4-
for-5 performance still has not sunk in yet.
"It was like a dream," he said. "Even
now, I still can't believe I did it. It's kind of
crazy because I never imagined that it could
happen."
Hickey is expected back for the Aggies'
series against the University of Texas next
weekend, but Harris is not worried about it
because he thinks his performance will keep
him in the lineup.
He said Hickey's return will help the Ag
gies' offense.
"There are some players right now that
are struggling, but they are going to come
around," Harris said. "We're going to kick it
into gear and really start doing well."
The first time the Aggies and the Red
Raiders played this season, the Aggies swept
a three-game series at Olsen Field.
A&M's Jeff Granger is scheduled to pitch
the opener for the Aggies. Granger is 4-2(
the season with a 3.44 ERA and a team-1
ing 80 strikeouts. Tech will start Mark Bn
denberg, who owns a 7-4 record andal
ERA, in game one.
For the Aggies to beat Tech, Harrisn
they must play good, fundamental basebai
"The pitchers just have to go out tin
and throw strikes, and the hitters just have
be aggressive and play hard," Harris said
If the Aggies do that, he thinks they*'
continue their recent winning trend.
"We've been going out there with a
intensity," he said. "We've been going)
there and talking it up a lot.
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"The Voyages of Christopher Columbus"
Dr. Mauricio Obregon
Professor of History
University of the Andes, Bogota/Colombia
Friday, April 3
7:00 pm
701 Rudder
Reception to follow in the Galleries
Presented by the TAMU Office of University Art Collections and Exhibitions.
This program is sponsored in part by a grant from the Texas Committee for the
Humanities, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Call 845-8501 for more information.
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