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I HOUSTON (AP) — A Harris County jury on
Thursday sentenced Jeffrey Scott Leibengood, a
dwarf, to 50 years in prison for the June shooting
death of his grandfather.
Leibengood, 25, who is 4-feet-5-inches tall, had
asked that his jury include short people he believed
would have empathy for him, but State District
Judge Carl Walker denied the request.
Jurors on Wednesday took only 90 minutes to
convict Leibengood in the fatal shooting of Robert
Earl Shoffner, 74. On Thursday, they deliferated two
hours before determining the sentence.
Defense attorney John Carrigan had asked that
Leibengood be given probation.
But prosecutor Pat Patillo called Leibengood's
mother to the stand, who said she did not believe her
son should be given a probated sentence and said the
famfly feared him.
Carrigan said he felt the woman's testimony hurt
Leibengood's chances for a light sentence. Patillo had
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asked that Leibengood be sentenced to life in prison.
Shoffner was shot four times last June after
Leibengood had invited his maternal grandfather to
his townhouse to help fix an air conditioner.
Leibengood told jurors he feared his grandfather
and that he shot him when Shoffner became verbally
abusive during an argument.
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est industrial countries that was
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-IAII0N; ac tion to Gaidar's firing was
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for the Texas "It is a matter for President
speaking, A Yeltsin and the Russians to de-
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formation tar >'' Gar y Foster - " lt w* 11 not af
fect our plans."
Gaidar, 36, will retain his post
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cutive officef said. He will be replaced as fi-,
■0 the coming nance minister by Vasily Barchuk,
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former department head in the old
Soviet Finance Ministry.
"It should not be viewed as a
weakening of Gaidar's team, just
as a normal process of the govern
ment's work," said Andrei Silan-
tyev, head of the Russian govern
ment's press bureau.
"My personal guess is that it
may be related to the forthcoming
congress, certainly not displeasure
with Gaidar's work," said Alexei
Novikov, a Yeltsin spokesman.
Gaidar increasingly had been
the focus of public anger over
‘‘Yeltsin's reforms, in which the
government freed prices on most
goods in a desperate attempt to
stimulate production and rescue
the failing ruble.
"We don't need these professor
economists," said economist Alla
Yakoven, who was standing in
line Thursday to buy hard-line lit
erature in front of the Lenin Muse
um. "They don't know anything.
Everybody was taken care of un
der the old system."
Many Russian shoppers were
outraged by Gaidar's strategy be
cause it sent prices skyrocketing
on goods that for years had been
kept artificially low.
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the early registration period.
Tien the open add/drop time be
gins, students can add additional
hours
Other changes include:
•student workers who want to
register early must now have an
employee registration form turned
in at the Pavilion before registra
tion begins. Forms can be picked
up at the Pavilion, and are due by
noon on Friday, April 10.
•student worker registration is
now by telephone, and will begin
the first day of senior registration,
which is April 13. Student work
ers can access the system from 9
a.m. until 8 p.m.
•student workers employed
by A&M for more than one month
are now required to submit a pho
tocopy of the last two paycheck
stubs they received qs yerification
of their employment. The em
ployer of students who have
worked at A&M for less one
month will be contacted to verify
employment.
David Hamilton, the off-cam
pus senator who sponsored the
bill in the Student Senate, said the
student body believed student
workers had an unfair advantage
when registering.
"There was a growing senti
ment from senators that there was
some hostility toward pre-regis
tration," he said. "If we didn't
tackle the problem, this would
have been the last semester for
student worker pre-registration."
Hamilton then contacted As
sistant Registrar Willis Ritchey to
come up with a new policy.
The AOC had already canceled
student worker registration before
it was presented with the Student
Government bill.
"We passed the bill in Student
Senate, and it was supposed to go
to the AOC, but it didn't go
through in time, and they decided
to do«away with pre-registration,"
Hamilton said.
Members of Student Govern
ment then met with some of the
deans in charge of the AOC, who
submitted the student worker bill
to the full committee. After the
committee heard the proposal, it
was endorsed.
"It (the bill) really does make
registration easier for student
workers," Hamilton said. "The
paperwork actually facilitates the
process, because everything has
already been turned in."
Hamilton said the new policy's
effectiveness will be seen during
summer registration, but it will
probably be used during the fall
also.
David Brooks, speaker of the
Senate, said these new policies are
to get data about how to make
pre-registration more effective..
"It's an experiment to get
data," he said. "It's to try to deter
mine if it makes registration more
equitable for students."
"We hope it will make regis
tration more efficient, and help cut
down on complaints," he said.
Brooks said the administration
has been cooperative working
with student government to im
plement the changes. Whether the
new policy will be used in the fall
depends on how well it works this
summer, Brooks said.
Willis Ritchey, assistant regis
trar, said members of Student
Government did most of the work
on the new policy.
"They had two concerns," he
said. "Students that work and
students that don't work."
Ritchey said his office was not
involved in the primary decision
making, but in how the phone reg
istration system would lend itself
to the changes.
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"WhaT"we put into it was
whether the system could handle
it, and whether the machines
would allow it," he said.
Ritchey commended the work
of Student Government members
in identifying ways to improve the
system for students who need to
register early.
"They came up with the guide
lines on the form, with additional
steps that will do a better job than
we were doing of truly identifying
students who have this particular
need," he said.
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