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State & Local it 7 p.m. Into) Will...The at 693-1934 Friday prayj r. All Muslirs /idodo at84f. Thursday, September 17,1992 The Battalion Page 11 Two Texas proj ects cut by Senate THE ASSOCIATED PRESS to attend ot! >.m. in Hem ks provided er activities■ Tunnelroarj WASHINGTON (AP) - A a.m. FormoiBnate subcommittee took aim at >-1515or84iM 0 Texas projects Wednesday, eliminating all money for the con- e the Be; trover si a 1 V-22 tilt-rotor and pro- Call Leslie; viding $20 million less than the ■ouse did for a semiconductor kGE - Cml nsortium b ase d in Austin, mas! 430['iI The cuts came as the appropri- toattend. Fj|ations defense subcommittee ap- ■•oved $250 billion in overall Pen- and la . tagon spending for the year that n. Anybody!° ct - 1 - The package is John at 7t< [down from $270 billion this year nd from Bush's $261 billion re- •arvJotJTO : h uestfor next y ear - urnal-proselThe House has approved a i call Socom $251 billion defense package that ■eludes $755 million next year for the experimental V-22 and $100 Semiconductor to receive $20 million less, V-22 tilt-rotor loses all funding £ (AFA): Afa C. Festivite vade, Exolt snd mete.: I person. F« 362 or Mad; n Bible sti 30 p.m. in he ;t is $11 : at Wesley 464701. million for Sematech, the Austin based consortium. The $80 million approved b the Senate panel for Sematec matches what President Bush re quested, but is $20 million short of both what the House and the Sen ate Armed Services Committee have approved. The subcommittee's move to slash V-22 funding caught the Texas congressional delegation off guard. Though disappointed, the law makers said they remained hope ful funding would be restored. "Texas took a double hit," said Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas. "But we've still got a good chance to put things right and I'll be making an all-out effort." Bentsen and fellow Texas Sen. Phil Gramm planned to work to get the full Senate Appropriations Committee, of which Gramm is a member, to restore the funds. "Short of that, we'll come back for another bite of the apple later, certainly in the conference with a House committee which is strong ly committed to a robust V-22 pro gram," Bentsen said. Rep. Pete Geren, D-Fort Worth, said there had been no hints that the subcommittee was planning to pare the V-22 money. The embattled aircraft for years has been attacked by the Pentagon as too costly, but until Wednesday had never suffered a funding cut in Congress. "I was real surprised and dis appointed," said Rep. Pete Geren, D-Texas, whose Fort Worth dis trict is home to one of the devel opers, Bell Helicopter Textron. The aircraft takes off like a heli copter but flies like a plane. Geren speculated that the Sen ate subcommittee may have elimi nated funding as leverage to use in negotiations later with the House. "I'm hopeful it's just an effort to take a hostage for the confer ence, but it was a very disturbing development and one we sure didn't expect," he said. Appeals court reverses death sentences based servo Formation o Jocial Hour! [he the Hal iURCH: seminar’ dren, ages THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AUSTIN — The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reversed two death sentences hlfcoA^ r e dnesday but upheld four other capital mur- ler cases, including that of a man convicted of killing a Dallas police officer in 1988. I In one reversal, Michael Wayne Richard liill get a new trial because the court said the calfRoyceil|j lir y was not gi ven a chance to consider the de- ■ndant's background of child abuse when de- prmining his culpability. I Richard was convicted in the Aug. 18, 1986 fatal shooting in Houston of Marguerite Lu- of separate|>lle Dixon during the course of a burglary of rom 7 p.m:: |her home, irch, 333 0;T itioncallWB In the other reversal, the case of Michael Steven Jones was sent back to the trial court because the Criminal Appeals Court said pros ecutors misled one of the jurors on the defini tion of intentional murder. Jones was convicted in Jefferson County of the Oct. 9, 1987 fatal stabbing of Faye Larry during a burglary. In the police officer's mur der, the court rejected the appeal of Vincent Edward Cooks who was convicted in the fatal shooting of Gary McCarthy. McCarthy was working off-duty when he was gunned down Feb. 26, 1988 during a robbery attempt of a west Dallas grocery store owner. His killing was the third of a Dallas police officer during a six-week period. Cooks alleged the evidence was insufficient to support his conviction, that the trial judge allowed numerous errors in the jury selection process, and improperly allowed him to be shackled during the trial. The Criminal Appeals Court rejected all his appeals. Other cases affirmed by the court were: — Emanuel Kemp Jr., who was convicted in Tarrant County for the murder of Johnnie Gray on May 28, 1987. — Sammie Felder Jr. was convicted of capi tal murder for the stabbing death of James Hanks, a paraplegic, during a robbery on March 14, 1975. — Thomas Joe Miller-El, for the Nov. 16, 1985 fatal shooting of Douglas Walker during a robbery of the Dallas-Fort Worth South Holi day Inn in Irving. ;e Monoa, t the Po: necessa". d tradito 1 ne join ft i will takf 17-3310 a Mexican national faces execution, hopes for stay EERS: Theft ] p.m. in the Auditorium 1605 Rock THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HUNTSVILLE A'25-year- old Mexican nartictnal was scheduled to die early Thurs day for the 1985 slaying of a motorist who had given the condemned man a ride near Brownsville. Attorneys for Irineo Tristan Montoya had asked a state judge in Brownsville to grant a stay, but no ruling had been is sued as of early Wednesday af ternoon. Montoya was scheduled to die shortly after midnight, but the Texas Attorney General's office said he probably would receive a stay because his case has not yet been through the full appeals process. In addition to the request for a stay, the head of Mexico's Na tional Human Rights Commis sion has asked Texas Gov. Ann Richards to commute Mon toya's death sentence on hu manitarian grounds. Montoya was convicted by a jury in the Nov. 17, 1985 stab bing death of John E. Kilheffer, who gave Montoya and a friend a ride. Montoya has claimed the other man — who was impris oned but not sentenced to death — did the stabbing. According to court records, Montoya gave police a confes sion in which he admitted that he and another man robbed Kil heffer after Kilheffer had picked them up hitchhiking to Brownsville. Montoya admitted holding the victim while the second man stabbed him, court records showed. Meanwhile, a federal judge Tuesday granted a stay for David Martin Long, 39, who also was scheduled to die early Thursday for the 1986 hatchet slaying of a 64-year-old blind woman in Lancaster, a Dallas suburb. Dalpha Lorene Jester and two other women, including a cousin, were hacked to death in their home Sept. 27,1986. Prosecutor claimed Long, who had lived at the house for about a week, killed the women because he was tired of hearing them argue. During his trial. Long called the triple homicide a 'Satanic experience" and said he would kill again if not given the death penalty. L H -J Voting plan to bring better representation THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DALLAS — After three years of legal battles, elections and ap peals to the U.S. Justice Department and Supreme Court, Dallas had a new voting district plan that provided better minority representa tion. The plan was first put into use last November when a 15-mem ber city council was elected under the new boundaries. So city officials were a little shocked this week when a confiden tial memo from City Attorney Sam Lindsey said that another elec tion was needed to approve the plan, known as 14-1, to satisfy state law. "I was stunned when I saw the memo," said Mayor Steve Bartlett. "It was a cold sponge in the face." Now, city officials are trying to come to grips with the possibility that the plan could be rejected by voters. If voters don't approve 14-1, it would not mean a return to the old 8-3 system, where eight council members were elected from a district and three, including the mayor, were elected at large. However, City Councilman Glenn Box, who opposed 14-1 when he sat on the old 8-3 system, said that if voters don't approve 14-1 this time, the matter could return to U.S. District Judge Jerry Buch- meyer. Under 14-1, all 14 members of the council are elected from dis tricts and the mayor is elected at large. Voters rejected the 14-1 system by less than 400 votes in Decem ber 1990. That vote came after Buchmeyer had ruled the 8-3 system was unconstitutional. Bartlett predicts a special election would cost taxpayers about $400,000. "At best, it was a huge miscommunication that is very costly and very unfair to the taxpayers," Bartlett said. Late cold front extends hope of cotton growers THE ASSOCIATED PRESS COLLEGE STATION - The cold front predicted to hit Texas will be delayed until next week, leaving a warm, dry forecast for cotton harvesting, the Texas Agri cultural Extension Service reports. The western trans-Pecos region should receive showers Wednes day, and two tropical waves should bring showery weather to the coastal region. The rest of the state will enjoy dry weather with highs in the 90s and lows in the upper 60s, said Dr. Mickey Flynn, meteorologist at the Southwest Agricultural Weather Service in College Station. "The cool weather predicted for this week has been delayed, but it is coming," he said. "A big high-pressure system should push the cold front into Texas. It will be just north of the state on Saturday and should bring signifi cantly cooler weather early next week." Cotton producers in Southwest Texas, who have over 80 percent of their Upland cotton picked, are hoping the weather will hold off until all of it is harvested. "Our main concern is the dry ing time," said Dr. Noble Kear ney, Extension agronomist in Uvalde. Kearney said Southwest Texas frequently experiences morning cloud cover that delays picking until one or two o'clock, when the cotton is sufficiently dry. "It doesn't take much. One shower can put a stop to the day's picking," he said. Kearney said an afternoon shower bringing as little as a quarter-inch of rain would delay picking until the next day. "If the weather holds off, we should be finished by Saturday," he said. The front should affect most of the state, and temperatures could drop significantly, Flynn said. "In Montana Saturday they are expecting lows to be 16 degrees below normal and highs to be 28 below normal," he said. Texas may also see some rain next week associated with the front, Flynn said. Producers in northeastern Ma son County are busy repairing water gaps and damage from two cloudbursts that startled residents on Sept. 1 and Sept. 10. "The Sept. 1 cloudburst brought six to seven inches of rain," said Arlan Gentry, Exten sion agricultural agent in Mason. "Some areas had a lot of rain and some didn't get too much. One place had a lot of damage, possi bly from a whirlwind or a torna do." Gentry said trees were uproot ed, tin roofs were blown off old barns and property-separating fences across creeks were easily washed away. "When the creeks rise, they will flow pretty fast and the de bris will knock the fences out. This'll happen if you have a hard rain. It may only be an inch or so, but it doesn't take much to knock them out," he said. Despite the cloudburst. Gentry said, rain has been spotty, and producers haven't received a gen eral rain since spring. "We're split between ranchers and farmers," he said. "The ranchers could use rain all year long." MSC MBA/Law Fall Sy mposium Topics Include: International Business Go-Op Opportunities Preparing for Grad School Private Law Practice Sept. 26,1992 9:00 am-5:30 pm Memorial Student Center Return this form with $ 1 () registration & luncheon fee to: MSC MBA/Law Box J1 Coll. Stat., TX 77844-9081 N ame: Address: Interest: Business Law Confirmation will be returned by mail. SMALL BUSINESSES Do you operate a small full or part time business from your home, such as selling specialty items, making clothing alterations, turning out novelties, repairing things, restoring furniture or babysitting? 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