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The Battalion
Friday, March 5,1993
Cult standoff continues
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WACO — Three teams of ne
gotiators are talking "almost con
stantly" with the leader of an
armed religious cult in discus
sions that include scripture and
religion, the FBI said Thursday.
Although negotiators are "very
positive" about the relationship
that have built with cult leader
David Koresh, he still has been
told to wait by God, said FBI
Agent Jeffrey Jamar.
* During the talks, "there's long
discussions regarding religion,
long readings of the scripture,"
Jamar said. Koresh reneged on an
earlier promise to peacefully sur
render because he was awaiting
further instruction from God, Ja
mar said Wednesday.
Also Thursday, authorities in
two Bradley armored fighting ve
hicles recovered a body they had
spotted Wednesday about 350
yards from the compound during
a helicopter search.
"It was the first time I've ever
had to put on a bulletproof vest to
do an inquest," David Pareya,
McLennan County Justice of the
Peace.
The body, an unidentified
white male, was taken to a foren
sic lab in Fort Worth, Pareya said.
Jamar said the recovery was
"not negotiated," and that the
Bradleys were used to protect the
crime scene investigators.
Neither Jamar nor ATF deputy
associate director Dan Conroy
would say Thursday whether the
man had been killed in Sunday's
raid on the Mount Carmel com
pound.
"He was the victim of gunshot
wounds, basically that's all I can
say," Conroy said.
Also Thursday, two or three
Davidians were seen carrying an
object among them which was left
in a truck. No details on the object
were immediately available. The
Davidians returned peaceably to
the compound.
Earlier Thursday, Jamar con
firmed the release of two addi
tional children. Two boys, ages 11
and 12, had been released
Wednesday afternoon and Thurs
day morning, he said.
Some feel situation
needs 'mother's love'
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WACO — Balenda Ganem be
lieves a very important ingredi
ent is lacking in negotiations to
end the standoff between federal
agents and members of a heavily
armed cult led by a doomsday
prophet: a mother's love.
Ganem, of Bangor, Maine,
flew to Waco on Wednesday to
try to contact her 24-year-old son,
David Thibodeau, in the fortified
compound where followers of
David Koresh have been holed
up since Sunday's bloody gun-
battle that ended with the deaths
of four federal agents and, ac
cording to a federal source, at
least 10 cult members.
She wanted to enlist the sup
port of other mothers of cult
members in a support group that
could pressure the FBI into let
ting them talk to their children.
She has been successful in nei
ther effort. Negotiators won't let
anybody else speak with Koresh
and his followers, and Ms.
Ganem hasn't found the large
gathering of worried relatives she
expected.
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A?. State Briefs
Leaders oppose
funding plan
AUSTIN (AP) - A Repub
lican-led group of business
and political leaders launched
a campaign Thursday against
a share-the-wealth school
funding plan to go before vot
ers May 1.
The group, calling itself
Texans Against Robin Hood
Taxes and headed by Rep.
John Culberson, plans to
spend half a million dollars on
the effort, which will include
radio and television ads and
bumper stickers reading,
"Vote No!"
The proposed constitution
al amendment would allow
the state to shift some local
property tax money from
wealthier to poorer school dis
tricts.
Gov. Ann Richards and
other supporter of the plan
have said it must pass if the
state is to avoid a June 1 court-
ordered cutoff of state public
education money. They have
warned that would mean clos
ing schools.
Fraternity faces
hazing charges
AUSTIN (AP) — Fourteen
members of a University of
Texas fraternity are facing dis
ciplinary action for an alleged
hazing incident that included
paddling pledges and forcing
them to eat cat food, a newspa
per reported Thursday.
According to Glenn Mal
oney, associate dean of stu
dents at UT, the active mem
bers Friday night drove the
pledges to an isolated road
south of Austin, where they
were paddled.
They then drove to San An
tonio, where the pledges were
told to purchase several items,
including Vaseline and Ben-
Gay, in two hours or they
would be left.
The pledges were taken back
to the road and paddled again,
forced to eat cat food mixed
with chips and rub Vaseline
and Ben-Gay on their genitals,
Maloney said.
He said the pledges were
then allowed to paddle the ac
tive members.
Injuries, deaths
cost state billions
HOUSTON (AP) - The
Texas economy loses at least
$3.8 billion annually due to on-
the-job deaths and injuries,
with motor vehicle accidents
and homicides accounting for
40 percent of all work-related
deaths in the state, a University
of Houston study found.
"The tragic aspect of these
data is that the majority of
these injuries and illnesses are
preventable," the study, re
leased Thursday by the
school's Health Law and Policy
Institute, concluded. "There
fore, these adverse events must
not be considered an acceptable
risk to our Texas work force."
The study estimates more
than 500 workers are killed and
500,000 others are injured at
work each year, and that about
4,000 people die from and more
than 20,000 others suffer from
work-related injuries.
Federal agents
raid porn ring
MIAMI (AP) - Federal
agents raided 40 locations
around the country Thursday
in the first crackdown on a
worldwide computerized child
porn ring, the U.S. Customs
said.
The raids in 15 states from
Florida to Washington may
also lead to discovery of do
mestic pornographic "bulletin
boards," said William Rosen
blatt, chief of the U.S. Customs
Service in Miami.
"It's not only the largest op
eration in U.S. history, I want
you to know it's the first," he
said. "It involves the high-tech
exchange of child pornography
-— basically what we have here
is a bunch of computer per
verts."
Groups limit
aquifer usage
AUSTIN (AP) - The Texas
Department of Agriculture
Thursday filed a notice of ap
peal over a federal judge's rul
ing to limit pumping from the
Edwards Aquifer.
Also joining in the appeal
are the Texas Farm Bureau,
the city of San Antonio and a
coalition of industrial water
users. The appeal will be filed
with the 5th U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals in New Orleans.
U.S. District Judge Lucius
Bunton in February ruled that
unrestricted pumping from
the aquifer leads to declining
levels of the aquifer-fed Co
mal Springs in New Braunfels
and San Marcos Springs in
San Marcos.
Bunton found that endam
Investigators link
explosions, leaks
BIG SPRING (AP) - Investi
gators think a gas leak possibly
caused the series of explosions
and fire that engulfed the Fina
Refinery's reformer unit, a
company official said Thurs
day.
About 200 people were in
side the refinery when the ex
plosions occurred at 4:30 p.m.
Wednesday, said Fina adminis
trative manager Paul Hinton.
A firefighter suffered heat
stress and a contract worker
who inhaled gas fumes re
mained hospitalized in good
condition Thursday, Hinton
said.
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Continued from Page I
City, said Paul Mascitelli, owner
of a car dealership that shares an
office with the Ryder agent.
The man wanted his $400 cash
deposit back but was told he
would need a police report of the
theft, Mascitelli said. He said the
suspect returned Monday with
out the police report and again
was turned away.
On Thursday morning, the
man called the Ryder office -
and spoke with an FBI agent pos
ing as a Ryder official, said
Patrick Galasso, the truck rental
agent. w
"He didn't have a clue as to
what was going on," Galasso
said. "He thought he was talking
to a Ryder rep."
The man returned to the rental
office, was given $200 back, and
was arrested by eight to 10 agents
as he left the office, Galasso said.
"He didn't want to give up
that $400. He just wanted that
money," Galasso added.
The man was accompanied by
another man when he rented the
truck, but was alone on subse
quent visits, Galasso said. He
said he didn't remember what
the second man looked like.
Both Mascitelli and Galasso
said the suspect didn't behave
nervously in any way.
Mascitelli described him as
short and frail with a beard and a
thick accent.
The suspect was affiliated
with the El Salam Mosque in Jer
sey City, N.J.
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