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The Battalion
Monday, January 17,1994
Mexican president urges amnesty
The Associated Press
MEXICO CITY - President
Carlos Salinas de Gortari urged
armed rebels Sunday to lay down
arms and accept an amnesty plan
that would cover all crimes com
mitted in the first two weeks of
their insurgency.
Speaking on national televi
sion, Salinas said he was propos
ing legislation to grant "a general
amnesty to all the participants in
the violent acts" from the start of
a rebellion JaP- 1 and concluding
at 11 a.m. Sunday.
But Salinas warned that "any
criminal action against the people
or against the Mexican army after
this period will not have the bene
fit of an amnesty."
Salinas, standing beside the
Mexican flag in a dark suit, de
clared that flie legislation being
sent to Congress signaled the
government s intent to find
peace in southern Chiapas state
where the rebellion began on
New Year's Day.
The Mexican president, in his
first major appearance since or
dering a government cease-fire
last Wednesday, declared the
federal government would begin
a program in coming days to
help the impoverished state.
Salinas declared that these aid
efforts, coupled with the
amnesty, were compelling rea
sons for the estimated 1,000 to
2,000 rebel fighters to lay down
Retiree finds new venture with wallabies
The Associated Press
HEREFORD — Sam Sessions needed something
to do after he retired.
So, he jumped into a new fad that is part hobby/
part business and part pet.
Sessions had decided that "when a feller gets 76
years old, he can't work as much," so he put aside
his life's work with horses.
While the family dog was a good pet, it didn't
occupy his time.
Sessions says raising ostriches was out — they
are ornery and expensive.
Then in November he bought five wallabies that
he is raising out back of his house e£ist of 1 fereford-
"They're easier to handle to me than a pet dog,"
Sessions said as he walked among the four females
and one male, feeding them pieces of bread and
trying to lure them to a bowl filled with apple
chunks. "I'm not having a bit of trouble with
them."
He said each adult wallaby eats about half a
pound of feed each day, plus treats.
"Altogether, I can feed one of them for 20 cents
a day and that includes treats," he said. "That's
what T like about them. There's no labor involved,"
Sessions' longtime friends. Bill and Wanda
Rowland of Dawn, also own seven of the little crit
ters.
Both Sessions and the Rowlands bought their
Bennett wallabies from the same dealer near Fred
ericksburg. They plan to work together on their
"These are supposed to be the hardiest" of the
breeds available, Sessions said. They are also, be
said, very economical to raise.
"As far as I can see, they're the healthiest ani
mals fve ever seen," he says.
Sessions keeps his wallabies in a makeshift pen
built around an old storage shed he enclosed for
the miniature marsupials.
There is a metal self-feeder for their regular feed
— Sessions said he buys Purina brand kangaroo
pellets — and a heated container for water that
keeps it from freezing at night.
On one wall is a small bundle of hay, and there
are small nests of hay around the enclosure. The
hay not only makes comfortable beds, the walla
bies also like to eat it,
Of the four females. Sessions knows three are
pregnant. When they were picked out of the litter
at the Hill Country wallaby farm, he was encour
aged to feel the not-quite-born animals in their
mothers' pouches, saying they were about half the
size of a squirrel.
Those babies are expected to pop their heads
out of their mothers' pouches soon and will be on
their own and weaned this spring.
"I'm sure I'll have some sticking their heads out
this month," he said.
He said wallabies bear their young in an inter
esting manner.
A baby leaves the pouch when he is too large to
get in, and is weaned by his mother.
If the mother has been impregnated before then,
the fetus is delivered and, in about 15 minutes,
climbs up the mother's front and into the pouch,
attaching to a nipple for sustenance.
It takes about seven months from that point be
fore the baby outgrows his mother's pouch.
Sessions said his male wallaby is capable of
breeding with as many as 10 females. The animals
live for 15 to 20 years, and he knows "a 10-year-old
female will still breed and raise babies."
Sessions compared his wallabies to cats — they
use their forepaws to wash themselves — and to
rats — using sharp front teeth to bite through an
ice-encrusted water pail.
They can be picked up by the tail safely, and use
their tails and large back feet only for jumping and
stability.
Sessions said he plans to sell some of the walla
bies he raises and keep others for breeding stock.
They cost between $1,200 and $1,800 each, or
$3,000 a pair.
Sessions said he enjoys just watching the ani
mals play.
for rebels
their arms.
"There is no reason whatsoev
er why they should not return to
their communities," said Salinas.
He vowed that his govern
ment would continue to seek a
peaceful settlement of the con
flict.
"Compatriots, the president of
the republic will continue taking
those decisions that seek to pro°
tect the population, avoid vio
lence and encounter justice,"
Salinas concluded.
Trial begins this
week for alleged
gang members
The Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO - A trial is
scheduled to begin this week foi
eight people believed to be affffi-
ated with a powerful gang that
began in state prisons ancflater
controlled city streets.
On Tuesday, the alleged mem
bers of the so-called Texas Mexi
can Mafia are scheduled to go be
fore US. District judge Ed mdc
on charges of racketeering, nar
cotics dealing and illegal
weapons possession.
It convicted, the defendants
could be sent to prison for 20
years or more in a federal crimi
nal justice system that no longer
provides for early release on pa
role.
Fifteen other people already
have pleaded guilty and cases are
pending against two more, ac
cording to the San Antonio Ex
press-News' Sunday editions.
Witnesses in federal court Iasi
year testified that gang members
collected a 10 percent street tax
on sales of illegal drugs in areas
under their control.
Investigators also contend the
gang useci murder as a business
tool and as a way to control its
own members. Police say they've
linked the gang to 73 drug-relal-
ed murders in San Antonio the
past three years.
One of the defendants is
Heriberto Huerta, 41, identified
as the founder and president of
the organization.
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