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Spend Spring 1995 at Santa Ghiara!
For info, come to one of the following meetings:
Wednesday, September 7 at 1:45 p.m.
Thursday, September 8 at 11:00 a.m.
Meetings will be held in Rm. 251 Bizzell Hall West
Study Abroad Programs 161 Bizzell Hal! West 845-0544
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Attacks on Border Patrol agents increa
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — U.S.
Border Patrol agents have in
creasingly been enduring rock
attacks and encountering booby
traps in a border area frequently
plagued by criminal gangs,
agency officials said Tuesday.
In recent weeks, an agent
has been injured after driving
into a pit dug in a dirt road
commonly used by patrol vehi
cles, officers have been stoned
by unknown assailants and
steel spikes have been scat
tered on patrol routes.
Border Patrol officials believe
gangs from Mexico are responsi
ble. “I think they’d like to see us
leave that area,” Assistant Chief
Stephen Williams told a new
conference.
The area in question is a sec
tion of the U.S.-Mexico border
near Sunland Park, N.M., which
in recent years has apparently
been used as a staging area by
thieves who hop passing freight
trains and break into merchan
dise containers.
The thieves, who take things
ranging from electronics to
clothing, throw the goods off the
trains to waiting accomplices,
said Southern Pacific railroad
police Lt. Dale Bray, who noted
the company’s tracks are located
Whii
nedi
some 50 feet from the bordei
“And of course it’s a fool
into Mexico” from there,
Bray, whose officers ha
encountered booby traps.
Williams speculatedth
have turned to violence ai
tage as their criminal efforts
been frustrated by an im
Border Patrol presence.
The agency has boostejti ral obstacles
trols in the area in respwflain why.
the growing numbers of
immigrants who are beirj
verted to the Mexico-New
co border by a Border
blockade along the Rio Gi|
in PR Paso.
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Stolen Art
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U.S. forces occupied Germany.
The collection, which was crafted from the
eighth to 16th centuries during the reigns of
Charlemagne and Otto I, is made of gold, silver
and ivory and includes illuminated manu
scripts, crucifixes and ancient coins. It had
been stored for centuries in the Lutheran
Church of Quedlinburg but was moved to a
mine shaft during the war.
Meador, a lieutenant in the Army, apparent
ly took several pieces of the collection when he
was guarding the mine shaft in Quedlinburg,
located about 120 miles southwest of Berlin.
After the war, he brought them home to
Whitewright, about 60 miles north of Dallas.
The presence of the artwork in Texas came
to light when a German agency dedicated to
restoring art lost during the war came across a
ninth century manuscript. Representatives of
the agency, the Cultural Foundation of Berlin,
recognized it as part of the Quedlinburg collec
tion and traced it back to Whitewright.
Jack Meador and Jane Meador Cook then
made a deal with the agency, reportedly ac
cepting $2.7 million for the return of nine
pieces from the collection. ■ 'T ' T 1 j.' ^ ri
The heirs also agreed to help recover ; li
was believed to be about half of the miiM renct , n<
collection. Much of the collection still 111,1 "
been recovered.
German investigator Willi A. Korte saidl
book about the case that two pieces ofthetf
sure still are in the United States in
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session of someone other than the Meadors!' 1 ^ ^ , " u,)s Ul
Mathis said he isn’t aware of any such
mation but that his clients have nothing
with the missing art.
“1 don’t know a great deal of detail aboi
remaining portion ... although I am toldj
there are a number of pieces that have
been found,” he said.
“The family does not have those,” M
said. “Given that he has been dead for so
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Mathis also said he doubts whether
of the art are still floating around Nftthers, a studj
Texas. ' f I “This is the
“I would have thought that if the balam
the treasure was here in Dallas, that whi
had it would have come forward years
said. “It was very obvious that the repres
tives for the German church were tryitt
conclude the entire matter on a friendly,
cable basis.”
Branch
Davidians
Continued from Page 3
“I think the surviving leaders
of the church believe that the
land belongs to the church,” he
said. If it turns out she is on the
land, he said, the church leaders
would try to work it out before
resorting to litigation.
Ms. Roden has been joined at
the site by a couple from Missis
sippi, Don and Victoria Fuller,
who said God sent them to help.
She has been in direct contact
with only a few former Branch
Davidians who she says are
helping organize next month’s
meeting.
But Tuesday, Sheila Martin, a
follower of Koresh who lost four
children in the fire, said the peo
ple who lived and suffered there
have a right to live on the com
pound site. Difficult as it is to go
back, many are poor widows who
need a place to go, she said.
“We want to show them this is
our place. A family died here,”
she said.
Ms. Martin said followers of
Koresh are waiting for him to re
turn. They believe only God can
choose the group’s leader and are
trying to decide whether they
should attend the October meet
ing, she said.
“... But we’re not going to give
up without a fight, if necessary.
Were not going to just let them
come along and take it,” Ms.
Martin said.
Ms. Roden said she lived at
the compound for only two
months in 1987. She returned
last year and now lives in a
shack at its entrance. She says
she and Roden were married by
contract in 1987, but she has
since been married to and left
another man. Roden also may
have been married at the time
they were involved. The couple
have a daughter together.
A power struggle between Ro
den and Koresh led to a 1987
gun battle at the compound that
resulted in attempted murder
charges against Koresh and sev
en others. The seven others were
acquitted, and a mistrial was de
clared in Koresh’s case. Charges
against him were later dis
missed.
George Roden is confined in a
state mental hospital after being
found innocent by reason of in
sanity in the murder in 1989.
Residents
oppose to
waste dull!
AUSTIN (AP)—Anal
cy group and Panhandlff
dents have opposedtlf
partment of Energy's
ation of the Panteiwi
weapons facility nearlm
as a permanent storages!!]
highly toxic waste.
The DOE was schedule
hold a public hearingteds
Amarillo as part of iUsele
process for a long-term sl(
site for tons of plutonium
dismantled nuclear weap*
“This hearing is a was
call for Texans, especial
Gov. (Ann) Richards am
other elected representata
tell the DOE that werefi
be their dumping ground,
Les Breeding, a spokes®
Public Citizen.
Carl King, president!!
Texas Corn Growers Ass
tion and a resident of Di®
said waste storage at
would threaten cropsii
Panhandle.
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