Police Beat
The following incidents were reported to Uni
versity Police Department from Oct. 13 to Oct. 20.
Misdemeanor Theft
At various campus locations - Two bicycles
were stolen.
Mosher Hall - A blue denim hair band and a
gold pinky ring were stolen.
Duncan Dining Hall - A Hewlett-Packard calcu
lator was stolen.
Underwood Hall - Several items of clothing left
unattended in a dryer were stolen.
Ireland Street Motorcycle Parking - A 1988
white Honda motorcycle was stolen.
Walton Hall - A bicycle tire was stolen.
Cain Hall - A backpack containing a calculator,
several textbooks, a purse, makeup bag and
leather organizer was stolen.
Cain Hall - $8 in quarters was stolen.
Cain Hall - A wallet was stolen and $51.24 in
Aggie Bucks charges were made.
Cain Hall - A key and $11 were stolen.
holes in the lower portion of the driver’s side win
dow and stole two speakers, and amplifier, an
equalizer, and a CD player.
Parking Area 50 - The passenger’s side window
of the victim’s 1986 Honda Accord was shattered
and a CD player and speakers were stolen.
Parking Area 50 - A cassette stereo was stolen
from the victim’s 1993 Mitsubishi pickup.
Parking Area 96 - A CD player and CD were
stolen from a Jeep Wrangler.
Criminal Mischief
Crocker Bicycle Rack - Bicycle tires were bent.
Harassment
Mclnnis Hall - The victim received threatening
phone calls.
Krueger Hall - The victim received threatening
phone calls.
Minor in Possession
Joe Rout Boulevard - Citation issued.
Parking Area 62 - Citation issued.
Burglary of Vehicle
Intramural Parking - The victim’s Chevrolet
truck was entered by someone who punched two
Assault
Commons Lobby - The victim was playing cards
with friends when a man walking through the lob
by stopped and confronted him. The man struck
the victim in the face with his fist and book bag.
After striking the victim, the man left the area
and was later located and identified.
Dunn Hall - The victim was assaulted by two
known assailants who forced their way into the
room.
Judges deny Indian tribepgup
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EL PASO (AP) — Tigua Indi
an leaders were closeted with at
torneys this morning planning
strategies to battle a federal ap
peals court ruling that jeopar
dizes their bid to introduce casi
no gambling to Texas.
A three-judge panel of the 5th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on
Monday struck down a lower
court’s ruling that ordered the
state to negotiate a gambling
agreement with the tribe.
Tigua Gaming Commission
er Vince Munoz said the ruling
was a disappointment and a
setback, but did not kill the
tribe’s plans.
“We are not giving up our
fight. We will bring our casino
to this reservation,” Munoz
said this morning. “We may be
a fallen warrior for the mo
ment, but we are not through
fighting.”
The Tigua’s leadership had
expressed certainty they
would win their battle with
the state to open a casino, es
pecially after receiving a fa
vorable ruling from U.S. Dis
trict Judge Lucius Bunton.
Bunton essentially agreed
with the tribe’s arguments
that Texas opened the way for
casino gambling when it start
ed operating the lottery. Last
year, he ordered the state to
negotiate a gambling compact
with the tribe.
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tribe is to offer Class 3 gaming,
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Citizens' group gets help
from Texas National Guard
to tear down crack houses
TAYLOR (AP) — The Texas National Guard moved into Tay
lor on Tuesday to demolish crack houses at the request of a citi
zens’ group organized to run drug dealers out of town.
The group Turn Around Taylor was formed to combat drug
sales, drug use, gang activity and prostitution, which had be
come a fact of life for a part of Taylor called the Line, said Po
lice Chief Fred Stansbury.
The buildings being knocked down are located in that area.
Turn Around Taylor officials said two structures were torn
down Tuesday morning, with another dozen crack houses
scheduled to be razed soon.
Officials said about 100 vacant structures have been identi
fied for possible future demolition.
The structures being torn down are buildings where police
say crimes, most involving drugs, have been committed.
“We are excited that everyone has come together in this ef
fort to stop drug dealing in Taylor,” Stansbury said.
“It has taken us all a huge amount of time and effort to come
this far, but we feel we are well on our way to reclaiming our
city,” Stansbury said.
He said violent crime is down 80 percent and overall crime
down 32 percent in the Line area.
Last year, an operation organized by the Williamson County dis
trict attorney’s office resulted in 24 arrests and 45 indictmeatii I- '(( '(li,, |
leging delivery of cocaine along the Line. District AttorneyKeii Ijgj^ j n jyj 0
derson said at that time the area was an “open-air drug market lp ar f t .( r h ( > ( !
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partment, residents organized Turn Around Taylor, whicll | ] f- re
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streets with the highest reported drug-related activity. I
Officials said they often confront drug dealers attheirta
and on the streets.
“We can sit on our front porches again,” said Mae!
Turner, 79, who has been participating in the weekly man
“The drug dealers had been harassing everyone, especially
er people, and we were afraid to turn on our porch lights!
out at night.”
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Defense industry leaders urge
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DALLAS (AP) — Members of the defense indus
try have urged a panel of congressmen to loosen
restrictions on foreign military sales as a way to
help U.S. companies cope with budget cutbacks.
“The defense industry is now dependent on for
eign sales,” Gordon England, president of Lock
heed Fort Worth Co., said Tuesday. Lockheed
leads a consortium on the Air Force F-22 fighter.
U.S. Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Dallas, organized the
forum to hear from representatives of the defense
industry, including Texas Instruments, Rockwell
International Corp. and E-Systems. U.S. Rep.
Ralph Hall, D-Rockwall, and three California con
gressmen who serve on the House Armed Services
committee also participated.
Johnson said the forum was critical to obtain in
dustry input as it undergoes rapid consolidation,
and the defense budget has been cut 32 percent
since 1986. Johnson’s Dallas district alone has
more than 350 military subcontractors, he said.
“To have a downsize of our military — in
other words, reducing budgets — are going to
cost us not only procurement of new systems,
but jobs,” he said.
International sales were brought up several
times during the forum, and Johnson said after
ward he believed it was an important emphasis.
“We’re too restrictive, and so the companies
can’t get out there and do business, compete
with the rest of the world like we ought to be
able to,” he said.
Lt. Gen. Thad Wolfe, vice commander of the
U.S. Air Force’s Air Combat Command, said the
Air force also feels strongly that foreign military
sales can help build ties in a changing world. Such
sales would increase U.S. influence with other
countries and allow the armed services to reap
greater economies of scale, he said.
“A properly structured FMS (foreign mili
tary sales) program could also help offset the
adverse impact of our becoming a smaller,
home based force,” Wolfe said.
“Such a program would strengthen our na
tional security by increasing interoperability in
equipment, tactics and procedures with poten
tial coalition partners, while at the same time
increasing their indigenous capability and ef
fectiveness,” he said.
Industry representatives asked for less over
sight and a streamlined acquisition process.
They also requested that the government work
to eliminate some of the uncertainty they face
when spending money to develop new systems.
“It would be good to know what the plan is
going to be and what the budget is going to be
so we can match our budgets,” said Jim
Schwalbe, vice president for military business
of Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
“We must eliminate these costly starts and
stops, changes in production rates,” said Larry
Cherry, vice president of Washington opera
tions for Vought Aircraft Co.
Bell Helicopter Textron in Fort Worth is devel
oping the V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft for the
Marines, along with Boeing. Dallas-based Vought,
which Northrop Grumman Corp. is purchasing,
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