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THE BATTALION
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$4
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$3.6
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$2.58
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$2.57
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$2.3
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laid King decided to plea no con
test because she wanted to get
lis behind her.
'She didn’t think it was worth
tfe time and expenses to fight the
egations,” James said.
If Groff and King had been
ind guilty through a jury trial
ley could have faced up to a year
jail and a $3,000 fine.
Charges are pending for Dr.
hn Wormuth, professor of
iceanography, and Ron Carter,
ttanager of business and facili
ties operations, who were in-
feed on the same charges.
Bush Gifts
Continued from Pagel
Museum, said the exchange of
by heads of state is protocol
Worldwide.
“It’s expected,” Burchfield
aid. “The protocol started as
larly as with George Washing
ton. It’s evolved by now. Cer-
toionies and presentations are
juterwoven with private talks.
become almost a perfor
mance.”
Burchfield said the head of
! tate gifts provide people extra-
binary opportunities to under-
ending the world.
“The gifts are one of my fa-
'orite things in the whole collec-
” Burchfield said. “It’s like
'■during the world, and you don’t
veto go anywhere.”
Wagner said the gifts can tell
fetors a lot about a country.
It’s a unique way to learn ge-
fraphy,” Wagner said. “We’ve
Wed to get every country cov-
fed in this collection. It’s a
fewcase of the best crafts from
over the world.”
Wagner said she is expecting
)00 elementary students from
1 schools to tour the exhibit.
The collection will be on dis-
iy at the J. Wayne Stark Uni-
fesity Center Galleries until
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to tell him immediately if they
hear of a juror who could ham
per a fair trial.
“If in the progress of a case
you find a juror that could con
taminate this case, bring it to
the bench immediately,” Kitz-
man said.
DeGuerin objected to Kitz-
man’s asking each attorney to
question prospective jurors for
no more than 30 minutes.
There is no price for justice
t time,” Kitzman said. “The
more succinctly a case is tried,
the higher the level of justice,
want to give you the fairest
trial and that is the way it
usually works.”
The charges against Smith
stemmed from allegations that
he solicited personal benefits
from Barnes and Noble Book
stores, Inc. for his wife Pat
Smith, including airline flights
to New York City, theater tick
ets, meals and lodging.
DeGuerin said the defense
will prove Smith and his wife
accepted gifts but did not solic
it them.
Gifts were accepted,”
DeGuerin said. “That is not
against the law, acceptance is
not a crime, it is a defense.”
DeGuerin said evidence will
prove that the Smiths accept-
gifts from Barnes & Noble
but repaid the company after
the trip.
Brazos County District At
torney Bill Turner said the
state’s charge is they solicited
gifts, not that they accepted
them.
The actions occurred while
Texas A&M and Barnes & No-
negotiated a contract to
privatize the campus book
store.
Turner, the Texas Rangers
d the FBI began their inves
tigations last year when ques
tions over the Barnes & Noble
contract were raised in an
anonymous letter sent to Gov.
Ann Richards.
Smith was reindicted
Thursday on two Class A mis
demeanor charges after Kitz
man granted a defense motion
at an Oct. 19 pre-trial hearing
to dismiss charges because of
“fundamental defects” in the
indictment.
Turner did not alter the
charges, but did make the in
dictment more specific.
Smith was indicted in June
d pleaded not guilty to the
charges in late August.
If convicted, Smith faces up
to two years in jail and up to
in fines.
GOP Fighting
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desertions and others that reflect a
split between GOP moderates and con
servatives.
“What you have here are a bunch of
Republicans who basically are saying
‘we don’t want any government.’ And a
major part of the Republican Party
won’t go that far,” said Tony Coelho,
senior adviser to the Democratic Na
tional Committee.
He said the officials who have jumped
the fence or challenged GOP tenets fore
shadow the problems the party will face
reconciling its factions in the 1996 presi
dential campaign.
Haley Barbour, chairman of the Re
publican National Committee, attributed
the two mayoral endorsements, to local
feuds, alliances and cash flows. “Some of
ficials want to have more state and fed
eral money put into their city budgets,”
he said.
Barbour said Riordan and Giuliani
were “out of step” with the energized
GOP electorate but denied they were
demonstrating any fundamental incom
patibility with party philosophy. He
said they remain model Republican of
ficeholders in terms of how they run
their cities.
Giuliani is feuding with GOP Sen. Al-
fonse D’Amato, Republican gubernatorial
candidate George Pataki’s sponsor, and
considers Pataki’s huge income tax-cut
proposal anathema to the city. He has
called Cuomo a leader who understands
urban problems.
Giuliani’s endorsement seems to be fu
eling a Cuomo surge, and New York Re
publicans are seething. “We’ve gotten
threats about what my future will be,”
the mayor said Sunday.
Riordan, in endorsing Feinstein, said
that “she has already proven that she’s a
friend of Los Angeles.” Her opponent.
Rep. Michael Huffington, is running a
no-government-is-good-government cam
paign. Some Republicans in his Santa
Barbara congressional district passed
judgment on his House performance by
holding a fund-raiser for Feinstein.
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