The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, April 19, 1995, Image 7

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    Wednesday • April 19, 1995
The Bai talion • Page 7
Simpson attorney hammers away at criminalist
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A plainly angry judge
halted defense attorney Barry Scheck in his tracks
Tuesday when Scheck persistently tried to suggest
to O.J. Simpson’s jurors that police planted Simp
son’s blood to frame him for two murders.
Holding aloft a small test tube he said was sim
ilar to one that contained Simpson’s blood sample,
Scheck began his question to criminalist Dennis
Fung, whose nine days on the stand ranks as the
longest thus far in Simpson’s double-murder trial.
“Are you aware, sir, that 1.9 milliliters, or one-
quarter of the blood collected from Mr. Simpson’s...”
He was stopped in midsentence by Superior
Court Judge Lance Ito, who knew what was com
ing next. Scheck was trying to say that a quarter
of the blood sample was suspiciously missing.
“Sustained. Sustained. Sustained,” the judge
barked in response to a prosecution objection. “As
sumes facts not in evidence, counsel. Not an ap
propriate question. The jury is to disregard the im
plication of that question.”
But Scheck would not be deterred.
“Has it come to your attention that the defense
alleges...?” he began again, only to be halted before
the judge summoned attorneys to the bench.
Scheck was able to elicit from Fung that on June
13, 1994, the day after Nicole Brown Simpson and
Ronald Goldman were slain, he saw no blood spots
on the back gate of her condominium but did find
and collect them when he returned July 3.
Editors: Robbins, Clark to lead Battalion staff
Continued from Page 1
Clark stressed the expansion of coverage in
news, sports and entertainment.
“The Battalion does a good job of coverage right
now, especially in news, sports and Aggielife, but
you can always get better,” Clark said. “I want to
make the paper as diverse as possible.”
Mark Smith, Battalion editor-in-chief for Spring
1995, said that both should be successful editors.
“Both of them know what makes a newspaper
tick,” Smith said. “I’ll be surprised if the paper
doesn’t improve.”
Robbins and Clark are now selecting their edi
torial boards for the summer and fall. Both have
their own opinions on what makes a good staff.
Robbins emphasized the importance of diversity
and dedication in a staff.
"A good staff should be dedicated to good jour
nalism and representative of the community,”
Robbins said. “I want a staff that does its best job
to produce the best paper.”
Clark said he requires his staff to work hard.
He explained that work ethic is vital to a
paper’s success.
“When I interviewed people for the staff, one of
the first questions I asked was ‘What is your work
ethic?’” Clark said. “It seems like a strange ques
tion, but without work ethic, the work is just not
as good as it should be.”
Robbins described his management style as
hands-on, but relaxed.
“I want the job to get done, and done well,” Rob
bins said. “I want my staff to fulfill all obligations.”
Clark said his style would be similar.
“It will be a mixture of hands-on and laid-back,”
Clark said. “I want to let the editors do their job.
If I don’t, then I’m not doing my job.”
Smith said his successors are quite similar in
their management style.
“Both like to work closely with the staff and get
involved in what happens,” Smith said.
Smith did add some advice for his successors.
“Be fair. That’s the most important thing,”
Smith said. “Always keep your cool. Mistakes will
happen. Just correct them and make sure they
don’t happen again.”
Crash: Authorities begin search for cause
Continued from Page 1
be identified.
He did not elaborate, but
said the pilot asked for permis
sion to dump part of the plane’s
fuel load.
Identification of what exactly
went wrong must await comple
tion of the crash investigation,
he said.
NBC Nightly News reported
that the fuel in the plane’s tanks
got out of balance and that the
crew was unable to level it.
The plane’s cockpit voice and
flight data recorders were recov
ered from the wreckage.
Among the victims were Clark
J. Fiester, one of four assistant
secretaries of the Air Force, and
Maj. Gen. Glenn A. Profitt II, di
rector of plans and operations for
the Air Education and Training
Command at Randolph.
President Clinton called it “a
tragic loss for the U.S. Air Force
and the nation.” Defense Secre
tary William Perry said he had
known Fiester for 38 years.
Fiester was on his way to vis
it Brooks and Kelly Air Force
bases, both at San Antonio, and
give a briefing at the Human
Systems Center at Brooks. •
The others killed were Fi-
ester’s assistant. Col. Jack Clark
II; Maj. Hubert B. Fisher, who
was assigned to the Pentagon;
the aircraft commander, 1st Lt.
Paul Bowers; an instructor pilot,
Capt. Paul Carley; and two pas
sengers who had joined the
flight on a "space available” ba
sis, Air Force Maj. James K.
Horne and Army Sgt. Padro
Mercado, Air Force officials said.
Bowers was at the controls.
Maxwell officials said.
The Air Force has more than
75 C-21s. The only other C-21
crash was in 1987, also in Alaba
ma, the Air Force said.
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