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6th Annual
CHILIFEST
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featuring
David Allan Coe
Jason Manning
April 20, 1996 • Star Light Ballroom • Snook TX
Doors open at 11 A.M. and showtime at 4 P.M.
Proceeds Benefit The Brazos County United Way
Tickets: $10 in advance, $12 at the door
Tickets available at:
Cavender’s, Catalena Hatter’s, and MSC
Get involved in the
Memorial Student Center
The following leadership positions
are still available:
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Chair of Spring Leadership Trip
Chair of Greaf issues
Director of External Services
Director of Committee Development
Director of Community Development
Applications can be picked up in the
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and are due April 22.
For more information please call
Liz Rayburn at 845-1515.
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Nation
Wednesday • April 17,
Kaczynski defense seeks dismissal
The Unabomber suspect’s lawyer says publicity preventing fair trial
HELENA, Mont. (AP) —
Theodore Kaczynski’s lawyer
asked a judge to block the prose
cution of the Unabomber sus
pect, saying Tuesday that gov
ernment leaks have jeopardized
his chances for a fair trial.
Michael Donahoe said the re
lease of information from
unidentified federal sources
demonstrates a “lynch-mob
mentality” on the part of feder
al investigators.
The result was a “lethal me
dia blitz” that “poisoned the en
tire population of grand jurors
within the United States
against Mr. Kaczynski,” he
wrote in his motion.
Donahoe, one of two court-ap
pointed attorneys for Kaczynski,
said the prosecution should be
halted until the court can decide
whether the leaks will prevent a
fair trial.
“The government should not
be allowed to proceed before var
ious grand juries throughout the
country that have been perma
nently poisoned by the govern
ment’s outrageous conduct in
disclosing to the media the high
ly incriminating nature of evi
dence taken from Kaczynski’s
cabin,” Donahoe said.
“In Mr. Kaczynski’s case, the
possibility that he could ever be
afforded anything that might re
motely resemble that (fair trial)
process has been forever lost.”
U.S. District Judge Charles
Lovell did not immediately rule
on Donahoe’s petition, which
sought a delay in any grand jury
proceedings against Kaczynski.
A federal grand jury will hold
its regularly scheduled meeting
Wednesday in Great Falls and is
expected to hear evidence
against Kaczynski. The lone
charge filed against him thus far
makes no mention of the Un
abomber attacks that killed
three people and injured 23 over
the past 18 year.
Lovell scheduled a hearing for
3:30 p.m. Friday to consider
whether to pursue Donahoe’s
motion by calling witnesses, and
told both sides to prepare writ
ten briefs.
Kaczynski, 53, was arrested
April 3 after federal agents,
tipped off by his suspicious
brother, began searching his
mountain cabin near Lincoln.
Leaks about the case began
appearing as soon as a search of
Kaczynski’s home began April 3.
Most claimed that evidence col
lected there tied Kaczynski to
the Unabomber bombings.
Donahoe’s motion also re
quested a hearing to question
Justice Department officials
about what they have done to
prevent leaks. He also asked
Lovell to dismiss a charge ofpos
sessing bomb-making materials,
and requested the return of hun
dreds of items taken in a search
of Kaczynski’s cabin.
Should the government con
tend it is not responsible for the
leaks, Donahoe said he will put
reporters on the stand and ask
them to identify their confiden
tial sources.
“If past practice is an indicator,
the effort will be a futile one,”
said Dick Winfield, who hasprac
ticed media law in New York for
30 years. Winfield said Donahoe’s
intent may be to scare federaloffi
cials into believing they maybe
discovered as sources.
Opening statements delayed
Tuesday in Kevorkian trial
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The deaths of
two women were only an “unfortunate sec
ondary result” of Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s at
tempt to relieve their suffering, his lawyer
argued Tuesday at the start of Kevorkian’s
third assisted-suicide trial.
“He’s no killer. He
doesn’t want people to
die,” Geoffrey Fieger said.
“Dr. Kevorkian never in
tended to assist the de
ceased to commit suicide.”
Prosecutor Lawrence
Bunting said the evi
dence would show
Kevorkian described the
deaths of Sherry Miller
and Marjorie Wantz as
“double assisted suicide
— physician-assisted.”
Fieger’s and Bunting’s opening state
ments were delayed Tuesday when
Bunting asked Circuit Judge David Breck
to take himself off the case. Breck refused.
Bunting had argued that Breck showed
bias in a Detroit News interview, pub
lished Monday, in which Breck said the
prosecutor’s office in the past has tried to
keep blacks off juries.
Kevorkian is charged with assisting the
suicides of Miller, 43, of Roseville and
Wantz, 58, of Sodus. Their bodies were left
Kevorkian
in a cabin at a park in 1991. Miller had in
haled carbon monoxide; Wantz died from
an injection.
Miller had multiple sclerosis; Wantz
had severe pelvic pain. Theirs were the
second and third of the 27 suicides
Kevorkian has acknowledged assisting
since 1990.
Kevorkian’s previous prosecutions were
based on Michigan’s now-expired ban on
assisted suicide. The current charges are
based on a 1994 Michigan Supreme Court
ruling that common law prohibits assisted
suicide. Kevorkian could get up to 10 years
in prison.
It was still up in the air how jurors
would be instructed in the case. Prosecu
tors have appealed Breck’s proposed in
structions twice to the Michigan Court of
Appeals. The latest appeal was filed Mon
day as the jury was selected.
The issue of intent and how it is ex
plained to jurors is significant because of
Kevorkian’s argument that he intended
only to relieve suffering. He was acquitted
in both of his previous trials, one in 1994,
the other last month.
Prosecutors argue that while his motive
may have been to relieve pain, Kevorkian
clearly knew that providing carbon monox
ide or lethal drugs would kill, and that
that was his intent.
Buchanan fined
$20,000 for 1992
finance irregularities
Buchanan
WASHINGTON (AP)-
The presidential campaign
of conservative Republican
commentator Pat
Buchanan has agreed to
pay a $20,000 fine to the
Federal Election Commis
sion for improper contribu
tions to his 1992 campaign.
In announcing the agree
ment Tuesday, the FEC
said Buchanan’s 1992 cam
paign had accepted:
—$8,166 in contributions from corpora
tions, which are prohibited by federal cam
paign finance law;
—$53,759 in contributions from individu
als who exceeded the $l,000-per-persongiv
ing limit;
—$53,251 in improper in-kind contribu
tions to the campaign. The latter were cam
paign expenses picked up by Buchanan him
self and two aides, but not reimbursed in a
timely way.
The campaign had already paid amounts
equaling the corporate and excess contribu
tions to the U.S. Treasury last March. Itbas
until September to pay the additional $20,0(1'
civil penalty.
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United Artists agrees to make movie screens more
accessible to disabled moviegoers in 29 states
The decision resolves a Justice Department investigation begun in 1992
WASHINGTON (AP) — In an
agreement with the Justice De
partment, one of the nation’s
largest movie theater chains
pledged Tuesday to give disabled
people seats beside their families
— not just at the back of theaters.
The United Artists Theater
Circuit Inc. promised a wide range
of changes, involving everything
from parking lots to restrooms, to
make its more than 2,300 movie
screens in 29 states more accessi
ble to disabled people.
“Thanks to United Artists,
we can now tell moviegoers
with disabilities, ‘Access is
coming soon to a theater near
you,”’ said Assistant Attorney
General Deval L. Patrick, who
announced the agreement at a
news conference here. “I expect
the leadership shown by United
Artists to have an impact on
the rest of the industry.”
The Justice Department is
conducting 50 investigations of
other major theater chains and
individual theaters for violations
of the Americans with Disabili
ties Act, said John Wodatch,
chief of the department’s disabil
ity rights section.
The Colorado-based company
agreed to begin work on alter
ations to ensure at least two
wheelchair seats somewhere
other than the back row in the
aters with more than 300 seats.
The company also will ensure
that 1 percent of aisle seats have
folding or removable aisle-side
armrests to accommodate wheel
chair users and those who have
difficulty walking.
The company denied any viola
tion of federal, state or local law.
Nevertheless, it agreed to pay
more than $500,000 to disabled
individuals to settle a lawsuit.
Gene Hardy, United Artists
general counsel, told the news
conference, “This thing has come
off very well for the industry and
ourselves.” He estimated that
300 of the chain’s 420 theaters
would require alterations.
Patrick said that enhanced
ability to attract 5 million dis
abled moviegoers would go a
long way in helping United
Artists recover the costoftbe
renovations. Hardy declinedtf
estimate those costs.
The agreement resolves*
Justice Department investig*
tion begun in 1992 and settles*
lawsuit filed on behalf of dis
abled Californians by the Dis
ability Rights Education andDe
fense Fund of Berkeley, which
joined the settlement.
That lawsuit alleged the the
ater chain violated the America*
with Disabilities Act and Califa
nia state law by providing insuffi
cient seating for moviegoers with
limited mobility or only seating*
the back row where they were
separated from their families.
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1:30 - 2:15 pm
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