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The Battalion :i t: i Thursday • September 19, Muck 8c Mire Rachel Redington, The Battalion A police officer directs traffic Wednes day after traffic lights went out from an electrical storm on Wellborn Road. ► Campus New church service to begin Sunday A new church service will begin on the Texas A&M campus Sunday. The University Christian Church, co-sponsored by the Association of Baptist Students, will meet in 201 Memorial Student Center at 9:30 a.m. each Sunday. Bobby Tucker, who helped plan the service, told The Bryan-College Station Eagle that the creation of the church service was in response to student requests for an easy-ac- cess, contemporary church. since divorced. Agents carted several boxes of unidentified material Tuesday from the house Ms. Medlar, a Lubbock native, shares with her mother. The case began in 1994, when Ms. Medlar sold Inside Edition se cretly recorded phone conversations with Cisneros, on which the pair wor ried about whether the payments might harm his nomination. Murder acquittal rare in Harris County The Securities and Exchange Commission investigators and debt collectors in Alabama have filed a civ il suit against Kathy S. Kingsmore, according to court records. The SEC civil suit filed Monday in Dallas against Kingsmore alleges that she has took more than $3 mif lion from about 34 people used it for personal purchases. Kingsmore allegedly used part of the funds for the construction of a Florida beach house on an es- made some forget how to: 100 pigeons have crashed “Our hope is the chemica orient them and they will go where else,” airport spofe Chuck Cannon said. ‘Butw some pigeons in the bargair.’ KGB offered tto about assassinat State FBI investigation of Cisneros continues LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — The federal investigation into dealings between Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros and his former mistress has returned to the spotlight with the seizure of items from the woman’s Lubbock home. The FBI and an independent counsel are looking into whether Cisneros committed a crime by mis leading the FBI about payments he made to Linda Medlar, a campaign fund-raiser during his days as San Antonio mayor in the 1980s. Both were married at the time of the affair, and Ms. Medlar has HOUSTON (AP) — A capital mur der defendant in Houston has been acquitted for only the second time in 22 years, prosecutors say. Jurors on Tuesday deliberated 12 hours before finding Jesus “Jesse” Montalvo, 20, innocent of the 1992 robbery-slaying of Patrick Willis, 29. District Attorney John B. Holmes Jr. said he can remember only one other acquittal in a capital murder case in Harris County since the death penalty was reinstituted in Texas in 1974. “Usually we don’t seek a capital indictment if we don’t have a really good case,” Holmes said. tate valued at more than $800,000. In Birmingham, Ala., a car deal er said Ms. Kingsmore bought a 1996 Suburban and drove it off the lot after paying for the vehicle with a check that later bounced. Nation Airport puts messy birds on “LSD” Dallas woman runs from authorities DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas woman accused of conning 34 people out of $3 million in an investment scheme is on the run from authorities. DENVER (AP) — Denver In ternational Airport is using what it describes as “pigeon LSD” to try to rid the parking garages of the messy birds. The pigeons are an annoyance to travelers who find droppings all over their cars, and could become a health hazard, officials said. Corn soaked in the drug Avitrol has been scattered around the parking garages. Avitrol is supposed to make birds forget their whereabouts, but it has LOS ANGELES (AP)-P viet Union’s spy agencybt that President Lyndon Jo! was responsible for the as nation of John F. Kennedy.s ing to an unedited versio 1966 FBI document. The document was re! Tuesday at a public hearing Assassination RecordsRi Board, a federal commiss: tablished to collect doc on the assassination. The document attributed unidentified source the I about Kennedy’s Nov. 22,195 sassination in Dallas. It did not offer other specifi The board also made pubic quest from Marina Oswald widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, the board to investigate his ment with the FBI. ‘I definitely think that Lee9 did not kill President Kenned) wrote. “I think he was given pacify people as a patsy.... Ibi that the documents I have requf will be eye-openers." Starring: H M< Directed b' Rated: R Playing at: A rich m voted wife No, the 1 plot of The similar pre; Halle Be wife to the This day in history (AP) —Today is Thursday, Sept. 19, the 263rd day of 1996. There are 103 days left in the year. On this date: In 1796, President Washington’s farewell address was published. In it, America’s first chief executive advised, “Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.” In 1881, the 20th president of the United States, James A. Garfield, died of wounds inflicted by an assassin. In 1934, Bruno Hauptmann was arrested in New York and charged with the kidnap-murder of the Lind bergh infant. In 1957, the United States conducted its first un derground nuclear test, in the Nevada desert. In 1959, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev reacted angrily during a visit to Los Angeles upon being told that, for security reasons, he wouldn’t be allowed to visit Disneyland. In 1985, the Mexico City area was struck by the first of two devastating quakes that claimed some 6,000 lives. Ten years ago: Federal health officials announced that the experimental drug AZT would be made available to thousands of AIDS patients. One year ago: The New York Times and The Washing ton Post published the Unabomber’s manifesto. ► Weather Today Tonight Tomorrow Highs & Lows ► Today’s birthdays Yesterday's He 84°F Yesterday's Lo» 76°F Today's Expecifi Retired Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell is 89. Au thor Roger Angell is 76. Former Defense Secretary Harold Brown is 69. Actor Adam West is 68. Actress Rosemary Harris is 66. Actor Jeremy Irons is 48. Actress Twiggy Lawson is 47. TV personality Joan Lunden is 46. Actor Kevin Hooks is 38. Country singer Trisha Yearwood is 32. 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