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Female Marines in
combat training
AMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — The
first women to undergo Marine com
bat training alongside their male
comrades threw live grenades and
fired big guns Monday on a remote
corner of this sprawling base.
Camp Lejeune is the home of the
Marine Corps’ infantry school for the
eastern United States. The Corps
said the training is designed to pre
pare non-infantry Marines for port or
airport security missions.
“We have to protect our post. It’s
kind of valuable to know what to do,"
said Pvt. Rheanna Stebbins, 19, of
Las Vegas. Previously, women in the
Marines received only limited com
bat training as part of boot camp.
They are still banned from combat
assignments in the Marines, which
have been the most restrictive poli
cy on women in combat.
The Army, Air Force and Navy al
low women in combat aircraft; the
Army and Marines bar women from
serving in infantry, artillery and ar
mored units.
Soldier's trial for
hate killings begins
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Now
that an ex-paratrooper has been sen
tenced to life in prison for the hate
killings of two blacks, attention turns
to the trial of the man prosecutors
claim was his accomplice.
Former Fort Bragg soldier Mal
colm Wright will be tried on charges
that he killed a black couple in Fayet
teville, with jury orientation today and
selection of the panelists scheduled
to begin Tuesday.
Wright, 22, could face the death
penalty if convicted of first-degree
murder and conspiracy to commit
murder in the 1995 slayings of Jack
ie Burden, 27, and Michael James,
36. Prosecutors claim Wright was a
racist skinhead who chose his vic
tims at random.
James Burmeister II was convict
ed in the slayings earlier this month
and sentenced to life in prison.
The deaths prompted an Army-wide
investigation of white supremacy in the
ranks. The probe found 22 soldiers at
Fort Bragg, including Wright and
Burmeister, with extremist sympathies.
Prosecutor Calvin Colyer said new
evidence about the crime could come
to light during Wright’s trial.
“It isn’t necessary to show that
Wright intended specifically ‘to kill
Michael James and Jackie Burden,”
Colyer said. “All we have to show is
that Wright intended for them to die.”
Earhart enthusiast
takes to skies again
MIAMI (AP) — Saying farewell to
hundreds of fans lining the taxiway,
the woman retracing Amelia Earhart’s
steps took off from the U.S. mainland
today on the first overseas leg of her
journey around the globe.
The goodbyes and a faulty radio
delayed Linda Finch’s departure
from Kendall-Tamiami Airport for
about an hour.
The 46-year-old Texas millionaire
started her mission March 17 in Oak
land, Calif., the same day Earhart
took off in 1937. She’s made stops
in Burbank, Calif., Tucson, Ariz., New
Orleans and Miami.
Finch plans to pay tribute to Earhart
by dropping a wreath in the ocean after
taking off on July 2 from New Guinea,
the last place Earhart was seen.
Hopwood plantiffs seek damagl
AUSTIN (AP) — David Rogers,
who plans to go to law school this fall,
wants the state to pay because he was
not able to pursue that dream five
years ago.
Rogers and three other white
plaintiffs — who successfully chal
lenged a 1992 University of Texas
law school admissions policy de
signed to boost enrollment of black
and Mexican-American students —
were back in court Monday seeking
damages in their case.
Together, the four are asking for
about $5.5 million in damages
from the state. That does not in
clude attorneys’ fees.
Rogers’ share is nearly $383,000,
chiefly to make up for wages he
said have been lost to him as a
consequence of not being admit
ted to UT law school and not be
coming a lawyer.
The average lawyer makes
$53,000, said Rogers, 33, “and I
haven’t cracked 26 (thousand dol
lars) yet.’’
Rogers, who until recently man
aged a Relax The Back store in Ar
lington, Texas, wants to enter law
school this fall.
A federal appeals court last year
found that UT law school’s former
admissions policy, in use when the
four unsuccessfully sought to en
ter the school, discriminated
against whites.
That decision, allowed to stand by
the U.S. Supreme Court, has led to
discontinuation of affirmative action
policies at universities around the
state. The case was returned to U.S.
district court to decide damages con
cerning the four plaintiffs.
Rogers has applied to the Univer
sity of Houston Law Center and to UT
law school. More than likely, he said,
he will end up at UH.
“I don’t think the University of
Texas is going to let me in unless
there’s a court order” to do so, which
he also is seeking in the case, said
Rogers. He also plans to write a book
about the lawsuit.
Cheryl Hopwood, the lawsuit’s
lead plaintiff, is asking for $2.8 mil
lion for alleged economic and emo
tional harm.
Plaintiff Douglas Carvelfe |
for $2.2 million for allegedeco: H
and emotional harm, whilepla
Ken Elliott is seeking $66,1
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tangible benefits of attending!
school,” according tocourtm
Lawyer Harley Clark, a ft
state district judge helpingrep:
the state in the case, said the Is
UT’s defense against paying j
ages is simple.
"These people wouldn'thar:|
ten into the school in a raceig
system anyway,” he said.
A UT law school profes:
has served on the admission-1
mittee testified to that effect i
hearing began before U.S. [fc
Judge Sam Sparks.
Rogers said he expected the®
arguments, but that he and tbp
plaintiffs deserve to be paid. |
"We were damaged, andwjj
lost years of our lives," he s
should have been earning the
ey that a lawyer makes, (butin
I’ve been earning the money
storekeeper makes.”
► This day in History
► Weather
Today is Tuesday, April 1, the 91st day of 1997. There
are 274 days left in the year. This is April Fools’ Day.
On this date:
In 1789, the U.S. House of Representatives held its
first full meeting in New York City. Frederick Muhlenberg
of Pennsylvania was elected the first House Speaker.
In 1853, Cincinnati, Ohio, became the first U.S. city
to pay its firefighters a regular salary.
In 1873, composer Sergei Rachmaninoff was born
in Novgorod Province, Russia.
In 1918, the Royal Air Force was established in Britain.
In 1933, Nazi Germany began persecuting Jews with
a boycott of Jewish-owned businesses.
In 1939, the United States recognized the Franco gov
ernment in Spain following the end of the Spanish civil war.
In 1945, American forces invaded Okinawa during
World War II.
In 1946, tidal waves struck the Hawaiian Islands,
resulting in more than 170 deaths.
In 1947, Greece’s King George II died.
In 1960, the first weather satellite, TIROS-1, was
launched from Cape Canaveral.
In 1970, President Nixon signed a measure banning
cigarette advertising on radio and television, to take ef
fect after Jan. 1, 1971.
► Today's birthdays
Today’s Birthdays: Author William Manchester is 75. Ac
tor George Grizzard is 69. Actress Debbie Reynolds is 65.
Actor Gordon Jump is 65. Country singer Jim Ed Brown is
63. Actress AN MacGraw is 59. Rhythm-and-blues singer
Rudolph Isley (The Isley Brothers) is 58. Singer Arthur Con
ley is 51. David Eisenhower is 50. Reggae singer Jimmy Cliff
is 49. Jazz musician Gil Scott-Heron is 48. Actress Annette
O’Toole is 44. Tennis player Magdalena Maleeva is 22. Ac
tor Sam Huntington (Jungle 2 Jungle) is 15.
Today
Tonight
Cloudy with a 70 percent
chance of rain. South
east winds 5-10 mph.
Cloudy with a 60 percent
chance of showers or
thunderstorms. South
east winds at 5-10 mph.
Tomorrow
Cloudy with a 40 percent
chance of showers or
thunderstorms. Gusty
southeastern winds.
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