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April 1, 1997
ivestigation of mass suicide continues
Relatives have requested that
the bodies be tested for HIV.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — There’s no evidence
Imore members of the Heaven’s Gate cult
[planning to kill themselves, although
cli reports are being investigated, author-
Jsaid Monday.
ich fears of copycat suicides by far-flung
[cells are real. In 1994, 48 members of the
r of the Solar Temple killed themselves in
erland. Later that year, five more mem-
s committed suicide in Canada, followed by
the French Alps in 1995 and five in Cana-
|n March 22, 1997.
'onetheless, sheriff’s Lt. Jerry Lipscomb said
rrities have found “nothing, absolutely noth-
|to suggest that anyone other than the 39
bers of the high-tech UFO cult planned to
mit suicide.
One member who left the group about a
1th ago, because he didn’t want to kill him
self, received two farewell videotapes on March
25 from cult members describing their death
plans. The next day, he and his employer drove
to the hilltop mansion, found the bodies and
called police.
As for reports that members may have killed
themselves because leader Marshall Applewhite
had convinced them he was dying of cancer, med
ical examiner Brian Blackbourne said Applewhite
did not have cancer. In fact, none of the victims had
a terminal illness, he said.
The bodies were being tested for HIV, at
the request of relatives, he said.
Thirty-nine members of the nomadic group,
which made its living lately developing Internet
web sites, were found dead March 26 in a rented
mansion in exclusive Rancho Santa Fe. They
were dressed alike and covered in purple
shrouds, their bags neady packed in anticipation
of a trip to outer space.
Authorities say the cult members died in groups,
consuming a mixture of phenobarbital and alcohol
and then placing plastic bags over their heads.
Blackbourne also said that two Vicodin vials
were found near the bodies of the last two cult
members alive inside the mansion — and traces
of the painkiller were found in their bodies in ad
dition to the drugs that helped kill the other 37.
Blackbourne said all autopsies were com
plete and toxicological tests would be finished
by Friday.
Lipscomb said Monday that investigators still
believe it was a mass suicide, and although they’re
trying to determine where the cultists got so much
phenobarbital, it’s unlikely the answer will lead to
criminal charges.
“We’re not going to charge anyone with any
thing, and who would we charge?” Lipscomb said.
The cult members believed they would be
picked up by a spaceship trailing the Hale-Bopp
comet after they shed their earthly “containers.”
Monday, a forklift operator moved the body bags
from a refrigerated trailer to unmarked vans for
delivery to mortuaries.
Relatives had been located for all but two
of the victims. Officials released their names
and other details in hope that relatives could
be found.
tens pay tribute to Selena two years after her death
■ORPUS CHRISTI (AP) — Te-
■ star Selena lives on in the
■lories of her fans, who have
[en making pilgrimages to her
Ive to mark Monday’s second an-
i B-sary of the singer’s death.
“1 or me, believe it or not, it’s a
He of closure,” said Daniel
Bs, manager of a car audio store
iGalveston. “I never really got to
/goodbye to her before.”
|ares was once thrilled at watch-
_Jelena Quintanilla Perez perform
Houston nightclubs. On Sunday, he
pled to Seaside Memorial Park in
busChristi where Selena is bur ied.
Ibout 5,000 people have done the
■e in the past five days to pay trib-
tet( i Selena, who was gunned down
;a Corpus Christi motel on March
31, 1995. Yolanda Sal
divar, the former
president of Selena’s
fan club, was convict
ed of murdering her
and is serving a life
prison sentence.
As many as 50
people at a time
have visited the
grave, said Stella Hernandez, a
cemetery representative who has
seen visitors with license plates
from New York, Illinois, Arizona
and Mexico.
A 5-foot chain-link fence was
erected around the burial site to
keep people from disturbing a large
arrangement of white roses, purple
flowers and palm leaves that adorn
“I never really got
to say goodbye to
her before.”
Daniel Mares
Selena fan
the spot. Fans have
decorated the fence
with bunches of
flowers, stuffed
Easter bunnies and
written homages to
Selena.
In death, Selena
has achieved a
celebrity status she
only could have dreamed of in life:
She is the subject of eight books,
new musical releases and a full-
length movie.
And, since her murder, Selena has
been the focus of numerous legal con
frontations over rights to her music,
name and image and the merchan
dising of products bearing her name.
“Ballpark, I’d say there have been
20 lawsuits filed, not counting the
cease-and-desist letters that our at
torneys send out to other parties
who give up at that point,” said Bert
Quintanilla, marketing director of Q
Productions, the family business.
He also is a cousin of Selena’s father.
“It’s an ongoing battle. We have
law firms in California, San Antonio
and Corpus Christi, and we have in
vestigators constantly trying to stop
the pirating. Some people even bla
tantly tried to copyright the name
Selena,” Bert Quintanilla added.
The latest and biggest lawsuit
is a purely local affair, pitting the
Quintanilla family and band
members against television sta
tion Kill in Corpus Christi, owned
by McKinnon Broadcasting.
Researchers find high injury levels as result of air bags
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly two-thirds
ol drivers in crashes of air bag-equipped
cars were injured by the deploying bag, ac
cording to an analysis by University of
Michigan researchers.
1 Most of the injuries were minor scrapes
and bruises, but 3 percent of the drivers — or
p —suffered broken bones in the forearm
or hand, according to the university’s Trans
portation Research Institute, where re
archers studied 540 crashes.
The fractures were caused by the de
ploying air bag, the air bag cover, or the air
flinging drivers’ arms and hands into
tile instrument panel or windshield, Don-
ildF. Huelke, a lead researcher, said in a
telephone interview.
Several of the breaks happened during a
ft-hand turn when a driver’s right hand was
eerthe steering wheel, where the air bag de
ploys, Huelke said.
Nearly two-thirds of the drivers had injuries
to the arms, hands, face or upper body and
most injuries were minor scrapes, bruises or
cuts, Huelke said.
Air bags have saved more than 1,700 lives,
according to government estimates, but have
been blamed for the deaths of 38 children and
24 adults.
The researchers found that 38 percent of
the drivers suffered forearm and hand in
juries while one in three drivers sustained a
facial injury, according to papers they pub
lished this year.
Huelke and other researchers at the in
stitute in Ann Arbor, Mich., looked at 540
crashes involving the deployment of driver-
side air bags in a variety of vehicles through
mid-1996. Most of the crashes were in
Michigan: about one-fifth were in other
states, mostly the Great Lakes states.
About 2 percent—or 11 drivers — sustained
eye injuries from air bag deployment, primari
ly scuffs on the eyeball or some blood in the eye,
Huelke said. “In almost all the cases, the driver
recovered from the injury and there were no
long-term effects,” he said.
However, a report published in March that
reviewed five cases of air bag injuries treated at
the University of California, Los Angeles, oph
thalmology trauma center concluded air bags
could be hazardous to the eyes.
“The study highlights that air bags need
some changes in design,” said Dr. Edward E.
Manche, the paper's lead author and direc
tor of cornea and refractive surgery at Stan
ford University Medical Center.
In one case, a woman became legally blind
in one eye. In another case, a woman’s contact
lenses broke and she needed surgery.
(LECTION
ntinued from Page 1
ason Jaynes, the election commissioner and
lior computer science major, said the memo
written before he or Baggett knew of the
tion results.
This was his interpretation, before he even
wthe results of the election,” Jaynes said,
esse Czelusta, a senior agricultural econom-
inajor, was one of the authors of the referen-
. He said Baggett’s interpretation is different
nwhat the authors intended.
The only reason to include this (the clause
ut decreasing the number of candidates pro-
tionally) is to reduce the number of four can-
ites,” Czelusta said. “Otherwise, it’s pointless.”
Hzelusta is planning to file a complaint with
Student Government Judicial Board.
(immel said he supported the referendum and
was involved in getting it passed by the students.
Kimmel received 7 percent of the vote, the
smallest percentage of the run-off candidates.
Bluntzer received 24 percent, Henke received 15
percent and Nichols received 13 percent of the vote.
Kimmel said he is dropping out of the election
because he came in last place among the four
candidates, «nd by his interpretation of the ref
erendum, it is unfair for him to run against the
other candidates.
“I think it would be hypocritical of me to
turn around and take advantage of this mis
nomer,” Kimmel said. “I think it (dropping out
of the election) is the best thing for Texas A&M
and it is more important than any single yell
leadership [position].”
Will Hurd, executive assistant to the student
body president and a sophomore computer sci
ence and international studies major, said it was
Baggett’s right to interpret the referendum.
“Whether you like the interpretation or not, it
was up to him,” Hurd said. “There are always go
ing to be two sides of a coin. Carl (Baggett) inter
preted what he thought was best for the Univer
sity. He is the representative of the student body
and he will act according to its best intefests.”
Christin Eiserloh, Kimmel’s campaign man
ager and a sophomore business analysis major,
said Kimmel’s campaign was based on yell lead
ers being leaders both on and off the football
field. His dropping out of the election is consis
tent with his campaign platform, she said.
“Robert (Kimmel) doesn’t feel it’s ethical to help
get the referendum passed, and then slip
through the cracks with this misinterpretation,”
Eiserloh said.
Baggett said people will have differences of
opinion with his decision because this is the first
year of yell leader run-off elections.
“Any time a new situation arises, such as a
run-off, there are going to be people who dis
agree,” Baggett said.
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