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Pair Clear Contact Lenses Monday - June 2,1997 McVeigh jurors cut short without reaching verdict DENVER (AP) — As tension mounted over the waiting, jurors cut short their third day of deliber ations without a verdict Sunday in the Oklahoma City bombing trial of Timothy McVeigh. “I am going to grant your request that you recess your deliberations now and take the rest of the day off, as it were,” U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch told the jury after its 3 1/2- hour session. “Take advantage of this time now to rest and relax a bit.” The sequestered panelists, who have been behind closed doors a to tal of 19 hours since Friday, were told from the beginning they could set their own hours and decided to cut their work short at noon Sun day. They planned to resume Mon day morning. Before sending the jury back to its hotel, Matsch warned the seven- man, five woman panel not to dis cuss the case and to avoid news re- w ports. “We’ll help you to be careful by continuing the sequestration,” he said. McVeigh attorney Stephen Jones said the jury impressed him as “be ing cautious and careful and considerate,” but that didn’t make the wait any easier. “I’ve waited out a lot of juries,” he said. “I’ve nev- \M er been able to decide what’s more difficult, waiting for the jury or waiting for the birth of yet another child. I think both involved a lot of patience.” McVeigh Jones said, however, that McVeigh, who could get the death penalty if convicted on mur der and conspiracy charges, is cop ing relatively well. “This is a man that went to war in the Persian Gulf and was in the Army, so he’s used to waiting,” Jones said. At a church a block away, Jan- nie Coverdale, whose two grand sons were among the 168 people killed in the April 19, 1995, blast, endured the wait with other fam ily members. “We expected the jury to reach a verdict by now, and just the sitting around waiting, you start getting scared,” she said. But in Oklahoma City, where bombing survivors and victims’ friends and rel atives watched the trial over a closed-circuit feed, the short day of deliberation came as a relief to some. “I think it’s a blessing in dis guise,” saidVicki Hamm, a friend of many of the victims. “I think that’s because people watching the trial here will need all their energy when the jury resumes tomorrow and then the penalty phase after that.” Lawmakers approve zero-tolerance bill AUSTIN (AP) —Young people un der 21 caught trying to buy, in pos session of or driving under the influ ence of alcohol would face criminal penalties and the automatic suspen sion of their license under a so-called zero-tolerance bill sent to Gov. George W. Bush Sunday. Lawmakers, including sponsor Sen. Royce West, said the measure sends a clear message to people un der 21: “You drink, you drive, you lose,” West, D-Dallas, said. West said the stiffer penalties will save lives and attract to Texas mil lions of dollars in federal highway transportation funds. Under the bill: — It would be illegal for people under 21 to drive with any amount of alcohol in their blood system. — Underage drinkers who drive would lose their driver’s licenses for 60 days on the first offense, 120 days on the second offense and for six months on the third and subsequent offenses. — They also would face criminal charges punishable by up to 40 hours of community service and $500 in fines for the first offense and up to six months in jail and a $2,000 fine for third and subsequent offenses. “There’s going to be a new way of doing business,” said Rep. Allen Place, D-Gatesville, House spon sor of the bill. Under current law, drivers under 21 can have a blood-alcohol content up to .07. Older drivers are consid ered intoxicated at .10. There also would be new pun ishments, including driver’s li cense suspensions, for selling al cohol to someone who is under age and for purchasing alcohol for someone under 21. Congress has mandated that states adopt zero tolerance laws by Oct. 1, 1998, or face the loss of $38.5 million in federal highway funding over the next two years. Weather Outlook WEDNESDAY Partly cloudy High: 86° Low: 65° THURSDAY FRIDAY Partly cloudy High: 85° Low: 65° *" t -aSai j Partly cloudy High: 85° Low: 65° P Acquittal could spur alternative medicine HOUSTON (AP) — Alterna tive medicine got a shot in the arm from the acquittal ofacon- troversial Houston cancer doc tor, advocates and critics agree. Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski, a 54- year-old Polish-born physician, was acquitted Tuesday of the I last of 75 federal charges against him stemming from the inter state shipment of his experi mental cancer drug. The verdict ended a 14-year- long federal effort to build a criminal case against him. “This will flash a signal to Con gress that government needs toen- courage other (nonconventional) healing avenues, not stifle them,” said Michael Culbert, chairman of the Committee forthe Freedom of Choice in Medicine. “When orthodox medicine discovers the cure for cancer, they can run the Burzynskisof the world out of town. Until then, they should leave them alone,” Culbert is quoted as say- ing in Sunday editions of the Houston Chronicle. Meanwhile, William Jams of the National Council Against Health Fraud said the verdictJy “will confer legitimacy on ji Burzynski, embolden quacks |s into believing they can floutfed-j eral drug laws and divert pa-* »n tients from effective care.’’ The jury, after three hours of deliberations, rejected federal prosecutors’ allegations that Burzynski violated a 1983 feder al court order banning out-of- ^ state shipments of a drug not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Burzynski says antineoplastons “turn off” cancer genes by inter- rup ting signals for cells to multiply, He discovered antineoplastons in human urine and now makes the drug synthetically. The Texas A&M U niversitij College of Libera I Arts in cooperation willi flie University of H ouston Moores Scliool of M usic presents ilie 1997 TEXAS MUSIC FESTIVAL CHAMBER COMCERTS MOM DAY EVEMIMG JUME 2 - 7:30 P. M. 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