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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.
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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.
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To the staff of the Plasma Center,
I would like to start by saying thank
you to each and every employee for making the
past three years enjoyable in a professional,
efficient and courteous environment. As a
donor since 1993, I have been more than satis
fied with every aspect of your operation, which
allows myself and others to contribute what we
can to community service, all the while being
serviced by diligent, but relaxed, workers.
Everyone at the Plasma Center, from those
behind the front counter to the phlebotomists
to the supervisors, have made great efforts to
insure that each donor feels hygienically safe,
as well as keeping the atmosphere light.
Like most, I started coming to the
Plasma Center for monetary reasons, but I
soon developed acquaintances that appealed to
me almost as much as the original need for
money, enabling me to look forward to each
donation, not only for my wallet’s sake but also
to see my friends. Like I commented to some
one recently, talking to people at the Plasma
Center was like getting mail from a far-off
friend that you don’t get to do much with, but
who you can talk to as often as you write. For
those acquaintances and for your continual
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come to know and appreciate over the past
three years - Emily, and Tracy, Heath, and
Marty, Ada and Josie, etc... more I can’t
remember or those who have gone on to better
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strong commendations on such a successful
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