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Bush moderates
leadership forum
Former President George Bush
and a panel of representatives from
the political and entertainment are
nas discussed leadership in a fo
rum yesterday.
Bush joined the President and
CEO of The Hearst Corporation, Frank
Bennack Jr.; the first lady of Texas,
Laura Bush; former Secretary of Com
merce, Robert Mosbacher; and actor
Chuck Norris in the talk, held at the
Bush School’s Presidential Library.
Texas A&M’s Eisenhower Fellows,
Bush Fellows, MSC Leadership, Student
Government Leadership and journalism
students attended the discussion.
Scientists prepare
for Glenn’s orbit
AUSTIN (AP) — Texas scientists
researching ways to stop or mini
mize the bone and muscle loss of
humans in space are hoping to
learn from John Glenn’s second ride
around the Earth this fall.
Since researchers long ago found
many parallels between the bone,
muscle and heart problems of aging
and spaceflight, Glenn’s return to
space may help answer many of the
questions that remain about human
adaptation to microgravity.
“It’s a very unique opportunity,”
said Susan Bloomfield, a Texas
A&M University assistant professor
of kinesiology — the study of the
anatomy and movement.
“Starting with lower muscle
mass and bone density than a
younger person, will he experience
losses faster? Or, if you start at a
lower level, will you lose less?"
Medical data compiled before,
during and after Glenn’s flight in
1962 could be compared to his
space shuttle experience,
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Cadet trial to begin soon
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) —
Some of the stories about the al
leged murder of a 16-year-old girl by
two former military cadets have
been more fiction than fact, a pros
ecutor told potential jurors Monday.
“I can guarantee you, you don’t
know all the facts,” lead prosecutor
Mike Parrish told a pool of 90 pos
sible jurors in the capital murder
trial of ex-Navy midshipman Di
ane Zamora. “I can also guarantee
you some of the facts you have
heard are wrong.”
Testimony is scheduled to be
gin Monday.
Most of Parrish’s questions fo
cused on gauging jurors’ ability to
ignore what they have already
heard about the case, which has
been intensely covered by local me
dia and been the subject of two
books and a television movie.
“The first thing, the only thing, I
will ask of you if you’re on this jury
is to promise that you’ll decide this
case based on evidence, not on im
age,” Parrish said.
Parrish also may have given a
glimpse of the prosecution’s strate-
“ln the state of
Texas, there’s no
such thing as
accomplices or
accessories.”
Mike Parrish
lead prosecutor
gy when he explained Texas’ law
concerning murder.
“In the state of Texas, there’s no
such thing as accomplices or ac
cessories,” Parrish said. “Here, if
you participate in any part of the
crime, you’re guilty of the worst
crime being committed.”
According to statements from
Zamora and her former fiance David
Graham, the couple lured Adrianne
Jones to a secluded road, Zamora hit
the girl with a dumbbell weight, then
Graham shot her in the head when
she tried to flee.
Zamora was a freshman at the
Naval Academy and Graham was
in his first year at the Air Force
Academy when they were arrest
ed in September 1996. The slay
ing, which is believed to have
been in retaliation for a one-time
sexual encounter between Jones
and Graham, occurred in Decem
ber 1995.
Prosecutors have agreed not to
seek the death penalty if either for
mer cadet is convicted. Maximum
punishment would be a life sen
tence. Graham will be tried later.
Bush: Taxpayers at ri
of paying $2.3 billion infi
Probationers often allowed to violate terms
Over 10 percent of felons on probation are jailed for new crimes
munity supervision.
— Of those revoked, just more than half (51.2 per
cent) were sent to prison for violating terms of their
probation — not for committing new crimes.
—The rate of revocation fell from 8.6 percent in the
first year of probation to 6.4 percent in the third year.
The overall revocation rate for all criminals on pro
bation is about 7 percent, the department said.
At the end of October, the latest figure available,
there were 422,469 people on probation in Texas. Of
those, 241,604 were felony cases.
CJAD oversees 122 local Community Supervision
and Corrections departments, formerly known as pro
bation offices.
AUSTIN (AP) —Just more than 10 percent of Texas
felons placed on probation later are sent to jail for new
crimes committed while on probation, according to
state officials.
Diane Clements, president of Houston-based Jus
tice of All, also is concerned that probationers not re
voked are committing new crimes or violating terms of
their probation without getting caught.
The probation arm of the Texas Department of
Criminal Justice — the Community Justice Assistance
Division — said a three-year study of4,245 felons sen
tenced to probation in October 1993 shows:
— Fewer than one in four (about 1,020) had their
probation revoked in the first three years of com-
AUSTIN (AP) —-Gov. GeorgeW.
Bush says Texas taxpayers are at
risk of having to pay some of the
$2.3 billion the state owes in attor
neys fees in connection with a
$15.3 billion settlement with the
tobacco industry.
Bush on Monday again
praised Texas Attorney General
Dan Morales for suing tobacco
companies over health-related
claims and landing the historic
deal, which U.S. District Judge
David Folsom finalized in
Texarkana last week.
But the governor continued to
hammer Morales for deciding
how the first $1.2 billion of the set
tlement would be spent — most
ly for healtli purposes — and for
authorizing fees totaling 15 per
cent of the $15.3 billion to be paid
to private attorneys who repre
sented the state.
Bush said Monday he would
support legal challenges to the
settlement in order to make sure
state lawmakers are the ones de
ciding how the money is spent.
Dusek and Railroad Com
missioner Barry Williamson,
who opposes Cornyn in the
GOP primary for attorney gen
eral, accused Cornyn of politi
cal grandstanding.
“This is a transparent and
desperate attempt by a third-
string candidate to get publicity
for himself,” Dusek said. “He is
asking Jtis former colleagues on
the Texas Supreme Court to grant
him a political favor.”
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of frivolous actions, donel
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