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with potential juror screen!
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Wednesday, 8:30 p.m. Rudder 401
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NETWORKING FORUM
IVIeet former students and ask questions about
job searching, interviewing, career options, etc.
Thursday, 4:30 - 6:00 p.m. Rudder 501
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SOCIAL
' An opportunity for alumni, company representatives, staff, faculty
and students to visit on an informal basis. Attire is business casual.
Thursday, 6:30 p.m. -1:00 a.m. Fox & Hound, 505 University Drive East
CAREER
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Have your resume in hand and be ready to meet with representatives
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Sponsored by Liberal Arts Student Council and the College of Liberal Arts All Majors Welcome
DALLAS (AP) — Potential jurors
were asked if they had ever had
problems dealing with the govern
ment as jury selection began yes
terday for members of the antigov
ernment Republic of Texas accused
of defrauding businesses with bo
gus warrants.
U.S. District Judge Joe Fish asked
65 potential panelists in the federal
bank and mail fraud case whether
they recognized any of the 100
names on the witness list.
He also asked if they had encoun
tered any problems with the govern
ment or “any experience that left sort
of a bad taste in your mouth that the
government would not be starting
off on equal footing with the defen
dants if you are a judge in this case."
Richard McLaren, his wife, Eve
lyn, and seven followers are accused
of issuing the worthless warrants,
which looked like cashier’s checks.
U.S. Attorney Paul Coggins says
losses totaled in the “hundreds of
thousands of dollars.”
McLaren, known for his long,
wild hair, appeared more clean-cut
than usual today. His hair was
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Richard McLaren, Republic of Texas leader being arrested last year.
trimmed to the top of his collar and
he was wearing a blue suit, blue
dress shirt and blue patterned tie.
He and the other defendants
were escorted to the courthouse
under tight security.
McLaren already is serving a 99-
year prison term for his role in last
year’s kidnapping of a neighbor in
the remote Davis Mountains Re
sort, which triggered a week long
standoff with 300 state troopers
and Texas Rangers.
The Republic ofTe.t
that the annexation of!
state in 1845 was illegal i
group’s leaders constiti
irnate government ofth
dent nation ofTexas.
As an independent
group claimed the right
own currency. Federalp
say the documents thejr
were bogus and amoip
less than fraud.
Millionaire attempts to divorce w
apparently commits suicide soon a
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GALVESTON (AP) —The case of a 68-year-old mil
lionaire who filed to divorce his young wife of 44 days
and later apparently committed suicide headed to
court Monday where attorneys were trying to resolve
where in Texas the legal fight over his $ 10 million es
tate should take place.
Donna Peterson, 37, a frequent but unsuccessful
Republican congressional candidate in East Texas,
filed a petition in her home Orange County saying she
is due $4 million from her late husband, Absalom T.
Webber Jr., plus another $1 million because she says
she is pregnant.
Webber, who made his fortune selling oil field pipe,
was found dead Dec. 5 in his bed at a Galveston Island
beachhouse. Police believe it was suicide. He had six
cuts on his right wrist and a double-edge razor blade
was found lying on his abdomen.
A Galveston County medical examiner, however,
said he could not rule whether the man’s death was
suicide, accident or homicide. Cause of death, the
coroner said, was a heart attack.
Four days after his death, Peterson filed a petition
claiming she was due her portion of the estate and
produced a document she says Webber signed.
Webber had filed
Aug. 29 that named
upon his death. TWo
were married in New
attorney, Herbert W. Chr;
tor of the estate.
The marriage wa;
11(
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his third, her first. re
Forty-four days after the wedding, hefi. “
vorce, telling Christenberry the marriages ^
\nd about two weeks later, on Oct l P
amended his will toe ut her OtlL
But according to Peterson’s filing in Oran'l c
ty, she has a document signed by Webbero ^
that gives her the money in the event of ht c
plus anothei $1 million for ,m\ child she;,. - -b
ed or by birth. That document, however.wo 5 5
tarized and lists Peterson’s father. Richar, lr >
lone witness. 2
Webber’s attorneys wanted the caseinGaSi
( mint' Probate ( ourt, about 100 iniles. hi
Orange. Christenberry also sought the re h
number of personal items he said Peterson rhi
to hold, including a Rolex watch, credit care u
West Point class ring and about $4,000 in car tc
Republican senator proposes immigrate
bill to increase high-tech workers inU;
F.W. de Klerk
Former President of South Africa and Nobel
Peace Prize Recipient
Along with an international panel of economic,
political, and social experts speaking on how to
improve stability and prosperity in Sub-Saharan
Africa.
, WILEY
fiSBasiLECTURE
wISiBir SERIES
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27 March 1998 • 8:00 p.m. • Rudder Auditorium
Visit aur website at wiley.tomu.edu for more information
Tickets Available at the MSC Box Office 845.1234 or toil free 888.890.5667
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Heeding
the pleas of a domestic computer
industry hungry for talent, a lead
ing Senate voice on immigration is
proposing legislation that would
substantially increase the visa quo
ta for high-skilled foreign workers.
Currently, the United States al
lows up to 65,000 high-skilled for
eigners into the country annually
under the H-IB visa category. Sili
con Valley employers and others in
the booming high-tech sector con
tend that annual cap is far too low,
preventing them from hiring qual
ified foreigners for jobs they are
unable to fill domestically.
Sen. Spencer Abraham, who
chairs the Senate immigration sub
committee, this week will intro
duce a bill that would hike the cur
rent annual visa category to rough
ly 90,000. The Michigan Republi
can’s legislation also would provide
a safety valve, allowing the govern
ment to use 25,000 additional visas
from a different visa category if the
H-1B cap is reached.
High-tech companies have
been vigorously lobbying Con
gress and the Clinton administra
tion to increase the visa category,
complaining of a shortage of qual
ified U.S. computer programmers,
systems analysts and other high-
tech workers.
Last year, for the first time, the
demand for H-1B visas entitling
high-skilled workers to remain here
for up to six years outpaced the
novel comes to life
MMMMMMNMI
^ To Kill 3 Mockingbird, Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize winning literary
I m classic, comes to life on March 10 and 11 in Rudder Auditorium. Set
111* in a Depression-era southern town, Atticus Finch, attorney and
yf | widowed father of two young children, stands against fellow
townspeople by defending a young black man falsely accused of
raping a white woman. Featuring unforgettable characters like Scout, Jem
and Boo Radley, To Kill a Mockingbird tells a story that will live in the hearts
and minds of everyone forever.
To Kill a Mockingbird
March 10 & 11 at 8 PM. Rudder Auditorium
Call 845-1234 for tickets.
sponsored by
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Opera & Performing Arts Society
availability. This year, theDen
be hit by May, four montii irk, |
the end of the current fiscal,
One industry study stint
that more than 340,000i'Or,
tion technology jobs are sta|
because of a shortage ofcliec
workers. r til
“Our cap currently is mej
and it’s going to costAmem
and it’s going to hurt oureiowd
if we aren’t able to fill thestantl
tions,’’ Abraham said Mondn
news conference where mi
cussed his upcoming legis r ay.|
Abraham and hisalliesitske
specter of competitive diadi
tage and companies relfe cc
overseas if they aren’t ablf si
their job needs here. Hie
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