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Murder victim’s car found in Del Rio
HOUSTON (AP) — The
murderous path of a sus
pected railway-hopping seri
al killer has stopped cold at
Mexico’s border, where the
car of one of six victims
linked to the 39-year-old
drifter was found abandoned
in a Del Rio parking lot.
The car’s recovery is the
latest clue in a string of
murders spanning two
years and two states.
Authorities believe
Rafael Resendez-Ramirez,
originally of Puebla, Mexi
co, killed 26-year-old Noe-
mi Dominguez of Houston,
then headed west in her
1993 Honda Civic.
The white, four-door ve
hicle, located in the City
Taxi parking lot near the In
ternational Bridge, was re
ported to police after it re
mained in the lot for more
than a week, Andy Jimenez
Jr. told The Associated
Press on Sunday.
About four days after
the car was abandoned, at
least one lot employee no
ticed a red pickup truck
approach the car, Jimenez
said. The truck’s four oc
cupants, two women and
two men, got out, opened
the Civic and removed the
car’s contents.
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine (AP) — With a promise
to “stay out of his way,” former President George Bush
said Sunday that his son is prepared to follow his foot
steps to the White House.
“My contribution will be letting him find his own
way,” the former president said in a picture-taking ses
sion promoting George W. Bush’s 2000 presidential
campaign.
The Bush men were joined by their wives: Barbara
Bush and daughter-in-law Laura.
Rounding a corner at her family’s
summer estate and spying 150 jour
nalists, the former first lady quipped,
“Where were you in ’92?”
The reminder of her husband’s
failed 1992 reelection campaign
broke the ice. It was all smiles and
giggles and warm hellos after that.
“It seems like old times,” the ex
president said as he walked up to a
microphone set in front of a breathtaking view of the
Atlantic Ocean. He nodded and waved to familiar faces
in the press corps.
His son, the twice-elected Texas governor and front
running GOP presidential candidate, kidded the father
for jumping out of an airplane last week to celebrate
his 75th birthday. “Happy birthday. Sky King,” he said.
And his mother made her endorsement official. “I
think we did right with this boy,” she said.
The younger Bush visited his parents between cam
paigns stops in Iowa and New Hampshire.
The Family Bush is an American political dynasty.
The former president’s father, Prescott Bush, was a
U.S. senator. Two of his sons — Jeb of Florida and
George W. of Texas — are Republican governors.
A few feet from the Bushes, a Texas flag whipped
in the wind beneath the Stars and Stripes. When Jeb
visits, the Florida flag also waves.
“I don’t like dynasty-type stuff,” said the former
president, wearing a blue jacket from the Camp David
presidential retreat. “We never felt we were entitled to
anything, and dynasty connotes a kind of expectation.”
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Appropriations bill
to give record funds
Barry B. Thompson,Texas A&M Uni
versity System Chancellor, said the fi
nal state appropriations bill which
awaits the governor’s signature in
cludes the single greatest funding in
crease in absolute dollars for higher
education in the history of Texas.
“We in the A&M System are en
couraged to see higher education
funding take a front seat in the overall
state funding arena," Thompson said.
Texas legislators have increased
appropriations 11.3 percent from the
1998-99 fiscal year to $7.7 billion in
general revenue for Texas public col
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Carlson named as
anthropology head
David L. Carlson, an associate pro
fessor of anthropology, will become the
department head effective Sep. 1.
Carlson will succeed Vaughn
Bryant, who is returning to his faculty
position. Bryant came to A&M in 1981
to direct the Cultural Resources Man
agement Laboratory.
During his time as director, the Cul
tural Resources Management Labora
tory grew from a budget of less than
$15,000 to over $500,000 a year.
Carlson also drafted a proposal which
led to the creation of the Center for
Ecological Archaeology.
He teaches undergraduate courses
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can pre-history and cultural ecology
and graduate courses in archaeologi
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