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Mom gets 45 years
in newborn’s death
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — An 18-
year-old woman has been sen
tenced to 45 years in prison for
killing her newborn son.
The baby was found in a plas
tic bag in a bedroom closet more
than a day after his birth on Dec.
14, 1997.
The mother. Hazel Tolliver of
Converse, was 16 when she de
livered the 7-pound, full-term in
fant. She claimed the baby was
conceived during a rape. Tolliver
was convicted last week of mur
der and injury to a child.
In her testimony, Tolliver said
she repeatedly passed out after
giving birth alone on the bath
room floor of her family’s home.
She said she did now know how
the infant ended up in the bag in
the closet.
Her mother took her to a hos
pital hours after the birth, un
aware her daughter had been
pregnant and had delivered a
child.
The teen-ager initially denied
having been pregnant, but when
pressed by doctors she told her
mother where to find the baby,
officials said. But by then, the in
fant was dead. A Bexar County
medical examiner testified the
baby lived for four to eight
hours.
Plano police shoot,
kill murder suspect
PLANO (AP) — A suspect want
ed for questioning in two Missouri
murders and numerous robberies
was shot and killed by police yes
terday in a busy suburban Dallas
shopping center.
Plano police spokesperson Carl
Duke said the man, whose name
was not immediately released, was
wanted in Clay and Jackson coun
ties in Missouri. Duke did not have
details on those cases.
However, a Kansas City, Mo.,
television station reported the sus
pect was wanted for the murder of
a 18-year-old woman, Christy
Schroeder.
Her body was found in a pond
south of Liberty, Mo., on July 11 by
relatives who said they became
concerned when she turned up
missing.
Plano police say Missouri au
thorities contacted them yesterday,
saying the suspect was believed to
be in the area. Missouri police
asked authorities in Plano to be on
the lookout for him.
Around 4 p.m., officers ap
proached a white Chevrolet pickup
in a strip mall parking lot.
“One of our patrol officers lo
cated the suspect’s vehicle and
called for backup,” Duke said. “As
they approached the vehicle, there
were some shots fired. Right now
it’s all still under investigation.”
Duke said there would also be
an internal investigation into the
shooting.
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Zapruder family to get
$16 million for JFK film
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The
government must pay the heirs of
Dallas dressmaker Abraham Za
pruder $16 million for his film
that captured the assassination of
President Kennedy — 26 seconds
of history the Zapruder family
said should be valued like a van
Gogh.
In a 2-1 vote, announced by the
Justice Department yesterday, ar
bitrators set the amount after
lawyers for the government and
Zapruder family could not agree
on a price.
The government offered $1
million; the family asked $30 mil
lion.
“The Zapruder film is one of a
kind,” arbitrators Arlin Adamsand
Kenneth Feinberg wrote in a ma
jority opinion.
With no way to compare its
value to any single object ever
sold, they said they relied heavily
on testimony given by auction
house experts who tagged the val
ue at $25 million or more.
The third arbitrator, Walter
Dellinger, a former solicitor gen
eral and now a law professor at
Duke University, wrote that $3
million to $5 million would have
been enough.
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book on the assassination,
thought $16 million was overly
generous, too.
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ed the figure as an appropriate
compromise. The family said in a
statement, “We believe the result
reached by the arbitration panel is
fair and reasonable.”
The film is stored in a 25-de
gree room at the National
Archives in College Park, Md.
The Assassination Records Re
view Board in 1997 declared the
film the permanent possession of
the people of the United States.
The Constitution requires the gov
ernment to pay owners of private
property taken for the public
good.
David Ogden, acting assistant
attorney general for the Justice
Department’s Civil Division, is
sued a statement, saying the gov
ernment was relieved the film
would not just be stored at the
archives but would be part of its
permanent collection.
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AGGIE RING ORDERS
THE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS
CLAYTON W. WILLIAMS, JR. ALUMNI CENTER
DEADLINE: AUGUST 5, 1999
Undergraduate Student Requirements:
(These requirements must have been completed by summer term 1)
1. You must be a degree seeking student and have a total of 25. undergraduate credit hours reflected on the
Texas A&M University Student Information Management System. (A passed course, which is repeated and
passed, cannot count as additional credit hours.)
2. (£(2 undergraduate credit hours must have been completed in residence at Texas A&M University if your first
semester at Texas A&M University was January 1994 or thereafter, or if you do not qualify under the suc
cessful semester requirement described in the following paragraph. Should your degree be conferred with less
than 60 undergraduate resident credits, this requirement will be waived after you graduate and your degree
is posted on the Student Information Management System.
2Q undergraduate credit hours must have been completed in residence at Texas A&M University, providing
that prior to January 1, 1994, you were registered at Texas A&M University and successfully completed cither
a fall/spring semester or summer term (I and II or 10 weeks) as a full-time student in good standing (as defined
in the University catalog).
3. You must have a 2.0 cumulative GPR at Texas A&M University.
4. You must be in good standing with the University, including no registration or transcript blocks for past due
fees, loans, parking tickets, returned checks, etc.
Graduate Student Requirements:
If you are a August 1999 degree candidate and do not have an Aggie ring from a prior degree, you may place an
order after you meet the following requirements:
1. Your degree is conferred and posted on the Texas A&M University Student Information Management
System; and
2. You are in good standing with the University, including no registration or transcript blocks for past due fees,
loans, parking tickets, returned checks, etc.
However, if you have completed all of your course work prior to this semester and have been cleared by the the
sis clerk, you may request a “letter of completion: from the Office of Graduate Studies (providing it is not past
their deadline). The original letter of completion, with the seal, may be presented to the Ring Office in lieu of
your degree being posted.
Procedure to order a ring:
1. If you meet all of the above requirements and you wish to receive your ring on October 14, 1999, you must
visit the Ring Office no later than Thursday, August 5, 1999 between the hours of 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. to
complete the application for eligibility verification.
It is recommended that you do not wait until August 5 to apply for your ring audit. Should there be a prob
lem with your academic record, or if you are blocked, you may not have sufficient time to resolve these mat
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