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• t-nday, Septeml*, Heyball atta ion N EWS Page 9 » Friday. September 10. l,i^)9 Est. 1974 - Keeping you in touch for 25 years. tsrwireless.com ■SM !!f."5ttorneys to pick final jur RYKN (AP) — A pool of 48 potential jurors was se- 'd yesterday for the second Jasper dragging death apd lawyers will try to cut the panel today to 12 rs and two alternatives. iHKis/Os s ball Team wil uerque, n.M Intercable a t i o n a ament! 17th- ^ Aggies against the h i n g t o n University rs tonight . m. r dropping a son opener sity, the team raight victories 1 volleyball co„ said even thoir^S 31 1 ing, there are asV tate District Judge Monte Lawlis ordered several ju- tat need imorc t0 stanc ^ by today in case defense attorneys Doug dll take a w '■°'f an b Layne Walker challenge the qualifications li said “But -- k° rs a ' r eady in the pool. Yesterday, Lawlis dis- always" look-- one s ‘ x J urors B rewer ’ s attorneys asked to ' ” d ^ ; aken out of the pool. me .. e e '-hewer’s trial will take place 150 miles west of the . 0 )er County road where authorities found body parts ' ® 16 A Sg |esi ames Byrd Jr., 49, after he was beaten, chained to n ockers Ambe c {Jip truck and dragged for nearly three miles, u r i Leahy. Jrewer, prison buddy John William King and Shawn i were named ;>n Kerry were charged with capital murder in Byrd’s ment Team hat would set the stage for opening statements Tiday in the capital murder trial of 32-year-old rence Russell Brewer. ittlrneys for both sides are allowed to strike 15 ju- fr|m the list, which includes 45 whites and three ks. The pool was culled from 82 potential jurors j have been questioned since jury selection began death, which occurred outside the deep East Thxaslown of Jasper. Byrd’s body was discovered on June 7, 1998. Jasper County jurors convicted King and sentence^ him to death last February. Lawlis moved Brewer’s trial to Brazos County at the request of Jasper County District Attorney Guy James Gray to deny Brewer’s attorneys ah easy appeal issue — a jury pool biased by the overwhelming media cov erage of King’s trial. Gray has said he believes King led the two other men to kill, with Brewer providing ideology he gained as a member of the pro-Aryan Confederate Knights of Amer ica prison gang. At King’s trial, his attorneys claimed their client joined a white supremacist prison gang to survive beat ings or rape by black prisoners. King and Brewer met in prison. Both were paroled, and Byrd was killed while Brewer was working odd jobs in Jasper, which was King’s hometown. Prosecutors have said they believe the three men killed Byrd as a publicity stunt to promote their own fledgling hate group and as an initiation rite of Berry into the group. Genetic material left on cigarette butts, found where Byrd is thought to have been beaten and chained to Berry’s truck, match the DNA of King, Brewer and Byrd — all of whom are white. Berry is still to be tried. The state is seeking the death penalty for Brewer and Berry. ichigan State nf^fX bortion activists take aim with commercials 5 at the r-> M lj r a m a u,-.- f ' ' ~ Bush misses visit, Gore vows to replace d will be thel lo and ties ity of New Wei ee inju psTedi lOCK (AP) - ty running ;, who was fi n rushing son, will Saturday game i n s t vestern a with a left knee, ms was! Monday he second BUSH WASHINGTON (AP) — Disap pointed students will get a con solation prize after George W. Bush failed to show up for a scheduled visit to their Rhode Is land school: A1 Gore. In a nimble bit of counter scheduling, the vice president has rearranged a campaign trip today to squeeze in an appearance at Ella Risk School in Central Falls, R.I. The Texas governor and Republi can presidential front-runner can celed the school visit Wednesday, blaming bad weather that had de layed his flight from New Hamp shire to Rhode Island. ■NCORD, N.H. (AP) — Abor- n lights activists are taking aim Gt)P front-runner George W. shlwith another round of televi- n pds in New jiriBshire. Kate Michel- m, president of National lorjion and Re- ^Bctive Rights OfaCCTwedneXy e Jsxas gover- ir is concealing s extreme anti- iortion views while on the cam- ugn trail. “George W. Bush has a record at meeds to be known,” Michel- Hp||aid. She said Bush is keeping a lid on s views because he is trying to Id pn to right-wing voters while t alienating the majority of voters. In (fact, she said, pro-choice Re- ".iblicans have no choice this time mrid: Every Republican presiden- )f a season-opening candidate is anti-abortion, ■'.t Snie He played uNARAL ran an earlier round of rter, then left with: mis on D ouchdown. SiSlbOK WHO'S COMING and walkingwt ing further evate is has played ev: e last two seasor™ is bandaged Ins J t the first ^ ntil he felt it be helped off fc an Shaud Wife r five carries last) 2te for the job a; Ter along terling and Rick? He kept his date with contribu tors at a $l,000-a-plate Providence fund-raiser later in the day. “The vice president heard about the issue in Central Falls, and since he’s going to be in New England (today), he wanted to stop by the school,” White House spokesperson Chris Lehane said. “He’ll be there regardless of weather — rain or shine,” She said Bush met with the school’s principal and superinten dent before leaving Rhode Island and promised to visit the school later in the campaign. ads aimed at Bush and Elizabeth Dole in March in New Hampshire. 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