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PLANO (AP) — Dozens of people
Dimplained of feeling sick yesterday
: Collin Creek Mall after fumes
iked to chemicals filled part of the
mplex, investigators said.
Fire Department spokesperson
Monique Cardwell said chlorine and
pool cleaner used in the decorative
:er fountains at the mall somehow
re mixed.
The fumes made at least 100
ople sick, according to Cardwell.
: Nobody was seriously hurt in the
id-day accident.
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nikidnap attempt
T^N ANTONIO (AP) — A Fort
'orth man who was accused of try-
g to abduct two 12-year-old girls
as returned here yesterday to face
iggravated kidnapping charges,
the Nen Desi Villarreal, 25, was held on
of the Yr, i $50,000 bond.
Waxman: Tear-gas use
in Waco was disclosed
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Villarreal was arrested in Mans-
ield over Labor Day weekend, po-
ce said.
The warrant was for aggravated kid-
lapping rather than attempted kid-
lapping, because police claim Villar
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The chief Republican con
gressional investigator in the Waco affair overlooked
evidence his own committee had received from the
Justice Department four years ago showing federal
agents used potentially incendiary tear gas during the
fiery end of the 1993 Branch Davidian siege, a key
House Democrat said yesterday.
Releasing a trio of documents that “explicitly” de
scribe the FBI's use of military tear gas rounds on the
standoff’s final day, Rep. Henry Waxman questioned
why the House Government Reform Committee’s
chair is accusing the Justice Department of a cover-up
when his own investigators overlooked the same evi
dence that suddenly has revived the Waco debate.
“Contrary to the allegations of [a] cover-up, sub
stantial evidence of the use of military tear gas
rounds was, in fact, provided to Congress in 1995,”
Waxman said.
The records, discovered among the more than 40
boxes of material compiled during the House’s 1995
hearings, include an FBI pilot’s 1993 statement re
calling a radio transmission in which agents had a
conversation “relative to the utilization of some sort
of military round ... on a concrete bunker.” Post-raid
interview summaries include an unnamed FBI agent’s
explanation that smoke captured on film “came from
attempt to penetrate bunker with one military and two
(non-incendiary) rounds.”
In a letter to the special counsel investigating the
Lawyers ask for delay
in Davidians’ lawsuit
WACO (AP) — Government attorneys asked yes
terday for a two-week extension in turning over in
formation about expert witnesses scheduled to tes
tify at a lawsuit brought by Branch Davidians.
In a motion filed yesterday, government attor
neys said they could not produce the witness list
due last Friday and comply with a House Govern
ment Reform Committee request to review case
files for two previous lawsuits, along with the Unit
ed States u. Branch trial transcript and “voluminous
other materials.”
controversy, Waxman wrote: “There is no indication
that Chairman [Dan] Burton or his staff thought to re
view these documents before accusing the attorney
general of a cover-up.”
Burton spokesperson Mark Corallo acknowledged the
records had been in the committee’s possession since
1995. However, he said, they were part of more than
100,000 documents which the Justice Department gave
the panel three days before hearings were set to begin,
“in an obvious attempt to keep congressional staff from
having enough time to review those documents.”
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as basilica by pope
SAN JUAN, Texas (AP) — The Na-
1 killed in wreck of Texas-bound train
WICKES, Ark. (AP) — The con
ductor of a loaded coal train was
killed yesterday when a Texas-
bound train ran into another in
southwestern Arkansas, causing a
derailment, police said.
The body of Ronnie Taylor, 26,
was found beneath piles of coal
five hours after the 4:30 a.m. acci
dent. A spokesperson for the rail
way said the man jumped out of
the southbound locomotive before
it crashed but the derailed cars
landed on top of him.
The train’s engineer suffered a
broken arm and was treated and re
leased from a local hospital.
The other crew members identi
ties were not immediately released.
The Kansas City Railway released
few details about the crash.
According to Polk County Sheriff
Mike Oglesby, a loaded coal train
slammed into the rear of a stopped
coal train about a mile north of Wick-
es. The parked train was heading for
Texas, while the other was heading to
a plant near Lake Charles, La.
The exact destination of the
Texas-bound train was not imme
diately known.
Oglesby said the crew of the
moving train jumped before im
pact. The engineer cleared the train
before the collision.
“He got tangled up in all that
mess up there,” Oglesby said.
The National Transportation
Safety Board and the Federal Rail
way Administration also were in
vestigating, railway spokesperson
William Galligan said.
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