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Page 10 •Tuesday. December?, 1999 N EWS battalion Deck the halls PATRIC SCHNEIDERAI hk Bahai ion Leah Edmundson (left), a freshman history major, and Theresa Duncan, a freshman computer science major, check out Christmas ornaments in the MSC’s Texas A&M Bookstore yesterday. Utah authorities sean for 6 runaway campci CEDAR CITY, Utah (AP) — One of the teen-age boys who fled a camp for troubled youth turned himself in yesterday after trudging 30 miles across the Utah desert, two days after some boys beat a counselor and tied up another. Search crews with bloodhounds and helicopters continued to scour southern Utah for six other boys who fled Saturday. Authorities were concerned about the boys’ ability to survive in the rugged wilderness after two nights in the bitter cold. The boys, between the ages of 14 and 16, had some survival gear, wool coats, blankets and a two-way radio but only one-day packs of food. “We’re absolutely worried about them,” Iron County Sheriff David “Dude” Benson said. “They’ve done some stupid things, but they’re just kids.” An eighth boy in the group turned himself in Saturday after he became ill and was abandoned by the others. He was charged with felony aggravated assault, simple assault and theft. “The boys are not outfitted for extended periods in this type of weather and this type of terrain,” Steve Peterson, co-founder of Red- Cliff Ascent Inc., which teaches wilderness survival skills to trou bled youth, said. Benson said the teens beat 23- year-old counselor Kirk Stock with sticks Saturday, tried to break his legs and then bound him with duct tape. The boys allegedly then threatened 22-year-old counselor Sunshine Fuller, tied her to a tree and fled. They escaped near Cedar City, 220 miles south of Salt Lake City. IDAHO Salt Lake City 0 UTAH Cedar City ARIZONA The boy who tui yesterday was not showed up at a hogfanp.! Beaver County and wasii command post near Lund.! dition was not disclosed, son said he has not bet! with any crime. the back c [large sheet Volleyball' |mong the i ;ed on that s ..._ u balan jpijalizing on tt ■ advantage I time they s Que-by-one t fieir sights o intil there w ,&M will m |er, since the on in the m n against th Ve made a ir outside h ieniors thei lid love to fii Court to reconsider Miranda NEWS IN BRIEF Valujet contractor convicted in crash MIAMI (AP) — In the first crimi nal case of its kind in the United States, an aircraft maintenance company was convicted yesterday of mishandling the oxygen canis ters blamed for the cargo hold fire that caused the 1996 ValuJet crash in the Everglades. Two employees of the mainte nance company, SabreTech, were ac quitted, and the company was also acquitted of conspiracy and some hazardous-materials charges. Violations outlined in Microsoft trial WASHINGTON (AP) —The govern ment outlined for a federal judge yes terday the antitrust laws it believes Microsoft violated, advancing the case to the crucial next stage even as lawyers met again in Chicago to try to negotiate a settlement. The government called Mi crosoft’s actions toward rivals “nakedly anticompetitive” and said they deprived consumers of important innovations. “This is a case in which a mo nopolist in an unregulated market intentionally set out to squash promising marketplace efforts,” the Justice Department filing said. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court, con fronting its landmark Miranda ruling head-on, agreed yesterday to decide whether police still must warn criminal suspects they have a “right to remain silent" and to get a lawyer’s help. The justices said they will rule by summer on whether Congress in 1968 effectively overturned the 1966 decision. Clinton administration lawyers are refusing to de fend the anti-Miranda law enacted by Congress, but a federal appeals court upheld it earlier this year — set ting the stage for this constitutional showdown. The court, far more liberal 33 years ago than it is to day, sought to remedy “inherently coercive” interroga tions by requiring police to inform criminal sis their rights before questioning them. Failure to; warnings can result in evidence — a confessi criminating statement — being lost to prosec But in a surprising ruling earlier this year servative 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appealsmlei ignored 1968 federal law known as Section3x failure to issue Miranda warnings no longerrap tomatic exclusion of evidence in federalprosec. The appeals court’s rationale wouldappli prosecutions as well. 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