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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.
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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
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