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The 72-year-old silver-haired Edwards displayed lit tle of his wisecracking Cajun wit hut was relaxed and confident as he took the stand in his federal racketeer ing trial, which began Jan. 10. The high-rolling gambler and ladies’ man wore a necktie emblazoned with the names of all 64 Louisiana parishes and answered questions from defense attorney Daniel Small with a serious attitude. Edwards began with a terse denial that he ever exert ed any illegal influence over the state's gambling hoards. “Did you do anything to corrupt the gaming board?” Small asked. “Absolutley not,” Edwards answered. “Did you do anything to corrupt the gaming com mission?” “Absolutely not.” He then launched into his life story — rural child hood, growing up in a house without electricity or in door plumbing, college interrupted by the Navy dur ing World War II, then graduation from law school. He began a point-by-point rebuttal of charges that he and his six co-defendants carried out a series of extortion schemes involving the licensing of riverboat casinos. Edwards focused on former Treasure Chest Casino owner Robert Guidry. Guidry claimed he paid $1.5 mil lion to Edwards, once dropping money off at his home. “With tears in his eyes, he said he couldn't take the pressure any more and was going to make a deal/' (Juidry, I Edwards said, was a close frienihit on him while under pressure from federal pros# wards said that seven days before Guidry pleaij in 1998, Guidry called and arranged a meeiirci count shopping mall. “With tears in his eyes, he said he coil the pressure any more and was going to mil Edwards said. “1 told him to tell them anything as lon£;| the truth,” I'd wards continued. “He said,Tl!:! 1 can, but they want me to say somethingkl him, 'Life is too short and eternity took| ; something like that.”’ It was the second time lid wards found Irk — Edwin Edwards former Louisiana governor other times delivering the payoffs by way of Edwards’ son Stephen or their friend Andrew Martin. “I never got a cent from Mr. Guidry. My son never got a cent from Mr. Guidry . As far as I know, Mr. Mar tin never got a cent from Mr. Guidry,” Edwards said. the witness stand in his own defense. A 1985 federal trial stemming fromhealtl*; \ estment deals ended in a hung jury'. Edward J| quitted in a retrial in 1986. By his own count, Edwards hasbeentlel of almost t\\ o dozen state or federal investigate mg back to his days as a congressman in tie tv four terms as governor in the 1970s, '80san; ; On Tuesday, he testified that people have ; voked his name without his permission to gars.' advantage. It is “a problem that has hauntedej was first elected governor,’’Edwards said. Dying girPs cries Philosopherremembefi reach peacekeepers Novelist, dramatist and philosopher. Jean-Paul Sartre, leaderoftk I French existentialist movement died April 15, 1980. He was 75yea- old. A key figure among French intellectuals for over 40 years, jiisfuttl | drew nearly 80.000 mourners. SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Helpless to save her, NATO peacekeepers and townspeople watched from the edge of a minefield as a dying 11-year-old girl waved and pleaded for hours to he rescued. Ema A lie and two other youngsters died Monday after venturing into the minefield on the outskirts of the capital, the latest casualties of the Bosnian war that ended five years ago. “For two hours, the girl was showing signs of life, waved with her little hand and called for help. Then she went qui et,” said eyewitness Nenad Krestalica, 67, who was still visibly upset Tuesday. His wife, Stana, said she was garden ing when she heard the explosion. “We all started running. We heard a child’s voice screaming for help,” she said. “We called the police and they came, but nobody could approach the children.” Police identified the other dead chil dren as Goran Biscevic, 12, and Haris Balicevac, 12. As the rescue team carried the bodies of the children from the minefield, Etna’s father broke into tears, turned around and told his wife: “It’s our child,” other wit nesses recalled. The woman fainted. The presence of the minefield was well-known, and signs warned of danger, residents said. Still, the field was not taped off, apparently because of lack of money. Dozens of people are killed and in jured every month in explosions of some of the millions of land mines strewn across Bosnia. Minefields render large ar eas along the former front line unusable. Residents gathered around the minefield after the explosion Monday, followed by Italian members of the NATO-led peacekeeping force, hut they could only watch Hie tragedy a few hundred yards away. Although the experts worked quick ly once on the scene, more than 2 1/2 hours elapsed between the time a demi ning team was notified and the time it reached the victims. By then, all three children were dead. “It didn't take us more than half an hour to demine a small path to get to the children,” said Zoran Gagula. one of the deminers. “We skipped standard proce dures, risked our lives, and still, by the time we got to the children, they were dead.” Standard demining procedures are slow, w ith experts sometimes taking as much as an hour per square yard to min imize risk, prodding each inch of terrain for explosive devices. NATO experts arrived after a team from Norwegian People’s Aid and therefore let that squad do the demi ning, said a NATO spokesperson, Maj. Paul I lubbard. His life 1929 1938 1939 1943 1971 Majors in Publishes Drafted to His first play, Publisher philosophy at his first serve in "The Flies," is first two : the Ecole novel, World War II; produced in volumes cl Normale “Nausea." becomes a Paris. It four-votal Superieure German carries a biography :| where he prisoner of message of Gustave meets Simone war in 1940 freedom in Flaubert de Beauvoir, and is the face of called 1| his lifelong repatriated tyranny. It Family Iditl companion. the following escapes Nazi year. censors. Some of his works “Nausea” (1938) The novel describes, in diary form, the hero’s repulsion toward life. “Being and Nothingness” (1943) His first major philosophical work. “No Exit” (1945) The play concludes with the famous line, “Hell is other people." “The Dirty Hands” (1948) A political drama with the existential message that man is bom free and responsible for his actions. Always controversial, Sartre declined the 1964 Nobel prize in literature. Sources: Britannica.com; GaleNet; Wilson Biographies; compiled from AP wire reports News in Brief ecently th< been quite .country m [cken coop due ie Chicks’ lah wdbye Earl.” With “Earl,” t 'e concocted a Three bodies found on Detroit railroad here, whether this is where they ac tually died, I don’t know at this point,” Napoleon said. DETROIT (AP) — Three women were found dead along railroad tracks, but police say they weren’t sure whether the deaths are related. All three bodies were found Monday, but the women did not die at the same time, Police Chief Ben ny Napoleon said. One was par tially undressed and had stockings tied around the neck. “Now whether they were put here, whether they were brought Spain exposes illegal passport-selling ring MADRID, Spain (AP) — Police have uncovered a crime ring whose members sold bogus passports and offered diplomatic privileges from a nonexistent country, au thorities said Tuesday. More than 60 people used an In ternet page to advertise passports from Sealand — described on the Web as a principality based on an abandoned military platform off the coast of England, authorities said. The passports went for $5,780, said Civil Guard spokesperson Fer nando Jimenez. The group claims on its Website to have sold 160,000 of them since September 1998. Former comedian found guilty of rape Midwest was found guiltyI^Thdma and Loui of the rape of a student here 21st century, and Vinson Horace Champ, 3sg avc u a happy ei Los Angeles was found guiltyotf ing a woman at Union small Seventh-dayAdventistsefi in Lincoln, in February 1997. Sentencing was: June 6. Champ faces years in prison. His lawyer, Assistant I LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A former “Star Search” comedian accused of several sexual assaults at col lege campuses throughout the tnds, Maryann Inda’s abusive kings puts her (men serve Ear : ;yed peas, and E< 'if (in Wanda’s 1‘missed” by at er County Public Defenders# 11 ^ 1 * ia P" Elliott, referred all questi® f Lancaster County AttorneyCif ! n ^ 0<x a dside stand. Domestic vio- ce is certainly rious subject, the Chicks inage to make solution” IN * CARRY OUT -k CATERING Avenue • College Station • (979)695-0 all tongue-in- Jek, with Na talie Maines’ jcy lead vocals p lots of up- t guitar. 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