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Page 6 Tuesday, June 6,!(( THE BATTALION Quake hits Sumatra Island, 58 dead JAKARTA, Indonesia <AP) — At least 58 people died and 500 were in jured in a powerful earthquake that lasted for minutes in the Indonesian is land of Sumatra and was followed by hundreds of strong aftershocks today. Widespread panic was reported in Bengkulu, a province of about 1.2 mil lion people near the tremor's epicen ter, as rescuers dug through the rubble of ruined buildings in search of bodies and trapped survivors. Ali Muchtar, Bengkulu health de partment chief, said 58 people were confirmed dead. Almost 500 people had been reported injured, 255 seri ously. The quake hit at 11:29 p.m. Sunday and was centered beneath the Indian Ocean, about 60 west of Bengkulu city, which has about Dozens of homes have been de stroyed and almost all houses and buildings in the city seem to have been damaged” — Sgt. Hariyono Bengkulu policeman 250,000 residents. The Indonesian Meteorological and Geophysical Ser vice said the quake measured mag nitude 7.3. The U.S. Geological Sur vey in Golden, Colo., estimated the strength at 7.9. The quake lasted several minutes and shook a wide area. A magnitude 6 aftershock hit 11 minutes afterward, and more than 260 smaller tremors were recorded today. Initial reports said Enggano island, about 125 miles southeast of Bengkulu town, was also badly hit. "The quake went on for many minutes. Dozens of homes have been destroyed and almost all houses and buildings in the city seem to have been damaged," said Bengkulu police Sgt. Hariyono. "People are terrified every time they feel aftershocks." Thousands fled their homes. Wit nesses reported widespread panic in Bengkulu and said hospitals were overwhelmed with injured people. Electricity and water supplies had been cut. Many phone lines were down. 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Texas Ave. § College Station, TX 77840 * (409) 696-7250 f (next to Tom’s BBQ) « Freeze frame • Kosse )deo offer ing, stee During Freudian Slip auditions, Morgan Baker, a sophomore physic major, lifts up Josh Kutach, a sophomore general studies major, while participating in an improvisational exercise called "freeze." Supreme Court throws out pen HOUSTON (AP) — Casting doubt on the fate of at least eight oth er condemned inmates in Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court threw out a killer's death sentence Tuesday after prosecutors conceded that the penal ty was based in part on the fact that he is Hispanic. The court ordered a new sen tencing hearing for Victor Hugo Sal- dano, convicted of murdering a man for his wallet and watch in a Dallas suburb in 1996. During the punishment phase of Saldano's trial, psychologist Walter Quijano testified for the prosecution about Saldano's "future dangerous ness," an aggravating factor that al lows Texas courts to administer the death penalty instead of life in prison. Quijano listed 24 factors in his as sessment, including Saldano's eth nicity. He testified that blacks and Hispanics are over-represented in prison, and that Saldano's Hispanic background "was a factor weighing in favor of future dangerousness." In upholding Saldano's death sentence, the Texas Court of Crimi nal Appeals said that permitting use of his ethnicity was not a "funda mental error." However, after Saldano's lawyers appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, Texas Attorney General John Cornyn and his staff said the state "confesses error" and joined in asking for the new sentencing hearing. Salhano's guilt was not in dispute. Quijano gave similar testimony^ the trials of eight other death tw: mates, and those cases will getado 1 ’ er look, said Mark Heckmam spokesman for the Texas attom general's office. "We are reviewing those® and expect to release our findif by the end of the week/'Heckmr said. He would not identifyli) eight cases. Quijano was the state prisons- tern's chief psychologist in the® 1980s and is now in private pradiff Quijano was on vacation \W; and unavailable for comment. 1 ever, a colleague at his dinicsaidS whatever Quijano's testimony wf was based on scientific reasonin; "We're sworn to tell the truth, yet sometimes we are noli 1 lowed to do that because attomfj orchestrate what is disseminated the courtroom," said the colleagii] clin ica 1 psychologist Roger Saundf who like Quijano frequently givest'S pert testimony for both prosecute— and defense attorneys. Saldano is from Argentina,wfe _ an e h°rt to joined 10 other Latin AmericancotT anj ^ e P an ’ a * £ lrl^in„rainarhpq„nrp m prnnrttl meer ’ ller tai ;nds have esta News in Brief tries in urging the Supreme Court/ intercede. ,l, , ■ • , , , . rfiplarship m hei "Argentina tinds it intnnsicali. |) nin offensive for anyone to su gg est Memorial Scl any Hispanic is more dangerousq nt | ^-,^1-, w and therefore more deserving,of^shed in 1997 f death penalty — simply becausc'erl March 199 is Hispanic," lawyers for Argenti'dll become a s told the court. nancial suppoi ire petroleum < undergradi ■as A&M. J The endown ■ , Prosecutor shot, gunman dies Dictator faces , long legal battle flVC BURKESVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The chief prosecutor for a four-county area was shot to death in his home this morning and his al leged assailant was also killed, police said. The bodies of Common wealth’s Attorney Fred Capps and the second man were found at the scene after state police were called about 6:15 a.m., Sgt. Mike Castle said. The gunman came to Capps’ home with an assault rifle, firing several shots into the home be fore entering and firing again, Castle said. The assailant had an arrest record, he said, giving no details. The man’s name was not re leased, and police would not say whether they think he killed him self or was killed by Capps in self- defense. Capps was prosecutor for Adair, Casey, Cumberland and Monroe counties in southern Kentucky. Capps shared a law practice with his wife, Cathy, who is as sistant commonwealth’s attor ney, Jones said. She and their two children were at home at the time of the shootings but were not harmed. entl SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) court on Monday announced decision to strip Gen. Align 5 1 Pinochet of his immunity prosecution, leaving Chile's- mer dictator facing a long I# HARRISC battle over the human rigThe bodies o: abuses committed under hisft found in bar Opponents of the former 5 aid a field b tator cheered and wept for, met wornen while Pinochet’s defense tej sadomasochi said it would appeal the run T , The first I the outlines of which were I to the media two weeks _ 0 - The Santiago Court of Appeal turd ay on I voted 13-9 on May 23 to renicKan. Three n the congressional immu 1 drums were Pinochet enjoys as a senator storage life. He faces 110 lawsuitsf a b ou t 30 milt on behalf of those killed or m- j 0 b n Ec jw ing during his 17-y^ir ml| sidcred asus In releasing the 55-pageO' sion, court President Rti[ a Pl Hvlu ' c 1,1! Ballesteros said the 22 mei#9f i y o n char^ of the court “resolved thattfht o women .are grounds to begin a casfbailwasraisi against Pinochet for the righk 1 The two dictatorship that ended in 1S : they objects Pinochet’s lawyers have 5 anc } sa i they will appeal to the Suprf' „ ,j. Court within the five days alio* 1 a VNL under law. The former dictate , ^ ed - Une facing 110 lawsuits filed by 6100 ' ^ rorn tims of the regime that tookf counter wid er in a bloody 1973 coup. The five \