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Wednesday August 30,)! ng s son kstoend nalty ITIN (AP) — Callingi •nalty the “ultimatefoie ofiling," the son of Mail King Jr. on Tuesday ask eorge W. Bush to issue ium on capital punisffl lews conference in front! )itol, Martin Luther Kin; •sident of the Souk 111 .eadership Conference, acks and Hispanics i kely to be convicted bp 1 judge, and more likely® the death penalty, hose Texas as his first sto; )iir to states with high® itions because Texas hases- nore people than anyotbf id because he wanted it it the case of Gary Grata loubtedly, racial profili actor in the execution til raham on June 22,20(1 id. “Graham, an Afric an man convicted Bobby Lambert, a while tempiifies, unfortunately st-case scenario.” i spokeswoman Linda Ed- aid, “Gov. Bush believes e a fair process in Texas nany checks and balances ig thorough and exhaustive of death penalty cases by rts to prevent an innocem Tom being put to death." i said the timing of hi is not related to Bush' itial run. s state has killed moreta in one nation,” King said, l think it is ever political life is taken.” ng Bush’s term asgovet- 1 people have been execui- 230 since 1982 when the .umed carrying out capital aent. ites before the news confer- ng and his entourage of six. ig civil rights activist K filed into the Capitol, ley delivered letters totte )f Bush and Attorney Ges- i Coniyn, asking forameei- scuss the Graham case. Hindi tisiders oholban / BRAUNFELS summer, the people she Comal and Guadi implain they are sick and seeing drunk teen-ager* is from their inner 1 fight, r pleas to local officials If- iding-room-only meeting ' night during which three Iraunfels City Council •s tried to ban alcohol fro® *s within the city limits, r effort was not totally a :spite the fact that theolli council members and tit were leaning against lit 1, the council agreed top® cision until March, e meantime, the cofinci > beef up police patrol e rivers and consider way' ompanies that rent ini® pay for the added patrol* decision came after thro if heated debate lan 90 residents in 0) chambers, orters of a ban argue j day-trippers who i ittle to the local econoffl! drunk, throw their emp 1 ) i the rivers and shout pro Those favoring theprobt ay the rowdy crowds a® away families. >nents, however, say would be infringing^ hts if they couldn't sip : ile floating down therhe lents of New Braunfels,® ortheast of San Antoni 1 id for several years total®' vds, which include nrf from nearby colleges. P® forts have resulted in la® aottles and Styrofoam. : local officials can’t f ohol on navigable walf f at fall under the state’s ai, the council meniK 5 a ban tried to push by declaring part of ^ ipeand all of the Comal al business district.” idnesday, August 30, 2000 STATE THE BATTALION Poster gallery tyEVIN BURNS/Tm Battalion Kristen Nutt, a junior business major, looks through the posters available in front of the Memorial Student Center Tuesday. -16 crashes in pasture TULIA, (AP) — F-16 pilot iteve Simons always let his fami- yand friends in Tulia know when i flight pattern for the Air Force eserves would take him over their iny Panhandle town. It didn’t happen often, but be- ore a Monday solo flight, he ailed them to say he would be ;uiding his fighter jet nearby bout 6 p.m. So a few residents of he small town, including Simon’s ? ather-in-law, Cletus Dobbs, gath- :red to watch him fly by. But as the jet cruised overhead, .wording to Simons’ family, something happened and the plane suddenly seemed to lose power as its pilot tried to turn around for a second pass. Moments later the F-16 had plummeted to the ground, bursting into flames and leaving scattered debris and a damaged hog shed, the father-in-law said. Simons, 41, died in the crash before the eyes of his family and friends. “Me and my wife were out in front of the house and he rode that plane down to keep from hitting us or the house,” Dobbs said. “He gave his life for us.” HBY £A£Y.». Mnn-s ao to cltKi-cIi? vj; Community m Church 111 Sundays 10:00am ©The Hilton MAIL@COMCHURCH.COM 880-1163 WWW.COMCHURCH.COM Part-Time Opportunities $7.00 an hour!!!! We currently have challenging part-time positions available for marketing, customer support, inventory and hardware support. 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District Judge Charles Carver also ordered the nine to write 1,000-word essays due Dec. 7, the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The punishment was handed down Monday as part of a plea bar gain worked out in cooperation with local veterans. Carver said he hoped the teens ul timately would learn about “the sac rifices of American soldiers in de fense of your freedom.” “We didn’t want to destroy these kids’ lives by sending them to the penitentiary, said Herb Stafford, a Veterans of Foreign Wars post com mander. “We wanted to show them we are a compassionate generation, too.” More than $45,000 in damage was done to Golden Triangle Veter ans Memorial Park during February, including the removal of plaques car rying the names of veterans who served during World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam and Desert Storm. Eleven of 14 concrete benches in the park were toppled, and a pane of glass in the top of a fighter - jet cock pit was shattered. A window was broken in a helicopter, and its door was torn off and stolen. Most of the damage has since been repaired. Pleading guilty in July to crimi nal mischief charges were Seth James Hanson, Brian Andrew Rogers, Robin Lee Middlebrooks, Brendi Olene Barnes, Brad Edward Wiegand, Curt Alan Lucia, Eric Rid ley, all 18 years old, and Justin Rid ley Cruse, 17 and Mark Adam Segu ra, 19. 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