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their own problems or to help
friends or neighbors,” Brown
said.
At the Harris County Jail,
which is adjacent to Buffalo Bay
ou in downtown Houston, 3,000
inmates had to be moved to oth
er lockups when floods knocked
out water and electric service.
“The inmates have been co
operative,” spokesman Bob Van
Pelt said.
Brown said 15 deaths were
confirmed. An investigator at
the Harris County medical ex
aminer’s office said Sunday
most of the victims were pre
sumed drowned but two or
three were believed to have
been electrocuted.
Police were investigating
scattered reports of vandalism
and looting.
Monday. June
“There are people whotai:
advantage of other people’s^
tress, unfortunately,” poll
spokesman John Leggio si
“We’re handling every onei
those incidents seriously.”
“It’s unacceptable and will*
be tolerated,” Brown said.
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emergency refuge in more tL
30 shelters. Twenty-seven rtl
mained open Sunday night.
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remained without power ai
telephone sendee Suni'l
Brown said.
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turned to the skies Sunday
continue rescuing strandedpe j
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high ground. One televisionr
age showed a man atop a wat
surrounded building, seatedirl
lounge chair under a beachurl
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sororities and live on campus.
Jefferson said the students en
rolled in TEAM Blinn will have
access to everything on the Blinn
campus and will be able to park
at Blinn for free with purchase of
a Texas A&M parking pass.
Douglas said TEAM students
will automatically be accepted as
full-time A&M students if they
have a 3.0 grade-point ratio af
ter completing four semesters,
and have completed 15 hours at
A&M and 45 hours at Blinn.
However, if after only one year
in the program students want to
apply to A&M as a transfer stu
dent, they may do so but will not
be guaranteed admission.
Like other new A&M stu
dents, the TEAM participates
will attend a day-long New Stu
dent Conference held specifical
ly for them on July 24.
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WASHINGTON (AP) —
Those pleading with President
Bush to spare Juan Raul
Garza’s life say the Texas drug
kingpin was condemned under
a racist system.
They say prosecutors violat
ed international law to win a
death sentence by accusing him
of murders in Mexico for
which he’d never been tried.
And they say jurors were not
told they could sentence Garza
to life in prison instead of
death. He is scheduled to die
June 19, after Oklahoma City
bomber Timothy McVeigh.
Bush has heard similar argu
ments of unfairness in state
death penalty cases. Few swayed
him. During his six years as
Texas governor, Bush commut
ed only one death sentence to
life in prison. One hundred and
fifty-two people were executed.
But his clemency decisions
now will be made on the federal
stage. Those who want Garza’s
life spared hope other pressures
will bear on flush’s decision in
the Garza case. Some death
penalty experts say Bush’s Texas
record on executions signal that
clemency is not likely.
Garza, 44, was convicted of
running a marijuana smuggling
operation, killing a man and or
dering the slayings of two others
he thought were informants.
“We hope to show President
Bush not every person on death
row is a carbon copy of Timothy
McVeigh. Juan Raul Garza’s
case raises more difficult and
systematic problems with the
death penalty than McVeigh’s
case,” said Gregory Wiercioch,
Garza’s attorney.
Garza’s December execution
was delayed by President Clin
ton after a Department of Jus
tice survey suggested that the
federal death penalty is racially
and geographically biased.
That study said of 682 defen
dants charged with capital of
fenses between 1995 and 2000,
80 percent were minorities. Ul
timately during those years, 20
defendants were sentenced to
death, 80 percent of them mi
norities.
Nine of the 94 federal dis
tricts, including northern Texas,
accounted for 43 percent of all
the cases in which prosecutors
sought the death penalty.
But last Wednesday, Attorney
General John Ashcroft said his
office’s review of 900 federal
death penalty cases turned up no
evidence of racial and ethnic bias
in the death penalty system.
His study found that even
though the number of minori
ties on death row is greater than
the number of whites, the per
centage of minorities sentenced
to death out of total cases in
volving minorities was lower
than for whites.
Garza’s attorneys want Bush
to allow them to respond to
Ashcroft’s study before he de
cides on Garza’s clemency pe
tition. T hey say Garza epi
mizes the problems in li
prosecutors decide when
against whom to pursue
federal death penalty. He
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from Texas.
Ashcroft said he asked
National Institute of Justice
further examine whether rat
bias exists in the death pena
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port that he sees no reason
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THE WAY IT PLAYS OUT
3 rd Floor Cantina
Tuesday Night -
ISO or more patrons,
all domestic draft beer prices drop to 75c per
pint. All domestic longnecks will be $ l.00
Wednesday Night -
150 or more patrons,
all domestic longnecks drop to *1.00
Thursday thru Saturday Night -
200 or more patrons,
all domestic draft chuggers drop to $ 2.00 and
domestic longnecks drop to $ l.00 per bottle
Now serving from 3 bars!
"Hot Dogs on sale $ l.00!
Come help us increase support for local live music and
avoid a pending summer shutdown till the fall semester!
TTuesday - *Karoke and Hip Hop Dance*
- with Music Masters
Cover $ 3.00
TXVednesday- *Lemming Escape Plan*
* Cover $ 3.00
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- with Berkelu Music Graduate Drummer Samantha Banks
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