Page 2 NEWS Wednesday, June 20,! THE BATTALION Pll?TO Ope:5 GmSi, UE UAAJT To 7oo To /A OF ou^s. ^£'5 The world's lea5ia;6 Expert Humans fFoF£35oR VAa) ScoiT? TH£ LAST oF THE Huma A^S f 1 HAVE 5o AlAAiy Questioajs/ About YouR. SocfgTV, Your Psychology YoofL AMaTo^/ ^ P-PELunn Day care owner, TT'5 'Just Be/WTiFul! AMAZING/' 5/a^PEY AMAZING!( The Fantastko Chronicles BY J. GOLDFLUTE HECTOR Y PEDRO Adrian IfbTRH l U \ Ke J □ husband chargdep with smuggling 1 ' MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The owner of a day-care center and her husband are among 10 peo ple indicted for using the business as a front to distribute millions of dollars worth of marijuana. The indictment comes two months after the last of eight others accused in the conspira cy to run drugs from Houston to Mobile pleaded guilty in federal court. The Mobile Register reported on the 31-count indictment un sealed recently by a federal judge in Tuesday’s editions. Prosecutors believe Marc- shall Taylor Sanders, her hus band and others plotted to es tablished Wee Care Daycare Learning Center on Mobile’s Broad Street to hide profits from marijuana sales. Prosecutors say more than two tons of the drug were smug gled between 1995 and early this year. The indictment alleges participants are guilty of drug trafficking, money laundering, racketeering and perjury before a grand jury. Named in the document are: Sanders; her husband Tommie Lee Sanders; Joseph Patterson; Byron York; Clarence Hughes; Byron Moncrief; Barry Lamar Riley; Sharon Williams; Maria Childress and Norman Whit lock. The Sanderses are from Prichard and the others are Mo bile residents. The Sanderses, Patterson and Williams were being held in Mobile County Metro Jail Monday and were scheduled to appear before U.S. Magist William Cassady Tuesday. At least five of the other fendants had not been arre late Monday, said acting! Attorney Ginny Granade. defendant might be incus; out of state, she said. Apparently, none of the defendants had lawyers Monday. 'The eight who pleaded g earlier in the case are schedule: l>e sentenced in latejuneaud.l T he defendants in the Batts First base -9 RBI). Hi >aseman. T1 Protest vc 8 RBI). Hi recent indictment, except)! Astros made shall Sanders, face possibk prison terms if convicted a charges. 1 he five monev-laundc 'HR, 31 R1 counts against Marcs Sanders each canyasentecc up to 20 years in prison. In the two indictments,ji eeutois portray Tom [ashyglove Sanders and Pardre G: iis batting Lockett, of Mobile, as the: organizers. Officials believe the a:. 8 HIT 48 acy involved frequent transfers of large amoun: cash to unidentified co-cor. ators in Houston. The most recent indicc ame _ reco <, also mentions cash transfer lawyer in Nacogdoches, and to someone in - Charles, La., both of wide located on Interstate lOnai Texas-Louisiana border. Interstate 10 also runs Wednesday, Jur Mark Pas; Baseball t s for next n alion sports ng in the ogically as But who < ng staff 1 Second b; eason after nee injury. Shortsto] 354, 11 HI 00 points 1 Third ba an in bas nee-high s Protest vi 7 HR, 52 I eastward through Mobile. Prosecutors claim L peak for th Catcher: 2 HR, 41 be the v fore, our se tter defen arable offe financed the scheme wh prison, a charge his lawyd denied. Outfield (.320, 36 H Iona (.356, er, Colorad Professor Continued from Page 7 consultant. Perry’s consulting jobs have included many inter nationally known companies such as the Perot Systems in Dallas, the international insur ance agency Lloyd’s of London, the National Institute of Build ing Science and the State Farm Insurance Agency. Perry also authored articles for scholarly journals and a few books on the subject of wind en gineering. Shortly before his (( His students were 'his lifeblood and his passion.” — Dr. David G. Woodcock architecture professor dqath, he finished his book enti tled Wind Engineering Practice: An Application to Building Design. .He also held faculty positions at the University of Idaho, Wash ington State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Califor nia State University and the Uni versity of California-Berkeley. Stubbs said Perry will be re membered for many accom plishments but mosdy for his en- th'usiasm for knowledge and life. “It would have been easy for Dale Perry to rest on his laurels, but he was a teacher’s teacher — and his students were his lifeblood and his passion,” Woodcock said. “His dedication to excellence was always s matched by his willingness to mentor, guide and advise.” ' > Stubbs said that Perry has family in Utah and is survived by his wife, children and grand children. Disease Continued from Page 1 Another possibility is that it would arrive with animals being shipped here from a country that has the disease. “This is nearly impossible,” Faries said. “Since we aren’t al lowing animals from those countries. Also, it is standard procedure to quarantine animals for at least a month once they ar- lUNETEENTH Continued from Page 7 Then came a fashion show of West African dresses featuring senior citizens. Several of them on walkers or canes strutted and pushed down the catwalk to joy ous applause. “The kids today need to be thankful,” said Helen Bible, 82, one of the women modeling a dress. “They look up to the ath letes, but they shouldn’t forget what happened a long time ago.” The significance of the day was not lost on some of the youngest in the crowd. “The day is about the free dom of my people,” said sixth- grader Travanti Allen, 11. Several community speakers were on hand to offer thanks and praise. “We got the information, they say, two and a half years late, that the others got it before us,” said Roger Woods, director of Out, But Not Free, a non profit education outreach or ganization. “But thank God almighty we got it!” So far, Texas is the only state that recognizes Juneteenth as an official holiday, but it increas ingly is being celebrated in oth er parts of the country. rive to see if they are sick.” The last possibility is that a traveler brings it to the United States on their clothes. Faries said this also is very unlikely since people touring infected countries are made to walk through disinfectant and they “would have to hurry and book it back to the U.S. and to a farm and then be around the animals enough for them to catch it be fore the virus dies.” “Any place where you have a politically conscious African pop ulation and culturally conscience African population, (Juneteenth) is being celebrated,” said Kwame-Osagyefo Kalimara, a history professor at Morehouse College in Atlanta, where June teenth celebrations have oc curred for at least seven years. Residents in Mississippi, Al abama, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Georgia, South Car olina, Colorado, Florida, Cali fornia, New York and Utah also are commemorating the holiday. It’s observed in about 200 cities nationwide, and on the Nation al Mall in Washington, D.C. Historians said it was 136 years ago Tuesday that a Union general went to Galveston to in form slaves there they were free — years after President Lincoln signed the order that freed them. Eighteen-year-old Monick Bryant sat on a lawn chair in front of her cousin’s Austin house as children played around her and the smell of barbecue from the nearby grill filled the air. For years, her family has come to gether to celebrate Juneteenth. “If the freedom never would have happened, where would we be today?” she said. “It’s not just for African Americans though, it’s for everyone.” Perry Continued from Page 7 None of the bills Perry ve toed Sunday, the last day the governor could sign, veto or let legislation become law without his signature, can be overturned because lawmakers have ad journed for the session. Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Lare- do, and Rep. Garnet Coleman, D-Houston, authors of a bill that would have restructured the It is also a slap in the face to the chil dren of Texas who need Medicaid, to the families of Texas that need Medicaid. ” — Sen. Judith Zaffirini D-La redo state’s medicaid program said Perry’s veto of their bill “was an other victim of the Father’s Day massacre.” “Quite frankly, we believe that the veto is not only a slap in the face of the many, many peo ple who worked to develop this very important bill, but it is also a slap in the face to the children of Texas who need Medicaid, to the families of Texas that need Medicaid,” Zaffirini said. “I cannot remember feeling so angry. I cannot remember feeling so insulted,” she said. The lawmaker said the au thors had never considered a veto since the governor and his staff had only voiced “very mi nor concerns” Her legislation would have shifted the Medicaid program to HOLLYWOOD USA For showtimes call 764-7592 Hwy. 30 @ E. 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T he state would have saved $416.8 million over five years by eliminating repetitive paper work, streamlining staff and services and gaining better con trol of the budget process, said Coleman. The governor said in his veto proclamation, an explanation of his reasons for vetoing a bill, diat the bill would detract from the “primary focus” of the commis sion to manage Medicaid and implement other legislation. He did say that he supported the re structuring of Medicaid. He did say that the commis sion could pursue other propos als in the bill after holding pub lic hearings and studying the fiscal impact. Legislation that the governor did sign on Sunday included bills that create the office of Rural Community Affairs to fo cus on rural issues, raise the speed limit to 75 mph on some rural stretches of highway and protect consumers from un wanted telemarketing calls. Other legislation the gover nor signed off on included bills that set up a program to increase enrollment in nursing education programs, have the Texas De partment of Transportation use federal money to make sure ele mentary school areas are safe for bicyclists and pedestrians, and require Texas health insurers to cover new forms of birth control that include Norplant, in trauterine devices, diaphragms, Depo-Provera and emergency prophylactics. Contraceptives that terminate pregnancy would not be covered. Garza Continued from Pai Cal Baltin were rebuffed the nightk by a Bush administration: BALI 1A ended 38 years of nofe k en J r - executions by having P ( s P eru ^ mo just over a week. On June youngster; McVeigh became the firs!" ‘Vy whole eral inmate put to deaths' “ I he la: 1963. Garza, the second,! that 1 miss pronounced dead at 7:0 (| more Oric “With this administn news cont< there’s no doubt that the; kids’ activi more clearly in favor ots-was gettin porting the death penalL Injuries all costs than doing anyth Has been \ of substance to correct seasons, system,” Garza attorney^ “I’m as gory Wiercioch said. “It feels g< It could be months ore b ut rea lly years before there isanot | The 40 execution at the Terre Ha Valuable I prison, home of die only: p] iase ] a eral death row. No execu: «j t j on ’ dates have been set for an not st0 pp the 18 other men therein j le sa j t j death sentences. 1 “The re Death penalty oppo» he said and some former Jusoctl Ri , en partment officials haveo ®cutive g plained of racial aii(le 1no -, c 1 i - ,. . , ;1982 to Se graphic bias in the way cjj , , L i . . 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