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Research Lab on the Texas A&M Riverside campus. La Belle, which Sieur de La Salle sailed, sank in 1686 and was
found in Matagorda Bay in 1995. It was disassembled and brought to the Riverside campus where it is being
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LONGVIEW, Texas (AP) — An East
Texas couple who admitted torturing their
eldest daughter have pleaded guilty to en
dangering her safety.
Jerrold Loyde Rathbun, 33,' and 29-
year-old Eva Grace Rathbun entered the
pleas Monday to first-degree felony child
endangefment. The move came as prose
cutors were picking a jury for Jerrold Rath-
bun’s trial.
Investigators say the Longview couple
handcuffed the then-8-year-old girl to a
door with thumbtacks attached to it, poked
the girl’s feet with needles and made the
child eat cat feces on Sept. 10.
Court records show that Child Protective
Services, alerted by school officials about
possible abuse, removed the girl from the
home Sept. 12, then took her younger sister
three days later after hearing the older
child’s allegations.
The couple, indicted on Oct. 5, surren
dered to authorities the next day when they
posted $20,000 bond each. Their pleas have
avoided trial on the charges and they will be
sentenced on July 6 by State District Judge
David Brabham.
Prosecutors have urged a 15-year sen
tence for jerrold Rathbun and a 13-year
sentence for his wife, according to court
records.
Also, prosecutors want the couple to give
up parental rights to both of their children,
including the 9-year-old victim and her 4-
year-old half-sister.
Both children have been placed in foster
homes and have been visiting families who
want to adopt them.
The abused girl, according: scond man
records, told a CPS caseworker on In 9 a cat on
that her parents had been handcuffi . eai speni
for about a week as punishment for I 3 '' anc ! P a
lems at school. ase a judge <
The child said her parents wWJi ^ Tj^spic.
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cuff her to a door, with thumbtack lr T
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the adjacent wall to scratch her wL 10 v j s jb| e r
not remain standing. , Uc ige Wayne
Police investigators said thee his sentence
bruising, red marks and bUsters- A six-memi
wrists. Later, the girl told a doctor lay convicted
parents jabbed the tops of her fee: lisdemeanor
needle while she was handcuffed. ' to animals.
The parents denied mistreating:: a V a 54,000
but said they had to discipline her,k®t a cat on
CPS case workers that she was ili>T" ,rver an ^
ent, a habitual liar and a problemchilfW' 'Tno'etl
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Jury finds man guilty of espionagE™
Retired colonel could receive life in prison for selling secrets to Russi^r boy
Prosecutors said Frofimoff Bolshevik Revolution and' ruck by
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A re
tired Army colonel was found
guilty Tuesday of selling Cold
War military secrets to Moscow
over two decades, becoming the
highest-ranking U.S. officer to
he convicted of espionage.
George Trofimoff, 74, could
get up to life in prison.
'The retired colonel in the
Army Reserves oversaw an in
telligence center in Germany
from the 1960s to 1990s. He
was working as a grocery store
bagger last year when he was
arrested in an FBI sting trying
to collect money he thought
was coming from the Russians.
Trofimoff stood erect and
showed no emotion when the
verdict was announced. He
shrugged slightly at his wife,
who wept.
Sentencing was set for Sept.
27.
“What this case should do is
send a message to those we en
trust our nation’s secrets to diat
if you sell those secrets, if you
spy against the United States,
we’ll pull out all the stops to
catch you, to bring you to justice
and to convict you,” federal
prosecutor Laura Ingersoll said.
Defense attorney Daniel
Hernandez said he will appeal.
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If you spy against
the United States,
well pull out all
the stops to catch
you, to bring you
to justice and to
convict you.”
— Laura Ingersoll
federal prosecutor
From 1968 to 1994, Trofi
moff was the civilian chief of an
Army interrogation center in
Nuremberg, Germany, where
refugees and defectors from the
Soviet bloc were questioned.
The center also housed volumes
of secret documents detailing
what the United States knew
about its Soviet adversaries and
other Warsaw Pact nations.
collected $300,000 for photo
graphing U.S. intelligence doc
uments and giving them to the
KGB through a go-between,
boyhood friend Igor
Vladimirovich Susemihl, a
Russian Orthodox priest.
Among the information pros
ecutors said Trofimoff smuggled
to the Soviets were CIA docu
ments and details of what the
United States knew about Sovi
et military preparedness.
A former KGB general, Oleg
Kalugin, testified that Trofimoff
was one of the Soviet Union’s
top spies during the 1970s, so
valuable that his code name was
the top of a list of KGB
at
sources given to Soviet leader
Leonid Brezhnev. He said' Trofi
moff was even brought to a re
sort for Soviet military officials
as a reward. 4
Trofimoff, born in Germany
to Russian emigres, wept on
the stand as he described grow
ing up hating communists be
cause some of his family mem
bers were unable to escape the
killed. Houston
1 le insisted diat he nevi of a boy str
a spy, but pretended tobeorlile playing
cause he needed money.B-ff course, al
rors laughed at Trofimoff ■’fd not hav
he testified it was a coinci." course in.‘
that he was able to namespH-t' 01 " 1 equ
Soviet spies when shown mm 1 n d ro s (
an undercover FBI agentp| ln
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as a Russian diplomat. llir
Jury foreman MarkJ ce
said only one vote wasnt/ ere
Jurors agreed Trofimo:i n Tavormi
guilty after viewing a vid </yer.
of him describing his > Christoph*
activities. DeliberationsrSuffered a
just two hours. brain ii
“Justto thinksomeone s hit by I
do that stuff,” King saidff'V'ng golf c
ing the verdict. “He clain /0rm ' na sa
be an American, that he
the country for the pastel
... To think someone
would betray the country
' I trofimoff became a D|
izen in 1951, joined the/
1953 and was honorabl'l
charged three years latel
was hired as a civilian inf
intelligence in 1959.
News in Brief
Niki Taylor released from hospital
ATLANTA (AP) — Model Niki Taylor left a hospi
tal for a private rehabilitation center Tuesday, eight
weeks after an Atlanta car crash left her with severe
liver damage.
Taylor, 26, was riding in a car that crashed into a
telephone pole on April 30 after the driver lost control.
The name of the Atlanta rehabilitation center was
not released. Taylor was upgraded from critical to good
condition Thursday at Grady Memorial Hospital.
She was in the passenger seat of a friend's 1993
Nissan Maxima when the driver ran off the road and
struck a utility pole.
Draft
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has its share of names that invoke a
reader to ask either “Who is he?”
or “Why is he leaving early?”
Rashid Hardwick, Draper Hous-
ley, Jamario Moon and Clifton Ter
ry would fit into the first tier. NBA
teams might actually draft them
without ever having heard of them
or seeing them play.
The same cannot be said for the
players of the second tier who have
exhibited their talents for Division
I programs. Maurice Evans of
"Texas expects the NBA to ovsj
look his deficiencies in ballhai
dling and long range shootin|:|
while Gerald Wallace of Ala
and Alton Ford of Houston
the scouts ignored their fres
year’s in college entirely.
If you’re lost in the flurry of
names, take solace. The only
stant of the NBA Draft is that
an unpredictable science, tea®
never be sure if they have a stes
bust. The best they can do is a'
taking advice from the Clippei
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journalism