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Page 8 NATION Thursday, Jt THE BATTALION Execution protest Richard Woodward, an agricultural economics assis tant professor, displays the banners that were to be held at a vigil to protest the 250th execution of a Texas inmate since the resumption of the death penalty in 1 982. Woodward is the acting local chair of BERNARDO GARZA/Twr Battalion the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. The organization is made up of individuals fighting for the abolition of the death penalty. The vigil was for the execution of Richard Kutzner. The vigil was post poned because Kutzner received a stay of execution. American prof back I California Ne 1 Chinese-born U.S. citizen deported after spy conviciii SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An American professordi from China after being convicted of spying arrived bad United States on Wednesday, removing one source of tend tween the two countries just before Secretary of State Colirii ell’s visit to Beijing. Li Shaomin, a Chinese-born U.S. citizen, was reunited his wife and daughter moments after arriving in SanFrrj from Beijing. “Thank you all; I’m very tired. I’m really glad tobekj see my family. And 1 would like to thank my government:l support,” said Li, who taught business at the City Lniver ^ 1 long Kong. Li deflected questions about his case. i \irport spokesperson Ron V\ ilson s.iiJ I i met \othStan^Bsored or partment officials for a debriefing for a few minutesandr^Boutreacl pected to travel to Washington. I le did not provide details travel plans, but a spokesperson for Sen. Robert TorriceE D said Li was expected to arrive in Washington on Thursday. This case and those of other U.S.-based scholars have dire: to complicate Powell’s visit to China this weekend. Bothsidetj the meeting will help heal relations hurt by the April 1 col a Navy spy plane and a Chinese fighter jet. After meeting in Vietnam with China’s foreign minister, said he was pleased by the developments in Li’s case. He Exter gettii The proved change Agricult to the 1 Jtension. "The [agency': [services [will offe [Chancel |"Our ho Iwill take lety of p ■ available The E joint fee jtinuing Texans. I Extensio commiti ban as v turally b part of t name ch he was confident there would soon be action on several cast 1 “I think the relationship is on the upswing now, thatthestriB lions are behind us,” he said. China apparently has agreed to deport Gao Zhan, an AecB University professor, and Qin Guangguang, who hastaiii,* American universities. Both were sentenced this week to IdfB prison terms on charges of spying for Taiwan. Stean four i MEDI steam ei county f< people . when it Victims: Released offenders will commit new criim DENVER (AP) — Sexual assault victims expressed fear Wednesday that convicted sex offenders being re leased’ because Colorado’s highest court threw out a mandatory parole program will commit new crimes. “I think people really don’t under stand from a survivor’s perspective when these things come up how that really shakes your world up,” said Melissa Bishop, 32, a special educa tion teacher who was raped in 1989. She said she had a “mixture of anger and fear.” The Colorado Supreme Court ruled last year that lawmakers had made a series of mistakes that nullified a state law imposing mandatory parole for sex offenders who committed their crimes from 1993 through 1998. The court said the offenders’ paroles should be stopped and anyone locked up for violating parole had to he released. On Monday, the court voted 4-3 not to rehear arguments. The first 43 offenders released un der the court’s ruling left prison Tues day, and 73 others were to be freed Corrections Department Director John Slithers said about 250 convict ed sex offenders now on parole will he allowed to stop serving the terms im mediately. He said more than 1,000 inmates whose sentences will end in the next 20 years will be placed on re duced parole terms — if they are placed on parole at all. T he decision to release people who had been sent back to jail for violating parole was particularly worrying to victims’ rights groups. T hey also lamented the lack of follow-up for the convicts, although the released in mates have 72 hours to register as sex offenders. “Without some kind of structure in our community and criminal justice system, I feel like a lot of people are at risk,” said Janine D’Annihalle, direc tor of the Boulder-based group Mov ing to End Sexual Assault. “ lo have thought that you have it taken care of, and then to find out that because of some legal glitch things will not he the way you thought they would, is very discouraging,” Bishop said. Some groups said the releases might make victims of sexual assault less likely to come forward: prosecute their attackers. , “For our clients, it contutuestoek the message that reportiljgdoesn’tp ;i off, that people can get off in this sy tern,” said Karmen Carter,executi' director of the Rape Assistance Awareness Program. 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