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News day, November 6, 2001 THE BATTALION I+’j &dck..,OinVy a+ Cournot Travel AMAZING SALE $+ucle»+ / Yov+V, / Teacher 5 Days Only! Nov. 6-10! 20 European Cities Available. men detained tDFW ox cutter confiscated Texas chemist, author arraigned in San Diego 'HE BATTAUft >chez andofe a combat she* ASSLEFR TYFO rsiuford.rd NO SALE® U NEED THU 1 REBATES EE REST L0A\i ;RAD PROGR 1 : LEND CLOSED ECIALS! is? E-mail us a | irsinford.neti .RAPEVINE (AP) Federal immigration nts have detained four m who identified them es as Armenian musi- n S after a box cutter k confiscated from one them inside a secure a of Dallas-Fort Wortli irnational Airport, jt was the second lorted breach of airport jurity in one weekend. Saturday, most air- t concourses were |( down after another m slipped into a secure through an emer- .jy door. An airport trch did not result in iking down the man. [n the latest security . a ch, the four nenians were detained ause immigration lamentation could not found for three of ;n i, said Lynn Ligon. a F.s. Immigration and Ituralization Service ikesman in Dallas. SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Texas chemist who wrote a guidebook on illegal drugs was accused Monday of providing expertise and supplies to what authorities say was one of the largest and most sophisticated Ecstasy labs ever found in the United States. Hobart Huson, 33, of Humble, Texas, was arraigned Monday in federal court on a charge of conspiracy to manu facture Ecstasy. He pleaded innocent. Huson is one of 24 people charged with helping to set up and run an Ecstasy lab hidden inside an Internet pornography business in an office park in Escondido. Agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration raided the lab last month. It was capable of producing 1.5 million Ecstasy pills per month, author ities said. Huson, under the pseudonym “Strike,” is the author of a guide for producing Ecstasy and is co owner of The Science Alliance, a chemical supply company that allows customers to purchase wares over the Internet. Ecstasy is also known as the “love drug” or “hug drug” for its ability to make users ultra sensitive to visual and physical stimuli. Huson is accused of supply ing chemicals for making Ecstasy along with technical expertise to the operators of the lab in Escondido, Assistant U.S. Attorney Todd Robinson said. u My client just collected information from many different sources and gathered it in one place. That has probably angered some people. — Gus Saper Hobart Huson’s attorney He is also accused of intro ducing the lab’s operators to Thomas Lillius, a 33-year-old suspected Ecstasy chemist from Stockholm, Sweden, who remains at large. Huson’s attorney, Gus Saper of Houston, denies the allega tions and said Science Alliance is a legitimate chemical supply company and that the book, Total Synthesis II, is intended for information only. The book, Saper said, includes a disclaimer that warns people of the legal and safety hazards of making Ecstasy. “My client just collected infonnation from many differ ence sources and gathered it in one place,” Saper said. “That has probably angered some people.” A description of the book on Amazon.com calls Total Synthesis II “the most compre hensive and detailed book on the underground production of Ecstasy and amphetamines ever published.” After authorities raided an Ecstasy lab in Flagstaff, Ariz., earlier this year, Huson was charged with three counts of selling a precursor to drugs and one count of manufacturing dan gerous drugs. The suspects in that case told authorities they bought chemi cals for making Ecstasy from Science Alliance and learned how to make the drug by reading a book by Huson. Uinois high school uses polygraph get to bottom of drinking scandal Of! Can Au! Cal* vim! Tim- ) 7 15* 9 00 6«i!f{DUNLAP, Ill. (AP) — One by one, the 'ethe Ajects were led into a room and hooked ■ Smouhg Kook VINN1NG ‘"'P a polygraph machine. Purpose: to determine whether the ,gers violated Dunlap High School’s leofconduct by attending a party where was consumed. Seven of the 10 students who submitted the lie detector exams — all of them ballplayers — flunked the questioning month and were barred from compet- inthe first round of the state playoffs, be of their parents wept when they OFFERING CLASSES! learned their children had lied to them. Dunlap High went to extraordinary lengths to get to the bottom of what was otherwise a routine case of teenagers get ting into trouble. School Superintendent Bill Collier said it was the right thing to do to sort the guilty from the innocent: “It may look bad, it may sound bad, but it’s the fairest way.” The investigation began after police broke up a party Oct. 6. Nobody was arrest ed, but officers took down the names of everyone present and traced the registration Website! roAgeCS.coiti pTIA and oft classes. cation Sag^ ation can do for H Iser Specialist B 5:3O-6:30pn> tification Semi 16 ' > from 5:30-4$ of all cars parked there. Their list of 15 ath letes was given to school officials. Three students admitted guilt when confronted. But many others claimed that they had left the party as soon as they real ized alcohol was present. So school offi cials proposed the polygraphs. Two students were suspended from the team after refusing to take the test, and seven more were suspended after flunking. Collier pointed out that three students were cleared who might other wise have been punished. 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