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I "0 Hard knocks lk Hard hits Death of a About 230 Texas students A bad day for TCU and Texas a 11k up erher 04A are paddled every hour It's good one for and Arkansas legal but is it right? a close one for Oklahoma Lifestyle Section 5 Sports Section 2 i Entertainment Section 6 '0' Hard knocks About 230 Texas students are paddled every hour It's 'legal but is it right? A bad day for TCU and Texas a good one for and Arkansas a close one for Oklahoma Sports Section 2 Lifestyle Section 5 rECZENZI1110111 Hard times Azle volleyball team learns to live with the tragedies of life Sports Section 2 rOIUTllh Siblzf: 1 gYam 1 Sunday November 6 1988 Fort Worth Texas Where The West Begins Price $1 0 i v-- i A vibrant woman a poisoned nightcap and a lingering soning is known to be a physically excruciating form of death unlikely to be used to take your own life Ranchers use trace amounts of strychnine to kill rats and coyotes In humans a dose the size of a sugar cube will contort the body leaving the back arched the skin blue and the face wrenched into a death grimace Death usually occurs within an hour after three to four convulsions investigators said According to police Wright ingested the strychnine by way of a I-ounce By JANICE JOHNSTON Fort Wonh Star-Telegram 'ARLINGTON Patsy Wright enjoyed a glitzy lifestyle that included hobnobbing with Dallas socialites raising and showing horses and tooling around town in a red Porsche or white Lincoln Town Car 'As co-owner of the Wax Museum of the Southwest a $4 million 300- figure exhibit in Grand Prairie that drew 250000 visitors annually until it burned down recently Wright had entrance to all the parties All the chari plastic capful of Nyquil Strychnine was present in the Nyquil in an amount that just reached the point of saturation If enough poison had been placed in the bottle to exceed the saturation point it would have begun to settle in the bottom of the bottle as sediment which might have been visible to someone taking a dose of the cold remedy Only a chemist or someone clever enough to figure out chemical formulas could have known exactly how much strychnine to place in the Nyquil so it (More on WRIGHT on back page) Aroe- ty galas and opening nights All that is until her death by strychnine poisoning A year after her death in the early morning hours of Oct 23 1987 investigators are still collecting evidence The Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office places the cause of death in an indeterminate gray area that's neither suicide nor homicide Deputy Medical Examiner Marc Krouse said But most relatives and friends rule out suicide as the cause of death saying Wright 43 was too vibrant and had too many reasons not to kill herself "There's no way it was a suicide" said Wright's sister Sally Horning 45 of Arlington the wax museum's co-owner "She had everything to live for She had a good business and a good life She was entering the competitions with her horses She was very happy "None of the family feels like she could have committed suicide" Horning said "She was a very up positive-type person" Police also seem inclined not to believe it was a suicide Strychnine poi Patsy Wright: Friends relatives don't believe she would kill herself Prostitution Drug use and its dirty needles Passing on infection to the young And the fear and helplessness of a deadly disease After months olgripes goofs and grins we're about to put an end to a long long campaign Woman is found stabbed The peril ofwomen and AIDS Arlington victim dies after reaching road 4 41 4 "'2: 11 t''''e''''' -I i' 11 1 1 i '1 1: Ill 1 )I k''Y ito6J04- i ist ii' 1 "-'z b- 4 i 1 N' '11'''1 11 ir '1 :011114 a -1 i t1 ilr: 1" A 4 BY LISA MULE Fort Worth Star-Telegram ARLINGTON Police are investigating the death of a 38-year-old Arlington woman who apparently crawled from a field where she was assaulted into a roadway before dying said Dee Anderson Arlington police spokesman The woman's naked body with a puncture wound in the back was found in the 2200 block of Forum Drive near the Arlington-Grand Prairie city limits shortly after midnight yesterday Anderson said Anderson said police had not released the woman's identity Her name is being withheld until her family is notified The Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office last night ruled the death a homicide because of a stab wound in the back medical investigator Ed Both-ford said He did not know the type of weapon used to kill her he said The woman's body was found after two women driving north on Forum Drive saw a person waving for help Anderson said The person was alongside Forum Drive near a field east of the Forum 303 Mall he said The two women whose names were not released drove into Grand Prairie: and stopped to call 911 Upon returning where they had seen: the person waving for help the two women noticed that the victim had moved into the middle of the roadway There was a trail of blood on the pavement leading to where the woman's body was found police said "By the time they got back she was lying in the roadway" Anderson said "Certainly the speculation is that in (More on SLAYING on Page 12) BY CAROLYN POIROT Fort Worth Star-Telegram The 31-year-old Fort Worth woman said she had been smoking crack on a regular basis for two years She had been shooting drugs for two months probably 10 times altogether and only once had shared a needle "I was determined to get my life together and was going to enter a halfway house They required an AIDS screening test to get in and that's when I found out I was HIV-positive" said the woman who asked to be identified only as Cathy "There's a deep fear there and at the same time you don't care" she said referring to her concern over the deadly AIDS epidemic "When you're using drugs you wake up wondering where )our next fix is going to come from That's all that really matters "I didn't think there was a chance in a million that 1 would get AIDS" Fifteen women have been diagnosed with AIDS in the five-year history of the disease in Tarrant County according to health department figures This year nearly twice that many have tested positive for exposure to the human immunodeficiency virus which causes AIDS Probably 10 of the 29 women here who have tested positive for the AIDS virus are known to be prostitutes said Diane Richey director of the Fort Worth-Tarrant County Health Department's AIDS screening program Although no one knows how many women in Tarrant County may be carrying the virus health officials are alarmed because they see a trend devel (More on AIDS on Page 9) Fort Worth Star-Teiegram I BEATRICE 1ERRAZAS January I'm going to be riding off into the sunset I feel a little like I'm on the ballot myself" he said STORY ON PAGE 16 I'm On the ballot myself" he said STORY ON PAGE 16 President Reagan salutes a Mesquite crowd yesterday during his last scheduled appearance in Texas as chief executive "Although come Ime I I i 1 1 Down in Valley 9 years later Presidential pinnacle withil Bush's sight Cb el liAs et 1 el 4- r-oe Determined Dukakis flays foes over ads rolmonnorgoomplmmmimp 1 VI 1 1 ot) 4-07 11:41 tt A I' A IVIA BY DAVE MONTGONIERY Eon Worth Star-Telegram Washington Bureau CINCINNATI As George Bush campaigned at a rain-soaked rally in downtown Cincinnati last week with all signs pointing to victory in Tuesday's election press aide Alixe Glenn was on the sidelines sharing in her boss's carefully measured optimism In Bush campaign parlance Glenn is a "79-er" one of the original team from Bush's first run for the presidency in the 1980 election She was in college when she wrote to three Republican candidates in 1979 volunteering her services Bush responded with a personal note she said "and then my chaotic life began" For George Herbert Walker Bush and untiring loyalists such as Glenn the long march that started nine years ago is nearing an end And the triumph that eluded him in 1980 seems within his grasp this time unless Democratic (More on BUSH on Page 16) By RON HUTCHESON Fort Worth Star-Telegram Washington Bureau EDINBURG Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis making his last scheduled campaign stop in Texas accused Republicans last night of dirty tricks in the Rio Grande Valley Standing in front of the Hidalgo County Courthouse Dukakis blasted Republican radio ads warning the area's Hispanic residents that election officials will be on guard for voter fraud on Election Day Democrats say the ads' are an attempt to intimidate potential voters "These Big Brother tactics have no place in America They have no place in Texas" Dukakis told about 10000 cheering supporters at a rally "This is not a dictatorship This is a democracy" Speaking in English and Spanish the Massachusetts governor reminded the (More on DUKAKIS on Page 16) INSIDE pi Ak- 141 Profits detoured around a bridge in suspension ololloppow 1 4-49 A A George Bush has been seeking a "mainstream mandate" "Big Brother tactics" are taboo Michael Dukakis says Coattails may not reach Tarrant's GOP Foreclosures are forcing bankers such as Carey Cox to manage money and land BUSINESS SECTION 4 News sEcrioN TarrantTexas PAGE 21 Sports SECTION 2 Newstront SECTION 3 Business SECTION 4 Lifestyle I sEcrioN 5 Entertainment sEcrioN Travel SECTION Classified SECTIONS 8 Conies Parade TV Star 1 Index to features page 83r4 year No 186 306 Pages Classified ads 332-3333 332-3333 BY 1101LACE WEINER Fon Wonh Star-Telegram The Park Hill bridge a concrete crossing built in 1910 used to make travel from Forest Park Boulevard to the TCU campus a quick half-mile cruise That ended two years ago when the crumbling span was condemned detouring an estimated 4000 vehicles a day The city of Fort Worth promised to start building a new span within two years But after 25 months miles of red tape and the best intentions of preservationists the old bridge still stands waiting for the gears of government to come unstuck A picturesque new bridge remains on the drawing board with no chance of completion until November 1989 Many Park Hill residents while annoyed at the inconvenience don't mind a bit that their affluent subdivision has a lot less traffic But motorists are frus(More on BRIDGE on Page 18) will be dealing with the real world again politically speaking George Bush is not Ronald Reagan" About 400000 Tarrant County residents are expected to vote Tuesday including approximately 95000 who cast absentee ballots That is about 72 percent of the county's registered voters and would be considered a strong turnout for an election that hasn't attracted much enthusiasm in other parts of the country "I think with two Texans at the top of the ballot (Bush and Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen Lloyd Bentsen) Texans are intensely interested in this election" said Robert Parten Tarrant County elections (More on VOTERS on Page 17) BY JAMES WALKER Fort Worth Star -Telegram Vice President George Bush is expected to score a substantial victory on Tuesday but his ability to duplicate President Reagan's success in helping GOP candidates win other Tarrant County races is questionable If Bush proves unable to influence those races Tarrant County Republicans could see a slowing of the momentum that has been building for a decade "Ronald Reagan was a phenomenon" said Hugh Parmer Fort Worth's Democratic state senator and a cochairman of Michael Dukakis' gresidential campaign in Tarrant County "But the Reagan era is over and as we move past it we Inside: Election '88 Bloopers bleeps blunders and blurbs of the campaign NEWSFRONT SECTION 3 Ifs going to be a high-tech low-excitement election night ENTERTAINMENT SECTION 6 Campaign turns mailbox into snake pit NEWSFRONT PAGE 5 A final Texas hurrah for Ronald Reagan PAGE 16 WEATHER Sunny with a high in the 70s and winds 10 to 15 mph warmer Valor row Full reportSECTION 1 PAGE 32 THER 31lommiumnilldraironswippoommolloillE11101111111110111111107.