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...doubt to his delight, that has created a monumental legal quagmire, which got deeper and stickier last week. The murder charge was dropped in the first Lucas case to be prosecuted since he changed his tune: the 1983 ax slaying of a 72-year-old El Paso woman, Librada Apodaca. Judge Brunson Moore found his confession involuntary and | ruled Lucas had not knowingly waived his right to a lawyer. "Good treatment and perks" motivated the confession, Judge Moore concluded after his ruling. "You can catch as many flies with honey as with a fly swatter...
...came from New Mexicans, including $150,000 in construction aid from the state legislature. The festival producers won an early-and substantial-contribution from O'Keeffe, 93, the region's arbiter of artistic merit. The opening-night audience included U.S. Senator Harrison Schmitt and former Governor Jerry Apodaca...
Long before the House of Representatives passed legislation authorizing the creation of the Department of Education, the rumors flew hot and heavy in Washington. President Carter, education insiders believed, would name someone with experience in state education programs to head the department--someone like former New Mexico Gov. Jerry Apodaca, a Chicano, or Mary F. Berry, under secretary in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), a Black woman...
With the new agency a fait accompli, interest turned immediately to Carter's choice for department secretary. The good money is on former New Mexico Gov. Jerry Apodaca, a Chicano with a longtime interest in education, who just happened to be poking around Washington's education community this week...
Others, however, feel Apodaca has come on too strong, and that he is too political an appointment...