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Show ___TheSaltLakeTribune NATION/WORLD Monday, November30, 1998 _ Death Row | _ UHEAA Utah Higher Education Fugitive Assistance Authority eeCaO Still Loose But Texasofficials feel they're closing in on him THE IMPORTANT NOTICES ASSOCIATED PRESS HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Authorities scoured snake-infested woods and creekbeds Sunday for an escaped death row inmate, confidentthat he wasstill on prison property andgetting hungrier by the hour. Since Martin Gurule dodged prison guards’ assault rifle fire and scaled two razor-crowned fencesFriday, helicopters, trucks and dogs have been used to comb 17,000 swampy, wooded state- owned prison acres surrounding the “Hejust passed 48 hours,” department spokesmanGlen Castlebury said. “If he’s laying down he’s not doing a great deal of movement, exertion, soheis conservinghis strength. For an ablebodied man, 48 hours without food, you are coming up on the time youwill expect him to start moving.” Gurule, 29, was sentenced to death for shooting Minas “Mike™ Piperis on Oct. 12, 1992, during a robbery at a restaurant Piperis Brett Coomer/The Associated Press Authorities examine a car's trunk in the search for death row inmate Martin Gurule on Sunday near Huntsville, Texas owned with his brother, George Gurule alsowas charged withkillker Anthony ing restaurant Staton, but that ase never went totrial Prison officials say Gurule and six other death row inmates eseaped late Thanksgiving evening fromarecreation yard fenceby cutting a fence with a hacksaw They waited more than three hours on the Ellis I Unit's flattoppedroofbefore making a run forthefences at about 12:15 a.m. Friday. As Gurule hit the second of the twofences circlingthe prison, a motion detector was set off and tower guards made out the moving bodies in heavy fog and beganshooting. No onewashit. OnSaturday, a homeownersaid hefired shots at an intruder who fit the fugitive’s description, spurring authorities to shift their search. Authorities concluded Gurule wasn't there Texas prison spokesman Larry Fitzgerald said Sunday that au thorities nowbelieve the homeowner made up the incident Swiss Reject Legalization of Drugs by 3-1 Vote THE ASSOCIATED PRESS held similar views. GENEVA — The Swiss on Sundayvoted over- whelmingly againstlegalizing heroin and other narcotics, heeding government warnings that the pro- posed lawwouldturntheir nationinto a drug haven With all ballots counted, 74 percent voted against a constitutional amendment that would make legal “the consumption, cultivation or possession of drugs, andtheir acquisition for personal use.” In favor were 26 percent, or 454,404 people. Last year, the Swiss were the first in the world to vote overwhelminglyin favorofstate distribution of heroin to hardened addicts. “The outcome shows that the Swiss population re- jects extremesolutions to the drug problem,” said Felix Gutwiller, a pioneer of the heroin distribution program. The governmentopposedtheplan,saying it was a health risk and would turn Switzerland into a haven for drug tourists andtraffickers. It said the current policyof helping hard-coreaddicts while clamping downondealers was best Church groups, police chiefs, social workers, doctors and other professionals working with addicts IF YOU HAVE STUDENT LOANS GUARANTEED BY THE UTAH HIGHER EDUCATION ASSISTANCE AUTHORITY (UHEAA), OWNED BY THE STATE BOARD OF REGENTS LOAN PURCHASE PROGRAM (SERVICED BY UNIPAC SERVICE CORPORATION), AND CURRENTLY IN REPAYMENT Noother European nation has legalized the possessionorsale of any drugsor planstodoso. In Holland, soft drugs such as marijuana aredecriminalized and Dutch authorities don't prosecute peoplewho sell oruse small amounts. The pro-legalization lobby — looseleft-wing coalition that gathered the necessary 100,000 signatures to force a referendum -— claimed it would stampouttrafficking and the black market. Backers hopedthat a large turnout in their favor would persuadethe governmenttorelax iaws onsoft drugs like marijuana Francois Reusser,from the pro-legalizationlobby, blamedthescaleof the defeat on thefact that the proposedlawincludedboth hard andsoft drugs Switzerland has an estimated 30,000 hard drug addicts amongits 7 million people — oneof Europe's highest rates The Swiss electorate votes three or four times a year on a huge range of subjects. Transportation funding, complex new corn laws andlaborlaws also were voted on Sunday. Voter turnout was 37 percent 1. 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