Mr. Hicks withdrew.

While stories from the two young women's friends paint Hicks as an angry man who scared them on occasion, Hicks' wife has portrayed her husband as a tolerant man and claimed that the triple murder was prompted by a parking dispute.

Police have arrested their neighbor, Craig Stephen Hicks, and charged him with first degree murder.

At the invitation of the Chairman, Mr. Hicks, representing Mr. Poe (United States House of Representatives), took a place at the petitioners' table.

One study, by Mark Burton and Michael J. Hicks estimated the total economic impact to Louisiana and Mississippi may exceed 150 billion.

It was later used by John Hicks, George Stigler, and others to include the work of Carl Menger, William Stanley Jevons, Léon Walras, John Bates Clark, and many others.

Mr. Idoko (Nigeria) said that Mr. Hicks's reference to other border conflicts, among them the dispute between Nigeria and Cameroon, tended to obscure the important question before the Committee and the relevance of his presentation, which had otherwise been a valid one.

Mr. Hicks, representing Mr. Poe (United States House of Representatives), observed that 30 years after both the International Court of Justice and the United Nations had called for a referendum and upheld the right to self determination in Western Sahara, the matter was still unresolved.