—lanv/cfo escape Juarez jail THE BATTALION Page 7 TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1980 Inmates heading for Texas? w United Press International ICIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — A violent escape by 10 heavily armed Mexican prison inmates has officials both sides of the border worried ,t the men, all convicted drug traf- ;ers, may plan to cross into Texas. “It’s just a thought,” said Ciudad uarez police chief Jose Refugio ubalcava. “We believe these peo- e had plans. When you’re talking bout drugs you’re talking about ney, a lot of money. ” he prisoners, all convicted of larijuana smuggling activities in Exico’s west coast state of Sinaloa, iade their way out of the border city Saturday by commandeering a police car and kidnapping two Mexican policemen, whom they later pistol- whipped and abandoned with the car, officials said. Mexican officials Sunday dispatch ed a 40-man posse to search for the “desperados,” while U.S. officials boosted border security in case they tried to cross into Texas. A report late Sunday that one of the escapees had been captured at Caseta, Mexico, across the Rio Grande from Fabens, could not be substantiated by authorities. The convicts escaped at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, using two apparently smuggled guns to disarm guards at three stations in the federal prison at Cuidad Juarez, Rubalcava said. “They disarmed and tied up the guards at two of the doors,” he said. “The guard at the main door, an old er man, was taken hostage. In addi tion to the guard’s pistols, they took an M-l rifle and a shotgun from the prison office.” Owners to reply in ship collision r lex; United Press International NEW YORK — Owners of an oil ker and freighter that collided off lias last fall, killing 32 persons, |tye three weeks to answer a tenta- ♦tv ive Liberian board of inquiry, report ^(Jiifeming both crews for the accident. Bthe 482-foot freighter Mimosa H the 732-foot Burmah Agate, aden with 390,000 barrels of crude um, k |ilj collided 5 miles offshore of Gal- >- >- i ,r Veston before dawn Nov. 1. The Bur- be manneina]) Agate ran aground, spilled oil ■nds, hi md burned for 69 days, ans wouldl goth ships were of Liberian reg- is the on!) 1 ■»y an d the accident occurred out- in thee ;jdfe the 3-mile limit of U.S. jurisdic- ofFort" ion. Wildlife k Dr. Frank Wiswall of the Republic cans coif Liberia’s U.S. marine headquar- pick uppers in Heston, Va., last week re- jwler eswased the tentative report blaming wo tons joth crews after a week-long board i is still clearing that ended March 21 in New d anyomjfofk. iththepiilhe report — which will be re- 845-6751 dewed after lawyers’ comments — Is officers of both vessels were lligent, failed to keep a safe look- {, failed to take evasive action and d to cooperate before and after accident. he report also charged the cap- and chief engineer of the Mimo sa and the chief mate of the Burmah Agate had invalid or forged licenses and that the captain of the Mimosa had filed a fraudulent vision test. The board charged the Mimosa was traveling at excessive speed through an anchorage area and that the Burmah Agate — there was con flicting testimony whether it was anchored or under way — was im properly lighted. The report said the government could bar licensing of the Mimosa officers and so notify other nations. The captain and chief mate of the Burmah Agate were among 31 men who died aboard that vessel. The board charged the Mimosa lacked a firefighting team and that the freighter’s chief mate abandoned ship at full throttle, which meant the Mimosa circled dangerously near offshore oil platforms before tugs stopped it. The Mimosa pierced the Burmah Agate’s port side, gouging a giant hole in its cargo area and causing the tanker to explode into flames, spill oil and run aground in 40-foot deep waters outside the entrance to Gal veston Bay. The tanker had been bound for a Houston refinery. GENE HAWKINS for Senior Yell Leader N nUfnaiMiMi ohn