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ROCKPOR r — Most folks
pfeabouts yawned at pre-
his labi launch activity for the Firing
laturalh Of a satellite-launching rocket
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able tor way today.
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lcafe$to;J ent s of the sleepy little
g said t fishing and vacation village —
trly si population 4,000 — surprised
>o Un( j s ; those who viewed the rocket
p rotf( as a boon to business,
ou rant? Managing Editor Ted Nor-
i |j a £j man of the “Rockport Pilot”
^ said peoples’ minds are on a
,.,^1^ major property tax revalua
tion. Besides, he said, the
Houston-based Space Ser-
aberga, vices Inc.’s first rocket on
M vet it Matagorda Island blew up on
Js for at the pad 13 months ago.
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designed rocket, was resche
duled for 10 a.m. Thursday,
due to mechanical problems.
Rockport Chamber of
Commerce president and real
estate broker Judy Guillett,
44, said she was excited but
that most Rockport residents
were not.
“A lot of people say, ‘Oh,
they’re just wasting their
time,’ but I don’t feel those
people understand the full
impact of what this means,”
she said.
“These businessmen are
entering a new venture, some
thing that business can do to
provide a service for other
businesses. This will help
make the country and the
world a better place to live. I
think it’s just great,” Guillett
said.
Thirty engineers from
Houston, California and Ger
many, and staff employed by
SSI have helped the Rockport
tourist economy. And a bill
board returned thanks.
“Good luck! Sept. 8, Space
Services with Conestoga I,”
the sign outside The
Mushroom deli said.
The Aransas County Sher
iffs Department has provided
an evacuation helicopter and
paramedics at no cost for the
launch site, which is accessible
only by air and water.
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Wallace seeks fourth
Alabama governorship
United Press International
# a^° rmer Alabama Gov.
ieOrge Wallace was forced into
inm! 1 Sept. 28 primary run off with
0 aIten( ‘fehu)cratic Lt. Gov. George
It rum IcMillan, but Wallace — a sym-
yand™ 0 f segregationist politics in
onai.ije turbulent civil rights era —
presented) surprisingly well in some
■dominantly black counties in
uesday’s voting.
■McMillan, a self-styled “New
louth Progressive” had the en-
q rlopement of the state’s major
dll'iku k political group, the Alaba-
B Democratic Conference, but
pc Vallace — seeking an unpre-
^ Gented fourth term as gov-
Ror — forged a coalition of
1 liral and black voters, perform-
ng well in counties he lost in
Blier gubernatorial races,
iimmua jWallace, now 63, who block-
IthtlRthe schoolhouse door to in
set, buifop ation with a cry of “segrega-
s to m ion forever,” two decades ago
sough: tojs year openly wooed black vo
ters.
<ry nfMl he former governor won
produJR) predominantly black coun-
iinthe|i es outright, and led in two
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others. He won in Macon Coun
ty, which has the highest ratio of
blacks in the state, with 84 per
cent, and he swamped McMillan
and House Speaker Joe McCor-
quodale in Lowndes County, ab
out 75 percent black.
John Meadows, the black
assistant police chief at predomi
nantly black Tuskegee in Macon
County, watched returns at Wal
lace’s campaign headquarters
and said blacks could not hold a
grudge against Wallace for his
fiery defiances of the 1960s be
cause “segregation was the law
then. It made no difference who
the governor was.”
Wallace also drew strength
from rural counties, but McMil
lan led in Birmingham, the
state’s biggest city, to edge out
McCorquodale for the runoff
Spot against Wallace.
With 75 percent of Alabama’s
precincts counted, Wallace had
316,138 votes, or 41.2 percent,
while McMillan had 232,716
votes, or 30.3 percent. McCor-
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8 indicted for smuggling
United Press International
WICHITA, Kan. — A federal
grand jury indicted eight people
in a scheme officials say involved
conspiracy to smuggle small-
caliber handguns from Kansas
to Nigeria.
Christopher Onwuka, 31, of
Oklahoma City was charged
with dealing in firearms without
a license, in April and May of
1982, and unlawfully selling 35
handguns to Kristian Chimah,
27, of Houston.
Customs agents at Houston’s
Intercontinental Airport on
May 27 seized more than thirty-
five handguns inside a crate
identified as household goods,
bound for Chimah’s address in
Nigeria. Chimah was sentenced
in Houston on Sept. 1 to five
years probation.
Six Wichita residents were in
dicted in the case in Wichita,
Tuesday, along with Onwuka
and Chimah.
Jeffery Williams was indicted
on four counts of unlawful pur
chase of eight handguns for
falsely stating he was not a con
victed felon. Patricia Y. Lemmie,
26, was indicted on 10 counts
involving 12 handguns on the
same charge.
David Parker, 27, was in
dicted on two counts involving
10 handguns for falsly stating he
was the true purchaser of the
guns, when actually he was
acting for Onwuka, the indict
ments sid.
Also indicted for saying they
were the true purchasers of
handguns when they were
actually acting for Onwuka,
were Barry Keeling, 23, charged
on one count involving four
handguns; Hiram T. Levy, 25,
charged on one count involving
six handguns, and Clint F. Tho
mas, 25, charged on two counts
involving 10 handguns.
“The indictments charge that
Parker and the others were not
the true purchasers but were
being paid by Onwuka to purch
ase the guns, and in fact they did
deliver Onwuka the guns,” assis
tant U.S. Attorney Jack Williams
said Tuesday.
Officials said the weapons,
described as mostly cheap
.22caliber handguns, were pur
chased from Wichita pawn
shops.
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quodale tallied 197,299 votes, or
25.7 percent.
“1 think this is the best vote
I’ve ever received in any race
I’ve run in a primary,” Wallace
told cheering supporters. “I’ve
never won an easy campaign in
my life.”
Wallace, a shell of the tough-
guy segregationist during the
1960s, said he would seek voter
support by talking about “jobs,
the elderly and education” in the
three weeks before the runoff.
But McMillan said Alaba
mians “want to break the shack
les of negative politics.”
The winner of the Democra
tic runoff will be the heavy favo
rite in November in a state that
has not elected a modern day
Republican to the governorship.
Mayor Emory Folmar, Mont
gomery’s mayor, was un
opposed in the GOP primary.
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