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Tuesday, July 19, 1983/The Battalion/Page 7 by Scott McCullar Allan a rifle, t the fronltj tig," Holla totted Gra : supervij fired ail .kinghimit Thomas but the si and held I ted. OVHJfAjLl IT'S TOO MUCH TRDOBLT.lWELL, FOR )NSThA/CF,PROSVTOTES t IT'S IRONIC ANP RIDICULOUS TO gARE. OUTLAWED... HO\N COME ONLY OUTLAWS DON'T HAVE 'E/I? GOP convention is site ver Ha Group to protest Reagan United Press International ■LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Those people selling apples on rently, blaJke streets of Dallas during the 1 percentc -national Republican convention next year will be trying to make a :y need tojitpoint—that President Reagan is e Dallas Fd'‘literally killing” poor people, a irves, a bli,protest organizer said, thinkthept#; Steven Wade Rathke of New urns dowrjOlleans is still preaching con- irobably Mrontational politics to members m the idn ofthe Association of Commun- tment.” ity Organizations for Reform policeworPjMow, a group he founded in n football; Arkansas 10 years ago. || Rathke drummed up protest it’s morescfyjdeas from delegates at an Acorn the physhyeudership training seminar aid. Sunday. “You’re not talking aboutjust witnessing down there,” Rathke said. “You’re talking about kind of threatening the man. You’re talking about getting political.” Politics, he said, amounts to “rewarding your friends and punishing your enemies.” Acorn represents low- and moderate income families — ab out 70,000 in 27 states — and Rathke said they are the people who have been hurt most by Reagan’s policies. Rathke wants a protest effort that will “stretch through the convention all the way through the presidential campaign,” he said. “We have to get rid of this guy who is literally killing our peo ple,” he said. Acorn may repeat last year’s “Reagan Ranch” — a modern- day “Hooverville” reminiscent of the 1930s Depression — by setting up tent cities. “We had 30,000 or 35,000 people in Reagan Ranches all over the country,” Rathke said. “We surprised a lot of people. We learned something about the anger and the commitment of our people. We learned some thing about the depth of our organization.” Other reminders of the De pression also may be used, in cluding soup lines and selling apples in Dallas. The Acorn de legates said they would like to take 100,000 people to partici pate in demonstrations and ex hibits during the Republican convention. Acorn leaders must learn to attract and keep allies, Rathke said. “If you’re talking about doing this, you can’t just nibble at it,” he said. “Once you say, ‘We’re going to do Dallas with 100,000 people and we’re going to blow (Reagan) away,’ you have to pro duce.” fs Station broadcasts threats a United Press International J WASHINGT ° N — The I IJl] woman who operates a tiny Kan- ^ sa.s radio station that has broad cast Posse Comitatus hate mes- : understands 68 against Jews, blacks and ament is (^politicians says her protesters I. "ItshouliiW 6 waiting to see if she’ll “sink erstand ifo^| swim.” aend enouffci' The answer to that question anagememtake months, perhaps reditor m fl en y ear s> to answer as the most given lher$ )ntrovers i a l license renewal their suppoT 011 * 6 ‘ n recent memory goes be- Jsition isf^? re th e Federal Communica- f bondhold ? io,ls Commission, bout $100 ' KTTL-FM, a country- urlines, wl W stern station owned and oper- antinuing B a td by Nellie Babbs and her f groiinde husband, Charles, in Dodge truptcy lu#y> ^ an > h as prompted a wave i ruled l )rotes ts against renewing the irnedbyAiliP>00O-watt station’s license. > Attheheartofthecontrover- 'sapprovetlH are broadcasts threatening 1 could bed ?i 0 * ent reprisals against politi- gtos and private citizens, calling Jews “children of the devil” and laiming “niggers belong nging from trees in bongo- vith bongo land.” Despite the outcry from citizens of the western Kansas town of 17,800, various groups and the Kansas attorney gener al, FCC rules allow the couple’s Cattle County Broadcasting to continue operating KTTL until the controversy is resolved — even though its license expired June 1. Just last week, Kansas Attor ney General Robert Stephan cited fears of violence against the public and private citizens in urging the FCC to act quickly. But Mark Solberg, an attor ney with the FCC’s FM branch, said hearings on the complaints and a proposal to buy the license are still months away, and court appeals could take years to re solve. Meanwhile, Babbs, 49, a farmwife, grandmother and tax protester, plans to continue operating KTTL and its primar ily automated programming. She is blocked from selling it un til the FCC sifts through the complaints. “If there’s this much hate in this town for me for trying to preserve the First Amendment rights of people, then I’ve done all I can do,” she said. “I get the feeling sometimes they’re just waiting to see if I sink or swim.” Broadcasting since 1977, KTTL-FM until last summer quietly operated the only coun try-western music station — one of only four broadcast outlets in the town. But then began the one-hour nightly taped messages by two men associated with the Posse Comitatus — a paramilitary group of tax protesters who only follow their Latin name of “law of the county.” The broadcasts attacked blacks, Indians, Asians, Hispa- nics, politicians, the Internal Re venue Service, judges, lawyers but mostly Jews. For some time the station also added nightly one-hour tapes by “the Rev. James Wickstrom” of Tigerton, Wise., a Posse leader recently sentenced to 18 months in jail for trying to operate a pri vate town for Posse members. FCC files contain numerous protests, including letters that say Babbs said she believed the tapes and only stopped running them in February because she ran out. Babbs claims that people want to take away her free speech rights and believe “there’s a Pos se Comitatus under every bush.” The loosely knit group was thrust into national prominence by Gordon Kahl, a tax protester who died last month, and an Arkansas sheriff who tried to arrest him and also was killed. Kahl had been wanted in the February slayings of two federal marshals in North Dakota. Kansas law officials have been closely monitoring the Posse in Kansas, citing a paramilitary training session, fears of vio lence by Posse members who appeared at farm foreclosures and bomb threats. res Homesick Cubans hijack plane ilman Eugtn United Press International i participrl* 1 TAMPA, Fla. — Three mem- nspiracy to lirs of a Cuban family who hi- indictmenii Icked a Miami-to-Tampa Delta bribe wase Ifctliner with 108 people aboard s fee and d Havana apparently were late tax off;homesick and unhappy with life totaled $9f:tn the United States. L Once on the ground at Hava- fendantseiiiip Sunday, the three men were , and theirifeined by two women, a young c statemeneI'an j n hj s late teens or early 20s, )t guilty. A atid a weeping girl clutching a September life-sized baby doll. One of the hijackers held a [all knife to the throat of a ste- irdess while another sprayed re around the rear of the plane directing an aerosol hair ay across a flame as a make- ft torch. | No one was injured in what ps the third hijacking this lonth and the seventh this year nvolving planes either heading JRGLARlf'ip or from southern Florida. CM 25 cas4 It was the second plane com- iplifierfrotfKindeered in 10 days since U.S. i 24. fed Cuban officials warned that onic supreiifcy pirates could face up to 50 12 cassetteiprs in Cuban jails, ng area 2G Bob Butler, special agent in dollars frofprge of the Tampa FBI office, id Agencv ®id Cubdn officials interviewed at a femalf >n I reland > :s in Dorm oiversity nil by shoolii he hallway the Delta crew at length about the incident before the plane took off for Tampa after about three hours on the ground at Jose Marti airport. “We know tnat the crew of the plane was questioned quite ex tensively by Cuban authorities, which indicates to us that they intend to prosecute the hijack ers,” Butler said. Butler said the three hijackers were a man in his 60s, one in his 40s and one about 30. He said they were joined in leaving the plane by a woman in her 60s, one in her 40s, and the young girl, as well as by a young man about 19 or 20. He said the girl and the young man were be lieved to be brother and sister. “One man said in Spanish they wanted to go to Cuba,” But ler said. “Another individual along the way discussed the fact that they weren’t happy with life in the United States, and some body else said they wanted to keep their family together. Shortly thereafter, another male told them all to keep quiet.” The hijackers did not speak English during the episode and A1 Madison, a private teacher from Tampa, was sitting in the area and served as interpreter for the plane crew. “I saw the hijacker (the older man) start to yell in Spanish and the flight attendant was yelling back — well not yelling, she was calmly speaking back in English. I figured someone had to get up and translate and try to calm people down before things got out of hand,” he said. “After the translation got to the point where I was told by the stewardess to tell them that we were going to Cuba and did they have any more demands, they said ‘No, we’re going to Cuba, there will be no more prob lems,”’ Madison said. •696- uIdYOu"KNOW& You can walk to the SOUPER SALAD | within a few minutes for the greatest | soups in Texas. You may pick and" choose your own salad from the twen-1 ty-six foot salad bar with great condi-1 ments and dressings. 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The surges in the two cities will key growth in Texas, which will see the state grow almost twice as fast as the remainder of the country and attain the na tion’s second largest population and working force by the year 2000, the National Planning Association predicted Sunday. “The Texas population will expand by 4.5 million people, reaching 18.8 million and re placing New York as the coun try’s second-most-populous state by the year 2000,” the non profit agency said. “Over the next 20 years, the state’s population is expected to increase almost twice as fast as the nation’s — 32 percent com pared to 18 percent,” NPA offi cials said. California is expected to re main the nation’s most popu lated state with 29 million resi dents by the year 2000 and 16.1 million jobs. However, the group said there will be 10.2 million jobs in Texas at the end of the 1980- 2000 period with employment skyrocketing by 47 percent while the national rate goes up only 27 percent. The Washington-based group said overall it expects Texas’ population to grow by 1.4 percent annually while employ ment goes up 2 percent over the period. Leading the way nationally in population and job increases will be Houston, the organization said. Texas’ largest city will add 1.3 million people and 1.1 mil lion jobs during the 20-year period. Dallas’ population will go up by 800,000, and jobs will in crease by 700,000, the group said. Statewide, over half the new jobs are expected to be in the services, trade and finance sec tors with employment in those areas increasing 69 percent over the next 20 years. “At the turn of the century, the increase in services employ ment alone — 1 million jobs — will be almost three times the in crease in Texas manufacturing employment — 360,000,” the group said. The group said overall it ex pects services and finance em ployment to grow by 3.3 percent each year while manufacturing job growth goes up only 1.5 per cent annually. 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