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El Paso unhappy
City’s money denied
United Press International
EL PASO — The president of
the El Paso Builders Association,
frustrated that El Paso did not
receive more low-interest mort
gage funds from a state bond
sale, said he thinks a Hispanic
builder should be appointed to a
new border commission to en
sure the city’s needs are met.
President Reagan announced
the creation of the task force
during his August visit to El
Paso. Its purpose was to coor
dinate government programs to
help relieve economic problems
along the border.
At a press conference Mon
day, Sam Witkin said, “We are
going to see if we can get an His
panic builder on the task force
on the border that Vice Presi
dent (George) Bush is chairman
of so we can get a little more
emphasis on El Paso and its
needs.”
Witkin said he is “very upset”
that El Paso, the state’s fourth
largest city, received only
enough low-interest money
from a state bond issue to fi
nance loans for 60 houses. El
Paso received just 1.2 percent of
the $238.8 million available
from Thursday’s bond sale, he
said. First-time homebuyers are
eligible to apply for the loans,
which offer a 10.8 percent in
terest rate.
Earlene Jewett, executive di
rector of the Texas Housing
Agency, said three El Paso buil
ders asked for $ 11 million in
funds and got $2.96 million. She
said, by comparison, that Dallas
builders asked for $103 million
in funds and received $43 mil
lion.
Witkin said Houston, Dallas,
Fort Worth and San Antonio
were all targeted to receive cer
tain amounts of the bond issue
money “and El Paso was lumped
in with the rest of the state. You
would think that the state’s
fourth largest city would receive
more than 1.2 percent of all the
money available.”
jailed
show examines
killers
women
United Press International
NEW YORK — HBO’s
“When Women Kill” is a pro
vocative study of the shattered
lives of some of the 3,500
women in U.S. prisons for mur
der or manslaughter — usually
in the deaths of people they
knew and once loved.
Seven women at two prisons,
including Charles Manson cult
killer Leslie Van Houten, are in
terviewed during the hourlong
exclusive documentary that be
gins airing Sept. 7.
Several of the stories stir the
conscience — some of these
women serving 14 years to life
were “up until that particular
moment” law-abiding citizens —
but a couple sound quite callous.
Oscar-winning actress Lee
Grant, who is director and nar
rator of the film, generally
seems sympathetic, but she also
cautions viewers to remember
that the victims’ accounts cannot
be heard.
At the Bedford Hills Correc
tional Facility for Women in
Westchester County, N.Y., 42-
year-old Violet is being visited
for the first time in two years by
her two daughters and their
children. They have made a 19
hour trip by bus from Appa
lachia with $20 in their pockets
to see their mother.
It is a touching reunion and
especially disturbing is what the
daughters have to say about
their mother’s relationship with
the man she killed.
“He beat her up an awful lot
for no reason. Knocked her
down, kicked her. But I guess
there was love there. She always
took him back.”
A fellow inmate is Virginia,
who shot to death her husband
of 26 years, an airline pilot, after
they had been seperated for two
years. The former high school
beauty queen said it happened
when her husband came to her
home in one of his frequent vio
lent rages.
Grant states that if these
women had been attacked by
strangers,-their chances of ac
quittal by ajury would have been
much better. But when their vic
tims are husbands or boyfrieds,
women almost always are held
responsible in some way for the
abuse they suffered.
There are other reasons why
women kill, however.
At the California Institution
for Women in Chino, Calif.,
Judy talks about killing a man
during a robbery when she was
25 years old.
Her boyfriend, a professional
burglar, was shot in the leg dur
ing a robbery. He told her to
shoot the man and she did, Judy
says. “I don’t know what hap
pens to me with men,” she says.
“Women here I can say no if
they suggest some weird activity.
But men, some chemical goes
off in my brain.”
A prison official says that it
often is the case that women im
prisoned for murder or man
slaughter are passive, rather
than aggressive — they can’t say
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lines of wives and loversarei
each visiting day at the
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women prisoners.
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one woman prisoner
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LOS ANGELES — An Army
veteran who earlier this month
confessed to killing his infant
daughter six years ago while sta
tioned in Germany has been
arrested by the FBI at the re
quest of the West German gov
ernment.
might kill his 17-month-old son.
The boy lives with Perry’s for
mer wife in Texas.
occurred while he was trying to
revive her with cardiopulmon
ary resuscitation.
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Gary Perry, 28, was arrested
Monday at the Veterans Admi
nistration Hospital, where he
had been admitted for therapy
after telling police he feared he
tion Aug. 5 and tearfully confes
sed that he had beaten his
daughter, who was also 17-
months-old at the time, to death
in 1978 while angry over her
crying.
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A West German police report
showed the little girl died in
January 1978 of internal bleed
ing from a crushed liver and
pancreas. Perry told German
authorities that the injuries
Perry was arraigned Monday
in U.S. District Court on a com
plaint filed by Assistant U.S.
Attorney Jeffrey Modisett
charging him with inflicting per
sonal injury with a fatal out
come. Bail was set at $30,000.
Three days after his surren
der, Perry was released because
the Army and U.S. authorities
said they had no power to prose
cute him and West German offi
cials at the time were unsure of
their jurisdiction in the case.
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