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Italian troops in Beirut
attacked, three wounded
Keeping a Cool Head
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\ounty under investigation
added,
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Tim Miller, a freshman electrical
engineering major from
Beaumont, uses his head to rent
refrigerators Wednesday. Student
Government will rent refrigerators
through Friday.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — A rock
et barrage wounded three Ita
lian peace-keeping troops
Thursday and Lebanese army
troops battled Moslem gunmen
in mopping up operations to
end four days of Fierce fighting
in the Lebanese capital.
An Italian spokesman said 12
rockets struck an Italian position
in west Beirut at 9 a.m. (3 a.m.
EDT), wounding three Italian
soldiers. Two L.S. Marines and
five French soldiers in the
peacekeeping force were killed
this week.
Rocket-propelled grenade
explosions and automatic rifle
fire were heard throughout
Beirut as Lebanese army sol
diers assaulted Moslem gunmen
resisting a massive government
offensive to restore order in the
capital.
Foreign journalists who
toured the city with the
Lebanese army said resistance
appeared to center in Burj Bara-
jne where Palestinian refugees
and Shiites live and where some
of the heaviest fighting raged
Vote-buying charges made
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iite a load offofi BROWNSVILLE — The pro-
ution is attempting to show
it Duval County’s locally oper-
;d welfare system was used to
y votes and perpetuate the
estimated at I
would be filed
gate possible case ministration of County J udge
>il pollution. Iberto Uresti.
Uresti himself is not a defen-
. lnt,but seven of his campaig-
1 /r - Y , r - 1 / Its, including his wife Olga,
[ (j ^ e on trial on federal vote-
ying charges in U.S. District
dgeFilemon Vela’s court.
County Commissioner
iencio Saenz and the six
men allegedly drummed up
tes during the campaign for
May 1, 1982 Democratic
the county isow iliary by promising poor and
5 million in uif lerly people vouchers for
;st and penalties! id,clothing, medical expendi-
1939. Ires and funerals. The
luchers passed as cash and
onger good buM enwere redeemed by the Duv-
'our taxes," GojJCounty auditpr.
g the court costs. ]|)e welfare,system is a re-
ax payers could6 nantofthe decades of reign bv
ic amount of a 0 f Duval” George B.
irr, whose political reign was
arked with numerous allega-
s private firmi ,ns °f Action fraud, includ-
ubbock County
2 to collect bothpi t r •
'ty and real prop! AllClcl VlCtllTlS
t taxes for thecoa • • I
ital district andiftO rCCCIVC cilCi
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tion District No,
rid his firm retail
ing the famous “Box 13” inci
dent in 1948 in which Lyndon B.
Johnson defeated Coke Steven
son by only 87 votes discovered
at the poll run by Parr suppor
ters. The narrow victory won
Johnson, later to become Presi
dent of the United States, the
nickname “Landslide Lyndon.”
Wednesday Wolfe called five
more witnesses who testified
that Uresti’s backers saw to it
that they got immediate issuance
of vouchers up to $70 after they
agreed to vote for Uresti, Saenz
and the faction’s other candi
dates.
Uresti defeated Frank Garcia
by 133 votes out of more than
6,000 cast. Supporters of both
men have been among 31 peo
ple indicted, 22 of whom already
nave been convicted or pleaded
guilty.
Wolfe has sought to establish
a pattern of vote buying by the
Uresti faction before resting his
case. Defense attorneys nave
confined themselves so far to
cross-examining government
witnesses, attempting to link
them with the Garcia faction and
to show the jurors that those
who received welfare payments
actually were qualified for them
because they were extremely
poor.
Unemployed roughneck
Manuel Arredondo and his
wife, Jose; Sisters Diana Leal
and Zelma Pena; Angelo Solis,
69; and Rafaela Torres, 70, all
told the jury Wednesday they
were approached by Uresti
backers and offered vouchers
for their votes.
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HOUSTON — Residents of
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sociated with! '»be eligible for grants fi-
His firm alsofl tad by $9.67 million in fed-
?nt taxes for Dal ^ relief funds, state and fed-
alofficials have announced.
The Federal Emergency
agement Agency Thursday
mounced almost $22.5 million
federal funds will be made
lilable to help local gOver-
lents and individuals recover
'om storm - losses.
S FEMA regional director J er r y
■ Stephens and Gov. Mark
he signed a federal-state
lerations agreement in Austin
hrsdaycommiting the funds.
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fthestate’s Department of H u-
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# mi ^ Ureen Chernow, a spokes-
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lake maximum $5,000 grants
tailable to residents of Brazor-
Chambers, Fort Bend, Gal
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irda, Montgomery and San
icinto counties.
said the grants will be
ide to cover victims’ “serious
and necessary expenses
p...ig from the disaster.”
|The federal funding will fi-
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■fair to public facilities and the
ram program.
Ijnrricane Alicia slammed
Itothe upper Texas Gulf Coast
Rg. 18. Damage estimates ex-
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ie federal money would be ear-
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Gunmen also were holding
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The widespread damage left
by mortar, artillery and rockets
that rained down on the city sug
gested the casualty toll could be
Far higher than police reports of
90 killed and 300 wounded.
In a special news bulletin, the
Phalangist Voice of Lebanon
said 40 Christian men, women
and children were slaughtered
Thursday morning by “social
ists,” its term for Druze Mos
lems.
“These elements massacred
with knives some 40 adults and
children, including the priest
Jirjes Rai,” the report said. Two
people survived the attacks, the
radio said.
A Lebanese army spokesman
was unable to confirm the re
port, but a spokesman for the
Christian “Lebanese Forces”
militia said killings occurred in
the town of Bmariam, 12 miles
east of Beirut in Syrian-
occupied territory.
He said an unidentified survi
vor reached the village of Kor-
net Chahwan, but could give no
other information.
After four days of heavy shell
ing and street fighting, Beirut
was relatively quiet Thursday
with the army mopping up after
some 10,000 army troops went
into west Beirut Wedenesday in
a major offensive against the
Moslem militias.
The army offensive, ordered
by President Amin Gemayel,
had been hindered by persistent
shelling by Moslem gunners
from the Syrian-occupied Up
per Metn and Israeli-occupied
Shouf Mountains east of Beirut.
Two Marines and five French
soldiers were among the 90 dead
and 300 wounded since Shiite
Moslem militiamen, joined by
Druze and Sunni Moslem fight
ers, began the uprising Sunday
in a bid to win more influence in
the government.
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