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Page 14/The Battalion/Friday, September 2,1983 One slain, 74 injured Phillipinos riot in Manila United Press International MANILA, Philippines — Police clashed Thursday with anti-government demonstrators in the streets hours after two million mourners attended the funeral of slain opposition lead er Benigno S. Aquino. One stu dent was killed and at least 74 people injured. Aquino, 50, President Ferdi nand Marcos’ chief political opponent, was gunned down Aug. 21 at Manila International Airport while under military guard after he returned from a three-year exile in the United States. Police said some 3,000 de monstrators, mostly students, hurled homemade bombs and stones at a police barricade near Marcos’ Malacanang Palace, broke windows and built bon fires in the street Wednesday night before helmeted riot troops carrying plywood shields moved to disperse them with clubs and fire hoses. Hospital and police sources said forty- three demonstrators were wounded by police batons and gunshot. Hospital sources identified the dead youth as Kareem Di- makuta, 22, a civil engineering student from the southern Phi lippine island of Mindanao. Two companions said Di- ducked into a cour- MSC Cepheid Variable New Members Meeting September 6 at 7:30 / Room 302, Rudder MIKE’S DISCOUNT LIQUOR WELCOME BACK AGGIES!!! Pre Labor Day Blowout Sale at Post Oak Village JACK DANIELS . 750 mL 90 Proof Sour Mash Whiskey McCORMICK VODKA 1.75 liter 80 Proof CANADIAN LTD. 1.75 liter 80 Proof Canadian Whiskey 199 « 9 < COKE and TCP 2 liter bottles *1 39 each 10 lb. Bag of ICE 100 (with $10 purchase limit one per customer) 900-2 East Harvey Rd. (Across from Woodstone) While Supply Lasts! 693-8012 makuta had i tyard as club-swinging police chased demonstrators through streets just blocks from the palace. They said Dimakuta was shot in the stomach as he stood in the courtyard. Opposition leader Salvador H. Laurel today repeated his call for Marcos to step down in favor of a caretaker government. Party ballot to decide succeeder to Begin United Press International TEL AVIV, Israel — Prime Minister Menachem Begin’s party members gathered Thurs day to choose his successor in a secret ballot pitting Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir against Begin’s deputy, David Levy. Levy, 45, born in Morocco, and the Polish-born Shamir, 68, emerged as the country’s two leading candidates in the fren zied power struggle that erupted after Begin announced Sunday that he intended to resign. The vote Thursday involved some 900 Central Committee members of the Herut Party that Begin, 70, founded in 1948. On the eve of the vote, Sha mir and Levy voiced confidence in winning what has developed into a battle of the generations — between the younger Sephar di, or North African Jewish can didate, and the veteran Ashke nazi of European Jewish des cent. Both Levy, a former con struction worker and father of 10, and Shamir said they would shake the winner’s hand and wish him well. The af fable manner of two contenders masked a fiti struggle, in ways reflecting*! has come to be called the“t| Israels” — the generally pooi Sephardic community andi better established Ashket Jews. Levy, a strong party man, sisted during two days of m ings with Herut Cabinet mil ters that t he decision be madt the larger Central Committet| rank-and-file party workt and not by eight Cabinet! ters. Texat Witness says water torture used to get confessions United Press International HOUSTON — A former sheriffs deputy and a convicted burglar testified Thursday that an east Texas sheriff and three of his deputies used water tor ture to make suspects confess. Former San Jacinto County Sheriff James “Humpy” Parker, 47, and former deputies Carl Lee, Floyd Allen Baker and John Glover, are charged with civil rights violations to at least six prisoners between 1976 and 1980. Prosecutors said the men coerced confessions by putting a towel over suspects’ faces and pouring water over it. Vernell Harkless, who was jailed in 1976 as a burglary sus pect, testified Wednesday he feared he was going to be smothered three different times as the sheriffs and deputies tried to extract information about burglaries in Walker and San Jacinto counties, 60 miles north of Houston. Testimony was scheduled to resume today. “I thought I was going to be strangled to death. I couldn’t breath,” Harkless testified, de monstrating for the jury how the defendants treated him during questioning. Sitting in a chair, he placed his arms through slats in back of chair and held his hands as if they were handcuffed. A towel was wrapped around his face and tied behind his head. A steady stream of water was poured over the towel, he said. He said Glover told him, “When you get ready to talk, you kick your foot.” Harkless was convicted in 1977 of two burglaries in Walker County. Former San Jacinto County Deputy Gregg Magee said he witnessed Harkless’ interroga tion. “I really didn’t know what to think. It worried me. I knew this wasn’t something that was sup posed to be going on. It was a frightening ordeal," Magee Magee said he often dered about the legality torture, but Glover told him to ask questions. ofl “What he was saying was# it wasn’t necessarily right 1 was done,” Magee said. 59 a The government conn the defendants frequently ped motorists along U.S, conducted illegal strip sea: on the roadway. The pri: they took were individual*, were black, appeared to be pies” or those with a Hoi rock station bumper sticker their cars. BRAZOS VALLEY GOLF DRIVING RANGE ^ Mon.-Fri. 2-9 p.m. Sat. 12-9 p.m. Sun. 1 p.m.-8 p.m. 696-1220 East Bypass and Hwy. 30. Service Road Going South - V 4 miles. Gasoline tank explodes United Press International CHALMETTE, La. — At least two people were taken to hospitals Thursday night when a gasoline storage tank explo sion shook the Tenneco Oil Re finery at Chalmette, Louisiana. Details were sketchy after the 9:30 p.m. explosion and blaze, which sent fireballs shooting as high as 300 feet into the air, lighting the night sky along the Mississippi River about miles southeast of downtoj New Orleans. Sheriff Ralph McDoud said a three million gallong line tank exploded. FILL IN THOSE GAPS. JOIN MSC SCONA 29 Student Conference on National Affairs APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE 216 MSC AUGUST 29 - SEPTEMBER 5 845-7625 ^Tr kinko's copies The Kinko’s V20 Sale Ad that ran on Aug. 31 was incorrect & should have said Professors, make your class readings available to your students at a discount rate and no cost to you. ART SALE! 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