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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-
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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.
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“What he was saying was#
it wasn’t necessarily right 1
was done,” Magee said.
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Gasoline tank explodes
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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.
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