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5 Wednesday, September 7,1983/The Battalion/Page 11 mingi'our boys drown in Gulf ittle 7 ) keep up with Jap | United Press International ,VESTON — Four |sters from a Houston rmany," A. CarlB^ g rou P drowned when a former Lockheecf apparently were swept e chairman said: g) by strong Gulf currents, edition of the uljj' 1 ' 5 sa 'd 1 uesday. imes. “We hadbi he b °dies of three boys, all ur aerospace indui.* arsol d, washed up on Gal- ig along in second l on Beach Sunday near fourth generationi ethe y were last seen - A g ir, > Bied at John Sealy Hospital 15,000 aerospace I Sunda y after being pulled jring and test fliglii xcated near the «■ imunity. Another usand jobs are a- be added by 1986, projects ahead; t. action of aerospace to the desert area ii ten spaces for flighi ? proximity to Ed- } and Plant 42, i u-owned comples ckwell, Northrop heed all operate, ther projects de tested at Plant 42 ttle, F-5 jet Tighten 1-71 spy plane, the test aircraft. ijithe water about 7:30 p.m. | surfer. he youngsters were part of People’s Hope Missionary list Church outing, said the Jesse Richardson, he church’s pastor said the de, hit the youngsters as | were playing in the waters near a rock pier at 51st Street and Seawall Boulevard. He said it was “like a wave that just swept them out.” “The youngsters weren’t too far out since we had told them to be careful of the tides and the deep holes the storm had cre ated,” Richardson said. “But it seemed like we just looked up and all of a sudden they were way out in the water.” A man on a surfboard helped save two girls, including Richardson’s 9-year-old daugh ter, as the youths struggled to get back to snore. The parents of all of the drowned children were in the water when the incident occurred. “They struggled to get back to the beach but it seemed like the tide kept pushing Richardson said. them out,’ The young girl was identified as Delamona Estell, 11. The bodies of the three boys were discovered in the general area they went down, about 60 yards offshore. They were identified as John Seals, Robert Batiste and Donnie Johnson. Galveston County Sgt. Mike Reardon said the Gulf waters were calm most of the day until the winds picked up in the late afternoon. He said currents around the piers that line the coast were especially strong and dangerous troughs had been dug along the piers by Hurri cane Alicia. Richardson said church mem bers had gone to the beach Sun day for baptismal services they hold there three times a year. Seals and Johnson were bap tized Sunday. The group had dinner follow ing the services and then several members decided to go swim ming. Coast guard officials also con tinued searching for a 28-year- old woman who was swept out to sea by strong tide on Sunday. And the Coast Guard was sear ching for Ray Trevino, 25, and Antonio Sanchez, 14, of Hous ton, who apparently drowned while swimming at Crystal Beach Monday. 'eace with Israel suspended r'ou take Plant 42 ds, you are talking 300 jobs and i alf a billion dollars Air Force Maj osby, the Plant 42 r, said. the largest single ill be Rockwell'sB- rogram, which wil eak work force of 1986. More than ional workers dl rds AFB for B-l g- N araway, coriajicfe anise and fennti alamus, cassis bai md orange peels >83 en 29 •ur Each illet sat i with len fryes. ;f'§ United Press International jElRUT, Lebanon — Christ- and Druze Moslem militias Monday in the Shouf itains after a pullout of ielitroops prompted the gov- ent to suspend its peace ird with Israel. Frightened anese fled the country. Hundreds of people began ing Lebanon by boat to pethe new strife, which fol- ed last week’s bloody upris- by Moslem militias on the etsof the capital. Among those fleeing were ner President Elias Sarkis, ) took a ferry to Cyprus, and •essential personnel of stern organizations, includ- relief agencies. The shattered city was an ieghost town after its 8 p.m. htly curfew. Lebanese army plans to fill void left by Israel appeared collapse in the face of the upt pullback and the bitter tiling between the Christian lanese militiamen and their ize enemies, backed by Sy- i troops. tarly reports said live people e killed and 38 others unded after Israeli occupa- troops began vacating the untains overlooking Beirut iday. The factional clashes tinued past midnight. Thundering explosions wed from artillery and mor- asthe Israeli Merkava tanks and other war equipment poured out of the Shouf, where Christians and Druze live sideby-side in about 100 villages. The battles between the Christian Phalange Lebanese Forces militia and the Druze also spilled into Beirut, with shells striking Christian sectors every 30 seconds at the height of the fighting, official Beirut radio re ported. Druze gunners fired at Lebanese army positions near Beirut airport, which has been closed for a week, hitting the area controlled by U.S. Marine peace-keeping forces. One Marine and an Italian peacekeeper were slightly wounded by shrapnel. A spokesman for the Lebanese Forces said no strate gic gains had been made by either side in the Sunday clashes for control of the mountains. The Israeli redeployment, dubbed Operation Grindstone, was completed ahead of sche dule by Sunday evening. Syria, which immediately be gan to advance in one vacated area, said the Israeli withdrawal to the long-term positions south of the dangerous Shouf meant “Lebanon becomes parti tioned.” But two Israeli warjets cover ing the pullback made three runs on Syrian tanks pushing westward on the Beirut- Damascus highway r apanese make cheap vehicle United Press International 3ETR01T — Call it an egg- ped golf cart or call it the Zoe iper: a California marketing hopes the three-wheeled lanese-built vehicle will be the ve of the future for cheap rsonal transportation. EE Motors Inc. of Los igeles hopes in the next year to sell between 5,000 and 7,000 Zippers — 370-pound vehicles powered by a five horsepower, 50-cc motorcycle engine. “This is not meant to take the place of a car—it’s to be used for example if you need to get around the corner to the store,” Zoe Motors spokesman Joe Molina said. r / 9-5 The Engineering ot Efhics JERRY FALWELL Tuesday September 13 President of the Moral Majority discusses Morality in Democracy Rudder Auditorium FREE c&niemoauil Studtni i DISCOVER O "O anuuT'ii for LUNCH AFTERNOON DESSERTS or DINNER now Featuring a NEVER EMPTY BOWL of BOILED SHRIMP and Red Sauce ONLY s 3 00 with Any Entree Good Mon.-Wed. 5 p.m.-9 p.m. Only 403 Villa Maria 775 Reservations Accepted Open Mon.-Sat. 1 a.m.-9 73 O 5 m co •1531 p.m. “We do not want Syrian forces entering the area,” warned Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Arens. In retaliation for what Leba non said was an Israeli failure to honor a promists to give the Lebanese army time to deploy in the Israeli positions, the govern ment suspended the agreement signed with Israel in May. The agreement, bitterly opposed by Syria, gave Israel economic and political conces sions in return for a total troop withdrawal. The Israeli military ovmmand insisted “advance notice of the pullback was given to represen tatives of the Lebanese army, the Druze and Ghristians in all sec tors, with a demand to maintain quiet in the area.” The battle for the Shouf over shadowed a car-bomb attack in the south of Beirut, the stron ghold of the Shiite Moslems who rebelled against the government of President Amin Gemayel last week. State-run Beirut radio re ported nine charred and torn bodies, including that of a child, and another 14 wounded. GOP watches governor campaign for black vote United Press International NEW ORLEANS — Gov. Dave Treen’s efforts to woo black voters are being scruti nized by the national Republi can Party, which hopes use the results to forecast GOP for tunes elsewhere, state Repub lican leaders said. “This election in some re spects is a test of whether blacks will respond to a Re publican candidate with a re cord or will continue to sup port Democrats,” said George Despot, chairman of the Louisiana Republican Party. “There might not be a bet ter illustration in the nation. It is entirely possible that the White House will watch this race and say, ‘There is a man who has truly done a good job for minorities. If they totally reject him, what good is it to listen to them at all?” Despot, a Shreveport busi nessman, pointed out Louisiana’s gubernatorial election was one of only three in the nation before the pres idential race — and the only one in which a Republican governor was running. He said it was extremely difficult for any statewide can didate for a majors office to be elected without a portion of the black vote. In Louisiana, blacks represent about 25 per cent of the 2 million regis tered voters. Treen has said he feels a special obligation to work for black participation in govern ment because in the early 1960s he was a member of the pro-segregation States Rights Party. governor s drive for support is considered I for a R< The black unusual for a Republican, and also for a governor who got only 3 percent of the black vote when he won in 1979. This year, Treen’s support might prove nearly as low as in that first outing, according to some political analysts — in spite of the campaign pitch and his record of appointing blacks to high-level positions. “We can’t give away 25 per cent of the vote,” Despot said. “We have to have 15 percent of the black vote.” The incumbent has recent ly received endorsements from several major black organizations. 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