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| 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.
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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
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ve of the future for cheap
rsonal transportation.
EE Motors Inc. of Los
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to sell between 5,000 and 7,000
Zippers — 370-pound vehicles
powered by a five horsepower,
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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.
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“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. A “truth
squad” of black leaders has
been touring the state telling
blacks of Treen’s record in
their behalf.
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