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free food rules United Press International EL PASO — Forty percent of El Paso residents could be eligi ble for free food now that the federal government has relaxed its rules, an official for the Paso del Norte Food Bank said Wednesday. The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it is dropping a requirement that certain food items cannot be dis tributed to an agency that might discriminate against recipients. Under those rules, officials said, a shelter for battered women could not receive the food because it would feed only women. State Rep. Mary Polk, D-El Paso, announced that the USD A had ordered the redistribution of food, spurred by her request to Texas Sens. John Tower and Lloyd Bentsen. In her letter to the lawmak ers, Polk said: “I’m sure you will agree that the intent of this program was for these foods to be distributed in an effective manner.” Some of the food to be redis tributed is food that the govern ment buys from farmers to keep market supplies lower and prices higher. Food stored in warehouses in Texas was a burden to the state, she said. Polk had asked that the USD A to allow the food to be distributed to schools, charitable organizations and needy fami lies. The food giveaway program for needy families began in 1981 under Secretary of Agriculture John Block. Quantities of food increased and guidelines were loose, officials said. staff photo by Guy Hood playing time with Nelson the Dalmation, before the rains arrived. ontinental pilots file countersuit United Press International 10USTON — The Air Line jots Association, sued for $50 Ilion earlier this month by JiUinental Airlines, filed a |00 million damage suit Jinst Continental in federal cojirt Wednesday. -^■The Union of Flight Atten- —idatiis filed a similar but separate ■suit against Continental in ff photo by Dinkfapal court Wednesday with- specifying a damage claim. ■The lawsuits claim Continen- idents musiHviolated the Railway Labor dentificatiwAct in filing for bankruptcy rebrganization. The suits —dunged the company unilater- llly suspended labor pacts to cut pay and increase work loads on a reduced flight schedule. The plans went into effect Sept. 27. The suit by flight attendants, who went on strike with the pilots Oct. 1, requests reinstate ment and back pay. The ALPA suit also seeks an injunction to restore the pilots union contract with Continental and to bar the airline from using outside strikebreakers to replace the Continental pilots. Continental says it has enough Continental pilots will ing to cross picket lines to keep flying but needs more to ex pand. The airline has been in terviewing outside pilot appli cants for 10 days but says it has not yet hired any. ALPA also sent a telegram to Continental suggesting the un ion and the company find a mediator to end the pilots’ 19- day-old strike. In another move Wednesday, ALPA filed a petition with the Civil Aeronautics Board in Washington asking the CAB to disapprove Continental’s crea tion of three subsidiaries to run its international flights. It charged that Continental officials communicated improp erly with CAB Chairman Dan McKinnon about reorganization of its international flight system. The new subsidiaries, prop osed to the CAB shortly before the airline filed for reorganiza tion, are Continental Venezuela, Continental Mexico and Con tinental Pacific. Continental filed a $50 mil lion lawsuit on Oct. 12 accusing ALPA and its president, Henry Duffy, of antitrust violations, price-fixing and illegal harass ment of the company and its em ployees. ALPA has asked Bankruptcy Judge R.F. Wheless to dismiss Continental’s bankruptcy peti tion, charging it was filed in bad faith to break the unions. Continental defends the validity of its bankruptcy peti tion and its suspension of labor contracts with the machinists, pilots and flight attendants. FWPAV «TUD»WT I.D. CINEMA III III tu-im JISUMwfeflh I te four to receive probation ingcounty votes “ZELIQ" (PG) g 7'35-9‘35 *5^ “ROMANTIC COMEDY’JPQ):^ ' “OFFicER”|“48 HOURS”?: 7:30 < R > I 9:45 (R) CINEMA III O.ik M.ill £ ISOoTCmylllli 7*4-6616 ii; a"" $ X 8:00-10:00 £ ••“WALTZ ACROSS TEXAS” (PG).;: I*! 7:30-9:55 (R) >“YR. 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The !i > Say the praclicj United Press International tth mask form BROWNSVILLE — A feder- iimonattlie'-jj j U( ]g e Wednesday sentenced •niurywlienplfou, Duval County residents, in- irimilive. dueling a county commissioner, tham wasaiiotothree years probation for con- hool during sparing to buy votes in the 1982 .ilher admimiDemocratic primary election, historical anSU.S. District Judge Filemon ecided to loan Vila also levied a $2,000 fine school, she sail against County Commissioner sed that thci Fidencio Saenz of Benavides, to the school, He did not fine Norma Soliz, ol officials in Genoeveva Garcia, or Domililla r, had been n Garza. up the mask, 1 The jury that convicted the ts school prop four on Sept. 7 found Olga Uresti, wife of current Duval County Judge Gilberto Uresti, innocent of the same charges. J0f31 Duval County residents indicted in a state-federal vote fraud investigation, 25 have been convicted or entered guilty pitas, while six have been ac quitted. [The four sentenced Wednes day were members of the politic- Maction that helped Uresti de feat Frank Garcia by a 133-vote rgin in the May 1, 1982, elec tion in Duval County. However, some of those convicted have been members of the rival Gar- jased pting Foods Pluslai to 7: IESDAY i SPECIAL Tied Steak m Gravy “otatoes and f one other etable tread and Butt 5 or Tea (SPECIAL id 1KEY ed with :rry Sauce td Dressing _ Bread - Butter' e or Tea it Gravy shoice of any egetable cia faction in the county known for its tumultuous politics and contested elections. Ironically, Vela com- plimented the four for their political enthusiasm, despite his finding that they went outside the law. “The way you people are en thusiastic about politics is the way everybody ought to be,” Vela said. “Basically, I know you people don’t believe you did anything wrong, but what you did was against the law.” Witnesses in the trial testified that county welfare vouchers were distributed to people who promised to “vote right” in the election. Uresti, who originally called for the investigation by the FBI and Texas Rangers, has been informed that he is an offi cial “target” of the continuing inquiry, Wolfe has said. Uresti has been county judge of the South Texas county since Archer Parr was sent to prison for 10 years in 1975 on a federal perjury conviction. Parr and his uncle, the late “Duke of Duval” George B. 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