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Wednesday, November 16,1983/The Battalion/Page 11 Telegram to Marines Cindi Tackitt, Battalion staff Gregory F. Stephens, a junior rr< accounting major from Houston, signs his name to the telegram to the peace keeping force in Beirut. Darrell Dudczak, a sophomore business major from Houston, is a member of the first regiment who is sponsoring the telegram along with the local radio stations KTAW and WTAW Republican governors Recovery discussed United Press International * CHICAGO — President Reagan asJjLed the nation’s Re publican governors Tuesday to pressure Congress to hold the line on federal spending. After the governors approved a resolution saying lower deficits are needed to guarantee a continued strong economic recovery, Reagan told them in a telephone call that Congress is the problem. “Keeping this recovery strong is going to take holding the line on federal spending,” Reagan said in his call to the Re publican Governor Association’s meeting. “I hope you make sure the delegations in Congress know about it.” The resolution praised Reagan for the economic recov ery, which it described as “one of the stfongest in 20 yehrs.” While praising Reagan for lowering inflation and unem ployment, it added, however: “The Republican governors be lieve this recovery can only be sustained and strengthened by a substantial reduction in the fed eral deficit.” The governors also passed a resolution praising Reagan for taking “bold, decisive action” on Grenada “to insure the safety of Americans and to restore demo cracy. “Bless you. I appreciate that more than I can say,” Reagan said when Gov. Victor Atiyeh of Oregon told him about the re solutions. Reagan also told the gov ernors he is meeting with con- nois said Id them the perception of Reagan as a strong leader is going to be one of his major assets in the upcoming campaign. Man douses self with gasoline, strikes match United Press International BROWNSVILLE — A man doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire not far from the international bridge in this Texas border city Tuesday. A fire extinguisher salesman who happened to be in the area quickly put out the fire, but the man’s clothes were burned from his body and he was taken to the intensive care unit of Brownsvil le Medical Center. Police Sgt. Luis Alvarez said the man’s name was being with held until his relatives could be notified. Officers were discus sing transporting him to the burn center at Galveston for further treatment. Police said the man first bought 8 cents worth of gasoline and a pack of matches from a service station at International Boulevard and Madison Street, poured the fuel over his body and told the attendant he was going to set himself on fire. gas station and poured more gasoline on himself from a pump hose, Alvarez said. When the attendant at the second station came out to stop him, Alvarez said, the man walked a few feet away, struck a match and set himself afire ab- | out 10 a.m. ; “The attendant said ‘What for? Get out of here,”’ Alvarez said. 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I'- I ' Lucas confesses another killing .y SEEKING SCHOOL OF HAIR DESIGN United Press International GEORGETOWN, Texas — Mass killer Henry Lee Lucas, fresh from one murder convic tion and awaiting trial in another slaying, told a sheriff he killed a young woman in West Texas in 1981. The confession by Lucas, who already has said he killed more than 150 women in the past eight years, came Monday after the 47-year-old former mental patient spotted a picture of the woman on the desk of Wil liamson County Sheriff Jim Boutwell. Boutwell testified Monday at a pretrial hearing that Lucas picked up the photograph and told Boutwell he had killed the woman. The sheriff would not give details on that slaying except to say the woman disappeared in West Texas in February 1981. •Salon Service At Reduced Rates •Today’s Advanced & World Renowned Method of S'rkO 'TO Cutting & / O / O ^ Designing ^ 1406 Texas Avc. S—Next to Gibson’s—C.S. Monday’s hearing was called for defense motions prior to Lucas’Jan. 16 trial in the slaying of an unidentified woman whose body was found north of Georgetown in 1979. JL _ State District JudgeJohn Car ter denied one motion to bar Lucas from talking with law officers after Lucas testified that he knew his rights but wanted to help police solve the crimes. gressional leaders to push his program for tuition tax credits for parents of children in pri vate schools. “Getting that passed will be an important step at the federal level to improve the education policies of the nation,” he said. In their closing session, the governors heard an address from Republican National Com- mittee Chairman Frank Fahrenkopf and met in private with Edward Rollins, chairman of the Reagan-Bush 1984 com- mitttee and Richard Wirthlin, the president’s pollster. Gov. James Thompson of Illi- lid Wirthlin told Lease it as low as 9.9% A.RR. up to 36 months. 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