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The other iv inHouit® mocrat ‘ c contenders ran far be lli | )e ,, hind, with Sens. Gary Hart of Colo- Ho, John Glenn of Ohio and Alan CJanston of California and former lid not pliBn. George McGovern of South Da- firsthalfi®ta fighting for second, hut final) BNBG said Hart could finish sec- ;horhsSai.pd. Glenn, who had been consid- ’Btd as Mondale’s closest rival, was nvhile, hjBnning back in the pack in the early 14-poini t returns. eightminiiiBAl 9:05 GST, with 28 percent of after forcidt' 1 precincts , reporting, Mondale st Baylorf® ( 111,400 or 47 percent; Hart 3,261 ;ars,73-6’.!! or 11 percent; McGovern 2,747 or 11 te gamer pe" eiit; Cranston 2,255 or 9 per- 20-foot iiidebt; uncommitted delegates had Is to go d|59 votes or 7 percent; Glenn isketintlit^>|92 or 6 percent; former Florida Bv. Rueben Askew 795 or 3 per- foughtofllijm; dvil rights activist Jesse Jackson ts hopesahB^ or B percent, and Sen Ernest lish whichw[^ n gs, 55 or 0 percent, rye pasttl*BThe first round votes were only an VCtoumasBr ca O° n of Mondale’s popular Bength. Before the final taliy in the pucuses which decides the allocation ol delegates the figures could change but the results will be overwhelm ingly in Mondale’s favor. President Reagan, seeking to steal some of the spotlight from the Dem ocrats, spoke at large rallies in Water loo and Des Moines and denounced the eight Democratic challengers as captives of a “dinosaur mentality” with a record of failed leadership. The Iowa caucuses are the first public vote of the 1984 contest. Mc Govern got his start toward winning the nomination with a strong and un expected second place finish here in 1972 and in 1976 an almost un known Jimmy Garter scored an upset by winningdowa. Democrats began gathering at 8 p.m. GST in informal meetings in church basements, fireballs and liv ing rooms in the state’s 2,495 pre cincts, divided into groups according to candidate preference and cast a public ballot for their favorites. They also can vote for uncommitted dele gates. At stake are 50 delegates to the Democratic National Gonvention in San Francisco in July. Monday’s cau cuses actually are only the first step in the selection process but the breakdown by candidate will be clear after the voting. Eight other dele gates will be selected by the Demo cratic party. The turnout in the Democratic race was expected to he less than the 100,000 who came out in 1980 in the bitter battle between a victorious President Garter and Sen. Edward Kennedy. The weather was balmy for Iowa in February — sunny and clear with temperatures in the high 40s. But many lowans were expected to fol low their normal pursuits including the first round of the state high school basketball tournament. “The candidates in the other party have already laid out a strategy of promising everything to everybody,” Reagan said. “Yes, we Republicans make promises, but not to special in terest groups to be paid from the public treasury and not promises that cancel each other out.” Asked whether Reagan was refer ring to Mondale, White House spokesman Larry Speakes replied, “If the shoe fits, wear it.” As he arrived in Des Moines to prepare for a victory celebration, Mondale gave an indication of what a general election campaign might be like, hammering away at Reagan for high budget deficits, unfairness and a stepped up arms race. He said Iowa Democrats would tell Reagan, “You can fool all of the peo ple some of the time and you can fool some of the people all of the time. But Mr. President, in 1984, you’re going to find out you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” Hollings wrote off the Iowa re sults, saying the first vote of any sig nificance is next Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary. Photo by JOHN RYAN But will it float? Joe McGraw, a professor in the Environmental Design Depart ment works on his 15-foot motor/sail Pocket Cruiser in the Building Construction workshop in building B of the Lang ford Architecture Complex. French miners striking United Press International PARIS — Coal miners went on strike and virtually halted produc tion Monday, bringing new labor troubles to France as a truckers strike that had stalled traffic for days began winding down. Italian customs workers, whose strike last week contributed to the truckers’ protest, renewed a limited job action Monday, refusing to work after 2 p.m. for the rest of this week. In most regions of France, drivers removed highway blockades in antic ipation of a meeting between union leaders and government officials on the truckers’ demands for faster cus toms clearance and reduced road and fuel taxes. But three major highways re mained blocked despite union ap peals to end the protest. Others had only one lane open. Unionized drivers in the Alpine region of Savoie who met with gov ernment officials Monday in a pre lude to Tuesday’s talks with the transport minister and said the gov ernment appeared ready to concede to demands to allow border crossings during customs strikes, longer work weeks and border crossings on week ends. An estimated 60,000 mining jobs will be eliminated in the plan to cut deficits in nationalized industries by 1988. ebanese army units attacked by Moslem rebel United Press International BF4RUT — Moslem rebels probed |e defenses of the government’s last ironghold outside Beirut Monday, acking army units in the moun- Kns east of the capital. Rebel leaders ■H^Msaissed opening a new offensive font the north. ■A Saudi Arabian diplomatic effort to slop the fighting shifted to Damas- I Bs, where a Saudi mediator arrived M to brief Syrian officials and the visit- Ig Saudi crown prince on his talks [iih Lebanese officials in Beirut. [A spokesman for the U.S. Marines heavy equipment and some non- inbat troops were being evacuated *****"" % 0 in the airport base for the second aight day. The main contingent of lout 1,220 troops had no orders to Inove, he said. ■Renewed fighting broke out Mon- lay morning in the mountains over looking Beirut, where Moslem forces are massed against Souk al Gharb, a town that guards the entrances to President Amin Gemayel’s palace in the east Beirut suburb of Baabda. “Armed men tried to launch an other attack at 6 a.m. on our forces in Souk el Gharb Monday from a clus ter of deserted buildings on the out skirts of the nearby village of Kai- foun,” a Lebanese army spokesman said. The two sides traded heavy artil lery fire during the day, although the shelling died off after nightfall. Flashes of gunfire continued over Souk al Gharb into the evening. A Lebanese military spokesman said 15 anti-government militiamen were killed or wounded in the Mon day fighting and another 16 rebels were killed on Sunday. The artillery battles that began late Sunday were the heaviest since the Druze drove the crumbling Lebanese army from its other positions in the mountains. Souk al Gharb is the last army stronghold outside Beirut. The army and Shiite militias also exchanged mortar and heavy ma chine-gun fire across the Green Line dividing the Ghristian and Moslem sectors of Beirut. The Moslems are fighting for a greater share of power in the Christian-dominated govern ment. The government also faced a pos sible new threat. Amal Shiite militia chief Nabih Berri met with other re bel leaders near the northern port of Tripoli to discuss opening a second front against government-held east Beirut. Sources close to Berri said he met with Gemayel’s main Christian rival, Suleiman Franjieh, who has about 1,000 troops in his Marada militia in northern Lebanon. Franjieh, a former president, has a blood feud with Gemayel’s family, which leads the right-wing Christian Phalange Party. “All Phalangist el ements should be cleansed from the Lebanese government,” Franjieh said after the meeting. Druze Moslem leader Walid Jumb- latt, Franjieh and former prime min ister and Sunni Moslem leader Rashid Karami make up the Syrian- backed National Salvation Front fighting Gemayel. In Damascus, official Syrian radio monitored in Beirut said Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz arrived in the Syrian capital Monday. The prince was reportedly following up on a Saudi initiative that ended in failure last week when Syria rejected an eight-point peace plan. Gemayel recalled Foreign Minister File Salem, who was headed to Wash ington, after a call to “Lebanese offi cials” from Saudi Arabia’s Lebanon mediator in Beirut, Rafik Hariri, the Central News Agency said. Salem, Gemayel and Hariri met late Monday at the Baabda presi dential palace before Hariri flew to Damascus, state-run television said. The Syrians object to the peace plan, a blueprint for the withdrawal of all Syrian and Israeli forces from Lebanon, saying it implies that Syria is on an equal footing with the Jewish state, which Syria does not recognize. The fighting around Beirut did not affect the smooth withdrawal from Beirut of the last of 1,100 Ital ian soldiers from the multinational peacekeeping force. About 300 members of the crack San Marco ma rine battalion were to remain off shore on an Italian troop transport and 100 were to stay in Beirut to guard Italian institutions. Shiite militiamen quickly moved into Beirut’s Palestinian refugee camps, which the Italians had guarded since the September 1982 massacres of hundreds of refugees. In Tel Aviv, the Israeli military command reported a soldier was wounded in an ambush at the “south ern approaches of Sidon,” a southern Lebanese port. It was the second re ported attack against Israeli soldiers in the occupied city in 24 hours. ailbreak Deputies predict capture of escapees ITS itel 3n the 0^1 ouston cl United Press International ALEXANDRIA, La. — Authori- s received tips they believe will d them to the capture Tuesday of jmurder suspect and another fugi- Je who broke out of the parish jail fjtlt seven other prisoners this week- FjKl, a deputy said Monday. Nine inmates hacked through letal bars on the fourth-floor Rap- tles Parish Jail late Friday, broke a Indow and scaled to freedom down a h>pe made of ripped bedsheets and bwels. At least seven have been recap tured. Two Pineville men, however, re mained at large late Monday. Au thorities said they were searching for Bryan L. Brown, 19, awaiting trial on charges of first-degree murder and attempted murder, and Bruce Ox- ner, 21, awaiting trial on a burglary charge and 13 theft counts. Deputy John Betar said Monday he believes the two remaining fugi tives will be back in their jail cells Tuesday. Deputies were unaware of the nine-prisoner jailbreak until 8:30 p.m. Friday — two hours after the breakout — when they arrested es caped inmate Larry O. Jackson alleg edly trying to burglarize the R.J. Jones 8c Son hardware store in Alex andria, officials said. Jackson was serving a 10-year sen tence for a 1983 burglary conviction. Deputy H.M. “Buddy” Norman said the escape was undetected for two hours, because the inmates fled between the time dinner was served and jailers checked the cells at night. Steven Beech, 20, of Alexandria, who was awaiting trial on charges of burglary and contributing to the de linquency of a minor, was recaptured several hours after the twilight brea kout. Five other fugitives were arrested Saturday, including Lee Gredeur, 22, of Lafayette and Leonard Erving, 40, Jerry Lee Hampton, 30, Edward Kirts, 27, and Richard Dennard, 19, all of Alexandria. iearch intensifies for missing fugitives United Press International [MASON, Tenn. The search for zesterntf ■ “ extreme *y dangerous” fugi- ' | es moved 23 miles southwest Mon- j |y to near Mason where a Tennes- |e Highway Patrol officer reported jilting one of the prisoners in a cul- [ert. • Ijl* |“A highway patrolman definitely eachW'Bottcd one of the convicts in Ma to: \ITS ■Staurah- kin,” said Dick Baumbach, spokes- as Aver Ipn f rom q ie s t a t e Gorrection De- aff, giap* 1 '; Hrtment. “The focus of the search is ell and ^ Ww shifting toward Mason.” Baumbach said the inmate was seen about 5:20 p.m. A large group of searchers were being sent to the scene, about 23 miles southwest of Brownsville where the three prison ers had been spotted Sunday. Haywood Gounty Ghief Deputy Jim Parks said earlier the men had apparently eluded a dragnet of po lice and bloodhounds and slipped out of a forest near Brownsville. Authorities believe they saw two of the escaped convicts running down a railroad track Sunday night, but Parks said a sweep of the area turned up no sign of them. Authorities helped Brownsville area residents search their homes and outbuildings for the fugitives Monday and one elderly woman was evacuated from her remote home be cause the convicts have already held two families hostage. The three were among five con victs who produced pistols appar ently left for them in a field at Fort Pillow Prison, 40 miles from Brownsville, and escaped Saturday. The three believed traveling to- gehler were identified as Ronald Freeman, 41, serving 198 years for two murders; Riley Arzeneaux, 26, doing 25 years for murder, and James Glegg, 30, serving life as a ha bitual criminal. Randolph Oliver, 32, a convicted murderer, was caught Sunday walk ing down a road. The fifth fugitive, Sylvester Alexander, 23, serving 40 years for armed robbery, was be lieved to have fled the area in a Ga- dillac stolen at a Brownsville market. In Today’s Battalion Local • Dr. Annette M. Lopez ,the new affirmative action of ficer at Texas A&M, says getting people to realize their prejudices is her goal while she holds the office. See story P a S e 7 - • The Houston Cougars basketball team jumps to third place in the UPI College ratings. See story page 9. • The Student Wellness Network is trying to get stu dents and others interested in in the service and in becom- ming members. See story page 5. State • A Texas education subcommittee endorses longer school days, mandatory tutoring. See story page 3. • Texas police are considering bringing charges on a Vietnam veteran with a history of mental illness for taking a hostage in an Air Force hospital. See story page 5. ■ V. •