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Thursday, March 1, 1984/The Battalion/Page 7 Victim of gang rape intoxicated United Press International FALL RIVER, Mass. —Blood tests showed the victim of an al leged gang rape was legally in toxicated when she was exam ined at a hospital after the incident, a nurse testified Wednesday. But nurse Carol Lessa added, “I don’t think she was drunk.” Lessa testified that tests showed the woman’s blood alco hol level was nearly twice the 0.10 level that signifies legal in toxication according to Massa chusetts law, but she was speak ing clearly and walking normally. She also said the woman had scrapes on her back, upper arms and legs. When the woman arrived at the hospital, Lessa said, “she looked dishev eled and her eyes were red and puffy, as if she’d been crying.” Earlier Wednesday, a New Bedford bartender testified he tried to get help for the young woman as she was being raped on his tavern’s pool table, but one of her attackers blocked his path to a telephone. Carlos Machado, his remarks being translated from Portu guese into English by a court room interpreter, characterized the attack as a “dirty thing” and testified how he had tried to leave Big Dan’s Tavern to call police. But, he told the Bristol Supe rior Court jury, defendant Vir- gilio Medeiros blocked his way, sayjjig: ‘“Where are you going? You’re not going anywhere.’” Machado said he gave an other bartender a dime for a pay phone, but the man told him he was aftraid of the wom an’s alleged attackers. He never made the call, Machado said. Soon afterward, Medieros asked him to lock the barroom door, Machado said, adding that he had refused. Machado said the attack, which began late at night on March 6, 1983, when only nine people were in the bar, contin ued for about 35 minutes. Pros ecutors have estimated the gang rape lasted as long as two hours. Earlier that evening, the woman had watched two of the defendants playing pool and had talked to most of those in the tavern, Machado said, add ing that at one point she “had her arms around Victor Ra- poso.” Raposo is another of the six defendants on trial in connec tion with the attack. Arguments are being heard in two parallel trials; four of the defendants being tried in morning sessions, two in the afternoons. In his testimony, Machado contradicted the woman’s ear lier statement that she had con sumed only part of one drink when the attack began. Instead, the bartender said, the 22-year- old mother of two had just or dered her third “Seven and Seven.” Then, he heard “a loud boom on the floor” and saw that de fendants Joseph Vieira and Daniel Silvia, who had followed her to the bar, were trying to tear off her jeans, Machado said. We buy, sell, and repair used trucks Pickups-Plus 512 W. Carson 775-6708 MUSIC EXPRESS & C.B.S. 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