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American youths will teach,
play basketball in Uganda
United Press International
DALLAS — A Baptist min
ister, whose name was on
Uganda dictator Idi Amin’s hit
list, announced Wednesday a
project to take 100 American
high school boys to Uganda to
teach basketball this summer.
The Rev. Webster Carroll
said under the project, spon
sored by the lay ministry group
Global Outreach Association,
the American boys will spend
six weeks teaching basketball in
Uganda and arranging tourna
ments.
“When Amin came to power.
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basketball was the fastest grow
ing sports in the high schools,”
Carroll said in a news confer
ence at the First Baptist Church
in Dallas. “For 10 years, our
people haven’t even smiled
much less played organized
sports.”
Under the project the 100
boys will be divided into 10
teams and sent to 10 schools
where they will spend the
morning in class with the other
students and teach basketball in
the afternoon.
“They will be sharing their
Christian insight in the classes
at the schools in the morning,”
Carroll said. “In the afternoon
they will work with the boys
who go out for basketball.
“At some schools, we expect
up to 500 boys and we’ll let all
of them be on the squad.”
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University Center Complex for Rec
ognized Student Organizations,
Clubs, and Governing Bodies will be
accepted for the 1984 Fall Semester
(August 16-December 14, 1984) in
the scheduling office, 2 nd Floor Rud
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Monday, April 16, 1984. Application
forms may be obtained in the sched
uling office, 2 nd Floor, Rudder Center.
He said after two weeks the
boys will organize a tournament
and then move to another
school.
Amin took over the govern
ment by force in January 1971
and his eight-year reign of ter
ror intensified when he re
turned from a one-week state
visit to Libya convinced that he
was the Moslem savior of Af
rica.
“He came back anti-Ameri
can and anti-Chistian,” Carroll
said.
“I do not know of an African
family in Uganda which did not
lose a father, brother or uncle.
I’m convinced it was the hand
of God that permitted us to stay
all these years.”
He credited Providence for
the fact that he and his wife
were in near-by Kenya visiting
their daughter at boarding
school when he learned that he
was on Amin’s hit list shortly be
fore the dictatorship fell.
Doug Adkins, counsel for the
Dallas Mavericks, presented the
team’s first autographed play
off ball to Carroll for delivery to-
Uganda President Apollo
Obote. Adkins said that if Car-
roll happened to see a high
school player who “has to duck
coming through doors” to let
the Mavericks know about him.
Carroll said Adkins’ request
was one of many.
When Carroll told him he
was not sure the players were
ready for college academics.
Jester said “you send us young _
men who have never been to
high school and we’ll send them
to high school.”
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Suit filed
in newborn
abduction
United Press International
GALVESTON — The par
ents of a 4-day-old baby kidnap
ped from John Sealy Hospital
almost two years ago have filed
suit against the hospital for
$250,000 in damages, officials
said Tuesday.
Christina Lewis was kidnap
ped by Bonita Renee “Jackie”
Johnson, 24, who posed as a
new hospital nursery employee,
took the child from her moth
er’s arms and walked out of the
hospital with the infant.
The baby was returned to her
parents by a relative of John
son’s several days later.
The lawsuit, charging neg
ligence by the hospital, was filed
by the child’s parents Carolyn
and Tommy Lewis of Beau
mont.
Johnson was arrested in Oc
tober in Rome, Ga., and
charged with kidnapping. She
later entered a guilty plea and
was sentenced in January to
serve a four-year term.
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Police chief says
programs need funds
United Press International
WASHINGTON — If the
government can spend billions
on defense and space, it should
also spend enough to stop the
drug abuse and control prob
lems eroding society from
within, a South Texas police
chief said Tuesday.
“I propose to you that the so
cial and physical well-being of
the citizens of the United States
is just as important, if not more
so, than any space program,”
said Brownsville Chief Andres
Vega Jr.
“Law enforcement is ready
and willing to meet the problem
head-otr but we must have the
necessary resources,” he told
the House Select Committee on
Narcotics. “We need to do
something now.”
Vega said he found it ironic
that the nation spends billions
on improving defense and
continuing the space program,
yet the appropriations for the
drug abuse and control prob
lems are minimal.
He told the committee that
federal funding cuts sometimes
have forced border patrol
agents to stop daily patrols be
cause they cannot buy gas. He
said an Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms official begged the use
of a battery so his official car
could stay on the road and drug
enforcement officers were rid
ing double because they could
not afford fuel for separate
cars.
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panel on the status ol d
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hearings last year in Coij
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panel to investigate thesenl . , (
abuse of inhalants amongMl-j ‘ ,
can-American youths in
Texas.
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dicale more than 700,0001(
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State ‘mobility crisis’ viewed
United Press International
AUSTIN — The Texas De
partment of Highways and Pub
lic Transportation was criticized
Tuesday for failing to assume a
leadership role in helping solve
the growing “mobility crisis” in
Texas cities.
A House subcommittee
studying mass transit in Texas
also was told the Legislature
should provide more consistent
funding matches for federal
grants to finance bus and rail
systems.
Tom Niskala, general man
ager of the Gorpus Ghristi mass
transit system, said Texas is ex
periencing a “mobility crisis”
because it is becoming more ur
banized.
He said -the state highway
agency should follow the lead of
other states in helping Texas
cities solve their public trans
portation needs.
He suggested slate-financed
demonstration projects for ru
ral and urban areas, the estab
lishment of equipment procure
ment specifications, ridership
surveys and technical assistance.
Phil Wilson, a planning engi
neer for the highway depart
ment, said funding problems
could be eased with an in
creased allocation from the
Legislature and a change in the
60-40 split between large and
small cities. He recommended
an 80-20 formula.
Wilson said in the current
two-year budgeting period, the
Legislature appropriated $17.6
million for cities over 200,000
population and $11.7 million
for other Texas cities.
The problem, he said, is the
larger cities have exhausted
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base of between $15 million
$20 million and “build be)! a
that on what the transit indn! MV '
says it needs.”
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