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Casino picket lines peaceful after arrests
United Press International
LAS VEGAS — Peace re
turned to 14-day-old picket
lines Sunday at 29 Las Vegas
gambling resorts, ending a
weekend show for gamblers
who saw mass arrests and a soli
darity march down the “strip”
by thousands of strikers.
Seventy-two people, includ
ing a top ranking international
AFL-CIO officer, were arrested
in front of the MGM Grand Ho
tel Saturday night when police
moved in on several hundred
strikers as they locked arms and
sal down on the sidewalk bor
dering hotel property. A crowd
of spectators jeered. Bottles and
glass crashed around police
dressed in full riot gear.
The protesters were charged
with destruction of county
property, specifically glass win
dows in a paddy wagon, and
contempt of a court order limit
ing the number of pickets. One
of those arrested included Rob
ert Harblant, president of the
Food and Allied Service Trade
Department of the AFL-GIO,
who was in Las Vegas from
Washington D.G. to work out fi
nancial assistance for Las Vegas
stt ikers.
Harblant said he was forced
into a paddy wagon when he
approached police and asked
for the officer in
tempting to help
charge, at-
prevent the
rowdiness.
Since the strike began April
2, more than 355 people have
been arrested.
Mass arrests at the MGM
Grand Hotel Saturday night
were in sharp conlast with a
peaceful Saturday afternoon
march down the Las Vegas
“strip” by thousands of pickets.
Police estimated the number of
marchers at 4,000. Union orga
nizers said 5,000 to 7,500 strik
ing union workers participated.
There were no incidents and no
arrests.
United Farm Workers union
leader Gesar Ghavez was at the
head of the line,flanked by Las
Vegas union leaders and a giant
banner reading “Solidarity, Las
Vegas 1984.” Observers lined
the street to watch the sea of
strikers slowly walk along the
neon-lighted “strip” eight to 15
abreast. The line of people
stretched more than a mile
from one end to the other.
Ghavez told a post-march
rally they were walking “for ev
ery working man and woman in
America.” He urged them to
stick together to conquor
nameless, faceless corporations.
plus four clubs in thenearh
tes of North Las Vegas i
I lenderson.
The strike is directed at 29
Las Vegas hotels and casinos.
The MGM Grand was
geted because the reson
opened its showroom Fni
night with non-union sUj
hands f rom California re[(
ing strikers. Theabreviated
sion of “Jubilee”
major extravaganza to res;
since the strike began.
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DENVER — A missing 12-
year-old boy caught in a custody
battle between his Pentecostalist
mother and homosexual father
has taped a plea to President
Reagan, a minister involved in
the case said Sunday.
In a tape recording made by
Brian Batey and mailed to Rea
gan, the boy said he did not
want to be returned to his fa
ther, who has legal custody, said
Rev. Maurice Gordon, pastor of
the Lovingway United Pente
costal Ghurch in Denver.
The boy’s mother, Betty Lou
Batey, remained in jail Sunday
after refusing to tell authorities
her son’s whereabouts.
Batey had been living with
his father, an admitted homo
sexual who lives in Palm
Springs., Galif., until 18 months
ago, when his mother abducted
him.
She and the boy then lived in
hiding with friends and mem
bers of the Pentecostalist
Church until she surrendered
to federal officials in Denver
April 4.
In a transcript of the tape
sent to Reagan, the boy report
edly said of his father: “If he
gets me back ... he’s going to
have to hog-tie me and give me
drugs or something, but he ain’t
gettin’ me back, and ... my
mom, I want her out of jail and
I need some help....”
“My father ... says in the
newspaper I’ve been reading
that we had a good relationship
and everything, which ... is not
true right now, and he says he’s
going to get me back and that
ain’t true either,” the transcript
reads.
The transcript was dated
April 13, and is signed with a
signature that reads “Brian Ba
tey.”
The transcript was delivered
to local media by Gordon, who
said the cover letter had been
typed “by a friend of Brians.”
“He’s done this of his own vo
lition. He’s been reading the
newspapers and following it
(the story) closely, and decided
to do this on his own,” Gordon
said. “He’s asking that he be
given a chance to tell his story.”
Mrs. Batey was told by a
Denver district court judge that
she will not be released on
$25,000 bond until she tells au
thorities the whereabouts of her
son.
Speaking from his home in
California Saturday, the boy’s
father, Frank Batey, said he
questioned the authenticity of
his son’s statement.
“Thai’s not Brian speaking,
that's a frightened child,” he
said. “It sounds like a forced
confessional. Often religious
groups like that will cause chil
dren to do that. The Rev. Jim
Jones did that to 76 children,”
Batey said, referring to a mass
suicide led by Jones in Cm
in 1978.
Mrs. Batey has refused to
close her son’s wherealw
and said in court lastwetlj
she does not know whoistaii
care of him.
Gordon said Mrs. Bate;
“doing fine after getting»
rest.” He said she has recti
“a groundswell of support!
i eligious organizations am
the country.”
Gordon,
Brian as
who descri
a spirit-filled Pti
costal,” said he wants totlt D. Stri
producing the boy until
Batey is assured hewon'tbt
turned automatically to
ther.
Olympic hopefuls will run inBoston
United Press International
BOSTON — The Olympic
futures of several international
runners rest on their perfor
mance today at the 88th annual
Boston Marathon.
Geoff Smith, a student at
Providence College and the No.
2 finisher in the last New York
Marathon, has been “told indi
rectly” by his government that
he must place first among the
nearly 6,800 Boston Marathon
runners in order to be named to
the British Olympic team.
In a year when the Olympics
have diluted the men’s and
women’s fields, it is also the rea
son that some top runners are
competing: to qualify for their
country’s Olympic teams.
American men have won 43
Boston Marathons, which has
been slipping in stature because
it will not provide any prize
money or expense money. If
Smith has his way, that number
will remain the same for at least
another year.
Smith was asked at a week
end press conference whether
he would be running in Boston
if he didn’t need the Olympic
qualification timel
“I’d rather not answer that,”
he said.
But Lorraine Moller, one of
three top New Zealand runners
taking part in the race, said that
winning is secondary to her ob
taining a time sufficient to qual
ify her for her country’s mar
athon team.
The word is that Smith might
make his move in the first half
of the race and try to set a re
cord on the downhill segments
of the 26-mile course between
Hopkinton and the Prudential
Center in downtown Boston .
“I’m going to try to control
myself,” Smith said. “I wa
control of myself in Newli
until I took the lead. I'm
worried about leading ai
Once you get on a roll,
don’t gel tired.”
Smith finished the Newli
Marathon in 2:09:08.
Paul Ballenger of Newli
land, also running \ "
Olympics in mind, needs
2:12:30 to make the team
Gasoline prices rise in 3 week period
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LOS ANGELES — The over
all average price of gasoline, in
cluding taxes, rose more than a
penny a gallon over a three-
week period, to 120.59 cents,
industry analyst Dan Lundberg
of
said Sunday.
The Lundberg Survey
service- stations in all 50 states
showed gasoline up 1.29 cents a
gallon over the period.
The average wholesale price,
without tax,es, was 89.41 cents,
up 1.47 cents a gallon.
Regular leaded at self-service
averaged 109.59, up 1.55 cents.
Regular unleaded was 116.89,
up 1.47.
At full-service pumps regular
leaded was 129.02, up 0.93 of a
cent a gallon, and regular un
leaded 135.45, up 0.95 of a
cent.
Lundberg said the rise of gas
oline prices in the first quarter
of the year was a reversal of re
cent years when gasoline price
fell during the first
months of the year.
“With the headstart ofst
met prices in the first quam
he said, “one can entertain
strong possibility ihatasira
increase • would conliii
through the second quarter.
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