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Tuesday, April 24, 1984/The Battalion/Page 5 Jury indicts 39 people on drug, murder counts 3 a ci fr'gineencj 'g' -ally is lid. ■lies thai d-f,, arked art blemswiihti] lines a v 'e to beortfi do lines whild Hispanic voters may be key to Krueger primary victory United Press International PORT ISABEL — The kegs f green beer, a leftover from he St. Patrick’s Day holiday, owed freely as the Hispanic rowd lined up for free barbe tte, music and a wealth of polit ical speech-making. In the midst of the crowd, hat Haruil g 0 |j Krueger was looking for iciaiv ofGleaHroies among the Rio Grande /alley’s politicos and poor, a aloe of voters he feels may he the key to his chances of wiiw go to Si uing the Democratic nomi nation and eventually the U.S. said a “ks^enale seal being vacated by ien. John Tower, R-Texas. For Krueger, the campaign s become a vocation — his raison d’etre” since the narrow md bitterly disappointing loss o Tower in 1978. “It is deep enough that there d a Hobbytn! tasn’t been a day gone by in sway olhenul hese last six years that I haven’t bought about it,” he has said. But 1984 has proven to be and Calait, no doubt ih by. “A ill move to li re arejuitii ) think Momli d time i. Ray Fatal)#, backer whoa need a state»« uragethai! its will seltfl markedly tes — indiidit year than legates-it I begins at tk he night of ik ic primal]' tatorial caw II elect deleft: mention in If -16, where (1*1 anal conveffl jnal conventtt en and woM .ist be Hispffi facing two formidable oppo nents in conservative Democrat U.S. Rep. Kent Hance of Lub bock and state Sen. Lloyd Dog- getl, a liberal Austin native. Three lesser known candi dates — Harley Schlanger of Houston, David Young of Rich ardson and Bob Sullivan of Luf kin — also will be on the Demo cratic primary ballot. According to Valley political leaders, Krueger’ — a New appreciate and respect that con tinuity.” By Krueger’s reckoning, he can count on 60 percent of the vote cast in the Lower Rio Grande Valley — an area suf fering the tragic effects of an economic downturn, the deval uation of the Mexican peso and the killer December freeze that left as many as 25,000 mostly poor farm workers out of ajob. San Juan Mayor Arturo Gua- different 1978, with political Krueger Braunfels businessman, Shake- jardo says the tough economic spearean scholar, university ed- times have prompted an un- ucator and former congress- precedented political awareness man and ambassador at large to in the normally lush, sub-tropi- Mexico — has never stopped cal valley. running for the office he lost to “There is a lot of organiza- Tower. tion going on down here,” Gua- Krueger has made frequent jardo.says while guiding visitors forays into the Valley and other through a public works water Hispanic areas, often attending project. “There is going to be a events as apolitical as weddings, giant turnout. Krueger has funerals or even Boy Scout been here time and time again, meetings. The people of San Juan are “He didn’t forget about us af- very close to Krueger, ter ’78. He’s been coming back “People are hungry,” he ever since,” said Cameron adds. “They are in a rage.” County Judge Moises Vela. “We Nonetheless, most political observers feel the Democratic nominee will be determined in a June 5 runoff election because Doggetfs strength in Central Texas and his endorsement by the AFL-CIO, coupled with Hance’s popularity in West Texas, will prevent any candi date from winning a majority of the primary vote. Both Doggett and Hance, scrambling for a runoff berth with Krueger, have concen trated their campaigns on at tacking Krueger’s record and his stand on issues such as taxes, immigration and energy policy. Both candidates also have tried to diminish Krueger’s credibility by repeatedly point ing out errors in his campaign materials, most notably his claim that he was voted most ef fective freshman in Congress by his colleagues when the honor actually was bestowed by con gressional staff members. PHOENIX, Ariz. — A fed eral grand jury has indicted 39 persons on 77 counts involving murder, narcotics and tax eva sion, U.S. attorney Melvin Mc Donald announced Monday. “Harry Jerry Garmany, age 43, formerly of Paradise Valley, Ariz., distributed at least 250,000 pounds of Colombian marijuana and 80 kilograms of cocaine,” McDonald said. The ring distributed cocaine, marijuana and methaqualone mainly in Texas, Alabama, Ten nessee, Georgia, Florida, Loui siana, North and South Caro lina. The investigation centered in Arizona, where Garmany lived since 1980, and Tennes see. “The organization included 13 present or former Arizo nans, four attorneys and a for mer Georgia police officer,” McDonald said. He estimated the organiza tion headed by Garmany had a gross income of at least $64 mil lion for 1980-81, and said $5 million in property and other assets already have been seized from members of the drug ring. Assets seized include a mil lion dollar Paradise Valley home, a 230-acre farm near Pu laski, Tenn., a Cadillac limou sine, a Rolls Royce, a Cadillac El Dorado, a Mercedes Benz and a luxury speedboat. The drug-related murders} include the overdose death of Kitty Robinson in Homewood, Ala., on Nov. 30, 1979, and the gunshot death of Pedro Vene gas in Broward County, Fla., on Jan. 30, 1981. i ^ ' & f' Pafuzi' Pig/gx* 1 Emergency Pizza Number— 846-0079 Owned and operated by Texas A&M students. 16” Supreme Cheese $6.99 - each add. item 99c Hart gives campaign speech in Austin United Press International AUSTIN — Sen. Gary Hart Monday criticized Walter Mon ale’s irty ties to the Democratic establishment and sug- be dividedff tested some party leaders would like to “lock the voters out” of the presidential nomi- 0 youngertlc lation process. In what was billed as a “major ampaign speech” at the Uni- Jj yersity of Texas, Hart told an OPO mthusiaslic audience of about iOO students that some Demo- rats would rather lose the elec tion “than share their power with the people.” 1 With Texas v precinct conven- ions only 12 days away, Hart nade his second campaign ap- jearance in the Texas capital ity within four days. Hart unleashed a double-bar- jil iel attack on President Reagan him there, hut a president who remembers why he was sent there,” he said. During his 45-minute speech at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, Hart also made subtle mention of Texas’ confusing caucus system, which he has said favors Mon dale. “The party establishment and the organized interest groups have sought to close down the nominating process, to rig the rules, to turn the clock back, and to lock the voters out,” he said. But Hart, whose speech was interrupted by applause more than three dozen times, drew his loudest cheers from the youthful crowd when he crit icized Reagan administration polices on the military. “This election presents us as Democrats with a moral imper ative,” he said. “We must not let Ronald Reagan have the presi dency again when he will never again have to answer to the American people.” Hart also drew rousing ap plause when he promised to cancel the MX missile if elected. 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