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; Page 8/The Battalion/Monday, April 30, 1984
Gang leader arrested
in slaying investigation
| United Press International
! LOS ANGELES — Sheriffs of-
| ficers Sunday said they closed a
month-long investigation of vio-
| lent street robberies and slay-
; ings by juveniles with the arrest
; of their leader — a woman
| known as “Mama Gangster” or
' “Big Li/.”
Elizabeth Middleton, 25, the
230-pound, afro-wigged driver
| of a getaway car in a series of vi-
; olent street holdups, was ar
rested late Saturday.
Los Angeles County deputies
said the woman had taken one
of her alleged juvenile robbers
to Martin Luther King Jr. Hos
pital for treatment of a bullet
wound.
When she returned to visit
the 13-year-old boy she was rec
ognized and arrested, officers
said.
She and the boy are suspects
in an incident Friday in which
two men cashing their pay-
checks at a check cashing outlet
Friday were robbed and shot,
one of them fatally.
Jose Casillas, 45, was shot and
killed. Jose Chavez, 20, was shot
in the buttocks and remained
hospitalized Sunday.
One of the suspects, a 13-
year-old boy, was accidently
shot in the knee by his partner.
Deputies said Middleton, was
recognized by security guards
when she returned to visit the
boy. Her vehicle was seen at the
robbery and was identified in
the hospital parking lot.
The juvenile also was
charged with murder and rob
bery. Late Saturday, a 17-year-
old youth was arrested and
booked for murder, also in con
nection with the death of Casil
las. One female juvenile and
one male adult were being
sought in connection with the
crime.
Middleton allegedly culti
vated at least 1 1 juveniles to as
sist her in a four-week spree of
about 50 alleged robberies, as
saults and purse snalchings
mostly concentrating on the el
derly as victims.
Deputies said she would
row! the streets in a green
atchback Ford Pinto, and
when a victim was located, two
juveniles would jump out and
attack the victim.
The juveniles were armed
with guns supplied by Middle-
ton, officers said.
They would not only rob
their victims, but would often
assault them, and then run back
to the waiting Pinto where the
spoils would be divided, officers
said.
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Reagan — politician and tourist
President visi
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XIAN, China — President Rea
gan took a break Sunday from
the touchy Taiwan issue to tour
one of the world’s great arche
ological finds, the huge army of
statues guarding the tomb of
China’s first emperor.
Reagan turned from states
manship to tourism after three
days of blunt talks with Chinese
leaders who criticized U.S. for
eign policy and sought to in
volve him in getting negotia
tions going with Taiwan.
Reagan traveled 550 miles
southwest of Peking to Xian,
the capital of ancient China for
nearly 1,100 years, to see the
tomb.
The President spent an hour
touring the museum vault
where peasants digging a well in
1974 discovered portions of an
army of 8,000 life-sized terra
cotta soldiers, horses and char
iots made to guard the tomb of
Emperor Qm Shihuangdi, who
unified China more than 2,000
years ago.
Reagan delighted photogra
phers by stretching his head
onto the neck of a headless sol
dier and saying, “It would be a
complete soldier if my head
were given to him."
Walking up to a full-size
horse, Reagan asked, “May I
touch it? I know it can’t kick
me."
And as he climbed out of the
vault, Reagan waved his hand at
the lifeless soldiers and barked
the order, “Disperse.”
“It’s too overwhelming,” Rea
gan said of the archaeological
dig that has been called the
Eighth Wonder of the World.
“It’s hard to absorb it all at once.
I’ll be thinking about it for a
long time.”
For the third time in three
days, Reagan was thwarted in
his efforts to speak directly to or
mingle with the Chinese people
when his public relations-con-
scious Chinese hosts displayed a
Chinese ruins
carefully staged “free market.”
Chinese “peasants” milled
around until Reagan arrived
and then, on cue, went to their
assigned spots as stall owners
and customers. U.S. officials
said they believed both custom
ers and shopkeepers were pub
lic security agents.
Nevertheless, the, orches
trated setting was recorded for
television viewers and for use in
Republican campaign commer
cials intended to portray him as
a globe-trotting statesman.
Reagan made a serious mis
take when his wife, Nancy, de
cided to buy five handmadetoys
to hang on her Christmas tree.
When told the bill came to 5
yuan ($2.50), Reagan pulled out
a 10-yuan note, and told the
shopkeeper, to keep the
change.
Humiliated, the shopkeeper
dashed after Reagan and thrust
the 5-yuan change into his
hand. Tipping is not allowed in
China and is considered mb
suit by many people.
Reagan mid reporters 4
market was evidence thaio|
talism is "flourishine" in ili
communist nation of 1 bi
people.
In meetings Friday and Si
u relay with Chinese leader
Reagan faced harsh critidsim
American f oreign policy and
warning that Taiwan stillli
the potential to cause a uijt
setback in S'mo-\).S. reiaut®
Reagan also had a hardiia
with the Chinese censors,»i
twice deleted references to dr
mocracv, capitalism and Gi
from speeches that Pekingli
promised to broadcast unediid
nationwide.
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cooperation agreement id
signs a tax accord andacuM
pact with the Chinese befor
ll\ ing to China’s most popula
citv, Shanghai.
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Parishioners pay church’s dues
United Press International
BROWNSVILLE — The Lower
Rio Grande Valley’s largest
Catholic parish — which with
drew from the controversial
Valley Interfaith organization
backed by Bishop John Joseph
Fitzpatrick — has rejoined after
a group of parishioners made
up $ 1,000 to help pay dues.
The Rev. Juan Nicolau said
the decision for bis Christ the
Kind Parish to rejoin Valley In
terfaith was made by him, al
though the parish council had
voted 9-1 to withdraw, citing
the lack of funds to pay dues.
“I admire and respect my
parish council, but it is only an
advisory board. In the end, the
pastor has to make these deci
sions,” Nicolau said in proclaim
ing the parish back in the activ
ist group.
Last month, Nicolau also was
the center of controversy when
he at first accepted an appoint
ment from White House emis
sary Torn Pauken to chair a Val
ley Action Committee to
consider ways to aid victims of
the December freeze.
Three days later, Nicolau —
in a letter issued through the di
ocese — resigned from the com
mittee, citing Pauken’s criticism
of Valley Interfaith as the rea
son.
Pauken and Valley Interf
aith, affiliated with the late ac
tivist Saul Alinsky’s Industrial
Areas ¥ oumVaYvon, engaged ha a
name-calling contest when Pau
ken rejected the organization’s
suggestion that the federal gov-
ei innent use $(>6 million in A
cretionary funds for pnS
works projects to pot P^f
back to work who were id
the freeze and Mexicos
devalaluions.
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reason Christ the King ™
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killer Henry Lee Lucas, was
convicted Saturday in the arson
murder of a b4-year-old man
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year sentence for arson in an
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sentencing hearing set for May
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