Friday, May 4, 1984/The Battalion/Page 11
I Paso officers get
bur acquittals, but
guilty of beating
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■EL PASO — There was argu-
^nt and “a lot of screaming
yelling” among jurors who
finally returned a split verdict
pinst two El Paso County Jail
icers charged with beating
fSandcuffed prisoners after an
Hempted jail escape in 1981,'
4-J^jurors said Thursday.
^Former jail Capt. Joseph
ffiwling and former Lt. Hora-
Gomez were acquitted on
fopr of the five counts in a fed-
:ral indictment.
■But the jury found them
jilty of beating and kicking Al
an Beck and failing to prevent
ailers under their command
roni beating and kicking Beck.
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■“One of the reasons for the
guilty verdict was because no
medical care was provided for
Beck,” said juror Cardelia Sev-
insky after the jury was dis
missed. “The medical care was
the key.”
Juror Glenda Yvonne Flores
said, “There was never any real,
real evidence that they (Bowling
and Gomez) got together and
conspired to beat the prison
ers.”
One of the problems the ju
rors said they faced was contra
dictory testimony from most of
the witnesses.
“There was a lot of arguing
back and forth — a lot of
screaming and yelling — but
the final verdict was unani
mous,” DeeBee Hajjar said.
A visibly choked-up Bowling
was critical of the Sheriffs De-
E artment investigation into the
eating.
Bowling said situations like
the beating incident were un
derstandable because of the in
experience and quality of the
detention officers he was sent.
icuadoran orphan
imiles for first time
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ROCKTON, Mass. — A 5-
b-old Ecuadoran orphan girl
were as iS° once coldd only smile with
. p| ant ■■ eyes offered a grin and a
■■acias” Thursday to doctors
: said, insEo freed her fused jaw using
>se peopltpints made from her ribs.
- peopleBAlexandra Balcazar of Quito
er Amenlroudly showed off a music box
- , e’re nottpl teddy bear to a visitor and
sa basicislbispered “gracias” — thank
■u — to doctors who removed
■tdages from Tuesday’s six-
e JlOur operation at Gardinal
(]|shmg Hospital.
^■The youngster sipped liquids
■houta straw for the first time
Id gulped vanilla ice cream for
decision yj ea kfast as doctors slowly
tier fuflBrkgd her up to soft food,
lawsuit. l"The jaw’s working fine,”
-iness Bu:^ hospital spokeswoman Su-
p O’Brien. The menu choice
'$ based on the fact “she never
to digest anything before.”
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aster pushed sales up
large retail stores
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NEW YORK — The nation’s
-ere equi*-gest stores Thursday re-
which I rted strong sales gains in
)ril, pushed by heavy Easter
ying.
pC Purchases of spring clothes
w 13 aded the sales spurt.
Sears, Roebuck and Go., the
lion’s largest retailer, re-
Groce, b rted sales for the four-week
■riod which ended April 28
g ra duaii| r e $1.96 billion, up 9.8 per-
iversity tent from $1.78 billion in April
ensed b |983.
Ie defaichairman Edward R. Telling
of Gal'said major appliances and
^A presidftn’s, women’s and children’s
L Seidler Rthing had strong sales.
2sidentsj|The second largest general
,eir offijnerchandiser, K Mart Gorp.,
tale BaiRd its April sales totaled $1.5
n Dallas illion, U p 9 5 percent from
April 1983.
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Arguments heard for offshore sales
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WASHINGTON — A House
Appropriations subcommittee
heard arguments Thursday for
and against extending a one-
year moratorium can offshore
oil and gas lease sales on the
Outer Gontinental Shelf.
All 28 Democrats in the Cali
fornia House delegation sup
port the measure to withhold
for another year the money re
quired for the federal govern
ment to conduct offshore lease
sales in California, Massachu
setts and the eastern Gulf of
Mexico.
Rep. Leon Panetta, D-Calif.,
said extending the moratorium
is “essential” to negotiations
with the Interior Department
because compromise is impossi
ble if leasing is allowed in the
areas currently under the ban.
Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska,
opposing the ban, said prohibit
ing a lease sale “could simply
forestall revenues to the Trea
sury anticipated to offset the
deficit, delay the production of
desperately needed oil and gas,
and delay potentially significant
employment in coastal commu
nities.”
Alaska is not affected by the
existing one-year moratorium,
but could be included in an ex
tension.
The House passed a mora
torium last summer on Interior
Department appropriations for
offshore leasing activities this
fiscal year, which expires Oct. 1.
If extended, the ban would last
through Sept. 30, 1985.
In California, the existing
moratorium bars leasing off the
coast from the Mexican Border
north to Huntington and New
port beaches in Orange County,
and around Santa Monica Bay
and the Santa Barbard Channel,
the ecological preserve and buf
fer zone and Channel Islands
National Marine Sanctuary-
“In turn, Interior has indi
cated a willingness to explore
possible compromise in this
area,” Panetta said. “A nego
tiated compromise regarding
exceptional areas deserving of
protection in possible.”
If the moratorium is not ex-
ment may conduct lease sales
off California and in the North
Atlantic in fiscal year 1985,
which begins Oct. 1, Panetta
said.
Levine testified he is “en
couraged” by Clark’s assurance
that none of the nine leases pro
posed for sale in 1985 would be
those areas under the 1984
moratorium, but has received
“conflicting messages from the
Interior Department.”
of a birth defect that fused the
lower jaw to her skull. Before
the operation, the child “had no
movement in her jaw,” Dr. Mar
tin Dunn said.
“She is now opening her
mouth to a normal amount for
the first time in her life,” he
said.
Before the operation Alexan
dra, who O’Brien described as
considerably underweight, had
to be feed through a tube in her
stomach
She will undergo physical
therapy to develop the unused
jaw muscles. Dunn predicted
she would probably be eating
solid chewy foods such as apples
in six weeks.
Alexandra was flown to Bos
ton last week, and the surgery
was performed for free under
the auspices of the Catholic or- 1
ganization Por Cristi.
The No. 3 retailer, J.C. Pen
ney Co., reported April sales
jumped 27.6 percent to $865
million.
“Demand was strong for all
merchandise categories, and
particularly for family apparel,
reflecting traditional Easter
shopping,” Penney’s Chairman
William R. Howell said.
The fourth largest non-food
retailer, Federated Dept. Stores
Inc., reported April sales in
creased 17.3 percent to $690.2
million.
No. 5 F.W. Woolworth Co.
said total sales in the four-week
period ending April 24 rose 16
percent to $442.7 million. Do
mestic sales were up 19.6 per
cent.
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