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500 people become U.S. citizens
United Press International
EL PASO — While most Tex
ans wonder whether to vote
during this presidential election
year, others take the obligations
of U.S. citizenship more se
riously.
Like converts to a religion,
naturalized citizens speak with
zeal about their oath of alle
giance and proudly proclaim
the advantages of life in the
United States.
Mahmoud Fadel, formerly of
Jordan, and Mahmoud Abdel
Fattah, who came from Egypt,
joined 500 other people from
25 countries this week in taking
the oath as new Americans.
So large was the “class” of
new citizens, federal officials
said, the ceremony had to take
place at the El Paso Civic Cen
ter.
Fadel, SI, has been in the
United States for six years. He
came to Fort Bliss as a training
officer in the Jordanian mili
tary.
“I liked the United States
once I got here and I decided to
stay,” he said.
His story is generously sprin
kled with glowing terms about
his new country.
“It is a great honor to be a cit
izen of the greatest country in
the world,” he said unasha
medly. “I like freedom.”
Fadel said he has dreamed of
coming to the United States
since he was 15.
“The United States is really
the land of opportunity,” he
said. “One can do whatever he
wants. Americans can make
something from nothing. It’s
not that way in other countries.”
Fadel said the new citizens
bring with them a knowledge of
what the United Stales stands
for, “which is something many
native-born citizens may take
for granted.”
He pointed out some of the
differences between his new
home and his old home.
“For one thing, I don’t like
politics,” he said. “But here, we
have freedom of speech —
something they don’t have in
Jordan. There is some freedom
over there, but there’s more
here.”
Fadel, a foreman at Ameri-
craft Moccasins Inc., attends El
Paso Community College and
plans to attend the University of
Texas at El Paso.
First phase of his plans for
the future, he said, was the “real
important thing — becoming a
U.S. citizen.”
Fadel met his wife, Veronica,
in the United States. They have
three children, Corina, 4, Salin,
3, and Abraham, 1. They were
all present for the ceremony.
“This is a great privilege for
me to be an American,” he said.
“God bless America.”
Fattah, 41, has been in the
United States since 1974. He
too, “fell in love with the coun
try and wanted to stay.”
“I first came over to visit my
brother in California, who has
been a citizen for years,” he
said. Another brother lives next
door to Fattah in El Paso and
became a citizen last Fourth of
July-
Fattah, a former school
teacher in his native Egypt, now
works for the Sun City Area
Transit as a bus driver.
"This is a real great country,”
he said. “It’s an honor to be
come an American.
“I like America because when
the country needs help, we
must all help. It’s like one unit
working together.”
Fattah said he likes El Paso
and West Texas because it re
minds him of his native Egypt.
“The land is the same as Egypt
and the people are like Egyp
tians,” he said.
Fattah, who also has lived in
Germany and other European
countries, said the United States
“has more freedom than any
other country” he knows.
“In many countries, one can’t
work two jobs,” he said. “There
are good advantages here, be
cause you can work as much as
you can.”
Mrs. Fattah plans soon to be
come an American citizen.
In addition to the new citi
zens from Jordan and Egypt,
U.S. district Judge Harry Lee
Hudspeth administered the
oath of office to 465 new citi
zens from Mexico.
Other countries of origin in
Tuesday’s ceremony included
Argentina, Belgium, Ganada,
Ghina, Guba, El Salvador,
France, Greece, Hong Kong,
India, Jordan, Korea, New Zea
land, Nicaragua, Panama, Phil
ippines, Taiwan, Turkey, Viet
nam, West Indies, West
Germany and Yugoslavia.
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ment in the Beat Generation of the 50’s and the youth t
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Applications are being accepted for the Student Sp«ilay 12-N<
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The seminar is designed to prepare students to speaknaged by
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Mattox indictmen
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the administration of anesthesia
during surgery.
It is the third such suit filed
recently against Baylor, Ben
Taub, the Harris Gounty Hos
pital District, and Dr. Jan Har-
land, who worked as anesthesio
logist at Ben Taub during the
woman’s death.
caused by chest injuries suf
fered in a June 25 auto wreck.
As a result, police prepared
criminal negligent homicide
charges against the driver who
caused the crash. However, the
case was not pursued by the dis
trict attorney’s office.
The parents and three sons
of Patricia Lou Glass, 38, filed
the lawsuit in state district court
Wednesday seeking damages
against the defendants.
After reading the medical re
cords, the medical examiner’s
office reopened the case and
determined the death was
caused by “therapeutic misad
venture” — an error in treat
ment.
The president of Baylor Gol-
lege of Medicine recently ac- , during an operation on a
knowledged in a letter to the broken thigh bone the woman s
hospital district chief that one heart sto PP ed a “ d her blood
patient had died and two others
suffered brain damage because
of problems with the adminis
tration of anesthesia.
pressure decreased drastically,
a medical examiner’s report
showed.
An investigator for the Har
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office said a Baylor physician
told her Glass’s medical records
showed the woman’s death was
An X-ray showed that an ox
ygen tube had been placed in
the woman’s esophagus rather
than her windpipe. She was
placed on a respirator after the
operation, but died nine days
later.
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AUSTIN — Despite heated
pleas from defense lawyers, a
district judge refused Thursday
to dismiss the indictment charg
ing Texas Attorney General Jim
Mattox with felony commercial
bribery.
District Judge Mace B. Thur
man Jr. denied six motions to
dismiss the indictment against
Mattox and left nine other simi
lar requests pending. He said he
would rule on the remaining
motions next Friday.
After the pretrial hearing
Mattox said he was disap
pointed by the judge’s deci
sions, but also expressed opti
mism that one of the pending
motions would be granted.
Mattox also flatly ruled out
the possibility he would nego
tiate a plea bargain agreement
with prosecutors and admit
guilt to a misdemeanor crime,
such as official misconduct.
Mattox is accused of threat
ening the lucrative public bond
business of Fu I brig hi &
Jaworski, a prominent Hous
ton-based law firm.
According to prosecutors,
Mattox told Fulbrighl &
Jaworski attorney J. Wiley Cald
well he would not delay appro
val of a multimillion-dollar
package of public bonds being
handled by Caldwell’s firm if
Caldwell ordered a fellow Ful-
bright & Jaworski’s lawyer to
drop plans to question Mattox’s
sister in connection with a civil
lawsuit.
At the time, Fulbrighl Sc
Jaworski attorney Tom McDade
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In arguments on sev«
the motions yet to bei
Mattox’s attorneys said:
dictmcni fails to allegi
crime of bribery becaust
tox did not offer
“benefit.”
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not a benefit, his attorne)!
because Mattox was 1 united P
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w.th Texas law. Texas belwee|
the attorney general to(* ans c j r i
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something the attorney . J ro , the
was absolutely duty-lx | ly s
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said the statute used to® b urne( j
Mattox was unconstiuiup
vague.
“It is so broad and so
that nobody could und
what conduct it proli
Minton said, adding t
statute originally was
for prosecuting busin
who accepted constructio!
backs.
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concerning the alleged tftp 0ns
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statute were his strof i, e i t | j,
points. Both were left itinly Jail
until next Friday. H.
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foreign awareness
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Thursday urged Amen ^ Magistr
learn more about foreigiif tWo coun
tries, calling the lack of If
edge “disgraceful” and f
gerous.”
"For loo long mosi 4*w 11
Americans have paid litf"
lention to learning aboulHl
nations. It has been said (kg'
Americans will do anythity ■ ■ ■ ■
Latin America — exceplHN I
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about it,” Gavin said.
"This is not only disjW
it is dangerous.” United Pi
Gavin, appointed in If \v AS | 11 \
President Reagan as an®
dor, addressed the Hi
chapter of the Institute
ternalional Education, 1
York-based non-profit ®1
zation created to further
lion and cultural exchan|j
tween the United Siatt!|
nearly 100 foreign counti
Gavin said the exchan|
dent scholarship progtf
Mexico presently has bee
to increase the numberofB 0r c °nsi
can scholars in the T
Slates under various pPCj,
from 32 in 1980 to 67in| Kt T Le oi
He said there were 400H®® nsor (
applicants for only l-u/ rest oi
bright-Benito Juarez |P Ill 7 lo ma
arshtps. Under the Fnf
program, there are SJst® h e ie e i s i
and professors going to ^i n a
from the United Stalestotum r. r
Gavin said ,l,e,e ^
than 7,200 Mexicans st ! ® c ii rec . l j
privately in U.S. coL, f slates ^
universities. l Vet| by sU
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that the United States
ico need, above all, "toInterior
more about each othef'P'k says h
understand each otherPgan to ve
than we do. *d.
“I am convinced that 11
countries need, above
learn more about eack
and to understand eack
better than we do. I
vinced that, despite all
nomic and political di;
which we deal that die 1 ]
any problems that may
tween our two countriesffer onL U !
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