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Friday, May 4, 1984/The Battalion/Page 9 •Vacated House seats draw crowds wu% ( United Press International p _ AUSTIN — Texas congress- )Ll men aspiring to higher office in « y V the Senate have left vacancies in U.S. House seats that have gen- i pirated crowded races for Satur- •. day’s parly primaries. 1 Republican Reps. Phil Pramm and Ron Paul and '^Democratic Rep. Kent Hance ill have left their seats in Con- ess up for grabs by entering 'he race to succeed retiring pOP Sen. John Tower. The Democrats are anxious :o seize Gramm’s seat back from ;he GOP, which took over the teat when Gramm switched par- last year and won a special phion as a Republican. y i The three Democrats vying 1 for the seat include former state Hep. Dan Kubiak of Rockdale, a / lusinessman-rancher who lost io Gramm; former Fort Worth i Mayor Hugh Parmer, now a state senator; and Duncanville businessman Jesse M. “Rip” Van Winkle. The GOP primary has drawn four candidates: Max Hoyt, a Conroe businessman; Patsy Hale Friedrichs, a Navasota real estate broker and wife of a county GOP chairman; Joe Bar ton, an Ennis engineer; and Bob Harris, a Bryan attorney. In Paul’s staunchly conserva tive, Republican district in Houston, six GOP candidates are vying for a spot in the gen eral election against one of two Democratic primary candidates. The Republicans are Dr. Joe Agris, a Houston plastic sur geon; J.C. Helms, a Bellaire businessman; Gary Engebret- son, a Sugar Land business ex ecutive; Tom DeLay, a state leg islator and businessman from Sugar Land; Don Richardson, a Houston businessman; and El len Heath. The two Democrats are Houston government analyst W. Douglas Williams and Jim Mooney, a Pearland chemical plant analyst. The third crowded race af fected by the Senate campaigns is in the Lubbock area, where eight candidates are entered in primary contests. The Democrats are Gary D. Condra, a Lubbock agricultural economist; Don Richards, a Lubbock attorney; and Lub bock farmers Delwin Jones and Thomas Richards. In the GOP race are Tom Schaefer of Lub bock; Larry Combest, a former aide to Tower and son of a Pan handle farmer; Ron Fleming, a Lubbock certified public ac countant; and Richard Wilder, a retired military man from Lubbock. Three races have candidates in only the Democraic party pri mary, meaning the candidate who wins Saturday will be vir tually assured of the seat before the November election. Those races include districts represented by House Majority Leader Jim Wright of Fort Worth, who faces Janet Leach in the primary, and Dallas Rep. Martin Frost, who is opposed by Dan Leach. Democrat Charles Wilson of Lufkin, a target of a Capitol Hill drug use investigation last year, faces four Democratic oppo nents in another race without GOP contenders. His oppo nents are Mitchell A. Hickman, a Silsbee real estate salesman; Jerry K. Johnson, a Nacog doches businessman-rancher; Lloyd T. Dickens, a Livingston school consultant; and William B. Duncan of Livingston. The GOP also fielded no can didates in the South Texas dis trict held by incumbent Rep. Abraham “Chick” Kazen, who faces former Bexar County Judge Albert Bustamante and Laredo professor Stanley C. Green in the primary. Headins Back to Dallas For Summer School At a Dallas Community College? Apply NOW to receive information on DCCCD advisement and registration to help you select courses you need to complete your degree program. Call the Admissions Office at: Brookhaven .. 620-4700 Mountain View 333-8600 Cedar Valley .. 372-8200 North Lake .... 659-5220 Eastfield 324-7100 Richland 238-6100 El Centro .... 746-2311 Area Code (214) Dallas County Community Collese District An Equal Opportunity Institution Testimony begins today in alien transporting case ricked raining . Hesai d in diii United Press International dark d BROWNSVILLE — A fed- ■ pulling™i jury was impaneled Thurs- oketl Et;j a y t 0 try a Colorado religious d bad, tctivist on charges she trans- (.nrontlitjjorted two illegal Salvadoran g a tanker jltens around Border Patrol 1 i checkpoints. ; I knt " Stacey Lynn Merkt, 29, has ■ loo pleaded innocent on grounds rkenv; *b e was following her religious n in the -onvictions and that the Salva- mshed Dorans were not illegal aliens, but instead were bonafide refu gees from the war in Central I 'America. ^ITC The case that is being closely IVwatched by members of the so- balled Sanctuary Movement that has been affording refuge to I Central Americans denied political asylum by the U.S. ' h0 " Government. 1 " l . llL U.S. District Judge Filemon Vela scheduled testimony to be- s hottC' 7 :ets have fast, a Hi has actively protested against U.S. military policy and con demns the government’s cur rent role in Central America. She has been arrested twice in Colorado — once at a protest at an ordinance factory and an other time when she chained herself to the chapel door at the Air Force Academy to protest a church being located at a mili tary establishment. A Catholic nun arrested along with Merkt, two adult Sal vadorans and a Dallas newspa per reporter, may testify as gov ernment witnesses in the trial. The Justice Department never sought an indictment against Dallas Times Herald re-_ gin today in the trial in which lefense attorney Daniel Shee- han, who represented the fam- ily of Karen Silkwood, has indi cated he will attempt to try the 1151,11 morality of U.S. involvement in l ' al< Central America. 1 A member of the Bijou 15 a 1 House religious community in Colorado Springs, Merkt has uld have] r » — .n had tep s planned | elieve Ihf irilnisfri to take ospital irs in die eir aclioi design#! is this h p,” M; L ilso ing ( social® f its.” stated P® ucate ai voters.’ orn, lii isas Ed Arkansas tACP, ;1 ie prei alter > VOTE MAY 5 Joe barton _____ Republican -U.S.Congress Paid For By Frlanda of Joo Barton For Congrata. Kannath McCrady. Traa»«rar porter Jack Fischer, saying it wanted to investigate further whether he had any intention of violating the law. 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