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Luis Amado Pena. “We are persecuted, but not aban doned; we are humiliated but not crushed,” Obando y Bravo said dur ing a mass after the march. Vicente Caudeli, a Spanish priest and professor at the Calazan de Ma nagua Catholic school who partici pated in the march, was arrested at the school, Obando y Bravo said. In a telephone interview with United Press International, Obando y Bravo said police later arrested two other priests — Jose Joaquin Mon- tero of Costa Rica and Francisco Castell, also of Spain. PETAIIJ5 ITWOfM CW'GCOV MORNING I AMERia: SHOE by Jeff MacNelly »YCDNN0PSSft)NT5... , WEPUY1&JNI$... , A J Y£4H, 0OT NOT WHILE 1WEYRE TYING 1HEJR SNEaKQZS.... S i 5^ BMi ir Prison official still missing The finals i 8-li from 8 United Press International Obando y Bravo said the priests would be expelled from Nicaragua in reprisal for participating in the march. Pena was charged June 20 with belonging to an urban guerrilla group. Officials played a videotape for reporters showing Pena meeting the group’s commander. But the church rejected the gov ernment’s charges, calling them a “setup and propaganda by the Sand- inista regime to implicate the church in subversive activity.” In El Salvador, eight U.S. con gressmen investigating the use of American military aid in El Salvador met Monday with President Jose Na poleon Duarte. A U.S. Embassy spokesmen said the five Democrats and three Re publicans of the House Armed Serv ices subcommittee for investigations were conducting a “fairly routine visit.” The spokesman said the commit tee was sent to Central America “un der official House orders” to look into American military spending programs in the region. The congressional subcommittee, led by Rep. Bill Nichols, D-Ala., met Duarte and his chief political oppo nent, rightist leader Roberto d’Au- buisson, in separate meetings Mon day morning. No details of the meeting were released. For 1984, Congress sent El Salva dor $1.3 million in training funds out of a total military appropriation of $64.8 million. The congressmen met late Sunday with top military of ficials and provincial commanders and there were discussions on the possibility of increasing U.S. military aid to the Salvadoran army, one mili tary source said. MADISONVILLE — Madison County law authorities, agitated by a lack of assistance from state officials, said Monday they had no more leads in the disappearance of a former prison official who figures promi- nantly in an investigation of bid rig ging on state construction projects. James Rodney Pitts, former con struction supervisor at the Texas De partment of Corrections’ Ferguson Unit, disappeared last week — the day after Attorney General Jim Mat tox announced Pitts had agreed to testify against people accused of rig ging bids on TDC construction pro jects. Pitts’ bloodstained van was found with a bullet hole in the windshield, but Madison County Sheriff Ed Fan nin said he believed Pitts had staged his disappearance. Pitts cashed a $2,000 check Tues day before his van was found aban doned 6 miles out of Madisonville. “We don’t have anymore informa tion today about where he is,” Chief Deputy Lee Ramirez said Monday. From their home in Palestine, Pitts’ wife, Rosalie, complained that Fannin, his deputies and Texas Rangers had done too little to find her husband. ■ 1 Fannin, meanwhile, compl that Mattox’s offic e had not offen to help in the investigation. “They should be out looking and not waiting for him to run out of money and come home,” Mrs. Pitts said, adding she believed her hus band had been killed. “He’s their star witness, and I ured I’d be covered up with from the attorney general’s offia Fannin said. “I can’t even get to tell me what’s going on and» might be involved in this thing(i alleged bid rigging).” “I don’t care what Mrs. Pitts be lieves,” Fannin said. “I think he (Pitts) decided he was in a lot more than he’d originally thought at TDC and decided to run.” Mattox said his office could interfere in a missing persons and also that he would assume Pi had met with personal harm untl was proven otherwise. Mattox also said he would hew ing to renegotiate the settiemenl which Pitts agreed to testify inf bid-rigging case or to offer Pittspi lection. Sherman cocaine trial under way United Press International TYLER — Three prominent Sher man residents bntered the first guilty pleas Monday in a six-month investigation of a cocaine ring that has shocked the small north Texas town. Marshall Sartin, a Sherman busi ness executive, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge William Steger to two felony cocaine charges, posses sion and conspiracy to distribute the drug, a clerk in Steger’s court said. Rick Hiser, also a businessman, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor co caine possession charge and Larry Cain, a Sherman lawyer, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of cocaine possession. The three, who are free on per sonal recognizance bonds of $1,000, will be sentenced Aug. 20, the court clerk said. On Tuesday, Tom Beavers, Gene Mathis, Terry Skipworth, Leonard Tuley, Mike Wilkerson, Jeff Leake and Keith Brown will enter pleas in the case before U.S. District Judge William Wayne Justice, a spokeswo man for the judge said. Brown is a former Sherman school board president who resigned late last month. The case began June 1, after a six- month investigation, when federal and local officials confiscated mari juana, cocaine, drug paraphernalia and records indicating drug traffick ing that stretched from north Tci into Oklahoma. LIpon his resignation, Browns * Re sumn Thur Fir Card Hous sched • 8-S name •9-11 10. • ll.i •12- ♦1-2 Studt pack* sched bedij Stu Rollit cards Stude of the resen Culh< Stu assess he had “violated the law and had excuse.” In his letter of resignatio Brown reportedly admitted that had used cocaine, although he said never interfered with his officialdi ties. FBI Special Agent Jim Blanto has said the investigation involved least 15 people Assistant U.S. attorney Ron vert said the probe concerned ds ers rather users but had warm “Where we’ve accumulated subsia tial evidence on users, were # going to ignore it, regardlessol job or position iq the community, Si I of tin | Abortions in U.S. down by 3,400 10 c< in United Press International NEW YORK — Abortions in the United States decreased by 3,400 cases in 1982, the first annual de cline since the Supreme Court legal ized abortion in 1973, a research group said Monday. The slight decline, from 1,577,300 to 1,573,900, came during a year that 3 percent of all women of childbearing age had abortions, end ing 26 percent of the year’s pregnan cies by abortion, said the eighth na tional survey by the Alan Guttmacher Institute and funded by the Planned Parenthood Federation. The downward shift came after consecutive annual increases that have ranged from 4 to 15 percent since 1973. The first increase was in 1974: 898,600 versus the previous year’s 744,600. Also down was the price of abor tions in a facility other than a hospi tal: $197 in 1983, down 31 percent The downward shift came after consecutive annual increases that have ranged from 4 to 15 percent since 1973. The first increase was in 1974: 898,600 versus the previous year’s 744,600. jui ei'upu mine j was not surprised when told ofll report. Shafts “I think we are seeing a maj change — the activation of thee gelical sector of our country. over 1976, according to the report, which did not include abortion fig ures for 1983. The survey also said the nation’s abortion rate declined 0.5 percent between 1980 and 1982, but the two- year figure was interpreted as a sta bilization of abortion rates rather than a decline because of changing age distribution. The rate, based not on a percent age but on the number of abortions occurring within an area for every 1,000 women aged 14 to 44 — con sidered childbearing age — was 28.8 in 1982. It ranged from a low of 8 in West Virginia and Wyoming to a high of 46 in Nevada. The highest, 169.9, was in the District of Colum bia. Dr. Stanley K. Henshaw, senior author of the report in “Family Plan ning Perspectives,” said a factor in the D.C. rate is that a high propor tion of female residents are not mar ried. “Single women have two to three times the abortions of married,” said Henshaw, senior research associate at the Institute. Dr. Jack Willke, president of the National Right-to-Life movement, “And this group of people is coming actively pro-life. They hree i Nine c Pre ‘ forme mine, ' the i s Tease swelling the ranks of the Right# arern; The Life movement. And with thisratln significant increase of preachingan te r a , teaching that should cut the nutn of abortions from that segment population.” Willke said a second factor is change in the attitude of youth. “Now we are seeing an upsurge mine Worst Res Uous S iner deep J mii (let younger people (25 and under) of lerupt* posed to abortion,” he said. Population Council reports ate firefig by Henshaw show 11 countries li» lower abortion rates than the Unite States in 1981. Foreign figures fo 1982 were not available. Don’t Let The Rest of The Summer Go to Waist! Stay In Shape The Rest of The Summer (thruAu gu .t3i)For ONLY $30 At BODY DYIVAAVCS College Station’s most exciting exercise studio RO$E £PECIAIj *15°° St vellow, red or peach ► iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiillll m Ik r* Classes offered 7 days a week Exercise often as you like, whenever you like. ACTION tv/ffl mvr ADS Call 696-7180 or stop by Body Dynamics in the Post Oak Vil lage on Harvey Road. 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