Wednesday, October 24, 1984/The Battalion/Page 11
Diplomats miss memorial mass
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United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) — The
handful of U.S. diplomats left in
Beirut stayed at home Tuesday amid
threats of new attacks, foregoing a
memorial mass on the first anniver
sary of the suicide bombings that
killed 241 U.S. servicemen and 58
French troops.
The service was held in a heavily
guarded sandstone church in Chris
tian east Beirut and was attended by
about 150 people, including the
French ambassador and members of
his staff.
“No Americans from the embassy
attended because it was not conve
nient to do so,” said U.S. Embassy
spokesman Jon Stewart, underscor
ing the threat felt by an estimated 10
to 15 American diplomats still in
Beirut.
Forty-live embassy staffers had
been in the city until the State Dpart-
ment ordered a staff reduction fol
lowing the Sept. 20 truck bombing
of their mission that killed two
Americans and at least 23 Lebanese.
The reduction also came amid re
ports new attacks were being
planned before the presidential elec
tion Nov. 6.
Twenty-six staffers left during the
weekend and a Beirut newspaper re
ported that nine others flew Monday
to the Mediterranean island of Cy
prus.
The remaining diplomats have
been ordered to take strict security
precautions and are no longer al
lowed to travel freely in the city or
dine in restaurants. Most work from
the residence of U.S. Ambassador
Reginald Bartholomew.
“We appreciate all those who died
for the Lebanese cause,” Father Jean
Tabet, a Roman Catholic priest, said
during the 40-minute mass for the
French and American servicemen
killed last Oct. 23.
“We, too, have had many mar
tyrs,” he told the congregation at the
Church of Our Lady of the Mirac
ulous Medal in the city’s Ashrafiyeh
neighborhood.
Pistol-packing bodyguards were
interspersed in the congregation
and Christian militia sharpshooters
were stationed on nearby rooftops
and side streets. The service was nei
ther attended nor endorsed by Leb
anese government officials.
French Ambassador Fernand Wi-
beaux led the French delegation that
arrived under heavy guard.
“Oh, God, why did you take them
so young?” Tabet said in French as
he mourned the 241 American serv
icemen and 58 French paratroopers
who died when suicide bombers
rammed explosive-ladened trucks
into their headquarters as they slept.
The servicemen were members of
a four-nation peace-keeping force
that entered Beirut after massacres
at Palestinian refugee camps in Sep
tember 1982. The bombings led to
the withdrawal of the taskforce.
The Americans were believed to
have been targeted because of U.S.
support for the Christian-led gov
ernment in its war against opposi
tion Moslem militias last fall and
U.S. backing of Israel, which has oc
cupied predominantly Shiite south
ern Lebanon for more than two
years.
The French apparently came un
der attack for supporting Iraq in its
4-year war against Iran.
The strikes were claimed by a
group called Islamic Jihad, or Holy
War, a name Western security offi
cials believe is a code word for the
pro-Iranian Lebanese Shiite group,
Hezbollah, or Party of God.
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Son tried for killing tycoon Manual
United Press International
LOS ANGELES —Jury selection
entered its second day Tuesday in
the murder trial of the son of a
Texas movie and real estate tycoon,
charged with killing his father be
cause he feared being cut out of the
multimillionaire’s will.
Selection of 12 jurors plus four al
ternates to decide the guilt or inno
cence of Ricky Kyle before Superior
Court Judge Robert Devich is ex
pected to take up to two weeks.
Kyle, 22 next month, is accused of
shooting his father, Henry Harrison
Kyle, in the back, July 22, 1983 in
the elder Kyle’s Bel-Air mansion.
The trial, expected to last two
months, will feature Ricky’s sister,
Jackie Phillips, 29, as a key prosecu
tion witness.
Ricky Kyle, dressed in a gray
blazer, tie and a white shirt, sat next
to his battery of high powered Dallas
attorneys led by Michael Gibson and
Steve Sumner, taking notes as doz
ens of prospective jurors were led
into the packed courtroom.
Kyle, showing no emotion, was
asked at one point by Devich to
stand up and face the prospective
panelists to see if any of them knew
him. In unison, they answered no.
Deputy District Attorney Lew
Watnick then read aloud a list of
prospective witnesses — including
Phillips — to see if any of the jurors
recognized any of the names. Again,
they answered no.
The elder Kyle’s empire includes
an 11,000-square-foot Dallas man
sion, apartment buildings, restau
rants, dairy farms, coal mines and a
bank. By the time of his death, Kyle
was worth as much as $100 million,
according to Los Angeles court re
cords.
Prosecutors and investigators con
tend Ricky Kyle shot his father be
cause he feared being cut out of
Henry Kyle’s will. The will gives
most of the Kyle estate to his sons,
Ricky and Scott, 20, with small
awards to two daughters, Phillips
and Paula Holtzclaw.
At a preliminary hearing in Jan
uary, Phillips and her then-fiance,
Henry Miller of Dallas, testified that
Ricky Kyle confessed to his father’s
murder in a conversation a few
hours after Henry Kyle’s funeral.
Defense attorneys, however, have
indicated they would focus on Phil
lips’, Miller’s and Ricky Kyle’s use of
alcohol and free-based cocaine the
night of the alleged confession.
Phillips and Miller “were so intox
icated as to be incompetent” as wit
nesses, the defense has argued.
Ricky Kyle’s attorneys also are ex
pected to bring up as part of their
defense Henry Kyle’s alleged abuse
of his children.
La. governor declares emergency state
United Press International
I NEW IBERIA, La. — Gov. Edwin
g Edwards Tuesday declared a state of
i emergency in four flood-ravaged
south Louisiana parishes drenched
by nearly a foot of rain, and said a
|j federal disaster declaration will be
I sought.
Fierce thunderstorms lashed the
area early Tuesday, sweeping cars
off rural highways and forcing the
evacuation of hundreds of people
from neighborhoods, hospitals and
nursing homes.
The rain subsided Tuesday af
ternoon, but forecasters said more
thunderstorms were expected and
additional flooding of streets, canals,
bayous and rivers was possible.
Authorities in St. Martin Parish
searched for a man whose car was
among two washed off Louisiana
182 into a swollen drainage canal.
Two other people were rescued by
crews who rushed to the scene.
Officials said it was impossible to
pinpoint the number of evacuees
and too soon to estimate the extent
of damage. They said numerous
schools and highways were closed,
and shelters were set up for the
homeless.
As many as 300 people were
forced to seek shelter in the tiny
town of Erath, and the Civil Defense
reported hundreds of calls request
ing evacuation.
Edwards sent representatives of
the Louisiana National Guard and
the Office of Emergency Prepared
ness to Iberia, Vermilion, St. Martin
and Lafayette parishes, which are
covered by his emergency declara
tion.
Officials did not have figures for
either the number of evacuees or the
extent of damage in the area, parts
of which received more than 11
inches of rain overnight. But they
said federal disaster declarations
were expected.
County agents said 75 perdent of
Vermilion Parish’s soybean crop
probably is a total loss. They said
only a fourth of the crop has been
harvested, and more than 50 per
cent of the fields are flooded.
Edwards said he planned to sur
vey the flooded areas by helicopter
as soon as the weather cleared.
The storms struck nearly a dozen
parishes that lie at or below sea level,
quickly gathering flood waters up to
5 feet deep.
“Eve never seen the water this
high in the city before,” said New
Iberia Police Chief Steve Davis, a
lifelong resident of the area. “We’ve
got water everywhere. Every street is
flooded. The city public works de
partment is giving out the last of the
sandbags.”
Added dispatcher Lorna Lovas
said: “We’re operating the police de
partment out of dump trucks. Peo
ple are getting water over their
knees.”
“We’re just having problems one
after another,” Civil Defense Direc
tor Joe Valenti said in New Iberia.
“We’ve evacuated about 60 families
so far. Gosh, I tell you what, I have a
high riding jeep, and I was driving
through water up over the wind
shield.”
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during his debate Sunday with Dem
ocrat Walter Mondale that he would
fire anyone responsible for the doc
ument, and that it apparently had
been prepared by a CIA contract
employee.
Reagan also said, “Some way or
other there were 12 of the original
copies that got out down there” with
out being reviewed by CIA officials
in Central America and Washington.
The New York Times, however,
quoted unnamed White House offi
cials Tuesday as saying Reagan had
meant 12 copies of the uncensored
manual had been sent to Washing
ton.
Asked about the report, White
House spokesman Larry Speakes
said, “We’ll wait until our investiga
tion is complete” before comment
ing further on the issue.
Speakes, on a western campaign
swing with Reagan, also was ques
tioned about Reagan’s executive or
der prohibiting U.S. participation in
assassination but never defining it.
“Assassination is not the way we
do business,” Speakes said.
In the interview, Callejas strongly
disputed statements by another FDN
director, Edgar Chamorro, who has
been reported as saying the rebel
group sometimes assassinates Sandi-
nista officials in small towns.
Chamorro has said he translated
the book into Spanish from the notes
of a CIA veteran identified by rebel
and U.S. officials as John Kirkpa
trick, said to be a CIA veteran of the
Vietnam and Korean wars.
Callejas said Kirkpatrick paid for
the manual’s publication.
Callejas, who said he never met
Kirkpatrick, said he picked up cop
ies of the book in the FDN directo
rate’s office in Tegucigalpa, Hondu
ras, in November 1983.
Other rebel leaders had approved
its publication and it had been dis
tributed to rebel instructors, he said.
The edited manual advocated that
Nicarguan officials be “neutralized,”
but Callejas said in “classical Span
ish” the word means “to counterba
lance, not to assassinate.”
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Solid Facts
State Representative Neeley C. Lewis of College
Station has been the State Representative for Brazos
County and TAMU for eight months now. During that
time he has gone to battle tor the students of TAMU
and students all over Texas by seeing that the
tuition increase, which had been hidden in the recent
tax bill, was removed. He has spoken at length and
effectively for Proposition 2, which will be on the
ballot on November 6, and would be very beneficial
to Texas A&M. Representative Lewis has worked all
summer and fall with the Administration, the Regents,
TAMU Legislative Study Group and the Student
Senate and has developed a firm foundation upon
which to very effectively see that Texas A&M con
tinues to receive the attention from State Govern
ment which it deserves as a great university.
Representative Lewis is an “Aggie” in the most
profound sense of the word, as a man and as a legi
slator. He grew up in an “Aggie” family in the shadow
of Kyle Field and he still resides less than one-half
block from the campus on Lee Street. There can be
no question about his loyalty to Texas A&M (he is a
member of the Aggie Club, the Century Club, Past
President of the Aggie Quarterback Club ...). Just as
there can be no question about Ruth Hunt . . . “The
Fish Lady”; Sul Ross, Past President of TAMU and
former Governor of Texas; Colonel Richard Dunn,
who wrote the music for “Spirit of Aggieland”; and
all of the Aggie Mothers all over Texas (none of whom
attended Texas A&M). Being an Aggie is more than
being a former student, it is a state of mind. Neeley
Lewis is without question, an Aggie!!!
To be an effective representative for Texas A&M
and Brazos County, one must understand that “poli
tics” is a real issue and that political party affiliation
in the Texas House of Representatives is a very rele
vant matter. One’s political talent and philosophy
notwithstanding (both candidates in this race are
fiscal conservatives), membership in the majority
party affects:
• Quality of committee appointments - State Repre
sentative Neeley Lewis is already a member of sev
eral powerful committees which directly affect
Texas A&M; Committee on Business & Com
merce, Committee on Agriculture & Livestock,
Sub-Committee on High-Tech Industries, Sub
committee on Budget and Oversight of Agricul
ture
• Effective working relationships within the House -
State Representative Neeley Lewis has earned the
support of the great majority of his fellow Repre
sentatives, as well as the respect and support of
our elected state officials. These are the very peo
ple with whom our state representative must work
in order to effectively represent our district.
• Overall influence with the Speaker of the House,
who is the most powerful legislative leader in
Texas - in endorsing State Representative Neeley
Lewis, Speaker of the House Gib Lewis said, “I
have never in my life seen a freshman member
perform with the amount of ability that Neeley
Lewis did in the past legislative session.”
The majority party in the Texas House of Repre
sentatives is presently the Democratic Party by a 4
to 1 margin; and it will remain so. Given the solid
facts, common sense dictates that State Represen
tative Neeley Lewis, a tight-fisted Texas Conserva
tive Democrat, will have much more clout and carry
a bigger stick for TAMU than his opponent who has
already burned his bridges with the Speaker, who
has insulted the majority of the House members
with whom he would have to work, and who would
only have the ear of a small minority of the House
membership.
Texas A&M has always had a powerful voice in the
Texas House of Representatives and we can contin
ue to have strong influence by re-electing State
Representative Neeley Lewis to the Legislature.
Consider the solid facts; with State Representative
Neeley Lewis, a tight-fisted Texas Democrat, we can
stay strong, with his opponent we can start over...
and start way, way behind.
RE n%e E l£y Lewis
STATE REPRESENTATIVE
Paid for by the Neeley Lewis Campaign. Stuart F Lewis. Treasurer
4500 Carter Creek Parkway, Bryan
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