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Reagan, who has touted the inva sion as a major foreign policy suc cess, describes the effort as a “rescue mission,” and has said it forestalled a Soviet-Cuba effort to establish a beachhead in the southern Carib bean. At a news conference, Joe Galati, one of the students, said he fre quently has been asked whether the military intervention was necessary and whether the students were in danger. “The story of Grenada boils down to one word — freedom,” Galati said. “Freedom for a group of Americans studying medicine who became stranded on an island where there was a breakdown of law and order following the assassination of the prime minister. “And freedom for the people of Grenada who were on the verge of losing the last few rights they had to a group of hard-line Marxist deter mined to turn Grenada into a totali tarian Cuban-Soviet military out post.” The invasion of the tiny island, announced by Reagan during the morning hours of Oct. 25, 1983, was spearheaded by American troops and included a handful of soldiers from several small Caribbean na tions. The Pentagon says 20 Ameri cans died as a result of the fighting, much of it with Cubans. The students, who resumed their studies at Grenada after the invasion last year, were brought back to the United States by The USA lot tion and the (Conservative ( nity Foundation, non-proii tiononal groups. LaDonna Lee of the Consent, Opportunity Foundation si vate donors gave about bring the students bad toi United States. She declinedti tify the donors. Rep. Duncan Hunter, RCj fending off reporters’ quej about a possible political aatat for Reagan so near the election,sj “Who cares who paid forthepl fare?” The retort drew a strongroi applause from the stum their families. 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However, White cautioned he was “keeping options open” and could not speak for five other coastal gov ernors joining him in pressing for a settlement with Interior Secretary William Glark over disputed so- called 8G funds. “1 think a third would be a fair and responsible division,” White told Texas reporters. “But my position remains open and I’m not autho rized to speak on behalf of other states.” In July, White said after a meeting with Clark that he thought Texas “ought to be treated at least as well as the interior states which have a SO SO split” of revenues on leases shared with the federal government. But Wednesday, when asked why he would settle for one-third of the millions that would go toward public education in Texas, he said: “I’m trying to be equitable and fair and I’m trying to negotiate,” said White. The 8G tracts are oil and gas lease areas that straddle the boundary be tween federal waters and state wa ters — which extend three miles from the state’s seaward boundary. lion just in bonus payments — lease fees paid for the privilege of bid ding. Also involved are the royalties paid on the leases. White received a telegram from Clark suggesting their respective staffs sit down and begin negotiating a settlement agenda as soon as possi ble. “Immediately afterward, I and other coastal governors expect a face-to-face meeting," said White. Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Flor ida, Mississippi, Alaska and Califor nia are involved in the 8G dispute. White said California, which has a Republican governor, is not involved in the unified effort by Democratic governors to press for settlement. The state-federal fight over oil and gas leases in the Outer Conti nental Shelf has been going on since 1978. Texas and Louisiana sued over the government’s proposal to distru- bite about $1 billion to the seven coastal states while the federal gov ernment retained nearly $17 mil lion. A Beaumont federal judge has ruled Texas should receive a 50 per- ■ cent share. Car impasse broken Lean (Ne United Press International lead 4 Clark in August offered to distrib ute $1.7 billion in all the states ex cept Texas and Louisiana, but they rejected the proposal that would have given them only one-sixth of the revenues. Congress has said there should be a “fair and equitable” division of the revenues from those leases, but Texas is one of several states disput ing the government’s interpretation of “fair and equitable.” White also criticized the govern ment’s practice of offering wide areas for leasing instead of the of pre- leas- vious policies ot "nomination’ ing — or offering tracts chosen by industry. In the meantime, more than $5 billion in disputed revenues is being held in escrow accounts. White said the Texas account holds $315 mil- Critics say the Reagan administra tion is flooding the market and de nying the public a fair-market re turn because the larger areas limit the number of bidders. TORONTO - General tors of Canada and the Ui Auto Workers made a breakthrough in contnct Wednesday that could quick settlement in theweei- strike that has caused ' 18,000 workers in thel States, a union official said. “The impasse has been ken,” Canadian UAW dii Robert While said 4 Vi-hour meeting with union gotiators. He said the two “have found a key tounlod fundamental issues." The strike that began Ott already has triggered cutbadn companies which supply'’ da’s largest automaker’s 13 in Ontario and Quebec. The Canadian UAW h jected GM’s proposed similar to that ratified earlier month by 350,000 Ann workers. It provides for lump-sum payments and pr sharing. The Canadian union warn continue a traditional bargaining based on hourly l ies and improved cost of allowances. White said the breakthi stemmed from a private with GM Canada chief m Rod Andrew earlier in “For the first time sinct strike, there is a thread of mism that we can now get to some serious negotiai White said. He said union members survive a long strike. The has a $550 million strike The t next sage, throu Frida i thed 1 1 cc Child sex abuse probe continui United Press International ARLINGTON — Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office officials said Wednesday it may take up to two weeks to finish an investigation of a day-care center where sexual abuses against 15 children allegedly occurred. Since the probe began Oct. 10, sexual abuse allegations involving two La Petite centers — one in Fort Worth and a second center in central Arlington — have surfaced. Parents whose children attend the southwest Arlington center have re ported that some of the children were photographed nude or in va rious stages of undress and required to fondle other children and teach ers under threats of reprisals. Prosecutors said no criminal charges had been filed in the cases. “It’s premature,” said Steve Chaney, nead of the criminal divi sion in the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office. “I can tell you, I don’t think the investigation will be completed in the next week. It’ll take at least two weeks.” Four employees implicated in the southwest Arlington case have den ied the allegations but have been sus pended with pay. Department of Human Resources spokeswoman Rosemary McElroy said investigators talked to 40 of the center’s 130 children and about 10 former and current employees by Wednesday. Caseworkers videotaped many of the interviews and used lifelike dolls to aid the investigation. “DHR has progressed far enough in their interviews for police to begin their job,” Chaney said, adding that subsequent police interviews will be primarily with adults. Police in nearby Fort Worth con firmed Tuesday they were checking into a complaint filed by a surburban Burleson woman whose children were enrolled at the La Petite center Fort Worth. DHR officials: complaint was filed againstl ond Arlington facility six ago. La Petite Academy off®’ fused to comment, but pare® between 20 and 30 of the 131*1 sters normally registered we* sent Monday and Tuesday. Officials of the Ua Petite.W Corp., based in Kansas have been in town to super® center’s operations am their own investigation. The investigation was laf after a 3-year-old girl who at# the southwest Arlington ce#! treated for a vaginal infectf 1 doctor said was caused ky $ abuse, officials said. The girl’s family filed a coup of sexual assault against tltf with Arlington policeOct.H said. Handprints to replace IDs United Press International ASSOCIATE STORE Be a Star! Advertise in The Battalion 845-2611 San JOSE, Calif. — If a test being conducted by the U.S. Army proves successful, a bank customer’s hand print will replace his personal code number as the key to his account. Army researchers are testing au tomated teller machines that use a “hand geometry reader” to identify a customer instead of an ID number. The device, known as “Identimat” and manufactured by Stellar Sys tems Inc. of San Jose, provides iden tification verification by electroni cally scanning an individual’s hand and comparing the resulting data with a known scan stored in the ma chine’s memory, said Dale Duda, Stellar’s national sales manager. The device precisely measures the E eometric characteristics of finger mgth, curvature and thickness of the webbing between fingers when the hand is placed on a flat plate, he explained. “An account which can be ac cessed by an identity card and a code number is not as secure as one that requires identification of the individ ual by hand geometry,” Duda said. Gary Olson, public affairs officer at the U.S. Army Finance and Ac counting Center in Indianapolis, Ind., said,“Not too many people can take a soldier’s hand and place it on a plate.” Some 3,000 trainees at Fort Ben jamin Harrison, Ind., are participat ing in the final five-month phase of a three-stage pilot test, co-sponsored by the Army and the Treasury De partment. Each soldier is issued a white plas tic card, the size of a normal bank credit card. He inserts the card into the automatic teller machine and is instructed to place his hand on the Identimat. Upon clearance, the sol dier may then conduct normal bank ing transactions. The technology used iiul < | tirnat has had practical app for a decade, Duda said. “The system’s accuracy,sp simplicity make it popnl identification and accessc vice for banking, compnWj rnent, drug and other hi/" sensitive storage facilities,"I* The device is a compact^ machine with a surface pl ; '| taining four slots and a si dowel, which serves as a* helps position the fingers over t he slots. T he fingers of eitheii 1 both are scanned by a 11/ which is automatically acti'* 5 proper hand placement. Stellar Systems, founded' | manufactures biometricidt ifiers, outdoor perimeW s and microprocessor-based^ monitoring and controls)^■