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Grenada
Students say island invasion was needs:
United Press International
WASHINGTON — American
medical students, whose presence on
Grenada was a major reason given
for the U.S. invasion of the island
one year ago, gathered in Washing
ton Wednesday to commemorate the
invasion and meet President Ronald
Reagan.
Events included a Capitol Hill
lunch and a meeting with President
Reagan at the White House.
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.
The students will begin all
college campuses after their ti
ington visit to tell their version!
what happened on Grenada i
year,” Galati said. “Thel
too important to be buried inn
of old newspaper clippings,"
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WASHINGTON — Gov. Mark
White revealed Wednesday he
would accept one-third of the mil
lions in revenues from disputed off
shore mineral leases in a negotiated
settlement with the federal govern
ment.
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.
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impasse
broken
Lean
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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.
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Robert While said
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White said.
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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.
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Handprints to replace IDs
United Press International
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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)^■