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as filed a multi-million dollar law-
uit in state district court concerning
his wife’s death in a traffic accident
while she rode in a moving company
ruck, court records show.
l.V. Woods requested $5 million
from Willis Permian Movers and its
latent companies Atlas Van Lines of
Texas Inc. of Austin and Atlas Van
Lines Inc. of Evansville, Ind.
The suit also requested $5 million
from Fred Dexter Smith, 34, of
Odessa. Smith drove the truck in
which Geraldine Woods and others
were riding when it was involved in
an accident with another tractor-tra
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professota President Reagan abandoned bis
R0MEQ sua | political caution Tuesday, pre-
icting he’ll win a big victory next
eek in a realignment election
where millions of Democrats will de
sert their party to join the Republi
can ranks.
I Reagan campaigned in the White
House while Democratic rival Walter
Mondale, modeling Harry Truman
and boosted by large crowds, moved
his long-shot “issue-a-day” campaign
ikhthtBoai Ifrom the West Coast to Minnesota,
ii h president threw caution to
the wind as he addressed some 250
campaign workers charged with the
3 have pate job of wooing blacks, Hispanics,
f Jews, athletes and other specific in
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our Republican ranks for the first
time,” Reagan said during the pep
talk.
He told his loyalists their meeting
at the White House “reflects what
could be a new phenomenon” in
American politics this year. “That
is,” he said, “if everything turns out
right, a historic electoral re
alignment.
“This is no mere political cycle,
nor has it anything to do with the
personalities of the candidates.
“We’re attracting the support of
E eople who have never voted with us
efore — not because they’re desert
ing the Democratic Party, but be
cause the Democratic Party has de
serted them.”
The prediction came as Reagan
sought to expand the breadth of
what his advisers consider to be a
certain victory — one that could
leave him with an overwhelming
mandate for a second term and help
elect more sympathetic Republicans
to Congress.
Reaching across partisan lines,
Reagan — a one-time New Dealer
who last voted for a Democratic
president in 1948 — said many
Americans have found they have not
been “well served” by their historic
ties to the Democratic Party.
“It’s no mere coincidence that the
most blighted areas of the country —
places of desperation — are areas
that have been political strongholds
of the other party for many years,”
Reagan said. “Theif policies are tax,
tax, spend, spend and no friend to
those who want to improve their
well-being.”
Mondale, whose spirits were vis
ibly lifted by successful rallies in
Seattle took some of the edge off his
attacks on Reagan and tried to focus
on the policy differences in the wan
ing days of the campaign.
Democratic vice-presidential can
didate Geraldine Ferraro began her
day in Chicago, indignantly telling
talk show host Phil Donahue she
would not even consider asking her
widowed mother if there is any truth
to a report that she and her father
were indicted for running a num
bers racket 40 years ago.
“I don’t need it, I don’t want it
and it’s not any of my business,” said
Ferraro when questioned about
whether she asked her mother for
an explanation.
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| HUNTSVILLE — Three convicts
“cornered” a Flarris County inmate
in a prison laundry and stabbed him
20 times in the 320th cutting at the
ITexas Department of Corrections
this year, a TDC spokesman said
Tuesday.
K Charlie Brown said the latest
prison violence happened at 5:15
p.m. Monday at the Retrieve Unit
and “the entire unit was locked
down” after the stabbing.
James Henderson, 34, serving 20
years for aggravated assault and un
authorized use of a motor vehicle in
Harris County, was treated at the
unit infirmary for stab wounds. He
was transferred to John Sealy Hospi
tal in Galveston where he was listed
in stable condition until Tuesday
when his condition was upgraded to
good.
Brown said Henderson was work
ing in the laundry when “he was cor
nered by three suspects and stabbed
approximately 20 times in the back
and left shoulder.”
Brown said three suspects in the
stabbing were identified as Willie
Frank Jackson, 39, serving 25 years
for aggravated robbery with a
deadly weapon in Hunt County;
Wallace Spencer, 34, serving 12
years for theft in Harris County; and
Kenneth Mornes, 33, serving six
years for possession of a firearm by a
felon, from Dallas County.
Prison officials confiscated a 3-'
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ie saline soli [LISBON, Portugal — Police said
ntohisami Tuesday they located and dis-
e remente mantled a loaded double-barreled
iends wheel grenade launcher positioned near
idletoutacl the new U.S. Embassy in an abortive
terrorist attack blamed on a shadowy
leftist group.
||Embassy spokesman Dan Traub
said the mission received a bomb
threat on the telephone Saturday,
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compound was almost
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change store.
[A police statement said officers lo
cated and defused the homemade
grenade launcher mounted on a
{eightsPofcl wooden ramp after a member of the
Communist Party, whose headquar
ters is located about 150 yards from
the embassy, reported children had
spotted the device in a vacant lot.
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armed with two bazooka grenades
and hooked up to a battery, was
about 100 yards from the embassy.
It failed to go off because of a loose
copper plate, the statement said.
A U.S. Embassy spokesman who
declined to be named said the inci
dent was considered a “serious ter
rorist threat.”
He said security precautions were
“increased somewhat” Monday be
cause of the incident and general in
structions from Washington were to
be alert to possible terrorist attacks
before the U.S. presidential elec
tions.
Portuguese newspapers said
Tuesday a telephone caller con
tacted news organizations to claim
responsibility for “a failed attempt
against the U.S. Embassy” by the
shadowy Peoples Forces urban guer
rillas.
The caller gave no reason for tar
geting the embassy and issued no
further threats.
Fifty suspected members of the
leftist organization, including revo
lutionary hero Lt. Col. Otelo Saraiva
de Carvalho, have been in prison for
the past four months awaiting trial
on charges of terrorist activity.
It was the first known threat
against the embassy. The last terror
ist attack against a foreign mission in
Lisbon was in July 1983 when five
Armenian gunmen seized the Turk
ish Embassy.
The terrorists, a policeman and
the wife of the Turkish charge d’af
faires died in a police assault on the
embassy.
The police report Tuesday said
the grenade launcher was found 100
yards from the embassy and 50
yards from the Communist head
quarters but did not specify in what
direction the weapon was pointed.
Police beat
The following incidents were
■ reported to the University Police
■ Department through Thursday.
! MISDEMEANOR THEFT:
I • A rnaroon Murray 10-speed
| bicycle was stolen from outside a
I student’s apartment.
• A black Schwinn Continen-
|tal 10-speed bicycle was stolen
from outside the Halbouty Build
ing.
! • A white Fiat 10-speed bicycle
I was stolen from outside a stu-
ident’s apartment at Married Stu-
Ident Housing.
• A silver Kuwahara 12-speed
I bicycle was stolen from outside
I Heldenfels Hall.
• A brown Ross 10-speed bicy
cle was stolen from outside
Hobby Hall.
• A yellow Schwinn five-speed
bicycle was stolen from outside
the Engineering Research Build-
ing.
• A thermodynamics textbook
and study guide were stolen from
Duncan Dining Hall.
• A 75-pound pumpkin was
stolen from 207 Briggs Hall. .
• A brown leather purse was
stolen from 206 Memorial Stu
dent Center.
• A silver Schwinn dirt hike
was stolen from outside the Civil
Engineering Building.
• A wallet and checkbook
were stolen from a pizza delivery
vehicle parked in tne Commons
Area.
• An Escort radar detector
and seven cassette tapes were sto
len from a 1983 Chevrolet in
Parking Annex 24.
FALSE REPORT OF AN
ALARM:
• Someone activated the fire
alarm pull stations on the first,
second and fourth floors of Ster
ling C. Evans Library.
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF:
• The window on the driver’s
side of an Oldsmobiie Cutlass Su
preme parked on Ireland Street
was broken.
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The three suspects were placed in
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Brown said all four of the inmates
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Nineteen of the 120 stabbings at
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Oyster tests
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NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana
health officials have been unable to
trace an outbreak of cholera blamed
for “mass hysteria against oysters” in
Houston to the waters of American
Bay, where the oysters were har
vested.
Tests on the oysters completed
Monday found no traces of cholera,
said Dr. Larry Maturin, assistant di
rector of the state’s bacteriology lab.
State health and fisheries officials
were considering whether to reopen
American Bay to oyster fishing. It
was closed earlier this month when a
23-year-old Houston man con
tracted cholera after eating raw
oysters in a Houston restaurant.
Oyster fishermen had predicted
the disease would not be found in
the waters and said the contami
nation probably occurred in hand
ling.
Houston health officials reported
seven suspected cases of cholera at
the end of last week.
After the first case of cholera was
confirmed, the Houston Health De
partment red-tagged 40,000 pounds
of oysters from American Bay to
keep them from being sold. They
are to be buried at a landfill.
The two distributors who sold the
tainted oysters to Houston restau
rants said their business has suf
fered. Buyers are not only rejecting
oysters, but also crab, shrimp, red
snapper and speckled trout, said
Keith Hibner, sales manager of
Louisiana Foods.
“There’s just no demand, espe
cially for the oysters,” he said.
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