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Contact SSgt Ervin Smith at (713) 954-6808 A great way of life. , Jarnc* Cvgtwrij 'lan Vunier Olivia. dettaviUarnl \ \ A JfUdsiimc?- NiiM’5 Prmn 7:30 I0:oo°70jf|u44 €ro $jigo Customs service sued third time United Press International BROWNSVILLE — An Ameri can cargo pilot has filed a lawsuit that the U.S. customs Service was re sponsible for his plane being shot clown in Mexico. Pilot William E. Nelson of Laredo; his engineer, Conrad Smith of McAllen; and Reo Leasing Inc. of Brinkley, Ark., have filed a $1.55 million federal lawsuit stating that their constitutional rights were vio lated on Aug. 12, 1983, when their DC-3 was shot down 73 miles south of the border. It is the third such lawsuit filed by American pilots. The lawsuit, filed earlier this week, said Nelson was transporting a bonded shipment of merchandise from McAllen to Torreon, Mexico, and had filed proper papers with U.S. Customs. The lawsuit alleges that U.S. Cus toms officials at Miller International Airport in McAllen purposely de layed the plane’s takeoff until Mexi can authorities had been notified of the flight so the plane could be inter cepted. The plane was attacked by rapid small arms fire from a Piper Navajo Chieftain aircraft that continued to fire upon them even though the pi lot lowered the DC-3’s wheels, an in ternationally understood sign of sur render, the suit said. The plane crash landed in a field, and Nelson and Smith were pre pared to surrender, the suit said. However, the Piper Navajo Chief tain and another aircraft continued to fire upon the two men while they were on the ground, the suit further charged. The suit said the men “ran for their lives” and hid before separat ing and making their way back to the border. The allegations against U.S. Cus toms are similar to those contained in a federal lawsuit filed last Feb ruary in Brownsville by pilot Billie Baker, of Jefferson, La., and in a $2.8 million claim filed last year by Laredo pilot Bill Humphries. U.S. Customs spokesman Charles Conroy of Houston has defended a policy of giving departure informa tion on Mexico-bound flights to Mexican authorities in compliance with a 1977 agreement for exchange of information. Under the agreement, Mexican customs relays information to U.S. officials on narcotics smugglers. U.S. Customs reciprocates with informa tion on exports to Mexico useful in Mexico’s crackdown on smuggling of electronics equipment and other goods. Texas pilots have said that a rogue Mexican customs officer at Chihua hua, known as “El Fantasma” (The Phantom), is responsible for shoot ing down several American cargo planes. Cotropia (continued from page 1) her father had the biggest influence on her. “My father’s probably insane,” Cotropia said, “In my family, we spend most of the time making each other laugh. It’s such a comfort be ing around each other because we’re all so weird. My mom is the only sane one in the family, but we refuse to recognize it.” Cotropia tells a story about one of the “different” things that her fa ther, a retired Army major did while teaching at Howard Payne Univer sity. “We’re all overweight in my fam ily,” she said, “My father weighs over 300 hundred pounds. He and an other man dressed up in pink and green tights and tutus and enter tained an assembly (of students) at Howard Payne.” She laughed just as she had through much of the interview. “He also sells hotdogs at Texas Stadium for the Lions Club,” she said, “and he’s an admiral in the Texas Navy.” Cotropia sews many of her own clothes. She is, by her own admis sion, a fairly accomplished seams tress. “Carl (her husband) and I have a common philosophy,” she said. “Don’t spend money on things you think you ought to have. Spend money on things that you want. Don’t pay to have things done if you can do them yourself. I rarely buy clothes. I do all the painting and wal lpapering in our house, too. I’m fier cely independent.” She will over-extend herself at times. Her desire to be creative re quires that she take on many chal lenges. Her schedule stays full. “I think it’s so neat to be in on something creative,” she said. Man ‘out of control’ in shooting, wife says United Press International DALLAS — The estranged wife of Abdelkrim Belachheb, accused of killing six people in a restaurant, tes tified Wednesday that her husband “had no more control than a freight train out of control” during the shqotings. Joanne O’Brien Belachheb was the first defense witness in the trial of her husband, who is charged with killing four women and two men and wounding a seventh person June 29 at lanni’s Restaurant and Club. A jury of eight women and four men is hearing evidence against Be lachheb, who has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Wednesday was the third day of testimony be fore state District Judge Gerry Holden Meier. Also testifying for the defense was a Dallas specialist who said Belach heb suffered from severe culture shock and delusions that he was in control of every sitution. Mrs. Belachheb, questioned by de fense attorney Frank Jackson, listed at least four cases in which her hus band beat her or threatened her and said he often entered an “altered state of consciousness” when he be came violent. She said that after an argument June 19, 10 days before the lanni’s killings, she told Belachheb she did not want to hear from him or to speak with him again. “I knew what was going to hap pen, and I knew it was not safe for me to be around,” she said. “I knew this man was sick enough to kill.” Ship (continued from page 1) because it would “alter the balance” of power in the region. “A U.S. warship came into our territorial (Pacific) waters off Co- rinto, and it has subsequently pro ceeded to withdraw up to about 12 miles from the shore and it began to unload speedboats from the ship,” d’Escoto said. “Simultaneously, American planes began to fly over our territory in that area,” he said in an interview from Managua with Britain’s Inde pendent Television Network news. He did not say when the incident took place. He said, “Not in the past, not in the present, not anywhere in the fu ture, is it true that there are any boats on their way to Nicaragua with any MiG aircraft. Speedboats from CIA mother ships have been used by U.S.-backed anti-Sandinista rebels for raids and mining of Nicaraguan ports. Hours before the Soviet ship docked, an unidentified plane flew over the port city and was fired on by Sandinista gunners, who missed. Lt. Jose Santos said he believed the plane was spying on the freighter. 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