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Thursday, November 29,1984/The Battalion/Page 13 League of cities urges fiscal aid 2-024 C '01 United Press International || INDIANAPOLIS — Officials of tie National League of Cities Wednesday called for a deficit re- cfiiction plan to assure “longstanding economic recovery in this country” aid to lighten the burden of cities in fyndinj* roads, services and pro grams for the poor. ■ In its official policy statement for 1885, the league called the deficit the most urgent priority confronting the nation. I League members said cities are fked with high interest rates, mar ketplace uncertainty and structural Unemployment because of the defi cit In a policy statement adopted by some 3,000 delegates attending the League’s Congress of Cities, the League endorsed a combination of tax increases and spending cuts, but no cuts in entitlement programs for the poor. ■ The policy statement, which guides tne league’s congressional ii|bbying efforts, also calls for more money for training the unemployed, the creation of a national investment bank to help cities fund repairs of decaying roads and bridges and a $050 Til 1st show atari* Sat-Sun Students on Friday All seats on Tuasday Senior Citizens Anytime. No disc, on Holidays lATRES jGSESCgtc] 714| |tn Th« M»ll 764 (Xis] SCHULMAN THEATRES" COMING SOON DUNE in 70MM IX SHOW SAT. AND SUN., ALL SEATS ,^-MONDAY-KTAM FAMILY NIGHT-SCH. 6 kll-TUESDAY-KTAM FAMILY N1GHT-ME HI •’ Vr -MON.-WED. FOR ALL STUDENTS WITH CURRENT I.D. 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The policy statement urges the Reagan administration to appoint a bipartisan commission, similar to the one that drafted recent Social Secu rity reforms, to find a solution to the deficit. “The deficit and the high interest rates and the periodic recession-re covery has had a devastating effect on manufacturing in this country,” Voinovich said. “We’ve lost 25 per cent of our manufacturing in four years. Voinovich said every billion dol lars trimmed from the deficit will create 25,000 new jobs. Hispanic defections to GOP challenged United Press International SAN ANTONIO — The director of a voting rights group the November election. William C. Velasquez, director of the Southwest Voter Registra tion Education Project, said that more Hispanics voted for President Reagan in 1984 than 1980, but that the vote does not represent a ma jor tilt toward the Republican Party. “Mexican American support (for Republicans) was not nearly as great as the press and others said it was on election day,” Velasquez said. A Southwest Project poll showed that Texas Hispanics voted 73 percent for Democractic candidate Walter Mondale and 27 percent for Reagan. Traditionally. Mexican Americans in Texas vote about 90 percent Democratic. Velasquez said that Republican pollster Lance Tarrance of Hous ton conduc ted a telephone poll that will make Reagan appear to have done even better among Hispanics. Velasquez said he had not seen the results, but claimed Tarrunce’.s poll cannot be accurate because telephone resjmndams often He by saying they voted for the winning candidate, or that they voted when in fact they did not. “Terrance ought to be ashamed of himself on that poll,” Velas quez said. “Lance T errance knows the biases. He knows it’s going to look good for the president, 1 think he’s doing it for that reason. “Anyone who does a telephone poll is doing it with an ulterior mo tive in mind. I would guess that Tarrance is 100 percent off.” Robert Brischetto, who coordinated the poll of 2.100 people, said that in terms of Republican support, the gap between Hispanics and other groups actually grew in 1984. Lucas confesses to more murders United Press International ARLINGTON — Convicted mur derer Henry Lee Lucas, who boasts of killing 360 people and says he has helped police resolve almost 200 un solved murders, has admitted killing two people in the late 1970s in Ar lington, police said Wednesday. Officers who questioned Lucas for nine hours Tuesday and four hours Wednesday morning said Lucas led them to the scene of both murders and gave them details only the killer could know. Spokesman Jim Willett said police will ask a T arrant County grand jury to indict Lucas for murder and capi tal murder. “We didn’t take him around; he took us,” Willett said. Willett said Lucas, 49, has ad mitted killing Pat Rau, a 26-year-old transient whose decomposed body was found in the Trinity River on Thanksgiving Day 1978. He also has admitted shooting and killing Don- naver Hanna, a 40-year-old conve nience store operator on Dec. 22, 1979. Police also are investigating the possibility that Ottis Elwood Toole, Lucas’ companion during his cross country murder spree, was involved in the Arlington deaths. Toole is in prison in Florida. Lu cas, who was sentenced to death ear lier this year for a Williamson County murder, is being held in Georgetown. Willett said Lucas told police he picked up Rau in a bar about a week before Thanksgiving 1978, crushed her skull and (lumped her body in the Trinity. Hanna was shot four times wit^i a .22-caliber pistol during a robbery about a year later. Investigators decided to question Lucas about the killings because both resembled incidents to which he has confessed. Police met with Lucas last week at the Williamson County Jail in Georgetown, then de cided to take him to Arlington to see if he could pinpoint the locations of the killings. Lucas, who has been charged with 26 murders in five states, spends much of his time traveling around Texas and other states for question ing about various unsolved crimes. Willett said Arlington police were “very fortunate” to be able to talk to Lucas, who is scheduled to meet with various law enforcement agencies through mid-1985. WEEKNITES: 7:10 t:M DILL MURRAY GHOSTDUSTEBS E2J Try our Battalion Classified!!! 845-2611