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Voters OK gun control, abortions
Texas water plan approved
Associated Press
Texas voters appproved a two-part,
Si.43 billion water conservation and
development plan, that backers, led
by Gov. Mark White, claim will take
care of that state’s water needs into
the next century.
Voters all over the country ap
proved important ballot measures
on affirming handgun control, the
right to abortions and to smoke-free
workplaces, but three communities
rejected attempts to fluoridate their
water and residents of San Francisco
refused to limit downtown high-rise
construction.
Even in an off-year election, vot
ers in nine states and scores of cities
and towns grappled with ballot is
sues that touched on some of the na
tion’s most emotion-laden economic
and social questions.
Three New England towns —
Bristol, Conn.; Dover, N.H.; and
Derry, N.H. — Tuesday rejected
similarly worded measures calling
for the overturning of the U.S. Su
preme Court’s 12-year old ruling
that legalized abortions.
It was the first time since the high
court ruling, Roe vs. Wade, that vot
ers had the chance to vote on such
referendums.
Oak Park, III., one of four U.S. cit
ies which have banned handguns,
beat back a proposal to repeal its 13-
month-old ban. T he other cities with
similar handgun laws are Washing
ton, D.C.; Morton Grove, Ill.; and
Evanston, III.
Voters in Tucson, Ariz., passed a
proposition restricting smoking in
workplaces, and one limiting the size
and location of billboards. But they
defeated a measure that would have
required smoke-free space in restau
rants.
Three cities, San Antonio, West-
field, Mass., and Leominster, Mass.,
rejected fluoridating their water
supplies. San Antonio is now the
largest city following Los Angeles
without fluoride in its water.
San Francisco soundly defeated a
proposal to authorize spending up
to $150,000 in public funds for a
statewide petition drive to legalize
marijuana. They also decided not to
deny building permits for high-rise
structures exceeding 50,000 square
feet.
In the District of Columbia, one of
about 200 cities with rent control,
voters narrowly approved even
stiffer rent control guidelines de
spite the objections of Mayor Marion
Barry. Opponents had argued the
tighter guidelines were unnecessary,
and might inhibit rehabilitation of
rundown properties.
Among other noteworthy ballot
contests:
• Ohio voters endorsed a mea
sure authorizing $100 million in bor
rowing to promote research in re
moving sulfur from coal and give a
lift to the state’s depressed coal in
dustry.
• Maine voters narrowly ap
proved a “people’s veto” referen
dum giving residents the right to ap
prove any disposal plans for low-
level nuclear waste.
• Voters in two college towns,
Boulder, Colo., and Oberlin, Ohio,
approved measures declaring their
cities nuclear free zones; areas which
are off limits to nuclear weapons.
Boulder voters also approved a
proposition renouncing the first use
of nuclear weapons by the United
States.
• Santa Barbara voters rejected a
proposal, backed by environmen
tally minded celebrities like John
Travolta, Jane Fonda and James Ar-
ness, that would have imposed tough
new restrictions on offshore drilling.
It was a victory for oil companies
which had run a $1.1 million cam
paign to defeat the measure.
• St. Louis voters defeated a $155
million bond issue to repair and up
grade existing schools. The measure
was ordered on the ballot by a fed
eral judge as part of a two-year vol
untary desegregation order. It
needed a two-thirds majority to pass,
but only got 5fi percent in final,
unofficial tallies.
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Raging floods kill
at least 36 people
Immigration officials
arrest lottery winner
Dale: flow.
Time: 8:00 pm
Associated Press
Health officials voiced concern
about contaminated water Wednes
day in the wake of devastating floods
that killed at least 36 people in the
mid-Atlantic states, as the governors
of three states surveyed damage esti
mated in the hundreds of millions of
dollars and government officials
closed monuments in the nation’s
capital because of expected flooding.
Rivers that crested at record levels
were returning to their banks in
many areas, but Richmond braced
for a surge on the James River and
sandbagging continued at historic
sites around Washington, D.C., in
anticipation of a Potomac River crest
up to 7 feet above flood stage.
The National Park Service an
nounced that the Jefferson Memo
rial, Lincoln Memorial and Wash
ington Monument would be closed
Thursday because of the expected
flooding.
“The memorials are not in any
clanger,” said parks spokeswoman
Sandra Aliev. “We’d be in real trou
ble if water reached the top of the
Washington Monument. But we
want people to stay away for safety
reasons.”
About 20 people were stiff listed as
missing in tne floods that followed
three clays of heavy rain.
More than 2,000 people remained
out of their homes Wednesday in
Pennsylvania and the Virginias,
while many began the task of mop-
pingup
For others, however, there was no
home to return to, as trailers, A-
frames and other structures washed
down swollen rivers.
Gov. Charles S. Robb toured Vir
ginia’s flood-ravaged western moun
tains by helicopter Wednesday, as
his state’s storm death toll c limbed to
19. The bodies of 15 more were re
covered in West Virginia and one in
Maryland, of ficials said.
Observers monitoring water levels
were having difficulty determining
the extent of flooding because
gauges were washed away.
Associated Press
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A young Mexi
can who sneaked across the border
and won the California lottery’s $2
million jackpot was arrested
Wednesday by immigration authori
ties who said they acted quickly be
cause he bragged about his illegal
status.
Jose Caballero, 24, an illegal alien
working for $200 a week, was ar
rested at his home in East San Jose,
according to Arthur Shanks, deputy
director of the Immigration and
Naturalization Service in San Fran
cisco.
Shanks said Caballero was given a
choice of an immediate voluntary
deportation at his own cost or a
hearing with a judge to determine
whether he will oe allowed to stay in
the United States. Caballero opted
for the hearing, Shanks said.
Lottery Director Mark Michalko
said Caballero would be awarded
full installments of his prize regard
less of his status.
Shanks said Caballero was ar
rested because it would look bad to
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remain free after boasting of his ille
gal status.
“He’s bragged about his ability to
enter the United States illegally,”
said Shanks. He said Caballero nor
mally would have been asked to
come to the INS of fice with his attor
ney to discuss his immigration status.
The arrest was made quickly be
cause Caballero had put tne federal
agency in an embarrassing position,
Shanks said.
David Still, the acting officer in
charge of the San Jose INS office,
said Caballero was taken to the INS
office and then was interviewed for
several hours with his attorney pre
sent.
Caballero will post $5,000 bail and
be freed until the hearing, according
to Still.
Caballero said earlier that he had
E lanned to' go home anyway to see
is parents and eight brothers and
sisters, who thought he was joking
when he called them from Los An-
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