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'0 he em- c that Magidal- ot Klinj- tonnie hits atesmph. nts beisj imed \i n plotteJ known ai the Pah- action of Trganiu- )f Ana- check. )f pain ain q- aths of were apsides i. e latest of cap lied 10 'ORT ARTHUR (AP) — Hurri- e Bonnie struck the Gulf Coast ore dawn Thursday, killing two pie with its 85 mph winds and vy rain that spun off tornadoes, itroyed homes and knocked out er to thousands. housands of beachfront resi ts had boarded up their homes fled inland to escape the storm, season’s first hurricane, which ;med in the Gulf on Monday, onnie was not a major hurricane [still managed to terrify residents len it hit land at 4:45 a.m. south of [Arthur. 3ne man was killed when his kup truck was caught in a squall i went out of control on a road- dn Vidor, northwest of Port Ar- r, and a partially paralyzed man died after being trapped in- e her burning Port Arthur home flames fueled by gusts from the rricane, officials said. \t least a dozen people were in- led- This wasn’t a severe hurricane, it sn’ta major hurricane, but it was a 1-blown hurricane when it moved oss the coastline this morning,” d Neil Frank, director of the Na nai Hurricane Center in Coral bles, Fla. The entire city of Port Arthur was hout power until about noon Port Arthur kills two Thursday, said Police Sgt. Robert Williamson. Downgraded to a tropical storm, Bonnie lumbered north Thursday night, spreading rain and thunder storms across most of East Texas. In nearby Beaumont, trees were toppled and six small passenger planes were toppled at the airport but no major damage was reported, said police Capt. Joe Crutchfield. City officials asked the state for emergency assistance. Cov. Mark White said he had not had a report of specific dollar amounts of damages. “Until I do, I won’t be able to make a determin ation. Certainly, in the past, when we’ve met the criteria we always seek that assistance.” U.S. 59 between Livingston and Shepherd near Lake Livingston, was covered with water and closed about 8:30 p.m. because of fioodwaters from Big Creek, said Don Clark, a spokesman for the state Highway Department. About 20 miles to the southeast of the closed highway, a dam at Big Thicket Lake broke just above the Menard Creek Acres subdivision af ter 13 inches of rain, but the area had been evacuated of its small num ber of residents, said Mike Cox, a spokesman for the Department of Public Safety. ongress agrees tentative plan r ’87 budget cuts i testi- d jury rned a s paid ee tu- icki of ce ddy.” Long, iharon, mayor, soothe ind of i child g said. • to be cer, so ike an WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior igressional budget writers agreed ursday on the outlines of a fiscal 87 spending blueprint that would irply curtail President Reagan’s litary spending plans — but soften it cutback if Reagan found an ac- nable way to raise more money. Budget writers from the House d Senate struggled into the eve- ig Thursday to iron out final de ls of the $995 billion spending an. A House-Senate conference com- Sttee then could publicly ratify the |ct and send it to the full House dSenate for final approval. The compromise was designed to im next year’s deficit nearly $2 bil- n below the $144 billion target of e Gramm-Rudman balanced-bud- it law. Military spending would be lim ited to $292.15 billion next year un less the president and Congress agreed on a way to raise money for a contingency fund of “critical unmet needs.” Reagan requested $320 bil lion for the Pentagon, and even with that additional money the budget would cut that request to $299 bil lion, lawmakers said. The contingency fund of about $4.8 billion was an indirect challenge to the president to soften his opposi tion to new taxes. The Senate had approved a $10.7 billion tax boost, but House Democrats refused to go along, fearing the political fallout. As a result, the compromise would allow the additional spending if Reagan proposed, and Congress approved, new taxes, sales of gov ernment assets beyond those already in the budget or some other way of raising the revenue. Raids net 85 illegal aliens 4 arrested on A&M campus Photo by ANTHONY S. CASPER Above, Border Patrol agent Sal Garza arrests illegal aliens at corner of East 23rd and North Houston Streets in Bryan. Below, the aliens await their ride home to Mfexico at the U.S. Army Moore Memorial Reserve Center. By Mary Frances Scott Staff Writer U.S. Border Patrol agents netted about 85 illegal aliens Thursday in raids on Bryan-Col- lege Station businesses and con struction sites, including a raid on a Texas A&M construction site. Bob Wiatt, director of Univer sity Police, said four illegals were apprehended at the site of the Clayton Williams Jr. Center, the new alumni center that is being constructed at the corner of Jer sey Street and Houston Street. No other campus construction sites were raided, but Wiatt said he expected the Border Patrol to return today. Many of the raids were con ducted in random hits on new home and office construction sites and on the industrial park area in Bryan. H.M. Slocumb, border patrol supervisor, said most of the ille gals were adult males between the ages of 19 and 35, with only three females apprehended. Assistant Chief Patrol Agent H. G. Pool said Thursday’s raids only made a small dent in the number of illegal aliens here. “There are a lot of illegals in this area,” Pool said. “We’re not going to create much of an im pact but we will create at least 100 jobs for somebody.” After being taken into custody, the illegal aliens were taken to buses parked near Highway 21. They were then taken to the U.S. Army Moore Memorial Reserve in Bryan for processing. Pool said, “We get them paid, get their checks cashed, get their personal belongings and get them on a bus to Mexico.” He said he expected the two busloads of aliens picked up Thursday to be in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico by early this morning. Pool said the Border Patrol fol lows the same arrest procedure for illegals that they do for U.S. citizens. The illegal aliens are read their rights arid given the option of a deportation hearing or voluntary departure to Mex ico. Pool said most of the illegals had chosen voluntary departure. “About six or seven we didn’t send back to Mexico due to per sonal problems,” he said. “We’ll give them time to wrap up their family business before the volun tary departure.” The Border Patrol has no trou ble distinguishing Mexican- Americans from illegal aliens. Pool said. “Our guys are trained,” he said. “They can tell by the mode of dress, the way they conduct themselves and a lot of the time by the way they run when they see a border patrol agent.” Two weeks ago the Border Pa trol arrested nearly 200 illegal aliens in Austin. Some people re ported seeing agents removing suspects from their cars in the middle of rush hour traffic. “We don’t arrest U.S. citizens,” Pool said. s Rebels say House vote could turn political tide tg the I * " i share al pre higher $38 a d S7in Kastel, ■porate copies' esident les was d’s ao WASHINGTON (AP) — A top icaraguan resistance leader said hursday the expected renewal of ,S. assistance to the rebels will tilt ie political balance in his home- nd, leading to a popular insurrec- on against the Sandinistas and a assive increase in the insurgent inks. . Flanked at a news conference by nembersof the political and military tadership of the resistance, Alfonso obelo, a member of the original andinista junta, also predicted massive defections” from the Sandi- nista cause and rebellions within the Nicaraguan army. Robelo’s colleague in the United Nicaraguan Opposition, Adolfo Ca- lero, said he is placing high-priority on using the U.S. aid money to ac quire shoulder-fired missiles capable of bringing down Soviet helicopter gunships that were introduced into the conflict last summer. He said the gunships have “changed the war” in the Sandinis tas’ favor. The Contras also will seek light anti-tank weapons, grenade launch ers and light machine guns once, as le amofi' ve u xk chili xod tlia' acceptini vity,” at argaretC ev said, Red Duke to join Willie, crew at music benefit Farm Aid II utGrisat -t and if ;er rtel leatk i what ha e-meeticj : to marf jtherthi d with ^ in reed >ed ii and leai ubledtf AUSTIN (AP) — Music fans who fall victim to the heat at next week’s day-long Farm Aid II con cert might wake up to see a famil- face — Dr. Red Duke. Duke, known nationally for his folksy television health reports from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Hous ton, has agreed to Farm Aid orga nizer Willie Nelson’s request to be medical director for the concert. “Willie asked me through his daughter, Lana,” said Duke, who flew to Austin this week to revise medical treatment plans designed for UT’s Memorial Stadium be fore the concert was moved to South Park Meadows. Organizers said Thursday that insurance problems have forced yet another site switch, this time •to Manor Downs, a horse-training facility east of Austin. They said Duke plans to come along to the new site, too. Duke, 57, a veteran of several Willie Nelson Fourth of July Pic nics, will be on hand for Farm Aid II to supervise medical serv ices and “try to be as helpful as I can.” The country-talking doctor said he and Nelson have been running into one another since they grew up together in Hill County — Nelson in Abbott and Duke in Hillsboro. Duke said he has “blown out a lot of speakers and worn out a lot of tape decks” listening to Nel son’s country music in his pickup. He even plays Willie Nelson tunes in the operating room of Hous ton’s Hermann Hospital. “It keeps me sane and keeps everybody relaxed,” Duke said. Duke will join about a dozen doctors, several dozen nurses, and hundreds of emergency medical technicians, paramedics and trained volunteers. expected, the U.S. arms flow to the rebels resumes on Sept. 1, Calero said. Robelo said, “The weapons will balance the present sitation, where we are suffering from sophisticated weapons that the Soviets have given the Sandinistas.” The long-held view of the insur gents is that they require reliable, consistent support from the United States in order to rally public opin ion in Nicaragua behind them. Robelo suggested that Wednesday night’s 221-209 House vote in sup port of President Reagan’s $100 mil lion aid proposal will enable the re bels to turn the corner in their struggle against the Sandinstas. Until now, Robelo said, the United States had been engaging in a “yo-yo” policy, with Congress ap proving some of Reagan’s requests and rejecting others. The aid will involve $70 million in military aid and $30 million in non- lethal assistance. The rebels have received no mili tary aid in more than two years. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., said the House reversal of its anti-Contra vote in March was a “long time coming,” but Senate Mi nority Leader Robert Byrd, D- W.Va., said he was surprised by the vote, since public opinion polls show 2-1 opposition against the presi dent’s proposal. House Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill said he was fearful that the House vote was a prelude to the eventual introduction of American troops in Nicaragua. Reflecting O’Neill’s concern was the approval Wednesday night of an amendment that would bar any U.S. personnel — civilian or military — from providing aid or training to the Contras in areas within 20 miles of the Nicaraguan border. Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Mi guel D’Escoto said the House action will “cost many more deaths,” and could prompt his government to ex pand its military arsenal. Pentagon spokesman Robert Sims said Thursday that the Soviet Union has shipped Nicaragua 10 more HIP MI-8 helicopters, bringing the Sand- inista fleet to about 25. The administration says the Soviet Union has provided Nicaragua arms worth $650 million this year. Times-Mirror sells paper for $110 million Newsman buys Dallas Times Herald DALLAS (AP) — The Times Mir ror Co. said Thursday that it has agreed to sell the Dallas Times Herald for $110 million to a com pany headed by a Texas newsman, who will be stepping into one of the country’s toughest newspaper com petitions. The Times Mirror Co. said it has agreed in principle to sell the city’s no. 2 newspaper to Media News Group, a Woodbury, N.J., company headed by William Dean Singleton. “This is a dream come true for me,” said Singleton, 34, president and chief executive officer of two newspaper-publishing companies. “We will work hard to expand the tradition of the Dallas Times Herald as Texas’ most honored newspaper,” he said. The Dallas Morning News, with a daily circulation of 390,275 and 521,727 on Sundays, is the No. 1 pa per in Dallas, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulation. The Times Herald has a circula tion of 244,629 daily and 348,084 on Sunday. New York media analyst Jeffrey Russell said the future of the Times Herald depends on how much money Singleton is willing to spend. “It could be he’s content to be a strong number two,” Russell said. “I would think it’s probably positive for A.H. Belo Corp.,” the owners of the Morning News. Bruce Thorp, a Washington, D.C., media analyst, said, “There could be an opportunity for the News to strengthen its position even more, but I don’t think you can really predict anything.” He said that Singleton has initially cut ex penses at other papers he has ac quired. Burl Osborne, president and edi tor of the News, said the sale would not change his newspaper’s strategy. “We have set out to make the Morning News as good a newspaper for its readers and advertisers as we can,” he said. “That goal has not changed and won’t change.” The Dallas acquisition, along with planned purchases of two smaller newspapers, would place Media News Group among the top 10 com panies in terms of number of publi cations. The purchase price, which is in cash and notes, is subject to negotia tion of a definitive agreement and government approval, according to a statement released by Los Angeles- based Times Mirror Co. Arthur E. Wible Jr., named pub lisher of the Times Herald in August 1985, will stay on, the newspaper an nounced. Robert F. Erburu, chairman, pres ident and chief executive officer of Times Mirror, said in a statement, “Times Mirror is very proud of the achievement of the Dallas Times Herald, but we believe that its sale at this time is consistent with our cor porate strategy and is in the best in terest of the long-term future of the Times Herald." Last month, Times Mirror said it was buying the Baltimore Sun news papers and two television stations for $600 million from the A.S. Abell Publishing Co. Times Mirror owns the Hartford Courant, Connecticut’s largest news paper; the Stamford Advocate in Stamford, Conn.; the Morning Call in Allentown, Pa.; the Greenwich Time, in Greenwich, Conn.; the Denver Post in Denver and News- day, based on New York’s Long Is land. Times Mirror also has broadcast and cable television properties, and book and publishing ventures.