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'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
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onnie was not a major hurricane
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kup truck was caught in a squall
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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.
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sn’ta major hurricane, but it was a
1-blown hurricane when it moved
oss the coastline this morning,”
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nai Hurricane Center in Coral
bles, Fla.
The entire city of Port Arthur was
hout power until about noon
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.