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Page 6/The Battalion/Wednesday, September 7, 1988 Escaped Arkansas killer found close to Austin police station - AUSTIN (AP) — An Arkansas prison escapee, convicted of kidnap ping and killing a policeman, was re captured Tuesday after hiding out in a Salvation Army shelter only a block from Austin Police Depart ment headquarters. Acting on a tip from an infor mant, police found James Ray Renton, 50, asleep in a crowded dor mitory room. They awakened and arrested him at 3:07 a.m. Weapons, including a sawed-off shotgun, a 12- gauge pistol and several knives, were taken from him, police said. Arkansas authorities “think he is probably one of the most dangerous men we’ll ever come in contact with,” senior Sgt. David Neely, an arresting officer, said. “This guy said that he would kill cops. He’s killed a cop before. He hates cops,” police spokesman C.F. Adams said. Renton was one of four inmates who escaped July 11 from a maxi mum security prison at Tucker, Ark. Election outcome doubted in Mexico MEXICO CITY (AP) — A top of ficial of the ruling party called con tinued allegations of election fraud “immoral and perverse,” toughen ing the stance against the opposition as Congress prepared to take up confirmation of the presidential win ner. “We aren’t getting it wrong; the struggle is for the power of the na tion,” Jorge de la Vega Dominguez, president of the Institutional Revo lutionary Party, known as PRI, on Monday. The PRI also announced it would make a major statement late Tues day related to “the imminence of the verification of the presidential elec tions.” The Chamber of Deputies, sitting as the Electoral College, on Friday begins what are expected to be tense sessions to confirm the victory of PRI presidential candidate Carlos Salinas de Gortari. “The opposition parties, in an im moral and perverse attitude, have been speaking since long before the elections of electoral fraud,” de la Vega Dominguez said. “They never proved it because it never occurred. Their intent has been to discredit the Mexican political system here and abroad.” His attacks were among the strongest by the PRI on the opposi tion since its surprisingly strong showing in July 6 general elections. Official results showed Salinas won, but by 50.36 percent, far below the 70 percent the parCy had consid ered a minimum in the past. The party lost the two-thirds majority needed in the Chamber for approval of constitutional reforms, accepting 260 of the 500 seats to 240 for the combined opposition. During two weeks of turbulent sessions in August to confirm con gressional election results, the oppo sition pressed its claims of fraud and demanded that ballot packages from about half the polling places be opened. Opposition congressmen inter rupted President Miguel de la Ma drid’s state of the nation address last Thursday with cries of “Fraud,” and the leftist congressmen stormed out. Leftist presidential candidate Cuauhtemoc Cardenas and Manuel J. Clouthier of the conservative Na tional Action Party both contend Sa linas’ votes were inflated and have held frequent protest rallies. Official results gave Cardenas re ceived 31.12 percent of the vote and Clouthier 17.07 percent. “Their objective is simplistic and puerile (childish): the conquest of public power through provocation, confusion, disorder and destabiliza tion,” de la Vega Dominguez said. He called again for talks on their differences, but both the PRI and the opposition say they will not ne gotiate the will of the people ex pressed at the polls. “I reiterate it. We won. We main tain political power,” he said. He noted that electoral law re forms under de la Madrid have fa vored minority parties Tut said the opening was not a ceding of our rights. Since the election, PRI leaders have emphasized their willingness to change the party to respond to calls for greater grassroots participation and the needs of its members. The others were captured that month. Renton had been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the ab duction and slaying of Springdale policeman John T. Hussey, 22, in December 1975. From April 1976 until his arrest in May 1977, Renton was on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list, and he recently was placed on the 15 Most Wanted List of the U.S. Marshal Service. Arkansas prison spokesman Da vid White said extradition proceed ings were beginning immediately to have Renton returned to that state. Neely said a recent segment about Renton was aired on the “America’s Most Wanted” television program. Although he had changed his ap pearance by shaving off a mustache, getting a burr haircut and trying to make it appear as though he were balding, an informant recognized Renton at the Salvation Army shel ter and contacted police, Neely said. Renton “said he had seen himself on ‘America’s Most Wanted’ and he needed to change his appearance,” Neely said. He said the informant, whose identity wasn’t revealed, may have recognized Renton by several “very noticeable” tattoos. After receiving the tip, officers went to the Salvation Army shelter, one block west of police headquar ters. Four sealed off the building’s exits while five went inside. After learning from the desk clerk that a man named William Hall, an alias Renton used, had registered, the officers moved quietly through the men’s dormitory room which Neely said had between 120 and 130 beds, most full. “It’s dimly lit. But we went from bunk to bunk until we found some body that matched the description as best we could tell,” Neely said. “We encircled that bunk. I tapped him on the shoulder.” Renton offered no resistance, the sergeant said. According to Neely, Renton had been registered at the shelter since Aug. 31, although officers believe he may have been in the city for 10 days to two weeks. He had been doing some day labor, and he attended a free concert in a park Monday night but left because “he was seeing too many police officers and it made him nervous,” Neely said. Delta crash cleanup continues in Dallas GRAPEVINE (AP) — Workers at the Delta Flight 1141 crash site Tuesday continued cleaning up and hauling off the remains of a Boeing 727 that crashed in a field at Dallas- Fort Worth International Airport last week, killing 13 people. “I don’t know if they have fin ished yet,” National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Michael Benson said. Benson said the Boeing 727-200’s Pratt & Whitney engines were being taken to Pratt & Whitney headquar ters in Hartford, Conn., to be dis mantled and inspected for internal damage, under the supervision of the NTSB. The cockpit of the plane is being moved to a hangar at DFW, rather than Delta’s headquarters in Atlanta, where officials originally had planned to take it for further investi gation. “There is a site at DFW where it can be thoroughly examined,” Ben son said. Meanwhile, NTSB officials still re fuse to speculate on the cause of the crash. “(The investigation is) focusing on everything,” Benson said. “Areas of particular interest to us are the en gines and the (wing) flaps.” NTSB member Lee Dickinson Jr. has said the Delta Flight 1141 crew at least twice mentioned the words “engine failure” in the seconds be tween the attempted takeoff and the crash. But Benson said interviews with the flight engineer and first officer have not sufficiently answered all questions. “There are a lot of conflicting things going on,” Benson said. “We don’t have one clear theory. We hope talking to the pilot will help.” NTSB officials have been unable to interview Capt. Larry Davis be cause of medical injuries he sus tained in the wreck. Davis remains in fair condition at Dallas’ Parkland Memorial Hospital with back injuries. Juarez program helps city’s poor CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Luz Estrella Aguayo, 13, stands quietly before the TV cam eras as her plight is explained to viewers of “Contacto 44,” a nightly program aired on Chan nel 44-XHIJ in Juarez. Host Arnoldo Cabada explains that Aguayo’s mother died of cancer a year ago, and her father, Juan, is in a wheelchair, unable to move his legs because of a stroke. Aguayo has three sisters, ages 4, 11 and 15. The family’s plight has been eased for the last year by monthly donations from “Con tacto 44” viewers. “We use the money to buy sup plies to make candies for my la ther’s candy stand,” Aguayo ex plains shyly after she walks off the set, clutching a bag of gro ceries in one hand and the cash donations in the other. Aguayo comes to the studio monthly to receive donations from three people, including an El Paso woman who gives S25 a month, says Irma Velasquez, the program’s accountant. The do nors remain anonymous at their requests. The girl is one of about 30 peo ple who receive help this evening on the program, started bv Ca bada eight years ago. Cabada’s deep voice, his in tense brown eyes and his express ive hands would lead you to be lieve that the 5 1-year-old Juarense is an evangelist. He is. in a sense. Cabada, the owner of Channel 44, is a man with a mis sion. Thousands of people come to him for help every year. Some come for medical help. Others want to find a lost relative. Some need a place to stay. Some are hungry and want food. The program helps an average of 30 people a night, or nearh 11,000 a year. He says he does it because he knows what it’s like to be jx>or. “1 was very poor as a child. There were times when I didn’t even have shoes. Got! has been good to me, and now I want to help others.” Cabada got his start 27 years ago, working for Channel 5 in Juarez. About seven years after that, he began his first program to help the poor. “It w’as a lot smaller, more modest,” he recalls. “I didn’t have many resources, and it wasn’t my TV station.” Within 10 years, the program began to win awards. Since . • Cabada has received more 500 community service a and two National Awards nalism in Mexico. In 1979, Channel 5, and the nextve,9 founded Channel 44, andyH “Clontacto 44” (“Contact44’ 9 1 he station now hasasjy work department staffedliuej|| soc ial workers and a fu|a| doctor . Fifty-three mediaiW c udists in Juarez and ElPac. - nate their services. Every hospital in Juam perform surgery forfreett tients sent to them byCahatB said. Several hotels donate r and meals to the program. The station also takes a- 150 senior citizens who; have families. 1 he station their room and board. programs, in fact, are rty-I f or senior citizens in needoj9j I he immensity of the pro,#, is belied by the simplicity((■ production. Cabada arrives at the a about an hour before the gram, dressed in guayaberi slacks. He sifts through the pers on his desk and chan employees. At about 9:15,1 he disappears into a ba:.v : that adjoins his office andit.ll imimies later attired inaii business suit and stripedtie i A photographer wheels!:! camera and ilips on the 1 light, and Cabada, seatedte! his desk, simply looks ini!® camera and lx*gins to tall out using a script. He tells the viewers thai: their chance to makeadiflt: in some unfortunate persor This is a chance to give and with other human beings. Dining the short comm break that follows this refle the camera is rushed, stilli tripod, down the hall andic enormous studio with bare and a few straight-back c I here, the people are k with their tales of misfortunt One by one, Cabada int them, reads aloud themedi port handed to him by onesj™ social w orkers and asks the® ers to help. 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