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Escaped Arkansas killer found
close to Austin police station
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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.
One person who recent?!
ceived help was Josefina GJ|
ros Castro, w ho needed ik«
aid for her daughter, Sow
w ho is mentally retarded. I
Cabada will continue!
nightly program.
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