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Abilene Christian awards
fine arts degree to Heston
ABILENE (AP) — As Moses, ac
tor Charlton Heston received the
Ten Commandments in the movie
by the same title in 1956.
His performance in “Ben Hur”
earned him an Academy Award for
best actor in 1959.
This weekend, he got an honorary
Doctor of Fine Arts degree from
Abilene Christian University.
ACU president William J. Teague
presented the honor during a pri
vate dinner Saturday at the Abilene
Civic Center, during which Heston
read selections from the Old Testa
ment book of Exodus.
“Mr. and Mrs. Heston represent
the family in American celebrity life
in ways consistent with the thrust of
the university,” Teague said.
Heston’s wife, Lydia Clarke, re
ceived a special certificate of appre
ciation that read: “No degree of true
greatness in this life is achieved with
out love, support, companionship
and abiding confidence.”
Heston amused the crowd of
more than 600 after he clumsily put
his doctoral hood on backward.
When the audience began to
snicker and ACU board chairman
H. Lynn Packer quipped, “That’s
OK. You can wear it as a bib or a
hood,” Heston responded, “One
thing I should know how to do is
wear funny suits.”
Noting that his wife has the cou
ple’s only college degree, he said,
“You see before you a deeply unedu
cated man. For that reason, among
others, I’m especially grateful for
this honor.”
Heston began developing a
relationship with ACU in 1983 when
he was asked to speak at the univer
sity. He also viewed that year’s
homecoming musical, “The Sound
of Music.”
In 1985 his wife, a renowned pho
tographer, exhibited her photo
graphs in ACU’s Shore Art Gallery,
her only exhibit in Texas to date.
The Hestons also attended the
school’s 1985 musical “Seven Brides
for Seven Brothers.”
Budget analyst predicts
Congress will fund V-22
FORT WORTH (AP) — A trou
bled tilt-rotor aircraft, unmentioned
in the president’s defense budget for
the second year in a row, will proba
bly win congressional support in the
midst of the Gulf War, analysts said.
The on-again, off-again V-22 Os
prey has been a target of Defense
Secretary Dick Cheney, who said the
project should be canceled. But in
tensive lobbying last year secured
$165 million in procurement money
from Congress and another $238
million for development.
“I think the V-22 will come back
this year,” said Natalie Goldring, an
analyst for the Defense Budget Pro
ject, a Washington research group.
“After the Persian Gulf, people will
be looking more closely at systems
that aid a rapid response to a crisis.
Cheney has delayed giving funds
to Osprey contractors, Bell Heli
copter Textron of Fort Worth and
Boeing Helicopters of Ridley Town
ship, Pa., while working to kill the
program.
But Rep. Curt Weldon, a Republi
can from the Philadelphia suburbs,
wants funds appropriated for the
tilt-rotor craft to be spent soon.
“The administration has thought
they could be successful in canceling
the program — that by dragging this
out long enough, the contractors
would become convinced that it’s not
worth keeping their investment in,”
Weldon told the Fort Worth Star-
Telegram.
Rep. Pete Geren, D-Fort Worth,
said he is confident that Congress
will go along with funding the pro
gram for the second year in a row,
despite Cheney’s belief the project is
too cosdy.
Bell and Boeing, meanwhile, have
moved ahead with tests on the six V-
22 prototypes built so far. The tilt-
rotor craft made its first shipboard
landing in December, officials said.
HOUSTON (AP) — Civic leaders
are hoping some of the glitz they’re
putting on for the 1992 Republican
National ConVfention will rub off on
the decaying South Main strip near
the convention site.
In 18 months, thousands of visi
tors will swarm to the Bayou City for
the GOP event at the Astrodome.
But before they do, business owners
and civic leaders hope the national
spotlight will provide incentive to re
vitalize portions of South Main.
There’s reason to be hopeful.
Before the economic summit last
July, volunteer crews and city work
ers cleaned up city parks, demo
lished buildings, planted flowers,
swept streets and cleared vacant lots.
Republican leaders are launching
plans now to repeat that perfqr-
mance for the GOP convention.
“We’re willing to do whatever to
make it the best convention possi
ble,” said Andy Abboud, executive
director of the Harris County Re
publican Party. “If that means we’re
going to have to go out and clean the
streets and pick up garbage, then
that’s what we’ll do.
The gritty stretch of South Main
that bisects south Houston is
speckled with overgrown vacant lots,
anandoned, burned-out buildings
and cheap motels that draw prosti
tutes and crack cocaine dealers. The
four-lane asphalt street — divided by
a ditch and pitted with potholes —
lacks curbs, sidewalks, gutters and
landscaping.
It’s a part of town many avoid.
Saleh Mouasher, manager of
Houston Luxury Limousine and
Chauffeur Service, said he will steer
clear of the area when he shuttles
convention delegates to and from
their destinations.
“No, we won’t go down South
Main. We want to give them a good
impression of our city,” Mouasher
told the Houston Chronicle. “If we
show them the attractive parts of
town, it’s a big encouragement for
them to come back.”
Convention visitors will dine,
drink and carouse in more appealing
sections of town, including the Galle
ria area or trendy Montrose.
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Gunman
assassinates
ex-Contra
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) —
An official from the Sandinista-con-
trolled security police Sunday prom
ised a full-scale probe into the slay
ing of former Contra chief Enrique
Bermudez, whose death cast doubt
on government assurances for the
safety of other rebels who laid down
their arms.
But a right-wing radio station late
Saturday blamed the slaying of Ber
mudez on Sandinista sympathizers,
some of whom cheered the news of
the killing.
Officials said they had no suspects
and no one immediately claimed re-
sponsibilty for the killing.
Bermudez, 58, was shot outside
his car near the downtown Intercon
tinental Hotel Saturday night. The
suspect then fled on foot.
Vice Interior Minister Jose Pallais
said it appeared Bermudez was fol
lowed, and was shot twice from a dis
tance of five to six feet.
Taxi driver Rene Sanchez said a
man looked at the body and said,
“This man died by the bullet. He is
380, Enrique Bermudez,” then hur
ried away. Bermudez’s nom de
guerre was “Comandante 380.”
Garcia added that the slaying
clouds the government’s ability to
guarantee the safety of ex-Contras.
Bermudez only months earlier
said he feared death at the hands of
the Sandinistas.
Right-wing Radio Corporacion, in
a Sunday broadcast, blamed the
Sandinistas.
Pallais promised an “exhaustive”
investigation and called the killing
“an attack against the policy of rec
onciliation by the government of
President Violeta Barrios de Cha
morro.”
The Interior Ministry, responsible
for internal security, remains under
the control of the Sandinistas, who
Mrs. Chamorro’s broad coalition de
feated a year ago at the polls.
Elsa Bermudez said she was taking
her husband back to Miami, where
he lived for years until returning to
Nicaragua last October.
“We’re not going to bury him in
Nicaragua,” she said after identify
ing the body. “I want to feel tranquil
at his tomb, to cry there. I’m not
coming here to visit it.”
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