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Sunday Price: Jail will not silence me LUBBOCK (AP) — Dallas County iommissioner John Wiley Price, an utspoken minority rights advocate ho was sentenced to jail for damag ing a windshield wiper during a pro- est of a television station’s minority hiring practices, said jail time “will not silence me.” Price made the comments Satur day at a meeting of the Lubbock Black Chamber of Entrepreneurs. He was sentenced Friday to 75 days in jail and fined $1,000 for a misdemeanor criminal mischief con viction of damaging a van’s wind >ut God itnessi: ’,sh0t and more students in -Anonymous campus security guard °47//. A STIMULATING EXPERIENCE. (If you’ve never 4711 ’d, come to JCPenney and learn how. While supplies last, get a free T-shirt with any 4711 purchase.) Desert Storm wives pray as U.S. invasion heats up FORT BLISS (AP) — Wives and families of Texas soldiers heeded President Bush’s appeal for prayer as U.S. troops launched an all-out ground offensive to drive Iraqi forces from Kuwait Sunday. “Many men are going to die,” said Debra Franks, “and I hope and pray my husband is not one of them.” Franks said she listened to the president’s Sunday night televised address to the nation with her three young children. “We sat and we said a prayer,” she said. “My husband (Sgt. Richard Franks) is 3rd Cav and from what you hear on the news, 3rd Cav is on the front lines.” Franks’ husband is a tank com mander with B-Troop in the first battalion. The nearly 4,500-member 3rd Cav, Fort Bliss’ oldest unit, is considered one of the Army’s elite desert fighting units. News that the ground war had be gun was devastating, said Franks. “It is the worst of it. It’s the worst possible thing,” she said. “It knocks the air out of you really bad.” The unit, armed with M1 - Abrams tanks, Bradley fighting vehicles and some Apache and Huey helicopters, usually acts as a flank or scout for ar mored divisions. Several soldiers’ wives said despite their fears the start of the ground war was good news because “now the end is actually, hopefully, on the way,” said Rise Foster-Brooder, whose husband, 1st. Lt. John Brooder, is in intelligence. “Now, maybe soon, he’ll be home.” Margie Brandon said she worked in her yard Saturday to keep from thinking about the ground war and the possibility of chemical warfare. Her husband, Mark, teaches soldiers how to protect themselves from the deadly gases. “That’s the one thing that worries me. If I didn’t know what we have in the way of NBC (nuclear, biological, chemical weapons), I think I would be better off if I was naive,” she said. Military officials have been con cerned since the war’s beginning that Iraqi president Saddam Hus sein, who has been accused of using biological weapons against Kurds in that country, might turn them against allied forces. “Knowing the nerve chemicals we have, it’s horrible, horrible,” said Brandon. “War is hell anyway, but when you start using the chemical stuff... It’s horrible.” Texas congressmen call for removal of Hussein shield wiper during a Dec. 7 protest outside the Dallas offices of KXAS- TV. Damage was estimated at $ 102. During his trial last week, Price contended he held onto the wiper to avoid being run over by a woman, who nudged him 47 feet with the WASHINGTON (AP) — Texas congressmen called Sunday for the removal of Saddam Hussein from power as U.S. forces continued their push into Iraq and occupied Kuwait. Several Texans in Congress said they supported President Bush’s de cision to launch a ground war and were hopeful the fight would be over by the end of the week. “We all hope that victory is sure and casualties are light and that peace returns to the Middle East,” Rep. Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio, said. Smith said Bush had no choice but to launch a ground war after Sad dam refused to begin moving his troops out of Kuwait by noon Satur day. “By rejecting the deadline, by al lowing his soldiers to massacre inno cent Kuwaiti citizens and by contin ued missile attacks on Israel, Hussein basically threw sand in the president’s face,” Smith said Sunday. “I think one of our goals now has to be the removal of Saddam Hussein from power.” Allowing Saddam to remain in power would be akin to having al lowed Hitler to stay in power in Ger many after World War II, Smith said. Rep. Jim Chapman, D-Sulphur Springs, agreed Bush did what he had to do. Chapman said he too hopes the ground fighting is over in three to four days. It is “very clear” that Saddam can not be allowed to stay in power, Chapman said. “I don’t mean kill him, I mean de throne him,” he said. Rep. Jack Fields, R-Humble, said that if Saddam happens to be in a command and control structure hit by the allies, “Not one tear would be shed in my district.” Fields said that by demolishing Saddam’s military might that he would effectively lose his power in the Middle East. “He lives in a very dangerous neighborhood with Turkey, Iran and Syria and with a significant de grading of his force he becomes a non-entity,” Fields said. “We’re in the process but we’re not there yet.” Rep. Ralph Hall, D-Rockwall, said the decision-making needs to be left to the military commanders, not the politicians. “Of course, I’m all for the deci sions made by our top commanders and our commander-in-chief, and it’s a war that our military has to fight,” Hall said. “Hopefully we learned from Vietnam to let our field commanders fight the war, not “Hussein basically threw sand in the president’s face. I think one of our goals now has to he the removal of Saddam Hussein from power.” — Rep. Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio the politicians.” And, added Hall, “We would do well to get this thing over with now, so we don’t have to go back again in two, three years.” Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, said he spoke Saturday with National Se curity Adviser Brent Scowcroft and was advised of Bush’s preparations to move into a ground war. “I told him I was very supportive of that action .... and I’m very en couraged that by the end of Feb ruary we’ll have driven the Iraqis out of Kuwait, and I say that knowing February is the shortest month of the year and this is not leap year.” Police charge teen connected with shooting SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A Bexar County sheriffs deputy in vestigating reports of gang activ ity was critically wounded Sunday in a gun battle that also wounded a teen-ager, authorities said. Deputy Leo C. Gomez, 35, was in critical condition Sunday af ternoon at the Wilford Hall Air Force Medical Center’s intensive care unit, said Tech. Sgt. Charles Soule. Seventeen-year-old Enrkjue C. Lopez was at Wilford Hall in fair condition, the hospital spokes man said. The sheriffs depart ment said Lopez was booked by proxy and charged with at tempted capital murder. Sheriff Harlon Copeland is sued a brief statement on the 2:30 a.m. shootings, which he said oc curred as Gomez investigated re ports of gang-related activity on the county’s west side. Gomez, who was in a marked sheriffs car, is assigned to the department’s gang unit. The statement said Gomez ra dioed a sheriffs department dis patcher to say he was questioning a young man who appeared in toxicated. Several minutes later, Gomez radioed that he had been shot, Copeland said in the statement. “Deputies arriving at the scene discovered Gomez lying on the street next to the patrol unit bleeding from gunshot wounds to the upper body,” the statement said. Sheriffs officers said Gomez shot Lopez, who was found lying on the street several feet away from him suffering from gunshot wounds to the legs and elbow. TREK USA One of the largest inventories of Trek Bicycles in Texas! 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