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sun outside the Chicken Oil Co. 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
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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.
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Class Councils ’92, ’93, ’94, RHA, Yell Leaders, OCA,
Graduate Student Council, Student Senate, Student
Body President
$5 filing fee Pavilion 9 am. - 5pm. Rm 214