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check to United Way
Swisher
Captured pilot maintains
attacks directed by CIA
Reagan knocks
democrats today
Nuclear gathering
set 2-9 p.m. today
Trio of capital murder
indictments given Lucas
Friday
Oct. 7, 1983
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Nicaragua's Deputy Foreign
Minister Nora Astorga
presented the man, identified
Deaf Smith County’s division of the American
Red Cross plans to open its new building on
South Main Oct. 30. Work on the structure,
which began Aug. 1, has been mostly done by
in further encouraging
news, the department said
the number at "discouraged
workers’’ — those not even
counted as unemployed
because they have given up
looking for jobs - totaled 16
million in September, down
100,000 since June, when the
statistic was last calculated,
and off 240,000 from the reces-
minds.
The Deaf
day that US-trained troops
trapped a guerrilla column in
an abandoned resort and kill-
ed 157 of them. He said troops
surprised the rebsl Tuesday
at Amapulapa, 40 miles east
of San Salvador.
volunteers Shown helping above are < left to
right i Delbert Bainum, Dale Henson and Fred
Ruland.
Maj. Roberto Amador Nar-
vaez, as proof of the grow-
ing involvement of the CIA"
in rebel attacks on targets in
the leftist-ruled country
His claims could not be con-
firmed independently
Today's report Mid total
U.S. civilian employment
climbed to a record 101.9
million in September, up
382,000 from August. At the
same time, the labor force of
people holding or wanting
jobs increased by 107,000 to
112.4 million
An alternate unemploy-
ment rate, which includes the
more than 1.6 million armed
forces personnel stationed in
the United States, dipped to
A public information ex-
change m the nuclear waste
repository issue will tie held
here today by the U.S.
Department of Energy, and
interested citizens are urged
to attend the 2 to » p.m. forum
at the Community Center.
Linda MeClain, DOE pro-
ject manager, will open the
muting and tetri dan wm
By ROBERT FURLOW
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -
The nation's high unemploy-
ment. a persistent reminder
of the 1981-82 recession, ap-
pears to be declining, accor-
ding to economists who also
caution that the downward
movement will be slow.
Labor Department figures
were due today on the
September rate, and analysts
were saying in advance that
it could be down one- or two-
tenths of a point from the 9.5
percent plateau it reached in
July and August.
The rate, though still high,
has been declining through
most of this year from last
December's 10.6 percent of
the civilian labor force — not
only the highest level of the
CONROE, Texas (API -
Henry Lee Lucas. a drifter
sentenced to 75 years in
prison for one of the 150
murders he claims to have
committed in 16 states, could
face the death penalty if con-
victed under his latest indict-
ment
Lucas, a 47-year-old former
mental patient, was indicted
Thursday on three counts of
capital murder after leading
officers to sites where he
claims to have buried bodies
Lucas was charged with the
deaths at two Houston women
and an unidentified woman.
Frank Newton, an in-
vestigator with the Mon-
tgomery County district at-
torney’s office. Mid it was the
first capital murder charge
against Lucas.
Newton identified the vic-
tims as Laura Dones. 16. of
Houston, Gloria Stephan of
Houston. and an unidentified
woman, but the investigator
was unable to say when or
where the bodies were found
9.1 percent from August's 9 4
percent
recession but the highest in 42
years
Both government and
private apalysts have said
they expect the rate to con-
tinue declining, with com-
panies calling back laid-off
workers or hiring people for
newly created jobs as the
economy expands in its
recovery from the 1981-82
recession. But those analysts
have also Mid the improve-
ment is likely to be slow
Swift Boost for United Way
Swift Independent Packing Co.
provided a big boost to the Deaf
Smith County United Way Fund
drive Thursday when Harold Ec-
ton, general manager, presented
checks and pledges for $12,893.88
woman whose headless body
was found near Plainview in
February 1982; in the March.
1981 strangulation death of
Beverly Joyce Luttrell. 46. of
Odessa, and in the strangula-
tion death of an unidentified
woman whose body was
found last month near
Georgetown
Grand jurors in Fort Bend
County indicted Lucas Sept 7
in the stabbing death of Deion
Marie Wilkinson. 22. of
Houston Her body was found
March 4. 1981, under the
Brazos River Bridge near
Richmond
Thursday's indictments
came after Lucas led officers
to graves sites in wooded
areas in Montgomery County,
but there was no other infor-
mation as to when or where
the murders took place.
Newton said. He said an
autopsy confirmed the
women had been raped.
Newton said that Lucas
spent several days here
leading officers from site to
site where he claims to have
left bodies. Newton said some
of the bodies had been burn-
ed, but he was unable to say
which ones
Ma Stephan was found
stabbed, strangled and sex-
ually abused Oct. 2, 1982 at
the site, near a gravel pit.
Ms. Donee and the uniden-
tified woman were killed at
the locations to which Lucas
brought investigators Of-
flciala aatd Lucas detailed he
eaid were the positions of the
two bodies when he left them
The descriptions closely
raised by citizens in a publie
meeting held here in May
The panelists will include
representatives of DOE and
Battelle's Office of Nuclear
Waste Isolation.
When not participating on
the panel, the scientists will
staff information tables in the
lobby They will have printed
information and will be
available for individual ques-
tions and discussion.
Using this format, Mc-
Clain. some citizens can
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The indictment alleges
Lucas kidnapped. sexually
asMulted and killed the
women
Lucas also has been charg-
ed in the death of his 15-year-
old traveling companion.
Frieda Powell. a runaway
from Jacksonville. Fla
whose remains were found in
Denton County
A pretrial hearing was
scheduled today in that case
before State District Judge
Sam Houston
Mrs. Astorga said the rebel
pilot, whose plane was shot
down Monday 90 miles north
of Managua, waa a member
of the Honduraa-based
Nicaraguan Democratic
Force. Many leaden of the
Force are former officers of
the national guard of late
President Anastasio Somou.
a U.S.-backed rightist who
was deposed by the San-
dinistas in 1979
"North American elements
of the CIA direct the war
against Nicaragua, along
with some Argentinian and
Honduran officers who work
in the same mission," Mid
the pilot, who was brought
before reporters along with
two other rebels.
Ms. Astorga said she sent a
letter Thursday to Secretary
of State George P Shultz pro-
testing the "generous
assistance given by the U.S.
government to mercenary
Somocista forces it has at its
disposal. ”
Amador Mid two former
sesstoms will give pupil a
chance to see all sides of the
waste issue, give them
enough information te
separate fact from rumor,
and make up their own
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which the bodies were found,
authorities said.
"He claims remorse, and
that's why he’s telling about
the killings," said sheriff's
detective Capt Art Collins.
He says he hgs a tough time
sleepingat night."
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -
President Reagan today ac-
cused Democrats of sabotag-
ing a balanced budget and
promised to reduce deficits
by handcuffing the big
spenders "
With his political rhetoric
growing stronger as the 1984
campaign season draws
closer, Reagan charged. "It
is their profligacy, not our
economic recovery program,
that is the source of federal
redink.”
But in a speech prepared
for the Louisville convention
of the National Federation of
Republican Women, Reagan
pledged to "continue the lone-
ly battle to restrain
spending "
Reagan defended his
economic policies, saying
unemployment is on a
downward path with 2.3
million more women holding
jobs now than in 1960. Accom-
panying that, he said, is a 9.7
percent annual growth rate in
the gross national product
last quarter and a reduction
in inflation to 2.6 percent over
the last 12 months.
"But I won't be satisfied
until inflation is zero.”
Reagan Mid. The trouble is
... our opponents refuse to see
any progress, to admit
America is getting well.”
Reagan, whose own record
budget deficits have supplied
the Democrats their political
Economic Committee. "In a
longer-term perspective, the
improvements in the labor
market that have occurred
during the current recovery
compare reasonably well
with prior recoveries '
She added. "Unemploy-
ment is still very high,
however."
Commenting before release
of today's report. Robert
Westcott, an economist with
Wharton Econometrics in
Philadelphia. Mid declines in
the jobless rate are limited by
the amount the nation's
economy can expand, even
during a penod of strong
growth
"You just can't drop from
9.5 percent to 8.5 percent in a
month," he said
Westcott added. "Three
years of very weak economic
performance left unemploy-
ment so high, it's unlikely we
could have anything like full
employment - about6.5per-
cent — before 1987 ”
Still. he noted that the
economy has been creating
300,000 to 400,000 new jobs per
month since last spring And
on behalf of the company and its
employees. Bud Eades, left, a
volunteer worker, accepted on
behalf of United Way. The con-
tribution represented about 10
percent of the total UW goal.
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U S. colonels he identified on-
ly as "Reina" and “Miguel."
and an American known as
"Raymond" were the top CIA
agents in Honduras.
He said the U.S.-registered
DC-3 took off from the jungles
at Honduras’ Olancho pro-
vince, where a former U S
army major directed opera-
tions
"The Americans never flew
with us. they just directed the
flights," Amador said, ad-
ding he was second-in-
command in the rebel air
force.
Intelligence sources in
Washington told The
Associated Press on Thurs-
day the CIA had provided
rebate with at least one of the
planes used In bombing runs
in Nicaragua last month.
The sources said the planes
were part of aid given Eden
Pastors, known as Com
mander Zero, who leads the
Costa Rica-based Revolu-
different topies roarsming area is among sites being
the location of a waste comsidered for the installa-
rip lottery ton of the nation’s first hig-
They are expected to level aaelear waste
Maruos tease of the questloms repository.
• come-and-go at the event II
I they choose not to sit through
I the entire forum. Another
publie forum will be held to
Tulia Saturday beginning at
lla.m.
M Sbe said DOE hopes these
The Honduran-baaed
rebels, meanwhile, said they
mined the coast off
Nicaragua's only oil
unloading port and threaten-
ed to blow up any ap-
proaching oil tanker.
Also in Honduras, police
said Nicaraguan troops at-
tacked the border town at Las
Dificultades and killed a
civilian, the latest in a series
of border incidents that has
strained relations between
the neighboring nations
And in El Salvador, an ar-
The United Way of Deaf Smith County received a
"Swift" boost to its campaign drive Thursday when Swift
Independent Packing Co. contributed checks and pledge*
totaling $12,893,88.
Added to last week’s report of $29,900, the total moved
up to $1,894 before Friday's weekly progress report was
released. The contributions from Swift and its employees
represented 16 p ire tod of the goal of 3125.000
"We're part of the community and we want to support it
in whatever way we can." Swift manager Harold Ecton
said Thursday "I am proud of our employees I thought it
was goad participation for a company that's been here
tees than a year "
Ecton said the employee pledges amounted to
$12,243.88. Of that, 64 percent of the salaried employees
made a pledge and 54 percent of the hourly workers con-
tributed on the payroll deduction plan
ammunition, acknowledged
that "No one should minimize
the danger of those budget
deficits."
But he accused the
Democrats of "using every
trick in the book to sabotage
what the American people ni-
ly want a balanced federal
budget...Incredibly, the
liberal House leadership, the
same people who now take
the well of the House each
morning to decry deficits,
claimed that a balanced
budget would wreck our
economy
The president’s prepared
speech to the women's group
barely mentioned the
women's issue, which has
become a political liability
pundits and pollsters refer to
as the gender gap.
Without citing his ad-
ministration’s figures, which
have been challenged by
women's political groups and
the Civil Rights Commission.
Reagan said, "I want you to
know that back in
Washington, we're appoin-
ting top-quality people to
responsible positions
throughout the government.
And because we’re looking
for the best, we're appointed
many women to key jobs ..
Throughout the administra-
tion. women are involved in
making the serious decisions
that are shaping America’s
destiny.
sion high of more than 1.8
million at the end of 1962
■Whites accounted for
most of this improvement as
blacks continued to account
for a disproportionate share
of the discouraged total (31
percent)." the report Mid
in addition the number of
people who have been looking
for work for six months or
longer rose slightly — to 2.506
million from August 's total of
2 447 million
The report Mid about 2.9
million jobs have been
created this year
Economists have Mid those
increases should continue,
even if the recovery is slow-
ing down as many believe if
business can keep opening
jobs faster than Americans
stream into the labor force
the unemployment rate will
decline even further
This gain was about even-
ly divided between adult men
and women, with no ap-
preciable rise for teenagers.''
the report said.
Commenting on today’s
report, Janet L Norwood, the
commissioner of labor
statistics, told a meeting at
the congressional Joint
Lucas was found mentally
competent to stand trial on
Sept 13 and pleaded guilty in
Montague, Texas, to murder-
ing Kate Rich, 80. of Ring
gold. He was sentenced to 75
years in prison
Lucas was convicted in 1960
of murdering his 74-year-old
mother and spent six years in
a mental institution before he
was paroled from a Michigan
prison in 1970
He also faces charges in the
slaying of an unidentified
By FILADELFO ALEMAN
Aasoclated Press Writer
MANAGUA, Nicaragua
(AP) - A captured rebel
pilot claims CIA officers are
directing anti-government at-
tacks from Honduran bases,
prompting Nicaragua to pro-
test the "generous
assistance” provided to the
rebels by Washington.
At a Managua news con-
d,
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