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Democrats battle for
Texas Hispanic vote
-IN BRIEF
Compiled from Associated Press and
United Press international reports
From AP and UPI
The three Democratic presidential
candidates wooed Texas Democrats
yesterday, making a heavy bid for the
large Hispanic vote that is expected to
be the key in tomorrow's caucuses.
Despite intense efforts by Gary Hart
and Jesse Jackson, there were strong
indications that the complicated voting
procedure and endorsements of nearly
every major state Democrat left front-
runner Walter Mondale ready to ride
off into the sunset with many of the 169
national convention delegates at stake.
ALL THREE contenders stumped
through San Antonio, the heart of the
Hispanic area that has produced one of
the major elements of victory in recent
Texas races.
Jackson sought to broaden his Rain-
bow Coalition by adding Hispanic votes,
but as elsewhere in his campaign this
year his Texas audiences were heavily
black. Still he was favored to add to his
delegate strength in the Lone Star
State, and would do especially well in
Houston.
Speaking to about 200 well-wishers at
Tyler's city airport, Jackson said, "I
expect to go to Nicaragua and meet
with the contra group," the CIA-backed
rebels fighting in the Central American
country.,
"WE CAN USE our minds this time
and relate to the contra group," he said.
"This time around the people can come
together."
lmon aaw
... blasts Reagan farm policy
However, later he told a reporter that
he meant to say that he would meet
with the Contadora group - four Latin
American nations seeking peace in the
region.
Mondale, talking to a group of far-
mers at a farm outside Waco, said far-
mers were faced with "perhaps the
most severe threat since Herbert
Hoover."
He said that if President Reagan's
policies continue, "we're close to a
point when what we've known as family
farms will be gone."
Going into Texas Mondale had 1,212
of the 1,967 delegates needed to win the
nomination, while Hart had 644 and
Jackson 209.
Reagan backs cuts
WASHINGTON - The Senate, in-
ching toward endorsement of a $144
billion deficit-reduction package
that President Reagan backs, heard
a warning yesterday from the
president against seeking military
spending cuts beyond those he
already supports.
After twice refusing moves this
week to trim deficits by freezing in-
creases in government spending, the
Senate appeared ready to take a
more moderate election-year cour-
se with a combination of tax in-
creases and restraint in military and
domestic spending.
Pope asks for peace
SEOUL, South Korea - Pope John
Paul II called for reconciliation bet-
ween North and South Korea and "a
more humansociety of true justice
and peace" as he began a one-day
pilgrimage to Asia in South Korea
yesterday.
The pontiff, on his first of five days
in South Korea, expressed hope that
the communist and anti-communist
halves of the divided nation will be
reunited and political repression will
lessen in both.
Students drew police fire at a
demonstration near the seminary
where Pope John Paul II was
meeting with priests and
seminarians.
Reporters accompanying the
papal entourage were affected by
the tear gas fumes drifting from
Sungkyunkwan University where
police broke up about 1,000 demon-
strating students.
The students were demanding in-
creased campus autonomy and
protesting forced induction of young
dissidents into the armed forces.
The protesters were apparently not
demonstrating against the pope.
Phil. building on fire
PHILADELPHIA - A fire burned
out of control at a large vacant
building in Philadelphia's main
business district yesterday, with 'a
"huge wall of flames" spreading to
adjacent Center City structures,
authorities said.
No serious injuries were reported.
Fire officials said the blaze at the
six-story Harrison Building, was the
worst they had ever seen in the
business section.
Syria calls Israeli
prisoners spies
BEIRUT, Lebanon - A Syrian of-
ficial said yesterday that three
Israelis captured by Syria's soldiers
in northern Lebanon were "on a
spying mission" and opened fire
when spotted by a Syrian patrol.
The official, who spoke on con-
dition he not be named, rejected
Israel's claim that the three worked
at an Israeli-government offica in
Lebanon and strayed* into Syrian-
controlled northern Lebanon where
they ran into a Syrian patrol.
Car, retail sales up
DETROIT - The -Big Three
automakers yesterday reported a 30
percent increase in sales for April,
and a 36.7 percent increase in the
final 10 days alone
General Motors Corp., Ford Motor
Co. and Chrysler Corp. sold a com-
bined 686,887 cars in April, com-
pared to 550,441 last April. In the
final 10-day period, the three firms
sold 263,932 vs. 217,056 in 1983.
So far in 1984, GM, Ford and
Chrysler have sold 2,581,936 autos, a
33.2 percent increase from 1,937,815
last year.
Rocket failures fixed
WASHINGTON - The head of the
space agency said yesterday
engineers have overcome problems
with two types of rocket motors that
caused the loss of two $75 million
satellites, the near-loss of a third,
and postponed two space shuttle
flights.
NASA administrator James Beggs
received a report that a McDonnell-
Douglas team has found a way to
determine which rocket nozzle will
fail in space and which will wor.
Battle erupts near
Costa Rican border
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica - A fierce
battle erupted yesterday between
Costa Rican and Nicaraguan forces
at a border outpost, San Jose sour-
ces said.
The fighting at Penas Blancas, 170
miles north of the Costa Rican
capital of San Jose, seemed another
indication that the regional violence
was spreading, as the peace-
seeking Contadora Group warned in
a meeting that ended Tuesday.
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