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Good Loral CHILD WELFARE Board members meet at noon Wednesday at Mr. Gatti's in La Villita Shopping Center. Stale FEDERAL OFFICIALS have sent a nationwide bulletin alerting agencies to a fatal accident at a State Fair of Texas amusement ride and are monitoring an investigation to determine if a ban on similar rides is needed. TEN PASSENGERS and two crew members were evacuated from a Rio Airways airplane at Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport when a fire broke out in the plane's right engine after it flew in from San Angelo. There were no injuries.

A 17-YEAR-OLD girl employed at a fast food restaurant in Houston was found safe Monday after being abducted during a robbery Sunday. National PRESIDENT REAGAN signed legislation Monday extending supplemental unemployment benefits for 18 months to help the nation's jobless. The coverage is provided to unemployed workers whose six-month benefits have expired. THE FEDERAL National Mortgage Association says its new $1.6 billion program can provide affordable mortgages for 26,000 families who might be unable to buy homes in today's market. The company said it was making the 12-month offering in conjunction with 199 mortgage lending companies.

A JUDGE WHO again postponed the much-delayed trial of John Z. De Lorean Monday accused CBS News of "interference" and wasting taxpayers' money for broadcasting secret FBI videotapes in the cocaine trafficking case. International A TOKYO POLICE official said today that a force of 20,000 officers will be mobilized each day to provide "airtight" security for President Reagan's four-day visit to Japan beginning Nov. 9. FEDERAL POLICE in Sao Paulo, Brazil, have arrested reputed Mafia ringleader Tomasso Buscetta, his wife and four others on charges of international drug trafficking, a spokesman says.

Sports DEL RIO RAMS get ready to host Holmes Friday at 7:30 p.m. in 1983 home finale. See Page 6 ST. LOUIS Cardinals miss three field goals in overtime to enable New York Giants to gain a 20-20 tie. See Page 7 Classifieds 9-10 Comics 8 Crossword 8 Dear Abby 3 Deaths 2 Editorial 4 Horoscope 8 Living 3 Markets 5 Sports TV Log 9 DEL RIO AND VICINITY: Mostly cloudy, windy and cool with 20 percent chance of thundershowers today, decreasing cloudiness and cool tonight, sunny and mild Wednesday.

Low tonight lower 50s; high today and Wednesday in the mid-70s. Winds out of the north at 15 to 25 miles per hour and gusty this afternoon, near 10 miles per hour tonight. Wind advisory for Lake Amistad. High Monday 84. Sunset 7:05 p.m.

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Marines, Army Rangers invade Grenada BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AP) As many as 1,500 U.S. Army Rangers and Marines invaded Marxist-ruled Grenada from the air today along with 300 soldiers from six Caribbean nations. President Reagan said they captured Grenada's two airports, and a U.S. official said 30 Soviets and 600 Cubans were seized. Pentagon sources said Rangers suffered casualties, but gave no details.

A ham radio report from some of the 750 U.S. medical students on Grenada said a U.S. helicopter was shot down, and a Barbados radio station reported three Cubans killed and 22 wounded in fighting at an airport construction site. Cuba's official Prensa Latina news agency said the airport workers suffered unspecified casualties, including some deaths, after being "attacked by powefu) Yankee forces." A senior U.S. official in Washington the 600 Cubans seized would be allowed to leave on a Cuban ship.

The official, who requested anonymity, said the handling of the 30 Soviets was under consideration. A senior U.S. military official said 400-500 Marines landed by helicopter at Pearls Airport on the east coast of Grenada, and that 700 to 1,000 Rangers parachuted in near the island's other airport at Point Salines, 16 miles southwest, where the Cubans were building a 10.000-foot runway. He said there was some ground fire at midmorning as the troops advanced toward the capital of St George's, but that initial an tiaircraft fire encountered by the helicopters had been "suppressed." Reagan, in a Washington news conference, said he wanted to withdraw the American troops "as quickly as possible," and House Speaker O'Neill said the be in Grenada "five to seven days or less Reagan's announcement today followed a broadcast by Radio Free Grenada that helicopter- borne U.S. paratroopers had landed and taken both airports on the island in the eastern Caribbean.

The broadcast said there was fierce fighting at the main airport. The other airport is being built by Cuban workers, and Barbados state-owned Caribbean Broadcasting Co. said three Cubans were killed and 22 wounded in fighting there It gave no source day after the military regime that seized power last week effectively blocked evacuation of as many as 300 Americans from Grenada, which sits about 100 miles southwest of Barbados and 100 miles north of Venezuela. Reagan told a Washington news conference that the United States acceded to a request from the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States to go into Grenada to oppose the "brutal group of leftist thugs" running the nation He said in addition American forces that those volved came from Antigua. See MARINES, Page 2 to in- Del Rio Nev A DALLAS.

7 151-700 Id Vol. 54 No. 220 198.3 Del Rio Publishing Inc. All Rights Phone 775-1551 Del Rio, Texas 78840 Tuesday Afternoon, ucrooer 25, 1983 Copy 10 Pages Today Bombing death toll climbs to 207 BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Marines were ordered into foxholes and bunkers today near the rubble of the bombed U.S. command post after three suspicious vehicles were seen at the airport, a Marine spokesman said.

Rescuers dug four more bodies from the shattered command post building, raising the American death toll from Sunday's bombing by a suicide terrorist to 207, according to the Pentagon. French officials said 35 French troops were killed, 15 were wounded and 23 were missing in a bombing at a French compound seconds after the attack on the Americans. "There have been three vehicles spotted driving around the area," said Capt. Wayne Jones. "There are suspicions that they could contain explosives." Marines went on their highest state of alert and officers warned reporters to get in the bunkers or leave the area.

Marine spokesman Maj. Robert Jordan said if anyone approached the gate to the Marine compound, "It will be a shoot-to-kill situation." Airport officials received an anonymous bomb threat, and Marine guards took up firing positions around the British Embassy building in downtown Beirut that houses U.S. Embassy offices in the Lebanese capital. American press attache John Stewart said the 45-minute embassy alert was triggered by "a warning of a potential threat. Later we were told we could resume normal activities.

And we did." Stewart, however, said the atmosphere was extremely tense. The British Embassy is on Beirut's seafront, five miles north of the Marine base and has housed American diplomats since a suicide terrorist bombed the U.S. Embassy April 18. Some 300 Marine replacements for comrades killed or wounded in Sunday's terrorist bombing took up their positions at the airport, where the U.S. contingent of a four-nation peacekeeping force is based.

Gen. Paul X. Kelley, commandant of the Marine Corps, also arrived today for an inspection ordered by President Reagan in the wake of the attack. Jones said Marine commander Col. Timothy Geraghty ordered the entire contingent on the highest state of alert as the three vehicles drove back and forth near the airport.

Jordan said there were more- bodies buried in the ruins of the four-story glass and concrete building. "We are now to the second and first floors where the majority of the Marines were sleeping and we've taken out many of those We have some more to go," he said. See DEATH TOLL. Page 2 Sens Herald photo by Sara Saenz LOOK, MOM, NO HANDS Eleven year old Jason Schilling balances on his bike after school Monday. The youngster is in sixth grade at Memorial Elementary School.

He is the son of Mrs. Lois Schilling. Shultz says Iran, Syria and USSR may share blame WASHINGTON (AP) Although proof is lacking, Secretary of State George P. Shultz says the Soviet Union, Iran and Syria all could have a hand in the devastating attack on American Marines in Beirut because they are "enemies of peace." "The enemies of peace in Lebanon are the enemies of peace in the Middle East, and it is not a coincidence that these elements have been bitter opponents of the Multinational Force in Lebanon of which our Marines are a part," Shultz told members of Congress Monday. Shultz also disclosed he is going to Europe later this week for urgent consultations with the foreign ministers of Britain, France and Italy, which also have contributed troops to the force in Lebanon.

It was learned elsewhere that the meeting will be in Paris, probably on Thursday. Shultz also announced the administration is sending a high- level mission to Israel next week "to review with our Israeli friends the situation in Lebanon as well as broader issues of Middle East security." Shultz said in his prepared statement that "President Reagan is determined that we will not be driven out of Lebanon by the enemies of peace." The actual meeting with the lawmakers was closed. Shultz said the U.S. government does not know who is responsible for the attack on the Marines, but said that while both Iran and Syria have denied responsibility, "It is not difficult to detect who are the enemies of peace in Lebanon." He listed Syria, the Soviet Union and Iran. He said Syria seems determined to make Lebanon once again a satellite or province of "Greater Syria." He said the Soviet Union "arms Syria with the most sophisticated weapons and encourages its hegemonistic policies," while Iran is "the regime of fanatics with which we have had earlier experience He cast a cloud of suspicion over all three.

"Iranian elements in Lebanon operate from behind Syrian lines and are allied with Syria," he said. "Syria must bear a share of responsibility for any Iranian actions in Lebanon whether or not Syria knew of any specific terrorist plans. If the Marines are withdrawn and the United States is perceived to have been driven out of Lebanon, Shultz said "radical and rejectionist elements will have scored a major victory" and the message will be sent that relying on the Soviet Union pays off and that relying on the United States is a fatal Hospital to hear emergency room service proposals By CYNTHIA GARZA News-Herald Writer Val Verde Memorial Hospital Board of Directors will meet in special session Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. in the Lab Conference Room of the hospital to hear presentations from firms providing emergency room physicians. Hospital Administrator Larry Dorsey announced during last week's meeting that five firms were contacted and will make presentations regarding their emergency room service.

Firms making presentations Wedensday include Spectrum Emergency and Medical Associates, both of Dallas, Emergency Consultants of Petoskey, National Emergency Services of Bedford, Texas, and Emergency Physicians Associates of San Antonio. The meeting is open to the public, and board member John Henry Scale encouraged citizens to attend. During a Sept. 21 meeting, the board opted to listen to presentations from several firms offering emergency room physicians before contracting with any one group. It was during that meeting that the board listened to a report concerning room operations by Dr.

James Ray Wood. Wood undertook a three-month study of the type of cases physicians handle in the emergency room to provide information to the medical staff on these emergencies. According to Dr. Wood's study, 90 percent of the emergency room cases were actually non- emergency cases. The reason, he cites for the high percentage is that the waiting time to see a physician is less in an emergency room than in a private physicians office.

"I personally don't have any complaints on how our emergency room is being handled from a medical standpoint," said Dr. Wood. Currently, VVMH does not employ a full-time doctor on staff in the emergency room, but Dorsey said the hospital was not violating any laws by not having a physician on staff 24 hours a day. The board also is expected to take action on two items that were tabled for later discussion during an Oct. 18 meeting.

The board will discuss the hospital's Quality Assurance program and a contract for the treatment of renal dialysis patients. Sheila Lee, quality assurance coordinator for the hospital, presented a report on patient care during last week's board meeting The board is expected to vote on whether to implement the new quality assurance plan. Board members will also discuss a contract to sell five dialysis machines. Dr. Steve F.

Montoya of San Angelo, VVMH's consultant for dialysis patients, submitted a contract for the purchase of the machines. In addition, Dr. Montoya said he would like to operate the dialysis patient clinic at the hospital..