The Baytown Sun from Baytown, Texas • Page 14

12-A THE BAYTOWN SUN Thursday, May 14, 1987 Mexicans linked to Contra aid effort MEXICO CITY (AP) Mexico's leading opposition party is once again under furious attack from the ruling party and leftists, this time over reports it was asked to aid Nicaragua's Contra rebels in exchange for U.S. backing in Mexican elections. No one has alleged the conservative National Action Party did anything more than hear a proposal, and party leaders deny even doing that much. But the mere hint of a link to the Reagan administration has drawn charges that party members are "bad Mexicans" or "traitors" who "give information to the enemies of the country." The storm broke this week after The Miami Herald reported on alleged U.S. ad- ministration tactics to try to pressure some Latin American governments, including Mexico, to support the Contras against Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista leaders.

The PAN, as the party is called for its Spanish initials, denies that conservative fund-raiser Carl R. "Spitz" Channel! ever asked it to donate $210,000 to a pro-Contra advertising campaign as the newspaper reported. PAN leaders also said they would investigate and possibly expel party member Ricardo Villa Escalera, who admits meeting Channell in August 1986 but says Contra aid was never discussed. Villa Escalera once ran unsuccessfully for governor of Puebla state as the PAN candidate. However, he and the party both deny he is a party official or that he represented himself as such in Washington.

The report nevertheless prompted a renewal of old charges that the PAN, which is strongest in northern Mexico, is a front for U.S. interests in Mexico and that it secretly receives, if not solicits, foreign help in campaigns. The charges come both from the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party or PRI, which has held the presidency and all 31 governorships since 1929, and from leftists scattered among tiny opposition parties. Newspapers were filled Wednesday with denunciations of the PAN. Deaths and funerals Fiji governor general orders rebels to halt SUVA, Fiji (AP) The country's most influential chieftain Thursday called on troops who arrested the prime minister and Cabinet to end their rebellion, and said he was assuming control of the government.

Governor General Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, normally a figurehead, declared a state of emergency and issued his appeal on a commercial radio station. Ganilau, an ethnic Fijian, is the representative of Queen Elizabeth II, Fiji's head of state. Ganilau appealed to the mutinous soldiers who earlier Thursday arrested Prime Minister Timoci Bavadra, recently elected on a non-aligned and anti-nuclear platform, and the entire Cabinet to release their captives and return to the barracks. Ganilau said he was assuming control of government in this Commonwealth nation as prescribed by the British- drafted constitution in the absence of government ministers. Radio station FM-96 would not say how it received his taped message.

The station planned to rebroadcast it every 30 minutes. The rebels ordered state-run Radio Fiji not to broadcast Ganilau's message. At a news conference hours after the 10 a.m. bloodless takeover, Rabuka appealed for calm and said he wanted things to run normally. The military takeover followed weeks of racial unrest triggered by the April 11 general election.

The polling put in power for the first time a government dominated by ethnic Indians, who slightly outnumber ethnic Fijians. THOMAS H. PURSLEY GALVESTON Services Jor Thomas H. Pursley, 67, will be held ul 10 a.m. Friday al Firs! Presbyterian Church in Galvesion with the Rev.

Thomas Donovan of- Visitation will be 5 p.m. Thursday at J. Levy and Brothers Funeral Home in Galvesion. Pursley, who was born in Sedaliu, died Monday at St. Mary's Hospital in Galveston.

He moved to Galvesion in 1945 and served as an executive board member of the Electrical Workers Local Union 527 from 1958-1962. He was elected business manager in 1975 and also served as an officer of the Galvesion Building Trades Council and as chairman of the Texas Stale Apprenticeship Committee. He also served as secretary- 1907 Motjtlnet Incoroor Now turn your car into a conversation piece. GTE Mobilnet introduces cellular telephone service to Galveston. With cellular service you can make telephone calls from places a conventional telephone just doesn't exist.

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He is survived by his wife, Bonnie Pursley of Galvesion; a daughter, Barbara Newberry of Los Angeles; a son and daughter-in-law, Don and Debbie Pursley of Texas City; a brother, Earl Pursley of Tulsa; iwo grandchildren, Pam and Donny Pursley of Texas City; and a nephew, Dickie Pursley of West Fork, Ark. Pallbearers will be R.B. Luwhorn, Gene Harrison, Eddie Joe Thomas, Orville Tale, Harry Bexley, Buck Pedigo, Ward Parker and Jack Moore. Honorary pallbearers will be Bill Clausen, Paul Sumrull, Red Balderach, Marcel Herringion, Boyd Chipman, Leo Johnny Hedges, Sonny Bertolinu, Steve Greenberg, Douglas Lee, Gerald Mulliu and Owen Groves. In lieu of other remembrances, the family requests that donations be made to the American Cancer Socie- 0'.

Services are under the direction of J. Levy and Brothers Funeral Home in Galvesion. GUNTER Services for Billy Joe Gunler, 53, of Cove will be held at 2 p.m. Friday ul Navarre's Paul U. Lee Chapel in Baylown with the Rev.

Danny Biddy A resident of the area, Gimter died Wednesday at his home. He was an Army veteran and a graduate of Robert E. Lee High School. He was also a reiired shift supervisor al Mobay Chemicals arid a member of the Church of Christ. He is survived by his Dorothy Gunler oj Cove; one son, Bill Wayne Gunler of Mont Belvieu; his parenls, J.D.

and Ella Gunler of Baytown; and a sisler and brother-in-law, Marge and Bill Fowler of Buytown. Burial will be al While Chapel Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Butch Olive, Earl Solis, Harry Hutter, Mike Mesisk, Ronnie Tolleson, Everett Solieau, Sieve Galloway and George GulloNvuy. Services ure under the direction Navarre's Paul U. Lee Funeral home of Baytown.

Services held in Mansfield for Maj. William T. DuBose MANSFIELD Services for Maj. William T. DuBose, 35, of Mansfield, son-in-law of George and Mary Cushman of Baytown, were held May 12 at St.

Jude's Catholic Church in Mansfield. Maj. DuBose died May 9 while jogging. He is survived by his wife, Judy Cushman DuBose of Mansfield; two sons, Chris and Sean DuBose of Mansfield: his parents, Charles and Betty DuBose of Greenville, S.C.; one brother, Maj. Benjamin DuBose of Falls Church, one sister, Katherine Bujmgarner of Greenville, S.C.; and his grandparents, Mr.

and Mrs. Benjamin MacMahan of Greenville, S.C. Numerous aunts and uncles also survive. Burial was at Calvary Cemetery in Mansfield. NOTICE On Page 1 of the pullout portion of the Home Improvement Grand Slam supplement dropping in all markets on May 13-14th the copy for the weight set is incorrect.

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