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School sniper survivor of Jonestown suicides New Braunfeh) Sunday, February 28,1984 9A LOS ANGELES (AP) A survivor of the Peoples Temple mass suicide may have been reliving the horror of his family's deaths when he fired on a schoolyard, killing a little girl and wounding 13 people before killing himself, his former attorney said Saturday. "He was a young ex-college student who'd gone to (South America) to be with his family. In the Rev. Jim Jones he was looking for the Utopian sort of life it seemed they had down there," attorney Marcus Topel said. More than 900 people committed suicide or were killed at Jones' Peoples Temple cult settlement at Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978.

Topel represented Tyrone Mitchell, who shot himself Friday, during a grand jury investigation of the Jonestown massacre. A girlfriend Mid the victims included Mitchell's parents, grandmother, four sisters and a brother. "He came back without a family and his belief in this guy (Jones) completely shuttered. You wonder what sort of distress creates" attacks like Friday's "in this case you don't have to look very far," Topel said. At 2:23 p.m.

Friday, just as the weekend began for youngsters at the 49th Street Elementary School, Mitchell, 28, opened fire with a 12-gauge shotgun and a rifle from a house across the street, killing 10-year- old Shala Eubanks on the crowded playground, police said. Among those wounded were 11 other children, a passer-by and schoolyard supervisor Albert Jones, SO, who was hit in the foot as he tried to reach Shala. Jones said he tried four times to reach the child but gunfire pinned him down. "I believe he was definitely going to keep me from getting to the little girl," he said. Police lobbed a dozen tear gas canisters into the white Victorian house, then used a battering ram to break down the door.

The body of Mitchell, who rented a second-story apartment from his uncle, Willie Lee Mitchell, was found inside. "Who knows that when he was sitting in his house, he wasn't recreating what happened down there," Topel said. "This is not to diminish the horror of what happened, but it's sort of a footnote to another horror story." Looking for a knockout Mondale hopes for another big victory in New Hampshire CONCORD, N.H. (AP) John Glenn talked about his days as an astronaut, Gary Hart predicted President Reagan will cut Social Security if reelected and Walter Mondale went on a hand-shaking tour Saturday as Democratic presidential candidates fanned out across New Hampshire. Mondale is hoping for a knockout blow in Tuesday's national kickoff primary here and his rivals are seeking a reversal of the former vice president's landslide victory in Iowa.

Candidates descended on shopping malls throughout the state as campaign time grew short. "I believe Yankee independence is going to come through on Tuesday," Glenn told a rally at a shopping development across Main Street from the Statehouse. He added that New Hampshire voters would not "be led around by what happened before." What happened before was that the Ohio senator finished a disappointing fifth among the contenders who competed in Iowa. At another stop Saturday, Glenn, talked at length about his astronaut days for the first time in his presidential campaign. "I had my life out on the line and we felt it was worth it for the benefit of what it would do for the country," he said.

Glenn has spent much of his campaign downplaying his astronaut career to his time spent as a Marine, a businessman and a 10-year veteran of the Senate. Neither Glenn nor his aides said why he decided to begin talking more about his career as an astronaut. Mondale walked through a large shopping mall near Portsmouth shaking hands and kissing a baby. Among the on-lookers were a number of union officials who have been organizing their members on Mondale's behalf. Mike Fischer of Bridgeport, a member of the Operating Engineers Union, said he had been in New Hampshire about 10 days working among the union's 800 to 900 members in the state.

He said that four years ago, up to 40 percent of the members of his union voted for Reagan. "They won't do that again," he said. Mondale did not deliver a speech at the mall, but later talked to reporters and continued his theme of attacking Reagan and generally acting as if the Democratic nomination race is over. "I think we'll do very well on Tuesday," he said. Mondale cited the Consumer Price Index on Friday which showed higher telephone, fuel and health care costs and said, "Across the board this president, Mr.

Reagan, has proven he will not stand up for the average American." At a retirement home in Berlin and later at a news conference, Hart aimed his attacks at Reagan rather than going after Mondale as he often has in the past. "They (the Reagan administration) are not going to cut on the military side," said the Colorado senator. "That leaves only entitlements Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid." Later, Hart became an honorary lumberjack at a woodsmen's log-cutting and ax-throwing competition near Milan. 'Bubble Boy' buried in Conroe CONROE, Texas (AP) The 12-year-old boy who spent all but 15 days of his life in a sterile plastic bubble never flinched in his struggle for survival and his life was a triumph of science and of the heart, a priest said Saturday at his funeral. David "had the perfect excuse to hide from life, but he did not," the Rev.

Laurence Connelly told 300 mourners at the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic church in Conroe, about 40 miles north of Houston. "David lived life. David was the type of young man who lived with both guns blazing," said Connelly. David, whose last name never was disclosed at the Doctor cleared for his part in execution AUSTIN (AP) East Texas medical society officials have decided that a prison doctor did no wrong by examining Charlie Brooks' veins before Brooks became the nation's only convict to be executed by lethal injection. The Walker-Madison-Trinity County Medical Society said Dr.

Ralph Gray, then the state prisons' medical director, did not violate the Texas Medical Association policy barring physicians from participating in executions by lethal injection. A complaint against Gray was filed a year ago by Charles Sullivan of Austin, director of the prison reform group Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants. In a letter received by Sullivan last week, the Huntsville-based medical society said, "Gray's activities prior to Mr. Charles Brooks' execution do not, in our view, constitute participation in the execution as we have interpreted the policy statement of the Texas Medical Association. "Therefore, we recommend that no disciplinary action be taken," the letter said.

Sullivan is not satisfied. He said his organization will "continue with something." Gray, now retired, has said he looked at Brooks' veins before the Dec. 7,1982, execution. He said he did not think that constituted a violation of the TMA policy. "I just wanted to be sure that whoever did the work would not have great difficulty.

I was satisfying my own curiosity as a doctor," Gray said recently. "I don't think that violates anything at all." The Walker-Madison-Trinity County Medical Society agreed. "Dr. Gray has indicated that his cursory examination was made out of personal curiosity, at a time and place distant to the execution, and simply to ascertain whether the person who would insert the intravenous catheter might experience difficulties in doing so," the letter to Sullivan said. request of his parents, was born without immunity to disease and forced to spend all but the final two weeks of his life in plastic enclosures.

He died Wednesday at Texas Children's Hospital, just 15 days after he hugged and kissed his mother for the first time when doctors removed him from his bubble in order to treat him for illnesses stemming from a bone marrow transplant operation. Connelly said David's life "was one of the fullest I have ever witnessed." He said the love and comfort of David's family, friends, neighbors and of the medical staff in Houston gave the youngster the courage to live as long as he did. "It has been your love that has made this not a failure but a triumph a triumph of science and of the heart," Connelly said, At the funeral were David's father, mother and 15- year-old sister. His mother clutched a hankerchief, but sat dry-eyed thoughout the service. After the service, the body was taken to Conroe Memorial Cemetery for burial.

About 200 family friends attended a prayer service Friday night. On trial Providence mayor faces exortion, assault charges PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) Mayor Vincent A. Cianci who led this city during a decade of economic revival, goes on trial this week on felony charges including attempted extortion and assault and faces a political storm that threatens to oust him from office. Controversy isn't new to the former assistant state attorney general, who became mayor in 1974 as a Republican and is now in the second year of his third term.

In 1966 he was accused of raping a woman at gunpoint, and although the charge was dropped a prosecutor in his trial, which starts Monday, has refocused attention on the allegation. As mayor-elect, he was cleared of allegations he paid an insurance claims adjuster in 1970 to alter an accident report. And now, in addition to the trial, he faces a recall campaign. Even his supporters wonder whether "Buddy," as he is popularly known, will survive this time. He was indicted last spring by a state grand jury on charges of trying to extort $500,000 from a man he said was having an affair with his estranged wife.

He pleaded innocent to that charge as well as to assault, kidnapping and an additional charge of attempted extortion involving a friend of his wife. TURKEY MVIET ONION SYRIA Mantfifi ifao'reported Get 6 a ci Iranian Hoops in tni'j mounum IRAQ Basra Iran so tar he land ojpiure me city a man target oUs July Mfftft 200 Iraq says it threw back Iranian attacks on Basra Iran, Iraq battle for key port city By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Iran and Iraq reported fierce ground fighting Saturday, saying they repulsed repeated assaults north of the Iraqi port city of Basra while their air forces made out daylong bombing raids. A communique on Baghdad radio said Iraqi forces repulsed a two- pronged Iranian attack overnight in the Iraqi marshlands east of the Basra-Al Amarah highway. IRNA, the official Iranian news agency, said the Iran repulsed four Iraqi counterattacks along the strategic highway, where the Iranians claim to have seized several stretches of the road. It said the Iraqi counterattack came in the al-Uzair region near the highway, about 18 miles west of the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

The official Iraqi News Agency said the latest Iranian offensive in their border war was directed against the center of the frontline, and that Iraqi forces were holding. It said both sides were regrouping along the southern battlefront and "getting ready to finally determine the whole military situation in the impending battle there." In what it called an unprecedented feat in the course of the war, the Iranian agency said Iranian anti-aircraft gunners shot down six Iraqi helicopter gunships, killing all aboard. IRNA reported "savage" bombardment by Iraqi jets on two towns in the Kurdish region of western Iran, and said Iran's own warplanes raided 10 Iraqi towns and cities, some deep inside the country, in retaliation for missile and air force strikes Friday. An Iraqi military spokesman was quoted as saying 1,970 Iranian soldiers were killed in overnight fighting, and a total of 10,970 Iranians had been slain since Iran began its assault Wednesday. Iran has said its forces killed or wounded more than 7,000 Iraqi soldiers, including 600 in Saturday's fighting.

The afternoon Iraqi air raids struck the Kurdish towns of Baneh and Ilam in west Iran, where IRNA said 15 people were killed and 27 hurt. Associated Press correspondent Mohammed Salam, who went to Basra with other journalists from Baghdad via government helicopter, said Iranian shells hit the city early Saturday. Controversial Heatly dead at 71 PADUCAH, Texas (AP) Former State Rep. W.S. "Bill" Heatly, a farm boy who rose to become one of the most powerful and controversial figures in the Texas Legislature, died early Saturday in his sleep.

He was 71. Heatly was first elected to the Legislature in 1954 and before he decided not to seek re-election in 1982, he had become the dean of the Texas House. During his 12 years as chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Heatly never bothered to conceal the joy with which he wielded his immense power. "There was nobody who could say, 'Hell, with more meaning than Bill Heatly," the late State Rep. R.B.

McAlister of Lubbock once said. "I think many members have felt a needless inhibition because they misinterpreted the Heatly growl," McAlister once said of Heatly's reputation for intimidating other lawmakers. He made enemies for his reluctance to spend state funds on what he considered "superfluous" things and for his generosity to favored institutions and agencies. Heatly often was accused of using the appropriations bill, with its dearth or wealth of funds, for state schools and other local institutions and to blackjack represen- tatives into voting for his and ex-Speaker Gus Mutscher's way. Friends said he often obtained state jobs for deserving youngsters, but he also was known for using his influence to put relatives on the payroll.

Colleagues sometimes complained about Heatly's heavy-handedness, saying he called influential people in their districts to put political pressure on them. But Heatly defended the practice, saying he saw nothing wrong with practical politics and said he considered it commendable that legislators can be influenced by hometown voters instead of Austin lobbyists. "Just like most of us who have devoted most of our lives to public service, he has probably inspired a few bad names but that is because he is a man of strong feelings and convictions who does not hesitate to speak his mind," then Gov. Preston Smith said of Heatly at a barbecue in 1969 honoring him for 10 years as chairman. "Bill's forthrightness has always inspired the respect, if definitely not the smiles, of those on opposing sides of various issues," said Smith.

Heatly resigned as the committee chairman in 1972, saying his name was being used as a political issue in the speakership race between Rep. Rayford Price of Palestine and Rep. DeWitt Hale of Corpus Christi. Paul Cedillo, Jr. Attorney at Law 352 Landa St.

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