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16-B Ofalucaton fiaflg Sfeiua Friday Morning, September 18,1987 Bork bristles over charges WASHINGTON (AP) Supreme Court nominee Robert H. Bork, complaining of unfair attacks by critics, bristled Thursday over an accusation he favors unbridled presidential power and complained that his record is being misrepresented. Bork, in his third day of questioning by the Senate Judiciary Committee and facing a fourth day Friday, engaged in a tense exchange with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, over his views on presidential authority and expressed frustration about a news report describing his denial that he is a racist.

Meanwhile, two senators who are considered key swing votes on the committee expressed fresh reservations. "Where's the predictability in Judge Bork?" asked Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa. "What troubles me is the very significant pronounced shifts" Bork has made in a 25- year career as lawyer, scholar and federal appeals court judge, Specter said. He added that Bork's testimony before committee raised doubts about the nominee's assertion that his judicial philosophy rests on interpreting the intent of the Constitution's framers.

Sen. Dennis DeConcini, also considered undecided, praised Bork for forthrightness. But DeConcini, during a break in the hearings, said in response to a reporter's question, "I understand his explanation today but I can't say I'm more satisfied." During questioning by the committee, Bork expressed frustration over a news report, suggesting it made him sound defensive by failing to point out his comment on not being a racist was merely an answer to a direct question from a senator. "All of a sudden denying something I wasn't accused Bork said. He was, however, again accused of softening some of his views to win the Senate's approval a phenomenon Sen.

Patrick Leahy, called "confirmation conversion." U. S. FITNESS WHOLESALE TO THE PUBLIC EDUCATION BEAT AP Laserphoto Hello, world Unimpressed by the fact that he wasn't supposed to be born until today, four-month-old James Gill lets out a giant yawn while posing with his parents, Brenda and Jill Gill, at Ottawa's Civic Hospital Wednesday. James, born May 20, weighed one pound, six ounces at birth. The baby, now weighing nearly five and a half pounds, may be the most premature baby known to have survived.

Organ gift allows for second chance MERIT SCHOLARSHIPS Fifteen Galveston County high school seniors are among the 15,000 semifinalists in the 33rd annual National Merit Scholarship competition. The students, from all 50 states, will be able to continue in the 1988 competition for about 6,000 Merit Scholarships worth more than $23 million. To be considered for Merit Scholarships, semifinalists must first become finalists by meeting high academic standards, being fully endorsed and recommended by their high school, taking the SAT and confirming their qualifying test performance and submitting information about their school and community activities, personal interests and goals. National Merit Scholarship Corp. is a non-profit organization whose scholarship activities are financed, without federal funds, by more than 600 independent sponsors.

Semifinalists from Galveston County high schools include: Jennifer L. Matocha, Dickinson High School; Alejandro E. Reuss, Ball High School; Lisa A. Dixon, Anita J. D'Souza, Lance E.

Ellisor, Gail A. Ferrell, Anne Marie Jennings, James S. McClure, Michele K. Poor and Kathleen S. Rose, Clear Lake High School; Angus G.

Hendrick, Margaret G. Mclternan, Jason P. Modisette and Kenneth C. Walker, Clear Creek High School; and Laura Y. Nghiem, Texas City High School.

PORTABLE SPAS 49 5 FROM 803 NASA RD. 1 (713)488-8270 Call Sunday 3) 471-0143 CALL 'HEALTH INSURANCE) Mu1uol MemM in.ufonc.Compwr InWon, Illlnoll By ABIGAIL VAN BUREN DEAR ABBY: Last month I lost a member of my family. He was involved in an accident and pronounced brain dead several days later. I had never given much thought to organ donations until that day. 1 was very much surprised that considering the amount of time the doctors and staff had spent with pur family, they never once mentioned organ donations.

I was the one who approached them and made the offer. The next week, I received a letter from the hospital informing me that both kidneys were successfully transplanted one into a "4-year-oldgirl. Ironically, last week the news. paper featured a special story -about how badly organs were -needed. I had no idea that some people had been on a waiting list for years! My point: I almost decided not to approach the doctors because I assumed that if they thought my loved one could be a possible donor, they would approach me.

I was wrong. In our loss, there is such a comfort knowing that others have benefited, and may have a second chance at life. If you print this, please, no name and no city. -'ANONYMOUS DEAR ANONYMOUS: Your letter could not have come at a more appropriate time. Just 10 years ago.

the following appeared in my column for the first time: "At a certain moment a doctor will determine that my brain has ceased to function and that, for all intents and purposes, my life has stopped. "When that happens, do not attempt to instill artificial life into my body by the use of a machine. And don't call this my Call it my 'bed of and iet my body be taken from it to help others lead fuller lives. "Give my sight to a man who has never seen a sunrise-, a baby's face or love in the eyes of a woman. "Give my heart to a person whose own heart has caused nothing but endless days of pain.

"Give my blood to the teen-ager DEAR ABBY liy Abigail Van Burcn who has been pulled from the wreckage of his car. so that he might live to see liis grandchildren play. "Give my kidneys to one who depends on a machine to exist from week to week. "Take my bones, every muscle, every fiber and nerve in my body and find a way to make a crippled child walk. "Explore every corner of my brain.

Take my cells, if necessary, and let them grow so that someday a speechless boy will shout at the crack of a bat and a deaf girl will hear the sound of rain against her windows. "Burn what is left of me and scatter the ashes to the winds to help the flowers grow. "If you must bury something, let it be my faults, my weaknesses, and all prejudice against my felhmman. "Give my soul to God. "If by chance you wish to remember me, do it with a kind deed or word to someone who needs you.

If you do all 1 have asked, I will live forever." ROBERT N. TEST Donor cards are available by writing to: The Living Hank, P.O. Box 6725, Houston, Texas 77265. I have carried such a card for more than 15 years and feel there is nothing I can leave after my death that will be of greater value. This is strictly a non-profit organization, operating on a "shoestring" as a public service, so please be a sport and send a dollar or two along with your request.

It's tax-deductible. (Problems? Write to Abby. For a personal, unpublished reply, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to Abby, P.O. Box 69440. Los Angeles.

Calif. 90069. All correspondence is confidential.) COPYRIGHT 1987 UNI VERBAL PRESS SYNDIC ATE Tosh death suspect surrenders KINGSTON. Jamaica (AP) An unemployed handyman considered a prime suspect in the shooting death of reggae music star Peter Tosh and two others turned himself in to authorities Thursday, police said. The suspect, Dennis Lobban, arrived at the offices of the Jamaica Council for Human Rights in downtown Kingston at 10:15 a.m.

and said he wanted to hand himself over, according to police. An arrest warrant had been issued Wednesday for Lobban. described as armed and dangerous. Lobban. 33, reportedly knew Tosh and had been to his house several times, officials said.

After surrendering, he was taken to police headquarters for processing. Two other men were being interrogated Thursday in connection with the shooting but no charges had been filed against them, Police Commissioner Herman Ricketts said. Ricketts said the two men had been detained Wednesday night but declined to identify them. FREE Shop at Homi Service Island Decora ling Cciilcr "DiMwit 763-7000 10-6 MM. Krl.

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in the sanctuary. Saturday services will be held in thechapeiat 10a.m. FALL U.S. says relations with Syria improved What's On Sale? Check Your Local Merchants' Ads In The Galveston Daily News WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. officials say they have no illusions that the' recent improvement in relations with Syria will significantly increase chances for gaining the release of Western hostages in Lebanon.

They say that Syria's ability to achieve freedom for the 23 captives among them eight Americans is hampered by American fears for the captives' lives and by Damascus' reluctance to anger, Iran. The latest indications of the improved ties came Thursday with reports that Secretary of State George P. Shultz will be meeting at UK United tater this month with Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk Sharaa. This, despite an official U.S. ban on high-level meetings with the Syrians.

Shultz sent back Ambassador William Eagleton to Syria earlier this month after pulling him out last November to protest Syria's alleged involvement in an attempt to blow up an Israeli in London, In sending back Eagleton and lifting the restrictions on the operations of two U.S. oil companies in Syria, the United States noted that there had been no sign of recent Syrian involvement in acts of terrorism. ft SHUHER ESTIMATES! OUTSIDE BLINDS FOLDING SHUHERS ROLL-UP-SHUHERS PROTECTION AGAINST STORMS, IURGIARS, VANDALS AND SAVES fNltCTTOO! ouTiior MiNDt fftL OUTSIDE BLINDS PMfKtMMIf OMMHMSf YIARS KOWTOW -4W-M1 4 5105 ItOWWAT, GKlWSTON rotowf. I LADY EIBAND'S PROUDLY PRESENTS I. DIFFUSION'S 'AUTUMN SPLENDOR1 CONTEMPORARY KNITWEAR TRUNK SHOWING SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19th 11:00 a.m.

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