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DIVIR FINDS NAZI SPY SUBMARINE WRECK 4 MILES OFF U.S. COAST PAQE 1 ttfi Saturday Morning, June 12,1993 The Voice of Galveston County for Over 150 Years Vol. 151, No. 50 Cents Sunday $1.00 Heber Taylor Tall order does not discourage one waiter A couple of weeks ago, during all those graduating ceremonies, I kept wishing that the students could hear my friend Lee give the commencement address. Sometimes high school dreams get lost along the way.

And Lee is an expert at keeping dreams alive. The last I heard, Lee was planning to become a waiter. But he dreams of becoming a doctor, and I suspect he will one day. Lee came to Galveston from the great square in Beijing. He decided to leave home when the soldiers started shooting at him.

Lee is the youngest son of a good family from Shanghai, one of the largest cities in the world. Both of his parents are doctors. Lee was comfortable. His family was well off. And I still don't know exactly what drove him into the great square with thousands of other students who manned the barricades in a huge protest against the government.

"Freedom," Lee said. He says that in a voice that let me know that everyone should understand why he was there. So I didn't ask any more questions, even though I'm not so sure I would have been there beside him if too, had been getting ready to graduate from medical school and was looking toward a fine career in a beautiful city. Lee realized how seriously the demonstration had threatened the government when soldiers surrounded the square. It was night.

The students were huddled together. Lee heard popping sounds like firecrackers. He felt something warm and sticky on the ground, and, being a medical student, he knew what had happened. Groping in the dark, he found that the student who had been standing next to him was dead. Although Lee and thousands of other students escaped from the square, he also realized that his plans for a medical career, for any kind of a career or a future, had died too.

It is a five-day train trip to the border of Tibet, and people from Tibet do not like people from China. But Lee found a friend who was able to get him an old military jeep, some gasoline and a little food. Lee drove across the high plateau of Nepal. He drove fast, fearing he would be See TAYLOR, 13-A U.N., U.S. attack warlord Associated Press U.S.

and United Nations forces struck back before dawn today at the forces of Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid, retaliating for last week's fatal ambush that killed 23 Pakistani peacekeeping troops. In a statement released at the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Lea Aspin said the U.S. Quick Reaction Force was participating with U.N. forces "in a military action against those responsible for armed attacks against U.N. Forces in Mogadishu on June 5." Aspin said the action was in support of a resolution that called for a "strong Clipper finally sets sail By BRISCOE McCUNE Daily News GALVESTON It's gone.

The Texas Clipper, U.S. Maritime Service training vessel, left its dock Friday morning after a three-day delay to repair a leaking fuel line. The 50-year-old Clipper, which was launched as a troop transport during World War II, is making its final voyage. Parents lined the docks Friday, some of them for the third time this week, to take turns clutching their camcorders and departing children. Dr.

Dave Schmidley, the dean of the Galveston campus, said the ship may have its problems, but the experience of crewing it is worth the waits all of them. "Each year it gets tougher and tougher to go," Schmidley said. "It's a full-time job just to get her ready to go to sea." The up side, Schmidley said, is that the trip can be a real test for the 250-student crew, which will navigate the 473-foot ship across thousands of miles of ocean to exotic ports. "To operate something this big and complex takes a lot of cooperation and a lot of leadership," Schmidley said. "It's a unique experience." Sophomore engineer Cindy Latimer doubts reports that this voyage will be the last for the Clipper.

"They say that every year," she said. Latimer took an extra few minutes on the dock with her parents, Jim and Darleen, before the ship set sail. "All the senior engineers are still out here," she said. "I don't have to go anywhere yet. I'm not budging." Jim Latimer said he hosted some of Cindy's crewmates to a barbecue at their home in Friendswood last week.

"Some of them didn't have their U.S. forces In Kuwait may be headed for Somalia Page 4-A. response" against those who attacked the U.N. forces. "This response is essential if the U.N.

is able to continue its long-term humanitarian relief and reconstruction efforts in Somalia," Aspin's statement said. The strike began about 3 a.m. (8 p.m. CDT Friday). CNN television described two U.S.

AC- 130 gunships mounted with howitzers and machine guns circling Mogadishu, firing at buildings in the sector controlled by Aidid. Last Saturday's simultaneous attacks on Pakistani troops in two locations in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, threatened anew the international effort to restore health and civil order to the famine- and anarchy-racked country. U.N. staff and relief workers have been evacuated by the hundreds to Nairobi, Kenya, closing down relief centers and leaving countless Somalia hungry once again. The few remaining U.N.

staff were relocated to the headquarters compound. Troops this week dug foxholes and strung barbed vnre around the compound in preparation for a retaliatory attack on Aidid. AHid on Friday denied responsibility for the attacks on the Pakistanis, who are part of the U.N.-directed operation, which is aimed at restoring order to the country and improving its infrastructure to facilitate food shipments. The attacks on the Pakistanis were an open challenge to the U.N. force left behind after the departure of the large, mainly U.S.

Army and Marine force that had entered Somalia in December. Of the 18,000 foreign troops in Somalia, some 10,000 to 11,000 are in Mogadishu. Four French armored personnel carriers arrived in Mogadishu from Baidoa earlier this week. Court upholds extra penalties for 'hate crimes' Rehnquist 9afl photo by Kevin EJartram Stephanie Smith says goodbye to Mike Vredenburgh as he prepares to board the Texas Clipper Friday morning at the Texas University at Galveston campus on Pelican Island. It is Vrenden- burgh's first cruise and the last cruise for the Clipper.

parents so close to send them off," Latimer said. "My parents were always doing the same thing for my crowd." Parents and friends of some of the crewmembers will be meeting the ship when it calls in Cork, Ireland, its port on the voyage. The first leg of the journey will take the training and research vessel from Galveston to the Canary Islands. For some parents, the ship's departure marked the last time they would see their children before the Clipper returns to Galveston Aug. 7.

The Texas Clipper will cross into the Arctic Circle on its return trip. Veterans of the Arctic Circle crossing aboard ship are expected to initiate the "pollywogs" in an ancient seagoing tradition, dousing them with "whatever resources are on hand," said associate dean Tim McCloy. A big celebration is planned for July 28, when the ship will return to Baltimore, where its keel was laid. Politicians and some of the workers who built the Texas Clipper in 1943 are expected to attend. Associated Press WASHINGTON People who commit "hate crimes" motivated by bigotry may be sentenced to extra punishment without violating their free-speech rights, the Supreme Court ruled Friday.

"A physical assault is net by any stretch of the imagination sxpres- sive conduct protected by the First Amendment," Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist wrote for a unanimous court. The decision upheld the doubled sentence of a black man convicted of inciting the beating of a white youth in Kenosha, Wis. Bias-motivated crimes are "thought to inflict greater individual and societal harm," Rahnquist said. The state's desire to redress these perceived harms provides an adequate explanation for its penalty- enhancement provision over and above mere disagreement with offenders' beliefs or biases." Rehnquist noted that judges traditionally have been allowed to consider defendants' motives in imposing sentence.

At least 20 states have laws allowing longer prison terms for crimes motivated by racial or other bias, and federal legislation has been introduced in the House. Friday's ruling was the high court's second decision in as many years on the divisive issue. The justices in 1992 struck down a St. Paul, ordinance that banned cross-burnings and other expressions of racial bias. The ordinance violated free speech because it sought to ban some viewpoints, the court ruled.

the ordinance struck down (in the St. Paul case) was explicitly directed at expression the statute in this case is aimed at other action Friday, the Sucrsme Court: Fiuied unanimously that religious groups have 2 constitutional right to sacrifice anrnais in worship services, in striking down a. 'tan on such rituals in Hialeah, the court said the prohibition was aimed oniy at conduct motivated by religious belief and thus "violated the nation's essential corranrirnent to reiigious freedom." Voted in an Chfo case to Set states give, aorna saoitors pncrfty over trie federal government in daJms agarist assets of bankrupt insurance companies. conduct unprotected by die first Amendment," 1 Rehnquist wrote Friday. But he added that sentencing judges may not take into account defendant's abstract beliefs, however obnoxious to most The ruling reinstated a Wisconsin law that had been struck down by the state's highest court.

The law does not create new types of crimes attributed to oias. Instead, it allows longer sentences for people convicted 01 noianng existing laws if ihey chose victim because of race, religion, or sexual orientation-. Todd Mitchell was sentencea four years in prison in the Octooer 1989 beating of a 14-year-Gid white youth. Mitchell, -hen 19, among a group of blacks wno v-ere discussing the movie "Mississippi Burning." Do you ail iyptu up to move on some white Mitchell asked the 'he youths saw Gregory Ridoicx vuik- ing nearby and Mitchell "There goes a white ooy. 40 him." Elderly Houston man found shot to death beside 1-45 By JANICE SIMON TTia Daily News GALVESTON A 70-year-old Houston man was found shot to death on the side of Interstate 45 early Friday, police said.

The body of Albert Angelo Asplint, who had spent the last several days fishing in Galveston, was found about 3:30 a.m. north of the Santa Fe overpass, said Gean Leonard, Galveston County Sheriffs Department chief deputy. No arrests were made, but investigators are searching for two men who were seen driving Asplint's 1978 Oldsmobile Royale, Leonard said. A couple driving north on 1-45 noticed the body on the side of the road and called police, investigators said. Asplint had been shot twice in the stomach with a small-caliber gun, and investigators were waiting Friday for autopsy results, said Lt Rufus Ferrino, the Organized Crime Control Unit investigator in charge of the case.

Asplint's wallet was found but it contained no money, Ferrino said. Leonard said officers found the car late Friday afternoon. The car is light blue and has rust-colored primer. The license plate is DJX71N. ivi ctic One of the suspects is a man, who is 6 feet, tail build and dark compiexioji sreu a light-colored T-shirt -lAi'k.

The second suspect bia.ck xtxn a late teens or early 20s. pounds. He was faded lettering and Anyone with jcK-a'sa Sheriffs Department "tfe- GULLIE'S FORECAST THE DAILY NEWS WEATHER GULL PREDICTS: Mostly cloudy today with a chance of showers or thunderstorms. High In the mkJ-BOs. Mostly cloudy tonight with a chance of rain.

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