The Galveston Daily News from Galveston, Texas • Page 1

Friday mornirig, Texas' oldest newspaper FALL GUY Oliver North says he was the fall guy in the Iran-Centra affair. Page 13-A Daily.25 Sunday.75 WRIGHT PROBE Embattled House speaker mounts emo tional defense. Page 18-A TIME TO CELEBRATE Galveston runner prepares for his 100th competitive race. Page 1-B STEPPIN OUT in the Waterspout Lounge through March April! THE SAN LI IS HOTEL 13th body unearthed at ranch Kilroy was 25 yards away from the border ByCHRlSTlDAUGHERTY The Dally News MATAMOROS Police believe Mark Kilroy made it to within 25 yards of survival. When his kidnappers grabbed him as he walked on Avenida Alvaro Obregon at 2 a.m.

March 14 past a small indoor mall called Garcia's a favorite hangout of Americans in. the Mexican city he likely could clearly see the lights marking the arches of the International Gateway Bridge and the outlines of Brownsville's red, white and blue water tower across the Rio Grande. But even with the reassurance of the United States close by, walking during the day down the same path taken by Kilroy when he was kidnapped late at night, it's hard to believe he felt safe enough to walk over to the window of an unfamiliar vehicle to talk to its occupants, as officials have said he did. hinted they, too, have' the sus- pects' "He just "walked up to theV window of a truck going the other way? I don't buy that," a member of the state attorney general's staff said Wednesday. "It doesn't make sense." "He was as close to the bridge as you and I are to that tree," another attorney general's aide said with frustration.

"Why didn't he just keep going?" At the border, Brownsville and Matamoros almost merge one 'city doesn't end, the other just begins. Were they not separated by the Rio Grande and an international border, they would be one town with a population of nearly 1 million. See KILROY, 17-A FORMACIOHTURIST TRANSPORTRT Staff photo by Robert W. Rizzo Penny and Eric Woodring of Houston cross an intersection in the vicinity of where Kilroy disappeared Inside dy will -Karrh border, 15-A Suspect forced to dig up body of 13th victim, 15-A Border town feels impact of mass murders, 14-A Brownsville man Kilroy family, Cisneros says drug dealers have to be stopped; 14-A Goy. Clements blast attorney general's involvement in probe, 14-A Funeral Mass set for Saturday in Hitchcock roy, "21, of March 14 at 2 p.m.

Saturday at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, with the Rev. John officiating. Mr. Kilroy was born March 5, 1968, in Chicago, III. He lived in Santa Fe for 15 years, was a member of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, had been a member of the" Boy Scouts of America and was a 1986 honors graduate of Santa Fe High School.

Upon graduation, he attended Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos. He also attended Tarleton State University where he was a member of the basketball team and Lambda Chi Alpha fra- was "a junior 'student at the University 'of Texas at Austin. is survived by his parents, James and Helen Kilroy of Santa Fe; brother Keith Richard Kilroy of Santa Fe; a maternal grandmother and paternal grandfather. The family will receive friends and relatives at Madonna Hall at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church from noon-2 p.m. Saturday.

Following the conclusion of the Mass, a fellowship dinner will be provided at Madonna Hall for all friends and relatives. Food deliveries will be accepted after 9 a.m. Memorials may be sent to the Mark Kilroy Trust, Guaranty Savings Bank, 13402 Highway 6, Santa Fe, 77510. Mark Kilroy ByJACKSTENGLER The Daily News parking study upsets council members GALVESTON City Council members seemed unhappy Thursday to learn that a Galveston Park Board study the council didn't know about had supplied the data for a Texas assistant attorney general's list of prerequisites for West Beach parking. Assistant Attorney General Ken Cross, who was in the city April 4 to discuss beach access problems Passing Parafle and proposals, sent the city a list of eight items that he said must be resolved before the city can carry out its plan to put the beach area around 18-Mile Road under jurisdiction of the Park Board of Trustees to operate a paid parking facility.

City Manager Doug Matthews said it was recently learned that the County.Park Department did a study about a year ago on access to the West Beach area and developed a parking plan for this beach Inside Happy birthday Deborah Hunter, Lela Johnson, Kevin G. Williams, R.E. Carter, Stanley Soslow, Benjamin Woods, Anthony CrlsteW, Gloria Jean Bates, Crlss Huffmyer, Vandell Price, James Lee, James Broussard, Stephanie Arredondo, JoAnn ttes and twins Henry Bertolino and Ruby Lee BertoIIno Roberts. Special birthday wishes for 1- year-old Ilasha James and 21- See PASSING, 17-A Bridge 6B Bulletin Board "gg Classified 75 Co urts 2 A Crossword 6B DearAbby Entertalnmenl, Movies 9-ioB Marine Log ...,1 OA Obituaries 4A Opinion 6 A 6B Police TV Listings 8 Weather 2A Another Classified Cash-Maker HBSTIOOKER BOUGHT Brick. liv.

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GALVESTON BAY A small craft advisory is in effect. East wind 15-20 knots today and tonight. Bay waters choppy to rough. BEACH WATER 64 degrees Mora Weather, 2A area, complete with a map, but never told the city about it. "They were planning your city without the courtesy of telling you about it," Matthews said.

He said the county proposal concluded there is not enough public access to West End Beaches and the deficiencies noted were the same as cited by Cross. Matthews told council that the map, completed last summer, was done by planners in the Galveston County Parks Department as part Congress down isle AP and staff reports WASHINGTON Despite strong opposition from U.S. Rep. Jack Brooks, D-Beaumont, and Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, Congress appears on the brink of erasing Galveston's homeport for good.

Brooks has supported rejection of the base closure plan by the House of Representatives in order to save the Galveston homeport. Gramm "said the Galveston homeport, like the legendary Phoenix, will arise anew from the ashes of current hopes. Four years after agreeing to build a Naval station in Galveston, Congress appears poised to decide the homeport in a vote on the base closure resolution Tuesday. The vote would abandon the Galveston homeport and move its ships to Ingleside, near Corpus Christi. Gramm said he is not convinced implementing the plan is the end for Galveston, which put up $8 million in local funds to draw the re- of a move by county commissioners to convince the state to enact a coastal zone management plan.

He said Cross learned of the county plan and map through several conversations with county Parks Department Director Pat Hallisey. Cross requested he be given a copy of the map when he was in Galveston April 4, and a copy was brought to a city Planning Department employee, who was to ac- company Cross on a tour of the beaches. Matthews said this is how the city learned of the plan. "The City Council should tell the county that it does not mind'it if it has some ideas about solving city problems, but would want the county to include the City Council in what they are doing and the results," he said. Matthews said after discussion See PARKING, 17-A on brink of shutting homeport for good Gramm Brooks serve homeport.

Gramm said Thursday he believes the Navy ultimately will review the decision to close the Galveston homeport and could find the base closing commission erred in targeting the reserve station. He said he does not believe the commission considered that Galveston would be a reserve home- port allowing the Navy to draw on the "massive population base" of nearby Houston for recruiting and retaining a fleet of officers to train and operate the ships. "A tremendous number of logis- tical problems in trying to conduct those operations in Corpus still remain to be worked out," Gramm said. "I don't accept that this is the final chapter. It will become law, but I'm still not convinced that the Navy, when it goes back after this is adopted, (will determine) that this move ends up making sense to them." Gramm said he planned to meet with the new secretary of the Navy following his confirmation to discuss the matter.

"Will Ball, the prior secretary, did not believe that this proposal made sense," Gramm said, "and I've seen no evidence to suggest the base closing commission ever took into account this is a reserve base and not an active duty military base." Galveston County Judge Ray Holbrook, a supporter of the home- port for Galveston, said he believes the only hope is for Gramm to pursue the idea that location of a See CONGRESS, 17-A People line up to identify bodies ByCHRISTIDAUGHERTY The Dally News MATAMOROS While investigators questioned an unnamed fifth suspect in the Matamoros slayings Thursday, another suspect led police to a 13th body and the city buzzed about the gravesite Mexicans called "the farm of the devil." In the border city, more than a hundred people lined up outside a Mexican morgue Wednesday and Thursday where the bodies of 11 unidentified murder victims are being held. Officials said most were looking for missing relatives. In Brownsville, investigators conferred off and on throughout the day about the case, holding no news conferences and releasing little additional material. "This case is still under investigation," Cameron County Lt. George Gavito told a crowd of reporters, got a job to do.

We haven't -solved this thing yet, you know." U.S. Customs agent Oran Neck Jr. verified reports that one of the victims had been identified and was a former Matamoros police officer. Neck said the torture-killing of that person was among the most brutal. "It appeared he'd been boiled alive, then skinned," Neck said.

No names were released. Pictures of Sara Aldrete, 24, the suspect Mexican headlines called "a devil posing as a woman" were posted around town and displayed prominently in local papers on both sides of the Rio Grande. The photos were high school graduation pictures of an attractive young See BODIES, 17-A Texas Proud Voyage Elissa crew gears up for weekend BEAUMONT On the 25th day of its 90-day Texas Proud Voyage, the tall ship Elissa has been toured by more 20,000 people in the three ports where the vessel has been open to the public. In Freeport, 5,360 purchased tickets and toured the ship, according to Galveston Historical Foundation spokeswoman Olivia Meyer, and in Palacios some 10,000 went aboard. Both of those ports netted significantly more than was initially projected, said Meyer.

In Beaumont, GHF officials are gearing up for a big week-end with the main events of the Neches River Festival slated for today and Saturday. On Thursday a group of deaf children with their interpreter toured the vessel. The interpreter signed the words of the guide as the tour took place. As a part of the ship's ongoing maintenance, brothers Bruce and Wes Heerscen, members of Elissa's volunteer crew, went in small boat around "the vessel Thursday, scrubbing it with brushes..