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ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL Monday, October 31, 1983 B-7 Boy Abducted Six Years Ago Is Back Home when he enters a local school Monday, she added. Mrs. Garcia expressed gratitude that Manuel Lopez, a private investigator, took her case after police failed to find the boy: "I wouldn't have gotten him back so fast if I wouldn't have hired Manuel. I owe a lot to him." On Saturday, Mrs. Garcia took Michael shopping for a Halloween costume.

"I don't even know what it is," she said. "Some kind of videogame costume, like Pac Man or Asteroids." She said Michael also purchased some "disappearing ink." Michael Anthony Garcia, 6, who was abducted six years ago, has finally been reunited with his real mother. "We're making a scrapbook for him, of his old life and new life, to help him understand all this when he gets older," said his mother, Carrie Garcia. She said the book was a psychiatrist's idea. It will include newspaper articles about Michael and pictures of him when he was a few months old and living in Albuquerque, as well as pictures to be taken of the boy as he grows up in his new North Valley home.

When Michael was five months old, a babysitter abducted the child and kept him, until a private investigator tracked the pair down Oct. 5. The woman, who had told the boy she was his mother, surrendered him to the investigator and is now undergoing treatment at a mental hospital. Michael was placed in the All Faiths Receiving Home while he underwent counseling and until the au thorites were convinced of his identity. Michael had been given a new name by the woman who took him from his Southeast Heights apartment in 1977.

Now, he has to learn his real name. "He likes the name Michael Anthony Garcia. He practices writing it all the time," his mother said. The first-grader should get plenty of extra help 'lan to Invade ficaragua ca of I ed ne to en he Capacity Crowd Attend- Aroma Pueblo's Opening Bingo Session Sunday Bingo! State's Richest Game Starts ini VASHINGTON (UPI) Deputy of State Kenneth Dam Sunday the administration not plan to invade Nicaragua, ling the situation in that irxist-led nation different than enada. No," he said in blunt response to question asked on the CBS's ace the Nation." I have no idea what may be in ne drawer in the Pentagon, but administration is not talking out, is not planning any invasion Nicaragua." )am said American forces land-on Grenada at the request of ighboring island countries and protect American lives.

'The situation (in Nicaragua) is tirely different," he said. '(Nicaragua) is not a situation lere we fear for the lives of nerican citizens. This is not a uation where we have a request any regional organization cognized by the United Nations," said. Meanwhile, a top Nicaraguan ider warned the United States ly be planning to use its Central nerican allies as part of a multi-tional 3-wave invasion of Nica-gua. 'All the signs, all the military telligence reports we have and the recent events indicate that ere is an aggression of great ale coming against Nicaragua," id Commander Victor Tirado, of nine directors of the ruling arxist party, the Sandinista ont.

'Perhaps in the first moments ldiers of the United State armed rces will not intervene," said rado in a speech reported in the ficial newspaper Barricada. He said he believed anti-ivernment rebels would compose first wave of a coordinated tack on Nicaragua. The Nicaraguan regime has larged often that it believes the bels will be used to create an cident that would trigger a Cen-al American war. The next wave would be com-sed of military forces from uatemala, El Salvador and Hon-iras, which would be used to ipearhead" an invasion, Tirado id. The three Central American na-3ns to the north of Nicaragua are 1 closely allied to the United ates.

On Oct. 1 in Guatemala, their chiefs revived the Central merica Defense Council, known i CONDECA, which they said ould be used to defend their mntries from what they said was lbversion coming from "coramu- Community Briefs Technical Woes Delay KSAF-TVs Debat Television viewers expecting to see "2001: A Space Odyssey" on the new Santa Fe station, KSAF-TV Channel 2, Sunday night tuned in to a blank screen. Due to technical difficulities and not enough daylight to finish final preparations, KSAF-TV was unable to begin its broadcast as scheduled. The station now is planning to begin its regularly scheduled programming tonight. The station will come on the air at 6 p.m.

and "2001 A Space Oddessy will be shown at 7 p.m., according to a spokesman for the station. Carrier Alert Launches Enrollment Drive Carrier Alert, a recently organized nationwide program for the elderly and homebound on postal routes, has announced an enrollment drive in the Albuquerque area. In the program, letter carriers monitor the mailboxes of the elderly and homebound patrons on their routes for accumulations of mail and other signs of distress. If such signs are discovered at a particular residence, that information is reported to the Office of Senior AffairsRetired Senior Volunteer Program. There is no cost for the program.

Carrier Alert works through existing public service agencies with the voluntary cooperation of the National Association of Letter Carriers. For more information, call the Retired Senior Volunteer Program, 766-4950. Albuquerque Helpline Seeks Volunteers Helpline, United Way of Greater Albuquerque's information and referral service, is seeking volunteers to assist with the telephone service. Interested persons should call Barbara Holt at the United Way office at 247-3671. Nov.

18 Is Parade's Entry Deadline Entries are being accepted for the 37th Annual Downtown Christmas Parade. The parade is scheduled for Nov. 26 at 10 a.m. The theme this year is "A Storybook Christmas." Entries will be accepted in the following categories: bands, military marching units, pep squad marching units, drill team marching units, walking units, specialty units, floats, mobile units, classic cars and animal units. The parade is sponsored by the Downtown Jaycees and the Downtown Merchants Association.

Entries are due by Nov. 18. For more information and entry forms call 247-2757 or 765-2104. $12,800 Grant To Aid Handicapped Art The National Committee, Arts for the Handicapped, an educational affiliate of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., has awarded the New Mexico program $12,800 for arts programs by, for and with disabled individuals.

Career-Change Seminar Scheduled The Albuquerque Technical-Vocational Institute is offering a course, "Changing Careers," for persons who want to change careers or return to work after a long absence. The five-week course begins next Monday and will meet weekdays from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Joseph M. Montoya Campus, 4700 Morris NE. The course focuses on job finding, resume writing and interviewing techniques.

Job availability in Albuquerque will be examined. Individual profiles of students' interests and abilities will be made. Registration for the course is on first-come, first-serve basis at T-VI's Evening Division office at the main campus, 525 Buena Vista SE. Fellowships Go To UNM Engineering A gift of $28,000 was recently awarded to the University of New Mexico College of Engineering by American Bell, a company soon to become Information Systems. The gift will fund four fellowships of $7,000 each.

Two of the fellowships will be awarded to students in the department of electrical and computer engineering, and two will be awarded to students in the department of computer science. The fellowships will be awarded on the basis of academic merit. WorldNation Briefs Leftist Rebels Capture Salvadoran Village SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) Left-wing rebels seized a small town northeast of the capital Sunday and assaulted army positions at a bridge and power station south of the town, civilian and military sources said. A Defense Ministry spokesman acknowledged guerrillas had captured Tejutepeque, 33 miles northeast of the capital, and said, "At this moment we are fighting to recover the town." He gave no casualty figures. Spanish End 100-Year War With French ALMERIA, Spain (AP) A tiny village in southern Spain ended its 100-year-old "war" with France on Sunday, signing a peace treaty with its old enemy.

The Municipal Council of the village of Lijar declared war on France Oct. 14, 1883, to defend the honor of Spanish King Alfonso XII. Alfonso was insulted and stoned when he passed through Paris Sept. 29, 1883, after a trip to Prussia. Apparently deciding to let bygones be bygones, the Lija Mayor Diego Sanchez Cortes and Rene Bicer, French consul general in Almeria, signed a peace act in Lijar's main plaza.

Priest Defends Polish Solidarity Activists WARSAW, Poland (UPI) An outspoken Catholic priest defended the beliefs of Solidarity union activists Sunday in an indirect attack on the Communist regime's attempt to persuade its opponents to emigrate. "No one can be sentenced to emigration," the Rev. Jerzy Popieluszko said, apparently referring to the government's offer to drop criminal charges against 11 political prisoners if they accept exile. The offer to trade the prisoners' freedom for their exile was disclosed by the authorities last week. Official Says 16 in Coup Attempt CAIRO, Egypt (AP) The state prosecutor on Sunday charged 16 people with attemptir.g to overthrow the government through armed revolt in order to establish a communist system.

Three are still at large. State Prosecutor Ragaa El-Araby charged in the indictment that the group is linked with Palestinian and Iranian organizations and that some of its members have received military training by Palestinian in Lebanon and 3yria. i $500 at a bingo game," added Mrs. Leno, simultaneously talking, listening for bingo numbers, and playing the 13 cards spread in front of her. A few seats away sat her mother, who normally wins, but who only shrugged and smiled on this occasion when asked how she was doing with the 13 cards in front of her.

All three ladies, along with Pasqual Concho, were among the nearly 700 people who invaded this normally quiet pueblo Sunday afternoon hoping to win all or part of what was advertised as the biggest pot of bingo prize money in the state: $5,000. At the table seated with Mrs. Leno was Irene Navarette of Albuquerque, who left her beloved Dallas Cowboys, and husband, for a chance to play bingo Sunday. "Normally I don't let anything get in the way of my Dallas Cowboys football games," she said. But then, she explained, this was a special occas-sion, considering she doesn't get a chance every day to play bingo for $5,000.

Mrs. Navarett, who simply says she's been a bingo player for a long time, was also one of the first winners of the afternoon, winning $25 as part of a split pot in an early-bird game. She, like many others, got there hours ahead of the 4 p.m. starting time in order to be sure she got a seat. "This can be habit forming," she said, playing the requisite 13 cards of the true bingo player, and also taking By HERON MARQUEZ Journal Staff Writer ACOMA Ruth Concho is a bingo player, no doubt about it.

"When I don't play bingo, my heart aches," she explained at intermission of the the 25-game bingo session in progress Sunday afternoon, the official opening of the operations which the pueblo believes will allow it to fund community projects. "My daughter got mad at me because I made everybody in my family a bingo freak," Mrs. Concho said. She estimates she has been playing bingo for close to 20 years. "When I got married I made my husband a bingo freak," she adds.

Whatever she's done, it has apparently proved successful. Several years ago, she said, her husband and she won $5,000 playing bingo in one of the Albuquerque parlors. During the past week, she said, she and her husband played bingo Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in Grants, Albuquerque, and Acoma, winning about $220 between them. Among the people Ruth has turned into "bingo freaks" are her sister, Pearl Leno, and her 66-year-old mother, Mary Valley. Pearl said she won $50 during the first bingo session at the pueblo for about 200 people Friday night as a test run for Sunday's marathon session.

"Last year on my birthday 1 won the time to help several others around her with their 13 cards Joining Mrs Navarette in Acoma Sunday were people from Montana, Arizona, California, Massachussettes, Colorado, and numerous places in New Mexico. "We had one couple who drove 5(H) miles to get here," said Boh George, executive director of the Acoma Development Authority, which is overseeing the gaming operations for the pueblo. He said funding levels for the pueblo, which come from the state and federal governments, have dropped this year to $2 4 million, as opposed to $5.6 million two years ago. Bingo, he said, seemed like a natural way to recover some of that money, considering that the MM.) bingo opera Hons in the state generate up to S40 million in revenues each year. (ieorge said the pueblo invested $10, (MX) in new bingo equipment after deciding several weeks ago to initiate the games to help fund such projects as the pueblo's handicapped, alcoholism, youth, foster care, and elderly programs.

Judging from the crowd, most which paid anywhere from $10 to $20 for the session, George said the pueblo may soon break even on its investment Because the games are operated on pueblo land, George said, Acoma is able to exceed tht state limit of $1,500 in prize money for each bingo session The $5,000 limit in prize money, he said, is self-imposed. 'Lost' Hunters Emerge in Idaho st Nicaragua." Nicaragua charged that CONDE- met secretly in Honduras this eek to plan an invasion. ioviet Science Team leads For Antarctica MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet Jnion has started flights of equipment and more than 100 scientists Antarctica, the Moscow News lewspaper has reported. It said 40 researchers have lready arrived at the Molodyozha-ia observatory's airfield on a lyushin 18 aircraft from Lening-ad, with stopovers in the Soviet Jnion, the Middle East and Africa. More researchers will be arriv-ng in Antarctica in coming weeks, he newspaper said, for the 29th loviet Antarctic expedition.

San Fernando Valley in 171, killing 65 people. University of I'tah scientists Sunday counted nine aftershocks severe enough to be felt. Seismologist Harley Benz said hundreds of additional "micro earthquakes" struck the area No new damage was reported. C.W. Welch, a state fish and game warden, said authorities were investigating reports that as many as a dozen hunters had failed to return home on time and could be stranded by the quake in the wilderness.

Authorities will send deputies into isolated areas on horseback and may fly search planes over the vast, wooded region in hopes of spotting any hunters in trouble, Welch said. reports of missing people. But a game warden said hunters on horseback cleared many trails and roads of rocks hurled down by the earthquake and its aftershocks, allowing others to find their way out. The quake caused an estimated $2.5 million damage in the sparsely populated county, which was declared a disaster area by Gov. John Evans.

Scientists continued to study the drastic alteration of the substrata near the epicenter of the tremor. The shifting created a lake and tripled a small town's water supply in the Big Lost River Valley. It was the first U.S. quake to cause deaths since a tremor ripped California's CHALLIS, Idaho (UPI) Groups of hunters reported missing following Idaho's killer earthquake straggled safely from remote areas Sunday a rugged region where trees snapped, the earth cracked and rockslides formed a new lake. The Custer County sheriff's office said late Sunday that a dozen hunters earlier reported missing emerged from a maze of winding trails and roads in the mountains near Challis, a town where two children died under falling debris.

Other hunters still were believed to be in the central Idaho region and ground parties were formed to seach the trails again Monday, the sheriffs office said. Officials had braced for a deluge of Argentina Votes in First Elections in 10 Years after Argentina lost a 74-day war with Britain last year for control of the Falkland Islands. Argentinians who had supported the military's attempt to take control of the British colony off southern Argentina were outraged at the way the generals handled the conflict; they demanded a return to civilian control. Many Argentinians also are bitter because of the regime's campaign to wipe out leftists during the late 1970s. Secret police and soldiers allegedly jailed, tortured and executed as many as 15,000 people.

The military also has lost popularity because of an acute economic crisis that has given Argentina an 800-percent annual inflation rate, 12 percent unemployment and a $40 billion foreign debt. Thirteen parties, covering the political spectrum from right to left, have presented candidates for national office. But only the Peronists.who have BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) Nearly 18 million Argentinians voted Sunday in the first elections in 10 years, designed to replace a military regime that seized power in 1976, led a bloody crackdown on leftists and lost the Falklands War. Whoever wins will have to deal with the worst economic crisis in Argentina's history. Polls opened at 8 a.m., and long lines formed in front of schools and other public buildings as voters hurried to cast ballots before the 6 p.m.

closing time. The national election headquarters in Buenos Aires reported that the 17.9 million registered voters were casting ballots nationwide "without incident." All citizens between the ages of 18 and 70 years must vote in elections for national, state and local office. For those over 70, voting is optional. Official returns were not expected before noon today. The military government agreed to the elections dominated Argentine politics for nearly 40 years, and the center-left Civiw Radical Union were given a chance of winning the presidential contest.

The two leading presidential candidates, Italo Luder, 66, of the Peronists and Raul Alfonsin, 56, of the Radicals, both lawyers, voted early and said they were optimistic about victory. The Peronists take their name from Juan Peron, the late three-time president who won the last elections in 1973. His wife, Isabel, the vice president, became president after he died but she was ousted in the 1976 amp. Both leading parties seeking the six-year presidential term promise to subjugate the military to civil authority, reduce inflation, stimulate industry and pay the foreign debt. Transfer of power to elected authorities is scheduled for Jan 30, 1984..