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MA CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER Wed Jin 19 im Gandhi stuns India announces March SeTWAmec MHWw viction on election fraud charges She About dozen elections suspended civil liberties Jailed opposition leaders and imposed press censorship and said the measures were needed to quell a to internal stability" The government previously had won parliament's approval to postpone elections until March 1978 They were originally set for last March at the end of the regular five-year term of the lower house of parliament Mrs Gandhi's surprise announcement came three hours after the government freed her arch political foe former Deputy Prime Minister Morarji Desai and LK Advani leader of the right-wing Hindu nationalist Jana Sangn party a parliamentarians are still in jail including Socialist leader Raj Na-rain sources said The 80-year-old Desai considered the most prominent opposition politician in the country had been imprisoned since the emergency began He said after Mrs broadcast that the relatively short time left until the election a hardship on the "But I am sure this sudden declaration of an election will benefit not the prime minister but the nation which is the only important thing" Desai said "It is a test for the people I hope it will be a fair election" In her speech given first in Hindi and then in English Mrs Gandhi pledged that the emergency would be permit all legitimate activity necessary for recognized parties to put forth their points of view before the people" The prime minister said there already had been a "gradual easing" of emergency restrictions She cited the relaxation of censorship on the domestic press and the release of opposition leaders and members At the same time the 59-year-old prime minister warned that she would not tolerate any disruption "May I remind you that the emergen- cy was proclaimed because the nation was far from she said "Now that it is being nursed to health we must ensure that there is no The prime minister's broadcast serv? ed in effect as her first campaign speech on behalf of the ruling Congress party Mrs Gandhi boasted of an improved' economy containment of rampaging inflation increased industrial production record food grain stocks and new social programs to eliminate dowries and control population all of which she linked to her emergency rule NEW DELHI Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declaring her "unshakable faith in the power of the people" announced Tuesday that parliamentary elections would take place in March as part of a major relaxation of her 19-month-old emergency rule us go to the polls with the resolve to reaffirm the power of the people and to uphold the fair name of India as a land committed to the path of reconciliation peace and Mrs Gandhi said in an eight-minute national broadcast The elections will be the first since Mrs Gandhi proclaimed a state of emergency June 26 I97S following her con From 1A Parr From 1 A Accident- care unit where her 11-year-old son Eligio Reyes Jr lay semi-conclous suffering from massive head and chest injuries Eligio was struck shortly after 2 pm when he ran into the path of a car on the Crosstown Expressway near Mission Shopping Center Police found Eligio bicycle with a flat tire on the expressway embankment where the boy had apparently abandoned it Gloria Lopez Cervantes 4117 Molina was driving in the northbound right lane of Texas 288 when Eligio ran from the side of the road Her car skidded 61 feet before striking him and the boy was thrown 31 feet from the point of impact according to police reports was another kid with him" Capt JL Mathis said he got scared and ran No charges were filed in the accident The boy was taken to Memorial Medical Center and a description of his clothes and bicycle released by police to local and Robstown radio stations Radio station KCCT broadcast an appeal for information about the unidentified boy until 6 pm when the station went off the air were stormed with calls" KCCT deejay Guero Alegre said last night Alegre and Johnny Canales broadcast the description from 3:30 to 6 pm monitored calls from distraught parents and directed possible leads to police After the station went off the air Alegre and Canales waited at the emergency room fur the boy to be identified Emergency room personnel said they were swamped with Winter calls phone rang every few minutes" a nurse said The clothes and photograph were kept in the emergency security office and "at least 15 people came down to see them" a security officer said Although Eligio was semi-conscious speak" a nurse reported Finally shortly after 8 pm the boy "started according to Capt Mathis making any sense just numbers and words he was But the boy was able to give police an address 127 Pueblo Officer GJ Ermis went to the address and discovered the boy had given police the wrong number After checking with neighbors Ermis found the grandmother Mrs Ida Weber at 137 Pueblo Mrs Ayala and her seven children live with Mrs Weber her mother at 137 Pueblo Officer Ermis and Capt Mathis brought Mrs Ayala to the hospital where she identified the boy Mrs Ayala told police she thought her son was with his father Eligio Reyes of 2602 Nimitz The boy had spent Monday with his father she told police Eligio a student at Sanders Elementary was recently sent home from school for medical reasons After Mrs Ayala had identified her son's picture police notified Reyes of his accident Last night Capt Mathis said he wanted to thank the local radio stations for their aid in attempting to identify the young boy Eligio remained in undetermined condition last night in intensive care unit agreed that Parr would be brought back to Texas "before the year is out" and probably within four or five months After the 15-minute hearing Parr was returned to the Cameron County jail for lunch and was taken to San Antonio in the afternoon where he was to be held overnight in Bexar County jail He is scheduled to take a commercial airline to Illinois this morning in the custody of Texas Ranger Rudy Rodriquez Yesterday's hearing originally scheduled for 10 am did not get underway until nearly 11:30 am because the judge was occupied with a murder trial Parr spent much of the time waiting in the office of Carlos Tapia Cameron County probation officer who conducted Parr's pre-sentence investigation Parr chatted with his wife Syl-eta his aurit Mrs Lillian Parr Moffett his daughter Eileen Sellers and her husband Jeff He was also visited by several local men including Raul Tijerina reported to be a retired rancher During the trial Parr was in the custody of Texas Ranger Capt John Wood and Rodriquez who later drove him to San Antonio Rodriquez will accompany Parr on the return trip to Illinois to resume serving a 10-year sentence for perjury to a federal grand jury currently with his federal sentence came to the conclusion last Friday" Hester said in court "that 10 years is no punishment at all and that in all good conscience I could not accept the state's recommendation" The judge added the negotiations between the state and Parr's attorneys "sometimes called plea bargaining" was in good faith "Because of this I feel in all fairness to the defendant that he should be allowed the opportunity to change his the judge said Talking directly to Parr Hester asked if he understood that if he changed his plea to not guilty the four official misconduct cases would no longer qualify for adjudication and that if Parr were found guilty on all five charges he could face a maximum of 10 years in prison on each charge totaling 50 years Parr said he understood After Parr changed his plea Hester asked if the state was prepared to request an extension from the federal prison officials for Parr to remain in Texas for a trial within a month Neal Duvall an assistant attorney general said the state was ready to go to trial at any time However Nelson Sharpe of Kingsville Parr's attorney said will be impossible for us to prepare for trial so Hester agreed to delay the state trials providing Parr waived his rights to a speedy trial It was Nurse accompanies Mrs Ida Ayala to see her son (Photo by Peter Silva) Disease From 1A From 1A Forecasters saw no immediate break in the cold weather Wednesday's forecast called for very cold weather along the middle and southern Atlantic Coast and into the Ohio and lower Mississippi valleys Snow flurries were predicted from New England west to the Plains and south to the middle Mississippi valley and freeze warnings extended into central Florida In Michigan state officials expressed fears of a massive fish kill unless heavy snow and ice melted on the state's 11000 lakes The icccover was blocking sunlight needed by underwaLer plants to produce the oxygen that fish must have to live Schools were closed throughout the Northeast as far west as Oklahoma where four inches of snow was recorded in Tulsa and as far south as Florida Though it was not so cold in Louisiana temperatures were mostly in the 20s Mayor Leonard White of Bienville had heartwarming advice to townsfolk who complained about the cold after an explosion cut off gas heat to bed" the mayor advised delivery system could not be maintained under the demand for fuel The company executives met Tuesday to decide when schools could be reopened and when 300 industries including steel plants could expect renewed delivery Their best estimate was next week School closings also brought tragedy Four children who normally would have been in school were killed in a Springfield Mo house fire The victims were among seven children of two families who had stayed together during the day off from school while their parents were at work Minnesota officials also declared an energy emergency after they concluded supplies of oil might run short up to two million barrels in the next 30 days if the cold continued Gov Ella Grasso of Connecticut said a fuel shortage was imminent in the New London area becausu barges were unable to move on the Thames River companies in the New laindon area have only a one or two day supply of home heating fuel" she said larly as parrot fever caused by organisms called rickettsia Ail these hypothetical explanations have been abandoned after study The possibility of deliberate sabotage has also been considered and discarded Part of the delay in finding the bacteria described Tuesday was caused by the fact that they are difficult to grow in the laboratory Dr Charles Shepard and Dr Joseph FI McDade of the disease centpr were credited with growing and discovering them Dr Shepard is chief of a research unit normally concerned with leprosy and rickettsia diseases Dr McDade is a research microbiologist in the same unit The organisms linked to legionnaires' disease were first isolated from tissues taken from the lung of a person who died of the disease and from another person who died of pneumonia in Philadelphia Material from these specimens was injected in guinea pigs After one or two days the animals became seriously ill Material from the animals' spleens was then injected into fertilized hens' eggs The embryos in the eggs dieefaf-ler about four to six days according to the report Examination under the microscope showed many unidentified bacteria-like organisms Although unidentified the organisms are being called bacteria on the basis of their size and physical characteristics the report said Even after growing the bacteria-like organisms the scien- tisls still lacked an important link in the chain of evidence connecting the germs to the legionnaires' disease They had to prove that other persons who became ill during the mysterious outbreak had been infected with the same germs The customary way of doing his short of finding the germ in each person is to show that the patients developed protective antibodies against the microbe Testing 33 legionnaires who had the pneumonia but recovered from it the scientists found evidence that 29 were infected Fur-thermore in many of the patients blood samples taken early and late in their illnesses showed sharp rises in antibody levels This is considered strong evidence of infection From 1 A ready to roll echelon staff remain virtually inaccessible to the Mexican-Ameri-can Canales suggested Carter appoint Mexican-Americans to top-level jobs schedule a White House conference on Mexican-Americans and assign LaCayo or Hernandez to his inner circle where they could have a voice in selecting administration officials While visiting Texas in late November Hernandez said Mexi-can-Americans were being included in Carter's talent hunt and that the president-elect insisted that women and minorities be included on every list for every post In his administration When your heating system needs the expert touch of a skilled mechanic we're ready to perform ULB I Mir KmVKE ft NCI 1M1 kiaimin Criticism- Hernandez one of two transition officials handling Latin American issues (the other is Hank LaCuyo in Detroit) blamed Carter's advisers for what he called "a bureaucratic snafu of major Cunales was a Carter delegate to the Democratic convention and coordinated Carter's South Texas campaign in the general election At a meeting of the Tuesday Luncheon Group Canales suid "I still believe in Jimmy Carter But somewhere down the line there has been a communications Canales who has sent Carter's staff almost 100 resumes of Spanish-speaking persons seeking appointments in the administration said can count on one the number of Mexican-Ameri-cans actively being considered Canales himself was informed that he was in the running for a top Justice Department job but said that since he was not investigated by the FBI (standard procedure for surh appointments) he now assumes he is no longer being considered He wrote in a letter to Carter is my belief from reading the press that you apparently are not aware of the voting percentages and numbers of Mexican-Ameri-cans that voted for you "This failure is further evidenced by the National 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