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Texas Del Rio News-Herald August 5, 1992 2A Agency money apparently misspent AUSTIN (AP) A state comptroller audit says the agency charged with organizing Texas' proposed bullet train has misspent money on chartered planes and expensive hotels, according to reports published today. The Austin American- Statesman reported that a 27-page review highlights expenditures by the Texas High Speed Rail Authority including $1,550 to rent potted plants; $2,100 to charter a private plane to fly a board member from Dallas to a meeting; and $396 on framed photographs of three employees. Executive director Bob Neely said he could not comment. Valley eye doctor brutally murdered PORT ISABEL (AP) A Brownsville eye surgeon had been tortured, stabbed numerous times and shot in the back before his weighted body was dumped in the South Bay, police say. The body of Dr.

Victor Leal, 52, was found Tuesday, tied to a chair, with his mouth and nose taped up, Justice of the Peace Bennie Ochoa said. "There is no doubt it was murder. He was tortured," said Ochoa, who ordered an autopsy. Federal prosecutors in Dallas last month dismissed charges that Leal had conspired with drug smugglers after they were unable to locate witnesses to testify against him and others. Board to vote on removing Lee stautue DALLAS (AP) The statue of Confederate Gen.

Robert E. Lee should be removed from the Dallas park that bears his name, an engineer says. Edward Sebesta says the statue represents an antidemocratic symbol, a symbol of elitism. He said Tuesday that such symbols "enhance the old Southern aristocrats' elitist position." Members of the Dallas Parks and Recreation Board will vote Thursday on whether to remove the statue from Lee Park. Sebesta has pushed for removal of the statue.

"Morally, I think I've got the argument," Sebesta said. "Technically, maybe not." Funeral homes file lawsuit against investigation DALLAS (AP) Two lawsuits have been filed by six funeral homes in an effort to stop an investigation by the attorney general's office into allegations that the homes have used bodies for teaching purposes without family members' permission. One of the lawsuits filed recently called the investigation a "fishing expedition." Both lawsuits say that the state's recent demands for the funeral homes to give them information concerning em- balmings are vague and burdensome and the information sought is confidential. United States Night out brings neighbors together PHILADELPHIA (AP) Residents across the nation sipped coffee on their porches, marched in parades and shined flashlights into crime- ridden corners of their neighborhoods for the anti- crime event National Night Out. Some 25 million people in 8,400 communities were expected to turn on their porch lights and spend Tuesday night outside, said organizer Matt Peskin.

Peskin is director of the National Association of Town Watch in suburban Wynne wood, which came up with the idea for the annual event nine years ago. At a ceremony in Washington, FBI Director William S. Sessions flipped a switch turning on a vvate lelon-sized light bulb symbolic of the event. Delay expected on abortion rights vote WASHINGTON (AP) Congressional Democrats, who had hoped to bring an abortion-rights bill before-the House and Senate just before the Republican convention, are worried they do not have enough votes and may delay action. Both House Speaker Thomas Foley and Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell backed away Tuesday from earlier commitments to press for a vote just before the Republicans meet in Houston.

Supporters of the bills, in interviews this week, cited concerns about having enough votes to overcome a Senate filibuster. Headway made in leukemia research CHICAGO (AP) Doctors made modest improvements in curing leukemia with bone marrow transplants in the 1980s, achieving a success rate of almost 60 percent when using the procedure early in the disease, a study says. "There's been improvement, but not as much as everyone had hoped," said Dr. Mortimer M. Bortin, lead author of the study in today's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

A team led by Bortin, principal investigator for the International Bone Marrow Transplant Registry, analyzed data on 7,788 sibling bone- marrow transplants reported by 185 transplant teams worldwide during the 1980s. Probabilities of survival for recipients improved during the 1980s from 51 percent to 57 percent in early leukemia, from 28 percent to 36 percent in intermediate leukemia and from 12 percent to 18 percent in advanced leukemia. Parolee confesses to killing six women MIDDLETOWN, N.Y. (AP) A parolee arrested for questioning in a woman's slaying confessed to killing her, four other women and a teen-age girl, police say. The man then told police where to find the bodies of three of his victims, including a 14-year-old, authorities said.

Nathaniel White, 32, of Middletown, was charged Tuesday with six counts of murder. World Bombs explode in Belfast BELFAST, Northern Ireland (A.F) Two car bombs exploded in central Belfast early Tuesday, slightly injuring 21 people, police said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the bombings. But a spokeswoman for the Royal Ulster Constabulary said the first bomb was preceded by a warning call to a local radio station by someone who used an IRA code word. The spokeswoman said five civilians, four soldiers and 12 police officers suffered cuts and shock.

None was hospitalized, said the spokeswoman, who was not identified. The security forces were cleaning up after the first bomb when the second one exploded, she said. Hussein has power to invade Kuwait LONDON (AP) Saddam Hussein has the military power to invade Kuwait again and still lays claim to it, but the emirate can breathe easy for now, Western military experts say. "They have got the military power to do something, but it's in the wrong place in Iraq at the moment to do anything," Col. Andrew Duncan of the International Institute for Strategic Studies said in an interview.

"There's certainly nothing threatening Kuwait at the moment." U.N. demands camp inspections, halts relief flights UNITED NATIONS (AP) Reports of Serb atrocities have prompted the Security Council to demand international inspection of prison camps in Bosnia, where heavy shelling has forced the United Nations to halt relief flights. Tuesday's U.N. statement was a response to reports that Serbs are torturing and killing ethnic Croats and Muslims in the war-wracked former Yugoslav republic in what amount to concentration camps. "The council condemns any such violations and abuses," the Security Council said in a non-binding statement passed at U.S.

urging. A group of Muslim nations led by Turkey called the U.N. statement inadequate and urged the Security Council to take military action if necessary to get relief supplies to Bosnians. Violence continues JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) A nationwide strike by hundreds of thousands of blacks passed the halfway mark today with authorities charging that massive intimidation was being used to enforce the action. Police said at least eight blacks were killed overnight in scattered violence apparently linked to the two-day strike, including five deaths in the black township of Alexandra outside Johannesburg.

At least 20 people have died in strike-related violence since Monday. People Murray bitten by rodent during filming PITTSBURGH (AP) A groundhog bit Bill Murray's fingers twice during the filming of the comedy "Groundhog Day," director Harold Ramis says. The injuries weren't serious and the actor continued working. "To be bitten twice means he stuck around after being bitten once," Ramis said in the September issue of Premiere magaine. "He's very game." The rodent bit the actor during a scene in which he lets it drive a truck, Ramis said.

Murray plays a weather forecaster who is sent to Punxsutawney, home of Punxsutawney Phil, to cover the Groundhog Day festivities. Gumbel injured in pursuit of hippo NEW YORK (AP) Bryant Gumbel broke his wrist while in pursuit of a hippo in Africa, NBC says. The "Today" host has been in Africa since last week, taping segments to use when the originates there for six days, beginning Nov. 13. Members of the crew were chasing a hippopotamus at Kenya's Masai Mara game reserve when the vehicle carrying Gumbel went into a ditch, NBC spokeswoman Lynn Appelbaum said Tuesday.

He was treated and continued on to Egypt, she said. Gumshoes want Ivana to pay up NEW YORK (AP) Ivana Trump must settle her account with a detective agency that claims she owes it $233,000 for snooping done during her divorce. Investigative Group Inc. charged in lawsuit that Mrs. Trump paid $75,000 of a $308,000 bill for tracking down Maria Maples, Donald Trump's girlfriend.

Justice Shirley Fingerhood, in a ruling last week, rejected Mrs. Trump's argument that she limited IGI to $100,000 worth of work. The judge said Mrs. Trump's lawyer authorized IGI to exceed the limit. Fingerhood directed both sides to present arguments to a court-appointed referee who will recommend an amount Mrs.

Trump should pay. Axl giving pipes a rest MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Axl Rose overdid it at a concert a week ago and had to cancel tonight's Guns N' Roses show rather than risk permanent damage to his voice, his record company says. The rock group's lead singer hurt his vocal cords during a 2Vfe-hour concert at Giants Stadium in New Jersey, Geffen Records said Tuesday. A doctor advised Rose to give his vocal cords at least a week to heal, Geffen said. The concert at the Metrodome has been rescheduled for Sept.

15. Sheen bids high for wicket ball NEW YORK (AP) Charlie Sheen paid $93,500 for the baseball that slipped between Bill Buckner's legs and ultimately cost the Boston Red Sox the 1986 World Series. Sheen, who acted in the baseball movie "Major League," bid by telephone Tuesday to claim what in New York became known as the "Mookie Ball" for Mookie Wilson, the New York Mets player who hit it past Buckner at first base. Signed by Wilson, the ball became tobacco-stained when it was handed around the Mets clubhouse and kissed by unidentified lips. Business Stocks down NEW YORK (AP) The stock market gave ground today, faced with continuing resistance from sellers after its recent sharp rally.

The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials dropped 11.34 points to 3,372.98 in the first half hour of trading. Losers outnumbered gainers by more than 3 to 2 in nationwide trading of New York Stock Exchange-listed issues, with 422 up, 692 down and 703 unchanged. NEW (API AMR Corp Albtsn AlliedSignal ALLTEL Cp AmStores Amer TS.T Ameritech Amoco AndarkPtr Arkla Armcolnc AtlRichlld BakerHugh BancTexas BellAtl BellSouth Beth Steel Borden Caterpllr Centel CenSoWst Chevron Chrysler Coastal CocaCola ColgP Coo per In CyprusMn DallSemicn DeltaAirl DigitalEq Dillards DowChem Oresscrlnd OuPont st Kodak Eljerlnd Enierch Exxon FtCtyBcp Flowerlnd FordMotor GTE Cp GnDvnjm -Morning stocks: High Low Last 65 64 Vi 42 56'A 56 56 Vk 37 37 Vk 69 Vj 69 69 Vfc 27 tOVj 7'A 7'A 47ft Vt 54'A 54 54 30 "A 29 71 Vi- 22 28Vj Vk 48 31V. 3I'A 10 38 38W- 'A 36 21V4 21 31 53 Vj 53 44 43V: 8 8 IS 15 64W- 1 I7H 4JVi 34Vi 79 79 GenElct GnMlll GenAAotors GenMotrE GaPacif GlobMar Goodrich Goodyear GtAtlPac Gulf StaUt Haliburtn Hanson Houstlnd IBM IntlPaper Johnsnjnss mart Kroger vjLTV Cp Litton vjLoneStar Lowes Lubys Maxus MayOSt Medtrn Mobil Monsanto Motorola Nationsbk Navistar Nynex OryxEngy PacTelesis PanhECp PenneyJC PepBoys PhelpDs PhltipPet PltgrmPrd Polaroid Praxair Primerica ProctGambs PubS NwMx SFePacCp SaraLet SearsRoeb SherwInW SmthBck SmthBc eqt Southern Co SwAIrl SwstBel) Sprint SterlingChm SunCo TNP Ent Tandy Tempi Inl Texaco Texaslnd Texaslnst Tex Util Textron Tyler USWst USX-Msrathn USX-USS UnPacs UnitTech Unocal WalMart WtttghEl Woolwth Xtrox Cp ZcnlthE 75Vj 70 39Vj 28 55V) 55'A 2 'A 'A V4 'A 16 16 20 20 93 92 66 14'A 11-16 Vk 6Vi Vk 80'A 'A 65 65Vi 55'A-l'A 87'A 46Vi 46Vj 2Vi 2Vj 83 JOVj 18Vi 23'A 24 51VJ 27'A 27Vi ISVi SOVi 24 59 'A 27 to 31'A SOV, 50 4-0 37 22'A 65 4 12'A 54'A 40 40Vl 30 44Vj Vi 40'A 37Vk 37'A- Iff 11 6SVj 23'A 24Vi 'A 24'A 'A 49 49 'A Vj 22'A 41V; 'A 39'A 39 39'A 28'A 2I'A HV) U'A .51 'A 26 29 75Vi 7'A 7'A SPA 57 Learning Spanish CUALES SON SUS EDADEST What are their ages? SUS EDADES SON TRECE, DIEZ SIETE. Their ages are 13, 10 and 7.

IDENTIFICACION Identification the book, lagles-LearaiBg Spaalsh" by Irma Sallaai. Courtesy of Southwest Texai Jailor College Adult Baric EdncatioB, general director: JOM "Pepe" Calderoa.) ALFABETO EN ESPANOL Si Senor Habla Espanol? A (ah) (beh) (ceh) CH (che) (den) (eh) (efe) (he) (a-che) I- (e) (hota) K-(ka) (ele) LL (eye) (erne) (ene) O- (o) P-(pe) (COO) (ere) RR (erre) (etc) (te) U-(oo) (ve) (doble oo) (ekli) (Igriega) (zeta) Weather YESTERDAY'S HIGH: 96. YESTERDAY'S LOW: 73. Today's low as of 6 a.m.: 74; Record high for this date: 105, set in 1951; record low: 68, set in 1908. RAINFALL: There has been 19.79 inches of rain so far this year, 10.31 inches above normal for the year.

AMISTAD REPORT: Elevation: 1,117.96 feet. Water storage: 3,446,723 acre feet. Water area: 65,666 acres. Discharge: 2,069 cubic feet per second. Inflow on the Rio Grande at Foster Ranch: 1,960 cfs; on the Pecos River, 249 cfs; at afford Crossing on the Devil's River, 516 cfs; and at Eagle Pass, 2,710 cfs.

DEL RIO AND VICINITY: Partly cloudy today with a high in the upper-90's, southeast winds 10-20 mph. Tonight, mostly fair becoming partly cloudy towards morning, low inthe mid-70's, light southeast wind. Thursday, partly cloudy with a high in the upper-90's and southeast winds 10-15 mph. SUNSET TODAY: SUNRISE TOMORROW: 7:06. Texas Temperatures Prc Highest temperature yesterday, lowest past 12 hours and precipitation for 14 hours ending at 6 a.m.

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