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Texas 2 Del RiO NeWS-Herald Tuesday, June 28, 1993 Aprendiendo espanol GOP lauds Supreme Court ruling DALLAS (AP) State Republican leaders Monday praised a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that says state legislatures may violate white voters' rights when they create congressional election districts that contain majorities of minority voters. The 5-4 decision Monday revived a challenge to a congressional redistricting plan for North Carolina that created two majority-black districts. The decision could jeopardize action in other states that recently created so-called majority-minority districts to comply with the Voting Rights Act. Texas GOP Chairman Fred Meyer said, "A number of our districts in Texas are grossly distorted and gerrymandered, just as the congressional district in North Carolina is." Two arrested in detective's slaying FORT WORTH (AP) Police have arrested two teenagers in the fatal shooting of an off-duty Fort Worth police officer in an east Fort Worth park.

Police said the men were taken into custody Monday at an apartment complex. Officers say one man is accused of shooting and killing detective Donald Manning, 28, who had been walking in the park late Saturday with his girlfriend. About two dozen officers, acting on a tip, raid one unit of the Monaco Apartments, Police Chief Thomas Windham said. United States Iwo Jima Memorial model sold for $100 WASHINGTON (AP) An auctioneer started the bidding at $100 and the white plaster model of the famed Iwo Jima Memorial went for that price. "It's disgraceful," Felix de Weldon said of the bankruptcy auction to liquidate what once was his sculptor's studio.

"In any other country someone like me becomes a national treasure. Except in the rich United States, they try to ruin somebody who created many heroic monuments." Auctioneers on Monday sold de Weldon's dilapidated 19th century brick studio and its contents to pay off creditors after the artist filed bankruptcy. De Weldon had been unable to repay a $1.5 million loan he had taken out for the care of his late wife who had Alzheimer's disease. Space station still alive after House vote WASHINGTON (AP) The House beat back the second bid to kill the space station within a week, a defeat for critics of the costly project who said last-ditch White House arm-twisting proved toQ. much to overcome.

House voted 220-196 late Monday to maintain $2.1 billion in funding next year for the NASA project. The vote came just a week after House opponents who ridiculed its expense and scientific value missed scuttling the program by a one-vote margin. The overall spending bill, set for final passage today in the House, will then go to the Senate, where the space station has enjoyed more support than in the House. House opponents said they'd try again next year. Analysts say Saddam's potential undaunted WASHINGTON (AP) The Iraqi security compound hit by U.S.

missiles was the nerve center of Saddam Hussein's intelligence network, but analysts say they doubt that Saddam's ability to carry out terrorism suffered more than a temporary setback. The headquarters wing of what the Defense Department calls the Iraqi Intelligence Service was heavily damaged in the nighttime attack by ship-launched Tomahawk cruise missiles. Auxiliary buildings with computer, record-keeping and communications equipment also were damaged, according to Pentagon estimates. Suspect caught with rotted corpse MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) A man who was pulled over with a decomposed corpse in the back of his pickup told police he killed 17 prostitutes and dumped all but the latest victim in three Northeastern states, investigators say.

Joel Rifkin, a 34-year-old unemployed landscaper was to be arraigned today on one c'ou'ht' of murder" 1 "as" investigators tried details of his grisly confession with unsolved slayings during the last two or three years. Rifkin told police he was on his way to dump his latest victim about 3a.m. Monday when two troopers flagged him down for driving without license plates and running a stop sign. He led the troopers on a four-mile chase speeds never exceeded 50 mph until he rammed his beige pickup into a light pole. People Cruise makes an impression HOLLYWOOD (AP) Tom Cruise made a good impression several of them, in fact as he sank his feet and hands into wet concrete at Mann's Chinese Theater.

Cruise on Monday became the 173rd celebrity to leave his mark outside the theater on Hollywood Boulevard. Cruise, accompanied by wife, Nicole Kidman, posed for pictures and signed autographs for many in the crowd of hundreds. Hemingway unsure of dad's approval RADNOR, Pa. (AP) Marie! Hemingway says she's not sure her grandfather Ernest Hemingway would have approved of her career. "It's a good thing he's not alive," she said in the July 3 issue of TV Guide.

"He hated Hollywood. He felt the movie industry bastardized and misrepresented his work." The former star of ABC's canceled "Civil Wars" also had some advice for screenwriters interested in adapting Hemingway's books: "Throw out the book and use the story. You can't do what he did with dialogue. What he wrote was not meanj: to be spoken." Letterman sees jump in ratings NEW YORK (AP) His last day on the job at NBC, David Letterman got a nice raise in ratings. Friday's "Late Night" finale, with Bruce Springsteen and Tom Hanks, got roughly double Letterman's usual audience, according to preliminary A.C.

Nielsen Co. figures released Monday. In 29 markets representing 50.7 percent of all TV homes, Letterman got a 7.4 rating and a 27 share. Each rating point equals 472,108 households. The share is the percentage of TV sets in use that are tuned to a particular show.

National figures will be released Thursday. Lawyer dates juror MIAMI (AP) Roy Black, the lawyer who won the acquittal of William Kennedy Smith on rape charges, is dating one of the jurors in the case. Black said his relationship with Lea Haller began a year after the 1991 trial when the two "bumped into each other." Black, 48, and Haller have been an item ever since. "We certainly had no romantic interest during the trial," he said. Pickett pleads guilty HACKENSACK, N.J.

(AP) Wilson Pickett pleaded guilty to reduced charges in a drunken driving accident in which he hit an 85-year-old pedestrian. Under the plea bargain, prosecutors will recommend about a year in jail, alcohol rehabilitation and community service for the 51-year-old rhythm and blues star. Pickett, best known for the song "In the Midnight Hour," will be sentenced Sept. 24. In 1992, Pickett's vehicle struck and injured Pepe Ruiz.

"It was a tip from an individual. What prompted him to contact us, I don't know. We believe these are the individuals involved in the murder of Donnie Manning," Windham told Dallas television station The two teens have not yet been formally charged in the attack. Freezer being built to store cult corpses DALLAS (AP) A temporary storage freezer will be constructed by the U.S. Justice Department to hold the bodies of 57 Branch Davidians currently housed in an overcrowded morgue, officials say.

Tarrant County officials last week asked federal authorities to remove the burnt, decomposing bodies, 42 of which have yet. to be identified. Forensics experts feared burying the unidentified corpses would hinder future efforts to identify the cultists who died in the April 19 fire. Extradited flasher convicted of murder HOUSTON (AP) A self- admitted "flasher" has been convicted in the 1978 shooting death of a man who attempted to stop him from exposing himself to a group of children on a residential street. Edward Harold Bell, 54, was convicted Monday in the Aug.

24,1978, slaying of Larry Dean Dickens, 26, an oil field roughneck. Dickens was shot several times when he attempted to stop Bell, who was masturbating in front of the children. World Human rights group targets Israeli actions JERUSALEM (AP) A U.S.-based human rights group charged today that Israeli undercover troops routinely use unjustified lethal force against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. The shootings are sanctioned by Israeli leaders, and the army command covers for troops involved in such killings, Middle East Watch said in its 187-page report, "A License to Kill. 1 "We believe that this is a policy that is set very much at the top," Kenneth Roth, the acting executive director of the New York-based group, told The Associated Press in an interview.

Army spokesman Lt. Col. Moshe Fogel rejected the allegations, saying soldiers were bound by strict open-fire regulations and violators were punished. "Any claim that there are orders to kill are based on lies and fabrication," Fogel said. Military rule brings torture, brutality ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) In a city where veils are more the exception than the rule, it was not surprising that Muslim fundamentalists were blocked from taking power.

But the price has been 17 months of repression by a military-backed government that has jailed up to 10,000 people and is accused of torturing many of them. "They're torturing with electricity and water, people are hung by their hands, some are castrated," said AH Aya Abdenour, a lawyer who heads the Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights. "It's systematic. To make them talk, they use torture." Authorities also have harassed and subdued the press, once perhaps the liveliest in the Arab world. Journalists have been arrested or barred from writing.

Nervous Iraqi soldiers fire volleys into sky By The Associated Press Iraqi anti-aircraft guns were fired today at an unidentified target over Baghdad as the government-controlled media predicted a showdown with the United States after a weekend missile attack on Iraq's intelligence headquarters. Iraqi Information Ministry officials, reached by telephone from Amman, Jordan, said the anti-aircraft fire was heard throughout the city early this afternoon. Insisting on anonymity, one of the officials said there were reports "an Iraqi reconnaissance plane or ifighter jet" had been hit by mistake. He said no confirmation of that report was immediately available. There also was no immediate word on the antiaircraft fire from U.S.

officials in Washington. The Iraqi officials said they did not know what provoked the gunners to fire. Business mi YpH tW vrVO til I NEW YORK (AP) The stock market was narrowly mixed this morning, following a pessimistic government forecast on the economy. After 30 minutes of trading, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 4.99 points to 3,525.21. Volume on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange was 35.68 million shares at 10 a.m.

on Wall Street. Advancing shares narrowly outnumbered declines on the NYSE, with 686 up, 623 down and 742 unchanged. The NYSE composite index was down 0.20 at 249.32. On the American Stock Exchange, the market value index was down 0.21 at 432.65. The Commerce Department's Index of Leading Indicators fell 0.3 percent in May, a bit worse than the 0.1 percent expected by analysts.

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Caution is advised on Lake Amistad. Tonight, partly cloudy, becoming cloudy by. morning; low in the mid-70s; southeast winds near 10 mph. Wednesday, cloudy, becoming partly cloudy by afternoon; high in the mid-90s; southeast winds 15-20 mph. SUNSET TODAY: 8:47 SUNRISE TOMORROW: 6:47.

Texas Temperatures Highest temperature yesterday, lowest past 12 hours and precipitation far 24 hours ending at 7 a.m.: Hi Lo Pep. 93 75 92 75 Abilene Alice Amariltc Austin Beaumont- Port Arthur Brownsville Station Childress Corpus Christi Corpus Christi NA5 Cotulla Daihart Dallas Love Field Dallas NAS Field Del Rio ElPaso Fort Worth Fort Worth Weacham Galveston Hondo Houston Hcbby Airport 98 91 91 92 100 91 91 94 98 93 96 92 102. 94 93 37 69 Columbus.Ohio Concord.N.H. Dallas-R Worth Dayton Denver Des Moines Detroit Dululh El Evansvilfe Fairbanks Fargo Flagstaff Grand Rapids Great Falls Greensboro.N.C. Hartford Spgfld Helena Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jack Jacksonville Juneau Kansas City Las Vegas Little Rock Los Angeles Louisville Lubbock Memphis Miami Beach Midland-Odessa Milwaukee Mpls-StPaul Nashville New Orleans New York City Norfalk.Va.

North Platte Oklahoma City Omaha Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland.Ore. Providence Raleigh-Durham Rapid City Reno Richmond Sacramento St Louis Salt Lake City San Angela 68 .09 76 66 .61 87 61 .03 94 77 77 65 .36 95 68 79 66 75 52 93 67 cdy cdy cdy clr cdy cdy cdy cdy btf 89 73 69 91 89 74 87 92 76 92 88 68 91 105 92 80 90 98 90 89 95 65 69 88 91 92 91 85 91 77 88 94 111 79 87 67 89 92 75 80 96 34 88 90 94 '67 .31 52 56 58 55 rn clr cdy clr cdy 44 .20 cdy 66 cdy 65 cdy 45 .30 cdy 75 clr 78 .14 cdy 64 .31 cdy 74 .01 cdy 71 .29 cdy 51 cdy 73 .90 cdy 76 clr 75 cdy 65 cdy 66 .49 rn 70 cdy 68 ,94 cdy 82 cdy 73 cdy 56 cdy 55 cdy 69 .14 cdy 75 .01 clr 73 cdy 72 cdy 69 cdy 75 clr 68 .17 cdy 74 .72 cdy 73 .10 cdy o5 clr 62 ,05 clr 64 .05 cdy 53 .10 cdy 67 cdy 68 cdy 60 ,02 cdy 48 clr 69 cdy 56 clr 48 1.12 cdy 57 clr 76 cdy Audit Bureau of Circulation Member 1 SHAVE WITH RAZOR. Me afeito con una navaja de afeitar. HE BATES IN THE TUB. El se bana en el bano.

1 SI, (Habla C5 Ip 3 YV i 'v Ingles-Learning by Irma Salinas. Courtesy of Southwest Texas Junior College Adult Basic Education. General director, Jose "Pepe" Calderon. A (ah) (beh) (ceh) CH (che) (dch) (eh) (efe) (he) (a-che) I (e) (hota) (ka) (ele) LL (eye) (erne) (en-yea) (o) (pe) (coo) (ere) RR (erre) (ese) T- (te) U- (ve) (doble oo (ekis) (igriega) (zeta) Weather YESTERDAY'S HIGH: 92. YESTERDAY'S LOW: 74.

Today's low as of 6 a.m.: 76; Record high for this date: 105, set in 1907; record low: 62, set in 1985. RAINFALL: There has been 9.13 inches of rain so far this year, which is .95 inches below normal for the date. (No rain was reported in the last 24 hours as of midnight.) AMISTAD REPORT: Elevation: 338.780 meters. Water storage: 3,746,863 cu. meters.

Water area: 24,521 hectares. Discharge: 142 cms. Inflow on the Rio Grande at Foster Ranch: 75. 2 cms; onthePecos River, 4.36 cms; at Pafford Crossing on the Devil's River, 7.35 cms; and at Eagle Pass, 121 cms. (No rain was reported in Del Rio or Eagle Pass as of midnight.) (AMISTAD REPORT information obtained from the International Boundary and Water Commission.

One meter times 3.28084 equals feet; one cubic meter per second times 35.31467 equals cubic feet per second; 1,000 cubic meters times 0.81071 equals acre feet.) Houston Intent! Kingsville Laredo Longview Lubbock Lufkin Marfa McAilen Midland-Odessa Mineral Wells Palacios San Angel San Antonio Shreveport, La. Stephenvllle Texarkana, Ark. Victoria Waco Wichita Falls Wink Notional Ten Temperatures indicate and overnight low to 8 a.m Albany.N.Y. Albuquerque Amarillo Anchorage Asheville Atlanta Atlantic City Austin Baltimore Billings Birmingham Bismarck Boise Boston Brownsville 8'iffalo Burlington, Vt. Casper Charleston, S.C.

Charleston.W.Va. Charfotte.N.C. Cheyenne Chicago Cincinnati 78 O.U 93 75 94 80 100 79 92 76 98 70 91 71 90 61 94 78 95 73 95 76 89 80 94 76 94 78 76 71 73 91 75 91 77 96 77 94 76 100 74 previous day's high EOT. Hi Lo Prc 011k 85 57 .18 cdy 100 74 clr 98 69 cdy 68 53 cdy 87 60 .15 cdy 89 71 cdy 89 62 cdy 92 78 cdy 96 6S cdy 82 55 .29 cdy 89 72 cdy 69 54 .54 cdy 72 41 clr 92 65 .11 cdy 91 79 cdy 74 53 .07 cdy 81 54 cdy 94 53 cdy 89 74 cdy 89 62 .32 clr 95 71 cdy 88 57 cdy 72 53 .02 rn 83 64 .23 cdy Del Rio News-Herald The Del Rio News-Herald is published by Warren Newspapers Monday through Friday afternoon, and Saturday and Sunday morning, with a second edition on Wednesday. The newspaper's address is 321 S.

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