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Berri says hostage
crisis end is near
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -
Shiite Moslem leader Nabih
Berri said today that the two-
week-old ordeal of the 39
American hijack hostages in
Beirut was nearing an end.
He talked to Western televi-
sion reporters at his heavily for-
tified house in west Beirut
minutes after coming from a 30-
Itl
minute meeting with French
Embassy First Secretary
Marcel L’Augel.
“I’m waiting for an answer.
Until now I don’t receive any
answer for U.S. government,”
Berri said in English. “But I
think we’re in the end, the end of
this thing.”
Beirut radio stations said
France had offered to house the
39 Americans, taken hostage in
the hijackiing of a TWA airliner
on June 14, and two kidnapped
Frenchmen at its west Beirut
embassy for two days on condi-
tion Israel freed 735 Lebanese
prisoners.
But the French Foreign
Ministry in Paris issued a state-
ment saying:^*We cannot act as
substitute Jailers.'*,.. We are
ready to welcome liberated peo-
ple, not hostages.”
L’Augel said after meeting
Berri that “moving the hostages
to an embassy would be a long-
term matter. It will take a lot of
talks to get them there.”
In Bern, Switzerland, the
government said it was studying
an offer from Berri to transfer
the American hostages to the
Swiss Embassy.
The wife of one of two kidnap-
ped Frenchmen said French
Foreign Minister Roland Dumas
told her today that her husband,
magazine writer Jean-Paul
Kaufmann, and the other Fren-
chman, scientific researcher
Michel Seurat, had been handed
over to Berri. Gunmen kidnap-
ped the two Frenchmen on the
highway to Beirut airport May
22.
Berri told a news conference
Wednesday men who kidnapped
the Frenchmen had contacted
him to say they had decided to
put the pair in his charge, “in the
same position” as the hostages
from the TWA flight.
Berri, 46, is leader of the Amal
militia guarding 36 American
hostages in secret Beirut
hideouts. Three crew members
remain aboard the jet at the
Beirut airport.
In Fitchburg, Mass, the
girlfriend of hostage Ralf
Traugott, 32, said he telephoned
her Wednesday night and said
his captors want her to come to
Lebanon. "I understand they
may be inviting family members
Be:
to Beirut, but as of yet, I am the
only one who has been invited,"
Nike Assimakoupoulos told the
Associated Press in Boston this
morning.
U.S. Secretary of State George
P. Shultz and Vice President
George Bush also insisted that
seven other Americans missing
or kidnapped in Beirut since
March 1984, be freed with the 39
others.
Sources in Israel said as many
as 70 of the remaining prisoners
it holds could be released today.
However, they cautioned that
(See BERRI, Page9-A)
NATURE S APPROACH
Gas leak believed cause
Cleveland fire controlled
CLEVELAND (AP) — An explosion believed
triggered by a gas leak ripped through a
building in the downtown section of the Liberty
County town of Cleveland early Thursday and
fire quickly spread to other buildings in the
block.
No one was reported injured and the fire was
declared under control about 7:30 a.m.,
authorities said.
By mid-morning the blaze was out although
officials were worried that anpther gas leak
could set off a second explosion, said Steve
Wheeler, fire chief in Cleveland, a community of
about 6,000 people 45 miles north of Houston.
Police dispatcher Maxine Smith "Said no one
was evacuated. The blast levelled the Trinity
Valley Floor Co., a floor-covering firm, with the
fire spreading to three adjacent businesses.
“At first they told us the whole block was on
fire,” she said.
But later she said it was learned only about
four buildings were on fire, including a jewelry
store, an attorney’s office and the Cleveland Ad-
vocate, the town’s weekly newspaper.
“It’s in the business area, and we don’t think
anyone was around at that time,” Ms. Smith
said.
The downtown area was immediately cordon-
ed off, and no one was being allowed in the area
except for emergency personnel, she added.
At least seven fire departments were sum-
moned to the scene, including firefighters from
the towns of Dayton, Splendora, Montgomery
and Cold Springs.
BARE BRANCHES and the remains of a backyard
wircimiU/'Car-Mapleton Road in Brownwood stand
silhouetted against the skyline in Scott Bay —
silent testimony to nature’s ability to reclaim what
was once a thriving neighborhood. Cleanup efforts
by the city of Baytown are beginning this week
which are expected to result in the establishment
of a park on that portion of Brownwood not lost to
the sea.
(Sun staff photo by Angie Bracey)
Navy base site choice due
Competition between Gulf
Coast cities for a U.S. Navy
homeport will end this week with
the announcement of the site
selection.
Secretary of the Navy John
Lehman is expected to. announce
his decision either Thursday or
Friday. Originally scheduled to
coincide with Independence
Day, the decision is now ex-
pected before the July 4 holiday
recess when members of Con-
gress leave for home districts, a
spokesman with U.S. Rep. Jack
Fields’ office said.
Those sites still in the running
include those proposed by
Houston-Galveston; Corpus
Christi; Lake Charles, La;;
Pascagoula, Miss.; Mobile,
Ala.; and Pensacola, Fla.
The Houston-Galveston team’s
proposal includes sites at thfc
U.S. Steel complex in West
Chambers County, Bayport and
Galveston. Navy officials reluc-
tantly confirmed that
Galveston’s Fort Point is the
“preferred site” included in the
Houston-Galveston proposal,
with the other two sites remain-
ing as alternates.
As for competition between
the six contenders still in the
running, Navy officials have
been more tight-lipped, leading
to much speculation from
observers during the past mon-
ths.
The only point of agreement
seems to be the economic wind-
fall expected in the community
chosen. Officials say total
payroll for the base will be about
$60 million annually, that about
3,000 new civilian jobs will be
created and more than $100
million is expected to be spent by
the Navy on new port construc-
tion.
Pearce Street Journal - -
. Flat city
A tourist noted how flat the
Baytown terrain really is.
“The highest hill I saw,” he
said, “were McDonald Golden
Arches.”
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Fort Anahuac site of Saturday eveiit
Battle re-enactment set
AROUND
TOWN
PEGGY AND Forrest Davis are
busy entertaining family .. .
Lance Prater and family visit
his parents after a three-year
stay at Clark Air Force Base in
the Phillipine Islands ... Bert
Owens says “there’s no business
like show business”.., Dione
Critendon talks about Girls
State.
Melvin Bernard moves on .. .
Dorothy Huckaba from
Waynsboro, Tenn., visits her
ANAHUAC - Time will roll
back 150 years Saturday when
the first battle of the Texas
Revolution is re-enacted at Fort
Anahuac Park.
Wearing buckskin and bearing
arms of 1835 vintage, the Texas
Army will start the shooting
match at 2 p.m. after sailing
across Galveston and Trinity
bays from Morgan’s Point to
Fort Anahuac Park.
The members of the historical
organization will be taking the
same route as the one led by
William Barret Travis on June
29, 1835, in the Texas colonists’
act of defiance against the Mex-
ican government.
Others will be portraying the
Mexican soldiers in the battle,
wearing authentic costumes of
those warriors.
The Texas Army will leave
Morgan’s Point aboard a sloop
at 9:30 a.m. Saturday. The sloop
will be loaded with a cannon and
the Texas Army will be armed
with flintlock rifles and muskets.
They will disembark — just as
the colonists of 1835 did — with
the aid of skiffs. They will unload
their cannon at 1:30 p.m. at the
boat ramp by the county park at
Anahuac, roll the cannon up to
the Mexican troops at the site of
Fort Anahuac and begin the bat-
tle.
That battle 150 years ago
started the revolution which —
less than a year later — ended in
April 1836 with the Texans’
decisive victory at San Jacinto.
The hero of Fort Anahuac
never lived to see the revolution
to its successful end. Travis was
killed at the Alamo in March
1836.
The battle at Fort Anahuac
had been prompted by actions of
(See BATTLE, Page9-A)
Hurricane meeting slated July 9
Ron Stagno, preparedness of-
ficer for the Houston area
family in Baytown ... Carol weather service, will present
Sherer is hard to catch . .. June Baytown’s 13th annual hur-
Morris and Maxine Duke are ricane preparedness meeting
surprised by friends... Michael scheduled for July 9.
Medina makes plans for the holi-
day.
Stagno will discuss the effects
of hurricanes and actions in-
Betty Hastie reports grandson dlviduals should take in order to
Jason climbs to new heights ... protect themselves. He will also
Sheila McGraw writes a note... show the new film, “Hurricane,’
Michelle Hughes has definite produced by the Federal
opinions.
Emergency Management Agen-
cy and the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration.
Citing the experience of Hur-
ricane Alicia striking the upper
Texas Gulf Coast just two years
ago, Baytown’s Emergency
Management Coordinator Flet-
cher Hickerson said, “Many peo-
ple now consider themselves
hurricane veterans and there is
a real danger that this attitude
can make Baytown vulnerable to
these dangerous storms.
“A hurricane worse than
Alicia could occur in any year
and even in 1985,” Hickerson
said.
“Meteorologists are predic-
ting above-normal hurricane ac-
tivity for this season. It is impor-
tant that we continue to increase
our knowledge and pre-
paredness.”
The meeting will be held at
Baytown Community Building’s
auditorium.
Business............... 7-C
Classified............2-7-D
Comics.........6-A
Crossword Puzzle......6-A
Dimension.............7-A
Editorial.............A-A
Fire News.............2-A
Markets...............5-C
Movie Theaters........6-C
Obituaries.............5-C
People ................3-A
Police Beat............2-A
Sports........1-3-C
Television Log.........6-C
Weather...............1-D
WEATHER
MOSTLY CLOUDY skies
and a 30-percent chance of
thuiidershowers are
forecast for the Baytown
area through Friday.
Temperatures are ex-
pected to be in the low 70s
Thursday night and near 90
Friday. From 8 a.m.
Wednesday to S a^jn.
Thursday, a low of 79
degrees and a high of 92
degrees were recorded.
Green has
local phone
As a first step toward the
establishment of a Baytown of-
fice, State Sen. Gene Green has
announced the installation of a
new telephone number for his
constituents in East Harris
County.
The new number is 422-0599
and is designed for use by
residents in Baytown,
Highlands, McNair and Barrett
Station.
“I encourage anyone in the
Baytown area who needs to con-
tact us to give us a call,” said
Green.
Green said his Baytown office
will be located in the new
Citizen’s Bank Tower at Roll-
ingbrook Drive and Garth Road.
Construction of the new office
is still in progress but Green said
he hopes it will be completed by
August.
Green was elected state
senator in June to complete the
unexpired term of Lindon
Williams, who resigned to
become Precinct 3?.' -Place 2
Justice of the Peace in Baytown.
The JP’s position became open
in March with the death of N.O.
“Pookie” Morrison.
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