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Show Tuesday. February 21, National 1989 A New INS plan Two trains derail, no one injured By The Associated A Press begins today in Brownsville BROWNSVILLE, Texas (APj Local officials are welcoming a plan taking effect today to arrest unqualified applicants for political asylum, but advocates for Central American im- although there was no fire or leak. The residents who evacuated were expected to be allowed back home by this morning. But police said it could take two days to complete the cleanup. Nobody was injured when the train, en route from Houston to Oakland, derailed just before 6 a.m., police said. Police Capt. Dennis Hoerth said the derailed cars included an empty chlorine tanker and another car carrying an unspecified hydrocarbon residue. The four cars carrying munitions were marked as containA ing Class A projectile train hauling explosives and hazardous materials hit a broken section of rail east of San Francisco, sending 48 cars off the tracks Monday, and two ruptured tankers from a derailed train in North Dakota spewed noxious gas. There were no reports of serious injuries in the derailments in Manteca. Calif., and in Bordulac, N.D., officials said. At Manteca, a San Joaquin Valley town of 25,000, about three dozen cars, including the four carrying the explosives, remained on the tracks. Authorities said they asked residents to leave as a precaution, 100-15- 0 John Tower gations against Alan C. Nelson, commissioner of the Immigration and Natu- railroad employee inspects the scene of a train derailment in Manteca, Calif., cars tumbled off the track in the accident. Monday. Forty-eigh- t again rumors surfacing with no move forthrightly on this nomifacts to back them up," he nation," the president said. Published reports have said said. Tower has been plagued by the FBI found that Tower reports of womanizing and drank excessively in the 1970s, problem drinking and his financial ties to defense contractors, and the Senate Armed Services Committee postponed a vote on the nomination until the completion of an extensive FBI background check. The report was delivered on Mo.io.ay to the White House, which forwarded it to the Senate committee. "I hope that the Senate will but no longer does so. Asked about that, and whether the former senator had undergone treatment, Bush replied: "I say there is no evidence of any kind of disease of alcoholism. None. None whatsoever." Tower's nomination has beconcome the in of the weeks troversy early the new administration, and Bush has gone out of his way to Group in Thailand, and following a tour as deputy commanding general of the 6th U.S. Army at the Presidio of San Francisco, he retired in 1967. He married Stilwell's daughter, Nancv, in 1938 at West Point Geoff Upton AUCKLAND, New Zealand Geoff Upton, a former (APi editor of the Auckland Star decorated for his service to the newspaper industry, died Saturday at age 76. The New Zealand Press Association did not give the cause in announcing the death Tuesday. Upton worked as a reporter, assistant editor and financial editor at the Auckland Star before being appointed editor in Later that year he was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1934 for his service to the newspaper indus- longest-runnin- g support for his White House briefing room, the nominee at several turns. president gave his personal I've never wavered in my stamp to what his senior aides support for John Tower," he already had been telling reportsaid. ers about the FBI report. "I'd say all of these charges "It was very exhaustive; inwe've read about have been terviews with anybody and evrumor, and a lot of it vicious erybody," press secretary Mar-li- n rumor." Fitzwater said of a "John Tower is qualified to report. be secretary of defense, he'll be a good secretary of defense ... the allegations against him that have been hanging over this simply have been gunned down in terms of fact," Bush added. With his appearance in the demonstrate 140-pa- Alfred Furrer Calif. (API Alfred Y urrer, the last survivor of a Last Man's Club formed by World War I veterans from Francis- - the San co Bay area, died Sunday of congestive heart k failure. He was 97 and lived in Richmond. k T :. - Allrt-- Furmr Ernest Easterbrook son-in-la- t . - Re- Calif. (AP) tired Army Maj. Gen. Ernest .Fred Easterbrook, a career of- -' of Gen. ficer and the died Sunday at Joseph Stilwell, 80. age Easterbrook served in World 1954. After years as chairman of War II under Stilwell as an of Chinese Zealand News Ltd. and New instructor infantry in War Korean and the NZPA, Upton became a trustee troops internationas commander of the 7th Infan- of the London-base- d try Regiment. In 1957, he be- al news service Reuters until came director of U.S. Army his retirement in 1985. He gained his initial newspaAviation and from 1959 to 1962 he commanded the U.S. Army per experience on the Glasgow Aviation Center at Fort Rucker, Express and the Daily Express in London before returning to Ala. He served as chief of the New Zealand to join the Star-Su- n in 1934. Joint U.S. Military Advisory CARMEL, w Chri-stchur- ch try. ralization Service office here, announced Monday that the federal agency will speed up its processing of asylum applications and take a tough line on "frivolous" claims. For months, local elected officials have called on the federal government to relieve the burden placed on their communities by homeless Central Americans. "From the standpoint of the city, I think it will be good in terms of taking people and providing for them in a humanitarian way," said Brownsville Mayor Vgnacio Garza, whose city is Texas' southernmost. The INS plan, which will take several weeks to phase in, will bring more than 500 federal workers to the Brownsville area. The agency will add 269 Borpeople to its der Patrol between Del Rio and Brownsville, a stretch of more than 300 miles. It also will increase its staff of asylum adjudicators in Brownsville from 16 to 74. er WHY WAIT FOR YOUR SjlSt TAX REFUND WHEN YOU CAN GET YOUR MONEY FAST! 5idJrf National obituaries SAN PABLO, as it "mean-spirited- ." Bush -says FBI probe clears nominee Tower have been "gunned down" by a thorough FBI report, and he called on the Senate to move swiftly to confirm the former senator as secretary of defense. Fielding questions from reporters at the White House, Bush said he had personally reviewed the FBI background report on Tower. "What I got from it was that there has been a very unfair treatment of this man by rumor and innuendo, over and over criticized migrants Committee vote expected soon WASHINGTON AP) President Bush said today the alle- 3 A" I Mary Margaret Byrne COLUMBUS, Ga. '(AP) -Mary Margaret Byrne, editorial ; page editor of the Columbus died Sunday at the age of 60. stint Except for a three-yea- r in local television, Miss Byrne I had worked at the Columbus newspaper in a variety of positions since 1949. 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