European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday april 18,1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 7recall Effort in Gallup ., fails mayor says vote backs his anti alcohol drive Gallup  Apr Gallup residents voted monday to keep their feisty mayor in office for the remaining 11 months of his term. The vote to recall mayor de Munoz a who once threatened to erect billboards proclaiming his City the nations Drunken driving capital a was 1,995 to 2,135. Opponents needed 2,246 ballots to oust the 62-year-old Democrat. A this tells me that the people of Gallup want me to continue to address the City a alcohol problem a said the longtime mayor of this City which Borders a huge Indian reservation. The 50 percent voter turnout was about 15 percent higher than expected said City clerk Rosa Lena Chavez. Gallup has 7,218 registered voters. Munoz said he was not upset that 1,995 voters wanted him out of office. A it tells me that people associated with the liquor Industry carry a lot of clout and that other people want to continue to live in denial a he said. A people that have drinking problems want to continue drinking and continue to live in  Munoz contends the liquor Industry was behind the Effort to Dave him from office because of his campaigns against alcohol problems in Gallup. Recall organizer Linda Tiley said she hoped the vote sends a message to Munoz. A i Hope he sees by the number of votes against him that there Are a lot of people who disagree with his views a Tiley said. A i done to feel that the recall was a total failure just because we did no twin a she said. A maybe now people will Start to a mayor de Munoz pay More attention to City  recall organizers had said they were fed up with Munoz a confrontational style and accused him of using his position to help friends. They noted that he has three times offered to step outside to Settle differences during City Council meetings. A if i had been charged with malfeasance or something like that then i  feel Good a Munoz said earlier. A but i feel Good about  Tiley said the mayors proposal in february for billboards depicting a car on a Road paved with skulls was just the last Straw. The billboards 20 Miles West of Gallup on the Arizona state line would have told visitors that lifelong new Mexico residents have an 86 percent Chance of being involved in an alcohol related traffic Accident. A the rest of the country now thinks this is nothing but a town of drunks a said Tiley a skin care consultant and part time waitress and bartender. Munoz retracted the billboard proposal saying it was intended to get the attention of state legislators after they failed to act on liquor Law reforms the mayor supported. He has proposed closing All drive up liquor windows and halting sales before 11 . He persuaded voters to impose a liquor tax to pay for alcohol treatment. Munoz was mayor from 1958 through 1969 and is in the Middle of his second consecutive 2-year term. He is challenging state rep. Dominic Ferrari in the june democratic primary. He has said that he wont seek another term As mayor no matter what happened monday. Tiley rejected the mayors accusation that the recall was backed by the liquor Industry. She said the Campaign organized with the help of a mail Carrier and three of her co workers at the powder puff Beauty Salon Hasni to taken any Money from alcohol related businesses. A alcohol has nothing to do with it at All a Tiley said. A a it a his tactics. We done to like the Way he runs  examples she said included Munoz a interceding on behalf of an acquaintance in a zoning matter and three times offering to step outside a Council meeting to Settle a dispute. The mayor does no to deny challenging people to fights. A when they make personal slanders against me ill threaten them a he said. Of allegations he helped his friends Munoz said a a in a responsive to people in the Community As a mayor should be. When someone needs help i try to help  Tiley contends that Gallup a liquor problems arc no worse than any other City a but says Munoz by drawing attention to drinking has Hurt tourism. Gallup population 24,600, is on the Edge of the West Virginia size Navajo reservation which sprawls across three states and is Home to 165,000 people. Alcohol is banned on the reservation so navajos who wish to drink legally must go to nearby cities such As Gallup. The National Institute on alcoholism and alcohol abuse found in a one time study that the Gallup areas rate of alcohol related deaths per 100,000 people was nearly six times the . Average Over the period of 1975 to 1979. In 1987, the National safety Council reported that new Mexico was the nations per capita Leader in traffic deaths. That year Mckinley county which includes Gallup was worst among new Mexico counties for severe alcohol related crashes figures showed. In 1988, City police threw 26,222 people in a drunk tanks to sober up Many of them multiple  drug Kingpin escapes Texas prison san Antonio apr an alleged drug Kingpin and two other inmates escaped from a privately run prison across from a police station after one of them pulled a gun on a guard authorities . Agents from five Federal agencies plus mexican Texas and local officials were cooperating in a search for the men who escaped sunday evening. The escapees include Mario Alberto Salinas Trevino said by Federal authorities to be the Leader of one of the regions largest drug smuggling and Money laundering rings. Police said the three men May be heading to Mexico and Are considered armed and dangerous. At its closest Point the Border with Mexico is about 100 Miles away. Salinas 37, was among 25 people arrested by Federal agents in March 1989 in a drug operation dubbed a operation Jet  . Marshal Bill Jonas said $10 million was seized from Salinas then. He is suspected of having up to $10 million in drug Money stashed in a hideaway either in Texas or Mexico. Jonas identified the other inmates As Charlie Edward Compton 58, and Juan Chapa Garza 44. Compton was awaiting trial on charges of Possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. Chapa Garza was charged with Possession of marijuana with intent to distribute. The three were cellmate at the Cen trial Texas parole violators facility a minimum to medium Security prison in the old Bexar county jail that is operated by Wackenhut corp., a Coral Gables fla., Security firm. Compton summoned a guard claiming he was ill and pulled a handgun on him shortly before 9 p.m., Jonas said. The three then locked up two guards in the closet and overpowered another guard on the ground floor before seizing the Security control panels and opening a door Jonas said. They fled on foot. According to police reports san Antonio police were not notified of the Jailbreak until nearly an hour after the three men had escaped. But Wackenhut spokesman Pat can Nan said police were notified 15 to 20 minutes after the jail break by the guard on the ground floor who had been tied up outside. A it took him about 15 to 20 minutes to get Loose and he ran straight across the Street to the police department Quot Cannan said. A that was the proper thing to  Jonas said he had no indication that Wackenhut had been slow to report the escape. A we suspect the pistol was brought in by a visitors on easter Cannan said. The inmates were being held in the facility for the . Marshals service Cannan said. About 100 of the facility a 620 prisoners Are held for the marshals service he said because Bexar county docs not have enough cell  group criticizes russian writers tour Washington apr the government is sponsoring a month Long . Tour by a group of russian writers that includes known anti semites a major jewish group charged monday night. This visit is not in the interests of the West generally said David Harris president of the american jewish committee. A russian jewish emigre whose studies of anti semitic writers were used by the committee Semyon Kezick said some writers in the group a exuded the. A jewish zionist conspiracy an old russian hatred in their work. Frank s. Johnson jr., a spokesman for the . In formation Agency sponsor of the tour said a i done to know that they Are anti semitic i done to know that they either. We feel very strongly that pluralism mis country is Worth talking about and  Reznick singled out Stanislav Kun nyae As a a big fish of anti semitic writers in the group. As editor of Nash so Remenik our contemporary Kun nyae wrote an article praising the Long discredited a protocols of the elders of Zion As a written by very Clever people who understand the history of  the notorious protocols purport to be an account of a meeting of jewish leaders plotting to control the world. Their 19th-Century origin is obscure but they have been used by anti semites of All stripes including Hitler and the czars secret police before the russian revolution that brought the communists to Power in 1917. Reznick said Kun nyae also had written that a not bolsheviks but jews had killed the victims of the revolution. Another writer in the group Oleg Mikhaylov has written of the late 18th Century russian writer Gavril Gerz havin As a a victim of a jewish plot a said Reznik. Harris said the committee was protesting the tour on the grounds that it a confers a new Mantle of legitimacy on these people and strengthens their influence in the soviet Union. Johnson said the writers were picked by Public affairs and cultural affairs officers of the . Embassy in Moscow who were seeking to bring conservative russian nationalists to the United states. The group is visiting Washington Pittsburgh Iowa City Iowa Urbana and Kansas 111. Oxford miss. San Francisco Bozeman Mont. And new York City through May 13. In addition to Mikhaylov and Kun nyae members Are Pavel Gorelov Svetlana Selivanov Leonid Borodin Viktor Lik Onosov Svyatoslav Rybas and Ernst Safonov