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nations, Clements says
United Press International
AUSTIN —The United States
should be pressing OPEC na
tions to lower prices instead of
restricting American imports of
crude oil, Texas Gov. Bill Cle
ments said Monday.
“I think Mr. Carter has made a
bad mistake,” the governor told
reporters at an impromptu news
conference.
“We re on a razor’s edge bal
ance between what we re import
ing on crude and our economic
stability. We are going to have to
create and produce more
energy.”
Clements said restricting oil
imports will lead to a recession,
eliminate jobs and create a no
growth situation.
“This country cannot stand a
no-growth policy,” Clements
said.
Clements said the United
States should tie prices for prod-
Clement s wife proud
to receive new coin
United Press International
AUSTIN — Rita Clements said Monday she is proud to receive one
of the new Susan B. Anthony dollar coins and supports the equal
rights for women that the suffragette espoused.
The governor’s wife told Texans for the Equal Rights Amendment
she supports adding the ERA provision to the U.S. Constitution and
would even be willing to campaign for it.
“I certainly plan to work with women for equal rights,” Mrs. Cle
ments said.
Although the governor’s wife said she has not been asked to go to
other states to push ERA, she said she would be willing to accept
such invitations if the engagements did not interfere with her respon
sibilities in Texas.
Mrs. Clements also agreed at the request of Liz Carpenter to speak
to Illinois Gov. James Thompson on behalf of ERA ratification in his
state.
“We’ve certainly come a long way since the days of Susan B. An
thony. But we still have a long way to go as all of you in this room
appreciate,” Mrs. Clements told a mostly-female audience at the
Capitol presentation ceremony.
Texans for ERA, a coalition of women’s groups supporting the
amendment to the U.S. Constitution, presented a framed edition of
the new Susan B. Anthony coin to the governor’s wife.
In addition to Liz Carpenter, former White House press secretary
to Lady Bird Johnson, the spectators included Dr. Lorene Rogers,
University of Texas at Austin president and the first woman named to
head a college campus of that size.
Barbara Vacker, former ERA lobbyist and special assistant to Pres
ident Carter’s special adviser on women’s issues, Sarah Weddington,
also took part in the ceremonies.
ucts it sells to members of the
Organization of Petroleum Ex
porting Countries to rising oil
prices.
“There is a way we can fight
back,” Clements said. “We sell
to these producing countries an
awful lot of products. They are
dependent on us for our techni
cal assistance. We should tie
those prices to the price of their
oil.
“We should say, in effect,
‘Name your poison; we can play
that game too.”
Clements said he is pleased at
response to his push for a no-ties,
no-coat style in Texas for the
summer and predicted the
trucker strike is tapering down.
The governor was presented
with two T-shirts with outlines of
neckties drawn on and the label,
“Texas Dress Shirt” across the
front.
Clements said it was a cute
idea, but indicated he will stick
with less casual sports shirts for
his office attire.
The Texas governor ordered
thermostats in state office build
ings set at 76 degrees as an
energy conservation measure
and urged private businesses to
follow suit.
The no-tie, no-coat edict, he
said, was a symbolic way of re
minding the public to conserve
energy while making the higher
office temperatures more beara
ble.
“I’m well pleased with the re
ception that the program has re
ceived,” the governor said.
Clements said two weekend
shooting incidents in West Texas
are not sufficient cause for him to
invoke emergency measures to
deal with strife among truckers.
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high in Texas and Florida
United Press International
WASHINGTON — State prisons
in Florida and Texas had 221 con
victs on death row at the end of
1978, nearly half the total in the
entire country, the Law Enforce
ment Assistance Administration said
Monday.
In an annual capital punishment
report prepared from data collected
by the Census Bureau, the govern
ment agency said 1978 ended with
445 death row inmates, 35 more
than at the end of 1977.
During the year, death sentences
were imposed on 183 people, and
lifted from 148 others. Five of those
under death sentences are women.
Ohio removed 99 inmates from
death row after the U.S. Supreme
Court ruled its capital punishment
statute was unconstitutional. A Col
orado law also was struck down.
But Oregon, Maryland and
Pennsylvania enacted death penalty
laws in 1978. The report said 10 of
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United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — A federal
judge Monday dismissed conspiracy
charges against a Virginia tobacco
grower who had been indicted in
one of the largest Mexican alien
smuggling cases in recent history.
In a brief order, U.S. District
Judge D.W. Suttle dismissed a
two-count indictment charging R.
Hart Hudson, president of the
Virginia-Carolina Agricultural Pro
ducers Association, with conspiracy
and aiding and abetting the smuggl
ing of aliens to his tobacco planta
tion at South Hill, Va.
Suttle cited a government motion
for dismissal signed by Jamie Boyd,
U.S. Attorney for the Western Dis
trict of Texas.
Boyd’s motion, filed June 20, said
simply that he was asking for dis
missal “on the grounds that the gov
ernment is no longer interested in
pursuing prosecution of this case.”
Boyd and his assistant, Daniel
Maeso who had been in charge of
the case, both were not available for
comment Monday on why the gov
ernment no longer wanted to pur
sue the charge against Hudson, who
also was a co-founder of the group of
about 250 tobacco growers formed
to supply farmers with legal migrant
workers. Hudson led the association
in various disputes with the federal
government over use of migrant
labor.
The indictment against Hudson
was returned by the federal grand
jury on March 27 and charged him
with conspiring with Durwood
Walker Woosley, 55, of Merdian,
Texas, who admitted in federal
court last month to having trans
ported as many as 2,500 un
documented Mexican workers to
Louisiana, Arkansas and as far away
as Virginia.
U.S. District Judge Adrian Spears
on June 21, the day after the gov
ernment moved to dismiss the
charge against Hudson, sentenced
Woosley to five years in prison and
fined him $5,000 on his plea of
guilty to transporting aliens.
In a statement to the court prior
to sentencing, Woosley said he
wanted to see the U.S. Immigration
Service “do something constructive
about getting work permits for these
people,” saying the Mexicans were
needed for agriculture work in the
United States.
The indictment against Hudson
charged him with a conspiracy to
bring two aliens from Woosley’s
property at Meridian to Hudson’s
tobacco farm last Aug. 8, and that
Hudson paid Woosley $3,000 for his
services.
Pat Maloney, Hudson’s attorney,
had argued May 25 in a hearing be
fore Suttle that the government had
violated Hudson’s rights to sub-
poeana witnesses by deporting to
Mexico some of the 13 aliens al
legedly found at the South Hill, Va.,
tobacco farm.
the 35 states with such statutes had
no death-row prisoners on Dec. 31.
The electrocution of John Spen-
kelink in Florida this spring was the
first execution since 1977, and the
first involuntary execution in a dec
ade.
As of Dec. 31, southern states
held 87 percent of the death row
prisoners — including 121 in
Florida and 100 in Texas, LEAA
said.
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