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SAN ANTONIO — Armed with a
new across-borders commission and
(he promise of independent rela
tions with Mexico, U.S. Hispanic
leaders are counting on Mexican
■ President Jose Lopez Portillo to
■ champion their causes to President
| Carter.
Ruben Bonilla, national president
of the League of United Latin
American Citizens, said the ex-
officio commission, established to
link the Mexican government and
g Hispanics in the United States, was
actually Lopez Portillo’s idea, and
that the Mexican president would
be asked to carry the problems of
the Mexican-American to President
Carter and press for Hispanic de
mands during Lopez Portillo’s visit
to the United States.
Lopez Portillo arrived in New
York late Wednesday and is
scheduled to address the United
nti
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Nations today.
The Corpus Christi attorney said
the Mexican government would in
sist upon tying discussions of U.S.
purchase of Mexican petroleum
with discussion of human rights for
Hispanics and Mexican aliens in this
country.
Hispanic organizations want
Lopez Portillo to push for a program
guaranteeing free education for
children of undocumented Mexican
workers, guarantees of human rights
for Hispanics in the United States,
an inquiry into conflicts between
Hispanics and Indochinese refugees
and scrapping of plans for a tempo
rary worker program unless a “bill of
rights” for the workers is included,
Bonilla, LULAC counsel Ruben
Sandoval and Dr. Salvador Herrera
of the National Association of
Farmworker Organizations, told a
news conference.
Sandoval said the U.S. Hispanics
would be composed of a cross-
section of nine persons representing
Mexican, Cuban and Puerto Rican
groups, while Lopez Portillo had as
signed representatives of his cabinet
to carry on the continuing talks.
Bonilla indicated Hispanics were
upset with preferential treatment
being afforded refugees from South
east Asia, agreeing that the In
dochinese were being give special
considerations because of a “guilt”
feeling in America due to the
Vietnamese war.
But he added, “We’ve forgiven
the Germans for World War I and
World War II. We’ve forgiven the
Japanese for Pearl Harbor. But we
still haven’t forgiven the Mexicans
for the Alamo. We treated Mexico
as a poor dormant, sleeping, slo
venly neighbor until we discovered
they had gas and oil. ”
United Press International
HOUSTON — A 24-year-old
woman has testified a fired subur
ban policeman, now a mayor’s aide,
offered to destroy bad checks she
had written in exchange for having
sex with him.
Bridget Morace, on eight years of
probation for felony theft, testified
Tuesday in district court that former
South Houston police Sgt. Robert
Corbin called her repeatedly at her
home after showing her the checks
she had written.
“He said he wanted to go to bed
with me and he would return all my
checks,” she testified. “I kept stal
ling because I didn’t want to do it.
Morace said she called the FBI
and was referred to the Harris
County district attorney’s office.
Prosecutor Ted Wilson played tape
recordings of conversations between
Corbin and Morace.
In another conversation recorded
in August, 1978, Morace agreed to
have sex with Corbin and asked him
not to tell anyone because “it would
ruin my life.”
“And my career, too,” he replied.
Corbin was fired after his arrest.
He now is an aide to the mayor of
South Houston.
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PLEASANTON — The Depart
ment of Public Safety has reacted
with a yawn to an Atascosa County
Commissioners Court threat to ex-
pell four highway patrolmen from
county offices.
The commissioners said they
would kick all four out of county of
fice space unless two troopers were
transferred immediately. The DPS
responded, however, by saying the
troopers would stay and could use
their homes for offices if they had to.
The commissioners voted last
week to remove the patrolmen un
less troopers Earl Conaway and Al
bert Rodriguez were 1 transferred
out. Conaway and Rodriguez have
doubled arrests of drunk drivers in
Atascosa County, which joins Bexar
County on the south.
The commissioners, however,
maintain the crackdown on drunk
drivers has nothing to do with their
demands. They said they had re
ceived complaints about how Cona
way and Rodriguez treated prison
ers they arrested.
Highway Patrol Capt. Randol
Gilmore of San Antonio said Wed
nesday he had received no com
plaints, oral or written, about the of
ficers’ conduct, and said the com
missioners refused to give him de
tails of the complaints they re
ceived. He said the officers would
begin working out of their homes
beginning Monday.
County Judge O.B. Bates refused
to comment on the commissioners’
action, saying Tuesday the entire
incident was “blown out of propor
tion.”
Rodriguez said the controversy
involves more who had been ar
rested than how they had been
treated. The trooper said several
prominent citizens had been nailed
on DWI charges.
“They’ve got my back up,” Rod
riguez said. “I don’t plan to transfer
under these conditions. If I do,
they’ll think they can run anybody
off. This is important for the patrol.
People expect us to stand up for
what we are.”
Rodriguez said drunk driving was
rampant at Pleasanton, located 30
miles south of San Antonio on U.S.
281.
“One night I was driving along
and this guy came tearing down the
highway doing 100 and flashing his
lights,” Rodriguez said.
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DALLAS — Texas Utilities Co. is
trying to sell a $500 million lignite
plant, surplus power and possibly
additional shares of the controver
sial Comanche Peak nuclear power
plant, its chairman reported.
T. Louis Austin Jr. said Tuesday
the Dallas-based company was
negotiating to sell the lignite plant,
currently under construction, to
Houston Lighting and Power Co.,
which will be pressed to meet city
energy needs in the 1980s.
Austin also said the firm would try
to sell surplus power to other state
utilities during the next five years
and would consider selling
additional shares in the nuclear
plant near Glen Rose, Texas.
Negotiations over the Forest
Grove lignite plant, being built near
Athens, offer the state’s two largest
electric companies a way out of dif
ferent problems.
Texas Utilities has too many
power plants — it has at least twice
as much surplus generating capacity
than considered necessary to
provide assurance against blackouts.
Even on the one summer after
noon when the firm produces more
power than at any time during the
year, 33 percent of its generating
capcity is still not needed.
The excess capacity is being at
tacked by rate hike opponents, who
contend customers are forced to pay
for unneeded plants. Austin utility
consultant Jack Hopper has esti
mated the excess capacity costs
Texas Utilities customers $60 mil
lion a year.
Austin said the sales would not
hurt Texas Utilities customers be
cause, if necessary, the company
would have the option of interrupt
ing surplus power sales and buying
back the lignite plant.
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