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Agency head demands
companies back project
United Press International
HOUSTON — The chairman of the state agency
working to build a Texas offshore oil terminal has
announced he will resign if oil companies have not
come forward by Jan. 1 with the necessary support
for the project.
Texas Deepwater Port Authority Chairman Bob
Casey said the agency was created and has been
financed by the Texas Legislature at the urging of oil
companies, but he said its future is in doubt.
Casey said the oil companies have delayed sign
ing use agreements needed to sell the $1.2 billion
worth of bonds to finance the supertanker unloading
terminal 26 miles south of Freeport.
He said TDPA needs company commitments to
unload at least 1.4 million barrels of crude oil daily
through the terminal.
“We’ve got a lot of questions, a great deal of
interest, but no indications, Casey said. “If they
(use agreements) are not signed by the end of the
year, I don’t see how we can move forward after
that.
“If they can’t make up their mind between now
and December, I’m not going to play around. I’m
not going to be the one to go back next year and ask
the legislature for more money.”
Casey said costs will be inflating at the rate of
$300,000 daily by early next year.
“As long as the companies sit back, it could kill
another year and the price would go out the win
dow,’’ he said. “They’ve been thinking about it for
seven years now.”
Casey said that, after the allprivate Seadock Inc.
consortium failed following several years of effort to
put together plans for an offshore superport, private
oil companies pressed for state involvement.
Now, Casey said, the companies are saying, “You
build it and we sure will use it. We’ve got that kind
of barrelage all over the place. I didn’t ask for this —
the industry asked for it.”
Executive Director Gerald Jackson, who joined
Casey in the threat to resign, said 19 companies
attended a meeting at TDPA’s offices Sept. 11 and
nine companies had visited the offices since then.
Officials say backups
to Army unprepared
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Med student says unarmed man shot
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — National Guard and Reserve strength are
dropping at the time membership is needed the worst, putting the
backup military forces in “serious condition,” Army officials said Fri
day.
Forty generals have been attending sessions at Fort Sam Houston
and the St. Anthony Hotel this week to discuss improving personnel,
logistics and training readiness of the National Guard and Reserve,
which have lost ground since the draft was ended.
Lt. Gen. William B. Caldwell III, commander of the Fifth Army
area, which runs from Texas to Canada, said the National Guard in his
area is at 80.7 percent of its authorized strength — down from 82.9
percent a year ago. He said reserve strength is down to 67.7 percent.
“Strengthwise we are in serious condition,” Caldwell said. “Mem
bership is down and it’s been dropping since 1973 when the draft was
terminated.”
Caldwell said the active Army has rarely needed the standby per
sonnel as much as it does today.
“When the Army went volunteer, a decision was made to limit the
active Army and to rely on the Reserve and Guard,” he said.
But as it now stands, the general said the United States would be
hard pressed to quickly train, equip and mobilize a fighting force in
the event of war.
“It might take five to seven months, and we might not have that
luxury,” Caldwell said.
He did not offer specific measures that might be taken to beef up
sagging Reserve and National Guard rosters, but said the Army
would try to make training “more attractive, challenging and realis
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HOUSTON — A medical student
lisputes the police account of a
nan’s fatal shooting, claiming offi-
:ers abused the man and a woman
ompanion, lied about the man
being armed and in saying there was
second man who fled the scene.
Officers J.C. Valentino and R.W.
bbinson reported they stopped a
ar and shot the driver, Reggie Lee
ackson, 28, Wednesday after the
voman kicked Valentino and
ackson and another man fled. They
aid Jackson pointed a gun at them.
Charles Thompson IV, 34, a med-
cal assistant who works for his
ihysician father on Dowling Street
where the shooting occurred about
la.m. Wednesday, said he was in
the office waiting for friends when
the incident occurred.
Thompson said he watched
hrough a window and then went
tout through a side door to watch
from behind the corner of the build
ing.
Thompson said the officers stop
ped the car Jackson was driving and
ordered Jackson and a woman out of’
(the car. The officers said a second
man was lying across the back seat.
Thompson said there was no second
man in the car.
“Let me tell you emphatically
there was no such animal. That was
absolutely false. There was one
black male and one black female and
that was it,” Thompson said.
Thompson said Jackson was
frisked, then ordered to drop his
pants so the officers could search his
shorts.
“There’s no way in hell he could
even have had a toothpick on him
after that search, much less a gun,”
Thompson said.
at about one second intervals —
boom, boom, boom — just like
that.”
Thompson said the officers also
searched the woman and, when one
of them put his hand in her hip poc
ket, she said, “You can’t do that.”
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her on the head with a flashlight and
said, “Don’t you know I can hurt
you, girl.” Thompson said she fell
dazed to the pavement and one of
the officers carried her to the patrol
Police said an unfired .38-caliber
pistol was found near Jackson’s
body. Thompson said Jackson’s
hands were empty when he took
them off the hood of the police car
and fled.
Thompson said Jackson then
started running and the officers gave
chase. Thompson said he panicked
and ran back inside the building
and, through the wall, heard some
one say “Please, please.”
Valentino and Robinson said they
fired a total of seven shots when
Jackson pointed the pistol at them.
Thompson said four shots were fired
while Jackson fled and three were
fired where he was stopped.
A medical examiner said three
police bullets hit Jackson.
“The officer said something, but I
couldn’t understand what,’’
Thompson said. “Approximately 30
seconds later there were three shots
The police said the car turned out
to have been stolen. Yhe officers
said they found in the car a televi
sion set, credit cards, jewelry,
syringes and other items believed to
have been stolen.
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