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AUSTIN — A teen-ager at a
pre-Halloween masquerade party
fell 12 stories to his death ofi the
ledge of a downtown building Sun
day.
Witnesses told police Kyle Wil
liam Creekmore, 19, climbed over a
balcony railing onto the ledge of the
Commodore Perry Building and was
clowning around when he fell about
3 a.m. Sunday.
Creekmore was clad in women s
clothes.
Homicide Sgt. Mike Farrar said
the death apparently was accidental.
“It doesn’t look like there was any
foul play.” Farrar said. “The people
were drinking fairly heavily.”
Farrar said at least 23 persons at
tended the party at an apartment in
the building and three or four were
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AUSTIN — As a “blue-eyed
domestic Arab,” Alan R. Erwin
hopes his intrigue-filled novel about
CIA and OPEC plots and the seces
sion of Texas to form an indepen
dent republic will change America’s
attitudes about energy production.
Erwin, former chief lobbyist for
the state of Texas and until recently
“There's a mentality in Con
gress that one of the things that
has to he done as part of any
energy program is to hit at
Texas.” - Alan R. Erwin,
former chief lobbyist for the
state of Texas and former
member of the Texas Public
Utilities Commission.
a member of the Texas Public
Utilities Commission, is promoting
a 1983-era tale of national disaster
brought on by American’s punitive
measures toward oil producers and
Texas.
“There’s a mentality in Congress
that one of the things that has to be
done as part of any energy program
is to hit at Texas,” Erwin told an
interviewer. “They shoot at the oil
companies but they hit us. Some
how the punishment always seems
to fall on Texas’ natural resources.”
Erwin, 34, got the idea for his
book while heading the Texas Office
of Federal State Relations in
Washington during the 1973 energy
crisis. Erwin said Congress and
most Americans do not understand
that Texas no longer has the oil and
gas reserves to take up the slack
when imports are cut, and foil to
realize that punitive measures
against energy producers reduces
the amount of domestic supplies av
ailable.
In his novel, "The Power Ex
change,” Erwin portrays the ulti
mate outcome of such attitudes as a
disastrous effort to seize control of
Texas’ power plants to ship electric
ity to a blizzard-ravaged East Coast.
To avert congressional action to
nationalize energy production,
Texas exercises its option to split
into five separate states — an option
written into the treaty of annexation
by which the Republic of Texas be
came part of the United States in
1845.
The split option — which actually
exists — in Erwin’s novel is blocked
by a Supreme Court ruling declar
ing the article of annexation invalid
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lieutenant governor as if;
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Erwin said Congress and most
Americans do not understand
that Texas no longer has the oil
and gas reserves to take up the
slack when imports are cut.
and Texas declares itself an inde-
pendent republic.
Erwin thickens the plot with an
assassination of the Texas governor
reputaton as a consumer
Unlike many consume:
men, however, Erwininiif:
prices are the only way In
sufficient energy supplies
“The free market isrealb*-rw •
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way to get energy proouv
Erwin “ w « Sale c
prices up drastically. Anij , , , * .
need to establish social pn; , t
help the [X)or and eklerl.^ l-’ V
not afford to pay those
Erwin, a former repofe ige,” the
igned his $44,500-a-yearj:.; j’Thus, i
Utility Commission in ]i protective
before his term was up: |sactually c
complete his novel and t (than any o
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CORPUS CHRISTI — The
nation’s oldest and largest His
panic organization announced
Monday it would carry on a cam
paign to defeat the nomination of
San Francisco federal judge
Charles Renfrew as deputy at
torney general of the United
States.
Attorney Ruben Bonilla, na
tional president of the League of
United Latin American Citizens,
said his organization objects to
Renfrew’s opinion that Hispanics
should not be considered as a
minority group under the law.
Bonilla said Renfrew wrote in
a 1977 article for the Southwest
University Law Review that “a
national rectification principle —
the legal principle designed to
correct historicial wrongs —
must perhaps fairly andk
be limited to Americanli
and blacks.’’
Renfrew stated in the a
that discrimination
panics “has not been pens
nationwide” and that the j
status of Spanish sp
dents “was not
approved.”
LULAC fears that Reil
attitude would be detrimeJ
Hispanics — the mi
fastest-growing minority-I
gaining equality inthekl
immigration, education
employment, Bonilla said
He called on Hispanics lf|
telegrams and letters t
White House and to Sei|
ward Kennedy, D-Mass.,
man of the Senate Judd
Commitee, asking that Hal
nomination be defeated.
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