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[raws enthusiastic support
United Press International
AUSTIN — During a weekend
■ting to map campaign strategy.
His supporters of Edward M. Ken-
H’s presidential bid heard reports
OOO-sqirJm throughout the state that the
■sachusetts Democrat has over-
itions CorntBlming support at the precinct
ansionorileh
Saturday’s meeting drew more
300 enthusiastic supporters
R are convinced the senator can
| President Carter in Texas.
xas delegates to the Democratic
lonal Convention will be
ted at a state convention next
[, and Don Maison of Dallas said
makes precinct organization
ially crucial.
he organization of precincts is
Pre Sen. Kennedy is going to
| said Maison. “It’s where Ken-
Jtandldliiy is way ahead.
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inded. FanHknned for a presidential prim-
Mrs. DauB,, Texas next year. However, if
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binding “beauty contest’
primary.
The meeting was called by a draft-
Kennedy organization that has been.
handled by Pat Robards and Louis
Caddell, both of San Antonio. But
since Kennedy announced his candi
dacy on Wednesday, the group
probably will form the nucleus of the
senator’s Texas campaign.
“We are not the official Kennedy
campaign. We make no pretense of
that,’’ Ms. Robards told the group.
“The official campaign will probably
begin in a few weeks.”
Tony Campos of Baytown said
there was a reason the meeting was
heavily attended by Mexican-
Americans, who he said were “tired
of being second hand citizens. We
want to be first hand citizens.”
He said the Mexican-American
community wanted to play a more
prominent role in the election of
Kennedy.
“The people from the barrios want
to get involved. We want to help you
bake the pie. And if there is pie to cut
later, we want our slice,” Campos
said.
Wayne Johnson of LaMarque said
blacks also would play a significant
role in Kennedy’s election and said
the senator’s challenge to an incum
bent president would not split the
party.
“Our people don’t vote unless
they have a reason to vote,” Johnson
said. “Inflation and jobs is the No. 1
problem. And the issue is not split
ting our party — it’s whether we are
going to let our party go to sleep in
1980.”
The organization also held senato
rial districts caucuses to select con
tact people for the national cam
paign.
Ty Fain, a consultant to Ken
nedy’s national committee, said a
Texas coordinator would be named
within two weeks. He cautioned the
group of the Democratic Party’s ulti
mate goal — to defeat the Republi
cans in 1980.
“As we have an internal fight
(Kennedy versus President Carter),
we have to remember we have an
election in November,” he said.
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until Pel
ouston police chief admits
'partment has ‘dismal record’
United Press International
|RT WORTH — Houston
j III k chief Harry Caldwell said
• M, Iday his department has the'
Idismal record in the state when
comes to officers using excessive
■ I against suspects,
lo one in the state has a more
U record of excessive force than
inttenp gHouston police department,”
veil said. “Perhaps the other
s (of police) asked me to come
se it makes them look better.”
xas law is not enough, said Cal-
because in order to control ex-
'e force by police, police de-
nents must enforce stringent
ies of their own.
Idwell joined civil rights attor-
Ruben Sandoval and Glenn
urphy, an official of the Maryland-
s inictriilH International Association of
e callsm hys of Police, in a discussion of
Hsive force during a symposium
plice-community relations,
e two-day conference — spon-
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sored by the U.S. Justice Depart
ment, the Texas Police Association
and four leading Mexican-American
community service groups —
attracted more than 200 persons.
Caldwell’s address, which opened
the discussion on excessive force,
was the mostly warmed received of
the three speeches by an audience of
about 150 persons, roughly half of
whom were minority representa
tives.
Caldwell said law enforcement
professionals were unanimous in
their disapproval of unlawful force.
“The Texas penal code is not a
viable guideline,” Caldwell said. “It
is so broad I’m convinced not even
the Ayatollah Khomeini would
accept it.”
Caldwell said more stringent poli
cy clearly enunciated by police offi
cials was needed to provide officers
with guidelines.
“When I took over as police chief
the Houston department policy was
so complicated not even a Philadel
phia lawyer could interpret it in the
heat of battle, said Caldwell.
He stressed throughout his
address that policy regarding force
must be believed by police officials
in order to be accepted by rank-and-
file officers.
“It must start at the top. If you
think a groundswell (of restraint) is
going to come up out of the patrol
cars, you’re wrong.”
He said problems arise in the
judgement of youthful and inexperi
enced officers, noting the average
Houston police officer is 22.5-years-
old.
Caldwell said “I don’t have
sergeants ’anymore, I have room
mothers. ”
Sandoval, from San Antonio, cen
tered his address on police attitudes
towards minorities.
Accompanying his speech with a
slide presentation of victims of police
brutality, Sandoval said the reluct
ance of policemen to act against one
another in cases of civil rights viola
tions “creates distrust and disrespect
and it puts you (police officers) in a
position the.people in the commun
ity deplore.’
Murphy, who directs the Bureau
of Government Relations in the
IACP, addressed the problem of leg
al liability.
He said policemen were increas
ingly subjected to malicious law
suits, and police chiefs, through the
legal doctrine of “vicarious liability,”
caught some of the fallout from the
actions of subordinates.
lurors.
United Press International
1IEBLO, Colo. — The Colorado
■ Air Patrol Sunday dropped out
|e search for a light plane car-
i two people, missing since Oct.
. . ■ a flight from Grand Junction to
" !I ’ i! ibbock, Texas, a spokesman said,
fresh lead from FAA radar corn
's indicating the plane may have
lolorado for New Mexico and
iorating weather conditions in
, lyolorado mountains make an ac-
uin iii tif L earc ] 1 unadvisable at this time, ”
s. Davis £ a p t j£ en Clark of the CAP.
lenient in [,(, pjj ot | ias k een identified as
id A. Jones, 33 of Lubbock, and
t hidson bassenger as Michael O’Keefe of
Silencer- | ner | 0ri) Wash. Clark said Jones
, O’Keefe have been missing
at David e 0ct 3Q
tier. Pro- j e sa j c j information retrieved
IcCrory- j th e FAA computer indicated a
, le flew from Colorado into New
Retired c ] ur j n g the right time frame
nted asa k>onOct. 30. He said the Colora-
pAP would remain on standby,
ring and Ljtj a i search efforts had been
,()n - ipered by the pilot’s failure to file
Houston rhtplanwith the FAA. The plane
[Washington Oct. 29 and had
roedin Grand Junction, Colo., to
)el but failed to arrive in Texas,
le said the New Mexico CAP
I denial lid search actively for the plane
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