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AUSTIN — Gov. Bill Clements
said Saturday he will ask a special
session of the Legislature to consider
passing new tax relief measures to
ease the burden on Texas citizens,
and said a state budget surplus may
reach $1 billion by the time he con r
venes the special session.
Clements earlier had said he
would ask the session to consider
bills dealing with initiative and re
ferendum, and legalizing electronic
surveillance by the Department of
Public safety in drug related cases.
In remarks Saturday to a meeting
of the State Republican Executive
Committee, Clements predicted
those three topics will be issues in
every state political race in Texas
next year, and urged SREC mem
bers to urge local candidates to util
ize the issues to the fullest extent
possible.
“They’re going to be the keystones
to what happens in the 1980 elec
tions in Texas,” he said.
Clements said his wiretap propos
al is a necessary tool to combat the
growing drug traffic in Texas, and
sharply criticized its opponents.
“You hear are a lot of bleeding
hearts talk in terms of invasion of
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ments said. “We’re talking about a
very tightly structured surveillance
that will be used for drug cases only
and is a tool that we must have to
combat a $3 billion business of drug
traffic.
“Yes, we are going to invade the
privacy of some people, and they
happen to be criminals that are in the
drug business, and we are going to
lock them up.”
Clements said he and his staff are
considering 18 or 19 different prop
osals for ways to return surplus tax
funds to Texans in the form of tax
relief, but have not yet agreed on a
single plan to recommend to the
Legislature.
“Comptroller Bob Bullock advises
me we are accumulating a surplus of
several hundred million dollars. De
pending on when I call the special
session, it could be in the magnitude
of $1 billion,” Clements said.
He has said previously he would
call the special session in either
March or September.
During a question and answer ses
sion with SREC members, Cle
ments said the crisis in Iran is the
most serious the nation has faced
since Pearl Harbor, and added, “this
crisis in its implications could be
more serious than that one. We’re
talking about something that has
horrendous implications.”
The governor urged the GOP
leaders to take active roles in the
party’s presidential primary cam
paign, but warned them, “In the
process don’t get yourselves so work
ed up that you stab somebody else in
the back.
“We’re not out here to do each
other in, but to elect a Republican
president in 1980, and that’s what it’s
all about.”
Texas city cooperative
nervous as shah arrive
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — The arrival of the shah of Iran
in the city that calls itself “the cradle of the Air
Force” stunned the mayor, generated symphathetic
nervousness in some residents and produced some
tough talk from military personnel.
Mayor Lila Cockrell learned from UPI Sunday
morning that the shah, whose presence in the United
States triggered the hostage crisis in Tehran, had
been transferred from a hospital in New York to
Wilford Hall Hospital at Lackland Air Force Base.
“All I could say as mayor is that the city of San
Antonio and certainly I as mayor are supporting the
president in this crisis and we will do everything we
know how to be supportive of the decision made by
our national administration,” she said.
“I will be in touch with the city manager and be
certain that we are fully alert. The shah is protected
by military security. Just what civilian assistance will
be needed I don’t know. But we will take whatever
steps might be indicated.
“I am not saying we are either pleased or dis
pleased. This is a national emergency and I plan to
support the president.”
San Antonio is the site of five major military instal
lations, including the Air Force bases of Kelly, Ran
dolph, Lackland and Brooks and the Army’s Ft. Sam
Houston. The city is the largest settlement of active
and retired military personnel in the nation, due
largely to the good weather and the numerous ser
vices available at the bases.
Public relations spokesman Lt. Mike Terrill said
Lackland AFB has 29,800 to 30,000 airmen, making
it the largest “people base” in the Air Force, and that
San Antonio has the largest military population in the
United States, including 60,000 airmen at the four
bases, 18,000-20,000 military retirees, and about
10,000 soldiers at Ft. Sam Houston, headquarters for
the 5th Army.
Terrill said military personnel and dependents
make up one-third of San Antonio’s population.
A young basic trainee waiting at a bus stopupi
ed total support for the shah.
“If we back down now, then we ll havetoh
down again and again. Anything Carter wants tod;
all right with me, ” said the man who did notwanli
he identified.
Airman 1st Class Peggy Wilkins, 26, ofF f
Lauderdale, Fla., a technician at Wilford Hall,asli
if she was aware the shah was there, said: "Isureti
1 work there. Being in the medical field, if a j
needs treatment, what better place than W|
Hall? It may cause a little disturbance here inSj
Antonio, though. I feel this way: he’s a
being.”
However, Wilkins indicated the shah shouldj
turn to Iran and face any charges. “Heoughtto
back on his own, if he has any heart.”
Residents of the city, reached at random byll
expressed nervousness over the shah’s
particularly because of a moderate amount ofl
in the city due to the Tehran crisis and
demonstrations by civilian Iranian students or
Americans.
“The Iranian students will be a little more ups
than usual,” said Lindsay Rockwood, 17, a student:
St. Mary’s Hall. “I don’t think he (theshah)shoul(ll
in the United States. He has received his maj
treatment and should go somewhere else.”
Mark O’Neill, 32, a businessman, expedi
trouble.
“We’ve had a tense situation in San Antonio.I
nian students have had rallies in front of the Ala®
The public thinks that as visitors they have very i
rights, including public assembly. I see problem
Dr. Richard Waldman, a dentist, said: “I thinll
should not stay in this country, but where thek
can he go? There’s no place he can go but Egypt,u
we don’t want him to go Egypt. I don t think there
be trouble in San Antonio; that seems tohavesettlf
down. ”
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SAN ANTONIO — Wilford Hall
Medical Center, where the shah of
Iran was taken Sunday to recuperate
from cancer treatment, is the largest
of the Air Force’s six hospitals and
the key facility for medical air eva
cuation from around the world.
Considering its location in a city
which has five major military instal
lations, its specialized treatment
facilities for cancer and the security
available around it, the hospital was
the logical choice for an expected
extended stay by Shah Mohammed
Reza Pahlavi.
Bruce Eberhart, civilian public in
formation officer, said “a very few” of
the 900 other patients at the hospital
were moved to accommodate the
shah, but that the shah was not in any .
sort of VIP suite.
“We have suites we can fix up bet
ter than others, but there’s not a VIP
suite as such,” he said.
Lackland’s public information
officer, Joe McAnally, said there
were guest quarters oh the base to
accommodate the shah’s retinue,
which included his wife. Empress
Farah, and senior adviser Robert
Armao.
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led Wilford Hall the largest and most
critical of the Air Force’s six hospitals
and the hub of the Air Force’s worl
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System. It provides treatment,
medical education and clinical re
search, and is considered a leader in
26 fields of medical research, includ
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separate facilities, including a dental
clinic, veterinary services, an eye
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