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MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1979
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Hobby: no need
for special session
United Press International
AUSTIN — Lt. Gov. William P.
Hobby said Saturday there is no
need for the special legislative ses
sion Gov. Bill Clements has
announced he will call next year.
“Special sessions are proficed for
in the constitution to deal with
emergency matters, unforseen cir
cumstances, what not. There is no
justification on that grounds for it.”
Hobby indicated he disagrees
with the governor on the issues Cle
ments wants lawmakers to consider
— initiative and referendum, lega
lizing wiretaps and tax relief — at a
special session.
“Initiative and referendum seeks
to bypass the legislative process,”
the lieutenant governor said. “The
legislative process is a process of ex
amination of alternatives, it’s a pro
cess of compromise, it’s a process
that has stood the test of time well
over the years.”
Hobby made his comments dur
ing an interview on the weekly tele
vision program. Capital Eye.
Hobby said he hopes there will be
a year-end or bienniumend balance
in the state treasury $800 or $900
million but does not believe there
will be a surplus to finance large tax
reductions.
The state’s share of costs of operat
ing public schools is going to in
crease $1 billion just because of an
increase in the number of students,
he said.
“We re one of the lowest taxing
states that there is,” Hobby said.
On wiretapping, the lieutenant
governor said he opposes Clements’
proposal to authorize electronic sur
veillance by the Deprtment of Pub
lic Safety.
“Wiretapping is again putting the
government into your life and my life
more than it now is, and I think so far
from being legalized, the prohibi
tions and penalties for it ought to be
increased.”
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Democrats to oust
defectors to GOP
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AUSTIN, Texas — The State Democratic Executive Committee
(SDEC)— in a move conservatives complained would lead to punitive
purges — voted Saturday to tighten party discipline by ousting Demo
cratic party officials who endorse or publicly support Republican
candidates.
The new rules may curtail moves by prominent Democrats to
support former Gov. John Connally, a Democrat-turned Republican,
in his bid for the GOP presidential nomination.
Impetus for the rules change, however, was the large scale defection
of Democrats to Republican Bill Clements in the 1978 election that
gave Texas its first GOP governor in 100 years.
The rules established procedures for the removal of any Democratic
official who publicly backs a Democratic nominee’s opponent or en
dorses a candidate for GOP nomination.
An ousted official will be barred from holding any other Democratic
Party post for at least a year.
The SDEC voted down a proposal by Dallas County’s Democratic
Party chairman, Joe Devany, that would have allowed ousted officials
to quickly regain their party posts if they returned to the Democratic
fold.
“These are people that might find the error of their ways,” Devany
said. “I don’t want to see this become a punitive rule. I don’t think I’m
interested in turning these people away.”
Devany’s proposal, critics said, would allow turncoats too much
influence in party affairs and the election of statewide party officials.
“I see it as our own responsiblity to cleanse our ranks and to keep
people honest and faithful,” said one critic of Devany’s proposal.
Ed Miller of Texarkana said ousted party officials could return to the
party and regain party office in future elections but should not be
allowed to speak for the Democratic Party in the same year they
supported a Republican candidate.
“A person who does this knowing the rules forfeits his position as a
Democratic party officeholder during that election,” Miller said.
Wanda Britton of Gainesville called the new rules anti-Democratic
and said the party hierarchy had no right to oust officials elected at the
local level.
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Despite tight security
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SAN ANTONIO — Gate-crashing
techniques used by enterprising
journalists show that even in his
heavily guarded sanctuary on the na
tion’s largest Air Force base, the de-
At least 21 incidents in which re
porters and photographers have
coolly strolled, jogged or driven onto
Lackland Air Force Base have occur
red since Shah Mohammed Reza
iPahlavi arrived here before dawn on
Dec. 2, a base source said.
Much of the base is surrounded by
a 10-foot chain link fence, but num
erous other areas are open, includ
ing the area near Wilford Hall, the
hospital where the shah was admit
ted upon his arrival.
The base’s layout is known to
thousands of Iranians who studied
English during the past two decades
at Lackland’s Defense Language In
stitute. Lackland also offers flight in
struction to foreign airman — more
than 200 trainees from Moslem
countries are there now, although
the last Iranian Air Force student left
Jan. 19.
State Department spokesman
Miro Morville, questioned why the
shah would be sent to a base well
known to thousands of Iranians, said
Sunday, “I’m sure that whoever de
cided (on Lackland) must have taken
that into consideration.”
The shah, recovering from cancer
treatment and gall bladder surgery
and with a $131,(XX) bounty offered
for his death, is being housed at
Lackland’s visiting officers quarters.
Since his arrival, government offi
cials had been touting the tight
security provided by the base.
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came commonplace during the first
week of his stay:
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suit, jogged past guards at the base’s
main gate to within 50 feet of the
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PLANO — A 40-year-old man car
ried his sons to safety from their
burning home Saturday, but while
summoning aide, the younger boy
ran back inside to rescue the family
dog and the older one followed in an
attempt to save his brother’s life.
Both died.
Firemen found the bodies of the
two half-brothers, Chris Watermon,
6, and Tim Wilson, 13, under a pile
of debris less than 15 feet from the
front door.
Their father, Rathel Watermon,
said the bodies were just a few feet
away from the portion of the house
he had searched when he realized
they had gone back inside.
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