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MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1980
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tange the tag. Aji{l HOUSTON — House Speaker
wont be called4 Bill Clayton, determined to risk the
rrevelant. Thedac, possibility of an indictment in a bid
s an ongoing realb' to salvage his political career, was
lurope, saidBobC? scheduled to go before a federal
sonic, a stereo system grand jury today pledging to answer
are the place to jotf all questions about a $5000 “cash
just the hustle. 4:: contribution” given to him by a un-
lappening here ion official.
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in a small cbaiu v > nce to > nv °k e his constitution-
;old out and garallj ^ privilege to remain silent, but the
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House Speaker balked at a step many
suggested would be political suicide.
“He’s planning to answer the
questions,” said George Works,
press secretary.
Clayton, 51, has denied any
wrongdoing in interviews with re
porters and said his only concern at
testifying under oath is that federal
prosecutors might trick him into
making some false statement about
what happened during a Nov. 8
meeting in his Capitol office with
Houston labor leader L.G. Moore
and a man posing as an insurance
company representative.
The Texas legislative leader is one
target of the FBI Brilab investigation
of alleged bribery of union and gov
ernment officials.
Clayton said Moore introduced
Joseph Hauser, a convicted felon
turned FBI informant, to him as a
Prudential Insurance Co. represen
tative seeking assistance in obtaining
an $80,000 contract for insurance on
state employees.
Moore left a $5,000 cash contribu
tion on the desk at the close of the
meeting in Clayton’s Capitol office.
Clayton said he ordered the money
put away for safekeeping, intending
to return it to Moore at a later time
but never got around to it.
The speaker’s attorneys invited re
porters to witness the counting of the
$100 bills taken from an envelope in
an assistant’s desk drawer and said
the cash will be turned over to feder
al officials in Houston.
Solution to Gulf spill ?j
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is in Mexican courts H
United Press International
MONTERREY, Mexico — Mex
ico’s government-owned oil com
pany, PEMEX, will not considr
paying for damages from the Ixtoc I
oil spill unless ordered to do so by a
Mexican court, the director of the
company says.
The statement by PEMEX Direc
tor Gen. Jorge Diaz Serrano strongly
implied PEMEX may ignore any
judgment handed down by U.S.
courts over the June 3, 1979 blowout
that stained South Texas beaches,
wreaking havoc on the area’s multi-
million dollar tourist industry.
“Any claim made against PEMEX
should be within Mexican law and
courts of Mexico,” Diaz Serrano
said. “We have not received any
claims of this nature in Mexico.”
Diaz Serrano made the statements
to reporters Saturday during a two-
day series of meetings between
Gov. Bill Clements and Mexican
President Jose Lopez Portillo.
His statements added to the dis
pute concerning liability over the
blowout, the world’s worst oil spill.
Contending Mexican courts are
the only proper channels for filing oil
spill damage claims since PEMEX is
a branch of the Mexican govern
ment, Diaz Serrano said the firm
would take no position on its poss
ible liability until it is formally chal
lenged and a suit filed in Mexico.
Before departing for Texas, Cle
ments declined comments on Diaz
Serrano’s statements. But he repe
ated an earlier statement that Mex
ico ultimately may be forced to
assume responsibility for the oil spill
damages.
“Mexico will provide some sort of
response, ” he said. “Just be patient. ”
PEMEX already has been
threatened with a lawsuit by SED-
CO, its co-defendant in U.S. damage
suits seeking nearly $500,0000 in
restitution doe damage to Texas
beaches.
Founded and formerly controlled
by Clements, SEDCO has served
notice it intends to file a third-party
lawsuit to shif damage liability to
PEMEX and PEMARGO, a Mex
ican-owned drilling firm which oper
ated the renegade well using SED
CO equipment.
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hoping dropouts will stop
United Press International
PRINCETON, Texas — Officials
at Princeton High School, where 26
percent of the student body flunked
courses last fall, have decided to low-
, er academic standards to keep stu-
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to do the reverse — in hopes of re
ducing its drop-out rate.
High school principal Frank Gar
ner said he recommended the school
board approve lowering the passing
grade from 70 to 65 to keep those
students in school who drop out in
the sophomore year because they are
not passing enough courses to be
come juniors.
Garner said roughly 15 to 30
pupils in the 270-member student
body drop out near the end of the
sophomore year.
“This is to help the marginal stu
dent whose grades run in the 65 to 69
range most of the time,” he said.
“These students are not discipline
problems. They’re giving us the best
they can.”
“The response from the student
body is real good, but you’d expect
that,” Garner said.
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DALLAS — State statistics indi
cate the nation’s new natural gas act,
anathema to oilmen and challenged
in court by four gas producing states,
helped reverse a six-year decline in
Texas gas production last year.
‘T; Figures released by the Texas
Railroad Commission also indicated
the act allowed massive amounts of
Texas gas to be exported to other
states.
; , Exports of Texas-produced gas in
creased 45 percent in 1979, the first
year the Natural Gas Policy Act was
in effect. Before the act, gas exports
had declined each year since 1971.
,, The additional gas flowing from
Texas to other parts of the country
was sufficient to replace 400,000 bar
rels of oil a day, about 2 percent of
total U.S. consumption.
Before the act was passed, Texas
gas shipped out of state was subject
to a federal price ceiling of $1.50 per
thousand cubic feet. Gas produced
and sold within the state was not sub
ject to price controls and sold for $2
or more.
Because producers did not want to
sell for the lower price, a glut of gas
built up in Texas and other produc
ing states, while consuming states
experienced shortages.
The act ended the distinction be
tween intrastate and interstate gas
prices.
Texas joined Oklahoma, Louisiana
and Wyoming in challenging the act
in federal court.
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