iretap sponsors hopeful
United Press International
| AUSTIN — Sponsors of the wire-
that died in the House two
iars ago are coming back this year
ith a new version they hope will he
|ore acceptable to legislators skit-
ih about privacy.
The Senate bill this year has been
ided with safeguards against inva-
m of privacy, said Sen. Ed Ho-
"^lard, D-Texarkana, its sponsor.
The new bill, a key element in
|ov, Bill Clements’ anticrime pack-
je, makes an illegal tap a third de-
ee felony and gives victims of illeg-
taps the right to sue for damages.
Only the director of the Texas
, epartment of Public Safety could
nougn town 1( j UeS ( a ocnjrt or( Ier for a tap and
ily a DPS officer could install the
lened as con® p. Local police would not be autho-
once insert) zed to tap wires,
idency to oral The officer requesting the tap
have to show that he had ex
isted all other investigative
icthods, Howard said.
j i The tap would be authorized for
ind rehearsei ^ 30(iays , A h e aring wou ld
umg a smool tn ecessary for an extension.
Taps would be authorized only for
o the sameei I on y ^8 cases.
"One of the maj or problem s in the
nV A imconffl ateofTexas is the fantastic - ,ar g e -
p ... oge drug traffic,” Howard said. "It's
t c vision ws mu iti.Lil]j on dollar business. The
tor postent) , U p] e we ’ re trying to get at are the
iggnys, the smugglers and manu-
turers, not the little guys on the
•eet.
r l ii i They’re so well-insulated,” he
although hara "yhey have bodyguards and
es as a greatnames.
“Acording to the testimony we’ve
1 they do operate by phone,
a tendency a®
lot frequentlj
:s on majorisi
reing.
Senate proa
aps Bakershfpecially in Texas.”
; public in o
For all the new safeguards and all
the horrors of the drug traffic in
Texas, with its land and sea borders,
Howard concedes that passage will
be difficult.
“From what I hear, it’s going to be
difficult, but I think it’s going to
pass,” he said.
One of the main obstacles to pas-
. sage will come in the Senate Juris
prudence Committee, whose new
chairman, Sen. Oscar Mauzy, D-
Dallas, has been opposed to any
wiretapping bill.
If the bill can pass the Senate, it
could fail again in the House and will
fail again, if Rep. Robert Bush, D-
Sherman, has his way.
“I just have a whole package of
safeguards I’m going to propose,”
Bush said with a chuckle. “I think
some of them will be passed.”
If Bush cannot severely weaken
the bill with amendments, he will
appeal to the members’ concern ab
out privacy and freedom of thought.
“I’m a lawyer and I read history
and I know how Nazi Germany con
trolled thought, how Russia controls
thought,” he said. “They do it with
secret police and electronic surveill
ance. It’s mind and thought control.
“It’s a question of whether Amer
icans will be afraid to lift their tele
phones or talk on the street. It’s
whether controversy will continue to
be part of the American way of life.”
Besides, he said, “there is no cor
relation between control of drugs
and wiretapping.”
Wiretapping does help catch
gamblers, Bush said, but that’s not
what it’s being proposed for.
Just as the sponsors are cautious
about predicting victory, so is Bush.
“I haven’t polled the (34) new
members,” he said. “It’s too early for
anybody to know whether they sup
port or oppose it. (But) I think the
House listens carefully to matters
that involve the privacy of citizens.”
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Cowboys enjoy
urban publicity
United Press International
DENVER — Retired rodeo cow-
oys know it takes more than a hat
nd boots to make a cowboy. So they
on’t begrudge the bevy of urban
nitators.
“Hell, we’ve had the image to
lurselves for a lot of years and it
ever did us any good,” said Chip
lidson, who competed out of Oak-
lale,Calif, for 15 years before retir
ing. “It’s a compliment. ’’
It is a compliment to me, to John
jVayne, to Roy Rogers. It makes you
1 good that people are copying
i,’’said Larry Mahan, 37, six-time
ll-Round World Champion.
“Cowboys were already urba-
7," said Dennis Reiners, 43, of
irattsdale, Ariz. “There are fewer
fewer range-grown cowboys,
liey’re all athletes. A real rodeo
bwboy can’t afford the boots be-
cause the movie pushed prices up.
Reiners, world saddle bronco
tbipion in 1970, admits he gets
some” in a bar by urban
who “put on” like they are
rodeo stars.
“I can tell by looking at him, he
couldn’t spur a bronc out on his best
day. I can look at a cowboy, tell you
what event he works and how he
does. So, what they say don’t really
count,” he said.
Eidson and other rodeo circuit
veterans see mostly benefits in the
fashion trend, including less harass
ment of cowboys competing in large
Eastern cities.
“And it’s good for business,” said
Mahan, who now has a line of West
ern clothing.
Mahan, Reiners and Jim Apodaca,
50, were bull riders in their day and
shrug at mechanical bull riding
championships for bar cowboys.
“Real cowboys don’t use the elec
tric bulls because you get into a rut.
You get too much machine and not
enough animal, but they’re okay for
schools,” said Reiners.
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