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State THE BATTALION FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1981 Page 7 it’s Clements vs. White over prisons United Press International AUSTIN — Gov. Bill Clements laid Thursday Attorney General Mark White was aware that the jovemor’s 1979 veto of a $30 mil- ion appropriation for prison con- iction was responsible for over- wded conditions in the state Json system. White earlier this week said the veto had been partly responsible for the overcrowded conditions that have forced the state to try and settle with the U.S. Justice Department on a ruling by U.S. District Judge William Wayne Justice that the system needs to be improved. During his weekly news confer ence Clements said he had written White a letter a year ago telling him that W. J. Estelle, the director of the the Texas Department of Corrections, had agreed with the governor’s staff on the veto. “It leaves me amazed since I wrote him that letter a year ago,” Clements said. Estelle, in a statement distri buted to the news media, said the funds Clements vetoed could not have been spent during the cur rent budget period and would not have avoided the governor’s cur rent recommendation for an emergency $35 million appropria tion to build facilities for 2,880 in mates. “The facts do not in any way support the suggestion or infer ence that the veto action has had any impact on prison overcrowd ing,” Estelle said. “Prior to Gov. Clements making a decision about TDC sharing in his veto message of 1979, the governor’s budget office contacted our fiscal staff to determine how best to make some deletions without impacting our construction schedule. ” Clements also said he had not studied the partial agreement White has made with the federal government concerning Justice’s demand for improved conditions for the state’s 30,000 prisoners. The attorney general agreed to provide special needs to mentally retarded and physically handicap ped prisoners, to limit solitary confinement to 15-day terms, to develop clear and concise stan dards for the use of chemicals and to propose a safety and hygiene plan. But White said he could not agree with Justice’s requirement for single prisoner cells, specific size and location of prisons and staffing ratios. The governor said, however. that part of White’s agreement was “contrary to that of Mr. Estel le and the TDC board”, but Cle ments would not elaborate. Clements also said he was con sidering seeking outside consul tants to help the state with the full agreement with the justice de partment, implying that he was not totally satisfied with White’s work on the agreement. The governor was told that White was “bragging” about his work on the prison suit. “I guess no one else is bragging on it,” Clements said. “Perhaps it should be considered that we look for outside counsel.” Ex-hostage creates Iran cartoon Him United Press International j DALLAS — “Billy Joe Reza,” a power-tripping Iranian j|ick, and a militant guard who accidentally blows off the tad of his comrade will be co-starring with Marine Sgt. es Lopez in the former hostage’s cartoon portrayal of the 444 days he was held captive. ■ Besieged by offers to do movies and books about him, pez chose animation as his medium. He is working at Sundance Production’s animation facility on a program — ioto by Brinn Tiit jjjopez’ cartoons interspersed with his descriptions of the ■stage ordeal — that his partner, Ben Goddard of First luesday, a Phoenix, Ariz., consulting firm, hopes to sell to aturday at! ^network. f “This way we can tell his story his way, rather than somebody else’s,” Goddard said Tuesday. “Someone wanted to do it with a star producer and star Eric Estrada. That’s just not this guy.” i |“When I got back everyone wanted to do “The Jimmy ■pez Story,”’ Lopez said. “Big deal. I’m 22 years old. How long a story can that be? I turned them all down but mic deficient iwhon Ben asked if I wanted to do it as a cartoon and come ilar majors here and play on a $2 million animation machine, I said yes. declaresam j r “if nothing ever goes right again in my life, I can say I got four businesj meet three to play around in an animation studio,” he said Wednesday at Sundance Production’s animation facility. “I call this place ‘Fantasy Studio.’ I’m in my dream phase. “I’ve always liked cartoons, comics,” he said. “I like the freedom from reality. I got started with the old Tom and Jerry cartoons and I’ve always liked to draw.” While held hostage Lopez drew caricatures of his Iranian guards to kill time. His sketches were confiscated before he left Tehran but the cartoon vignettes in the program are re-creations. “They can take my papers but they can’t take my mind. People ask, ‘What did you do?’ This is it,” he said, showing a drawing of two Iranians. “I lampooned them. “There are times in life where you either laugh or cry and we weren’t going to let them see us cry so we laughed at them.” The cartoons have scenes like an Iranian guard acciden tally blowing the head off a comrade and an unconcerned Ayatollah Khomeini standing in the middle of bridge that is burning at both ends. One Lopez character is student-guard Billy Joe Reza, “a real hick who’s majoring in building blocks and never been farther from home than Tehran University and suddenly is on a power trip.” Goddard has set March 15 as a completion deadline because Lopez must rejoin the Marines but doubts that will be met. Means of distribution has not been decided but several corporations have offered to sponsor it on the Pub lic Broadcast System. “I don’t care if they ever sell it,” Lopez said. “I’m just having fun. The main purpose of this is for me to have fun, clear the air about some misconceptions and, thirdly, being entertaining. I hate it when people say I’m trying to cash in. I’m not that mercenary.” The “misconceptions,” Lopez said, concerned compari sons of the Iranian hostages and prisoners of war from the Vietnam era. “It upsets me when people compare our discomforts to their ordeal, ” he said in an interview that will be used in the program. “They were in a war. “When the hostage thing was over, the media asked where were the parades for the Vietnam vets. The media made a big deal out of it. But we weren’t gloryhounds. It (the hostages’ welcome home) knocked us for a loop. I personally was embarrassed to be one of 52 figureheads. ” Future of Houston cable TV up to judge impletion o(: i a minimpo as A&M, l(li point aif United Press International ood acad«| HOUSTON — A federal judge s in the prof| ow mus t consider whether to Rep intact Houston’s five franch- mpletionoW| e ca ble television contracts, courses in*Bj c lj were determined by a jury pb have resulted from unlawful political deals. | Councilman Lance Lalor, a pong critic of the contracts, said Hpuston would probably have to _ [Ve with them, however, because W/l ^ Ae possibility the city would W have to compensate the com panies that have been operating since 1978. “I do not know how Houston can realistically revoke these agreements,” Lalor said Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Carl Bue was handed a ruling by the six- member civil jury in his court late Tuesday that Mayor Jim McConn, the city and Gulf Coast Cable Television conspired to violate antitrust law in dividing the city among the five companies. It is up to Bue now to issue a final order after reviewing the jury’s findings, which included an award to an unsuccessful franchise applicant of $2.1 million, automa tically tripled by federal law to $6.3 million. The lawsuit brought by that ap plicant, former Texas Democratic Party chairman Billy Goldberg and his Affiliated Capital Corp., also asked the judge to issue an injunction and void the contracts. Affiliated issued a statement following the jury verdict urging the city “to void the franchises and start the process over again. Such an approach would be in the best interest of the citizens of Houston.” Bue has not ruled on that aspect, and an appeal is expected no matter what he decides. Most City Council members withheld comment pending study of the ruling, but Homer Ford, who unlike Lalor was on the coun cil when the contracts were awarded, said, “We did the best job we knew how. ” McConn said he did not know what effect the verdict would have on his political future and but added he was not concerned about the damage award because “I don’t have it.” riotism Satur- down Texas er’s Rangers, in the Mard Officials confirm 39th case of meningitis in Harris County y a chance to „yrUS . j United Press International and national- HOUSTON — Public health ter.” officials Thursday counted tionalPatriot-another confirmed case of xonsoring th meningococcal meningitis, the 39th confirmed case in a recent ted. In Mart' outbreak that has taken at least eek followini three lives. ism Week. . Sp 0 | <esW0rnen f or t He Houston 5 avenues^ County health depart _ ments said the latest case was con firmed in a 4-year-old boy who be- 1 1 came ill Feb. 14 and has remained I fl S osp'talized in good condition. : Officials said the case was unre- 4ted to the still unexplained clus- Iring of five cases, including one Jtality, in one sixth-grade class at , )odson Elementary School. That )affas reglW unprecedented clustering re- Iter, mayoroljmains under investigation. io will discus Meningitis is an inflammation as Materials of the meninges, the sheaths cov- Sring the brain and spinal cord. Its with theTexsi System ma) 1 e. Others'd ition fee of& ed to the firi ie last day t« To register^ a tact Robert) [opper at tk 5-2551. symptoms are fever, headache, stiff neck, vomiting and confusion. It can kill or cause neurological damage, including hearing loss. Kmzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz^ ;e iple speakefi N N s s s S !> s 1 N All You Can Eat! 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The federal case was filed on the expira tion day of an earlier state court restraining order issued by District Judge James Onion. - “This is a legal maneuver on valid grounds,” El Pueblo attorney Jesse Botello told reporters. “We wanted to file something in federal court to prevent the state court from issuing a restraining order. ” When Botello told 37th District Court Judge Richard Woods that he had filed the motion in federal court. Woods agreed to delay any state court action in the case, despite objections from attorney Pat Maloney Sr. Maloney represents accused madam Theresa Brown in her cri minal case involving aggravated promotion of prostitution. Maloney, who had sought the restraining order against El Pueblo, said he would go to federal court and file a motion to have the case remanded to state court. Newspaper officials have contended they have the right to publish the list — allegedly compiled by Brown and naming several well- known Bexar County residents — under constitutional rights to freedom of the press. The planned date of publication was not made public Thursday. Although the original trick list was seized by vice officers when they raided Brown’s home last fall, the list the El Pueblo staff says it will publish apparently was compiled from card files that Brown kept hidden underneath a couch in her home. Wednesday, Armandina Saldivar, a contributing editor for El Pueblo, filed a $7 million slander suit in federal court against Maloney. “We allege that she has been referred to as a thief by Maloney,” said Jose Olivares, attorney for Saldivar. 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