f Page 6 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1981
State
State House OK s
wiretap legislation
United Press International
AUSTIN — The House, re
sponsible for blocking the passage
of a wiretap bill in the last session
of the Legislature, has voted in
favor of the current bill and given a
boost to Gov. Bill Clements’ anti
crime program.
The House passed legislation
Monday authorizing electronic
surveillance in drug investiga
tions. The bill, which now goes to
the Senate, would allow the Texas
Department of Public Safety to
obtain authorization to set up
wiretaps on persons suspected of
large scale drug trafficking.
Clements has supported the
legislation since he took office in
January 1979. The bill passed the
Senate last session but died in a
House committee.
Opponents, who argued that
the statute would be abused, tried
unsuccessfully to amend the bill
by Rep. Bennie Bock, D-New
Braunfels.
Rep. Jay Gibson, D-Odessa,
failed to attach an amendment that
would prohibit persons with pre
vious drug convictions from
obtaining call-forwarding service
on their telephones. He said call
forwarding would be an easy way
to elude a wiretap because the call
would be transferred to another
number.
Rep. Matt Garcia, D-San Anto
nio, also lost attempts to limit the
bill to two years and to prohibit
law enforcement officials from
making covert entries into homes
to set up wiretaps.
“I don’t want the privacy of peo
ple in this state to die,” Garcia
said. “I’m not interested in pro
tecting the criminals, but I am in
terested in protecting the rights of
people who may one day be sub
jected to this bill.”
One of Garcia’s amendments
would have required that the
legislation die on Sept. 1, 1983,
unless the Legislature during the
next session elected to continue
the statute.
Bock argued that limiting the
legislation to two years would not
be feasible, since wiretap setups
are time consuming. He also said
two years would not be enough
time to determine if the program
can be effective.
The author was able to turn
back five other amendments.
Most of the amendments were left
pending Friday when the House
moved to cut off debate and give
tentative approval to the bill.
Against ‘cloning a bunch of Cubas’
Bentsen supports El Salvador aid
iBi
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SAN ANTONIO — Sen. Lloyd Bentsen said Presi
dent Reagan has his support in sending military advisers
to El Salvador to prevent the “cloning of a bunch of
Cubas” across Central America.
Bentsen, speaking in a news conference Monday,
said he supported Reagan on El Salvador because there
is more of a risk not to do anything.
“We can’t have a situation allowing the cloning of a
bunch of Cubas, ” Bentsen said. “Those trying to equate
El Salvador with Vietnam are just not right. Vietnam
was half a world away.”
He also said he is concerned about the Reagan prop
osal to sell top-secret AWAC spy planes to Saudi Arabia,
and he wants to keep the AWAC planes under U.S.
control, instead of making an outright sale to the Saudi
government.
“When it was proposed we sell the AWACs to Iran, I
was concerned,” he said. “The compromise I see com
ing is to keep the AWACs under our control.”
Bentsen, D-Texas, met Monday with San Antonio’s
new mayor, Henry G. Cisneros, to talk about the
Reagan budget cuts.
The senator said he planned to tell Cisneros there was
little that could be done to offset a $1.7 million loss in
federal money as a result of budget cuts by the Reagan
administration.
“Overall, we have to see some cuts, and some sub
stantial ones,” Bentsen said during a news conference
before his visit with Cisneros. “I’m in Congress to make
sure the cuts are equally shared.”
Bentsen said he was satisfied with President Reagans
budget plan, although the senator said he would have
suggested cuts in some areas while leaving other agen
cies with their present funding.
“I thought we should have cut more from the junk
mail subsidy — that’s over $800 million,” Bentsen said,
“There should not have been as much cut as there was
recommended from vocational education, an old prog
ram that works well.”
In speech Bentsen delivered late Monday to the
Associated Employers of San Antonio, the senator said
the key to strengthening the U.S. economy will be
increased productivity of American workers.
Legislator
says Austin
lacks respect
United Press International
AUSTIN — Rep. Larry Brow
der doesn’t think Austin gives the
Legislature proper respect, so he
has introduced a pair of measures
to get the city’s attention.
The most flamboyant of Brow
der’s proposals would offer a con
stitutional amendment creating
“the District of Austin.” Under
that proposal, the Austin City
Council would be disbanded and a
legislative committee would be in
charge of the city’s affairs.
“I did this partly to make a
point and also a bit seriously,” the
Coldsprings Democrat said Tues
day. “If it weren’t for the Legisla
ture, there wouldn’t be an Austin
or it would be a very small city.
Sometimes they treat us like
maybe we re the Lower House
and they are the state govern
ment.”
Browder’s other constitutional
proposal would authorize the state
to buy electricity from the Lower
Colorado River Authority rather
than the city of Austin. Browder
claims the switch would save the
state 15 to 17 percent on its local
electricity bill.
Browder also said he resents
high-rise office buildings dwarfing
the historical capitol complex. He
also said Austin has failed to ex
tend the hospitality offered by
cities such as Houston and San
Antonio.
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