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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1981
Hispanics protest voting 'dilution'
Redistricting bill under fire
United Press International
CORFU S CHRISTI — Leaders of a national
Hispanic organization Tuesday said they will
ask the Justice Department to overturn a con
gressional redistricting plan just approved
during a special session of the Texas Legisla
ture.
Tony Bonilla, president of the 100,000-
member League of United Latin American
Citizens (LULAC), assailed the redistricting
plan as an intentional dilution of Hispanic vot
ing strength in Texas.
“We (Hispanics) should have been entitled
to three new congressmen because of the His
panic population increase,” Bonilla said. “The
outcome of the whole thing is that we may not
get any new congressman and we may lose the
ones we have."
Bonilla announced the challenge of the re
districting plan, which was considered a major
victory for Texas Gov. Bill Clements, before
the governor had signed the measure.
Clements had said he would approve the
plan, which Democrats contend could give
Republicans up to nine of the state’s 27 con
gressional seats. Democrats now hold 19 of 24
existing seats, and Texas will gain three new
seats in 1982 because of growth in population.
Liberal Democrats had lost a last-ditch
effort Monday to send the redistricting plan to
a conference committee to dilute its benefit to
Republicans.
“The only reason the state showed any real
growth was due to growth in Hispanic popula
tion,” Bonilla said. “From what we’ve read and
studied, our vote has been diluted and mini
mized in order to accommodate the power
brokers who are determined to gut some of our
more progressive members in congress.”
Bonilla said LULAC has hired the Mexican-
American Legal Defense Fund to research the
new redistricting plan and to challenge the
reapportionment under the federal Voting
Rights Act.
“We re convinced the result of legislative
action is to dilute and minimize Hispanic vot
ing strength,” Bonilla said. “We will pursue
the remedies available to us through the Jus
tice Department.”
Neutron bomb to be assembled
at Pantex nuclear plant in Amarillo
United Press International
AMARILLO — The controversial neutron
bomb, which releases a strong burst of radiation
intended to kill people but leave buildings un
damaged, will be assembled at the Pantex nuclear
assembly plant near Amarillo.
The plant will assemble two types of neutron
warheads, one for the Army’s 8-inch howitzer,
which has a 13-mile range, and another for the
Lance missile, which has a 75-mile range.
The Pantex facility, which assembles all of the
nation’s nuclear warheads, has been working on
the neutron warhead for the past three years. A
plant official told the Amarillo Globe News Mon
day the assembly of the neutron bomb will have
“no significant effect on the plant’s operations.”
Construction of the bomb, which was delayed
by President Carter in 1978, was approved by
President Reagan last week. Carter had ordered
the bomb’s components to be built and stor^ j
not assembled.
Reagan said the neutron warheads woulla
stored in the United States after assemblyliiMPhlNGI
transported overseas. retired ath
Bob Chandler, chief of the weapons bran;jack Kemp
the Department of Energy’s Savannah faame a fev
plant near Aiken, S.C., told the Clobe-Ne»i|| But Ton
final work on the neutron warheads awalenter the p
delivery of tritium-lined casings. eellege ath
He said the South Carolina plant is theonlj So, as t
in the nation that produces weapons-grai Wilkes-Bai
tium. basketball
The neutron bomb is designed to rele«|| a y or
strong burst of radiation and a relatively ^uehanna
amount of heat and blast, as opposed tothei Madden
and hydrogen bombs. The purposeofthene, the May pi
warhead is to kill ground personnel with rat 2®* vec * eno
leaving relatively little damage to buil&l? 0 - ,
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Authority fined
HOUSTON — The Houston Port
Authority has been assessed a fine
of $10,000 in the Jan. 15 death of a
21-year-old man, who was over
come by fumes from a pesticide.
The ruling Monday came after au
thority officials pleaded no contest
to a charge of negligent homicide
in the death of Dean Bogany.
Spokesman William Colburn said
the Authority entered the no con
test plea because the public would
have had to pay all the legal fees if
the case went to trial.
Eagle wins suit
AUSTIN — The Bryan-College
Station Eagle has won its court
battle to get Texas A&M Universi
ty to release the names of the 400
candidates it is considering for the
University presidency.
A state district judge Monday
ordered the school to release the
names. The Eagle had sued the
school under the state’s Open Re
cords Act, because the Texas
A&M Board of Regents refused to
release the names of the candi
dates under consideration. School
officials said they will appeal the
decision.
Search
protested
BEAUMONT — Lawyers for
country singer Rusty Weir said
Monday that police exceeded
their authority when they sear
ched Weir in a restaurant March
16. Weir, 36, and two other men,
were arrested and charged with
possession of a controlled subst
ance. Police said they were look
ing for Thomas Aquinas Deslatte
when they entered the singer’s
dressing room. Police said cocaine
was found on a table in front of
Deslatte, and authorities then
went to the restaurant next door
where they arrested Weir.
Recovery plant
LUBBOCK — Construction has
started on a carbon dioxide recov
ery plant that will help produce
oil.
The plant, which officials say is
the largest of its kind in the world,
is financed by Carbon Dioxide
Technology of Houston. It is de
signed to recover carbon dioxide
from the waste stack gases that are
now discharged into the environ
ment near the Lubbock Power &
Light Holly Street facility. After
the carbon dioxide is stripped
from the power plant stack gas,
plans call for it to be dried and
compressed into pipelines for de
livery to oil fields. It will then be
pumped into the ground where
the carbon dioxide will swell the
oil and break it free from rock for
mations.
Funeral laws
DALLAS — The president of the
National Funeral Directors Asso
ciation says the organization will
support the veto of any proposed
funeral trade practices act.
Richard Myers, of Ogden,
Utah, said Monday that trade laws
would be “unnecessary and un
just,” because the industry re
ceives so few complaints.
The association also approved
the concept of establishing a con
sumer action panel.
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