Battalion/Page 11
April 16, 1982
state / national
Facing tough Senate battle
Bentsen called ‘liberal’
United Press International
AUSTIN — Sen. Lloyd Bent-
sen’s Democratic opponent in
the May 1 primary, and his three
potential GOP challengers all
share one sentiment — they all
think Bentsen is too liberal.
Bentsen, 61, is seeking reelec
tion to a third term in the U.S.
Senate, an office he gained in
1970 by using the same label
against then Sen. Ralph Yarbor
ough.
This time, Bentsen is feeling
the “liberal” criticism.
His only challenger in the
Democratic primary is Joe Sulli
van, a college professor from
San Antonio who has lost four
previous campaigns for Con
gress. Sullivan is a longshot at
best, and generally is considered
a token candidate against Bent-
sten’s well-financed campaign.
The GOP, however, is
another matter.
Three Republicans, all con
servatives, are competing for the
right to challenge Bentsen in
November and all are using the
same campaign stragety — to
paint Bentsen as a liberal sena
tor in the mold of George
McGovern or Ted Kennedy.
The three are State Sen. Wal
ter Mengden of Houston, Rep.
Jim Collins of Dallas, and busi
nessman Don Richardson of
Houston.
Collins and Mengden, both
popular in their home cities, are
considered the Republican fron
trunners.
Collins has ignored the other
GOP candidates, campaigning
against Bentsen as if he already
was assured of his party's nomi
nation. He has called Bentsen
the most liberal senator in the
Sunbelt.
“Texans are too smart for
that,” Bentsen says. “I don't
think they’re going to buy that
line of garbage.”
Mengden has joined the chor
us of criticism of Bentsen, but
also has pointed out differences
in style between him and Collins.
He concedes there is little philo
sophical difference, but notes
Collins has not passed a piece of
legislation during his 16 years in
Congress.
Mengden said during his 10
years in the Texas Legislature,
he was primary author of 91
pieces of legislation. He has not
been reluctant to voice his stands
on issues.
Mengden has called for a con
stitutional amendment to pro
hibit deficit spending by the fed
eral government, a law requir
ing criminals to pay damages to
their victims, another law abo
lishing the legal defense of tem
porary insanity in criminal trials,
a constitutional amendment
providing for election of federal
judges, and another extending
the right-to-work provision to all
50 states.
“We need a U.S. senator who
will do more than just vote right
(conservative),” Mengden said
in an obvious reference to Col
lins.
“We need someone who will
demonstrate a sincere commit
ment to helping people through
the use of conservative solutions
to problems on the federal
level.”
Bentsen, 61, has maintained a
low profile during most of the
primary campaign, but has built
a S2.4 million campaign fund in
anticipation of a tough general
election battle.
Sources sav that f und could
reach S5 million before the cam
paign peaks.
The expected rugged cam
paign against the GOP nominee
will not be the first time Bentsen
has faced a well-known Republi
can. After upsetting Yarbor
ough in the 1970 Democratic
primary, he went on to defeat
George Bush in t he general elec
tion.
Bentsen did not face serious
opposition in 1976. He mounted
a brief campaign for the Demo
cratic presidential nomination
won by Jimmy Can ter in 1976,
but quickly gave that up idler he
fared poorly in earlv tests.
Collins is giving up an appa
rently safe congressional seat in
Dallas to enter the campaign,
and Mengden walked awav
from ;t relatively safe state Sen
ate seat to join the campaign
against Bentsen.
In their primary race, Collins
is considered unbeatable in Dal
las and Mengden is the oxer-
whelming favorite to carry
Houston, so the race may be de^
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Two prison reform issues
settled, others are still open
United Press International
HOUSTON — Lawyers f ight
ing over Texas prison reform
have reached another out-of-
court settlement, to hire more
guards and not use inmates as
auxiliary enforcers. But state
officials caution the legal battle
is far from over.
Lawyers for the State of
iTexas, the plaintif f inmates and
the Justice Department
announced the tentative new
I agreement Wednesday in a
hearing before U.S. District
| Judge William Wayne Justice.
They withheld details of the
deal, presumably a response to
Justice’s sweeping April 1981 re
form decree requiring nearly
doubling of guards and no in
mate enforcers, pending final
approval by the T exas Board of
Corrections and the judge.
The board tentatively sche-
jjduled a meeting today. Justice
I set a final hearing on the matter
for next Wednesday.
The issues settled were
among several pending before
earthquake* J the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of
reading offi \ Appeals after seven years of liti-
~ gation, including a year-long
j trial before Justice in 1979 and
| 1980.
Lawyer^ earlier settled out of
I court the question of improved,
medical care for Texas’ 31,000-
plus inmates, the largest num
ber incarcerated in any U.S.
prison system.
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settlement will leave pending be-
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dispute over Justice’s order for
no more than one inmate per
45-square-foot cell and his de
mand for smaller prisons nearer
big cities.
The state contends two in
mates per 45-square-foot cell is
not too many and not unconsti
tutional and that the organiza
tion of prisons is no business of a
federal court.
The lawyers indicated they
expect no out-of-court settle
ment in those areas.
The inmates’ lawyer, Donna
Brorby of San Francisco, said
the settlement resulted from a
change of attitude by the state.
“The effort makes me hope
ful that we can continue like
reasonable people,” said Bror
by. But she admitted she did not
anticipate withdrawal of the en
tire appeal from the courts.
Executive Assistant Attorney
General Rick Gray of Austin
said the state was “pleased” with
the settlement but planned to
stick to its positions on over
crowding and prison organiza
tion and location.
“I would not anticipate those
issues being resolved until the
appellate court rules,” Gray
said. “I don’t know if this is a
major change or not. There’s a
lot of issues left.”
Assuming he can approve the
final deal, Justice, who has had
to preside over a legal wrangle
that often was extremely angry,
was happy: “This is very gratify
ing to me that this progress has
been made.”
United Press International
MOMBASA, Kenya — A U.S.
Congressional delegation of the
House Armed Services Commit
tee arrived in the Indian Ocean
port city of Mombasa Thursday
for an inspection tour of facili
ties that could be used by the
U.S. Rapid Deployment Force in
the event of war in the Middle
East.
The delegation headed by
Rep.Richard White, D-Texas,
toured the Mombassa habor
complex which is currently
being dredged with U.S. gov
ernment aid to take large war
ships.
The delegation met with Ke
nyan government officials in
Mombasa and White expressed
his thanks to the government for
allowing U.S. warships to call at
Mombassa.
Two months ago the aircraft
carrier Constellation and four
escort ships made a courtesy call
at the port.
The delegation which arrived
from Oman was scheduled to
leave for the Indian Ocean is
land of Mauritius late Thursday.
The aim of the delegation’s
six-nation swing is to examine at
first hand possible contingency
and support bases to be used by
the Rapid Deployment Force if
needed in the Middle East or the
Indian Ocean.
Congress has been asked to
support a $1 billion committ
ment to the force and members
of the delegation said before
leaving Washington that first
hand knowledge of what was
available to the force in the event
of war was necessary to make
such a decision.
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