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Democrats blame Clements
for unemployment-fund crisis
United Press International
AUSTIN — House Demo
crats threw the first punch in a
political fistfight with Republi-
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can Gov. Bill Clements, claiming
the governor’s lack of foresight
and leadership was responsible
for the near-bankruptcy of the
state’s unemployment compen
sation fund.
This week’s special legislative
session, aimed at resolving prob
lems in the jobless fund, evolved
into a forum for political critic
ism Wednesday when a group of
about 20 Democratic House
members claimed Clements was
| warned late last year of potential
problems in the fund but did no
thing to avert a crisis.
Clements’ staff immediately
responded to the accusations,
I maintaining no crisis existed in
the fund until huge layoffs by
Braniff Airways and Lone Star
Steel began draining unemploy
ment coffers early this summer.
House Majority Leader Bob
Bush, D-Sherman, said the
Texas Employment Commis-
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sion warned Clements of im
pending problems in the fund in
a Nov. 13 letter, but the gov
ernor’s chief-of-staff said the let
ter contained no specific infor
mation and never was for
warded to Clements.
Bush said the state would not
need to borrow money from the
federal government to bail out
the fund if Clements had taken
steps to fortify it earlier this
year.
Clements’ special assistant,
Jarvis Miller, said the TEC itself
claimed the fund was solvent in a
July 1 letter to the governor stat
ing, “The Texas trust fund is sol
vent at this time.”
Miller denied the Democrats’
claim that Clements operated a
“management by crisis” admi
nistration.
“That’s an absolute fabrica
tion,” Miller said at an adminis
tration news conference. “We’ve
been on top of it, and it’s pru
dent management to wait and
understand what the facts are
before you leap.”
Flight termed successful
Private rocket
launched
United Press International
ROCKPORT — Entrep
reneurs and former NASA
rocket experts Thursday fired
an experimental rocket
through a 10-minute test
flight, successfully completing
the first step in their plans to
enter the satellite launching
business.
The blue and white Con
estoga I rocket, trailing
orange fire and then a light
blue vapor, lifted off its “milk-
stool” pad at 10:17 a.m. roar
ing into clear blue skies and
arcing southeast on its sub
orbital path to splashdown at
10:27 a.m., 270 miles from the
Mexican coast east of Mexico
City.
Mission director Donald K.
“Deke” Slayton, a former
astronaut, said: “Super. Just
like it’s supposed to go.”
Officials of Space Services
Inc. of Houston, which wants
to begin the private launching
of satellites for businesses,
were exuberant about the
short flight, which took the
rocket 190 miles high and 320
miles downrange.
“Just a beautiful bird,” said
SSI spokesman Walter Penni-
no. “We are writing the first
new book on
chapter ir
space.”
Lee Scherer, former Ken
nedy Space Center director
and now a consultant to SSI,
said: It s a relatively simple
thing that was done here. But
it’s very, very symbolic.”
Conestoga Launch Control
said the rocket kept to its plan
ned track perfectly, and all in
dicators showed the flight was
totally successful. T he rocket
punched into outer space
three minutes after liftoff,
and then re-entered the
atmosphere and fell in to the
Gulf.
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Nurses pull plug, not charged
United Press International
KINGSPORT, Tenn. — Be
cause a dying patient asked his
nurses to pull the plug on his
respirator, they won’t be prose
cuted, officials say.
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Thomas Hoover, 54, dying of
what the hospital described only
as lung disease, had the legal
right to decide to stop his life
support system, said Sullivan
County District Attorney Gener
al Carl Kirkpatrick.
After spending seven weeks
in intensive care. Hoover asked
to be taken off the respirator,
according to the results of an in
vestigation revealed Wednesday
by Kirkpatrick and his staff.
Hoover was rational
although in considerable pain,
“highly intelligent” and aware of
the consequences when he asked
his nurses to unhook him from
the machine, the office investi
gation said.
Records at Holston Valley
Medical Center show that Hoov
er was dying at the time the re
spirator was discontinued.
“There was no hope for his sur
vival beyond a few hours even
with the assistance of the respir
ator device,” Kirkpatrick said.
Kirkpatrick's office and the
Tennessee Bureau of Investiga
tion refused to identify the
nurses involved with Hoover’s
death. Two nurses were in
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United Press International
FORT WORTH — Police ex
pected difficulty in proving a
burglary case against a woman
arrested wearing only a towel
and a smile and searching for a
hot tub.
On Wednesday, police said
Wednesday the bizarre case be
gan to unfold late Monday when
the woman, 28, entered a suite at
the Sandpiper Inn with other
people, including Billy Bob Bar
nett, co-owner of Billy Bx Tas,
reputedly the world’s largest
honkey tonk.
The group apparently was
searching for a hot tub and ven
tured into the wrong suite,
police said.
The hotel later received simi
lar complaints from another
room on the same floor, and
police were called.
The woman was arrested be
cause she was in the wrong
room, said Detective Mark Keat
ing. Keating said she was clothed
when arrested.
After the woman’s arrest,
police said Barnett went to the
suite where the complaints ori
ginated. He then struck the
mayor of Saginaw, Mich.,
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Ronald M. Bushey, 53,
stomach and threw a a
quor at him.
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nett was released after[»f n ® s sn
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Keating said there wH^ tlor
evidence to proseaitt^V c <
woman for burglary, and®* 011 s
planned to drop theduij
“You can be surewedt
mighty hard time provinji
lary against a womaninaN
he said.
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