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Other concepts addressing victims of crimes included the passage of laws giving victims, as well as criminals, a right to speedy trial and laws that would require courts to sentence cri minals to make damage pay ments to victims. The panel refused to make public a draft of its tentative re commendations scheduled for delivery to President Reagan and Attorney General William French Smith by the end of the year. Changes were still in the works. However, panel members ex pressed concern about leniency for sex of fenders and the juve nile crime problem. Panel member Ken Eikenber- ry said sex offenders and por- nographers too often get jobs close to women and children be cause laws restrict employers’ ac cess to police records. “The idea of making arrest records as opposed to conviction records available to potential employers is going to send up a rocket,” said Eikenberry. Washington state attorney gen eral. “I think it’s right.” Clark County, New, District Attorney Roliert Miller said offi cials might consider creating a new juvenile criminals category because many serious offenders automatically get lenient treat ment as juvenile delini Lois Herrington. Oakland, Calif, pro chairman of the tasl one of the biggest tasksi mittee can accomplishbt people aware of ihepi^ "The victims have! aied poorly the past wo® bv an American critniiHj system striving to r ights of criminals, said. “We don’t want I the rights of thecrin said. ‘We re going« commendations we Wj need. Every single idea^ workable. ACvorez Yairi Special Package Deals Save Big Bucks!! Pick out the Alvarez of your choice we’ll show you a deal hard to pass up! TFUs Weekend!! KEyboARd § 1 Center tf/ ii hi n Inc. Layaways & Lessons POST OAK MALL College Station. 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The rate was 6.4 percent in Dallas. Texas Employment Commis sion analyst James Barnes esti mated 20,000 people were out of work this month in the Hous ton area. In the border city of Laredo, unemployment reached 23.2 percent in September, up from August’s 15.4 percent. Economist Suzy Shoultz of Texas American Bankshares in Fort Worth predicted the bor der commumtes will continue to feel the pinch until Mexico finds a solution to its currency prob lems. The economic climate in north central Texas is apparent ly buffered, at least for the pre sent, from severe unemploy- of layoffs in the elc ment. Dallas experienced one of dustry, but we sti 1 seer I the smallest monthly jumps a firm labor market, among the state’s cities, with a rise to 6.4 percent from 6 per- Shoultz credited cent in August. Fort Worth areas Ed McClelland of Repblic- manufacturing tor Bank Corp. in Dallas said his employment company’s figures "reflect a lot bright. picture 1 Wife to testify! in bomb hearii| A MM '♦.A m -A • Petal Patch aT^ Aggie Mums Football Mums Custom Designed United Pres* International HOUSTON — A Colorado woman, once charged in the S15 million attempted extortion of Gulf Oil Chemicals Co., was sub poenaed to testify I hursday be fore a federal grand jury investi gating the case. Jill Renee Bird, 36, the com mon-law wife of alleged master mind John McBride, 46, of Durango, Colo., will testify ab out her knowledge or lack of knowledge about the case, her attorney Robin Auld said. Bird was charged with extor tion, but charges were dropped when McBride agreed to unveil the extortion attempt for au thorities if Bird recei'sj munity. 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