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HOUSTON — Vice Presi
dent George Bush, one of a
raft of Republican luminaries
supporting Bill Clements for
Texas governor at a Houston
rally, said Clements was a ma
jor cog in Texas A&M Univer
sity’s recent faculty-recruiting
venture.
Monday’s visit marked the
third time Bush has been in
Texas in the past five weeks.
In Dallas and Houston,
Bush praised Clements as the
force behind the strongest
state economy in the nation.
“He’s developed an econo
mic climate that’s second to
none, and I have traveled to
most states in the union,”
Bush said, adding the gov
ernor was “responsible for
attracting outstanding faculty
members from across the na
tion.”
Texas A&M’s recent re
cruitment of Nobel-Prize win
ner and Harvard profesor
Sheldon Glashow has drawn
considerable publicity of late,
but Texas A&M president
Frank E. Vandiver has said
such recruitment has been
going on for a long time.
“Viva Clements!” Bush
shouted to a crowd of 300 in
Houston’s downtown Tran
quillity Park. “Bill Clements
will be re-elected because he
has been a great governor for
all Texans.”
Connally, Sen. John Tow
er R-Texas, and Rep. Bill Ar
cher of Houston joined Bush
and Clements on the plat
form.
Clements thanked the
crowd and said: “Are we
going to have politics as usual?
Our polls clearly indicate
Texas is saying ‘no.’ We want
to preserve what we have in
Texas.”
Bush, Connally and Tower
joined Clements earlier Mon
day at a Dallas rally where Cle
ments attracted a larger
lunch-time crowd of 1,100
supporters.
Clements’ wife, Rita, pre
dicted a 60 percent vote for
her husband in Dallas County
and victories in other areas.
Gulf ‘bomber’
United Press International
HOUSTON — A defense
attorney asked for a delay in sen
tencing a Durango, Colo., man
who pleaded guilty to transport
ing live bombs to a Gulf Chemic
al plant as part of a multi-
million-dollar extortion
attempt.
U.S. District Judge Gabrielle
McDonald wanted to set sen
tencing for Timothy Keith Jus
tice on Dec. 14. Justice’s lawyer
asked that sentencing be post
poned until after the trials of
four other Durango residents
accused of trying to extort $15
million.
Justice, a former police re
serve officer, pleaded guilty
Monday to two federal charges
resulting from the extortion
attempt. He plea bargained with
the government in exchange for
his testimony against four other
defendants.
Justice admitted cutting a
hole through a security fence at
Gulf Oil Chemicals Co.’s Cedar
Bayou facility near Baytown
Sept. 26 and planting five bombs
under chemical tanks.
“I plead guilty,” he said to the
charges of transporting explo
sives and using an interstate tele
phone line in an extortion con
spiracy.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Ron
Woods said prosecutors picked
two of the 12 indictments
against Justice that would send
him to prison for no more than
15 years.
The maximum sentence for
the two charges is 15 years in
prison and a $20,000 fine.
Other defendants in the case
are Jill Vurpillat Bird, John
McBride, Michael Allen Worth,
and Ted D. McKinney. The
offenses they are charged with
carry a maximum sentence of
105 years.
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the five defendents revealed de
tails of the group’s actions that
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Lawyer David Duncan of
Durango said Justice revealed
his part in the extortion attempt
after he was arrested by the FBI
Oct. 6.
“He deeply regrets having
been involved in this case. It’s his
hope he can complete his time in
prison in time to see his children
before they are grown,” Duncan
said.
If Justice is sentenced to the
full 15 years, he could spend less
than four years behind bars be
fore being paroled.
Justice’s wife was in court
Monday and watched as Woods
cited the state’s case against her
husband. Woods explained the
plea bargain to the judge.
“The government has agreed
with the defendant and his
attorney that he would plead
guilty to (two counts), and per
sist in his plea. The government
will dismiss the rest of the indict
ments at the time of sentencing,”
Woods said.
“He (justice) has agreed
testify in all cases and against
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United Press International
AUSTIN — Demonstrators
jeered and waved banners in a
rally at the mansion of Texas
Gov. William Clements, assail
ing his heavy campaign spend
ing and support of President
Reagan’s economic policies.
“Clements, Clements, he’s no
good, get him out of the neigh
borhood,” about two dozen de
monstrators chanted Monday in
front of his official residence.
The protestors also con
ducted a door-to-door neighor-
hood canvass to seek support for
Democrat Mark White.
They later pitched tents at
the “Reagan Ranch,” erected
last Friday to dramatize the na
tion’s economic problems under
the Reagan administration.
Mansion guards locked the
gates at the front of the building
and monitored the protest, but
there were no confrontations.
A spokesman for the Associa
tion of Community Organiza
tions for Reform Now said the
demonstration was part of a
nationwide protest cjf “Reagano
mics” that began two weeks ago
and spread to more than 30
camp-out rallies.
The four-day camp-out was
aimed at reminding people of
the “Hoovervilles” in the 1930s,
said organizer Holly Blake. The
weekend protest also included a
soup line, a candidates’ forum
and a march to the state Capitol.
“We’re here to demonstrate
what our needs are,” said
ACORN member Gussie Hous
ton. “We need jobs, more jobs
and better jobs.
“Governor Clements has
identified himself as a Reaganite
and ACORN wants to know if he
has amended his ways,” she said.
“Governor Clements has re
fused to respond to Reagan
Ranch issues so we are taking the
issues direct to him.”
Houston said ACORN wants
more state funds allocated to
welfare, the creation of public
works jobs, the establishment of
a citizens’ board to oversee emi
nent domain proceedings and
an elected Public Utility Com
mission.
Clements was campaigning in
Dallas at the time of the demon
stration.
The governor was chastised
in posters for spending a record
$11.8 million in his re-election
bid.
The protesters carried post
ers saying: “Show Clements $12
Million Does Not Buy An Elec
tion,” “Does It Really Cost $12
Million, Bill?” and “Clements Is
Not The Best Politician $ Can
Buy.”
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