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The unemployment rate in Bryan-College Station is 5.2 and Austin experienced the lowest rate at 4.0 percent. “Most of them (city rates) went down a half percentage point or less,” TEC spokesman Diane Dobie said. “There were a few that had larger decreases.” South Texas border towns had the highest jobless rates with Laredo at 23.5 percent, the McAllen area at 19.8 percent and the Brownsville area at 14.8 percent. The high rates were blamed in large part on the effects of the Mexican peso de valuation, although the Brown sville area rate did show im provement. “Brownsville-Harlingen-San Benito was down a full percen tage point (from September), although their rate was still quite high,” Dobie said. “Theirs jumped up so high inSeptemher because of the devaluation of the peso showing up for the first time in our figures. 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But the Legisla tive Budget Board last week recommended the state spend only half that much and Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby characterized the prison system as a finan cial “bottomless pit.” The bulk of the proposals aim at staying in compliance with the court order and find ing facilities for nearly 4,000 inmates currently housed in tents, including a suggestion to classify future inmates according to the risk they pre sent and that the TDC de- emphasize maximum security facilities. One of the commission’s more controversial recom mendations was to leave all sentencing up to judges rather than juries. Such a move, the commission’s re port said, would reduce dis parity in sentences and would provide punishment more appropriate for the crime committed. Some other suggestions by the panel included: — Lessening the effect of the habitual criminal statute, which mandates life sentences for those inmates convicted of three felonies. — Providing alternatives to TDC incarceration for 15 and 16-year-olds who commit se rious crimes. — Increasing sentencing options by allowing work re lease programs, sentences split between incarceration and probation, and more community corrections facili ties. Space suit test almost finished United Press International HOUSTON — Officials with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration say they hope to know by Thursday what went wrong vyith the $1 million suits that forced them to cancel space walks on the recently com pleted space shuttle mission. A fan failure in Joe Allen’s space suit, coupled with a reg ulator malfunction in astronaut Bill Lenoir’s suit, caused NASA officials to cancel a three-hour walk in space last week during the space shuttle Columbia’s fifth mission. 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