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Plan may prevent more
state dams, senator says
United Press International
AUSTIN — The only legis
lation in the state’s compre
hensive state water plan which
remains to be approved could
halt the construction of dams
on Texas riverways, a senator
opposed to the legislation
says. '''
The bill, carried by Sen.
John Sharp, D-Victoria, re
quires the Texas Department
of Water Resources to pre
serve the historic level of pro
ductivity in the bays and
estuaries by making sure an
adequate supply of fresh wa
ter flows through the environ
mentally delicate bodies of
water.
Under the bill, water au
thorities would determine if a
request to take or divert water
from a river would adversely
affect marine life in the bays.
If it is decided that the dam
age would be significant, it
could require the applicant to
compensate for the lost water.
“The feeling among water
people is that if this bill passes,
there won’t ever be another
resevoir or dam built in the
state of Texas,” Sen. John
Traeger, D-Seguin, said
Tuesday.
The Senate gave tentative
approval to the bill, but Sharp
could not muster the votes
needed give it final passage.
The Senate gave final
approval to all other bills
proposed in the plan.
The legislation, drafted
primarily by Lt. Gov. Bill
Hobby and Sen. John Mont-
ford, D-Lubbock, places
emphasis on water conserva
tion and avoids any mention
of water importation from
neighboring states.
Other components of the
water plan passed by the Sen
ate include:
•Legislation to give the Rail
road Commission and the Wa
ter Resources Department
concurrent authority to reg
ulate the pollution of fresh
water by oil and gas com
panies.
•A proposed constitutional
amendment to allow the
issuance of an additional $300
million in water development
bonds, half to improve water
supplies and half for water
quality projects.
•A proposed constitutional
amendment that would
pledge $250 million of the
state’s credit to guarantee
bonds issued by local districts
in hopes they would receive a
more favorable bond rating.
The proposal also would allow
the state to appropriate
money for major water and
flood control projects.
•A proposed constitutional
amendment authorizing the
issuance of $200 million in
state bonds to create a financ
ing source for farmers who
want to buy high efficiency
irrigation systems.
The proposals, several of
which require approval of the
voters in 1984 balloting, were
forwarded to the House for its
consideration.
Truck insurance law
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for Mexicans delayed
United Press International
BROWNSVILLE — A feder-
aljudge has scheduled a hearing
Friday on a U.S. law requiring
Mexican truckers to carry
$500,000 in liability and en
vironmental restoration insur-
Federal officials had planned
to begin enforcing the new rule
Tuesday at major border cros
sings including Brownsville,
Hidalgo and Laredo.
However, U.S. District Judge
Filemon Vela Tuesday issued an
order granting a one-day delay
and setting a hearing on the
matter for Friday.
U.S. Transportation Depart
ment officials said they planned
to try again Wednesday to im
plement the insurance regula
tions at Brownsville, Hidalgo
and Laredo by refusing entry to
uninsured trucks.
Lorenzo Blanco Enriguez,
president of a group of customs
brokers in neighboring Mata-
moros, Mexico, Monday night
called the new insurance re
quirements a disaster because he
said produce and shrimp en
route to the border were
threatened with spoilage if the
trucks were not allowed to cross
the Rio Grande.
Texas insurance agents said
the required insurance would
cost Mexican truckers approxi
mately $1,000 a year.
The new law, which requires
up to $ 1 million in insurance on
Mexican and Canadian trucks
carrying hazardous materials
into the United States, actually
went into effect Jan. 6, but has
not been enforced.
John Jackson, U.S. Customs
port director at Roma said the
insurance laws were designed to
make United States truckers
more competitive with Mexican
truckers who have not had to
carry the same insurance.
Although Texas requires lia
bility insurance for its trucks,
Mexican truckers for decades
have crossed the border without
any insurance, Jackson said.
Jackson said once the Mex
icans learned of the new law he
did not expect any trouble when
they were turned away at the
border.
Five indicted in alien case
and, mon
nplemencl
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United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — A major
ternational smuggling ring
isted by federal investigators
ovided Ecuadoran aliens with
it visas, financial loans and
lepaid airline tickets to New
I ork and Chicago, federal offi-
als say.
U.S. Attorney Ed Prado and
ichard M. Casillas, district di-
| ictor of the U.S. Immigration
d Naturalization Services,
id Tuesday that a federal
and jury had returned indict-
ents against five people who
legedly operated the ring.
They said said a six-month
deral investigation of the
nuggling operation led to the
rests of individuals in New
ork, Chicago, San Antonio and
iaredo.
Prado said the organization
idalized in smuggling aliens
Fom Ecuador, Columbia and
le Dominican Republic and
id brought about 400 aliens
ito the United States in the last
months. He said the group
id smuggled thousands of
lens since it was formed in
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beration arranged for exit per-
lits and financial loans to
ients, who were charged
1,000 for a trip that took them
Mexico City and Monterrey,
where they stayed in specified
tels.
After receiving instructions
from operators in New York,
the aliens were taken to Sabinas
Hidalgo, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
and eventually smuggled across
the border to Laredo, Casillas
said.
From there, they were taken
in private vehicles or tractor—
trailers to San Antonio, where
they were furnished with pre
paid airline tickets to New York
and Chicago.
Indicted for conspiracy to
smuggle and for harboring, con
cealing and transporting illegal
aliens were Edgar Argurdo-
Argurdo, of New York, Corne-
lio Molina Alverez, Juan Carlos
Molina-Alvarez, Armando
Peralta Soto, and Celia Ochoa
Garcia, all of Laredo.
Argurdo-Argurdo, who was
indicted on three counts, used
the aliases Francisco Hernandez
and Mr. Rodriguez, federal offi
cials said.
Others who were arrested in
the case were identified as Alba
Lopez-Velazquez and Carlos
Alberto Romero-Castro, both of
New York, and Leticia Garcia of
Laredo.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve
Hilbeck said the investigation
began last year after two
Ecuadorans were arrested at the
San Antonio airport, and inves
tigators “started putting things
together.”
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AIDS spreading
to small towns
United Press International
OCHESTER, N.Y. — Ac-
jired Immune Deficiency Syn-
'ome, which has afflicted pri-
lauv.., Jnly homosexual men in large
is hops li® es > may be spreading to smal-
ten thedp communities, says a resear-
and en# er at the University of
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ration,
strategy
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^Chester.
i AIDS, first acknowledged in
the male homosexual commun
ity about two years ago, is a mys-
y disease which eats away at
e body’s ability to fight infec-
n. Since 1981, its pool of vic-
s has expanded to include
mophiliacs, Haitian refugees,
d intravenous drug users.
1 “Most of the cases originate in
oig cities like Houston, New
|prk City and San Francisco,”
raid Dr. Thomas Rush, of the
niversity’s AIDS screening
nic.
But doctors at the clinic are
eing “a lot of men” with symp-
ms known to lead to the dis-
se, and Rush believes this may
ean AIDS will come to Roches-
r and possibly other smaller
ties.
The illness probably does not
iginate so often in Rochester
id other mid-size cities, Rush
id, because homosexual men
these areas are apt to be less
promiscuous than those in big
ger cities.
But the disease may spread as
those men return to the small
cities to be with their families or
friends when they are sick, Rush
said.
Researchers do not know the
origin of the disease, the symp
toms of which include fever,
dramatic weight loss, swollen
glands and diarrhea. Nearly half
the 1,200 persons AIDS has
stricken since 1981 have died
from the disease, most of those
victims in big cities.
“These people really suffer,”
said Dr. Roy Steigbigel, who also
works at the clinic. “I’ve never
seen such wasted patients. They
know what’s happening to them;
they remain very alert. It’s very
tragic.”
Rush said there is no known
way to treat the illness, which
researchers believe is transmit
ted through intimate sexual con
tact or contact with blood pro
ducts.
Rochester’s screening clinic is
the only one upstate, Rush said,
although there are many in New
York City, where treating poten
tial AIDS victims “has become a
full-time job.”
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“We just started pulling at the
ball of twine,” he said. “It was a
fairly sophisticated operation.”
Hilbeck said Gary Renick, su
pervisor of the anti-smuggling
unit, checked other points of en
try along the U.S. border and
found that all the Ecuadorans
were coming through the Lare-
do-San Antonio route, indicat
ing the smugglers felt the route
was safe.
“If it works, don’t fix it,” Hil
beck s~id, adding that the route
has now been disrupted “for a
major portion of the indi
viduals.”
Prado said the government
investigation was still underway
and that more indictments are
expected.
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