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Mike Dentzau, a graduate student
from New Jersey, dissects a
specimen of the Atlantic threadfin
collected in the Gulf of Mexico.
Dentzau works on the A&M
research vessel, The Excellence II,
in order to determine the life
history of the fish.
Residents seeking halt
;o Gulf Coast dredging
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HOUSTON — Angered by a
itinuing dredging operation
rmorate the'*y say is destroying marine life
a and Nagauf threatening their busines-
he services/ ,residents of East Matagorda
30 p.m. y were ready to seek a court
Tfectsof nud|er halting the dredging,
k to the WesT A spokeswoman for the
light vigil a' ttagorda County Citizens for
jortation will monmental Protection said
2 1/2 mile nday a class-action suit the
311 p planned to file in Hous-
i federal court Monday would
by the Bam im the dredging violates the
-2611. leral Clean Water Act.
^ Sharon Serafino said the
oup will seek a temporary re
aming order halting the
of the Intracoastal
Waterway along the environ
mentally sensitive central Texas
Gulf Coast.
Residents of the bay area
want the dredging stopped be
cause they fear the tar-like
sludge being dumped into the
bay threatens marine life and
their businesses.
The residents Saturday used
20 shrimp and pleasure boats to
form a symbolic blockade of the
waterway but ended the protest
after four hours when the
dredging continued in the chan
nel along the north shores of
East Matagorda Bay.
The dredging is being carried
out under the authority of the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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AUSTIN — Four days of
brings on $36 million worth of
oposcd school textbooks
ly opened Monday with dis-
(ssions of vocational and math
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„ in narkinfit The traditional confronta-
< (I I he ii )n between fundamentalist
elwaskickedj rislians ^ anti-censorship
ma ,i K . i °ups was delayed until today,
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Clinics to pay government
Policy says to reimburse
United Press International
WASHINGTON — A health
care specialist said Monday new
Reagan administration policies
for clinics using government
personnel will cost needy com
munities $6 million to $12 mil
lion — the cost of serving 90,000
people.
Daniel Hawkins of the Na
tional Association of Commun
ity Health Centers, representing
more than 800 community-
based health centers and clinics
nationwide, said clinics will have
to reimburse the government
for National Health Service
Corps personnel, an average in
crease of 230 percent.
“These clinics were given no
warning of the payback policy
changes; most are in the middle
of their fiscal and grant years
and have no real prospects for
increasing overall revenues,” he
said.
“Thus the vast majority have
but one way of cutting the in
creased payback demands — by
cutting services and patients,”
he said. “We estimate that the
increased payback will take from
$6 million to $12 million away
from these needy communities.
“This is equivalent to the cost
of serving 90,000 persons at cur
rent clinic costs,” he said.
Hawkins was one of several
witnesses testifying before the
House Energy and Commerce
Subcommittee on Health and
Environment on a bill by Rep.
Bill Richardson, D-N.M., to alter
the policies effective July 1.
The clinics using the NHSC
personnel — many of them doc
tors working in communities in
exchange for government aid in
obtaining a medical degree —
serve an estimated 2 million peo
ple nationwide.
The patients pay for the care
on a sliding scale basis, with the
Border cities still
feeling devaluation
Edward McGehee, head of
the construction and operations
division for the Corps, said the
operation was “scrutinized by all
necessary state and federal
agencies and the Environmental
Protection Agency.
Muriel Tipps, who owns
Tipps Bait Camp in Sargent on
the eastern edge of the bay, was
among the protesters Saturday.
She said the blockade was in
tended to attract public atten
tion prior to the court hearing.
Serafino alleged several oys
ter beds in the bay already had
been destroyed by the dredging
operation.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Cities
along the Texas-Mexico border
are still reeling from the effects
of the peso devaluation and
need help from Washington in
several areas, two bank presi
dents and two county judges
from Texas said Monday.
The four also said they sup
ported an immigration bill such
as the Simpson-Mazzoli Act to
stop the massive influx of illegal
aliens further stretching already
straining resources.
“I’m firmly convinced Con
gress has to pass the Simpson-
Mazzoli bill or something like it,”
said Cameron County Judge
Moises Vela of Brownsville. “I
know some people are afraid
there will be discrimination.
“But you’ve got to start some
place. You have to stop the the
influx of people from other
countries. I think this would be a
place to start,” he told the Joint
Economic Committee.
Testimony from the four
Texans centered on the prob
lems two peso devaluations have
caused along the border, includ
ing massive jumps in unemploy
ment and startling drops in sales
tax revenues.
“With the peso’s purchasing
power cut to only one-seventh of
its former level, the buying pow
er of Mexican nationals along
the border collapsed,” said Sen.
Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, who
chaired the hearing.
“The devaluations plunged
the border economy into a de
pression just as the rest of our
nation began to move into an
economic recovery,” he said.
“Retail sales fell anywhere from
27 percent to 79 percent as the
impact of the devaluation swept
like brush fire up and down the
Rio Grande.”
Vela, El Paso County Judge
Pat O’Rourke, El Paso National
Bank President Merriman Mor
ten and Texas Commerce Bank
President Bob Duffey of Brown
sville testified there were several
ways Congress could help, in
cluding:
•Giving federal help to Texas
schools required under a recent
Supreme Court ruling to pro
vide free education to illegal
alien schoolchildren;
•Opening existing lanes of
traffic on the current El Paso-
Juarez International Bridge and
continue to speed up movement
on the “vital” Zaragoza Bridge
project;
•Continue to develop the
twin-plant program where U.S.
companies set up plants near the
border in Mexico for assembling
and manufacturing products
which are then returned to the
U.S. for distribution.
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from representatives of
;as chapters of the National
[anization for Women who
public schools in the 1984-1985
school year.
Previously, only criticism of
texts was allowed, and the
annual summer textbook hear
ings were dominated by fun
damentalist religious critics.
People for the American Way
vigorously protested the board
practice last year and succeeded
in pushing passage of a state law
that mandated equal time for
supporters as well as critics of
texts.
People for the American Way,
an anti-censorship group, speak
on other proposed texts.
The hearings will end Thurs
day before a 27-member state
textbook committee and Com
missioner of Education Raymon
Bynum.
A new state law, coupled with
revised State Board of Educa
tion rules, will allow supporters
— as well as critics — of prop
osed textbooks to testify on
books up for adoption for Texas
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clinic paying the medical per
sonnel and some costs while re
turning a percentage of the re
ceipts to the government.
“These health centers pro
vide basic health care to Amer
ica’s poorest, more disadvan
taged people — from inner-city
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