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Local ‘superdelegate':
Democrats can win
By Karl Spence
Reporter
Erma Jef ferson, a member of the
Texas Democratic Executive Com
mittee and a “superdelegate” to the
Democratic National Convention, is
still riding on a crest of excitement.
Site came home f rom San Fran
cisco displaying an orange vest she
wore as a Mondale whip, a cowboy
hat loaded with campaign buttons,
an autograph-covered convention
guide and a tote bag f ull of delegate
brochures and official souvenirs.
She also came back happy with the
ticket.
Jef ferson points to a yellow ribbon
she attached to the cowboy hat when
the Texas delegation met with Dem
ocratic presidential and vice-presi
dential nominees Walter Mondale
and Geraldine Ferraro.
“This is so that the women of
Texas can let Geraldine know she is
a yellow rose,” she explains.
The concord of the convention
and the ticket that emerged from it
have fired Jef ferson’s enthusiasm.
“To my way of thinking,” she says,
"the new ideas that Gary Hart had,
the caring for people that is epit
omized by the Kennedy family, the
dreams that Jesse Jackson talked
about in his speech, the family that
Mario Cuomo talked about in his
1 think that Fritz Mondale can bring
all these dreams and ideas to reali
ty.”
For that to happen, of course, cer
tain Republicans in office must be
gotten out of the way, and posters
and buttons around Brazos County
Democratic Headquarters show that
the Democrats are after their scalps.
“Get the stuffed actor out of our
White House,” says one.
“I.et’s send the Gramm cracker
back to Georgia!” says another.
A campaign button refers to Gov
ernor Mark White’s 1982 victory
over Republican incumbent Bill
(dements: “Democrats: Let’s send
Ronnie and Phil the same message
we sent Bill.”
Jefferson takes courage from her
party’s success in White’s campaign.
“I think we have good prospects
of winning,” she says. “I want to see
them do on the national scene what
we did in Texas in 1982.”
The key to victory. Jefferson be
lieves, is getting out the vote. She
sees the Democratic Party constitu
encies as spokes in a wheel, all of
which must get out and work to win.
That, she says, is the strategy that
Geraldine Ferraro
succeeded two years ago.
Asked whether the strategy will
work as well in the ’84 boom as in tlie
’82 recession, Jef ferson emphasizes
voter education.
“We have got to let them know the
horror of Ronald Reagan being re
elected and him winning the oppor
tunity to appoint five Supreme
Court justices,” she says, mentioning
also the threat of war, cuts in student
loans, tax breaks for private school
ing and the big federal deficits.
However, Jefferson feels that
much is already achieved this year.
“Some day in the future, when
women are running for president
mid vice-president, they’ll say it all
started in July, 1984, at San Francis
co.”
Brazos County Republican chair:
party has good shot at victory
By Karl Spence
Reporter
“ft was an interesting conven-
ion,” Republican Gloria Wilkins
says of the Democratic National
Convention in San Francisco, “and it
will be an interesting election with a
woman running mate. But she’s run
ning for vice-president, not presi
dent. The presidential candidate is
most important.”
Wilkins, GOP chairman for Bra
zos County, is assessing her party’s
chances of success in this year’s elec
tion campaign.
“I think we have a very good
chance of winning,” she says, adding
that Republicans and Democrats this
year have offered the voters a clear
conservative-liberal choice “right
down the line.”
Conservatism is certainly much in
evidence at the Reagan-Bush head
quarters. Newspapers such as “Hu
man Events,” “Christian Inquirer,”
and “Moral Majority Report” are on
display. Buttons for Republican dis
trict attorney candidate Hank Paine
proclaim: “Inflict PAINE on Brazos
County criminals.”
Wilkins charges that Walter Mon
dale, the Democratic presidential
candidate, is too liberal for T exans,
tied too closely to special interests
such as organized labor. But she ac
knowledges mixed emotions about
Geraldine Ferraro, the Democratic
vice-presidential candidate.
“Every woman feels like we have
taken another step forward,” she
says of Ferraro’s nomination. “I’m
proud as a woman that she got on
the ticket, but I couldn’t vote for her
just because she is female. We’ve.got
to vote for people because of what
they are, not because of the adjec
tives in front of them.”
Wilkins calls Ferraro an attractive,
energetic candidate who brought life
and spirit to the ticket. Mondale
needed that, she says. But she insists
that candidates be judged on their
qualif ications and their stands on the
issues rather than on their sex or
ethnic background.
“I think Geraldine’s going to have
some problems,” Wilkins says. “She
is Catholic but pro-choice on abor
tion: that is a conflict.”
Wilkins also questions Ferraro’s
ties with the northeastern Demo
cratic Party.
“Tip O’Neill is not that well-liked
in Texas,” she says, referring to the
Democratic Speaker of the House of
Representatives. She admits there
are still a lot of “yellow-dog” Demo
crats in T exas (party loyalists who
would vote for a yellow' dog so long
as it ran on the Democratic ticket),
but she believes that is going to
change.
“It seems like the Democratic
Party has been taken over by the lib
erals, so people will have to make a
choice,” she says.
Wilkins shakes her head when
questioned about Walter Mondale’s
warnings of tax hikes or economic
busts that lie ahead as a result of the
current federal deficits.
“The economic policies weren’t so
great when he was vice-president,”
she says. “Democrats have always
found it easier to raise taxes and
keep spending so that they can keep
everyone happy.”
Wilkins holds those policies re
sponsible for the high inflation and
interest rates of 1980. Ronald Rea
gan’s tax cuts have caused the econ
omy to boom, she says, and that will
help cut the deficit.
Wilkins believes there is still some
fat in the budget that can be cut
without hurting people in need, but
she warns it will take “a lot of wis
dom” to do that job well.
“Everybody wants to cut,” she
says, “as long as you don’t cut my pet
project.”
No decision yet
in De Lorean trial
United Press International
LOS ANGELES —Jurors in the
John De Lorean trial, operating un
der new security measures, failed to
reach a verdict T hursday in the sec
ond day of deliberations in the com
plex cocaine trafficking case.
The 59-year-old defendant
awaited the verdict with his wife,
fashion model Cristina Ferrare, 34,
at her mother’s West Los Angeles
home.
As he left the downtown federal
courthouse Wednesday, he told re
porters, “It’s all in God’s hand.”
The jury of six men and six
women now has deliberated 8'/a
hours since receiving final instruc
tions from U.S. District Court Judge
Robert Takasugi Wednesday morn
ing.
The panel has not been seques
tered. But unlike the trial when ju
rors arrived individually, parking in
a lot across the street and walking
into the courthouse, the jurors ap
parently assembled somewhere else
been ntatf Thursday and were whisked by van
through a secured entrance.
They resumed their deliberations
Thursday at 8:30 a.m., going
through a back entrance to a
guarded room down the hall from
Takasugi’s court. They left at 1:30
p.m. in the same, secretive fashion.
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Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m.
to 1:30 p.m., the same hours kept
during De Lorean’s 22-week trial.
De Lorean is charged in an eight-
count indictment wiht conspiring to
finance importation of $24 million
worth of Columbian cocaine in a
failed attempt to pull his dying
sports car compay out of receiv
ership. If convicted, he f aces a maxi
mum penalty of 07 years in prison
and fines totaling .$ 185,000.
His attorneys claim the former au-
totmotive executive was lured into a
narcotics sting operation by a “con
man” informant who tricked De Lo
rean into thinking he was entering a
deal for millions of dollars in legiti
mate financing.
In his final instructions, Takasugi
told jurors to consider the possibility
that, if guilty, D£ Lorean was en
trapped. To acquit him under that
circumstance, the judge said, they
must find evidence that De. Lorean
would not have committed any
crimes unless first approached by
government agents.
“On the other hand,” Takasugi
said, “where a person already has
the readiness and willingness to
break the law, the mere fact that
government agents or an informant
provide what appears to be a favor
able opportunity is not entrapment.”
A face lift for Mt. Aggie
Photo by PAM BARNES
Workers from the Health and Physical Education depart
ment are finishing work on Mt. Aggie this week. The bottom
of the hill had to be raised to prevent skiers from coming
down the hill too fast and crashing into the fence.
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Police beat
The following incidents were
reported to the University Police
Department through T hursday.
MISDEMEANOR THEFT:
• A hubcap was stolen from a
1983 Cutlass Supreme in Parking
Annex 51.
BURGLARY OF A MOTOR
VEHICLE:
• A Pioneer KEX-50 stereo
and a Pioneer CD-5 equalizer
were stolen from a 1981 Pontiac
Trans Am in Parking Annex 24.
The car’s dashboard also was
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF:
• Someone bent the antennas
on several cars parked on South
Bizzell Street.
Eight border towns to get health professionals
By CARL BECKER
Reporter
A program to train students for
jobs in health professions such as
nursing and physical therapy will be
gin this fall in eight southwestern
border communities, including four
in Texas.
The program was developed by
Project Hope, a foundation special
izing in health manpower training
programs, when colleges in the eight
communities formed the Border
College Consortium and ap
proached them with a request for
help.
“The program is unique because
we are going to train people accord
ing to the needs of the individual
communities,” Vice-President of
Operations Bill Walsh Jr. said Tues
day in a telephone interview from
Project Hope’s Virginia-based head-
quarters. “For example, at Pan
American University in Edinburg,
we are going to train nurses and
physical therapy personnel, while at
Texas State Technical Institute in
Harlingen, we are going to train
people in medical equipment rep
air.”
Walsh said Project Hope rep
resentatives identified the needs of
each community by visiting them
and talking with local hospitals and
colleges. After identifying the needs,
Project Hope met with the local col
lege to plan training for the identi
fied jobs and provided funds for
training the people necessary to fill
them.
Walsh said the trainees, who will
be recruited from the individual
communities, will attend a course of
instruction, receive their certifica
tion and begin work in their new
field. '
Walsh said the project is being
funded through the U.S. Depart
ment of Health and Human Services
as part of its support for the South
west Border Action Group, an orga
nization that helps border commu
nities.
HHS secretary Margaret M.
Heckler was quoted in a departmen
tal news release as being excited
about the program.
“This new project responds to the
great neeci that has arisen in the bor
der communities for more nurses,
technicians and other medical per
sonnel,” Heckler said. “Through this
cooperative effort, government and
health educators in border commu
nities will make significant new pro
gress in assuring good health in
these communities.”
Walsh said that in addition to
health benefits, the program would
also provide economic benefits by
producing an estimated $3.8 million
in 290 health jobs annually.
Four Texas colleges will be in
volved in the program: Pan Ameri
can University at Edinburg, Texas
State Technical Institute at Har
lingen, Texas South most at
Brownsville, and Laredo Junior Col
lege at Laredo. The other four col
leges are Cochise College and Ari
zona Western College in Arizona,
and Imperial Valley College and
Southwestern College in California.
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