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No credit cards on sale items please Page 12/The Battalion/Thursday, October 4, 1984 Woman named to state board United Press International AUSTIN — The 15 people sworn in Wednesday as new members of the State Board of Education included one new face — Dallasite Geraldine Miller, who initially was passed over for a spot on the appointed panel. Miller, 49, was named to the spot by Gov. Mark White after J. Fred Bucy Jr. of Dallas announced he would be unable to serve on the board. In a letter to White, Bucy said his job as an executive at Texas Instru ments could cause a conflict of inter est with his duties as a board mem ber since TI sells computers and other learning aids to Texas public schools. “While abstention from certain board deliberations would resolve the potential for conflicting inter ests, such a procedure would, in my judgment, be less than satisfactory,” he said. Bucy’s appointment also had been opposed by Sen. Ike Harris, R-Dal- las, who resides in Bucy’s district. Under Senate rules, Harris would have had the power to block Bucy’s appointment. Harris said Miller had been his first choice for the board seat, al though he thought Bucy was qual ified. Miller is a teacher and language therapist at Highland Park Presbyte rian Church and also is vice presi dent of Vance C. Miller Corp., vice president of Miller Condominium Corp. and president of Metro Search, Inc.-Realtors. She received a bachelor’s degree from Southern Methodist University and a master’s degree from East Texas State University. ACLU says group intimidates voters United Press International SAN JUAN — The American Civil Liberties Union Wednesday urged newly appointed Secretary of State Myra McDaniel to withdraw from the State-Federal Vote Fraud Task Force, alleging the body has the “subliminal purpose” of intim idating minority voters in the up coming election. James C. Harrington, legal direc tor, released a letter he sent McDa niel during a news conference in which he introduced to the Rio Grande Valley Cara La Marche, the new executive director of the Texas ACLU. The Vote Fraud Task Force is comprised of four Texas U.S. attor neys, all of them Republican appoin tees, the FBI, Texas Department of Public Safety and Texas Rangers. It was created during former Republi can Gov. Bill Clements’ term to en sure ballot security in Texas. Last Friday, the task force con ducted a news conference at San Diego, county seat of Duval County which has been nortorious for vote fraud allegations dating back de cades to the days of the George Parr political machine. Task force mem bers, including U.S. Attorney Daniel Hedges of Houston, warned at the gathering they would be watching for any irregularities throughout Texas during the Nov. 6 election. Harrington said the selection of San Diego as site of the news confer ence seems to mean the task force is concentrating on South Texas, where voters are predominantly Mexican-Americans. “While the task force may appear on the surface to have a legitimate goal, my fear, which I believe is well- grounded in recent history, is that the task force has, as a subliminal purpose, the intimidation of mi nority voters from exercising their rights,” Harrington told McDaniel. Harrington charged in the letter that the task force was used both during the 1982 general election and the mayoral election in nearby McAllen “as a mechanism to unduly alarm potential voters, even having the effect of intimidating people to the extent that they did not vote.” Othal Brand, who appeared on the podium during President Rea gan’s visit to Brownsville Tuesday, was elected mayor of McAllen in the election mentioned by Harrington. “I raise the concern that the task force presently has a purpose, espe cially as recently announced in its San Diego press conference, of un dermining the ability and desire of minority persons to vote,” Harring ton’s letter said. “Apparently, the participation of your office in the task force is not as prominent as it was under (Republi can) Secretary of State David Dean. I encourage your office to go even further and withdraw from any par ticipation in the task force.” The Republican Part of Texas also has expressed concern about potential irregularities in the Nov. 6 election, with State GOP chairman George Strake announcing last month that it will spend $250,000 for ballot security during the elec tion. La Marche, recently arrived from New York City to take the helm of the Texas ACLU, said he hopes to expand the ACLU in the Midland- Odessa, San Angelo, Abilene, Wi chita Falls and East Texas areas dur ing his tenure. La Marche said the Valley epit omizes “the stark set of issues out of which the ACLU was born 65 years ago, that is a clash between various economic forces.” Ten workers murdered near Guatemalan city United Press International GUATEMALA CITY — The bodies of 10 peasants who had been strangled and shot were found in a common grave on a coffee farm on the Pacific coast, Guatemalan police reported Wednesday. Authorities speculated the bodies had been buried for some 24 hours before being discovered Tuesday night by passing farmworkers on the San Pedro plantation, near Rio Bravo, 54 miles southwest of Guate mala City in the rich agricultural lowlands of Suchitepequez province. Police spokesmen said they had no clues on who the assassins were and did not know if the victims be longed to any peasant organization. Peasants suspected of being tied to leftist guerrillas often are attacked by government security squads, and peasants suspected of working with the army fall prey to rebel attacks. The bodies were taken to the morgue at the national hospital in the provincial capital of Mazatena- nago to be identified by relatives, po lice said. In other developments, army spokesman Col. Hector Rosales Sala- verria said Wednesday that 101 Gua temalan refugees have returned from Mexico. He said the refugees returned to Guatemala from the southeastern Mexican state of Campeche where the Mexican government has relo cated refugees from the volatile bor der areas. Some 46,000 Guatemalans, most of them Indians, fled into Mexico over the past four years to escape the civil war between the army and guer rillas. Escorted by Mexican authorities, the refugees crossed into Guatemala Tuesday evening, and were immedi ately carried to the military base in Huehuetenango, 77 miles northwest of the capital, Salaverria said. Border watch wanted United Press International SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Costa Rica will ask a Contadora group bor der commission to monitor its shared border with leftist-ruled Ni caragua, the Foreign Ministry an nounced Wednesday. The request follows a speech made by Nicaraguan Junta Coordi nator Daniel Ortega at the U.N. General Assembly Tuesday, charg ing that rebels opposed to his Sandi- nista regime would invade Nicara gua from Costa Rica Oct. 15. Foreign Minister Carlos Jose Gu tierrez said Ortega’s charge was “false” and called on the Contadora Group — Mexico, Colombia, Vene zuela and Panama — to monitor the border to prevent tensions, an offi cial bulletin said. The group has been trying for 20 months to draw up a peace treaty to end the Central American tension. Nicaragua has charged that some 2,000 rebels, trying to overthrow the leftist government, use bases in Costa Rica to stage cross-border at tacks. The commission would also be called to prove that the rebels do not work from Costa Rica, the bulletin said. Nicaragua said rebels in Costa Ri can territory Saturday fired mortar on the Penas Blancas border post, 90 miles south of the Nicaraguan capi tal of Managua. Gutierrez also said Costa Rica would deliver its response to Conta- dora’s 21-point regional peace plan, pointing out that the treaty needs “measures of control and verifica tion perfected,” the bulletin said. 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