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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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