Thursday, November 29,1984/The Battalion/Page 13
League of cities
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United Press International
|| INDIANAPOLIS — Officials of
tie National League of Cities
Wednesday called for a deficit re-
cfiiction plan to assure “longstanding
economic recovery in this country”
aid to lighten the burden of cities in
fyndinj* roads, services and pro
grams for the poor.
■ In its official policy statement for
1885, the league called the deficit
the most urgent priority confronting
the nation.
I League members said cities are
fked with high interest rates, mar
ketplace uncertainty and structural
Unemployment because of the defi
cit In a policy statement adopted by
some 3,000 delegates attending the
League’s Congress of Cities, the
League endorsed a combination of
tax increases and spending cuts, but
no cuts in entitlement programs for
the poor.
■ The policy statement, which
guides tne league’s congressional
ii|bbying efforts, also calls for more
money for training the unemployed,
the creation of a national investment
bank to help cities fund repairs of
decaying roads and bridges and a
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$140 million program to supple
ment low-income subsidized housing
programs.
“Once we take a stand on some
thing, yotit can pretty well say it's a
consensus of local government offi
cials from throughout America,”
said Cleveland Mayor George Voi-
novich, who was elected league pres
ident at Wednesday’s final session.
New York City Council President
Carol Bellamy was elected first vice
president and San Antonio Mayor
Henry Cisneros was elected second
vice president.
The policy statement urges the
Reagan administration to appoint a
bipartisan commission, similar to the
one that drafted recent Social Secu
rity reforms, to find a solution to the
deficit.
“The deficit and the high interest
rates and the periodic recession-re
covery has had a devastating effect
on manufacturing in this country,”
Voinovich said. “We’ve lost 25 per
cent of our manufacturing in four
years.
Voinovich said every billion dol
lars trimmed from the deficit will
create 25,000 new jobs.
Hispanic defections
to GOP challenged
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — The director of
a voting rights group
the November election.
William C. Velasquez, director of the Southwest Voter Registra
tion Education Project, said that more Hispanics voted for President
Reagan in 1984 than 1980, but that the vote does not represent a ma
jor tilt toward the Republican Party.
“Mexican American support (for Republicans) was not nearly as
great as the press and others said it was on election day,” Velasquez
said.
A Southwest Project poll showed that Texas Hispanics voted 73
percent for Democractic candidate Walter Mondale and 27 percent
for Reagan. Traditionally. Mexican Americans in Texas vote about 90
percent Democratic.
Velasquez said that Republican pollster Lance Tarrance of Hous
ton conduc ted a telephone poll that will make Reagan appear to have
done even better among Hispanics.
Velasquez said he had not seen the results, but claimed Tarrunce’.s
poll cannot be accurate because telephone resjmndams often He by
saying they voted for the winning candidate, or that they voted when
in fact they did not.
“Terrance ought to be ashamed of himself on that poll,” Velas
quez said. “Lance T errance knows the biases. He knows it’s going to
look good for the president, 1 think he’s doing it for that reason.
“Anyone who does a telephone poll is doing it with an ulterior mo
tive in mind. I would guess that Tarrance is 100 percent off.”
Robert Brischetto, who coordinated the poll of 2.100 people, said
that in terms of Republican support, the gap between Hispanics and
other groups actually grew in 1984.
Lucas confesses
to more murders
United Press International
ARLINGTON — Convicted mur
derer Henry Lee Lucas, who boasts
of killing 360 people and says he has
helped police resolve almost 200 un
solved murders, has admitted killing
two people in the late 1970s in Ar
lington, police said Wednesday.
Officers who questioned Lucas for
nine hours Tuesday and four hours
Wednesday morning said Lucas led
them to the scene of both murders
and gave them details only the killer
could know.
Spokesman Jim Willett said police
will ask a T arrant County grand jury
to indict Lucas for murder and capi
tal murder.
“We didn’t take him around; he
took us,” Willett said.
Willett said Lucas, 49, has ad
mitted killing Pat Rau, a 26-year-old
transient whose decomposed body
was found in the Trinity River on
Thanksgiving Day 1978. He also has
admitted shooting and killing Don-
naver Hanna, a 40-year-old conve
nience store operator on Dec. 22,
1979.
Police also are investigating the
possibility that Ottis Elwood Toole,
Lucas’ companion during his cross
country murder spree, was involved
in the Arlington deaths.
Toole is in prison in Florida. Lu
cas, who was sentenced to death ear
lier this year for a Williamson
County murder, is being held in
Georgetown.
Willett said Lucas told police he
picked up Rau in a bar about a week
before Thanksgiving 1978, crushed
her skull and (lumped her body in
the Trinity. Hanna was shot four
times wit^i a .22-caliber pistol during
a robbery about a year later.
Investigators decided to question
Lucas about the killings because
both resembled incidents to which
he has confessed. Police met with
Lucas last week at the Williamson
County Jail in Georgetown, then de
cided to take him to Arlington to see
if he could pinpoint the locations of
the killings.
Lucas, who has been charged with
26 murders in five states, spends
much of his time traveling around
Texas and other states for question
ing about various unsolved crimes.
Willett said Arlington police were
“very fortunate” to be able to talk to
Lucas, who is scheduled to meet with
various law enforcement agencies
through mid-1985.
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