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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
Two Texas legislators who op-
osed a disinvestment campaign
imed at South Africa’s racial sepa-
ation policies on Tuesday ended a
(four sponsored by the South Af rican
government.
Democrats Gib Lewis, House of
epresentatives speaker from Fort
Vorth, and Charles Evans, chair-
of the government organiza
tions committee from Hurst, said
they became better acquainted with
mditions in South Africa. The
exans arrived June 28 and were
died aled to fly home Tuesday.
H became more educated about
he problems,” Lewis said in an in
terview. “I don’t agree with some of
the racial laws they have in this coun
try. Those laws are very foolish. But
it is much more involved than racial
Jaws.”
Among those Lewis and Evans
net were businessmen, legislators
epresenting whites, Indians and
icople of mixed race, and Chief
iatslia Buthelezi, leader of 6 million
Zulus.
Lewis said the South African
)ept. of Foreign Affairs invited
hem and paid for their trip. He said
tedid not know the cost.
The Texans’ wives accompanied
them and Lewis said he and Evans
aid the women’s costs themselves,
s in Lewis said it “never crossed my
in the m ' IK * * to question the propriety of
level ma ki n g the South African-spon-
i ^Bsored trip.
“There are very complex ques-
10ns over here,” he said. “It’s not
^^^imple. People in the United States
uintfl! iire not f am 'Iiar with the problems.”
Evans said they talked with people
on the political right, left and center
during their trip.
Lewis and Evans repeated their
opposition to divestment, a process
that normally involves selling off
stock in U.S. companies that have
subsidiaries in South Africa and
have not guaranteed equal treat
ment for non-white employees.
“The people they are trying to
help are the people who are going to
be hurt,” Lewis said, referring to
*vaseJblacks who could lose their jobs if
American investment in South Af-
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Authorities say 2 police officers
followed procedures in shooting
Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO — Two police
officers who shot and killed a 24-
year-old man after a vehicular chase
followed proper procedures, au
thorities said Monday.
The police department investiga
tion was launched after of ficers Alan
Hernandez and Natline Gonzalez
were put on administrative duty fol
lowing the July 6 shooting death of
Michael Ray Haskins.
Gity Manager Lou Fox, with Po
lice Chief Charles Rodriguez at his
side, told a news conference Monday
that the investigation left several
questions unanswered.
But he said the investigation
showed Haskins was shot while he
was inside his vehicle and while he
was pulling a .38-caliber handgun
from the waistband of his trousers.
“We have verified that the gun
was sold to Mr. Haskins by a co
worker,” Fox said. “We have absolu
tely concrete evidence that was Has
kins’ gun.”
The report also said Haskins had
a blood alcohol level of .24 when he
was shot. The level is well above the
legally intoxicated level of .10.
Haskins was shot after he led offi
cers on a chase in his battered car,
then crashed through a fence and
hit two parked cars, police said. The
officers said they fired when they
thought they saw Haskins reach for
a gun.
Fox said the investigation did not
determine how Haskins’ car sus
tained such heavy damage. The,rear
end of the vehicle was badly dam
aged during the chase.
The police report will be turned
over to the district attorney’s office
and to the FBI, which is conducting
a separate investigation.
Fox was asked to join the investi
gation by Mayor Henry Cisneros.
Controversy over the shooting inten
sified after the San Antonio Police
Officers Association accused Cisne
ros of turning the case into a political
issue.
Harold Flammia, association pres
ident, said, “It’s like us getting into
politics and running the city.”
Police have been involved in five
separate shooting cases since March
23, which have resulted in three
deaths and three people being
woundefd.
Tuesday July 16, 1985/The Battalion/Page 5
Report: Texas gave
$4.6 billion in aid
to schools last year
Associated Press
AUSTIN — State aid to local
schools last year increased by $1 bil
lion, while local school trustees le
vied the largest school property tax
hike in history, the Texas Research
League reported Monday.
The privately funded research or
ganization said trustees in the 1,068
local school districts levied a $519
million property tax increase for a
total tax bill of $4.1 billion.
The statewide average increase
was 14.3 percent, the league said.
School property taxes in 1984-85
averaged 62.2 cents per $100 of
market value, the researchers re
ported.
During a special legislative session
in the summer of 1984, lawmakers
enacted sweeping reforms for public
schools in Texas — including higher
teacher salaries and tougher stan
dards for students and teachers.
To help fund those changes, and
highway improverhents, the Legis
lature also enacted the largest tax in
crease in state history — a $4.8 bil
lion boost, primarily in the sales tax
and motor fuel taxes.
The additional $1 billion in state
aid pushed the total state financial
assistance to schools to $4.6 billion,
the research group said.
The research league, in its annual
report on e'ducation in Texas, said
school budgets adopted last year
called for spending of $3,103 per
student for current operations.
Eighty percent of that money was
spent for salaries, the league said.
Statewide, payroll expense averaged
$2,487 per student.
According to the report, the aver
age salary for classroom teachers
among all school districts in Texas
was $20,117.
The report also said there was an
average of one teacher for every
16.2 pupils statewide, although small
classes at the high school level and
abbreviated teaching schedules
meant that many classes had more
than the average number of stu
dents, the league said.
The new reform law calls for no
more than 22 students in kinder
garten, first- and second-grade
classes next year.
In looking ahead, the research
league said that compared to the $1
billion increase in state aid last year,
only $129 million more in state
funds will be distributed to schools
next year.
“Only 492 districts will get more;
the other 576 districts will receive
less,” the report said.
It said that strategy to equalize aid
to the various districts “presupposes
that local property taxes will remain
about the same.” However, it said,
“the large property tax increase last
year . . . substantially negated the
equalization improvement that the
Legislature tried to achieve.”
Stockyard employees hold
impromptu cattle roundup
said Bill New, vice president of
the stockyards.
One fled to the county court
house at least a mile away, one
went to Lanier Fligh School and a
third made it to the Terminal
Market before all three were
rounded up,
“It took us a couple of hours,
but we rounded them up,” New
said.
Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO — Union
Stockyard workers Monday re
turned to those thrilling days of
yesteryear when they were forced
into an impromptu cattle
roundup in downtown San Anto
nio.
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as they were being unloaded
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