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Slouch By Jim Earle
“I understand that Robert Mitchum has made another bid to buy up all the copies of that film. ”
It. Gov. Hobby announces
bid for fifth consecutive term
Associated Press
AUSTIN — Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby
has, in typical low-key Hobby fash
ion, let it drop that he is running for
re-election.
“I plan to run for re-election as
lieutenant governor,” Hobby told an
airport news conference at Sherman
this week as he completed a two-day
swing through five cities.
He devoted the remainder of the
session to pumping water proposals
on the Nov. 5 ballot and announcing
the appointment of his traveling
companion. Sen. Ray Farabee, D-
Wichita Falls, to the State Sunset
Commission that reviews state agen
cies.
“He hasn’t made a formal an
nouncement. The Sherman thing
was off the cuff,” Hobby press secre
tary Bob Cargill explained Wednes
day.
“The only reason I know he’s run
ning is we’ve opened a campaign of
fice, and we’re going to have a recep
tion — make that f und-raiser,” said
Cargill, who also is Hobby’s pilot.
Hobby’s last formal announce
ment for re-election, in 1980, also
was anti-climatic, as he earlier had
disclosed his plans in various inter
views.
The 1986 race will be Hobby’s
fifth campaign for lieutenant gover
nor, a job generally considered the
most powerful in state government.
He already holds the record for lon
gevity in that office, with 12 years,
eight months.
Ben Ramsey, who resigned in
1961 to accept an appointment to
the Railroad Commission, held the
old record of 10 years, eight months,
but was elected a record six times to
two-year terms. In 1974, the office
became a four-year position.
It amazes some that Hobby has
never sought the governor’s office.
But he says, “Everybody assumes
that a lieutenant governor goes to
bed every night and wakes up every
morning thinking how he’d like to
be governor — which is not the case.
And, you know, it may turn out that
I’ll run for governor some day. I
don’t mark each day off the calendar
as if I’m going to run for governor.”
Hobby first was elected in 1972 af
ter surviving a Democratic primary
runoff against Wayne Connally,
brother of former Gov. John Con
nally. His campaign message was,
“He will make a good lieutenant gov
ernor — honestly.”
He has outlasted virtually every
lawmaker who served in the 1973
Legislature.
Hobby has displayed a particular
interest and understanding of state
finances, so much so that former
budget board director Thomas Keel
once sAid of a Hobby drawing of a
flow-chart on finances:
“There are not five people in state
government who can understand
the state funding structure, much
less draw a picture of it.”
His presence and persuasion help
each session to keep conference
committee talks on the budget mov
ing, even as tempers heat up.
He assumes a no-big-deal attitude
about many subjects, however, and
at his 1983 inauguration quoted
from a poem that includes the line,
“Not one inauguration’s worth a
good, slow two-inch rain.”
Hobby is the son of former Gov.
William P. Hobby, who also served a
term as lieutenant governor in 1915-
17, and Oveta Culp Hobby, the first
secretary of Healtn, Education and
Welfare in President Eisenhower’s
cabinet.
A Rice University graduate,
Hobby served in Navy intelligence
for four years before becoming an
executive of the family newspaper,
The Houston Post.
He once described himself as a
“moderate or progressive on social
issues and a conservative on fiscal
matters.” His legislative record has
supported that description. Senators
say his operating style is to build a
consensus on issues before the Sen
ate debates the issue of the floor.
He has repeatedly worked out be-
hind-the-scene compromises to
break legislative logjams.
Lawyer says woman charged with murder
suffered from 'battered wife syndrome'
Associated Press
DONNA — One day last spring,
Nivio Sanchez gave his wife, Sylvia,
$180 to buy Easter clothes for their
two daughters.
The woman, however, used most
of the money to buy'a .22-caliber pis
tol and bullets, eight of which she
emptied into her husband while he
sat outside a bar.
Sanchez will go on trial for her
husband’s murder next month, and
her attorney, state Rep. Tuan Hino
josa, believes his client will go free.
The attorney shid Sanchez had
been abused for seven years, but the
situation could not have been reme
died by a divorce.
“It is not that simple as getting up
and walking hway from the situation
. . . There are children involved,” he
said. “The economic situation does
not allow the woman the indepen
dence to go out on her own. . . .”
Jury selection in Sanchez’s trial is
scheduled to begin Oct. 28 in the Hi
dalgo County Courthouse in Edin
burg.
Assistant District Attorney Iris
Aguilar, who is prosecuting the case,
declined to discuss it.
Enroll
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more students appeared to be due to
the tuition increase.
“We’re seeing a slightly larger
number (in the sophomore enroll
ment decline),” Groot said, “but it is
not significant (in comparison to ear
lier estimates). I think the A&M bud
get will be able to cover the loss in
enrollment.”
The Legislature appropriated
$163.8 million in general revenue
for A&M in 1984-85. In 1985-86 the
general revenue appropriation fig
ure dropped to $147.4 million.
When figuring revenues gained
“What we're trying to do is
establish that a woman
who can prove that she
was beaten violently . . .
can assert self-defense if
she kills her husband or
boyfriend”
State Rep. Juan Hinojosa,
attorney for the defend-
ent
Hinojosa said the state is looking
at the case as premeditated murder.
He said Nivio Sanchez physically
abused his wife around April 1 and
that Sanchez had to wrestle a knife
away from him.
On April 5, Good Friday, Sanchez
wanted to buy clothes for her two
daughters for Easter Sunday. Her
husband gave her $180, and went to
a bar, Hinojosa said.
On Saturday morning, Nivio San
chez said that before the day was
over, “he was going to do something
to her that she wasn’t going to for
get,” Hinojosa said.
by the new tuition increase, the Leg
islature based its estimate on every
student returning to A&M and pay
ing the tuition increase. The loss of
1,126 students means a loss in tu
ition payments to the University.
The graduate student enrollment
for this fall was 5,844, a decrease of
195 students from last year. The
A&M graduate program was ex
pected to be hurt by the non-resi
dent tuition increase, because tradi
tionally, graduate students are
attracted from around the United
States and other countries.
Other enrollment figures re
leased:
The woman, remembering the
money she was given the day before,
went to a hardware store and pur
chased a .22-caliber pistol and bul
lets. That night she went to the bar
her husband frequented. He
laughed at her when she showed up
with the gun, Hinojosa said.
“He said, ‘I’m going to take the
gun away from you and shoot you
with it,’ and then that’s when she
fired,” Hinojosa said.
One bullet missed, the other eight
didn’t. She waited for police to arrest
her.
Hinojosa said, the defense at her
trial will rest on experts’ testimony
that years of abuse caused Sanchez
to snap.
“The battered women’s syndrome
has been used as a defense and has
been accepted by other courts in
other states,” Hinojosa said. “And
what we’re trying to do is establish
that a woman who can prove that she
was beaten violently by a husband or
boyfriend, and was in a state of mind
of what we identified as the battered
women’s syndrome, can assert self-
defense if she kills her husband or
boyfriend.”
• Total undergraduate enroll
ment totalled 29,135, down from
30,077 students last year.
• Freshman enrollment re
mained nearly unchanged, with
7,300 students this year compared to
7,276 last fall.
• Junior enrollment totalled
7,384 this fall, a decrease from last
year’s figure of 7,763.
• Senior enrollment dropped
slightly from 8,751 to 8,673 students
this year.
• The current enrollment at
A&M includes 21,521 men and
14,180 women.
Sherrill
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he’s not running and hiding.”
Asked if Murray was guilty of the
allegations, Sherrill said:
“Gentlemen, a lot of people have
cars. Can he afford a car? I don’t
know. I haven’t taken his father’s W-
2 forms out and put them across my
desk. You’re talking about a man
(Murray) who got a $35,000 signing
bonus.”
Murray signed a letter of intent
with A&M in February 1982 after
f raduating from North Dallas High
chool. However, Murray decided to
sign a professional baseball contract
with the Milwaukee Brewers instead.
Murray received a $35,000 sign
ing bonus from the Brewers and
played in the club’s minor league
system before quitting to enroll at
A&M.
The A&M alumnus involved was
identified in WFAA-TV’s report as
Rod Dockery, a Dallas car dealer and
owner of PELCO, Inc., the leasing
company in question.
Dockery, Class of ’66 and a mem
ber of A&M’s 12th Man Endowed
Scholarship support organization,
has an unlisted telephone number
and The Battalion has been unable
to reach him for comment.
When asked why Murray would
be connected with Dockery at all,
Sherrill said, '“Are you asking if he
(Murray) worked for him (Dockery)?
I don’t know. He could have worked
for him.”
Sherrill said, however, that Dock
ery had spoken to him late Tuesday
night by telephone.
“Roa I don’t want to know,” Sher
rill recalled telling Dockery. “I don’t
want to question you. Rod, this is the
E rocedure that we will follow. You’ll
e contacted by our institution
(A&M). You’ll be contacted by our
people.”
Snerrill continued, “I didn’t allow
him (Dockery) to ask any questions
or answer any questions. I told him I
didn’t want to hear anything, that it’s
all up to somebody else.
Sherrill said he’s leaving the “in-
house” investigation up to A&M’s
Faculty Athletic Committee.
“I want to make this clear,” he
said. “I will not be involved in any of
the proceedings because I think it
would be necessary at this time to for
me to turn it completely over to our
institution.”
Sherrill, who is a member of the
committee, however, said that just
because the allegations were made,
that doesn’t make them valid.
“We’re all here assuming that it’s
true,” he said. “Everybody in this
room assumes that it’s true. I can’t
tell you that it’s true. That’s some
thing the NCAA should decide.
“I’m not going to be the judge or
jury. I came before you today be
cause I feel that I shoud be.”
Britain
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recently and received political asy
lum. Gordievski is reported to have
been a double igent for up to 15
years.
The Soviet Union responded on
Saturday, ignoring London’s warn
ing not to retaliate and ordering an
equal number of Britons out of Mos
cow.
On Monday, Prime Minister Mar
garet Thatcher’s government ex
pelled six more men it said were sec
ond-rank intelligence operatives,
and the Kremlin matched that
Wednesday by ejecting six more Bri
tons.
Those declared unwelcome by
both sides were allowed three weeks
to leave.
It was the biggest spy confronta
tion between Britain and the Soviet
Union since 1971, when London
kicked out 105 alleged Soviet spies.
The Kremlin reacted mildly, expel
ling only 18 Britons, 10 of whom
had already left the Soviet Union,
and the matter ended there.
The only expulsions since were in
a series of exchanges between 1981
and April of this year that cost the
Soviets 12 alleged spies and Britain
8.
Sir Geoffrey Howe, Britain’s for
eign secretary, said Wednesday in
London: “The Soviet Union must
bear the full responsibilty for this la
mentable episode. This severe set
back to United Kingdom-Soviet rela
tions was not of our choosing.”
Both he and Thatcher expressed
hope that relations would improve
over the long run.
When Gorbachev visited Britain
last December, as No. 2 man in the
Soviet leadership, Thatcher and
many British officials were im
pressed by his style and perfor
mance. The prime minister said: “I
like Mr. Gorbachev. We can do busi
ness together.”
Asked Wednesday whether she
still felt she could do business with
him, she paused, then said: “Yes, but
men can be difficult sometimes.”
Britain said Gordievski’s defection
gave it a major gain in the East-West
intelligence contest. The KGB agent
“was in a position to know full details
of Soviet intelligence activities and
personnel in this country,” the For
eign Office said.
Britain’s hope, for better relations
was evidenced Wednesday when the
Foreign Office confirmed that Howe
still intends to meet with the new So
viet foreign minister, Eduard A.
Shevardnadze, next week in New
York. Both will be attending the
40th anniversary session of the U.N.
General Assembly.
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