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IIESMIATELY \AOCI |!^&5§m57 7:30 & 9:45 $2.00 Rudder Auditorium Midnight $1.50 in the Theatre Luther’s November Values cot rt°"' "T f' tsi VO A T'eve’yort J Prop 6 Inmate exchange to start in a few months Associated Press HUNTSVILLE — Texas prison officials say if will take at least a few months before they can put into ef fect an inmate exchange program approved Tuesday hy state voters. The measure, known as Proposi tion 6 on the ballot, was approved hy a 71 percent to 29 percent margin. Phil Guthrie, spokesman for the Texas Department of Corrections, said Thursday that 31 states cur rently are participating in similar ar rangements. "We don’t know exactly when we will start,” fie said. “We’ve got to ne gotiate with each state. Some states nave a straight swap. Others have ar rangement where you pay them and they pay you. It’s not uniform. It 1 probably will take a couple of months.” Guthrie said officials anticipate between 50 to 100 inmates will be in volved in the Texas program. Phe California prison system, the nation’s largest, has about 40 prison ers from other states and has 40 of its inmates elsewhere at any one time, he said. Texas, with about 37,00Q inmates, is the country’s sec ond largest. “There are three kinds of guys, basically,” Guthrie said. “First, there’s the troublemaker, the gang member or gang leader — the guy who has a certain reputation to maintain if he stays in T exas.” Sometimes such an inmate can be handled better if placed in a differ ent environment in another stale, Guthrie said. Other inmates eligible for the ex change program would be an infor mant who would be in jeopardy if he remained in T exas. “In these first two categories, you’re talking about fairly sensitive categories,” Guthrie said. “We see this as a real plus.” A third category would be some one from another state who got into trouble in Texas “and we can work out a trade to do their time near their home and family,” he said. In any of the swaps, T exas can re ject the inmate coming from another state. Likewise, another state could ref use any inmate I exas suggests for a trade, Guthrie said. White supports quarantine as last resort against AIDS Associated Press AUST IN — Gov. Mark White on Thursday endorsed a proposal by the state health commissioner to use quarantine as a weapon of last resort in the fight against AIDS. “To the extent that any disease causes imminent threat to the spread of that disease to other persons, I think that quarantine' would be ap propriate,” While told his weekly news conference. However, the governor added, “I think each case has to stand alone on whether that (quarantine) would be an appropriate remedy or not.” Last month, Health Commis sioner Robert Bernstein suggested that quarantine could be “something else in the arsenal” for fighting the “To the extent that any disease causes imminent threat to the spread of that disease to other per sons, I think that quaran tine would be appropri ate. ” — Gov. Mark White. spread of the of ten-fatal disease. Gay rights activists have opposed the quaratine proposal, saying it is unnecessary and inappropriate. “No one knows better than they do (AIDS victims) how terrible this disease is, and thev wouldn’t wantio spread it,” said Jeffrey Levi, a lobby ist for the National Gay T ask Force in Washington. Gara LaMarche, executive direc tor of the Texas Civil Liberties Union, said it would lx* difficult to use quarantine power since AIDS isn’t transmitted like other diseases. “Those diseases for which quaran tine was employed in the early pan of this century . . . were easily com municable, like from l>emg in a room with somebody,” he said. “T hey also were communicable fora relatively short period of time. “AIDS is a new kind of disease. Everything we know about it sug gests it is communicable only tnrough very intimate contact,” La Marche added. Gay leader forced from city post Associated Press DALLAS — The president of the Dallas Gay Alliance said respect for civil rights, not disrespect for the law. is tne reason he refused to swear to an oath that he will abide by all Texas laws — including the anti-so domy law. Quoting Thoreau at a Wednesday meeting where city council members told Bill Nelson lie would have’io give up his post. Nelson said, “it is not desirable to cultivate a respect for The law, so much as for the right.” His refusal to uphold the anti-so domy law resulted in his removal from his post on the city’s Civil Serv ice Adjunct Board, a civil appeals body. Earlier this month, Nelson signed the oath but added a statement that he does not support the anti-sodomy law. He called the law “immoral ’ and asked the council Wednesday to force the state to remove him. Nel son also asked council members to allow a court suit on the require ment, hut council members refused. Nelson said he may take legal ac tion over his removal from the post. He called the anti-sodomy law an “invasion of the privacy of even Texan” denying homosexuals equal protection and making criminals out of innocent victims. Nelson said the American Civil Liberties Union is in terested in legal action against Dal las. A federal district judge ruled a Texas anti-sodomy law unconstitu tional in 1982 and a panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the ruling two years later. But last August, the full appeals court voted to uphold the law. Education board hears protests on texts Associated Press AUSTIN — Textbook publishers protested Thursday an effort hy some Texas scientists to delay publi cation of life science textbooks for junior high students until more de tails on evolution could he added. The State Board of Education also heard complaints about a recom mended U.S. history text which doesn’t have a picture of George Washington “larger than that on a $1 bill.” The board held a public hearing Thursday on nearly 200 textbooks recommended hy the State Text book Committee. The board, which will approve $93.6 million in text books tor the 1986-87 school year, wall make its final vote on Saturday. Michael Hudson, director of Aus tin’s American Way, urged the hoard to delay approval of science texts for junior nigh students be cause the five books recommended by the Textbook Committee “do not treat evolution adequately and pro vide a superficial explanation of the scientific process.” Robert Kelley, representing Addi- son-Wesley Publishers, said four of the five texts recommended in Texas were entirely different from those submitted in California. Dr. Dan Frank, senior science edi tor for Holt, Rinehart and Winston, said the company’s book contained a 22-page chapter on evolution and called it “a very solid hook for sev enth and eighth graders.” He said the Texas version would be resub mitted iu California. A spokesman for Prentice-Hall said the company’s book contained 40 pages on evolution. Dr. Martin Meltz, a radiation bi ologist from San Antonio, said the fight against information on evolu tion in textbooks had been carried by followers of creationism, “which is a religious doctrine . . . scientific creationism is not a science. It is in tellect ual stupification.” Dr. Bassett Maguire Jr., a Univer sity of Texas biologist, said the text book committee should reject all the recommended science texts, and ap point a committee to evaluate any re written texts. He said the recom mended hooks had a very superficial treatment of evolution, usually in a chapter near the end of the book. Mel Gabler of Longview, Eliza beth M. Judge of Houston, and Billy C. Hutcheson of Fort Worth spoke against adoption of the U.S. history Time,” by Coronado Publishing. Hutcheson, who said she rep resented the Texas Society of the Daughters of the Republic, said the book had full page pictures o! Indi ans in full costume hut uo such pho tographs of Washington. “If you went through the history books looking only at pictures, how would you interpret our history,” she asked. Gabler said die Coronado hook blamed President Reagan f or the en tire increase in the national debt since he took office. He said the book also blamed the United States for the Cold War, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Boh Blevins, president of Coro nado, said Gabler was taking refer ences to Reagan out of context. He said the hook discussed the Reagan administration the same way it dis cussed the Jimmy Garter administra tion. “We are not pro on any adminis tration,” he said. “We presented each crisis the way it happened.” Jack Strong, a board member from Longview, said he had read the book and said the writer did a “hat chet job on Reagan.” Come and Get It at Luther’s Offer Expires November 30, 1985 T. V. screen set up on Fri., Sat., Sun., Mon. for exclusive sports events. 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