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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
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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.”
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