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State and Local
Ration gives TECAT review session
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3^ HOWH,; DALLAS (AP) — A public televi-
on station is presenting a review of
riting and reading skills for
filers who failed their first attempt
: a statewide literacy test that will
etermine whether they keep their
>bs.
A total 6,579 teachers and admi-
Bfators who took the Texas Exami-
ation of Current Administrtors and
eachers failed it on the first testing
ate. They will have a second — and
nal — chance to take the test June
8.
Fred Tarpley, an East Texas State
Jniyersity professor who is an in
structor in the televised reviews, said,
“Before the TECAT, on almost any
night of the week, educators had a
wide choice of review workshops.
“Now it’s difficult for teachers to
find workshops. Also, the confiden
tiality of television instruction is im
portant.”
In addition to the educators who
failed, those unable to take the test in
March, and those who want to keep
their certification current will take
the second exam.
State officials developed the show,
“TECAT in Review,” two weeks ago
at a meeting in Austin, said Dottie
Reetch, producer and director for
the Richardson Instructional Televi
sion Center.
About a week ago, the department
was asked to produce the shows joint
ly with the Region 10 Education Ser
vice Center in Richardson, a Dallas
suburb.
Keetch, Tarpley and about 20
other educators and technical ex
perts finished the first two shows
Monday afternoon, and aired the
first review on KERA-TV in Dallas
The final show will be presented
June 26.
The lessons that review writing
and reading skills are enlivened by
dramatizations.
“I’ll tell you, its far easier to teach
sentence fragments to a real live per
son than it is to a camera,” said Tar
pley, w ho teaches literature and lan
guage at ETSU.
Educators also can send in writing
samples on topics assigned on televi
sion, Tarpley said.
A group of 40 Dallas-area teachers
will evaluate the samples and send
them back before the test.
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■AUSTIN (AP) — The Missis
sippi National Guard will try to
put the Goddess of Liberty statue
atop the Texas Capitol dome
Saturday, a task that proved too
tricky for the Texas Guard.
■The Texas Guard, using a Chi
nook CH47 helicopter, failed to
mount the goddess on the dome in
several attempts May 31 and June
1.
■ Texas of ficials looked to Missis
sippi for help because its guard
has a CH54 helicopter — known
as a “Sky Crane” — that could
prove more suitable for the ex
acting job.
■Tfte atrfift vs set for 9 a.m.
Saturday, weather permitting.
■ Texas pilots had no trouble us
ing their Chinook CH47 transport
helicopters to hoist the old God
dess of Liberty statue from the
dome-top pole where she had per
ched for 9V years. But they could
not put the 3,000-pound replace
ment statue up.
i? Maj. Gen. James Dennis, adjus-
tant general of the Texas National
Guard, said putting the replica
back on the dome has proved very
difficult.
1 "There was no problem getting
her off,” he said. “But threading
the needle coming back down is
another story.”
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HIDALGO (AP) — Allegations of
corruption caused a rift between U.S.
authorities and their Mexican coun
terparts along the border, but both
sides vow to work together to combat
drug trafficking, alien smuggling
and car thefts.
Last month, U.S. Customs Com
missioner William von Raab, testify
ing before the Senate Foreign Affairs
subcommittee, alleged massive cor
ruption among Mexican officials who
are supposed to combat drug traf
ficking.
But local, state and federal offi
cials along the Texas border said
arresting burglary suspects and re
covering stolen merchandise in Mex
ico would be impossible without the
help of their Mexican ofFicials.
Jose G. Perez, police chief of this
border community, said: “The Mex
ican officials we work with could care
less what the senators say about that.
They don’t go by that. They could
care less what the government said or
what the president said.”
Silvestre Reyes, chief of the U.S.
Border Patrol sector in McAllen, said
von Raab’s testimony sparked con
cern among his sources in Mexico.
“They are an intrical part of oper
ating on the border and that kind of
testimony strains and, in some cases,
damages those efforts,” Reyes said.
“A few days after the testimony,
they stated they were concerned they
were all being lumped together,” he
said about his Mexican counterparts.
“But I reassured them that for my
part we wanted cooperation to pro
ceed.”
In Cameron County, Chief Sher
iff s Deputy Carlos Tapia described
the relationship as being more per
sonal than bureaucratic.
“Regardless what they say in
Washington, we have a good relation
ship,” he said. “We get tremendous
cooperation from the State Judicial
Police and sometimes we go directly
to the mayor (of Matamoros), who
has been a great help.”
The cooperation between U.S.
and Mexican authorities depends on
the agencies. Border Patrol agents
rely on intelligence work in controll
ing and aresting suspected narcotics
and illegal alien smugglers.
Local and state authorities rely on
help from Mexican law officers to re
cover stolen merchandise and vehi
cles and to arrest burglary or theft
suspects in Mexico.
Reynaldo Garcia Duran, head of
the Mexican immigration office in'
Reynosa, Mexico, said the testimony
in Washington did not have a de
trimental effect.
“We have a good working relation
ship vyith them and we dedicate
ourselves to our work and what is said
doesn’t affect us,” Garcia Duran said
of American authorities.
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U.S. authorities said working with
Mexican officials is a two-way street.
“It's reciprocal in the way that if
they have a problem and we can help
them with it we attempt to help,”
Smith said. “We return the favor with
a favor.”
Reyes said Mexican authorities
also have their own law enforcement
concerns.
“ I hey are very concerned with
ammunition and drug smuggling
into Mexico and we dojoint investiga
tions into that,” Reyes said.
In Laredo, the Chamber of Com
merce and the International Good
Neighbor Council sent letters to
newspaper editors asking for more
positive stories about U.S.-Mexico re
lations in order to strengthen tourism
in their city.
The letter said that local officials,
“the real experts,” should be allowed
to testify before the subcommittee in
Washington.
Dr. Dianne Freeman, the Cham
ber president, said Mexico does have
its problems, but she said she hopes
they can work them out. She said van
Raab’s testimony did not help.
“I t's just bad timing and bad public
relations in dealing with someone
that we depend on,” Freeman said.
“ I hey sit in their offices in Washing
ton and make decisions and we pay
for them.”
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