Wednesday, June 18, 1986/The Battalion/Page 5 iorr! -What’s up Wednesday [STUDENT GOVERNMENT: applications for External Com munications and Public Relations will be available through the suminer months. Please come by 221 Pavilion from 9 a.m. to 5 p,m. to pick up applications. For more informa tion call 645-3051. [SAILING CLUB: will hold a membership drive meeting fol lowed by a novice test required for all new members at 7 p in. in 302 Rudder. For more information call l ira, 696- 6642. Thursday [CO-OP STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will hold officer elec tions at 7 p.m. in 607 Rudder. For more information call Eric, 268-0510. [BRAZOS DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB: meets every Thurs- 1 day at 7 p.m. at the College Station Community Center. Beginners are welcome. BRYAN/COLLEGE Friday STATION TENNIS ASSOCIATION: 'lb J HI HHHHHHHHhH, ee is $10. Deadline for application is Friday. For more infor mation call 846-4469 or 693-3969. Saturday AILING CLUB: will hold an outing at Lake Somerville at Overlook Park from 9 a.m. Saturday until noon Sunday. For more information call Tim, 696-6642. Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battalion, 216 Reed McDonald, no less than three days prior to de sired publication date. -White: Clements tells £ fairy tales' on tax cut SGiB^USTIN (AP) — Former Gov. J ' Bill Clements has been telling a ud “fairy tale” about the SI billion tax d cut he says his administration gave f ! Texans, Gov. Mark White’s cam- J paign charged Tuesday. / “Since that is what he once prom- /,3 isetl voters lie would do, it is easy to understand why he would want to try and convince voters that he actu ally made good on his pledge. He didn’t,” White’s campaign said in a news release, lam White’s statement was authored -erne: by [campaign press secretary Mark McKinnon and headlined, “The $1 issista:.::billion tax cut fairy tale.” It accused I Moii&CIements of offering several ver- com: lions of the tax cut story over the ts to years, beginning when he was the |||P candidate in 1978. ■'he Democratic governor charged, “At one time, Clements claimed he would return $3 billion to the Texas taxpayers.” When Clements as governor sub mitted his first budget to the Legis lature, however, the proposed tax cut was down to $ 1 billion and never addressed by lawmakers, the White campaign said. “By 1981, Clements had given up on the $1 billion tax cut and turned to the water trust fund, attempting to pass off the plan as a form of tax relief,” the statement said. Today, White’s campaign charged, Clements says the $1 billion tax cut came through abolition of the state property tax. However that plan was one “which he testified against during a special session of the Legislature in 1978.’’ Mexico’s election of president in ’82 a fraud — Helms WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Jesse Helms charged Tuesday that Mexican President Miguel de la Ma drid was elected by fraud in 1982 through an allegedly corrupt electo ral system using “a double set of books — one public and one pri vate.” Helms said “sources within the Mexican government,” whom he did not further identify, had given him documents showing that de la Ma drid, proclaimed the winner with 71.2 percent of the vote, actually won only 39.8 percent. Such fraud, Helms maintained at a hearing he called to focus on the Mexican government, was intended to perpetuate the 58-year rule of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. The Mexican Embassy in Wash ington issued a statement saying the Mexican president does not take any part in the Mexican electoral proc ess. “Consequently, Sen. Helms’ asser tion and the supposedly secret fig ures that he made public in today’s hearing regarding recent electoral results are groundless and most probably are intended to confuse public opinion,” the statement said. It said votes in Mexico are counted by electoral officers with the participation of representatives from all the political parties running candidates in the election. And William D. Rogers, a Wash ington attorney who served as assis tant secretary of state for inter- American affairs in 1974-75, said an accusation of the sort Helms made is counter-productive and “drives all Mexican officials into intoxicating nationalistic resentment.” Rogers noted protests last month which followed an accusation of drug-related corruption in the Mexi can government made by William von Raab, head of the U.S. Customs Service. In making his accusation, Helms said, “I’m well aware the Mexican government is going to deny it en gages in double bookkeeping." The senator challenged Mexican officials to respond by opening up the elec tion process to international review and inspection. The documents, typed compila tions of the purported election re sults, not government documents, “show a double set of election results . . he said. “What we have is a dou ble set of books — one public, one private.” One column was labeled “public results provided by the Federal Elec tion Commission;” the other, “secret results from the presidential chief of staff of the military.” Charges of fraud in the 1982 and 1985 elections are not new. The strongest of six candidates defeated by de la Madrid for the presidency, Pablo Emilio Madero, representing the National Action Party (PAN), charged after that elec tion that the results “were not clean” and that opposition observers had not been allowed inside polling places. The PAN party spokesman charged three years later that the parliamentary elections “were ille gal. ... a monstrous fraud.” The United States has recently been instrumental in helping assem ble an economic aid package de signed to help Mexico weather the problems caused by precipitously falling oil prices. But Helms said Mexico deserves no monetary help from the United States until it reforms its political sys tem. “If the situation in Mexico contin ues to be one of corruption, fraud and the strangling of democracy, then vast infusions of U.S. taxpayer’s cash will only up more opportunities for corruption and fraud,” he said. Rogers said it has suddenly be come fashionable to pronounce Mexico a menace to U.S. national in terests. “There is . . . an element of self righteousness to the recent attacks on Mexico,” Rogers said, referring to the corruption accusations. “The United States is the most in satiable market for dru^s in all of re corded history,” he said. “It comes close to hypocrisy for this nation to condemn Mexico." IW i Couc dlockJ late! ( , who*! State hospital employees convicted in assault case emeni v cut® .est Htyler (AP) — Six-month ison terms have been ordered or four former employees of Rusk State Hospital convicted of conspiracy charges in a 1983 as sault on a patient. IlGtfrWilli am A. Tyer, Robert An- ■ 'J derson Davis Jr., Harold E. Hicks Tand Leo Glen Nash must serve three years’ probation after com- )selyb; pleting their prison terms, U.S. i Gan^ District Judge William Steger ruled Monday. iy?" eroftk'H *~ lve were convicted April , 11 of conspiracy to violate the I civil rights of a hospital patient. H hP'The five defendants were psy- 1( ' s chiatric security technicians at the hospital’s Skyview I Ward when a patient was assaulted in a tele- ' li , ! vision lounge, according to teSti- II mony. ^■Tosecutors contended the beating was planned as retaliation ■P^for the patient’s testimony against Davis, Baker, Nash and Hicks during a hospital investigation of an alleged assault of another pa tient earlier that week. Texas Supreme Court judges say false testimony given under oath AUSTIN (AP) — All nine Texas Supreme Court justices have signed an affidavit stating that false testi mony under oath was given to a House committee investigating al leged improprieties by the court. Two justices whose names came up at an April 11 meeting of the Ju dicial Affairs Committee also said they were “astounded” to learn that committee chairman Frank Tejeda had claimed “some sort of’ legis lative privilege to prevent committee employee Jeff Archer from respon ding to questions during the taking of a deposition. The nine justices said testimony by San Antonio lawyer Kathryn Strolle attributing a statement to Jus tice William Kilgarlin was not made by Kilgarlin. The justices said they had been advised that Strolle told Tejeda’s committee, “Judge Kilgarlin said, I talked to Tom Davis and he doesn’t want another six- to eight-week trial The justices said they had been advised that Strolle had testified the statement was made during a private court conference on the case Yowell vs. Piper Aircraft Co. The affidavit said, “I was present during conferences at which the Yo well case was discussed. 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My testi mony in April was absolu tely under oath and abso lutely true. ” — San Antonio lawyer Kathryn Strolle. ready been done” but could have been prevented if committee counsel or investigators had asked justices in advance whether such an event had taken place. Kilgarlin and Justice C.L. Ray also wrote Tejeda saying that at the same time he was claiming legislative priv ilege for Archer he had refused “to recognize the privilege that has been invoked by the employees of this court and threaten contempt pro- had .ilgai , nc and Ray said Archer towever, disclosed that the planning session for the committee nearing on alleged judicial improp rieties had taken place at the home of George Shipley, campaign man ager for Tejeda’s state Senate race. “It is hard to imagine what legis lative purpose was being served by your campaign manager directing the committee investigation from his home,” the letter said. Kilgarlin and Ray said Shipley represents the Supreme Court Jus tice Committee, “which has targeted both of us for removal from the court.” In a statement issued by his Aus tin office, Shipley said, “Judge Ray’s latest comments are complete malar- key. There was an informal meeting in my home for the purpose of intro ducing an outstanding reporter to possible sources.” Kilgarlin and Ray also said Tejeda had written Chief Justice John Hill a “rude and threatening” letter reject ing “any reasonable proposal whereby the court and the commit tee could resolve these unfounded allegations.” A note from Randall “Buck” Wood, an Austin lawyer represent ing Kilgarlin and Ray, said, “It would appear that somebody is afraid of the sunlight.” School of Hair Design 693-7878 1406 Texas Ave. S. College Station, Tx. MEN’S shampoo cut blowdiy. WOMEN’S shampoo cut &> blowdiy. 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