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-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."
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.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.
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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. Judge Kil
garlin never made the above
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statement alleged by Kathryn Strolle
or any other statement to the effect
that he had talked with Tom Davis.”
Strolle said Tuesday, “Everything
I said under oath was true. My testi
mony in April was absolutely under
oath and absolutely true.”
Stapled to the affidavit was a letter
from Kilgarlin to Tejeda, D-San An
tonio, and committee members. The
letter said the “harm to me has al-
“Everything I said under
oath was true. 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-
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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.”
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