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■ WASHINGTON (AP) — A
House panel will vote next week on
whether to recommend that an inde
pendent counsel investigate charges
nat former White House deputy
■hief of staff Michael K. Deaver
■ommitted perjury, the subcommit-
■ee’s chairman said Thursday.
I The panel will consider a report
Biat alleges “possible perjury before
we committee” when Deaver testi-
Ked last May during a closed session,
■aid Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich.,
Khairman of the House Energy and
Kommerce oversight and investiga
tions subcommittee.
The subcommittee will meet
■Tuesday to consider approving the
weport, which asks the independent
>unsel to “inquire into whether or
ot indictments for criminal misbe-
avior should be acted upon by spe-
al prosecutor.”
Dingell said he will ask the sub-
ammittee to approve the report.
Randall Turk, a Washington at-
arney representing Deaver, said
it’s inappropriate to comment until
such time as we have an opportunity
to see any report prepared by Mr.
DingelTs subcommittee.”
The report deals with “several
items of serious conflict in Mr. Deav-
er’s testimony before the committee
under oath,” said Dingell, who also
chairs the full Energy and Com
merce Committee. It also recom
mends that an independent counsel
act on findings by the General Ac
counting Office that Deaver may
have violated conflict-of-interest
laws.
Dingell declined to specify what
elements of Deaver’s testimony were
in conflict, saying he would prefer to
wait until the report is considered by
the subcommittee before he says
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However, NBC Nightly News
quoted sources as saying that Deav-
See Deaver, page 8
Two Teaching Jobs
Dr. Cleve Want, a Texas A&M associate professor
of English, is the interim pastor at Friends United
Church of Christ. Want became involved with the
Photo by Wes George
church in April when a local minister recom
mended him for the interim position, and will con
tinue as pastor until December.
Missing agent
of CIA defects
to Soviet Union
GARLAND (AP) — The parents
of former CIA agent Edward How
ard said they learned he had de
fected to the Soviet Union when he
called them Tuesday morning from
Moscow.
“He said more or less he’s going to
settle down and wants his family to
come see him,” Ken Howard told the
Garland Daily News in a telephone
interview Thursday.
“I’m relieved to know where he’s
at and that he’s OK,” Howard said,
declining to reveal specific details of
his conversation with his son.
Edward Howard, 33, vanished
from his Santa Fe, N.M., home last
September, just days before the FBI
charged him with espionage. The
Soviet Union said Thursday it had
given him asylum.
It was believed to be the first de
fection by a CIA agent and the first
American defection to Moscow since
the 1960s.
Just before disappearing, Howard
quit a job with the New Mexico state
legislature’s finance committee. FBI
agents said his wife, Mary, aided his
moonlit escape by placing a dummy
in a car to make it appear he was
there.
Mrs. Howard later left Santa Fe
and her whereabouts were un
known. But Ken Howard told the
Daily News that his daughter-in-law
and her S'/s-year-old son moved to
Minnesota to live with her parents.
The Howards, who live in the Dal
las suburb of Garland, did not im
mediately return messages left on
their telephone answering machine
Thursday by The Associated Press.
However, Howard told the Daily
News that his son said he was
granted political asylum and that he
will be looking for a place to live
somewhere other than Moscow. He
said he would write when he finds a
home, Ken Howard said.
Howard said he probably won’t
visit his son until he retires in about
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AUSTIN (AP) — The House
Ways and Means Committee, at a
hastily convened session Thursday,
approved a proposed constitutional
amendment that would ban a state
personal income tax.
Committee members voted 7-5
against proposing a ban on a cor
porate income tax.
Chairman Stan Schlueter, D-Kill-
een, said “corporate executives”
have told him they prefer a cor
porate income tax to taxes aimed at
specific industries.
“They feel, at least, it’s reflective
of what their company is doing and
reflective of the economy,”
Schlueter said of the corporate in
come tax.
3,450-pound
shark landed
in New York
White to broaden focus of special session
AUSTIN (AP) — Gov. Mark
White said Thursday he may al
low lawmakers at the special legis
lative session to consider a bill to
permit out-of-state banks to pur
chase Texas institutions.
“A strong banking community
is very important to a strong
economy,” White said at a news
conference.
In Texas, a special legislative
session can consider only those
subjects a governor allows. So far.
White has opened the session that
convened Wednesday only to
spending cuts, but he has indi
cated other topics will be included
as the 30-day session progresses.
The governor said he had
talked with officials of indepen
dent banks and Texas bank hold
ing companies.
“Their consensus is that some
form of interstate banking should
pass in order to strengthen their
institutions and provide more
capital for investing in Texas,”
White said.
The measure now goes to the full
House for consideration.
In his Wednesday speech to a
joint House-Senate session, Gov.
Mark White announced his support
for the constitutional amendment.
“I expect we should have a cor
porate tax prohibition as well as per
sonal,” he said at a Thursday news
conference.
White added that the lack of a
state income tax “is a very attractive
way to get companies to move to
your state.”
If approved by the Legislature,
the proposed constitutional amend
ment would go on the November
general election ballot.
Schlueter said the measure — in
some form — would win House sup
port, but now has a “less than even”
chance of winning Senate approval.
Opponents of the proposal say it
unnecessarily precludes a source of
income the state might need in the
future.
Only a handful of lawmakers are
saying an income tax should be con
sidered as a way to get the state out
of the current budget crisis.
The Ways and Means Committee
voted 11-1 for the amendment that
would ban a personal income tax.
Rep. Dan Morales, D-San Antonio,
voted against it.
six years, out of fear of jeopardizing
his own job at Texas Instruments in
Dallas, where he is an electronics
technician.
Edward Howard, who had been in
training for a Moscow post, worked
for the CIA from January 1981 to
June 1983, when he was fired.
U.S. officials said he flunked a
polygraph test that indicated he had
used illegal drugs while he was an
agent and was guilty of petty thefts
of money.
Lewis says
stock buy
‘an error*
AUSTIN (AP) — House Speaker
Gib Lewis will repay $25,000 to his
political campaign fund that he says
was mistakenly used to buy stock for
his company’s employee retirement
system in 1982.
Lewis blamed the error Wednes
day on a Lake Worth National Bank
of Fort Worth employee, who he
said mistakenly debited Lewis’
speaker campaign account for the
stock purchase.
“It was just one of those dumb
things,” Lewis told The Dallas Morn
ing News.
Tom Stewart, president of the
Lake Worth bank, said Thursday he
“couldn’t rule out the fact that it was
an error” but added that Lewis “has
always had impeccable dealings with
us.”
Copies of portions of Lewis’ bank
statement were sent anonymously to
reporters earlier this week, along
with a funds-transfer slip showing
that $25,000 had been taken from
the “Gib Lewis Speaker’s Campaign
Fund” and applied to a loan speci
fied only by number.
Lewis said Wednesday, however,
that the money actually went to buy
the stock and should have been
charged instead to the account main
tained by his company, Lewis Label
Products Inc.
Lewis, who is a director of the
Lake Worth bank, said he had three
accounts at the bank at the time, and
“obviously the funds were trans
ferred from the wrong account.”
“As far as this transaction is con
cerned, those funds will be restored
to the campaign account from the
account originally intended, that of
Lewis Label Products Inc.,” Lewis
said.
It was not illegal to divert cam
paign funds to personal use in 1982,
although the Legislature changed
the law in 1983 to make it so.
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MONTAUK, N.Y. (AP) — Fisher
men reeled in a 3,450-pound great
white shark, with help from the leg
endary shark hunter whose exploits
inspired parts of the movie “Jaws.”
Hundreds of spectators gathered
Thursday at a dock on the eastern
tip of Long Island to see the 16-foot,
8-inch creature.
“We crushed the record,” said
Donnie Braddick, 30, of Hunting-
ton, who completed the capture at
about 8 p.m. Wednesday with help
from shark fisherman Frank Mun-
dus and four others.
The shark, caught on a 150-
pound test tackle normally used to
catch giant tuna, was said to be 800
pounds heavier than the previous
record for a great white shark that
was caught, as listed in the Guinness
Book of Records.
The fishermen were in the Atlan
tic 30 miles south of Montauk when
they spotted as many as eight great
white sharks feeding on a dead
whale ori Monday.
Basin spokesman Richard Berk
said the fish might not qualify be
cause of the weight of the line used
to catch it and the number of fisher
men involved in the catch.
“One guy has to do it with no as
sistance,” he said.
Geren stresses trade
in debate with Barton
By Olivier Uyttebrouck
Staff Writef
Congressional candidate Pete
Ceren stressed foreign trade is
sues in a debate Thursday with
Congressman Joe Barton, who
emphasized his conservative vot
ing record and an oil import fee
he’s sponsoring in the House.
The debate was held at the
First Baptist Church gymnasium
in Magnolia, a small town about
60 miles southeast of College Sta
tion. The atmosphere was remi
niscent of a small-town fish fry.
The debate was unusual in that
Barton was not present. He ad
dressed the audience from a pay
phone near the souvenir shop at
the U.S. Capitol building, he said.
Barton explained that a De
partment of Defense appropria
tions bill today required that he
be in Washington. Barton was
called away to vote twice during
the debate.
Tuesday’s debate was the first
of several the candidates intend
to hold in various towns through
out the 6th Congressional Dis
trict.
Barton’s oil import fee would
place an $8 fee on oil imported at
the current price of $14 per bar
rel. The fee would become pro
gressively smaller as oil prices
rise, and would be eliminated
when oil prices climbed over $22
per barrel.
Barton also said that he and 33
other House Republicans intro
duced a bill that would repeal the
Windfall Profits Tax. The bill is
the House counterpart of legis
lation passed in the Senate Tues
day night. Barton said.
The Windfall Profits Tax was
imposed on oil producers during
the Carter administration when
oil prices were rising sharply, but
since the collapse of oil prices ear
lier this year the tax has not gen
erated income.
Ceren says he supports the oil
import fee, which is supported by
all Texas House members and
one Texas Senator.
Ceren said that the $168 billion
trade deficit has cost Texas
170,000 jobs and accused the
Reagan administration and Bar
ton of not effectively addressing
trade issues.
He said Barton didn’t join
other Texas congressmen in an
unsuccessful attempt Wednesday
to override Reagan’s veto of a tex
tile trade bill Congress passed
earlier this month.
Geren said that farmers and
small businessmen are not given
enough attention by either Bar
ton or the Reagan administration.
Drug tests for Reagan, Bush
to 'lead the way’ for nation
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Reagan and Vice President
George Bush will take drug tests
next Monday “to lead the way” to
ward achieving a drug-free Ameri
can workplace, the White House said
Thursday.
Spokesman Albert Brashear said
the 78 members of Reagan’s senior
staff also have been asked to give
urine samples Monday if they are
not on vacation, but he stressed that
the tests were voluntary.
“We’re not out to punish anyone,”
he said.
“The president has made it clear
that he is seeking a drug-free work
place for all Americans,” the spokes
man said. “He believes that all fed
eral employees deserve a drug-free
environment, and that federal em
ployees should set the example for
state and local government and the
private sector to follow in identifying
users of illegal drugs.”
The announcement sparked a
flurry of questions about how volun
tary the tests would be, what would
happen to senior stafif members re
fusing to take it and whether the re
sults would be made public.
The White House staffers were
notified up to five days in advance
about the tests, thus raising ques
tions about the effectiveness of the
screening.
Most drugs would disappear from
the body after one to four days, so
with mandatory tests, no advance
notice is given.
Brashear said “this is a voluntary
program.” Asked whether it might
become mandatory, he said, “We’re
not at that point yet.”
“The president has made
it clear that he is seeking a
drug-free workplace for
all Americans. He believes
that all federal employees
deserve a drug-free envi
ronment, and that federal
employees should set the
example...”
— Spokesman Albert Bra
shear.
Reporters also asked Brashear
several times to spell out the conse
quences for any members of the se
nior staff who did not volunteer to
take the test, but Brashear did not
elaborate.
“If they don’t take it, they just
choose not to take it,” he said at one
point.
But he also said “I’m sure that it
(the refusal to submit) would be
noted . . .probably by their supervi
sor.”
He said he did not know how
many of the senior staff members
would submit to the test, which
screens for use of marijuana, co
caine, heroin, PCP and certain forms
of amphetamines and barbiturates.
Brashear refused to say whether
the White House would reveal how
many of the officials refused to take
the test, and said no test results
would be made public.
Kenneth T. Blaylock, president of
the American Federation of Govern
ment Employees, the largest federal
workers’ union, scoffed at the idea.
In a telephone interview from Las
Vegas, Nev., where the union was
preparing for a convention opening
Monday, he said, “I don’t think peo
ple are going to run out and take a
drug test just because the president
is taking one.”
Blaylock, whose union represents
some 700,000 federal employees,
also said, “You can bet they (the
White House) wouldn’t have pub
licly announced it (the drug testing
program), if they had not known
their people would, in fact, partici
pate.”