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AUSTIN (AP) — I'lie Legislature
Wednesday approved and sent to
the governor bills to reduce public-
school paperwork and the cost of
personalized license plates.
The Senate by a 28-0 vote passed
a House-approved measure to limit
paperwork by teachers and school
administrators.
The House on voice vote accepted
Senate amendments to a bill that
would reduce the cost of personal
ized license plates from $75 to $40.
Both measures go to the gover
nor.
On the paperwork proposal. Sen.
Carl Parker, D-Port Arthur, said,
“Most paperwork that has been gen
erated has been generated mainly
from people using to adec|uaieh
document that il something goes
wrong, it's not their fault.
“We had hoped that common
sense would presail. In mans dis
tricts, districts through cooperation
betsveen administrators and teachers
base reduced papersvork — got it to
a minimum . . . There are others,
hosseser. svho doggedls c ling to u s
ing to inundate teachers with need
less papersvork.”
Parker said the- bill "svoultl clearls
once and for all put into lass what
papersvork is authorized and svh.it
isn't."
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Texas
billionaire H. Ross Perot, after con
ferring with Vice President George
Bush, pledged $4.2 million in a fu
tile effort to obtain a videotape pur
porting to shosv American prisoners
of war alive in Laos.
“I was asked by our government
to pursue this thing, to get the tape if
it existed,” Perot said in a recent tele
phone interview. “I said fine, it’s a
long shot, but 1 11 be glad to do it.”
The tape was never produced and
the money was never paid.
Perot refused to identify who in
the government asked him to pursue
the matter.
Marlin Fitzwater, spokesman for
Bush, said Wednesday that the vice
president discussed the tape with
Perot and asked him to “take a look
at the issues there and see if he
thought they were legitimate.”
But Fitzwater added that “I’m
sure he (Bush) didn’t ask him to
make payments.”
Also involved in the effort was
Rep. Bill Hendon, R-N.G., who said
Wednesday that he discussed (he vi
deotape matter with Bush and that
later, “The vice president called me
and, based on our discussion, I tried
to assist Mr. Perot in any way 1
could.”
According to a former Army ma
jor who first told the story of the
tape, the money was on deposit in
the Bank of America in Singapore
last April when he attempted to ob
tain photographic evidence that
Americans were still being held pris
oner.
Retired Maj. Mark Smith told the
Senate Veterans Affairs Committee
last June that he and Hendon went
to Singapore with instructions f rom
the Defense Intelligence Agency to
offer $4.2 million to Robin Gregson,
a British citizen who claimed to have
possession of the videotape.
Smith told the committee that
Gregson, who also uses the name
John Obassy, rejected the offer.
Smith testified that Gregson told
him, "I didn’t ask you foi S
lion in cash. I asked you foi 1
for these people in Laos,
never asked for tnonev."
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The major also told the committee
he had seen the tape and that it
showed Caucasians being held pris
oner and forced to work in timber
and mining operations in northern
Laos.
The Defense Department lists
2,441 Americans who did not return
from the conflict in Southeast Asia.
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computer magnate IL Ross Perot
is seeking $200 million from a
Dallas developer and a New York
bank because he claims they hid
financial information from him
involving his investment in a
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Perot filed suit in state district
court in Dallas against developet
William T. Criswell and Manufac
turers Hanover Trust Co. shortly
after the Hyatt Regency West in
Houston filed for bankrupto
protection on Tuesday.
Perot, the founder of Electro
nic Data Systems Cot p., claims
the bank, which financed con
struction of the hotel, and Cris
well misled him, concealing fi
nancial information and
diverting money from the hotel
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