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at 7 p.m^'EXAS CITY (AP) — Some wil
es ^ay the intensity of a blast that
dlone man Tuesday reminded
nbf the 1947 Texas City disaster
diich a series of violent explo-
s and fires aboard ships demo-
aiversity e ;d ihe city.
10 n at: fhcre was so much smoke,” said
Elkins, maintenance superinten-
t for nearliy Reagent Chemical
"I was 5 years old when we had
4947 disaster. This one looked
Dslas bad as that one did.”
he 1947 disaster occurred when
lip loaded with ammonium ni-
e ifertilizer exploded and was fol-
iit “Atom 4the next day by an explosion
inlther ship. The accident left
- Olnjured, 461 dead, 115 missing
llPj Bused $67 million in property
ipte,
nlTuesday, a railroad tank car
4ed in a petroleum storage
letting off a chain reaction that
four other tank cars, rup-
I pipelines and set fire to a
|rb[ storage tank, authorities said,
lout 100 firefighters from
I City, Galveston and local in-
nl fire departments battled the
^Tuesday at the Stan-Trans Inc.
fine distribution terminal in
ON: Pr las City, officials said. The U.S.
lenient list Guard hosed down some sec-
; at IOC fedfthe pier.
« body of Tommy Rivers, 46,
Hitchock was found in the twisted
bris after the fire was controlled,
"(rding to Texas City Fire
al Sam Dawidowicz. Rivers
n employee at Stan-Trans,
distributes material along the
d, Stan-Trans manager George
ftesaid.
investigation of the explosion
v I V under way.
■e car that exploded contained
v-. Hiene, a toxic chemical used in
aiiufacturing plastics, Texas City
.Khief Roy McKinney said. The
gig™ tank cars that burned and a
" Kfagt tank that was damaged also
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Document fraud increase
expected with new INS rules
By Sondra Pickard
Senior Staff Writer
Immigration officials are prepar
ing for an increase in fraudulent
documents helping illegal aliens in
the United States take advantage of
the new immigration law, a Texas
Immigration and Naturalization
Service official said.
Mario Ortiz, director of the re
gional INS office in Dallas, said that
because illegal aliens can’t apply for
amnesty under the law until May 4,
1987, the INS hasn’t seen any signif
icant increase in the use of bogus
documents, although the problem
will worsen in the future.
“We expect an increase in the po
tential of document fraud,” Ortiz
said, “but it isn’t really all that preva
lent at this time.”
The . Immigration Reform and
Control Act of 1986 was passed by
Congress in October and signed into
law by President Reagan early last
month.
Under its most controversial pro
vision, employers will be subject to
fines of from $250 to $10,000 for
each illegal alien they hire, and will
be responsible for checking birth
certificates or passports of prospec
tive workers.
Another provision will allow tem
porary foreign farm workers to ap
ply for permanent legal status if they
have worked in U.S. agriculture for
at least 90 days in the year before
May 1986.
But of most concern to the INS is
the provision that grants amnesty to
illegal aliens who can show that they
have lived continuously in the
United States since Jan. 1, 1982 — a
provision that may benefit as many
as 8 million people.
The INS, which has authority for
implementing the changes, has not
yet announced how the new regula
tions w ill work, but most of the ma i
jot provisions, including amnesty
and employer penalties, will not go
into effect for six months. Ortiz said
this part of the law gives the INS
ample time to develop implementa
tion regulations and forms, and to
set up additional offices.
“Since it’s next to impossible to get
an accurate determination of the
number of illegal aliens in the coun
try,” Ortiz said, “we don’t have an ac
curate count of those who might
qualify for legalization, although we
expect hundreds of thousands.”
Between now and May, Ortiz said
the INS will embark on a public edu
cation campaign geared both to em
ployers and illegal aliens to tell them
about the documents and records re
quired for verification.
Ortiz said the INS intends to pros
ecute vigorously anyone who tries to
obtain legal status by fraud, and that
it specifically will be on the lookout
for bad documents.
To implement the law, the INS
was authorized an extra $442 million
for fiscal 1987 and $419 million for
1988 — on top of its current $600
million budget.
The law also calls for an increase
in INS personnel, Ortiz said, adding
300 to 400 additional immigration
investigators or “special agents,” and
increasing the number of U.S. bor
der patrols by 50 percent.
“We know that there’s a potential
for document fraud,” he said.
“We’re going to be devising systems
to detect it and we’re definitely
going to prosecute. If there’s some
one using bad documents, that
means there’s someone out there
producing them — and we’re out to
stop it.”
South Texas hospital can be sued
in death of former Houston Oiler
AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas Su
preme Court ruled Wednesday that
a South Texas hospital can be sued
for refusing treatment to a former
Houston Oiler who died en route to
another hospital.
Don Floyd, 42, died of a heart at
tack May 9, 1980, after suffering
chest pains while driving from
Houston to McAllen with Frances
Farrell, his fiancee. Farrell initially
took Floyd to the Raymondville hos
pital, but a nurse there, following a
doctor’s orders, told Farrell that
Floyd could not be treated because
he did not have a local physician and
because the hospital’s cardiac care
equipment was in use.
The nurse sent Farrell and Floyd
to Valley Baptist Medical Center in
Harlingen, but Floyd died en route.
The high court, without writing
an opinion, upheld a Corpus Christi
Court of Appeals’ decision that or
dered a trial of the lawsuit filed by
Floyd’s survivors.
The Corpus Christi appeals court
in February overruled State District
Judge Darrell Hester of Brownsville,
who decided that the Willacy County
Hospital District had governmental
immunity against such suits.
The suit does not request a spe
cific amount of damages.
Also sued by the family were the
nurse and doctor who sent Floyd to
the Harlingen hospital. Ezell said
Wednesday that those suits have
been settled out of court.
a pre u jr
Jennett raps Reagan backers
crisis eW
DALLAS (AP) — Past supporters of Reagan
n, a difinistration foreign policy were criticized
who ha'eanesday by U.S. Education Secretary William
rs, saidhemutt for failing to rally to the president’s side
■e controversy over the sale of weapons to
pere are many people for whom Ronald
pn has done a great deal,” Bennett told a
news conference. “I don’t hear as much
mdayl irrjihem as 1 think we should all be hearing.”
Hnnett declined to direct his criticism at any-
deal it ot: Bpecifically.
I. “1 looiBiose people know who they are,” he said,
anotlwipi another topic, Bennett downplayed a new
Bt by an education review group citing the
^writing skills of American students.
—— tie picture is still mixed,” Bennett said, not
ing improvements in some standardized test
scores of reading and other skills.
T he National Assessment of Educational Pro
gress report described writing samples from
55,000 students nationwide as inadequate except
in response to the simplest of tasks.
The education secretary acknowledged his ex
pertise was not in foreign policy, but described
himself as a student of Washington and a mem
ber of this administration.
He applauded Reagan’s response to the con
troversy in calling for an independent counsel to
investigate the secret dealings with Iran and the
diversion of money to Nicaraguan rebel forces.
Bennett said Reagan is prepared to do just
about “anything that anyone can reasonably ask
for.”
for Iran silence
Bennett was to speak to the Dallas Rotary Club
and planned to meet with businessman H. Ross
Perot. But Bennett said the conversation would
likely deal with Perot’s efforts to improve educa
tion and not Iran.
The billionaire Texan has acknowledged pre
vious dealings with Marine Lt. Col. Oliver L.
North, who was ousted as a National Security
Council adviser for his role in the Iranian weap
ons sale.
Perot has said he worked earlier this year with
North in a bid to ransom four Americans then
held in Lebanon.
Questioned about the report card on students’
writing skills, Bennett conceded that, “Writing
has been bad for some time.” He also said the tea
ching of science needed improvement.
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