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Texas Democrats
reject proposal for
official language
AUSTIN (AP) — The State Dem
ocratic Executive Committee on
Tuesday rejected a resolution
pushed by a group that wants Texas
lawmakers to make English the
state’s official language.
Ed Martin, executive director of
the state Democratic Party, said the
official language resolution could be
viewed as a “slap in the face” to some
Texans of foreign descent.
Also Tuesday, the American Eth
nic Coalition, whose leader says En
glish must be made the official lan
guage to avoid “a tangle of
squabbling nationalities,” kicked off
a petition drive to encourage Texas
lawmakers to back their proposal.
“America is increasingly pop
ulated by illegal immigrants and
other factions who look upon Amer
ica’s English language as a secondary
language and who cling to their eth
nicity so strongly as to do both them
selves and America a great disser
vice,” said Lou Zaeske of Bryan,
founder and chairman of the coali-
The State Republican Executive
Committee in November backed the
official language resolution. But Bill
Toney of Nacogdoches, chairman of
the coalition’s Democratic caucus,
said he was “flatly rejected” Tuesday
by the Democrats.
The SDEC resolution committee
approved a counter-resolution that
there is no need to adopt an official
language.
“There is no threat to the English
language,” Martin said. “Immigrants
have always learned English and de
sire to learn English. We don’t need
to be doing something to be divi
sive.”
The full committee approved the
counter-resolution with no dis
cussion and no opposition.
tion.
California voters in November ap
proved a similar official language
proposal.
If approved in Texas, the propo
sal would bar bilingual ballots and
bilingual education. Instead of bil
ingual education, the coalition fa
vors intensive English courses for
students who speak only another
language.
The petitions being circulated by
the coalition say “recent policies
have unwisely granted recognition
to rival languages which threaten to
undermine the status of English as
the language of the United States
and the state of Texas.”
At a Capitol news conference,
Zaeske said, “America must never be
allowed to become a tangle of squab
bling nationalities divided along eth
nic or language lines.
“Should this ever happen, Amer
ica would cease to be the strong,
united, secure and prosperous na
tion it has become. Indeed, it would
cease to be a nation at all."
Doctors: Participation
in Medicare 'forced'
DALLAS (AP) — Lawyers rep
resenting a group of doctors argued
at a hearing Tuesday that the gov
ernment is trying to force them to
decide on participating in Medicare
without knowing how much they can
charge.
But government attorneys said
the doctors are just being greedy.
“The physicians’ interest is in get
ting more money than Congress in
tended,” Sheila Lieber, a Justice De-
parment attorney, told U.S. District
Judge Barefoot Sanders.
She and other government law-'
yers accused the American Medical
Association of trying to usurp the
will of Congress in their lawsuit
against U.S. Health and Human
Services Secretary Otis R. Bowen.
Tuesday’s hearing stemmed from
a Dec. 24 suit filed by the AMA, the
Texas Medical Association, the Lub-
bock-Crosby-Garza County Medical
Society, seven Lubbock doctors and
three of their patients.
They claim doctors should not be
required to decide on taking part in
Medicare when it may be March be
fore they get essential information
on the fees they can charge.
Under new rules, doctors were re
quired to decide by Jan. 1 whether to
sign Medicare participation
agreements locking them into a fee
structure set by the government.
But two temporary restraining or
ders were granted and the deadline
has been postponed until Jan. 20.
The doctors claim the law is un
constitutional because Medicare re
cipients cannot use their own money
to buy more expensive medical care.
Medicare recipients who go to
non-participating doctors are re
imbursed only 96 percent of what is
paid to patients of participating doc
tors. Non-pariticipating doctors
would not be allowed to charge more
than the MAAC without facing sanc
tions from the government.
Thieves fool machines with fake dollars
SAN ANTONIO (AP) —
Three people have been jailed on
charges of bilking change ma
chines out of $4,000 with photo
copies of dollar bills, authorities
said.
“It is not a prank,” Secret Serv
ice Special Agent-In-Charge Ed
Nowland said. “It is not consid
ered a minor crime.”
Gerald Fischer, 35, his wife,
Cassie Alexander, 24, and Jimmy
Stover, 24, all of New Braunfels,
are accused of using the fake bills
in three South Texas counties.
The three allegedly made two-
sided copies of dollar bills and
used those replicas to take coins
from dollar changers, mostly at
car washes and self-service laun
dries in Bexar, Guadalupe and
Nueces counties, agents said.
Secret Service agents arrested
the trio on Saturday at Fischer’s
home in New Braunfels and con
fiscated $1,200 in cash and seve
ral photocopies of dollars, Now
land said.
Butane explosion forces evacuation
GEORGETOWN (AP) — A
leaking butane gas tank exploded
Tuesday, starting a fire that
forced evacuation of a high
school, some homes and several
businesses and temporarily closed
a portion of two highways, au
thorities said.
One person suffered minor in
juries in the blast, officials said.
Denise Lebowitz, an assistant
city manager who was fielding
calls to the Georgetown Fire De
partment, said the 1 p.m. explo
sion occurred at a Centex Butane
storage facility two miles north of
the city.
A 49-year-old man, whose
identity was not immediately re
leased, suffered minor chemical
burns, said Cathy Bryant,
spokeswoman at Georgetown
Hospital.
Michigan fugitive found in West Texas
VAN HORN (AP) — A Michigan
state prisoner who escaped from a
psychiatric center with the apparent
help of a guard was arrested in far
West Texas while driving a pickup
whose owner was found dead, au
thorities said.
William Day was arrested Monday
by a state trooper in Culberson
County on Interstate 10 just west of
Van Horn, said David Wells,
spokesman for the Texas Depart
ment of Ptiblic Safety.
The officer stopped Day on a sus
pected traffic violation in this West
Texas town after he had clocked the
pickup truck Day was driving at
about 90 mph, Wells said.
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