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Dallas homemaker finds 2nd career
in campaign against nuclear plant
Assault
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DALLAS (AP) — For a moment, Juanita Ellis
imagines herself sitting in a big chair behind a big
desk, a Ms. Big heading a giant utility trying to
build a nuclear power plant.
“I would make sure everybody at the plant had
my personal telephone number,” Ellis says. “I
would talk to them personally. I would make sure
their concerns are adequately addressed.”
ond career out of whistle-blowers and the Co
manche Peak nuclear power plant at Glen Rose,
about 75 miles southwest of Dallas.
For 13 years, she has fought the plant in what
she says is a David and Goliath kind of tussle be
tween her and Texas Utilities Electric Co.
ballooned from $779 million to an estimated $7.7
billion.
In her dream, whistle-blowers are as impor
tant to the company as the bottom line.
She says the men and women building a nu
clear plant know what’s right and what’s wrong
with the construction, and their voices must be
heard to avoid disaster later.
The 51 -year-old homemaker has forged a sec-
Ellis is president of Citizens Association for
Sound Energy, a group of about 200 people rely
ing on contributions and legal help from public
watchdog foundations.
The association has dogged Texas Utilities
since the early 1970s, when the company began
planning Comanche Peak.
The plant is about 94-percent complete, but it
is nine years behind schedule and the price has
Despite armies of lawyers and consultants, the
utility and its Comanche Peak project are bogged
in a mire of questions surrounding the plant’s de
sign, and ultimately, its safety.
The U.S. Atomic Safety Licensing Board has
twice turned down TUEC requests for Coman
che Peak operating permits. The utility now is in
the middle of a major reinspection of the twin-
domed plant, a project that includes correcting
flaws discovered earlier. The utility hopes the re
inspection, scheduled for completion early next
year, will be the springboard for an operating li
cense.
Bankruptcy
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vious employee who is waiting for
about $600 in wages.
Rio has 120 days to submit a reor
ganization plan to the Western Dis
trict of Texas, Waco Division Bank
ruptcy Court, Phillips said, and he is
optimistic that the airline will fly
again.
A source in Phillip’s office, who is
directly involved in the restructuring
attempt, said Rio has over 400 out
standing bills that total in the mil
lions of dollars.
“We’re trying to figure out who
should get paid first, and employees
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are not at the top of the list,” the
source said.
Frank said he believes bad man
agement is the reason Rio went out
of business.
“The market was here (Bryan-
College Station) when they decided
to pull out,” he said. “They had a
monopoly in this area to cities
around the state and in Louisiana.
But the company was seriously mis-
run.”
Rio was established in 1974 by
Fred Connell of Killeen, who sold
the airline in 1985 to Hugh Seaborn
of Houston.
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same sidewalk with her and she gets
nervous.”
Rapists, in general, aren’t “dirty
old men,” she said.
The average age of a sex offender
is 14 to 22 years old.
Castoria said women should never
investigate noises. They should call
the police.
"Why feel guilty about calling
people you’re paying?” she said. “I
don’t know any law enforcement of
ficer who wouldn’t want to come and
investigate.”
But a woman who files a false re
port of assault and doesn’t retract
her action before it reaches the dis
trict attorney’s office can be subject
to a punishment of a year in jail
and/or a $2,000 fine.
There are primarily three ways
for potential victims to protect them
selves.
Active resistance includes scream
ing, struggling, fighting back and us
ing weapons.
The second, passive resistance, is
used to “psychologically outsmart”
the attacker, and includes talking
and using surprise tactics and ac
tions.
But pleading or begging is out,
Castoria said — it only gives the at
tacker a stronger feeling of powei.
Texas law recognizes psychologi
cal coercion as a weapon and does
not require physical resistance if the
victim believes the rapist can cat ry
out his threats.
Submitting is not the same as con
senting, Castoria said, and in some
cases may be the only way tosaij
victim’s life.
The third available protetti
prevention, is most effective,Rj.
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