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MIDLOTHIAN (AP) — Two
teen-agers were being held in the
death of an undercover police offi
cer who had posed as a high school
student and was fatally shot after a
drug deal went sour, authorities said
Sunday.
The two Midlothian High School
students, one age 16 and the other
age 17, were arrested after the offi
cer, George William Raffield Jr., 21,
was found shot to death Saturday,
Midlothian City Manager Chuck
Pinto said.
The 17-year-old was in Ellis
County jail Sunday and the 16-year-
old was being held in the Johnson
County Juvenile Detention Center,
Pinto said.
Precinct 4 Justice of the Peace
Glen Ayers in Ellis County issued
warrants for the two students, Mid
lothian Police Chief Roy Vaughn
said. Charges were expected to be
filed Monday, he said.
A 23-year-old Midlothian woman
also was arrested in connection with
hindering apprehension, a Class A
misdemeanor, Vaughn said Sunday.
Texas Rangers were continuing an
investigation in the case, he said.
Raffield was a Midlothian police
officer assigned to undercover nar
cotics, Pinto said.
Funeral services were scheduled
Tuesday at First Baptist Church of
Waxahachie.
Raffield, who had worked for the
police department since July, had
posed as an 18-year-old senior, using
the name William Moore, Pinto said.
After a day-long search Saturday,
authorities found his body lying next
to his pickup truck south of Midlo
thian, an Ellis County town of about
5,000. Raffield had been shot twice
in the head.
Pinto said, “Our preliminary in
formation on the investigation indi
cates that an undercover drug buy
went sour.”
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AUSTIN (AP) — Three years
ago, H. Ross Perot was at odds with
most education groups when he per
suaded the Texas Legislature to pass
one of the most sweeping education
reform programs in U.S. history.
Suspicious of the Dallas billionaire
and his plans, education groups
fought many of the key reform pro
posals, such as teacher-competency
j testing.
Today, those suspicions live again
as Perot pushes to keep an ap
pointed State Board of Education.
Texas voters will be asked in a ref
erendum Nov. 3 whether they want
to retain an appointed education
board by canceling next year’s
scheduled elections of board mem
bers.
The current, 15-member board
was appointed for four years in 1984
I and will be replaced by an elected
panel in January 1989, unless the
I ballot proposal passes.
Perot, who is financing an expen
sive media campaign to sell the pro
posal to voters, insists that a return
to an elected board would bring poli
tics back into public education.
“If we let that happen, we will
have lost the reforms,” he says. “Our
children’s futures are too important
to risk playing political games.”
Perot claims the elected board of
education embarrassed the state be
fore it was driven from office in
1984. Some of those former board
members, he says sarcastically,
“thought the world was flat.”
By contrast, the current, ap
pointed board “has done an absolu
tely first-rate job,” he says.
But the state’s four teacher orga
nizations, the Texas PTA, the Texas
Association of School Boards and
other mainline education groups are
unimpressed by Perot’s arguments.
Charles Beard, Texas State Tea
chers Association president, told the
Dallas Morning News, “In order to
sell this (appointed board) to the
public back in 1984, Perot and oth
ers said it would only be a temporary
thing.”
Sandy Kibby, legislative chairman
of the Texas PTA, said her organiza
tion believes that elected officials
provide better representation for
the “grass roots.”
“An elected board would be more
accountable to our type of people,”
she said.
A pro-appointive board group
that Perot established, Texans for
Quality Education, is sponsoring a
massive television advertising cam
paign to win voter approval of the
ballot question.
The slick TV spots, featuring
Perot, San Antonio Mayor Henry
Cisneros and former congressman
Barbara Jordan, urge Texans to
help protect the reforms of 1984 by
voting for the proposal.
The group also is expected to do
mass mailings before the election
and has purchased billboards in met
ropolitan areas.
Opponents of the measure to re
tain an appointed board say the TV
ads are misleading because they
equate the referendum with school
reform and avoid the issue of an ap
pointive vs. an elected board.
Mike Morrow, executive director
of the Association of Texas Profes
sional Educators, said, “Nowhere in
those ads does it say what the refer
endum proposes to do.
“It’s a political ploy that is mis
leading the citizens of Texas. The is
sue is whether or not the citizens of
Texas want to be able to elect the
board or have that board appointed
by the governor.
“And I question the motives of
those who do not believe the people
of Texas are capable of choosing
members of the board.”
Education groups are not running
ads to counter those by supporters
of the ballot proposal, but they are
sending out newsletters urging their
members to vote no.
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Police call drug rings strong despite arrests
DALLAS (AP) — Raids in Dallas netted the
I biggest hauls in a nationwide crackdown on Ja
il maican drug rings last week, but they were only
■solitary victories in what shapes up to be a long
■war, authorities said.
As law enforcement officials displayed auto-
I matic weapons, bundles of cash and narcotics
I seized in the Dallas raids, a Jamaican woman was
■ arrested as she got off a Miami flight at Dallas-
Fort Worth International Airport.
Pauline Gibson, who is being held without bail
on federal drug charges, had a kilogram of co-
: caine taped to her body, police said.
“The war is not over,” said Phil Jordan, U.S.
Drug Enforcement Administration agent in Dal
las. “These people see the lucrative money that
can be made from exploiting drug abuse.”
The raids in Dallas were the result of an 11-
month investigation into an estimated 27 local Ja
maican drug organizations. Dallas police have
linked the organizations to 44 homicides in the
past four years and to profits from cocaine sales
averaging $400,000 daily.
The gangs are responsible for at least 625 nar-
cotics-related homicides nationwide and have
dominated cocaine sales in several major cities,
federal officials said. The massive sweep of 14
cities and the District of Columbia netted about
140 gang members, officials said.
More suspects were arrested in Dallas than in
any other city targeted for the simultaneous
raids, which federal officials attributed to Dallas
authorities’ early detection of Jamaican drug ac
tivity. A special task force of local and federal law
enforcement officers was formed locally in No
vember 1986 to deal with the Jamaican dealers.
Investigators want to consolidate cases against
individuals already arrested and use their
statements to obtain further arrests, said Capt.
W.R. Rollins, who heads the Dallas Police De
partment’s intelligence division.
Investigator Charles E. Storey said, “They’re
very shrewd businessmen. The operation is de
signed so that all levels and all locations are re
placeable. We can’t think that one strike is going
to bring them down.”
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