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Gore gains endorsements
from 63 Texas Democrats
AUSTIN (AP) — Presidential
hopeful A1 Gore won endorsements
Tuesday from 63 more Texas Dem
ocrats, including former Gov. Dolph
Briscoe, who predicted the Tennes
see senator could reclaim voters lost
to Republicans in recent elections.
“Sen. Gore can, while holding the
mainstream of the Democratic Party
organization in this state, appeal to
those and will bring back those who
have been lost in elections in the
past,” Briscoe said.
“That, in my opinion, will make
the difference here and make it pos
sible for him as the Democratic nom
inee to carry this state,” Briscoe, gov
ernor from 1973 to 1978, said.
Gore predicted he would win
more Texas delegates to the Demo
cratic National Convention in the
March 8 primary and be one of the
top two finishers in the “Super Tues
day” southern regional primary.
Texas will send 198 delegates to the
convention, the third-largest dele
gation.
Downplaying the importance of
the first-in-the-nation Iowa precinct
caucuses, Gore said that contest has
Court removes
legal guardian
of millionaire
HOUSTON (AP) — The fa
ther of multimillionaire Ugo di
Portanova was removed as his
son's guardian after he failed to
comply with a court order to
show how S16 million of the son’s
trust fund was spent.
Probate Judge John Hutchin
son ordered Paolo di Portanova
on Monday to return all assets of
his son s estate in his possession to
River Oaks Bank Sc Trust Co.,
guardian of Ugo’s estate, and to
file an accounting of how Ugo’s.
money was spent.
Ugo di Portanova, 51, is trying
to get himself declared mentally
competent by Texas courts.
The judge removed the elder
di Portanova after he failed to
comply with a November order to
show why he should not file an
annual accounting of how his
son’s funds are spent. He had
been guardian of Ugo since 1967,
when a Texas court declared Ugo
incompetent to handle his affairs
because of a schizophrenic condi
tion.
lost significance when compared
with the multi-state “Super Tues
day” primary.
“This (Super Tuesday) contest has
revolutionized the process to an ex
tent that many have not yet real
ized,” he said. “There’s a tendency
on the part of many other cam
paigns to fight the last war and bet
all their chips on Iowa and just as
sume that 3 percent of the people in
one state that have gone Republican
for the last 24 years will have the sole
voice in determining who the Demo
cratic nominee is.”
The comments came during a
news conference in which Gore and
Briscoe were joined by Dallas finan
cier Jess Hay and other Democratic
civic and business leaders endorsed
Gore.
Democrats must recapture sup
port among middle-class voters if
they hope to win the White House
this year, Play said.
“The Democratic Party has lost
four of the last five presidential elec
tions,” he said. “It has done so in
part because its candidates in those
failed to relate their poli
cies and programs effectively to the
mainstream of American society.
“We have evaluated the seven
people now seeking the Democratic
nomination. ... It is our considered
judgment that Sen. A1 Gore is the
the one whose policies are most re
flective of these broadly stated objec
tives.”
Among others endorsing Gore
were former Attorney General John
Ben Sheppard, former Railroad
Commission members Buddy
Temple and Jon Newton, former
state Sen. Peyton McKnight as well
as former U.S. ambassador Edward
Clark.
In other political news Tuesday:
• Texas Republicans began
phoning voters whose names ap
peared on the nominating petitions
for all six GOP presidential candi
dates after party officials decided to
include all six on the March 8 pri
mary ballot.
But if a candidate failed to submit
the valid signatures of 5,000 qual
ified voters, he won’t receive votes in
the primary, John Weaver, GOP ex
ecutive director, said.
Barmaids testify
against constable
before conviction
BROWNSVILLE(AP) — After
three barmaids testified a Cameron
County constable forced them to go
to a motel where they said he raped
one of them, the constable was con
victed on four counts of official op
pression.
Constable Albert Tovar, 32, of La
Feria, had testified that he was inves
tigating the consumption of alcohol
by minors and an alleged prostitu
tion ring located at El Tenampa bar
in Santa Rosa during the July 24 in
cident.
Tovar testified he and a friend
were approached at the bar several
times by barmaids offering sex for
money, and that he called other law
enforcement agencies for assistance
before detaining 18 illegal alien
women.
He also arrested the bar’s bouncer
for alleged disorderly conduct.
Fifteen of the women were turned
over to police, who then turned
them over to U.S. Border Patrol
agents.
1 ovar was accused of misusing his
power as an elected law enforcement
offical to illegally detain three of the
barmaids and unlawfully arrest the
bouncer.
The three women testified he
took them against their will to a mo
tel in the Hidalgo County city of
Mercedes and then raped one of
them.
Tovar took the Fifth Amendment
— his right not to incriminate him
self — when questioned about his ac
tions at the motel.
“I feel like I got injustice,” Tovar
said after the trial Monday.
“I’m going to appeal. Even if it has
to go to the Supreme Court, we’ll see
justice done.”
A jury in state district court on
Monday recommended one year of
probation and a $ 1,000 fine on each
of the four counts.
Judge Gilberto Hinojosa set To
var’s sentencing for Jan. 22.
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Art and reason
When Mark and I decided to spend
the weekend at his mother’s house,
1 never imagined I would be walking
into a mouses nightmare.There were
cats everywhere.
Cat plaques, cat statues, cat clocks,
even a cat mat. I couldn’t begin to dupli
cate her collection of kitty litter if I spent
a year at a garage sale. Conspicuously
absent, however, was a real cat. Strange,
1 thought, and began to fear that a
weekend with cat woman could be
lot less than purr-feet.
But then she came home, and
Mark introduced her. She was
dressed surprisingly well—no
leopard pants. In fact, you
could say she was the cat’s meow,
but I’d rather not.
She offered me a cup of Dutch Choc
olate Mint. Now that was something
1 could relate to. Then she brought it
out in the most beautiful, distinctly
unfeline china I’d ever seen. As we
sipped, 1 found out that Mrs. Campbell
has my same weakness for chocolate,
lo\ es the theater as much as I do, but,
incredibly, never saw ""Cats.” So Mark
and I are taking her next month.
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