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DALLAS (AP) — Former Presi
dent Richard M. Nixon declared
Monday that the United States must
remain a world foreign policy
leader, but the Reagan administra
tion should proceed cautiously in at
tending Soviet summit talks.
Presenting a positive perspective
on American economic and foreign
policies, Nixon told the Dallas Coun
cil on World Affairs that Soviet
leader Mikhail Gorbachev is a tough-
minded statesman who still em
braces the Communist philosophy.
“But Gorbachev needs a deal” in
)wr he. I summit talks, Nixon told about
■ 1,200 people at the Loews Anatole
■ Hotel. “We must help make one, but
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Bentsen calls
war on drugs
top priority
HOUSTON (AP) — U.S. Sen.
I Lloyd Bentsen said he’s been
I fighting the Reagan Administra-
I lion’s proposed cuts in funding
I for U.S. Customs Agents and
I drug education, and said the war
I on drugs should be a top national
I priority.
Bentsen spoke Sunday to the
1 Metropolitan Organization, a co-
I alition of community activists
I from Houston-area churches.
Bentsen said he supports shift-
1 ing more federal resources to bat-
| tie the flow of drugs across the
$ Mexican border.
Other issues raised during
> Bentsen’s appearance were the
I depressed economy along the
j Texas-Mexico border, health care
1 and education. Bentsen pledged
1 to work toward improving the
I quality of life in the region, im-
| proving health care and keeping
i students in school.
policy” would suffer, he said.
Nixon discounted recent opinions
by economists, politicians and others
that America is in decline, reeling
under the weight of a massive trade
deficit and a shaky economy.
Instead, the threat facing the
United States is not from Japanese
imports, but from Russian military
might, he said.
“The economic power of Japan is
not a threat but rather a challenge to
American business,” he said. “How
ever, the Soviet Union is a threat”
militarily, he said.
Nixon said the next president’s
challenge is to deal with Gorbachev,
who “has a bachelor’s in law and was
born with a master’s degree in public
relations.”
“The job is a tough one for the
next president,” Nixon said. “Can he
get in the ring with Gorbachev?
When they get in the ring, they’re
not going to be using 16-ounce
gloves. It will be no holds barred.”
In response to a question from the
audience, Nixon said the trade defi
cit is the single biggest problem fac
ing the United States. He added that
none of the presidential candidates
has addressed the crisis adequately.
“It (the deficit) has to be dealt with
frontally on three areas,” Nixon
said. “First, revenue; second, entitle
ments, and third, defense.”
Entitlements are funds that help
bolster pensions. Social Securitv and
other items. “No one wants to have
to (deal yvith)” cuts in this area, he
said.
Nixon cautioned against making
defense a “scapegoat” in overhaul
ing America’s trade policy.
“Defense should be last on the list
(for cuts),” he said. “It is a terribly
difficult area.”
The former president’s appear
ance was part of a tour of cities and
network television programs that be
gan in April. The tour coincided
with the release of his book “1999:
Victory Without War.”
Nixon, who was elected in 1968
and 1972, resigned in disgrace in
1974 in the face of a Senate im-
.peachment trial.
Hance says trip will improve
connection with oil producers
AUSTIN (AP) — Railroad Com
missioner Kent Hance, back in his
Austin office Monday after attend
ing the OPEC meeting in Vienna last
week, said he is pleased with that
journey and thinks Texas should
stay in touch with those oil-produc
ing nations.
“I thought it was very worth
while,” Hance said. “I think a com
munication was established for a dia
logue that will promote (oil price)
stability.”
Hance said he agrees with Mon
day’s prediction by the oil ministers
of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, who
said they expected world oil prices to
stabilize near current levels despite
the breakdown of the OPEC meet-
ing.
“I am disappointed that today
they did not reach an agreement,”
Hance said. “I figured that if they
didn’t, prices would slide a little tem
porarily and then they would come
back . . ..”
This latest Organization of Petro
leum Exporting Countries meeting
ended with no agreement on a pro
posed 2 percent cut in the group’s oil
production, a move aimed at stabiliz
ing prices that have undergone big
fluctuations since late 1985.
Besides predicting stablility, Saudi
Oil Minister Hisham Nazer said he
was optimistic about gaining more
cooperation from non-OPEC oil ex
porters, including American oil-pro
ducing states.
“The oil states in the United States
are very, very much interested in the
stabilization of the market,” he said.
Hance said he hoped his visit
opened lines of communication with
OPEC that are vital to Texas.
“We’re not trying to join OPEC,
and we’re not always going to agree
with them,” Hance said. “But when
President Reagan tried to get nu
clear arms stability, he had to deal
with the Russians, who are our ene
mies.
“The critical thing is — we’re liv
ing in a world where someone else
sets the price for our commodity.”
The Railroad Commission has
monitored oil output since an oil
price crash in the 1930s, and under
state law the agency has authority to
restrict production to avoid waste
and to protect reserves.
Hance, who was criticized by the
Reagan administration for making
the trip, makes no apologies and said
Texas officials should attend the
next OPEC session.
“I plan to,” he said. “If I can’t, I’ll
try to get someone else from Texas.
It’s imperative that Texas have
somebody there. What happens in
Vienna at the OPEC meetings will
have more impact on our economy
than anything that will happen in
Austin or in Washington.”
Police say they need
more firepower to deal
with criminal’s guns
AUSTIN (AP) — With drug
dealers carrying semiautomatics
and other sophisticated weapons,
law enforcement officers say they
are being forced to switch from
their traditional handguns to
weapons with more firepower.
To even the odds, the U.S.
Drug Enforcement Adminstra-
tion has begun issuing 9mm sub
machine guns and 9mm semiau
tomatic pistols to every one of its
2,800 agents.
By late May, Austin police pa
trol officers will be given the op
tion of carrying 9mm semiauto
matic pistols instead of the
standard .357-caliber Magnum
revolvers. Austin police narcotics
agents, organized-crime officers
and plainclothes detectives al
ready have that option.
The decision to bolster fire
power for federal drug agents
came after the agents continually
found themselves outgunned by
the criminals, said Don Ashton,
DEA chief of domestic training at
the FBI Academy in Quantico,
Va.
“It’s important for us to have
the additional firepower,” Ashton
said. “The crooks are carrying
this type of firearms.”
Fred Smith, supervisory agent
in charge of the DEA office in
Austin, said the increased fire
power is “really a necessity for the
overall protection of the agents.”
Smith said his agents have con
fiscated hundreds of weapons, in
cluding machine guns, in Central
Texas.
A DEA firearms officer in the
Austin office, who asked that his
name not be used because of un
dercover work, said, “Dopers get
this huge income. They don’t pay
tax on it. They have all that cash,
and a lot of it is finding its way to
buying guns to protect their in
vestment.”
Texas Department of Public
Safety spokesman David Wells,
“The criminals are carry
ing more sophisticated
weapons. We’re going to
be needing more fire
power. ”
— Capt. Cecil Huff,
director of the Austin Po
lice Department training
academy
said DPS narcotics agents are con
sidering boosting their firepower.
Currently, DPS drug agents use
.357-caliber Magnum revolvers,
.222-caliber semiautomatic rifles
and 12-gauge shotguns.
Capt. Cecil Huff, director of
the Austin Police training aca
demy, said patrol officers will be
given the option of carrying 9mm
semiautomatic pistols as early as
mid to late May.
“Austin is growing,” Huff said.
“Crime rate is up. The criminals
are carrying more sophisticated
weapons. We’re going to be need
ing more firepower.”
Lt. Dick Jennings of the
Greater Austin Area Organized
Crime Unit said although he pre
fers his five-shot .38-cahber
handgun and his APD-issued
.357-caliber Magnum to the 9mm
semiautomatic pistol, some of his
officers carry the semiautomatics.
“Sometimes in your career, a
gunfight might break out where
you are outmanned or outpo-
wered — then you’d probably
lose,” Jennings said. “You want to
have at least equal advantage or
better advantage over the
crooks.”
Lt. Pete Taylor of the APD
narcotics unit agreed, saying
“speed freaks are our most dan
gerous people we are dealing
with right now.”
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