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WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Bill
Archer of Houston is poised to move
into one of the most powerful GOP
positions in the House as ranking
Republican on the Ways and Means
Committee, taking the place of Rep.
John Duncan, who died late Tues
day.
House Republicans must still ap
prove Archer’s ascension in the pow
erful tax-writing committee, but of
ficials said Wednesday that should
not pose any problem for the 60-
year-old Houston native.
A vote could be taken as early as
next week, said a spokesman for
House Republican Leader Bob
Michel, R-Ill.
Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, said
Archer should have “no trouble”
gaining the necessary approval. “He
is very highly respected and deser
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The rise to ranking minority
member puts Archer at the foref
ront of debate on such issues as rais
ing taxes, welfare programs and So
cial Security, and foreign trade.
The move also automatically puts
Archer in the leadership circle of the
Republican Party on Capitol Hill —
the first time since at least the Civil
War that a Texan has been a mem
ber of that group, Gramm said.
to meetings with the White House,
the voice of Texas will be heard
more strongly within the walls of the
White House,” Archer said. “Res
ponsibilities and opportunities for
influence extend beyond the Ways
and Means Committee.”
Archer will be joining several othr
Texans in positions of power in Con
gress, including House Speaker Jim
Wright of Fort Worth, Sen. Lloyd
Bentsen, chairman of the Senate Fi
nance Committee, Rep. Jack Brooks,
a Beaumont Democrat and chair
man of the House Government Op
erations Committee, and Rep. Kika
de la Garza, a Mission Democrat who
is chairman of the House Agricul
ture Committee.
“Certainly, it means in so far as
Republican leadership on committee
is concerned, I have an opportunity
to do even more to work for the best
interests of Texas and the country,”
Archer said. “As we move along the
ability to focus in on the things that
are helpful to Texas has been en
hanced.”
When the group meets. Archer
lid, “I will be sittii
said, “I will be sitting within the
room and the voice of Texas will be
heard in that regard for the first
time in the history of the United
States.”
And as long as there is a Republi
can president, Archer will be among
GOP leaders attending strategy ses
sions at the White House.
“When the leadership goes down
Gramm said, “Clearly, the Ways
and Means Committee is a powerful
committee with broad jurisdiction,
and it’s very much to our benefit.
Bill Archer is a very able member of
Congress. “It helps (Texas) because
we will have a Texan in a very key
position on the Ways and Means
Committee . . . That will enhance
our ability to have our concerns
heard on issues such as energy and
those issues that tend to be regional
in nature.”
One of those issues is repeal of the
windfall profits tax on oil, and
Gramm said Archer’s new position
could strengthen those efforts.
Professor helps find toxin disposal
By Joe Segovia
Reporter
A&M research professor Don
ald T. Sawyer has helped discover
a new disposal method for poly
chlorinated biphenyls that does
not create the Highly toxic dioxin
resulting from other methods.
Sawyer said using a special
form of oxygen to destroy PGBs,
a toxic chemical, could become
available commercially as soon as
the fall of 1989.
The problem with PCBs is a
historical problem, Sawyer said.
PCBs, now banned, were used in
the 1930s as heat exchangers in
electric transformers by utility
companies.
Through studies on mice and
rats, the destruction of PCBs has
created toxins linked with birth
defects and cancer in humans.
“Our process as far as I can tell
is the first one that completely de
grades PCBs but does not pro
duce dioxins,” Sawyer said.
Dr. Stephen Safe, of the Gi
lege of Veterinary Medicine,s«
the “mildly toxic” PCBs hait
shown no significant increaseo;
cancer to humans. Safe sai
PCBs, found particularly in til
workplace, appear to not best
vere.
Sawyer began experiment;
with superoxide ions (moleoili;
oxygen with an additional ek
iron) 20 years ago, with his n
search group and three othr
groups around the world.
“In the last year, we (reseat
group) observed that if you cot
bine superoxide ions with poke
lorinated biphenyls, or
they went through a whole sene
of steps,” Sawyer said. “Ultima
tely, tne result was bicarbonaj
ion (or baking soda) and sod®
chloride ion, which istheequii?
lent of table salt.”
Incineration, a less expense
method for the destruction oi
PCBs, creates dioxin, anotbe
highly toxic substance,
B-CS officials declare ‘War on Drugs
By Norma Jean Wilson
Reporter
A “War on Drugs” has been de
clared by city council members
from both Bryan and College Sta
tion.
To help fight this war, the two
city councils created a joint Com
mittee for the War on Drugs. To
increase involvement in the prob
lem, the committee in turn cre
ated a subcommittee of eight citi
zens— five from Bryan and three
from College Station.
The subcommittee is evaluat
ing existing drug abuse programs
in the fields of law enforcement,
education and treatment to deter
mine which programs are meet
ing the needs of the community.
The subcommittee will submit
a written report on Sepi. I toboti
city councils with specific recoil
mendations for the implement
tion of drug abuse programs
the community.
After berth city councils bn
evaluated the recommendation:
they will meet with the commiiif
and the subcommittee to implt
merit the program.
The Committee for the War
Drugs encourages citizens free
the community to get involved
"Public awareness is vital if
are going to deal with drugabust
realistically,” said Lynn Mdlh
ney, one of the committeemen)
bers.”
Citizens interested in getui;
involved should contact eitnenli
Bryan or College Station on
councils.
Federal aid for thrifts almost $90 million
DALLAS (AP) — Two ailing Texas thrifts
were taken over Wednesday by an Arizona sav
ings bank after Federal Home Loan Bank Board
officials guaranteed $83.9 million in assistance to
complete the transaction, a part of the Southwest
Plan.
MeraBank Federal Savings and Loan, with
$6.4 billion in assets, took over First Financial —
A Savings Association, based in El Paso; and
Brownfield Federal Savings and Loan Associa
tion in Brownfield. MeraBank, based in Phoenix,
Ariz., is the largest thrift institution in that state
and the 25th largest in the United States.
First Financial has seven branches in El Paso,
three in Amarillo, two in Lubbock, one in Can
yon, and one in Pampa. Brownfield Federal has
no branches.
The transaction was the third under the terms
of the Southwest Plan, which aims to consolidate
and recapitalize Texas’ savings and loan indus
try.
MeraBank, which already has seven branches
in Texas, is contributing $8.8 million in new capi
tal to the deal to acquire First Financial, with
$330 million in assets, and Brownfield, with $40
million.
MeraBank also agreed to acquire a third major
insolvent Texas thrift later this year as part of the
transaction. It is forming a separate subsidiary,
MeraBank Texas, to hold the three Texas institu
tions.
The subsidiary will be based in El Paso with ad
ministrative headquarters in Dallas. Bank board
officials said they expect MeraBank Texas to
consolidate all its operations in Texas within six
to nine months.
MeraBank officials still don’t know how much
in outstanding loans they will have to write off,
said Arthur Gonzalez, president of MeraBank’s
Texas division.
He said officials have not yet inventoried the
two thrifts’ loan portfolios and are unsure how
many employees they have inherited from the
ailing thrifts.
“This acquisition . . . was a little unusual in
what we agreed to do with the Federal Home
Loan Bank Board without lots of information,”
Gonzalez said.
“We had to diversify ourselves,” said Gene
Rice, chairman and chief executive officer of Me
raBank. “Any time a bank has all its eggs in one
basket, it can get in trouble. Our long-term objec
tive is to have 20 percent of our bank in Arizona,
20 percent in Texas and the balance in other
places.”
The Federal Savings and Loan Insurance
Corp., which insures S&L deposits up to
$100,000, will hold warrants for 20 percent of
the subsidiary’s stock, officials said.
First Financial and Brownfield are the ninth
and 10th savings and loan cases resolved by fed
eral regulators in Texas this year, while 40 na
tionwide have been resolved.
The state’s institutions, hard hit by slumps in
the oil industry and real estate valuations, ac
counted for $3 billion of the industry’s $3.8 bil
lion loss in the first three months of this year.
Regulators say 133 of Texas’ 279 thrifts are in
solvent under generally accepted account
rules. The bank Board hopes to reduce then
her of savings and loans in Texas by r L
this year.
Bank board Chairman M. Danny Walls
MeraBank’s expansion in Texas “will bent
Texas, the thrift industry and FSL1C.”
Rice called the transaction “a tremend
time-consuming process.”
‘T hey (FHLB) didn’t just walk out therewd
tray full of fruit and let us pick our fruit,"said!
ce.“We had to work together.”
The third thrift to be acquired by Meralk
which is based in Phoenix, Ariz., wouldcrea:
deal worth about $1 billion, he said.
Thrift industry officials said a $1.2 I
at Sunbelt Savings Association of Dallas boos
losses by Texas’ savings and loans to $3.5bii
during the first three months of 1988.
Analysts and industry officials said ihelost
were not unexpected. But House Banking,!
nance and Urban Affairs Committee Chains
Fernand J. St Germain, D-R.L, said Tuesdi
report raises “extremely serious questionsaW
the rosy scenarios being peddled by the Fete
Home Loan Bank Board.”
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board widened during the first quarteroflf
$1.1 billion from $623 million in 1987.
Non-operating losses, primarily funds I
aside to cover non-performing assets, increa
to $2.8 billion from $609 million.
Prisoners disappointed, fearful
over courts’ death penalty ruling
Inmate predic
second trial
‘far from ovei
HUNTSVILLE (AP) — Stunned
and disappointed death row inmates
said executions are imminent — per
haps as early as this week — in the
wake of Wednesday’s U.S. Supreme
Court ruling upholding the capital
punishment law in Texas.
“Look over and there might be a
black cloud out there,” Raymond
Kinnamon, a death row inmate, said,
pointing to the row’s wings at the
Texas Department of Corrections
Ellis I Unit.
The high court, in a 6-3 decision,
said convicted killer Donald Gene
Franklin of San Antonio properly
was sentenced to death for the 1975
abduction-slaying of nurse Peggy
Moran.
Attorneys for Franklin contended
jurors improperly were not allowed
to consider any mitigating circum
stances in sentencing Franklin, one
of more than 270 inmates on death
row in Texas.
Since the high court agreed to
hear the case late last year, only one
inmate, Robert Streetman, was put
to death. Dozens more, however,
used the pending Franklin case to
obtain stays of execution.
“I’m dead now,” convicted killer
Calvin Williams said Wednesday af
ter learning of the ruling. “Ain’t no
doubt about it. That was my last
hope.”
Williams in February came within
two hours of lethal injection before
the Supreme Court, citing the
Franklin matter, issued a stay.
“I kind of figured it was going to
happen,” Williams said. “About 50
of us have gotten stays on Franklin. I
figure I’ll be going back to get a date
set.”
Convicted killer Fletcher Mann,
who faces lethal injection early Sat
urday, was a likely candidate to die
because his appeals are exhausted,
inmates said. Before Wednesday’s
ruling, a stay was a virtual certainty.
“If it’s going to happen, it’s going
to happen,” Mann, 27, said, of the
possibility of his execution.
Many inmates believed the Frank
lin case, the most serious challenge
to the Texas death penalty law in
several years, would result in a rul
ing favorable to them and commuta
tions of their sentences to life.
Inmate Jim Vanderbilt said,“I feel
like an idiot having put my hopes in
the court. This is a bitter disappoint
ment. It’s not easy seeing your
friends hauled off to be killed.”
James Beathard, another death
row resident, said, “I’m afraid they’ll
try to get as many as they can before
the next issue comes up.”
Franklin refused to be inter
viewed Wednesday.
His attorney, Mark Stevens, said
he likely would seek a rehearing for
Franklin but that the high court rar
ely granted such motions.
“We were disappointed, ob
viously,” Stevens said. “ We’ll investi
gate whether there are any more
claims that need to be claimed.”
Stevens said he doubted whether
the pace of executions would
quicken, since Justices Sandra Day
O’Connor and Harry A. Blackmun
voted to uphold the Texas death
penalty law, but for different rea
sons.
“What they said was, ‘We think
the four judges are right in this case.’
It leaves open: What about the next
case?” Stevens said.
“It’s two judges that seem to be an
open question now,” he said. “It’s
going to have to be a case-by-case
analysis of any case pending before
the Supreme Court.”
Attorney General Jim Mattox,
however, said he believed the ruling
will clear the way for more execu
tions. Texas already has executed 27
convicted killers, more than any
other state since the Supreme Court
allowed the death penalty to resume
in 1976.
“This case removes another major
impediment to carrying out execu
tions in Texas,” Mattox said. “We
now expect that executions will
again move forward in this state.”
Gov. Bill Clements, who never has
used his authority to halt an execu
tion, said he was pleased with the
high court decision.
“I have always believed in the
jury’s right to sentence a criminal to
the death penalty under appropriate
circumstances,” Clements said, add
ing that the ruling removed a major
obstacle to the proper functioning of
the capital punishment statute.
Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby, who serves as
acting governor when Clements is
out of the state, said he would con
tinue to review the cases that came to
him.
HUNTSVILLE (AP) -
Hughes, convicted this month
the second time of the slayini
Texas state trooper, preoii
Wednesday it would be monl
years before his case was resolved
“It’s something that’s far, far
from over,” said Hughes, win 1
turned to death row for the
time in 13 months after a jury i«l
City found him guilty of capital!
der and sentenced him to death]
the 1976 shooting of Mark Frel
ick.
“I am not bitter; I am not4
with anyone,” Hughes said. “In ( f
give up that hope.”
Jurors deliberating last weel
ommended Hughes be executed
killing Frederick, who was gi®-
down after he and his paf
stopped Hughes in Sealyonasif
credit card complaint.
“I had the best representattj
the world,” Hughes said ofthetj
his second. “I cannot fault myT
neys one inch, one word, onj
tion ’” • J
Hughes said both heandhisi v
neys agreed that it was best he ]
lied, something he did noldodl
first trial.
“We wanted the truth tow
out,” he said.
Hughes, who gained notoriej
death row as a registered Ml
against the death penalty and fol
artistic ability, said he would
tinue his lobby efforts, but woul
pand it to advocate better p r |
conditions.