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State reacts to Dukakis’ choice
Democrats thrilled
over Bentsen pick
AUSTIN (AP) — With mem
ories of I960 firmly in mind,
Texas Democrats praised Michael
Dukakis’ Tuesday selection of
U.S. Sen. Lloyd Bentsen as his
running mate.
“I believe the Dukakis-Bentsen
ticket is the best since Kennedy-
Johnson,” Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby
said, recalling the last time a Mas
sachusetts man picked a Texas
Democrat for his vice president.
But the praise was short of
unanimous. Some of Jesse Jack
son’s supporters rapped the selec
tion of Bentsen.
“I’m not ecstatic about the
ticket,” said State Rep. Al Ed
wards, D-Houston and chairman
of Jackson’s Texas delegation to
next week’s Democratic National
Convention at Atlanta.
“I’m crying,” Edwards said.
“My man didn’t get the choice.
We missed first place and got
picked over for second place.
That’s really disgusting.”
Gerard Washington, Jackson
campaign director in El Paso, said
Jackson would have been “the
best choice.” He said 1988 is far
different from 1960, particularly
because Bentsen was not a presi
dential contender this year while
Johnson was in 1960.
“Johnson ran strong in the pri
maries, and Dukakis doesn’t look
like JFK or talk like JFK,” Wash
ington said. “Bentsen would have
been more helpful staying in the
Senate and supporting a Dukakis-
Jackson ticket.”
Under the 1959 Texas law that
let Johnson run simultaneously
for the Senate and the vice presi
dency, Bentsen will do the same
this year.
Former Democratic U.S. Rep.
Barbara Jordan called the selec
tion of Bentsen an “excellent
one” and said Bentsen is well-
liked in minority communities.
“He has certainly been open to
listen to the views of all people of
Texas and there has been no time
that Lloyd Bentsen’s door was
closed because of your race or
ideology,” Jordan said.
And she criticized Jackson sup
porters who believe he should
have been the running mate.
“I regret that Jesse Jackson
somehow feels he had some claim
to the vice presidency. Nothing in
history, in fact or common sense
would indicate Jesse Jackson de
serves the second spot,” she said.
“Jesse Jackson lost the prima
ries to Michael Dukakis. He is not
the co-nominee,” Jordan added.
Ruben Bonilla of Corpus
Christi, echoed Jordan’s com
ments about Bentsen’s strength in
minority communities.
“We have the first ticket in
American history of either party
where both candidates are fluent
in Spanish. I think it’s a masterful
political stroke,” Bonilla said.
“Senator Bentsen has a strong
following across the philosophical
ladder. He has support from the
business community, but he also
has the respect of the critical His
panic constituency.”
Praise for Bentsen came from
many top Texas Democrats, all of
whom said he should put Dukakis
over the top for the state’s 29
electoral votes.
No Democrat has ever won the
presidency without carrying
Texas.
Comptroller Bob Bullock said
Dukakis “could not have picked a
more able political leader.”
Attorney General Jim Mattox
said Bentsen’s “strong ties to the
business community” will help.
He also recalled that Bentsen
“whipped” George Bush in a
1970 Senate race.
San Antonio Mayor Henry Cis
neros, co-chairman of Bentsen’s
senate re-election campaign, said
the choice “makes for a winning
ticket.”
Republicans: Bentsen
makes no difference
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AUSTIN (AP) — Making
Texas Sen. Floyd Bentsen his
running mate won’t help Demo
crat Michael Dukakis carry the
nation’s third-largest state, top
Republicans said Tuesday, in
sisting that Texan George Bush
already has the state locked up.
“When Texans are asked to
choose between a Texan for pres
ident and a Texan for vice presi
dent, they’re not going to choose
second-best,” said Rep. Dick Ar
mey, R-Texas.
Bush, who has clinched the
GOP presidential nomination,
lost to Bentsen when the two ran
for the Senate in 1970. But Re
publican leaders said times have
changed and predicted history
won’t repeat itself.
Texans will decide “whether
they want one of their own presi
dent of the United States or do
they want one of their own vice
president. Texas has had both . . .
And I think Texas is going to de
cide they want one of their own
president," Sen. Phil Gramm, R-
Texas, said.
Fred Meyer of Dallas, the
Texas GOP chairman, said,
“George Bush will carry Texas
this November. This is a race be
tween George Bush and Michael
Dukakis, not between the vice
presidential candidates.
his part. That still won’t cut it,"
Clements said.
“Lloyd Bentsen cannot bring
that kind of strength to the
ticket,” he said.
The Republican governor was
defeated in 1982, when Senate
candidate Bentsen’s name was
atop the Democratic ticket. Many
political observers have said that
Bentsen’s campaign efforts
helped unseat Clements after his
first term.
But Clements, elected again in
1986, discounted Bentsen’s
strength.
“This is a far, far, far different
situation,” he said. “We will carry
Texas for George Bush. You’d
better believe it.’
Jim Oberwetter, who helped
run Bush’s primary campaign in
Texas, also said Bentsen’s name
on the Democratic ticket would
have little impact.
"The No. 2 man never wins the
presidency for you,” he said.
Meyer said Dukakis’ liberal re
cord would not appeal to Texans.
"Michael Dukakis is too liberal
for Texas voters and picking
Lloyd Bentsen as a running mate
will not hide that fact,” the chair
man said.
Gov. Bill Clements, who is co
chairing Bush’s Victory 88 com
mittee in Texas, described the
Bentsen choice as a desperate
move.
“He can’t carry Texas. This is a
last-resort kind of m™’*»rr>*»nr r»n
Oberwetter noted that in 1960,
Democrat John F. Kennedy and
his Texas running mate Lyndon
B. Johnson carried the state bv
just over 40,000 votes.
“And that was a Texan who
was a powerhouse,” Oberwetter
said.
Oberwetter said only aboui
75,000 Texans voted in the Re
public an primary that year, com
pared with more than a million
this year.
“I do not believe that George
Bush w ill do anything but win in
Texas. It is clear that the Demo
crats have chosen to make Texas
the battleground. It will probablv
lx* one of two or three battle
ground states,” he said.
However, Oberwetter de
scribed the choice of Southerner
Bentsen as a risk for Dukakis.
“This is an unbelievable
crapshoot. If you lose thi
crapshoot, you lose the whole
thing,” he said.
Early sales of cattle
blamed on drought
By Donna Falcone
Reporter
Drought effects mounting in
Texas are beginning to take their toll
on the cattle industry by forcing
ranchers to sell their calf crop early,
said Dr. Carl Anderson, an econo
mist with the Texas A&M Agricultu
ral Extension Service.
Anderson said Texas’ crop, for
age and livestock situation is deterio
rating rapidly as summer begins.
Moisture conditions throughout
the United States are mixed, he said,
but the drought situation is a prob
lem in Texas, with emphasized
drought stress in southern and
northeastern regions.
Anderson said Texas cattle ranch
ers especially are feeling the pinch of
the drought because their livestock
are located in these drought stressed
areas. The Panhandle, Rolling Plains
and areas in and around Lubbock
are classified as having adequate
conditions, but are of little use, An
derson said, because these areas are
cultivated for farming and are not
used for grazing purposes.
But ranchers located in areas clas
sified as short to barely adequate are
being forced to sell their calf crop
early and at a younger age. Ander
son said that with the increase in
grain prices, ranchqrs can no longer
afford to feed their cattle.
“Ranchers in hardest hit south
and southwestern counties are
continuing to market or move their
cattle in an effort to sustain some of
their foundation herds,” Anderson
said. “Large offerings of cattle are
being consigned to local auction
markets, creating depressed prices
in a number of areas.”
As a result of this heavy
movement of livestock, the price of
cattle is decreasing, Anderson said,
providing consumers with a short
term decrease in beef prices.
But for ranchers, it’s a different
story. Anderson said the added sale
of cattle has increased ranchers’ an
nual costs because they are having to
buy supplemental feed for their live
stock.
And to complicate matters, An
derson said that feed shortages are
mounting. Hay prices are constantly
increasing and the price of grain has
doubled since the drought mini
mized the corn crop in the Midwest,
he said.
“We are beyond concerned when
it comes to the stressed forage sup
ply for feeding stock,” Anderson
said.
Heavy maintenance feeding of
livestock continues in the driest
areas although hay supplies are low
and new crop cuttings are minimal,
he said.
“The bottom line here is the cost
of ranching,” Anderson said.
He said the effects of the drought
on the agro-business climate have
caused ranchers’ incomes to drop
because their buying activities are
limited to purchasing feed, with very
little going to the replacement and
maintenance of equipment and
other needed purchases.
Results predict PRI will win presidency
MEXIGO CITY (AP) — De
spite the lowest proportion of the
vote ever for the Institutional
Revolutionary Party (PRI), results
released until Tuesday indicated
it will take the presidency by a
more than 50 percent margin and
pay little heed to opposition pro
tests of fraud.
The Federal Election Commis
sion, the only source of official re
sults, adjourned early Tuesday
and said it would not meet again
until Wednesday night. Seven
days after last Wednesday’s vot
ing, it still was officially releasing
only results on the Chamber of
Deputies.
With the vote count lagging,
the governing party again re
leased data it said was obtained
from the federal commission
Those results showed its candi
date, Carlos Salinas de Gortan,
had 53.59 percent of the votes
counted. Cuauhtemoc Cardenas,
candidate of several leftist par
ties, followed with 26.08 percent,
and Manuel J. Clouthier of the
conservative National Action
Party with 16.04 percent.
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Soviets launch second probe for Mars
MOSCOW (AP) — Orange
flames lit the night sky of Soviet
Central Asia Tuesday as the So
viet Union launched the second
of a pair of space probes on an
111 million-mile odyssey to ex
plore the mysteries of Mars and
help prepare for a manned flight
to the red planet.
Its companion, Phobos I, was
launched skyward atop a 200-
foot-high Proton booster rocket
from Baikonur on T hursday,and
Soviet media said its on-board
navigation systems were switched
on the next day.
If all goes well, the two Soviet
spacecraft will enter the gravita
tional pull of Mars in January and
fall into orbit just behind Phobos
for a three-month remote study
of the Martian surface, atmo
sphere and magnetic field.
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Jet inquiry to focus on several aspects
SEATTLE (AP) — An inquiry
into the reasons why a jetliner lost
part of its roof will focus on qual
ity assurance, the design and cer
tification of airplane bodies, and
human and other factors in main
tenance, the chairman of a fact
finding board said today.
Officials have said the hearing
will also look into the mainte
nance and usable life of agingjet-
liners in general.
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