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Several other Jackson backers also chose not to show up at the Bentsen brunch. “Damn it,” said Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, a Texas campaign leader for Jackson. “Until he meets with us, I’m boycot- ting.” Price, like many Jackson dele gates, is peeved at Dukakis for not putting Jackson on the ticket. Duka kis will get the presidential nomi nation Wednesday night. Bentsen will get the vice presi dential nod Thursday night. The three-term Texas senator said at the brunch that Dukakis turned around the Massachusetts economy and can help do the same for Texas. “He talks the same language we talk in Texas because he talks the language of jobs and growth and housing and health care and educa tion for all the people,” Bentsen told delegates. “Both coasts are booming, but Texas has taken some hits. It’s been a tough time back home. But this man took a state that was in bad shape, high unemployment, loss of jobs, closing of plants and he turned it around,” Bentsen said of the Mas sachusetts governor Bentsen gets praise for unity from Jackson ATLANTA (AP) —Jesse Jackson on Tuesday praised Lloyd Bentsen, the Texas senator tapped for the Democratic running-mate spot Jack- son wanted, as a person who has a perceptive understanding of how to reach out to minorities. When Bentsen joined Jackson and presidential nominee-to-be Michael Dukakis for their summit meeting on Monday, the senator immediately grasped the focus of the situation, Jackson told the Associated Press in a brief interview. Jackson said he and Dukakis told Bentsen what they had discussed re garding the relationship they had agreed upon. They told him they wanted him to join them and speak to a news conference in an effort to put out a public message of Demo cratic unity. “What was significant was his per ception, his understanding of what had to be done to broaden the base for inclusion,” Jackson said. “Coming out of Texas where you have to reach out to become a U.S. senator, you necessarily have to deal with the blacks, browns, the farmers and ranchers, the workers,” Jackson said. “Your orientation becomes in clusive and expansive because it is the only way to win. And the way he relates ... is indicative of his experi ence.” Jackson has declined to say much about Bentsen since Dukakis picked him a week ago, other than to note that Bentsen represents the conser vative wing of the party. Jackson’s comments about the senator contrast with the statements of many Jackson aides, who had crit icized Bentsen for a lack of under standing about minorities. Jackson said the understanding between himself and Dukakis was worked out before they called Bent sen. “And he did it not with a lot of spending, not with a lot of taxes, but he did it with effective management of the taxpayers’ dollars, with inno vative, creative new ideas, saying government can be of help and a force with the private sector,” Bent sen said. The senator was joined at the head table by several Texas political leaders, including U.S. Rep. Mickey Leland of Houston and Hazel Obey of Austin, who both support Jack- son. But state Rep. Al Edwards of Houston, invited to sit at the head ta ble, did not attend. Edwards is chair man of the Texas Jackson dele gation. “I have no problem with Senator Bentsen, but right now I’m cam paigning for Jackson,” Edwards said. “I’m sure before it’s over we’ll sit at a lot of head tables together.” But Price said unity was not inevi table. “We need to sit down and talk” with Bentsen, he said. “He hasn’t talked with us. We hear from him each time he stands for election.” Price rapped Bentsen’s record on civil rights issues as “nothing to write home about.” “I got one African-American fed eral judge in all the time he’s been in the Senate,” Price said. “He’s not the most progressive guy in town. Why would I beat my brains out for him?” Dallas delegate Pettis Norman, a Jackson backer, said Bentsen’s civil rights record is “adequate, not what I would have pushed or what Rever end Jackson has pushed.” “We can now begin our dis cussions in Texas on what role we will play in Texas,” Norman said, adding that the Jackson forces want to be “part of the decision-making process.” Leland, chairman of the Texas Jackson campaign, said the rift caused by the Bentsen selection is a “wound that has to be healed.” “They will finally realize that Du- kakis-Bentsen is the most pragmatic ticket we can have for victory in the fall,” Leland predicted. Despite the show of divisiveness within the Texas delegation, Bent sen spoke about unity at the brunch. “As I visited with Jesse Jackson this morning, as I talked to Mike Du kakis time and time again yesterday and I listened to Ann Richards last night I have never, never seen this Democratic Party more united than it is now,” he said. World briefs Flights reporting hurricanes will end MIAMI (AP) — An Air Force proposal to end hurricane recon naissance flights because they are costly would strip coastal areas of their most reliable early-warning storm defense, forecasters said. Air Force officials have de cided to eliminate the WC-130 flights that complement weather satellites and land-based radar used to track the often-erratic course of the storms in the Atlan tic and Gulf of Mexico, said Rep. Tom Lewis, R-Fla. Mark Zimmer, chief of the Tropical Satellite Analysis Center at the National Hurricane Center said ,“We feel strongly that the aircraft reconnaissance is impor tant to us. When you get down to warning the coastal population, we feel that we need the precise information of the aircraft.” The weather satellites provide a broad picture of what a hurri cane is doing, Zimmer said. “But when we get down to ac tually trying to measure the wind velocity and the pressure, we feel that the aircraft can best do that, he said. In addition, satellites can mal function. “If one goes down, it is not like you can go up there and fix it," Zimmer said. The Air Force proposal to end the reconnaissance ilights would go into effect Oct. 1, 1989,justa(- ter the height of next year’s At lantic 1 lurncane Season. It would save about $25 million a year, said Lt. Col. John Olsen of the Military Airlift Command headquarters at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois. Clouthier claims vote fraud in Mexico CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Former opposition presi dential candidate Manuel Clou thier visited the border city Tues day to drum up support for civil resistance to protest alleged vote fraud. Even before Clouthier arrived in Juarez, his supporters gath ered in parks and street corners, waving banners and blowing whistles. Clouthier, who lost the lulv 6 election as the standard bearerof the National Action Party, ot PAN, also came to push apart)- sponsored national referendum on the national elections, said Luis H. Alvarez, PAN’s national president. The national referendum, to lx* held July 30 and 31, will ask Mexicans whether they beliesc the elections were clean or fraud ulent. T on, jrie >tat :rat :ho sen ae e E :hu too said her dot P r arc Rig worker dies, makes death toll 167 ABERDEEN, Scotland (AP) — A French technician who was crit ically injured in the world’s worst oil rig disaster, died in a hospital Tuesday, raising the death toll from the tragedy to 167. Eric Brianchon, 35, suffered burns over 50 percent of his body, according to Coflexip, his Rouen-based employers. He un derwent skin-graft operations at Royal Aberdeen Infirmary and apparently died of infection, the company said. An explosion rocked the Piper Alpha platform in the North Sea 120 miles off Scotland onjulyfi, killing 164 oil workers and txo would-be rescuers. Two-thirds of the platformj sank, trapping many of thevk l tims. U.S. lawyers who want to rep resent the families of the dead placed an advertisement in the Aberdeen Press and Post on Monday, claiming that the best! courts for pursuing damage 1 claims are the state courts ofi Texas, because settlements will be j “substantially higher.” Surplus land put to use during drougfil WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture authorized haying and grazing on land set aside from production in seven drought-stricken Texas counties Tuesday, Sen. Phil Gramm’s office announced. The additions bring to 179 the number of counties in Texas where farmers are allowed to graze their livestock or harvest hay on land that had been taken out of production, Gramm spokesman Larry Neal said. The latest additions to the list are Borden, Kendall, Lynn, Mid land, Polk, Terry and Victoria counties. The USDA is also sharing the cost of purchasing feed for live stock in 82 Texas counties under the emergency feed program. Universities cut back research, experiments because of drought In Indiana, years of genetic work on new strains of corn and soybeans withered in the field. In Ohio, crop failure halted research on stalk rot and other corn diseases. In Georgia, a parched pasture killed a grazing test and put 67 cows on the auction block. Across drought-scorched sections of the United States, universities have abandoned or cut back on mil lions of dollars worth of experiments aimed at breeding tastier, healthier crops and beefier cattle. “It not only wipes out the whole year, long-range research may be ru ined, which means we’ll have to start over,” said William Baumgardt, di rector of agricultural research for Purdue University in arid West La fayette, Ind. “It may have effects that carry over for years.” However, researchers who study drought hope to learn lessons which will help during the next dry spell. “We’re getting information we wouldn’t otherwise get,” said plant physiologist Jerry Easton of Ne braska University, who is experi menting with genetics and cross breeding for drought-resistant sorg hum. “It enhances our stress test- “All the progress we’ve made the n to now is being set back two to j j e vears. Genetic studies are beinede vivin ing. Purdue scientists were breeding disease-resistant soybeans and har dier corn, but the hot, dry weather destroyed crops and produced no seeds from the test strains. Baum gardt estimated the loss in the mil lions of dollars, plus the time in vested in selecting the best varieties from year to year. years. Genetic studies are beingdflvivin astated,” Baumgardt said. Jiis r A staggering combination of dhhe t weather and high temperaturesmhe s created drought conditions in pj' stirri of the Midwest and South thal jValec the worst since the Dust Bowlofdjalso 1930s. pen . 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