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Bentsen accuses
Reagan of drifting
in foreign
BEAUMONT (AP) — Democratic
vice presidential candidate Lloyd
Bentsen said Tuesday the Reagan
administration has hopelessly al
lowed America to “drift aimlessly
back into dangerous dependence on
imported oil.”
The Texas senator also said that
despite Republicans’ adoration of
President Reagan, the the presi
dent’s coattails will be very short
when it comes to helping George
Bush get elected.
Bentsen, speaking in this oil town
after a visit to the nearby Big Hill
Strategic Petroleum Reserve, said
the nation’s dependence on foreign
oil is now greater than it was in 1973
when the Arab oil embargo caused
gas lines across the United States
and other countries.
“The American people under
stand . . . that for eight years this ad
ministration has steadfastly refused
to produce an energy policy that will
protect America’s national inter
ests,” he told the gathering of about
500.
“The Republicans tell you they
have loosened OPEC’s hold on the
world’s petroleum markets, but the
numbers tell you that today America
is importing 42. percent of the oil we
consume.
“Our dependence has increased
by 15 percent while this administra
tion has been lulled to sleep by low
oil prices,” he said.
The petroleum reserve program
was launched in the wake of the oil
shocks of the last decade. The six re
serves are underground vaults of
crude oil which can be retrieved in a
national emergency.
Bentsen used the visit to the Big
Hill site the last of the siv reserves
oil deals
to underscore his and Michael Duka
kis’s support for the program which
they have planned will eventually
will put 750 million barrels of U.S.
oil in storage.
Bentsen, in shirtsleeves and a
gold-colored hard hat with “Sen.
Bentsen” on the front, told a group
of about 50 workers at the plant that
the reserve is crucial to the national
security. He also said that he would
like to expand the production to a
billion barrels.
The Reagan administration has
proposed cuts in the program in the
past, and Bentsen said only the
Democratic Congress was able to
keep it going.
Bentsen has been campaiging in
his home state while the Republicans
hold their convention in New Or
leans and dominate the national
news.
Asked about the president’s
speech Monday night to the conven
tion, Bentsen said Reagan had “an
adoring crowd, and they enjoyed
each other.”
“I also believe that in the conven
tion, and after the convention, as we
go into the election, that it’s George
Bush people are looking to, not Ron
ald Reagan,” he said. “And Ronald
Reagan’s coattails will be cut very
short.”
Bentsen said there is a yawning
gap between the Republican rhetoric
and reality, including Reagan’s
charge that the Democrats’ speciality
is inflation.
“Inflation is in the trade deficit,”
Bentsen said, citing Tuesday’s news
that the trade gap had jumped back
to $12.5 billion in June.
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Salutes
Faculty/Staff
Dr. L. S. “Skip” Fletcher, Dietz Professor of Mechanical of Engineering al
Texas A&M University, has been named an Honary Professor of the Ruhr-Uni-
versity, Bochum, West Germany.
Fletcher is the second American to receive this honor.
Dr. Maurice Shelton, researcher and professor with the Texas Agriculture Ex
periment Station at Texas A&M, has received the Animal Industry Service
Award during the society’s recent meeting at Rutgers University.
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his accomplishments and service in animal industry, says Bob Moser, new pres
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Activists: Discrimination
trial could help hispanics
EL PASO (AP) — The racial dis
crimination trial brought by His
panic FBI agents against the bureau
could have huge ramifications,
according to Hispanic activists.
The 311 agents who have joined
the class-action suit being tried in
U.S. District Court contend the FBI
discriminates against Hispanics in
hiring, promoting and disciplining.
They want damages and a change in
FBI promotion practices. Of 9,()()()
FBI agents, 400 are Hispanic.
“The ’60s were the decade of
blacks; the ’70s were the decade of
women,” Hugo Rodriguez, co-coun
sel for the plaintiffs, said Tuesday.
“The ’80s and ’90s are the decades of
the Hispanics. Hispanics are here to
be reckoned with. We think the laws
should be applied to them equally.”
In Tuesday’s testimony, a statisti
cal analyst hired by the plaintiffs tes
tified that the numbers show His
panic FBI agents are less likely to
hold higher-level jobs. Some agents
testified about alleged discrimina
tion they have suffered.
The agents’ testimony will prove
SHBIRMAN (AP) — A judge tight
ened a gag order Tuesday as attor
neys prepared to begin the federal
drug trial of suspended Orange
County Sheriff James Wade, ac
cused of using department drug
fighting funds to bankroll ampheta
mine sales.
U.S. District Judge Howell Cobb
of Beaumont ruled that “no one can
discuss open court testimony with
the news media.”
“The ’60s were the decade
of blacks; the ’70s were
the decade of women.
The ’80s and ’90s are the
decades of the Hispanics.
Hispanics are here to be
reckoned with. We think
the laws should be applied
to them equally. ”
— Hugo Rodriguez,
co-counsel for the plain
tiffs
discrimination, Jose de Lara, na
tional director of the League of
United Latin American Citizens,
said Tuesday from his San Antonio
office. He added that more lawsuits
could result.
“Once we get a ruling on this is
sue, we’re going to take this issue all
Although the judge would give no
reason for his order, he said he
wanted “no speculation or predic
tions as to what any evidence pre
sented through testimony showed or
did not show.”
Wade was charged May 2 in a fed
eral drug indictment alleging he was
involved in drug trafficking, con
spiracy to obstruct justice and em
bezzlement of county narcotics
funds.
over the country,” he said. “This
(case) is sort of a detonator that will
get this issue going.”
Rodriguez agreed. “We hope
there is a domino effect,” the Albu
querque-based lawyer said.
John Garcia, director-elect of LU-
LAC Texas organization, said Tues
day he already is working on a case
dealing with the way Hispanic Bor
der Patrol agents are treated at the
Sierra Blanca highway checkpoint.
The FBI suit “is just the leading
case in implementing affirmative ac
tion,” Garcia said. “We look to these
Hispanic agents as paving the way
for better jobs in the future, espe
cially in the FBI.”
De Lara said the case is important
“not only for law enforcement, but
for other departments as well, such
as government offices in other enti
ties such as social workers.”
The Justice Department, which is
defending its FBI branch, has dis
patched a total of 23 people to
mount the defense, including two
teams of lawyers, paralegals and
non-Hispanic FBI agents.
Wade will be kept in the county
jail, across from the courthouse,
during the trial.
The sheriff made no comment as
he was escorted into the courthouse
by two federal marshals.
Gary Richardson of Tulsa, Okla.,
and Jeff Kearney of Fort Worth,
Wade’s attorneys, would not com
ment on the jury selected because of
the gag order.
Feud heats up
between cities
for tax money
BRIDGE CITY (AP) —A feud
is heating up between the cities of
Port Arthur and Bridge City over
more than a million dollars in in-
lieu-of-tax money.
Port Arthur City Council on
Tuesday hired a special attorney
to sue Bridge City for annexing a
417-acre tract of Orange County
land that contains the Culf States
Utilities Sabine Station facility.
T he area was part of Port Ar
thur’s extraterritorial jurisdiction
until Bridge City annexed it Aug.
2. The GSU power generating
ilant paid $1.37 million in in-
ieu-of-tax payments to Port Ar
thur last year.
City officials from both sides
have emphasized their confi
dence in their city’s right to hold
the 4 17-acre tract.
A statute that Bridge City offi
cials have cited states that certain
areas outside a municipality’s es
tablished boundaries may be .des
ignated as an extraterritorial ju
risdiction “to promote the
general health, safety and welfare
of the persons residing in” the
area.
Several Bridge City officials
contend that to meet this require
ment Port Arthur should at least
be able to provide services to the
area, regardless of whether the
residents in the area request
them.
Port Arthur, which is located in
another county and across the
Neches River from the tract, does
not currently provide the area
with water or sewer lines or fire
or police protection.
Judge tightens gag order for trial
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