Tuesday, September 20, 1988/The Battalion/Page 11
Dukakis visits Bush’s hometown for campaign
^^*iOUSTON (AP) — Democratic
presidential nominee Michael Duka
kis came to opponent George Bush’s
hometown Monday to talk about the
energy business and raise big dollars
fr0m Texas backers.
■Dukakis, with running mate Sen.
Llpyd Bentsen of Texas in tow, was
speaking Monday at a national en
ergy forum sponsored by a group
caRed “People For An Energy Pol
icy.'’
■The group specifically was
formed by oil industry executives to
address what they said was a need
fora national energy policy.
■“Our purpose is to inject energy
inlo this campaign as a viable issue,”
AH. Wadsworth, chairman of
Wadsworth Oil Co. of Houston and
chairman of People For An Energy
Policy, said.
Bentsen, in an interview pub
lished Monday in the Houston
Chronicle, complained that the Rea-
gan-Bush administration had al
lowed the energy-producing states
to “twist in the wind” by not having
an energy policy.
“Not having an energy policy is an
outrage,” Bentsen said. “They have
just turned their backs on our state.
There is an insensitivity to the prob
lems down here.”
After a late afternoon appearance
before the forum, Dukakis and
Bentsen were scheduled to attend a
$1,000-a-plate reception and dinner
that was expected to raise $1 million
for the Democratic presidential cam-
Polish officials
decide to resign
due to economy
e
■ WARSAW, Poland (AP) —The
government of Prime Minister
■bigniew Messner resigned Mon
day after sharp criticism of its
management of the economy. A
lawmaker called on parliament to
legalize the Solidarity labor feder
ation.
I The resignation of Messner
nd all 19 government ministers
was announced in a speech by
lessner to the Sejm, or parlia-
lent.
It was the first time in Poland’s
ostwar history the entire gov
ernment stepped down. Messner
laid the resignations would make
it easier for parliament to make
^proper decisions” about the gov
ernment’s future.
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1985, defended the government’s
lerformance but conceded “mis-
laps” in not standing up to infla
tionary wage demands.
Inflation caused a wave of la-
ior strikes in April. A second
ave in August ended when au-
Jhorities and Solidarity leader
ech Walesa agreed to hold
t>road-based talks next month
hat may include the topic of le-
alizing Solidarity.
Under Poland’s system, the
iommunist Party led by the Polit
buro is the actual seat of power
and appoints the government
through its majority in parlia
ment. The government is respon
sible for executing the party’s
goals.
The party leadership has main
tained that its goals for reforming
the economy and political system
have been correct but the imple
mentation by Messner’s govern
ment has been faulty.
The outlawed Solidarity feder
ation should regain its proper
place in the trade union
movement, Ryszard Bender, in
dependent parliament member
from Lublin, said during a debate
in parliament on the economy
and government.
“Apart from associations, apart
from Solidarity . . . there is also a
need to have new political par
ties,” he said.
It was apparently the first call
in parliament for legalizing the
union since Solidarity was sup
pressed in the 1981 by the impo
sition of martial law.
Bender urged Poland’s leader,
Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, to
make a joint statement with Wa
lesa, the first Nobel Peace Prize
laureate in Polish history, con
cerning Poland’s most vital inter
ests.
“Not having an energy policy is an outrage. They have
just turned their backs on our state. There is an insen
sitivity to the problems down here. ”
— Lloyd Bentsen
patgn.
The event was planned for Hous
ton’s Hyatt Regency Hotel, where
Bush officially began his GOP cam
paign for the White House at the
end of last year.
Bush also was invited to the en
ergy forum but declined to partici
pate in the popular event,
Wadsworth said.
Instead, former U.S. Sen. T°hn
Tower of Texas appeared at a Hous
ton press conference Monday on be
half of the Bush campaign, describ
ing Bush as a knowledgeable oilman
and Dukakis as a candidate speaking
on an crucial Texas issue he knows
little about.
“Mr. Dukakis has a newfound in
terest in the oil and gas industry in
Texas,” Tower said.
“But I find that a little hard to be
lieve for a man who opposed the re
peal of the windfall profits tax, who
continually opposed the deregu
lation of the price of oil and gas, a
man who represents a state that’s
been getting drunk on cheap, im
ported oil.”
Outlining Bush’s support of tax
breaks for enhanced recovery ef
forts and for independent explora
tion, Tower described Bentsen as a
Texan who was being exploited for
campaign purposes, only to be shut
out of his own administration at a
later date.
“If we value the economy of this
state, if we want to see the creation
of a climate in this country in which
economic recovery in Texas is possi
ble, we have to elect a man who is
sympathetic to our situation,” Tower
said.
Bush and President Reagan, how
ever, were planning to campaign in
Texas and Houston later in the
week.
“We’re obviously disppointed the
vice president chose not to attend,”
Wadsworth said. “His campaign
staff gave no reason, and we’re
shocked that they turned it down.”
The group’s director, Les Mal
lory, Jr. of Houston-based Grasso
Oil Field Services, said the appear
ance of only the Democratic candi
dates did not mean the session was
strictly a Democratic presidential
function.
“We remain non-partisan,” he
said.
Officials analyze Haiti uprising
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — An up
surge in atrocities not seen in Haiti since the ter
ror of the 29-year Duvalier dynasty appears to
have triggered an army revolt that toppled the
government of Lt. Gen. Henri Namphy.
Some see an opening for democratic reforms
under Haiti’s new leader, Lt. Gen. Prosper Avril,
who announced on nationwide television Sunday
that he was assuming the presidency to save the
country from anarchy and chaos.
But a Haitian government official said pri
vately that Avril may be thwarted by the military
high command, which the official said is not fa
vorable to an opening toward the civilian sector
and wants to maintain its privileges.
Before the coup, Avril was the army’s adjutant
general.
Soldiers of the elite, 1,000-man Presidential
Guard ousted Namphy and sent him to neigh
boring Dominican Republic early Sunday after
several hours of sporadic gunfire that apparently
caused no casualties. At least six people were re
ported killed, however, in what were described as
reprisals against alleged Tonton Moucoutes
thugs blamed for recent atrocities.
In justifying the coup, Sgt. Joseph Heubreux
said the noncommissioned officers who led it
wanted to restore honor to the army and raise
the prestige of the Haitian people degraded by so
many acts which have revolted the conscience of
the Haitian people and the world.
It was Heubreux who appeared on television
here to introduce Avril as the new president of
this impoverished Caribbean island nation.
Under Namphy, Haiti experienced increased
random killings and intimidation of groups ad
vocating democratic reform.
In the worst recent outrage, about 20 hood
lums brandishing machetes, handguns and steel
pikes burst into a Roman Catholic church during
Mass on Sept. 11 and slaughtered 13 people. Sev
enty-seven others were wounded.
The toughs were identified as City Hall work
ers, and Namphy and Port-au-Prince Mayor
Franck Romain were widely blamed for the at
tack.
Romain is thought to be a leader of a Macoutes
faction. He reportedly was arrested at the presi
dential palace shortly before the coup, then
taken to the Dominican Embassy.
A Western diplomat, speaking on condition of
anonymity, said the church massacre was the ap
parent trigger for dissident noncomissioned offi
cers who felt they were not getting proper pay
and recognition.
Police bait bandits in New Mexico
SUNLAND PARK, N.M. (AP) —
When Eduardo “Lalo” Medina
dressed like a tourist, concealed his
handgun and walkie-talkie and
spent a day waiting to be robbed on
Mount Cristo Rey, no one took the
bait.
But Medina, the police chief of
this El Paso suburb, said plainclothes
officers will continue to check for
bandits who prey on tourists and re
ligious pilgrims trekking to the
mountaintop shrine.
Robberies are common on the
mountain, which stands just outside
El Paso, near the intersection of
three states — Texas, New Mexico
and Chihuahua, Mexico.
At the top of the 4,000-foot-high
mountain is a 33-foot-tall, white
marble statue of Christ on the cross.
On the last Sunday in October, thou
sands of Catholics make the 1 Vfc-mile
walk on a rough switchback path to
the top of the 950-foot slope to at
tend an annual religious ceremony.
The summit, with its spectacular
view of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez,
Mexico, is a popular destination
year-round, and a prime spot for
bandits who steal visitors’ money and
jewelry. Often, the thieves gain es
cape time by taking their victims’
shoes.
So far this month, two robberies
have been reported. In one, a victim
was stabbed but not seriously in
jured. That prompted Friday’s un
dercover patrol by Medina, whose
jurisdiction covers most of the
mountain, including the summit.
Medina, pointing out that he has
six officers on his police force, said
regular patrols of the mountain are
unaffordable. But he pledged to
send plainclothes officers to the
mountain when possible.
“This undercover work is one way
we may catch a few of these bandits,”
he said, adding that he believes most
of the robbers are poverty-stricken
Mexicans.
“I have feelings for the people
who come across, seeking employ
ment to feed their families,” Medina
said. “I have no feeling for these
bandits that come across to commit a
After Medina walked back down
the mountain on his patrol, he en
countered a group of three men and
two boys sitting in a sheltered picnic
area on the mountain’s base. All said
they were from a Mexican village
near the mountain’s base and that
they had gone to the mountain for
religious devotion.
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