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Fridav, October 21.1988
ELECT Justice
Bob Thomas
Chief Justice
OF THE 10th COURT OF APPEALS
experience is the difference.
Pol, adv. pd. by Comm, to Blact Judge Bob Thomat Chief Juatloe
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Clements: Justice already
decided on funding issue
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AUSTIN (AP) — Gov. Bill Clements,
during a speech urging approval of a
constitutional amendment to keep school
funding a legislative issue, Thursday
suggested that a Supreme Court justice
already has made up his mind on the
case.
The justice, Oscar Mauzy, angrily
branded the governor’s allegation as
“outrageous, totally irresponsible.”
The charge came during an appear
ance by Clements before the Texas Asso
ciation of Taxpayers, where he contin
ued criticizing a state district court ruling
that found the state’s system of funding
public schools unconstitutional.
Clements warned that he will keep the
1989 Legislature in session for as long as
it takes to win passage of a proposed
constitutional amendment that would
guarantee legislative, not court, jurisdic
tion over public school funding.
Ruling on a suit filed by 67 school dis
tricts with low property values. Judge
Harley Clark said the system is unconsti
tutional because it doesn’t ensure that
each school district has the same ability
to obtain money to educate students.
The state is appealing the case, which
is currently pending before the Austin-
based 3rd Court of Appeals.
The case has yet to reach the Texas
Supreme Court.
Clements, a Republican, told the tax
payers association he thinks Mauzy, a
Democrat, already had made up his mind
on the case.
“I would bet you money here this
morning that opinion is already written
in anticipation of it getting to the Su
preme Court. And Oscar Mauzy already
has an opinion written,” Clements
charged.
“And I know what that opinion will
be. It’ll uphold Judge Clark. And it will
destroy, literally destroy, the public
school system in the state of Texas as we
know it today,” he said.
Mauzy said the charge was unfounded
and challenged Clements to prove it be
fore the State Commission on Judicial
Conduct. The justice said he would
gladly seek a public hearing on the gov
ernor’s charge.
“I will demand an immediate public
hearing under oath where Gov. Clements
can come forward with his proof and I’ll
come forward with mine," Mauzy said.
Referring to Clements’ 1987 admis
sion that he had known of illegal pay
ments to Southern Methodist University
football players, Mauzy said, "Is
stand Gov. Clements did not ki
hand on the Bible at the time hesti:
this morning. Therefore, Ithinktb
pie of Texas ought to follow hist;
and never believe him if he hasn'ijji
hand on the Bible.’’
During his speech. Clementssslj
convinced that Judge Clark's ndij
upheld on appeal, would disna®
1,100 local school districts aid itj
them with about a half dozen "meg
tricts.”
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Presidential battle
heats on furloughs
new inspection
on U.S. border!
AUSTIN (AP) — Heat from the battle
for the White House scorched the
statehouse Thursday as Lt. Gov. Bill
Hobby said Gov. Bill Clements and
other Republicans have distorted the re
cord of Democratic presidential hopeful
Michael Dukakis.
Speaking to reporters during a break in
the Legislative Budget Board meeting.
Hobby described Clements’ criticism of
the prison furlough program in Dukakis’
homestate of Massachusetts, as “intel
lectually dishonest.”
Clements, co-chair of the state cam
paign to elect George Bush president,
and other Republicans have sharply at
tacked Dukakis on an incident in which a
convicted murderer was allowed a week
end pass from a Massachusetts prison.
The inmate escaped while on furlough
and later raped a woman and attacked her
fiance. Dukakis has noted most states
have prison furlough programs, that the
law allowing the inmate on furlough was
in place before he took office as gover
nor and that the law was tightened under
his administration.
Hobby, a Democrat, said Clements
should do his homework better on the
Texas prison furlough system before crit
icizing other programs.
About 5,000 felons, including 517
convicted of murder or voluntary man
slaughter, have been furloughed in Texas
since 1987, according to reports.
On Wednesday, Clements denied re
sponsibility for the Texas program and
blamed it on the bureaucracy within the
Texas Department of Corrections.
The program is under the control and
under the jurisdiction of TDC, Clements
said. “That’s what the legislation says,”
Clements said. “I don’t have any direct
control over it. I did not know what was
going on. I don’t share any responsibility
for it.”
BROWNSVILLH (AP)— Customs
agencies on both sides of the border will
try out a new method of inspecting trucks
from a “maquiladora ” operation before
they leave the plant, to avoid delays in
crossing the Rio Grande, officials said.
The plan hinges on tightened security
at the TRICO Technologies Corp. plant
in the border city of Matamoros, Mex
ico, and the scaling of trucks going to
and from Mexico after inspection at the
manufacturing facility.
Although the 90-day trial plan calls for
allowing TRICO’s scaled trucks to cross
the bridge without inspection, customs
agencies on both sides of the border re
served the right to search the trucks any
time they wish, said Fernando Macias,
U.S. Customs port director at
Brownsville.
In the battle against illegal drugs and
other contraband, U.S. Customs has a
mandate to thoroughly search 35 percent
of all loaded trucks that come across the
bridge, Macias said.
“That means unloading every piece,
every cardboard and inspecting and ex
amining every section, every piece of
merchandise,” Macias said.
The jxjlicy of intensive searches has
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drawn tire from customs bror fr
others in the import-expon bu® :
lose money from the delays.
“These trucks, because ol|
agreement we have just signed,is!
cause of the previous qualificatt
have both met. ment the 10) J
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tmst of Mexican and U.S Cits
Macias said. “And, aslongasta
officials seal that truck at the jli
will not be touched and thetmeb
be opened and the shipment »'I
tinue on to its destination "
The maquiladora or twin pin;.:J
involves sending unassembled al
nents to a Mexican plant wheraJ
ucts are put together using meal
Mexican labor and then shippeeiJ
the United States virtuallyduty-te I
“We feel that the steps that tel
implemented will assist us in il
that our trucks, as they are
Mexico, are sealed before the; J
that they are free of any drugs of J
band and that they will stayer I
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NEW YORK (AP) — Texas businessman Lamar Hunt
paid $17 million to Peru’s state-owned mineral com
pany Thursday to settle his part of a jury finding that he
and two of his brothers plotted to corner the world sil
ver market.
The settlement was approved by U.S. District Judge
Morris E. Lasker, who presided over the nearly seven-
month civil trial in Manhattan of Hunt, 56, and his
brothers. Nelson Bunker Hunt, 62, and William Her
bert Hunt, 59.
The brothers, all from Dallas and sons of the late oil
billionaire H.L. Hunt, were sued by Minpeco S.A.,
the Peruvian minerals concern.
The settlement only concerned Lamar Hunt, owner
of the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football
League.
His attorney, Paul Curran, told Lasker that Hunt was
settling the matter because he wanted to put an end 10
the heavy legal and emotional costs of the litigation.
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Hunt’s Kansas City, Mo., office issued a statement
saying “$17 million is a small fraction of the liabilities
possible under the judgment, interest and on-going
costs inherent in continuing the legal action.”
But Curran maintained the settlement did not alter
Hunt’s contention that he had done nothing wrong.
Hunt's statement said, “In spite of the fact that the
claims against me were totally unwarranted, because
of the uncertainties of litigation and the substantial cost
associated with further proceedings, I made the busi
ness decision to put the litigation behind me so that 1
A lawyer representing some 17.000 invesE
are suing the Hunts and others in two large eta
suits complained to Lasker about certainaspee
settlement.
The lawyer, Herbert Dcutsch. noted thalui
settlement, the Minpcco verdict against Lara'
could not be used in the class action lawsuit!
allegations would have to be proven all oveui|
effect, making over 6 months of trial a null
But Lasker said he was pleased to approval
tlcmcnt.
“I always believe settlement is bettertiiarj
tion by other means," he said.
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