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Page 4
The Battalion
Tuesday, November 29,1988
Hance: OPEC
could boost
Texas economy
Waldo
by Kevin Thoma:
AUSTIN (AP) — The new pro
duction agreement by OPEC oil
ministers will be a “big plus” in help
ing to turn around the Texas econ
omy, state Railroad Commissioner
Kent Hance said Monday.
Hance said if the agreement not
been reached, the 1989 Legislature
would had have to consider raising
state taxes.
“This is certainly good news, not
only for the goveror’s office but
other state officials in . . . Texas, in
cluding the representatives and sen
ators. It takes a lot of the heat off of
them in the next legislative session,”
he said.
Another commissioner, John
Sharp, said, “The recent see-saw de
liberations of Ol e only show how
powerless this country is to control
its own energy future.”
“The American economy as well
as the Texas energy economy are
held hostage to a handful of foreign
oil ministers unless and until we take
control of our own destiny either
through an oil import fee, a floor
price for imported oil, or we displace
foreign oil with America’s fuel, natu-
■ ral gas,” Sharp said in a statement.
MACGYVER! THE
NUCLEAR POWERED
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COMPUTER IS GOING
TO BLOW UP!
WE’VE GOT TO
EVACUATE THE
CAMPUS.'
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CALL JACKIE SHERRILL!
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WORD OUT TO
THE STUDENTS'
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HIS OFFICE TODAY/
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WAS COMING UP, AS
MERRITT A5KEP...
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WORD HIS REPL7
RATHER CAKEFULL7,
BECAUSE...
PAUL/ IS THAT TOT-
HOLE STORY READY?
Hance spent a week recently at
the meeting of the Organization of
Petroleum Exporting Countries in
Vienna, Austria, and predicted
Monday the accord to sharply cut
O EC production “will have a posi
tive effect on the economy of
Texas.”
He told a news conference his
third OPEC meeting included visits
with oil ministers from eight of the
13 countries.
At Vienna, all 13 members of the
cartel signed the accord, which sets a
target price of $18 a barrel, although
crude has been selling at $14 a barrel
and less.
Analysts have said the agreement,
which runs for six months from Jan.
1, could send crude prices climbing
by $1 or $2 a barrel. Each $1 rise in
the price of crude oil theoretically
means an increase of 2.5 cents a gal
lon in retail gasoline prices, although
oil companies do not always pass
along the full increase.
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Misconduct trial nears
for state health agency
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AUSTIN (AP) — A trial is sched
uled to begin next week over the al
leged demotion of a former em
ployee who charged wrongdoing in
the Texas Department of Mental
Health and Mental Retardation.
Irene Little, 44, is seeking at least
$200,000 in damages after alleging
that she was demoted for blowing
the whistle on top officials.
demoted in 1986 when the agency
eliminated her $37,440 post as liai
son to the Legislature and trans
ferred her to a lower-paying job in
the standards and quality assurance
division.
, ... —brief Student!
community homes than rec l uire( hBe Alice in Wo
a federal court.
Hance said he did not believe gas
prices would go up.
The Dec. 5 trial in Travis County
District Court is expected to raise
questions about department actions
that are the target of several govern
ment investigations.
The state denies that Little was
Little’s lawsuit alleges the job
switch was retaliation for her dis
cussions with several state legislators,
including Sen. Gonzalo Barrientos,
D-Austin, about agency activities
that she believed were unlawful or
questionable.
Among them:
• Transferring more mentally re
tarded people from institutions to
• Allowing private, for-profi
community homes for the retardei
to receive both state money and
Medicaid money when federal la
prohibits using two sources offuni
for the same purpose.
• Awarding agency contracts f#
community homes to a numberoi
former agency employees, andina;
least one case to a man still workint
for the agency.
Hispanics win damages from FBI
“ges that Little'sjok
change abridged her right to truth
fully and accurately communiatt
information to elected officials re
garding the department’s program!
and operations, as guaranteed by the
T exas Whistle Blowers Act and the
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EL PASO (AP) — Attorneys for
Hispanic FBI agents who success
fully sued the agency in a class-ac
tion racial discrimination case said
Monday they want to devise a for
mula to determine damage pay
ments, but the bureau wants dam
ages to be decided case by case.
The 311 Hispanic agents argued
successfully this summer that the
FBI discriminated against them in
job conditions, assignments and pro
motions.
Now U.S. District Judge Lucius
Bunton has the task of deciding
what should be done to remedy the
situation.
In documents filed Monday be
fore Bunton, the FBI proposed hav
ing each plaintiff Fill out a long form
to help determine whether they
should get back pay and how much.
But the plaintiffs, represented by
attorneys Hugo Rodriguez and An
tonio Silva, said they want a formula
to determine how much front and
back pay each plaintiff should get.
time the highest-ranking FBI agent.
In the papers filed Monday, the
FBI proposed changing its system of
taking and monitoring in-house dis
crimination complaints by training
counselors better and placing the
equal employment opportunity of
fice under the supervision of an ex
ecutive assistant FBI director.
The FBI also promised to hire at
least 30 Spanish-speaking linguists
to monitor wiretaps and to pay
agents bonuses for improving for
eign-language fluency.
U.S. Constitution’s
free speech. Tf
guarantees
o they have
ling on in t
yond the car
ents relate th<
who represents Little, said she tiacp the whole ai
received excellent performanceeva |tthappening o
Austin lawyer Mark Peiimutter
who represents Little, said she hail
g in the tooth
“People thin!
liege environ
ted by a c<
here everyom
ms around
eir teeth,” he
“This is a (
lout 50,000
nds of visito
eek. With that
ety there are j
ho will victin
lid.
Linda Caste
razos County
id that studei
alize that a
le A&M camp
“The majori
ad the local i
They contended that non-His-
panic agents who spoke Spanish
were given better assignments.
nations in her previous job. He sail!
the department sought to fill t
islative liason job within 2.5 rnonlii ie extent ol c
of her transfer.
Students h<
ackpacks or t
did
As
Crime documentary causes
convict to ask for new trial
The formula would take into ac
count tenure, grade and salary.
Bunton ruled in September that
the FBI had discriminated against
Hispanic agents.
The decision came a month after
the end of a two-week,
trial.
The class-action suit was filed in
January 1987 by Bernardo Matias
“Mat” Perez, the second-in-com
mand in the El Paso office and at the
non-jury
DALLAS (AP) — An attorney for
Randall Dale Adams will be in court
Wednesday to argue that the protag
onist of the documentary “The Thin
Blue Line” should be given a new —
and fair — trial.
Convicted nine years ago of the
1976 murder of Dallas police officer
Robert Wood, Adams was sentenced
to death for the slaying. His sentence
later was commuted to life in prison.
But doubts about Adams’ guilt
have never disappeared, and they
were fueled recently by the Errol
Morris movie “The Thin Blue Line,”
which was based on the case.
“The Thin Blue Line” suggests
that police and prosecutors virtually
framed Adams by suppressing evi
dence of his innocence and using
five questionable witnesses.
In the Wednesday hearing, Ad
ams’ attorney, Randy Schaffer, will
be focusing on matters of law more
so than matters of fact. He contends
that Adams did not receive a fair
trial, largely because prosecutors did
not turn over documents favorable
to the defense, as required by the
U.S. Supreme Court.
Schaffer said he plans to use evi
dence generated in the making of
the film in his client’s hearing
Wednesday before state District
Judge Larry Baraka in Dallas.
Schaffer said he will question the
credibility of five witnesses who testi
fied against Adams, including key
witness David Ray Harris. Harris
originally testifed that Adams shot
Wood as H arris and Adams wen
riding together in a stolen car.
But Harris now claims that Adam
was not even in the car whenthefe
tal shots were fired.
result,
dents have a fa
Incidents si
ult and atte
i&M student
Indents more
nly until the <
ingth of time
National sti
nein 10 rapis
“It is probe
5,” Castoria s
“David Harris has essentially ad
mitted in the past month that I*
committed the capital murder ol
Dallas police officer Robert Wood,
Schaffer wrote in his application lot
a writ of habeas corpus, which won!
bring the case to court again, “(Ad
ams) has been incarcerated for al
most 12 years for an offense whicli
he did not commit.”
Schaf fer is asking Baraka to r«
ommend a new trial and Adams're
lease pending the trial.
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