Thursday, December 8,1988
The Battalion
Page 5 Problem Pregnancy?
Warped
by Scott McCullar
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WE GET PAP FOR
CHRISTMAS?
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OH, PAUL?
WHERE’S
MY SCRIPT?
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ALL OUR LINES
HOW 50 WE
PONT HAVE TO
MEMORIZE ‘£M.
Gosh, Merritt,
what'll we get Dad
for Christmas??
How will we afford
the new powersaw
he wants??
Gee, why don't we sell his
golf clubs for the money?
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Small-town delegation
tours Israeli-held area
PALESTINE, Texas (AP) — One
f six U.S. mayors who will tour the
sraeli-occupied West Bank and
Saza Strip says he has been encour-
ged to make the trip, despite claims
hat the tour is an attempt by a spon-
oring pro-Palestinian organization
;o spread propaganda.
“I’ve read about this situation but
iever knew a whole lot about it,”
t)anny Allison, mayor of Palestine,
Texas, said. “In my personal opin
ion, I’ve kind of sympathized with
both sides.”
The American Arab Anti-Dis-
rimination Committee recruited
the mayors to tour the area. The
mayors represent cities whose names
are well known in the regions they
will tour — Palestine, Texas; Pales-
ine, Ark.; East Palestine, Ohio;
Bethlehem, Conn.; Hebron, N.D.,
and Hebron, Ind.
Paris Bouhafa, public relations di-
ector for the committee, said the
tour would commemorate the
[Christmas season and the first anni-
ersary of the Palestinian uprising.
“They are our guests for the trip,”
1 Bouhafa said. “There will be public
ity about it, but these people will not
be lending their name to any cause.”
Before accepting, Allison said he
contacted representatives of U.S.
Rep. Charles Wilson, D-Lufkin, and
U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm to check the
committee’s background. Both of
fices encouraged him to participate,
he said.
Elaine Lang, Wilson’s press secre
tary, said the committee is a re
spected group in Washington that is
“very definite” in its pro-Palestinian
support.
The tour begins Thursday and
concludes Dec. 19 in Washington,
D.C.
The itinerary includes meetings
with mayors of the Israeli-occupied
cities of Bethlehem, Ramallah, Nab
lus and the deposed mayor of He
bron.
“It’s a chance to tell people how I
perceive the situation there firs
thand, instead of how the news me
dia presents it,” Allison told the Pal
estine Herald-Press.
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High Court
frees teachers
from ‘bondage’
AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas Su
preme Court — in the words of one
lawyer — on Wednesday freed many
public school teachers from eco
nomic bondage.
The court in a unanimous opinion
determined that school districts
granting continuing contracts must
decide by Aug. 1 what they are going
to pay teachers for next school year.
If a district has not set a determin
able salary by Aug. 1, then it is obli
gated to pay the salary from the pre
vious year, the court said in an
opinion by Justice William Kilgarlin.
Austin attorney Jay Brim said that
while Dec. 7 may be a date of infamy
in the minds of many Americans, he
thinks in the minds of Texas teach
ers it’s going to take on a new mean-
in g-
“This is, in effect, an emancipa
tion proclamation for Texas teach
ers,” he said.
Brim, an attorney for the Texas
Association of Professional Educa
tors, said teachers historically have
been required to perform contracts
without knowing what they were
going to be paid.
Justice Kilgarlin wrote that teach
ers who sued the Lumberton Inde
pendent School District were correct
in stating, “It is unconscionable to
bind them to employment contracts
under penalty of law without a spe
cific agreement as to what the com
pensation will be.”
The suit was filed after Lum
berton school trustees, one month
after school started and salaries were
set, voted to decrease certain salaries
because the state had lowered its
share of the payment.
Brim said salaries were reduced
for 107 teachers. Of those, 26 plus
two librarians joined in the lawsuit.
Some teachers lost as much as
$2,800 a year under the trustees’ de
cision, according to the professional
educators association.
Brim said there is still time for the
other Lumberton educators affected
by the ruling to seek relief in court.
He also estimated that 100,000
teachers in some 200 of Texas’
1,000-plus school districts — includ
ing many urban districts — are cov
ered by continuing contracts, and
would be affected in the future by
the Supreme Court ruling.
Kilgarlin’s opinion noted that
once a teacher achieves continuing
contract status, or tenure, employ
ment continues without the necessity
of annual school board approval.
Brim said the practice of school,
districts waiting to the last minute to
set salaries never had been tested in
court, and was challenged in the
Lumberton case.
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