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Vol.88 No. 135 USPS 045360 10 pages College Station, Texas
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Tuesday, April 18,1989
Wright charged with 69
House ethics violations
Constituents offer
varied opinions
about violations
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
House ethics committee, with Demo
crats and Republicans united, for
mally charged Speaker Jim Wright
Monday with 69 violations of the
chamber’s rules including what the
panel’s chairman called “a scheme to
evade” limits on outside earnings.
After a 10-month, $1.5 million in
vestigation, the committee of six
Democrats and six Republicans
voted unanimously to issue a report
finding “reason to believe” the
Texas Democrat had run afoul of
House rules requiring reporting of
gifts, barring acceptance of gifts
from persons with a direct interest in
legislation and limiting outside
earned income.
“I know in my heart I have not vi
olated any of the rules of that institu
tion,” Wright said in a speech to a la
bor meeting shortly after the ethics
report was released.
He said he had asked “urgently
and earnestlv” for a quick meetine
By Stephen Masters
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Texas A&M students who order
parking permits through preregis
tration will have to stand in one
fewer line in the fall thanks to a new
parking policy.
Tom Williams, director of park
ing and transit services, said A&M
will mail all non-parking garage per
mits with fee slips to students who
preregister. The University also will
switch from stickers to hang tag per
mits, he said.
Spaces in the Northside parking
K must be renewed by May 12
1989-90 year. After a space is
lost, names will go back on the over
1,100-person waiting list for spaces,
Williams said.
Permits for parking garage spaces
must be picked up between July 17
and Sept. 15.
Parking fees will not change from
the 1988-89 school year, he said
MBA degrees
pay dividends
to recipients
NEW YORK (AP) — They may
be satirized in cartoons and crit
icized by their peers, but MBAs
— men and women holding the
master of business administration
degree — are pervading the big
business scene.
While most of them still can be
found at the division manager
level, more and more are making
kail the way to the presidency or
chairmanship.
Their influence is spreading
laterally, too. Once found in fi
nance jobs, they now serve in ev
ery functional area, including
manfacturing, sales and market
ing. They are displacing psychol
ogy majors in personnel depart
ments. And they have made deep
inroads into the steel, automotive
and chemical industries, which in
the past weren’t known as espe
cially promising areas for MBAs.
They are now a critical mass,
exerting power and influence
throughout corporate life and
tending to hire even more MBAs.
Noting the need and the interest,
the nation’s universities are doing
their best to maintain a supply.
“No degree program in the
past two decades has grown faster
than the MBA,” Eugene Jen
nings, professor of business man
agement at Michigan State Uni
versity, said.
Research by Jennings, who pi
oneered studies of corporate mo
bility patterns in the late 1940s
and wrote “The Mobile Man
ager,” suggests a large industrial
■Ompany is three times more
likely to be headed by an MBA
than was so a decade ago.
Between 1981 and 1986, he
found, MBAs made up 9 percent
of new’ employees with college de
grees. At the supervisory level
'heir representation was double
that. And at the even higher divi
sion level it was triple.
with the the committee to to con
front the allegations directly.
At a news conference, committee
chairman Rep. Julian Dixon, D-
Calif., emphasized that Wright is
presumed innocent until the charges
are proven, and he underscored that
proving them requires a much
higher weight of evidence than the
step taken Monday, which is the
panel’s equivalent of an indictment.
The move set in motion a series of
steps in which Wright can defend
himself and the panel must prove
with “clear and convincing” evidence
that the violations occurred. That is
likely ultimately to throw the matter
before the full House, where
Wright’s position as the nation’s
highest elected Democrat, or even
his House seat, could be on the line.
Wright immediately began his de
fense in earnest, operating what one
supporter, Rep. Charles Wilson, D-
Texas, called “a war room” out of his
office. “At some point we’ve got to
A&M issued around 5,000 tags on
a limited basis for the 1988-89 school
year to test the hang tag system, Wil
liams said. He said theft of the tags
has not been a problem.
“We’ve had a few lost or reported
stolen, but the problem has not been
large enough to discourage us from
going to the hang tag system,” he
said.
Williams said because the hang
tag can be moved from car to car,
students and faculty will no longer
be required to fill out registration
forms for their vehicle.
“With the hang tag process we
don’t need to register each car,” he
said. “The tag goes with the person,
not with the car.”
Williams said the tags will be as
signed to the last vehicle registered
in that person’s name. Incoming stu
dents do not preregister so they will
not be affected, he said.
All permits go into effect Aug. 28.
By Alan Sembera
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Graduate student leaders at the
University of Texas in Austin plan to
picket the UT System headquarters
today to protest what they say are in
adequate efforts by the administra
tion to restore funding for graduate
employee health benefits.
This protest is part of a contro
versy that has been steaming at UT
since February 1988 when the Texas
Higher Education Coordinating
Board declared illegal the state in
surance benefits being paid to about
start figuring out who’s on our side
and who’s on the other side,” Wilson
said.
Wilson predicted Wright would
win on the floor, “losing a few cow
ardly Democrats and picking up
some brave Republicans.”
The most serious allegation
against Wright, that he accepted
some $145,000 in gifts over a 10-
year period from George Mallick, a
Fort Worth developer, also had the
narrowest margin of support on the
ethics committee.
According to records of internal
committee votes released along with
the report of the panel’s special out
side counsel, Chicago attorney Rich
ard J. Phelan, Democrats Chester
Atkins of Massachusetts and Ber
nard Dwyer of New Jersey joined
the six committee Republicans for
an 8 to 4 margin on that issue.
The panel agreed with its counsel,
Phelan, that Mallick’s major interests
in real estate and oil and gas ven-
3,500 graduate employees in the UT
and University of Houston systems.
Texas A&M does not provide
health benefits for its graduate em
ployees.
Nancy Jeffrey, interim chairman
of the newly organized Graduate
Professional Association at UT, said
they are angry because they discov
ered that UT System Chancellor
Hans Mark has not made an effort
to get funding for the benefits into
the state appropriations bill.
UT has been paying its graduate
employees an extra $115 per month
to substitute for the lost health bene
fits. However, the supplement will
Battalion file photo
House Speaker Jim Wright
tures and in redevelopment of Fort
Worth’s historic stockyards district
gave him a direct interest in legis
lation on taxation and on certain ap
propriations bills. His financing ar
rangements with savings and loan
institutions also gave him an interest
in legislation involving the S&L in
dustry, the committee found.
But Wright’s lawyer, William C.
Oldaker, called that “doublespeak”
See Wright/Page 6
end August 31. Other schools in the
UT and UH systems have been pro
viding similar supplements.
Erik Devereux, former secretary
of the UT Graduate Council, said
the health premiums were declared
illegal because of changes made in
the state insurance code in 1983 that
made participation in the teacher re
tirement system mandatory in order
to be elegible for health benefits.
But graduate employees had got
ten out of the teacher retirement sys
tem in 1977, he said, because most
didn’t work at universities long
enough for it to pay off. They were
able to keep more of their income by
FORT WORTH (AP) — Resi
dents of the town that proudly
boasts it is “where the West begins”
are known for expressing blunt
opinions. But when it comes to the
ethics investigation of House
Speaker Jim Wright, the opinions
about the hometown representative
fall on both sides of the political
spectrum.
The House Ethics Committee an
nounced on Monday that the investi
gation is moving into a more formal
phase with public hearings. Not only
will there be public testimony to the
charges, but Wright also will have an
opportunity to respond to what the
committee said were 69 violations of
the official rules of conduct.
But the verdict in Wright’s home
town remains deadlocked.
“I think he’s guilty and they ought
to hang him — just like (former Sen.
John) Tower,” businessman Gary
Dempsey said. “They use everything
that everybody else does to keep
not paying into the system, he said.
“As far as we can tell, the persons
who helped with the 1983 changes in
the law never anticipated the effect
of these changes on graduate stu
dent’s elegibility for insurance bene
fits,” Devereux said.
Legislation pending in the state
Senate and House would make the
health benefit payments legal again,
but they provide no funding.
The Senate passed its appropria
tions bill Wednesday, but no fund
ing for the health benefits was in
cluded. T he House appropriations
bill also does not include any fund-
them out of office. But other people
can do things and get away with
them.
“I’m not sure how it will end, but I
would be surprised if it got him out
of office,” Dempsey said.
“I think he’s guilty,” said Tish Lu
cas, a Housing and Urban Devel
opment employee in Fort Worth.
“Any time a woman takes $18,000 a
year and a Cadillac when she’s living
in Washington, D.C., when the jobs
are here — that doesn’t make sense.”
But others staunchly defended
the 34-year congressman.
“Really, the type of things that
he’s done don’t bother me that
much,” Mara Hoyler, an employee
of Texas Cycling Journal in Fort
Worth, said. “What bothers me is if
they’re going to do (such an investi
gation) with him, they should do it to
everyone.
See Hometown/Page 6
Walesa calls
for rebuilding
of Solidarity
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Lech
Walesa on Monday called on Poles to
rebuild Solidarity “skillfully and
quickly” just hours after a court de
clared the independent union legal
again and ended seven years of gov
ernment suppression.
“I appeal to all workers and sup
porters of our union to form factory
organizations as soon as possible
where they still don’t exist and to re
port their membership in Solidarity
or to join it,” Walesa said in a
statement read in Warsaw by union
spokesman Janusz Onyszkiewicz.
Onyszkiewicz said an independent
. jLinipn press should begin operating
by the end of the month, arid that
Solidarity should get new national
headquarters in Gdansk by Tuesday.
“Our effort, devotion and suffer
ing have not been in vain,” Walesa
said in his statement. “We defended
our workers’ rights, together we are
paving a road to a fully democratic
and sovereign Poland.”
But he cautioned the “day of suc
cess” came in hard economic times.
“The Polish nation is facing tasks
which are much more complex than
in 1980,” he said.
ing for the benefits.
A legislative aid for Sen. Kent Ca-
perton, a Bryan Democrat and
chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee, said it would be “diffi
cult, if not impossible” to get the
funding included before the state
appropriations bill is sent to the gov
ernor.
At another rally April 11, leaders
of the UT Graduate Student Council
resigned en masse because they were
not told earlier that promised sum
mer salary supplements would not
be given to graduate employees who
didn’t work during the summer.
New warrants issued in drug- ring killings
BROWNSVILLE (AP) — Three new U.S.
federal arrest warrants were issued Monday
with one man taken into custody in the ex
panding international investigation of an oc
cult-influenced drug ring believed responsi
ble for the deaths of 15 people found the past
week in Mexico.
Arrested Monday in Houston was Serafin
Hernandez Rivera Sr., of Brownsville, son of
Brigido Hernandez, who owns the Santa El
ena Ranch near Matamoros, Mexico, where
the group reportedly performed human sac
rifices.
Also named in the new warrants were Mar
tin Quintana and Malio Fabio, two Mexican
citizens believed to have participated in the
sacrificial slaying and mutilation of University
of Texas student Mark Kilroy, said Oran
Neck, chief U.S. Customs agent in
Brownsville. The two remained at large Mon
day, and are considered dangerous, he said.
“Anybody that’s involved in human sacri
fices either directly or indirectly ought to be
feared,” Neck said, adding that Fabio and
Quintana also are wanted on the same drug
charges as Hernandez.
Across the border in Matamoros, federal
Mexican charges against four men in custody
in the case were delayed Monday after the
discovery of two bodies Sunday near the
ranch where 13 mutilated corpsesWere found
buried last week.
Hernandez is the father of Serafin Her
nandez Garcia, 20, and is the brother of Elio
Hernandez Rivera, 22.
Elio Hernandez is considered one of the
top cult figures, Mexican authorities said.
Both Elio and Serafin Jr. were in custody in
Matamoros.
with them, iseck said, declining to discuss
the information further.
The three new warrants brings to 11 the
number of federal U.S. warrants issued, but
only Serafin Hernandez Rivera Sr. was in cus
tody in the United States.
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Anybody that’s involved in human sacrifices either directly
or indirectly ought to be feared.”
— Oran Neck,
customs agent
Serafin Sr. is not believed to have been in
volved in the cult activity, only in drugs, offi
cials said.
Neck said the Hernandez family has a long
history of drug-smuggling activity.
Saul Hernandez Rivera, brother of Serafin
Sr. and Elio Hernandez, was machine-
gunned to death last year in Mexico, in what
Mexican officials attributed to a drug-related
execution, Neck said.
Neck also said the search for Adolfo de Je
sus Constanzo, 26, and Sara Maria Aldrete,
24, believed to be the cult ring leaders, has
shifted back to Mexico with information that
they traveled to Mexico City with the inten
tion of going to Miami from there.
“There might be one or two other subjects
Four were in custody in Mexico and six re
mained at large Monday.
Two bodies of suspected drug traffickers
missing since May were unearthed Sunday on
a collective farm two miles south of the Ran
cho Santa Elena. The newly discovered vic
tims, Moises Castillo, 52, of Houston, and
Hector de la Fuente, 39, of Ejido San Fran
cisco, west of Matamoros, did not appear tor
tured or mutilated like the other victims, offi
cials said.
Castillo’s father, Hidalgo, 76, of
Brownsville, said he found $70, a pair of eye
glasses and a passport in his son’s pocket
when he unearthed the bodies
Castillo disappeared on May 30, 1988, the
same day de la Fuente dropped out of sight,
of ficials said.
Castillo said he first suspected his missing
son might be at Ejido Santa Librada after chil
dren told him they saw something suspicious
there while rabbit-hunting.
“They said, ‘Look over there. There’s a
hand sticking out of the ground,’” Castillo
said.
But Castillo added that he avoided digging
it up until after the 13 bodies were discovered
last week at Rancho Santa Elena, about a mile
south of the border and 20 miles west of Mat
amoros.
“I was afraid the police might detain me,”
said Castillo, who feared that he somehow
might be arrested if he told anyone about the
body.
Formal Mexican federal charges were to
have been filed Monday against four men in
custody here, but the new deaths complicated
the case, said Jose Piedad Silva Arroyo, Mexi
co’s chief federal narcotics investigator for
northeastern Tamaulipas state.
Silva said authorities Monday were consid
ering adding the latest victims’ deaths to mur
der, kidnapping, drug and weapons charges
already pending against the four suspects.
“It’s a big case, not simple, and there are a
lot of details to attend to before we take them
before the court,” Silva said.
The two new victims were drug traffickers
somehow involved with the cult, authorities
said.
Preregistered students
will receive hangtags
by mail for parking
UT graduates will picket system headquarters