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ourt’s abortion ruling sparks fighting spirit
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ttterres tween pro-choice and anti-abortion
groups after the U.S. Supreme
l ourproi; fonrt Monday upheld a Missouri
that wef^w allowing states to regulate abor-
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1 Organizations on both sides of the
Issue have accelerated their
fnovements and say they will keep a
ivatchful eye on future elections.
I Proponents of abortion on a na-
excellenct h ona l level say they will collect funds
l complnll 0 help low-income women obtain
Igtionsoi'Tbortions, while locally they will
west Cori vr ‘ te l etters to their congressmen as
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7 text regular session of the Texas
legislature.
1 Katherine Hinson, co-founder of
’ro-Choice Aggies and a senior po-
)sei [itical sc nce/Russian major, said she
ears that after the July 3 ruling. Roe
I k Wade is in jeopardy, but pro-
tipf :hoice supporters are ready to light
md willing to do everything to save
vomen’s rights to abortion.
Meanwhile, plans for an anti-
ibortion “rescue” in Austin July 29
ire underway. Texas Rescue is part
a 57,000 member Pro-Life Action
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counselors who approach pregnant
women to discuss abortion alterna
tives.
Michele Stanfield, a senior lan
guage major and president of Ag
gies for Life, was arrested at a rescue
in February along with 140 pro-life
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Four juveniles
held by police
for crime spree
IRVING (AP) — Four teen-agers
were held in the Dallas County Juve
nile Detention Center on Thursday
in connection with a 13-hour crime
spree that included murder, kidnap
ping, sexual assault and robbery.
Police arrested the teen-agers
Wednesday after a Garland man and
his girlfriend were abducted from
an Irving motel, an area man was
shot to death while following the car
carrying the kidnap victims and
their kidnappers, the kidnapped
man’s family was held hostage while
the girlfriend was sexually assaulted
and the family was robbed.
Formal charges were expected to
be filed against the teens Thursday,
said Janice Warder, chief of the ju
venile division of the Dallas County
i district attorney’s office.
Officers said they planned to
jeharge all four with juvenile delin-
quency relating to murder, aggra-
' vated sexual assault, aggravated rob-
: bery and aggravated kidnapping.
Garland Police spokesman Larry
Rollins said Kenneth Carroll, 30, of
ISachse, apparently was following the
I kidnap victims’ car and was warned
ionce to stop his chase before he was
I killed with a single gunshot wound
to the head after he stopped on a
j residential street to talk with the kid
nappers.
Rollins said officers were attempt
ing to determine why Carroll was
following the car.
“I don’t know if he just saw some-
| thing suspicious and started follow
ing them or what,” Rollins said. “Af
ter he was warned once, I don’t
know why he continued to follow
them instead of calling police.”
supporters, 10 of whom are Aggies.
“What we’re doing is responding
to the situation in a peaceful and
prayerful means,” Stanfield said.
“We’re sitting peacefully outside
these killing centers, taking a stand
and trying to rescue children that
are being led to slaughter like an ani
mal being led to a meat market.”
Hinson said the resuers are “im
posing morality on other people,
when it is none of their business —
they’re giving Christianity a bad
name.”
Rex Moses, a spokesman for
Texas Rescue, is a pro-life activist
who has paid a price for acting on
his convictions and doesn’t “dare to
quit even after giving up my job, be
ing jailed and rejected by my com
munity.”
Father Marvin Kitten, a priest at
St. Mary’s Catholic Church who con
siders the Court’s ruling a hopeful
sign, said although he would not
take Moses’ approach, he would be
slow to condemn what the rescuers
are trying to do.
“They’re calling attention to a
reality in a dramatic way,” Kitten
said. “In the history of mankind,
we’ve always needed prophets of
some sort to shake us up and point
us in the dramatic direction we
should be going.”
The direction of the pro-choice
movement is on shaky ground, Dr.
Judith Baer, an A&M political sci
ence professor who teaches constitu
tional rights and liberties, said.
Baer said she considers the 5-4
ruling a blow to the Roe v. Wade de
cision.
“Basically what the Court has
done is allow the state to restrict the
use of public money, medical per
sonnel and facilities in performing
abortions,” Baer said. “As well as
making fetal testing harder to at
tain.”
“The ruling has given an invita
tion to legislatures to decide the fate
ol pregnant women who want an
abortion,” she said.
But as the pro-life and pro-choice
movements continue their battles,
Texas legislators are fighting the
same war.
A spokesman for state Sen. Kent
Caperton, D-Bryan, said the senator
is in full support of the Roe v. Wade
decision and is against the recent
modifications of the ruling.
The spokesman said Caperton has
no plans to introduce legislation on
abortion rights, but will work to
make certain that abortion be left up
to the woman and her family.
Mike Hachtman, administrative
assistant to state Rep. Richard Smith,
R-Bryan, said although the issue will
not be discussed in the Legislature
during special session, if Gov. Bill
Clements calls another session later
in the year, Smith will be ready to
support the Court’s ruling.
The law regarding abortions in
Texas requires abortion clinics be li
censed and that all abortions be re
ported to the Texas Department of
Health.
The state law also limits third-tri
mester abortions to those where the
physical or emotional health of the
mother is in danger or where the fe
tus is diagnosed with severe abnor
malities.
Publicly-funded abortions in
Texas are prohibited except to save
the life of the mother.
The Texas Department of Health
See Abortion/Page 6
Clements: Issue won’t make agenda
AUSTIN (AP) — Abortion won’t be added to the
agenda of the Legislature’s current special session, but
the issue might be brought up later in the year, Gov.
Bill Clements said Thursday.
“I definitely will not add it to the call (of the special
session) now,” said Clements, who controls the agenda
for all special sessions.
But the governor, who says he opposes abortion in
most cases, indicated that abortion could be placed be
fore lawmakers if another special session is called this
fall.
“The speaker, the lieutenant governor and I, we’ve
all been considering when we might have another ses
sion — might, I said.
“If we do, then probably a study group would report
in the interim,” Clements said. “We’d be prepared then
to consider what we might do with respect to our partic
ular (abortion law) situation.”
The governor said he doesn’t favor holding the ses
sion next spring, because it would come during the
1990 primary elections.
Clements’ statement was immediately hailed by anti
abortion leaders, but House Speaker Gib Lewis said he
thought it “foolish” to put the topic before lawmakers
until the U.S. Supreme Court has considered its several
pending abortion cases.
“You don’t just run in and start passing laws when
the issue has not been finally resolved,” Lewis, D-Fort
Worth, said.
“I think it’s an issue that’s still very cloudy,” he said.
“There’s still decisions to be made, court opinions to be
rendered. I think until all that’s cleared up it would be
Under stress
Michael Lloyd, a senior environmental design major strings wire
as he puts the final touches on his Design Media 404 final pro
ject in the Langford Architecture Building Thursday afternoon.
Photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack
Lloyd is designing an outdoor pavilion composed of maple wood
pieces. The project, which is a cable tensile structure, is due to
day, the last day of classes for the first summer session.
Anti-abortion
advocate recruits
for Austin ‘rescue’
By Richard Tijerina
and Kelly S. Brown
STAFF WRITERS
very foolish to run out and try to introduce some type
of abortion bill. I just think it would be very unwise.”
Clements acknowledged that concern, saying,
“There are some pros and cons and differences of opin
ion. . . . We haven’t made our mind up.”
Lewis earlier said he thought the next regular session
of the Legislature, in 1991, would be the time to con
sider any abortion measures.
The Supreme Court this week upheld a Missouri
abortion law, a ruling that gives state legislatures added
powers to regulate abortions.
Texas’ abortion laws require annual reporting of
abortions to the state health department and disallow
abortions during the last three months of pregnancy
unless the mother’s life is in danger, according to the at
torney general’s office.
Clements has said he opposes all abortions, except in
cases of rape, incest or when the mother’s life is endan
gered.
Bill Price, president of the Dallas-based Texans
United for Life, said Clements’ latest comments were
good news for abortion opponents.
“We are very pleased that Gov. Clements is seriously
considering opening a special session of the Legislature
to deal with the abortion issue,” Price said.
“This is entirely consistent with the promise he made
to our group and the people of Texas to do everything
within his power to stop abortion on demand,” he
added.
The Legislature is in special session until July 20 try
ing to reform the state’s workers’ compensation system.
Women who have abortions are
nothing more than “convenience ad
dicts” who don’t want to face reality,
Rex Moses, the spokesman of Texas
Rescue, an Austin-based anti-abor
tion group, said Wednesday.
Moses, who was in Bryan-College
Station to gather support for his
pro-life movement and recruit vol
unteers for a scheduled “rescue”
July 29 in Austin, said he tells
women who plan to have an abortion
the problem is with them, not their
unborn children.
“Like a drug addict who needs a
hit, you don’t want to deal with reali
ty,” Moses said. “Killing a baby is like
a narcotic of convenience — it’s a
quick solution to an immediate prob
lem.”
“Rescues” are demonstrations in
front of abortion clinics in which
anti-abortionists, risking arrest, try
to deter pregnant women from
going in to have an abortion.
He said Texas Rescue is a nonvio
lent organization that protests some
what differently from others. He
said it doesn’t use ropes or chains to
bar the doors of abortion clinics
which Moses called “killing centers.”
Instead, demonstrators block en
trance to the clinics and hold a
group prayer while counselors tell
women seeking abortions about
See Rescue/Page 6
Fourteen die
when man steers
bus into ravine
ABU GHOSH, Israel (AP) — A
Palestinian shouting “God is great!”
grabbed the steering wheel of an Is
raeli bus Thursday and veered it
into a 200-foot ravine where it ex
ploded in flames, killing 14 people,
police said. Twenty-seven people
were injured.
Helicopters brought up victims
from the gutted chassis of the bus,
which lay in a circle of burned grass
below the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem high
way, eight miles west of Jerusalem.
Also hauled up were bags of victims’
belongings, including glasses, shoes,
purses and wallets, and a Book of
Psalms.
“I can’t describe it. . . . You see
something black that just a few min
utes ago was a human being,” said
Rami Yaffe, head of the fire brigade
that helped in rescue operations.
U.S. officials said seven of the in
jured were Americans, including a
woman who was visiting Israel to
watch her daughter compete in the
Maccabiah Games for Jewish ath
letes. Another of the injured was
identified as Canadian. The injured
were not identified.
Officials also said two people were
unaccounted for.
Police arrested an Arab bus pas
senger from the occupied territories.
“We know for certain that this man
is the attacker,” Police Commis-
ssioner David Krauss said. “Maybe
he was the one who also planned it.
Inside the bus, he acted alone.”
The man, in his mid-20s, was seen
by photographers lying on the
ground with a bandage on his head.
A&M joins UT, Baylor
at Texas Med Center
Texas A&M will make its con
tribution to the Texas Medical
Center, the largest medical center
in the world, with the Institute of
Biosciences and Technology pos
sibly as early as January 1991.
A&M’s institute will join other
universities such as Baylor and
the University of Texas, which
also have branches at the center
in Houston.
Gen. Wesley Peel, vice chan
cellor for facilities planning and
construction, said that the con
tracted amount of the addition to
the Texas Medical Center is
$21,512,348.
“The building is funded by
proceeds collected from the Per
manent University Fund,” he
said. “PUF earns money from
bonds that the University owns
which can’t be spent, but the divi
dends from them can be used to
fund major projects.”
Peel said that the current con
tract completion date is Jan. 30,
1991.
“The contract completion date
is very tentative,” Peel said. “It
can be moved up or back, but
from a realistic standpoint we will
probably have to extend it due to
bad weather and other problems
that might occur.”
Peel said if everything goes as
planned, the building can be fur
nished by February and have oc
cupants as early March 1991.
Bush says Soviet proposal to reduce arms
remains on backburner of NATO agenda
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush to
day deflected Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorba
chev’s call for swift negotiations over reductions
in short-range nuclear weapons, noting that
NATO leaders said they would not entertain
such talks until agreement had been reached on
conventional forces.
Bush said he didn’t want to get off track by re
opening the issue of short-range nuclear forces
that Western leaders agreed to in Brussels in
May.
The president made his comments as he
fielded questions from reporters in preparation
for his trip to Europe beginning Sunday.
The president said he hoped to use his visits to
Poland and Hungary to nudge both communist-
controlled countries toward economic democ
racy.
“Our challenge is to help create the conditions
under which the Hungarians and Poles can re
cover economically and make the transition,” he
said.
Bush also said he is happy that former Marine
Lt. Col. Oliver North did not draw a jail term for
Iran-Contra crimes. He sidestepped a question of
a possible pardon for the former White House
aide, noting the case is being appealed.
North was given a suspended sentence and a
$150,000 fine, and was ordered to perform 1,200
hours of community service in an anti-drug pro
gram for his conviction on three counts.
Bush fielded reporters’ questions in the Exec
utive Office Building across the street from the
White House.
The president departs on Sunday for his two
stops in Eastern Europe before heading for an
economic summit meeting in Paris and a follow
up visit in the Netherlands.
He said he hoped the summit would deal with
worldwide environmental concerns and make a
contribution toward non-inflationary growth.
Bush’s reply to a question about Gorbachev’s
proposal appeared carefully worded.
“The answer is to please read carefully what
happened in Brussels,” he said. “To look at the
united NATO position and to go forward . . .
with the agenda at hand. That will be the mes
sage. I don’t want to get off the track by re
opening the short-range nuclear forces pack
age,” he said.
In a speech earlier in the day in Strasbourg,
France, Gorbachev offered to make additional
and rapid cuts in his country’s nuclear arsenal if
NATO accepts negotiations on tactical nuclear
weapons.
The NATO agreement calls for negotiations
to reduce short-range nuclear missiles only after
an East-West agreement has been reached to re
duce conventional forces and reductions are ac
tually underway.
“I see no reason to stand here and try to
change a collective decision taken by NATO,” the
president said today.