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FORT WORTH (AP) —The son
of former House Speaker Jim
Wright said Thursday he will not
seek election to the Congressional
seat that his father gave up amid a
House ethics investigation.
Citing “personal, financial and
geographical” reasons, James C.
Wright III said he will not be a can
didate in the Aug. 12 special election
to Fill Wright’s seat.
“It just wouldn’t be right,” the
younger Wright said from Santa Fe,
N.M., where he is an administrator
in the state personnel department.
‘I am looking for a way to come back
to Texas and I think I will, and I
think I will someday run for public
office, but it just wouldn’t be right to
do it this way.”
Meanwhile, the man considered
the Republicans’ strongest candi
date, television personality and phy
sician Bob Lanier, announced he
would be a candidate in the race.
Lanier became the fourth candi
date in the special election to replace
the elder Wright, who was Texas’
12th Congressional District rep
resentative for nearly 35 years.
“I have lived the American Dream
and now it’s pay back time for me,”
Lanier said.
Lanier appears in his syndicated
60-Second Housecall program,
which has aired locally since 1985.
Lanier also has received an enthu-
lican and will run in the congression
al race.
Democrat Pete Geren, a former
aide to Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, and Re
publican Laraine Bethke entered the
race earlier, and several other candi
dates are believed to still be consid-
am looking for a way to
come back to Texas and I
think I will, and I think I will
someday run for public
office, but it just wouldn’t be
right to do it this way,”
— Jim Wright III,
son of former Speaker
siastic endorsement from Republi
can Sen. Phil Gramm.
The deadline for filing to enter
the race is Wednesday.
Lanier’s entry into the race fol
lows by a day an announcement by
former Democrat Jim Hunter, who
twice lost races for Tarrant County
sheriff, that he is becoming a Repub-
ering running.
The 12th Congressional District,
which includes all of Fort Worth and
parts of Tarrant County, tradition
ally has been a Democratic strong
hold.
But Hunter joins a growing num
ber of Tarrant County Democrats
who have either switched to the GOP
or are seriously considering such a
move.
“I was raised a conservative Dem
ocrat and have always been conser
vative in my views,” Hunter said. “I
think the majority of conservative
voters in Tarrant County are Repub
licans.”
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DALLAS (AP) — One day after
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a woman hostage in a car Thursday
in front of a Salvation Army facility
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Police set up a command post
near the Carr P. Collins Social Serv
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with the man, spokesman Vicki
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the social service center’s family vio
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his mother on a phone after he said
he would release the woman if he
could talk to his mother. The man
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Thirty-four years after
Congress authorized Cooper Lake, the northeast Texas
reservoir is once again mired in controversy.
At issue are plans by Rep. Jim Chapman to raise fed
eral spending for two lakeside parks from $12 million
to $22 million, creating what he calls the “premier lake
facility in Texas.”
The Bush administration, however, considers Chap
man’s plan “one of the most egregious examples of vio
lation of cost-sharing” under a law requiring local spon
sors to help pay for such projects, said Ed Dickey,
deputy for policy and evaluation in the Army’s office of
assistant secretary for civil works.
“We thought we closed this out with the deal that was
struck a couple of years ago,” Dickey said Thursday,
referring to a 1987 agreement Sen. Phil Gramm helped
reach with the Army Corps of Engineers.
Under that plan, the federal government would
spend $12 million to build the parks, to be managed by
the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
“My position is that ain’t good enough,” Chapman, a
Sulphur Springs Democrat, said. “That is not what the
federal government promised.”
When Congress authorized Cooper Lake in 1955, it
agreed to build a!nd maintain seven parks. Environmen
talists’ lawsuits, however, tied up construction of the
lake for nearly 20 years.
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Clements: Another
special session might
be necessary in fall
In the intervening years, the deficit mounted and
Congress passed cost-sharing legislation for recreation
facilities and other “separable” elements of Army Corps
projects.
With Cooper Lake now coming in under budget,
Chapman argued the savings should be used for recre
ation facilities at the parks and vowed the money won’t
be used to “dredge some harbor in Boston.”
“If we’re able to save money, the least we can do is
put it back and do what Congress originally authorized.
If we’re able to save $10 million through efficiencies, we
ought to be able to use the $10 million to enhance
project,” Chapman said.
Chapman, a member of the House Appropriai
Committee, inserted his plan in an $18.5 billion em
and water appropriations bill for fiscal 1990. Recec:
passed by the House and sent to the Senate, the bill
eludes $31 million for Cooper Lake construction.
The $130 million lake, scheduled to be compli
and filled by 1993, would provide drinking water
some 1.4 million Northeast and North Central Texani
Gramm, a member of the Senate Appropriate
Committee, said Thursday he is analyzing Chapim:
proposal.
“I don’t want to lose the support of the Army
of Engineers or the White House on the
Gramm said. “So while I’m clearly going to try todo
erything 1 can to enhance the park and see that we
full benefits from it, I want to be sure I’ve lookedal
sides of this question. I don’t want to do anything
jeopardize the progress we have made.”
Chapman’s proposal provoked an emotional oui(
on the House floor during debate on the appropitj
tions bill by Rep. Silvio O. Conte of Massachusetts
ranking Republican of the Appropriations Committee
“This sets a bad precedent,” Conte said. “ kisa
damental departure from the cost-sharing principli
that this body worked so hard to enact. How greedv
Texas going to get? They have the super collider supffi
conductor — $200 million — and now they want 511
million more for picnic areas, benches, tents, walkwanj
This is crazy.”
Conte, however, could not persuade the House tore
quire cost-sharing for the parks.
Chapman said he is “hopeful that we can calmfe;
and waters” and get the project through the Senate.
“I’m fearful that it may not be without a bit of
struggle, if OMB (the Office of Management and
get) and the Republican leadership are going to
politics with our project,” Chapman said this week.
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ents hinted Thursday that changes
to the state workers’ compensation
system may be the reason, along with
a number of other issues, for a fall
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was “reasonably optimistic that we’ll
have a (workers’ comp) bill reported
out at this time next week.”
But Clements also said, “I’m not
sure if the workers’ comp thing is
going to get settled. We’ll just have
to wait and see.”
The Senate is expected to con
sider an amended workers’ comp bill
Friday that the House approved
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If a majority of the Senate adopts
the measure, then it goes to Clem
ents for his consideration.
But Kent Caperton, one of the
Senate leaders on the controversial
issue, said there were not enough
votes to pass the House version.
If rejected by the Senate, the bill
would go to a House-Senate confer
ence committee. Speaker Lewis, D-
Fort Worth, has said if a conference
committee is needed, lawmakers
would not have enough time to re
solve their differences during the
special session that expires Jtdy 19.
The major dispute between the
House and Senate is over jury trial
review of disputed workers’ com
pensation claims.
The House, backed by business,
has been trying to eliminate jury re
view of workers’ comp disputes,
claiming litigation costs have driven
up the price of employer-paid work
ers’ comp insurance.
But the Senate, supported by la
bor and trial lawyers who represent
injured workers, says jury trials are a
fundamental right and are needed
to offset what could be an unfair
award.
The House version would allow
jury trial review of workers’ comp
disputes concerning death benefits,
severe injuries, and whether the in
jury was incurred during the course
of employment.
Caperton, D-Bryan, described the
proposed limitations on jury trials as
“an absolute farce.” He said that few
of those cases are actually ever con
tested.
Wolves’ possible return riles ranchers
who fear predators will stray from pari
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL
PARK, Wyo. (AP) — Howling
wolves haven’t been heard in
Yellowstone National Park for de
cades, but even talk about them is
enough to rile the ranchers and oth
ers surrounding the park.
The National Park Service’s pro
gram to educate students across the
country about the role of the wolf in
the wild has raised fears by some
that it could lead to the predator’s
return to Yellowstone’s 2.2 million
acres.
“Wolves are fascinating animals
and when you talk to people about
them, you never get a ho-hum reac
tion,” said Joe Zarki, a ranger in
Yellowstone’s Naturalist Division.
“They always have a strong reaction
one way or another.”
“They come with quite a bit of
emotional baggage,” he said. “We
are trying to put some information
in the hands of teachers and stu
dents: what (wolves) do, what their
behavior is and what sort of role they
have in the ecology. It is not de
signed to sell a particular point of
view, it is supposed to give them in
formation so they can make up their
minds on their own.”
Sen.
Alan Simpson, R-Wyo., is
among those who see the wolf
awareness program as a way to drum
up su pport for the wolFs return to
Wolves are fascinating
animals and when you talk
to people about them, you
never get a ho-hum
reaction.”
son and the rest of the Wyomin(
congressional delegation long
opposed the plan, which has the sup
port of Yellowstone officials.
Those who want to return !■
wolves say they would prevent big;
game herds from growing too largtl
and overgrazing. Simpson andothfi
foes fear the wolves would stra 1
from Yellowstone and prey on livf
stock on surrounding ranches.
— Joe Zarki,
park ranger
Yellowstone.
“There is no other purpose for it
but to promote reintroduction,”
Simpson said. “There are guys in
there who are so (heated) up and so
obsessed they can’t even see.”
Turn-of-the-century eradication
efforts by ranchers drove wolves
from Yellowstone, and in recent
years there has been a drive to re
turn the animals to the park. Simp-
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rail that effort, too.
Owens brought a 13-montholt
female wolf to the lawn outside tfe
Capitol in Washington last montho
dramatize his campaign.
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students for visits to the park.
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