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Thursday, October 26,1989
The Battalion
Page 5
Mexican authorities send
stolen vehicles back to US
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Mexican
authorities are returning some of
the thousands of vehicles stolen in
South Texas in an effort to improve
international relations and crack
down on border corruption, officials
said.
Since Oct. 19, Mexican authorities
at the Laredo International Bridge
have turned over to the Texas De
partment of Public Safety 13 vehicles
that ended up in Mexico, sometimes
in the possession of Mexican state of-
fidals, the San Antonio Light re
ported Wednesday.
“We want to improve relations be
tween our countries, and I won’t
stand for further problems,” Ta-
maulipas State Judicial Police Com
mandant Franklin Ramon Barrera
said.
Ramon ordered his 30-man de
partment to return all stolen vehicles
to U.S. officials immediately or face
“severe penalties,” he said Tuesday,
adding that the move was in compli
ance with a federal mandate.
He also said the returns will con
tinue until every vehicle has been
given back to its rightful owner.
It’s as simple as that — there is no
reason for police officials to ride
around in stolen vehicles,” he said.
Although Ramon said some of the
returned vehicles were found aban
doned, U.S. investigators said most
were being used by state judicial po
lice.
Five of the 13 returned vehicles
were taken from the San Antonio
area, DPS Investigator Jesse Flores
of Laredo said. “But unfortunately,
most of the owners are now insur
ance companies, since the original
owners have already been paid,” he
said.
One of the returned cars — a
1990 red Plymouth Lazer — be
longed to Air Force Sgt. Michael R.
Franklin of San Antonio.
“I parked it at the Ingram Park
Mall one evening last month, and
when I came back it had vanished,”
Franklin said. “Even with the insur
ance, I lost about $3,500 and now
have to drive an old Honda — with
ho air conditioning. The theft really
hurt me.”
DPS investigators believe about
500 stolen vehicles are in the hands
of Mexican state officials in Tamau-
lipas state alone. DPS also claims
many of the vehicles were stolen by
bands of car thieves, reportedly re
cruited by corrupt Mexican officials.
Texas law enforcement officials
described Ramon as a man who can
be relied upon to keep his word.
“He’s always cooperated with us,
and I think things will get better now
that he is in his new post — espe-
TEES will offer math,
electronics night classes
The Electronics Training Division
of the Texas Engineering Extension
Service will offer introductory
dasses in electronics and mathemat-
Pat Wallace, head of the ETD,
said the classes are offered periodi
cally throughout the year and are
designed to refresh basic math skills
and provide an overview of electron
ics.
“The electronics course is for peo
ple who might be interested in elec
tronics or in coming to our electron
ics school — and would like to know
something about it before they come
out here and pay the tuition for our
main program,” Wallace said.
The main progratri is an 18-
month certificate course for electro
nic technicians, Wallace said.
“We’ve had a good placement
rate, and the students get good
jobs,” he said.
The Introductory Mathematics
course begins Monday, and the In
troductory Electronics course begins
Nov. 7. Both courses are open to
anyone and meet 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
once a week for six weeks at the
Texas A&M Riverside Campus. The
courses cost $30 each and do not re
quire any prerequisites or textbooks.
For information on the courses or
the Institute of Electronic Science,
call the Electronics Training Divi
sion at 845-6762.
dally in the Laredo area,” Roy Neu
man, commander of the DPS Vehi
cle Recovery Service in Austin, said.
The vehicle deliveries apparently
caught some U.S. government offi
cials by surprise.
In Nuevo Laredo, U.S. Consul
Ronald Kramer said although he
was happy with the returns, hun
dreds of vehicles still remain in Mex-
And while well-intentioned, Ra
mon’s actions do not meet procedu
ral requirements of current bilateral
treaties, Kramer said.
State court
just says no
Poor school districts
lose fight for legal fees
AUSTIN (AP) — Attorneys for
the 68 property-poor school districts
that successfully challenged Texas’
school finance system failed
Wednesday in an attempt to obtain
quick approval of nearly $1.22 mil
lion in legal fees.
Attorneys for Edgewood, Alva
rado and other districts that won the
landmark school finance case in the
Texas Supreme Court had filed a
motion “to expedite the payment of
fees to plaintiffs who have labored
(and are now laboring) on this case
for six years.”
The attorneys’ motion quoted
from the Oct. 2 Supreme Court
opinion — holding the finance sys
tem unconstitutional — that the peti
tioners “are entitled to recover
against the state their attorney fees
as found by the trial court.”
Attorneys representing the state
contended that total legal fees for all
parties are limited by law to
$300,000, the motion said.
The Supreme Court overruled
the motion without comment.
Albert Kauffman, San Antonio at
torney for the Mexican American
Legal Defense & Educational Fund,
which represented Edgewood, a San
Antonio district, said the battle over
legal fees will go back to state district
court in Austin.
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