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Texas congressman
not trying to follow
Leland’s footsteps
WASHINGTON (AP) — At his
swearing-in last month, Craig Wash
ington wiped tears from his eyes and
asked his House colleagues for their
prayers and advice, saying he had
not come to the Capitol to “try to be
king of the Hill.”
In the weeks since he became
Texas’ newest congressman, Wash
ington said he has been on the re
ceiving end of an outpouring of
friendship from many who knew his
predecessor, the late Rep. Mickey
Leland.
“People loved Mickey,” Washing
ton said in a recent interview. “It’s
like I were Mickey’s little brother or
something. They kind of pat me on
It’s like I were Mickey’s
little brother or something.
They kind of pat me on the
head and want to make
sure I’m doing OK.”
— Rep. Craig
Washington,
replaced Mickey Leland
the head and want to make sure I’m
doing OK. And that has been a great
advantage to me — it’s sort of like
having Mickey here to show me
around.”
Leland, who was chairman of the
House Select Committee on Hunger
and an activist in helping solve Afri
ca’s famine problems, died last year
when his brush plane slammed into
a mountain in Ethiopia on its way to
a refugee camp.
“I didn’t realize the many lives
that he touched and the many ways
he touched them ’til I got up here,”
Washington said of his longtime
friend and Democratic ally from
Houston. “There’s been an outpour
ing of friendship directed toward
me by many people who loved
Mickey.”
Although Leland’s reputation
“parted the Red Sea for me” on Ca
pitol Hill, Washington said he would
not necessarily follow in his foot
steps, other than to trying to be as
compassionate.
“Mickey was more a citizen of the
world,” Washington said. “I guess
I’m a little closer to the United
States, maybe because I studied the
law and the Constitution. I’m a little
bit more comfortable working inside
the system, perhaps than was
Mickey. I don’t think he was any
more liberal than I am; I don’t think
you can get any more liberal than I
am.”
Washington, a 48-year-old Hous
ton lawyer, served in the Texas Leg
islature for 16 years. He arrives in
the capital with a reputation as a
champion of liberal causes, includ
ing abortion rights, gay rights, AIDS
health care and support for the
poor.
He also faces two court hearings
in connection with his law practice.
Two judges in Houston have im
posed jail sentences — one for 15
days and the other for 30 days — for
Washington’s failure to heed notices
to appear in court on behalf of cli
ents.
While Washington said he is con
cerned about the matter, he is not al
lowing it to distract him from his
congressional duties.
“To use an old East Texas ex
pression, it doesn’t touch me top,
side or bottom,” he told reporters
the day he took office. He also de
fended his credentials as a lawyer,
saying: “There are many people who
think I’m the best lawyer in Texas.”
Washington, meanwhile, has had
his staff research what has been
done in Congress on three issues im
portant to his district — health care,
education and crime and drugs — so
that he can help support any pro
posed legislation.
His first piece of legislation is be
ing drafted and would require “any
banker or bank employee who par-
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I guess I’m a little closer
to the United States,
maybe because I studied
the law and the
Constitution.”
— Rep. Craig
Washington,
ticipates in putting ... United States
currency into the drug system, upon
conviction, be sentenced to life with
out parole.”
Washington complained that
bankers can make millions of dollars
from an illegal drug transaction but
face only a slap on the wrist if
caught.
“When is the last time you’ve seen
one hauled off to prison in hand
cuffs, held down by the police with
somebody’s foot on their neck, like
you see the 17-year-olds,” Washing
ton said.
“They end up getting a sus
pended sentence ... some commu
nity service — come down and work
with the little ghetto kids, that’s their
punishment,” he said.
Washington said he also would
like to find solutions for the growing
number of middle-income families
who are Finding it impossible to fi
nance their children’s college educa
tion, as well as for a host of other
problems in education.
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Convent near Auschwitz
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A cornerstone was laid
Monday for a prayer center that officials hope will end
the long-festering dispute over a Roman Catholic con
vent at the Auschwitz death camp.
Also Monday, Edgar Bronfman, president of the
World Jewish Congress, met with President Wojciech
Jaruzelski and Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki and
declared later: “There are no outstanding problems be
tween the Jewish people and Poland.”
The convent housing about a dozen Carmelite nuns
on the edge of the Nazi death camp has angered Jews
and others worldwide who see it as an intrusion of
Christian symbols at a site where most of the victims
were Jews.
The Roman Catholic church agreed at negotiations
in 1987 in Switzerland to relocate the nuns to an interf
aith prayer and education center farther from the
camp, but a February 1989 deadline for moving the
nuns was missed.
After Polish church officials balked last year at fulfil
ling the agreement, the Vatican intervened in Septem
ber and upheld the decision. The new Solidarity-led
government of Mazowiecki also has worked to speed up
construction of the new center.
Cardinal Franciszek Macharski of Krakow, whose
archdiocese has jurisdiction over the site near the
southern Polish city of Oswiecim, presided at the cor
nerstone-laying ceremony.
Mazowiecki, meeting in Warsaw with Bronfman, said
his government’s support of the project was illustrated
by the presence at the ceremony of Jacek Ambroziak,
head of the Office of the Council of Ministers and the
prime minister’s close aide.
Bronfman called the laying of the cornerstone “very
important.
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to launch full diplomatic relations with Israel n«I
week, and the government’s pledge to fight anti-Se®
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