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Also on the team are Morrison Knudsen Corp. of Boise, Idaho, and CRSS Inc. of Houston, officials said. Chosen from three finalist teams of firms, the consortium would be the architect, engineer and construction manager for the high-energy phys ics particle accelerator and laboratory to be built south of Dallas in Ellis County. “Today’s announcement is an important step toward making this unique basic research tool a reality,” said Deputy Energy Secretary W. Hen son Moore. The Energy Department said the contractor would be responsible for designing and building the physical facilities for the superconducting su per collider. The award would be the largest sin gle contract involved in building the collider, which may cost more than $7 billion. DOE said it will take about eight to 12 years to design, engineer and built the facilities at the SSC, a 54-mile underground ring where scien tists would test theories about the building blocks of the universe by smashing together subatomic particles at high speeds. Facilities to be built by the construction con tractor include more than 60 miles of tunnels, four underground halls and campus complexes on the east and west sides of the ring, DOE said. Bruce Wilkinson, chairman, president and chief executive officer of CRSS Inc., said his firm would be involved primarily in design and con struction management services of the above ground research complex. CRSS has “done a number of very complicate; R&D building types on the design side and ; construction-related services,” Wilkinson said. He said winning the award would beapluc calling it “one of the most visible projects in ilj country, if not the world. It’s going to go onion number of years, and is the only one of its kind Thursday’s decision is a sign the SSC, whicl faces a $1 billion price increase and questior; about technology, is moving ahead. “This is another indication that while othec wring their hands about this or that and twist? turn in the SSC budget soap opera, the $ moves ahead,” said Rep. Joe Barton, R-Ennii “This action underlines the fact those working; make the SSC a reality continue to move!; ward.” Said Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Iexas: “I thinku; another tangible sign that we’re moving foreaii This is another milestone in the project." AS AE IN' Cl A8 TA Clements: Increase in federal cooperation between states, Mexico helpful in drug wai BR TE LU NBC offers Clements air time on late night Letterman show AUSTIN (AP) — Gov. Bill Clements will probably turn down an offer of 30 seconds free air time to talk about Texas be fore millions of viewers tuned in to NBC’s “Late Night with David Letterman. Rossauna Salazar, the gover nor’s press secretary, said Thurs day that Clements’ tight schedule and the potential for biting re marks from late night comedian Letterman, will probably pre clude him from taking up the of fer; “We appreciate the request ... but it’s a good bet we won’t be able to do it,” Salazar said. The television show has asked eveify governor to send in a haifi* mir(ute videotape to be aired dur ing! a series of “Gubernatorial Minutes.” Each governor will be free to talk about his or her state and what’s good about it. A Letterman staffer told the Houston Post that there is no in tention to hold governors or states up to ridicule. On Wednesday, Clements said “Why not?” when asked if he would be interested in sending a tape to the Letterman show. Tne governor, however, said he has never seen the show nor Letter- man. “I haven’t and don’t intend to,” Clements told the Post. Clements said he is usually in bed an hour before the show comes on at 11:30 p.m. in Texas. But on Thursday, Salazar said Clements would probably not send a videotape. AUSTIN (AP) — Closer federal cooperation with the states and with the Mexican government could make the nation’s war on drugs more effective, says Texas Gov. Bill Clements. Clements, who left Thursday for a meeting of the nation’s governors in Washington, said in an interview this week that resources of states and the federal government could be more efficiently used to battle drug smug gling along the nation’s southern border. “There are enormous resources — both federal and state — that could be integrated and made much more efficient and much more effec tive in this war on drugs ... They could be melded into a tighter, well- run, more efficient operation that would have better results,” Clements said. “There could be a lot closer coop eration with the federal authorities in Mexico than there has been,” he added. The governor said he believes the Bush administration is on the right track. He said he is pleased with the assistance the administration has given to Texas, California and Flor ida, states he described as being “in a hot seat” in the drug war. “We are receiving $133 million, which is a significant increase over what we’ve received in the past,” Clements said. Rider Scott, the governor’s gen eral counsel, said the federal aid in cludes about $66 million for drug treatment programs, $33 million for education and prevention, $24 mil lion for law enforcement and $11 Border between Texas and Mexico to receive 100 new inspectors to patrol drugs, commerce WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Customs Commis sioner Carol B. Hallett on Thursday promised 100 ad ditional inspectors would be dispatched along the Texas-Mexico border, despite an overall cut in agents. Hallett said Customs would be adding 175 inspectors to its staff on the Southwest border, although it is actu ally cutting about 91 positions nationwide. But according to the Senate Finance Committee staff. President Bush’s proposed budget would result in a reduction of 314 positions, although it does not say how many would be inspectors. Of the 175 new inspectors, El Paso would receive 50, while 25 each would go to Laredo and Brownsville, Hal lett told the Senate Finance Committee during a hear ing Thursday. Hallett, however, said she could not tell where the cuts in personnel would be made during questioning by Chairman Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas. “It may be that there will be inspectors taken from one airport here and another airport there and maybe an entry port such as the port of Long Beach or the Port of New York,” she said. “But the Southwest border will receive a net increase.” Bentsen said he was deeply concerned about drug in terdiction on the border, while making sure there are enough agents to maintain commerce across the Rio Grande. “We’ve had an enormous increase in trade with Mex ico that we want to continue to promote,” Bentsen said. “That’s beneficial for us and it’s beneficial for Mexico.” Bentsen also cited the “great increase in drugs com ing across that Mexico border” and said he has seen es timates that as much as 70 percent of cocaine entering the country comes across at the border. “In addressing that, we want to make sure that com merce is not impeded,” he said. Hallett said the inspectors being added on the border would be involved in both roles — ‘T his will not be just specific to the drug enforcement side of the operation.” Court ruling a ‘major blow’ Texas debtors must surrender paychecks to repay creditors AUSTIN (AP) — A Texas Su preme Court ruling allowing courts to order debtors to surrender their paychecks looks like a “major blow” to protections in the state constitu tion, consumer advocates say. In a 9-0 ruling Wednesday, the high court said a court could consti tutionally order debtors to turn over their paychecks to satisfy unpaid judgments, despite the constitution’s ban on garnishing wages. Some legal experts cautioned that the Supreme Court ruling might not go as far as it seems because it left unanswered the question of whether those who ignore a court order to turn over their checks could be jailed. Consumer advocates long have counted on the constitutional ban on seizing homesteads and garnishing wages to provide fundamental pro tections for debtors. “This appears to be a major blow to the protections that were written into the Texas Constitution,” said Rebecca Lightsey, legislative liaison for the Texas Consumer Associa tion. “That’s an amazing ruling to me, especially in the state of Texas,” said Becky McElroy, an Austin bank ruptcy attorney. Texas traditionally has been “a very protection-oriented state for the debtor,” she said. Patricia Wicoff, the Houston law yer who won the case, said the Su preme Court ruling would help creditors get their money back. “I think it is a landmark decision,” she said. “Prior to this decision, I think there was virtually no way to collect on that judgment. If you had a debtor astute at hiding their prop erty or did not have non-exempt as sets, you basically had a piece of pa per that was of no substance.” The ruling was written by Chief Justice Tom Phillips, who said, “We hold that an order (by a court) di recting a judgment debtor to turn over his future paychecks does not violate our state constitution’s prohi bition against garnishment.” Phillips said garnishment involves a third party between a creditor and a debtor — an employer or the bank where a debtor deposits checks. In this case, “because no third party was involved, there was' no garnish ment,” Phillips ruled. The case arose when Philip E. Da vis of Houston was divorcing his wife. As part of the settlement, Davis was ordered to pay his wife’s lawyer fees of about $20,000, which he never paid. In 1986, the lawyers won a judgment from a Houston court or dering Davis to pay. They still didn’t receive the money. Wicoff asked the judge to order Davis to turn over his paychecks to a court-appointed re ceiver, who would use part of it to pay the legal fees and return the rest for his living expenses. The judge agreed. Davis appealed. million for use of the Natii® Guard in anti-drug efforts. Clements noted that the long In. der with Mexico is a “port of emit' for illegal drugs into the Uniitj States. “That border is essentially uniis the jurisdiction of the United Siais government and all its various cies, whether it’s customs or drag (enforcement) or the military,”li said. “You have your federal autliot ties ... that work with the local thorities. There isn’t any quesii about that. And every once in while you’ll see a unified effortaad, (major) drug bust. But it happe too infrequently. It could ha Jot more if we could communite better and have a much highenic gree of coordination of effort.” The governor also said he woul like William Bennett, the pre drug czar, to meet with him ani other top state officials todiscussilK situation. “I don’t want to get crosswaysmt Mr. Bennett, but with our problem in Texas — meaning state and B eral, ‘our’ on a national scope- have not hard Mr. Bennett come and sit down ... and spend adayrt! us and go ovey an integrated op tion of what we do about that bot der. He hasn’t done that," Clemeo said; Microbe detains OF BIE LD MU AL MS LU ELI IN7 THI Atlantis CAPE CANAVERAL, Fli (AP) — The mighty microbe strikes again. Five fearless astronauts and ik world’s very best spacecraft were poised this week to rocketintoor bit with a spy satellite that might be vital to the nation’s security. NASA, the powerful techno- 1 logical force that conquered ibe | moon and sent crafts soaringti> ward distant stars, had done ev erything possible to prepare fot the cloak-and-dagger mission.An army of engineers and techni cians had given their best and were standing by, awaiting the fi nal countdown. Then t he microbe came along Some “bug” so small that even a microscope might not find ill had somehow invaded the pris tine premises of America’s spatf ( program and struck downoneof the nation’s best. Atlantis’ commander John 0 Creighton, NASA said, had de veloped a sore throat and conges tion. It hurt to swallow, and his nose was all stuffy. If he were on television Creighton would have been ih( “before” portrait in some medicine commercial. If he were a sixth grader, Mom would have kept him home. But Creighton is an astronafi ready to take the controls in all billion spacecraft carrying a hat billion-dollar payload. And whet an astronaut crewman gets sid everybody stays at home. Thf mission was postponed twice and won’t go now before Saturday. It’s happened before to NASA In 1969, Apollo 9 was delayed^ three days while the three-m® crew recovered from the sniffles NASA may do technology marvels and accomplish feats of wonder in outer space, but it hasn’t conquered the mighty mi crobe. 1