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Friday, February 23,1990
Firms chosen to build super collider
Houston group among three selected for consortium
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Energy Depart
ment on Thursday chose a three-firm consor
tium to design and build the super collider in
what officials described as the first step of the de
cade toward construction of the world’s largest
scientific instrument.
The consortium, led by the firm of Parsons
Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas Inc. of New
York City, must still negotiate details of the $1
billion contract. 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."
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between states, Mexico helpful in drug wai
BR
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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
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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.
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