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HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston soldier killed
in a weekend grenade bombing at a Panama
night spot volunteered to be in the Central
American nation and wanted to learn about the
country and meet its people, the soldier’s mother
said.
Army Spec. Anthony B. Ward, 21, died at U.S.
military’s Gorgas Hospital in Panama City at 5:15
p.m. Saturday, the U.S. Southern Command an
nounced. Ward suffered chest and abdominal in
juries.
Ward was among 16 American servicemen
and 12 Panamanians injured late Friday in the at
tack on the disco My Place, which was known to
be frequented by Americans.
"Anthony’s motto for life was ‘work hard and
have fun,’ ” his mother, Juel, said. “He wanted to
be in Panama. He volunteered and he loved it.
He wanted to go in to know the people and the
country.”
Ward and her husband, Albert, both natives of
Panama, headed for Panama on Saturday after
being informed that their son was injured in the
incident.
“About the time I got to Panama was the time
Anthony left,” his mother told the Houston Post
from Panama. “I thought they were going to tell
me where he was, where I could see him. Instead,
they gave me another bombshell.”
Ward said one of the other soldiers hurt in the
attack said her son took the full impact of the
blast, but was told if Anthony had not, more
would have died.
The Wards on Sunday also visited the disco
where the attack occurred.
“I wanted to see it,” Ward said. “I wanted to
know what happened and put myself where my
child was. It’s a very lovely place. It’s the kind of
place you would want someone to take you.”
Ward belonged to the headquarters company
in the 5th Battalion of the 87th Infantry which is
part of the 193rd Brigade in Fort Clayton, Pan
ama, where he had been stationed for nine
months.
He was in the Army for three years and re
cently re-enlisted. Before his Panama duty, he
was stationed for two years at Fort Riley, Kansas,
and also had served special assignments in Peru
and West Germany.
Witnesses said two men yelling “Long live No
riega!” threw a grenade through a glass wall of
the disco at about 11:30 p.m., then sped away in a
car. There was no immediate claim of responsibi
lity.
It was the first such attack on U.S. soldiers in
Panama since the Dec. 20 invasion that ousted
dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega.
Another Texan injured in the attack, Army
Pvt. David C. McKinney, 28, of Amarillo, re
mained hospitalized in satisfactory condition.
New Braunfels slaying prompts
charges of police misconduct
Bentsen refers
port proposal
to new council
AUSTIN (AP) — U.S. Sen.
Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, wants to
refer the proposed $500 million
dredging of the Houston Ship
Channel to the President’s Coun
cil on Environmental Quality, a
move that could give environ
mentalists another forum to ar
gue against the project.
The Army Corps of Engineers
is seeking congressional authori
zation to widen and deepen the
channel. The Port of Houston
Authority contends the project is
economically vital — allowing its
port to serve larger, more fully la
den ships and stay competitive
with other deep-water ports.
But the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, National Marine Fisher
ies Service, Texas Parks and
Wildlife Department and Texas
General Land Office — as well as
a host of environmental groups
— are fighting it.
They contend it would se
riously damage the shrimp,
oyster and fishing industry in
Galveston Bay. The bay is the
nursery and spawning grounds
for 30 percent of the state’s fish
ing products.
With the federal agencies at an
impasse, Bentsen has stepped in
on the side of the environmental
ists — calling for review by the
Council on Environmental Q ua h
ity, the Austin American-States-
man reported Monday.
“We don’t want to turn Galves
ton Bay into another Lake Erie,”
Bentsen said. “This matter is too
important for us to sail into un
charted waters. We have to plot a
careful course. And (the council)
is best equipped to help us nav
igate.”
Texas Land Commissioner
Garry Mauro said Bentsen’s en
trance into the debate “sent a very
clear signal.”
“I now have confidence the
corps will ... diligently pursue an
swers to some of these environ
mental questions,” Mauro said.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Attor
neys for a man charged in the slay
ing of a young New Braunfels tea
cher say police ignored crucial leads,
and others allege police in that city
have a history of mishandling inves
tigations.
Jack Warren Davis, 30, is charged
with capital murder in the Novem
ber stabbing and strangulation of
third-grade teacher Kathie Bolanis-
Campolo.
Davis, a former Mississippi resi
dent who recently moved to the
area, lived and worked as a mainte
nance worker in the same apartment
building as Bolanis-Campolo, a Uni
versity of Texas at San Antonio
graduate.
L.ast week, defense lawyers filed a
writ of habeas corpus alleging the
New Braunfels Police Department
investigation “ignored leads to evi
dence” that could free Davis.
Davis’, attorney, John J. Curtis,
said police videotaped a few strands
of hair visible in the left hand of the
victim, but the hair vanished be
tween the crime scene and the crime
lah.
“It’s strange,” Curtis said. “The
only physical evidence that could
clear my client is gone.” He added
that important photographs also are
missing.
A March 16 hearing has been set
in state District Judge Robert T.
Pfeuffer’s court in New Braunfels.
“I
It’s strange. The only
physical evidence that
could clear my client is
gone.”
— John J. Curtis,
defense attorney
Sources close to the case indicate
the defense may subpoena govern
ment officials to support their claim
that missing and tainted evidence is
“a common practice” in New Braun
fels, the San Antonio Light reported
in Monday’s editions.
And one local high-ranking law
enforcement official with knowledge
of the Bolanis-Campolo case said up
to 50 other criminal cases may have
been tainted in recent years through
police “incompetence, idiocy or
downright malicious behavior bor
dering on criminal negligence,” the
newspaper reported.
New Braunfels Police Chief B.C.
Boeck refused to comment Monday
on the Davis charge because it is
pending in court. But he said allega
tions that his department has mis
handled other investigations are an
indictment of the entire criminal jus
tice system.
Two civilian committees and the
FBI have probed such claims, Boeck
said.
Comal County District Attorney
Bill Reimer also refused to comment
on the Bolanis-Campolo case or any
other but expressed optimism that
Davis would be convicted.
Cooperative agricultural venture
benefits trade in Texas, Mexico
AUSTIN (AP) — A five-year cooperative agriculture
venture between Texas and Mexico has finally borne
the fruit of new private trade initiatives, Department of
Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower said Mon
day.
The third general meeting of the Texas-Mexico Ex
change Commission, which was held Feb. 22-23 in Mex
ico City, helped establish trade leads between 60 Texas
farmers, ranchers and food and fiber growers and buy
ers, and 150 of their Mexican counterparts, Hightower
said.
He said deals now are in the works between Texas
producers of rice, corn, beef, and dairy heifers and
Mexican buyers, as well as between Texas delegates in
terested in purchasing flowers and organic coffee and
produce from Mexican producers.
But Hightower said the specific agreements are less
important than the contacts made.
“The main result of the meeting in Mexico City is not
the trade deals and joint ventures and exchanges but
fact that the door is now open, the relationship is secure
and the opportunity is there,” he said.
“We have been seeking more than just sales,” High
tower said. “We’ve been seeking, really, a partnership
— a partnership based on trust, on mutual gain and on
openness.”
Businessjnen were joined at last month’s meeting by
academicians and government officials who are trying
to lessen Mexican government bureaucracy and initiate
joint research and development programs, Hightower
said.
He said a new openness in the Mexican economy has
allowed agricultural producers and consumers’ to begin
making direct deals.
“They’re making a deliberate and very aggressive ef
fort to privatize more of their economy, and to decen
tralize it,” he said.
Previously, Mexican government agencies had over
seen the purchase of agricultural products in volumes
too large for the private Texas producer to supply,
Hightower said.
Richards counterattacks opponents
State treasurer still refuses to answer questions about drug use
AUSTIN (AP) — Democratic gubernatorial
candidate Ann Richards, besieged by questions
about whether she ever used illegal drugs, on
Monday counterattacked rivals Mark White and
Jim Mattox for making her refusal to answer a
campaign issue.
“No one has ever raised this question while I
have been managing all of the money of the state
of Texas,” Richards, the state treasurer, said at a
news conference. “The only time this question
was raised was when I got in the way of those
boys who want to be governor.”
Richards, a recovering alcoholic, has twice re
fused to answer yes or no when asked during
statewide televised debates if she had ever mis
used drugs.
She refused to answer again Monday, but did
say she had never knowingly committed a felony
offense.
She also demanded that White and Mattox dis
cuss their finances.
White has released only his 1988 income tax
return and Mattox has yet to release any. Rich
ards released her income tax returns for all the
years she has held public office.
“I’ve been sober for 10 years. Have Jim Mattox
and Mark White been honest for 10 years?” she
asked.
With the Texas gubernatorial primaries a
week away, former Gov. White is the sudden
Democratic front-runner in polls while Richards
struggles after repeatedly refusing to answer the
drug question.
On the Republican side, three contenders are
trying to keep multimillionaire oilman Clayton
Williams from winning the nomination outright
without a runoff.
After pumping more than $4 million of his
own into a slick television ad campaign, the color
ful Williams stood at 45 percent in a Dallas Morn
ing News-Houston Chronicle poll published Feb.
If he wins 50 percent in the March 13 ballot
ing, he avoids a runoff election for the GOP
nomination to succeed retiring Republican Gov.
Bill Clements.
Among the Democrats; Richards had been
front-runner since entering the race in June, un
til White pulled ahead in the Feb. 25 poll, which
showed him with 34 percent to Richards’ 31 per
cent. State Attorney General Mattox was third at
17 percent.
Richards, who rose to national attention after
her keynote speech at the 1988 Democratic Na
tional Convention — where she said George
Bush was born with “a silver foot in his mouth”
—- insists her refusal to disclose whether she’s
ever used an illegal drug isn’t a problem.
“I have been tested by fire, and the lire has
lost,” said Richards, a recovering alcoholic. “I feel
Oy continuing to raise these
questions I think that we are sending
a very sad message to a lot of people
who see that if they seek treatment
they will forever bear the stigma of
their addiction.”
— Ann Richards,
gubernatorial candidate
truthfully that it has energized a great number of
people who feel it is important to do and say what
I am saying, and that is: If you need help, get
help.” ,
But her opponents and others watching the
race disagreed.
“Voters are more tolerant of that than lack of
candor,” George Christian, an Austin political
consultant and former press secretary to Presi
dent Johnson, said of drug use.
The question arose in two debates that were
televised statewide. White and Mattox said they
had never used illegal drugs. Richards didn’t an
swer the question directly.
“My addiction was alcohol,” she said, adding:
“I have revealed more about my personal life, in
cluding my alcoholism and my recovery, for 10
years, than any person who has ever run for gov
ernor.
“By continuing to raise these questions I think
that we are sending a very sad message to a lot of
people who see that if they seek treatment they
will forever bear the stigma of their addiction.”
Unless Richards answers the question. Repub
licans will make it an issue if she wins the nomi
nation, her opponents said. “It won’t be pretty,”
said White. It’s a serious question.”
White, governor from 1983 to 1987, has risen
steadily in the polls since entering the race in No
vember as he and Mattox have dueled over the
death penalty and taxes.
Mattox, who as attorney general has attended
most of the 33 Texas executions since they re
sumed in 1982, has emphasized his crime-fight
ing record. His television commercials show him
walking in front of prison bars.
White responded with a chilling commercial
that showed him walking beside giant photos of
felons who were put to death during his term.
“Only a governor can make executions hap
pen,” White said. “I did. And I will.”
Mattox and Richards have even become issues
in the Republican race.
Struggling to cut into Williams’ staggering
lead, rival Kent Hance has aired an ad focusing
on the oilman’s contribution of $ 1,000 to Mattox.
“Do we know the real Clayton Williams yet?”
Hance’s ad asks. Williams also gave $200 to Rich
ards.
Hance, a former Democratic congressman
who sponsored President Reagan’s 1981 tax cut
legislation, is running a distant second to Wil
liams with about 22 percent support, according
to recent polls.
The two other major contenders have earned
most of the endorsements from the state’s major
newspapers. But both — Tom Luce of Dallas,
lawyer for billionaire H. Ross Perot, and former
Secretary of State Jack Rains of Houston — re
main in single digits in the polls.
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