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IN ADVANCE
Racial Awareness Program meets tonight
The Racial Awareness Pro
gram will meet tonight at 7:15 in
203 MSC.
RAP is an outreach of the De
partment of Multicultural Serv
ices that seeks to educate students
about cultural diversity.
Call 845-4551 for details.
Dallas officials
begin search
for police chief
DALLAS (AP) — Dallas’ next po
lice chief must be committed to hir
ing more minorities and women and
be able “to heal racial differences
that exist among the rank and file,”
according to a profile released by
City Manager Jan Hart.
The profile said the new chief also
must have at least ten years of expe
rience, including three or more
years as a top executive, and have a
proven record in creating and
strengthening police-minority com
munity relations.
Hart and other city officials met
with Dallas community groups, busi
ness leaders and employee associa
tions as they developed a long list of
qualifications for the ideal police
chief, which was released Monday.
A team of consultants will use the
profile while conducting a nation
wide search for candidates, officials
said. Hart said she recommends the
city spend up to $30,000 to hire Da
vid Eisenlohr and David Donaldson,
both Dallas consultants, to lead the
search.
Officials say the search is expected
to take three to four months. The
City Council will vote on the propo
sal Wednesday.
Police Chief Mack Vines was fired
by Hart on Sept. 12, hours after a
grand jury charged him with one
count of perjury. He is accused of ly
ing to a panel investigating the firing
of a Dallas police officer.
Candidates. Continued from page 1
state’s ailing educational system.
"We don’t have to raise taxes to
solve the educational crisis,” Ogden
said. “If we can cut the waste in areas
like general government and in the
natural resource department, we
could buy a lot of education for our
children.”
James agreed by saying he be
lieved every child should have the
"equal opportunity for success”
when they attend Texas schools.
“The educational crisis should be
our top priority,” James said. “We
could use the bloated highway fund
to give our children a good educa
tion.
“Right now, we have great roads
and an educational system which is
seriously lacking,” he continued.
In the area of campaign spending
reform, the two canidates disagreed
on ways to handle the problem.
James said until the state has de
veloped some type of public financ
ing for political campaigns the unre
ported contribution to politicians
would countinue.
“We have a very serious problem
when people like Bo Pilgram are al
lowed to pass out $10,000 checks on
the house floor,” James said. “We
need to place a limit on how much
these groups or individuals can con
tribute.”
Ogden said he believes setting leg
islative terms can provide a higher
and more honest level of competi
tion in Texas politics.
“The present system is uncompe
titive,” Ogden said. “We need to
limit the terms first, and then deal
with the financial problems in cam
paigning.
“And, by the way, this Republican
is against any type of public finan
cing,” he continued.
Both candidates supported a fee
on imported oil to help clean up the
Texas environment in case of an oil
spill.
James and Ogden also discussed
their differences in view of how to
handle Texas’ prison crisis and the
state’s present policy for caring for
mentally retarded or ill people.
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gents of all Texas state universities.
Richards said Williams has sug
gested that she couldn’t be tough on
crime because she is a woman.
“Women are victimized by crimi
nals more than any other group in
this country,” Richards said. “We are
the ones who are raped, beaten and
assaulted and I think it’s time we had
a woman governor who could be
tough on crime instead of making
empty promises.”
In a news release, the College Re
publicans said the Williams cam
paign did not say Richards would be
“soft” on crime because she is a
woman, it said she cannot deal with
these problems because she has not
presented any clear program for
dealing with criminals. Williams has
presented a 25-point plan to battle il
legal drug use.
Richards said 85 percent of crimi
nals in the Texas Department of
Corrections do not have high school
diplomas and 80 percent of them
committed crimes while under the
influence of drugs or alcohol.
"We need to teach those people
how to read and write and treat
them for their addiction before let
ting them out,” Richards said.
Texas also must deny parole or
early release to any violent criminal
or drug pusher convicted of a se
rious assault offense, she said.
Richards said she also could be
tough on the State Board of Insur
ance. It has not done its job and “co-
zied up” to the industry when it
should have been protecting those
who buy insurance, she said.
“My opponent says to let the free
market work,” Richards said. “We’ve
been letting it work to the point that
a lot of your grandparents receive a
little white slip in the mail that in
forms them that their insurance has
been canceled when they reach 70 or
they’ve just been sold a bill of goods
by people that go totally unregula
ted.”
Richards used the Link Deposit
Fund and Texsport program to il
lustrate her ability to manage state
funds.
The Link Deposit Fund provides
low interest rate loans to farmers
who want to begin agriculture pro
jects that will expand growing con
cerns or create new business for
Texas. Richards says 150 projects
have been started this way.
The Texsport program loans
money to Third World countries
who agree to buy Texas products.
“It is that kind of financial innova
tion and understanding of what gov
ernment can do that is going to drive
the economic engine of the future of
Texas,” Richards said, “and it is es
sential that we have a governor that
understands government and the
movement of money in it, well
enough to create the exciting climate
that is possible for us. Our future de
pends on it.”
It’s also important that Texas has
a governor who believes the govern
ment should stay out of the private
matters of its citizens, Richards said.
“No bureaucrat, judge or legis
lator has a right to interfere in the
very private decision to be made by
women and their families of whether
they will bear children,” Richards
said.
After observing the Legislature
for many years, Richards said she
has noticed that legislators who have
the most anti-choice attitude and
talk the loudest about the rights of
children vote against education
funding, prenatal care programs
and money to care for abused, bat
tered or impoverished children.
Richards also supports the repeal
of Texas anti-sodomy law.
Funding for Richards’ new pro
grams would come from an increase
in the franchise tax, which Richards
said is one of the most regressive
taxes, and a state lottery. Williams
also advocates a lottery.
Government should be a helper in
a democratic society, not an obstacle
to overcome, Richards said.
“The important thing is that you
are involved,” Richards said. “This
democracy fails when we do not
choose to vote, when we do not
choose to participate and the fact
that you believe in me or you believe
in someone else and you are actively
participating in the political process
is the greatest hope for this country’s
future that could possibly be eviden
ced.”
MSC Political Forum has invited
Williams to speak Tuesday.
HOUSTON (AP) — Muscovites
may soon be able to visit and work
out in a Soviet version of the hotel
President Bush officially calls home.
Alex Genin, a Soviet-born entre-
reneur who lives in Houston, said
e has reached agreement with Mos
cow city officials to develop a 300-
room Houstonian Hotel, with health
center, about two miles from the
Kremlin.
The Moscow project will be
named the Houstonian because So
viets tend to associate quality with
anything from the United States,
Genin said Monday. Many Soviet cit
izens are familiar with Houston be
cause of NASA’s Johnson Space
Center, he said.
Genin. managing director of East
ern Credit Limited, said Soviet tou
rism officials recently visited Hous
ton’s Houstonian and liked it.
Joe E. Russo, president of H
Fund, which owns the Houstonian,
said nothing has been signed, but he
is considering working on the pro
ject as a consultant.
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