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Of The Battalion Staff
Percent reporting
99
(D) Richards
49.6%
(R) Williams
47.1%
(L) Daiell
3.3%
LT. GOVERNOR
Percent reporting
99
(D) Bullock
51.6%
(R) Mosbacher
45.0%
(I) Owens
3.3%
Percent reporting
(R) Barton
(D) Welch
U.S. SENATOR
Percent reporting
(R) Gramm
(D) Parmer
(L) Johnson
67%
33%
99
62%
38%
0%
STATE SENATOR
7 DIST. 5
Percent reporting
99
(D) Turner
50%
(R) Smith
44%
(I) Zaeske
6%
STATE REP
1
DIST. 14
1
Percent reporting
100
(R) Ogden
53%
(D) James
47%
ATTY. GENERAL
Percent reporting
99
(D) Morales
51.9%
(R) Brown
45.2%
(L) Dittmar
2.9%
AUSTIN — Climbing back from a
double-digit deficit in the polls,
Democrat Ann Richards emerged
victorious Tuesday night from a
long, costly and accusatory guberna
torial campaign.
Richards, who entered the packed
Hyatt Regency ballroom at 10:40
p.m. to thunderous applause, be
came Texas’ new governor by de
feating Republican Clayton Williams
by 4 percent.
Richards, who becomes the sec
ond female governor of Texas,
ended up defeating Williams by
about 115,000 votes — a 52 percent
to 48 percent spread.
Her election marks the first by a
woman since Miriam “Ma” Ferguson
won her second term in 1933.
A jovial Richards held a T-shirt
that said: “A woman’s place is in the
dome” while supporters cheered.
As Richards finally calmed down
the raucous crowd, she said she
didn’t win the governor’s seat alone.
“I didn’t win this race,” she said.
“You won it.”
Just weeks ago, Williams led Rich
ards by a wide margin in most politi
cal opinion polls, but Richards made
up ground quickly after Williams ad
mitted he voted for Proposition 1
"I didn’t win this race.
You won it.”
— Ann Richards,
governor-elect
but didn’t know the specifics of the
proposed amendment.
Williams’ comment during the
past weekend that he didn’t pay
taxes in 1986 also hurt his campaign,
analysists say-
Richards’ brief speech was not
characteristic of the months-long
race, which was marred by accusa
tions and mudslinging, but she still
made several remarks alluding to
Williams.
She said Texas wants a governor
who “gets up and goes to work every
day,” a reference to Williams’ ques
tion early in the campaign about
whether the governor has to work
every day.
She also said Texas wants a gover
nor “who is not going to be dis
tracted by other business,” making
reference to the many companies
Williams operates from his home in
Midland.
Richards, the present state trea
surer, also tagged Williams by refer
ring to the millions he spent in the
race.
“The strength of this campaign is
what I believe is the strength of gov-
ie pc
of r
people — not the power ot money,
she said.
Richards also mentioned the edu
cational system, reformation of the
insurance industry and toughening
the state’s clean air and water laws.
“Texas wants a governor com
mitted to the freedom of the people
of this state and who is not going to
allow the government to interfere in
people’s lives,” she added.
The governor-elect said the el
derly need more attention and bet
ter health care and now “they’re
going to get it.”
Richards carried South and East
Texas, the state’s major cities and
even made the race close in the Pan
handle.
In Brazos County, however, Rich
ards garnered 43 percent of the vote
while Williams had a strong 52 per
cent.
Richards thanked her mother, fa
ther and children, and had special
thanks for Texas House of Rep
resentatives Speaker Bill Hobby and
former U.S. Rep. Barbara Jordan.
Her final remarks were to tell the
crowd to be careful as supporters
left the Hyatt in downtown Austin, a
reference to the amount of alcohol
flowing during the celebration.
“Be careful,” she said. “A lot of
work is ahead of us. I need everyone
of you. Have fun, but sloV down.”
PHELAN M. EBENHACK/The Battalion
Ann Richards
Williams pledges Voter confusion continues
to stay in politics
By SUZANNE CALDERON
Of The Battalion Staff
By JULIE MYERS
Of The Battalion Staff
OTHER RACES
State Treasurer
Percent reporting 99
(R) Hutchison 49.9%
(D) Van Hightower 46.6%
(L) Love 3.5%
Agriculture Commissioner
Percent reporting 99
(R) Perry
(D) Hightower
49.1%
47.9%
AUSTIN — They came to the
party in suits and black velvet
dresses and boogied to a mariachi
band and gospel singers, but the
party at the Stouffer Hotel never got
off the ground.
Republican gubernatorial candi
date Clayton Williams, Class of ’54,
conceded defeat to Governor-elect
Democrat Ann Richards at 11:05
p.m. Tuesday.
“The people have made their
choice, and we must all join together
to work with Richards to attain our
dream of making Texas great
again,” Williams said.
Amid yells of “recount” and
chants of “ ’94,” Williams stood with
his family and thanked supporters,
family and voters.
“We love you,” Williams said.
“For Ann Richards and those who
voted for her and worked long and
hard and ably for her, I say congrat
ulations,” Williams said. “The bad
news is we lost. The good news is
Modesta and I will continue to stay
involved to improve education, rid
our state of drugs and create new
jobs — and I think I know how to do
that.
“The principles we stressed in the
campaign are worthy of the fight —
and I promise you we will continue
to fight. I’m sorry I let you down. I
did my best.”
The crowd of Williams supporters
appeared bitter about the election’s
Clayton Williams Jr.
outcome and seemed hostile toward
Richards. Aggies in the crowd led
yells against the new governor-elect.
Williams said he particularly was
proud of the increased voter partici
pation of Mexican-Americans,
Asian-Americans and African-
Americans.
“I hope I have tried to open some
doors for all Americans to play a
broader role in our public system.”
Bill Kenyon, deputy chairman for
the Williams campaign, said Wil
liams was more successful than any
other Republican gubernatorial can
didate in Texas history in attracting
the Hispanic vote.
See Williams/Page 10
Texas A&M students caught in
the voter registration card confusion
and forced to vote by affidavit in
Tuesday’s elections probably will not
face criminal charges if races are
contested, the chairmen of local
Democratic and Republican parties
agreed.
Bill McGuire, Brazos County
Democratic chairman, and Rodger
Lewis, Brazos County Republican
chairman, said students most likely
will not have to worry about facing
criminal charges should problems
arise with the legality of their affida
vits.
McGuire and Lewis said that con
sidering the circumstances under
which the affected students had to
vote, the chances of any judge filing
perjury charges is relatively small.
Lewis said it is unlikely any stu
dents will get in trouble.
However, this was the only point
in the debacle the chairmen agreed
on.
Each had reasons for problems
faced by more than 1,800 A&M stu
dents who mistakenly registered to
vote in another county.
The controversy began when
some students accidently registered
in counties other than Brazos
County by listing their parents’ ad
dresses in the “permanent address”
portion of their voter registration
cards.
This automatically registered the
students to vote in the county listed
as their permanent address,
To vote in Brazos County, stu
dents had to sign affidavits at polling
sites swearing their original inten
tion was to register in Brazos
County.
A new development came Tues
day when election judges from pre
cincts 10, 20, 21 and 35 were served
with injunctions and restraining or
ders requiring them to mark ballots
of those voting by affidavit.
John Paschall, the attorney who
filed the orders, said ballots needed
to be marked in case there was a
problem with affidavit votes.
Tying an affidavit to a ballot
would be necessary if a race was con~
tested and there was a question of
whether people voted legally, he
said.
He said election judges in pre
cincts 10, 20, 21 and 35 were served
orders because the most affidavit
voters were anticipated there.
Paschall said the secrecy of the
ballot is maintained because affida
vits are sealed and won’t be opened
unless a race is contested and the le
gality of voters comes into question.
Lewis, however, does not agree
and said “the rights of student voters
were trampled today.”
He said marking ballots, and
therefore making it possible for a
person to be tied to their vote, is tak
ing away the rights of students to
vote by a secret ballot.
The problem, in Lewis’ opinion, is
in the wording of the voter registra
tion cards’ “permanent address”
portion. He added the predomina
tely Democratic Texas Legislature
determines the wording of the cards.
He says a “multi-staged effort”
made voting difficult for students.
McGuire, however, sees the issue
differently.
The Battalion reported Monday
See Affidavits/Page 10
Local election
runs smoothly,
despite lines
By SUZANNE CALDERON _
Of The Battalion Staff
Besides confusion about affi
davits, election officials said busi
ness ran smoothly at polls in the
MSC and the A&M Presbyterian
Church where many Texas A&M
students cast votes in Tuesday’s
elections.
Raul Saldivar, alternate elec
tion judge for Precinct 20, at the
MSC, said besides long lines of
people waiting to vote and to sign
affidavits, election day went well.
He said most students didn’t
complain about waiting in lines.
“Everyone wants to get out
quickly, so they are being pa
tient,” Saldivar said.
Even students who wrote in
candidates for various races were
reasonable about candidate
choices, he said.
“We’ve only had one Bart Sim
pson for governor,” he said.
At A&M Presbyterian Church,
Precinct 35, election judge Jon
Beeler was served an injunction
and restraining order Tuesday
afternoon.
Although he said he was
shocked by the order requiring
him to mark affidavit ballots, the
day went well.
See Polls/Page 10
Unstable nations close to creating nuclear weapons
By MIKE LUMAN
Of The Battalion Staff
Nations that can “scarcely be de
scribed as rational” are on the verge
of developing nuclear weapons, a
Texas A&M military strategist said
Tuesday.
Dr. Richard E. Thomas, director
of A&M’s Center for Strategic Tech
nology, and Dr. Ronald L. Hatchett,
deputy director for programs at
A&M’s Mosher Institute for Defense
Studies, were speakers during a
MSC Wiley Lecture Series program
titled “The New Nuclear Threat.”
Hatchett said no new countries
have joined the “nuclear club” — ob
tained nuclear strike capability —for
about 26 years.
“There are a lot of nations right
on the threshold,” Hatchett said.
“It’s impossible to put the genie back
in the bottle. We’re going to have to
live with it.”
Hatchett gave several examples of
international efforts to limit nuclear
danger, one of which he did not take
seriously.
He said there are those who advo
cate giving nuclear weapons Co coun
tries that want them, including Israel
and Iraq, thinking the balance of
power will deter war.
“That’s like saying if we put a bot
tle of nitroglycerin on the front and
back of cars, people would drive
safer,” he said.
Thomas said any nation with in
dustrial capabilities could covertly
develop nuclear weapons.
“If a nation is determined to de
velop a nuclear device, there are rel
atively few technological barriers if
uranium can be found,” Thomas
said.
Plutonium or enriched uranium
are needed to produce nuclear
weapons.
Thomas said plutonium can be re
covered from spent nuclear reactor
fuel, but the process is expensive
and requires advanced technology.
Enriched uranium is easier to ob-
He said that from a nuclear view
point there are four types of coun
tries.
Five countries are known to have
useable nuclear weapons — the
United States, Soviet Union, United
“There are a lot of nations right on the
threshold. It’s impossible to put the genie back
in the bottle. We’re going to have to live with it
(smaller nations developing nuclear
weapons.)”
— Dr. Ronald L. Hatchett,
Mosher Institute for Defense Studies
tain in terms of facilities needed, but
the process is more time consuming,
he said.
Hatchett said there are about 25
countries able to produce nuclear
weapons in varying amounts of time.
Kingdom, France and China.
Countries including Germany,
Italy, Japan and Canada have tech
nology and are capable of producing
nuclear weapons in about 30 days.
Israel, South Africa, India and Pa
kistan likely have nuclear weapons
but have not demonstrated it,
Hatchett said.
Other countries like Iraq, Iran
and Libya want nuclear weapons but
are not capable of producing them,
he said.
Thomas said technology plays a
rapidly increasing role in today’s
world.
“We need a whole net of new poli
cies that come out of recognition of
technology-based issues,” he said.
An older policy, the Non-Prolife
ration Treaty adopted in 1968, has
been signed by 130 countries.
The treaty is a contract in which
nations without nuclear capability
vow not to seek nuclear weapons.
Nations with nuclear weapons agree
to reduce their stockpiles.
Part of the treaty with some coun
tries says the United States will de
fend the non-nuclear nation if that
nation is attacked with nuclear weap
ons.
Iraq has signed the treaty. Israel
has not.
“Theoretically, if Israel attacks
Iraq (with nuclear weapons) the
United States is obligated to come to
the defense of Iraq with nuclear
weapons,” Hatchett said.
The treaty requires member coun
tries not to make or receive nuclear
explosives. Reactors for “peaceful
uses” are permitted, he said.
Countries are subject to Interna
tional Atomic Energy Agency in
spections.
“Still, a lot of people are trying to
develop nuclear weapons,” Hatchett
said. “We (the United States) can’t be
drawn into the process (of) selling
things that could come back and hit
us.”