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The Year of the Goat
Vien Tran, a senior biomedical science major,
teases the dragon at the Vietnamese-American
Students Association’s party Saturday. Todays
the first day of the lunar year of the goat.
Poor schools stand to gain money
Senate faces vote deadlim
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AUSTIN (AP) — Facing an April 1 deadline to re
form the Texas school finance system, the Senate next
week will vote on' a proposal that would shift some
funds from wealthy schools to poor ones, lawmakers
said Thursday.
The proposal probably will be considered Wednes
day, said the measure’s author, Sen. Carl Parker, D-
Port Arthur.
“I think we can pass it just like it is,” before the full
Senate, he said.
Parker said the bill is needed to comply with a Texas
Supreme Court order to make equitable funding avail
able to poor school districts.
In addition to shifting some funds from wealthy to
poor schools, Parker’s plan would consolidate all school
districts into 20 taxing regions that would collect and
distribute local property taxes.
Legislative leaders said the court’s deadline is
pressing.
“Unquestionably we need to move as fast as possible,
but we want to be very careful in what we do,” said Lt.
Gov. Bob Bullock, presiding officer of the Senate.
“It’s not moving fast enough for me,” House Speaker
Gib Lewis, D-Fort Worth said, but added, “it’s moving
as fast as it can.”
He said education funding “is the most frustrating is
sue that the Legislature has to confront.”
“There is no light at the end of
the tunnel. You don’t even
see a freight train coming.
When you think you have the
solution, all of sudden here
comes four or five other
problems”
— Gib Lewis
House speaker
“There is no light at the end of the tunnel,” Le»:
said. “You don’t even see a freight train coming. Wk
you think you have the solution, all of sudden he
conies four or five other problems.”
Parker blasted an alternative plan filed by Rep. Lite
Linebarger, D-Manchaca, that would continue to alp
some school districts to raise more money than othe:
through local property taxes.
Under that measure, Parker said, “We will contim
to have the wealthy school districts not really cam
about what happens in Austin and opposing any re«
nue measures that would enhjnce school appropra
dons at the state level.
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Jack M. Stricklin Jr. wasarre!
late Wednesday on a charge ofo
spiracy to import and distnl: '
1,000 pounds of marijuana sei®
an El Paso home Wednesday.
Also arrested were Rene Maf
nez, minority partner and adi®
trative manager of the downU
nightclub Club 101; Rumzy te
Aboud, owner of RK’s Smokin !
press Restaurant; Mario Mote
and Ricardo McTague, bothoi
Paso.
El Paso DEA Chief Travis L
kendall said the arrests were iM
after agents followed a late-n®
sedan carrying 1,000 pounds
marijuana to Moreno’s home ate
7 p.m. Wednesday.
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A noon hearing for the 0
Thursday was delayed.
Kuykendall said Stricklin >
Magallanez were thought to k
charge of the alleged smuggling
eration.
“We suspect they were deii
1,000 pounds of marijuana a
and that they may have been deal
in cocaine,” the DEA chief said.
Kuykendall said DEA intellip
indicates that Magallanez is an
quaintance at least, and possibl
business associate, of Rafael Mn ;
Talavera. U.S. authorities befe
Munoz was the mastermind (»
smuggling ring that moved tons
cocaine across the border, indite-'
21 tons found in a suburban Los !
geles warehouse in September 1^
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mero McTague, an El Paso man*-
was convicted of drug possess
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Stricklin has a history of arrf
for marijuana smuggling dating
1973. He was released from feds
prison about a month ago.
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victed El Paso drug traffickerJi^
Chagra of conspiring to smu
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