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Friday, June 21,1!
Jackson blasts Bush's
civil rights legislation
AUSTIN (AP) — During a_visit to promote his
ida
Rainbow Coalition agenda Thursday, the Rev.
Jesse Jackson blasted President Bush's characteri
zation of civil rights legislation as a "quota" bill
and called for creation of a national health care
system.
He also criticized the federal agency created to
oversee the savings and loan bailout for giving
only a small fraction of its contracts to minorities.
Jackson said he had not yet decided whether he
would make a third try for the Democratic nomi
nation for president in 1992 after running unsuc
cessfully in 1984 and 1988.
Instead, he said he was in town to promote his
program of public service.
"These matters of substance and direction is
what I am mobilizing people around the country
to focus on through the Rainbow Coalition. Any
decision that I might make beyond my current
level of public service will take place perhaps in
the fall," Jackson said after a meeting with mem
bers of the Texas coalition, including minority,
gay and abortion rights activists.
Jackson serves as a nonvoting "shadow sen
ator" from the District of Columbia.
He also visited an Austin AIDS treatment fa
cility and was scheduled to meet privately with
state leaders, including Gov. Ann Richards, be
fore leaving for Houston to continue his weeklong
tour of Oklahoma and Texas.
Thursday, Jackson said Bush's opposition to
the 1991 Civil Rights Act "has reduced American
politics to its lowest common denominator by race
Daiting."
"During the civil rights era, George Wallace
stood in the school house door and said, 'Segrega
tion today, tomorrow and forever.' Today, Presi
dent Bush stands in the White House door and
says, 'No quotas today, tomorrow and forever,'"
Jackson said.
"We must not allow the country to be torn apart
and diverted by the issue of quota. Whites, blacks
and browns have good reason to fear the loss of
jobs because we are losing jobs" to foreign cheap
labor markets, he said.
Jackson also threatened to organize a protest of
the Resolution Trust Corp., the agency supervis
ing the S&L cleanup, unless it establishes an affir
mative action program in awarding contracts.
In the RTC's Southwest Region, which includes
Texas, more than 67 percent of the agency's $160
million in contracts have gone to white men. Jack-
son said.
About 27 percent of the contracts went to white
women, while less than 5 percent were awarded
to black men, he said.
No company owned by a black or Hispanic
woman has received an RTC contract in Texas, he
said.
Teresa McUsic, spokeswoman for the RTC's
Southwest Region, said the agency was holding a
series of seminars for women and minorities on
applying for RTC contracts and employs special
ists to encourage applications from minorities and
women.
Only 12 percent of registered Texas business
that would be eligible to receive the RTC contracts
are owned by minorities or women, she said.
"We certainly are working for more, and we in
tend to get more (minority contractors)," McUsic
said. "We are welcoming and encouraging and
trying to get people to come forward, but the
numbers are not as strong."
Jackson also called for establishing a G.I. bill of
rights. Veterans of the Persian Gulf War "deserve
more than parades and the ribbons because those
are symbols," he said.
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RUSK (AP) — The walls came
tumbling down around thou
sands or bats Wednesday when
the front of a three-story build
ing collapsed across the street
from the Cherokee County
Courthouse.
Rusk City Manager Bill Col-
lum said he's heard the number
of bats living on the third floor in
the vacant downtown building
ranges from 40,000 to 70,000.
But the city has been unable to
determine just how many bats
are inside because the structure
is in such poor condition. City
Council members still haven't
decided how to deal with the
bats, Collum said.
"We don't want to go up there
and start gassing them or do
anything that might hurt the en
vironment," he said. "But we
have to do something to get
them out."
The owners of the building
live in Alto and have said they
can't afford to either repair or de
molish it. Rusk Mayor Mike
Crysup declined to say who
owned the building.
The 1920s-style building once
served as a hotel, restaurant and
general store, Collum said. But it
has become a haven for bats,
which sneak in through a third-
story window, he said.
So far, the bats haven't caused
any problems for local residents.
But Collum said the building has
to come down.
"I talked to the mayor this
morning and one of the owners
of an adjacent building had trou
ble with some bats a couple of
years ago," he said. "She hired
someone from Austin to get the
bats out."
AUSTIN (AP) — Former San
Antonio mayor Henry Cisneros,
who serves on a task force study
ing taxes, said he and most of
the other panel members are re
ady to recommend the Legis
lature adopt a state income tax.
But a state lawmaker in charge
of writint
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Henry Cisneros,
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makers to adopt a
state income tax.
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ignored by the
Legislature.
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and chairman
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thing we ought to do in the fu
ture, the time is not right."
"I just know (House Speaker)
Gib Lewis and the feeling of the
House right now, and that's not
for an income tax," Rudd said.
The Governor's Task Force on
Revenue will meet Saturday to
vote on tax proposals to recom
mend for a July 8 special legis
lative session to address an esti
mated deficit of $4.7 billion for
1992-93.
"It took me a long time before I
could say the T word," Cisneros
said Wednesday.
"I know how dangerous it is to
speak in favor of an income tax
in Texas," he said. "However,
the charge of this committee was
not to do what the Legislature is
going to do anyway, which is
just to come up with a scheme
for this year but to tell the people
of Texas what needs to be done
for the long run."
Cisneros said that although a
majority of the 15-member task
force favors a state income tax,
he doubts lawmakers will follow
through with the recommenda
tion.
Gov. Ann Richards has de
clined to say what action she
might seek on taxes, saying that
she wants to examine proposed
spending cuts that will be recom
mended by Comptroller John
Sharp next week.
Sharp has headed a team of
auditors which has examined
spending by all state agencies
since Februaiy.
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Friday
General discussion at noon. Call COPE at 845-0280form
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COLOMBIAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION: General meeting to discuss summer activities)!
p.m. in Kleberg 200. Call Patricia DeSoto at 693-3205 for more information.
Saturday
MUSLIM STUDENT ASSOCIATION: Eid Aladha prayer at 7:15 a.m. in 201 MSC. Co®
Zaeem-ul-haq Siddiqui at 846-8647 for more information.
EPISCOPAL STUDENT CENTER: Putt-putt party. Meet at Canterpury h
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TAIWANESE STUDENT ASSOCIATION: Invited lecture at 1:30 p.m. in 402 Rudder Tow
Contact Chang at 693-3626 for more information.
Sunday
LUTHERAN STUDENT FELLOWSHIP: Bible study at 7:30 p.m. at the Lutheran Studentft'
ter. Contact Elaine at 846-5645 for more information.
MUSLIM STUDENT ASSOCIATION: Eid picnic from 5 to 8:30 p.m. at Hensel Park-areas
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Richards condemns Louisiana abortion laf
AUSTIN (AP) — Texas Gov. Ann Richards says
she doesn't like the new anti-abortion law passed
in neighboring Louisiana over a gubernatorial
veto.
"I was not happy to see the action that was
taken by the Louisiana Legislature," Richards told
a news conference Wednesday.
The law, passed Tuesday in a historic override
of Gov. Buddy Roemer's veto, bans most abor
tions and jails doctors who perform illegal ones.
Richards said she believes Louisiana authorities
will find the law "very difficult" to enforce if it is
upheld by the courts.
The law carries up to 10 years in prison and a
$100,000 fine for doctors who perform an illegal
abortion. The woman would not be punished.
It allows abortion to save the mother's life and
in cases of rape and incest but only in the first
weeks of pregnancy. Rape and incest victf
must report the crime within a week and s<
medical attention within five days.
"I'm concerned about the legislation, not!
because of the effects that it has on the choice t
women make but the precedent I think it sets
relation to the medical community," Richr
said.
"That it places criminal activity on the bad'
doctor, I think, is absurd," she said.
Richards said she doubted that the passaj?
Louisiana's law would mark the beginning ot;
end for abortion rights allowed under the U.St
preme Court's 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision.
"I think it's an issue that's going to be witli
probably for the rest of my life," she said.
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