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Bullet train backers need funds
Financial troubles will probably delay
high-speed rail until turn of century
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DALLAS — Backers of the
Texas bullet train say they need
more time to sell investors on the
$6.8 billion venture.
But time may not be on the side
of the Texas High-Speed Rail
Corp., which would violate its
franchise agreement by not secur
ing financing worth $170 million
by Dec. 31, state officials said.
"I have steadfastly maintained
that the schedule imposed by the
state is super aggressive,” said
Glenn Biggs, chairman of the pri
vate Frencn-American investment
group that holds a 50-year fran
chise for the train. "To focus on
this one event is shortsighted.”
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
VIDOR, Texas — Neighbors in
this all-white town of about 10,000
are worried. After a seven-year
battle, a federal judge has ordered
the integration of public housing.
That means blacks are coming.
And so is the Ku Klux Klan.
U.S. District Judge William
Wayne Justice of Tyler has or
dered 121 East Texas public hous
ing projects to be integrated, in
cluding one here.
"This will change the image of
Vidor like nothing else will,” Car
los Renteria, director of the U.S.
Department of Housing and Ur
ban Development's regional de
segregation program, told the
Houston Chronicle.
At the same time, Renteria said,
HUD officials consider the Vidor
project — operated by the Orange
Under its agreement with the
state, Texas High-Speed Rail can
not buy land until it arranges the
financing.
In the last month, foreign train
manufacturers have agreed to put
up at least $20 million cash. Initial
project investors and a few other
investors have put up another $10
million cash.
"We will raise $30 million cash
by Dec. 31,” Biggs said. "It's the
other commitments to come that
we still need.”
Corporation officials said this
summer that there is little chance
County Housing Authority — one
of the most difficult to desegre
gate, "given the history, or at least
the perception, of the Ku Klux
Klan in the area.”
Vidor has long been known as a
bastion for the white supremacy
movement. In fact, few blacks
have ever lived in Vidor, just eight
miles east of Beaumont, which is
home to about 40,000 blacks. Ac
cording to the 1990 census, no
blacks live in Vidor now.
"We've worked hard for 20
years to change our image,” May
or Ruth Woods said, adding there
have been no major Klan activities
here in years.
Four handpicked black families
— including four women, two
men and nine children — are
planning to move from Beaumont
and Port Arthur to Vidor in Octo
ber. A few months later, two more
black families also will arrive.
the 200-mph trains would be run
ning before the turn of the centu-
ry- „
Officials originally had
promised 90-minute service be
tween the Dallas-Fort Worth area
and Houston by 1998, with service
to Austin and San Antonio a year
later.
But backers say it will take until
after the state's Dec. 31 deadline
to let investors consider results of
a ridership study now under way.
Nonetheless, Railroad Commis
sion Chairwoman Lena Guerrero
said she would not support an ex-
Ultimately, Albert Harrison,
who operates a desegregation
program for four public housing
authorities in Jefferson and Or
ange counties, said he hopes to re
cruit sufficient volunteers to pop
ulate 40 percent of the Vidor com
plex with minorities.
"Oh, there's going to be trouble
all right,” Ross Dennis, president
of the residents' council for the 74-
unit complex, said. Most residents
are willing to accept a few black
families, but an attempt to move
that many blacks to Vidor, Dennis
predicted, "would mean open
warfare.”
Already a cross has been
burned. Michael Lowe, the grand
dragon of the Knights of the Ku
Klux Klan, said his Waco-based
group will conduct a rally on the
steps of the Orange County Cour
thouse in Orange Sept. 19.
tension.
"The $170 million equity com
mitment by December of '92 is
their promise — not mine. I sup
port deadlines because there are a
lot of people who live along the
corridor who are concerned about
the sale of their property. I consid
er the franchise agreement en
forceable,” Guerrero said.
Railroad Commissioner Robert
Krueger predicts the bullet train
will fail.
"The economics are faulty, the
ridership numbers are fantasy and
the very credibility of the manag
ing consortium is suspect," he
said.
Bush, Clinton
at dead heat
in Texas polls
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DALLAS — Texans regis
tered to vote aren't excited
about either presidential nomi
nee and are almost equally
split between George Bush
and Bill Clinton, according to a
published poll.
The Dallas Morning News
Poll, published Sunday in a
copyright story, showed a sta
tistical dead heat between
President Bush and his Demo
cratic challenger.
Clinton would be the choice
of 42 percent of the 1,027 regis
tered voters surveyed
statewide by telephone. Forty
percent would favor Republi
can nominee Bush.
In the poll, 19 percent said
they were undecided or sup
ported neither major con
tender.
"Texas is really up for grabs,
and the economy is the issue,”
said Micheline Blum of the
New York polling firm that
conducted the survey Aug. 30-
Sept. 3.
The poll has a margin of er
ror of plus or minus 3.5 per
centage points.
The survey also presented a
three-way presidential sce
nario which included unde
clared candidate Ross Perot.
The billionaire halted his inde
pendent campaign July 16, but
has won a spot on 43 state bal
lots this fall, including Texas.
Asked how they would vote
if Perot were an active candi
date, 30 percent of the respon
dents picked the Dallas busi
nessman. Bush had 30 percent,
Clinton had 29 percent and the
rest were undecided.
"As people are looking at
Mr. Perot around the country
he's not as important a factor
any more, but he's still an im
portant factor in Texas,” said
Ms. Blum of the polling firm
Blum & Weprin Associates Inc.
Privacy proposal raises controversy
over accessibility to public records
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUSTIN — A state lawmaker says she wants to
protect people, especially women, from stalkers who
gain information about their targets through public
records.
But some media organizations fear that such pro
posals could inhibit access to those records for legiti
mate purposes.
Tony Pederson, chairman of the group Texas Me
dia, said there is a fine line between protecting a per
son's privacy and encroaching on the public's right
to know. Texas Media is a coalition of seven news
organizations devoted to protecting First Amend
ment rights.
Rep. Sherri Greenberg, D-Austin, said she doesn't
want to cross that line. But she says she wants to
stop the ability of a person from getting what she
says is private information through motor vehicle li
cense plate and public utility records.
"I fully support the Texas Open Records Act and
freedom of the press, but we have a situation right
now where information is available that was not in
tended,” Greenberg said.
She said she knows women who have been ha
rassed by strangers who have gotten unlisted tele
phone numbers by calling a public utility or have ob
tained names and addresses through motor vehicle
records.
For example, for a $2 charge, a person can submit
a license plate number to the Texas Department of
Transportation and receive the name and address of
the vehicle owner, in addition to information about
the vehicle and lien holder.
Greenberg is crafting legislation that would allow
Texans the option of not allowing their telephone
numbers to be released without their permission.
"All we want to do is protect the right of privacy
for those who have chosen to have their phone num
ber unlisted,” said Greenberg. "The intent is not to
limit access to open records but to protect the right
of privacy, particularly for women.”
The proposal details with other legislative efforts
to make stalking a crime.
Lawmakers say current laws are too weak to stop
stalkers before they commit a crime against the peo
ple they are harassing or threatening.
Federal judge orders Texas
town to integrate housing
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