State
Wednesday, September 16,1992
The Battalion
Page 7
Texans question Guerrero's past
Commissioner did not receive degree
from UT or belong to honor society
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUSTIN — Railroad Commis
sion Chairman Lena Guerrero's
academic past and political future
were hot topics of conversation
across Texas on Tuesday.
From radio talk shows to coffee
shops, Texans were talking about
Guerrero's admission that she re
ally isn't a college graduate and
doesn't know how she became er
roneously linked to the Phi Beta
Kappa honor society.
"It should be called Phi Beta
Kappagate," said one caller to
Austin radio station KLBJ-AM,
where Guerrero's resume was un
der discussion for a second
straight day.
An Austin restaurant known
for wisecracking humor displayed
a sign that read: "Lena, it could
have been worse. You might have
almost graduated from A&M."
The controversy arose last
week, with
Guerrero's
admission
that she
wasn't a
graduate of
the Universi
ty of Texas-
Austin, as
she has
claimed for 12 years.
It grew more heated Monday,
when Republican opponent Barry
Williamson produced literature
from Guerrero's 1984 state House
campaign — which he said was
prepared by her own advertising
firm — that claimed she was a
member of the
prestigious
Phi Betta Kap
pa honors so
ciety.
Guerrero, a
Democrat,
said she al
ways believed
she earned a
bachelor's degree and never in
tended to mislead anyone.
She said she only learned oth
erwise after being questioned by
news reporters and discovering —
to her shock — that she was four
classroom hours short of the 120
hours required for a degree.
As for the Phi Beta Kappa
claims in her old campaign and
legislative biographies, she said,
"I have never myself, I believe,
made that claim."
While political analysts were
assessing the fallout, so were vot
ers.
"Her credibility is zero," said a
KLBJ caller. Another called Guer
rero the victim of a backlash
against Gov. Ann Richards and
her "good oT girl appointees."
Offered a third, "The governor's
reputation — especially with her
emphasis on ethics — is suffer
ing."
"Lena, it could have been
worse. You might have
almost graduated from
A&M."
-from a sign displayed by a
restaurant
Report shows pilot made fatal mistake
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DALLAS — A federal investigation shows
pilot error caused the helicopter crash that
killed blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan and
four other people.
The National Transportation Safety Board,
in a report released Monday, found that
"improper planning decision" by the aircraft's
pilot was the main probable cause of the 1990
crash near East Troy, Wis.
Contributing to the copter's crash into the
side of a manmade ski hill were "darkness,
fog, haze and rising terrain," agency
spokesman Ted Lopatkiewicz said.
The 35-year-old Vaughan, a Grammy
Award-winning musician who was raised in
Dallas, died on Aug. 27, 1990 after the Bell 206
copter carrying five people left the Alpine
Valley Music Theater, an open-air concert
facility, and crashed.
The NTSB took more than two years to
complete its investigation into the crash of the
craft, owned by Omniflight Helicopters Inc. of
Dallas.
A Chicago attorney representing Vaughan's
estate said he was not surprised by the NTSB
findings. Thomas Demetrio had filed a lawsuit
in July on behalf of the estate.
Papers filed in the lawsuit contend that the
helicopter charter company should have
known that the weather "precluded safe flying
conditions."
John Neilson, Omniflight general manager,
said he could not comment on the NTSB report
because he had not seen it and because of the
lawsuit pending against his company.
Earlier, a company official had contended
that a mechanical malfunction caused the
crash.
The helicopter was carrying Vaughan to
Chicago after he performed in a concert that
included Eric Clapton, Robert Cray, Buddy
Guy and Vaughan's older brother, Jimmie.
Others killed in the crash included Jeff
Brown, the helicopter pilot; Bobby Brooks,
Clapton's agent; Nigel Brown, a bodyguard for
Clapton and Colin Smythe, an assistant tour
manager for Clapton.
CORPUS CHRIST! - A U.S.
Navy consultant says Naval
Station Ingleside will be home
to a second mine-warfare
command.
"It is now definitive," said
former U.S. Sen. Jeremiah
Denton, a homeport consultant.
Denton, a retired rear
admiral, said the mine-warfare
command for the Navy's Pacific
fleet will move from Seattle,
bringing three officers and 96
enlisted personnel to the
Ingleside homeport.
The Atlantic fleet command
is already moving from
Charleston, S.C., to the Texas
coast base, located north of
Corpus Christi. Denton, who
was in Corpus Christi to speak
to the Town Club Men's Forum,
said he learned of the second
move from Navy officials.
"You will probably end up
with more than you expect and
hope for," said Denton.
Lt. Cmdr. Nettie Johnson, an
Ingleside spokeswoman, said
Tuesday that the base had not
received any official notification
of the move. She did not know
when official word would be
forthcoming.
But Frank Summers, a
spokesman for the commander
at Naval Base Seattle, said the
move will be made. He did not
know when.
Officials could not estimate
how much the payroll of the
Pacific fleet group would be,
but the smaller Atlantic fleet
has a total payroll of $2.1
million.
Ingleside is scheduled to be
home base for 25 vessels and
their crews. All but three of the
ships will be dedicated to mine-
warfare operations and
training.
Corpus Christi to receive
mine-warfare command
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Complex owners settle
case with rape victim
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOUSTON — The owners and
managers of a Harris County
apartment complex have agreed
to pay a woman $1.5 million set
tlement after she was raped while
living at the complex in 1988.
Depositions and other evidence
presented during mediation talks
showed the complex had been
negligent in providing security
for its tenants, the woman's attor
ney said Monday.
Attorney G. Robert Friedman
said his 27-year-old client had re
turned to her home in the Hunter-
wood Apartments late from visit
ing her mother on the night of
Sept. 20, 1988. She put her two
children to bed, then took a show
er.
Friedman said she was at
tacked as she got out of the show
er by a man who may have en
tered the apartment through a
sliding glass door off a patio. The
man was in the apartment for
about an hour. He never has been
caught.
Named as defendants in the
lawsuit were Hunterwood Apart
ments, M&S Associates, which
owned the complex, and the
Richard Gill Co., which managed
it.
In another case, a Harris Coun
ty jury in July awarded a woman
$3.38 million in a judgment
against the Richard Gill Co. The
company had managed a Webster
apartment complex where she
was raped in 1988.
Attorney Karri J. Webb, who
represented the management
company in the more recent law
suit, declined comment Monday
on the settlement.
The settlement was reached Fri
day through the mediation of Phil
Peden, a former judge who now
serves on the advisory board of
Texas Judicial Arbitration and
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