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State Group unveils anti-abortion ad Members criticize Democratic presidential ticket's wavering positions THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AUSTIN — A local anti-abor tion group Monday criticized the Democratic presidential ticket and unveiled its first-ever television advertisement campaign entitled "Abortion stops a beating heart." Lisa Salcedo, vice president of Greater Austin Right to Life, said the ads "will heighten awareness of the dignity of the unborn child." The commercials do not men tion political candidates, but the group is a chapter of National Right to Life, which endorsed President Bush. And Salcedo, at a news confer ence, accused Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, and his running mate Sen. A1 Gore of Tennessee, of mis representing their records on abortion, and changing positions on the issue before different groups. Clinton told one group that he supported some abortion limits, while saying to a pro-choice group that he supported no limits, Salcedo said. She also said that when Gore was a member of the U.S. House he voted 27 times for anti-abortion legislation. Craig Sutherland, a spokesman for the Clinton-Gore campaign in Texas, denied the accusations, saying that the Democratic nomi nees support the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, which legalized abortion. "Bill Clinton and A1 Gore are anti-abortion, but they are pro- choice," Sutherland said. "They believe that you can lower the number of abortions by doing things to end teen pregnancies, without having to send women to butchers in alleys." Salcedo praised Bush as having "consistently defended the most defenseless members of our soci ety — unborn children." Bush, who supported a woman's right to an abortion ear lier in his political career, now op poses abortion except in cases of rape, incest or if the life ofSbe mother is in danger. Salcedo described Bush's change in position as one that was a "change of heart years ago, not for political expediency." The anti-abortion group's ads will run through Nov. 2 on local cable channels and through Oct. 30 on a local network affiliate. Last week, the Texas Abortion Rights Action League unveiled a statewide ad telling voters that Texas Supreme Court candidates Oscar Mauzy and Rose Spector have a history of supporting abor tion rights. TARAL says that if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns abor tion rights then the state courts will have to determine whether an 1890's anti-abortion law on the books in Texas is binding. Racial comments anger Guerrero Candidate appointed for political reasons, Clayton Williams says THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AUSTIN — Democratic Rail road Commission candidate Lena Guerrero said Monday that former gubernatorial hopeful Clayton Williams, a contributor to her GOP opponent, made re marks about her that were offen sive to women and Hispanics. Her campaign called on Rail road Commission candidate Bar ry Williamson to return $2,250 in campaign donations from Williams, also a Republican. Williamson said he disagreed with Williams' comments. But Jeff Norwood, his cam paign director, said Williamson didn't intend to return the dona tions unless Guerrero returned contributions that Williamson has questioned. Williams, in a radio broadcast from KBST in Big Spring, said Gov. Ann Richards appointed Guerrero to the commission be cause of her "sex and racial back ground." "She was appointed strictly because she was a Hispanic woman," Williams told the sta tion, which broadcast the re marks Sunday. He said Guerrero has "no qualifications whatsoever" in the oil, gas and trucking industries regulated by the commission, ac cording to a tape of the broad cast, that Richards appointed her "to get the women's vote and the Hispanic vote in the next elec tion." Guerrero stepped down from the commission after it was re vealed that she lacked the Uni versity of Texas degree she had claimed for a dozen years. She remains a candidate for the post. "He was saying that women, especially Hispanic women, don't belong on the Railroad Commission ... Those kinds of re marks are a slap in the face to every woman in this state. And they certainly insult the intelli gence of every Hispanic in Texas," Guerrero told the Texas Association of Broadcasters con vention. Williamson said, "I disagree with the comment made by Clay ton Williams ... and disassociate myself from those remarks. The fact is, Lena Guerrero was ap pointed to the position because she is a liberal and because she worked for a year and a half to elect Ann Richards governor." Guerrero, a former state law maker, was political director of Richards' successful 1990 cam paign against Williams. Margaret Justus, a spokes woman for the governor, said Richards appointed Guerrero "because of her outstanding record as a state legislator." "Barry Williamson should re ject that divisive and ugly state ment made by Clayton Williams and if he doesn't, he condones it, and insults the people of this state," Justus said. Williams did not immediately return a telephone call from The Associated Press. Guerrero and Libertarian Rail road Commission candidate Richard Draheim took part in what was billed as a "political face-off" by TAB. Williamson had a previous commitment and couldn't at tend, Norwood said. Draheim took issue with Guer rero portraying herself as "the only candidate without a conflict of interest." That charge is aimed at Williamson, whose father-in- law and wife have oil and gas holdings. Williamson has said his wife's holdings are in a blind trust and that he would excuse himself from any cases that might in volve his family. "I have no conflict of interest," said Draheim, who is in the land title business in Rockwall. Guer rero acknowledged that was cor rect. Draheim said he got interested in the commission while in the furniture-moving business in Austin. State regulations made it hard to get a certificate to do business and didn't allow him to charge less than a set price, he said. "If we had this kind of group in private business ... we'd call it organized crime. But here in Texas, we call it the Railroad Commission," said Draheim, who supports deregulating oil, gas and transportation. — Council hears reports of Texas-Oklahoma annual rally violence THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DALLAS — A City Council committee Monday began hear ing reports on public safety concerns, including violence during the annual Texas-Okla homa rally downtown that prompted calls for overhauling the event. The West End Association, a f ;roup of downtown business eaders, has joined crime vic tims and public officials who criticized the event after thiy year's shooting death of a Car rollton youth. Dallas police were scheduled to give a mid-afternoon briefing on Texas-OU weekend to the council's public safety commit tee. "The perception is — the re ality is — that you go down, get wasted and walk around Com merce Street," council member Glenn Box, who chairs the com mittee, said Saturday. He had urged making the rally "a special event, not just a walk-around beer bash." A spokeswoman in Box's of fice said the briefing would come by about 2 p.m. during the committee meetings agenda for which also incloa an executive session if netfr sary to take action on theinfu mation. The West End group ft? posed Saturday convertingS* traditional cruise upandaotc Commerce Street into a seriei scheduled events in defined eas. Authorities said the 1992a- ly resulted in injuries of 12pet- pie were injured in stabtep shootings and other assault; along with miscellaneousfigtit and robberies. Box said earlier that point statistics show most oft!* Texas-OU rally's crime is® mitted by non-university trou blemakers who would bols likely to crash a formalized event. Before the annual Texas-OI a me at the Cotton BowUool- all fans gather on Commett Street in their yearly ritual Tot city's alcohol consumptionte are relaxed and many fans« seen drinking beer as they ie up and down Commerce. The West End is a secfat! nightclubs along oneendo! Commerce Street. ( J one Rue I the Tex and Uni 1 Trie 1 in ( "Vi har toni 1 at tl a ba piec can The sen: corr Wonder bread study says 'white is all right THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - For kids, the beauty of white bread has al ways been its squishability. Peanut butter sandwiches could be flattened into an almost paper-thin, slightly sticky, mis shapen square. Plain slices rolled nicely into balls to lob at siblings or mash into mock Communion wafers for kids who liked to play church. Then came the natural move ment, whole grain, high-fiber breads and the notion that,sou * how, white bread wasbadl I you. In an attempt to dispelnegat attitudes toward whitebrel Continental Bakipg Co.off Louis, which makeS thers daddy of sliced white, WJi* bread, paid for a s^ydy oflfli and diet by the Cooperinstt for Aerobic Research in Dallas The conclusion: white bid won't make you gain weightar; See Wonder/Pagf Sch< P ter-t / Ros< sic, hire T > ( a Seminar THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PASADENA — Academic and corporate ranks are getting togeth er this week to tackle a growing problem in the working world — phony resumes. A congressional study esti mates a third of job applicants fake their resumes or at least in clude inaccuracies in them, and the FBI has estimated that 500,000 people nationwide claim to have college degrees they don't have. discusses The "Academic Records Fraud in Workplace" seminar scheduled Thursday in Pasadena will enlist business and academic minds to discuss ways to deal with the problem of falsifying/resumes, or ganizers said. "This is the first time this has ever been done anywhere in the United States that I know of," said Del Long, president-elect of the Southeast Texas Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admis sions Officers. phony resumes, false degree claims Despite the timing, organizers said the seminar had been planned many months before Lena Guerrero resigned from the Texas Railroad Commission after admitting she did not have the University of Texas degree she claimed to have had. Guerrero resigned as chair woman last month, but she has re mained in the race for the Rail road Commission. Long said one Houston-area employer decided after reading about the seminar to check on the situation at his company "and the very first person they checked on proved to have inaccurate infor mation on their resume." The rising numbers of false claims in recent years indicate that a weak economy has led more people to lie on their resumes, say those who scrutinize the docu ments. "People become a little desper ate and make the resume fit a par ticular job," said Ben Meador, president of the Pasadena-based Meador Companies, a group of national executive-recruiting and personnel firms. "One of the most prevalent things we see is people who allege they have graduated from a col lege or university with a particu lar degree," Meador said. Meador cited the case of a man who for 20 years convinced his employers at major companies that he had a certain degree. He was caught only after some check ing by a top manager who waili the same school. Morris Covin, headofMofl Covin and Associates,aDeerf* 1 private investigation and sen® company, sees the worst-case^ amples. "With very few except# whenever I've been called# situation where someone's^ involved in embezzlement* fraud or whatever, it'ssome^ who shouldn't havebeenont 1 payroll to start with,"Covin®* 1 at \ Sag in 4i . 1 a te piec Riel by < froi "Th Fan "Tu K acc< piar N pos< The Battalion ATLANTIS TILLMAN, Editor in Chief STEVE O’BRIEN, Managing Editor JASON LOUGHMAN, Opinion Editor GARY CARROLL, City Editor MEREDITH HARRISON, News Editor J. DOUGLAS FOSTER, Sports HEIDI SAUER, News Editor Editor TODD BLACKMON, Arts & Entertainment CHRIS WHITLEY, Sports Editor Editor RICHARD S. 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