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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.
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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.
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Commerce Street into a seriei
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shootings and other assault;
along with miscellaneousfigtit
and robberies.
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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 *
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attitudes toward whitebrel
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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.
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