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State Page 6 The Battalion Tuesday, November 3,1992 Officials prepare to unveil public school funding plan THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AUSTIN — State leaders plan to outline a public school funding proposal Wednesday that they want lawmakers to approve in an upcoming special session. Gov. Ann Richards, Lt. Gov. Bob Bullock and House Speaker Gib Lewis will present the plan at a news conference, said Bill Cryer, Richards' press secretary. Richards' chief of staff, Paul Williams, has said the proposal would take about $400 million from school districts in Texas with the most property wealth and fun nel it to poorer districts. It would require voter approval of a constitutional amendment, which first would have to be passed by a two-thirds majority of the Legislature. The money taken from the wealthier school districts would not be directly transferred to poor er ones, according to a report by the Austin American-Statesman. Instead, it would go into the Teacher Retirement System. State funds to the Retirement System then would be reduced by an equal amount, and the state money would be given to the poorer districts. One unidentified source quoted by the American-Statesman said the routing of the money is meant to counter criticism of the propos al as a "Robin Hood" plan. That label has plagued the cur rent system, in which property tax revenue is shifted from school dis tricts with more property wealth to poorer ones. The Texas Supreme Court said in January the present system vio lates the state constitution by im posing a statewide property tax, and by a levying a property tax without voter approval. The court gave lawmakers until June 1, 1993, to come up with a new plan for equalizing school funding. Cryer would not discuss details of the proposal. Of routing recaptured money through the Teacher Retirement System, Cryer said, "It's just a mechanism, that's all. I don't think it's a way to fool people or any thing else." 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The court, over one dissenting vote, rejected arguments that each man unfairly was denied a chance to have his defense fully outlined to the jury. Justice Byron R. White voted to hear arguments in the case, but four votes are needed to grant such review. Frederick A. Gross, president of Systems and Computer Tech nology Corp. in Malvern, Pa., was convicted in February 1990 of conspiring to violate federal securities law and making false statements to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Prosecutors said Gross con spired to artificially inflate his business' revenue reports to boost the value of its stock. They said the corporation's stock val ue dropped by $140 million after the scheme was publicly dis closed, but Gross insisted he act ed in good faith. Jean Marie St. Gelais was con victed in Houston of six counts of wire fraud in what prosecu tors said was a 1984 scheme to get $13 million in loans for oil and gas drilling. They said St. Gelais misrepresented his and other investors' financial assets. The investors defaulted on their notes, and St. Gelais used most of the money for unrelated business and personal purposes, prosecutors said. Gross and St. Gelais both asked their trial judges to tell ju rors that acting in good faith, if believed, was a complete de fense against the charges. In each case, the judge refused to give that instruction but did tell jurors the defendant could be convicted only if he acted know ingly and witn an intent to break the law. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Gross' convic tion, and the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Gelais' convictions. In their appeals. Gross and Gelais contended they were enti tled to a separate jury instruction on good faith. "The chief objective of a good- faith instruction is to guide the jury in evaluating the evidence presented at trial bearing on the defendant's state of mind," Gross' appeal said. Two other federal appeals courts have ruled that tne jury instruction is required if the de fendant wants it. Gross said. Bush administration lawyers responded in both cases by urg ing the justices to reject tne ap peals. Each trial judge made it clear that someone acting in good faith could not have willfully broken the law, the government lawyers said. The cases are Gross vs. U.S., 92-205, and St. Gelais vs. U.S., 91-2075. Pork parasite nearing border Common Mexican tapeworm threatens U.S. meat market THE ASSOCIATED PRESS EL PASO— The pork tape worm, which thrives in Latin America and Mexico, is showing up along the U.S. border, threaten ing to ravage victims with symp toms ranging from seizures to death. The parasite has been virtually wiped out from U.S. meat, but it is one of the most commpn swine ill nesses deep in Mexico, where the infested meat is a staple of the poor. The same underclass has mi grated north to find jobs on the border, bringing the parasite and the sickness — cystieereosis — its eggs can cause, the El Paso Times reported. "One man, he came in with 80 to 100 cysts on his brain and died with a stroke," said Dr. Hugo Roo y Vasquez, a neurosurgeon in the Mexican border community of Ciudad Juarez. "This was only in the poor vil lages before, but people have come to the cities for work and brought it with them." The World Health Organization estimates 2.5 million people carry the pork tapeworm and many more harbor the dangerous larvae. The numbers of sufferers in the United States are low, but health officials say reporting of cases is poor. "Even if you have just one case that permanently damages some one's brain, it's serious, said Dr. Laurance Nickey, El Paso health and environmental director. "If that's you, or someone in your family, that's one case too many." El Paso neurologist Dr. Albert Cuetter said the infection can be prevented with simple hygiene before handling food and after us ing the bathroom. "Washing your hands is a very good way to stop it from spread ing," he said. "And if you cook pork well, it's not going to give you the tapeworm and the cycle ends." The pork tapeworm uses hooks and suckers on its head to fasten itself to the host's bowel, where it lives up to 10 years, feeding on di gested food and growing up to 10 feet. When a segment of the tape worm breaks off during a bowel movement, it can release 50,000 eggs into the feces. Poorly cooked pork or poor hygiene spreads the eggs- They hatch in the intestine and can cross into the bloodstream Cysts that form around the larvae usually lodge in the brain and de stroy tissue, causing hallucina tions, speech and vision problems, severe headaches, strokes, epilep tic seizures and, in rare cases, death. "You can be a completely healthy, happy person experienc ing no sign qfj discomfort," El Pasc neurologist Dr. Albert Cuetter said. "Then — snap! — you gel one seizure and you're frightened to death." The New England Journal of Medicine reported in September that booming immigration from Mexico and more use of high-tech brain scans produced a big in crease in cases diagnosed near the border in the 1980s. Baptist pastor blames resignation on conflict THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DALLAS— Joel Gregory says he left the nation's largest Baptist church because he feared an open dispute with senior pastor W.A. Criswell would split the congregation. Gregory, 44, named pastor after a 27-month search, was expected to lead First Baptist Church of Dallas into the next millennium. But he stepped down Sept. 30 after only 21 months, sending shock waves through the 28,000-member congregation, the 15-million-member Southern Baptist Convention and evangelical Protestantism. In his first in-depth interviews since resigning as pastor, Gregory told The Dallas Morning News in Monday's editions that his discontent started with uncertainty about when Criswell would step aside. Criswell, who declined to be interviewed for the story, indicated that* he plans to stay on as senior pastor until his 50th anniversary with the church, still another two years away. That, Gregory said, wasn't what he was led to expect. And it wasn't acceptable. Gregory said that he understood that there would be a "short-term transition" working with the senior pastor, but there was never a signed document. "Dr. Criswell told me that it would be 'a few months.' Some of the members of the search committee said it would be 'a short time/" Gre gory said. Gregory said he feared the dual leadership would cause problems. "A Baptist church cannot have two perceived leaders. It leads to am biguity and tentativeness," Gregory said. "If the issue had been forced, it would have been enormously divisive. There would have been a line behind Gregory, a line behind Criswell — and a lot of people leaving." He referred to the recent troubles at General Motors, where chief ex ecutive officer Robert Stempel was dismissed to pave way for a succes sor. "GM didn't suggest that they were going to have two CEOs for four years," he said. R. Albert Mohler, editor of Christian Index in Atlanta and a funda mentalist leader, described Criswell, 82, as the engine that has driven First Baptist for 48 years. "The gears on that type of engine do not shift smoothly," he said. Gregory has painted a picture of the breakup that was not a power struggle between the two pastors or even a personality clash. What emerged is rather of an unspoken test of wills. He seems to feel no bitterness toward Criswell. "Dr. C and I, neither in public or in private, ever crossed swords on anything," he said. "There is no question that Dr. Criswell yielded the day-to-day operation of the church to my leadership." Gregory is considered a loyalist to the Southern Baptist fundamental ist cause. After serving as state Baptist convention president for two years in the late 1980s, Gregory's conservative leanings disappointed many moderates. Last yea^, Gregory became embroiled in a bitter con troversy with Baylor President Herbert Reynolds, who wanted the school to be independent of Texas Baptist state convention control. It still rankles Gregory that conservatives lost the battle. Sheriff cites innocence in theft trial THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FORT WORTH- Tarrant County Sheriff Don Carpenter on Monday pleaded innocent to charges of theft by a public ser vant as jury selection began in his felony trial. Carpenter is accused of lend ing a gun from the Sheriff's De partment property room that prosecutors say should have been destroyed or returned to its owner. If convicted, he could receive punishment ranging from pro bation to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Carpenter, 61, has maintained his innocence since his indictment in January. "He's confident that he has not violated the laws of this state," defense attorney Joe Brent Johnson said Monday. "His attorneys are confident that he has not violated the laws of this state. We're all confident at this time." As the trial began in state court. Carpenter was arraigned and made his innocent plea. At torneys then began questioning 60 potential jurors. The sheriff also faces seven other felony indictments, and special prosecutor Ray Sumrow said he plans to try all the cases. Most of the charges accuse Carpenter of illegally taking for himself, or giving away, guns confiscated by his department. One indictment says he lied to a Tarrant County grand jury about what he did with a weapon. Carpenter has been on paid leave of absence since his indict ments. 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