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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."
Officials also have discussed
asking voters to approve putting
an equity standard for school
funding in the state constitution,
as a way to avoid continued court
entanglement on that issue.
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Court upholds convictions
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON- The
Supreme Court on Monday left
intact the criminal convictions of
two men who say they should
have been allowed to tell jurors
they acted in the good faith that
they were not breaking the law.
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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