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Kay Bailey Hutchison's tenure as state treasurer. Fred Meyer, state GOP chairman, said Earle has conflicts of interest that should prevent him from conducting a fair investigation. "If we are going to have a fair investiga tion, it's going to have to be done by some body other than District Attorney Ronnie Ear le," Meyer said. Steve McCleery, first assistant to Earle, said Tuesday, "None of these allegations have any merit." "All these things being raised are pretty common defense lawyer tactics to divert the attention away from us doing our job, which is for us to investigate these allegations," Mc Cleery said. Meanwhile, an Austin defense attorney who has served for and against Earle, said he believes Hutchison was being given fair treat ment. Hutchison is scheduled to appear Thursday before a Travis County grand jury investigat ing allegations that state employees and equipment were used for personal and politi cal purposes during her term as treasurer. Texas law forbids public officials from us ing a state office for non-state business. Meyer said Earle shouldn't be investigating Hutchison because he had sought an appoint ment to the Senate seat when it was vacated by Lloyd Bentsen. Hutchison won the job in a special election June 5. Earle said at the outset of his office's three- month-old investigation that he would not run for the Senate next year, when Hutchison is up for re-election. Meyer also said Earle should be barred from heading the probe because he and his wife, Twyla, would be called as witnesses in the case should it ever reach the courtroom. Twyla Earle served in the state Treasury under Gov. Ann Richards, who preceded Hutchison as treasurer. Meyer said Earle would be called to testify about an investigation by his office in 1992 that found political activity at Hutchison's Treasury office was inadvertent and properly disposed of internally. ^Earle should not be leading an investiga tion against Mrs. Hutchison when he will be called as a witness for Mrs. Hutchison," Mey er said. "And Earle should not continue to lead this investigation when his own wife was present and participating in maintaining polit ical correspondence at the treasurer's office in a Democratic administration." Prosecutors have declined to say whether Hutchison is a target of their investigation. But an Aug. 19 letter from Earle's office to the sen ator's attorneys suggests that she is. "Your client has been accused of serious criminal conduct and along with others is sub ject to a criminal investigation," that letter said. State Republicans have repeatedly claimed that Hutchison is being railroaded by Earle be cause she is Republican. They say Earle is treating Hutchison less fairly than previous public officials who have been investigated by the district attorney's Public Integrity Unit. But Bill Willrns, who had served in Earle's office during investigations of former Attor ney General Jim Mattox and former Treasurer Warren Harding — both Democrats — dis agreed. Willrns, who openly criticized Earle while Willrns represented former Speaker of the House Gib Lewis, said Hutchison is getting fair treatment. "If the complaint is, T am being treated dif ferently because I am a Republican,' I haven't seen that," Willrns said. "I have never known Earle to make a difference on who he prose cutes strictly on their political affiliation/' Two Plainview teens wounded in drive-by The Associated Press PLAINVIEW — Two teen-age girls leaving school Tuesday were shot in the head in the parking lot of Plainview High School, authori ties said. Two men were later arrested and charged with attempted murder. Veronica Cordero, 17, and Esparanza Lucio, 14, were in guarded condition at area hospitals, police said. Ms. Cordero was being treated Tuesday night at University Medical Center in Lubbock. Ms. Lucio was at Methodist Plainview Hospital. Kevin Polk, 19, and Timothy D. Uddley, 17, both of Plainview, were arrested and charged with two counts each of attempted murder. The two were being held in the Hale County Jail on $100,000 bail bond each, said Plainview Police Capt. William Mull. The shooting occurred at 3:55 p.m. after a red Ford Escort pulled into the school parking lot, witnesses said. One witness said she heard shots "and everybody started running." Ms. Lucio, a freshman, was hit in the neck and Ms. Cordero, a sophomore, was struck just above the right ear, said Nancy Carthel, house supervisor at Methodist Hospital Plainview. Police said the two girls were not the targets of the suspects' gunfire. "Evidently it was just an argument between two groups of boys," Mull said. "The two ladies were more or less bystanders. It appears the only involvement they had was standing in the wrong place at the wrong time." Police said they were checking rumors that the shooting may have been in retaliation for one youth chasing another with a gun at a carni val several weeks ago. Meanwhile, police also arrested Tuesday a man suspected in a relat ed drive-by shooting that occurred about 45 minutes after the first inci dent. Lorenzo Cordero, who police said is the uncle of Ms. Cordero, al legedly shot from his vehicle at four teens in another car. One passen ger, Francisco Juanes, suffered minor cuts from flying glass, said Lt. Michael Carroll. Cordero, 21, has been charged with attempted murder and is being held in the Hale County Jail on $50,000 bond. Mull said. Police suspect the second shooting was meant as revenge to the first. Mull said. "We really suspect it was in retaliation to his niece being shot," he said. A full-time police officer was assigned to the Plainview High School last spring following several incidents of violence. A student was ar rested for carrying a gun at the high school last year. School district officials said counselors will be available Wednesday to talk with students. "We have an advisory period that is designed for dealing with things like this," said superintendent Dennis Townsend. "If the stu dents want to talk, there will (be) people they can talk to." DON’T CRACK UNDER PRESSURE T4S TAG-Heuer SWISS MADE SINCE 1860. LULifTlorkr Jemeter/ 3841 Bellaire Blvd • Houston, Texas 77025• 713/668-5000 Execution volunteer changes mind ednesda; IUUPHILLI OAVETHO, ielinda B tlACK HAR The Associated Press HUNTSVILLE — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday halted the scheduled execution of Richard Lee Beavers, who had volunteered to be put to death but then changed his mind. Beavers, 35, faced lethal injection before dawn Wednesday for the Aug. 19, 1986, slaying of a Houston restaurant manager, Doug Odle, during an abduction and robbery. Odle's wife, Jenny, also was shot but she survived and testified against Beavers. A request for a stay of execution or a change of his execution date had been denied earlier Tuesday by State District Judge Woody Densen. But Justice Antonin Scalia, about nine hours before the execution could occur, ordered the state to postpone the punishment until the full Supreme Court can consider a formal appeal filed in his behalf. The earliest that will be is when the begins its 1993-94 term next month. Die Unit 4;serious ir Following ied seven liwarlor lid is sti atening l Multiculturalism Continued from Page 1 a senior psychology major, said the College Republicans are not against a multicultural class. "We are against requiring the class and trying to pass this re quirement off as multicultural," Satsky said. Satsky said the six hours re quired of Liberal Arts students are not true multicultural classes. "If they would change the re quirement of three hours of racial, ethnic and gender classes to inter national classes, then we would support it," Satsky said. The College Republicans passed a resolution this summer officially condemning the require ment and asking alumni to with hold financial contributions until the issue can be settled. Jim Jeter, associate executive director of the Association of For mer Students, said he has re ceived more mail from alumni about this issue than any other during his 13 years with the asso ciation. "I've communicated with 300 or 400 people, and other members in my office have talked to many as well," Jeter said. "It's by far the most response I've received, and most are not operating out of ignorance." Street said some concerned alumni do not know enough about the‘r^quiremlent. - "What bajgs me about some of the alumni sending in their oppo sition is that they don't even know what the requirement is," Street said. "They are responding in a way that is not informed." The Student Senate will intro duce their own version of the re quirement for study and discus sion at their meeting tonight. Ben Dale, chairman of the Stu dent Senate's academic affairs committee, spoke positively about the requirement, saying, "This has nothing to do with poli tics, this has to do with becoming better Aggies." "This course is for education, not indoctrination," he said. 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