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Thursday, January 27,1994
Republican issues of crime,
welfare liberated by Clinton
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - President
Clinton's seizing the initiative on
crime and welfare reform has
knocked Republicans off balance
— suddenly on the defensive on
issues that have been dependable
GOP weapons against Democrats
for a quarter century.
Clinton's efforts are causing
considerable worry within a Re
publican Party already at odds in
ternally over how to position itself
in the coming health care reform
debate, and concerned that GOP
hopes for gains in this year's
midterm elections could be un
dermined.
With Clinton promising to
push three popular issues through
Congress, Republicans find them
selves in a quandary not unlike
last year's North American Free
Trade Agreement debate: They
can help Clinton to victory and
watch him get most of the credit,
or try to block the president and
run afoul of voters anxious for ac
tion on crime, welfare and health
care.
"There's a potential, if this
speech was sincere, for a remark
able coalition that could pass a lot
of stuff/' House GOP Whip Newt
Gingrich admitted.
"He can try all he wants, but
the Democrats in Congress are not
going to let him take the issues of
crime and welfare away because
their special interest constituen
cies won't let them go in the direc
tion the public is demanding,"
said GOP pollster Robert Teeter.
"It won't be easy, but we'll get
there," Democratic National Com
mittee Chairman David Wilhelm
said. After a White House meet
ing with Clinton, Democratic con
gressional leaders made similar
predictions.
"Clinton's speech isn't going to
be one of the great ones in history,
but he was pretty effective in po
sitioning himself more solidly
than he was before in the eyes of
the middle class by linking the
three issues of health care, welfare
and crime," said Kevin Phillips, a
GOP theorist often critical of the
party leadership. "I think Repub
licans have gotten themselves in
some real trouble here."
"He doesn't have the votes on
the Democratic side," said Senate
Republican leader Bob Dole.
"He's going to have to drop a lot
of these price controls, mandates,
the mandatory health care al
liances, before we make any real
inroads."
Even Dole conceded in an NBC
interview that in the end, "we can
probably accommodate most of
what the president is talking
about."
Mexico's Blanca White's destroyed
Famous border watering hole burned down in fire
The Associated Press
MATAMOROS, Mexico — When this year's inva
sion of sunburned and thirsty Spring Breakers
swamps this bordertown, there will be a big shock.
The hands-down favorite cantina, Blanca White's,
will be dark, its wrought-iron gates padlocked.
Cool nights of snake dancing between the small,
wobbly tables will be but a warm memory, along
with thousands of Polaroid snapshots tacked to the
walls that caught customers in full-blown rumpus.
Gone, too, will be the unbelievable array of
junk, trash and treasures hung from the rafters by
happy clients.
Blanca White's has burned down.
For more than a decade, Blanca White's has been
the best-known bar in northern Mexico.
The eclectic watering hole, an easy three-block walk
from the international bridge, hosted not only vaca
tioning collegians, but was a popular after-dinner des
tination for locals from both sides of the Rio Grande.
But a few days before Thanksgiving, the bar's in
terior was gutted by fire, possibly caused by an elec
trical short circuit-
For owner Blanca Beltri, 37, — the bar's name was
a pun, Blanca is "white" in Spanish — the loss was
hard to take.
"For me, it's a terrible emptiness not to have it,"
Beltri said. "To go by there and see it, and to see
there is nothing left — Lord!
"When the accident happened, something was
wrenched from very deep in my soul."
But if fate has dealt Beltri a cruel blow, don't
count her out.
The same determination and drive that led her to
open the club in 1982 with no financial backing is
prompting her to try again.
The success of Blanca White's was in large part
due to the personality of its owner.
Beltri, a petite woman with blonde hair, usually sta
tioned herself at the front door and greeted her clients
with a smile. Throughout the evening, she made
rounds of the tables to make sure the service was
good, or to sit and talk. It was rare to walk into Blanca
White's, at any hour or any day, and not find Beltri.
Energetic, and always wearing a tuxedo shirt and
black slacks like the club waiters, Beltri exhorted her
customers to have a good time, but had no patience
with drunks or brawlers.
Instead of linen tablecloths, she covered the tables
with butcher paper and provided chalk and other
writing materials. The rest of the interior decorating
was done by clients, who over the years have sus
pended a bizarre collection of hats, crutches and oth
er personal items from the rafters.
"I put the place up, but my customers made it
what it was," Beltri said.
Houston
socialite sells
belongings to
pay IRS debt
The Associated Press
Thu
HOUSTON - Federal au-j
thorities plan to auction more
than $1 million worth of jewel
ry, furs, antiques and a ranch
all belonging to a prominent
Houston businesswoman to
pay back taxes she owes.
The auction of Teresa Ro
driguez' belongings will gener
ate revenue to satisfy her debts,
which include a $1.2 million In
ternal Revenue Service tax bill,
as part of a proposed settle
ment.
Rodriguez, once recognized
as the Hispanic Business
woman of the Year, saw be:
computer and financial services
empire crumble last May amid
accusations she was runnings
Ponzi scheme and owed money
to the IRS.
Investors forced her into in
voluntary bankruptcy. The IK
seized her Montrose-area town-
house, Mexia ranch and other
properties, as well as her jewel j
ry, furs, clothing and antiques. |
The FBI collected 62 boxes ot
documents in May, said Jame<
G. Conway, an FBI spokesman
Court documents showthi
IRS and the trustees have
agreed on the tentative settle
ment. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge
Karen Brown still must ap
prove it Feb. 3.
"Some of the jewelry isev
empt and we want it back, 1
said Joel Androphy, Rodriguez
attorney. "There are things,like
her wedding ring and jewelry
her husband bought her - sen-
timental things she wants
keep for her whole life - a
-she is entitled to have the
hack."
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fused her request because sheMphysic
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route being taken by his driver
and insisted on being let out of
the car. Once in the west Houston
neighborhood, the two began
knocking randomly on the doors
of homes, scaring some residents
who refused to open their doors.
De Vries rang the doorbell at
Agee's front door and then hid. He
then jumped the backyard fence
and banged on the glass doors.
A police autopsy revealed De
Vries had a .08 blood alcohol con
tent, below the .10 limit for intoxi
cation while driving in Texas.
Agee told police he thought he
was about to be the victim of a
home invasion, but a companion
of De Vries claimed they were
only trying to get someone to call
the police for them.
Home invasions, where bur
glars kick in the doors and attack
residents who are still in the
home, have been a piroblem in
parts of Houston for the past year.
"All we're asking is that they
look at the facts and let justice
prevail," said Gelt De Vries
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they will see this was a sensete lation,
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charges will be brought again; fion to
Agee, they know the chances at; almost
slim. livists,
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consider is a killer to be madeotifear of
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