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I IRVING — Jimmy Johnson, weary of daily duels
with Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, walked away
Tuesday from a team he led to two straight Super
Bowls in exchange for a hefty bonus and the freedom
tb work elsewhere.
I Johnson left the Cowboys after
five seasons in which they went
from being the worst in the league
to champions two years in a row.
I “I didn’t see the same drive I had
aj few years ago,” Johnson said. “It
as time for me to step back. I fully
expect to coach again.’
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ticed something, too.
I "He worked 24 hours a day for
five years. I saw burnout coming,” he said.
I Johnson’s resignation capped a long-standing
Personality conflicts with owner, lack of drive
cause coach to resign from Super Bowl champs
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feud that boiled over in Orlando, Fla., last week
when Jones suggested in a barroom conversation
that he should hire a new coach, and his remarks
got back to Johnson.
“After our discussions, we have mutually decided
that I would no longer be the head football coach of
the Dallas Cowboys,’ Johnson said, sitting to the right
of Jones at the Cowboys’ Valley Ranch headquarters
after two days of meetings.
Their kind words aside, problems between the two
began almost as soon as Jones bought the team in
1989, fired Tom Landry and made Johnson his coach.
“This boiled down to a personal thing between
Jimmy and Jerry,” said defensive coordinator Butch
Davis, who has been with Johnson throughout his
15-year coaching career. “It was nothing about
football, it was nothing about management. This
was personal.”
Johnson tried to soft-pedal his relationship with
Jones before the cameras on Tuesday, although they
had been trading verbal blows since the Cowboys de
feated the Buffalo Bills 30-13 in the Super Bowl.
“I feel better about Jerry as a friend, ’ Johnson said.
Jones said he gave Johnson, who had five years left
on his contract at $1 million per year, a “big-time
thank you.”
The parting gave them both what they wanted.
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Autopsy reveals baby found
in trash chute alive at birth
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^■ounty Forensic Science Center in San Antonio.
I Bob Wiatt, director of UPD, said the autopsy, con-
Miicted Monday, does not indicate whether the baby
died of natural causes shordy after birth or was killed.
I “Additional tests are being conducted to determine
the cause of death,” he said. ^‘Following conclusion of
the forensic tests, then appropriate charges will be
cjonsidered by the district attorney or Brazos County
grand jury.”
Wiatt said it will be a couple of weeks before the
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The autopsy indicated that the mother carried the
infant to term.
UPD also is conducting an investigation of the
room where the woman gave birth, as well as other
areas in the residence hall.
“When we get that wrapped up, that will be sent
to the district attorney,” he said.
UPD is investigating whether the mother threw the
baby into the trash or whether there was someone
else present at the time of birth.
Wiatt would not comment on whether any leads
have been uncovered.
“We’ve gone into all aspects of it,” he said.
The woman had constantly told other residents of
Mosher Hall that she was not pregnant, and on Friday
morning locked the bathroom door connecting her
room and her suitemate’s room, Wiatt said.
She then told her suitemate she was “just ill,” he
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HARUNGEN — The Rio Grande
|Valley needs more medical-training
programs to treat the border’s
dwelling health-care needs, state
lawmakers were told Tuesday.
“The Valley’s young people
vho want to do something about
these problems by becoming
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longings from 250 to 400 miles
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Ramiro Casso, a retired McAllen
doctor who spent 3 7 years treating
aostly poor patients.
Casso said the costs are prohibi
tive for many Valley students to
study at the nearest medical
schools in San Antonio or the
Houston area.
Medical professionals and edu
cators from South Texas testified at
a field hearing of the House Ap
propriations Subcommittee on Ed
ucation on the Valley’s need to re
cruit and retain more doctors and
nurses. Political and economic
leaders joined the chorus during
the daylong hearing.
Casso and other officials cited
bleak statistics about health-care
access in the four-county Lower
Rio Grande Valley:
•About 40 percent of the resi
dents live below the poverty level.
•About 38 percent do not have
health insurance.
•About 43 percent of pregnant
women do not utilize prenatal care.
Doctors testified that Mexican-
Americans — about 85 percent of
the Valley population — suffer
high rates of diabetes.
Residents of “colonias’’ —
poor border communities lacking
basic services — are vulnerable
to a host of infectious diseases
such as intestinal disorders, he
patitis A and tuberculosis.
State Rep. Renato Cuellar, D-
Weslaco, said a proposal to build a
full-service health science center
in the Valley was unsuccessful in
last year’s legislative session, most
ly because of the estimated cost —
$420 million.
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WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton
invested an initial $1,000 in the cattle futures
market, parlaying that small stake into nearly
5100,000 in 1978 and 1979,
the White House said Tues
day. The White House sought
to prove she used only her
own money in the mush-
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wound up with about $ 1,000
in losses and closed the ac- ..
count soon after the Clintons’ R °dnam Clinton
(daughter Chelsea was born in 1980, the White
I House said.
The new material was put out by the White
House in an effort to demonstrate that Clinton
spent her own money in the stunningly suc
cessful first venture in commodities trading.
“Mrs. Clinton put up her own money, in
vested it in her own accounts, and assumed the
full risk of loss,” said Clinton’s press secretary,
Lisa Caputo, and White House staff secretary
John Podesta in a joint statement.
The White House released copies of “state
ments of profits and loss” Clinton received that
shows her main account ballooning over the
two-year period.
The documents suggested that, from her ini
tial investment of $1,000 in October 1978, she
made a $5,300 profit on her first trade within a
few days. She reinvested the principal and pro
ceeds in several transactions, accumulating trad
ing profits of $49,069 that first year offset by
$22,548 in losses. Her net gain for the year was
$26,521.
In 1979, still reinvesting her gains, she made
trading profits of $109,600 and suffered losses
of $36,600. Her net gain for that year was
$72,996. The White House indicated the dif
ference came in the rounding off of figures.
She closed the account with Ray E. Friedman
and Co., a Chicago commodity trader with an
office in Springdale, Ark., in July 1979 — after
making more than $99,000 on the original
$1,000, according to the documents provided
by the White House.
Tax returns for 197 7-79 and other docu
ments released by the White House last Friday
showed the nearly $100,000 in gains in the
two years.
The tax returns did not list what Mrs. Clin
ton had paid for the commodities, the date ac
quired or the date sold.
That raised questions over how much of her
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Good Friday holiday
causes confusion
By Stephanie Dube
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CORPUS CHRISTI — Conservation officials are worried about an in
crease in the number of dolphins found dead along Texas beaches.
So far this year, 122 dolphins have been found on Texas shores, more
than twice the 64 found in the same three months last year. Only 1 5 0
dolphin deaths were reported in all of 1993.
"We’re starting to get a little bit worried,” said Graham Worthy, direc
tor of the Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network, a conservation
group that tracks dolphins.
Twenty-nine of the 122 were discovered in the Galveston area Satur
day, Sunday and Monday — an unusually high number for that period of
time in that area, he said.
Six dead dolphins were found at Padre Island National Seashore
Thursday and Friday.
In addition, two live dolphins were found on the beach last week and
turned over to the Texas State Aquarium. One of those has died.
If a lot of dolphins continue to turn up, Worthy said, he might ask the
National Marine Fisheries Service to help investigate the mysterious phe
nomena.
Scientists have not determined why the dolphins wash up on shore,
but a combination of factors are suspected. Those include natural deaths,
cancer deaths due to water pollution and injuries by boats and sharks,
Worthy said.
It’s difficult to determine the cause because the bodies often are de
composed, said Tony Amos, a research associate with the University of
Texas Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas.
Scientists can’t explain why some years show higher numbers of dol
phin deaths in Texas than others, Worthy said.
High death rates happened in 1990 when 214 dolphins were found,
and in 1992 when 267 were found.
Some scientists believe outbreaks of diseases may be responsible,
Amos said.
Texas A&M faculty members and students will enjoy a University
holiday Friday, which has sparked several misconceptions and rumors
across campus.
Dr. E. Dean Gage, A&M interim president, said A&M usually waits for
the governor to proclaim Good Friday a holiday.
Gov. Ann Ricnards typically announces the cancellation on late Thurs
day. Gage said this late notice caused students to erroneously believe
classes had been canceled, and this resulted in students’ missing impor
tant tests or labs which were hard to make-up so late in the year.
“This created an unworkable academic situation for us, so prior to
the academic year, we made Good Friday a holiday to avoid academic
confusion,” Gage said. •
Jerry Gaston, executive associate provost, said the Board of Regents
approves 1 2 staff holidays each year, which may or may not be held
while school is in session.
This schedule is approved before the fiscal year, which begins Sep
tember 1.
Gaston said this year’s schedule included a holiday on Good Friday,
causing the University to be closed and students’ classes to be canceled.
“Sometimes the governor issues a proclamation giving state employ
ees the day off,” he said. “This happened last year shortly before Easter;
making Good Friday a holiday. If she does that again this year, the staff
will get an extra day off for later in the year.”
Gage said if Gov. Richards proclaims Good Friday a holiday, the
employees will be given a holiday, which they can take any time they
choose.
However, whether or not Gov. Richards proclaims Good Friday to be
a holiday, A&M will still be technically closed and students will still not
have classes.
Gaston warned of another rumor circulating on campus connected to
the Good Friday holiday.
“There is a rumor that May 3 1 will be a University holiday if the gov
ernor declares Good Friday a holiday, but this is not true,” he said.
“Summer school classes will start May 3 1 as indicated in the schedule.”