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□ Residents roll out
the red, white and
blue carpet for guests
who will decide their
towns' fate.
■ LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) —
Homes to three Texas military
bases spent Tuesday polishing
their strategies to pour out pa
triotic charm and economic data
or visitors who could decide to
dose those bases.
■ Crowds sporting bows and
banners and balloons will greet
members of a base-closure com
mission touring Lubbock, San
Antonio and Texarkana
throughout this week.
■ City leaders professed opti
mism that the displays would
help save thousands of jobs on
the line.
■ “The attitude is one of deter
mination to make the best pos
sible case that we can,” Lubbock
Mayor David Langston said
Tuesday. “We would certainly
like for the Air Force to know
how strong we feel.”
Three Texas sites — Reese
Air Force Base in Lubbock,
Brooks AFB in San Antonio and
the Red River Army Depot in
Texarkana — found themselves
in a listing released Feb. 28
among installations the Penta
gon intends to close.
But the Defense Base Clo
sure and Realignment Commis
sion, known as BRAG, can re-
"The attitude is one of determi
nation to make the best possible
case that we can.
move or add bases to the Pen
tagon’s list.
Members of the commission
are visiting those targeted bases
before sending a final closure
list to President Clinton on July
1. Delegates were expected
Wednesday in Lubbock,
Thursday morning in San Anto
nio and complete their whirl
wind tour Thursday afternoon
in Texarkana.
Gov. George W. Bush wasn’t
scheduled to join any of those
visits. But a spokeswoman said
he plans to testify at a regional
BRAG hearing April 19 which
will be held in Dallas.
“He believes that national
taxpayers get a great bargain
for their defense
dollars in Texas,”
Karen Hughes
said. “We have
very supportive
communities,
great weather
and training con
ditions, highly
skilled workers,
and a low cost of
living.”
Lubbock resi
dents were urged to wear yellow
ribbons and shine their head
lights during the day Wednes
day.
Organizers of a “Stand Up for
Reese” campaign said they
hoped 30,000 supporters would
turn out to wave at commission-
— David Langston
Mayor, Lubbock
ers in a noon motorcade from
South Plains Mall to Texas
Tech University and the on to
the downtown area.
Reese furnishes about 1,700
jobs and a $163 million econom
ic impact annually in its pilot
training mission.
Texarkana was making its
pitch on billboards, bumper
stickers and T-shirts. The base
there employs about 4,100 peo
ple, most of whom are civilians.
“We definitely want the com
mission to realize that this com
munity is truly supportive of
Red River Army Depot — have
been since they’ve been here in
1940 — and definitely want to
keep it open,” said Linda Craw
ford, economic development as
sistant for the Texarkana
Chamber of Commerce.
In San Antonio, the mayor’s
office intends to ask for the re
tention of Brooks’ most impor
tant missions: Armstrong Labo
ratory, the School of Aerospace
Medicine and the Center for En
vironmental Excellence. Brooks
employees 2,250 civilians and
1,800 military personnel.
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Lawmakers sf.f.k to enact ‘tough love’ rule
enate committee stalls juvenile crime bill
□ Dallas politician claims that
the document's wording leaves
loopholes around
tended meaning.
the rule's in-
|| AUSTIN (AP) — Legislation that aims to
reform the state’s juvenile justice system
was held up in a Senate committee Tuesday
by a lawmaker concerned that the bill is
simply too severe.
p “The bill needs to reflect tough love. But
it needs to be tough and it also needs to
show some love. Currently, it’s just tough,”
said Sen. Royce West, D-Dallas.
“We’re getting ready to radically change
how we handle juveniles in the state of
Texas,” West said. “I think that deserves
more than just a cursory analysis.”
The full Senate had been expected to con
sider the bill Thursday, however was left
pending before the Senate Criminal Justice
Committee in Austin.
The measure by Sen. Chris Harris, R-Ar-
lington, retains many aspects of a juvenile
crime reform bill passed by the House this
past month.
It would lower the age at which a juvenile
could be tried as an adult, from 15 to 14. The
measure also expands the list of offenses for
which youths could face fixed, or determi
nate, sentences.
Currently, youths are sentenced to Texas
Youth Commission facilities for an unspeci
fied time unless they commit one of six of
fenses. These offenses include capital mur
der and murder.
The bill would add several crimes to that
list, including sexual assault, aggravated
robbery and aggravated assault. Youths
would face sentences between 10 and 40
years for those offenses and would have to
serve a minimum of two years.
The bill also includes a provision that
Harris characterized as “once certified ... al
ways certified.” A juvenile who is tried and
convicted as an adult would remain certified
as an adult for all subsequent offenses in the
future, Harris said
West questioned that provision, among
others, saying the bill contained loopholes
around the intended rule.
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