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Senate panel’s action would privatize Kelly AFB
The San Antonio depot is currently
operating at about half its capacity
WASHINGTON (AP) — Privatization
plans ongoing at Air Force depots in
Texas and California would be stopped
and their workloads divided among sur
viving depots in Georgia, Oklahoma and
Utah under a measure approved
Monday by a Senate panel.
The action was taken by the Senate
Armed Services Committee’s readiness sub
committee as the panel met behind closed
doors to consider next year’s defense autho
rization bill, a congressional source said.
The amendment offered by Sen. James
Inhofe, R-Okla., was “similar, though not
identical’’ to language approved last
week by a House National Security sub
committee, said the source, speaking on
condition of anonymity.
Under orders not to discuss delibera
tions until the defense authorization is
completed by the full committee later this
week, Inhofe’s office declined comment.
The House and Senate measures effec
tively would force the Air Force to aban
don its plan to shield thousands of jobs at
Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio and
McClellan AFB in Sacramento, Calif.
The congressional intent is to force the
Air Force and the Clinton administration to
follow the recommendations of the 1995
Defense Base Closure and Realignment
Commission to transfer the Kelly and
McClellan work to three surviving depots.
There has been sharp resentment
within Congress to what has been widely
viewed as White House meddling in the
base-closing process for election-year
gain in vote-rich California and Texas.
After the base-closure commission
voted to shutter the depots at Kelly and
McClellan, the administration rebound
ed with a plan to shield for five years
some 16,000 of Kelly’s 19,000 jobs and
8,700 of McClellan’s 11,000 workers.
Under the administration’s “privatiza
tion-in-place” plan, most of those jobs
would remain once the defense work is
taken over by private contractors.
Critics contend the privatization plan
would cost hundreds of millions of dol
lars more than outright closure of the twi
depots, and does nothing to reduce
excess capacity within the Air Force
depot system. Currently, the depots are
operating at about half capacity.
Privatization supporters counter that
military readiness would be harmed byl
the depots’ shutdown, and that savings
will result from turning the work over to
private industry.
Ironically, even as Texas lawmakers are
fighting to protect the privatization plan,
many workers at Kelly and McClellan are
pushing to have the workloads transferred
to the three other depots.
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Richard McLaren and four oth
ers were indicted Monday in the
kidnapping that sparked a week-
long standoff with scores of
state troopers.
McLaren, Gregg Paulson,
Karen Paulson, and Robert Otto,
also known as White Eagle, were
each indicted on a single charge of
engaging in organized criminal
activity, a first degree felony. They
could be sentenced to five to 99
years or life in prison and fined
$10,000 if convicted.
The fifth person’s identity was
withheld in a sealed indictment. It
presumably is Richard F. Keyes III,
who remains a fugitive.
The indictments allege the
group participated in a scheme to
kidnap two neighbors in the Davis
Mountains Resort, a rough rural
subdivision where the Republic
members had set up an “embassy”
in a trailer and wooden cabin.
McLaren and his followers con
tend Texas was never legally
annexed by the United States and
remains an independent republic.
The April 27 abduction, in retali
ation for the arrest that day of a
group member on weapons
charges, led to the standoff
between the armed separatists and
300 Department of Public Safety
troopers and Texas Rangers.
The siege ended May 3 after
McLaren, the Paulsons and Otto
agreed to lay down their weapons.
McLaren’s wife, Evelyn, had walked
into custody earlier.
Keyes and McLaren body
guard Mike Matson
fled into the Davis
Mountains wilder
ness. Matson was
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shootout with
authorities.
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were sought against
McLaren’s wife or
Robert Scheidt, the
group member
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enough evidence in
our hand to connect them to the
kidnapping,” said James Jepson,
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Jeff Davis County and other sur
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Valadez said he was pleased with
the indictments.
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many people and so many agendes
were able to work so well in harmo
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Valadez said McLaren’s insis
tence that he should be treated as
a foreign diplomat — he is the
group’s self-styled ambassador-
did nothing to change his I
approach to the case.
“It was handled like any!
I was really impressed
that so many people and so
many agencies were able to
work so well in harmony.”
Albert Valadez
Jeff Davis County District Attorney
other,” he said.
McLaren has also been indict
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Bethel United Methodist Church, which has
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HOUSTON (AP) — A lot of
leads, possible suspects, and
even two confessions have sur
faced in the investigation into
the April disappearance and slay
ing of a 12-year-old suburban
Friendswood girl.
But so far, the killer of Laura
Smither has not been found. A
pool of potential suspects has
been narrowed from hundreds to
23. Autopsy tests are still being
done to determine how the child
died. And two confessions from
arrestees in Florida and Houston
have proven false.
Friendswood Police Chief Jared
Stout says he’s not surprised the
case is taking a long time to solve.
He also is not discouraged.
“Our feet are flat and will con
tinue to be so,” Stout said. “We
thought we’d be in this for the
long-haul. There is no statute of
limitations.”
Laura disappeared during a
momingjogonApril3. Her body was
found April 20 in a Pasadena pond
about 20 minutes from her home.
“We’re into our third month,”
Stout says. “The longer it goes, the
more likely it will last a long time.”
The case captured statewide
and national attention. The home-
schooled girl, who loved animals
and ballet and who lived in the
Quaker-founded city of
Friendswood, seemed the most
unlikely of crime victims.
Friendswood, reachable in
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minutes south of Houston, is in
many ways a world away from the
kind of pains that trouble the
nation’s fourth-largest city.
Stout said once Laura was
reported missing, his department
— with the help of the FBI -
began looking at the whereabouts tab:
of convicted sex offenders whoftas
might be in the area.
Little did he know he’d be look
ing at some 591 possibilities,
That’s the number of inmates,
mostly sex offenders, released tTt
from prison in Brazoria, Galveston Hi
and southern Harris counties
from Jan. 1,1995, to this past April.
Hopes were raised briefly inlic
May when Ricky Rhodes, a 24-
year-old transient, arrested in
Orlando, Fla., reportedly bragged ^
to cellmates he killed Laura.
But that and the claim about
two weeks ago from a man arrest- ^
ed for theft in Harris County were ^
both proven false.
And links to Laura’s slaying and
the disappearances of other girls
in the state have not been sub
stantiated, Stout said.
The Harris County medical
examiner’s office is still doing
tests to complete the autopsy^
report and those may provide
more clues, he said.
Stout is convinced a strange!
took Laura, but other than thai
there is little to do but keep fob
lowing up leads that still come to
his office.
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