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ottery suit to examine
ush Vietnam service
lAUSTIN (AP) — A legal show
down is looming between former
Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes and lawyers
lln.foi a fired Texas Lottery official
' W over Gov. George W. Bush’s ad-
■ssion into the National Guard
dilring the Vietnam War.
■ Lawrence Littwin claims that
I ■’ECH, the private company that
I His the lottery, used its political
1 Hluence to get him fired as exec-
ulve director. Littwin’s lawyers
s^d GTECH feared Littwin would
a critic of the company.
Littwin’s lawyers have sug-
Isted Barnes, a former GTECH
pbyist, got help from Bush’s of-
[e to renew GTECH’s state lot-
ry contract and get rid of Lit-
in. In exchange, the lawyers
ive said, Barnes kept silent
lout helping Bush get into the
phonal Guard in the late 1960s.
They said they yotend to ask
Barnes about the National
Guard issue during a pretrial de
position Monday.
Bush, the Republican presi
dential front-runner, has denied
seeking help to get into the Guard.
Meanwhile, Littwin’s lawyers
lost an effort yesterday to ques
tion Lottery Commission chair
Harriet Miers. Federal Magistrate
Judge Paul D. Stickney said Lit
twin’s lawyers failed to show a
compelling reason to interrupt
the schedule of a top state official
for a deposition.
Linda Eads, deputy attorney
general for litigation, said without
rulings like Stickney’s, state offi
cials would be summoned into
court all the time. She said the
state is sued an average of 20
times a day, and she regularly at
tends hearings on requests to or
der state officials to testify.
Minority groups advise
families to turn off T.V.
AUSTIN (AP) —- Hispanics
should reduce how much time
their children spend watching tele
vision — avoiding shows without
positive Hispanic roles — and set
aside more time for studying, a mi
nority rights group said yesterday.
The League of United Latin
American Citizens (LULAC) pro
posed limiting television time as
part of an upcoming plan to im
prove Hispanic student perfor
mance in Texas public schools,
Linda Chavez group district direc
tor for central Texas, said.
“Prime-time television not only
robs our children of valuable study
time — it also erodes their positive
sense of identity,” Chavez said.
The group supported the Na
tional Council of La Raza and the
NAACP national boycott of the ma
jor networks which portray few
Hispanic characters.
"We are continuously
portrayed in negative
roles, when we do
have ro/es."
—Linda Chavez
LULAC group district director
Two shows broadcast Tuesday
on ABC — “Will and Grace” and
“Dharma and Gregg” — each por
trayed Hispanic characters as
maids. “We are continuously por
trayed in negative roles, when we
do have roles,” Chavez said.
LULAC leaders said they will
propose later this year ways to
improve Hispanic students’
school performance, including
bilingual education and reducing
drop-out rates.
Hispanics are the state’s fastest
growing student group, represent
ing 38 percent of the public school
population, the group said.
The group did not offer specifics
yesterday.
“Our agenda will consist of re
forming and updating the manner
in which Texas schools provide ed
ucation to all Hispanic children,”
Robert Gamboa, LULAC education
committee chair, said.
“We won’t wait for the school
districts to solve problems they have
previously failed to address, such as
school dropouts,” he said. “We will
come up with our own agenda.”
Deputy convicted
in extortion case
McALLEN (AP) — An Hidal
go County Sheriff’s deputy has
pleaded guilty to taking money
from defendants in exchange for
fixing cases.
Cornelio Garza, 41, was indict
ed last month for using his posi
tion as a warrant officer to extort
money from defendants in crimi
nal cases.
The indictment alleged he
took payments totalling about
$36,000 from three different peo
ple facing criminal charges in Hi
dalgo County.
Garza pleaded guilty Tuesday
to one count of accepting $10,000
in exchange for promises about a
pending court case.
He will be sentenced Dec. 7
before U.S. District Judge File-
mon Vela and faces up to 20
years in prison.
Garza has agreed to make resti
tution to the victims, the FBI said
in a release yesterday.
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