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Bush’s ap pointees to the three-member commission over- BUSH seeing state envi ronmental affairs are a former chemical compa ny employee, a former consultant for engineering firms and a member of the Texas Farm Board. Environmentalists are critical, saying those who serve on the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission should not come from the industries they monitor. Aides to Bush, the Republican presidential nominee, and the com missioners themselves say their busi ness backgrounds do not make them partial to industry. And one commis sioner says his experience gives him the upper hand because he under stands industry tricks. “I know how the industry works. I have been there myself,” said Ralph Marquez. Bush appointed Marquez, who worked for Monsanto Co. from 1963 to 1993 before leaving to start his own consulting firm; John Baker, who was on the board of the Texas Farm Board and was agricultural ad viser to Environmental Protection Agency chief William K. Reilly from 1991 to 1993 while Bush’s fa ther was president; and chairman Robert Huston, whose consulting firm represented industry and gov ernment agencies. Bush’s environmental record has become campaign fodder for Sen. Joseph Lieberman, Democrat A1 Gore’s running mate, who has criti cized Bush for appointing commis sioners with industry ties. “Given a chance to stand with peo ple, families or side with the polluters, Governor Bush has too often chosen to side with the polluters,” Lieberman said on a recent swing through Texas. Bush spokesman Dan Bartlett said Bush believes the commission does not favor industry. “Governor Bush believes he’s picked people who will work hard to improve the air, water and land in the state of Texas,” Bartlett said. “I know how the industry works. I been folks that have been wt; for the environment,” saidi Schneider, director of Publi search Works. 'The> have! working for the polluters’ir Environmental groups fail get a state review board toal rule preventing anyone wli earned a significant part of tb| come in the previous five; from industries regulated! TRNCC from becoming a;l have been there myself/' — Ralph Marquez Commission appointee But Texas environmentalists say Bush and his appointees have left the state in trouble, with Houston leading the nation in poor air qual ity and Texas ranking fifth in re lease of toxic emissions. “The Bush appointees have not missioner. The commission had aim vorable rating under Gov Richards, who created it, try and business groups compb it was too strict in enforcing ronmental laws. Richards’con sioners included a former» commissioner and attorney^; from West Texas; and a former ployee of the Texas Land Con sion and the Lower Colorado!! Authority. Of Bush’s appointees, Mar has received the most criticism. Man set to be executed for role in murder-for-hire inheritance scam HUNTSVILLE (AP) — Six days after his 19th birth day, video store clerk Jeffrey Dillingham figured he was on his way to a cool $ 1 million when he and an accom plice broke into a luxury home in Fort Worth. All they had to do was kill the couple who lived there. But the scheme unraveled. Although the woman in the house was killed, her husband survived a savage attack. Some two weeks later, Dillingham confessed to po lice. Then he rejected a plea bargain that would have giv en him a life sentence. After convicting him of capital murder, a jury sent him to death row. More than 8 1/2 years after Fort Worth socialite Caren Koslow was beaten and slashed with an 18-inch steel pry bar, Dillingham was set for lethal injection Wednesday evening. “There can’t be any satisfaction,” Robert Mayfield, one of the Tarrant County prosecutors who worked to convict Dillingham, said of the execution. “It’s just the fact that some crimes are so heinous that the ultimate punishment is required. It’s a waste of life. Not only did he destroy his life, Caren Koslow’s life, he destroyed his family, Caren’s family. It’s like the pebble dropping in the pond.” Dillingham, 27, would be the 34th convicted killer to be executed in Texas this year, three short of the record 37 executed in the nation’s most active death penalty state in 1997. He is the first of six set to die over the next 16 days. Another three are set to die on consecutive days in early December. His appeals exhausted, Dillingham’s attorneys asked the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to spare his life. Attorneys said it was unfair he was the only one of the three charged in the case to receive the death penalty. Dillingham’s partner, Brian Salter, also 19 at the time, testified against a third member of the plot, Kristi Koslow, his 17-year-old girlfriend and the murder victim’s step daughter, and received a life prison term. Kristi Koslow, identified as the mastermind of the scheme to kill her fa ther, former banker Jack Koslow, and stepmother, was convicted and is serving a life sentence. Testimony showed she wanted them dead because she did not get along with them after her father remarried and because she believed she would inherit as much as $12 million and promised $1 million to Dillingham. In the early hours of March 12, 1992, according to tes timony, the men arrived with a drawing of the 4,000- square-foot house and codes to disable an alarm system — both provided by Kristi Koslow. Agents confiscate ton of marijuana MADERO (AP) — A suspected drug runner drove a stolen truck full of marijuana into the Rio Grande, rolled down his window and pad- died to Mexico to escape Border Pa trol agents. Agents in an unmarked car spot ted the truck driving near the Rio Grande Monday afternoon, and saw bundles inside the vehicle. By the time the agents turned around to follow, it was too late: The dri ver had already splashed down a boat ramp. While the driver of the Ford Ex pedition scampered off into Mexican farmlands, firefighters towed the truck from the river. Inside, agents discovered a two-way radio and a ton of marijuana. “This is a hotbed for smuggling activity/ — Rosendo Hinojosa Border Patrol spokesman The truck was stolen from Flori da, Hidalgo County sheriff’s investi gators later discovered. The marijua na inside was worth an estimated $1,681,600. Monday was not the first time that particular boat ramp offered an es cape route to a would-be smuggler. In June, a man drove a Ford sedan into the river and swam to Mexico. The U.S. Border Patrol lat er discovered 780 pounds of mari juana in that vehicle. “This is a hotbed for smuggling activity,” Border Patrol spokesman Rosendo Hinojosa told The Moni tor in McAllen. Madero is an unincorporated community on FM 1016, about two miles south of Mission. News in Brief iM for Police accuse -p Houston rapperi O of bank robber; FRIENDSWOOD (AP)-AHo.l* 0 4 ton rapper is sought in connet:, ^ Vk - with a series of bank robberit; this Galveston County city. Andre Erell Barnes of the:; Ward Boyz is accused of two‘I eral counts of bank rofet Friendswood Police Chiefs a i> 0 utre‘ Stout said Monday. |fanted i A third charge is peotf: i ere not against the 27-year-old rappe i Well, Heists occurred at thek : holding town Bank of Friendswoc three op Oct. 2; at Guaranty Fede foatota Oct. 10; and at a BaiU pomts, i branch on Oct. 21. the Kan At total of $8,000 was wildcat lieved to have been taken in {{Country robberies. W , kstscoi Among albums recordedbie starti the 5th Ward Boyz are them” won 1991 Ghetto Dope debut. Thet “It fee most recent release is Reco|bp25,” nize the Real. In Glen Student charges' X ■“Befc fives as Wt fee with planting dummy bombs id whe ’ll eat |e label Look SAN ANTONIO (AP) —Alii school junior has been chai in connection with the planting L, one five dummy bombs in the coi as fina dors of his South Texas! State, school. i In \Y. 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