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STATE
Wednesday, Noverabeil
THE BATTALION
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nesday, 1
Environmental commission appointe
Bush selects three with ‘industry ties’ to oversee state air and water qualii
AUSTIN (AP)
— Gov. George
W. 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
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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
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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.
Authorities said Jason Janwnse pi
is responsible for the Oct by shun
bomb hoax that caused a da; Same tir
chaos in the 920-student Di score pe
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