South Toward Home

The Observer Changes Hands

A Journal of Free Voices March 14, 1980 75

Inside: Bullock . . . Brilab . . . Playboy . . . COPE .. . South Toward Home In the sunrise banks of night clouds break up and to the west, away from the sun, where I always look first, the instant of dawn is as palpable as the touch of frost on the hood of my car. The norther came in last night and today, March 2, I return to Austin, to the Observer, to unfinished business. It's freezing, and the coincidence that this is also the anniversary of Texas' proclamation of independence in 1836 is less important than whether my radiator has cracked. (Continued on page 10) Advance /Rod Davis

BRILAB Let 'em eat wiretaps Billy Clayton has always been a man of the people — if the people happen to occupy the upper economic echelon of society, have undergone successful lobotomies and enjoy sitting around fantasizing punishments for welfare recipients. Billy has gotten himself in trouble. He and other public officials in the South have been named by the FBI in operation The Texas Brilab, a fairly ingenious scam for the goverment to have pulled off, considering its record for screw-ups. OBSERVER A number of legal hearings and maneuvers are upcoming but PUBLISHER, RONNIE DUGGER the consequences of Brilab for Texas are going to be most ap- °The Texas Observer Publishing Co., 1980 parent about January 1981. If Clayton is unable to squirm away from his antagonists, we'll be seeing a new speaker in the Texas Vol. 72, No. 5 March 14, 1980 House, a prospect of more than a little felicity after six years of pig-eyed rule from Spring Lake's major anthropological curios- Incorporating the State Observer and the East Texas Democrat, ity which in turn incorporated the Austin Forum-Advocate. Brilab, of course, poses serious questions and we cannot ig- EDITOR Rod Davis nore them in theory. Foremost is possible political intent by the ASSOCIATE EDITOR Matthew Lyon national police force. Our reading so far is that there was no coherent political motivation by the FBI. Had there been, STAFF ASSISTANTS: Beth Epstein, Bob Sindermann Jr. surely the targets would have been bigger: most of the catch in CONTRIBUTORS: Berke Breathed, Warren Burnett, Bob Clare, Jo Clif= Brilab and Abscam are comparatively small fish. Other consid- ton, Bruce Cory. Keith Dannemiller, Jeff Danziger, Chandler Davidson, erations are the questionable "leaks" to the press and the possi- David Guarino, Roy Hamric, Doug Harlan, Eric Hartman, Dan Heard, Jack ble use of entrapment. As journalists, we cannot condemn the Hopper, Dan Hubig, Molly Ivins, Maury Maverick Jr., Kaye Northcott, Hans-Peter Otto, Alan Pogue, Lois Rankin, Ray Reece, Susan Reid, Laura leaks. That's not our job, not in our interests: after all, everyone Richardson, Linda Rocawich, Andrew Saldaiia, Ben Sargent, John Spra,gens involved was a public official or employee. Jr., Paul Sweeney, Sheila R. Taylor. Vicki Vaughan, Lawrence Walsh, Eje . Regarding entrapment, much has already been written and Wray many knees jerked. Unofficial allegations of entrapment surely alert all our sensibilities. Except as applied to the apolitical creatures of the wild, entrapment is not a popular concept. Un- A journal of free voices fortunately, it has a long, sordid history in law enforcement. We will serve no group or party but will hew hard to the truth as we Jimmy Hoffa was conficted of jury tampering in Nashville on find it and the right as we see it. We are dedicated to the whole truth, to the basis of a form of entrapment. A Hoffa acquaintance was human values above all interests, to the rights of humankind as the foundation of democracy: we will take orders from none but our own bullied by the FBI into entering Hoffa's hotel room with a tape conscience, and never will we overlook or misrepresent the truth to recorder strapped on his back to draw certain revelations from serve the interests of the powerful or cater to the ignoble in the human the Teamster tyrant. (Actually, it had to be done twice — the spirit. first time the recorder failed.) Hue and cry against entrapment Writers are responsible for their own work, but not for anything they have not themselves written, and in publishing them we do not necessar- then? Not much. Everybody wanted Hoffa's ass. ily imply that we agree with them because this is a journal offree voices. In the 1960s, the use of entrapment techniques by agents of the law became exceptionally widespread as an effective means of disrupting the counter-culture, most noticeably via political BUSINESS MANAGER Cliff Olofson infiltrations but most pervasively in the Nixonian struggle against drugs, the most caustic of all anti-establishment sym- The Texas Observer bols. (ISSN 0040-4519) In Boulder several years ago I knew a young man, George, Editorial and Business Office who had spent a year in federal prison in Arizona. His convic- 600 West 7th Street, Austin, Texas 78701 tion was for possession of cocaine, a knock-down from sale of (512) 477-0746 cocaine, which had been his principal business in Aspen. Publisher's Office Whether or not you have an opinion about cocaine as an illegal P.O. Box 6570, San Antonio, Texas 78209 drug, consider how George went to prison. (512) 828-1044 after 4 p.m. In Aspen, he had a small, intimate clientele, all friends, all Published by Texas Observer Publishing Co.. biweekly except for a three-week inter- consenting adults, all active in what at that time was an effective val between issues twice a year, in January and July; 25 issues per year. Second.class if baroque alternative culture. One evening, George made deliv- postage paid at Austin. Texas. Single copy (current or back issue) 75 Q prepaid. One year, $15; two years. $28; three ery to Sam, a friend of long acquaintance. They each snorted a years. $40. Airmail, foreign, group, and bulk rates on request. line of coke and George took money for the merchandise. A few Microfilmed by MCA. 1620 Hawkins Avenue, Box 10, Sanford, N.C. 27330. moments later Sam walked into his kitchen and returned with POSTMASTER: Send form 3579 to: 600 West 7th Street, Austin, Texas 78701. two DEA narcotics agents. 7,4m,'74:7 41;3 (Continued on page 21)

2 MARCH 14, 1980 Figuring out Bullock Fun and Loathing and Taxes in Texas

By Janie Paleschic Austin There isn't anything new to be said about Bob Bullock. If there were, he'd probably have said it himself, leaving you wondering if he meant it or if it was for effect. That's why he's a politician. He could no more change than a snake could fly. But times are hard for politi- cians, especially the distant cousins of Willie Stark. The hard times are showing all over Bul- lock, not merely in the drinking and smoking and loss of a lung and the lines on the once-smooth face, but in the weakening of Bul- lock's real power: his ability to convince you that black is white, right wrong, redneck crassness social grandiosity.

THE TEXAS OBSERVER Bullock's legendary grudges, like the spending practices at his office, are part and parcel of the role he has been playing for more than 20 years in state politics. Whether as legislator, lobbyist, assistant attorney general, secretary of state, or comptroller, whether for good or ill, Bob Bullock has been a man of excess and extravagance. Often his extraordinary brand of .politics has been good for Texas; and for a long while it certainly did Bullock himself no harm politically. In 1975, when he took over the sleepy, little-publicized comptroller's office, succeeding Robert Calvert, a racist and sexist (and of course profiting by the comparison with his own more enlightened practices), Bullock captured the attention and imagination of, a Capitol press corps bored to distraction by frumpy, inaccessible pols like Gover- nor Dolph Briscoe, the phantom of Uvalde. The new comptroller charged into office in characteristic style, leading his forces across the state in media-event raids on delinquent sales tax payers. Further stirring the pot, Bullock fired dozens of employees loyal to the old re- gime and brought in a crew of his own young, energetic, high-powered politicos. Anyone who knew Bullock wasn't surprised at his style; and much of the deadwood at the comptroller's shop was well gone. What Bullock wreaked upon the comptroller's office really was noth- ing more than he had done before as Preston Smith's secretary of state in 1971 and 1972. He took a quiet, somnolent office and got himself famous. Secretary of State Bullock fought with everyone, including Atty. Gen. Crawford Martin, for whom Bullock previously had worked. Bullock, as the state's chief election State Comptroller Bob Bullock officer, said single-member districts Bob Bullock, formerly secretary of Wild ride wouldn't be any trouble in Dallas and state, currently Texas Comptroller of Well he might. Beginning the winter of San Antonio at a time when Martin was Public Accounts, may be very near some 1978, continuing through the spring of insisting before the U.S. Supreme Court kind of major change in a political career 1979, Bullock's always wild ride through that single-member districts were a heap that has alternately endeared him to and Texas politics got the wildest of his life of trouble. Bullock and single-member alienated him from liberal and conserva- at the hands of a couple of Travis County districts won. tive alike. His former colleagues are say- grand juries investigating the workings of Even in the wake of his grand jury ing and printing things vicious even .by the comptroller's office. Though no in- scrape last year, Bullock, as a friend of Bullockian standards; he still burns from dictments came, bad blood and bad press his put it, showed again that "now and grand jury investigations; and if all the did. Before it was over, the combative then he can be counted on to do some- people he has grudges against met, Bullock charged former employees, the thing right just because it's right." At the they'd have to rent the Astrodome for a grand jurors, the district attorney and re- convention of the state AFL-CIO last week. porters with carrying out a vendetta summer, Bullock became the first and He's still in office, still one of the most against him. His critics retorted that Bul- only statewide elected officeholder to powerful officials in this state, but last lock had escaped indictment and fur- endorse unionization of state employees, summer, interviewed on the radio.. pro- .. .thur investigation only because Travis then backed up his oratory by welcoming gram "Capitol Dateline," Bullock said he County Dist. Atty. Ronald Earle, a man union organizing efforts in the comptrol- was thinking of getting out of politics. with political ambitions of his own, ler's office. And it was his request for a Maybe he'd open a new car dealership pulled his punches for fear of further an- formal opinion that led to Attorney Gen- when his current term expires in 1982. tagonizing the comptroller, a man with a eral Mark White's ruling that a union He said, "I've just kind of lost some of prodigious capacity for holding a grudge. dues payroll deduction for state em- the romance for it." He enjoys a fight for the sake of a fight. ployees is permissible under state law.

4 MARCH 14, 1980 Bullock is above all independent, in its The contradictions of Bullock's politi- newspapers in Austin and other cities. truest sense, with allegiance finally to cal role are so intriguing that one almost News stories also raised questions about himself. Thus has he won statewide elec- forgets to marvel that he is still brea- dealings between Wayne and American tions and walked the perilous line be- thing. The latest result of his massive Bank in Austin and about Bullock's use tween liberals and conservatives. political compulsion was a heart attack of state airplanes, his office's manipula- But there's a Dorian Gray in Bullock's last fall. One suspects that his combat- tion of state bidding procedures, and his portrait, and that's what the public, in- iveness and earthy sarcasm have a lot to fancy office furniture. cluding Bullock's numerous admirers, do with his survival, in both the political This was tough on Bullock. Doubly so are seeing these days. Bullock is a politi- and purely physical sense. An example: because of the personal relationship with cal user, and that has meant 20 years of last April, hospitalized for hemorrhoid Collier, a drinking buddy as well as ex- using his offices and some of his em- surgery, Bullock issued a press release employee. From the comptroller's of- ployees to further his own ambitions. about the state of his health. "The keen fice, Collier went straight to work at the He has carried on feuds of startling in- scatological interest of most reporters Austin American-Statesman, and mag- tensity with the likes of former lieutenant originally prompted me to schedule the nified that affront by testifying about governor Ben Barnes, only to end up hir- operation in the Capitol press room. My goings-on in the comptroller's office being old Barnes cronies like Robert Spel- doctors, however, advised me to seek fore the October 1978 term of the Travis lings and Ralph Wayne to work for him. more sanitary conditions," Bullock said. County grand jury. He has good connections in labor-liberal Friends People tend to fall into one of two circles, but he is also a pal of reac- categories for Bullock, either friend or tionaries like State Sen. Bill Moore of Bullock's current, and perhaps most serious, troubles began in 1976 with Aus- foe, and Collier went from one to the Bryan and former Rep. Bill Heatly of other fast. (Fueling the acrimony most Paducah. tin newspaper accounts of possible improprieties in travel and office conduct. recently, Collier has written a kind of in- And while he praises the electorate for Bullock and his aides — including some sider's expose of the fast life in the its good judgment in electing him and who have now betrayed him — stone- comptroller's office for the January 1980 portrays himself as a scourge of those walled hell out of reporters and mostly issue of Inquiry and is planning a re-do who would abuse the taxpaying public, got away with it. for Texas Monthly. Even discounting the he seems not to understand why ordi- self-serving portions of Collier's story, But in 1978, those aides began defect- riary citizens like the ones who served on and the ethical dilemma of public duty the Travis County grand juries were of- ing. Some with a lot to say about what versus snitching, the stories are damag- was going on in and out of the comptrol- fended by the imperial furnishing of his ing, personally hurtful). suite of offices, or by his frequent flights ler's pink granite building. about the country in state-owned air- In October 1978, Bill Collier and Grand juries craft, usually with a sizable retinue, to George Kuempel, former Capitol report- Whatever his opinion of journalists carry out duties of the office that, to put ers who worked in the comptroller's and former friends, it's been the Travis the matter most charitably, could have Tax Information Office, submitted pro- County legal process that has brought been performed by a subordinate using test resignations. They soon were joined Bullock to his political year of reckon- commercial airlines. by a third press aide, Jim McNabb. ing. Involved are two separate grand jury Not touched by the grand juries, at Kuempel and Collier wrote Bullock a let- investigations in 1978-79, DA Ronnie least publicly, was the issue of Bullock's ter saying they'd repeatedly pointed out Earle, and a lot of complaints. to him that then-deputy comptroller revenue estimates. Bullock told legis- The first grand jury met in October lators shortly after he took office in 1975 Ralph Wayne and his secretary spent most of their time on Wayne's personal 1978 and for three months looked very he needed an emergency appropriation hard at the comptroller's operations. De- so he could hire more auditors and get business rather than the state's business. legislators more money with which to Similar allegations soon appeared in (Continued on page 18) fund the state's business. They con- sented with dispatch and Bullock had his money before he warmed his new executive chair. It was a game; Bullock continued to play with the Legislature like a cat with mice. Bullock's job is to provide law- makers with a revenue estimate to be used in writing the biennial appro- priations bill. He's also supposed to cer- tify that there's enough money in the state treasury to pay the bills. Bullock, in the three legislative ses- sions during his tenure, repeatedly has teased the Legislature with estimates which get larger — thus providing more budget money for state programs — as it becomes clear that Bullock will get what he wants — like an airplane, a shower in his office, etc. In short, Bullock has used the revenue estimates as political blackmail. Not illegal, perhaps even strategic; hardly the stuff of sober government fiscal policy. Travis County Dist. Atty. Ronnie Earle

THE TEXAS OBSERVER 5 COPE Chooses

Labor Lines Up For 1980

Austin which was unbelievable. If Mondale had than 500 Texas labor politicos were The most interesting aspect of the recited the recipe for hash brown clapping their hands to nubs. March 4-5 convention of COPE, the potatoes he would've been interrupted All of which prompted John Rogers, political arm of the Texas AFL-CIO, was by applause six times. By the conclusion PR man for the labor group which repre- not the endorsement of statewide candi- of his well-paced remarks he was flushed sents a politically potent 286,000 union dates, which was okay; but the reception red with the kind of delight you'd expect members in Texas, to suggest that the of Vice President Walter Mondale, from Hubert Humphrey's heir; and more one-time heavily pro-Kennedy bent of

Candidates for statewide office and the COPE selections:

RAILROAD COMMISSIONER _ JUDGE, COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS Henry C. (Hank) Grover (R), Houston (PLACE 3) John Thomas Henderson (R), Austin Walter Boyd (D), Houston E. W. (Billy) Kidd (R), Weatherford (c)*Tom G. Davis (D), Austin *John Poerner (D), Hondo Edith Roberts (D), Austin (c) Arthur (Buddy) Temple III (D), Diboll ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT RAILROAD COMMISSIONER - (PLACE 1) UNEXPIRED TERMS (c) Jim Brady (R), Austin H. J. (Doc) Blanchard (R), Austin John C. Phillips (D)„kustin (c) Jim Hightower (D), Austin Wayne Scott (D), San Antonio *James E. (Jim) Nugent (D), Kerrville James P. Wallace (D), Houston ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT JUDGE, COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS (PLACE 2) (PLACE 1) Lawrence E. Bergman (D), Rowlett (c)*Leon Douglas (D), Austin (c)*Sears McGee (D), Austin Marvin 0. Teague (D), Houston ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT JUDGE, COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS (PLACE 3) (PLACE 2) *Robert M. Campbell (D), Waco John E. Humphreys (D), Dallas ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT - Michael J. McCormick (D), Austin UNEXPIRED TERM (PLACE 4) (c)*William Tomkins Phillips (D), Waco *Will Garwood (R), Austin (c) C. L. Ray (D), Texarkana * Denotes incumbent (c) Denotes COPE choice

6 MARCH 14, 1980 COPE might be inclining back toward the Carter camp. If so, Carter, whose labor record is soft, can credit his running mate. "In 20 years, I have never run without endorsement of the AFL-CIO and I've never lost an election yet," beamed Mondale, looking fit and chipper and proud as punch of his Austin reception. Perhaps the only time he got a bigger ac- colade was in his tribute to former Sen- ate colleague Ralph Yarborough. Mondale probably senses his useful- ness to Carter as well as the difficulty in defending Carter's labor policies, but he pointed to what he said were the pluses for labor since 1976: rehabilitation of the Nixon-wracked OSHA program; endorsement of common situs picketing; and a promise to (a) get a labor reform bill through the balky Senate and (b) veto any attempt to eliminate pre- vailing wage legislation. Mondale also claimed administration credit for a rise of 733,000 jobs in Texas since 1976, a boast that might better be attributed to economic shifts that the government is pow- erless to affect. Nonetheless, Mondale seemed to believe it, and his audience gave him the benefit of the doubt, when he pro- claimed, "I know a progressive when I see one and Jimmy Carter is a progressive president of the United States of America." By comparison, Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, also invited to speak, received a greeting so cold it chilled the press table. Throughout the gruesome silence that greeted all Bentsen's remarks (except the stray offering about American work- Vice President Walter Mondale ers being the best in the world) it was obvious the grey-templed patron had about as much business talking to work- the rascals out of the Texas Railroad anyway he had an excellent AFL-CIO ers as they might have voting for him Commission, did well, not only outclas- voting record in the state legislature. sing incumbent Commisioner Jim . (he's not up for re-election this year, COPE took a conservative tack on ju- "Snake" Nugent but also persuading the though). dicial endorsements, selecting all the in- laborites to grant him their endorsement. Bentsen's remarks sounded like they'd cumbents for the Court of Criminal Ap- been bought at a second-hand It was a clear plus for the Hightower peals. Harry Hubbard, president of the speechwriting clinic at the Columbia campaign, as was the endorsement by Texas AFL-CIO, said labor had a good School of Broadcasting. Buried in con- COPE for Rep. Buddy Temple in his ef- "rapport" with the incumbents and descending plaints about how tough it is fort against the other incumbent com- ought to stick with them. There was these days to make ends meet, Bentsen missioner facing election, John Poerner. some small disquiet about supporting said what the economy really needs is There was a good deal less unanimity Leon Douglas for Place 1, based in part more capital investment so American about Temple's selection than High- on his dissenting opinion in a labor case, workers can have better machines and tower's though. but no one appeared before the COPE thus be more productive, etc. When executive committee to voice objection. finished, Bentsen gamely pressed the Wayne Aldridge, an Austin carpenter, flesh of the COPE hierarchy on the complained that it seemed very strange COPE members were given a list of all speaker's stage and left, his presumed for working people to endorse Temple, upcoming state electoral contests, but fealty to the Administration mercifully who has a net worth of about $1.5 million there will be no endorsements from the ended. and whose father, Arthur Temple of state level for legislative or other district Besides Mondale, the COPE delegates Time, Inc., runs a blatantly anti-union races. Nor will there be an endorsement heard short speeches from most of the paper mill at Diboll. But D. L. Willis, a for the presidency, at the direction of the candidates seeking statewide office in member of the COPE executive commit- national AFL-CIO, Mondale's show- 1980. Jim Hightower, who left these tee, said the younger Temple shouldn't stopper notwithstanding. ❑ luxurious offices to try to throw some of have to pay for his father's sins and that Rod Davis

THE TEXAS OBSERVER 7 Still Catch-22 At KLRN/KLRU

By Bob Sindermann, Jr. According to Arthur . Ginsburg, chief of Supposedly, the 1979 revised contract the FCC's Complaints and Compliance settled the issue of control and accoun- Austin Division, FCC investigators in January tability. But it may have accentuated a After months of being spoon- spent three weeks — three times the deeper problem stemming from the orig- fed details about improprieties at norm — gathering evidence and tes- inal Council-UT contract of 1961. timony from persons in Austin and San KLRN/KLRU, the two-in-one In the 1961 version, the Council stipu- Antonio. The report is still pending, and lated that UT was manager of the station San Antonio/Austin public televi- may take some time to compile, but will and bound itself to policies "mutually sion station, the Federal Com- likely be of critical impact. agreeable to the University." That ver- munications Commission is now It is already clear that a routine three- biage served conveniently last year in the midst of a full-scale, and year renewal of the Council's 20-year-old (prior to writing of the new contract) in license is out of the question. At least ten allowing the Council not to dismiss the thus unusual, investigation of the persons, including station insiders and station's general manager, Harvey station's management morass interested citizens, have sent the FCC Herbst, an action which the Council's (Obs., May 25 and Sept. 7, 1979). dozens of letters, complaints and own investigative committee had rec- A textbook case of split control license-challenging petitions in the past ommended. The Council said Herbst year. - and consequent split accountabil- was a UT employee and thus not dismis- Moreover, the FCC has revoked, in a sable by the Council. (Herbst sub- ity, KLRN/KLRU's operation similar case, a public TV license because sequently resigned.) has long been plagued by an ina- of delegation of management and control Former Council members, ex-staffers bility to resolve whether the PBS by the licensee to a third party. and public viewers who've been com- affiliate is run by the Southwest Despite the seriousness of the situa- plaining to the FCC said this lack of action, Paul Braymen, chairman of the tion by the Council, though rationalized Texas Public Broadcasting Coun- Council, says "we're glad" about the in- under the 1961 contract, was really an cil, a non-profit group which holds vestigation "because there's been so abdication of its responsibilities as licen- the FCC license, or by the Uni- much controversy . . . concerning what see. When the FCC asked the Council to versity of Texas, which owns the two or three people have been hollering clarify its managerial relationship last station equipment, studio, etc., about and have filed formal complaints November (the 1961 contract was still in about with the FCC." effect) the Council said it "possesses the and until recently has been man- That sanguinity may be slightly final and ultimate authority to dismiss ager of operations. forced. A letter of inquiry from the FCC employees." One other point about that 1961 con- The situation has worked out much to the Council in September 1979 pro- tract. The Council apparently never filed like the old neighborhood football game duced some less than "glad" scurrying quarrels — are the rules made by the kid by Council and UT officials to demon- it with the commission and, on license with the football or the kid in whose yard strate that the KLRN/KLRU situation renewal applications, has denied it existed. you're playing? After two decades, no' was working smoothly. one at KLRN/KLRU is sure. Essen- First, the Council and UT exprop- This revelation comes from some per- tially, UT has been running the station riated their own airwaves for 90 minutes sistent digging by Neil Feldman, an Au- under an ambiguous contract and lots of last October — 30 days after the FCC stin electronics engineer, who last fall initiative, while complaints about UT's inquiry — to answer their critics and badgered station officials to provide operation have been deflected by the urge the audience to petition the FCC on documents that should have been in the Council, under the Catch-22 rubric that it the station's behalf. Critics got no air station's public file in the first place. can't interfere with the management of time. Feldman has written the FCC about the station to which it holds license. Al- In December, the Council and UT significant discrepancies between the though a new contract was effected last came up with a revised contract stating, 1961 contract and a 1960 "working year and a new manager, William that the Council has "sole responsibility agreement" that actually was submitted Jackson of PBS (UT '58), now has been for the management and operation of the to the agency with the application to hired, the snafu seems as unresolved as station," but left UT on record as owner construct the station. The council has ever. of the studios and equipment. told the FCC that the 1961 document

8 MARCH 14, 1980 "merely defines the [1960] arrangement began January 28, more than four years proposal, but management has yet to re- in more detail," but in fact the 1961 pact after the Guild requested recognition spond. Mike Archenhold, a cameraman added the wording mandating policies from the station. Until then, manage- on the Guild's bargaining committee, "mutualy agreeable to the University" ment had balked at orders from the Na- says the Guild is pressing for job security and omitted a 1960 provision that the tional Labor Relations Board to bargain and seniority for production crew mem- Council "furnish the land and the build- with the union, claiming that, since UT bers and an end to capricious grievance ings." was managing the station, the production handling and job scheduling. On those Feldman believes that both the 1961 workers were public employees and so key points the Guild expects to stand and 1979 contracts were "solely de- had no collective bargaining rights. The firm. signed to protect the interests of UT — 1979 contract provision installing the What effect the new manager will have at [the licensee's] and the public's ex- Council as manager cut the ground out on the negotiations remains to be seen; pense." from under that claim, and the Council but in the past few weeks, says Ar- told the NLRB late last December it was • Confused? So is the public. And the chenhold, "management has become dropping its appeal of the labor board's issue of who's minding the station is still very grudgingly conciliatory. They're order. muddled. Even if under the 1979 con- meeting us halfway, and that's more than tract the Council accepts a management The Guild has submitted a contract they've ever done before." role, can it practically do so? UT not only owns the football — the Council doesn't even have much say about the yard in which they play. Mary Ann Wooten, former KLRN/ KLRU Council vice-chairman, put it neatly. "As far as I can see,",she said, "whoever controls the facilities and equipment controls the licensee." To compensate for lack of operational resources, the Council pays UT an an- nual rental fee of $187,300 for facilities and equipment, less than a third of the $667,000 a 1979 audit shows UT donated to the Council by making its facilities and equipment available. The implication that under the new ar- rangements UT is getting more than money — namely, a substantial measure of control — is something the FCC will have to consider before it takes up KLRN/KLRU's application for license renewal. Despite potentially license-shaking complications such as these, however, it's been business as usual at UT. Col- lege of Communications officials, who until mid-January still managed the station, continued a series of staff reorgani- zations (purges?) that conveniently lop- ped off the jobs of those who criticized the station management in testimony to the Council's investigating committee last year. Eliminated in the latest cut, announced five days after the FCC field investigators left for Washington, was the job of Kirk McManus, a UT staffer who was one of the first to file a complaint with the FCC last year. Also dismissed was N. L. Willett, veteran chief engineer of KLRN. Both actions are effective Sept. 1. Ironically, one group of employees who have complained about the management of KLRN/KLRU for several years stands to gain from the Council's new contrct with UT. Negotiation between station management and the KLRN Production Workers Guild (Obs., March 25, 1977 and May 25, 1979) finally Dan Hubig

THE TEXAS OBSERVER 9 on a fashion runway you should stop and without censorship, fear, or worse, polit- South . . . from cover go outside. Look around. ical influence. In subsequent years, the We're prisoners of this land as much Observer has been a spiritual home for I shouldn't be in such a predicament — as lords of its making. Many of us have the best (but not best-paid) writers of the worrying about the water supply of a '65 forgotten that- not the obvious exploit- state, and though editorial directions Dodge Dart, rushing south with a mind ers like developers and energy barons — have won and lost readers, the salient full of romance and ideals and - right but that great bulk of us. comprising the point was that it was always the Ob- spirit; but that is a decision I have made. economic middle of society. The bour- server out front. Probing, rushing head- A commitment. There are things to be geoisie. The people who are supposed to long or bucking up against stone buttres- done. Those who can do them — who have been given the talents and numbers ses but always out front, damn the are not dead, cynical, in hiding or dis- to make democracy work. Who if con- lumps, with a sense of urgency, impor- guiSe — are so few we have lost touch, tinuing to ignore their responsibilities in tance and seriousness even in play. muttering badly to loved ones or playing abeyance to greed or fear soon will learn In the 1970s, establishment journalism very dangerous games alone. That isn't alternative lessons of history. began to consolidate some of the gains our portion. made possible through the efforts of pub- I've come here to revive an idea. Not 1980 will be a righteous year. I sense lications like the Observer, and on the my idea — one started by Dugger and change with equal parts of anxiety and whole, reporting improved. Perhaps as

Brammer and Morris and others in hope. I've hated artificial divisions of atonement for the criminal lack of evi- . perhaps even darker times — but an idea history since high school (when was the dence presented the public about which having been refined, strengthened Age of Reason?) but if in the lifetimes of Vietnam, the establishment made re- and broadened through Vietnam, Nixon those of us in our 30s, who now make up compense via Watergate. Lives of and the murders of King and the Ken- more than half America's population, we neither GIs or Asians were saved, but at nedys (among others too numerous or have experienced the 50s, 60s and 70s as least one architect of the War was cast personal to mention) is now too valuable kinds of markers, the advent of the 80s out. to abandon: we are free people, helping can't approach with subtlety. One of the spin-offs of 70s journalism each other in society, united in the sa- It will be a good time, no, a critical was the "city magazine," initiated by cred bond of our humanity. time, for the Observer. Not for the sake New York (remember when it was I got to Austin okay. The midday light of the Observer, for the sake of the soci- good?) and then cloned coast-to-coast. played off the red tiles of the university, ety the Observer will be examining. City magazines had a particularly insidi- the Capitol was sour pink and solid like Perhaps you should be advised what to ous effect on the Observer and other always; but then crossing the Colorado expect. publications of dissent. It wasn't on our River the water appeared dull, choppy Each editor who makes his or her way audience or revenues (our audience has and threatening. Sam Houston crossed here from whatever hellish region pre- always been blue-ribbon, our revenues most of the great rivers of Texas in his viously inhabited brings a set of values lousy) but on the perceptions of the pub- drive, or retreat, to San Jacinto; and if and skills and applies them to a set of lic. The initial motive of the city ever at any time you wish to think of problems. When the Observer began magazine was to provide an alternative Texas as a Sunbelt filled with swimming publication in 1954, the task was to pro- to the corporate journalism of the news- pools and air-conditioned plazas and vide at least one forum in Texas where papers, wire services, networks and the sleek fashion models flushed bare-legged sense could be made and ideas expressed national news magazines, but in very

Jim Rockwell 10 MARCH 14, 1980 short order the city magazines fulfilled \ Y\ \\‘\\ ,X.,•.\\\V \\.,\ \ ••\ .‘. • ,. \ \\N„•. ,,,,.,;.:•\ ,$.\,,,,,. . . .\\,,,,.•,.: what was obviously their true role — ad- ,,„\\- .,..\ .\::, N,\\ ,,,,\ ',.N.;, .... \ \ •..:'\\ vertising, titillating and validating the '''‘*\.•-• ' '`\' N\\ ,:.\,;\ . ■ \\'‘ • \ \\\\ \ \ .\\ N\ ' ' \ habits of middle-class readers. s‘\ \\-• \ -\ \•.\\\\\`‘.\, \ \\ There was a certain headiness to this ‘:\\\:\\\.‘\\:\\\* ‘\`:\\\\\\\• :\\:k\ ,,,.,\N\\\\\ \.::\‘\\\\.‘:\.\\ \. \\'\‘'z7:::\ experience, not merely in the explosive ....0.. z.,:,•.-.." '':\ \ A‘ \‘'I'k. :\\\\\\ N., \ \. expansion of the magazine industry but \ • \ in a shift in journalistic style — the now-common featurization of stories so better to sell them. The progressive de- gradation of the genre nearly destroyed Esquire, some of our own cousins in Texas, and perhaps symbolically yielded a product so inane it could only be accepted by years of conditioning by tele- vision, bad writing. People. The Prole culture. Through this, the evolution of the Ob- server was affected. Many were the readers and semi-professional Observer critics crying over our dour perspective in the face of so much slickness. In a curious way, the pressure of the market and the sense of outrage at the pressure combined to propel Jim Hightower into what may have been the Observer's most marked change of format. Hightower saw the insidiousness of the economy and chose the Observer as the means of forcing it upon our consciousness. In doing so, the Observer fought some brave and lonely battles, took a more narrow focus, became more magazine than journal. We're going to be a journal again. There will be no diminution of our as- sault on corporate America, nor our 25- year war against what passes for government in Texas; but there's going to be more.

A journal is an ongoing recording of Phil Vinson the events of a society reflected by the minds of its members. The originators of why it's wrong for a governor to use his everyone has to make his or her choice. this concept and its best practitioners office to write off his company's oil spill, But if you drift out you can drift back in. were probably Addison and Steele; and but how people in various enclaves of Advance, hold, advance. Guerilla war- while I don't expect to stumble around Texas have created alternative methods fare of the mind? Perhaps, in the sense the cafes and honkytonks of Texas coin- of responding to what Marcuse de- that the good fight is generally carried ing phrases for literary history or talk scribed so aptly as the "repressive out by the few, working effectively, with show wits, I am intent on delivering the monolith." dedication. Commitment. Observer as a voice of the full expression of the people of Texas and, from time to Perhaps the journalistic question More remains to be done than any of time, those other 49 states. comes to this: "What, if reported, would us can accomplish, and that is the lesson make a real difference?" A difference to of humility; but more can be accom- We will chart the frontiers of society; 10 people, 20. A difference that spreads plished than has been done, and that is whether by burrowing deeper into what like ripples on an evening pond: wide, the crucible of hope. we are or sailing ahead into that which gentle, ceaseless, leaving the pond a I relay this in the only manner I know. we may guess, but cannot know. This better place. From life's lessons, imparted to me with principle is established: we will write of The Observer is going to make a dif- varying degrees of severity and joy. I be- the society as if it were ours. We will get ference. We'll be angry — pissed off — lieve it important that the readers of the out and look around. Feel. We are alive but instead of throwing our bodies into Texas Observer understand the perspec- and free and brothers and sisters and this the corporate machinery a la 1964 we're tive of the editor. I've been a vagabond, is our land. Anyone too cynical or evil to going to let those, machines rot and build rebel by choice, occasional bastard, and believe that is going to get precious little our own. We don't have any more time I've drifted so far around the globe I had mercy in these pages. for days of rage because we have years no choice but this southern home. I've To try to regain the notion of a society of work. This is a long haul. We can't scribbled these words from James belonging to all of us, we must find better condemn colleagues who have burned Baldwin: "I want to be an honest man ways of linking ourselves. Through the out or stolen into the mountains or hid- and a good writer." ❑ Observer, we hope to report not only den in the anonymous economy because Rod Davis

THE TEXAS OBSERVER 11 Late Results BAYLOR 1 FREEDOM OF SPEECH 0

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, The consequent battle left the Lariat For I might as well tell you that I come these three; but the greatest of these is newsroom strewn with corpses — closer to agreeing with what are under- charity. mostly young ones, though in my newly stood to be the Baylor administrators' – St. Paul, 1 Corinthians 13:13 translated state I can look downward positions on economics and social con- through the dome of Baylor's heavens duct than I do with the usual stated or "Faculty are . . . strongly encouraged and see a middle-aged one, too, oddly implied positions of The Texas Observer. to show an abiding concern for others, to familiar to me. I think the country has too much wel- exercise compassion in all their Are there no corpses on the floors of fare, too many restrictions on free enter- dealings, to be forgiving in spirit, and to Pat Neff Hall? That is essentially what prise, too lax a system of criminal jus- go the second and third miles in personal the reporters wanted to know. I hope tice, too few teen-aged virgins. And I and community relationships." there are some corpses: I hope the ad- think Playboy is a nasty magazine. – Attachment to Baylor University ministration will bury in a common grave I am not even sure I altogether deplore Faculty Contracts for the 1979-80 the old ties between Baylor-style con- (Continued on page 23) Academic Year. servatism and suppression.

By Donald Williams BAYLOR AND PLAYBOY, IN BRIEF — Waco When you take part in a con- Jan. 31 — Baylor President our best news judge- ment in hard news troversy containing elements of Abner V. McCall is quoted as saying he coverage . . . regard- sex, the Bible, and freedom of the will discipline any less of the consequenc- press, you learn that Texas has a Baylor woman, so es." Staff denies hav- lot of reporters. They all, as identified, who poses ing attacked Baptist views. nearly as I could tell, talked with for Playboy. Feb. 29 — Sentences referring to me after the recent purge of dissi- Feb. 19 — The Baylor Lariat, a "arrogance" and dent editors at Baylor University. laboratory paper put "smugness" of admin- And most of them wanted to out by journalism stu- istration's policies are dents, runs a signed know: what do you think this will deleted by faculty ad- editorial saying stu- viser Ralph Strother do to Baylor? • dents should decide for from a Lariat editorial I hope it will do good things to Baylor. themselves whether to without knowledge of I hope it will teach the administration a pose. editors. When the decent respect for the opinions of the Feb. 25 — McCall, in statement of editors (Jeff Barton, part of mankind existing outside the policy, says Lariat may Cyndy Slovak, Barry Baylor Bubble and its far-flung colonies not "espouse a position Kolar) threaten to quit, of alumni bubbles. Pre-taught in this contrary to the Chris- they are told they are concern, President Abner V. McCall tian nature and pur- fired, subject to vote of might have given the limp leg to the poses of the Univer- Board of Publications. Playboy controversy, simply saying, "I sity." It may advocate Associate Professor hope no Baylor student will be so lacking change of policies not Donald Williams, pro- in respect for herself and her university related to these pur- testing, submits resig- as to allow herself to be photographed poses, but it may not nation effective at end: nude by Playboy." urge disobedience. of semester. The admonition might not have kept News stories may give March 3 — Williams is paid off and all Baylor women from posing for David all pertinent facts but told to leave im- Chan's camera. But neither would the may not be promotion- mediately. Board of news value of the story have been so al. McCall accuses Publications fires great, and neither — it seems likely — editors of "a deplorable editors. Lariat, most of would the Lariat editors have been fired, lack of understanding whose staff has also ultimately, for treating the story accord- of their responsibilities quit, ceases publication ing to its deserts. And the outer world and rights" and says till after spring break would not have read, shaken its head, their attitude "makes (March 8-16). and wondered in just what way McCall's one wonder where March 7 — Another journalism fa- conduct had been "forgiving in spirit." these perceptive repor- culty member, Assis- What President McCall did, though, ters have been during tant Professor Dennis was to lower his helmet and charge, their years at Baylor." Hale, resigns (effective promising that if any Baylor woman, In response, Lariat in midsummer) in pro- identified as such, posed nude for staff votes to "exercise test. Playboy, he would take disciplinary action (unspecified) against her.

12 MARCH 14, 1980 An Observer for the '80s

In the winter of 1977 Davis moved to I am happy to announce the appoint- For a year, then, as assistant director Denver to become legislative corre- ment of Rod Davis as the new editor of of the Texas Film Commission, he was spondent and Special Projects Writer at the Observer. responsible, with the director, for de- veloping and coordinating the $10- the Rocky Mountain News. His major Describing the job. I wrote, "This is a stories there concerned Governor Dick professional opening for an active inves- million-a-year film industry in Texas. Liaison for the state in various activities Lamm and the New Politics of Colorado, tigative reporter who can also write and a legislative series leading to the estab- edit well and who is personally devoted involved in numerous film and TV pro- ductions, he had a hand in the work on lishment of Colorado's first insurance to standing and fighting for humane, pro- regulatory agency, and an expose of a com- "Logan's Run," "Leadbelly," "Race gressive values. The Observer's tax-dodge scheme between the Denver mitments to moral seriousness and to the with the Devil," and "FBI Story." Since 1975 Davis has been a contribut- Art Museum and the J. Paul Getty highest journalistic traditions of accu- Museum. He also specialized in cultural racy and fairness are well known." Davis ing editor of the Observer. He was one of the five finalists among the applicants for features — "Banal Chic at the Bus fills the bill in each dimension. Stop," "The Death of the Cowboy Hat," Born in Ohio, reared in Texas, Geor- the editorship in 1976. He has written a and during and other light pieces. However, there gia, Mexico and Missouri, Davis started good deal for the Observer the Hightower period has worked in the were serious staff-management problems out in radio journalism while an under- at the Rocky Mountain News, and when graduate at Southwest Missouri State office from time to time on story guidance and news editing. His articles in the Anthony Ripley, Davis' third managing University in Springfield. After reporting editor in a year, resigned in protest, and editing for KWTO and KICK there, Observer have included an interview with Gary Trudeau, the creator of Davis decided to leave, too. he specialized in reporting politics for "Fortunately," Davis wrote me, "I had KYTV, the NBC affiliate in the city. Doonesbury (Obs. Oct 23 '72); . "Lost in Texas," a profile of his friend, the late just been awarded a fellowship at Yaddo, cum laude, he went to Graduating Bob Ford of the AP (Obs. Jan. 30 '76); the writers' colony in New York (Law- Baton Rouge to do his master's degree in "How to Live," a Swiftian parody on the rence Walsh had been there) to complete English at LSU on an NDEA fellowship. (Obs. Jan. Casualties, a novel about post-Vietnam Art, Politics, and city magazine phenomenon His thesis, entitled 28, '77); "Pre-paid Legal Insurance," a terrorism in the U.S. I stayed at Yaddo James Baldwin: The Ordeal of the Civic study of the State Bar Association's in- two months, met a lot of good writers was a study of the pressures on Artist, fluence on consumer affairs (Obs. Feb. and poets, then joined my wife in Eng- Baldwin's creative honesty as he became 23, '77); and "The Session's Worst land, her home. We lived in a rural, a black spokesman. Davis argued not Lobby," a study of the real estate lobby mountainous area of Herefordshire near that to be pure the artist cannot be in Texas (Obs. June 17, '77). the Welsh border and had a daughter, civic-spirited, but that being at once Jennifer Nicole. It was an exhilarating Shortly after Hightower was made civic-spirited and an artist is very dif- experience, renewing my faith in life and editor, Davis accepted a job as associate ficult. humanity in a way I had nearly forsaken. After Ph.D. studies in government at editor of Texas Parade, a periodical with about 65,000 circulation which Editor "I had been working on my manu- the University of Virginia in Charlottes- script throughout the long, cold, strike- ville, where he was assisted by a DuPont Ken Lively wanted to turn into a substantial business and general-interest bound winter, but by the spring of this fellowship, Davis was a first lieutenant in year my wife and I resolved to return to magazine. the Army in South Korea in 1970-'71. It America, primarily for financial reasons was only by the luck of the draw that he Davis' duties there included research- (my job options were a post office in a was not sent to Vietnam. ing and writing a monthly 3,000-word re- London suburb, a chicken processing During a seven-month stint with port on business and financial trends in factory in Hereford or a food packer at a KDFW-TV (CBS) in Dallas, he was an Texas, business and general interest fea- Birds-Eye plant). on-the-air reporter in an open panel- tures, editing freelance material, and "Two letters from America further discussion format. He specialized there editorial guidance. His articles included tempted me to return. One, from Dallas, in stories on the environment, investiga- "Putting Texas in the Movies," an offered a lucrative job at an advertising tive reports, and light features. analysis of the state film industry, and agency. The other, from Lawrence, ad- "Fly Me — I'm Money," a study of cor- He was a reporter and editor for the vised me that Hightower was leaving the porate aviation. He also contributed Associated Press in Dallas and Austin Texas Observer . . ." from June 1972 to August 1974. In the travel and feature material to an in-flight magazine of Texas Determining to apply a second time Dallas bureau, the computerized center Flyer, International Airlines. for the Observer editorship, (which, he for three states, he performed all edito- wrote me, "appeals to me as the most TP a better rial duties, including state editor, re- "I think I helped make vibrant, creative, innovative position in gional editor, broadcast editor, and en- publication," Davis wrote me, "both in journalism,") Davis and his wife and terprise reporter. His assignments in- giving it a 'new look' and in bringing in daughter returned to Texas last May. He cluded the special AP coverage team for stories like the first statewide article on took the Dallas job while I was sorting Apollo 17, the last manned moon mis- the fledgling John Hill candidacy and out the transitional situation at the Ob- then, in my last issue, an investigative sion, the funeral of Lyndon Johnson, the server. Becoming the Observer editor 1973 return of Vietnam prisoners of war, piece by Earl Golz on E-Systems' Ko- now, he has taken a substantial pay cut. the Houston mass murders, the 1973 rean connection." (In 1978, TP failed be- He is 33 years old. In addition to the Texas Legislature, and investigations of cause of financial problems, leaving only publications mentioned, he has done cotton swindling in West Texas and a its subsidiary publication SA, which sub- National Ob- deadly asbestos plant in East Texas. sequently changed ownership.) free-lance work for the THE TEXAS OBSERVER 13 server, The Progressive, Iconoclast, don academia and assail the demons and to Rod to tell you about, other than to Southwest Magazine, and US magazine, delusions loose in the real world. say that he, his gifted new associate for which he was Denver correspondent. On such occasions in the past I have editor Matthew Lyon of Austin and With his consent, I quote a bit more been cast down by having to turn down Amherst, and I have discussed this at from subsequent letters he has written to "all but one," and this time, too, I was great length, and I am excited by our me: put off for a couple of weeks by the task; plans and convinced that Rod and "I have a strong feeling," he told me, but this time there was a difference. I Matthew can carry them out with dash, "that the time is right for a renaissance continue to be excited by thoughts con- style, and authority. of the humanism and sense of social in- cerning "a new Observer," and I have Coincident with the changing of the teraction that marked the 60s and that received many good suggestions and ob- guard, I decided to return the Observer's the Observer is exactly the journal to servations concerning how and whether production system to the way it was be- lead the way. Only this time, we must to expand our present journal. The most fore Hightower and Walsh decided to in- fight harder, be tougher, last longer. unqualified enthusiasm has greeted my stall a typesetting terminal in the Ob- "Last week I had to spend some time proposal for a Cooperative of Indepen- server's offices and have the typesetting at Ross Perot's EDS enclave, in connec- dent Journalists; the most surprising and and page paste-up done there. Herein tion with an audio/visual orientation exciting new idea sent to me — by a lies a tale. program EDS wanted for employees, journalist who is trying to organize an Ever since union printer Mark Adams and the sense of the vast strength of cor- Observer-like weekly in Virginia — is stopped doing it for us, the Observer has porate power in Texas (and America) that the Observer become the foundation been printed by Futura Press, the union could not have been greater. That's not for a national federation of statewide shop in South Austin. Our long and what this country or the spirit of man are Observers. I shall reserve for a few friendly relationship with Bill McAfee about — but I was less depressed or of- months down the road my next report to and the good people at Futura has never fended than totally convinced that the you on this subject, but I had a sense, been interrupted. lines have already been drawn. I can't dealing with the applications for editor Late last fall we noticed that, without say much about working in Dallas, but this time, of storing up possibilities for anything being said to us, the "bug," the it's good tutelage for the soul." the future venture, if it is to be. If you union printers' label, was being left off I like Rod Davis' work and I like him, a have ideas and concern about free pro- the Observer. After inquiry and a goodly lot. He is, as you will see if you have not gressive journalism in America and have time, it was explained to us that the already, a good writer. He has respect not yet read my piece, "Shall We Have a union regarded the typographical work for his fellow reporters and writers. He is New Observer?" in the 25th anniversary that was being done by non-printers in diplomatic and considerate, but strong issue and sent me your ideas, let me ask the Observer offices as an infringement underneath. As a journalist he is a pro you again please to do so. on the union's proper territory. We had and a good one. His values and political The Observer is much indebted to not seen it that way, but once the ques- philosophy, he will be telling and show- Linda Rocawich and Eric Hartman for tion was raised, I concluded for my part,

ing you himself; they are fully worthy of carrying on through in this transitional . that the union was right. The question in this journal's traditions. phase. They have borne difficulties and my mind became whether we should In the 25-year past of the Observer we uncertainties with the best of grace and seek union status for the Observer staf- have had Bill Brammer, Willie Morris, throughout have shown unqualified dedi- fers doing the typographical work, or Larry King, Larry McMurtry; Elroy cation and loyalty to the Observer. The else go back to "turnkey" at Futura. Bode continues to honor us with his issues they have produced since High- In printers' lingo, when a paper is prose. I have no leave from Rod to tell tower and Walsh departed have lived up printed "turnkey," the journalists give you about his novel, which I have read, in all respects to the high standards, and the printers the copy and the makeup but I will say that in my opinion, when it have carried through on the themes, of and turn the key: the printers do all the is published it will be celebrated for the the Hightower-Walsh period here. Both rest, except of course final proofing and writing and will be a sensation politi- Linda and Eric are fine and high-minded checking. This is the way Futura had cally, as well. It makes me think again people with good careers stretching out printed the Observer until the terminal about the way Turgenev's attitudes before them in several directions, and we was installed in our offices. I asked the evolved toward his own creation are sorry to lose them. union for some time to decide so that the Bazarov in Fathers and Sons. And I'd also say that Jim, Lawrence, adjustment could coincide with the ap- Each time it becomes my part to Linda, Eric, and the many good people pointment of the new editor, and they choose the new Observer editor I have who worked with them these last few were very obliging about this. been appalled by the number and the years have substantially completed the Now, I will not tell you that there were quality of the applicants — appalled be- task they set out to do: they have given no strong emotions. Obviously there cause there can only be one editor, and us honest and when necessary harsh were among some of the printers; there here are so many excellent journalists close-ups of the corporate powers that were on our side, too. Considering that looking for a freer place to work. They govern us through penetration of the the Observer is the best friend in inde- came, this time, from all over Texas, of political process. The watch continues, pendent journalism that the union course, and also from Alaska, Idaho, Il- of course, but as a result of the Observer movement has had in Texas for the last linois, New York, Connecticut, Massa- of the Hightower period, the politically 25 years, a couple of remarks were made chusetts, Tennessee, Kentucky, savvy community in Texas is better in- to us that would have been better not Louisiana, Alabama, Florida . . . crack formed about the economic realities that said. Also, I had some doubts concerning reporters, free-lancers with sparkling underlie our politics, and the progressive a proposal made to me that the editor portfolios, an internationally- movement in Texas is better prepared to and associate editor, too, be organized experienced wire .service reporter, join with the movements for economic into the printers' union; but this sugges- editors of crusading local weeklies, a democracy that are growing in Califor-, tion did not reach the negotiation stage. high-grade union paper, the journal of a nia, the North, and elsewhere. On the main question I was always in distinguished law school, gifted critics, It is, then, time for a change again in agreement that we should either unionize even a brilliant professor eager to aban- the Observer's direction. I will leave this (Continued on page 22) 14 MARCH 14, 1980 Crooks is crooks In an unusual departure for a business magazine, the March issue of normally conservative Texas Business advocates, in an opinion piece, that "personal criminal penalties should be made an integral pare of a prevention 0 package" to stop corporate crime. 11 1 0040 '1 ‘`\\\,tt The writer, S. Prakash Sethi, director of the Center for Research in Business and Social Policy at UT-Dallas, dis- •4,03,0000 cusses how to punish such corporate §44 misdeeds as "those involving Kepone, Firestone 500, Pinto, asbestos poisoning, and the Hooker Chemical Company's discharge of toxic wastes in the Love Canal area." Sethi reasons that small fines are not likely to deter misdeeds that will make big money; large fines can be passed on to consumers; stockholders' suits have poor chances of recovery; judges and juries are "still unwlling" to levy long prison terms, besides which such penalties might unite corporate bureaucracies against the law. Advocating implicitly short prison terms, to be used in moderation, Sethi Dan Hubig said, however, that these should be levied more frequently, offenders should tion should be subjected to stiffer reporting corporations and individuals, a prac- be denied all benefits resulting from their ing requirements, and perhaps there tice that is followed in Germany and Ja- illegal activities, corporations in viola- should be public apologies from offend- pan.

Holes is holes Houston Lighting & Power Co. has • made a final report to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on voids in the reactor containment buildings at the South Texas Nuclear Project plant. A spokesperson said the voids oc- curred near openings in the four-foot thick concrete walls of the two buildings and in areas where extra reinforcing steel was used. More than 70% of the suspected areas had no significant voids, but the voids have been filled with a cement-based grout that is as strong as or stronger than the concrete itself, the spokesman said. Lanny Sinkin, a prime mover in the Nuclear opponent Lanny Sinkin San Antonio anti-nuclear movement, told the Observer, "We have people inside Brown and Root, inside Houston Sinkin tells a hairy story of company people, company people, and federal of- Lighting & Power — on and off-site and documents opened before they reached ficials, he said, representatives of the ex-workers — slipping us stuff all the him and of a burglary of the office of anti-nuclear movement spent three days time." He said some of the voids were a Peggy Buchorn of Bay City, a citizen in a company vault Xeroxing 1,100 pages foot and a half across; one was four feet who has been active against STNP. After of documents (at eight cents a page). The deep in walls only four feet thick. a confrontation involving anti-nuclear conflict — and the project — continue.

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16 MARCH 14, 1980 The hard punching started in a column in the Express-News by Paul Thompson. The columnist quoted a letter sent to Life Insurance and Annuities prominent Jewish leaders in San Antonio Martin Elfant, CLU 600 Jefferson St., Houston, TX 77002 by Bill Sinkin, an independent banker SutifeOF CANADA who is for Rich. (713) 659-1212 The Sinkin letter says Kazen's voting record on Israel since 1967 is 45-2 anti- Israel, while "Paul's parents are members of Temple Beth-El and their son's Create a positive first impression with your next concerns and broad interests are what paper or report. Complete your project with one make him an outstanding public servant . . . Our budget is $200,000, and to get a of our inexpensive bindings to create your own supporter like Paul, it's a bargain!" special effect. Remember, first impressions can Thompson then wrote Rich had been have lasting effects. "a central figure in the La Raza Unida 1 upheaval in Crystal City" on the side of the insurgents and their leader, Jose Angel Gutierrez; "many Zavala County businessmen" saw Rich as "the brain" ervices behind the movement. As if to deliver Ginny Binder 2700 coup de grace to Rich, Thompson Austin, Texas the Anderson Lane concluded, "He's regarded as an intellec- 2021. V•I tual and an idealist who would like no- Guadalupe thing better than to upgrade society 108 everywhere." Congress Call 476-9171 for details Kazen, worried about his conservative supporters crossing over into the GOP primary, denied he's anti-Israel, said he Copying is our middle name supports military aid bills solely for Is- but not our only service rael, and gave opposition to foreign aid as the reason for many of the challenged Ginny's Copying Service, Inc. votes. Rich said he does not think Kazen anti-Jewish, but noted that Kazen has voted for foreign aid for Chile and Korea. Kazen said the charges are part of a smear campaign by his opponent. On La Raza Unida, Rich said he had 0')Vibli#*;*;t1i401 never been a member of that party (Ka- zen hadn't said he was). Kazen shot back that Rich's ties to Gutierrez are well- documented and then told reporters: In a Hurry? "Only last month, Gutierrez and other La Raza officers proudly walked arm- in-arm with Socialists and a Palestinian Fast Self Service; Liberation Organization representative during La Raza's tenth anniversary celebration in Laredo. During that celeb- New Soup ration in Laredo, Gutierrez and friends gladly repudiated the American and & Salad Bar. Mexican flags, proudly pledging their allegiance to the flag of international ...or Sandwiches, Chili, Tacos, socialism." Chalupas, and restaurant baked Buttermilk Pie served by our staff. Springtime for Democrats Daily Specials. Sunday Brunch. Omelettes and Eggs Benedict. The narrow (35-27) decision of the • SDEC to include a nonbinding Haagen Dazs Ice Cream presidential preference primary along and fresh yogurt. with all the other statewide balloting May 3 is welcome manna for professives and liberals in state and local races. The higher turnout, especially among important ethnic groups, stimulated by a presi- the greenhouse dential. contest will give the edge to pro- Above the Kangaroo Court. Downtown Riverwalk gressives in a variety of key races. 314 North Presa, San Antonio, Texas.

THE TEXAS OBSERVER 17 juries about white collar crime at all Bullock . . . from page 5 levels of government." In reaching that innocuous conclusion, spite hearing much testimony, the jury the jury subpoenaed at least eight pre- returned no indictments. Instead, the sent and former employees of Bullock. panel released a sharp report citing Bullock himself was invited, not sub- eleven "serious allegations." The jury poenaed. He declined to appear, proba- said it couldn't "substantiate or re- bly on good legal advice — one rarely pudiate" the allegations because Bul- wants to wander into a grand jury room lock's office "kept its own records in unless mandatory. such a way as to hamper any investiga- The second jury's focus again was on tive conclusion as to its compliance or Bullock's penchant for travel and fun. non-compliance with the law." In the re- Specifically examined was a January port, which hinted at possible future in- 1976 state airplane trip to Louisiana by dictments, jurors focused on Bullock's Bullock and six employees. That trip, travel expenses, listing allegations and others in 1976, were for the stated, brought to them concerning use of state and legitimate, purpose of learning about airplanes for pleasure, politics and the comparative tax systems of other THE "purely for convenience, regardless of states. But the trips proved very costly COST the costs involved." to Texas taxpayers, including items like The grand jury also questioned "the $180-a-day hotel rooms. necessity of inordinately expensive lodg- PRICE On the Louisiana trip, what looked a ing on trips" and the "total disregard of great deal like a coverup of freewheeling the concept of frugality and accountabil- expenses caught reporters' eyes, and ity for tax dollars," particularly his perhaps the eyes of the grand jurors. Bul- WE'D LIKE TO CHANGE "lavish spending on office furniture and lock and his entourage were to have gone THAT TO KEEP fixtures." only to the tax office at Baton Rouge, EVERYBODY EATING Bullock's first response to the grand and that's all the original flight logs jury report was a carefully worded and showed. But after reporters began asking uncharacteristically mild press release about wild times by the comptroller's Texas Cr! issued the day the report was returned. staff in New Orleans, the flight logs were He and Deputy Ralph Wayne said:. doctored. (Collier, who originally denied Farmers "While we certainly do not agree with all such activities while on Bullock's staff, the findings and recommendations of the now has corroborated them as a jour- grand jury, we recognize its responsibil- nalist.) Union Mk ity to investigate allegations made against this department and our staff. Despite these and other inconsisten- cies, and Bullock's own rationalizations, 800 LAKE AIR DR. • WACO, TEXAS 76710 ■ 817 772.7220 The recommendations of the grand jury, along with our efforts to improve the op- Grand Jury II came out with even less eration of the department, cannot help than its predecessor. In late March 1979, but result in better government for all Ronnie Earle called a news conference Texans." which every able-bodied reporter in town attended. This is what the DA said: But Bullock isn't the kind to have let that be his final word. In January 1979 he "Our conclusion was that there was no issued a lengthy point-by-point response evidence of a prosecutable crime at this contending he had broken no laws, that time. This means that certain matters fall the grand jury misunderstood the work- into the context of political considera- ings of state government, and that what tions. Protecting the taxpayers' money is the jury had investigated was, in effect, the mission of the Legislature — not this none of its business. "These 12 faceless office. The criminal justice system is not people have done their best to disgrace the place to seek a redress against the me by stealing my right and the public's government. right to expect honesty in the secret "If there's a case, we'll prosecute; if rooms of the courthouse," Bullock con- there's not a case, we won't play political cluded. Just for good measure, Bullock games. If we were going to go any partook of the always compliant Capitol further into Bob Bullock, it would be a press to threaten to sue the jurors for fishing expedition," Earle said. "We "libel." don't hunt witches, and we don't fish." Friendly Spot At about the same time Bullock was With that statement the practical prob- recovering from the report of the first lems Bob Bullock had with Travis Ice House grand jury, a second was empanelled. It County seemed pretty much shelved, al- might have been expected that the sec- though Earle did say that Bullock's ond panel would press the concerns then-deputy comptroller, Ralph Wayne, Live music Friday raised by the first. But the second jury's faced further investigation by the FBI, report, released in March 1979, didn't which examined tapes taken from the and Saturday even mention Bullock or his office, in- typewriter of Wayne's personal secre- 1001 S. Alamo, San Antonio stead issuing the bland statement: "We tary. She was accused of doing personal also share the concern of prior grand business for Wayne on state time and

` I MARCH 14, 1980 equipment. The result of that FBI inves- Get Earle again tigation has not yet been released. Two weeks after Bullock filed his suit in June, one of Earle's ex-assistants, Get Earle Chris Harrison, publicly charged that At that juncture, Bullock characteris- Earle had "hindered" the investigation tically chose to personalize his prob- of the first grand jury by talking them out lems, using the full and formidable pow- of indicting deputy comptroller Wayne, ers of his office to get back at Earle — a in particular, and by promising that the vendetta that later seemed overdone, investigation of the comptroller's office depending on who you choose to be- would be continued, in general. 1000 West Lynn, Austin, Texas Harrison claimed the grand jurors 478-3001 lieve. Store hours: Mon-Sat 9:30-7, Sun 12-6 were so upset with Earle's performance A week after Earle announced the in the investigation that they threatened non-finding of the second grand jury, to ask Judge Thurman for a special pros- 1 and Associates ending six months of probing into Bul- ecutor. .,\A- lock's affairs, the State Comptroller, in 502 W. 15th Street The grand jury was "tricked" by Earle E Austin, Texas 78701 REALTOR (.; what was described as a "typical tirade," into not indicting Wayne, Harrison said, asked his staff to "look into" a request Representing all types of properties implying that a later indictment was in Austin and Central Texas for state funds from Earle's office to Interesting & unusual property a specialty. promised when more evidence was 477-3651 support a special Travis County ap- gathered. "What you're eventually get- Er3 paratus called the Public Integrity Unity ting down to is hindering a grand jury (PIU). The PIU had been set up to inves- Good books in every field investigation and obstruction of justice tigate and prosecute alleged corruption by a district attorney," Harrison said. JENKINS PUBLISHING CO. at all levels of government. Since state Harrison, who aided the grand jury in its The Pemberton Press government is headquartered in Travis day-to-day work but didn't work directly John H. Jenkins, Publisher County, officials like Bullock naturally on the Bullock investigation, now works came under purview, and the unit had in Tyler as an assistant district attorney. Box 2085 () Austin 78768 assisted both grand juries. Earle immediately challenged Harri- Initial seed money for the PIU had son to take his allegations to a grand jury come from the Criminal Justice Division or other law enforcement authority. And THE BRAZOS BOOK SHOP of the governor's office in February 1978 Earle accused Harrison, along with two 803 Red River following a good track record of investi- October-term grand jurors, of violating Austin, Texas gations of state officials and agencies their oaths of secrecy by discussing the (512) 474-9428 (such as former Supreme Court Justice investigation. After that, Earle refused to Literature and the Fine Arts Don Yarbrough). elaborate, saying that he didn't propose new and used books to "further endanger the legal rights of Monday through Saturday 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. To keep the project underway, Earle the members of that grand jury." wanted another $200,000 for the 1980-81 One of the two accused grand jurors, Featuring Local Presses and Authors: Including Thorp biennium. Bullock saw this as a delight- Springs Press, Prickly Pear Press, Texas Circuit, Encino Tommy Wyatt, retorted on June 26 that Press, Shoal Creek Publishers, Jenkins Publishing, Place ful opportunity and with the help of legis- of Herons Press, and many others lative curmudgeons like Sen. Bill Moore Harrison's claim that Earle had talked of Bryan, Bullock got Earle's request jurors out of indicting Wayne was "accu- blocked — for the time being. rate." Wyatt also vouched for the accu- racy of Harrison's statement that the A couple of months later, in June 1979, jury wanted a special prosecutor. On the Bullock mounted another offensive evening of June 26, members of the Oc- against Earle and the grand jury. Bul- tober panel held an informal reunion and lock's lawyers filed suit asking Travis the next day Wyatt was saying they had County District Clerk John Dickson to decided to "maintain our silence for the at's strike and expunge the first grand jury time being." report (Dec. 1978) from the court record. The Earle-Bullock fight probably has Bullock's plea to the court said the jury's as much to do with Travis County poli- Parisian Charm. Omelette & report gave "dignity" to unsubstantiated tics as with state government and cor- allegations and caused Bullock "embar- Champagne Breakfast. Beautiful ruption, although all three are pretty Crepes. Afternoon Cocktails. rassment and humiliation and irreparable much entwined and Bullock's lines run Gallant Waiters. Delicious injury." deep in county waters. Whether Earle Quiche. Evening Romance. Earle and Travis County Attorney Jim had a political motivation for going after Continental Steaks. Mysterious McMurtry responded that Bullock had (or not going after) Bullock (as Harrison Women. Famous Pastries. filed the lawsuit against the wrong per- charged) is unprovable, if speculative. Cognac & Midnight Rendezvous. son (they said it should've been Dist. Caught between an atypically strong Judge Mace Thurman, not his clerk) and grand jury and a powerful state official, In short, it's about everything commented: "We believe that a great Earle froze. The irony is that he got a great European style deal more is involved than straightening thumped all around. Recently, he restaurant is all about. out who Bullock's lawsuit should be filed lamented, "Bullock wants to engage me against. The real issue is the right of the in a personal vendetta. He's using an old ktOin scit public to learn the truth about the con- political tactic — rather than speak to the duct of their public officials and other truth of the allegation, he enters a per- matters of public concern." sonal fight. Gale 310 East 6th St. But another twist was to come. "I don't have a fight with Bullock. I

THE TEXAS OBSERVER 19 Fresh never did and I don't now. The whole Seafood thing makes me tired." Sunday Brunch Specialties Dinner 5:30-10:00 And so Tues.-Sun. Earle finally got funding for his Public • Integrity Unit, with the help of former • • Criminal Justice Council chief James Steaks, Spirits, Adams, now head of the DPS; but it came to only $129,981, covering only one Live Jazz 10:00 p.m. until (? . ) Tues.—Sat. year instead of two. And not without Bullock's continued objection. "Such a grant might be good with any other district attorney." Bullock wrote in 502 Dawson Road a harsh letter to Gov. William Clements Austin, Texas Jr., "but having been subjected to the (512) 474-7239 Tut: 1111 o USE political whims of Mr. Earle's office, I cannot support his application. "The district attorney should with- draw his application. He should resubmit another application to another agency, this time for remedial education. That I ift,N.&-ftlatVadi • could support," Bullock said. Bullock's suit regarding the release of 46ic 6;ttaA the first grand jury report is still pending, and a special judge, retired Supreme citte5-50 vf- -rm5 Court Justice Ruel Walker, has been named to hear it because it's too hot for [44-.e61.Mioel,A1 mbilt6404/4(5 the locals. Tony Proffitt, Bullock's current press aide, says the suit may set a 40--ovitd-Co 66nde- blot-:* i i--4 precedent concerning the release of grand jury information. Bullock himself won't talk about the suit or the points raised by the grand jury on the grounds that Judge Walker doesn't want him to. "The judge wants to try this in the court, not the media," Proffitt said. But the legal machinations are not the Printers — Stationers — Mailers Typesetters crux of the Bullock saga. The politics are what count, and Bullock is going to have — High Speed Web Offset Publication Press — to go some to recover the ground he's lost. More damaging than whether or not Counseling — Designing he spends money for champagne instead of cheaper beer is whether he uses his Copy Writing — Editing office for reasons far outside the scope of his charter. Trade Computer Sales and Services - Bullock's practice of manipulating state revenue forecasts — the means by which the governor and legislature pre- -- Complete Computer Data Processing Services — pare and pass the state budget — for political ends is of much more real concern to Texans than $180-a-day hotel bills. The maintenance of KGB-type political files, the massive use of the 7= spoils system to staff his offices, and the nun unabashed wielding of his title to intimi- date those who displease or threaten him UP ILIPIRIA are the real wounds in Bullock's soul. 0 512/442-7836 1714 South Congress Janie Paleschic is an Austin journalist whose stories on Bullock in 1976 for the P.O. Box 3485 Austin, Texas 78764 Austin Citizen were among the first to examine Bullock's role as State Comp- troller.

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McCall's threat to invoke unnamed sanc- RAW DEAL tions against Betty Baylor if she flaunts Steaks, Chops, Chicken her pubescence in those pages. I do open lunch and evenings wonder, though, if he is really concerned 605 Sabine, Austin No Reservations about the pictures' effect on the alumni, and not on the angels. How about his edict's ultimate effect on the multitudes Isn't it time we started to stress who are neither? the spiritual aspects of funerals It disappoints me when political con- rather than the material? At Reveley servatives, opponents of strong govern- Memorial Services we believe the ment, turn radical-centralist to put down truly dignified funeral is the simplest ItillillS possible funeral. Money lavished nonrevolutionary dissent. Similarly, it ill all at1110Sphele on the vanity and theatre of frustrates me when powerful members of that is l'elaXeil conventionally expensive funerals, the denomination described in the Baylor Ch( )()Se 0'0111 this cargo list: money literally put into the ground, Personnel Handbook as "committed to could be much better utilized, the view that the individual is endowed in a living memorial, by your church, with the right to decide all issues for HaWaik111 your charity, your family. To assure himself' renounce that commitment in that your wishes are carried out the face of an unreceived decision on and to spare your family the some issue. possibility of being sold a high priced funeral you personally would Once committed to the fight against not want, contact us to learn more Playboy, President McCall might yet Alaskan about our pre-need program. have avoided the crisis by merely urging the editors of the Lariat to use all the King Crab restraint their journalistic consciences REVELEY would permit them in reporting and MEMORIAL commenting on the issue. Instead, he re- Mall i Malii buked the editors, challenged them to SERVICES quit, imposed an ex post facto policy that Simple Funerals ignored the clear disclaimer on the edito- Australian San Antonio 533-8141 rial page of the Lariat: "Editorials reflect Austin Intim-mat ion Center the opinions of the authors and not Lobster 441-7500 necessarily of the student body or the administration." This was splenetic and unfair, and the world quickly heard I F YOU ARE an occasional reader and about it. would like to receive The Texas Observer

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