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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Friday, March 4, 1988
(EDITORIAL
Such laws should
not be necessary
A rash of lawsuits can be expected after April 1 when
the state begins enforcing a new law enacted in the 1987
Legislature allowing Texas to obtain liens on home-
steads of Medicaid recipients after they die.
After April 1, the Texas Department of Human Ser-
vices will go to probate court in an effort to obtain liens
on property belonging to recipients who died after Oct.
31.
By this procedure, state officials are hoping to recoup
part of the $494 million paid out each year by the state in
Medicaid expenses, mostly for poor nursing home pa-
tients.
A similar law passed in Tennessee several years ago,
which required the state to attempt recovery of welfare
payments from the estates of deceased persons, sparked
wide protest, especially by heirs of welfare recipients
who stood to inherit property after the deaths of parents
or other relatives.
The law soon became a hot gubernatorial campaign
issue with challengers pledging to get the act repealed if
elected. The victor in one of the races did indeed carry
^ut his promise to burn the unpopular law on the capitol
steps, but it took him longer than that to persuade the
Legislature to repeal the so-called welfare law.
The new Texas statute affects an estimated 55,500
poor, 61derly Texans. The recovery thrust will be aimed
at Medicaid recipients in nursing homes because they
receive the highest payments, ranging from $600 to
$1,000 a month.
Unless state welfare officials have done their
investigative homework in preparation for enforcement
of the law, they may find the anticipated sources of
revenue marked for recovery are not as large as believ-
ed.
If children could help take better care of their parents,
such laws as the one Texas plans to try enforcing would
not be necessary.
Jock Anderson
Stately guessing game
WASHINGTON — If the next president of
the United States is a Republican, the sec-
retary of state is likely to be either former
Labor Secretary William Brock or Treasury
Secretary James Baker.
Both are political moderates who would
rankle the ultra right. And neither would
allow renegade cowboys to run away with
our foreign policy.
While the country concentrates on predic-
ting who the next president will be, we asked
our sources in the Republican Party and in
the campaign camps of Sen. Robert Dole and
Vice President George Bush whom their
secretary of state would likely be.
The position is generally considered the
high-profile plum in the Cabinet.
K^he state post carries with it the pomp and
circumstance of dealing with foreign
leaders, the management of embassies
abroad and a large bureaucracy at home,
and the power and prestige of being the dean
of America’s foreign policy.
According to our sources, if Bob Dole
becomes president, he will probably pick Bill
Brock as his secretary of state. If Bush wins,
Jim Baker is likely to become his foreign
policy czar.
The two men are surprisingly similar.
Both have served as Cabinet officers in the
Reagan administration. Both let it be known
to Reagan that they would rather have been
secretary of state if George Shultz had ever
resigned.
Neither is widely versed in foreign affairs,
except in international economics. Both are
considered moderate Republicans who, if
they had the post, would be swimming up-
stream against conservatives led by Senate
Foreign Relations Committee heavyweight
Sen. Jessie Helms, R-N.C.
Both men are American bluebloods,
though neither flaunts it.
William Emerson Brock III is from a
wealthy Tennessee candy-manufacturing
family. James Addison Baker III comes
from a long line of prestigious Texas
lawyers.
Brock has paid his dues. He served as
Reagan’s labor secretary from 1985 to late
last year, when he resigned to become Dole’s
campaign manager. Before that, he was the
president’s Cabinet-ranked special trade
representative for four years. In that capaci-
ty, he developed a reputation for hard-nosed
deliberations with the Japanese, tirelessly
trying to open their markets to U.S. exports.
If Bob Dole becomes presi-
dent, he probably will pick
Bill Brock as his secretary
of state. If Bush wins, Jim
Baker is likely to become
secretary of state.
Brock is also a former senator and Repub-
lican party chairman. He is credited as a ma-
jor player in rebuilding the party and
broadening its appeal during his 1977-1980
stint as chairman of the Republican National
Committee. He is a canny, candid politician,
now adroitly running the Dole campaign.
Brock has lately come into some competi-
tion. Alexander Haig’s propitious with-
drawal from the New Hampshire primary,
and his endorsement of Dole, was timed to
curry favor with the candidate and was pro-
bably a bid to secure a Cabinet position.
Another man who might have his eye on the
job is Reagan’s present chief of staff,
Howard Baker, a longtime friend of Dole’s.
Jim Baker is as able as Brock. Insiders
agree the Iranian arms-for-hostages deal
and diversion of profits to the Nicaraguan
Contras never would have occurred if Baker
had been chief of staff at the time.
Baker is an old Texas friend of Bush’s and
was his campaign manager during the 1980
presidential race. From 1981 to 1985, he was
White House chief of staff, one of a trium-
virate (with Edwin Meese and Michael
Deaver) running the administration under
the president.
The conservatives pegged him early as the
most moderate of the three and he became
the target of their mutterings. Others saw
him as an invaluable “pragmatist” — the
man who could talk sense to a president who
needed to move from the far right to center.
Baker was the president’s respected point
man with both Congress and the media until
he was tapped as treasury secretary in early
1985.
If either Brock or Baker becomes the next
secretary of state, he will be the undisputed
foreign policy boss. Both men have tight
relationships with their candidates and
would not abide a national security adviser
stepping over them to the president.
MULTIPLE CAUSES for AIDS — One of the
main puzzles about AIDS is why some vicr
tims also suffer a malignant tumor known as
Kaposi’s sarcoma. The tumor is present in
almost half of the homosexual AIDS patients,
but is rare in heterosexuals with AIDS.
Many researchers think the human im-
munodeficiency virus (HIV) is the cause of
AIDS, but it is not the cause of Kaposi’s sar-
coma, according to leading medical re-
searchers. The HIV virus has been found in
many parts of the body, but never in the
Kaposi’s sarcoma tumor.
We obtained a medical research contract
from the Defense Department that shows the
department is trying to find out where
Kaposi’s sarcoma comes from. The contract
says that identification of the cause of
Kaposi’s sarcoma is essential to the treat-
ment of AIDS patients.
NEVADA POLITICIANS have no right to
whine about any federal plans to dump
nuclear waste in their state. Last year, the
state legislature did the equivalent of sen-
ding out engraved invitations to the feds.
They created a new state-supervised county
in the middle of the desert so they could grab
the federal money available for such a dump.
The state government didn’t want this prize
going to any of the existing county govern-
ments. Now, a judge has ruled that creation
of the new county was unconstitutional. The
shameless groveling by state officials for
nuclear waste has embarrassed Nevadans
who care about their beautiful desert.
United Future columnist Jack Anderatxt m* misted by Dale
Van Attain writing today’s story.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
On March 4,1789, the Constitu-
tion of the United States went in-
to effect as the first Federal Con-
gress met in New York.
However, the lawmakers had to
adjourn for the lack of a quorum.
On this date:
In 1681, England’s King
Charles II granted a charter to
William Penn for an area of land
that later became Pennsylvania.
In 1791, Vermont became the
14th state.
In 1829, an unruly crowd mob-
inaugural reception for Presi-
dent Andrew Jackson.
In 1837, the Illinois state
legislature granted a city
charter to Chicago.
In 1902, the American
Automobile Association was
founded in Chicago.
In 1917, Republican Jeannette
Rankin of Montana took her seat
as a member of Congress, the
first woman to be elected to the
House of Representatives.
In 1925, President Calvin
Coolidge’s inauguration was
tions coast-to-coast.
In 1933, in his inaugural ad-
dress, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt pledged effective
leadership to pull the country out
of the Great Depression, saying,
“The only thing we have to fear
is fear itself.”
In 1933, the start of the
Roosevelt administration
brought with it the first woman
to serve on a president’s
cabinet: Labor Secretary
Frances Perkins.
In 1952, actor Ronald Reagan
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From Sun files
Tourist cottages built
in Pelly by Pelly in '33
From The Baytown Sun files,
this is the way it was:
55 YEARS AGO
F.T. Pelly starts construction
on an eight-cottage tourist camp
in Pelly at the intersection of
Yuponand Main.
Goose Creek Chamber of Com-
merce wins a victory today as
the Texas Senate passes a bill
closing East Galveston Bay to
seining by commercial
fishermen.
Mendel Fisher, New York
editor of the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, speaks on “Hitlerism, a
Jewish Menace,” at the regular
service of the local synagogue.
50 YEARS AGO
Beverly Rockhold, track
coach, takes the Gander
sprinters to Laredo for the
Border Olympics. They are
David Conway, R.L. Martin, Bil-
ly Craig, Melvin Richards, Roy
Laird and Hermit Jones.
40 YEARS AGO
Robert Baker, son of Mr and
Mrs. R.W. Baker, 109 Illinois,
will run for state representative
in the Democratic primary in
July.
30 YEARS AGO
James Watson, son of Mr. and
Mrs. W.E. Watson, is practice
teaching at Rosemont Junior
High in Fort Worth. He is a
senior at Texas Christian
University.
20 YEARS AGO
Baytown’s District 1 coun-
cilman’s race becomes a real
track meet. Candidates include
C.L. Bouillion, James E.
Burgess, Ted Kloesel, C.
“Dutch” Ptacek and W.L.
“Dub” Ward. Byron Rose
withdraws from the race, saying
he felt “there are enough can-
didates in the race that the tax-
payers now have a choice.”
Newly retired from Humble’s
Baytown Refinery, are V.E.
married in San Fernando
Valley, Calif.
In 1977, more than 1,500 people
were killed when an earthquake
registering 7.5 on the Richter
scale shook southern and
eastern Europe.
Today’s Birthdays: Actress
Paula Prentiss is 49. Rock musi-
cian Chris Squire is 40. Actress
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U.S. still the promised land
WASHINGTON - The U.S.
government is currently pro-
ceeding apace in an effort to re-
view the immigration status of
will legally settle in the country
during the present decade, 1981
through 1990. And that will break
a record established at the start
the Cuban refugees who took of the century, when 8,795,386
part in last year’s riots at two foreign boms took residence be-
federal penal institutions. The 1
Cubans demanded the reviews
as a condition for ending the No-
as well. Duke Austin, an INS pie the concern with specific sta-
publicist, says immigration is tistics. “We never say any immi-
historically a process of people gration is bad,” he explains;
leaving some kind of oppression “We never say any numbers are
vember revolts.
The hearings are not the only
difficult legacy of the riots, of
course. The rampaging also left
a lingering stench of bloody de-
Buchanek, fTsandro Herrera, struction. An inmate died at the
P.B..Jones and Thomas RoterL,
€t)e iBaptolnn i£>tm
Oakdale, La., detention center,
and the Cubans wreaked several
million dollars worth of damage
at the Atlanta Federal Peniten-
tiary.
tween 1901 and 1910.
The new numbers are calcu-
lated with the help of extrapola-
tion. In other words, they are
projections of present trends.
The INS says 7 million people
will immigrate naturally by the
end of the decade, and 2 million
others will be welcomed as refu-
gees or as part of the program to
give amnesty to illegal aliens.
The amnesty program began
in the spring of 4987. It was
for opportunity, which is to say
they are seeking financial or po-
litical stability.
In 1986, for example, 66,533
legal immigrants came from
economically underprivileged
Mexico. There were also 52,558
from the Philippines, 35,776 from
Korea, 33,114 from Cuba, and
29,993 from Vietnam. The only
bad. We do say the influx must
be regulated, so that we know
what we get.”
Austin adds that other nations
are not so circumspect. In fact;
most countries draw hard lines
regarding immigration. No na
tion comes even close to the U.S.'
So, this is another reason peo-
ple come to the United States.
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wealthy country of the first 15 There aren’t a lot of very good
represented that year was Eng- alternatives. The United States:
land - there were 13,657 British has restrictions of its own but
immigrants. .... fhey are regularly subject to ex-
As for the politics involved, the tenuating circumstances- am-
category includes both immi- nesty, for one thing, will at least
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Yet federal authorities say undocumented aliens who have grants and refugees. Mexico double the legal immigration fig-
mere is at least one positive been living in the country aside, Austin says the top 10 ures for 1988. 8 8
memory the nation might sal- permanently, typically from countries on the INS immigra- And there is no end in sight
vage from the frightening affair. Mexico. The INS says 1.2 million tion list have all had serious gov- Duke Austin says almost 54 miF
That is the refugees were fight- illegals have registered under emmental difficulties this de- lion people have moved to the
Advertising monoger ing against orders of deporta- the program, most of whom are cade; and some, such as Iran United States legally since ac-:
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they would rather be killed in papers. politically repressive. (1820), and 2 million more are
Circulation manager riots in America than be sent The figures do not include il- Whatever their reasons, more now signed up and waiting all
back to live in Cuba. legals who will not get the than 600,000 people are now com- over the world. 8
Thus is seems the United papers. If they did the 10-year ing to the United States legally
States remains the shining hope total would increase by several each year. And there are some
for many people of other places, million. The INS says most il- concerns that if it weren’t for the
In fact it is setting whole new legals are apprehended and sent honor of the matter, the country
precedents in this regard. The home, or go back on their own would be better off without
country is often vilified for its accord; but it’s estimated that them. Critics charge that this
politics and customs, yet more an average of 500,000 aliens kind of immigration tests the
sneak across the borders each
year and stay.
The INS says the illegals come
for better jobs. And that is large-
ly true for the legal immigrants
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people are moving here, or try-
ing to move here, than ever be-
fore in history. The Immigration
and Naturalization Service be-
lieves that up to 9 million aliens
limits of U.S. resources.
The INS does not take a direct
position on the complaint. Austin
says the service worries about
“saturation,” but does not cou-
Bible verse
The eye that mocks a
father, that scorns obedi-
ence to a mother, will be
pecked out by the ravens of
the valley, will be eaten by
the vultures.
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