Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 38, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 14, 1989 Page: 1 of 14
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Defertse says cover-up
sanctioned by Reagan
By PETE YOST
Associated Press Writer
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Greeting GOP leader
crater, lUtr
Rrpabliraa party Spriags Mooday afternoon. Meyer said the GOP
IB, nisi BW11 pumm wrfh Marvin Gregory, activists should couccutrate oa developing the
Hopkins County Repsblicaa party grassroots level of the party, readying for the 1990
in, and Prat Davis during a stop iaSalphar election.
—StWTpMok; Richard HaS
Texas’ new GOP leader
hoping to net Converts
By KARLAS. WARE
'Yon need to concentrate on one
The future Of dm Republican
pony hes at «k grassroots level,
sad activists need to cbaceattase on
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state's OOP ctutimmi said Monday
afternoon.
“We’ve got to reach out; we’ve
got to widen oar net." Red Meyer
told a group of about 23 local Re-
publican* at • luncheon Mondoy.
“It’s counties like Hopkins
Camay Rat are (oiar to make the
Republican party... They are the fu-
ture of the Republican party."
He encouraged St GOP leaden
to concentrate on putting can
dUates into local oflces to create a
snowball effect “The next step is
you're goo* to have to have wins,
by localcandidaies." Meyer said.
’’We need to build Mm grassroots
level so they (local oflce holders)
can go on to htgiCTofaccs
of ranai^ them is not a viable
idea. Meyer said. He advised the
me to look for “~4"“KU
Dooular i
But tii
__I the candidate on the Repub-
lican side of the baDot most be
quitted, "because every once ia a
while you win." ,,
The Republicans haW^had a
difficult time securing offices in the
state. About 13 or 16 Republican
county judges — in a Rate with
234 counties — we in office now.
which is about the same number of
Republican county clerks as are
holding office now, he mid.
Meyer aid he warns to see about
100 more local elected officials
take posts following We aext elec-
1990 is important in widening the
Republican network, be mid, be-
cause redistncung of We state will
occur in 1991.
The election of more Republican
legislators, along wiW a Republican
governor, will help rectify me “ger-
rymandering” he contends that the
Democrats have intituled
Gerrymandering is a term used
to identify district lines wtt
to
party vimngholds to facilitate pr
After We release of We 1990
census. We Legislature will survey
the district lines and decide
whether they Would be changed.
He said the "big win” the Re-
publicans had in 1988 with the
election of George Btuh to the
White House brought progress to
An GOP.
And, he predicted the too of the
1990 ballot will again have a
coattail effect
WiW Phil Gramm at the lop of
the ballot far the U.S. senator slot,
"Wat’s going to be a big boost k)
local candidates.” Meyer said,
citing Gramm's strong popularity in
the rural areas of We state.
la addition, conservative voters
are realizing that the Republican
party reflects their values pertaining
to the role of the federal govern
mem. traditional family values and
the free enterprise system. Meyer
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“Our philosophy matches the
values of the voters.” he said,
predicting more voters will swing
to the Republican side of the politi-
cal pendulum ia 1990.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Oliver
North’s lawyers say attempts by
President Reagan to get aroimd a
congressional ban on aid to the
Nicaraguan Contra rebels and then
cover iq> the activities are “at the
heart of this case."
North attorney Brendan Sullivan
u attempting to introduce evidence
about the Reagan administration's
secret efforts to aid the Contras ii^
DA builds his
case against
Wilkerson
Testimony was scheduled to con-
tinue Tuesday in the trial of a Sul-
phur Springs man charged with
murder, according to court informa-
tion.
Johnny Ray Wilkerson is char
ged in the shooting death of a Sul-
phur Springs motel clerk Sept 20,
1987.
Monday, District Attorney Frank
Long presented several witnesses,
including police, a man who dis
covered the clerk was missing and
people who lived in the area where
the victim's body was discovered.
The victim, Rena Lyne White,
was abducted from the motel and
later found shot to deaW.
Trial proceedings are being con-
ducted in Mount Vernon on a
chance of venue order by State Dis-
trict Judge Lanny Ramsay
Charles Mac Cobb of Mount
Pleasant is the court-appointed at-
torney for the defendant.
Wilkerson. if convicted, faces a
penalty of from five years to life in
prison and a SI0,000 fine.
All-District Band tryouts slated
variety of activities during Febni
Local students who wil be com-
peting me: Flutes: Sunn Lrndley,
Kristi Jones, April Jobnaon and
Amy Aheabaumer. Clarinets:
Rachel Eutenks. Consueio Lewis
md Ashanta Alexander. Baas
Omteet: Michefle Gillupie; Ate
Saxophones Scott Katibe and
Brandon Bums; Trumpet* Jim
Smith, Jnon Hanna. Becky Beck
and Didi Parker, French Homs:
Amy Barclay. Cody Edwards aid
James Remington; ”
Ricky Smith, fate I
Tim Thpiey;
Boshears and David Horton.
“Odmanlly. we have even more
itudenu who are trying out,” Rex
Wilemon. director, aid. Because it
is being held this late this yen. we
had a number of students involved
■a another U1L
was no
in both on l
- The next competition after All-
District will be the UIL Solo and
Ensemble contest. This involves
andurtl he held in TteuvfcmFeb.
23. Students are already busy
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her UIL activity and there
way they could participate
on that day, he added
Merchants in love with Valentine’s Day
i Cinds got a big Wipmm ia tins awrang
for Weir ^Tuesday). and we’re already aP
By DANA L. DURHAM
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his defense of North, who is char-
ged with covering up die Iran-Con-
tra affair by shredding evidence and
lying to Congress.
The Justice Department has suc-
ceeded in delaying North's trial un-
til an agreement or court ruling is
obtained on the extent of classified
information that can be introduced.
Sullivan said Monday that
Reagan and other top administra-
tion officials "participated per-
sonally and directly in quid pro quo
and other arrangements with Cen-
tral American and other third coun-
tries as a means of obtaining mili-
tary Assistance” far the Contras af-
ter Congress banned U.S. aid.
The officials also “established a
policy that those arrangements
would not be disclosed outside a
limited group of Executive Branch
officials,” Sullivan said in a court
filing.
Reagan lawyer Theodore Olson
declined to comment on Sullivan's
assertions.
Independent counsel Lawrence
Walsh, whose office is prosecuting
North, said in a court filing that he
is willing to agree at trial to a
“candid admission ... with respect
to quid pro quo arrangements” un-
der which the Reagan administra-
tion steered favors to nations aiding
the Contras
But Sullivan said a proposed
stipulation on the issue by Walsh
"is utterly inadequate” because it
doesn't acknowledge that Reagan
and other top officials participated
in the arrangements and disclosed
them to no one outside a limited
the heart of this case,” said
Sullivan, “are the quid pro quo and
other third-country arrangements
with which the Reagan administra-
tion obtained military support for
the Resistance during the so-called
Boland Amendments." That was
the period from October 1984 to
October 1986 when Congress ban-
ned military aid to the Contras.
Sullivan disclosed that U.S. Dis-
trict Judge Gerhard A. Gesell, who
is presiding at North’s trial, addres-
sed the possible relevance of the in-
formation to North's case in a
closed bearing last Wednesday.
Accosding to Sullivan's filing,
Gesell said it was possible that
"North was between a rock and a
hard place. He's being told on the
lop side not to tell anybody and
he’s being asked a lot of questions
about it on the bottom side.”
“And some of those instructions
came from people who have mili-
tary authority over him as well as
presidential authority over him and
1 have ruled that he should be entit-
led to have the jury to see the cir-
cumstances under which he acted ”
The allegations concerning
Reagan are pan of the dispute over
the planned use of classified docu-
ments at North's trial, on which
Gesell is to hold a hearing today.
The Justice Department wants
more stringent limits placed on
classified material that North can
use at trial, claiming that national
security could be hurt by public
disclosures. North’s lawyers oppose
the additional controls and say
classified material can prove
North's innocence.
Copter crash
kills three
near Tyler
TYLER, Texas (AP) A Flight
for Life helicopter struck a high-
voltage line and crashed in a
fireball just north of this East Texas
city, killing the pilot and two regis-
tered nurses, the Texas Department
of Public Safety said.
The helicopter was leased by
Mother Francis Hospital of Tyler
and was en rouse to Pittsburg
Medical Center to transfer a patient
to the Tyler hospital when it
crashed Monday night, said DPS
Communications Operator Stacy
Gill.
A witness said the helicopter was
flying low during intermittently
heavy rain when it crashed about
1.3 miles south of Interstate 20 and
three miles north of Tyler.
Hospital spokesvfcxman Beverly
Mason identified the copter’s oik*
as Gerald A. Morgan Sr„ 46. of
Houston.
The registered nurses were iden-
tified as Jeanne Lackey, 29, of Lin-
dale, and Katherine Lea Ohnheiser.
31, of Hal tom City. Ms. GiU said.
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