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Thursday, April 30, 1998 Albuquerque Journal for Wilson Education, Crime Top Issues "The president thinks he 's been doing spectacular at if' the United Nations. (He's) a real asset to the, president's foreign policy." MIKE MCCURNY, WHIT I KOUII PltlSS SECRETARY Richardson Eyed For Energy Secretary Aides: Envoy to U.1J. FAMILY WOMAN: Republican 1st District candidate Heather Wilson takes a break between speaking engagements to spend some time with her 19-month-old daughter Caltlln. KITTY CLARK JOURNAL StA as. m2S1 1 1 from PAGE A1 She wants to reduce the size of the Department of Education so that "95 cents of every dollar spent on education goes to the classroom." She said the best way to do this is to distribute federal education money through easily administered block grants.

Although she doesnt advocate a flat tax, she said the federal tax code needs to be reduced to about a quarter of its present size. She also said she wants to eliminate the so-called "marriage penalty" that requires some married couples to pay higher taxes than if they were single. As for abortion, she said "it's morally wrong." She is opposed to publicly funded, late-term and partial-birth abortions. But she said she wouldn't support a total federal ban on the procedure. This is Wilson's first run at elected office.

Domenici asked her to run and then quickly endorsed her. "She is probably the most brilliantly qualified candidate running for the U.S. House anywhere in America," Domenici said. The endorsement which was echoed by Schif before he died created consternation, in the Republican Party, especially among backers of more conservative candidates like state Sen. Bill Davis.

Domenici dismisses the criticism. "The very same people that are expressing concern about my helping her would have rejoiced if I would have helped their candidate," he said. Wilson said, "I think I have a record that Thinking Over Post By Ron Fournier The Associated Press WASHINGTON Bill Richard ate and master's degrees in international relations. OCCUPATION: Former Cabinet secretary, New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department; former U.S. Air Force captain.

POLITICAL EXPERIENCE: Cabinet secretary, 1995-98; director for European Defense Policy and Arms Control, National Security Council staff, 1989-91. Election series Candidates for the 1st Congressional District MONDAY: Phillip Mai-oof, Democrat TUESDAY: Gary Van Valin, Democrat WEDNESDAY: William Davis, Republican TODAY: Heather Wilson, Republican FRIDAY: Betty Turrietta-Koury, Republican Green Party candidate Robert L. Anderson is unopposed in the primary election and will be profiled later. There will be no profile of Alan Wilson, whose name will appear on the Republican primary election ballot, but who has withdrawn from the campaign. The withdrawal came too late for his name to be kept off of the June 2 lot.

Maloof, Heather Wilson and Anderson have been selected by the Democratic, Republican and Green parties, respectively, to run in the special election on June 23 to fill the vacancy created by the death of Rep. Steve Schiff, However, the winner will serve only until the end of the year, for the unexpired portion of Schiff's term. The party nominees from the June 2 primary election will run In the November general election to determine who will fill the seat for a full two-year term. Heather Wilson Republican BORN: Dec. 30, 1960, in Keene, N.H.

RESIDENT OF: North Valley EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree, U.S. Air Force Academy; Rhodes Scholar with doctor son, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has expressed interest in becoming the Clinton administration's next energy secretary, officials said Wednesday. Three high-ranking administration officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the former Democratic congressman from reflects who I am. I think (Domenici) clearly Matt.

'I New Mexico has asked for time to decide whether he wants the job. If he does, Richardson would be the front-runner, the aides said. White House press secretary Mike McCurry would not comment on any possible Richardson RICHARDSON: Would be fronts runner, officials say that lowered to 14 the age that juveniles can be tried as adults for certain violent felonies. Her tenure on Johnson's Cabinet was not without controversy. Some children's advocates have suggested the department should release more low-risk juveniles into community supervision programs rather than imprison them at the Boys' School.

That would ease the overcrowding problem and let them rejoin society, the critics said. Wilson has said she tried to balance I punishment and rehabilitation of young criminals in the department's custody. Wilson also canned a policy adviser, Glen Hanson, in 1997 after he circulated a satirical story about Wilson being named as "Secretary of All" by Johnson. Hanson is now working as a consultant for Wilson's campaign. Wilson said there were no hard feelings between the two.

Wilson's successor at Children, Youth and Families, Secretary-designate Deborah Hartz, said she inherited a fine department. "I think she did an excellent job," Hartz said. "One of the principles she left us with was that of continuous improvement. It doesnt matter how good you are; you can always be better." Wilson lives in the North Valley. She has two sons and a daughter.

Their elder son, Scott, is adopted. noticed that record. I really honored that he did." Wilson was born in New Hampshire, the daughter of a pilot and granddaughter of a barnstormer. Her father died in a car accident when she was 6 and her mother went to work as a nurse. "Things were not always easy at home," Wilson said.

At 17, she went to the Air Force Academy. It was only the academy's third year to accept women, and she was the first woman to command a basic training unit at the academy. "It was still a young men's club, I guess," she said. "We had to both succeed as cadets and change the traditions." After the academy, she was primed to go to flight school when she was accepted into the Rhodes Scholar program at Oxford University in England in 1982. There she earned a master's degree and doctorate in international relations, and her plans to be a pilot faded.

She was on active duty in the Air Force for seven years, spending most of that time in Europe. She was a negotiator and defense planning officer in England and with NATO in Belgium. After leaving the Air Force in 1989, she was named director for European Defense Policy Council staff at the White House. She was in Vienna for treaty negotiations during the final days of Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe. "It was an exciting time," she said.

In 1991, she left government service and came to New Mexico to be with her new husband, Albuquerque lawyer Jay Hone, who was her law professor at the Air Force Academy. After she arrived, she founded Keystone International, a business consulting firm. She later sold the company to Gary Van Valin, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for the 1st Congressional District seat Wilson sought the Albuquerque Public Schools superintendent's job in 1994. She didn't get it, but Gov. Gary Johnson appointed her Cabinet secretary of the Children, Youth and Families Department the following year.

She resigned the post to run for Congress. As secretary, she oversaw the construction of two juvenile prisons a high-security jail in Albuquerque and a work camp in Lincoln County. Once enough inmates are moved from the Boys' School in Springer to the Albuquerque jail, the juvenile justice system will not be overcrowded for the first time in ages, she said. "It's nice to be dug out of the hole," she said. She also touts an initiative in the Legislature ZTU and Arms Control on the National Security Ikini-Casino Found in N.

Valley Home, Cops Report move, except to say, "The president thinks he's been doing spectacular at the United Nations. (He's) a real asset to the president's foreign policy." In the meantime, the White House has suspended its search to replace outgoing Secretary Federico Pefia, who announced April 6 that he will leave the Cabinet this summer. Aides said they won't finalize a recommendation to Clinton until Richardson decides what to do. That leaves Elizabeth Moler in limbo again. rv 1 She was chairwoman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Comnrfs-sion in December when Clinton periled her in as his second-term energy secretary.

Bowing to that he needed another Hispanicln the Cabinet, Clinton changed mind in a late-night meeting ajd picked Pefia, who had been transportation secretary. Moler was named Pefia's deputy as a consolation prize. She expected to be Pefia's automatic replacement, aides close to her said. Richardson had been considered for the energy post in 1996 as weB, but he and Clinton were eager -to capitalize on Richardson's highly publicized first-term diplomatic missions. Administration officials sjd Richardson is studying whether being energy secretary wQiiJd broaden his domestic policy portfolio in case he runs some day for governor of New Mexico, where eneftfy issues are critical, or is considered a vice presidential candidate in 2000, Richardson might also be feeliflg hemmed in at the United Nations, where diplomats from other countries say he rarely speaks candidly in closed-door consultations and generally sticks to printed talkjtig points, presumably dictated i by administration higher-ups in Washington.

(- .3 and a rack stocked with potato chips. A sign listing different types of ice cream and their prices was posted on the Coke machine, he added. He said investigators went into another room and found gambling machines, a pay phone and liquor. The machines were "Las Vegas-style slot machines," Salazar alleged, and "each one had a stool." "Detectives arrived and advised Mr. Aragon of his Miranda rights," the affidavit said.

"Mr. Aragon advised that he wanted to speak to his lawyer and would give no further permission for detectives to look through his household." The affidavit added that "detectives have reason to believe that an illegal gambling establishment exists at (the home)." The search-warrant paperwork provided a list of items seized from the home, including: 13 "gaming devices." The devices were described as "slot machines video gaming." Six wood cabinets and five bar-stool-type chairs'. Police Sgt. Ken Salazar of the Valley code team said neighbors had complained about junk cars in the yard and "heavy traffic" at the home. A dozen cars were parked in the yard outside the home Wednesday morning, along with two motor homes and a boat.

Six couches were stacked near the front door, and a family of sparrows was flying in and out of a crack near the roof. Salazar said an enforcement agent went to the home April 14 and gave Aragon 30 days to clean up the cars and remove debris. Code team members and members of APD's Valley Impact Team went back to the house April 24 for a follow-up visit, Salazar said, and one officer asked if he could look inside the house for other code problems. "Mr. Aragon advised that this would be fine," the search-warrant affidavit said.

Salazar said the first thing investigators saw when they went inside the home was a Coke vending machine, a coin-operated pool table "jgpmPAGEAl Htossession of a firearm. However, Jfie was not charged with any gam-jjjjing-related crimes. Police Lt. John Kraenzel, who Soversees the vice squad, said Tues-ifey that the case will be submitted the Bernalillo County District 'Attorney's Office. Prosecutors can iSthen decide whether to seek Aragon was released from the HJernalillo County Detention Center Son Monday after posting a jail bond tiff $2,500.

Officials have put a notice the home on Los Luceros, near rftdian School and Rio Grande NW, recalling it uninhabitable. Aragon 35uld not be located for comment Kraenzel said that "just by the fheer number" of items they found i the home, police believe the I apparent gambling operation had in business for awhile. Tt-The APD has two code teams, jwhich aim to curb crime by clean- riSg up building, zoning and fire code 'violations in city homes, motels and Jher buildings. PAUL BEARCEJOURNAL NO VEGAS LIGHTS: Albuquerque police say they found the making of a mlnl-casino at this house In the North Valley. Aragon was charged in 1980 with felony embezzlement and later pleaded guilty to the crime.

He was sentenced to four years' probation. Coin cups and $2,157 in currency. Davis said most of that money was in change. A box of playing cards and dice. Six cases of beer and numerous bottles of whiskey.

The booze was in regular and miniature bottles. The paperwork also said police seized a handgun and a rifle. District Court records show Records also show that Aragon in 1993 agreed to plead guilty to two counts of misdemeanor aggravated battery. In that case, he was placed on probation for almost two years. HOW TO REACH US HISTORY OF THE WORLD IF YOUR PAPER IS LATE Your home-delivered Journal should arrive by 7 a.m.

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