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Saturday Flightless was: NASA grounds shuttle fleet after 2nd leak found Page 4 Flightless birds: NASA grounds shuttle fleet after 2nd leak found State 7oh rcll 4 a Saturday June 30 1990 Fort Worth Texas Where The West Begins Saturday June 30 1990 Fort Worth Texas Where The West Begins Abortion clinic director excommunicated nicated 9 R1610 ft Price 25C her life but has considered quitting the church 4 "I am not going to quit my job" she Agora' (V said Vargas said she considers herself a 1 a good Catholic and plans to keep attend- -2 ing Mass even though she is now barred from the sacraments including i 4 Communion confession and anointing ct 1 of the sick "One part of me is devastated" Var- her life but has considered quitting the church "lam not going to quit my job" she said Vargas said she considers herself a good Catholic and plans to keep attending Mass even though she is now barred from the sacraments including Communion confession and anointing of the sick "One part of me is devastated" "One part of me is devastated But another part is telling me I'm just more committed to the issue of choice What I believe does not guarantee me a place in hell" Vargas told the Corpus Christi Caller-(More on CHURCH on Page 4) Rachel Vargas: Says she thinks bishop is inconsistent It rownwood fire kills kills injures mow I Rachel Vargas clinic director "Your cooperation in procuring abortions is a sin against God and humanity and the laws of the Roman Catholic Church" said the formal ex addresses the first session of the Rachel Vargas director of Reproductive Services Inc was excommunicated by Bishop Rene Gracida of the Corpus Christi Diocese US Sen Phil Gramm 111111 rt" Ill' Ja 4it i 1-- kr 0 't1'1' I'li i'' ''id 'Z a alki i 6 1 0 00S It 4: 1 1-1 I 0 1 Ali 4 4 oaala1 ira 4' I 4: tt' 11'' SP' I tr- '1''1'1 'A' 4 1 '1- 1 yd'" aleir 4 i 411A ritawk'' alp aka 7'''t '0: '0 rlit''0 01''' 'I 't LI i 0 i 0 1 itil II i 1 ---is Fort Worth Star-Telegram 'JERRY HOERR 0 A 1 1 a Fort wonh Star-Telegram JERRY HOERR BY JOEL WILLIAMS Associated Press 'CORPUS CHRISTI The Roman Catholic church has formally excommunicated an abortion clinic director saying in a decree that her work "is a sin against God and humanity" An abortion-rights leader said yesterday that the action may be unprecedented but a church official noted that a Rhode Island woman had received a letter in I 986 saying she had brought on her excommunication by helping women get abortions Eon Worth Star-Telegram I BEATRICE TERRAZAS Ten i Alexander and husband Mike cradle their unborn child aren bid to save c1 1113 life A Burleson woman will be the first Texan to have an open-uterus surgery BY I IAL WALLACE Fort Worth Star-Telegram BURLESON A 30-year-old Burleson woman will try to save her unborn child's life next week by sub mitting the fetus to open-uterus surgery stifl in experimental stages at the University of Cali fomia at San Francisco Teri Alexander is 24 weeks pregnant with her first child Her fetus has a hole in its diaphragm that has allowed its stomach and possibly other abdominal organs to move up into the baby's chest yavity crowding the heart and causing the lungs to fail to develop Known as congenital diaphragmatic hernia the condition occurs in one in 2200 pregnancies and has an 80-percent fatality rate Infants born with the hernia have underdeveloped lungs Alexander will be the first Texas woman to have the surgery which involves partially removing the fetus from the womb said Dr Scott Adzick one of 10 surgeons who will be present for the operation Alexander said her primary care physician Dr Mike Sylvester of Kaiser Permanente in Fort Worth told her he suspected the problem after a routine sonogram On June 6 a Fort Worth specialist confirmed the diagnosis and suggested (More on FETUS on Page 15) 7511k 1' 7 I 4 i )' ''4 44 4 it A114 4 I i 4i 4401111sr Ifl' communication decree sent to Vargas on June 1 She said she received two warning letters from Gracida before the decree Another Corpus Christi abortion clinic director said yesterday that she has received two similar letters from Gracida and that she expects to be excommunicated soon The last letter "tells us to mend our ways and quit our job" said New Women's Clinic director Elva Bustamante 48 She said she has been a Catholic all Texas Republican Convention 1960s and the negotiations that followed are seen by Washington insiders as pivotal in moving the president away from his "no new taxes" campaign pledge Bentsen said he told Bush that the Democrats needed a strong statement from the administration saying it would accept changes in all aspects of the federal budget including taxes "I said it had to be something high profile that provided a breakthrough" Bentsen recalled "I was deeply concerned that the budget talks weren't going anywhere No question it was (More on BENTSEN on Page 2) BY I IARRIETTE GRAVES AND PA I WWI REY Fort Worth Star-Telegram BROWNWOOD A 3-year-old boy and his 2-year-old sister were killed yesterday morning in a fire at their duplex apartment where a smoke detector may have been stolen only days before Their mother was critically injured in the blaze in the home just northwest of Brownwood Arlen Carnes whose body was burned almost beyond recognition died at 9:03 am at the Brownwood Regional Hospital emergency room His sister Dedra Carnes died later in the same hospital as medical personnel prepared to transfer her to the burn center at Dallas' Parkland Memorial Hospital Their mother Katrina Carnes 26 whom firefighters rescued from the burning apartment was in critical condition at the Brownwood hospital yesterday afternoon A fourth person in the duplex Donnie Smith 34 escaped through a bedroom window but suffered second-and third-degree bums on parts of his body He was hospitalized in stable condition yesterday TU Electric Co employee David Sparks was reading meters across the street from the Spring Lake West apartment complex near Whiskey Hollow Road when he saw smoke billowing from the eaves He ran across the street in time to see Smith break the glass and (More on FIRE on Page 5) I-Kco turns its Ku Klux Klan By BARRY SI IIACIITER Fort Wonh Star-Telegram HICO On the outskirts of this quiet dairy farming community of I 500 people a cross will burn tonight Residents unable to recall the last time the Ku Klux Klan came to town appear less than enthusiastic that Hico was chosen for an "old-time Klan rally" featuring a grand wizard and other white supremacist speakers performing gunfighters and a country and western band "I live up on the hill and if I don't I Nations vowpact on ozone BY MALCOLM BROWNE Ncw York Times News Smice LONDON In a landmark agreement most of the world's nations promised yesterday to halt production of most chemicals that destroy the Earth's protective ozone layer by the end of the century The agreement followed a last-minute concession by the United States which agreed to provide 1 technological assistance to poor nations in phasing out the production and use of chlorofluorocarbons which have been found to deplete the ozone shield Ninety-three nations approved the agreement which went far beyond a 1987 Montreal Protocol a treaty that called for a 50-percent reduction in the production of chlorofluorocarbons by 1998 Fifty-seven nations had previously acceded to that agreement William Reilly administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency described the (More on OZONE on Page 16) back on rally cross-burning pay any attention maybe it'll go away" said Jean Jackson 51 a Hico businesswoman The picnic at the city park and the burning of a 40-foot cross in a field just outside Hico because of fire ordinances might be the cautious talk of the town But no store volunteered window space for a KKK handbill "We don't want it" said a waitress at the Koffee Kup Kafe a popular meeting spot decorated with 80-year-old photographs of Hico in its heyday as a (More on KLAN on Page 8) break a deadlock in deficit-reduction talks with the Democrat-controlled Congress "Look I knew I'd catch some flak on this decision" said Bush who has been harshly criticized by many Republicans for abandoning the "read my lips no new taxes" slogan that helped him win the presidency "I've got to do what I think is (More on BUDGET on Page 2) GOP abortion deal falters Activists defeat day-old compromise nees the controversy over the party's abortion stand eclipsed appearances by Gramm Gov Bill Clements and other party dignitaries Members of the party's Temporary Platform and Resolutions Committee meeting until 3 am yesterday approved 14-12 an abortion compromise that reaffirmed the party's moral opposition to all abortions except those when the life of the mother is at stake But it also set out a seven-point legislative proposal that fell short of prohibiting abortions and instead emphasized the need for a (More on GOP on Page 9) BY JAMES WALKER AND KAYE NORTI icarr Fon Worth Star-Tdcgram FORT WORTH Divided anti-abortion activists yesterday forced Republican Party officials to throw out a short-lived compromise abortion platform plank forged at the behest of US Sen Phil Gramm and state party Chairman Fred Meyer On the first day of the Republicans' two-day state convention which was designed to be a showcase and rally for the pany's political norni Bentsen credited for Bush talking taxes iblis with punches in tax brouhaha INSIDE Homemade potpourri is the essence of its creator's personal touch for fragrance WEEKEND News SECTION 1 TarrantTexas PAGE 25 Business Journal SECTION 2 Sports sEcrioN Weekend SECTION 4 Classified SECTION 5 Index to features page 3 85th year No 57 114 Pages 41'Eopyright 1990 Fort Worth Star-Telegram Classified ads 332-3333 fj 3ence for :) KEND 'ION 1 GE 25 I 'ION 2 'ION 2 i 'ION 4 i 'IONS egram 4 33 I to s-! A -00 I 7 i --4C1 1's 1 1 tc- 1- 1 I 7) BY MARIA RECIO Fort Worth Star-Telegram Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Sen Lloyd Bentsen was driving his car through the streets of Washington a week ago when his car phone rang "This is the White House" the caller said President Bush came on the line seeking the Texas Democrat's counsel on the stalled budget negotiations between the administration and the Democrat-controlled Congress "We had some discussion" Bentsen said in an interview That discussion between Bush and a fellow Texan he has known since the BY TERENCE 1 iUNT Associated Press WASHINGTON President Bush said yesterday that he knew he would be skewered for flip-flopping on tax increases but comparing himself with Abraham Lincoln declared "I'm thinking anew" for the good of the country Bush said he had changed course on the politically explosive issue to WEATHER A 20-percent chance of rain High in middle 90 low in middle 708 Full report SECTION 1 PAGES Best-selling novelist Irving Wallace has died of cancer at the age of 74 OBITUARIES PAGE 29 t0000WitegiOkarafigWaleiteitatigadlointilifddi a- 4.