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This is Mommy and Heather. This is Aunt Becky. This is Becky. This was my fourth child and she passed away when she was 24. The last 12 years have been rough on 59-year-old Betty Colbert. In that time, Betty has lost a father, a daughter, and a husband. Things haven't gone very well for Betty's youngest daughter, 23-year-old Tommy, either. Recently, Tommy and her three children have had to move in with Betty. The bad luck started six years ago when Tommy got pregnant her junior year in high school. I was very rowdy teenager. Not as rowdy as a lot kids, but considering, yeah, I was rowdy rowdy. I was four months pregnant forever to tell my mother.

I was scared today at the tail of them because I was afraid they would hurt them. And when I did, they accepted it. My whole family accepted it. Betty blames herself for taking her family to the small town of Van Texas so that she could help take care of her father. Mom couldn't take care of dad by himself and someone had to help her. And I feel like at the time that I spent over there, although I don't regret it, I feel like Tommy wasn't able to cope with it. Even though she was right there with us, she wasn't able to cope with it. If I had it to do over, I wouldn't completely give all of my time to take care of him. I'd have time for the family, too. A shame. Tommy quit school and moved to Dallas to have her baby. Soon afterwards, she met Manuel Estrada. The first couple of times we went out, you know, he didn't try anything and it was like, I was seeing his best friend at the time and he still asked me out and made me feel good.

He made me feel pretty. He brought me flowers. And no other man in my life has ever brought me flowers. He, when I went to Kiss Me and I told him, you know, we started to get into real intimacy and I told him, you know, I don't want to do this. I want to wait. He says, that's okay. We have forever together. And at that time, I thought, I don't love this man. I'm going to live with him forever. When Tommy became pregnant with Ana, she and Manuel got married. Alicia was born in the following year. And with Alicia just a few months old, Manuel was picked up by immigration authorities. It was May the 13th, it was Thursday morning, at 7.45, Manuel got up and got ready for work. We live right back over there in Greensby. He got ready, kissed us goodbye, walked out the house, came down the alley here, came around the corner and the immigration officers were waiting for him there. They picked him up, took him in the custody and took him downtown. They didn't give him a chance to call me, let you know where he was.

They threatened his life if he didn't sign the voluntary deportation paper. He told him, but I'm married to an American citizen, I have two American children. They said, well, you should go back, so they sent him back. Daddy. Mommy. Mommy. Daddy. Where's daddy? Daddy. Daddy. Daddy. Daddy. Daddy. Daddy. Daddy. Daddy. Daddy. Daddy. Daddy. Daddy. Daddy. We're going to Mexico and get daddy. Tommy gave custody of Heather to Betty and took Anna and Alicia to Mexico to try and make a life there with Manuel, but things didn't work out. Tommy works full time at a local cafeteria, but the job doesn't pay enough to support a single mother with three children. And while she makes, she cannot pay a baby's salary, pay a baby's salary, buy groceries and buy food and clothes for these babies.

There's no way. What would she do if you weren't around? I don't know. I don't know. I tell her, I didn't have the children. I had my children and raised them. I sometimes resent it. I don't like anybody. It's a big responsibility. And I feel like this, if God had intended for women my age to take care of small ones and be with them 24 hours a day and have that responsibility, they'd still be having children. I'm inclined since you've been so honest to give you a chance, but we don't have no lab parties, no drinking, no trafficking at all night. Betty also works full time as an apartment complex manager. She says it's a tough neighborhood. He came up, Oria, he came to the alley, he started down the alley. Those two Hispanic men out here to get in their cars. And he started shooting at them and they started returning the fire. That was quite a few bullets and all.

And the car ended up down here into the pole. Then he was dead. He had nine bullet holes in him. He found a 45 bullet right there in this post. So how can these kids not be afraid to go to school? How can they study and get an education? How can they have a stable home? Get out of there. What I tell you, I told you not to go in there. I wish I could have been more open with my mom. When I told her I was pregnant, she told me it was her fault.

And I told her. Sorry. It wasn't her fault. She never made me sleep with a boy. And she told me, had she had more time than that. I probably wouldn't even get pregnant. But all the time she worked, it was close to me. So I could have everything. Look at that. Don't teach that baby to fly. Look at that. Look at that. Catch him. Catch him. Catch him. Wow. I'm trying to learn to get away from depending on other people. I think I'm a lot more independent now than I have been before.

But that's because I've been dependent on people and then it's been pulled away. And I'm learning. I'm learning. The alcohol swab and allows the finger across the fingerprints. She places the used land set in the serum transfer tube.

The flabotum, in this case, 10 milliliters for a full vena puncture tube. Hello, I'm Katie Dowd from Research Triangle Institute. We're conducting an important study for the U.S. Public Health Service. Is this 5812 Waverly Court? Survey officials unveiled a series of videotaped endorsements late in August. As the deadline for a diplomatic solution in the Gulf approached on Tuesday,

the bells of Thanksgiving Square summoned people to pray for peace. Nothing else works. Bombs don't work, bombs make war. Prayer makes peace. We are not only troubled and disturbed that our nation is committed to going to war, but the commitment on Martin Luther King June is birthday. There's an insult not just to the dreamer, but insult to the dream and to the legacy. Not for peace, not for hope. We want die on sunny soil. Anti-war protesters demonstrated at the Federal Courthouse on Tuesday afternoon. A lone counter-demonstrator turned up to represent a different point of view. Their feelings against the war may be very good, but I think they're being used as pawns by who's saying, and they're just not looking at the big picture. The protests and prayers did not prevent the war. Virtually every aircraft type in the U.S. inventory took part,

so did planes from the British Royal Air Force, the French Air Force, the Royal Saudi Air Force, and even aircraft from Kuwait. We're a government rise to a people, and a country is drifting to war. In Dallas Wednesday night, about the only people on the streets were peace protesters at City Hall. As I report to you, air attacks are underway against military targets in Iraq. Many people were watching the war unfold on television. The families of American soldiers watched as well. The Kirkpatrix in Plano have a son in the Marines. Do you feel now that you're really were prepared for this night? No. No. I thought I was. I really thought I was. And then when it came on the news, I wasn't prepared. It was like, let's just call this whole thing off.

Was my immediate reaction at first. So no, I wasn't prepared. On Thursday at the Dallas Naval Air Station, reserve pilots were talking about the overnight attack on Iraq. What's it like being here when the war's over there? Well, it's kind of like being sickened up for a game, football game, and sent on silent and watch all your buddies playing football, you know. You want to be out there and you want to be helping them, but you know, here you are. So you do the best you can, root form from the sidelines. At the base, feed the children ministries donated food to military families who are facing tough financial times. But suddenly, the base received an anonymous telephone bomb threat. It's a threat. And in my estimation, we take everyone seriously. However, we've had tight security in this area for the last week. The base hangers were evacuated, but no bomb was ever found. Anti-terrorism experts have been preparing for the potential of a war at home.

This week's security was stepped up at the Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant and at DFW Airport. Bags flat out about walking decked stew. Only passengers with tickets can get past these metal detectors now. There's no more curbside baggage check-in and no unattended vehicles are allowed in the terminates. U.S. firms also supplied various classes of industrial equipment of importance to the Iraqis, especially for making of more sophisticated weaponry of various sorts. So, to your question, do we- Can some of you share some of the questions that you've gotten from the students?

Why? That's, I think, that was what they wanted to know. It was why it had started in the first place. You know, I think a lot of times, too, the parents don't understand the political aspect of, you know, what's going on in our government. And so, I don't think they know how to explain it to the kids. And you may be the person that maybe have to do that. Look at the newspaper select words. You said to teach to expand our students vocabulary. One of the words that I thought was interesting was jamming. They're jamming the radar. And that's one of the reasons the United States is over there in such a big number. We're trying to ensure security for the oil. Let's foolish. Happened to fight over oil. To me, I think it's just another way of trying to sort out things between people and countries. I've just a class stuff and I thought everybody and overall get killed and stuff and I've said

very sad. He had my uncle and he's 18. He might be drafted. Saddam Hussein will think that if we don't go to war then he'll think that. Like we're chicken and we're going to back down stuff. Maybe they'll come over here to fight with other people and they might destroy every city in the United States. People over have relatives too over and I bet they were crying too. Are they afraid? Yes, they don't want. Probably be sad because their father or uncle is going to fight it in the war. Probably all the kids over there thinking about if they're going to make it or not. And if their mother and father were going to die and stuff. If you could talk to President Bush right now, what would you tell him? Why do we have to go on with this?

And if you could talk to Saddam Hussein, what would you tell him? Tell him. Let other people go free and let them have their peace and we have our peace of the world. And everybody be happy and we just don't want no more war. This is Joseph. Hi, Joseph.

I mean, Jim, how old are you? The call from 6-year-old Joseph was one of several thousand into Channel 4's Desert Hotlines this week. That's right, just two planes down. You'll have been slight movement on the ground but there's been an older warfare or exchange of fire on the ground. Since Tuesday afternoon, volunteers have fielded calls from people looking for information, looking for help. We were stunned to discover that people have far more questions than we thought. The question is about where is the closest bomb shelter? How is my loved one doing? Is there going to be a draft? Is Dallas for a worth going to be bombed? It was a question that was asked quite often last night, which I believe implies that there's people are very tense right now. They're more than interested. They are quite concerned. My daughter is in Saudi Arabia and I've been through this before, 21 years ago. I was pregnant with her and my husband was in Vietnam and all I could do was sit and ring my hands.

And so this time I wanted to give and a war can make us afraid but it doesn't have to control our lives and it doesn't have to paralyze this and I'm determined that I'm going to do something good and input and I do it for my daughter. I'm trying to support them where they're at and trying to give them the freedom to just keep the faith, just maintain your resilience and keep that communication line open, allowing them to talk and to share at any time that they would care to do so. The ones that are hard are the ones that are worried about their loved ones and where they're at and that there's nothing you can tell them. When we first started putting out the telephone number and bombs were falling and Baghdad, among the questions that were asked quite often that we were not preparing to help people with, what do I tell my child? My child is very concerned. We had children calling and we're crying and we decided, well, we need child psychologist and psychiatrists,

we need experts in here to help us out. The experts were brought in the second day of desert hotlines, members of the clergy and psychologists. When a caller sought more than just information, when there was a need for more professional guidance, the call was transferred to one of those experts. Hello, this is Jeff and Jim Dorothy. May I help you? In some instances, however, call takers may have passed on more opinion than fact. So, Operation Desert Storm is designed to be an area strike only and not to engage the ground forces. You mean, are they going to come over here and bomb? No, ma'am, they're not going to do that. Yeah, well, it doesn't have the kind of building. Channel 4 Management says most of its volunteers were referred by local service and business organizations. The volunteers receive a brief orientation before they begin taking calls. Although the conversations are not monitored, the station's general manager says he hopes the volunteers would apply good common sense.

Are you concerned about Arab terrorism here at home? Yes, definitely. What concerns you? Well, just any type of terrorism, I believe they could be devastating just real quick to the people of the United States. Do you expect that terrorism to come from, say, Arabs already here or from where? I really don't know, but personally, you know, like I wouldn't fly now or anything.

Those people, they fight in the war there, but I'm sure they have some connections here. Yeah, I'm very concerned, you know, because I work at a president's and I just work out with, you know, a guy. His name just happened to be Hussein, too. And it's like, seeming all the other time, he was so happy, you know, but like today, he was very quiet, you know, and I was just wondering, what was he thinking? What was he feeling? You know, it bothers me because you never know when some of them might decide, you know, that they might want to help their country, they might just go off on the Americans, or they may just like blame some of us for what's happening, you know, just never know, never really bothers me. Some people have asked me from where you are, I tell them, I'm from Ethiopia. I know that there is concern about the civil rights of the Arabic population here. And your personal opinion on that? Well, I just, I don't think it's called for, I think that we have to be cognizant that our country is made up of immigrants or children of

immigrants. And so I just hope people will exercise your Spray in a real discretion and carrying attitude toward everyone. Are you concerned for the safety of people of Arabian descent here in the United States? I'm concerned for the safety of people everywhere in the world. I don't care if they're here or if they're in the Middle East. Get out, get out. The Trinity River in many ways has been our Berlin wall separating the North from the South.

And I think we have the technology to make it an asset in the future rather than a liability. If you want to visualize the city as a Karl Reef, you know, there have been lots of people who have made deposits on that reef to to help it. And we all enjoy the benefits of people who 30, 40, 50 years ago did something for the city. We must grow from healthy parts of the city, grow out from an inner core. And always grow from the center that sense of growing from neighborhoods that are healthy and expanding those neighborhoods to regions beyond those. That's one way a city can grow in all of its

parts and incrementally in a healthy way. A small group of longtime Dallas residents is immersed in the 21st century. The group is called Dallas Visions for Community. Since 1987, it's been working with the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture to plan what Dallas could become. Its purpose is to ignite the imagination of the people of Dallas. We've been through awfully hard times. We need to be able to imagine our future. And the Dallas Visions process does that. The group has produced a series of maps and drawings depicting Dallas decades from now. A Dallas with a tree-lined boulevard from Fair Park to Love Field. A Dallas with a man-made lake near downtown. A Dallas that uncovers Mills Creek, a waterway completely paved over right now and running through conduits underground.

It's amazing when you get people away from current problems and thinking about what might happen in 10, 20, 50 years from now. How much more relaxed they are and how they much more they open up and they begin to think about how they can make their neighborhood better today. The group recently assembled a display for public viewing. This isn't the first time that urban planners have developed a vision for Dallas in the future. And this isn't a vision that everyone agrees with. For Dallas, there's always been this dream that the Dallas dream was fulfilled. When dirt was flying, something new, more grand and more glorious was emerging. And I think really the ultimate dream for Dallas was that we could all somehow live as well as shop in the Galleria. Paul Geisel is a professor of urban planning at UTR-Linkton. I think we've had in Dallas so many different experiences and trying to have idealized cities built. We've had the Southland Center. We've had the Fox and Jacobs development there at Brian Place and so forth. We've had these dreams any number of times, even Highland Park to some extent

was kind of a dream in Dallas. I think the problem we have with it as far as I'm concerned is that more often than not, what we have are architects who have an idealized vision of what a city is supposed to be. And they really feel like if they create the right physical space, then the social loader will come after it and will come with it. It doesn't really consider issues of race. It doesn't really consider issues of history. It doesn't really consider issues of grassroots development or the enrichment of people. This is a lot more oriented to people at large than what has happened in the past. In the past, there has very often been a formal process where a group of city council or city leaders hired a consultant and he put out a proposal which was then sort of adopted and executed policy-wise by very few people. We think that process doesn't work anymore. It's much more efficient if you only have a small

group of people making the decisions. And if they're now 500 little neighborhood groups watching everything that happens and wanting to play a part becomes much, much more difficult. Democracy is very inefficient. Through a series of community meetings, Dallas Visions has been listening to the concerns of their neighborhood leaders. But some neighborhood groups say Dallas Visions has come up with inappropriate plans for their community. We do have a couple of key points in conflict with the Institute plan. But our real concern is that their work doesn't reflect our recommendations concerning those points of conflict. And we feel that if this is being presented as a community-based plan, it should reflect community input. And the other key point is that central to this is keeping the streets as they are. If you continue to widen streets, you continue to take out commercial opportunities and certainly it begins to interfere with

residential living. On the intimate scale, we think it's important to know why. Dallas Visions faces another complaint that no matter how well intended, urban renewal usually displaces lower income residents. I don't think it's a question of whether we want the floor to be displaced or not displaced. We really haven't thought about who's here. We're always thinking about who could be here. And I think increasingly we're going to have to come to the realization that who's here is it. This is it. Once you accept that, then the city can really take on a really great dimensionality. In the evolution of many neighborhoods in Dallas, you can look back and see that they were at some point low income neighborhood and they have come back. You don't have to take the people out to make that happen because the people are also improving their own law as that maturation process happens. Organizers at Dallas Visions say that someone had to develop a plan for what the city should look like. Despite the criticism, they insist their drawings are

works in progress and may change with future discussions. The war has pushed many people to search their souls in the days before US bombs fell on Iraq. Dallas area houses of worship reported an increase in attendance as the deadline for war

approached some religious leaders prayed for peace. Now to be sure that is disagreement upon equally committed Christian people as to how this situation should be handled. But there should be no disagreement among us concerning the compelling completely evil nature of war. After the war began, others prayed for victory over Iraq. It's so tragic that there is a Hitler and there is a Hussein who leads them in this that's awesome conflict. But our part is to pray and to ask God's innervates and to pray for peace.

The Trinity River in many ways has been our Berlin wall separating the North from the South. And I think we have the technology to make it an asset in the future rather than a liability. If you want to visualize the city as a Karl Rief, you know, there have been lots of people who have made deposits on that reef to help it. And we all enjoy the benefits of people who 30, 40, 50 years ago did something for the city. We must grow from healthy parts of the city, grow out from an inner core, and always grow from the center. That sense of growing from neighborhoods that are healthy and expanding those neighborhoods to regions beyond those. That's one way a city can grow in all of its parts and incrementally in a healthy way.

A small group of longtime Dallas residents is immersed in the 21st century. The group is called Dallas Visions for Community. Since 1987, it's been working with the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture to plan what Dallas could become. Its purpose is to ignite the imagination of the people of Dallas. We've been through awfully hard times. We need to be able to imagine our future. And the Dallas Visions process does that. The group has produced a series of maps and drawings depicting Dallas decades from now. A Dallas with a tree-lined boulevard from Fair Park to Love Field. A Dallas with a man made lake near downtown. A Dallas that uncovers Mills Creek, a waterway completely paved over right now and running through conduits underground. It's amazing when you get people away from current problems and thinking about what might happen in 10, 20, 50 years from now. How much more relaxed they are and how much more they open up and they begin to think about how they can make

their neighborhood better today. A group recently assembled a display for public viewing. This isn't the first time that urban planners have developed a vision for Dallas in the future. And this isn't a vision that everyone agrees with. For Dallas, there's always been this dream that the Dallas dream was fulfilled. When dirt was flying, something new, more grand, and more glorious was emerging. And I think really the ultimate dream for Dallas was that we could all somehow live as well as shop in the Galleria. Paul Geisel is a professor of urban planning at UT Arlington. I think we've had in Dallas so many different experiences and trying to have idealized cities built. We've had the Southland Center. We've had the Fox and Jacob's development there at Brian Place and so forth. We've had these dreams any number of times even Highland Park to some extent was a kind of a dream in Dallas. I think the problem we have with it as far as I'm concerned is that more often than not what we have are architects who have an idealized vision of what a city is supposed to be. And they really feel like if they create the right physical space, then the

social order will come after it and will come with it. It doesn't really consider issues of race. It doesn't really consider issues of history. It doesn't really consider issues of grassroots development or the enrichment of people. This is a lot more oriented to people at large than what has happened in the past. In the past there has very often been a formal process where a group of city council or city leaders hired a consultant and he put out a proposal which was then sort of adopted and executed policy-wise by very few people. We think that process doesn't work anymore. Through a series of community meetings, Dallas Visions has been listening to the concerns of their neighborhood leaders. But some neighborhood groups say Dallas Visions has come up with inappropriate plans for their community. We do have a couple of key points in conflict with the Institute plan but our real

concern is that their work doesn't reflect our recommendations concerning those points of conflict. And we feel that if this is being presented as a community-based plan, it should reflect community input. And the other key point is that central to this is keeping the streets as they are. If you continue to widen the streets, you continue to take out commercial opportunities and certainly it begins to interfere with residential living. On the intimate scale, we think it's important to know what. Dallas Visions faces another complaint that no matter how well intended, urban renewal usually displaces lower income residents. I don't think it's a question of whether we want the floor to be displaced or not displaced. We really haven't thought about who's here. We're always thinking about who could be here. And I think increasingly we're going to have to come to the realization that who's here is it. This is it. Once you accept that,

then the city can really take on a really great dimensionality. In the evolution of many neighborhoods in Dallas, you can look back and see that they were at some point a low income neighborhood and they have come back. You don't have to take the people out to make that happen because the people are also improving their own lot as that maturation process happens. Organizers at Dallas Visions say that someone had to develop a plan for what the city should look like. Despite the criticism, they insist their drawings are works in progress and may change with future discussions. The inside of a cement kiln looks like the inside of a volcano. The limestone and minerals that become cement mix are cooked inside these giant rotating kilns. The temperature is 3500 degrees.

It takes tremendous amounts of energy to keep the fires burning at the Texas industry's cement plant in Midlothia. Most of the energy comes from coal. But in the past few years, cement plants have begun to burn something else. 35% of the energy needed for the plant now comes from companies looking to dispose of their flammable hazardous waste. People pay us to burn this material. So from a cost standpoint, it's a plus. But also this material in many ways burns cleaner than our primary fuel

source, which is coal. Texas Industries has reduced the sulfur emissions from its smoke stacks by 60% by burning hazardous waste instead of high sulfur coal. But people who live near the factory say the new kind of fuel is affecting their health. Five years ago, you might get a whiff of sulfur and you have the nuisance of the cement dust when the wind came in a certain way. But now it's totally obnoxious. It's sickening. It smells like... It takes your breath. Well to me, it smells like an automobile. If you've ever been in a place where it's closed up and an automobile is running. It is extremely, extremely frightening to be here without any protection from them. My wife has to take a wet rag put over her face for her to breathe at times when that stuff comes into and

bids our home. There's a lot of people out here that have sinus problems, nose bleeds, upper respiratory problems, and even some of the animals are sick out here. 25 cement factories nationwide are using hazardous waste as fuel, but nowhere else is the situation quite like Midloatheon. The town is known as the cement capital of Texas. There are three cement companies here. Two of the three plants burn hazardous waste. TXI burned 12 million gallons of waste last year. The company says more than 99% of the dangerous chemicals are destroyed by the intense heat inside the cement kiln. However, records kept by TXI and the Texas Air Control Board show the plant violated its smoke stack emission limits 48 times in 1990 and 63 times the year before

that. Many of them occur when we're starting up the kiln or when we're shutting down the kiln. In our permit, our permit does not allow us to use recycle fuel during those times. Still, the violations alarm environmentalists like Jim Schurmback of the group Texans united. The particulate matter that they're putting out right now from year to year if they're not burning toxic waste is still a health problem. If the add toxic waste to that mix, it makes that particulate matter or that dust that much more toxic and that stuff is spewed then all over the North Texas area. Schurmback says that only specially built incinerators like this plant in Louisiana should handle toxic waste. Schurmback says cement factories weren't designed for the job. They're trying to apply a 35-year-old technology to what should be a modern problem. You would compare, for instance, a commercial waste incinerator in Port Arthur to the TXI

plant in Midloatheon. There are lots and lots of technological differences between them and there are lots and lots of different kinds of technical requirements that the Port Arthur people have to have to meet and exceed that the people at TXI do not. Texas industry says the Midloatheon plant does not need all the specialized equipment required at a commercial hazardous waste incinerator. That's because the cement kiln stays hot even during an emergency. We have 13 different automatic shut-off devices in our system that if one of those is out of kilter then the system shuts down. Fuel stops flowing. We can shut the fire off right now and two hours later you still have temperatures inside the kiln that are well above temperatures necessary for organic destruction. Environmentalists are also concerned with the kinds of waste burned in

Midloatheon. They're taking in all kinds of chemicals and if they didn't want to be taking in pesticides and herbicides and the more exotic kinds of toxins that we're talking about they could they could write them off the list of things that they've turned into the state government for them to burn. They haven't done that and in fact there's been a group of citizens in Midloatheon that has tried to work with the cement companies to say look you can burn used diesel oil or something like that or dirty diesel oil but get rid of the more exotic chemicals and here's what we want you to get rid of and the cement companies have said no we don't plan on burning them but we also don't want to write them off the list. We do not bring in herbicides and pesticides and use them as fuel if there are contaminants that are in trace amounts of the materials that are listed on and that we know that those trace amounts are not above what we're allowed to bring into the plant we will abide by that permit. So you'll burn it if there's trace amounts in a tanker

truck. The fact that you you find a trace amount doesn't mean that you just completely planted away. Special exemptions from federal law have allowed the cement companies to burn hazardous waste but the controversy over the practice has forced the environmental protection agency to issue new regulations. Certainly before this new rule came out they were not required to have all the same safety features as a hazardous waste incinerator. The new rule will require them to have all those safety features and in fact the new rule is going to make more stringent requirements apply to cement kilns and other boilers and industrial furnaces then currently apply to hazardous waste incinerators. Environmentalists sued the EPA to get the agency to act they say the new rules aren't tough enough. The regulations they've turned in are inadequate they still provide a big

loophole for cement kilns to do what they're doing and rhetorically they're saying that the regulations are the same but if you look at a line by line item of what commercial incinerators are required to do and what cement kilns are required to do they're very much different. An internal memo to EPA administrator William Riley in December indicates that the agency weakened the rules after lobbying by the cement industry. Hugh Kaufman of the Solid Waste and Emergency Response Department wrote the agency appears to have engaged in a pattern and practice of accommodating the industry with non-existent or at best loose regulation. When you have to go down to Mid-Lothian and tell people that you are enforcing rules that protect their health and safety do you think that they'll believe you? I hope they believe us I mean we get lots of criticism in EPA at the regional level at the national level and in all of our programs we get lots of criticism from all sides of issues. Texas Industries says the new regulations will require only minor modifications

to the Mid-Lothian plant. TXI has been a part of this community for 30 years and our standards and the regulations that we put upon ourselves as a corporation to safeguard our employees and environment and the community are much more stringent than the regulations that any governmental agency can come up with and I think that it's proven by our safety record and our performance within all of our operations. The new rules will require the plant to install more smoke stack monitors. The burning of hazardous waste will continue. Even if cement kilns had to meet every standard down the line that commercial waste incinerators do there would still be the problem well. This cement plant has been located in an area where people didn't think they were going to end up with a toxic waste incinerator next door to them. So if they're going to be allowed to do what they're

doing now and they're within whatever they call the guidelines why the only future that I see from a husband and myself is we are going to have to move because I don't think I can stand much more of this. Well you come on and play if you're going to play. I'm going to play as soon as I figure out what to do. You can't figure out if you want to play or you want to sing. Well sir I'm going to do a little

bit of both. Joe Turner was a man who was the brother of the governor of Tennessee, a white man, brother of governor of Tennessee who around 1900 in that time period would arrest Negroes and put them back on the plantations or on the roads and therefore have a free labor force like slavery. Joe Turner never appears on stage. He is a symbol of how interrupted lives are damaged lives. In my mind he's an image of lost hopes, lost dreams. He has broken spirits, he has broken people and he leaves you hunch over trying to find that spirit and that song. Play is set in Pittsburgh 1911 in a boarding house. The boarding house is owned by

Seth Holly. Seth is a freed man and so he's a very proud man. He's worked very hard. Mr. Bynum lives in the boarding house also and he is a conjurer man. He works with the spirits and the herbs and so forth and he calls himself Bynum because he says he's a binder of souls. Harold Lumis and his daughter, Zonia, also enter the boarding house. Lumis is the soul of every man. The soul that is lost, the spirit that is broken. I'm looking for a woman named Martha Lumis. That's my wife. Got married legal with the papers in home. Now I can look at you Mr. Lumis and I can see you a fellow who didn't forgot his song,

forgot how to sing it. Seem Mr. Lumis, when a man forgets his song, he goes off in search of it till he finds out that he got it with him all the time. That tie I can tell you want to Joe Turner's niggas because you don't forgot how to sing your song. You lie. How you see that? I got a mark on me. You telling me Joe Turner, the mark me, where you can see it? You telling me I'm a mark man. What kind of mark you got on you? You tell me Joe Turner's common going. Oh lord it. You tell me Joe Turner's common going. Joe Turner catch me when my little girl was just born. Wasn't nothing but a little baby sucking on her mama titter when he catch me. Joe Turner catch me in 1901 and kept me seven years till 1908. He kept everybody seven years. My wife Martha gone from me when Joe Turner catch me.

We've been looking for her ever since. That's been going on for years now we've been looking. You're selling the thing I know to do. I just want to see a face so I can get me a start and place in the world. The world got to start somewhere. We're attracted to doing the plays of August Wilson because they're really wonderful plays. You have a mystical notion of right people belonging to right people and right binding and right finding and rightness being inevitable. Just as the people in the play are basically sitting around the table to discover how they bind. So we in this physical circumstance gather around the same table and it is really easy to go into the life of these people and embrace it in this in this particular theater. You have

fiercely harmed people who still have a song to sing. I don't want you to come and see this play and say oh well it was about Black folks 1911. I want you to go away and think wow this August Wilson knew so much about people and and what it means to be a broken person. Lewis finds his wife. He purges himself of the gods and the Holy Ghost and the spirits and the fire. He pours out to us all the images that he has seen as he has walked through this seven-year period of time. He pours that out of himself. He cleanses himself to the point that he even sees his own blood, washes himself with his own blood. He is his savior. He saves himself at that point. He can stand up right now. For him the shiny man is inside of him.

By them sees this man, this broken spirit revive himself. He has seen a shiny man. He has seen one who goes before to show the way. You started hell Lewis. You started like new money. One thing I like about Peter is it's a great way to build community. You come into a common space. You have a common experience together. You leave the room with a common notion of what your value system is. It's a great way to build community. I do my best thinking when I'm writing. It's a time to think stuff through.

For example, on Sunday mornings, that's the time when I make my first run through my assignments. I prepare the assignment, but that's the time when I go through it without notes, anything, and that's very important time to me. Six mornings a week, the Reverend Zan Holmes jogs the streets near his home. He says it energizes his body and mind. Some vintage stuff. His love of music energizes his soul. I like Charlie Parker. This is his first recordings. I have the very first recordings that he did.

He was a real genius. Of course, he died early. Many of the jazz musicians did. They, in many ways, reflect the social conditions of the times, the discrimination, the racism, the pain, and the anguish of all of that comes out in their music, which is one of the reasons why I was attracted to them. In college, Holmes was a member of a singing group. When Big Name Acts came to town, they sang an intermission. It was one of the ways Holmes financed his way through college. Well, that whetted my appetite, but I gave all of that up when I was called to the ministry. I let it go, turned in a different direction, but I still have that love for the music. On any given Sunday, you'll find Reverend Holmes in tune with the music at the church,

where he has pastored the last 17 years. St. Luke Community United Methodist Church. My father was a minister, so I was reared in the post-niche church post-niche. And the members of the church always said I was going to preach. Church people have a tendency to do that to preach his kids. And I ran from that. I really didn't like that idea. In his senior year of college, the idea became reality, and the preacher's son decided to become a preacher. So it was a radical experience, really. Nobody in my college class thought I would ever preach. And I made that decision. One day in chapel, on campus, I was sitting on the back row. I don't know why I was there.

And the spirit hit me. And I realized that God was seeking to direct my life. And I remember I was the only person who stood up and walked down the aisle to the disbelief of all my friends. Let the church say man. Holmes not only made believers of his friends, but many others. After breaking the color barrier and graduating from Perkins School of Theology at SMU, Holmes became a pastor, eventually of St. Luke. At that time, the church had about 50 members. These days, St. Luke has three Sunday morning services to accommodate its overflowing

congregation. Many are drawn by the power of Holmes' message from the pulpit, which never ceases to be relevant. But we also pray for our new chief of police. Here in Dallas, grant that healing may come in this community. Hallelujah. And amen. In December, Holmes was presented with the 4th Annual Peacemaker Award by the Dallas Peace Center. He used the occasion to speak about the ideals that won him the award in the first place. If I had to select a text tonight, it would be from the Hebrew Scriptures, Psalm 85, verse 10, whether writer speaks of a day when justice and peace will kiss each other. What a romance.

Holmes received the Peacemaker Award in part for his role in mediating a volatile conflict between a Dallas police officer and county commissioner John Wally Price. The incident heightened already strained racial tensions in the city. The controversial commissioner is an active member of St. Luke. A lot of people ask what's wrong with John Wally Price instead of asking what's wrong with Dallas. He does get angry about the right things. And I don't criticize John Wally Price for getting angry about the right things. I wish more people in this city got angry about the right things which are the wrongs that exist in this community. Holmes has long been active in the struggle for civil rights. He served in the state legislature for four years and was active in the fight for school desegregation in Dallas. Holmes followed Dr. Martin Luther King's example of peaceful demonstrations. Holmes joined thousands from across the state in a people's march to the capital in Austin. The morning and Richards was sworn in as

governor. He says he felt it was important to join other Texans in their support for the new governor and for what he hopes will be an increase in the people's involvement in state government. Austin means more to Zan Homes however than just politics. He went to college in Austin. Many of his connections to the city are personal. This church is very dear to me. The memory of it is very special. Holmes remembers Simpson United Methodist Church as the church that affirmed his decision to go into the ministry and a church where his father preached nearly a generation ago. When I see this pulpit, a lot of foreign members come back because I just remember my father having standing in that pulpit, preaching on many Sundays and I would be out here in the congregation listening to him as he preached. He was a great preacher and I never dreamed in my early years that I would be preaching in the very same place where he once stood and preached.

Several years ago, Zan Homes had the opportunity to resurrect the memory of his father's preaching days. Some 30 years after Zan Homes senior preached at Simpson United Methodist Church, Zan Homes junior preached the gospel there. Here he came and did a wonderful revival. We had walled wall people up and downstairs and after the revival was over many of the members and even during the fellowship time, people were saying this church had been packed like this since his daddy was pastoring here. So, Brenda Lee Douglas is the church's current pastor. She is also one of Holmes's former theology students. Everyone has her, his own style, but still he has a way with his preaching and with his leadership that I think all of us who have worked with him would like to emulate some part of that. They tell me that he looked down straight in the face and said, Oh, damn, where is I see? A number of students have sought to draw from the preaching and teaching

of Zan Homes. For 17 years, he has taught at SMU's Perkins School of Theology. He was only the second black faculty person to be hired by the school. There are some things about preaching, you can't teach. You can teach some content, you can help people discover their skills, help them to get in touch with what it is that they do best and that's that's what the teaching of preaching does. Very pleased to have with me in the pulpit this morning some of our candidates for ministry. Many of Holmes students have done their field work at St. Luke. Many of them are now

pastoring in churches all across the country following the lead of a preacher's son. I feel my responsibility is just to be faithful where I am and as long as I do that tomorrow will take care of itself and I've never been disappointed. That's why one day when I heard that Jesus was calling me, I got up. Yeah, I was sitting in the chapel, I got up where I was sitting and then they couldn't hold me back. I ran down the aisle, gave the Lord my heart and my hand and let me chase them. I've been running ever since. Sometimes falling, sometimes stumbling but I've been getting up and falling and getting up and falling and getting up and falling and getting up and falling and I'm going to get

up and fall and get up and fall into the mud. It takes me home. They're taking advantage of the Persian Gulf crisis. As far as raising the crisis of gas and everything, you know, I feel like they should take more responsibility than what they are doing. You know, everything happened over there in two days later. Bingo, everything's up 30 cents.

I think they were at first but now they're starting to lower their prices so I think they realized that the public kind of knew that they were trying to take advantage of just the crisis that was going on because I thought 125 for a gas was a little outrageous. I guess I'm going to have to like take this truck back to the dealer, you know, because I can't afford anymore. It's just, I mean, it's hilarious. It's real expensive. I think it all started when we relied on it too much. Everyone I think it really started to see, when we relied on it too much because that's the only reason we've got to have it. So much as I drive, that's got a lot of money and gas. When the wind came in certain way, but now it's totally obnoxious.

These pictures have been painted to tell the story of the beginning of America. All of our pictures that we have, we've got this lady come over here to this table to please. Another colonial name on our way in and Rick might want to bring a thing up here. We have to, all these ladies have to sign a release today or we can't be on the newscast. We're going to tell the story

again today of what it costs to get here. Regardless of how much we find to disapprove of many things, it is still the best nation on earth. We have a phone here with us from Channel 13 today and all of you are going to find your stuff on the newscast. So we want to be very pleasant and watch what we're thinking. Now we're going to begin the story with Nicholas Fuller. He was a very respected barrister lawyer in London. Regardless of status, everyone was subject to very strict rules, dictates of whatever time. Whichever ruler happened to be in charge right then would have the right

to say who you're going to worship, how you're going to worship and where. So they said, you know, I heard that there was some of the people who were fixing to go to this new land, America. Well, they get out about three days on the water, these two little boats starting away from everything that has been against in the past and hoping that things in the future were going to be better so that we could sit here today like we are. And three or four of the fellows who can talk among themselves as people do. And they said, no, wait a minute, this is going to be great. We get out there, we don't have any rules that we have to follow at all. We can just simply live like we want to. Well, we had people on that boat who had law degrees and decided, hey, this is not right. We need to do something that will give us some rules of some kind. And so they got everybody to get. Now, on those rules that they had, this thing said, in the name of God,

Amen, we who whose names are underwritten and loyal subjects of our dreads sovereign Lord King James, by these present solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and of one another, covenant and combine ourselves together in a civil body politic for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends of foresaid. Tell a lawyer wrote it, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. Now, you do realize that this mayflower compact became the forerunner of what is our Constitution. It's the beginning of the laws of our country. The first 10 amendments of that Constitution are our Bill of Rights. These ladies will have a copy of the Bill of Rights for you after this is over.

What's that on? Бы gue gue gue gue gue gue gue gue gue gue gue gue gue. In the 90s, there's a very pronounced concentration of Hispanic population in a sort of diamond-shaped

area that represents about a fourth of the city. Members of the Dallas Redistricting Commission got their first look at 1990 census maps Monday night at City Hall. With the African-American population, it is pronounced in the southern area at the end sort of a triangle. These commissioners were appointed by the city council to draw a 1041 configuration for city government. But instead, federal judge Jerry Buckmeyer drafted this group to draw maps for single-member districts under a 141 plan.

And so that's what they'll do. Already, commissioners are divided. I don't think you can preserve neighborhoods in this because there is still a demand for five blocks into Hispanics. And when you're drawing to achieve those kinds of things, you have to do your remainder. While I support trying to keep neighborhoods intact, I'm not going to do it at the expense of the Hispanic community. Meantime, the city council is trying to come up with its own map for the 1041 plan. They'll use it to appeal the voting rights case that forced the redistricting crisis. City attorneys this week infuriated Hispanic leaders when the city announced it might also appeal the right of Hispanics to remain in the voting rights case. To give the city the best possible chance to get a hearing for 1041, we've included every possible legal point that could be appealed. But I want to emphasize that what's in that notice of appeal in no way relates to the city council's commitment to provide, you know, the best possible representation for the Hispanics.

Basically, what she is saying is, trust us. The council is still committed to draw a Hispanic district. It just simply doesn't make sense that they would attempt to kick us out of the lawsuit and that they would ask us to trust them when they have done nothing to gain that trust. We're not going to take this. We're telling the Anglo leadership that if they want to cooperate, fine, if they don't, they're going to see a lot of civil disobedience. These people miss reading your intentions. They saw what was filed by the city in the notice of appeal. Well, but the council has not voted as to what will be used in the appeal. This is just a task. The attorneys did it without the council's approval. Now, the attorney just had to list all those things that could be used for an appeal. Did they have the council's direction to file all those items? That's something that attorneys have to do. And I don't know all the technical language. No, the council did not. No, the council did not. No, the council did not. The council is not going to have us there. Well, the council is not going to have you there.

African American leaders are angry as well. They marched to City Hall on Wednesday. They've threatened a national economic boycott of Dallas if the redistricting conflict continues. So Dallas, certainly of all cities with this kind economy shouldn't be talking about wasting money for appealing something. All Dallas needs to do is to do the right thing. It was standing room only at this week's council meeting. It's shameful what you're doing to the city. You're wasting our money. You're adding fuel to the fire of divisiveness in this city. This is total insanity. Total insanity. No one in his right mind would believe this type of nonsense. I plead with you the rise above your political self-interest. You're doing what's right for this city. It's in your hands.

It keeps all the pleasant grove and the Kleberg area intact. Well, the council debate continued. The redistricting commission was back in session upstairs. Neighborhood groups are drawing maps of their own. We understand that the key issue here is fairness in racial and ethnic representation. We endorse and encourage that concept. And I think if you'll check the vote tally, you'll see that most of the neighborhoods in East Dallas voted in favor of 14.1. All we ask is that there be some balance in this process. That you consider our interests, and if it's just a matter of tweaking a few lines here or there, and if that's what it takes to make us happy that you please consider us. Municipal Election Day is 11 weeks away. The federal courts want new districts drawn by Wednesday of next week.