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There has been no major outcry or charges of an inept defense team, as is so often the case in high-profile death penalty cases. "This is not one of the problem cases in Texas," says TIME Austin correspondent Sam Gwynne. "This isn't one of those terribly egregious cases where there's tons of evidence that the trial was botched." Beets's defense team claims she was convicted by a jury that wasn't told she was abused by one or more of her husbands, but no one is accusing the defense attorneys of mishandling the case. Which brings...
...former executive at Monsanto--quashed that idea. In early 1997, Bush's team held a series of private meetings with oil-, gas- and chemical-industry leaders and invited them to draft a plan for a voluntary emission-reduction program. The secret meetings came to light last summer, when an Austin activist named Peter Altman filed an open-records request. Despite cries from environmentalists, the plan passed the legislature, in only slightly tougher form, last year. Bush says he is proud he got the grandfathered plants to the table, and to his credit, no Governor before him did as much...
...Bush insists the program is a success, and the corporations that dodged regulation seem to agree. So far, lobbyists, lawyers and executives for companies operating the 100 worst grandfathered plants have contributed more than $1 million to his presidential campaign, according to an analysis by Public Research Works, an Austin watchdog group. "They're hoping Bush will be making environmental policy at the national level next year," says the group's executive director, Robin Schneider...
...Clinton welfare reform to sign. Former Republican chairman Barbour insists that he made it clear on the cover sheets that he was not speaking on behalf of the campaign, but as a longtime congressional strategist put it, "When people get a memo from Haley, they assume it's what Austin wants." Other sources say that Bush chief strategist Karl Rove and others from the campaign have also been on the phone to House and Senate leaders jawboning against a congressional strategy of more modest tax cuts that looks similar to the proposal being offered by Bush's chief rival...
From a candidate who styles himself an outsider, those are impressive inside moves. The problem is that "what Austin wants" carries a lot less weight in the Republicans' inner councils than it did a few months ago. G.O.P. sources tell TIME that last fall, after Clinton vetoed Congress's $792 billion tax cut, it was pressure from the Bush campaign that helped shut down Republican discussions of whether to chop that tax relief into smaller pieces, pass it in increments and force the President's hand. Now that the Bush campaign has stumbled, lawmakers are far less certain...