Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 186, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 7, 1990 Page: 2 of 12
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Nuclear skeleton
raises its head
The federal government grievously violated the public
trust by concealing few 40 years dangerous releases of
radioactivity at the Hanford, Wash., nuclear weapons
j)lant and issuing false denials of any threat to public
The emissions occurred between 1944 and 1947, when
a wartime mentality prevailed. But decades later the
government continued to act with chilling arrogance.
It took a request under the Freedom of Information Act
in 1986 to bring the radiation releases under first light.
The government has now acknowledged for the first time
that one in 20 residents in parts of Washington and
Oregon was exposed to enough radiation to cause serious
illness.
No other group of civilians in the world is known to
have been exposed to as much radiation over such a long
mod of time. Thousands of Hanford-area residents are
slieved to have received doses of radiation comparable
to those from the Soviet Union’s crippled Chernobyl
»e level of airborne
reactor and equivalent to 1,200 times the
contamination considered safe few civilians living around
nuclear weapons plants.
Perhaps it is possible to argue to some degree that the
episode during and after World War II, when Hanford
began to turn uranium into plutonium, was one of the
prices of the actual war and the resulting Cold War and
came at a time when scientists and engineers didn’t com-
prehend the gravity of safety problems. Biit that doesn’t
excuse a 40-year cover-up. Nor is it justified by national
security.
Today, nearly all the bomb production facilities at the
Hanford nuclear reservation have been shut down.
Secretary of Energy James Watkins says Hanford’s future
will be devoted to waste management and environmental
restoration rather than production of fuel for nuclear war-
heads. Sec. Watkins deserves credit few being more open
about skeletons in the nation’s nuclear past than his
predecessors.
complete
the releases, which are believed to have posed
greatest threat to people now in their middle to late 40s
who as infants drank locally produced milk. The milk
was contaminated because the pasture grass on which the
cows fed was polluted by radioactive iodine.
If links are determined, the government must be
prepared to provide medical help ana compensation.
The opinion page
Arizona corruption thrives
By Robert Walters
CASA GRANDE. Ariz (NEA> -
"Maybe it's time to repeal the en-
abling act and return to territorial
status.' says Mark Acuif. editor of the
Pinal Pioneer, a feisty weekly news-
paper published here "No state has
ever done that, but Artiona has prov-
en itself incapable of self-
governance'
The statute to which Acuff refers is
the 1912 law that transformed Anzo-
na from a territory into the last of the
48 contiguous states to join the union
His attitude reflects not merely a
journalist's skepticism but what
Acuff character!res as "the funda-
mental anarchist outlook of so many
Arizonans *
Indeed, anarchy might be prefera-
ble to the governance Arizonans have
received in recent years. Residents of
other states cynical about their politi-
cians performance might want to
consider this abysmal record:
• Both of Arizona's U S. senators.
Democrat Dennis DeConcini and Re-
publican John McCain, are being in-
vestigated by the Senate Ethics Com-
mittee to determine whether they
sought to improperly influence feder-
al regulators on behalf of a savings
and loan association executive who
Tarheels can vote courage
By Joseph Spear
If I lived in North Carolina, I'd vote
against Jesse Helms this November.
There are a number of reasons why
my mind is closed on this matter.
Helms is hardheaded, intolerant,
small-minded, bigoted, jingoistic.
Joe
Spear
hidebound, petty, dogmatic, doctri-
.....ee. He h
naire and primitive. He has always
liked to push the hot-buttons — from
and school desegration
ftj
als for dispensing my money. But I
' with Gantt’s seeming
in the early 1970s to homosexuality
and federal
support for artists in
IMt. And he refers to his Democratic
opponent as ‘what's his name.*
That one really gets me. 1 don’t
know a lot about Harvey Gantt, but I
suspect
Helms
he’s worth a dosdh of Jesse
Gantt pew up in Charleston. S C .
and was the first Mack to be admitted
to So dh Carolina's Clemsco Universi-
ty iTi 1963 He majored in architec-
ture. moved a hundred miles north-
east to Charlotte, and eventually got
elected to the city council. In 1963, he
ran for mayor of the predominantly
white. Republican city and won. He
won again in 1985, but was defeated
two years later by a Republican
woman.
ttioo to avoid racial politics.
His comportment suggests that be has
suffered his share of discrimination
but has risen above it; that he intends
to be judged on the person be is, re-
gardless of color, and that be does not
plan to use race as an explanation for
winning or an excuse for losing.
There has always been racism,*
he says. The question is how we who
aspire to leadership address that
problem * He wants to ‘deal with it
straight up* and ‘look forward,’ he
says. He believes that everyone, black
and white, ‘better damn well start
figuring out a way to live together to
address the Mg issues that affect us.
Otherwise, we’re going to become n
Those who do know Gantt say he is
articulate, urbane and visionary. He
is an unabashed liberal who favors
abortion rights and takes an activist
stance on such issues as the environ-
ment. education and health care.
1 SRi in unapasneo rniucu^-oi'tu4?~
reader. and I do not instinctively sali-
vate when politicians offer up propos-
Otherwise, we’re going to become a
second-rate nation.’
I like that There is no Mack agen-
da, no white agenda. There is only a
people agenda, and you pursue it reso-
lutely. despite the attempts of others
to demagogue the race issue.
A number of other Mack politicians
seem to share this healthy attitude
Most prominent is Virginia’s remark-
able governor, Douglas Wilder, who
polled 42 percent of the white vote
last November by championing what
Robert
Walters
forced her chief of staff to abruptly
resign, then led to her embarrassing
reversal of the commutation order
About a month later, she declared
that she would not seek election this
year
eluding an ill-advised decision to com-
mute the sentences of life imprison-
ment for a pair of murderers
One beneficiary of Mofford's com-
passion was to be a man who had
pounded his lover's former husband to
death with a sledgehammer, cut the
body into sections and packed the
pieces into ice chests
Mofford acted without knowing
• Mofford became governor after
Gov. Evan Mecham. a Republican
elected in the autumn of 1986. was im-
peached by the legislature in the
spring of 1988 — the first time such
drastic action was taken against the
chief executive of any state in almost
60 years.
those grisly details. Instead, she read
a sanitized summary that described
the killer s offense as *a crime of pas-
sion* stemming from *a marital
conflict.'
The furor resulting from the gover-
nor's inept handling of the matter
Mecham was ousted from office for
misusing state money — lending
$80,000 in public funds to his automo-
bile dealership - and for obstructing
an official investigation into the con-
duct of an aide accused of threatening
a state employee. That employee had
testified before a grand jury about
Mecham's alleged concealment of a
campaign loan
Nevertheless.
Nevertheless, the right-wing Me-
ehans still enjoys the support of a fa-
natically dedicated group of ‘Evarusr
tas," many of them fundamentalist
Christians and conservative
Mormons.
They have gained control of the
state s Republican Party and placed
it on record as declaring the United
States to be *a Christian nation ;!
based upon the absolute laws of the
Bible*
Former Sen. Barry M. GoMwater.
R-Ariz , the patriarch of contempo-
rary conservatism, characterizes
them as ‘a bunch of kooks.’ Colum-
nist George Will, who possesses equal-
ly impeccable conservative creden-
tials, describes them as *a crazed
minority.*
With the backing of those zealots
and a record of one win and 10 losses
in his previous bids for public office,
Mecham is waging another campaign.
This year, he intends to be again elect-
ed Arizona's governor.
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was a generous campaign
contributor.
The relationship between three oth-
er senators — one apiece from Cali-
fornia. Ohio and Michigan — and
high-rolling Arizona businessman
Charles H. Keating Jr also is being
probed. But never before in modern
times have both senators from one
state been the object of simultaneous
ethics investigations.
• Arizona's current governor.' Dem-
ocrat Rose Mofford. was actually
elected to be secretary of state. She is
the second holder of that largely cere-
monial position to be suddenly elevat-
ed to fill a mid-term gubernatorial
vacancy in recent years.
In most other states, the lieutenant
governor would assume the leader-
ship role — but Arizona's constitution
provides for no such office, and the
embarrassing experiences have not
inspired many people to consider
changing the current arrangement.
• The cheerful but ineffectual Mof-
ford considered running for a full
term in the election to be held this No-
vember — until she sustained a series
of medical and political setbacks, in-
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‘Pleas* don’t tell me I’m supposed to worry more about tbs Japanese now than the
Russians. I Just bought all these Japanese goods tor my bomb shelter.”
The public forum
•tnuir T
Changes needed
he calls ‘mainstream values.* In
Georgia, former Atlanta mayor and
civil rights acUvist /tody Young has
been running a cautious, non-racial
campaign for governor and is thought
to have a good shot at winning. New
York City Mayor David Dinkins has
attempted to administer his diverse
domain with impartiality, as has Bal-
timore's bright young mayor. Kurt
Schmoke.
Contrast their progressive atti-
tudes with those of Jesse Jackson,
who has made a career of playing
black against white and whose dichro-
matic rainbow now seems to be Mind-
ing him to a promising new dawn. Or
of Washington, DC., Mayor Marion
Barry, who was filmed puffing on a
crack pipe and now claims his prose-
cutors are motivated by racial preju-
dice. Or Nation of Islam leader Lotos
Farrakhao, who says that Macks have
been victimized by white justice for
centuries and the Barry trial is but
the latest example. ‘All white Ameri-
ca could be asked to die to even the
score.* he has reportedly said.
It takes courage to resist this kind
of race-baiting bilge. That’s why new-
fashioned Mack leaders like Harvey
Gantt, Douglas Wilder, Andy Young,
David Dinkins, Kurt Schmoke and nu-
merous others at state and local lev-
els throughout the country are noth-
ing less than heroic.
And that’s another reason why, if I
lived in North Carolina. I would vote
against Jesse Helms. As if I needed
another one
© KM NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN
Editor, The News-Telegram
1*30, there
Monday. July* 30, there was an
Opinion by Paul S. Hewitt, director
of research for the National Tax-
payers Union Foundation. In his
opinion, he stated that the way to
balance the budget was to cut So-
cial Security. He seems to be under
the impression that Social Security
is a welfare program. It is true that
there have been some aspects of
lis, such as the
welfare added to this,
SSI program, but the main part of
Social Security is not a welfare
paid in, but because it has been
used for everything else.
I believe Social Security should
be restored to a trust fond and also
that it should be phased out This
could not be done all at once, as
many people have paid into it and
depend on it, but if wage earners
and self-employed were given a
tne present set up or nave a re-
quirement of setting up their own
savings plans, without having
sticky fingers from government
have access to them, there would
be dam few participants in Social
.*<
what we do, rather what we believe
and advocate that makes us what
we are.
Arc nine old people forcing
ear child
money was taken from us
without our consent If I had had a
Security and the money people
saved for their old age would be
choice, I would have opted out of
security, but since 1 had no choice.
I most certainly am going to drew
what I am entitled to.
The entire Social Security and
Medicare programs are bad in
many ways, but at the time Social
Security was set up, it was to be a
trust fund and was to be used only
to pay retirement benefits to the
much safer.
RuthMacy
Sulphur Springs
No middle of road
Editor, The Ncws-TWegram:
How strange that some question
; of others while their
people who had paid into it At
- I beli
some point, and 1 believe it was
under the influence of Lyndon
Baines Johnson, the Social Security
ceased to be an inviolable trust
fund, which was the assurance that
had been given to the people
paying into this fund, and was in-
stead taken over and mixed with
other government funds. This is
why there is a shortage, not be-
cause there has not been enough
the motives of others
own is suspect It is said President
Bush expects a victory in the Roe
vs. Wade issue by appointing David
Sou ter to the Supreme Court
Would these same viewholdcrs ar-
gue that the president was stacking
the i
court against Pro-Lifers if he
appointed another ‘William Bren-
nan’ to the court?
Some say. “no, I am not a pro-
abortionist” and then argue vehe-
mently for abortion rights. It is not
young women to bear children they
don’t want? No — they are not forr
ced to get pregnant. That was their
choice and if young women take,
the risk, they, not the courts, must
assume the responsibility for it.
The cry about physical and emo-
tional abuse is beside the point.
Neither God’s nor man’s laws al-
low a wrong to be committed so
that suffering can be alleviated. If
they did then a society could ex-
ecute all liquor distillers and bar-,
tenders bccaucc indirectly they con-,
tribute to physical and emotional
suffering caused by drunk driving. ”<
The point is — God recognizes t
human tping at conception. Even,
though that being can’t speak for or
protect itself, it retains the same
rights as die puralyzed, deaf, dumb
and Mind |icrson in a wheel chair.
This nation cannot long endure
in the present humanistic
philosophy which absolves those
responsible while it deprives the
innocent Let us put the blame
where it belongs and that is oil
cither male or female, young or old
sponsible for
who refuse to be responsib
their acts and a society that allows
it to be that way.
R.E. Phillips
Brashear
A hole other course for the PGA
By Lewfc Grizxard
1 am a member of Ansiey Golf Club
(founded in 1912). located a mere
wedge shot from downtown Atlanta.
It is a nine hole course What you
do is keep your eyes closed during
your first nine botes of play, so that
when you go around again for your
back nine you won’t notice you’re
playing the same nine holes again.
Ansiey has no Mark members. But I
checked with the powers- that-be and
they assured me we have no discrimi
natory policies whatsoever
Women have joined Ansiey Blacks
may join Ansiey. A goat may join
Ansiey
All you need to do to join is come
up with a check for a few K, and
you're in. I'm being serious here
This is I‘WO To discriminate is
It is also cruel
Lewis
Grizzord
to a few other
in August.
No doubt you have heard that the
PGA is scheduled at Shoal Creek in
Birmingham, but that Man is buried in
a bunker.
Shoal Creek doesn’t have any Mack
members and the founder of the club
said admitting blacks to all white
chibs. “Just isn’t done in Binning
ham.* and he has been portrayed ever
since as the Bull Connor of golf.
Sponsors are retreating from tour-
nament television plans, picket signs
are being drawn and the Rev. A1
Sharpton and Jesse Jackson and
maybe even Nelson Mandela will get
into ail this soon.
So the easy answer here is to move
the tournament somewhere else, and
why not to Ansiey Golf Club, where
we even have a member who is a
thespian
1 will run over the course so the
pros will have an idea of what to
expect. (We even have names for our
holes at Ansiey like they do in
Scotland.)
1. State Farm It takes its name
from the fact if you hit your ball to the
far right, it will not only be out of
bounds, but it might also strike a car,
traveling on Montgomery Ferry
Avenue and the golfer is liable for any
2 AIDS: You can hit your ball into a
beautify clear creek on #2, which
has been declared a health hazard by
the city. They even put up signs.
3. Wino Near the tee is a railroad
overpass. Winos sleep there and steal
beer that is put out on the course for
6. Greg Norman: If you hityour ball
to the right side of the fairway, it can
hit the can path and roU all the way to
the hole, 400 yards away.
7 Damn It All to Hell: What you say
when your ball goes into Damn It All
to Hell Pond
8. Halter Top: 1 can’t go Into It here.
Just trust me.
9. Pool Hole: Hit it too far left and
you’re in the club pool or in some-
body’s Pina Colada.
Welcome to Ansiey, Greg, Payne,
Tom, Jack, etc. Non-disc riminatory
urban golf at its very best.
© UWOby Comtes Syndicate. Im
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