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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Thursday, July 27, 1989
Jack Anderson
Masquerade as students
SUN
EDITORIAL
Chemical warfare
accord significant
If improving relations between the United States and
Soviet Union should fail to produce other mutually
beneficial results, their agreement to ratify a treaty
banning chemical weapons would doubtless endure as
one of the most significant events of the two nations’ re-
cent moves toward more peaceful accomodation. a. movements oi students who eome from states, you basically have iteedom ol m
u Su* a treaty, if not eventually abrogated by either or countries with an ax to grind. Instead, the ment,”hesaid.“That’sourphUosophy" ,uiv Midi, S
both sides, can be expected to make substantial con- trusting Americans use what amounts to an Any hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy should couraged by the~ occupying Syrian army
tribution to the humaneness Of any future conventional honor system. The Immigration Service’s of- include the notation that entering into the which wants to prevent the factions from
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WASHINGTON — The easiest way for a
terrorist to enter the United States is the
legal way, by enrolling at any college or
university in the country and getting a stu-
dent visa. By the time the. Immigration and
Naturalization Service figures out the “stu-
dent” has no intention of going to class, it
could be too late.
Last year, more than 300,000 foreign
students entered the United States. About
1,100 of them were students from Iran who
curiously came to study at the feet of the
“Great Satan.” Not all Iranians are ter-
rorists. Not all foreign students are suspect.
But the U.S. government, at the very least,
should have an adequate system for tracking
the movements of students who come from
Libya,” our source said, “We tried to iden- At major ports of entry, INS agents have i
tify all Libyan students in the United States, computers through which they can check the 5
The system was so corrupted we couldn’t use license plates of every car. That system
it ” relies on terrorists and criminals to drive s
Duke Austin, a spokesman for the INS, told their own cars. At the more remote border
our associate Daryl Gibson that with about crossings, INS agents, supplied with profiles
half a million foreign students in the country of typical undesirables, work largely on gut
at any one time, “we cannot continually call instinct. They ask questions and look for
the university and ask them if the student is suspicious people,
still there.”
Tracking a total of 24 million aliens, in-
cluding students and others, is “literally im-
possible,” Austin said. But what about track-
ing people from selected countries? Austin
claims the INS would land in court for
discrimination. “Once you enter the United
States, you basically have freedom of move-
The agents are skilled, but the INS is
understaffed, underbudgeted and overwork-
ed.
BEIRUT, LEBANON, was once a peaceful
place where Christians and Moslems lived in
harmony. Now rival militias routinely seize
victims, hold them incommunicado and tor-
ture them savagely. The violence is en-
wars, that might break out between the U.S. and Soviet
Union or Other adversaries.
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United States to enjoy that freedom of move- uniting. The French have taken the lead in
ment is a piece of cake, even without a visa, trying to stop the carnage. French) Foreign
Visitors from most countries need a visa and Minister Roland Dumas petitioned Secretary
a passport to enter the United States. But the of State James Baker to put Lebanon on the
United States recently put two countries, list of subjects Baker covered on his recent
England and Japan, on a visa-waiver trip to Moscow. The Soviets agreed to use
system. Anyone pdsing as a tourist or their influence lyith Syria to try to stop the
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Middle hiast struggle between Iran and Iraq. There was The cards were a paperwork nightmare, business traveler from those two countries killing. The next step ma;
indisputable evidence that one or both sides used They stacked up in storage rooms, not even Simply needs a passport. Travelers crossing United Nations to intervene,
chemical weapons in the war’s latter stages alphabetized.^ highly placed source in the the border from Canada don’t even need
° ‘ INS told us that at one point the agency used that.
The treaty being discussed by the two great powers is women prisoners to enter the data into com- An international airport on the West Coast, A BROWN UNIVERSITY limited survey of
most significant because the Soviet Union and the U.S. Puters They had a 98 percent error rate. during hub time, could easily have 800 doctors shows that most of them would lie to
have by far the largest arsenals Of chemical weapons. ‘‘TheseSalswerein prison not because they visitors an hour streaming past immigration get an insurance company to cover a bill, lie
That means their use bv either or both sirlps wmilrl hP Wrre,S™,ar ’ ?a, ur source. agents for a once-over. It’s up to the agent to to hide their own treatment errors and lie to
more w^SDreadand moredpa dl vr f ? I983’ fH°m the lran h°st"ge; Pick out the JaPanese Red Army terrorist help a husband explain a venereal disease to
more Widespread and more deadly. taking, the INS ordered every university that from the innocent business traveler. Last his wife. The survey didn’t mention the big-
First steps toward eventual ratification of the propos- accep,ts for“gn students to submit quarterly year, one Red Army terrorist was caught gest lie of all, the one told in the crowded
f Winfir n™ _ j.-—p reportsonthe whereabouts of those students, with a carload of exolosives driving down the umiHmj rnnm _ “Tho Hnntnr win ho ridht
United Feature Syndicate
Today in history
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andPr°' th“' “““ « “ Entering from Canada is a lead-pipecinch.
Recommendations by the two governments are to be
submitted to the ongoing Conference on Disarmement in
Geneva. Under the accord, some chemical weapons pro-
duction equipment would be destroyed’annually, but
each country could keep some weapons to protect itself
until the end of the 10-year transition period.
From Sun files
News all wet with storm
- headlines in 1959, 1979
From The Baytown Sun files,
this is the way it was:
55 YEARS AGO
Election judges for the
Democratic primary election in
this area will be E.J. Sjolander
at Box 103, Cedar Bayou School;
Josh Wells, Box 102, Baytown
Mexican Recreation House;
Leonard Jones, Box 101, Pelly
City Hall; D.C. McGary, Box
100, Wilkenfeld Furniture Store.
Also, N.D. Stiles, Box 99, Stiles
Garage; A.R. Scott, Box 98, Huf-
’ fman School; Arthur Wilson,
Box 97, Crosby Cash Store;
Charles Tomlinson, Box 96,
Highlands School.
50 YEARS AGO
Thelma Scott is the toast of
Baytown after her great pitching
for the Boosterettes in the
Houston Post girls softball tour-
nament. The Boosterettes beat
the state champion Seale Ser-
vice Station team 4-0.
40 YEARS AGO
Bert Shoopman wins an ap-
pointment to the U.S. Naval
Academy.
Alma Morgan and Janie Hig-
ginbotham share top honors in a
women’s golf tournament here.
30 YEARS AGO
W.E. Meredith, caretaker at
Roseland Park, is forced to
leave his home on the park pro-
perty during Hruricane Debra
which caused severe flooding.
West League All Stars in Little
League defeat South league All
Stars with the help of Frank
Terry, Hank Johnson, Larry
Sanders, Rex Kulbeth' and
Gerald Linder.
20 YEARS AGO
Monsignor Joseph P.
O’Sullivan, pastor of St. Joseph
Catholic Church, flies to Ireland
to visit relatives.
Baytown City Council con-
cludes its series of town hall
meetings with minority groups
concerning problems such as
traffic control mosquito spray-
ing, recreation, fire protection,
sewer and drainage problems,
tall weeds and the need for com-
munity participation.
Around Town: Duke Jones
watches his friend Larry
Dierker pitch at the Astrodome
. . . Shirley Englemann and
Elaine McDonald tell interesting
stories about their trip to Europe
this summer .. . Barbara Mix-
on; Cynthia Moore, Sheilah Liles
and Kay Hayes attend a lun-
cheon in Houston.
10 YEARS AGO
Tropical Storm Claudette is
being compared with Hurricane
Carla in a survey of extensive
flood damages. The storm that
actually never came here but
stirred up the system of
thunderstorms and high tides
will be blamed in years to come
by residents looking back on
these dark days in July 1979.
Some 350 Baytown homfes have
been flooded.
Vernon McGee, vocational
teacher at Sterling High School,
receives a plaque from the
military affairs committee of
the Houston Chamber of Com-
merce for being one of the five
outstanding Coast Guard reser-
vists in the Houston area.
News analysis
What about OAS meeting
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By GEORGE GEDDA
WASHINGTON (AP) - When
Organization of American States
foreign ministers were scouting
around last month for a date to
meet in Washington, they settled
on July 19, partly because
Secretary of State James A.
Baker III would be in town.
But when the delegates con-
vened here Wednesday to talk
about the Panama situation,
Baker was occupied by other
matters and stayed away.
Other foreign ministers from
the hemisphere had traveled up
to 6,000 miles to attend the
meeting, but Baker didn’t make
the five-block trip over to OAS
headquarters from the State
Department.
The story was much the same
in June. Ministers from around
the hemisphere turned up in
Washington for a meeting on
Panama, but Baker had other
issues on his agenda and sent
subordinates over to the OAS.
This does not go Unnoticed by
other governments, which have
the clear impression Baker is
much more oriented toward
Europe and Asia than he is
toward Latin America. „
Indeed, just two"weeks before"
Baker was a no-show at OAS
headquarters on Wednesday, he
had traveled halfway around the
world to attend a meeting of the
six-member Association of
Southeast Asian Nations in
Brunei. The OAS has 31
members.
Shortly after taking office in
January, he took off on a visit to
each of the European members
of NATO and has been back to
Europe several times since then.
Baker’s aides acknowledge he
may be gravitating toward
Europe and Asia because the
economic and political changes
there are generally favorable to
the ynited States, especially in
contrast to Latin America,
where the outlook is far bleaker.
While the democratic trend in
Latin America is a source of en-
couragement to U.S. officials,
the economic situation in many
countries is disastrous and the
problem of coping with drug
flows from south of the border
seems insurmountable.
Beyond that, as this week’s
OAS meeting on Panama
demonstrated once again,
Americans and Latin Americans
just don’t see things the same
way.
A comparison between that
meeting and an OAS meeting on
Cuba 25 years ago this week of-
fers convincing evidence of just
how far U.S. influence in the
hemisphere has declined over
the past generation.
Prodded by the Johnson ad-
ministration a quarter-century
ago, the OAS imposed man-
datory economic and diplomatic
sanctions against Cuba after
concluding that Cuba was
responsible for fomenting
subversion in Venezuela.
Those were tlje days when
anti-communist military dic-
tators dominated Latin
American political life; they
were only too willing to lend
strategic support to
Washington’s Cold War ven-
tures.
Nowadays, democracy is
ascendant in the hemisphere,
and the anti-communist consen-
sus has long since unraveled.
The Reagan administration
looked high and low for Latin
American support for the
Nicaraguan Contras but almost
always came up empty-handed.
The Bush administration is
somewhat isolated on what to do
about the situation in Panama.
Gen. Manuel Noriega is not a
popular figure in the hemisphere
but only Washington seems to
have any appetite for confron-
ting him.
EDITOR’S NOTE - George
Gedda has covered foreign af-
fairs for the Associated Press
since 1968.
By the ASSOCIATED PRESS
Today is Thursday, July 27,
the 208th day of 1989. There are
157 days left in the year.
Two hundred years ago, on Ju-
ly 27, 1789, Congress established
the Department of Foreign Af-
fairs, the forerunner of the
Department of State.
In 1861, Union General George
B. McClellan was placed in com-
mand of the Army of the
Potomac.
In 1866, Cyrus W. Field finally
succeeded after two failures in
laying the first underwater
telegraph cable between North
America and Europe.
In 1909, Orville Wright tested
the Army’s first airplane, flying
himself and a passenger for one
hour and 12 minutes.
In 1953, the Korean War ar-
mistice was signed at Panmun-
jom, ending three years of
fighting. It had taken 255
meetings over two years and 17
days to reach the agreement.
In 1960, Vice President
Richard M. Nixon was
nominated for President at the
Republican convention in
Chicago.
In 1974, the House Judiciary
Committee voted 27-11 to recom-
mend President Richard M. Nix-
on’s impeachment on a charge
that he had personally engaged
in conduct designed to obstruct
justice in the Watergate case.
In 1976, Air Force veteran Ray
Brennan became the first person
to die of so-called Legionnaire’s
Disease, following an outbreak
at a Philadelphia hotel where an
American Legion convention
had taken place.
In 1980, on day 267 of the Ira-
nian hostage crisis, the deposed
Shah of Iran died at a military
hospital outside Cairo, Egypt, at
the age of 60.
In 1982, Indian Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi began her first
visit to the United States in
almost 11 years, arriving at New
York’s John F. Kennedy Inter-
national Airport.
Ten years ago: President Jim-
my Carter chose former New
Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu
to be his secretary of housing
and urban development, and
Portland, Oregon, Mayor Neil
Goldschmidt to be his new
secretary of transportation.
Five years ago: Actor James
Mason died in Lausanne,
Switzerland, at the age of 75.
Today’s Birthdays: Former
baseball manager Leo Durocher
is 83. TV producer Norman Lear
is 67. Movie reviewer Vincent
Canby is 65. Sportscaster Irv
Cross is 50. Singer Bobbie Gen-
try is 45. Actress Betty Thomas
is 41. Skater Peggy Fleming is
41. Singer Maureen McGovern is
40.
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