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Jack Anderson It , !
Farewell to arms funds
Capitol need
On May 16/1988, our state capitol of Texas will
celebrate its 100th anniversary. Without question, this
magnificent building, one of the 10 most beautiful con-
strueted during the 19th century , is one of the most .im-
pressive historical landmarks, not only in Texas, but the
■ United States.
WASHINGTON -/■ For those wjjo are sick
and tired of the jlran/Contra ■ arms-scandal.
here’s fair warning: That fiasco should soon
be dwarfed by'the CIA’s incredible misman-
agement .of' the' hundreds of millions of
dollars Congress .has appropriated for
Afghanistan's freedom fighters since the
SoyfeUftvasjpn seven years ago.
Our own investigation reveals that the
Afghan mujaheddin are lucky if they receiv-
ed even 40 percent of the covert funds ihtend-
ed for them. Counting matehing money from
bidden by their superior^te-ask the mujahed-
din about arms deliveries. The only existing
direct contact between the.CJA.and the mu-
jaheddin fightersin -Pakistan is through
former Army personnel hired by the CIA to
train the Afghans in the use-of American
Stinger anti-aircraft missiles. ' *■
However, TOO years have dealt a great deal of wear
awi-strain to this magnificent structure.
Over the past severaT years plans have been under
way for the restoration of our Capitol 'and its surroun-
ding grounds. Milch has been accomplished,
: Much remains to be accomplished to complete Phase I
of the Capitol restoration prior to the 100th celebration of
its completion. Plans are ready for work in the rotunda,
north and.spilth entrances, grounds and other areasi“/“^
Previously, much of the. restoration cost has been
......dome by many generous, but sizeable, gifts.from in-
dividuals, corporations and foundations. To Complete
Phase I it is the desire of the Capitol Committee to enlist
the support of Texans from all walks of life who have
had a personal opportunity j.o shareMn this historic
restoration by means of the “A Walk in History” pro-
jeet •
The Croat Walk, the promenade leading from the
main entrance of .the Capitol toward Congress Avenue,
and the Oval Walk completely surrounding the building,
contain 5,000 individual concrete diamond components.
Weather -arid continued efse, have deteriorated the
walkways. ~
Texans from across the state ore being asked to par-
ticipate with a $300 gift to the Capitol for the purpose of <
- not only restructurMig the magnificent approaches~ttr
The ‘Afghan freedom
fighters are lucky to
receive even 40 percent of
the covert funds intended
for them.
Saudi' Arabia, we .estimate that the CIA has
spent a total of $3 billioh.for.arms aid to the
anti-Soviet guerrillas
But at least SI.2 billion .of that has been
stolen — skimmed off, by rapacious arms
dealers, crooked CIA agents ancUorrupt of- ** - VT" ' ' .....**'■'
ficials along the. weapons trail in EgybO^1^”--—----
Pakistan and the People’s Republic of China. Our investigation has revealed that the
In secret testimony qmfapitol HilgtheCIA CIA’s Afghan arms supply line is riddled
has claimed that 80 percept of the'arms pur- with graft-and waste from start to finish, op a.
chased reached the Afghan repels J
lie.-'The.,fact is that the CIA has no way of
knowing what was actually delivered
because they have no one on the scene on-
Peshawar to check the receipts against what
was purchased in Langley -
It’s not that sqch information is
unavailable. Our associate .Stewart Harris
obtained manifests of weapons received by
at least two of the seven main mujaheddip
’groups ' ■
'The CIA does nbT have' the manifests
because—they don’t want them." one’
disgusted source said. “That’s why the CIA
has no idea of-how muclys getting through
They have only half the information: what
they bought.’!
This is preposterous, and the CIA knows it
After we heard- of the: monumental
mismanagement from CIA sources, and
others! Dale Van Atta flew to Pakistan to in-
vestigate. (He drove to Peshawar, once a
sleepy British colonial outpost on the. nor-
thwest,frontier, now a.sprawhngTTtyteerm^
ing with Afghan refugees. It'is the head,
quarters of all the mujaheddin organizations
and where virtually all the.CIA’s weapons '
-are supposed to be delivered to the guerrilla
recipients. ■
But Van Atta made an astounding
discovery. There is no CIA official. in
Peshawar to check what the ^freedom'
fighters actually receive. And from inter-
views with mujaheddin sources, it became
clear that less, than half the weapons bought
by the CIA ever make it as far as Peshawar:
Pakistani officials insisted that they would
"scale not seen since the agency’s covert pro- ' more •
grams in Vielaam.-:Fhe'OT]5oITunfrv*'-for cor- ■ typically only one member of
Vuption is enormous.. and the evidence of. a"nu,pfi tn ,n p™frp fhaf 1
abuseincludes reports of kickbacks made to
CIA agents by Pakistanis who have shared in
the boodle themselves,
The Afghan arms scandal has been years
in the "making. Vet the Reagan administra-
tion has made no effort to track the supply
line back from.-Peshawar to the CIA
paymaster in Langley,. Va’'
“'Mow! at long last/Rep. WilliamllrayrD--
Pa., chairman of theBudget Committee,^tas
asked the General Accounting Office to
follow t|re CIA's money trail. Gray’s action
was prompted by a shoestrihg lobby'ing’out-'
fit,'the Federation for American Afghan Ac-
tion, headedby Andrew Eiva., - y
Kiva and the FAA'iO^ve cloSe~contacts
JEWISH HOSTAGES: Even as his influence
in the Middle East grows by the* day, Syrian
President Hafez Assad seems, to be more
worried than ever about the tiny Jewish
population in his country. Syrian Jews find it
visas, and
a family is-
allowed to leave, to ensure that he or she will
return. Jews who try to leave illegally ape
now being given stiffer sentences: one year
instead of the usual six months. For all his
enhanced regional and international
prestige, Assad still feels the'fieed to hold the
Jewish community hostage against an attack
by Israel. . ’ . - ... .
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THE “SLUMMING” tendencies of the insen-
sitive-rich don’t seem to ISrve ehzjaged much
sinqe Larry Hart, spoofed^ the privileged
snobs who went “to Harlem in ermine and
pearls” during the Great Depression. The
big difference seems to be that nowadays a
slumming expedition'to an inner-city ghetto
might-fee a little ioo. exciting even for the
most ennui-enervated. So the plight of sucie
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our Capitol entrances-, but also to help fund the remain-
ing projects.'
dllow closer, CIA contact with the'mujahecj-
din*particulariy-to check on the arms supply
line. But they said the CIA has r^veritaken
with tfie mujaheddin—groups—and—they ty’s losers is being made available* to
•estirnateonF, 30 percent of the money Con- sheltered Suburbanites in the cute, cuddfy
gress appropriated for arms from fiscal 1980 f0r'm 0f a “bag lady” doll.- For S40 to $5,00.
through 1984 reached the freedom fighters in spoiled scipns.of the nouveau riche can have
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their very: own downtrodden plaything to
the fiaim; of each individual, family, business
organization contributor who donates funds.
Contributors, will be invited to participate in the 'From Sun files
Capitol Centennial Celebration on May''Tb,'19p. T(J'par
deductible eonlrtbtt
Intact; our sources said that Cl A -officials
in Islamabad, the Pakistani capital, are for
of the arms bought and. paid for were,
delivered to the mujaheddin is a bare-faced
Dale Van Atta assisted United Feature columnist Jack
Anderson in writing today's story.
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.Wednesday. April 29, 1987 As
, in.y; 11 year old daughter came
inlo the kitchen in her usual
- .1 ;-tood . rcminiscinn of mv
here, 1967
years• at Lee-. (1 graduated in'
19(10). One scene .from an old
yearbook kept flashing before,
■me that of a photograph taken
j min
. Frbm the Baytown Sun files,
this is the way it was: .' a
55 YEARS AGO'
h,.-,.- ■toother,.' I ,y,w
-T;d oil i|,e i,'elio Hi Ilie ie}>u|;11 ni;i|e..tie old sehool covered with /s 01 ' ,iy /’ Mue‘‘rl ll
newsst.al-ion. we ijeanf .rtjiiflCTTn " ;t Iilanket ol rare snow. That ’ „Smith Elementary
that Robe,, K- Lee High School 'scene swuned'somut of ptaoe^h“!' Hunnermp is Jimmie
h*u;e irrMifryloWti >was ailarhe -now with lire equipment, hoses!
Needle,-s lo say that announce Bremen, police, news reporters
Tin nt ( aught all of our ;iH< ritiqn and earner qs covering the front
Amanda is srheduled lo enter lawn inst&ad of the Peac^'
snow,
■■■■As the- roof on the far west
w ing collapsed, flames shot even
higher and brighter Then -the
death black .canopy ol smoke
-obscured all vision for a mo-
ment. There! As the ball of
.smoke rolled upward,, a .gaggle
nl geese In perfect V-Tormatipn „• VV A. Thomas serves, as presi
llew Irom the area tat Goose dent organization to create the
(’reek across the skeletal ol the* Employees Federation at Hum-
remains and soared unwaver- ble’s Baytown Refinery,Hesays
iiigly io the north across the 2,516 employees favored the pro-
cemetery A prophetic symbol!. posed organization .while 79
A sign (to me'at least) that even /voted against it in a recent elec-
at this,moment,of destruction, /lion
KEL nexf lall as a IreSiiman
titrange we had only last night
■discussed the .impact ol a
TiBIFTrSpIii' .11 Iloraco Mam/
would have on the remainder ol
the sehoijf yenr She asked'twhat*
would happen d a Irani with'
hazardous/loxlc cargo derailed
Irom ttie I racks ruiming beside'
till- sehool 11
1 brushed my leetb/j'alheyed
iiiy^ niortiiii'g papier and hriei
* ease and •startl'd, to work
However, as I readied a Hear in
leiseelio'n I saw" the''linjliT,g
black smoke in the sky I!
David Arnett, senior at Robert
E. Lee High School, suffers in-
juries in an explosion while he
was doing an experiment iw^he.
school chemistry lab.
With one exception, teachers
accept the reduced salaries that
were' approved by school
trustees in an effort to cut next
year’s budget.
50 YEARS AGO
Today in history
\
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
'Today is Tuesday, May 5f the
125th day of 1987. There are
chists Nicola Sacco and' Bar-
tolomeo Vanzetti were arrested
Trison ,on his 66th day without
food.
Mel
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Fro
covered Hie entire southern
horizon liisfead of making my*
noi mal turn Id work I drove to
Ifohert E. Lee (and the mascot,
I'he FightingGanders) would re-
main, not only in out* minds and
spirits- hut the school would he
niy..churdl p)i| knigJoLAilljdC(;i1.l rebuilt perhaps bigger and hot
to flic Lee practice Held
Edging closer, tiy flames rip-
ping skyward .and1 the intense
black smoke boiling out* ol llu
‘ hallowed Tails, I
front wall ol the building was in
tact hut llie root was completely
gone Windows were blown out
by the heat Haines danced
crazily from the fallen rqol
•• timbers and highliglifeit a
classroom blackboard i if was
not yd good daylight ■. As I stood
across the^stred from the ipain
entrance ol the school, I fell’ sad-
dened at such a loss. The
memories of the thousands of
Students which the 57 year-old
pink structure field were in the
smoke blowing away to the
southeast.
40 YEARS AGO
Corporation Court Judge* E.K.^
Hunter says a total of $1,078 fn
fines was collected last month.
About 80 percent of the revenue
ter than before!
A closing thought, as I drove to
work:
Wouldn't it he magnificent to
days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On May 5,1961, astfonaut Alan
B. Shepard Jr. became
America’s first space traveler
when he - made -a—to-minutc
a \shoe factory paymaster and
guard in South Braintree, Mass.
In 1925, John T. Scopes was ar-
rested in Tennessee for teaching
Darwin’s theory of evolution.
In 1942, sugar rationing began
nationalists were found guilty in
the hijacking of a Trans World
Airlines jet in September 1976.
Five years ago: As Britain
said it wasrexploring new ideas
for ending ftae Falkland Rtanric
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Sou
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Robert E, Loe'.GWhal- if every ex-
student (or atjeast every one we
could contact ) in Lee's proud 57-
year-old history gave $5, $10, $20
or as much as they fell moved to
do, toward the resurrection of
our dearly loved old school! It
may not cover all the cost, but
we could have an impact!’
We could really help. If we
could just get it off the drawing
board of the mind and into ac-
tion. That’s something w6 all
could be proud of!
Jerry T. Moore
510 Riverbend
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..... .....Editor and Publisher
. * . Assistant to.Publisher
. Editor ond Publisher, 1950 1974
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
. Wanda Orton
ftomona Merrill
. . Managing Editor
Associate Managing Editor
CIRCULATION
K a t h r y n e 11 e Mo rr is- o i -p|a
llighlapds.wins the Mary Gibbs ()n thisdate
Jones music scholarship at
Texas State College for Women
at Denton.
30 YEApS AGO
C.M-. “Jacku:_Gartman and
Clifton Adams are elected to the
school board:
- Ganders capture the/ state
championships in tennis, Paul
Como wins the singles cham-
pionship while the doubles title is
won by Doug Bashrum and Stan
Ament.
20 YEARS AGO
J.P. Thorn assumes the posi-
tion of manager of the Baytown
Research and Development.
Division of Esso Researched
Engineering Co., replacing To
Farmer, who has becom
manager of strategy and
business- planning tfui/.-Esso
Chemical Co. in New York City.
U.S. Air Force.Capt. John S.
Kubin of Crosby receives the Air
Medaj at Ramsteln Air Force
Base in Germany
“In 1980, a siege at the Iranian
embassy in London ended as
In 1818, the political British commandos “arid police
philosopher Karl Marx was born officers stormed the building.
war, Argentine forces disabled
the British (destroyer Sheffield
and jipwmi a Sea Harrier,
figfiler-bomber.
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in Prussia.
In 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte
died in exile on the island of St.
Helena. • — ,
In 1847, doctors -met in
Philadelphia to form "the
AmericanMedical Association.
In 1920, Italian-born anar-
Three of the gunmen holding 19
hostages were killed. The
One’year ago: Leaders of the
seven major industrialized
democracies, meeting in Tokyo,
adopted a joint statement con-
assault was ordered after the demning terrorism. It singled
gunmen had killed two of their 0ut Libya as a source of state-
captiyes. ^ sponsored terrorism, but stop-
In 1981. Irish Republican Ar- ped short of endorsing military
my hunger-striker Bobby Sands action or economic sanctions ad-
died in Northern Ireland’s Maze vocated by the United States.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 158, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 5, 1987, newspaper, May 5, 1987; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1053026/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.