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How Will It All End
In Central America?
Amid warnings of Special Ambassador Richard Stone
that four U.S.-backed Central American countries are
threatened by a “foreign axis” made up of the Soviet
Union and Cuba, the White House released recon-
naissance photographs officials said show Soviet ships
unloading military and other cargo at the Nicaraguan
port of Corinto.
President Reagan expressed grave concern about what
he described as “Soviet expansionism, particularly when
it comes into the Western Hemisphere.”
He revealed there have been several Soviet vessels,
unloading weapons in Nicaragua for use in the effort to
overthrow the “legally constituted” government of El
Salvador.
It has been suggested President Reagan is taking a
harder anti-Soviet line than other U.S. allies. In light of
stepped-up Communist activity in the Western
Hemisphere, is it any wonder the president follows a hard
line in dealing with the Kremlin?
Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, commenting
on the growing Communist threat in Central America, ap-
peared to rule out use of U.S. combat forces, but did in-
dicate limitation on technical advisors in countries sup-
ported by the U.S. is too stringent.
If the U.S. follows its long-standing philosophy of trying
to stop the spread of Communism before it reaches our
shores, it may become necessary to consider sending
troops to Central American countries. It may not be a
question of whether we like it or not, but one of ultimate
survival for the nation.
There is no question at this juncture that Cuba, 90 miles
off our shores, is a vital staging area for exporting Com-
munism to Central America. Although it did not seem so
at the time, the U.S. may have made a grave error when it
did not drive Communist forces from Cuba and restore
control of the government to the people during the 1962
missile crisis.
Such a move may eventually have to be made. If so, it
will be much more difficult to dislodge a foreign enemy
than it would have been 20-plus years ago when Soviet
leader Nikita Khrushchev gambled he could maintain and
supply a missile base in Cuba with the capability of
destroying U.S. cities.
Americans were so relieved when Khrushchev agreed
to remove the nuclear missiles, they probably would not
have stood for follow-up U.S. military action in Cuba.
Ambassador Stone delivered his “foreign axis” warn-
, ing in Guatemala City before visiting countries involved
in the Central American conflict, including Costa Rica, El
Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua. The four
countries supported by the U.S. are Costa Rica, Hon-
duras, El Salvador and Guatemala.
Although he did not name the foreign influence, his
remarks referred to Soviet and Cuban actions, in the
region through leftist-ruled Nicaragua. He said the
threatened nations “must defend themselves
diplomatically together.”
It is hoped Secretary Weinberger was not speaking public consciousness that Taman
after the fact when he said the U.S. has an interest in exceptionally witty, brilliant and
^ Jack Anderson
Anti-Sandinista Leaders
Raise Funds For Weapons
WASHINGTON - Washing-
ton’s sizable anti-Sandinista Nica-
raguan exile community has un-
dertaken a fund-Taising effort to
supply weapons to the Indian
rebels fighting the Managua
regime.
Led by the young Indian chief-
tain Steadman Fagoth, members
of the Miskito, Sumo and Rama
tribes are making sporadic at-
tacks on government forces and
the lucrative Atlantic coast gold
mays-at Shiuna, Bonanza and
Rosario. They call their organiza-
tion MISURA after the three
tribes involved. “
The reason Fagoth needs arms
is that his guerrillas have been
getting only the dregs of the
weaponry supplied to anti-
Sandinista forces by the United
States, Argentina Israel. And the
reason Fagoth is being shorted on
guns is that he is regarded by
other rebel groups as a separatist
— in other words, not a ’team
player.
Fagoth wants autonomy for the
barren, swampy coastland where
the three Indian tribes live, ac-
cording to leaders of the main
anti-Sandinista group, the
Nicaraguan Democratic Force
(FDNL By withholding weapons
from the Indians, the FDN hopes
to pressure Fagoth into joining
the anti-Sandinista team, with no
preconditions or special ter-
ritorial claims.
Fagoth’s friends in Washington
intend to see that he gets his arms
whether he agrees to the FDN’s
term’s or not.
CAR WARS REVISITED: Last
month, I reported on a feud be-
tween Federal Trade Commission
Chairman Janies Miller and Com-
missioner Michael Perschuk,
which reached its peak of pet-
tiness when Miller ordered Pert-
schuk’s car towed out of the com-
mission’s garage because it lack-
ed the proper sticker.
Miller, who had failed to return
my office’s call for comment, was
galvanized into action when the
story appeared in print. He
telephoned and said the item was
false: no feud, no order to tow the
car. He even claimed he hadn’t
received the earlier call from my
office. He added that Pertschuk
would contact me and back him
up.
Pertschuk did phone. But he
confirmed the story as printed.
KEEPING IN TOUCH: When
William Morris, an assistant
Commerce Department secre-
tary for trade development, quit
to become vice president of the P
& C Bituminous Coal Co. of Brent-
wood, Tenn., he didn’t want his
bureaucratic buddies to forget
him. So before he left he thought-
fully distributed his new business
card to his associates, along with
a' note on Commerce Department
stationery saying, “I look for-
ward to continuing our associa-
tion.”
A department spokesman said
Morris made two mailings: the
one on government stationery in-
side the agency, and another to
outsiders that Morris paid for
himself. The in-house mailing
was “totally appropriate,” the
spokesman said.
William A. Rusher
From The Baytown Sun files,
this Is the way It was 40 and 30 and
20 years ago:
JUNE 24,1943
E.S. Cathriner keeps hts record
for being the first taxpayer of the
school district. Tax Collector
Frank Braswell mails the first
1943 tax receipt to the former
Goose Creek auto dealer. "He has
applied for the right to be the first
taxpayer each year I have been
here,” Braswell says.
Seaman Cub Cuthbertson, son
of Blanche Cuthbertson of Pelly,
soon will graduate from a Naval
school at San Diego.
Pvt. Lester L. Plocheck, trainer
plane mechanic at an air base in
.Seymour, Ind„ visits relatives
here. He Is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Plocheck of Cedar
Bayou.
JUNE 24,1953
Humble Oil & Refining Co.
grants a 4 percent pay raise to
Baytown Refinery employees, an-
nounces James Harrop, plants
superintendent.
Mildred Brust is hired to teach
music at Lee College.
Cedar Bayou School Board em-
ploys three new teachers, Calvin
Lee Zabcick and Mr. and Mrs.
E.C. Boatright.
William Johnston of Crosby is
injured when a struck by a tree
limb when he operating a bull-
dozer near the San Jacinto dam
project.
Pat Bond takes office as first
preceptor of he state chapter of
DeMolay. Tommy Laughlin is
elected to the second highest of-
fice, imperial sir knighthood
squire commander.
JUNE 24,1963
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Henson
and son Stanley Jr,, 14, are
“taken prisoner” in Monticello,
N.Y. They are the willing victims
of that city’s prisoner-for-a-day
fete, the annual Route 17 Hospi-
tality day. They were appre-
hended on the highway from New
York City to Niagara Falls and
then taken on a tour of Monticello,
presented gifts and a key to the
city and honored at a dinner.
Richard 0. Kelm is named
superintendent of industrial rela-
tions at Gulf Oil Co.’s new plant
here.
George Wills Says His Kind
Of Conservatism 'High Tory'
Reader's
■ Views
NEW YORK (NEA) - “For 10
years,” Shaw once boasted, “I
have been dinning it into the
making sure Central America does not become “a nest of
Communist or Marxist-led organizations that make
defense of the continental U.S. more difficult.”
Although he declined to elaborate, Weinberger told
newsmen questioning him about Ambassador Stone’s
remarks the Soviet Union had sent combat aircraft to
Cuba thRt can carry nuclear weapons. He also said he did
not know whether a new increase in Soviet troop strength
in Cuba was temporary or permanent.
The U.S. has repeatedly charged Nicaragua with arm-
ing assisting rebels in El Salvador. Nicaragua has denied
the charges, accusing the U.S. of supporting rebels trying
to overthrow its leftist Sandinista regime.
The dispute was further complicated by expulsion of
three U.S. diplomats by Nicaragua and subsequent U.S.
action ordering 21 Nicaraguan consular officials to leave.
By f WONDER WKV A FELLERS TROUBLES
M , iSEEMTOBEALOrWORSEmNHlS
Ned NEIGHBOR AN' MIS NEIGHBOR^ KIDS'
SEEM TO BE TWICE QS BAD AS MIS J
clever man. That belief is now
part of the public opinion of
England, and nothing that I or
anyone else can do will ever
change it.”
In rather similar fashion,
George Will has spent the past 10
years/dinning it into the
American public consciousness
that he is a conservative jour-
nalist of rare and precious parts.
Will’s first Washington
beachhead was on the staff of Sen.
Gordon Allott, a Colorado
Republican. From that vantage
point, he managed to attract the
attention of that old fisher of men
Irving Kristol, who in turn per-
suaded Bill Buckley and Ben
Bradlee that it would be fun to
join hands In crating, ex nihilo, a
new, moderately conservative
journalistic personality on the
Washington scene, where conser-
vative journalists of any sort
were few and far between.
No sooner said than done.
Buckley provided the conser-
Photo Complaint
ToTheSun: ‘ '
We as LVN (licensed vocational
nurses) students are very disturb-
ed and upset with the photograph
of the two healthy young boys
jumping off a house into a swim-
ming pool. We believe this type of
photo display is in very bad taste
and is subjective for other
children.
on his next prospective" tgargeT high Tory: “The conservatism for - wl11? 3nd dlvTg ®cc,dent5,
with a sarcastic reference to “the which I argue is a ‘European’ con- °L sp„lnT.L?T
that if a new conservative - doing well by doing good. His
literary style is elegant and
urbane, if a bit obscure just
where it most needs to be
obscure. Recently, he has come
forth with a new book, “Statecraft
as Soulcraft,” in which he sets
forth his concept of “conser-
vatism, properly understood.”
His chosen persona is that of a
. ‘•'Mi*
presence on the scene was in-
evitable, they ought to be grateful
that it was one as tractable as
Will. • A
George made it easy for them,
terminating his National Review
editorship, when that became
seriously inconsistent with his
moderate image, and registering
lines in Reagan’s neck.” For that
sort of discriminating reportage,
it was arranged for Will to receive
a Pulitzer Prize, liberalism’s
journalistic equivalent of the
Order of the Bath. George had ar-
rived.
The late 1970s were unkind to
liberalism, however. For a time
Will was able to serve his two
masters by being mean to Jimmy
Carter, which pleased both con-
servatives and liberals. As 1980
neared, though, American public
opinion was moving un-
mistakably toTfie right, and Will
decided he had better move with
it. Those lines in Reagan’s neck
miraculously disappeared, and
when the president-elect and his
servatism . . . it is the conser-
vatism of Augustine and Aquinas,
Shakespeare and Burke, Newman
and T.S. Eliot and Thomas
Mann.”
On inspection, however, the
goods on sale ,are still ones that
Kitty Graham is willing, these
days, to see offered in her store. A
lengthy excerpt appeared in The
New Republic recently, under the
title “In Defense of the Welfare
State.”
And in truth it does seek to
engraft welfarism (under the art-
ful rubric of an “ethic of common
provision”) onto the corpus of
conservative doctrine. Will gently
corrects the Founding Fathers for
their blunder In thinking that
injuries resulting in a person
becoming a paraplegic or a
quadriplegic, and there is no
cure!
We as future nurses of this com-
munity would not like to see these
kind of injuries happen to young
people.
Instead of commending this
type of activity, The Baytown Sun
should be printing advice on
swimming and water safety. «
Joan McComas
Class No. 44 President
Kathy Moon
Class No. 45 President
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the “Washington editor” of Na-
tional Review, and Bradlee pro-
vided the platform, making Will a
political columnist for his power-
ful Washington Post. Kristol
typically kept In the Background,
providing sound advice. On the
basis of the results, we may infer
that the advice was to be conser-
vative but not too conservative.
Those were the days of Richard
Nixon and Spiro Agnew, and Will
quickly made it clear that his vi-
sion of the good society contained
no room for either man. Gradual-
ly it became apparent that
George Will’s brand of conser-
vatism was a highly elastic affair,
carefully congruent with
whatever he calculated
Katharine Graham could bear to
see In her Washington Post.
Conservatism was coming on
pretty strong in the Washington of
the mid-1970s, however, and the
liberal Powers That Were
evidently decided — as Kristol
and Will intended they should —
. ly to juxtapose, the clashing in-
11 ‘ terests in a free society less they
Since then, Will has been vlsi- unite to Overpower it, and calls ta-
ble, or audible, just about stead for the subordination of
everywhere — on the television economic arguments “to political
screen, on the lecture circuit, etc. choices.”
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“I guess the compelling force driving me to
grow up is different than the one you had, huh,
Grampyl?"
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Today is Friday, June 24, the
175th day of 1983. There are 190
days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On June 24, 1497, the first
recorded discovery of the North
American mainland took place,
as explorer John Cabot sighted
land between what is now
Halifax, Nova Scotia, and
southern Labrador in Canada.
On this date:
In 1793, France adopted its first
republican constitution.
Bible Verse
“The ricjb man’s wealth is his
strong city, and as an high wall is
his own conceit. Before destruc-
tion the heart of man is haughty,
and before honor is humility.”
Proverbs 18:11,12
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