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Debates In The
'Big One' Slated
The time of the campaigning of candidates has
come, and the voices of presidential hopefuls are
again being heard in our land. —
This time around, they will be heard more fee-
* quently than previously in debate with each other,
televised nationwide in most cases. With a string
already scheduled and more likely later, the one-
to-one — or several-on-several — confrontations
may become as familiar fixtures, of a campaign
season as the now ubiquitous primaries.
The opener is a five-candidate Republican af-
fair set for the first week of the New Yeah But the
big one comes the following w§ek, between Jpn-
my Carter and his most formidabldXTOHenger for
the Democratic nomination, Edward Kennedy..
Both are in Iowa, under the sponsorship of a.
newspaper, the Des Moines Register and Tri bane
whose stated purpose is to sound out the major
candidates on matters of special interest to that
part of the country - farm issues to particular
The Iowa debates are tests which, if passed, will
make them precedents. The nature of the spon-
sorship is expected to get around the provisions in, ‘
federal law, requiring “equal tinte" for all can-
didates, that complicate similar presentations by .
the TV networks directly or by'organizations such
as the League of Women- Voters. In the lattercir-,
cumstances, for example, California’s Jerry
Brown would 'have to be included in the Carter
Kennedy debate or be given equal exposure;:
Also, the focus on regional issues that are
nevertheless of some national interest is ap-
plicable elsewhere. The troubled industrial
Midwest and the energy-rich but environmentally
sensitive Mountain West are immediately obvious
examples.
The debate concept has had slow going since its
start in the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon campaign Rnd the
reason is not entirely the legal obstacles involved
That precedent vividly demonstrated ., all too
vividly to one participant — the consequences of
the merciless scrutiny of the cameras. A can-
didate may be a stemwinder on the stump before4 MR
hundreds or thousands. But if he is not quick on
the uptake in direct debate, he is a goner before a
national audience of millions. There is no op-
portunity to recoup.' . ’ •
Which, of course,” is a major reason why the
debate issue will not go away, despite the long
neglect between the Kennedy-Nixon and Ford-
Carter presentations, The public has a genuine in-
terest in seeing how candidates react to this inten-
sive pressure on their judgment and grasp of the
issues, p '
The upcoming primary confrontations are no
guarantee that the eventual Democratic and
Republican nominees will also square off But the
extension of the debates to the^prjmaries and the
signs of proliferation are evidence of png point
The question as to whether candidate debates
have a role in presidential elections is no longer
debatable.
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Friday, November 80, W79
\
Washington Report - - . .
Oil Caliphs Preparing
NeW 'Surrender Terms'
Min NEwA
In Washington - - . - *
Presidential Campaign
Debates Are In Jeopardy
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WASHINGTON i NEA) ~
With a talent for disaster
that borders on sheer
genius. Congress and two
federal regulatory agencies
have managed to severely
jeopardize prospects, for
televised debates between
presidential candidates - in
198U. -
Indeed, the League oj
sponsored the highly prais-
ed 1976 debates between'
Gerald Ford and Jimmj
‘ Carter has Testified that
it will probably have to
abandon plans for similar
gOrifrontatjons next year
.unless the mess can be
straightened out by the end
of next month
The problem: The Senate
Past month vetoed proposed
regulations by the Federal
Election Commission that
would have allowed unions
and corporations to.cVmate
funds tn the league or
similar non-partisan. ■ tax
exempt organizations tor
the purpose of staging can-
didate forums and debate's
Without such donations
.the League can’t afford to
stage the debates Ami
without a go-ahead .fr,om
the FEU and Congress
unions ami corporations an’
forbidden by law from
spending any money, in con-
nection-Av.i,th federal - elec- ;
turns’ ’
.THE EEC regulations to
facilitate such contribu ~J
tions and hence permit
League-sponsored 1980 _
debates would probably "
tiave-eleared Goiigr'ess just
fine.if it hadn't been tor the
with financial help from
unions and corporations
but no one seems to have a
.way out of the legal confu-
” smn.
•AN NBC News-Associated
* Press poll conducted
' earlier this month among
Iowa Republicans otters
dramatic evidence of the
distance other GOP
presidential candidates
- must travel to overtake
*"front^runner Rona 1 d k
: Reagan bt\ the time. the:
delegate selection process
gets* -under way at Jan 26
jiiccmet caucuses
: . 1'he telephone., survey
' conducted among '726 ran-
'dn.mly. selected low a
'Republicans ■'showed" that
. (.while m.i percent those'-
’questioned at least knew;
-who Reagan was. tour of his'
■ major opponents were com
pie rely unknown to,'
an\V here from 81’ percent
, to 62 percent of those
- responding,
.Interesting^ enough
Senate Minority Leader
Howard H Baker t.vvho is
featdred quite otten'in na-
tional news accounts,
fared worst, drawing a
blank from 62 percent. Rut
it-may be some consolation
that among those who knew ■
enough about him io'hoid an
opinion. Baker outsebred :
• ail other candidates with 30
percent favorable A per-
cent negative and 4 percent
. ".not sure." me'kk,k' -kJkk-T--
JOHN CON NALLY. on the
other hand, w as known to 69 •
percent of those queried
-.'the best recognition after
Re. gan s bu* nad the
highest negative rating. 22
percent, to ■ i9* percent
favorable and ! pgR'pjit
muiot sure k
Gem go Bu- -Jio pro-
bably havtlw best orgamz.a
tion m low a remams
unknown to 39 percent of
the Republicans, there,
whut sen it tn -t Role is a
mystery man. to41 percent. kk
Reagan... incidentally.'■ is
not only, well known but
.'well liked drawing ' a*
favorable rating from 63
percent, unfavorable from
2n percent and 5 percent
../■not sure.'-; k' k:’: .k ':
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From Sun Files - - ,.
Texas Eastern Office
Opened Here in 1
From The Baytown Jut)
files, this is the way it was
- 40 and 30 a nd 20 vears agp
NOV 30.1939 ' '
I>r- and Mrs P !. -Rob-'
b i n s a r e s p. e ii d ui gk
last-minute intervention of- ^Thanksgiving holidays in
another federal agency the Abilene with t-heir
Federal Communications daughter. Helen Margaret.
Commission _ _ who is instructor and spon-
• FCC Chairman Charles sor for The Cowgirls- af
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ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT
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BoyfOvo Sikh re»0«ns nottOhoBy'k«c
■ Ferris, egged on by the
broadcast industry urged
the Senate to veto the draft
rules for fear they might
somehow prevent local <
radio and television sta-
Hardin-Sinimons Universi-
l.v.- ' .
Martha Bennett and
Lucille Cope arrive hdftio
(or the holiday weekend
from Baylor University
tions. most of which Srein-—-- University of .Texas
deed corporations, from students who are home this
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throughout the ne**x**» There ive t>mes rVie
Orjy Signed
good and
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s the nght>o ev
sponsoring -1 on their own
-..debates between can-
didates for House and
Senate, since those offices
are also covered by federal
law.,
The Senate, suddenly
confused by the effect of the
' regulations, decided if was.
easier to tell the FEC to
' stair! over than to sort out
the eonfus-iofMtsdf But
" now the League says it
needs a clear-cut filing by
late November if it is to
raise money in time for
primary-season candidate
forums, and the FEC says
there is no way^tt can act
that fast
All parties concerned In-
sist they are not only will-
ing but anxious to make it
possible for the League to
sponsor 1980 debates —
weekend include Jimmy..
Selkirk. Gladys Skaggs,
Marie’Hickerson, Anna and
Peggy Reilly, Mary’
Gaston. Gerturde Wiggen
and Emily Cruikshank '
Students home from
Trinity University are
Janrce Pruett, Jack
Rogers, Mary Louise Cone.
R.C Linder and Hudson
McNair
‘ NOV. 30,1949
Baytown food handlers
’ who have gone to work
within the past six mninths
may get free chest X-rays,
announces City Sanitarian'
Odis Muennink.
Texas Eastern Transmis-
sion Corp. announces it will,
open a division office in
Baytown.’ N
The Vienna Boys Choir
will perform tomorrow in a
Baytown- Civic Music
’ \-Miciaiion program .
Mr and Mrs' Fk R
Kilgore. ' former .residents
of Ceday Bay.ou observe
n eir golden v\eddmg> an-
niversary ;» Houston
Hostesses are their
daughters. Mrs W.T
Busch of Bavtown and Mrs.
Houston. ' N .
NOV. 30.1959
L.E. Kirkley is chairman
of a citizens committee-
sponsoring a dinner ’in
honor of U.S. Sen. Ralph
Yarborough Cecil Sutphin
^ is chairman of dinner ar-”
rahgemenls. ?k
Larry Martin 0|£ Baytown
js named a'room leader at
■'Cai Farley's Boys Ranch
near Amarillo, Farley says
the seven-year-old lad is a
natural born leader.
J.E.. Willis and J.Mk»
••Rags” Richards ^return*
from a "lost weekend" over
the Gulf-Mexico and unex-
pectedly in Cuba. The Air
Force reservists ?were
caught in heavy winds and
their „radi,o equipment
would, not work. Thinking
they had landed in Miami,
they soon learned they were
inVaradero, Cuba. V v ;
Bible Verse
FOR WHEN we were yet
without strength, in due
time Christ died for the
ungodly. Romans 5:6
By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON - The oil
caliphs are preparing new
surrender terms to present,
without negotiation, to the
rulers of the industrial
world Next month in
Venezuela, the OPEC part-
ners will add another
rocket burst to oil prices,
which .are already
dangerously near the in-
tolerable level.
The industrial powers,
paralyzed by a loss of will,
are expected to capitulate
again. But there is a limit)
how much-'exvSffmT they-
wifi accept Preparations
have already begu,n inside
the Pentagon to take the oil
fields by force, if Western
acquiescence scHould
* become strained beyond en-
durance.
. The prjnces of Saudi
Arabia, conscious of the
laws of‘economics and the
powers of resistance of the
United States, have tried to
hold the price of crude to
$18 a barrel. But the Arab
. militants have learned that
•the OPEC ceiling price is
not immutable but can be
ratcheted upward’ that the
oil companies will join hap-
pily in the profit-taking and 1
that the U.S government is
a patsy for .oil company-
pressure.
So the militants ■ are
charging $40 a barrel on the
.spot market and are finding
.. plenty of oil-thirsty
customers willing to pay'
the price The militants are
clamoring for an official
OPEC price of at least $30,
and the Saudis may be
power jess to stop it la-,
-teliigence reports warn that"
the balaticeof power isstiif *
ting from the moderates to (•
k the radicals, with hazards’ ’
no one can comprehend.
IN EVERvSl'ideast oil
country nationalism is
surging, distrust tor the'
.United States is ripening in-
to hatred and demands for
astronomical oil prices are •
ricocheting from country to
country. Analysts for the ’
„ ‘Central Intelligence Agen-
cy anticipaR: ‘.continued
strife in the/oil fields and
renewed threat's to use oil
as a political weapon.
The Shia Muslims,-who ;
look to Iran's Ayatollah
. R-uho'ilah Khomeini for
- ' spiritual guidance.' appear
Vite willing' to sacrifice
economic benefits and to
hold their oil as hostage for
fanamicai political goals.
These people not only
dominate -Iran’s oil fields
k but are also concentrated
heavily in Saudi Arabia’s
eastern-oil territory , .
More ominous yet. the
nearby Soviets see an op-
portunity to mo.ve into the
Persian Gulf oil lands. The,
way may soon open up
through Iran, and they are
tightening, their toehold on
the Arabian Peninsula.'in
. Yemen.
All of this is tinder for a
holocaust . that could ex-
plode into a major war. For
the United States cannot -
survive without Mideast,
oil; yet it can neither suc-
cumb. forever to Arab'
economic aggression nor
permit deeper Soviet en-’
croachment.
The American oil giants
have -responded to this na-
tional emergency by
slavishly supporting the pit ,
sheikdoms, which hold the
key to their cash registers. .
■ Not only .do’severe price in-
creases mean greater pro-
fits as the companies apply
the markup to higher
prices; -it also permits a«
hike in domestic oil prices
to make it profitable for the
companies" to undertake
secondary oil recovery
operations on their long
dormant property'.
THE AMERICAN oil m<F"
jors have sought to ..alter
their country’s A foreign
policy at the behest of Arab
monarchs; they have stag-
ed briefings for high
- military officers and
foreign policy makers; they
have worked on govetn-
ment. officials jn private’;
they have even run adver-
tisements designed to
edQcate, the American
public to-the Arab.point of
view.
The companies also pro-
vide a pipeline into the oil
oligarchies, which helps’
then? assess how to react to
U S. moves. The in-
rtrat^passes-
through this pipeline into
foreign, governments at
times violates -otir“ es-.
■ pionage lmtek'
There is lo indication in
Washington meanwhile,
that ariyonelis preparing to
counter the oil castastrophr
that' is building up, The
idiotic a'narchy of Con-
gress. the groping’ arid ■
stumbling within the White
House and the govern- ,
merit's obsequious devotion
to the oil industry have left
the United States without a
policy.
■ The need is desperate for k,
a strong, comprehensive
policy to protect the*
Western world’s main oil
reservoir in the Middle
East. Our .allies ’ have
neither the means nor the
disposition to protect’ this
vital supply. -It's up to the
United States which - let's
fact it — must prepare to
use force if necessary •
■BUNGLED BRIEFING:
Jimmy Carter’s souring
relations with American
Jewish .leaders took
another turn for the worse
after a recent White House
briefing which was
hopelessly bungled, ac-
cording to several of the
participants.
Several weeks ago, about
30 Jewish leaders were
summoned to- the White
House for a confidential
Middle East presentation
hv irnuhlp-shnnling am-
bassador Robert Strauss
and other top Carter aides.
Much of the not-so-secret
information' dijulged,
- however, left the unhappy
guests muttering to
themselves. W-hen one
questioner asked the exact
circumstances of former
TJ.N. 'Ambassador Andrew
Young’s firing, for exam-
ple, he was told in Alice-in-
WOnderland fashion that
Young fiad indeed left the
'•tkiministrafioh.
When,artother participant
demanded to know what the
Carter administration was
doing to support Jewish
dissidents in the Soviet
Union, he was informed'
that specific information
would have to be collected.
After'-the officious; off-
the-record session. % one
Jewish- leader confided
disgustedly, "Some of the
people came all the .way
.from the West Coast4o hear,
this junk”"
N,
HEALTH
Lawrence E. tomb, M. D.
DEAR DR. LAMB - {have
a friend who had a gallblad-
der operation- about ^three
years ago for gallstones. At
the time his pancreas was'
J>adlv infected. I don’t know
just what he was told by the
doctors about - his future
except to watch his diet. Bp"
did well until last. tali. He's
resisting seeing an MD but I
believe if there was a treat-
ment available without
surgery.’he would see one in
order to feel better. He's
about 6 feet tall .and jOniy
weighs 140 pounds.
. DEAR READER - Ask
your friend to go see a physi-
cian as early as possible. Dis-
ease of the pancreas is some-
times a complication of
gallstones. The-problem starts
when the gallstones' become
impacted at - the point where
the bile duct drams into the
small intestine.. The gallstones
can block the drainage ot the
pancreas; and the overdistend-
ed pancreas undergoes
changes which we cat’
pancreatitis .
Sometimes the condition is, "
mild and the pancreas reco-
vers completely, but in other
instances, a chronic form of'
recurring problems with the
pancreas exists
Weight loss may occur
because the food isn’t proper^
lv digested. That’s because the
' pancreas may bg damaged’
enough so that it does not pro-
duce the normal; enzymes
needed to break down the food
(or digestion.
It’s unlikely that your
friend would require-.surgery,
Most Casesof ehronie pan-
.creas,disease of tjijs nature do
need medical management to
.help improve digestion and
prevent progressive damage ,
to the pancreas itself.
DEAR DR. LAMB - I am a
24-year-old temale wtio has
. ehest pains like you described
- for angina. Sometimes,
though,. they are very sharp
and feel almostulike a needle
poking down and in. I've had
some that are around the ribs:
at about Hie same place Some
people think it. might be pleu-
risy. I'velasked several.doc-,
tors about this and ail.they do
is listen, to my chest and tell
mrthat I'm healthy. I wonder
if I seed other tests but no one
has run ar.v ■ "
. .DEAR . READER. - I'm
’ sure it would relieve your ■
rftind to have some other tests.
• such as an electrocardiogram.
Your doctors probably haven't
done them because your story
■ doesn't really sound like heart
pain. It's rare fob a 24-year-
old female to hbve coronary
'-artery ' disease, The other,
kinds of heart disease that
migift cause chest pain usual-
ly create abnormal heart
sounds which your doctor
should be able to detect when
.; he listens to your chest.' '
■ Rear: pains are seldom
sharp or necdlelike Those are
usually caused bv other
. things.
Pleurisy pains are usually
.associated with, respiration.
Sharp chest pains are somb-
tinies related to nervous ten-"-
sion or combined with a group
of symptoms including faint-:
ness and dizziness and o'ther
symptoms, that may be called
neiirocipculatory asthenia*
That’s not associated with*
any structural-changes in the
heart or any significant
disease.- It s more often the
kind of symptoms you see
atft|i7,re$qyeriiig from a pro-
longed illness or prolonged
bed rest, Tn fact, one of the
earlier descriptions of it Was
in soldiers recovering' from
severe diarrheai during the
Civil War
Today In History
By The Associated Press ;
Today is Friday. Nov. 30,
the 334th day of 1979, There
are 31 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in
history: *
On ’Nov 30, 1782, the
United States and Britain
signed preliminary peace
articles in Paris, ending the-
Revolutionary War.
On this date:
lit 1864, the Battle of
Franklin, Tenn.. - one of
the bloodiest encounters of
the Civil War - was fought.
In,1874, Winston Churchill
- destined to be a British
wartime hero — was born.
In 1^62, U Thant of Bur-
ma was elected,United’Na- ‘
tions Secretary General. - ■
In 1975; President Gerald*
Ford flew to China to ex-
pand the new relationship
with-Peking.
in 19/8. thousands of
mourners gathered in San
Francisco fof the funeral of •
slain Mayor George
Muscone.
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