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THE,BAYTOWN SUN
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Thursday, May 9, 1985
EDITORIAL
Bonn summit
succeeds — but
Despite the furor over President Reagan’s visit to a
West German cerpetery where 49 members of Adolph
Hitler’s Waffen SS are buried, the economic summit of
major industrial democracies in Bonn is being hailed by
allied leaders as a success.,,
The Reagan administration plans to move ahead with
groundwork for a new round of global discussions in
"1986’ which includes foreign trade negotiations, even if
Franfce blocks the talks.
Much like ~his predecessor, Gen. Charles de Gaulle,
French President Francois Mitterand has called for a
. delay in opening a new round of negotiations on the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade until a detail-
ed agenda has been set.
President Reagan envisions bilateral .talks with other-
nations, either individually or in groups, as an alterna-
tive to GATT negotiations.
During the Bonn meetings the allies praised the U.S.
position at arms control talks with the Soviet Union but
withheld approval of President Reagan’s “Star Wars”
plan for a space-based anti-missile system.
Also, the allies gave the U.S. embargo against
Nicaragua a cool reception, arguing against such ac-
tions in formulating foreign policy. ,
President Reagan was not surprised by the allies’ at-
titude. They can afford the luxury of detached viewpoint
since they are not directly affected by Central American
events.
Mitterand, to some extent, appears to be following in
de Gaulle’s footsteps as far as full cooperation with the
Mtfaatfarly §§§1
U S. needs France. \ _ ■ .
Readers' views
•IMS Copter N«m Serrtce
William Rusher
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Vietnamese represent most
remarkable tide of refugees
NEW YORK - The 10th an-
niversary of the end of the Viet-
nam War is an appropriate mo-
ment to note one of the few
beneficial consequences of that
dismal affair: the- immigration
of. nearly half-a-million Viet-
namese refugees to the United
porarily in double-decker bunks
in the huge mess hall of a former
military academy, in the glare
of a few bare light bulbs.
“Not very comfortable, is it?”
somebody remarked sym-
pathetically to an elderly
refugee. “Listen,” the old fellow
To The Sun: anything in the rule4)ooks that
I have recently spent two say you have to take a personal' ...
weeks in the hospital and ran up loss to do something good for so- beneficiary of successive inflows
a medical bill of around $15,000-.' meone? °* refugees from countries
largely owing to the talents and here has had- in, years.” That
hard work of the’ successive
waves of migrants from other
nations who have come here,
fleeing from poverty or oppres-
sion, to start a new life.
But in the past 30 years the
United States has been the
spirit infused the hundreds, of
thousands of Hungarians who
reached America.
Then, after 1960, came the
But in many ways the most
remarkable refugee tide has
been the Vietnamese, who
fought beside us to save their
country from communism and
had no choice but to leave when
South Vietnam collapsed in 1975.
These people were not Euro-
•Ore riWCed to flee, not just
across 90 miles of water like the
Cubans, but from Southeast Asia
From Sun files
1955: REL
wins state
track meet
From The Baytown Sun files,
this is the way it was 40 and 30
and 20 years ago:
MAY 9,1945
Salter Spurlock Jr., 15, drown-
ed while swimming in Cedar
Bayou Stream near the
Methodist Church yesterday. He
was a student at Cedar Bayou
• High School and a member of
Boy Scout Troop 93. Scouts who
will serve as pallbearers at the
funeral service are A.G. Lester-
jette, E.W. Walters, Bobby
Fowler, Tommite Clayton,
Russell Jones, Lester Smith,
Jesse Bishop and Gilbert Priest.
Era Estelle Green, 43, dies at
her home in Baytown. She was
an active member of Baytown
Methodist Church.
MAY 9,1955
Coach Beverly Rockhold’s
track and field team wins the
state championship in Austin for
the Ganders. The track stars are
Wally Wilson, Vic Davis,
Charles Dunaway, Joe Frank
Robins, Billy Hinkle and Anton
Smajstrla.
Winning the state doubles
crown in tennis for the Ganders
are Paul Como and Douglas
Bashrum.
Winners of the School Board
election in Baytown are Dr.
W.H. Bridg.es and L.L. Fuller.
J.H. Richardson of Lynchburg
is elected to the Deer Park
School Boaird.
Re-elected to the Crosby
School Board are Floyd Remkes
o * ■ may 9,3
Winston Hayes, chairman of
Precinct 12, gives a program on
I
My insurance company only
pays for 80 percent for. hospital
bills and doctors’ fees so I would
like to express my. gratitude to
all those kind, merciful doctors
who are willing to accept money
on assignment
“Money on assignment” is
money that a patfent’s insurance
is willing to pay the doctors.
When a doctor accepts assign-
ment that means he’ll take just
what money his patient’s in-
surance pays him and not
change-more for his services.
More and more doctors are ac-
cepting assignments these days.
Some of them I know of are from
Baytown and Houston. I think
Wanda Cowan ' wracked by communist aggres-
301W. Francis and,they have Proved very
To The Sun; . ' high-grade ore indeed.
Sometimes a person wonders Tbe first to arrive in large
at the thinking of the people who . numbers were the Hungarians in
make and enforce the laws that
to a strange, cold land 10,000 about the importance of voting
miles away. English was riot to sixth-grade classes at Alamo,
even their second toneme, and Austin, Ashbel Smith and Lamar
men, alter i960, came the theip,first task therefore was to Elementary schools. He is pic-
Cubans.half-a-mill'onof them ieam enough of it to scrape by. tured on the front page with
almost the entire rnmdle class Americans with the room to P^s Jerry Frazier, Kathy
of the nation, .fleeing Castro’s spare generously too£ them in. Dyer, Cheri Turner and John
communist grasp. The Cuban, in- a know of one Vietnamese faint- Moseley,
flux centered, inevitably, on jy 0f five who huddled on the top
govern a city. . ■
We have a law that forbids the
use of fireworks ... but we do
not have a law that keeps a pellet
gun out of the hands of an 8- to 13-
year-old child.
A pellet gun can blind, kill and
destroy property.
... If I have managed to give
just one parent, law enforce-
ment officer or one city coun-
cilman a second thought on the
responsibility of an air —
1957 — most of them devout
Catholics who detested
Hungary’s Soviet-backed com-
munist despotism. They par-
ticipated eagerly in the rebellion
that flared in Hungary in the
autumn of 1956, and when it was
ruthlessly crushed by Red Army
tanks they fled across the border
to neighboring Austria.
I was in Vienna in that chaotic
December of 1956, and I will
never forget the, mood .in a
southern Florida, and inevitably
caused severe temporary
dislocations and a certain
amount of ill feeling locally.
For one thing, the Florida
school system, both public and
private, was simply unprepared
to cope with the huge numbers of
Spanish-speaking children. For
another, the sudden fierce com-
petition for low-paying jobs
threw many native-born
Americans, especially blacks,
temporarily out of work. But
gradually Florida adjusted to its
new residents,-and they are now
among its most vigorous citizens
and, not incidentally/ sdfine of
floor of a New York residential
brownstone for six months until
the father was able to launch' a
newspaper for his fellow-
refugees, in the Vietnamese
language.)
Such people are priceless
assets to a nation like ours, that
sometimes seems in danger of
forgetting just how precious
freedom is, and what gumption
and hard work can accomplish
even when almost everything
has been lost. In the grim contest
called the Cold War, the Soviet
Union is far ahead in sheer yar-
dage gained; but measured in
the subtler terms of human
-H’s-wonderfui of-them. After attr (fifough either the"
if gives the little guy a break.
I’ve heard people say, “those-
doctors aren’t taking any loss.
They’ll just use it as a tax write-
off.” " .
I say. so what? Is there
angle or just maybe through the
moral aspect of this situation —
it will be worth the flack I expect
to receive from this letter.,
Katherine Warren
1608*Alabama
r gun — refugee collection center set up this country’s most passionate , assets acquired^merica has
financial by the" Austrian government in anti-communists. Their votes not by a long shot always been
surburban Traiskirehen.
Hundreds of men, women and
children were warehoused tern-
last November went to Ronald
Reagan in a proportion of about
nine to one.
the loser.
William Rusher is a columnist for Newspaper
, Enterprise Association
Approximately 700 people app-
ly for the 25 job openings at
Humble’s Baytown Refinery,
says H.H. Meier, general
manager.
Serving on a steering commit-
tee for the newly organized
Baytown Classroom Teachers
Association are Bill Parrish,
Clyde Henderson, Nettie Brad-
shaw, Jane Mitcham, Dorothy
Lowe, Kenneth Newton, Hallie
Patterson, Fred Adams,
Virginia Rowlette, Francis Por-
tis, Bill Rogers and Joseph
Hughes.
Today
in history
W:. JUST THINK,/ FOR EVERSh
FELLER WHO'S SOWIN’ HIS *
LRWN ToDAV ~THERE'S DOZENS
OF -HIS KJEI6HBORS WHO ARE
TRit>|kJ> TO CUT TH0PS
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Jack Anderson
U.S. radio programs hurt
in Europe by ego struggles
Wi.JiMB'W
Bureaucratic tuff battles and Radio Liberty, and Frank
ideological warfare among of- Shakespeare, a former Nixon
ficials are threatening the effec: J White House aide, who is chair-
tiveness of two government- man of the board.
funded radio stations, a team of
congressional, investigators has
concluded. The stations are sup-
posed to broadcast objective
news and fair commentary to
the propaganda-drenched
millions in the Soviet bloc.
Their recent survey of pro-
grams broadcast to Eastern
Europe by Radio Free Europe
and Radio Liberty in Mdnich
showed “increasing hard-line
rhetoric” and extreme anti-
< Soviet views that Insulted thfe'in-
nel, which
characterizes as a “continual
boiling pot of various intellectual
emigres from the East.” Some
editors favor programs
The two directors of the radio prepared by their friends and try
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Today is Thursday, May 9, the
129th day of 1985. There are 236
days left in the year.
On May 9, 1754, the first
newspaper cartoon appeared in
America. The illustration in
Benjapiin Franklin’s Penn-
sylvania Gazette depicted a
divided snake, each part _
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tended audiences, the team
stated in a report obtained by
iOUFassoGiate-IndyBadiiwaf-.-
Specifically, they found “ex-
cessive intrusion into the daily
operation of the radios” by the
Board for International Broad-
casting' in Washington, This led
to erosion of the authority of the
stations’ top management in
Munich, with tlje result that the
program content suffered, said
the report prepared by Rep.
Larry Smith, D-Fla.
As we reported earlier, many
.programs were found to 'have
'blatantly
others were insulting to ethnic
and religious groups; still others
were critical of the United States
and its allies.
One reason for the breakdown
in program control appears to be
a power struggle between James
Buckley, a former conservative
Republican senator and presi-
stations are ultraconservatives
more attuned to Shakespeare’s
views than Buckley’s, according
To the report.
The station directors believe
that “the situation in Eastern
Europe and the Soviet Union is
so tenuous that the Soviet Union
could be on the verge of col-
lapse,” the report states, ad-
ding: “Thee is evidence that the
two directors have attempted to
move the radios in that direction
with (Shakespeare’s) obvious
implicit approval...” ■
** The congressional report con-
tinued: “Currently, (Radio Free
Europe-Radio Liberty) is, to a
large degree, ‘run’ from
Washington by chairman
Shakespeare. We found that if it
was not (Shakespeare) who went
over Buckley’s head to the
radios, the directors were going
directly to the chairman in
Washington.”
The investigators were told
that the twadirectors were hired
the opposition of Buckley.
Munich employees told the in-
vestigators that “as a result,
to keep political opponents’ pro-
grams dff the air, the report
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Lack of authority at the top
means that the stations depend
“on the vigilance of the editors
of each of the 21 language ser-
vices to identify unacceptable
material,” the report explains,
adding: “This is reminiscent of,
the fox guarding the henhouse.”
/ Shakespeare has tried to
politicize the radio stations, the
report charges. Late last year, it
notes, Shakespeare met with the
coming of the conservative^
milennium.” Some editors, “of-'
fended by this sermon, question-
ed his motives and wondered
why he would attempt to in-
fluence' news editors whose sole
responsibility is to report the
news as it is, not to produce com-
mentary.” —---~r^—
Shakespeare said reports of a
feud with Buckley are “totally
untrue.” He said, “Jim and I are
pals frenjt W^Jteck-” Buckley
could not be reached, but board
member Ben Wattenberg said:
“Jim has told me in private that
vesugaiors mat as a result, the reports about the infighting
both directors of the radios ‘beat are not true. And I can teu you
up’on Buckley.” that we have always back Jim
Buckley’s inability to-exercise up.”
firm control has led to “Inten-
sive Competition and infighting’ ’ Jack Awfenon is a cohimnl«l /or United
among the two stations’ person- fwiw* Syndicate
die.’
In 1502, Christopher Columbus
left Cadiz, Spain, on his fourth
and final trip to the New World.
In 1864, during the Civil War,
Union Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick
was killed by a Confederate
sharpshooter at: Spotsylvania,
Va. Sedgwick’s last words, just
before the fatal shot: “They
couldn’t hit an elephant at this
distance.”
In 1913, the 17th Amendment to
the Constitution, providing for
the election of senators by
popular,vote rather than selec-
tion by state legislatures, was
ratified.
In 1926, Americans Richard
Byrd^and Floyd Bennett became
airplane flight over the North
Pole.
In 1936, Italy annexed
Ethiopia.
In 1961, the chairman of the
Federal Communications Com-
mission, Newton N. Minow,
criticized the quality of televi-
sion programming in a speech to
the National Association of
Broadcasters, calling it a “vast
wasteland.” iMiii
Ten years ago: A “cdShl
policy weht^bWecTffl]
Vietnam, prohibiting the
checks and all foreign currfafrL:
r; Bible Verse
This is the victory that
cometh the world, even
faith.
I John
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 162, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 9, 1985, newspaper, May 9, 1985; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1074684/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.