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1 attention because this is not go-
.. as you know, are at war.
as an Arab state, is drawing considerable
from other Arab governments, as might
be expected. Jordan, lor example, whose King
Hussein is calling for
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-~Ji for Arab solidarity with Iraq in
defending its dear homeland and national soil.”
Not all Arabs appear to be listening, however.
The Syrians, for example, who have been feud-
ing with the Iraqis for the last year. The feud
developed after they fell out over arrangements
for a planned confederation. Syrian-Jord&iian
relations also haven’t been so hot of late. The
Syrians aren’t openly for the Iranians, who are
not Arabs, but under the circumstances. . .
The South Yemini, who are Arabs, are for the
Iranians. That is because they have been mad at
the Iraqis every since the latter played a leading
role last year in halting a set-to between the South
Yemeni and the North Yemeni on terms con-
sidered more favorable to the Northerners - l.e.,
before the Soviet-armed Southerners were able to
knock them out of the ring.
(The Iraqis are also Seviet-armed, but let’s not,
go into that; this is complicated enough already.)
* Under the circumstances which may not have
too much tb do with the immediate issues of the
Iraqi-Iranian conflict, the North Yemeni have
had no trouble deciding which side they are on.
They’re for the Iraqis.
The same can’t be said for an Arab leader who
usually has no trouble deciding his side — Libya’s
Col. Muammar Qaddafi. The Iraqis, hard-liners
after his heart, have been Qaddafi’s closest allies
in the Arab world. And he has been feuding with
Iran’s revolutionary regime over the mysterious
disappearance of an Iranian clergyman of the
Shiite sect, dominant in Iran, in Libya, which is of
the rival Sunni persuasion.
But forget all that. Qaddafi this time is taking
the unaccustomed stancrof a neutral, reasoning
that first things still come first. He is urging both
sides to stop fighting and make common cause in
the “battle of honor” against Israel. ,
Ah, yes, Israel. Now here it gets a little tricky.
Under the shah, you may remember, Iran was
the only Mideastern country to have dealings with
Israel, ensuring the latter’s oil supply among
other favors. The ayatollahs changed that, declar-
ing Iran’s solidarity with the Palestine Liberation
Organization, much to the latter’s delight.
So how does the PLO respond to the call for
Arab solidarity? Its Central Committee
secretary, MuhammedNashashibi, is denouncing
Iran and backing Iraq. Even as the PLO supreme
leader, Yasir Arafat, tries to mediate the dispute,
shuttling between Baghdad and Tehran. Good
luck. /:
King Hussein — you remember him — also has
some thoughts about Israel’s role in the crisis, He
sees Iran’s “continual threats” in the Persian
Gulf as serving only to undermine the united Arab
front against Israeli expansionism.
Maybe the Arab front had it better with the
shah?
Several^other Arab governments «=* solidarity ....
be damned — give every indication of preferring
to run for cover, if any could be found.
All of this might be laughed off if the conse-
quences were not so deadly serious for non-Arabs
and non-Iranians. The economic stability and
potentially the peace of the entire world are at
stake in the Mideastern free for all. The world
thus has as much interest as the Arabs
themselves in their confused alignments.
The opportunity to bring some order out of the
chaos may come at an Arab summit conference
scheduled to take place in Hussein’s Jordan in
November. Providing the Mideast and the world
holds together that long, that should be fun.
Washington Report - ■
Did Justice Staff Bury
Whistleblower Probe?
By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON - High Justice
Department officials stand accused in a
secret Senate report of covering up an
FBI investigation of an Air Force con-
spiracy to smear an honest employee
.who blew the whtsUe on Air Force waste.
Thd still-unpublished findings of
Senate Judiciary Committee in-
vestigators add another chapter in the
shameful vendetta against Ernest Fit-
zgerald, a Defense Department cost
analyst. Ever since he told Congress in
1968 of a $2 billion cost overrun on
Lockheed-Georgia’s C-5A transport
plane contract with the Air Force, Fit-
zgerald has been hounded by the higher-
ups whom his disclosures embarrassed.
He was fired and won reinstatement, but
was shunted into a dead-end job in a win-
dowless Pentagon attic.
The latest Senate report, reviewed by
my associate Indy Badhwar, makes, two
damaging charges:
— That an Air Force general —
recently promoted to a top financial post
at the Pentagon - engaged in the
calculated smear campaign against Fit-
zgerald and then lied about it in sworn
statements to a Senate committee, and
2. — That a U.S. attorney obstructed
and finally quashed an FBI criminal in-
vestigation of the general.
After establishing that Fitzgerald had
been subjected to “bizarre investiga-
tions” by the Air Force, as well as an
FBI effort to discredit him by sugges-
tions of espionage .bath operations
known to the Nixon White House - the
Senate investigators spelled out the roles
of two men involved in the smear and
coverup.
One was Brig. Gen. Hans Driessnack,
who gave the Senate a sworn statement
in 1974 denying any part in or knowledge
of the smear campaign against Fit1
zgerald. The Senateistaff “has confirm-
ed that Driessnack’s sworn statement in
1974 denying knowledge of the dirt cam-
paign was false,” the Judiciary Commit-
tee report states.
The Senate probers discovered a con-
flict of interest on Silbert’s part: He had
defended Driessnack and other top of-
ficials against Fitzgerald’s earlier civil
suits against them. "It is hard to
believe," the Senate staff concluded,
“that the U.S. attorney would then turn
around and become the aggressive pro-
secutor of many of the same individuals
he was defending in the same cases. ’ ’
Footnote: Silbert said he did not recall
representing Driessnack in any civil
suit. But even if he had, he said, he did
not see any conflict because Justice
Department attorneys “routinely de-
fend” government officials and should
not automatically be precluded from
prosecuting these same officials if they
are later found tojiave committed any
wrongdoing. The Justice Department
has told the Senate Judiciary Committee
that the case vjfas dropped because it
lacked “prosecutorial merit.”
In Your Eye, Minority!: In Denver,
Colo., Christina Martinez owns a mud
company that provides chemicals to oil
drillers. So does Toby Martinez. They
are not related.
There are two big differences between
the two Martinez mud companies:
Christina takes no part in the day-to-day
operation of her company, while Toby
does; and Christina’s company does a lot
more business than Toby’s.
The reason: Christina’s company gets
the benefit of minority-group status,
even though her husband actually runs
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minority group. The government defines
a minority-group firm as one “wnose
management and daily business opera-
tions” are handled by minority-group
members.
YET WHEN the Amoco oil company
decides to take “affirmative action,” it
goes to Christina’s company. Small
wonder: Amoco loaned her father
$100,000 to start the minority chemical
company.
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AFTER AN Independent 1978 investiga-
tion, the FBI’s Washington field office
reported it “feels Driessnack perjured
himself.” But the paragraph containing
this stark conclusion was deleted from
documents that the Justice Department
supplied to the Senate probers.
FBI sources told the Senate staff they
were repeatedly told by Justice Depart-
ment officials that “you can’t prosecute
a.. . general.”
The key evidence of perjury against
the general was some earlier affidavits
by him and his colleagues that con-
tradicted his sworn statement to the
Senate committee in 1974.
Driessnack was recently appointed by
President Carter to be comptroller of the
Air Force.
The second figure, Earl Silbert, was
President Ford’s appointee as U.S. at-
torney for the District of Columbia. He
personally cleared Driessnack in 1978 by
concluding that the conflicting affidavits
were actually the work of Air Force
lawyers, not the general himself.
“Now that Christina’s husband runs
that company it all makes me mad as
hell, because we’re really the only bona
fide minority operation in the mud
business in the Rocky Mountains,’-’ says
Toby Martinez.
Except for Christina Martinez, the
sole minority group member on the
payroll is one American Indian.
Watch On Waste: "Since 1967, the
Department of Transportation has given
state and local governments a total of
$1.3 billion in grants for safety-related
programs. Since its modest startup at $2
million a year, the program has ac-
celerated to some $200 million annually.
And all the spending seems to have little
effect on the number of deaths on the
highways. »
— Government bureaucrats have
grown so far removed from the basic
point of their existence that when a
branch of the Office of Personnel
Management decided to offer civil ser-
vants a court on “Courtesy in Govern-
ment,” it had to hire outside consultants
to teach public employees how to deal
properly with the taxpayers.
From Sun Files —
Wotnan Went To Vote For
FDR In Ambulance, 1940
From The Baytown Sun files, this is
the way it was 40 and 30 and 20 years
ago:
NOV. 5,1940
Mrs. E.H. Buller didn’t let her illness
stop her from voting in the presidential
election today. She went to the polls at
Wilkenfeld’s in an ambulance to cast her
ballot. And she says if President
Roosevelt does not get but one vote at
Box 100, he can be assured it was hers.
Margie Piwetz, Robert E. Lee student,
is in the hospital in La Grange where she
is being treated for injuries suffered in a
car wreck at Fayetteville.
Tickets for the Jaycees’ charter night
dinner are being sold for $1.50 each by
Jake Rutter, Homer Evatt and B.B.
Williams.
A.S. Johnston is the first teacher here
to be drafted. He says, “I’m afraid ftty
knowledge of Anglo-Saxon declension
won’t be of much assistance to me in the
Army.” (Johnston teaches English at
REL.)
NOV. 5, I960
Charles C. Roberts, a pumper for
Grace Oil Co., died today in a Baytown
hospital.
East Harris County receives its first
light frost of the season early today as
the mercury* plunges to a low of 32
degrees.
A prayer vigil, prompted by the
Korean War, continues at Trinity
Episcopal Church.
-The Rev. E.R. Couch marks his 23rd
anniversary as pastor of First Baptist
Church.
NOV. 5,1960 '
Tommy Kimmey, Bill Tom Statum
and Ed Arthur of the Baytown Young
Farmers Chapter attend a regional
meeting in Wharton.
Army Sp. 4 Ronald G. Lamb of La
Porte is awarded the Good Conduct
Medal at Fort Hood.
Two women’s suits are stolen from
Bebe’s Dress Shop, police report.
Saints And Sinners - -
Is Divorce By Another
Name Still A Divorce?
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By GEORGE R.PLAGENZ *
Divorce is a dirty word in the Roman
Catholic Church. Annulment isn’t. But
has the Catholic Church made the two
words mean the same thing? Is a divorce
by any other name still a divorce?
The church does not recognize
divorce. With the rising numbers of an-
nulments granted by the church in the
* last decade, however, some critics
charge that is has succeeded in finding a
way around its no-divorce law.
There were only 338 annulments
v granted in the United States in 1968. By
1978 that figure had leaped to 27,670 for
the single year.
This October at the World Council of
Bishops in Rome, a high-ranking Italian
* cardinal — Pericle Felici — charged
that the church’s leniency in granting
annulments has resulted in a rash of
what fie called “church-approved
divorces.”
a marriage, the marriage is considered
to have been invalid from the start. To
put it another way, there’ never was a
marriage in the eyes of God and the »
church, and both the man and the
woman are free to marry again without
. being cut off from the sacramehts of the
church.
At one time it was next to impossible to
get an annulment unless it was dUer- "
mined that one party or the other was
forced to consent to the marriage or that
there was no physical consummation.
The rules for granting annulments were
liberalized after Vatican II in 1965,
however, and today certain personality
deficiencies of one or both parties to the
marriage may be’ grounds for annul-
ment. .
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CHURCH LEADERS in the United
States dispute the cardinal’s contention.
Because of the large number of divorces
.in the United States compared to
Europe, they say, the number of an-
nulments given by the U.S. church may an(j conjugal life,
seem high-fromthe petspective of sdme • •*-------
TO AN OUTSIDE observer, O’Neill
agrees, the skyrocketing rise in an-
nulments ■> recently may suggest that
marriage tribunals are “stretching the
grounds” for annulment. What really
has happened, he says, is that in the last
15 or 20 years the behavioral sciences
have given us greater knowledge of the
complexities of the human personality
European prelates. They maintain the
actual proportion of annulments to
divorces is no greater.
The Caholic Church’s position is that a
“true marriage” - one in which God has
“joined together” the two parties — can-
To get an annulment, a couple must
first have received a civil divorce. One
por both parties may then go to their
parish priest, who will screen the annul-
ment request. If he feels there are-.
not be broken.
“When people apply for an annul-
the application on
tribunal. ^
tp, the diocesan
head of the six-member marriage
tribunal of the Catholic Diocese of
Cleveland, “we look to see whether the
couple were really, truly joined together
by God at the time of their marriage.”
In practical terms, what this means is
that if the seeds of marital incompatibili-
ty are found to have been present before
ing the investigation along with
witnesses who,knew the couple before or
during their marriage and perhaps a
psychologist or psychiatrists
Because of the backlog of cases in
most dioceses, the annulment process
usually takes about a year. The cost is
around $200.
HIlALTH
Lawrence E.
Lamb, M.D.
DEAR DR. LAMB - I got
in an argument with my
neighbor lady about using ice
or heat for an injury. I say put
ice on a sprained ankle, or
injury and sne says you should
use heat. Which is right?
DEAR READER - Both.
But it makes a difference
when. Most authorities today
5 .agree that you should use cold
applications intermittently
for the first two days. After
that if there is swelling or
soreness a heating pad may be
useful. I must point out that it
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By The Associated Press
^ Today is Wednesday.
Nov. 5, the 310th day of 1980.
There are 56 days left in the
year.
Today’s highlight in
history: ^ f
On $qy. 5,1940, President
Franklin D. Roosevelt .was
elected to an un-
precedented third term.
On this date:
In 1605, conspirator Guy
1 Fawkes was seized as he
was about to blow up the
British House of Lords.
In 1872, Susan B. Anthony
was fined $100 for voting
before women had the right
of suffrage.
In 1946, John F. Kennedy
was first elected to public
office as a Boston con-
gressman at age 29.
* And in 1968, Richard Nix-
On staged a political com-
eback when he defeated
Vice President Hubert
because of
involved.
For an injury, position is
Humphrey for the nation’s
highest office. - —
Five years ago, Moroc-
co’s King Hassan ordered
some 350,000 of his Coun-
trymen to move into the
Spanish Sahara and claim
it. • \ -
One year ago, militants in
Irap seized the British em-
bassy in Tehran as the U.S,
hostages In the American
compound began their se-
cond day of captivity.
erything in preventing
relling. Fluid runs downhill
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swelling
and if the Injury is level with
or below the heart level, the
swelling will increase.
Look at your hand a minute: -
let it hang down. Notice how
the veins pop out. If one of
those veins was damaged, the
blood would be pouring out
under the skin. Now hold your
hand up before your eyes and
look at the veins on the back
of your hand. Notice how they
collapse. The empty veins will
not leak much blood under die
skin.
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and hold a kits until Archie
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Diana and Wonder Woman
.... team up with a defective who
goes underground to bust
an antique car theft ring.
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Atlanta Hawks vs. Boston
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REPORT
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An unusual private detective
,, from El Paso; how stress vic-
tims are coping.
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"Real People" star Sarah
Purcell; how stress victims
—- are coping; Chef Tell bones
fish; Wednesday Weekend;
• Joyce Jlllson on the moor,
,,r, and human behavior.
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BALL IN THE FAMILY
*«•* The usually punctual Archie
is hours overdue at a lodge
• convention in Buffalo, and
no one knows what's hap-
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7:000 REAL PEOPLE
Q THE ASCENT OF MAN
"Music Of The Spheres” The
wonder of mathematic preci-
sion in musical harmony, In
the use of perspective in art,
and in the study of astrono-
• my is explored.
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"Blue Fin" Hardy Kruger,
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1 Incorporated Dvorak
(abbr.j ' 55 Row
4 Food 56 Skinny fish
8 Every 58 I possess
12 Motoring ' (contr.)
association 59 Hunter's
13 Ambush shelter
14 Songstress Lo- 60 Thailand's
; gan* ■. - neighbor
15 Mountains 61 Second month
: (abbr.) (abbr.j
16 Inheritor 62 Flying saucers
17 Bellow (abbr.)
18 Ship's .patty 63 Catch sight of
officer 64 To and —_
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2 Defense or-
ganization
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3 Singer Mama
20 Tolerant
22 Bill
24 Long fish
25 Ear f
29 Nym*
33 City in Israel
34 State (Fr.)
36 Paper of
Indebtedness
37 Ones(Fr)
38 Anny acronym nationality
39 Abstract 5 Exist
being 6 Comet's train
40 Back of neck 7 Lark
(p|.) 8 Creepily
42 Noes 9 South African
44 By way of plant
46 Misdo 10 Related group
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Bible Verse
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It Was
NOVEMBER 5, 1780; In-
dians defeated French
militia near Miamitown,
lad.
I HAVE declared, and
have saved, and I have
shewed, where there was
& no strange god among
you; therefore ye are my
witnesses, saith the Lord,
that J am God. Isaiah
43:12
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