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Reagan Challenge:
Interest Increase
Soaring interest rates, led by the prime rate
charged by the large banks to their best corporate
customers, threaten to choke off the proclaimed
recovery from the 1980 recession.
The slump began as the prime rate rose early
this year to a record 20 percent. It Hit 20 percent
again recently and some economists predict that
it may go as high as 22 percent. And as the cost of
mortgages and consumer loans follows the up-
ward trend, the already crippled construction and
auto industries suffer even more.
The gloomy economic outlook, combined with
continuing inflation, is the principal challenge
facing President-elect Ronald Reagan as he
assembles his administration team.
Other than a federal hiring freeze promised by
the president-elect after his inauguration Jan. 20,
there is little dramatic action that he can take to
relieve projected budget deficits that contribute
to inflation.
But the American people are running out of pa-
tience.
The nation’s economic woes influenced by
vote Nov. 4 that gave the Republican Party the
White House and control of the Senate.
The Reagan people, particularly the man who
has been nominated to be secretary of the
treasury, Wall Street financier Donald T. Regan,
will be expected to provide quick relief.
It won’t be easy. The spending cuts promised by
the new president in his campaign will be resisted
in Congress as each lawmaker defends his pet
program. Increased spending for defense^nd a
tax cut, also Reagan pledges, would compound
the aimcuny.
Bad News About Books
The 1980 election may be turning out to be one
for the books in more ways than history’s even-
tual evaluation of its significance.
Books themselves are becoming a post-election
issue in some communities. The American
Library Association reports that demands for
removal from shelves of works some groups-find
objectionable are up sharply, pany of the com-
plainants, according to the association, identify
themselves as affiliates of the Moral Majority.
A spokesman for that activist religious move-
ment responds that while there is no organized ef-
fort under way to police collections, the local in-
iatives ought to please rather than alarm
librarians. The Rev. George A. Zarris, Illinois
chairman, suggests the complaints be viewed
constructively as evidence of increased interest in
libraries.
Possibly. But it’s the definition of that word in-
terest that’s the problem.
Berry's World
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“I hope Governor Reagan and his people know
what they're getting in to."
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The Wag man File - *
A Transition Problem
Government Has Ignored
Washington Report - -
Reagan Wants To Head A
Moderate Administration
By JACK ANDERSON
Reagan said he will do away with the wage and
price guidelines initiated by President Carter
which, indeed, have had little impact.
At the same time, unless there' is a sudden
reversal in the economic picture, there will be
mounting pressure for mandatory wage and price
controls.
—Reagan has voiced his concern over the surge in
-interest-rates. Asked how he would correct the
^situation, he said, “That’s one of the things I’m
going to find out in the next four years.”
The country is not likely to give him that long.
WASHINGTON — uresiaent-etecT
Ronald Reagan has sent a .message
through his top advisers that he wants to
head a moderate administration. Ap-
_ parentlv. Jus wishes haven’t reached in-
You get the idea. In fact, any
reasonaDiy savvy joo appiicaiil geis irnr
By ROBERT J.WAGMAN
WASHINGTON (NEA) - A strange,
little-noticed incident at Arlington Na-
tional Cemetery recently illustrated one
of the sharpest problems facing the U S.
government during the presidential
transition.
It was early afternoon when three long
limousines pulled up in front of the Tomb
of the Unknown Soldier. Out stepped a
group of Spanish-speaking men, in-
cluding a television crew. Ignoring a
guard's order to halt, one of them laid a
wreath at the foot of the tomb as the
cameras rolled. The men then jumped
back into their cars and drove off.
The wreath was laid by Col. Luis Acre-
Gomez, interior minister of Bolivia. He
went to Arlington to record the event for
Bolivian television, although he had
been directly ordered by the State
Department to stay away from the na-
tional shrine.
His defiance — in fact, his entire visit
to Washington - showed how little atten-
tion many governments are not paying
to the Carter administration.
several areas that were key to Carter’s
foreign policy and on which Carbaugh
has long fought the outgoing president.
These include Africa, Latin America and
human rights, the last being perhaps the
most important issue to the Carter State
Department.
idea. It’s not hard to figure out whether a
“Yes” or “No" is more likely to land
them a job in the supposedly “New
Right” Congress.
coming Republican members of Con-
gress, who have been offered a 43-page
screening test for people seeking
‘employment on Capitol Hill. The curious
document is informally known as the
• • ideological purity test?’
HAD JIMMY CARTER won re-election.
Acre-Gomez would not have set foot in
the nation’a capital. That is because he
is part of a right-wing military govern-
It was thoughtfully provided by the
Republican Study Committee, which has
been the recipient of hundreds of ap-
plications since the election from people
who feel they are qualified to bring a lit-
tle Republican common sense to the
halls Of Congress. With 68 new
■ Republicans in the House and Senate,
the job program is wide open.
The Purity Test originally contained
44 questions. But one — Question No. 12
' — was deleted at the last minute. Like
all the others, it was a statement to
which prospective job applicants were
expected to answer Yes or No.
The deleted statement read: “Welfare
is the basic right of all Americans.” A
Study Committee official told my
associate Vicki W'arren that Question
No. 12 was removed because ij was caus- -
ing “too much confusion.” The decision
was made so late in the hiring game that
No. 12 was simply blotted out with white
ink.
The little quiz for job seekers was com-
Despite its obvious drawbacks, the
GOP quiz has caught the fancy of new
GOP members of Congreess. According
to a staffer for the Republican Study
Committee, one out of every four new
Beput5ncah "members' iras“”asked the~
REAGAN HAS ordered his transition
team not to speak on foreign-policy mat-
ters, but State Department sources
report that Carbaugh has left little doubt
of where he stands in his areas of special
interest. ,
He believes, for example, that the
United States should try to bring about
political change in South Africa on|y
through cooperative persuasion of the
white minority government. He has said
that while the United States should pro-
mote human rights around the world, "it
has to be kept in the proper perspec-
tive."
And he has stressed that the United
States must end its involvement with lef-
tists in Latin America and support anti-
communist regimes
This is exactly what the military
government of Bolivia wants to hear. In
contrast, officials of Carter’s State
Department have accused the regime of
numerous human-rights violations and
the outgoing president since it seized
power in a coup earlier this year.
But Acre-Gomez had come not to visit
the Carter State Department but to meet
toRonald
members in the country's flourishing
drug trade.
with fnrpign-pnliry arivisprs
Afterward, Acre-Gomez reported that
he was “well-received’’ by Carbaugh -
committee for referrals on potential
staffers who have taken the test.
■ posed a few years ago for use in the GOP
Study Committee’s own hiring. Now that
the committee has gained more clout, it
has seen fit to offer its political shib-
boleths, to possibly unwary Republicans
arriving on Capitol Hill.
HERE ARE some of the Yes-No
statements the committee suggests that
GOP senators and representatives use to
judge the applicants for jobs on their
staffs:
" Peace is best guaranteed through
‘military strength than through world
government.” ____
— Society can be improved by giving
preferential employment treatment for
a few years to women and ethnic
minorities.”
— “Parents should have no right to in-
terfere with course content and
materials deemed appropriate by pro-
fessional educators and-or boards of
education.”
— “Organized labor should be subject
to antitrust laws.”
— “Workers on strike should be per-
mitted to collect unemployment com-
pensation and draw food stamps.”
— “Federal funds should be made .
available for abortion for poor people.”
— “Affirmative action’ programs ac-
tually limit the avenues of opportunity
for all citizens and substitute
bureaucratic decisions for those of merit
in selecting personnel. ’ ’
FOOTNOTE: A Study Committee
spokesman insisted that the ideological
test wasn’t “pass-fail,” and added that
one woman who had failed had tjgen
hired.
Win Some Lose Some: A recent con-
fidential intelligence report sums up the
Kremlin’s latest achievements on the in-
ternational scgne this way: "The Soviets
have gained footholds, whether through
proxies or in their own right, in
Afghanistan, South Yemen, Ethiopia,
Angola, Grenada, Vietnam and, of
course, Cuba.
The report continues: "The im-
portance of such footholds in terms of
giving the Soviets access to port and
repair facilities, and or providing stag-
ing and landing rights, training areas
and other indispensible support to
military activities, should not be
underestimated.”
Another classified summary tots it all
up, saying: “At the present time, Soviet
advisers or military personnel can be
found in 30 countries adhering formally
to the Neutral and Non-Aligned (NNA)
Movement; Soviet arms are being sold
to 33 NNA nations."
The gloomy cloud of Soviet aggression
has its silver lining, thrqugh, according
to theU.S. intelligence-analysts’ report:
“Soviet attempts to/ insert a presence
outside their own territory have met
with setbacks as well asftrccesses. Their
record is hardly unblemished/’ ■/......
Reagan and with conservatism con-
gressmen who are close to the incoming
administration. Acre-Gomez knew they
would give him a friendlier reception
than would the lame ducks at Foggy Bot-
tom.
Acre-Gomez met chiefly with John
Carbaugh, who is emerging as a major
foreign-p/blicy adviser to the president-
elect. As the top foreign-policy aide to
arch-conservative Sen. Jesse Helms, R-
N.C., the 35-year-old Carbaugh has been
a leading opponent of the Carter ad-
ministration on the Panama Canal
treaties and on its effort to promote
black rule in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe.
Though only one of 15 members of
Reagan’s foreign-policy transition team,
Carbaugh has claimed for himself
who, he asserted, “deplored" the treat-
ment that Bolivia has received from the
Carter administration.
IS IT ANY wonder that most observers
are calling Carter’s foreign-policy staf-
fers the lamest of all the lame ducks in
government? State Department
bureaucrats, expecting a 180-degree
shift in many basic policies, are simply-
marking time until the new administra-
tion takes over.
With the growing tensions in Poland,
the Middle East and the Persian Gulf,
this situation worries many foreign-
policy professionals. But they can do lit-
tle more than hope that the troubled
world will survive until Jan. 20 without a
major blow-up.
From Sun Files- -
'60: Yule Contest Won By
Mr. And Mrs. Wooldridge
WATCHDOG Watchers: Stirred by com-
plaints of fraud and abuse by field
employees , of the Immigration” and
Naturalization Service, the agency’s of-
ficials have responded by increasing the
^ number bTempIoy^s inltstlTnce of Pro-”
fessional Responsibility from 17 to
almost 50. The new internal surveillance
has brought mutterings of “1984!” and
“Big Brother” from immigration
employees. -«■ ,
Secret cameras and internal spies are
among the devicesJtrc«gency brass hats
used to catch border patrol personnel
suspected of dealing less than fairly with
illegal aliens trying to cross into the
United States. Morale is suffering as a.
result, and a top official at immigration
acknowledged that “this is a job no one
Jikestohave.”
From The Baytown Sun files, this is
the way it was 40 and 30 and 20 years
ago:
DEC. 31,1940
Past winners of the annual First Baby
contest are pictured on the front page to-
.day. They include Carole Sue Wilks,
three; Aerille Velia Merchant, two, and
Melba Sue Shamblin, the first baby of
1940. ' '
Mr. and Mrs. B.E. Sutphin will host a
New year's Day dinner at their home,
207Indiana.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry K. Johns(gi Sr.
plan their annual open house for mends
on New Year's I)av at their Highlands '
home.
Mr. and Mrs. R.G. Heider will enter-
tain friends tomorrow at their home in
Wooster.
Open house will be held by Mr. and
Mrs. Shannon Morris at their home in
Lamar Court
' DEC. 31,1950
Ganders lose a basketball game by one
point to Harlingen, Starting for the
Ganders are Gerald Wright, Rollin
Russell and Terry Page.
Houston Post columnist. Marguerite
Johnston will speak at the next meeting
of the American Association^ Universi-
ty Women in Baytown, announces Mrs
Thad Fennema. president
DEC. 31,1960
Winners in the Christmas lighting con-
test in Anahuac are Mr. and Mrs. J.B.
“Jimbo” Wooldridge.
J. Bryan Stratton is a national winner
in a sales contest conducted by an in-
surance company.
Tommy Reagan leads the Cedar
- Bayou Bears ttra-frasketfeati-victory over—
the Alvin Junior High cagers.
College students are honored at an
open house in the home of the Rev. and
Mrs. Earl Bissex. The honored guests
are Jimmy Hutto of Texas Tech; Tom
Purdy, Martha Kay Frazier, Necia
Adams and Gary Weatherly, all of Texas
Christian University ; Eddie McDonald.
Charles Moore and Bruce Mohr, all of
Lee College.
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Fred Hornberger..........................Assistant to Publisher
Fred Hortmciri....... ............Editor and Publisher, 1950-1974
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Today is Wednesday,
Dec. 31, the 366th day of the
year. This is the last day of
1980.
. Today’s highlight in
history:
On Dec. 31, 1946, the end
of World War II was of-
ficially proclaimed by
President Harry Truman.
On this date:
In 1879, Thomas Edison
first demonstrated the elec-
tric incandescent light at
Menlo Park, N.J.
In 1890. Ellis Island in
New York Harbor was
opened as a center to
receivelmmigrants.
In 1943, there was a near-
riot of bobby-soxers in New
York’s Times Square as
Frank Sinatra opened a
singing engagement at the
Paramount Tbe’atre.
In 1(976, President Gerald
Ford proposed statehood
for Puerto Rico.
Ten years ago: The
Soviet Union commuted the
death sentence of two Jews
convicted of trying to hi-
jack an airliner to Israel.
One year ago: Diplomats
reported that the Soviet
Union had moved another
20,000 troops across the
Afghanistan border — br-
inging to 100,000 the
estimated number of Soviet
troops helping the Afghan
government put down
Moslem rebels.
Today’s birthdays:
Fashion designer Diane von
Furstenberg is 34. Singer
John Denver is 37. Singer
Donna Summer is 32.
DECEMBER 31, 1776:
Washington maintained
an army by persuading
soldiers to re-enlist.
Thoughts
Bible
Verse
BEHOLD, A virgin shall
be with child, and shall br-
ing forth a son, and they
shall call his name Em-
manuel, which being in-
terpreted Is, God with us.
Matthew 1:23
The vine is often mentioned
in the Old and New Testa-
ments. It grew luxuriantly
and had immense clusters of
grapes which were sometimes
carried on a staff/ between
two men. It is used as a meta-
phor often in the Bible. Jesus
called himself the"vine and his
followers the branches to sig-
nify their spiritual unity.
“I am the vine, ye are the
branches: He that abideth in
me,- and I in him, the same
bringeth forth much fruit: for
without me ye can do
nothing.” — John 15:5 '
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