The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, December 5, 1980 Page: 4 of 24
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iearagua May Not
Be Free After All
A light may be failing in Central America.
The news out of Nicaragua these days is not en-
couraging for those who have hoped that the over-
throw of the Somoza dynasty a year and a half ago
would bring liberation to that long oppressed and
exploited country, a genuine new order^n which a
variety of political viewpoints would .be peftnitted
expression. Instead, revolutionary Nicaragua
may be well on the way to repeating an all too
familiar Latin story - the replacement of an old
repression with a new one.
EVENING
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THE BAYTOWN SUN
The split between the Sandinista guerillas, who
dominated the revolution, and their uneasy allies
among private business interests and traditional
political parties is rapidly deepening. Activities of
the latter are being obstructed, leading to a pro-
test walkout from the Council of State early in
November. Some 50 business leaders are under
arrest and one prominent ffgure, the head of the
coffee growers association, died in aTi armed con-
frontation with security forces, a consequence,
according to-Sandinista spokesmen, of hii i|>
volvement in ^couiiterfevolutionary’’activities.'
Government-connected press and broadcasting
facilities, which means just about all, are engag-
ed in an all-out media campaign against the
counterrevolutionary threat while the country’s
leading and fiercely independent newspaper, La
Prensa of Managua, is finding it increasingly
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believe this two-thousand dollar total must be a
tough going to print all the news, about Nicaragua .
elieves should be-printed.
it believes should beprinted
What it adds up to is a disturbing turn for the
worse in the few short months since Nicaraguans
celebrated the first anniversary of the overthrow
of one of the most squalidly oppressive regimes
the Hemisphere has had the misfortune to have
experienced. /
At that time, in mid-July, the country, although
facing a massive reconstruction effort, was seen
by many as the bright hope of the entire region’s
future. True, the Sandinistas by their own defini-
tion are Marxists. Cuban advisers are the most
active evidence of foreign aid to date, and Fidel
Castro in flamboyant person was the'star of the
anniversary celebrations. /
But the revolution had been %on by a united
front and the immediate result was not a one’-
party state, but an effort at political pluralism.
The new regime also had lines open to the United
States. At considerable political cost tQ itself, the
Carter administration, which had helped speed
Somoza’s departure, was prying an aid package
out of a reluctant Congress. Even the Cubans
were reported advising the Nicaraguans against
repeating Cuban mistakes. And the new govern-
ment was politically backed and economically
assisted by the Caribbean’s two greatest regional
powers, oil-rich Mexico and Venezuela;
That was July. Much h‘as happened since, star-
ting in August when the Sandinistas put off until
1985 elections for a constitutional government
that political and business interests had been
pressing for. Remnants of the Somoza national
guard have continued to harry the new govern-
ment, which has responded with the stepped-up
carnpaigo against counterrevolutionaries. The
assassination of Anastasio Somoza in his
Paraguayan exile appears only to have fueled it
further. 1
And if La Prensa, in seeking to go its indepen--
dent way, is not being officially censored, the
results are effectively the same. The instrument
is a decree, increasingly invoked, strictly con-
trolling dissemination of in|prmation impinging
on the national security and economy.
It is ironic that La Prensa should now be a
target. It was the murder of the paper’s former-
editor, Joaquin Chamorro, by the Somoza regime ,
that possibly more than any other single incident
may have guaranteed the siiccess of the revolu-
tion. It brought the Nicaraguan situation to world
attention and subjected Somoza regime to conti-
nuing scrutiny it could not endure.
Nicaragua today is taking 6ri"the characteristic
coloration of a revolution in decay, passing from
the first euphoric stage of liberation of all from-
one^oppressimJothe^
repression by those newly dominant.
Still; advocates of political pluralism have not
surrendered and thfe revolution may yet be saved
from its own excesses. The light in Nicaragua is
Washington Report - -
'Permanent Bureaucracy'
51 May Block Reagan Plans
By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON — Ronald Reagan
won’t be the first president full of
righteous determination to transform
. and remotivate the bureaucrats under
him. He is rightly alarmed over the vast
breadth of federal activity and the depth
of its penetration into the once-private
activities of thp American people.
But if Reagan is at ail like his
predecessors, he will be gently detooth-
ed and bound up by the rope-knowing
Lilliputians of the permanent
bureaucracy. So gradually and invisibly
will they tighten the bonds that he may
never appreciate the extent to which he
is in their grip.
His pledge to eliminate the
bureaucratic deadwood won’t be easy to
achieye. For there is no clear standard
to apply to the bureaucracy’s per-
formance, no sure way to determine
either excessive cost or concrete
achievement.
In private business, a standard of com-
petence is furnished inexorably by the
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to reduce expenditures than looking for
ways to spend money.
The alternative? In 10th-century
Egypt, a slave caste called the
Mamelukes was entrusted by the sultans
with the public administration. The
Mamelukes soon became the new line of-
sultans.
The czars, though they could reduce a
whole population to serfdom, were not
. able to subjugate their bureaucracy
once it got established. Even the master
of people-power, Mao Tse-tung, could
not prevail over the bureaucracy he
established.
Footnote: Only.a part Of government
expansion can be blanled on the
bureaucracy’s inner dynamics. An even
greater impetus comes from outside —
in the demand of society-at large for
m«^^rvic«lfiai5eBarerilI8RTM
By WILLIAM STEIF
‘‘Don’t try to push your kids into your
dream world, ” says Alice J. Irby.
Ms. Irby is a button-bright brunette in
her 40s. Her daughter, Andi, 19, is “com-
fortable and doing fairly well” in her se-
cond year at the University of Virginia.
Alice Irby says she “didn’t encourage
Andi to strive for a highly competitive
college”,— that is, for the Ivy League.
The “dream world” Ms. Irby talks
about is one that ambitious parents
create for their children in the big leap
from high school to college.
She knows. She has been a University
teacher; and a director of admissions at
Rutgers University in New Jersey. Two
years ago she left Rutgers to come to
Washington as vice president of the
Educational Testing Service, the
Princeton, N.J., outfit that prepares the
Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT).
You may recall that recently there
was a big flap about the SAT,, a stan-
dardized multiple-choice test for the
college-bound high schoolers made up of
separate verbal and math sections. A
Ralph Nader investigative team took a
hard look at the SAT’s and said they
were unfair because they don’t predict
well enough, or predict the wrong things,
or fail to measure traits of character, or
are culturally biased, or are susceptible
to coaching, or are devised in secret. Or
all of the above.
side of Nader’s organizations, came
from the 1.8 million-member National
Education Association, which doesn’t
like testing because it tends to reflect on
teacher’s competence.
Now the 1980-81 round of SATs has
begun. Between November and next spr-‘
ing there'll be seven national ad-
ministrations of SATs, about 300,000
more will take the Princeton outfit’s
achievement test, and almost a million,
mainly in the Midwest, will take the
Iowa-based American College Testing
exam.- '
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EVEN BEFORE the investigative
report came out last January, Nader-
inspired Public Interest Research t
Groups had attacked the SATs and got
New York’s legislature to enact a law
mandating that test answers be
available to those who took the tests. For
a price, naturally. ' “
Rep. Ted Weiss, D-N.Y., introduced a
bill in the House seeking to transform
the New York statue into federal law.
Legislation similar to New York’s was
' introduced m--33-etat»- iegkjaturos, but,
ALL THE TESTS are .aimed at
eliminating irrelevant variables in sear-
ching for how much a student knows.
The idea is to maintain a constant scale
over a period of time, despite changing
test forms aVid different kinds of
students.
The SAT shouldn’t be frightening if a
youngster has worked in school. 1-mJ ‘
Alice Irby has spme tips for parents
and teen-agers: • s
— Don’t get so exercised about the ......
tests; they're only one factor in admis-
sion to college and seldom the most im-
portant.”
— Don’t get fixed on one college; think
of at least three colleges, and think of
them in terms of size, social and cultural
climate, faculty and libraries.”.
She says, “The main thing is not to get
anxious about one college or one test."
Youngsters should have “a solid
academic program in high school” and if
they do, there's no need for coaching. ■
"There are no quick fixes." ’ ^
Most of the nation's parents seem to
take this sensible view. Pollster Daniel '.
Yankelovich recently checked parental
sentiment about SATs and found that •
two-thirds Of parents support them and f
feel they’re unbiased.
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into an even more
more is left Jo the authorities, but no one
trusts them to perform. Eventually this
mistrust and resentment spreads to all
authority, though the dependence on it
does not lessen. ' *
profit factor. If a business branch is
wasteful, loses monty or its profits
decline, a bell goes off at headquarters
and that branch is either pruned or cut
off. Whether a branch manager is doing
a good or a bad job will be proved
definitively_by the profit-and-loss figure.
But the government-bureau, with no
such automatic arbiter, can always
claim that a poor result.could be improv-,
ed upon with a bigger staff and more
money. The bureau chief, is rewarded,
not for efficiency which cannot be
measured, but by the number of people
he has under him. The more bodies, the
higher his grade. •'-- ■
THE BUREAUCRATS, therefore, have
developed a cavalier attitude toward
government appropriations. Enough is-
"never sufficient, they muBt ailwuyuluivu
DIPLOMATIC DILEMMA: The State
Department has a tricky personnel pro-
blem. It involves the receptionists sta-
tioned in Foggy Bottom’s main en-
trances. ; „
On the one hand, the crush of visitors
— whether tourists or those on official
business, including high muckamucks
who feel .entitled to the best diplomatic
treatment — has resulted in long lines
more suitable to a supermarket than to
Uncle Sam’s window on the world.
On the other hand, the receptionists
are not likely to stay at their menial
posts very long, the reason is that some
visiting dignitary, with half an hour to do
nothing but observe a comely recep-
tionist being gracious and charming,
-may offer her a job,that far surpasses
nothing came of it.
As it’s turned out. only 7 percent of
those taking. SATs in New York spend
the $4 needed to see the test answers,
and these have been wealthier, whiter
high-scoring youngsters. New York law
had another result, though: 20 of 26
testing programs. feeling harassed, lefl
the state.
-JF-YOUiaE a teen-ager, or a teen-ager’s
parent, and face an SAT, you Should
read the pamphlet, “Taking the SAT.”
It’s available at the local high school
free, for youngsters registering for the
SAT; individual copies can be had for $3
by writing College Board Publications
Orders. P.O. Box 2815. Princeton, NJ
Q8541. YOU may also want “Six Points
, Weiss’, legislation didn’t go anywhere
and isn’t likely to. Its chief support, out-
about Special Preparation for the SAT,"
free from The College Board, 888
Seventh Ave., New York. NY 1Q019.
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his share of thi
inherence
more. With expansion and expenditure
as their motive, they are constantly-
maneuvering for more moneyv which
they squander with there’s-more-where-
that-came-from abandon. . ■
If I may be permitted, a modest sug-
gestion, a more powerfm incentive is
needed .to save money. -Sp why -not „
reward ’|he\bufeaucrats|o| seeking lgv\
and eliminating unnec^siaVy ex^r^
ditures? Instead of the higher salaries
they now get for padding the budget,
why not give them bonuses for cutting
the budget?
If the bureaucrats were offered, say, a
flat 10 percent of all the "money they
save, the. taxpayers would save 90 per-
cent. Thus some clerk in his cubicle
the $0,000 n year the State Department
by saving the taxpayers hundreds of
millions.of dollars. The fortunate clerk
would merely need to locate the waste
and convince a citizens’ board that the
nation could do without it,
not out completely, but it is becoming increasing- _UndgrmypjaiL
ly difficult to read the good news by it. have more to gam by searching for ways
budgets for her diplomatic talents:
The result is that most receptionists
stay on the’job only about thr;ee or four
months.
_ Hoping to shorten the waiting lines,
and thus reduce the receptionist’s ex-
posure to potential employers, the State
Department has instructed Its bigshbt^
to meet tljteir visitors in the lobby; 1
^l^^erfqssiDlei That way! of course,
officials can get the first crack at poten-
tial receptionists for their own offices.
Shhhhh!: However well the Central In-
telligence Agency is doing in gathering
information, it is far from enthusiastic
about releasing it? according to congres-
sional sources. The CIA has one of the
biggest backlogs of requests under the
Act of any .
governmental agency. In fact, the critics
complain, the only jjjwernment bureau..
that comes close tome CIA’s institu-
tional reticence is the FBI.pThe only
mystifying aspect of all this is why the
From The Baytown Sun files, this is
the way it was 40 and 30 and 20. ypars
■ ago:
DEC. 5,1940 V
B.B. Williams, Goose Creek city
engineer, is the new president of the Tri-
Cities Junior Chamber of Commerce.
-J.E. Rutter wiH succeed^ Williams- as a
state director in the organization.
W.M. Knowles is elected council com-
mander of the Goose Creek Camp of the
Woodmen of the World.
Dr^P.S. Russell, physician, will open a
new drug store in Pelly. The building is
located next to the Derryberry Grocery
—Store on a site formerly occupied by the
NuGulf Theater. ,. J ,
The Gander basketball team is .work-
ing out daily under the direction of
Coach H.S. Malone. This year’s squad in-
cludes A.C. Waldrep, Pat Sullivan, War-
ren Gouner, Mack Holland, Harley
Ashley, Ross Smith, Orville Hutto, Leroy
Denson, Doug Stewart, Mickey McHugh,
Lawrence Kern. Payton Williams, Bill
Grant, O.D. Fikes, Jack Burton, Joe
Hazelwood. Louis Strobe! and-Oscar
Kiilgore1.
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Fred Hornberger ..........................Assistant to Publisher
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Vanda Orton Managing'Editor
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Dear Editor;
The Baytown postmaster
describes the city council’s
complaints to Washington
about Baytown postal ser-
vice as ‘a trial'after a hang-
ing.’ He doesn’t like our
mayor’s description of
postal service. He objected
to a Baytown Sun editorial
and pictures spotlighting
poor service, ______ ._
only a handful of employees
and cites other problems.
He says he is upset by a
lack of input by the city.
tusocumnss
I say horsefeathefs to the
Baytown postmaster.-I do
not work for the city but
will whip up some free in-
put right here. I endorse thev
city council’s actions, and I
like Mayor Emmett Hutto’s
description of conditions at
waited in line at the main
post office 30 to 40 minutes
for window service. No holi-
day. No commemorative
stamps offered, just* win-
dows tied up by aliens fill-
ing out forms, etcr -------- —
Baytown is no one-horse
town, and we certainly
deserve better service than
we are now getting at the
post office. Let’s be proud.
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dians skirmished at Le
Petit Fort, Ind.
By Ned
DEC. 5,1950
A Harris County Grand JuryTmds no
evidence of police payoffs here. “I‘ni
glad to live in a town where the good peo-
ple are in such a large majority," Police
Chief H.E McKee responds. “I’m proud
of the confidence expressed in me and
pledge myself to try even harder to
make this the cleanest city in Texas.”-
A Phillips 66 Service Station will be
built on the southwest corner of West
\ Main and Causeway Road. The company
bought^the land for $20,000 from C.Q.
“DEC. 5,1960
W.D. “Bill” Allison iS the new coor-
dinator of Baytown Little League. He
succeeds E.H. “Bucket” Oliver.
Mrs, HiE Archia, former Baytown
teacher, died in Los Angeles where she
had lived since December 1959.
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gootl ond subicient reason Please keep liters short The Sun reserves the njht to exceipt let
. lie told the city council he -
conducted a survey which
revealed that the waitirfg
time in lines at the post of-
fice was very short, and that
many times there were no
customers. He. said he has
said they were
“deplorable” and advised
the postmaster to get out
and mix with the people.
Recently a large group of
peoplfe, a including ^myself.
we live in a town where the
mayor and council
members are not afraid to
buck the system, where the
newspaper is not controlled
by the establishment.
s'' Paul Weaver
3 J 800 N. Circle
FOR THE word of God is
quick, And powerful, and
sharper than a two-
edged sword, piercing
even to the dividing
asunder of soul and spirit,
and of the joints and mar-
row, and is a discerner of
the thoughts and intents of
the heart. Hebrews 4:12
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