The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 133, Ed. 1 Friday, April 5, 1985 Page: 4 of 24
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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Friday. April 5, INS
From Sun files
(EDITORIAL
Reagan's jokes
risky business
It is risky for high office holders to openly speak their
minds or joke about what the public may perceive as a
serious matter.
Sometimes politicians learn to their sorrow that jokes
and other questionable remarks are not always private
and often return to haunt the sayer, frequently by cir-
cuitous routes.
~*s President Reagan s humor amuses his listeners and
lightens the burdens of his office, but there are always
people who find no room for levity in some of his
remarks. He has been taken to task more than once for
efforts to inject humor into serious situations.
One of his most memorable, and most controversial,
remarks was uttered at a time when he thought the
microphone in his hand was “dead.”
* “My fellow Americans,” be said, “I am pleased to tell
you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia
forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.”
Even though everyone knew what the president said
was a joke, primarily intended to amuse reporters.and
television cameramen, his detractors twisted his
remarks, attributing to them unintended portent and
meaning.
Reagan's latest joke stirred a storm of criticism, par-
ticularly from farm belt representatives, when he said
America "should keep its grain and export the
farmers.” He was chastised for having an “uncaring at-
titude' ' toward troubled farmers.
Texas Sen. Phil Gramm is the latest victim of a
backfiring joke. He said he was jesting when he
repeated a rumor that a Gulf Coast senator offered to
trade a vote on the MX missile for gaining a battleship
task force for the senator’s state.
!* i Shakespeare said, “Even the very walls have ears.”
just more gab about flab
’. For those of us with a Tittle flab around the middle, the
news from Washington was scary. A panel convened by
the National Institute of Health recently concluded that
any amount of overweight — even 3 pounds — is a
disease and that “obesity is a killer.”
But that report shouldn’t prompt you to stock up on
low-cal frozen foods or start a binge diet. There’s far
less in its findings than meets the eye: No new evidence
against obesity, only a highly problematic reinterpreta-
tion of what’s already known. The NIH panelists were
initially prepared to set the limit of what’s safe at 40 per-
ent over ideal weight when members of the audience
talked them into cutting it 20 percent.
But 20 percent over what? The panel lifted its ideal
weights from those familiar height and weight tables.
Yet the tables themselves are far from ideal: They are
derived from an atypical sample of the population and
use “frame sizes” with no scientific basis. That’s why
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., which publishes
them, no lohger refers to them as tables of “desirable”
weight and cautions against relying on them for making
individual medical determinations.
Substantial overweight, however it is defined, plainly
\ affects more than one’s’vanity. It is associated with
heart disease, arthritis, diabetes and gallstones,
among other maladies, and that’s reason enough to take
the problem seriously. What the panel didn’t report was
that some diseases, particularly hypertension, are more
likely to be caused not by fatness, but by the familiar cy-
cle of gorge and starve.
A
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money
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Jack Anderson
Both gratitude, resentment
felt by Egyptian president
I DON'T WHAT
KIND Or DIET THEM PUT ME
OM-I'M NOT GOlN’ BELOW
2.V, MILK/
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WASHINGTON - Poor-
mouthing is a venerable tech-
nique used by the world’s big-
league beggars when they come
to Washington Needy potentates
trying to extract a few billion
from Congress tend to paint as
dreary A picture as possible of
their situations
Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak, an expert at the game,
was in town last month seeking
more aid for his impov-
erished country. He resorted to
poor-mouthing, just like any na-
tional leader looking for a
handout from Uncle Sugar.
Mubarak is torn between
gratitude for the billions he has
already received and the resent-
ment that dependence
engenders. But he regards the
U.S. Treasury as a fat cow to be
milked. And be. left town with
about $500 million in U.S. aid.
which isn’t bad in the interna-
tional begging league
The U.S. Embassy in Cairo
tried to prepare the State
Department for Mubarak's pitch
by sending information on Egyp-
tian oil revenues. The Egyptians
claimed that the income from
the Sinai oil fields, which Israel
gave back to Egypt in 1976, has
dropped significantly in the last
couple of years. >
In a confidential cable, the
Cairo, obtained by my associate
Lucette Lagnado. also reported
a bit of plain and fancy poor-
mouthing by the Egyptians: “Al-
though the Egyptian govern-
ment has claimed that oil
revenues declined significantly
in 1983-84 over 1982-83 in its re-
quest to the United States for in-
creased assistance, this claim is
not supported by the revenue
figures provided to the embassy
by the (Egyptian) Ministry of
Petroleum.”
The Egyptians evidently made
no attempt to cover up their little
white lie. They gave the em-
bassy revenue figures for the
last three fiscal years, which
showed that while exports from
the Sinai oil fields had, in fact,
increased some $112 million in
1983-84- they were vstiB sig-
nificantly below the figure for
1981-82.
The embassy also reported
that the Sinai oil fields are ex-
pected to run diy in another 10
years. The Egyptian govern-
- Readers' views
To The Sun .
We read about a lot of griping
and “second-guessing on the
part of some of our citizens in
regard to the school board’s re-
cent decision to realign the high
school attendance boundaries
I applaud their recent decision
to’affirm their earlier efforts to
adjust the enrollment patterns
between Lee and Sterling High
Sdwots. ft took courage to resist
ment is already considering ra-
tioning as a means of stretching
the rapidly shrinking oil supply
in the face of growing demand.
Egypt’s oil resources obvious-
ly would provide little more than
limousine maintenance for a
country like Saudi Arabia, which
makes administration sources
feel that perhaps Mubarak
should do a little more belt-tight-
ening.
“A special cabinet-level com-
mittee ... is now examining
energy price reform,” the em-
bassy cabled. “Electricity price
increases for some users may be
implemented this spring.”
This falls into the category of
interesting-if-true. In a country
where a penny increase in the
price of subsidized bread pro-
voked bloody riots a few years
ago, removing the subsidy on
energy seems unlikely.
Meanwhile, despite
Mubarak’s apparent success at
the White Hohse. there is some
feeling on Capitol Hill that aid to
Egypt should be looked at more
carefully. For example, Rep.
Larry Smith. D-Fla., is investi-
gating the Egyptian aid situa-
UNDER THE DOME: Congress
wastes more time on petty and
irrelevant procedural matters
than most members would like
to admit. Rep Harry Reid, D-
Nev., objects specifically to the
daily, time-consuming ritual of
approving the journal of the
previous day’s proceedings
. During 1984, for example, the
journal approval took more than
2,500 congressional member-
hours. Reid suspects its a device
used by members who didn’t
crane out too well in the previous
day’s debate and who simply
want to inconvenience the rest of
the members.
Unfortunately, when Reid
tried to do something about the
double standard that prevails in
Washington, separating VIPs
from ordinary folks. She wanted
to bold her daughter’s wedding
reception in the Botanic
Gardens, the elegant greenhouse
at the foot of Capitol Hill that
provides plants for congres-
sional offices and floral delight
for tourists. Not a fchance. she
was told: Activities in the big
glass building had to be “govern-
ment-related or educational and
cultural in nature."
Then she read about two
lobbyists who held their wedding
reception there after being mar-
ried by a Baptist minister and
congressman. Rep. William
Gray, D-Pa.
• Just because they are lob-
byists doesn’t mean that they
should have precedence over
me.’’ she fumed. Maybe if she
had asked the Rev. Gray to of-
ficiate at her daughter’s wed-
ding. ' »
BUMBLING ALONG: While
thousands of Africans starve,
diplomats of nations that could
do something about a long-range
solution are engaged in an un-
seemly wrangle over protocol
and pecking order. Here’s the
disgraceful story:
The International Fund for
Agricultural Development is run
by the United Nations but funded
4 by the Organization of Pe-
* troleum Exporting Countries
and the Western industrial na-
tions, including the United
States. Its purpose is to help
Third World farmers increase
production and adopt better
agricultural practices.
Ever since it was founded in
1977, the contributions were
divided roughly on the lines of 58
percent fra the Western nations
and 42 percent for OPEC, with
equal voting rights for each
group. But with the recent drop
in oil prices, OPEC says it can’t
afford to keep up its contribution
at the usual level. The consensus
at the funds seems to be that the
Western nations should make up
the difference.
But the State Department, fac-
ed with a distrust of the fund by
many conservatives in Con-
gress. has declined to pledge
more -* unless the Vbting ratio
within the organization is chang-
ed to reflect the ratio of contribu-
tions.
On such fatuous falderal do the
diplomats dither — while starva-
tion threatens millions.
CORRECTION: A recent col-
umn carried the wrong address
for the Young Astronaut Council.
The correct address is 1015 15th
St., N.W., Suite 905, Washington,
DC. 20005.
Jack Anderson n « cobunaafor United
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Bill Comwetl
Gory Dobbs
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killed on
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From The Baytown Sun files,
this is the way it was 40 and 30
and 20 years ago:
APRIL 5,1846*
The Tri-Cities today mourns
the death of another of its boys in
service. It has been learned that
Pfc. John Grant died on March
17 of wounds received at Iwo
Jima. Son of Mr. and Mrs. W.L.
Grant of Gulf Hill, he was re-
jected four times before he final-
ly persuaded a recruiting officer
to’accept him in the. Maripes.
Although he had been in the ser-
vice more than a year, he had
never returned home after his
enlistment. He went overseas in
November 1944.
J.W. Frymire becomes presi-
dent of the Council of Members
of the Tri-Cities Welfare League.
Blanche Duplantis is secretary-
treasurer. Board members are
E.D. Cleveland, Milton Kelley,
Ray Long, Forrest McKjpney
and L.G. Senders.
H.G. Bailey, who is returning
to office on the Goose Creek City
Commission, renews his pledge
to serve the citizens.
APRIL 5,1955
More than 2,100 Baytown
school children will be inocu-
lated with the Salk polio vaccine
if a report on the vaccine shows
it to be effective in preventing
the crippling disease.
Clara Mathis is recovering
from injuries in a car wreck at
North Pruett and West Sterling.
Robert E. Lee students Bill
Laughlin, Barbara Mills, Jima
Jones and Don Elms will partici-
pate in a panel discussion at a
meeting of the Baytown City
Council of Parents and Teachers
at the Community House.
APRIL 5,1965
Bobby Joe Austin and W.H.
Kilgore win the Barbers Hill
School Board election
In a runoff election, six
Baytown School Board candi-
dates will contend for three
trustee positions. They are Seth. *
Mitchell and incumbent L.D.
Victory, Position 5; Sam Alford
and Dan Saveli, Position 6;
incumbent A.R. “Von” Stark
and Paul Parkinson, Position 7.
Shields Motor Co. buys the:
Higginbotham Motor Co., deal-;
ership for Chrysler-Plymouth.;
Floyd Higginbotham ^s presi-;
dent of the "'selling company,
while Garland Shields heads the
Shields Motor Co. . -
Todo^
in history
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS i
Today is Friday, April 5, the;
95th day of 1985. There are 270;
days left in the year. This is
GoodFriday.
Today’s highlight in history:
On April 5, 1792, President
George Washington cast his first
veto, rejecting a Congressional
measure for apportioning;
representatives among the
states. . |
Chi this date:
In 1614, American Indian
princess Pocahontas married
English colonist John Rolfe in
Virginia. , ,
In 1621, the Mayflower sailed
from Plymouth, Mass., on a
return trip to England.
In 1887, Anne Sullivan achiev-
ed a major breakthrough with
her blind and deaf pupil, Helen
Keller, by teaching her the
meaning of the word “water” as
spelled out in the Manual
Alphabet.
In 1951„ Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg were sentenced to
death following their conviction
on charges of being atomic spies
for the Soviet Union.
In 1964, General of the Army
Douglas MacArthur died in
Washington. D.C., at the age of
In 1976, reclusive billionaire
Howard Hughes died at the ag«K
of 72.
Tenyears- ago: Nationalist
Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek
died in Taipei, Taiwan, of a
heart attack at the age of 87.
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that followed, cried, saying
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cmneth to the name of the Lord.
Mark 11:8-6
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