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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Tuesday, March 5, 1985
‘EDITORIAL
Death pena Ity
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laws too weak
Many Texans apparently were not aware of a
weakness in the state death-penalty statute until it
became generally known during the past several mort-
ths.that mass murderers cannot be charged with capital
murder, which would make them subject to the death
penalty.
Spurred by public pressure, the Legislature likely will
amend the law during the current session. JLJnder cur-
rent law, only five kinds of murder are classified as
capital crimes, punishable by death. These include
murder oh a police officer or firefighter, murder for
hire, murder during some violent felonies, such as rape
and robbery, murder by an inmate of a prison system
employee, and murdering during escape from custody.
The Hous$ Jurisprudence Committee has approved a
bill under which multiple murderers could face the
death penalty. Authored by Rep. Tony Polumbo, D-
Houston, and Rep: Patricia Hill, R-Dallas, the measure
would close this unfortunate loophole in state law.
If the death penalty applied to every murder, the fear
of such punishment would be a great deterrent. One life
is as precious as another, and so it should be a capital
crime to commit murder. Let the exceptions be argued
in the courtroom.
The Polumbo-Hill bill is part of House Speaker Gib
Lewis’ anti-crime package. Current law does not
classify multiple murders or repeat killings by previous
offenders as capital offenses. Many mass killers now
receive a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, with
possible parole in 20 years, in which case punishment
fails to fit the crime.
We urge the Legislature to pass these measures
without delay. - i ■ -
Union still feared
Although the outlawed Solidarity labor union in
Poland is forced to operate underground, it is still feared
, political force by Poland’s Communist
government.
Faced with ^mounting opposition by Solidarity
ifflemhers and sympathizers, and even by the Com-
munist party-controlled trade unions that replaced
Solidarity, the Communist government has Dacked
sawa&frem plans for sweeping food price increases.
Instead, the government said, the new pricing system
willfce instituted slowly along with higher compensation
payments by the government to low income groups.
Under threat of imprisonment, Solidarity leader Lech
Walesa called on workers to mount a 15-minute general
strike to protest price increases. It was the first time the
government-sponsored trade unions and the once-free
Solidarity organization were on the same side in a
dispute with the government. . '
The official trade unions issued a statement objecting
to across-the-board price hikes and critizing plans to lift
some iorms mf iood Tatlonlng as “dangerous from a
social point of view.”
The unions also attacked proposed compensation
payments as being too low, and said price increases
would lead to a decrease in the standard of living for
working people ‘ ‘which we cannot approve. ’ ’
* The Solidarity protest was not without government
retaliation. At least 14 of those brave enough to publicly
oppose the food price increase were arrested.
again their desire to shed the Communist yoke is
* stronger than their fear of government reprisals.
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Jack Anderson
Rewald's lawyers puzzled
over number of mysteries
Washington - cia style:
In an earlier column, I related
how the CIA had tried to obstruct
my Investigation of the Ronald
Rewald case. Now I have learn-
ed that others have experienced
similar harassment.
Rewald claims he was a CIA
operative; he is under indict-
ment for fraud and perjury. He
claims the CIA bankrolled his
Honolulu-based investment firm
as a front for covert operations
in the Pacific. The firm event-
ually collapsed at a loss to inves-
tors of $11 million.
Before Rewald was silenced
by a court gag order, he was in-
the tapes were needed immedi-
ately as part of the investigation.
Taylor did some checking. He
found that Rewald was ve:y
much-alive, visiting relatives in
Wisconsin.
Another curious incident,
which had the fingerprints of the
CIA all over it, was reported to
my office by Melvin Belli, the
famed San Francisco attorney.
He has filed a multimillion-dol-
lar lawsuit against the CIA in
Rewald’s behalf.
In the fall of 1983, while CIA of-
ficials were secretly negotiating
with Rewald to buy his silence, a
man showed up in Belli’s office
out on Rewald’s lile.*-^.....'
Belli’s office mailed the affi-
davit to the official, with sug-
gested corrections, for the notar-
ized signature. The official com-
pleted the affidavit and mailed it
back. But the law office received
an empty envelope.
MAKING A KILLING: The fed-
eral governnfent, gives indirect
aid and comfort to the National
Rifle Association,‘•which spends
considerable sums each year to >
lobby against gun-control legis-
lation. . **
Because the prfiX'is the only
“official” gun group in the coun-
From Sun files
'65: Cravey
candidate
for mayor
From The Baytown Sun files,
this is the way it was 40 and 30
and 20 years ago:
MARCH 5,1945
Former Mayor W.C. Williams
of Pelly withdraws as a can-
didate in the city’s April elec-
tion. He previously had been pit-
ted in a three-way race with
Mayor C.H. Olive and Eddie
Cleveland.
Joe W. Walker, 18, who
entered the service last August,
is fighting ip Belgium. He is the
sopoLMr. and Mrs. J.W. Walker
of Pelly.
Pvt. Napoleon D. Thompson,
sen of Mr. and Mrs. A.H. Thomp-
son of Goose Creek, is seriously
wounded in action in Germany. \
Mrs. Charles M. Boyer, out-
standing pianist from the Tri-
Cities, presents a musical pro-
gram for the Junior League in
Houston. —---—
MARCH 5,1955
The Baytown area needs 2,500
air raid wardens, says W.C.
“Pop” Swain, chief of the air
raid section of Civil Defense.
Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Erlund of
Crosby celebrate their 50th wed-
ding anniversary.
General Telephone Co. is in-
stalling cable under Cedar
Bayou near the bascule bridge to
improve phone service in the
Tri-City Beach area.
MARCH 5,1965
Councilman Seaborn Cravey
decides to run for mayor. Coun-
cilman Jack Huron, who had
been thinking about running for
mayor, says he will not be a can-
didate and that he will support
Cravey for the office. A new can-
didate for councilman is Ray-
mond Donnelly. ,
Mrs. W.K. Puderbaugh is
chairman of the annual
smorgasbord sponsored by the
Pilot Gub. She is assisted by
Mrs. Paul Holladay, Mrs. Mar-
in a
ducted in great secrecy
Honolulu hotel room.
The next day, an anonymous
caller phoned Taylor’s camera-
man and asked what time the
crew planned to meet Rewald
fbr the second session. But the
cameraman’s affiliation with
the BBC was known only to the
other crew members.
The CIA then apparently at-
tempted a “sting operation^’ to
get the videotapes. The agency
called the Chicago distributor
and demanded the tapes before
they were aired, explaining that
Rewald had been found dead and
dues-paying members. The gov- Rishet1, Mrs. S.P. Blumberg and
emment doesn’t pay its employ- Wjlladene Hines.
“ -SL-M?.: Rayroo°l‘
ing Corp. The taping was con- offered the following deal to
' ~ Belli’s associate, Paul Mon- ees’$15-a-year dues, but it en-
ZI<^e: 1 , , . . courages guntoting lawmen to
Rewald was to check into a j0intheorization,
psychiatric hospital from which For exa*pfe; Customs
the CIA would quietly whisk him offlcers who want to t on the
out the next day. He would be
given $50,000 and a new identity.
In return, Rewald was to drop
the lawsuit and take a vow of
silence. v
Monzione declined the anony-
mous offer.
Still another mystery has
Rewald’s lawyers scratching
their heads. A former prison of-
ficial signed an affidavit swear-
ing there was a CIA “contract”
agency’s pistol team had to en-
ter at least three NRA targjet-
shooting matches last year. Fin-
al selection for the official Cus-
toms Service pistol team de-
pends in part on the scores the
agents made in the NRA
matches, as well as on their
NRA membership status.
Jack Anderson is a columnist/or United
Feature Syndicate
Today
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Bob V/agman
Sharp new cuts predicted
in programsnffecting poor
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Today is Tuesday, March 5,
the 64th day of 1985. There are
301 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight initiatory:
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soldiers in Boston who had been
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opened fire, killing several peo-
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In 1766, a Spanish official, Don
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Orleans to take possession of the
Louisiana Territory from the
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get would make significant cuts
in programs which benefit the
middle class.
The idea is that since the poor
shouldered many of the cuts in
Reagan’s first budget four years
ago, it’s now the wealthier folks’
turn. . __
However, while the budget
would make major cuts in mid-
dle-class programs, it also would
make sharp new cuts in
grams affecting the ppor.
For example, the White House
proposes a $180 million cut in Aid
to Families with Dependent
Childreny— the maih cash-wel-
fare program — by freezing ad-
ministrative grants to the states
that run the program. In addi-
tion, an unmarried minor moth-
er couldn’t leave her parents’
home to qualify for benefits, and
payments to able-bodied parents
whose youngest child is 16 or old-
er would be eliminated.
Child-nutrition outlays would
be cut by $654 million by drop-
ping a cost-of-living increase in
payments for school breakfasts
and lunches, and by excluding
those who earn more than
$19,000 for a family of four.
The food-stampprogram
would be the exception: It would
be set at about $11.9 billion — up
nearly $100 million from this
year, due to< an expected in-
crease in the monthly alloca-
tions.
As for the federal-local Medi-
caid program, which is aimed at
the disadvantaged, the new bud-
get would cap federal payments
to the states at $1.3"billion less
than they would receive under
current law. It would limit fu-
unrising against English rule
took place in Iceland. ~
Operating aid for local public- ’ j$d the greater mimber of appli- In 1868> the Senate was
lusing authorities, which are cants, all of these freezes organized into a Court of Im-
amount to reductions. ---- peachment to decide charges
Job-training funds for the against President Andrew
states, which Reagan already
has reduced by. about four-fifths,
would be frozen at $1.9 billion.
There would be sharp cuts in
funds for summer youth jobs and
dislocated workers.
Other grant-giving agencies,
such as the Economic Develop-
housing authorities,
already in fiscal trouble, would
be set at $1 billion — a $240 mil-
lion cut. Available cash to repair
aging housing projects would be
reduced ,by about three-quar-
ters, and subsidies for thousands
of vacant apartments would end.
In his 1981 budget, Reagan
halted most subsidized-hoiising
Johnson.
In 1933, in Germany, the Nazi
Party won a majority of seats in
parliamentary elections.
In 1946, former British Prime
Minister Winston Churchill, dur-
ing an address at Westminster
construction. Instead, the poor ___________________________r
p were given rent vouchers so they......naent Administration and the Ap-
could seek housing in the private palachian Regional Commis-
rental market. In the new bud-
get, the administration proposes
to almost Eliminate rent vouch-
ers — cuttingthem from 100,000
to 3,500 i— while maintaining a
freeze on rent subsidies.
College in Fulton, Mo., spoke of
on “Iron Curtain” stretching
The new budget also seeks to
kill other programs aimed id-
most solely at the poor. Reagan
is again trying to kill the Legal
Services Corp., which gives le-
gal aid to the poor, thus saving
$282 million. The Job Corps,
which trains young .workers
would be eliminated, saving $1.3
billion over three years. The
work-incentive program, which
prepared welfare recipients fbr
jobs, also would be dropped. "
' Some of the cuts are less ap-
parent. Many programs aimed
at the poor would be frozen at
current levels — but these pro-
grams were hit by the sweeping
reductions in the 1981 budget.
For example, funding for WIC
— a food program for women, in-
fants and children — would con-
tinue to aid about 3 million reci-
pients per month. Low-income
energy assistance would remain
at $2.1 billion and black-lung be-
nefits for disabled coal miners
sion, would be eliminated, as
would community-services
block grants. Juvenile-justice
and delinquency-prevention
grants would be dropped.
Mass-transit operating subsi-
dies, which many bif'iCitffii^rfiy
on to keep fares down, would
end, with an initial saving of
about $700 million. This would
sharply affect the working poor,
who would have to pay higher
fares to get to work.
One proposed cut is almost
amusing, considering what hap-
pened during the fall presiden-
tial campalp: ,~
In October, a campaigning
Ronald Reagan appeared at a
newly built senior-citizens’
apartment complex to open the
building and take the credit for
its construction. At the time,
Democrats complainecftirarthe'
building was completed with fed-
eral grants despite the fact that
Reagan had tried to kill the pro-
gram under which it was built-
a charge the Republicans scoff-
ed at.
Bob fVatman ii a columnist /or Newspaper
from the Baltic to the Adriatic.
In 1953, Soviet leader Josef
Stalin died at Che age of 73 after
In 1970, a nuclear non-
proliferation treaty went into ef-
fect after 43 nations ratified it.
In 1977, President Jimmy
Carter took questions on a net-
work radio call-in program
moderated by Walter Cronkite.
In 1982, comedian John
Belushi was found dead of a drug
overdose in a rented bungalow in
Hollywood.
Ten years ago: President
Gerald R. Ford called for spen-
ding $2 billion more on public
service jobs.
Five years ago: Saying it was
“clear” his campaign wasn’t go-
ing anywhere, Sen. Howard
Baker, R-Tenn., dropped out of
the race for the Republican
BtbleVerse
And when ye stand praying,
forgive, if ye have aught against
any: that your Father also which
is in heaven may forgive you
your trespasses.
Mark 11:25
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