The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 285, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 29, 1983 Page: 4 of 38
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this Is the way it was 40 and 30 and
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Vietnam' In Lebanon
SEPT. 20, IMS
August Wehring will direct the
Tri-Cltles Community Chest and
War Chest Campaign In which
$60,000 will be raised (or seven
local agencies and 17 war relief
organizations. Wehring’s appoint-
ment is announced today by F.E.
Kelley, president of the board of
the Tri-cities Welfare League.
Five members to the board of
the Goose Creek Chamber of
Commerce are elected. They are
I.W. Strickler, T.W. Lyons, W.J.
Lee, Silas G. Moore and W.C.
Morris.
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President Reagan has deftly avoided what could have
i i; been a politically damaging confrontation with Congress
over keening U.S. Marines in Lebanon.
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p. j U.S. armed forces, Reagan agreed to wording
| 1 resolution allowing him to keep Marines in Lei
L : up to 18 months longer at the current 1,200-troop 1
n : In exchange for being allowed a free hand in Lebanon
past 1984 elections, the president agreed to sign the
|k * resolution, although it contains acknowledgement that
W' l "hostilities” in Lebanon triggered passage of the
Powers Act. L *
|. . Enacted to prevent undeclared wars such as the one in
E* . /. Vietnam, the law limits the president’s power as
¥ commander-in-chief by establishing 80 to 90-day time
I': limits for American involvement in hostilities without
It ; congressional approval.
l The War Powers Act, propelled through Congress on a
i wave of emotionalism, has never been challenged in the
federal courts. If it is challenged, there is a strong
possibility it would be held unconstitutional since the
president’s power as commander-in-chief is clearly
delegated by the Constitution.
There^pot much doubt the commander-in-chief has
authority to send members of the armed forces anywhere
he believes they will serve the best interests of the U.S.
of a
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level.
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Jack Anderson
Watergate Plumber Turns Up
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W.E. Holt, chairman of the war
bond drive in La Porte, reports
$154,000 has been raised.
L.T. Harrison, former Gander
football star, completes boot
An additional *118,000 was wir- training in the U.S. Navy.
SEPT. 28,1953
Edgar Earl Fry of La Porte is
De Diego’s attorney advised his Diego’s son, which used Feyca of- killed in a car-train collision at
client not to talk to me. But the at- fice space at the time. Within six the Southern Pacific crossing on
In SBA Fraud Investigation
WASHINGTON — Nearly a de- gant travel and entertainment,
cade after the “summer of judg- political contributions, club mem- ed to the yacht’s seller in the
ment,” a bit player in the Water- bership fees and yacht expenses. *ame of a company owned by De
gate era drama Is once again
under crimianl investigation.:
He is Felipe De Diego one of the torney told my associate Tony Ca- days after De Diego bought the Spencer Highway. George
White House “plumbers.” He was paccio that De Diego has “reason- yacht, a $100,000 certificate of de- Robertson of La Porte, a passen-
part of the burglary crew that at)le explanations for every- posit in Feyca’s name was used ger in Fry’s car, is critically in-
broke into the office of Dr. Lewis thin8 ” “ collateral for a ioan of equal jured.
Fielding, a psychiatrist who Since the first audit, SBA inves- amount to the son’s company. Ten new homes are being built
treated Pentagon Papers leaker tigative files have been submitted SBA investigator’s charged to La Porte. Residents give credit
Daniel Ellsberg. De Diego was in- to the U.S. attorney charging that that De Diego applied for thou- to the new Baytown-La Porte
dieted, but all charges were drop- f°ur companies listed by De Die- o{ dollars of additional fed- Tunnel for the sudden housing
ped because California prosecu- go as recipients of $529,000 m gov- eral funds on the strength of loan boom,
tort had given him immunity in ernment-guaranteed loans commitments he said he had
return for his testimony about the through Feyca had their head-
quarters in personal residences.
The investigators found no evi-
dence that the loans were used for
business purposes by the four
firms: Ruiz Pool Service, Omega
International Trading Co., the
Adama Corp. and the Vice Corp.
“It would be embarrassing to
the government if they file
charees saving that these com- ever b^11 charged with a crime, chairman of the drive,
panies are not legitimate,” warn- De Diego’s attorney said the fail- A.E. Drew Jr., joins the
edDe Diego’s attorney. ure to disclose was done “on the vocational agriculture depart-
Payments involving De Diego’s advice of counsel.
De Diego’s Feyca Investment yacht, the‘Ivonne,” drew special In an interest—,_____________
Co. of Coral Gables is registered attention from the SBA sleuths. De Diego case, SBA files show f°rmerly was a principal in the
with the SBA as a “small business On Jan. 15, 1982, for example, a $260,000 lent through Feyca to the school district at Valley Mills.
Investment company”,to serve as $47,000 cashier’s check was sent Vice Corp. Listed as secretary- Services will be held tomorrow
an intermediary for government to the yacht’s seller from Ome- treasurer and one-third owner of tor Leonard Joseph Mock. A Mont
loans to minority-owned firms. | ga’s account as a partial pay- the company: Vifjgilio Gonzalez, Belvieu resident 26 years, he died
According to one internal SBA ment. Omega had received a one of the five men arrested in the J® a?f.'Tto''T1 hospital,
audit, De Diego spent $132,000 in $50,000 loan through Feyca the Watergate office of the Democra- Co • *tlc“ard worth of the Air
government funds claimed as day before and got $14,000 a week tic National Committee on June F?roe ^eserve and his son
business expenses for extrava- later. 17,1972. Richard of ^the Boy Scouts
receive their “Eagle” the same
....."’"day. Col. Worth got his colonel’s
eagle the same day his son was
presented his Scout Eagle.
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ace.
" No one wants to experience another war like the one in
L ; Vietnam that proved unwinnable and cost the lives of
L some 50,000 young Americans.
V M It is not likely the political mistakes that led to Vietnam
will be repeated in Lebanon. But it must be understood
W " the military risks are great in that nation and throughout
T the volatile Middle East that provides much of the free
world’s oil supply.
i President Reagan said the joint resolution supports
: U.S. policies in Lebanon and enables the nation to ad-
I- vance its peacekeeping on a bipartisan basis “that has
§fc 1 been the traditional hallmark of American foreign
policy.” • . ■ • .
U.S. resolve to protect our interests in the Middle East
could have been seriously .weakened by a confrontation
between the president and Congress at a time when the
• Free World depends more than it ever has on the U.S. to
preserve peace.
Arthur Barrow resigns his posi-
made to a boat repair firm and a tion as deputy sheriff in Mont Bel-
florist. But when questioned by vieu. He will go to work at Dia-
tWSBA, executives of both firms mond Alkali Co. in Pasadena,
said no such Ion commitment
had been made.1* *
burglary.
De Diego is a Florida business-
man now. For the past six mon-
ths, the fraud section In the Mi-
ami U.S. attorney’s officer has
been examining charges made
against him by the inspector
general of the Small Business Ad-
ministration. They involve in-
stances of possible fraud and
misuse of federal funds intended
to help small businesses.
SEPT. 29,1963
Tomorrow will be the first day
De Diego failed to mention the of the annual United Fund Drive.
Fielding burglary indictment in Charles Tillery, general chair-
response to a question on a gov- man, says the goal is $192,908. Dr.
eminent form asking if he had A.R. Padgett is assistant general
ment faculty at Sam Houston
State College in Huntsville. He
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No Bragging Matter
It may not yet be an intolerable ratio as crime statistics QnFert WnItprs
go, but it is not something for law-abiding Texans to brag kuuc r ^ ^ ^ ^
Approximately one of ever^ 100 adult Texans was on Book. Of AmGTICQ PoIntS Ollt *
&& criminal probation at the beginning of the year, and the Via, V
fast as the national rate ta the sute ^ almost twice as &X%Nation's Strong, Weak Sides -Garbage Dump Odors
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million were on probation. , the experience of watching the That volume is neither a travel the state. Some of it is in the soul morning. The sky is clear and
That was an increase Of 25,458 over the year, with AUantic Ocean’s waves crash guide nor a hyper-patriotic of the river. . .” bri^t blue.
118,237 people entering the probation system and 92,778 against the rocky cliffs of New paean. It is instead an unusaUy “New Hampshire. The words I opened the windows and doors
leaving it over the vear. England’s coastline while stand- faithful and comprehensive ac- evoke the majesty of Mount to let in the cool air. But alas!
Tho otafo’c rat© nf inpranc© In nmhfliinn©rs urns 1(5 7 to£ beneath a lighthouse built count of the nation’s strengths Washington and the Presidential What is that smell? The repulsive
wSlocf A?Q rS./3 A0‘' 81,11081200 years aS<>- and weaknesses compiled by two Range . . . They weak of rivers odors from the garbage dump. So
percent, compared to a national increase Of 9 percent. There also is no wav to Washington-based journalists running headstrong and clean I closed my front door.
The rate Of adults on probation nationally whs .48 per dupllcate yjg aroma of Cajun who have devoted a chapter to over their rock-strewn beds, of Then I heard a noise. Sounded
:: i 100, Of less than half the Texas rate. The number Of proba- JLn. in Louisiana’s bayou everrstate 10 the union deep Ptoe forests, of the radiance as if someone had lost a muffler
tioners was greater in Texas than in all but three states- cortntry, the spectacle of massive For Pelrce-one of Washington’s Of clear October Bay when red and tailpipe on the road. Butno. It
: Georgia Maryland and Connecticut-and the District of combtaes harvesting wheat to the m08t P«>lifl0 andfh respec,ted maples and yellow birches, fram- was a couple or three bags of gar-
' Dakotas or the tingle of a fresh writei?’ oulminf- ed in evergreen. . .” bage someone lost from their
LOlumDia. • offshore breeze alone the Oregon tion of a project which began in The book’s real value, however, truck.
The rate Of increase in the Texas parole System, Which coasf the early 1970s with the publica- lies in its no-nonsense accounts of I resent these things viry -
involves fewer people, was 21.1 percent over the year, Vnr . ... hnw .. tion of “The Mega-states of each state’s ^history, politics, much. The bad odors, plus trash
almost three times greater than the 8 percent increase na- opporhX rSereonallysavor America” and continued^ the government, sociology, all oyer this road.
Hnnflllv B tssuance of eight additional geography and economics. Thus, When you people who come out
AffKAAA/iAf 1000 fhAcfafAhaHOftoodnarAl©^ fmm h^vAr^n^vnnh»oh^ volumes, one devoteJUto every after extolling New Hampshire’s here to dump trash and lose some, \
At the end Of 1982, the state had 26,274 parolees, up from however, aI newly published book reglon of tte country physical virtues, it skewers Uie you could show us the courtesy of
21,862 people in the systena a year earlier. “The Book of America” pro- state’s lack of fiscal responsibui- picking it up.
_ nil .............................. vicariously appreciate thejpec- vides a panoramic view of the na- ty: it As far as “bad-smelling stuff,”
SOME F0lk5 ARF CHRONIC */0RI?l€RS- SfL ^'S,. tion, celebrating the diversity of “New Hampshire’s tax struc- I wish I could bottle it and give it
L/.l 1 o£ JmaJestlc 81,(1 its landscape, its culture, its tureaddsuptoatawdry effort(l) to the responsible people.
K, , TiAPR AID ^!)N\EBODY WILL )0L\fc sprawling nation. traditions and, most importanUy, to fleece visitors pay for hirer- A couple of weeks ago, maybe
[Ned 7H0I? PRQBL-LM5 BFFORFTMBtyGlT In an ambitious literary feat un- itspeople. nal functions and (2) to trick the more, there was a bad odor that
-nlGMi u./nDDCl/K/> Qq/ii IT TUPUl 1— matched since John Gunther’s Much of the prose is nothing state’s tltizens into thinking they smelled like a irilxture of rotten
IHiCu wuKicvm ri&uui uicri'J “Inside U.S.A.” was published in less than lyrical. Consider, for Ox- have a good deal because NOw onions and dog
1947, authors Neal R. Peirce and ample", Uie introductory descrip- Hampshire stands alone in having on for several days
Jerry Hagstrom provide a com- tions of two disparate states: no broad-based state tax < sales or What humans
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the massive (879 pages) yet is evocative. Like a boat on a mis- perty taxes are at almost con-
higUy readable “The Book of ty bayou, moving past cypress fiscatory level.”
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day is Thursday, Sept. 29, the ment had shown no favoritism in
d day of 1983. There are 93 its probe of Libyan ties involving
President Jimmy Carter’s
brother, Billy.
1789, the U.S. War Depart- Today’s birthdays: Gene Autry
established a regular army and Greer Garson are 75. Movie
wiUi a strength of 700 men. producer Stanley Kramer is 70.
M for today: “No one can
God or love his neighbor
« . .... ___f Britain agreed to send war sup- on art empty stomach.” - Presi-
- - Pue8 to the Soviet Union ttf help dent Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924).
resist Nazi invaders.
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