The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 23, 1987 Page: 1 of 10
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Hereford Brands
87th Year, No. 13, Deaf Smith County, Hereford, Tx.
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25 Cents
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Thursday
July 23, 1987
* Hustlin' Hereford
home of Doris George
Dim uxsing his learning about the
arms-for-hostages plan involving a
proposed Kuwaiti release of ter-
rorists. Shultz said he sailed the
The tankers, expected to conclude
their MO-nule trip at the Al Ahinadi
oil terminal Friday, are the first to
ply the Persian Gulf with U.S.
escorts under a Reagan administra-
tion commitment to protect Kuwaiti
ships from Iranian attacks.
Iran issued a fresh threat to
Washington late Wednesday, saying
the United States was "preparing
itself for a clash with Iran and the ex-
pansion of tension." Tehran Radio,
MANAMA, Bahrain iAPI - A con-
voy of Kuwaiti tankes and their U.S.
warship escorts skirted the United
Arab Emirates and Qatar today-
after steaming on top alert past for-
tified Iranian islands.
Ixirry Hendershot, quality assurance and
product development manager at Ar-
rowhead Mills tn Hereford, shows a group
of Food Sciences students from Texas
Tech University in Lubbock some of the
plant's production processes during a
monitored in lx>ndon. said Foreign
Minister All Akbar Velayati made
the comment in a letter to U.N.
Secretary-General Javier Perez de
Cuellar.
The convoy, code-named Earnest
Will, traveled without incident
Wednesday past Iranian missile bat-
teries in the Strait of Hormuz,
Wednesday past Iranian missile bat-
teries in the Strait of Hormuz, con-
sidered the most treacherous portion
of the trip. They linked up with a
fourth Navy warship, the cruiser
Reeves, late Wednesday, maintain-
ing top alert until 10 p.m. local time.
Skippers were expected to be wat-
tSee TANKERS. Page
In the briefing room not long
thereafter, spokesman Marlin Fitz-
water ticked off a triple-threat veto
message from his boss: Reagan did
nut like — and likely would not sign
Reminded that he'd excluded the
House of Representatives from that
statement, Fitzwater quipped,
"Well, the slap applies to both
Houses.’’
Reagan last August cheerfully em-
braced his wife's "Just Say No"
slogan as he launched a White House
offensive against drug abuse, and he
often cites those words — and ones
The ottier two sites under con-
sideration are in Hanford. Wash.,
and Yucca Mountain. Nev
The court s rejection of the EPA
rules could place the entire selection
process for a high-level dump in
jeopardy, said Dan W Reicher. who
argued the case on behalf of the
Natural Resources Defense Counsel.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary
of State George P. Shultz testified to-
day that other Reagan administra-
tion officials kept him in the dark
about key events in the Iran-Contra
affair, and said he was "sick to my
stomach" when he learned some of
the details.
Local Roundup
Sheriff’s report
Officers are searching for a juvenile reported missing at 11 30
pm Wednesday from the labor camp The youth had not been found
this morning, according to the Deaf Smith County Sheriff's Office
Sheriff s officers recovered several items Wednesday in Hereford
that had been reported missing after a Gruver burglary
Three arrested on Wednesday
Two men were arrested on public intoxication charges and a third
man for second offense of no liability insurance according to
Wednesday's report of the Hereford Police Department
A 20-y ear-old and a 43-y ear-old were arrested on the public intox-
ication charges The older man was arrested on a warrant for failure
to pay a fine for Pl charges A 30-y ear-old man was the offender of
the liability insurance law.
A woman reported to police that a small child was not being pro-
perly supervised Officers investigated and found the charges were
unfounded.
A woman reported that her husband and she had been drinking
together when he started beating her for no reason. The husband left
the scene before officers arrived Charges were filed in the incident
A second woman reporter! that her husband and she are separated
tint he has shown up at her residence and harassed her. She was ad-
vised to call officers the next time he shows up.
Officers responded to a call on the 300 block of Ave. C where a man
arrived home from work and found his front door standing open Of-
ficers checked the house and found nothing suspicious.
A woman on Sycamore lame reported that she had been out-of-
town and returner! home to find a $467 V.C.R. had been stolen from
her home.
Other offenses reported include an unknown man who pushed a
juvenile into the water at the city pool, a slashed car tire valued at
$60 on South Texas and the animal control officei was notified con-
cerning stray dogs digging up a woman's flower bed on the 800 block
of Brevard.
Eight citations were issued and two minor accidents were in-
vestigated. Firemen responded to a grass fire four miles north of
Hereford on Hwy. 385
privately delivered a "just-say-no"
message on several major pieces of
legislation.
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expressing similar sentiment — in
statements about his dealings with
Congress.
"How to 1 spell relief?" he said to
an audience recently. “V-E-T-O!”
A 1982 statute requires the govern-
ment to develop the nation's high-
level radioactive waste repository to
dispose permanently of spent fuel
piling up at the nation s commercial
nuclear reactors.
EPA and Justice Department of-
ficials are considering whether to
seek a rehearing by the full appellate
court on the issue.
The president is so busy squaring
off against Congress that there's no
time for anyone to do anything."
Byrd said. "He is leaving a negative
legacy which history will not
overlook.”
In fact. Reagan has used the veto
only 62 times in his 6‘-s years in of-
fice. He has been overridden eight
times, although he lost two crucial
fights this year He failed to sustain
his veto of a $20 billion clean water
bill, and his veto of a $88 billion
highway bill also was overridden
President Gerald R. Ford, in con-
trast. vetoed 66 bills in his less than
2‘z years in office, of which a dozen
were overridden.
1 urge you iThomas) to issue new
regulations that will fully protect
vital water supplies in the High
Plains Aquifer, which consists of
both the Ogallala and Santa Rosa
aquifers This critical water source
must be fully protected by the agen-
cy - new regulations
If it stands the ruling could be a
key factor in whether to place a high-
level nuclear repository in Texas,
since it is the only one of three pro-
posed sites that contains substantial
amounts of groundwater, officials
said
The secretary said he didn't learn
until June 1986 that Saudi Arabia had
pr< v ided $31 million t. the t ontras in
1984 and 1965 And he said he didn't
know until it surfaced in the congres-
sional hearings that Taiwan con-
tributed $2 .dlion to the Contras in
1985
That caused one reporter to ask
"Is the president afraid that he's go-
ing to spend his last days ruling by
veto?
Fitzwater replied. "No. the presi-
dent looks forward to the skirmish
and the details, that the Democrats
are trying to force big spending plans
on us. and he's ready to take them
on."
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But Reagan's increasing nay-say
stance on legislation is causing
predictable angst on Capitol Hill —
and less predictable worries among
presidential scholars.
- legislation on trade, banking and
health insurance coverage for
catastrophic illness.
Just for good measure, Fitzwater
also volunteered that the White
House has "some concerns" about a
welfare reform bill sponsored by
Sen Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
D-N.Y.
Senate Majority leader Robert C.
Byrd. D-W.Va., asked Wednesday
about Reagan's chances of sustain-
ing any veto of legislation to
overhaul the savings and loan in-
dustry. said. Apparently, the presi-
dent is still engaged in his veto
strategy and obstructionist policy,
w hich is no policy at all."
last night." Clements said "The
feed was done, so to speak "
The Republican governor said he
had run out of options Democrats
control the Legislature. and the end
of the state's fiscal year. Aug. 31, is
approaching. Democratic Gov Mark
White left him a deficit and a sour
economy. he said
We had to open the schools We
had to continue state government on
some reasonable basis. And we had
to address the problem in the federal
courts on mental health-mental
retardation and the prison system."
Clements said
"We did what we had to do. I don't
think we had any choice in the mat-
ter," he said I would appreciate
reading that m print somewhere, or
hearing it on television."
Clements argued that the 1988-89
state budget — totaling $38 3 billion
— represents only a 2.4 percent in-
crease over the $37 4 billion spent for
Belnick read North's testimony
that Shultz knew in sufficiently
elegant terms of what 1 had done. "
and asked the secretary of state if
North's statement was true
"No." Shultz replied.
Shultz said he was disgusted when
he learned many months after the
fact that key Iran-Contra middlemen
had discussed efforts to release ter-
rorists being held in a Kuwaiti prison
as part of a complicated deal that
would send arms to Iran and win the
freedom of American hostages in
Ix-banon
Shultz said it made me sick to my
stomach that anybody would talk
about that as something we would
consider doing '
The list of details that Shultz said
he didn't know about was a long one
He disclaimed knowledge that
Reagan had formally approved the
sale of arms to Iran until many mon-
ths later He said he didn t know of
the direc t sale of U S arms to Iran
until nearly a year after the fa<t
He also sold he didn't know until
afterwards that former National
Security Adviser Robert McFarlane
went sec retly to Tehran in May 1986
and it was even later that he learner!
that V Farlane had taken ue-p-n-
with turn
Tankers skirt
through gulf
Asked whether that meant con-
frontation had surpassed com-
promise as a White House strategy
for dealing with Congress, he said. "I
think the reality is that a
Democratically controlled Senate is
not too much in a compromise
mood."
tour Wednesday. The unique class con-
sists of students from around the world
during the summer, and was touring food
production facilities in the area Wednes-
day.
In riveting testimony at nationally
televised congressional hearings.
Shultz said he first learned that the
United States had sold weapons
directly to Iran when he read about it
in news reports published many
months after the transaction took
place He- said hi wasn’t told that
President Reagan authorized any
s.Jcs until about a year after the for-
mal papers were signed
Shultz said that it wasn't until he
relayed some disturbing information
involving Middle East terrorists to
Rc avail at a private White House
meeting last Dec ember that I final-
ly felt that the president deeply
understands that something is
radically wrong here "
He aid i < uiic e told Poindexter he
wanted t be informed of the things
1 needed t, know" to carry out his
responsibilities as secretary of state
He said he told Poindexter that he
didn't want to know all the opera-
lional details, but that doesn't mean
1 just bowed out insofar as major
things in our foreign policy is con-
cerned 1. assume that I shouldn't
be informed of things like that is
ridic ulous
Shultz spoke in a somber voice that
belied the astonishing nature of his
testimony but he- oct asionally allow-
ed a wry sense of humor to show
through
1 hardly know l ol i Oliver 1.1
North, although like- everyone else in
America 1 feel like 1 know him well
by now." Shultz said of the former
National Security Council aide who
was the star witness at the bearings
for a week
Poindexter testified earlier that he
never withheld information from
Cabinet officers that they didn't want
kept from them.
Shultz quarreled with North’s
testimony, as well, saying that he
was unaware of North's secret ef-
forts to funnel arms to the
Nicaraguan Contra rebels during a
congressional ban on direct or in-
direct U.S. military aid to the in-
surgents
&
wants EPA
changes
AMARILLO. Texas iAP) — Sen
Phil Gramm says the U.S. En-
vironmental Protection Agency
should issue new rules protecting
groundwater in an area of the
Panhandle under consideration for a
!>). -- v el nuc lear waste dump
Republican Gramm told EPA Ad-
ministrator lace Thomas in a letter
this week the agency must fully pro-
tect those who depend on the
Ogallaia Aquifer if the government
builds a high-level waste dump in
Deaf Smith County.
The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in
Boston Friday took exception with
proposed EPA rules permitting
radioactivity in drinking water near
waste sites at levels higher than
allowed under the Safe Drinking
Water Act.
The court ordered EPA to rewrite
the rules or explain the "apparent in-
consistency and irrationality" in per-
mitting higher levels of radioactivity
in drinking water near a nuclear
repository.
Serious new regulations from
EPA should at least serve to protect
the water that Panhandle residents,
including farmers and ranchers, rely
n." Gramm said in his letter. "And
they may preclude the construction
of a nuclear waste repository in
Texas altogether
Under questioninv from Senate
lawyer Mark Belmck Shultz denied
repeatedly that his ignorance about
the Iran arms deal stemmed from a
desire not to know the tacts as
‘ ■rmer N.itional Security Adviser
John p. iredexter testified earlier
Weather report
1 omght s low should be 65 under fair skies, with south winds 10 to
15 mph Friday's forecast includes a chance of isolated
thunderstorms with a high near 90 South winds Friday will be 10 to
2o mph. and tbs- chance of rain is less than 20 percent
Wednesday's high at KPAN was 89 degrees, with a low this morn-
ing of 67
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1986-87 That represents a 1.2 percent
annual increase, he said
"And please, he urged, write
that down "
The state's only 20th century
Republican governor. Clements said
the 1988 legislative elections — in
which half the Senate and all 150
House seats up are up for grabs —
w ill be important to the GOP
"It is very important to elect
more Republicans)," he said I will
help as I can. as I have always done
in the past
During a 10-minute news con-
ference. Clements faced questions
about his campaign promises
against any taxes and his earlier
veto threat for a tax hike half as
large
After all that, he was asked, what
went through lus mind when signing
the $5 7 billion package’’
That 1 was sleepy and I wanted to
get to bed," he replied
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Reagan says 'Just Say No* to bills
WASHINGTON AP) - President
Reagan has embraced his wife Nan-
cy s Just Say No" crusade in ways
that irritate some in Congress and
have students of the presidency talk-
ing about a "cry-wolf" syndrome
During his meeting Tuesday morn-
ing with Republican congressional
leaders in the Cabinet Room. Reagan
AUSTIN \P Although it took
the largest tax increase in Texas
history ti balance the state budget.
G< v Bill Clement- -ays he feels vic-
torious in his bid to hold the line on
government growth.
stopped the growth of state
government N w that's no small
. oal. and it s no small accomplish-
■neiit Clements said Wednesday,
repeatedly admonishing news
reporters to get his message
st raigbt
I think our Texas taxpayers will
be happy to hear that if you will just,
please, repeat it
Clements last year campaigned on
.i no-new-taxes" theme and this
year pledged repeatedly to veto any
tax increase larger than $2 9 billion
But Tuesday night, he signed into
law increases in the sales, motor fuel
and ther taxes that totaled nearly
twice that $5 7 billion
I reluctantly signed the tax bill
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