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a follower of Gandhi who will four
distinguish betwveen the unde- going
'If the industry realizes it
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Reverend Daniel Berrigan,
S.J., the haunted Jesuit priest
it-no one spoke better
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on the oil situation, predicted a few obsolete parts, which ment.
the talk of crisis “could blow are seldom noticed and could Yours very truly.
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over very quickly” because of be easily removed. The full A.J. Schultz
pressure from the petroleum meaning of the present Con- P.O. Box 493
industry.. He said the oil stitution is now known by Stephenville, Texas 76401
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claims of a crude oil shortage see if the proportion is too government bureaucracy into
caused by the Arab boycott, high and may deter competi- the lives of private citizens
domestic oil companies have tion. Likewise, the program’s observes, “This proposal is so
tremendous amounts of gaso- proponents suggest that re- totally at odds with the
Hne, distillates and residuals search and development ex- accepted concept of the Ame-
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nical trio”, "a troika of bigots christened him Rodney Dan-
in common cause." Whereup- gerfield. Then he persuaded 3
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herely keep Humphrey "planned observations" of the their last hurrah and the
closer observation. Four comet Kohoutek. comprehensive legislation will
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detailed sort of sales, cost and negot iators - American, Russian and Israeli as we
erofilnrsin pomuna"a mon “SVNEWsPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
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The energyscrisis is largely variety of merchandise, the motion expenditures are too
an invention of the govern- separate reports required high and in relation to what?
ment and an excuse for the could conceivably run into the Similarly, who is to judge
oil industry to increase pro- thousands. The Federal Trade whether research and deve-
fits, so says a leading oil Commission alleges that buy- lopment costs are excessive?
specialist. ers could use the data on There is but one answer—a ) , ~
The government had to sales, costs, profits and assets government bureaucrat who
have a crisis and the industry to form judgments concerning will presume to possess
went along because it meant the appropriateness of price- greater wisdom concerning
higher prices,” Christopher cost margins and profit rates. competition in the market-
Rand, former Middle Eastern This is not likely. It is further place than people who have
specialist for Standard Oil Co. claimed that sales promotion spent their lives working in
of California, said. activities and expenditures that marketplace. As one
Rand said that despite should be related to sales to critic of this advance of
by William F. Bucklev
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The struggle apart for one daining any corporate ideals,
moment, there is considerable like sovereignty, self-defense,
irony in the latest chapter of collective resistance. Now his
the crowded life of the voice to defiant, and even
in melancholy over the But after this brush with
world’s impolite refusal to reality, he will find himself
fashion its affairs after his pretty much forlorn
preachments. This time Dr. Fortunately, the American.
Berrigan has turned down an military, and outposts in
award. Apparently he turned Europe and Israel, are com-
it down in the nick of time. If nutted to measures that will
Sunday, January G, 1974
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Stephenville Empire-Gribune
soveriegnty, and the desirabi- He has appeared on the
lity of Israeli sovereignty. Johnny Carson show 40 times I
-_____________________ When the Six Day War and on the Dean Martin
in 1971, it was announced broke out, an all the peace weekly show as the comedian 4
marchers temporarily deser- owner of a night chib. And he
ted their stations to egg on really does own a $250,000 j
Israel Professor John Roche Manhattan night club, Dan-
called them “Doves for War." gerfield’s, which he opened in
The contradiction aside-who September 1969: - —12
now is unaware that the Rodney says he has turned ; J
peace lobby is not available down offers of as much As s
to advocate the surrender of $30,000 to appear in Las A
distillates. 1
Any shortage in residual Dear Editor: ; case law in Texas, and has
fuel oils could easily be made I am apprehensive about over the years been tested in
up by supplies from numerous the State House and the State the Highest Courts of the land
Caribbean refineries "which Senate writing our new Texas and is not open for conjee-
can produce only low grade Constitution, as the time is ture.
heating oil and can supply no now and the lobbyist and A few things to watch for in
other market economically various interests are angling the new Texas Constitution,
but the eastern United for protective clauses. These The obsolete right to recall
States,” Randy said. members are the same which public officials with a referen-
sufficiently to justify the use to see peole, walk out has
of arms in Mum of it There aren’t many plai es
Fr. Bendgap has flushed where you see people lau
out the relativism of many of My place is probably the a
his confederates to the anti- one left that has a comet
Vietnam movement. But it is working steady. fj
unlikely that he has taught "N isn’t good for a comi
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gor“h Dr. Dans IL It take a comic 20 year
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Rand said President Nixon last session passed laws dum by a marjority vote of
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tion, may be excessive and and its business system that it
anticompetitive. ___ is compelling reason to totally
businessman in paint and
collect a wife and two
children. But he says he
opportunity for then a prominent Catholic he was playing night chibs in
theologian. To them Fr. Dan the Catskills for free and was |
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He said American Petrole- The question is, who is to reject the proposed Line, of
um Institute figures show that determine whether sales pro- Business reports."
as of December 14, U.S.
Never Die,
The Russians replied that be forgotten on Fr. Dan announced that he his agent to book him on an
would not accept the prize: Ed Sullivan rehearsal and
orptp ■Jiris tostfoe suutyanwsicned nmotun for
we looked in our tanks and it and verbal exaggeration, any face-to-face encounter bet-
turned out there was more oil ween two adversaries is likely to aggravate the dispute rath-
than we thought." er than constitute a step toward its settlement.
_________ ’ “The function of the mediator, therefore, is first of all to
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had manufactured a crisis stripping Security Guards of the people, and the right to
because he wanted some fire arms and left them at the work law must be retained.
he had waited another day or continue
two, the proffered award freedom
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be traced to the cut in the dation and social stagnation, prone to bursts of violence yet
depletion allowance. - with a long tradition of peaceful mediation. g
In their repression of women and their sexual puritanism, cent sure it will rid Humphrey
bureaucracy is the Arabs make the Victorians look like hippies. Their need of any danger of malignancy,
to preserve “face" at all costs puts the Orientals to shame INSIDE RUSSIA: Last Octo-
They are a people whose language lends itself to florid . President Nikon and Soviet
rhetoric and overstatement, even among the uneducated, erxrFesidentmon and [015 .
encouraging them to substitute words for' deeds, and which leader.Brezhnev passed, trucu- By The Associated Press, . ., .
ciate the full cost of the makes no clear distinction between past and present. lent hotes and ordered their Today is Monday, Jan. 7, that more than 4,200 Amer-
federal bureaucracy, nor the The modern Arab mind reflects more the pre-Islamic armed forces on worldwide the seventh day of 1974. There cans had been killed in
extent of its influence and ethos of the Bedouin tribes than it does the strictures of the alert. Yet at the height of the are 358 days left in the year, combat in Vietnam in 1970.
control over nearly every field Koran. Among those Bedouin virtues are manliness, per- crisis, the Russians threw open Today’s highlight in history: Ten years ago: Pope Paul
con tunnrnendeavor The sonal honor and fierce loyaltiesflagainst mybrotherrand their space facilities for the On ‘thisdate in 1953, VI received an enthusiastic
expense of riling out forms morlrotheresg8an "Arm saying,, but am hupntakty to the first time to American space President Harry 1ruman an- welcome on his return to
for a bewildering array of stranger in the camp. specialists. nounced in his State of the Rome from a pilgrimage to
governmental administrative i ' Once it was the Arabs who werethe custodians and im- in an internal "trip report, Union message that the the Holy Land. ... ....
' agencies has become a major proverslof the world’s store of knowledge while the infidel Deputy Space Administrator United States had developed a Five vears aco, Sirhan lsrael?rwhave.here.inthe Vegas.
agengiesihisbecovamast ^Franks" slumbered. Today the situation is reversed. George Low has stated that the hydrogen bomb. pEle, ysars *£ Sttan strident voice of Fr. Berrigan, -I do quite well in my
cost to business, as e Since nothing happens but through the will of Allah, their "international crisis’’ didn't On this date- Bishara Sirhan was Put,on the voice not so much of club or I’d go to Vegas,
consumers The accompanying backwardness% cause forshame among the Arabs. Yet be- nonog n-Zms our ntsgate2, gmn tnal m I-os Angeles for the asoue nihlist who said -people have »
regulatory control is frequent- cause they are only human -but seemingly possessing all even..come uP —du ne In,1584, the GreE k murder of Sen. Robert (Ken- , aai rvalue anithin time at Kg Su nN I
ly in basic conflict with the the faults and foibles of human beings to an exaggerated yisit. calendar was adopted by nedy. "o "aue.- an-m time at my place and I
Drinciples of the competitive degree - they tend to blame outside forces for theirfailings He headed for a scientific Roman Catholic states of the
Eneinese svstem Indeed, it is because of their one-time military and team which went to Russia to Holy Roman Empire. on. wear ren c.
businesscsystemnie of this to “»»"• superiority to the West, suggests Pataiithat the KXZ forthjint I" >’«. the first US wOneyepaeojeenpersns
A typical exampie0 I “ Arabs, alone of all former colonial peoples, are imbued with cextPeMauoIJI nrocidontinl clectinn was held were Killed before police
। proposal to require annual deep-seated resentment of the West while at the same time Soviet-American manned space presidentiateection Wassheid gunned down a sniper atop a
Line of Business” reports to they are conscious of the necessity to Change and adapt in shot, which is scheduled for *" 3th 17-story motor lodge in New
be submitted to the Federal the face of its challenges. July 1975. Millard Eiimoe, was bornin Orleans.
Trade Commisaton Such re- “Thus while opposing the West, and often hating IL the His team was taken through a log cabin in New York s
norte would be required from Arab world sees itself through Western spectacles It com- the Soviet Mission Control Cayuga County. Today's birthdays: Movie them a
comoanies covering each line pares all its areasof achieyement with those ofthe West and Center in the village of In 1927, radio telephone pioneer Adolf Zukor to IM too
. compsninssE in which theyy-wherever it fallsshort of the Westit feeisitseifwanting.na Kaliningrad just , north of service was begun between years old. Former Florida pro
ourbnggedt and eliciting of Th »lhtherredy" Arab world in the lesthird Moscow, it was, wrote Low, a New York and London, . Governor Claude Kirk is 48. the
information of the most The Arab Mind" should be required reading for the first for any Western visitors.’’ to government in Thought for today: They to___
id Israeli as well as Arab NEARLY THE SAME Lebanon resigned after an know enough who knew how appenled'all
He found the center more Israeli commando raid at the to team-Henry Adams Amen pacifists "Th
elaborate than the U.S apace Beirut airport ican historian, 1838- eecealyeioml—---— ... . —
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The sequence is as follows, forces that work to keep
, There is a peace-type group international order and a
in Connecticut called Promot- modicum of liberty,
tag Enduring Peace. Like
more. Since then the I
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many paper organizations,
this one seeks notoriety by
giving a prize. The prize is Comedians
called the Gandhi Peace
Award. There are 40-odd
trustees of PEP, and they
apparently reached the deci-
sion without any dissent to
award the prize this year to
Father Berrigan.
Father Daniel Berrigan, it
will be recalled by students of
The Movement, is not Father By HAL BOYLE "m
Philip Berrigan. Father Philip NEW YORK AP - You 1
Berrigan, PEP honoree’s bro- might think that old comedi-
ther, is the gentleman who ans never die; they just fade
for years insisted on the away. But that's not true te
sacred unity of Catholic Rodney Dangerfield
orthodoxy and peacenikism, A lot of people have
come
which sermon was interrupted up the hard way in show J
recently by the news that he business. But Rodney has |
and the Catholic nun who down it twice: first as Jack |
were briefly the spotlight for Roy, a reasonably successfill . J
allegedly planning to whisk comic on small club circuits, -2
away Henry Kissinger and and then, after a lapse of 12 I
hold him ransom against a years, in his present name as
WASHINGTON-Senator Hu- center outside Houston. Other- -they would ordinarily be quite United States military depar- one of the most popular J
way to take the public's mind mercy of the criminals, and We must have the right by bert Humphrey, D-Minn., the wise, he wrote, "there is no interested in participating, hire from Vietnam, were, uh, comedians on television.
off Watergate, and also want- made the possession of four this instrument to fix the former Vice President, has just difference....from the way we thanked me for the invitation, making peace together. What Rodney was born in Baby-
ed to create a recession to ounces of drugs a misdemea- expense accounts and salaries completed X-ray treatments for operate in Houston” but told me that during the time S left of orthodoxy in the N.Y., the son of a.
stop inflation.” nor and raised their expense of our public officials. The a possible malignancy. His As the Americans passed of the comet, the weather would Catholic Church promptly ex- vaudeville performer named 3
He said the alleged crisis accounts to over $2,200.00 per present members of the personal physician, Dr. Edgar through the control room, be so bad in the Soviet Union communicated Father Phil Phil Roy. At age 15, Jack J
: was taking the form of a month for House members Texas Legislature may frown Berman, believes there is a 70 Soviet technicians flashed a that it was unlikely that any of but FathenDan, on leaving Roy started writing jokes and
’ gasoline shortage rather than and about $3,000.00 per month on these provisions and per cent chance that the message on one of the large their ground observations prison in Danbury for assaul- doing imitations of W.C. Felds.
a heating oil shortage "be- for Senate members, and this similar provisions. The tax- pinhead-sized tumor has been television screens "Welcome would be able to see it.” ting a draf center, burning and Charles Laughton in 2
cause gasoline is the least was in addition to all the payers must always be the destroyed. - American Colleagues,” the FOOTNOTE: The Russians the records, and spilling amateur hour shows, where
politically volatile commodity other emoluments of the employer and the public Humphrey is a vibrant, message read, also modeled the spacesuit they animal blood onithe ashes, or he won prizes of 11, 12, and
right now. office 4- office holder the employee irrepressible, intensely human At the Mission Control will use in the joint venture.’it *^*^7 $5. When he wao^-W-
• “The demand for gas is I suspect tint most lawyers under our present system for politician,. who is known Center1, reported LowJ "every is expected to be worn only for andwhen he Sys “ worked as a singing waiter at ,
relatively lower during the favor a new Texas Constitu- the same to work. The affectionately to his friends as one of our questiors was about two hours at any one rhymes, and he is the her, the Polish Falcon in Brooklyn
- winter," Rand said. “If people tion, it will take years of Legislature may take for the "Happy Warrior.” The answered in detail and if there time," noted Low, "and, S sti • member of the and as a "paid amateur” for 1
couldn’t get oil to their litigation in the various Court themselves in this document X-ray treatments, which in- is anything we don’t know, it is therefore, has no provisions for Church, and resumed his eight quarters a night in at
homes, there would be real, to construe and fully interpret the various powers which flame the bladder and cause only because we didn’t have sanitation." - -------- cries forPeace., .Newark Club. t
trouble-it’d be too risky.” a new Texas Constitution. The rightly belong to the people excruciating pain, didn’t even enough time or didn’t know to DAY OF INFAMY: Decern- This edtoohis, selection as Now he gets $8,500 plus
Rand, who is writing a book present Constitution may have under this form of govern- slow him down ask the right questions." ber 7, 1941, is remembered as a recipient of PEr"sprize. But expenses for a single appea-
During the worst pain, The American scientists also day of infamy by World1 War II then in midOctober, shortly rance;
without the slightest outward visited the cosmonauts’ train- veterans. Now Dec-ember 7, after the Arabs launched their Between the quarters and
sign of his distress, he led the ing center at Star City. Wrote 1973 may go down as a offensive against Israel, Fa- the thousands was a period .g
Senate fight for the foreign aid low: "Anew training building is red-letter day for Vietnam ther Dan was invited to when Jack Roy quit the “
bill. The he took off for Europe being put up especially for veterans. address a meeting of Arab standup comic routines to
to attend an international food ASTP (the joint Apollo-Soyuz landmark legislation to help graduate students And here "live a normal live” as a .
conference. ------- Test Project) tealntog. It is a vets was scheduled to be he laid it on the line, greatly
When we learned Humphrey four-story building which will introduced on December 7 by a to the disadvantage of Israel.
was undergoing cancer thera- include classrooms, lecture bipartisan group of senators. He said of it that ti a
py, he immediately opened his halls, display rooms for our However, the bill was pre-emp- criminal Jewish conspira, couldn’t help "thinking fun-
medical records to us and spacecraft subsystems, etc. In ted by Sen Vance Hartke, C. That, as a state, Israel ny" and when he did, he
authorized his doctor to answer addition, they are building a D-Ind., the powerful Senate is the "creation of an elite of wrote it down. Now he has'
our questions new hostel and dispensary for veterans chairman, who intro- millionaires, generals, and what he calls "a duffle bag
Dr Berman said he has given the United States team " duced his own narrower bill. entrepreneurs " The peace- full of jokes" that he dan dip
Humphrey, periodic checks for SOYUZ-11 DISASTER While the Hartke bill would types who were involved with into anytime. He estimates d
cancer since the late 1960s when The Soviets cooperated even increase the subsistence pay- PEP began to register their that he has written between
the then-Vice President report- to the point of disclosing the ments for vets using the GI horror over Dr. Dan's apply- 10,000 and 15,000 jokes and
ed feeding from the bladder. A details of the Soyuz-11 mishap, education bill, it is the original tag strictly to Israel the used 3,000 Nine-tenths Of his
-------- --------------------— — .. biopsy showed a benign but in which two cosmonauts lost tuition cost that is keeping analysis he began using material is his own.
we don't know where he’s separate the fighting sides, to make it physically impossible slightly abnormal growth. 'their lives In return, the many vets out of school. The bill against South Vietnam. He admits that it was a 17
getting his facts, or why he forthem tocontinue theconfict fornethem»^olif in'= _ The latest biopsy, taken in Americans gave the Soviets the Hartke set aside would have A prominent rabbi denounc- tough road back when he
decided it was Watergate that cun-tag the"shame of exhibiting weakness or admitting September, produced the pin- results of their findings on the provided a variable tuition ed Fr. Dan. Then a prominent decided to become a comedi-
Mr Nixon wanted to take the defeat." f head tumor which appeared Apollo-13 and Skylab foul-ups. allowance in order to equalize , Protestant clergyman. And an again at age 40. At age 41 ]
heat off of. We agree that the Although the author of these words is speaking of Arab vs. malignant. Dr. Berman consul- The spirit of cooperation even educational
enerav crisis is a hoax but Arab disputes on an individual or local level, they hold true ted trine of the nation's top extended to comet-watching, veterans.
we don’t necessarily agree intseainter natronalsphere-inhishaslanthahisoortoe cangmnapecialists. Three said it Low invited the Soviets to join The veto fear that if the
that its government created past 25 years, culminating in the current attempt in Geneva wo
Maybe government caused, to resolve the Arab-Israeli impasse. an
but we don’t (yet) buy The quotation is from a book, “The Arab Mind,” by Arabist un
government created. Raphael Patai, now a teacher of anthropology at Farleigh cal
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