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OPINIONS
Gainesville Daily Register
Mon., April 18,1988—3
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Associated Press and was in Gen-
eva for the signing of the Afghan
accords.
issioners Court and County
Judge Shelby Fletcher will
leave Saturday by train on an
expense-paid trip to Marion,
Ohio, where they will be guests
of the Huber-Worco Machinery
Co. The company, which makes
heavy-duty roach machinery,
will conduct the county officials
on a tour Monday through its
plant in Marion.
To the Editor:
I read with disbelief the article
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Gainesville Daily Register
Donald W. Reynolds,
Chairman of the Board
Warren G. Flowers,
General Manager
Eric Williams, Managing Editor
David Scott, Advertising Manager
Floyd Ferguson, Circulation Manager
Today is Monday, April 18, the
109th day of 1988. There are 257 days
left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On April 18,1775, Paul Revere be-
gan his famous ride from Char-
lestown to Lexington, Mass.,
warning the American colonists
that the British were coming.
On this date:
In 1934, the first self-service laun-
dry (called a “washateria”)
opened, in Fort Worth, Texas.
Five years ago: Sixty-two people,
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in your Fri.Aprinedrtinne Ratos, uneducated, who have claims and states an injured worker has a “free
EDITOR’S NOTE — Henry Got- including 17 Americans, were killed
— in a blast set off by a suicide bomber
another one. Mr. Kaster stated the employers not to hire these
“The problem with that is there are people. Also, in violation of the
S-H-U-LT-Z. GEORGE SHULTZ,
WERE GOING TO BE IN YOUR
NEIGHBORHOOD AGAIN SOON
PEMONSTRATING OUR PEACE
lion.
The insurance company received
more than the lawyers just for ad-
ministrative cost.
From the tone, of his speech, it
appears that Mr. Raster and his
friends are attempting to run a
scam on the people of Texas. We no
sooner than get the insurance tort
reform scam exposed (see 60
Minutes and the Attorney General’s
Lawsuit) than they come up with
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ters in Gaza and the West
Bank. Accordingly, West
Bank Arabs have refused to
meet with Secretary Shultz
for no other reason than that
PLO leader Yasser Arafat
forbade them to.
So long as the PLO can
control the West Bank agenda
in peace or in violence as it
does, there can be no settle-
ment, even if Israel were
eager to exchange territory
for peace, which is not now
the case.
Henry Rissinger has said
the Soviet Union can help the
nations of the Middle East to
wage war, but the United
States is the only nation that
can help them make peace.
But as former President
Nixon has aptly observed, we
cannot solve their problems,
we can only help them solve
them.
With two diplomatic shut-
tles and an Israeli summit in
Washington, the Reagan ad-
ministration has again given
its best shot as a peacemaker
to the Middle East, where
there is no peace. If nothing
else, Secretary Shultz’s ef-
forts convince that the peace
process in the Middle East
will stay on hold until after
the upcoming elections in the
United States and Israel.
Even if Arab leaders were
willing now to sit down in
Jerusalem as did Egypt’s
President Anwar Sadat, the
coalition government of Isra-
el, paralyzed by divisions,
would be incapable of formu-
lating a peace settlement.
Shultz must now cut his
Mid-East losses and invest
more heavily in other inter-
national problems from Pan-
ama to the Philippines.
Reprinted from The Union
in San Diego.
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30 years ago
At the movies: Jane Powell
and Cliff Robertson starring in
“The Girl Most Likely,” feat-
uring Reith Andes, Raye
Balard, Tommy Noonan and
Una Merkel, playing at the
State Theater. At the Hi-Ho
Drive-In Theater; Ralph
Meeker, Janice Rule and Paul
Heinreid starring in “Battle
Shock.”
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When Secretary of State
George Shultz announced his
intention to try yet another
round of shuttle diplomacy in
the Middle East, it was wide-
ly assumed he had encourag-
ing inside reasons for doing
so. Otherwise, why would he
repeat the shuttle carried out
without result only weeks ago
and following on the heels of
Prime Minister Yitzhak
Shamir’s inconclusive visit to
Washington?
Now that Shultz has come
back empty-handed once
again, the puzzle is why he
devoted so much time, effort
and U.S. prestige in recent
weeks to the hopelessly dead-
locked Middle East. The sec-
retary conceded only “inch-
es” of gains during his six ar-
duous days of negotiating
with Arab and Israeli leaders.
The answer is that the sec-
retary is stubborn, persistent
and ever-hopeful of a break-
through.
Although Secretary Shultz
praised Jordan’s King
Hussein for taking a “con-
structive” approach to the
U.S. peace plan, he had to
face the bleak reality once
again that the king cannot
and will not negotiate for the
Arabs in Gaza and the West
Bank simply because the
Palestine Liberation Organi-
zation will not permit him to
do so.
Ever since the Arab world
in 1974 designated the PLO as
the sole “legitimate” repre-
sentative of the Palestinian
people, King Hussein has
been unwilling to challenge
the PLO’s negotiating monop-
oly. The murder of West Bank
Arabs for dealing with Israeli
authorities in any way has
sufficed to give the PLO a
veto over all political mat-
Yes, the agreement signed Thu- Afghanistan. To bring that with-
rsday by the foreign ministers of the drawal about, after the loss of an
government in Kabul, Pakistan, the estimated million Afghan lives, was
United States and the Soviet Union a major victory, Shultz said,
opens the way for what Shultz called prompting him to proclaim, “His-
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eitherconfsedor’extremenyignor all of a sudden they get $20,000. That advised employers to demand
ant concerning the very laws he has seenintneiretsantte hirstethin ployed choice d doctor o the em
been appointed by Governor they do is go out and buy a new Mr. Raster appears to violently
eentstaumnister:.c, i pick-up truck and the money is disagree with the very laws he has
He statesthat.plaintiff lawyers blown and now the family is desti- been appointed to administer. His
received $600 million of the ?3 bil- tute and the guy does not have a oath of office requires that he up-
lion dollars paid m worker scorn- job.” Mr. Raster has insulted every hold the law. Under the cir-
P • aion Denelits. last year. worker in Texas who has ever filed cmstances he should resign or be
Plaintiff lawyers are limited hy law a worker’s compensation claim. I removed.
5 percent of the recovery There- have met a great number of work-
fore, if the doctors got $1 billion and ing people with third-grade edu-
theinsurance company got $400 mil- cations that would not make such
lion, that is $1.4 billion leaving $900 senseless statements as Mr. Raster
million for the injured worker. If does.
every worker had a lawyer (which,
of course, is not true) the lawyers it is my opinion that Mr. Raster
would have received only $225 mil- has called for employers to perform
lion and the injured worker $675 mil- illegal acts of discrimination
Why space-based defenses can and must be deployed
tLWeproceed with the responses of Yes. The key to a truly effective The options available to the United riority, because they will have the one basket — i.e., with a number of pendentlines of computerreason-
fense nf nica Panelon1 Missile De- defense against Soviet attack is a States are: Either we go ahead full ability to disarm the United States warheads still on board. The vital ing.Ands. th P rograms. are
stitute in George C. Marshall In- combination of the space-based de- speed with the Strategic Defense by destroying the command and success in tracking a bus by means compartmentalized broken up
arrived^ first column, we fense and the ground-based de- Initiative, in which case each side control network for our nuclear an end to the era of the MIRVed int0 2oXeS;EinauY, thecomm
of the uatthecrucialdevelopment fense. The space-based defense will have a defense against the forces while sustaining tolerable or missile. If an ICBM can be caught unicationslinksthat connect the
mitmennsmart bullet," which per- breaks up the timing of the Soviet other side’s missiles in the 1990s; or no damage to their own military and destroyed right after it is different parts of the system are
and SPae • ed missiles to detect, attack, thus making it impossible we fail to deploy SDI, in which case and industrial base. launched and before it has deployed heavily redundant
tndkil missiles launched from for a successful attack against the Soviet Union will have a defense " som, American scientists sav a all its warheads, there is little to "Howeffectiye,then, will the
wpound., : ground missiles by means of “lad- against our missiles, but we will E Some m gain from MIRVing. smart-hulletdefensebe
pendenparaabred missiles de- eringdowi"g-successivemiss- have none against theirs. fanweaguardagainst acata- of share bullet
A warhead can be tracked quite iesiomingsinafew.secords.or ■ Might the Soviet Union be confident that these smart-bullet st breakdown or an error in SDI in space and another on the ground,
well without radar, by a com- minutesapar, making way forthe tempted to a pre-emptive strike if defenses will work in space? Lftware^ or an error in will have an effectiveness of about
bination of a lightweight heat detec- based missilee.Theenthe ground- we Went ahead? The most recent test, in February software ’ 50 percent. The fully deployed 1990s
tor, which finds the direction to the ing mEgd P P mha Not in the near term. Our sub- 1988, showed that smart bullets can Several steps are necessary. Sof- defense, with many more smart
warhead by picking up its warmth 8 a S marines are'an effective deterrent. track a “bus”—the vital section of tware and hardware errors can be bullets in space and a mid-course
against the cold of space, and a ■ Isn't it destabilizing to build a But by 1995, the Soviets will have an ICBM that carries all the war- deliberately inserted into the pro- layer that lies between the space-
low-powered laser range finder, defense against Soviet missiles? completed deployment of their heads—even after the missile itself gram and the system then tested based layer and the terminal layer
which measures the distance to it Won’t the Soviets feel threatened? fifth-generation ICBM arsenal and has burned out and fallen away, and refined until it is “error tol- — a total of three years — will have
with great accuracy. Only if the Soviets had no defense will have completed their nation- This capability means that the U.S. erant.” The software must be red- an effectiveness of better than 90
■ Do we still need ground-based system of their own. But they have wide ABM defense. At that time, defenses can catch Soviet ICBMs undant: Every important decision percent. That is, nine out of 10 Sov-
anti-missile defenses? been working on one for 15 years, they will have clear military supe- with many of their eggs still in the is made in several ways by inde- iet warheads will be destroyed.
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A group of girls from the Ju-
nior High School choir pre-
sented a selection of songs
Monday evening at the meeting
of the Riwanis Club of Greater
Gainesville. Miss Anita Homer,
choir director, played the piano
accompaniment for the group.
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The State Highway Patrol’s
March traffic accident sum-
mary for Cooke County showed
a total of only two accidents in-
vestigated by local patrolmen
in March. Patrolman Bill Gar-
dner said some accidents were
investigated by the Sheriff’s
Department, but that over all,
March was a very light month.
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Cooke County Comm-
By HENRY GOTTLIEB “Afghan control over tory has been made today.”
Associated Press Writer Afghanistan.” The Soviet decision to withdraw
WASHINGTON — Secretary of The sad fact remains, however, could lead to the restoration of
State George P. Shultz and three That the Afghan government the Afghanistan to that shelf of coun-
other grim-faced diplomats who Soviets have backed for a decade tries the United States need not
signed the Afghan accords will continue receiving arms from worry about and the officials
studiously avoided the word Moscow and the Afghan mu- seemed pleased at that prospect,
“peace” to describe what they had jahadeen supported by the United The parallels between
achieved. States will continue receiving Afghanistan in the 1980s and Viet-
The tragic reality behind what weapons from a CIA pipeline. nam, particularly in the 1970s, are Eggemmymeemwy
Shultz called a historic agreement The United States tried to get the inescapable.
is that the killing will go on in Soviets to agree to a mutual cutoff A superpower bogged down in an By The Associated Press
Afghanistan, as it did in Vietnam of weaponry, but that effort failed unpopular war at home and abroad,
for two years after Henry Rissinger so the Afghan rivals will continue realizing its superior firepower
put his signature on a similar ac- receiving the means to kill each cannot defeat a tenacious guerrilla
cord in 1973. others’adherents. force armed by another super-
Yes, the Soviets pledged to re- The accords signed in Geneva do power, signs an agreement per-
move their 115,000 troops from not end the war; they merely begin mitting disengagement “with
Afghanistan by Feb. 15,1989. the end to Soviet troop participation honor. ’ ’
Yes, Shultz left Geneva and the in it. Shultz acknowledged the in 1973, Secretary of State Kiss-
signing ceremony in the United agreement was “not perfect.” inger set the stage in the Paris ac-
Nations Palace of Justice talking The United States, its allies, the cords for U.S. troop withdrawal,
about worldwide efforts to help Islamic world and most of the rest turning the struggle over to the
Afghan refugees return to villages of the world have been railing well-stocked South Vietnamese.-B y
no longer threatened by Soviet against the Soviets for more than April 1975, the North Vietnamese
napalm and helicopter gunships. eight years for sending troops to had won.
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who drove an explosives-laden van
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west Beirut.
One year ago: President Reagan
used his weekly radio address to
express hope that the superpowers
could reach an agreement to
sharply reduce the threat of
intermediate-range nuclear
weapons.
Today’s Birthdays: Movie com-
poser Miklos Rozsa is 81. Actress
Barbara Hale is 66. Actor Clive Re-
vill is 58. Actor Robert Hooks is 51.
Actress Hayley Mills is 42. Actor
James Woods is 41.
Thought for Today: “If anyone
tells you something strange about
the world, something you had never
heard before, do not laugh but listen
attentively; make him repeat it,
make him explain it; no doubt there
is something there worth taking
hold of.” - Georges Duhamel,
French author (1884-1966).
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