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Dear Editor:
I think that Barefoot Sanders would make us all a wonderful
Senator; one that would be present and cast his vote for all
Texans whenever the roll is called.
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Were peace only a question of getting rid of Thieu—
who, incidentally, has agreed to resign a month before
general elections—Sen. McGovern would be right in in-
dicting the President for not ending the war long ago
But just as it takes two to make war, it takes two to
make peace, when neither of them has achieved his aims
militarily. It is this truth which it has taken four years
to sink into the thinking of the men who rule in Hanoi
Thus a more valid question would be: "Why has the
government of North Vietnam waited four years to end a
war that could just as easily have been ended four years
ago?"
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Dear Editor:
To the city council of Brownwood, we do not care that we
cannot dump trash in your land fill. We have a very good fill
here furnished by our commissioner ■
We do not appreciate your city citizens road hunting and
trespassing on us Also dumping their empty beer cans and
their worthless dogs they do not want on us to kill our livestock.
This is just a reminder, it should work both ways. .
Lewis Henderson
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By JIMMY R. ALLEN
Peace is on everybody's mind these days in the days around
Halloween many sceptics were asking whether it was Trick or
Treat to think of Vietnam settlement.
Those who view the possible settlement from the standpoint
of political timing are prone to accuse the President of cynical
manipulation. They feel such a sense of relief at the idea of
peace, however, that their criticisms are muted Such sceptics
need to realize that politics is the art of the possible Decision
makers can make political decisions only within the
framework of the options that opinion makers have created.
In other words, a President can take a step at a particular
time in national life when the opinion makers have created
enough public support fot that step. It is not simply a matter of
presidential preferences It is also a matter of what the public
will respond to positively.
The time has come when few people are defending the idea of
staying permanently in the Vietnam War The major debates
of the last several months have centered in how it can be
settled In this atmosphere the President can become the
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on most minds now
The yearning for peace is a driving force in the minds of
men. Visions of peace on earth are as old as warfare. The
prophets of the Old Testament described the golden age as
days when swords would be beaten into plowshares and
natural enemies would lie down side by side without at-
tacking each other The prediction by Jesus of wars and
rumors of wars to the very end of time is distressingly ac-
curate
Our vision still reaches out to a day when peace with perfect
justice will be experienced by all mankind. In the meantime
we must take the competing demands of men and strike a
rough-hewn balance between them in the name of justice. We I
must seek for peace which will maintain the highest level of
justice possible. It is at this level that the debate has raged
among us.
one of the often-overlooked resources for a healthy peace is
prayer to the God who sent His Son as the Prince of Peace.
Prayer in public life has been aborted into an issue to be
debated instead of a practice of communication with God. It
has been madeshallowin public utterances for the benefit of
audiences.
In this day of increased spiritual awareness in areas of our
land and lives, prayer is becoming once again a mighty force.
Prayers for peace are not only appropriate but absolutely
essential. They should include intercession for the victims of
agression and injustice as well as a, yearning for cessation of
hostilities.
The Bible is clear in telling us to pray for our political
leaders. We are to pray for them whether we agree with their
particular philosophies or not. It must be remembered that the
person for whom prayers were commanded in the New
Testament was probably the least-deserving emperor Rome
ever had. His name was Nero. Yet Christians were asked to
pray for him that it might be possible for men to live
peaceably.
let us pray that the efforts for peace will not end in night-
mares reminiscent of a Halloween. Let us remember that the
peace that is most precious is the peace of harmony within the
individual human life. The Prince of Peace is interested in both
corporate and individual peace.
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Dear Editor:
I can account for one time that Senator John Tower was
absent from Washington.
He was in Vietnam looking after me, because I wrote him
that I would give all the beer in Vietnam for just one cold, cold.
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Dear Editor:
Recently, I read a letter distributed by "Texans for Tower."
This local group of citizens begin their fable on a note of
negativism. Their opening comment is, "while it may not be
the most popular thing to do these days, we are taking a
stand."
Tower has served eleven years in the Senate A stand for h
should be easy and popular He has had eleven years to oAhi
he can work for the people of Texas. But has he’ •?
After studying Tower's record it is understandable why his
local supporters are worried. A brief look at the record reveals
Tower's miserable tenure of office
Tower's attendance record is one of consistent absenteeism
Tower has voted against farm price supports, however
"Texans for Tower” claim he has "fought limitation of farm
price supports."
Tower has voted with consistency against old age assistance
legislation.
Tower has voted against, or failed to vote on almost every
bill designed to give labor a fair shake.
Tower has voted against several measures designed to
promote secondary and college level education.
Tower has always been a hurdle for other lawmakers
seeking minimum wage legislation.
I think the majority of Texans consider these issues to be of
vital importance. By voting wrong on the issues. Tower has
voted against the people of Texas. Who then receives the
support of Tower?
Tower's record in the Senate proves he supports the giant
corporations, and people with considerable personal wealth
Tower votes in favor of legislation that gives oil companies
tax breaks, and large profits. He votes for the best interest of
insurance companies that charge ridiculous rates, and escape
from paying their fair share of the tax burden.
Tower never fails to vote for his banker friends, and they
have given thousands of dollars for his re-election.
Tower is a friend of the special interest community. I don't
think Texas can stand another term for Tower. I don't think he
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For the past couple of decades, the world’s weather has
been dominated by a cooling trend
Whether this is just the latest in a series of cool-
ing/warming cycles known to have occurred in the past
5,000 vears, no one can say. Scientists do know, however,
that we stand between two ice ages—the last one and
the next one, and closer to the next one than the last one
The question is, how close?
A scientific conference held earlier this year at Brown
University on the subject, "The Present Interglacial,i
How and When Will It End’”, arrived at a few majo4
conclusions
1) The global environment of the last several thousand
years is an exception to the rule that has existed during
most of the past million years. The natural end of the
present warm interglacial period "is undoubtedly near
when considered on a geological time scale."
21 Manmade pollution seems to have had nothing to do
with either the warming trend of the first half of this
century or the present cooling trend.
3) Arrival of the next ice age may be thousands of
years away, or it could arrive quite rapidly, within a mat-
ter of centuries. It is thus a "first-order environmental
hazard" which must be understood well in advance We
have already begun to unravel all the complex factors
that are involved in the earth's warming and cooling
cycles.
Admittedly, even the most pessimistic forecast gives
mankind a few centuries to prepare it's not something
demanding a rewriting of the 1972 political campaign
platforms. Don't throw out your suntan lotion.
But the iceman cometh, with a vengeance, and when
he does civilization may goeth.
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Speaking a few days ago to a group of labor leaders
from 24 countries who are in the United States to observe
the presidential election. President Nixon remarked that
the British have a much better system" because they
limit their campaigns to three weeks
It is.interesting to reflect that if we had this "better"
system in this country, Richard Nixon would not be pres-
ently running for President of the United States but for
Member of Congress from California.
The reason that the British can limit their campaigns
to three weeks is that nobody runs for, and hence nobody
votes for, the office of prime minister Every Member of
Parliament runs (or in Britain “stands”) for his own
seat in his own constituency, including the party leader
who everyone knows will be named prime minister should
his party capture a majority of seats.
Thus as party leader, a potential prime minister is al-
ready well known to the public. Even if his party is de-
feated, he remains its leader until the party—not the
voters—decides to replace him.
Former Prime Minister Harold Wilson, for example,
is still head of the Labour party. Should his party defeat
the Conservatives in the next election by winning a major-
ity in Parliament. Wilson would again be prime minister.
No doubt President Nixon would have welcomed an
election only three weeks after the nominating conven-
tions. George McGovern had hardly had time by then to
find someone who would agree to run with him, much less
begin to get his message and his personality across to
the public.
American election campaigns may well be too long,
especially if one's mind is made up from the beginning
But from the viewpoint of a relative unknown or an under-
dog. they can be all too short
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Sen. George McGovern has posed the rhetorical chal-
lenge to President Nixon to "tell us why he waited four
years to end a war that could just as easily have been
ended four years ago."
Any war in history, of course, could have been over in
short order if one side had decided not to fight.
Since the Democratic presidential contender's solution
to the Vietnam conflict involves just that—the unilateral
withdrawal of all U.S. forces and cessation of military
aid to the South Vietnamese government of President
Thieu—Republicans could throw the challenge back at
him and ask why President Johnson did not end the con-
flict during his term of office, or why he allowed it to
grow to such horrific proportions in the first place.
But to believe that the President could have ended the
war at any time during the past four years by any means
short of the abandonment of South Vietnam (and the
American electorate never mandated that course), one
would now have to be torn between dismay at his callous-
ness for continuing the death and destruction for so long
and awe at his ability to manipulate events in order to
make a dramatic score on the eve of his bid for re-elec-
tion.
Neither the most vehement detractors of Richard Nixon
nor his staunchest admirers can in all logic credit him
with such capabilities.
Even without assuming that Mr Nixon meant it when
he pledged to seek “peace with honor," it is not necessary
to look very far for the reasons why the war has dragged
on for year after year.
The subjugation of North Vietnam was never the aim
of U.S. involvement in Indochina. The overthrow of its
form of government was never a precondition for peace
Our goal has always been the achievement of a peace
which would leave at least one of the Vietnams with a
reasonable chance to choose freely its form of govern-
ment. and which might eventually lead to a reunification
of both halves of the country under international auspices.
That goal has unfortunately been clouded, if not
thwarted, by the existence of a veritable dictatorship in
South Vietnam under Nguyen Van Thieu (but thwarted
far more by Communist-inspirtd guerrilla warfare and
outright invasion).
Thieu is currently being portrayed as the last, major
stumbling block to peace. It is not necessary to express
unqualified devotion to this ally, however, to grant that
he may have good reasons for a hard-nosed attitude
“The Communists are not only saying they must do
away with Thieu,” he claimed in his recent nationwide
radio and television address, “but with the legislature,
the administration and the justice sections of government,
which means they want to wipe out everybody and start
all over again."
Contrary to one of the more simplistic charges of this
political campaign, the Nixon administration has not
carried on the war for four years merely to maintain
Thieu in office. It has been to defend what, for better or
worse, Thieu represents—the people of South Vietnam.
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WASHINGTON (NEA)
The draft agreement on peace in Vietnam is woefully
weak in its details.
My own experience in negotiating with Communists,
and in watching first-hand while others negotiated, has
taught me that technical points—not overall principles—
are the heart of success or failure. Neglecting details can
be disastrous.
There is the danger that here, as in the grain talks
with Russia, we negotiated so rapidly in our desire for a
solution, and were so poorly informed on what the other
side was doing that we have blundered in important re-
spects on what should have been a magnificent coup.
Perhaps because the brilliant Dr. Henry Kissinger was
tired—dead on his feet after weeks of heavy negotiating
strain Hopefully, renegotiations will correct these weak-
nesses before the pact is signed.
There is evidence that Hanoi’s urgent demands for a
quick agreement may be aimed at not giving us time to
read the fine print.
There are two versions of the draft treaty—the English
version interpreted by Kissinger, the Vietnamese version
interpreted by Hanoi. The differences are not minor:
Item — Hanoi claims the document calls for a coalition
government with considerable power. Kissinger, reading
the English text and using words supplied by Hanoi in
English, sees the same committee of the national concord
as a powerless, advisory group. The difference is crucial.
As history makes clear, a coalition would give Hanoi a
sure-fire way to sabotage and then take power by coup.
Item — There is the matter of who controls what
patches of territory, what the boundaries are for each
patch, and how a local government is to be resupplied if
its territory is a city island in a sea of enemy-held coun-
tryside No detailed agreed-on maps show which side con-
trols what land Each side is free to interpret what is held.
Item — The problem of resupply has not been adequate-
ly defined There is a definite but inexact limit on what
arms can be sent from the United States for South Viet-
nam There is no limit on the arms the Communist bloc
can supply Hanoi. The United States is depending on the
good will and verbal assurance of Peking and Moscow.
Theoretically, Hanoi is not to supply its southern forces at
a higher level than the level at the time of the cease-fire.
\ But no one knows what that level is or how to define it
' within reasonable limits
item — The English version of the draft, as Kissinger
reads it, calls for evacuating all foreign troops, including
North Vietnamese, from Laos and Cambodia But to
Hanoi, many North Vietnamese are not foreigners in Cam-
bodia and parts of Laos. In some areas, Hanoi's cadres
have adopted Lao and Cambodian names. A half-million
North Vietnamese live in Cambodia: many serve as
officers and recruits in Hanoi's local armies The boun-
daries of some North Vietnamese tribal communities
stretch well into Laos.
Some say such details can be worked out later; get the
pact signed now This is nonsense In a cease-fire, as in
an omelet, once the eggs are broken, it is impossible to
turn back
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