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— Thomas Jefferson
Action needed now
on south interstate
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characteristic of the position of these . and sponsorship of a federal balanced-
budget amendment thah are Hayden
Vietnam charges U.S. hampers normalization
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problems arise. The expensive re-, out that synthetic fuels release twice
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correct such unanticipated problems
greatly adds to the projected cost of
the project. In the case of nuclear
power, the actual cost of nuclear
power plants has been two to three
times that projected by the AEC
The limited experience to date with
synthetic fuel technology suggests
that it shares this problem. From 1935
to 1952, there was no statistically
observable increase in cancer among
those who worked closely with coal
liquifaction in laboratory-sized and
• small pilot plants. But in 1954, Union
Carbide discovered that workers in its
large pilot plant were receiving
By JACK ANDERSON —
Syndicated Columnist
WASHINGTON - We have been
taken to task by Exxon for questioning
whether the oil industry should be
entrusted to' develop synthetic fuels
We are nagged by the suspicion that
proaching the 1980 election in more
than their customary disarray
elite women’s school in a fancy Main
Line suburb 12 miles from downtown
Philadelphia.
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go on the Dallas side of the
airport or on the Fort Worth side
should be irrelevant
Whether the freeway is built
soon or not, planning should be
done now before the develop-
ment of the right-of-way gets to
unusual for a group that is ac-
customed to having a cause for which
to fight.
But for all their problems, it is
probably a mistake to dismiss these
folks as irrelevant. Their local
grassroots organizations are growing
in numbers, and the energy-fueled
inflation is giving them their best
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going to get any better on 35E or
35W going through Dallas and
Fort Worth It seems ridiculous
to make through traffic go by
way of one city or the other,
especially when some highways
are being built in rural areas of
Texas which don’t seem to serve
needs nearly so great.
Maybe this is where all those off-the-wall regulations come from
and maybe it'S not — who wants to know?'
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organizations being created by the
frenetic energy and the fragmented
ideology of the Left than-there are
housing and health care
After .three days of droning
discourse, there was palpable joy
when Jim Hightower, a young Texas
journalist-politician, reminded them
that political points can be made with
humor as easily as with dialectic
Hightower is planning a longshot
campaign for "a seat on the Texes
Railroad Commission, the powerful
state body which regulates the oil and
gas industry and which has tradition-
members to support them
At the lunch table one day. I heard
one earnest orgapizer ask another if
he was ‘connected to the Institute for
the Study of Social Values ”
"No." said the second, seeming
shocked at the suggestion “The New
Society group (his .organization > is a
West Philadelphia organization."
Out west in California, where the
rubber shortage."
Our reporting on this scandal has
Left at the presidential level, there _
was a sense of aimlessness that was ” ally been captive of the industry it
critically short of rubber during the
early war years. Indeed, the Justice
Department had accused the com-
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aggrieved Exxon whose senior vice
president, George T. Piercy, has
written us to call all of this to the at-
tention of your readers," he con-
cluded So herewith are Exxon's ‛
arguments:
Exxon. “The (synthetic rubber) '
effort was a substantial success in
which the U.S. Government, Standard
Oil Company (N.3.) and many other
industrial organizations played im-
the oil barons may choose to squeeze Response Because of Standard
every last dollar out of every' last oil Oil's obstruction, the country was
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New Left activists, who are ap-
Let to rededicate itself to such
plebian goals as full employment, fair
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substantial exposure to cancer-
causing substances produced as by-
products in the coal liquifaction
process
Additional precautions were taken,
but the incidence of skin cancer
among workers in the plant was still
16 to 37 times that reported for any
other industry. Air samples in the
plant showed a level of the cancer
and Fonda ,
The result was something un-
There are, as- always, more - thinkable. Hayden was hissed by his
portant roles. In the 18 months
following Pearl Harbor, a new in-
dustry was created. Facilities were
installed-and production begun By
the second quarter of 1944, production
of synthetic rubber had caught up
with demand ...”
the United States. It is true that the oil
industry, chastened by the Justice
Department's action, began to make a
major contribution to the synthetic
rubber program in the later war
years.
Exxon: “In April of 1943. RW
Gallagher, the then president of
Standard Oil Company, wrote William
M Jeffers, the U S. rubber director
offering to give the government free
license to all synthetic rubber patents
possessed by the corporation, not only
for the war period but the life of the
patents The offer was accepted
Response: Pearl Harbor was
bombed in 1941, not 1943. Standard
Oil's offer came in the middle of the
war only after the Justice Department
had brought charges against the
company. Earlier, Standard Oil
willingly supplied I.G. Farben with
tetryl ethyl lead that the Nazis needed
for the Polish invasion
Exxon: "Standard Oil had the basic,
technology to make synthetic rubhar
by the late 1930s It was not technical
experience with the oil industry. Then
the most critical need was for rubber.
The government entrusted the oil . i
industry to develop synthetic rubber
This patriotic mission went to
Exxon, then known as Standard Oil of
New Jersey, but Standard Oil had a
secret cartel arrangement with the I
German chemical giant. LG Farben
This agreement, signed in 1929, was i
renewed in 1939 on the eve of World
War II Justice Department records |
show that the German consortium I
wanted to tighten its hold on Standard |
Oil,in case the United States became
involved in the war against Germany. I
Under pressure from Adolf Hitler, <
I.G Farben used this connection to “
try to block the development of a 1
synthetic rubber industry in the i
United States. The records show that '
Standard Oil was faithful to I.G. I
Farben and tried to obstruct synthetic I
rubber production by Goodyear and
Dow Chemical ।
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straight for the center, like all
politicians do “
With a few people eyeing a third-
party option and others ready to write
off 1980 as a lost year for politics of the
atmosphere could produce long-term, castigated Standard Oil as "a hostile
detrimental modification of the and dangerous agency of thenemys"
Hanoi turned over 72 sets of bones and
said that was all that could be found.
The Vietnamese also dropped their
demand for $2 billion in recon-
struction aid promised them by
President Nixon.
terchanges between the two govern-
ments. the pRght of the boat people
and the Vietnamese invasion of
Cambodia appear to have blocked any
serious effort by the U S government
toward establishment of full relations
focal figure as the New Left has, and
his wife, actress Jane Fonda But
others in the Left are less tolerant of
Brown's embrace of Proposition 13
By DAVID S. BRODER
■ Syndicated Columnist
BRYN MAWR, Pa - When the
steering committee of the Conference
on Alternative, State and Local
Policies was debating the location of
its fifth annual meeting, it decided it
should be held in an eastern city.
—.—The eenferenee—is—aoose-knit- -
collection of elected officials, union
organizers, community and public-
interest group workers, bound
Dallas-Fort Worth Regional
Airport.
It is hoped that any discussion
of such a freeway would not get
bogged down in the age-old
ballas-Fort Wirth rivalry DP W
knowledge but relative economics
which prevented production in the
years prior to World War II Under
wartime pressures, this consideration
was swept away.”.'
WASHINGTON WHIRL; Thanks to
Congress' traditional haste to leave
town at the end of a session, the
taxpayers are unwittingly subsidizing
Communist Party propaganda It
happened in the rush to clean up the
legislative calendar last year A
single paragraph in the. Overseas
Voting Rights Amendment, passed
without proper scrutiny, allows
qualified political committees to use
the special third-class bulk mail rate
(just under 3 cents per letter) instead
of the regular bulk rate of 81 cents
The Postal Service estimates the
loophole will cost more than $18
million this year and $24 million,in
1980 And the first political committee
to qualify was the Communist Party
of New York:
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regulating.
When solar collectors were installed
on the roof of the-commission’s new
building in Austin “to impress us en-
vironmental freaks,” Hightower said
“it was like putting earrings on a hog
— you can't hide the ugliness "
He urged his pals to climb down
from their ideological perches and *
dirty their hands with politics,
arguing thatever since the 1972-
McGovern-for-President campaign,
"the progressive movement has been
afraid of the people — afraid of
rejection.”
Instead of cowering, they should
adopt the slogan of an Austin cartage
company, Hightower said: "If we can
get it loose, we can move it.”
—With a-few more Hightowers and a
lot less New Society-groups, they
might even do it. But not in 1980
Washington Post Syhdicate
for trying to accomplish too much, too expenditures that were a prerequisite
soon. Behind the new facade. BrownL’for the commercial application of
sees the structure of the old Atomic nuclear energy, the AECsperit almost ‘ “
Energy Commission. ‘$100 billion on nuclear research
By MARTIN BROWN Critics of this huge federal subsidy
Pacific News Service feel that the single-minded focus of
While President Carter was careful the AEC on nuclear technology re- 1
agency that was established in 1946 reliability of the technology
with extraordinary powers to oversee President Carter’s proposal for an
the development of both military and Energy Mobilization Board, which
own longtime friends at ,the
Philadelphia conference,, when he
gave Brown a favorable mention in
I Exxon-Nazi agreements
discredit big oil efforts
causing agent — benzol a pyrene — at
a concentration 600 times that of
polluted Los Angeles air on a high
traffic day.
Also like nuclear power, synthetic
fuel plants have the potential of
causing widespread environmental
disruption.
The President’s Council of
Environmental Quality has pointed
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President Carter among the New Left
organizers. There is disquiet about
Sen Edward M Kennedy. D Mass , a
mixture of apprehension that he may
not run and fear that, if he does, he
will immediately, as socialist author
. Michaet Harrington- said-, head
well before making synthetic fuels
readily available to a nation in the
grip of an energy drought
As evidence that the oil men might pony of conspiracy to restrain the
put corporate greed ahead of the developmehToT synthetic rubber in -—-
public goodewe cited the World War II - - -
BRIEF COMMENT: Pat
Boone appeared at this week's
Denton- Kwanis- Glub-meeting-
He is being saluted for what he
did for the Kiwanis Club. His
recognition is well deserved,. but
the club also deserves a salute
for what it has done for Denton.
earth’s climate.
Like nuclear power, synthetic fuel
technology also requires larger
amounts of water than most other
energy technologies, specially for
mining and transporting the coal and
shale In the arid West where most
synthetic fuel plants are slated to be
built, there is already keen com-
petition for fresh water between
agricultural, energy and urban in-
terests.
The magnitude of these complex
environmental problems suggests
that development of synfuel should be
deliberate and cautious But'
President Carter's proposed Energy-
Mobilization Board seems designed to
short circuit the usual "delays" in-
trinsic in an open planning process
EDITOR’S NOTE: President
Carter's description of the crash
synthetic fuels program recalls his
earlier statement that energy
development should become the
nation's "moral equivalent of war."
PN8 editor Martin Brown takes a
hard look at the president's proposed
Energy Mobilization Board, and sees
the ghosts of past agencies discredited
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malization of relations
“Normalization? The refugee issue
alone would crush it," one
congressman said
Vietnamese officials contend that
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Political success dims for Left
the United States, William
Stephenson, helped to expose the
secret cartel agreement and
Environmental Protection Agency
The synthetic fuel technology itself
resembles nuclear technology in some
crucial and disturbing ways. In both
cases the technology may . function
perfectly on a small, experimental
scale But when the process is scaled
up to a huge commercial plant,
costing $l-$2 billion, unforseen en-
vironmental and engineering
national purpose, unity and ac- program would just outspace us. and
complishment conjured up by this we'd, end up playing catch-up," says
analogy is reassuring, but is only one David Tundermann of the U.S.
commercial applications of nuclear would "speed approval and con-
power, struction" of synthetic fuel plants by
Carter's proposed'Energy Security "cutting etiveronmental redtape,"
Corporation and Energy Mobilization appears to be a step’ back in the
Board would appear to do for «yn- direction of the old AEC Environ
thetic- fuels what the AEC did for mentalists are especially worried
nuclear power The nostalgic image of about this kind of approach "A crash
climate seems to draw many in-
terested in restructuring American
society, the most obvious schism
centers on the personality and policies
of 1980 presidential hopeful Gov
Edmond G, “Jerry” Brown Jr .
Democrat
The Justice Department reacted by
filing a massive1 antitrust action
against Standard Qnl
In April of 1942, Assistant Attorney
General Thurmond Arnold charged
that the "Standard cartel
arrangements with Germany . . are
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together in part by past ties to the civil
rights and anti-war movements of the
, .1960s and in part by an ideological
opposition to what they like to call
"the corporate agenda" for America
Their first four conferences were
held in Madison, Wis , Denver. Austin
and St Paul, so they thought this year
they should come to an eastern citv.
where they could hold their debates
Airport was delayed for many among the people they were trying to
years by disputes as petty as reach
which side of the airport the Instead, for reasons that were never Brown has successfully courted
terminal would go on. Whether quite clear, they ended up meeting on Tom Hayden, the onetime Chicago talking point against big business in
the interstate extension would “the campus of Bryn Ma wr College, an Seven defendant who is as close to a many years?
A lot of the rhetoric about "the
corporate agenda” is as sterile and
boring as is the counter-propaganda
from the Right about how “the market
mechanism” will solve all problems
except the Soviet missile menace
District of Columbia Mayor Marion
Barry, one of the many alumni of the
-group who has suwwded nr local
politics, brought them back to earth
with a reminder that, however un-
fashionable. it might not hurt the New
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heart nf Hanoi—The new occupants----Two US- congressional delegations — every time they fulfill an American----The Vietnamese say they are--—
were to be American diplomats, which visited Hanoi last week talked demand. Washington comes up with making an all-out effort to stem the
coming to open relations with Viet- about the "improved climate" and another condition for recognition flow of boat refugees and set up a
nam after yeam of war and bitterness "greater realism and frankness ".of First the United States insisted the normal emigration program. But they.
The Americans didn't come, and the Vietnamese But they indicated Vietnamese return'the remains of show no signs of pulling their troops
despite a recent increase in in- that no American politician would w in Americans killed in the Vietnam War out of Cambodia
side of the AEC The other side is the
history of bureaucratic .arrogance,
lack of public accountability, en-
vironmental and economic
miscalculations and finally, under a
barrage of public criticism, the
abandonment of the AEC in 1976 and
total reorganization of the federal
energy establishment
Including the military research
. Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be
limited without being lost. f
' to avoid the nuclear power con- suited in a severe distortion in
troversy in his national speech on national energy research and
energy policy, the troubled .history of development, with almost no attention
U.S. nuclear power haunts the being paid to solar energy and con-
keystone of his new energy proposal servation technologies
— the synthetic fuel program President Carter’s announcement
It is as if the old ghost of broken that the bulk of energy research
promises and unanticipated problems funding in the 1980s — almost $100
has moved out of the broken-down old billion —‘will be poured into the single
house and'into the barely finished synthetic fuel technology raises
condominium, even ahead of its similar reservations
human occupants According to one official within the
To an extraordinary degree Car- Carter administration, "So long as
ter’s synthetic fuel program for the you look at this problem as one of •
1990s resembles President synthetic fuels, a big project makes
Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" sense. But if you look at the overall
program for the 1960s, with the same problem as one reducing foreign
potentials for political and economic imports, then you find. Io and behold,
instability that brought the com- that a myopic focus on synthetics is
mercial use pf nuclear power to a probably silly."
virtual standstill in the 1970s. Such critics call for a more
Criticism of the president 's synthetic balanced approach, with research and
fuel proposal has already begun to development money spread more
emerge which parallels criticism of evenly over a- broader range of
the earlier national pro-nuclear promising technologies and social
energy policy programs of energy conservation.
Ir. his energy message President A common criticism of the AEC was
Carter declared, “This democracy that the same agency which was
which we love is going to make its charged with developing and
stand ... on the battle field of promoting nuclear power was also
energy.” He also compared his charged with insuring that nuclear
proposed Energy Mobilization Board power was efficient and safe This,
to the War Production Board of World critics charged, was an inherent
Wan conflict of interest which consistently
But a mre appropriate analogy resulted in underestimations of the
would be the Atomic Energy Com- cost of nuclear power and over-
mission (AEC), the federal super- estimations of the safety and
. , By DEMS D GRAY
Associated Press Writer
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — The
Vietnamese say the workers arrived
last fall to put a coat of paint on the
fading, half-century-old villa in the
Now, before the land is
developed to the last square
foot, is the time to get moving on
an extension of Interstate 35 due
south from Denton
Interstate 35E is a mess
between here and Dallas and
always has been, not to mention
the hassle of getting through
Dallas. --
Interstate 35W is fine between
here and Fort Worth, but getting
through Fort Worth is a
problem.
What is needed is an In-
terstate 35 connection between
Denton and Hillsboro, a Mid-
cities Freeway, which would
take traffic that is going cross-
country — Oklahoma City south
to Austin or whatever — out of
Dallas and Fort Worth
Not only would such a freeway
benefit north-south travelers
and truckers who are not going
to either Dallas or Fort Worth,
but ahn it would serve tho—---
going from north or south into
the midcities. More and more
workers are commuting from
north of Dallas and Fort Worth
into the Arlington, Irving and
Grand Prairie areas
-----Such a Mideities- Freeway —
could tie into U.S. 360, which is
being improved now.
. An interstate from Denton to
Hillsboro also would provide
better north-south access to the
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