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THE DENTON RECORD-CHRONICLE
Tuesday, June 27, 197.
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Odds favor Reagan
1980
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government
without newspapers or newspapers without government I should
not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
— Thomas Jefferson
Carter’s a talker
ISSUE: It's time
for more action
and less promises
There’s one thing that can be said for
Jimmy Carter. He’s a talker — not a
public speaker or doer — but a talker.
Of course, being less than competent
in the field of public speaking doesn’t
seem to be a handicap in the political art
of getting elected to public office, nor an
indication of ability in successfully
carrying out the duties and respon-
sibilities of the office, once elected.
With the exceptions of Franklin
Roosevelt, John Kennedy. John Connally
and possibly Alan Shivers, Texas
governors and U.S. presidents since
World War II have not been particularly
noted for their oratorical skills.
Carter’s style does have one
redeeming grace for the speaker It
makes it especially difficult for the
listener to follow what the speaker is
saying.
Nonetheless, many Americans can
still hear Carter’s campaign and
inauguration statements. “I will bring
the budget into balance, and you can
count on it.” “I will reorganize and
reduce the size of the federal govern-
ment, and you can count on it.” “I will
reduce the intrusion of government into
the lives of Americans, and you can
count on it.” There were also similar
statements on energy, inflation and a
number of other subjects.
Now, more than a year later, with no
action completed on any of these sub-
jects, Carter was in Fort Worth and still
talking.
Acknowledging that inflation is one of
the chief problems facing this country,
he said stabilizing inflation will require
“tough government action,” and he
threatened to use his veto power if
necessary to keep down the deficit
spending level.
After more than a year of talk,
perhaps the time has come for a little
leadership and action. The successful
accomplishment of any of his campaign
or inaugural promises would more than
offset a deficiency in public speaking.
By WALTER R. MEARS
Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Next time. Ronald Reagan
won’t be coy. Word from the
Reagan camp is that the
gosh, gee and maybe phase
won’t be repeated when it
comes time to talk about
running for president in 1980.
Reagan was a bashful
candidate-in-waiting for
months before he challenged
then-President Gerald R.
Ford in 1976. In the next
campaign, he will not be
facing the problems that
confront a candidate trying
to wrest nomination from a •
president of his own party.
Perhaps as important, his
associates sense a new com-
mitment and a new realism
as Reagan looks at the
prospect of another cam-
paign for the Republican
presidential nomination.
He knows, says one, that
neither fate nor a draft is
going to get him that
nomination. There is a
shadow organization ready
to surface and go to work,
perhaps as early as next
winter. There have been
candid discussions of his
pluses and problems.
Age, for example. He will
be 69 years old at the time of
the next presidential elec-
tion, 70 shortly after the next
inauguration. He has been
told that opponents in a new
campaign would almost
surely raise that as an issue,
but that it can be handled so
long as his health is sound
and his performance
Kissinger’s
viewpoint
Associates
sense a new
commitment
and realism
in Ronald Reagan
vigorous.
On the plus side, there is
new life in one of Reagan's
favorite issues: government
spending and taxes. He is
making the most of
Proposition 13, and of his
own effort as governor of
California to put a con-
stitutional cap on state
taxes. In 1976, his call for a
reduction of *90 billion in
federal spending through a
transfer of programs to state
and local jurisdiction, to be
financed or rejected there,
became a campaign
problem. Now it looks like an
asset.
His schedule already reads
like a campaign itinerary:
Miami. Wilkes-Barre and
Philadelphia in the last few
days; Santa Barbara, San
Diego, Salt Lake City,
Spokane, Indianapolis and
" Scranton in the next three
I weeks
Reagan plans to campaign
almost full time for
Republican candidates
during September and
October. By congressional
election time, he will have
covered 25 to 30 states.
That kind of effort builds
the political credits a
presidential candidate can
call in when his own cam-
paign begins.
In addition, Reagan's
Citizens for the Republic, the
conservative political action
committee founded with the
balance of his 1976 campaign
treasury, is at work in the
congressional elections.
None of this puts Reagan
into the 1980 contest. He says
it is too early to talk of
another bid for the
nomination.
However, for the 1980 Re-
publican primary elections,
it would not be Reagan vs.
The President. It would be
an open nomination,
probably with a big GOP
field, and the Reagan people
say they like the odds in that
kind of competition.
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SPEAKING OF IRON CURTAINS...
What energy crisis?
significant
It is often remarked that sometimes a
cartoonist can say a book-full in one
simple drawing and caption As further
proof of this we offer a recent effort by
Dunagin. he shows a couple of men
driving away from a filling station, one
of them saying, “In case the energy
crisis is for real, I want to use up my
share before it’s all gone."
That would not be far off the mark as a
general description of the American
people's attitude. Most of us seem un-
convinced that "the energy crisis is for
real,” even, though we keep hearing
from the experts that it is indeed. But,
just in case the threat of shortages is
genuine, many are in effect saying,
now’s the time to live it up
. That's a bit like a man in a desert
gulping down the water in his canteen
instead of making it last him to the next
water hole
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Wildlife research threat
State officials in Maryland may have
had good reasons for allowing garbage
to be dumped on a site near the federal
wildlife station in Patuxent. The
question is whether those reasons out
weigh biologists’ valid complaint that
this practice may seriously undermine
the work being done at the station
This facility, the first of its kind on the
East Coast, is the scene of an important
program of endangered species
research and propagation For example.
it has propagated and released into the
wild a number of whooping cranes.
Several other species of birds and
animals in danger of extinction also are
nurtured at the center
Biologists fear the spread of disease
among the rare creatures at the
research center - disease from birds,
rats and other wildlife attracted to the
garbage dump Their concern, ex-
pressed in papers filed in federal court,
appears to be well grounded
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The professor says
These may not be the times that try men’s souls, but
unquestionably they’re times that tax men’s packet-
books.
The nation’s property tax bill exceeds $60 billion on-
nuolly That’s more than twice the amount collected 10
years earlier
By ROWLAND EVANS
and ROBERT NOVAK
Syndicated Columnists
On June 5, an amateur polician-turned-amateur
diplomat in Stockholm fired off an excited
telegram to the State Department with reper-
cussions that show how eagerly the favor of Henry
A Kissinger is still sought.
Rodney Kennedy-Minott, U.S. ambassador to
Sweden, reported in exultation that Kissinger, on
his visit to Stockholm then taking place, not only
endorsed U.S. foreign policy in general but also
the emerging SALT II treaty on arms limitations.
When we informed him about this telegram.
Kissinger told us the ambassador had
exaggerated his position in one stance and
misunderstood it in another
From the sieve-like State Department, the
ambassador's effusive report flowed into the
streets of Washington Republicans responsible
for designing their party's foreign policy —
reading Kennedy-Minott without benefit of
Kissinger’s explanation — were mortified Was
Henry running with the hares while hunting with
the hounds'’ While collaborating with the
Republicans in mordant critiques at the Carter
foreign policy, was he also buttering up the
president behind the scenes’’
Even if Kissinger were an innocent victim in this
incident, as is entirely possible the ambassador's
jubilation and the Republican dismay show with
what intense scrutiny Kissinger’s words still are
weighed Both sides believe be may ultimately
determine whether SALT II is ratified by the
Senate
Until the election at Carter, Ambassador
Kennedy-Minott waa an obscure college professor
in California who dabbled in liberal anti
establishment politics Lucky or smart enough to
back Jimmy Carter early in a state where Carter
ranks were thin, the professor was rewarded with
the Stockholm embassy causing gasps of surprise
back in California) So it was that he took himself
to the airport to greet Kissinger when the former
secretary of state arrived in Stockholm as head of
the Chase Manhattan Bank’s international ad-
viaory committee
Kennedy Minott ‘s excitement fairly leapt from
his telegram to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance: "I
met Kissinger upon arrival in Stockholm and we
had a good chat driving in from the airport He
was personally moot agreeable and appreciative
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By JACK ANDERSON
Syndicated Columnist •
The secret minutes of Idi Amin’s cabinet meetings read
like comic opera but there is nothing funny about them
They help to explain why the Ugandan dictator massacred
thousands of his own subjects The terrible toll has been
estimated between 150,000 and 300,000
The minutes, smuggled to us at great risk, reveal the
inner workings of Amin's murderous regime His cabinet
meetings are as chaotic as he is capricious
The discussions are dominated, of course, by the dictator
who is obsessed with dark forebodings He imagines plots
against his regime and suspects his closest associates He is
apt to turn viciously upon anyone without warning The
more people Amin kills, apparently, the more secure he
feels about his own life
On Feb 20, for example he proclaimed that exiles were
preparing to assault Uganda Exiles based in neighboring
countries," he charged, "are now fully trained by the
Imperialists and Zionists and are armed from head to toe.
with sophisticated weapons."
Yet intelligence sources told our reporter Murray Waas
that there is little likelihood of an attack The exiles are too
that I met him.” =============
Then the ambassador got to the really good
news "Even more importantly, he went out of his
way to express his genersl agreement with the
lines of the administration’s foreign policy He
severs! times stressed the fact of his approval of
our policies and particularly told me of his
admiration for the secretary (Vance) and his
appreciation of the job he is doing He several
times stressed the fact of his approval of our
policies "
Could this be the same Kissinger who is so
apocalyptic in private conversation about Carter's
conduct of foreign policy? Kissinger explained to
us he had merely informed toe ambassador that “I
always support the president s policy when I go to
a foreign country I didn't say whether I agree or
disagree with it."
Kennedy-Minott • telegram next reported on "a
good fill-in" given him by "our Swedish friends"
of Kissinger’s talks with Prime Minister Karen
Soder "Again Dr Kissinger gave support to the
administration's foreign policy positions in
general On SALT, he was relatively optimistic,
saying he expected an agreement to be initialed by
about September "
Considering Kissingers private dismay with
SALT'S current state, what the ambassador
described as "optimistic'' might have been only
realistic
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What came next, however, could not be easily
dismissed "In the discussion of strategic affairs,
one of the Swedish participants asked about the
possible effect of the 600-kilometer limit on ses-
launched cruise missiles on Swedish and Nordic
security But Kissinger dismissed this as not s
serious question "
Was he truly pooh-poohing the notorious 600-
kilometer limit on sea launched cruise missiles
agreed to by Carter negotiators, a concession
Kissinger as secretary of state refused snd now as
an ordinary citizen privately condemned'
Not at all. Kissinger explained to us The former
professor from California had gotten things mixed
up The Swedish officials, displaying their national
self-protection reflex, wondered whether 600-
kilometer, submarine-launched missiles would be
fired over Sweden en route to Russia Kissinger
patiently told them not to worry, that a 600-
kilometer missile would not be fired at Russia at
all He indicated to us that his dismay over the
US concession is undiminished
The only point I have to make," Kissinger
repeated to us, "is that when I go to a foreign
country, I don't criticize my country’s policy " But
Republicans wonder whether his praise, as cabled
home by the grateful Kennedy Minott, was a
shade too abundant Meantime, they have fingers
crossed that he will end up with them on SALT and
other great issues between now and the 1980
election
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show that Amin, nevertheless, is convinced that his
predecessor, Milton Obote, will lead an attack against him
Amin professed that he "had never cared about Obote" in
the past, but this time, he said. Obote means business " On
the contrary. State Department sources insist that Obote
has absolutely no following
Then Amin bellyached about security He “was not
happy" he said, “with security in the country." The secret
minutes relate He reiterated that some members of the
Cabinet, including high ranking security officers who were
present at the meeting, were collaborating with Ugandan
exiles "
The thought of this conjecturable betrayal sent him into s
rage “You security officers," he roared "I have given you
everything you need You all have smart cars You all have
good houses You see all married to beautiful Baganda
ladies ... What else do you need"’ Why do you collaborate
with your guerrillas"’"
After simmering down, he complained about dissension
between the army and police "I have personally come
across a (police) chief quarrelling with a battallion com-
mander and almost going to exchange fire,” he said. "I also
failed to calm them What is all this?"
A cabinet official volunteered a similar report "I went to
investigate an incident." he said, “where a person was
killed 1 went to Nakesero for an investigation, and they
locked me up."
Thia provoked a noisy argument among Amin’s ministers
about who was to blame The defense minister, gaining
control of the air space for a moment, chastized his
colleagues He told them, the minutes state, "that they
were abusing the presence of Amin and later told them to
keep quiet or otherwise he would take disciplinary action."
After the recess. Amin's ministers resumed their
bickering This finally caused the dictator to explode
Relate the minutes "The disgusted president stood up and
asked the council how they could defend the country when
they had so many grudges against themselves.”
Then Amin lashed out st them all. “You are all working
for my downfall." he screamed "You are all working for
my downfall But I pity you, because your time will come,
too The guerrillas will kill you."
Footnote Not long after the February meeting. Amin
purged some of the ministers
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