The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 22, 1978 Page: 15 of 20
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THURSDAY. JUNE 22. 1978
THE TUL1A (Swisher County) HERALD
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Scientists Look At Cloning
By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON— Eminent
svicntistv arc distressed over
the claim that a healthy
human inlant has been pro-
duced by the laboratory tech-
nique of cloning The only
I rankcnstcin monster to
some out of the cloning
soniroscrsy. they assure us,
is the image that has been
srealed in (he publis mind
I be questionable claim
was made in a book. which
reputable biologists shal
lenge. Ihes sas human cion
mg lies far lar in the future
Rut genctis discoveries oscr
the last fise years promise
enormous benefits in eradi
eating disease and producing
bunijvr food crops lo feed a
stars tng world
Scientists first succeeded
in cloning frogs in the |9S0s
Now Yale's Dr dement
Marker! is perfecting a new
cloning technique that soon
could be used in larger
animals He takes a new Is
fertilized mouse embryo and
destroys either the lather's
sperm nucleus or the mo
ther s egg nucleus
I he remaining nucleus,
upon exposure to certain
chemicals, will divide into an
etaci copy of itself Each
nucleus now has the same
genes from only one parent.
The egg is then implanted in
the womb of a mouse and
develops into a female off-
spring I he offspring is not a
clone, but all her eggs will
exactly match her own
genes Thus, all of her babies
will be clones lhal look just
like her
'No adult now living can
be cloned." Markerl e»
plained lo our associate
Howie Kurtz "Only their
daughters could be cloned."
One scientist has already
produced seven cloned fe-
male mice through this me
thod Males c an not be cloned
this was bill Markerl saw
the cloning of mammals
"should be pcsssible vers
soon."
I his raises the prospect of
cloning prize dairy herds
rapidls instead of breeding
them over generation In
agriculture, meanwhile, set
enlists hope to done endless
copies of the healthiest and
fastest growing crops They
would reprixfuce strains of
wheal, tobacco, soybeans
and corn (hat are mosl
resistant to both disease and
pests.
I spensise orchids, for ci
ample, are already being
clonedbv the thousands for a
fraction of the cost. "These
techniques are revolution-
izing horticulture." scientist
Peter Day told us.
At the same time, scien-
tists arc experimenting with
another method Experts
have spliced DNA. the build-
ing block of life, from the
genes of rats. mice, chick-
ens. frogs, rabbits and in
sects the separated DNA is
inserted into alien bacteria
cultures for duplication last
scar, ihe first human protein
was created by this method
bs Herbert Boser at Ihe
University of California. San
Francisco.
I he protein, somatostatin,
is secreted by the brain, and
people who lack it must be
treated with hormones pain-
stakingly extracted from the
brains of sheep The new
discovery could lead to the
synthesis of other DNA ma
lenal lo treat hemophilia,
hepatitis and other diseases
Biologist William Kulter.
for example, recently extrac-
ted a ral gene, injec ted it into
bacteria and produced a
small quantits of ral insulin.
This is a dramatic slop
toward helping diabetics who
must rels on cows and pigs
for their insulin "Our goal of
making human insulin from
a human gene is not that far
away." Kulter told us.
DNA research is now rig-
idly suprcvised by the Na-
tional Institutes of Health
under guidelines suggested
by the pioneer scientists
themselves. They now be-
lieve that they overreacted to
ihe potential dangers Nobel
laureate .lames Watson, the
discoverer of DNA. savs the
idea that a scientist could
create a new super-disease
for nefarious use is "a luna-
tic scenario.”
For one thing, nearly all
DNA researchers are con-
fined Us using a weak strain
ol bacteria known as E. Coll
The bacteria have been trea-
ted so lhal even if they
leaked out of the labs, they
could not survive.
Further, federal regulators
have ordered that potentially
dangerous experiments be
conducted only in sealed-off
labs indenlified as "P-4"
facilities. The only P-4 lab
now operating in this country
is located at the former Ft.
Dclrick biological warfare
center al Frederick. Md.
The security is inlense.
I he entire structure is kept
under negative air pressure,
and the temperature inside is
maintained al TOO degrees
.JACK ANDERSON WITH JOE SPEAR
WEEKLY SPECIAL
First Marston, Then Rust:
Dems Enforce Justice
WASHINGTON - l*rr»i
dent Carter caused an up-
roar when he fired David
Marston as the U S attor
rvey in I’hilarielphia TT>e
president had promised to
be guided by merit, not
politics. III selecting U S
attorneys Yet the only
real complaint against
Marston was that he was a
Republican
Now, we have discov-
ered a similar case in
southern Florida This is
becoming the drug smug-
gling capital of the United
States, ami U S Attorney
Robert Rust had been ef-
fective in cracking down
on drug smugglers lie had
an amazing 95 percent con-
viction rate during his
eight years in office
Hut he had the same
shortcoming as Marston
Rust was also a Republi-
can He wasn't fired
outright At first, he
merely was not allowed to
replace staff member!
who left This reduced the
size of his office by 25
percent in seven months
Next, a top Justice De-
partment official, William
Tyson, called on Rust
Tyson told him it would la-
beller if he would resign
quietly Rv this time. Rust
was despondent over what
had happened to his office
So he handed in his resig
nation last year
They did not have the
heart to fire me." Rust
recently told us “They
just wished upon me the
death of a thousand cuts
A merit commission at-
tempted to find a replace-
ment The man they de-
cided had the most merit,
not surprisingly, turned
out to be a Democrat Rut
law enforcement officials
say privately that the new
U S attorney has been a
disaster
Hr is Jai k Kskanazi. a
cautious, methodical for
mrr FHI agent and magis
Rate judge His creden-
tials look good on fiaper
Hut associates say his
methods are "stifling"
They complain that he is
overcautious, that he goes
ahead with only the sure
cases
The rate of indictments,
as a result, has dropped by
.10 jH-reent The joint feder-
al state narcotics intelli-
gence force has been aban-
doned This has resulted,
according to officials, in
poorer narcotics enforce-
ment
Tyson told our reporter
Josh levin that he does not
recall asking Rust to quit
He also said there was
nothing unusual about
prohibiting U S attorneys
from hiring replacements
at the beginning of a new
administration
Eskanazi told us that his
methods are different from
his predecessors He said
he is now proceeding on a
case-by-case basis
Rut Carter has accom-
plished one thing The
I Vmocrats are now enforc-
ing federal laws in south-
ern Florida
Thai Tussle: The strate-
gic jungle kingdom of
Thailand is the last surviv-
ing pro-American bastion
in Southeast Asia Now its
leading journalists have
complained that they were
pushed around last month
by Vice President Walter
Mondale's Secret Service
escorts
We have learned that 50
members of Thailand's
press corps boycotted the
windup of the Vice Presi-
dent's stay They refused
to write any more about
Mandate's visit because of
alleged Secret Service
harassment
We have also learned
that the Thai journalists
filed a formal letter of
protest with Mondale's off-
ice The letter has been
given the tacit endorse-
ment of Thailand's prime
minister and foreign min-
ister
The language is blister-
ing It alleges that "high-
hatided rude, vulgar and
insulting" treatment was
a< corded the journalists
Specifically, the journal-
ists charged that Secret
Service agents subjected
them to body searches be-
fore admitting them to a
press conference Yet
American newsmen were
not searched
A woman reporter ac-
companying Mondale
charged that she was forci-
bly dragged off by an
American agent Another
complained that the Secret
Service behaved as if Thai-
land were a colony of the
United States
American officials deny
that Secret Service men
were involved in the body
searching The searches
were conducted, said the
officials, by Thai, not
American, agents. In fact,
American ambassador
Charles Whitehouse asked
the Thais to stop the body
searches
American officials also
blame the other incidents
on the Thais Rut this
hasn't cooled the crisis
Nuisance (alia: Every
day. Americans receive
phone calls from people
selling everything from
cemetery plots to maga-
zine subscriptions Such a
protest has been raised
over these nuisance calls
that the Federal Communi-
cations Commission is con-
sidering a ban
Rut now' the companies
have stirred up a backlash
Some claim the calls are
vital to their business Oth-
ers warn that the right to
use the telephone should
not be infringed
Even the American
Newspaper Publishers As-
sociation has entered the
controversy. It warns that
a broad definition of unsoli-
cited calls could bo danger-
ous This ought inhibit
newsgathering phone
calls.
So far. the voices against
banning the unsolicited
calls seem to he the loud-
est
Headline* and Foot-
notes: State Department
sources say that about
6.000 refugees are escaping
from Vietnam each month
- 20 times the rate of a
year ago About 160,000
Indochinese refugees are
now in the United States
and more are soon to come
. Gulf Oil was recently
fined $40,000 after pleading
"no contest" to charges of
price-fixing on the ura-
nium market But the firm
made $27 million in pure
profit on uranium sales
last year alone ... Alcohol-
ism and drug abuse have
become major problems in
the Soviet Union, accord-
ing to intelligence sources
t npy right. If7t
I 'ruled F eature Syndicate Int
Centigrade. Wastes from in-
side arc carefully screened.
Scientists must don and doff
immaculate surgical uni-
forms entering and leaving.
They must also shower on
emerging. Inside, they must
manipulate their gear by
levers from behind a set of
sealed double doors.
Two government scien-
tists. Malcolm Martin and
Wallace Rowe, are experi-
menting on the disease risks
of DNA research. They in-
tend to extract DNA from a
virus which causes tumors in
mice but not in men. The
microscopic product will be
injected into bacteria to grow
a new. unique type of virus
which then will be fed lo the
mice.
If the mice are infected by
the new virus, the experi-
ments would show there is
real risk of the same dire
thing happening to humans.
"We want to see if the new
virus made from DNA can be
more dangerous than the
original virus," Martin ex-
plained to Kurtz.
Despite all the precau-
tions. scientists are skeptical
that government regulations
can be enforced. "If some-
one wants to cheat, there's
no way even the best biolo-
gist in the world can detect
it," an insider confided.
There have been two de-
tected violations thus far.
Ihe feds halted a Harvard
scientist's government-
subsidized research for fail-
ing to file a memo of explan-
ation with the agency. At San
Francisco, biologist Rutter’s
team used an unauthorized
type of bacteria in their rat
insulin experiment. They
were forced to destroy the
results and start again.
"It was just a bureaucratic
misunderstanding." Rutter
said. Yet under the existing
rules, scientists could be
forced to destroy future
breakthroughs because of
bureaucratic misunder-
standings.
A California Watergate?
FBI, FEC, Senators Probing
By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON—It is the
nature of politics that an
occasional putrefying odor
will bubble up from below to
foul the atmosphere. Such an
emanation, with a strong
smell of Watergate, has now-
been detected in California
It could create a huge politi-
cal stink.
It has all the unsavory
ingredients of Watergate—
illegal campaign contribu-
tion, laundered cash, secret
manipulations, influence
peddling. There has even
been a cover-up.
The evidence is contained
in a stack of affidavits,
investigative reports and
other documents that we
have obtained. A Senate
committee has been digging
into the case. The FBI and
the Federal Election Com-
mission (FEC) are also inves-
tigating
The case revolves around
Earl Brian, a staunch conser-
vative with an imperious air.
who was a top aide and
political protege of cx-Gov.
Ronald Reagan. Brian ran
California's giant Health and
Welfare Agency and then,
with Reagan's active sup-
port. tried to gain the Repub-
lican nomination for the U. S.
Senate.
Before he left the welfare
agency in 1974 to run for the
Senate, Brian nude two
moves that investigators are
now reviewing. He granted
an increase in Medicaid pay-
ments to the state’s nursing
homes. He also considered a
pilot project to pay nursing
homes to care for severely
impaired patients.
The California Association
of Nursing Homes, whose
clients would benefit, wanted
the pilot project so badly that
the association formed a
special committee to lobby
for it in Sacramento. The
committee was headed by
Robert Glenn Olcls. owner of
the Glenhavcn chain of seven
nursing homes. Another
prominent member was
William Bauer, who owns
seven Casa Blanca nursing
homes.
Shortly after Brian re-
signed from the welfare
agency, two nursing homes
owned by Olels and Bauer
were mysteriously selected
for the project. Also chosen
were two other facilities
owned by association mem-
bers who had been lobbying
for the project.
The fact that Brian had
formally cut his ties, appar-
ently, did not diminish his
influence inside the agency.
As Reagan's favored Senate
candidate, he continued to
pack a wallop. This was
impressed upon nursing
home owners who were qui-
etly pressured to contribute
to Brian’s Senate campaign.
Olel and Bauer, presum-
ably grateful for their state
blessings, began soliciting
contribution from other ow-
ners. Some donations were
laundered to disguise their
sources; others were drawn
illegally from corporate
funds.
Yet all this cash, plus Rea-
gan’s political boosting did
not save Brian from an
ignominious defeat in the
1974 Republican primary.
The wounded political war-
horse was also left saddled
with S50.000 in campaign
debts.
His financial need coin-
cided with a decline in the
fortunes of the pilot project.
State health officials were
muttering that the project
was illegal, and it looked as if
the whole program would
expire. All the elements were
present for a political fix.
The message was com-
municated to the nursing
home ow ners that they would
be expected to help make up
Brian's campaign deficit if
they wanted the program
extended. A Senate staff
memo, stamped "confi-
Two European Leaders
Gossip About Carter
By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON—In a cha
teau outside Paris, the lead-
ers of France and West
Germany recently got into a
discussion about President
Carter. Intelligence reports
describe the meeting as un-
scheduled and their conver-
sation as spontaneous. Yet
both French President Gis-
card d'Estaing and German
Chancellor Helmut Schmidt
found themselves in sad
agreement that Carter has
been a disappointment.
They shared the view that
the Western allies could no
longer look to Washington
for leadership, that Carter
was too inexperienced and
indecisive. The signals from
the White House, they
agreed, were confused and
inconsistent. They also
sensed that he didn't have
the stomach to stand up to
the Soviets.
Yet only last January.
Carter returned from Paris
confident that he had made a
strong, favorable impres-
sion. He reported to the
Cabinet on Jan. 9 that his
visit to France had been
"exhilarating." He rattled
on, according to the confi-
dential minutes, about
d'Estaing's welcoming
speech delivered "in both
French and English." the
4,500 people who came out to
honor him at a banquet in
Versailles and the private
discussions which he de-
scribed as "substantive."
The president told his
Cabinet there was only “one
negative aspect of the trip."
He indentified this as "the
repeated concern with the
shakiness of the dollar,
which foreign leaders blame
on our failure to enact energy
legislation and. therefore,
reduce our dependence on
foreign oil."
Apparently it was a mis-
take for Carter to dismiss
these misgivings as merely
"one negative aspect.” Both
d'Estaing and Schmidt
agreed that the decline of the
dollar and the American
thirst for oil threatened the
stability of the West.
They had good reason,
according to intelligence re-
ports. to be apprehensive.
The reports warn that the
world is rolling toward a
dangerous energy shortage
unless the United States
stops wasting oil. Americans
possess the wealth and pow-
er to siphon off all the oil
they want, but this will leave
the rest of the world critically
short of oil in just a few
years.
The International Energy
Agency is try ing desperately
to avert a world energy
crisis. But its confidential
projections show that the
United States must cut its oil
imports in half to prevent a
world calamity.
The president is con-
cerned about the energy-
warnings. hut his confidence
has been shaken in the CIA's
assessment He received < rontation may be critical
dential,” explains the situ-
ation in raw policta! lan-
guage: "Brian wanted help
from the principal nursing
home association members,
who had been the benefici-
aries of the . . . pilot
program, to make good his
losses.”
Although Brian was out of
office, the memo hadds. "he
was perceived as having
tremendous influence" in
the Reagan administration.
They though he had life-or-
dcaih power over the lucra-
tive program. This "is al-
leged to have provided Brian
with great leverage over the
nursing home owners." the
memo relates.
Olels and Bauer delivered
the message to their fellow-
nursing home owners al a
secret meeting on July 12.
1974. at the Velvet Turtle
restaurant in Long Beach,
Calif. One nursing home
owner. Robert H. Brown,
swore in an affidavit: "Olels
and Bauer invited us to
contribute a minimum of
$5,000 each to pay off Brian s
campaign debts."
Ihe affidavit also charged
that "Olels and Bauer made
us aware of Brian's de-
mands. . . lhal if we contri-
buted. we could expect Brian
to lake action quickly. . . that
Brian had this kind of author-
ity and power even though he
was no longer head of the
Health and Welfare Agen-
cy." Brown said he had
agreed to kick in S5.000 in
three checks.
Another nursing home ow-
ner who attended the secret
meetings. Victor Bakus. told
his story to an investigator
for the Senate Committee on
Aging. He confirmed that
“we were told by Bauer and
Olcls that we would be
expected to contribute a min-
imum of $5,000 to help Brian
pay off his campaign debts.”
Backus confided that Olcls
"instructed me to obtain a
cashier's check for $5,000"
because "personal checks
would not be acceptable."
added Backus: "I thought
the payment of money was a
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some grim CIA projections
last February that U. 5. oil
consumption would rise alar-
mingly through the mid-
1980s. But he secretly ad-
vised the Cabinet on Feb. b
lhal he had seen "some
evidence to contradict the
CIA figures.” It later leaked
out that some CIA figures,
indeed, were wrt|pg
On April 10. Interior Sec-
retary Cecil Andrus cited a
geological study which
claimed the oil and gas
supplies in Alaska "look
good." But he admiticd lhal
Ihe expectations from other
U. S. oil fields, "have been
moderated." ihe president,
meanwhile, has refused to
share the pessimism of his
European allies When C om
mcrce Secretary Juanita
Kreps came to hint for in-
structions before flying to
Berlin recentlv for talks with
European leaders. Carter
urged her to maintain "a
positive attitude "
He will be flying to Bonn
himself next month lor an
economic summit conference
with world leaders Ihe con-
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