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Page 4 THE CUERO RECORD Fr) Feb 28, 1971
Editorial—
Slumbering Issue
SINCE 1789, APTICLE V of the Constitution has!
slumbered year in and .year out, receiving little more1
than passing notice from politicians and constitutional
awyers. I
Today, although many in public life are not yet!
fully aware of it, it sleeps no more
This article of the Constitution mandates that Con-j
gress “shall call" a constitutional convention for propos-
ing amendments if the legislatures of two-thirds of the!
states, make formal application. Ii 34 states issue such!
the
best
of the
week
UPDRAfT
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CASTRO'S C AMPS FOR
WORLD REVOLUTION
Christian Crusade Wraith
Communist dictator Fidel Cas-
tro operates 4,7 camps in Cuba
where some 10,000 terrorists
a call, Congress is obligated to act. | from Asia, Africa, the Middle
Article V suddenly burst upon Congress in 1967 when. East and the Americas are be-
it. was discovered, to the dismay of most members, that; inR
trained in guerrilla war-
.. ! fare, sabotage and subversion.
32 states had submitted applications. The issue was thej Thjs fact was discjoserl by
Supreme Court's controversial “0116-111011, one vote” rule j Chicago Tribune columnist Rob-
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mite.
for apportioning state legislatures, and the late Sen.
Everett M Uirksen, R-Ill, championed the convention
idea as an avenue of relief from the court’s edict.
For a time it appeared Congress might have to call a
convention, raising complex questions concerning how
such a body would be chosen, what its
whether it would be limited to a single issue, etc.
What many people of various persuasions found un-;
settling was the possibility that, a convention, called to
deal with a specific Issue, might alter the Bill of Rights!
or drastically rewrite 'he Constitution.
DirkSen’s campaign fell short of 34 states and end-!
ed with his death. Today there is the possibility of a
new convention effort based on the revenue-sharing j
issue, again raising the same troubling questions.
Sen. Sam Ervin, D-N.C., recently proposed a useful
set of rules.for such a convention, of and when it is ever
called. The convention would be limited to the issue for
which it was convened. One delegate would be elected
from each, congressional district, with two elected at
large from each state.
Any amendment proposed would require ratification
by the states.
The inherent danger in a constitutional convention
is that is could undo the noble document which has pro-
tected our liberties for 182 years. Sen. Ervin’s plan should
be adopted in anticipation of the time when Congress
may have to call a convention.
Try and Stop Me
-By BENNETT CERF-
ert Wiedrich in his column of
October 6. 1970 He said the
U.S. Central Information A-
grncy had made the determina-
tion about the Castro terrorist
camps after months of inten-
sive investigation which could
powers would be, J weU characterized as “cloak-
and-dagger" work.
Some of the leaders of the
Palestinian guerrillas who hi-
jacked American and other
commercial jet liners were
graduates of the Castro school
of terrorism, Wiedrich reveal-
ed.
He said the United States had
learned about the connection
between Castro and the Arab
guerrillas only recently.
Observers see evidence in
these revelations of the ever-
widening and sinister influence
of the bearded dictator from
Havana. As everyone knows,
the hijacking of the airliners
and the holding of hostages by
the Palestinian guerillas caused
an international crisis and near-
ly plunged the world into war.
Castro influence in South
America has also widened. His
agents have infiltrated govern-
ments, created para-military
units, and instigated acts of ter-
ror and sabotage.
Terrorist training camps have
been in existence in Cuba for
about two years, Mr. Wiedrich
disclosed. He said they are be-
ing financed by pledged support
of 600 Communist leaders from
83 countries who attended a
1966 Tri-Continuental Congress
sponsored in Havana by the
JULU-
WASHINGTON
MARCH OF
CONtIRVAfIVIS SUPPORT
RfVINUI SHARINO PLAN
EVENTS-
RUT LOCAL POLITICIANS
SHOULD II WATCHSDI
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Paul Powall
/~\NE OF George Washington’s numerous sets of false teeth
is still on display in the museum of the Baltimore Col-
lege of Dental Surgery and is said to have inspired one of the
most respected members
of the faculty there to
drop his implements one
beautiful, sunny after-
noon there, seize a set of
golf clubs and call over
his shoulder as he headed
for the exit, “If anybody
asks for me, tell them I’m
out trying to fill eighteen
cavities of my own.”
• * «
The late Frank Crownln-
shleld, witty editor and
man - about - town, particu-
larly cherished the answer
the Duke of Portland gave.
him years ago when he asked, "What. London club do you like
best ?” After due consideration, the Duke, rumbled, “I use a filthy
thing called the Albermarie. The food and wines are passable. I'm
a great fellow for gluing and they have glue in the library-. But
the. principal reason I like it is that I don’t know any of the
members.”
• *. •
OVERHEARD:
At the Yale Club. “My- wife is learning how to drive. When the
road turns the way she does, it’s a coincidence!”
During the holiday rush: “It was so crowded at the discount
house that when I squeezed in and put my elbow on the counter,
a supervisor sold it for a $1.24.”
Complaint of a beguiling new Hollywood star: "It seems that -
all the attractive men I meet are either married or want to do
my hair!”
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Soviet Union.
“At that parley,” Wiedrich
writes, "the Red chieftains a-
grped to finance the recruiting
of terrorists from their nations
with Cuba selected as the trac-
ing ground.”
The Chicago Tribune colum-
nist also disclosed that some
months ago Cuba became "a
cast staging area” for the
heroin and cocaine traffic into
the United States.
“It became obvious." Wied-
rich comments, “that Castro is
indeed a mosl busy fellow . .
With America weakened and
internally divided (largely
through the efforts of Commun-
ist and pro-Communist fronters
and New Leftists 1, the news-
paper wonders if Russia does
not feel the time has come to
even up the old score (viz., the
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in
Milan
20. First-
down
yard-
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de
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Yemen
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star
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16. Screwball
17. George C.
Scott film
21. Float in
the wind
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orange juice
and tee
27. Adolescent,
for short.
28 Hash house
29. Sandy’s
sound
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38. On the briny
40 Jason’s
wife
41. Don't go yet
42. Puts
stop to
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manly chap
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RIGHT.—R. W EMERSON
(©1971 Kin* Feature* Syndicate, Inc.)
missile crisis in Cubat and to j
reveal America as a paper!
tiger.
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Despite Liberal myths and1
propaganda, the Communists!
have not mellowed. They are1
set upon Lenin's dream of
world conquest. They are work-
ing at it. And America assists
in making the dream a reality
by supinely surrendering
through a program of disarma-
ment.
STRANGE CORDIALITY
The Review of the News
Last October, President Rich-
ard Nixon was the guest of
Yugoslavia's dictator. Joeip
Broz Tito, who has participated
in destroying churches and in
torturing, maiming, and uproot-
ing millions of Christians. The
President of the United States,
while accepting the hospitality
of the Communist dictator in
Belgrade, nonetheless declared
the latter an “example of cour-
age” and extended to him an
invitation to visit the United
States as "an honored guest."
The Almanac
By United Press International
Today is Friday,
57th day of 1971.
Feb. 26, the
The moon is between its new
phase and first quarter.
The morning stars are Mer-
cry, Venus, Mars and Jupiter.
The evening star is Saturn
Those born on this day are
under the sign of Pisces.
On this day in history:
In 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte
and 12,000 men left the isle of
Elba to start a second conquest
of France.
In 1870 Congress enacted leg-
islation providing for salary in-
creases for the vfee president.
Cabinet member? and the
speaker of the House to $12,000.
The salaries of senators and
representatives rose tn $7,000.
In 1919 Congress established
By HENRY CATHCART
central Pres* Washington Correspondent
TO VA SHINGTON—Rationalising that federal tax funds can
\Y best ba spent by state Slid local official*. Washington’s
conservative establishment has reached a calculated decision t >
support the Nixon administration’s revenue sharing plan.
There is ample political justification for tha move. OOP right
wingers, who have been increasingly at odds
with the administration in recent months, are
frankly anxious to find Nixon programs they
can support
With good reason conservatives feel that
giving the President early support for revenue
sharing will qualify them for a role In shaping
the actual legislative details -1 the concept.
But seasoned political observers here feel
conservatives would be well advised not to
become trapped in rhetoric that depicts the
politician and bureaucrat in the hinterlands
as any more honest or any more capable than
their federal counterparts. The staple truth is
they are not.
Flagrant * * * *
example • SOME EXAMPLES—Look at Illinois. Late
last fall more than $800,000 In cash was found
stashed in the closet of late Secretary of State Paul Powell.
The full story of how thia life-tong public servant accumu-
lated the cash as well as an estate of more then $3 million may
never be known.
But for years Powell put the touch on the paychecks of bis
nearly 5,000 patronage workers for contributions to his “flower
fund."
Bugged conversations confirm how Powell squeesed cash out
of lobbyists on the pretense that he had to share some of It with
other legislative leaders.
Look at New Jersey. During the 1963 to 1970 regime of New-
ark Mayor Hugh Addonlzio contractors could not get city
business without kicking back ten per cent to corrupt city offi-
cials. (A jury recently convicted Addonlzio and three others on
kickback corruption charges.)
In Hudson County federal (as opposed to state) Investigators
found that nearly every county and municipal contract was In-
flated five to 15 par cent to allow for kickbacks. (Late last year
John V. Kenny, the veteran political boaa of Hudson County,
Jersey City Mayor Thomas J. Whelan, and ten other public offi-
cials were Indicted on charges of conspiring to extort $182,000
from companies doing business with the city end county.
I • • • •
' • MORE EXAMPLES—Look at West Virginia. Former Gov. W.
W. Barron (1980-64) and several officials of Ida
administration were indicted on chargee of ear- Mae Soya
I ruption and kickbacks In the state’s highway oon- „ . ■
, struction program. However. Barron was snbos-
quently acquitted. Allschsd
; Look at Maryland. In the last four yean six
members of that othte’s legislators ha vs bean either Unttctod or
! convicted of Crimea.
All this Is not to say that all or evso a majority of state and
local officials are oerrupt But it dose prompt second thoughts
about a program that would dish out mflBoas la tax dollars to
states and local!tlss with no strings attached.
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In 1935 Germany began opera,
lion of its air force, the Luft-
waffe. under Reichmarshal Her-
mann Goering.
A thought for today: Ralph
Waldo Emerson said. “The re-
ward of a thing well done is
to have done it.”
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