Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 100, No. 174, Ed. 1 Monday, July 24, 1978 Page: 2 of 10
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A former Texas woman whose
husband was killed in Rhodesia is bit-
ter toward her native country.
The United States, she feels,
should have done something to have
settled the bloody power struggle in
Rhodesia.
Although understandable as a
personal reaction to deep grief, the
woman’s position is one that is causing
a great deal of frustration and anger
both at home and in most parts of the
world.
Too many people have been con-
ditioned to believe that when trouble
arises or problems exist almost any-
where in the world the U. S. govern-
ment possesses some magic power to
provide solutions.
As a result, pressure groups of
amazing variety at home and people
being hurt by some kind of misfortune
all over the world are demanding help
from Washington.
Actually there is little the United
States can do in a civil conflict such
as that in Rhodesia unless the nation
is ready to go to war again—a condi-
tion that could not even be considered
without touching off instant fury
among the American people.
Even in solving domestic prob-
lems, the government's power is re-
stricted by such elements as national
resources, constitutional limitations
and public opinion.
Most people who pin their faith in
a magic answer from Washington are
doomed to disappointment.
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Defaults in construction
not new to city
' Help! We’re being held hostage by the three Vs!”
Hot air cloud rises
to block Carter plan
It came as quite a shock to many
local people when the contractor on
the multi-million dollar high school
and civic center complex defaulted on
his contracts. The projects, carrying
a price tag of about $4 million, were
so far along that outsiders could not
quite understand why the finishing
touches were not applied before the
contractor threw in the towel, so to
speak.
But a review of history shows that
it is rare but not unknown ter.* con-
tractor to encounter financial prob-
lems on school buildings. _
The high school building on Con-
nelly Street, erected in 1922, stands
as another example of a contractor
whose expenditures exceeded avail-
able receipts. The contractor default-
ed before the $88,000 building could
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be completed and the school trustees
were forced to hire someone else to
finish the job.
The Connally Street building, ac-
cording to many who lived here at
the time, got off to a bad start because
springs were encountered as the foun-
dation was being prepared. In fact,
the problem became so acute that a
sump was built and a pump installed
to keep the basement area free of
water.
Despite the construction hardships
in 1922 and again in 1978. it appears^
that iha. Sulphur Springs school dig-,
trict has emerged without any deep
scars.
There are not any parallels to be
drawn in recalling the defaults other
than to observe that there are high
risks in the construction industry.
By DONALD M ROTHBERG
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - In
midsummer Washington a
cloud of hot air often obscures
the Capitol from anyone
strolling up Pennsylvania
Avenue from the direction at
the White House. H Jimmy
Carter ever notices that cloud,
las smile likely tarns rueful
and his thoughts distinctly
darken.
For if Carter has learned
t he strobed down
Avenue in
January U77.it ought to be that
Congress plays a larger role
than he anticipated in writing
the record of any president
And one word — frustration
— best sums up Carter's
relations with the Democratic-
controlled Congress.
Are contractors selling
U.S. Air Force secrets?
WASHINGTON - Lark-
ing ia the dockyards of
America’s part cities may
he a spy story, with a
may be
the Air Farce’s
F-l«. to So-
Securtty far the F-16
shipments is supposed to
comply with stringent Air
Farce and NATO secrecy
requirements An ‘eyes
only” agreement with the
four NATO allies, who are
helping (be United States
produce the fighter planes
far mutual defense,
strictly forbids the “re-
lease of information to non-
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the Soviets have
leaked to
that F-M
ear NATO allies ia Soviet
phy, D-N.Y. The i
states ominously
the hobbled
By atoahaag rates up to 01
the Soviet cargo
rave beea able “to
; 3? percent of all
ay, far example, is first
haaled eastward C.ttB
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fereace ia arder ta
Dynamics, vigorously de-
nies that any Soviet ships
have been used to trans-
port F-16 parts. “It hasn’t
happened. There's no
chance,” a General Dy-
namics spokesman told
oar associate Jack Mitch-
ell
But behind closed doors.
General Dynamics offi-
cials conceded to congres-
sional investigators that
“there is nothing in the
contract that ... precludes
shipping by the DAS.R.”
Top Commerce Depart-
ment experts have also
in secret
that Russian
could be tran-
sporting “completely clas-
sified equipment” for the
fa batons F-16.
Footnote: The alarmed
Murphy is preparing spe-
cial legislation that would
prohibit the transport at F-
1C parts aboard Soviet
Fargottea Feel: The use
of “gasohol' - gasoline
mixed with alcohol made
from garbage and other
waste matter - has met
with opposition from the
gjast oil companies, whose
ism for
energy crisis
takes second (dace to their
thirst for profits.
Despite proof that
asahol worl
ergy czar Ji
“myth.”
It’s a
Graham BeiL The remark-
able Dr. Bell, whose genius
was not Hmiterf to inven-
tion of toe telephone, had
this to say to a high school
ington, D.C., according to
the February 1*17 issue of
the Notional Geographic
Magazine:
“Alcohol makes a beau-
tiful, clean and efficient
fad. and ... can be manu-
factured very cheaply ...
Wood alcohol, for an exam-
ple, can be employed as a
fad, and we can make
alcohol from sawdust, a
waste product of our mills
“Alcohol can also be
manufactured from corn
stalks, and in fact from
■finest any vegetable mat-
ter capable of fermenta-
tion ... growing crops ...
weeds ... even the garbage
from our cities. We need
atom
so tong i
an annual crop of alcohol. ”
Cod Calif ana: Health.
Education and Welfare
Secretary Joseph Califano,
If there’s a dominant mood
on Capitol Hill these days, it's a
determination to bead home by
early October to campaign.
When that happens, the
Democratic leaders will issue
statements citing the vast
number at bills passed and
dauning significant progress
The Almanac
By The Associated Press
Today is Monday. July 24, the
a&th day of 1978 There are 160
days left in the year.
Today's highlight in history:
On this date in 1704. the
British captured Gibraltar
from Spain diring the War of
the Spanish Succession
On this date:
In 1711, the Latin American
patriot. Simon Bohvar, was
born in Caracas. Venezuela.
In 1176, the first railroad car
from the Pacific Coast reached
Sew York City.
In 1929. President Herbert
Hoover proclaimed the
KelloggBriand Pact, which
renounced war as an-in-
strument at national pobey.
In 1946, the United States set
off the first underwater test of
an atomic bomb off Bikini atoll
in the Pacific
In 1959. Vice President
Richard Nixon and Soviet
Premier Nikita Khrushchev
had a heated debate in a kit-
chen display at an American
exhibition in Moscow.
In 1971, the U.S. Supreme
Court ruled that President
Richard Nixon must turn over
White House documents sub-
poenaed for Watergate cover-
ip trials.
in dealing with pressing
national problems
Even Jimmy Carter likely
will bite his tongue and find
something nice to say about his
fellow Democrats, who control
both the House and Senate by
substantial majorities.
But any realistic assessment
of the record of the relationship
between Congress and the new
president would have to focus
on their inability to resolve
conflicting interests that
dominate issues like taxes and
energy. Add to that the lastonc
tug of war between the
executive and legislative
branches over which should
have the decisive role in
domestic and foreign affairs.
The northern tier states with
bitterly cold winters have
strongly differing views on oil
and gas pricing from the
southern producing states.
And those conflicting in-
terests have stalemated the
Carter energy package.
In foreign policy, the
president complained that
legislative restrictions imposed
by Congress were preventing
him from responding decisively
to Soviet and Cuban ad-
venturism in Africa.
Congress seemed ready to
accept his argument.
Republican and Democratic
leaders emerged from a White
House meeting and said they
were prepared to consider any
Carter proposals to remove
undue restrictions.
The idea qiaedy faded when
the administration teiteri to
come up with any specific
measures they wanted
repealed.
This week, the Senate will
take op the foreign military aid
tall and there's* good chance it
will use the occasion to try,
once again, to enlarge the
congressional say in the for-
ming at foreign pokey
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It’s set that toe bnOd-
r. General authority: Alexander
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This HAS ui> be one of the boggiest
summers on record'"
Beyond self-interest
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without the federal government, but they most certainlr
weren't built because of it. R -h„n
Thev were built because a Church of the Brethren
minister named M. Dwayne Yost took a six-month leave of
absence from his church five years ago to see
something about the housing problem of his community,
Sd never went back. They were built because otoer
churches joined Yost's in providing money and
to put Kentucky Mountain Housing together They ere
built because a local coal company donated bulldozer worx
abort, because of the pnv.tr
initiative of people who care about their neighbors, people
who in this “me" decade of self-interest and selfishness
still answer yes to the age-old question, “Am I my
brother’s keeper?"
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COMMENTARY
k* Donald F. Graff
A beginning in Bonn
By Dm Graff
It wasn’t on the agenda.
And it does not, at least directly, have anything to do
with economics.
But the agreement on joint action to counter skyjacking
could well turn out to be the most meaningful development
of the seven-nation Bonn economic summit.
At this point, there really isn’t much to it — merely a
three-paragraph statement in which the seven leaders
express their concern over terrorism and hostage-taking
and pledge their governments to halt air traffic to and
from countries failing to deliver up skyjackers and
skyjacked aircraft promptly,
ft could, however, mark the real beginning of an
international program to bring under control a
problem which so far has defied efforts at solution by
international bodies up to and including the United
Nations.
There are already in existence a number of multination
agreements on air piracy. Specifically, conventions
adopted by the International Civil Aviation Organization in
TOkyo (1963), The Hague (1970) and Montreal (1971)
denned the crime, national jurisdiction and obligations in
prosecuting or extraditing offenders
Their wealuiess is that the focus is on the countries in
w~~ skyjackers seek haven, with compliance remaining
And, mast important, the really crucial nations
ttie t^Pr0ne t0 PPOVide shelter - h*ve declined to join
The Bonn declaration is the first to commit its parties to
meaningful sanctions The seven nations do not control
wor“ *ir commence. But, just as they carry the most
economic emit in the non-Communist world, so are they
more equal than other in the airways
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the government of Algeria or Libya - to name two
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