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2—THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Springs, T*xas, Wednesday, March 5, 1980
Jack Anderson
In our opinion
"rex;
It s easier to fault
. than find solutions
The Hoover Institution of Stanford,
Calif, has assembled some pretty big
names in its “think tank.’’ Many of the
men are widely known and gifted in
various fields.
Recently, the institution published
“The United States in the 1980s,” hon-
ing in on what is going wrong with
America and the free world and what
can be done about it.
It would appear that the scholars
and thinkers nave pretty well pin-
pointed major problems. They have
come up with possible solutions, but
unfortunately their suggestions on how
to stem the tide hinge in large measure
oh cooperation from others. Coopera-
tion is an elusive facto/ in the unsettled
world.
One of the opinion-makers, Richard
Staar, a Soviet specialist, foresees lit-
tle change in the Russian attitudes
when Brezhnev leaves the scene. So he
Poerner urges energy
alternatives now
Railroad Commission Chairman
John Poerner, who is facing a possibly
serious challenge from Buddy Temple
in they Democratic primary, said
recently that solutions to many of the
country’s energy problems could be
achieved if all sections of the U.S.
would shift to coal as an alternative
with the “diligence and speed" that
Texas has shown.
Hopkins County is contributing a
major share of the lignite used to fuel
boilers for the generators at Monticello
in Titus County and the people of this
area generally are aware of this
massive effort.
Poerner points out that Texas today
produces nearly 40 percent of the na-
tion’s oil and gas and also is the largest
consumer of coal and lignite west of
the Mississippi.
Texas is expected to produce more
than 20 million tons of lignite this year.
The total is expected to climb to 60
million tons annually by 1985.
Poerner says that Texas and the
United States could expand coal pro-
IT'S POSSIBLE!
Robert Schuller
duction and usage even more if
regulatory requirements, especially of
the environmental nature, did not con-
strain the demand and the production
of coal.
The chairman, while he foresees ex-
panded coal and lignite production,
voiced a warning about petroleum.
“There may be a time in the not too
distant future when there will not be
sufficient oil to fuel the world,
regardless of the price we are willing
to pay,” Poerner said.
Poerner favors increased use of
nuclear energy and increased conser-
vation.
In summary, Poerner is urging ex-
panding use of alternatives to oil,
strong conservation of the supply at
hand, more efficient recovery
methods, and alternative fuel sources.
The energy program must come
from the top. There has been too much
delay. The point of no return — or
depletion — may come within the
lifetime of today’s children if strong
measures are not adopted.
Rise above
the gloom
I am writing this on a air
piano .10,00(1 foot above the
ground, which is hidden from
my view by dense, dark
clouds
When I went to the airport
this morning, a cold, heavy,
spirit-dampenmg rain was
falling and I got soaked The
weather report for the city of
my destination is also rain
But all I see now is brilliant
sunshine I have been tran-
sported above the bad weath-
er My spirits have also risen
about 10,000 feet I am
ashamed to think that 1 was
about to let some rain depress
me and ruin a whole dav
My resolution is to take
some of his sunshine down
with me and spread it around
I'm also going to ,store the
experience in my mind that
ingenious computer God gave
us to catalog life's experienc-
es
I'm going to file this one
under "Spirit lifters for a
rainy day " The next time the
world seems cold and gray.
I'm going to call upon my
memory to lift me above the
gloom.
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How Russians are killing Afghans:
use poison gases Hitler balked at
V
expects the Soviets to continue their
objective of gaining control of the
world. Staar’s principal word of advice
tends to be for the United States to be
more on the offensive than reacting to
Soviet excursions.
Another of the “thinkers" is Peter
Duignan, who believes that the United
States must rebuild its alliance system
in the Middle East, supporting
moderates and “pre-position” men.
There are no guarantees to this phtn,
although it would appear' that the
United States is attempting to shore up
as well as circumstances permit.
Edward Teller, another of« those
with input in the future, frankly admits
the U.S'. must realize the trouble, ad-
ding, “Not only our freedom, but even
our existence is at stake.”
These are difficult days. It looks
like they are going to hang on for a long
time, too.
By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON - In the
towering, treacherous moun-
tains of Afghanistan' the
Soviet invaders are attack
ing guerrillas with deadly
nerve gases that even Adolf
Hitler balked at using
The implications are so
hideous that American ana-
lysts don’t want to believe
their own intelligence, but
eyewitness accounts satel-
lite photos and communica-
tions intercepts have veri-
fied the terrible truth
These mountains are
called Hindu Kush meaning
' Killer of Hindus' But. it s
Afghans who are now dying
on Ihe craggy wind-whipped
heights The Russians arc
using gases to flush the
fierce mountain men out of
the caves and crevices.,
where they arc holed up
From the available
evidence, intelligence spe-
cialists have identified one
By The Associated Press
Today is Wednesday, March
5, the 65th day of 1980. There are
301 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On March 5, 1770, gunfire
erupted during a scuffle bet-
ween British troops and a .crowd
of hecklers in Boston. The in-
cident became known as the
“Boston Massacre” and con-
tributed to unrest in the
colonies.
- On this date:
In 1496, England’s King
Henry VII commissioned John
and Sebastian Cabot to discover
new lands.
In 1868, the senate was
organized into a court of im-
peachment to hear charges
against President Andrew
Johnson.
In 1953, Soviet Premier
Joseph Stalin died in Moscow at
the age of 73, after 29 years in
office.
In 1977, a powerful ear-
thquake devastated Romania.
The death toll eventually
reached more than 1,000.
Ten years ago, a treaty to halt
the spread of nuclear weapons
went into effect, ratified by 43
nations.
Five years ago, Israeli troops
stormed a Tel Aviv hotel and
killed the half dozen Arab
terrorists holding some 40
guests and employees hostage.
BARBS
Pfiil Pasloret
Hindsight is what frequent-
ly seems to supply astrologi
cal forecasts with belated
credibility
Politicians who predict a
clean' sweep usually forget
where ihe broom is when it
comes lime to clean up the
posl-eleciion litter,
The trouble with planes
being late* is that you usually
end up missing the last bus for
the night at your point of.
arrival
The better to keep it quiet
WASHINGTON (NEA) - After suffering through a decade of
embarrassing disclosures of its illegal and unethical active
ties, the Central Intelligence Agency is moving to stifle future
revelations of its unlawful conduct
The CIA isn't necessarily going to clean up its act Instead,
it has convinced sympathetic members of Congress to intro-
duce legislation that would shield the agency from having to
publicly release information about its transgressions
The legislation lakes the form of amendments to the Free-
dom of Information Act that would restrict the right to
request data under the FOIA to U.S citizens seeking only
information about themselves maintained in CIA files
Thus, individuals would retain limited access to their per-
sonal files, required under provisions of both the FOIA and the
Privacy Act, but the agency would be protected from ever
again having to reveal humiliating information about conduct
such as
V •’
IN WASHINGTON
Robert Walters
Project CHAOS, a massive domestic spying operation
during the late 1960s and early 1970s that involved infiltra-
tion. espionage and surveillance of critics of the Vietnam War,
civil-rights activists and other purported dissidents.
- Illegal "bugging" and wiretapping, unlawful break-ins,
interception of personal mail and maintenance of dossiers on
individuals whose only suspected “crime" was expression of
their disagreement with various government policies
- Extensive domestic operations in which the targets were
U.S citizens - in direct violation of a congressional mandate
that forbade the CIA from exercising any "police, subpoena or
law enforcement powers or internal security functions "
- A wide range of extra-legal projects — operated under
:h as MKULTRA. MK
code names such as MKUL'
4KDELTA. MKNAOMI,
ARTICHOKE and BLUF.BIRI) in which American citizens
were used, often without their knowledge, for drug experi-
mentation or research in "brainwashing" and other forms of
behavior modification
The CIA claims the proposed restrictive legislation is neces-
sary to prevent foreign nations, especially the Soviet Union
and its allies, from using the FOIA to extract sensitive infor-
mation from the agency
But the law already contains a provision, repeatedly relied
upon by the CIA in past years, that exempts frotn FOIA disclo-
sure requirements any material that must be kept secret in
the interest of national defense or foreign policy .”
Other exemptions preclude the disclosure of information
relating to internal agency practices, personnel matters,
internal agency memos and investigative files
As recently as last year, CIA Deputy Director Frank C
Carlucci told a House committee "It is undeniable that, under
the current FOIA, national security exemptions exist to pro-
tect our most vital information ”
Two years earlier, another CIA official told a Senate sub-
committee that compliance with the law initially was a trau-
matic experience for the agency, then added "We have been
able to make the necessary adjustments. I am pleased to
report that, in fact, I think the agenev is better off for it."
Be
tion, even when complying with FOIA requests,
persuasive evidence that the law ever has been successfully
used to the detriment of this country's national-security inter-
ests
Indeed, the CIA can cite no specific examples of such FOIA
abuse Instead, it relies upon the vague claim that cooperative
intelligence agencies in various natibns and other sources of
information are uneasy about possible future disclosures of
sensitive information.
In fact, the security-conscious CIA never has been recon-
ciled to the democratic concept of promoting government
accountability and encouraging an enlightened electorate
through public disclosure and discussion of federal activities
Now that the 1970s criticism of the CIA is fading, the agen-
cy is anxious to insure that it never again will have to admit to
its misjudgments, its excesses and its failures
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN I #-
has casually released any informa-
lg with FOIA requests, there is no
gas as Soman This colorless
nerve gas has a pleasant,
fruity odor but brings ago-
nizing death within 15
minutes It kills by being
absorbed through the skin
The victims in their final
minutes of life, according to
'a U S document, "display
the following symptoms dif-
ficulty in breathing; drooling
and excessive sweating,
nausea, vomiting, cramps
and involuntary defecation
and urination twitching,
jerking and staggering,
headache, contusion, drowsi-
ness. coma and convulsion
followed bv cessation of
breathing
The Defense Intelligence
Agency has also pu ked up
references in Soviet'eoniriiii
mcations which'indicate the
Russians may also be wag-
ing germ warfare against
- the Afghan tribesmen. No
civilized nation has resorted
to such an inhumane.weapon
since our colonial French
and Indian wars when Indi-
an tribes were deliberately
given small pox-infected
blankets.
Even Hitler decided
against using nerve gases
developed by his Nazi scien-
tists in World War II But
after the Third Reich
collapsed, the Soviets quiet
ly moved an entire German
nerve gas production plant
to Russia and employed for-
mer Nazi scientists to devel-
op the dread stuff.
* Pentagon sources now
estimate that: the Russians
not only possess an enor-
mous chemical warfare
arsenal but have assigned
more than 100:000 speciallv..
trained chemical-officers to
Soviet military units Intelli-
gence reports claim the Rus-
sians tested their chemicals
in small amounts against
rebellious tribesmen in
South Yemen as early as”
1964
Then in 1978. the Soviets
used mustard gas to subdue
the independent Men tribes
entrenched in the highlands
of Laos Survivors staggered
out of the mountains mum
filing tearfully about "yel-
low rain " Now the Russians
have turned their genoeidal
weapons against the Afghan
rebels •
A key intelligence source
told my associate Dale Van
Atta that the Soviets have
placed extensive stockpiles
id chemieal weapons in their
Warsaw Pact satellite
nations In the early 70s.
intelligence agencies estab-
lished that, poison gas was
stored in Poland and uniden-
tified chemical weapons
were kept in Czechoslova-
kia. They learned later that
a. Soviet air force division in
East Germany possessed a
stock of 400 chemical
bombs.
A top-secret CIA analysis
offers this chilling explana-
tion Warsaw Pact doctrine
sees chemical weapons as
:Instrumenls ' o.f " mass'
destruction to be used along
with nuclear weapons when
authorized by high Soviet
authorities, the storage of
chemical weapons in the
Warsaw Pact's forward area
would, of course, permit
them to be distributed more
quic kly to combat units "
More ominous, mock mili-
tary maneuvers in thd War-
saw Pact countries, accord-
“Trig tij intelligence sources,
have included simulated
chemical attacks against
NATO forces,"
One top secret CIA publi-
cation. the Weekly, Surveyor,
"includes periodic articles.
“ which update the intelli-
gence on Soviet chemical,
biological and radiological
capabilities In one issue, the
CIA reported that their
counterpart.’ fhe Soviet
‘KGB, had been explaining
the development of their
grotesque weapons to East
European authorities with
these words.
The P S SJOftust main-
tain a capability in Chemi-
cal Warfare because of the
demonstrated capability of
the P S . NATO and Ihe PRC
(Peoples Republic of
China).’
In the name of humanity ,
meanwhile, an international
commission should be
empowered at once to assess
the evidence that the Soviets
are waging secret chemical
and biological warfare
against the defenseless but
-v’v.vh *
defiant Afghans ’
' CONGRESS SCAM'.* I
have checked what the
congressmen, who are impli-
cated in the ABSCAM opera.-
tion. did in return for the
money they were paid by
undercover FBI agents. It
left me wondering- Who was
scamming who'1
The cash handed over to
the lawmakers by G-men
posing as Arab sheiks was
supposed to buy the intro-
duction of private legisla-
tion that would permit the
immigration of certain
wealthy Arabs. But I have
reviewed all the private
measures introduced over
the past two years byyithe
eight congressmen who were
"-filmed by the FBI’s candid
camera. None of them
offered, a bill on behalf of
anyone with a name even
remotely similar to the Arab
pseddonymns used by the
Bureau
Reps John Murphy, D-
N Y . and Michael Myers, D-
Pa . for example, allegedly
agreed to introduce private
bills in return for cash. But
Murphy has not offered any
legislation since the begin-
ning of 1978, Myers has
introduced only one bill, and
it had nothing to do with an
Arab, phony or otherwise.
What this indicates is that
ABSCAM's agents were get-
ting little more than empty
promises from their con-
gressional friends
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rmt> <1 Feature Syntltt air Im
Millions become donors
The recent best-selling book and Hollywood movie, “Coma,”
has a bloodcurdling theme: theft of body organs by doctors for
transplant into the bodies of recipients willing and able to pay
thousands of dollars for them.
After the movie came out. donors for transplants dropped
off markedly, according to doctors at transplant centers.
But donors are back up now and the National Institute of
Health, the federal government’s arm for financing medical
research, says interest is phenomenal
Millions of people now carry uniform donor cards that give
doctors^ permission to take specified organs for research,
transplant or medical education in the event of death. The
cards are signed while two witnesses watch.
There is, however, 5 problem. Doctors do not want to take
an organ from a corpse of someone who had given signed
Berry's World
"Did you see the way he pushed his way in front
of me?"
THEU.S.ANDYOU
William Steif
permission unless the closest relative agrees. The fears and
myths and prejudices many persons have about donating
organs are still great.
All states have passed the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act or
a similar law to prohibit the same doctor who would do a
transplant from declaring the donor officially dead.
That is to "alleviate fears pf the average person that some
doctor is waiting with a knife to take his kidney or his corneas
before he's really dead,” said Bowen Hosford, a lawyer for the
NIH.
The laws are also supposed to give legal protection to a
doctor who removes an organ from the corpse of a person who
signed such a card - even if close relatives later protest.
But in practice, the NIH says, doctors almost uniformly
refuse to remove donated organs unless the closest relative
available gives permission.
Transplants - unheard of 30 years ago - are now almost
common. Dr. Nancy Cummings, associate director of the
National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism and Digestive
Diseases, which conducts kidney research, estimates between
4,000 and 5,000 kidney transplants are performed each year
About 30,000 have been performed in all.
The Medical Eye Bank in Baltimore says about 8,000
corneas are transplanted each year.
Bone marrow transplants are the most routine, although
tissue comes generally from another part of the same person’s
body. Now, however, heart transplants are once again becom-
ing popular i(and liver and pancreas transplants are becoming
less experimental. 6
Perhaps one of the most touching storiqs about a transplant
is told by the Medical Eye Bank in Baltimore. Linda Britsch,
22, died suddenly of a brain tumor and Ijer parents donated
her eyes to the eye bank.
A doctor in South Carolina needed two corneas for a 22-
ear-old college student namr.......
flown from Baltimore. The
Tj 7 : ,,,,a iwu corneas lor a u-
year-old college student named Woody Johnson and they were
flown from Baltimore. The young man who received them
wrote the eye bank and asked if he could thank in person the
donor s parents.
The parents and the young man became good friends, partly
because they saw a lot of similarities between he and their
daughter. Going through her things one day, the parent! found
a picture of her dream man. It looked almost exactly like
Johnson 1
• People interested in learning about donating their organs or
body tor transplant or research should either contact their
local kidney foundation, their local medical school or write
for a free pamphlet, "How to Donate the Body or Its Organs.”
It is available from the National Institutes of Health at 9000
Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Md., 20014, or the Consumer Infor-
mation Center, Dept. 580G, Pueblo, Colo. 81009.
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