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I 2—THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Springs, Taxes, Monday, Juno 23,1 WO.
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In our opinion
m u.S. now scapegoat
for everybody's woes
In all the broad sweep of world
history, the United States occupies a
unique position in its willingness to
help other peoples in distress while
excesses of the shah’s regime. The
Russians are saying we were
threatening Afghanistan and they had
to move first.
expecting nothing specific in return.
We have fought savage wars to turn
back tyranny in far away places and
then have led t
Perhaps the most ridiculous cry of
all is coming from neighboring
1 the way in rebuilding the
countries we have helped vanquish. We
have poured out hundreds of billions in
foreign aid. We have provided a home
and support for countless refugees
from ail comers of the earth. We64
threaten nobody.
It is one of the supreme ironies of
thetimes that all this dedication
Mexico, which carries a particularly
laers. Mexico
sensitive chip on its should
is suffering from a serious drought and
is blaming the United States for that,
too. Mexican spokesmen are soberly
charging that the U.S. seeding of
them
toward being the good neighbor seems
to have won us precious fev
precious few friends.
Instead, the list of actual and potential
enemies and persistent critics is
steadily growing.
Let anything bad happen in any part
of the world, and those directly
afflicted somehow find a way to blame
their tribulations on the U.S. Allies
whom we have protected for decades
are edging closer to the Soviet Union’s
reservoir of raw, unscrupulous power.
Our peace making efforts in the Middle
East are being snipped at from both
sides.
The Iranians are blaming us for the
hurricane clouds is preventing
from delivering their accustomed
supplies of water to that country.
Weary U.S. explanations that it
hasn’t experimented with any
hurricanes since 1974 or earlier and
has never seeded any in the Gulf of
Mexico fallen deaf ears.
A Mexican newspaper chain
continues to charge that we are waging
a “weather war” on that country so
that we can “maintain economic
supremacy over the developing
countries.”
They open in Venice
Venice is like no other city in the world - or that the world
has ever known.
Shimmering in its lagoon, it is an historical treasure house
and an architectural jewel that, given the right conditions for
viewing and mood of the viewer, can appear not only ethereal
but unreal.
Which may or may not make it the appropriate setting for
the latest economic summit meeting of the non-communist
world’s leading industrial powers.
The problems up for discussion are certainly real enough —
continuing worldwide Inflation, a spreading recession that as
a cure could prove at least as bad as the disease and, as
always in recent days, energy.
Meanwhile, that same Carter administration has its own
distraction in the U.S. presidential election that pre-empts its
attention and energies. It is a situation with which the Japa-
nese could certainly sympathize were they not so wrapped up
in their own crucial parliamentary election. Without a prime
minister and represented in Venice by three cabinet ministers,
they may be more of the conference than with it this time
around. /s'rr"~r
West Germany’s Helmut Schmidt and France’s Valery Gis
card d’Estaing also have elections on the mind. The former,
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card d Estaing also have elections on tne minu. me imma,
facing a national vote this fall, is under attack from his own
Socialist left wing, which would prefer a policy toward the
East and particularly the Soviet Union more independent of
COMMENTARY
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hast and particularly the soviet union more inuepcuucm w
Bonn’s Western partners, particularly the United States. As
for the French president, he is off and running early in a re-
election bid that won’t be decided until next year and in which
a show of independence of the United States is likewise seen
as an asset.
Plus, the (______
card and Schmidt has I
But the political disarray in which the seven supposed part-
ners approach the conference and the pervasive preoccupa-
tion with domestic concerns to the detriment of the spirit of
international team play make it unlikely that the issues can be
dealt with solely on their economic merits.
This is the first such summit since the Iranian hostage crisis
and the Soviet thrust into Afghanistan, two political issues
that dominate relations between the United States and its
West European allies for the worse. It immediately follows
the attendance of the latter at the European Economic Com-
munity conference, likewise in Venice, that produced an
unwanted policy declaration on the Mideast that went farther
toward underwriting the Palestinian position than any previ-
ous authoritative commitment from a Western source.
Unwanted, that is, by the Carter administration, which sees
it as a futile distraction at best and at worst as impeding
progress toward a settlement between Israel and Egypt and of
cords
the Palestinian problem under the Camp David accord
asset.
s, the customary personal entente cordiale between Gis-
caro and Schmidt has been strained by the success of British
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in drastically reducing her
country's contribution to the EEC budget, with the Germans
having to take up most of the slack in the payment of agricul-
tural subsidies primarily benefiting French farmers.
So it goes.
-All this may have no effect upon the orderly pursuit of com-
mon policies in the continuing campaign against inflation,
limiting on oil imports, correcting trade imbalances and pro-
moting monetary stability.
But don’t over-bet on it.
This is the sixth in the series of annual get-togethers that
began on a studiedly informal note back in 1975 at Giscard s
suggestion. It departs from the practice of the last few years
by convening in the cultural showplace of Venice rather than
a political and economic power center such as Tokyo, Bonn or
London.
Of course, there is more to Venice than the scenery. It has
attracted world attention in recent years as a threatened city,
slowly sinking into its lagoon.
It is to be hoped that at least in that respect it does not turn
out to be a symbolically appropriate setting for the summit.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN)
The Almanac
Trying to play the good guy’s role in
international society either is a losing
venture or after almost a century
effort we still don’t understand the
rules of the game.
Drivers hold key to
reducing oil imports
imposed
The United States is sut
have 508,000 producing oil wel
Their average yield is listed as 17
barrels a day, which isn’t very much in
oil language terms.
One barrel (42 gallons) is said to
supply the petroleum demands of more
than 200 people for one day.
Those interesting details come from
motorists complied with the 55 MPH
speed limit, the country could save 5
billion gallons of gasoline a year.
People with a knack for such things
might be able to use those figures to
draw up oil profiles of themselves.
They could discover how much of an
the state highway department’s Texas
Traffic Safety Section. It also quotes
the Department of Energy as
estimating that if most American
average well’s production is required
t^fceep them on the road, for instance.
The rest of us could help more by
watching that 55 MPH level more
carefully and by cutting down as best
we can on our traveling.
Today in History
By Tho Associated Press
Today is Monday, June"23,
the 175th day of 1980. There are
191 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight In history:
On June 23, 1967, President
Lyndon Johnson and Soviet
Premier Alexi Kosygin held a
summit meeting on a college
campus in Glassboro, N.J.
On this date:
In 1683, William Penn signed
a friendship treaty with Indians
in the Pennsylvania region. The
agreement was kept faithfully
by both sides for more than 60
years.
In 1836, a $28 million surplus
in the United States treasury
was divided among the states.
In 1938, Congress created the
Civil Aeronautics Authority to
regulate air traffic.
In 1974, Israel withdrew from
the last remaining section of
land captured from Syria
during the October 1973 war.
Ten years ago, Israeli Prime
Minister Golda Meir rejected
any proposal for a temporary
ceasefire with the Arabs.
‘I pleaded for your life;
IT’S ALL OVER
Jack Anderson
But for laughing and living
Budget committee members
By MICHAEL GRANT
Copley News Service
revolt vs. reform
By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON - Perhaps
the most prominent victim
of the economic recession
will be Jimmy Carter’s pre-
cariously balanced federal
budget. Another casualty
may well be the whole con-
gressional budget-reform
process that has been trying
to restrain the free-spending
habits of our lawmakers for
tees, who resent the curbs
ut on their power by the
put
Budget Committees
"We don’t like to be
thepast six years.
Tne direct impac
Umes on unemployment and
act of hard
welfare benefits will be bad
enough. But the most drastic
effect may be indirect - and
the impact may be more
lasting.
As long as there was still
constrained." a House staff
aide admitted to my associ-
ate Peter Grant in a rare
moment of candor "We
want to be as independent as
we can." The House Budget
Committee's concern with
specific programs is “a limi-
tation on the freedom of our
political action." he said.
Exacerbating the already
delicate situation is a long-
smoldering personal feud
between the Budget Com-
mittee chairman. Rep. Rob-
long t
a possibility of achieving a
balanced budget - which
P
ir
oliticians perceive as
mportont to the voters -
members of Congress were
willing, however reluctant-
ly, to sacrifice U*ir pet
programs. It was the great-
est exercise in congressional
self-discipline within recent
memoiy.
But in a sinking economy,
the first reaction of politi-
cians to the distress cries of
voters is to throw them a
purse string. The $200 mil-
lion surplus i
surplus voted into next
year's budget, therefore,
“ * pitifully
will be pitifully inadequate
as a cushion against una-
voidable antirecession
spending. So many congress-
men are ready to break
y t* get budget
to their favor-
ite programs. This revolt
ert Giaimo. D-Conn., and the
Appropriations Committee
chairman, Rep Jamie Whit-
ten. D-Miss. Whitten helped
to set up the budget over-
sight process, but that was
before he became head of
Appropriations and long
before the Budget Commit-
tee began intruding into his
domain.
Whitten showed his mus-
cle - and his contempt for
the Budget Committee - the
day after Congress passed
its balanced budget. He con-
vened his committee and
voted a budget-busting $500
million for Saturday mail
delivery, which Giaimo
opposed' Giaimo stormed
out of the meeting, after
telling Whitten his action
was a "travesty" and a "turf
battle."
Whitten, who insists he
still supports the budget pro-
cess but claims he has
always been "skeptical that
it was workable." is only one
of many Budget Committee
'Ve'Vw succeeded
a Budget staffer conceded
"Some day we ll go too far
and everyone will get
together and say to hell with
that"
ODDS BODKINS! My
political prognosticator,
Jimmy the Greek, has had
his ear to the ground. The
hoofbeats he hears are com-
ing from Ronald Reagan's
Santa Barbara ranch and
they're heading straight
toward the White House.
Jimmy has Reagan listed
as a 3-to-5 favorite to win
the November election. Jim-
my Carter is back a length,
7-to-5. in the Greek’s book.
For longshot fanciers, he
rates John Anderson at 20-
*o-l .
Since oddsmakers cater to
dreamers as well as realists,
Jimmy also offers odds on
the possibility that Presi-
dent Carter may not get
renominated at Off Now
York convention in August -
and they’re really long. He
books Ted Kennedy at 50-to-
1. Walter Mondale the same,
and Ed Muskie (hmm?) at
150-to-l.
Coming back from Cloud
9. Jimmy rates the Republi-
can vice-presidential nomi-
nation this way: George
Bush. 2-to-I; Hbward Baker
D-Tenn. Richard Lugar, R-
Ind. and Paul Laxalt, R-
Nev . all J-to-1. Jack Kemp,
R N Y., 15-to-l; and Tom
Evans, R-Del., 25-to-l.
MESSAGE FROM
RICKOVER: Atomic subma-
rines were almost forced
ladies' room for an office.
His gold-braided superiors
first ignored him. then ridi-
culed him, then tried to ease
him out of the service. But
Rickover survived to
become an admiral himself.
Does he have any bitter
memories of that ugly cam-
paign to ruin his career?
f‘No one," he told me, “is
prouder of his American cit-
prouder
tzenship than I am. I don’t
like to be quoted, but you
can quote me on that."
MISSILE CRISIS? Intelli-
gence reports warn that
angry Kremlin leaders may
confront Jimmy Carter with
another Cuban missile crisis.
Just after 7 o’clock on a
fine spring morning a voice
came to mankind out of a
clear, blue sky.
‘‘The world will be
brought to an end before
there is another dawn,” it
said. “This will be your last
day on Earth. Enjoy it."
Despite the convincing de-
livery, more than a few
played devil’s advocate and
inquired of the messenger,
“How can we know that it’s
true?"
“Watch the moon,” came
the reply.
The full moon at that hour
rode low in the pastel west-
ern sky, pale and vulnera-
ble. At 7:15 it burst into
flame and burned furiously
for a few minutes before
exploding into a sparkling
cloud that bloomed above
the horizon like a silver
rose.
Mankind, after a few stun-
ning moments of silence,
broke into an accusatory
buzz. In the following 90
minutes, blame was laid at
many feet. But the bitter-
ness was hollow, because it
was generally recognized
that blame no longer
mattered.
The day was warm and
cloudless. Chickens laid.
Cows gave milk. Larks sang
brightly in fields flushed
with the greening promise of
a good harvest. Their song
drifted on the silence and
blended with other melodies
of the planet in a chorus not
quite like anyone had ever
heard, though it was only
their regular Wednesday
tune. Not that anyone no-
ticed it was Wednesday.
Here at home, in a 9 a m:
joint session, Congress de-
clared it a national holiday
and went into recess. Some
in retaliation for the pro-
fit of U.S.
deployment
missiles in
jected
cruise missiles in Europe.
The latter will be able to
drop nuclear warheads on
most Soviet cities. The Sovi-
ets, therefore, may install
intermediate-range missiles
Berry's World
in Cuba capable of striking
irican cities with
most American
nuclear warheads, the
reports warn. Signs have
already appeared in Cuba of
a possible missile site.
SALARY SQUEEZE: As
secretory of state, Edmund
ing mem-\V,
upon the Navy by an out-of-
step. unorthodox naval offl-
I Hyman Rickover
k of navi
f naval esteem. at the old rate.
Muskie is the ranking
ber of the Cabinet. But in
salary, he’s the low man on
the totem pole. Reason: By
law, no member of Congress
appointed to federal office
can benefit from any pay
raise voted for that position
while he was serving in the
House or Senate. During the
yean Muskie was a senator.
Cabinet salaries increased
from $63,000 to $69,000 So
the man from Maine is paid
at the old— x
thought was given to moving
the president to a place of
safety, but he declined this
notion and stayed in the
White House.
At 10:10 the president can-
celed a military alert that
had existed since 7:17 and
ordered a complete military
stand-down. An air marshal
in Moscow, monitoring the
order, withdrew a to|!> secret
scenario from a safe, leafed
through it briefly, and with
a shrug tossed it toward a
wastebasket. The file flew
open, scattering target lists
across the floor.
Radio transmissions had
switched automatically to
Civil Defense bands, but by
noon most stations had re-
sumed program control. The
television networks devoted
almost all of their air time
to coverage of the story.
Several radio stations began
count-downs of “The Top 100
All-Time Hits.” There were
no commercial interrup-
tions.
Afternoon newspapers,
complete with basebali
standings, hit the streets
with full-page photos of the
dying moon, while editors of
the morning dailies tried to
decide what to as.
Little panic was reported.
Churches were crowded,
business districts deserted,
skeleton crews sufficed.
Some looting was reported,
though it was halfhearted,
as the stores no longer con-
tained anything of value.
Supermarkets dropped their
prices to cost. The mail
went through. Telephone
lines became choked with
good-byes.
In residential districts,
families gathered their chil-
dren around them. Report-
ers there found a mood that
grew almost celebratory,
like the Fourth of July!
There were cookouts every-
where, and adults and chil-
dren ran through sprinklers
and wiggled their toes In the
-* i v . ' ' tr
grass and laughed like there
was no tomorrow.
Shadows lengthened.
Mankind forced a glance
over its shoulder at the
lowering, growing sun.
Down a rosy cirrus steplad-
der it slipped toward the
night, until for an instant a
man’s shadow could escape
the Earth and cast Itself on
infinity.
The great warm ball
dwindled to an orange pud-
dle that clung like a tear on
the horizon. And then, for
the last time, it ran out.
Mankind watched until
the afterglow was gone, then
turned inward beneath the
moonless black void to wait.
The networks promised to
stay on the air until the very
end, offering commentary
on where we had been and
how we got here, and keep-
ing a watch out for the first
signs of the final event.
The adventure so ab-
sorbed the adventurers that,
toward late afternoon, the
past became disembodied as
well, estranging indiffer-
ence and leaving only the
here and now and each other
to embrace.
Eventually, bur sooner
than might have been ex-
pected, a faint glow
appeared In the eastern sky.
It grew steadily, pushing the
night back like a shroud. It
was a fragile blue glow, the
observatories noted, and
mankind watched in awe.
Presently the stars disap-
peared, and the entire sky
was aglow. Then a blinding
shaft of light exploded
through a low crack on the
horizon and pierced the sky
with the glittering brilliance
of a fiery diamond.
“Why, this Is a dawn!”
the observatories declared,
and the networks flashed the
word.
“What’s happening?"
breathed mankind. The
voice replied, “I
«ny mind.” ,,
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