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4—THI NEWS-TELEGRAM. Sulphur Springs Tnxns, Thursday, Sopt. 25,1 WO.
In our opinion
Worthy fund drives
holding attention
Hopkins County citizens always have
stepped forward to contribute to
worthy projects, so many leaders feel
confident that success will follow the
current drives.
the business climate in Sulphur
Springs. ITie goal is $135,000 and
alre
already substantial funds have been
pledged.
The Hopkins County United Way
campaign, which officially kicks
with the new month, has wide appeal
and directors of this organization will
be attempting to reach as many in-
dividuals and businessmen as possible.
Contributions from people who can
afford to donate about a day’s pay to
United Way will play an important role
in the success of this drive which funds
about a dozen agencies throughout the
year.
The Hopkins County Industrial
Foundation is aiming to attract new
funds for its long-range development of
Another drive. is in progress to
secure $50,000 to purchase seats for the
indoor arena at the Civic Center. The
need for the seats has been shown and
the board of directors of the Hopkins
County Chamber of Commerce has
endorsed this campaign.
The three major drives under way -
or just about started - aim for a total of
less than $250,000. That is not a small
amount of money, but in terms of
potential returns, the “seed" money
could prove a wise and sound in-
vestment in many facets of life in
Hopkins County.
$5 billion for hostages?
By Robert J. Wipui
WASHINGTON (NEA) — State Department insiders are not
optimistic that quick freedom for the hostages will result
Rohoilah Khomeini's latest list of conditions
from Ayatollah
for resolving the 10-month-tong crisis. In his Sept. 12 address.
Khomeini said the hostages couid be released if the United
States guarantees it will not intervne in Iran, returns the
shah’s wealth, onfreeses Iranian assets in this country and
cancels all claims by Americans against Iran.
The State Department says it is too early to attach much
ignificance to Khomeini's omission of Prime
Minister's
significance
Mohammad Ali Raiai’s demand that the United States apolo-
gize publicly for alleged crimes committed in Iran during the
shah's rule — a demand President Carter says the United
States cannot meet
THE WAGMAN FILE
BobWagman
The foreign-policy professionals reveal that the United
States, through intermediary governments, recently indicated
to Iran that it might be willing to make "financial conces-
sions” (such as credits toward agricultural purchases) to get
the hostages back They see the ayatollah's speech as the first
step in making such a deal
Thoug
ugh heartened at the first sign of movement from Iran
in months, the foreign-policy professionals see many obstacles
ahead. Not the least of them is the Iranian parliament's hos-
tage debate, which is likely to be long and acrimonious and to
end in the presentation of virtually non-negotiable demands
that the United States may be unable to accept
Since Khomeini’s speech, powerful members of parliament,
including speaker Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani. have indi-
cated to western diplomats that the four demands should not
be taken as the only conditions for the hostages release
Rather, they have suggested that the four will merely be part
of a longer list of final demands, which might also include an
apology, an end to the ban on sales to Iran and an agreement
that the United States will buy back from Iran ‘excess equip-
ment" purchased by the shah near the end of his reign.
State Department professionals, however, have consider-
able doubt that the United States can even comply with the
four conditions set forth by Khomeini — especially if they are
presented as non-negotiable. The only one that poses no prob-
lem is the promise of no U.S. intervention in Iran; President
Carter has already vowed as much.
Two of the remaining conditions — the claims against Iran
and the frozen assets — are bound together.
More than 300 lawsuits brought by Americans against Iran
are pending in various U.S. courts. They range from claims
for compensation by corporations whose assets in Iran were
seized to damage suits by hostage families.
Each of these suits, which total more than 23 billion, seeks a
portion of the more than $8 billion in frozen Iranian assets.
Had not the Justice Department asked that the suits be post-
poned, many judgments would already have been rendered
and part of the frozen assets seized.
About the only way Khomeini’s conditions on claims and
frozen assets could be met would be for the United States to
pay off the claimants and get them to drop their suits.
Then there is matter of the shah’s assets. The United States
maintains that the wealth of the Pahlavi family, much of it
held outside U.S. borders, totals no more than 3300 million
The Iranians put the minimum value at 32 billion. So, even if
the shah's assets could be seized — and they probably could
not - there is that difference of at least 317 billion.
All of this could amount to a price tag in excess of 35 billion
to get the hostages back.
As one State Department official noted: " We have thought
all along that what it would eventually come down to was
ransom It has long been the policy of this country not to pay
even one cent of ransom in a hostage situation. We have had
diplomats killed because of this policy.
"Now comes Iran asking for billions in ransom. I don’t think
we will agree to pay it, and I don't think the Iranians are going
to be satisified with freeing the hostages and then waiting for
matters to work their way through our courts.
“I really don't see any resolution of this thing very soon."
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN)
Maine Yankees still
go for common sense
The Almanac
Voters of Maine displayed a lot of
common sense this week when they
went on the record with a
firm decision against requiring the
shutdown of the state’s only nuclear
power plant.
The facility, known as the Maine
Yankee, generates approximately one-
third of all the power used in Maine. It
has been operating a long time, boasts
an unusually efficient cust basis by
current standards and has an excellent
safety record.
Its onlv sin is the fact that it uses
nuclear fuel and thus, in the eyes of a
good many people, Is allied with the
devil and must be abolished at any
cost.
The transition, had it been required,
would have been an expensive one.
Replacement of the power capacity at
present cost would have added
materially to electric bills over most of
the state. It also would have activated
another highly controversial project on
the scenic St. John’s River that would
flood most of northern Maine.
Had the Maine Yankee gone down to
destruction, a side effect undoubtedly
would have been to touch off a series of
similar voter attacks in every state
that permits such action. The cost
could have been enormous.
We agree there is wisdom in
proceeding slowly with nuclear
development until better answers can
be obtained to some of the safety
problems involved, particularly the
disposition of waste. We don’t believe
in tearing down everything that has
been built simply because it shares a
disliked name. That is probably how
voters concerned felt about the Maine
Yankee, too.
Today in History
By The Associated Press
Today is Thursday, Sept. 25,
the 269th day of 1980. There are
97 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history;
On Sept. 25, 1789, the first
American Congress adopted 12
amendments to the Con-
stitution, 10 of which became
the Bill of Rights.
On this date;
In 1513, the Spanish explorer
Balboa crossed the Isthmus of
Panama and discovered the
Pacific Ocean.
In 1775, American
RevoluUonary War hero Ethan
Allen was captured by the
British and Indians as he led an
attack on Montreal.
In 1974, it was disclosed that
former President Richard
Nixon had developed a
potentially dangerous blood
clot.
In 1978, an airliner and a
private plane collided in mid-
air over San Diego, killing 150
people.
Jack Anderson
Carlos the Jackal;
is he dead, or hiding?
By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON -- In the
“wilderness of mirrors" that
makes up the espionage
ral Intelli-
game, the Central
gence Agency once con-
spired to save the life of the
world’s most notorious ter-
rorist - Carlos the Jackal
He picked up his animal
nickname from the fictional
assassin who almost nailed
Charles de Gaulle in Freder-
ick Forsythe s novel "The
Day of the Jackal,” but his
real name was Hitch
Ramirez Sanchez. He was
the eldest son of an expatri-
ate millionaire Colombian
awyer in Venezuela
This i;
__i is his story, as pieced
ogether by my associate
kale Van Atta from top-
ecret CIA and State
kepartment documents
• 1966 At 17, already
lfluenced by a younger
rather who was a leader in
ie Venezuelan Communist
arty, Carlos was trained in
ne of Fidel Castro’s guerril-
i camps. There he learned
le terrorist’s art from Gen
iktor Simenov of the Soviet
* 1969. Carlos was
pelled from Lumumba
liversity in Moscow where
had developed a fast
endship with a Palestini-
i commando named
jhammed Boudia
Israeli athletes at the Mun-
ich Olympics, and the Japa-
nese Red Army's indiscrimi-
nate machine-gun slaughter
at the Tel Aviv airport
* June 1973: An Israeli hit
team assassinated Carlos'
old Moscow friend Boudia,
and Carlos took over Pales-
tinian terrorist operations in
Europe Libyan strongman
Muammar Qaddafi financed
the extremist Palestinian
group, called the Rejection
Front
* December 1973: Carlos
shot Zionist department
store tycoon Joseph Sieff in
London, but failed to kill
him.
* January 1974 Carlos
bombed an Israeli bank in
London
* August 1974 Carlos
planted three bombs in
downtown Paris aimed at a
Jewish newspaper and two
French newspapers that
supported Israel
* September 1974 Carlos
supervised the Japanese
Red Army seizure of the
French Embassy at The
Hague, Netherlands, using
grenades stolen from a U.S
Army depot in Germany by
the Baader Meinhof terror
• 1970: Carlos fought with
lestinian guerrillas in
rdan against King
ssein.
1 1971: Carlos was the hit
the Latin-American cock
I crowd in London, where
escorted his beautiful
ther and charmed women
h his guitar-playing
mt. He was known as "El
■do" - the fat one.
1972: Carlos helped
anize the massacre of
ist gang Carlos tossed a gre
nade into Le Drugstore in
Paris, killing two and
wounding others, preparato-
ry to the embassy takeover
in Holland
* Late 1974 Enter the
CIA Through its intelligence
contacts, the agency learned
that an assassination squad
of the six-nation consortium
of South American dictator-
ships. known as ' Operation
Condor," had been ordered
to kill Carlos The assign
ment was apparently in
Carl
retaliation for Carlos' assas-
sination of Col Ramon
Trabal. Uruguay's military
attache in Paris; and for two
other murders he was sus
pected of plotting - that of a
Bolivian ambassador in Par-
is and a Chilean official in
the Middle East
According to a top-secret
document based on CIA
internal files. Carlos was
spared when the CIA warned
the French government of
the proposed execution, and
the Condor nations were
warned to call off the mur
der plot
Why did the CIA save
Carlos'’ Several sources in
the agency suggested that it
was a Mafia-like profession-
al concern - that if Carlos
were murdered, it would set
off a wave of retaliatory
killings by the Palestinians
that would cause chaos in
the murky world of interna-
tional espionage
One source thought it was
at least possible that Carlos
had been a CIA informant,
and that the agency was
simply protecting one of its
own This source did not,
however, suggest that Carlos
had ever been a paid killer
for the CIA
At any rate. Carlos was
spared, thanks to the CIA's
intervention, and lived to
wreak his bloody handiwork
for at least a few more
months He was raptured by
French police in June 1975.
but managed to escape after
killing an informant and two
policemen, he mastermind-
ed the kidnapping of the
OPEC oil ministers in
December 1975, and was
reportedly rewarded with a
32 million bonus from his
paymaster. Muammar
Qaddafi: he helped engineer,
in July 1976. the hijacking in
Athens of an Air France
plane which wound up at
Entebbe Airport in Uganda.
where the Israelis pulled off
their daring rescue mission.
After tha -Jure, Carlos
the Jackal dropped from
sight. Intelligence sources
say he wound up in Iraq, and
may have been exterminat-
ed in that nation’s secret
purge of Palestinian terror-
ists There is some specula-
tion he is now in Libya, but
the smart money in the
intelligence community bets
that Carlos is dead Still, no
one is sure
UNREPENTANT
RECRUITER: Last March I
commented that the Depart-
ment of Energy had a dis-
turbing habit of packing its
top staff with oil industry
people who had once worked
for government agencies
that supposedly regulate Big
Oil The example I used was
Allan P Weeks, an attorney
who had bounced from the
Federal Energy Administra-
tion to its successor. DOE.
then to Crown Central
Petroleum and back to DOE
In a recent speech to a
Texas oil group. Weeks
boss. Hazel Rollins, head of
DOEs Economic Regulato-
ry Administration, stuck up
for the revolving-door
system. "The fact that we
want people to ‘lip from
government jobs to industry
and back again. I think, only
makes us all brighter." she
said brightly
She said I had implied
that she had "appointed
some sort of lowlife from
the evil depths of the oil
industry" (her words, not
mine) and boasted that she
had "used all the pressure I
could muster to get him to
come back to work for me "
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Winners get no more dough
By the Editors
of Psychology Today
It's an old campus maxim,
especially in football season,
that when college teams are
winning, proud alumni send
more contributions than they
do when the teams are losing
Athletic directors have used
PSYCHOLOGY
TODAY
this proposition for years to
win increased funds for var-
sity sports.
But it s t
ut it’s not true. A study of
sports records and donations
at 138 major schools over 15
years shows that there is no
significant relationship
between a school’s athletic
success and its alumni's
generosity
The research was done by
Lee Sigelman, a political sci-
entist at the University of
Kentucky, and Robert Carter,
then a graudate student at
Texas Tech University. Using
surveys conducted by the
Council for Financial Aid to
Education, the researchers
analyzed the financial records
of all the schools in Division 1
of the National Coljegiate
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president?"
Athletic Association for the
years from 1960 to 1975.
For each year, the
researchers measured
changes in the amount of
money that alumni donated,
changes in the average dollar
value of the gifts, and changes
in the number of alumni
donors Then they compared
these financial indexes with
the winning percentages
racked up each year by the
schools' football and basket-
ball teams and with whether
the football team went to a
post-season bowl game.
women's sports will undercut
winning male teams — and
contributions. It is possible, of
course, that some links
between athletics and dona-
tions are not measured by the
statistics that Sigelman and
Carter used.
But even if that were so, the
researchers say, trying to
“win one for the giver" should
not be a decisive factor in set-
ting colleges' financial priori-
ties. Most schools do not
obtain more than a "small
portion" of their support from
alumni. Sigelman and Carter
say. and the academically
prestigious ones that do are
not particularly noted for
their teams' athletic prowess.
The statistics showed no
more connection between ath-
letic success and alumni gen-
erosity than might have hap-
pened by chance.
The only two statistically
significant links, in fact, were
negative. Colleges with win-
ning football records in 1974-
75 got fewer donors, on the
average, than they did in
1973-74. In 1970, colleges that
sent a football team to a bowl
game actually got smaller
donations than they had the
year before
Might not a winning season
pay off in donations the fol-
lowing year? Further tests
found no significant relation-
ship between one year's victo-
ries or losses and the next
year’s gifts. Moreover, there
was no significant relation-
ship between improvement in
a team’s athletic success and
v alumni giving
Sigelman adds that when it
comes to recruiting under-
graduates, his other research
indicates that a school's ath-
letic success is an attraction
for only a relatively small
proportion of college appli-
cants, and indeed is a turn-off
for some of them.
These days the argument
that winning spurs giving is
getting a new workout from
people who say that spending
athletic funds more equally on
Psychology of Inflation
Dep t: In a recent paper for
the Worldwatch Institute, the
physicist Robert Fuller
mournfully noted:
“Beyond actual economic
losses attributable to inflation
and rising ... prices, there are
also psychological losses.
“Even in a system that pro-
vided complete and perfect
protection against all econom-
ic consequences, people would
nflation.
still object to inflation, if for
no other reason than that
stable, reliable prices offer a
kind of security.
"The passing of the 10-cent
cup of coffee feels like the
death of an old friend."
(c) 1980 Psychology Today
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN )
BARBS
Phil Pastoret
If bees are so intelligent,
how come they work ail sum-
mer so we can have honey on
our biscuits all winter?
Anyone who doesn’t believe
in bell has never tried to open
n pickle jar with a screw top
that’s been in the capboard for
six months.
MMf
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