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In our opinion
'Mrs. Gandhi scores
with old promises
When Mrs. Indira Gandhi was sound-
ly defeated and ousted as prime -
minister of India, political pundits un-
familiar with the thoughts and actions
of the teeming millions in the Asian na-
tion placed her in the “has been”
category. They considered her defeat
as a political death.
Mrs, Gandhi had been charged with
virtually becoming a dictator in the
democratic nation as she changed laws
and harshly attempted to silence
freedom of expression.
The outside observers appear to be
shocked now that the shrewd Mrs.
Gandhi has climaxed a comeback ef-
fort with victory which will restore her
to top authority again in India.
She based her campaign on an old
theme, but one that has much appeal
regardless of the nation. She has pro-
mised law and order.She has pledged to
Victims of crimes, or those afraid of
being victims, are willing to grasp at
straws. A promise of law and order
holds out hope for many, of these
citizens of India who have suffered in
recent years.
How Mrs. Gandhi goes about
stabilizing prices should be watched
closely throughout the world. India is
not alone when it comes to being
sledge-hammered by escalating
prices. Many of the South American
nations are experiencing double-digit
inflation. The same sad experience is
being felt throughout Europe.
Americans can sympathize with all of
these other citizens of the world as pro-
duct costs skyrocket.
Realistically, it is doubtful that Mrs.
Gandhi can pull off any magic trick as
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No help for whistle-blowers
WASHINGTON (NEA) - Government agencies established
specifically to protect, the rights of ‘whistle-blowers" have
instead become instruments for punishing the few brave fed-
eral empioyees who dare engage tn boat-rocking activtttesT—
Disturbing new evidence indicates that the purpose of those
agencies has been corrupted in at least two major cases, one
involving A Ernest Fitzgerald, the Air Force civilian employ-,
’ ee who has become the country's best’known whistle-blower,
IN WASHINGTON
Robert Walters
■ Fitzgerald was fired in early 1970, after he revealed to a
congressional committee that cost overrun's on (he C5-A. the
Air Force’s mammoth jet cargo plane, could total as much $2
billion After a lengthy appeal to Civil Service Commission
(CSC), he was returned to the payroll but in a job devoid of
most of his former responsibilities
Pre-trialpreparation in a civil suit subsequently filed by
Fitzgerald recently produced evidence that his boss secretly
consulted in 1969 with CSC Chairman Robert E Hampton to
obtain advice on how to strip Fitzgerald of his job.
Hampton's involvement is significant because the eommis
sion chairman was the senior government official in charge of .
protecting the federal merit system against precisely the type'
of political abuse that dominated Fitzgerald’s case.
In addition, Hampton headed the commission throughout
Fitzgerald’s appeal to the CSC, without ever indicating that he
had any involvement in the whistle-blower’s dismissal.
Hampton’s untoward action is revealed in a verbaium tran-
script of an interview with Robert C. Seamans Jr .'Air Force
secretary at the time Fitzgerald was fired
In the interview, conducted under the auspices of an Air
Force oral History project. Seamans says that in May 1969.
when be-became "quite certam that Fitzgerald should leave
"tturAirTorce for his good and ours'.',’ he conferred with Hamp-
ton. , v . .
Seamons says he asked Hampton What are you supposed
to do when you're managing a large government program and
you've got a guy like ... Fitzgerald on the payroll?
Hampton replied, according to Seamans: "It's frankly.one ol
the problems we face in running the government. .. On the
basis of what you've told me, l don't believe you could ever
sustain a separation for cause. So your only alternative is to-
abolish his job.”
That’s exactly what the Air Force did. reorganizing Fitzger-
ald's office under a scheme that eliminated his position.
The.CSC itself has since been eliminated, replaced under-
President Carter's widely touted reorganization plan with two
new agencies, the Office of Personnel Management and the
Merit Systems Protection Board.
The board is supposed to act as the guardian of employee
rights, investigating allegations of prohibited personnel prac-
tices. In addition, a quasi-independent Special counsel to the
board is specifically charged with protecting the rights of
whistle-blowers.
But the board has just rejected, on highly questionable tech-
nical grounds, a claim that three deputy federal marshals in
Atlanta were transferred to unwanted posts in Florida and
Texas in retaliation for blowing the whistle on- their bosses.
.The marshals' offense: They complained to members of
Congress about a pffice party at a government pistol range
that featured b.aifcecued ribs, drinking and gambling—-»•
Urging the board to rescind the arbitrary transfers was Spe-
cial-Counsel H Patrick Swvgert. the first man to hold the job
described bw Carter as the defender of those in the federal
services "wire do point out violations of ethics,"
But Swygert was rebuffed and1,has just quit in disgust
after less than a year in office, The White House now is'
searching for a replacement, who probably won't be so consci-
entious in the pursuit of his duties.
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stabilize prices in a country that has
ipiraline iriflg
suffered for years with spiraling irt
tion.
fhr as it concerns stabilizing prices.
But if she can, it would be useful for
other world leaders to borrow her
The Almanac
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Coyotes proving
No. 1 predator
Texas Agriculture Commissioner
Reagan V. Brown in a recent report
said there was an "alarming” increase
in livestock deaths attributed to the
coyote, the industry’s No. 1 predator.
Hopkins County’s farmers and ran-
chers have experienced the problem in
varying degrees for many years. In the
past, a trapper was employed to help
curb the menaced
Some headway in controlling the
coyotes — sometimes apparently
mistaken as wolves — before en-
vironmentalists stepped in to get the
cyanide gas capsule banned.
The Texas Crop and livestock
Reporting Service reported in a recent
study that the economic loss attributed
to coyote kills in the state amounted to
$13 million last year, just in the sheep
and. goat industry. There is no doubt
that the economic loss to cattle and
fowl would send the total loss much
higher.
Researcher Maurice Shelton with
the Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station in San Angelo pointed out
recently that with better nutrition and
range practices, ranchers have been
able to reduce deaths of livestock due
to disease, weather exposure, and
other non-predatory causes. But he ad-
ded, “Right now, they are in a losing
battle with the coyote.”
Shelton believes that no one method
of control will be satisfactory.
Commissioner Brown has called a
meeting of environmentalists and ran-
chers to meet in Austin Jan. 15 for a
seminar on the development of con-
trols.
Hopkins County ranchers hope im-
proved controls can be developed. The
loss of a single animal to a predator
produces an economic impact.
By The Associated Press
Today is Thursday, January
10, the 10th day of 1980, There
are 356 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On January 10,1946, the first
General Assembly of the
United Nations convened in
Ijondon.
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In 1776, “Common Sense,”
Thomas Paine’s pro-revolution
pamphlet, was published in the
American colonies.
In 1920, the League of Nations
came into being as the World
War 1 Treaty of Versailles went
into effect.
In 1928, I eon Trotsky was
exiled from the Soviet Union.
He had been one of the chief
architects of the new national
government.
In 1969, Sweden became th#
first western European country
to announce it would establish
full diplomatic relations with
North Vietnam.
Thought for today: Our
civilization is still in a middle
stage ... no longer wholly
guided by instinct ... not yet
wholly guided by reason., -
Theodore Dresidner (1871-1945)
Jack Anderson
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Experts blame reluctant Carter
for Red moves in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON - The pro-
fessionals who watch Soviet
moves have a disturbing
explanation for the invasion
of Afghanistan, hut their
superiors aren't likely to
submit it to the White
House The reason Nobody
wants to hand President
Carter an analysis, that
blames him for precipitating
the Soviet intervention
Yet the secret analysis
demands the urgent and
objective attention of the
White House. Otherwise, the
experts warn that the Rus-
sians can be expected to
drive deeper into the vital
Persian Gulf oil region. I
have offered, therefore, to
publish their unwelcome
conclusions, hoping someone
will be brave enough to
show them to the president
These conclusions are not
the wild guesses of eggheads
who suck them out of their
thumbs. They have access to
elaborate intelligence
detailing what goes on inside
the Kremlin. The conversa-
tions of Kremlin leaders
have been intercepted, and
their personalities have been
closely analyzed "I know
Leonid Brezhnev better than
I know mv own father," one
analyst told me
The United States domi-
nated the oil heartland when
Carter took charge of Amer-
ican foreign policy in 1977.
The world's two largest oil
exporters', Saudi Arabia and
Iran, were solid American
allies. Then the Soviets
began testing Carter's
mettle
In 1978. the Soviets
dispatched a Cuban military
force to Ethiopia directly
across the Red Sea from the
Styidi oil kingdom The
Cubans, 20,000 strong, were
trained, armed and subsi-
dized by the Soviet Union.
Soviet advisers, meanwhile,
replaced American advisers
in Addis Ababa The ana-
lysts note that Egypt’s Pres-
ident Anwar Sadat tried in
vain to arouse Carter to
actioh
Encouraged by Carter's
restraint, the Kremlin sent
500 Cuban shock troops to
military aid to North
Yemen, but It was too little
and too late. North Yemen
preferred to tahevout insur-
ance. in. Moscow by signing
an arms pact with the Soviet
Union. There are intelli-
gence reports, meanwhile,
that the Russians have set
up an underground move-
ment to overthrow the Saudi
monarchy operating out of
South Yemen.
But it was Carter's
mishandling of the Iranian
crisis, say the analysts, that
persuaded the Soviets it
would be safe to take over
Afghanistan—He failed to
bolster the shah or establish
a substitute government,
acceptable to the United.
States, in time to save Iran
During the last days of the
shah, Carter ordered a car-
rier task force into the Per-
sian Gulf but then canceled
the order The task force,
'accepted international
rules of behavior.”
"If the president has paid
any attention at all to. the
dispatches from our embas-
sy in Moscow, he should
know that Brezhnev is not
-bound by the truth and that
the only rule he respects is
raw power,” said this offi-
cer
Footnote: In fairness,
Soviet expansion into west-
ern spheres of influence
began before Carter became
president. The men of
Muscovy correctly calculat-
ed that the U.S. defeat in
Vietnam had sapped the
American will to defends
faraway lands.
consolidate its hold on South % headed bv the USS Constel-
i
According to expert opin-
ion, the Kremlin czars are
crafty but cautious old men.
who have a wary respect for
American rtlilitary, industri-
al and economic power
They will push, however,
into any world power vacu-
um where * they find the
resistance weak Carter has
left them with several vacu-
ums''
Yemen in the toe of the Ara-
bian peninsula -The Cubans,
acting ’on Soviet signals,
spearheaded an attack upon
North Yemen. This set off
alarms in neighboring Saudi
Arabia whose ruling sheiks
appealed to Carter for mili-
tary support. He rushed over
a dozen F-15 fighter planes
which, upon inspection,
turned out to be unarmed
The Saudis, as much in
exasperation as desperation,
made approaches to Moscow
through Syria and Iraq. The
Russians couldn't resist the
chance to exacerbate Saudi-
American relations. They
took credit with the Saudis
for calling off the fighting in
Yemen. ->
Belatedly. Carter sent
lation, dropped anchor in
Singapore
In contrast, the Soviets
didn't hesitate to airlift
otroops into Afghanisjan to
' execute a recalcitrant lead-
er and to install a more pli-
ant president in his place.
Yet ^Afghanistan isn't nearly
the prize that Iran is, with
its fabulous oil fields and
access to the Persian Gulf
The Kremlin leaders, for
all their canny caution, are
simply more willing than
Carter to use military power
to advance Soviet interests.
Ope intelligence officer
laughed bitterly at the presi-
dent’s shocked statement
that Brezhnev had lied to
him and that the Soviet inva-
sion of Afghanistan violated
The Russians moved
quickly into the Vietnam
vacuum, shouldering aside
the Chinese who struggled
briefly for position. Today,
the Soviet presence in Viet-
nam exceeds in both influ-
ence and dimension the
American contingent before
the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
Before Carter s time, the
Kremlin also dispatched
Cuban shock troops into the
former Portuguese colony of
Angola to pluck off a prize
African plum. This was
naked aggression, not part
of the black revolution in
Africa In fact, the Cubans
put down a revolt by black
leaders in 1977 and installed
a Marxist regime, headed by
whites and mulattos. Today,
Angola Is patrolled by 25.000
Cuban troops who take their
orders from Moscow ^
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United Feature Syndicate Inc
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Energetic progress
By the Editors
of Psychology Today
Will saving energy ever
replace hamburger-eating as
a campus habit? It's making
progress.
Student in dorms at I^afay-
ette Collegejn Pennsylvania
this year are being encour-
aged to repeat their deeds of
last year, when they were
rewarded for cutting back
energy consumption by at
least 5 percent over the year
before. When a dorm succeed-
ed, each resident got a Fris-
bee printed with the slogan
‘‘You are the key to energy
conservation.”
Students walked up and
down stairs instead of using
elevators. They reduced their
use of hot water. They turned
off unused lights. And 11 of
PSYCHOLOGY
TODAY
the 25 dorms met the 5 per-
cent target.
The commonsense psycho-
logical principle involved is
“feedback” on the results of
one’s actions. It has also been
used, with a slightly different
twist, by Emporia State Uni-
versity in Kansas. ’
There, the savings of dorms
that cut energy use are trans-
lated into dollars, and univer-
sity officials turn back half of
each dorm’s savings to the
dorm for any purpose that
does not use energy extrava-
gantly. Last year, every dorm
lowered its consumption
somewhat.
The dorm that made the
biggest savings ($1,247) used
its half of the take to buy a
trophy case, replace two vac-
uum cleaners and buy two
typewriters.
Manual ones, of course.
Berry's World
Many a student can handle
academic work, but does not
get around to soon enough
to mee* deadlines. At the Uni-
versity of California's Berke-
ley campus, the counseling
center is helping students
speed themselves up with
“procrastination workshops.”
The program provides one
two-hour session per week for
nine weeks. The first steps
involve simple behavior
changes: getting students to
break down their work in each
course into small segments, to
set up a schedule for finishing
each segment, and to reward
themselves in some way for
meeting the schedule with,
Carter growing weary
of turning other cheek
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say, a movie or a special
meal.
In the second step, a coun-
selor helps the students under-
stand the psychological fac-
tors underlying
procrastination. Two impor-
tant ones are perfectionism
and fear of failure. As staff
psychologist Jane Burka
explains, “These students
often procrastinate rather
than test their potential by
keeping up in a class and
accepting a grade based on
their true abilities.”
"Procrastination,” she tells
such students, allows them to
“maintain the illusion of bril-
liance, but the illusion is nev-
er tested,”.________
Last yehr, 18 students took
the first two workshops the
center ran. All had been hav-
ing serious trouble with their
classes because they could not
. plan their time realistically;
half had received one or more
"incomplete” grades in previ-
ous terms. After the work-
shop, many of the students’
grades improved, and only
one student took an Incom-
plete.
The success led the center
to repeat the workshops this
year, a decision that was
made, of course, promptly. .
(c) 1979 Pyschology Today
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN)
By BROOK? JACKSON Everybody else does.”
WASHINGTONSS JliT Alth°Ugh haSn’t
WASHINGTON (AP) - campaigning in Iowa, where
Presidential selection caucuses
come up Jan. 21, he made
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of turning the other cheek.
, Maybe it was all those weeks
of' watching militant Iranians
shout “Death to the U.S.” on the
evening news. Or perhaps it
was caused by years of anti-
U.S. fuiminatiotk around the
world. Sitting in hi? Sunday
school class at Washington’s
First Baptist Church, the
president heard his teacher,
Fred Gregg, ask the class
whom the Israelites had blamed
for their troubles in the days of
the prophet Jeremiah,
Career answered
unhesitatingly: “If it was
today, they’d blame us.
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certain that he gave a big smile
and a wave tp a choir visiting
his church from Clinton, Iowa.
Marine Guards at Camp
David, Md., inadvertently
“bugged” themselves during
the president’s stay there over
the holidays. Someone left a
walkia-ialkie radio transmitter
on, broadcasting everything
that was said in the shelter near
the main gate.
About all that could be heard
was rock music. Sentry duty on
a mountaintop apparently
doesn’t stimulate much in the
way of conversation.
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