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Arms for China
Compiled from Wire Reports
The Carter administration has decided
to sell military arms to China to help deter
Soviet aggression, the chairman of a
House Foreign Affairs subcommittee said
today. Rep. lister L. Wolff, D-N.Y.,
"“chairman of the Asian and Pacific Affairs
subcommittee, said the formal an-
nouncement would be made by the White
House later in the day.
However, an administration official who
asked not to be identified said rio White
House announcement is scheduled today
and “whatever there is will come out of”
the Defense Department.
The official said he thought Wolff was
“overstating a bit.” In a brief floor speech,
Wolff told the House: “There will be an
announcement within hours that military
sales to the People's Republic of China will
be authorized.”
Wolff said he personally opposes such a
move.
“This is a great departure from previous
relations with that country,” he said. “I
' must say tliat 1 strongly oppose this idea
until such tune as we know what we are
going to get in return from the People’s
Republic of China.” - - - ,,
Khomeini ill
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran
was admitted to the intensive-care unit of
a Tehran hospital early this morning for
heart trouble, but the 79-year-old
revolutionary leader later went on
national radio to reassure the Iranian
people he is not seriously ill. The broadcast
by the revolutionary leader, who sounded
frail and weak, appeared aimed at
reassuring the public that he is not
seriously ill and at heading off any panic in
his troubled nation, political observers in
the Iranian capital said.
All revolutionary committees
throughout Iran have been placed on alert
to guard against violence during Friday’s
voting. Anti-Khomeini factions have called
for a boycott of the voting, as they did
during the recent constitutional
referendum, when political violence flared
in several areas.
A crowd gathered today outside the
hospital, where the revered clergyman-
revolutionary was being treated, and
politicians and religious leaders were seen
coming and going. *
The events were reliably reported by
Western journalists in the Iranian capital,
? Anw'jcan brtfvs were
spuming their Blind Ja> of captivity at the
S. Embassy.
leh' an Radio, monitored abroad,
reported that his doctors decided Wed-
nesday lie required hospitalization for
“some slight heart trouble,” and he was
admitted to a Tehran cardiology hospital
at la.m. today.
It was announced that Khomeini would
give a radio-television (interview, but in-
stead a recorded message was broadcast
by the state radio.
“As far as my condition is concerned, I
am — praise be to God - not bad,” he said.
British turn tough
In London, British Foreign Secretary
.Lord Carrington announced a tough
package of anti-Soviet measures today to
protest Moscow’s military-intervention in
Afghanistan. They included suspension of
high-level and ministerial contacts.
The British government also voiced full
support for the main goals in the U.S.-T
Soviet clash over Afghanistan as defined
by President Carter in his State of the
Union address to Congress.
Other moves announced by Carrington
in Parliament included cancellation of
military exchanges between Britain and
the Soviets and an increase in the the
number of broadcasts beamed into the
Soviet Union and Afghanistan by the
British Broadcasting Corp.
Tass: absurd'
In Moscow, the Soviet news agency Tass
today described as absurd President
Carter’s claim in his State of the Union
message that the Persian Gulf area is a
sphere of vital interest to the United
States.
In a Washington-datelined dispatch, the
news agency said Carter emphasized “the
claims of the U.S. administration to the
‘right’ to interfere in the internal affairs of
other states which possess raw materials
or lie on oil-supply routes.”
Tass said Carter “arbitrarily”
proclaimed the Persian Gulf ar<& as a
sphere of vital interest. He made no secret,
the news agency said, that “at the basis of
the false thesis of the the ‘vital interests’ of
the USA in the Persian Gulf lies a desire to
keep the dominant position of American
monolopies in the region.”
“Carter alleged that there exists some
‘threat’ to the ‘free movement of Middle
fast oil,’ a threat allegedly coming from
the Soviet Union,” Tass said.
Olympics pullout
In Washington, a congressional
resolution in support of President Carter’s
stand on this summer's Moscow Olympics
moved today toward final approval in both
the House and Senate.
The Senate Commerce Committee voted
unanimously today to urge the U.S.
Olympic Committee to propose transfer or
cancellation of the summer games.
If that fails, the resolution calls on the
U.S. committee to boycott the games
scheduled to be held this summer in
Moscow-
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JANUARY 24, 1980.
15 Cents
President rattles American troop saber
Carter declares Persian
Gulf off-limits to Reds
Checking the damage
DPS Sgt Rick Smith looks over the damage to a liquified propanelgas tanker which
was involved in a fatality accident Wednesday afternoon near Clarksville. Archie
Lee Scott, 82, of Clarksville was killed in the accident when his pickup was in
collision with the tractor trailer. The driver of the LPG truck, Billy W. Ford , 30, of
Ashdown, Ark., was taken to Red River general Hospital where he was reported in
good condition. The wreckage was finally cleared about 5 a.m. Thursday morning.
By BARRY SCHWEID
Associated Press Writer _j
WASHINGTON (AP) i- Presideni
Carter has declared the Persian Gulf
region off-limits to the Soviet Union,
saying he might use American troops to
repel any Soviet push beyond Afghanistan.
The warning in the State of the Union
address Wednesday night is likely to
• become known as the Carter Doctrine for
establishing a policy of containment for
the 1980s.
It is in sharp contrast to last year’s plea
to the Soviets to cooperate in a quest for
peace and keynotes a new buildup of U.S.
military might.
Carter was directly responding to the
Soviet move into Afghanistan and bidding
for the friendship of all Moslem countries,
including Iran where some 50 Americans
are held hostage.
He called for “steady nerves” at home
and told the American people that
resisting Soviet expansion is a long-haul
effort.
The president took a hard line, but most
of the other prospective candidates
Traffic accidents claim
two lives on area roads
probably will say he was not tough enough.
First, he zoned the Persian Gulf within
"the vital interests” of the United States
and vo.wed to protect Western oil supplies
with American troops. *
Second, he reserved the option of using
force to help Saudi Arabia op other
producing countries stem internal
rebellion.
Third, lie offered 'to shape a
cooperative security framework" with
Pakistan and all other countries in the
Middle East and Southwest Asia.
Fourth, he outlined a more potent
military presence in the region, beginning
With a larger navy in the Indian Ocean and
new naval and air facilities,
A high administration official, who
asked that he not be identified, told
reporters the president was intentionally
vague on some points in order to retain his
“flexibility.”
But, the official said, there should be no
mistaking that Carter reserves the right to
use American military force, including
ground troops, to protect the flow of oil
through the Persian Gulf to the United
States, West Europe and Japan.
Carter is not the first president to
CLARKSVILLE — Red River County
recorded its first traffic fatalities of the
year Wednesday afternoon when two men
were killed in separate accidents
One man died in a pickup-tanker truck
crash, and earlier in the day a pedestrian-
auto accident claimed the life of an Avery
resident. *
Wreckage from the pickup-tanker crash
still had not been cleared from the scene
early Thursday morning as work crews
and DPS personnel awaited the arrival of
Texas Railroad Commission officers. The
tanker carried liquified petroleum gas,
causing a few anxious hours as authorities
drained the contents of the tankerto
eliminate the threat of possible gas leaks
and a potential explosion. I I
The accident occurred about 5:30 p.m.
Wednesday when a 1977 pickup driven by
Archie Lee Scott, 82, of Route 6,
Clarksville was eastbound on US-82 when
it was in rt-ollision with a 1974 tractor-
trailer driven by Billy W. Ford, 30, of
Ashdown, Ark. in front of a roadside park
about six miles west of Clarksville.
Scott was pronoanced dead at the scene
at 6:05 p.m.
DPS Trooper Howard Dunham reported
that the pickup was pulling a 16 foot trailer
with several large bales of hay on it when
the transport loaded with 8,400 gallons of
LPG attempted to pass it. The Scott
vehicle then attempted a left turn in front
of the tractor-trailer.
The trailer was knocked loose frqm the
pickup and went approximately 300 feet to
the south side of the highway after over-
turning approximately three times ac-
cording to Dunham.
The pickup went up an embankment
almost to a roadside park on the north side
of the highway.
The tanker turned over, separating the
tractor and the trailer. One Department of
Highways and Public Transportation
worker called lo the scene said that it
looked like the trailer had overturned at
least once before coming tb rest, still
partially on the roadway.
The LPG truck belonged to S-F Tran-
sport, Inc. of Texarkana, Ark.
Workers had planned to wait until
Thursday morning to clear the wreckage
and remove the LPG but Texas Railroad
Commission officials felt otherwise.
Sulphur Springs’ DPS Sgt. Rick Smith,
who is in charge of DPS troopers in Red
River, Hopkins, Rains and Franklin
Counties,' was called to the scene after
TRC officers had decided to either
evacuate the area or remove the fuel and
clear the roadway.
A TRC official said that there was a
danger of a hairline crack that would begin
l^ing gas after daylight when the tem-
perature rose, causing expansion of the
fuel and possibly an explosion.
. Three large, heavy-duty wreckers were
summoned from Mount Pleasant and S-F
Transport personnel were called from
Texarkana.
The LPG crews brought hoses and a
compressor and arrived on the scene at
1:15 am. Thursday.
By the time the crews were in place with
their equipment, it was found that a safety
deyicehad-beeft-aetw whenthe-trqcfr--
overtumed that made use of the largest
valve impossible. Workers were required
to use a smaller fuel line resulting in a
longer period of time needed to drain the-
tanker.
By 3 a m. approximately 40 percent of
the fuel remained.on board the damaged
transport .and after one of the large
wreckers lifted one end of the trailer to
allow the removal of the rest of the fuel,
the trailer was finally righted at 5 a.m.
A worker explained that a stabilizing
agent is added to the fuel load to keep it
level, necessitating the raising of the front
end of the tankei to remove as much of the
LPG as possible.
DHPT personnel, S-F’ Transport workers
and Trooper Jim Trammell remained on
the scene for the arrival of a TRC official
from Tyler as the sun, came up Thursday
morning^/ —
The other Red- River County fatality
occurred at 3:05 p.m. in Avery.
Arnold Walter Campbell, 76, of Route 2,
Avery was walking back across US-82 to
his residence after going to his mailbox
when he was struck by a 1980 two door
coupe driven by George Murriel Wilson,
33, of Route l.Bogata.
Trooper Dunham reported that wit-
nesses said Campbell walked into the path
of the car.
Campbell was taken to Wadley Hospital
in Texarkana where he died at 6:15 of
injuries sustained in the accident.
No charges were filed in either accident.
Weatherword:
windy, warm
Warmer but windy weather is on
tap hr the local area, according tothft
National Weather Serviced
forecasters, but it isn’t expected to
last long.
Forecasters are predicting a high of
68 degrees on Thursday but cooler and
cloudy weather on Friday as another
front moves through the area.
The high Friday under partly
cloudy skies is expected to be in the
mid 50s.
Although no rain is forecast for the
next few days, the skies will remain
partly cloudy to mostly cloudy
through Monday. Temperatures
Saturday are expected to be in the 50s
while Monday’s temperature may
rise as high as 70 degrees.
Center officials turn
feds on flood problems
Hopkins County authorities have elected
to ask a government agency to help track
down the cause of — and possibly lend a
hand in finding a cure to — the leaking
Civic Center auditorium building here.
“It’s time to do something about the
problem before it’s too late,” .Com-
missioner J.D. Hatley told members of the
Commissioners Court and Civic Center
Board at their meeting Wednesday at the
Civic Center to discuss the flooding
problem.
The auditorium of the Civic Center has
been collecting water — up to about the
eighth row — whenever Sulphur Springs
receives a big rain.
“People from McKinney come over here
and say ‘they’ve got a fine building but it’s
got water in it,” said Civic Center Board
Chairman Millard Bennett. “I would
suggest that EDA (Economic Develop-
ment Administration) might be the place
to start.”
Bennett explained that EDA engineers
had approved the final plans for the Civic
Center and the agency had paid half the
cost in building it. He said that it was
entirely possible that the federal agency
might be interested in helping to defray
the costs of repairing the building.
“It’s too fine a building to let it
deteriorate,” Guy Mayes commented.
County Judge Joe R. Pogue told Bennett’s
group to go ahead and contact the EDA
about finding out what the problem is that
allows water to seep into the building.
The water problem is complex, Pogue
said, adding that several “experts” had
been contacted about the problem but that
each had a differing opinion as to the
solution.
Bennett said tnat Audley Moore had
volunteered to investigate the problem at
no cost and Charles Helm said that he
would like to conduct some tests to attempt
to learn where the water was entering the
building.
Although none of those present had a
solution to the problem, all agreed that
something had to be done to keep water out
of the auditorium before extensive
damage is done.
Prior to Wednesday’s meeting, Civic
Center Manager Bert Whorton said water
was up to the eighth row of seats Tuesday
following three days of heavy local rains.
Whorton had estimated the damage to be
about $3,000 at that point.
“We thought we had the problem solved,
but apparently we didn't,” Pogue said.
Commissioners have sent work crews to
the Civic Center in recent months to do
work suggested by the experts in what
proved to be a futile attempt to solve the
leakage problem.
Pogue noted that part of the auditorium
is below the water line of a nearby creek.
Whorton says that the deepest point of the
auditorium is six feet below ground level.
‘‘The County has made an honest effort
to fix this thing,” said Whorton, “but we
need to get it fixed before more damage is
done." i
Pogue earlier had said that a contractor
was supposed to have installed more
drainage pipes in the area to help move the
water away fronr the building, “but he
hasn’t done the work yet.” Pogue said the
work was to have been done about a month
ago.
Eating only defense against rare ailment
Teenager battles disease with fork
JACKSON, N.J. (AP) - Eighteen-
year-old Amy Brown eats a dozen
fOgg^for breakfast and two steaks for
lunciKfo keep her weight up to 90
pounds. And doctors say there is little
she, can do about her metabolic
disorder — except keep eating.
The teenager suffers from
malabsorption, an unusual syndrome
that requires her to eat almost hourly
to replace lost potassium in her body.
Her food bills take $170 a week out of
her father’s $13,000 annual salary.
Her mother, Lois Brown, 48, says
only help from friends and civic-
groups keeps the family afloat.
“Aside from the food bills, we have
to Ray gas and electric. We have two
refrigerators downstairs for Amy,"
she said in a recent interview. “We
don’t like accepting charity, but we
never know what tomorrow may
bring."
Doctors say malabsorption, which
usually afflicts younger children, can
strike a range of fats or vitamins
needed to keep the body’s system in
balance. A faulty valfa in Miss
Brown’s kidney is releasing almost all
the potassium in her system, and the
doctors say there is little Miss Brown
can do except take potassium sup-
plements and eat.
Miss Brown is weak unless she eats
constantly. She has difficulty lifting
herself out of a bathtub.
declare a region of the globe to be within
the “vital interests” of the United States.
President Harry S. .Truman, in 1947,
drew a line around Greece, Turkey and
Italy, warning the Soviets to keep away.
This became known as the Truman
Doctrine and inaugurated the policy of
“containment” of communism.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a
decade later, asked Congress to authorize
the use of American military force to
protect the Middle East. In 1958, he used
the authority tp send troops into I,ebanon
under what had become known as the
Eisenhower Doctrine.
Now, Carter has declared: “An attempt
by any outside force to gain control of the
Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an
assault on the vital interests of the United
States. It will be repelled by use of any
means necessary, including military
force.”
The question now is whether the Kremlin
will respond to Carter's challenge with a
new burst of adventurism or a "peace
offensive." ,
Carter talk
highlights
WASHINGTON (AP) - Here, at a
glance, are the highlights of President
'Carter’s State of the Union address:
Persian Gull pledge:
‘ ‘An attempt by any outside force to gain
control of the Persian Gulf region will be
‘regarded as an assault on the vital in-
terests of the United States of America.
And such an assault will be repelled by any
means necessary, including military
fore?."
Selective Service:
“I hope thdt it will not become necessary
to impose the draft. However, we must be
prepared for that possibility. For this
reason, I have determined that the
Selective Service System must now be
revitalized. I will send legislation and
budget proposals to the Congress next
month so that we can begin registration
and then meet future mobilization needs
rapidly if they arise.”
Oil imports:
To increase energy conservation,
Carter set a 1980 oil import ceiling of 8.2
million barrels a day enforced by import
fees “if necessary.” The U.S. imported 8.1
million barrels a day last year.
Three Mile
warning out
WASHINGTON (AP) — Investigators
hired by the Nuclear Regulatory Com-
mission warned today that nuclear ac-
cidents like the one last year at Three Mile
Island “could have happened in a lot of
places."
Moreover, there’s nothing to keep
similar accidents from occurring
elsewhere in the future, the panel said,
adding that new nuclear plants should be
at least 10 miles from cities to reduce the
small but worrisome risk of accidental
radiation exposure.
The Three Mile Island plant came within
30 to 60 minutes of a “meltdown” of its
radioactive fuel, an event that would have
required “at least the precautionary
evacuation of thousands” of residents
from the, surrounding area near
Harrisburg, Pa., the “Special Inquiry
Group” said after its seven-month in-
vestigation of the accident.
The special inquiry was headed by
private attorney Mitchell Rogovin.
Although his law firm was hired by the
NRC, it delivered the same unwelcome
advice President Carter’s “Kemeny
Commission” had submitted earlier:
Abolish the five-member NRC and replace
it with a single administrator.
Both Carter and the NRC have
previously rejected that idea, claiming the
existing commission structure can be
made more effective.
But the Rogovin report said a five-
member commission is incapable of
managing a comprehensive nuclear safety
program.
“If ever an argument is needed to
convince someone of the lack of
management in the NRC,” it said, “one
need only attend one of these commission
meetings....It appears that the structural
problems in the NRC’s management
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