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, Thursday, Jan. 22,1981.
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have too much impact
Colonel James B. Adams, who is the
new head of the Texas Department of
Public Safety, was quoted recently in
an address with a truth that hits home.
“Our lives are determined by the
criminal dements,” the top law en-
forcement officer of Texas said. He
was speaking, of course, of the
criminals who prey on the public in
crimes of violence as well as in “white
collar” fashions.
There are many places in Texas,
especially in the larger cities, where a
elements will extract.
The “white collar” criminals can be
found anywhere, or everywhere,
depending on their specialities. Quite
often they are found in highly
respected surroundings.
Other than the criminals on the
home front, there are criminals who
operate in foreign countries under {he
cover of their own governments.
In point, there are the criminals in
Iran. Since the release of the 52
American citizens who were held
hostage for 444 days, the stories are
emerging about the harsh, unjust and
bitterly resented treatment of these
people. Their only guilt was the misfor-
tunate timing which placed them in a
so-called friendly nation at an inop-
portune moment in history.
America should take a long time
before ever considering normal rela-
tions with a nation which condones this
type of criminal activity.
Will Reagan end embargo?
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By Robert J. Wtgou
WASHINGTON (NEA) - One of the most vexing and contro-
versial questions facing Ronald Reagan's administration - at
least within its own ranks — is whether to continue the
embargo on U.S. grain sales to the Soviet Union.
In response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. President
Carter on Jan. 4,19M, embargoed all such sales in excess of
the 8 million tons a year covered in a five-year contract now
entering its fifth year. The Soviets were thus prevented from
buying an additional 13 million tons of com, 4 million tons of
wheat and 2 million tons of soybeans.
lifting as a sign of weakness.
Further complicating the debate are the embargo’s mixed
effects upon UA fanners and upon the Soviet Union.
The embargo has not hurt the American farmer all that
much. Tree, its initial effect was to depress farm prices. For
, the price of corn fell to about 82.20 a bushel. But a
i of summer drought and record exports has driv-
en corn back up to a healthy $3.40.
Neither has the embargo been as debilitating to the Soviet
Umon as was forecast The Soviets probably imported only
about 5 million bushels of grain fewer than they had intended
before the embargo thanks to their increased purchases from
other countries.
r, they had to buy that grain at premium prices -
$1 billion more than U.S. farmers would have charged.
for their
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Carter put the issue of the embargo's continuance squarely
in Reagan’s lap by renewing the one-year proclamation for
another year rather than allowing it to expire. If Reagan
wants the embargo ended, be will have to issue an order of his
own to countermand Carter’s.
Transition sources report that a split has arisen over the
matter among Reagan’s advisers.
Candidate Reagan firmly opposed the embargo — especial-
ly in front of farm audiences. And John Block, the incoming
agriculture secretary, has spoken out against the embargo in
speeches and at his Senate confirmation hearings.
But a different opinion is held by members of Reagan's
foreign policy transition team, who want to send the Soviet
Union a clear message that the United States will not be
pushed around anymore. They are urging that the embargo be
retained for now because the Sovietsi might misinterpret its
: were pushed to record levels
> embargo.
The Soviets made a huge grain purchase from Argentina,
whose traditional customers — including Italy, Spain, Japan
and Colombia — were then forced to turn to the United States
for much of their grain.
In addition, some countries, such as Sweden, bought large
quantities of U.S. soybeans for the first time..U.S. authorities
speculate that those soybeans were eventually ground into
cattle feed and sold to the Russians.
So, should Reagan continue the embargo for foreign policy
reasons after promising the only slightly inconvenienced
farmers that he would do away with it? Or should he trust the
Soviets to recognize its lifting as a domestic political decision
without foreign policy implications?
The depth of the split among his advisers over those ques-
tions recently led Reagan to respond to a reporter’s question
on the future of the embargo by saying: “I don’t know. It’s a
very complicated question and one that will require a lot
more study.”
Don't expect a quick resolution of this issue from the new
administration.
INEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN I
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Sunday elections:
would they work?
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The Almanac
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Not quite 54 percent of the eligible
voters participated in the United
States presidential election in 1980. The
downward trend in voter participation
has been observed for 20 years.
There have been various kinds of
appeals to get out the vote. Appeals
have been directed to the youth, the
older citizens, the minorities. Many of
the appeals have fallen on deaf ears.
Now Congressman Mario Biaggi of
New York has introduced legislation to
shift major elections to Sunday. He
thinks that more Americans would
likely vote on a Sunday. He also pro-
posed that uniform opening and closing
nours bl imposed so that interest will
remain higher throughout the nation,... held.
instead of sagging as voters in western
areas hear results from the eastern
states, often before the polls are clos-
ed.
By The Associated Press
Today is Thursday, Jan. 22,
the 22nd day of 1981. There are
343 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On Jan. 22, 1901, England
came to the end of an era with
the death of 82-year-old Queen
Victoria.
On this date:
In 1517, Turkish troops
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that Sunday elections in Europe have
been successful
He points out that
voter participation in Italy, West Ger-
many and France approach 90 percent
of those eligible to vote.
There are possibly some good
arguments for a change in an effort to
increase voter participation. They are
also solid arguments that it would not
matter which day the elections ac6
Sulphur Springs N**d*,^
•Cooper Reservoir
•Broader Vocational Education
•More Downtown Parking
•Continued Industrial Development
•A More Prosperous Agriculture
Jack Anderson
•A City-County Health Unit
•City Beautification
•Enthusiastic Citizens
•Minimum Housing Standards Code
•Improved Streets & Drainage
In 1528, England and France
declared war on the Holy
Roman Emperor, Charles V.
In 1917, President Woodrow
Wilson proposed a League of
Nations.
In 1973, former President
Lyndon Johnson died of a heart
attack at the age of 64.
Five years ago: the United
States and Spain agreed on a v ^
defense treaty that allowed the
U.S. to continue maintaining v
military bases on Spanish soil.
One year ago; the Soviet
Union stripped Nobel Peace
Prize winner Andrei Sakharov
of his state awards and
banished him after accusing
him of “subversive work.”
Today’s birthdays: Forma-
Sen. Birch Bayh of Indiana is
53. Actress Ann So them is 70.
THEY COME RUSH1N6 IN BETWEEN HALVE9 AND
Signal clipping, holding and personal foul.
Gray flannel ski bums
By the Editors
of Psychology Today
Kissinger uses his pull
as basis for a comeback
By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON - As the
Carter reign approached its
constitutionally appointed
end and politicians posi-
tioned themselves for the
change of regime, Henry
Kissinger materialized over-
seas in the old trouble spots,
sly as ever, ready to resume
another decade of weasel-
:eptics had doubted that
cies of foreign policy. He put
in long, arduous hours of
study before the Jan. 20,
1969, inaugural. Then after
the swearing-in, he was
ready with the answers that
the new president would
need.
This time, Kissinger not
only has the answers but he
has actual messages for
President Reagan from for-
eign leaders. Kissinger will
“protection” offered by U.S.
bases in their countries, dip-
lomatic sources have told
my associates Indy Badhwar
and Jack Mitchell.
African leaders have also
been dismayed, according to
classified diplomatic cables,
by Kissinger’s warm
embrace of Somalia and
Morocco. Both countries
have disregarded the doct-
rine of the Organization of
X
he could ever rise again present himself to Ronald African Unity opposing
from the ashes of the Viet- Reagan as a foreign-policy expansion by any nation
nam settlement that he veteran with a calm mas- beyond its old colonial
negotiated
OPEC oil
or the great
gouge that he
But suddenly,
there he Was again, revived,
rehabilitated and making
the old familiar noises of a
foreign-policy oracle.
In his disarming way,
Kissinger assured the for-
eign leaders he encountered
on his 17-day whistlestop
tour that he had invited him-
self and that he did not
speak for the new man in the
White House. This was, in
fact, the truth. Yet the
impression was left that he
had some kind of semi-offi-
cial status and that he would
be a man of influence in the
new administration.
What the world was
witnessing, however, was
> .nereiy the maneuvering of
an old fox who hopes to
become a man of influence
again. The strategy was also
the same that Kissinger suc-
cessfully practiced on Rich-
ard Nixon 12 years ago.
While others around Nix-
election
tery of strategic concept and
tactical detail, a bold vision-
ary on matters of peace and
war ordered by a keen sense
of what is practically possi-
ble, who possesses an
undoubted competence and
a bright and quick mind that
can cut through the pondero-
sities of political jargon.
The new president, if he
submits to -the Kissinger
allure, can look forward to a
long season of meddling and
manipulating. Diplomatic
sources have speculated that
Kissinger will submit
borders. Somalia invaded
both pro-Western Kenya and
pro-Soviet Ethiopia, and
Morocco ignored the OAU
pact by trying to usurp the
former Spanish colony of
Western Sahara.
Yet Kissinger blithely rec-
ommended closer military
ties between the United
States and Somalia. Then he
was wined and dined in
Morocco, whose aggression
in the Western Sahara is
actively opposed by Algeria.
This raised diplomatic eye-
brows since Algerian diplo-
mats were then the key to
coalition negotiations over the Ameri-
Grand Design calling for a
loose, anti-Soviet coalition
of Persian Gulf and Third . can hostages in Iran.
victory, KMager began at
once to master the intrica-
World nations, bolstered by
a more visible US. military
presence.
But there are fallacies in
the Kissinger scheme. He
tends to treat much of the
Third World as a bloc,
though most non-aligned
African nations have no
desire to become pawns in
the Soviet-American global
Chess game. Few are willing
to sacrifice their independ-
ence and neutrgiity lor the
Kissinger’s call for a
beefed-up U.S. security
force in the Persian Gulf has
also been denounced by
Arab spokesmen.
All in all, the pertinacious
Kissinger has bitten off
quite a carcass, and it
remains to be seen whether
he can chew it
DEADLY DIET: Infant-
formula manufacturers
have been waging a vicious
advocating breast feeding.
The formula magnates
accuse breast-feeding propo-
nents of plotting to destroy
capitalism and have labeled
the National Council of
Churches “Marxists march-
ing under the banner of
Christ.”
This hysterical campaign
has reportedly led to deadly
excesses in Guatemala,
where death squads of the
military regime have been
executing rural health work-
ers for, among other things,
encouraging breast feeding.
Cynics have suggested that
the right-wing government
is less concerned with root-
ing out Marxists than with
maintaining the profitable
kickbacks government offi-
cials allegedly get from the
sale of baby formula.
LAME DUCKS FLYING
(II): I reported earlier on
Carter administration
bigshots junketing at the
taxpayers' expense in the
closing days of their tenure
at the public trough. Here’s
an updated roster
Three political appointees
at the Department of Hous-
ing and Urban Development
flew off to China for a two-'
week science and technoh
conference. Another
official ®ent to Paris for
nine days for a symposium
on government operations.
Labor Secretary Ray
Marshall and two subordi-
nates also went to China last
month, to set up a technical
exchange program. Mar-
shall managed to stop off in
Paris en route.
UMhSatsJiteu t«r
Ski instructors have the
personality one might expect
to find in ambitious career
people, according to a recent
study.
A psychologist at the Uni-
versity of Montana who is her-
self a part-time ski instructor,
Carol Austin Bridgwater,
gave personality tests to 78
male and 40 female instruc-
tors from nine Rocky Moun-
tain ski resorts, including such
glamour spots as Aspen, Sun
Valley, Steamboat Springs
and Vail. The instructors
ranged in ages from 16 to 62:
their average age was 28.
Bridgwater assessed them
with a test that measures 20
personality traits, including
dominance, aggressiveness,
independence and need for
social recognition.
The responses hardly fit the
carefree ski-bum stereotype.
The instructors scored high
PSYCHOLOGY
TODAY
on ambition, independence
and a propensity for hard
work and diligence. They
described themselves as being
dominating and influential,
and their scores showed they
were likely to display quali-
ties that are also prominent in
leaders who can take over a
group or persuade others to
their point of view.
The instructors did not
score high on “exhibition,"
(defined on the test as enjoy-
ment of flashy or ostentatious
behavior), but they were not
exactly humble. Most report-
ed that they were very self-
confident and rarely con-
Berry's World
"Yes, I do have a new assignment for you,
Henry. STAY HOME!"
cerned themselves with their
reputation or with what oth-
ers thought of them.
Whether ski instructors are
more ambitious and oriented
toward achievement than
other people who work is not
known yet. Bridgwater points
out that scores on the test she
used that are most readily
available for comparison are
those of college students; the
instructors are far more
ambitious than they are.
On two personality traits,
the instructors did seem to fit
their stereotyped image. They
ranked highly on enjoyment of
dangerous, high-risk sports,
and on lack of concern for
physical injury.
• • •
Men and women have about
the same number of friends
and acquaintances over the
course of their lives, but the
relative number varies with
age.
That pattern turned up in a
study of friendships by Claude
S Fischer, a sociologist at the
University of California at
Berkeley, who reported his
findings at the annual conven-
tion of the American Sociolog-
ical Association.
Men have more friends ear-
ly in life, Fisher found, large-
ly due to people they get to
know at work. Women catch
up by midlife and from then
on have considerably more
friends than men do.
The differences in later life
are partly a matter of demo-
graphics — men’s male
friends die off sooner. But
Fisher believes that women
“continue to make new
.. friends, while the less sociable
men rely on their diminishing
store of earlier-met friends.”
• • •
Another study presented at
the same convention provided
partial confirmation for the
blabbermouth theory of lead-
ership. The study, by Paul
Davidson Reynolds, of the
University of Minnesota at
of friends and strangers. Peo-
ple perceived as leaders gen-
erally did talk more than
others.
More importantly, however,
leaders stayed involved in the
conversations, sometimes
speaking only briefly, but sel-
dom withdrawing from the
discussions for any length of
time. This pattern of talk and
silence, resembles the pattern
in conversation between two
people. Hence, Reynolds
concluded, leaders act in
groups as if they are “engaged
in two-person interaction
(between) themselves and the
rest of the group."
(c) 1980 Psychology Today
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
LETTERST(i ™ EDITOR
Minneapolis, looked
conversations in small groups
Family search
Editor:
Having recently discovered
that several ancestors were
from that area, I would like to
attempt to find other family
members that may have
remained there.
Hie families I’m researching
are Blythe (O’Blythe), Jordan,
Gregory and France. My great-
grandparents, Idella Blythe
and Joseph Walton Jordan
were married in Sulphur
Springs and my great-
grandfather, Walton Blythe
Jordan was bom there in 1893.
Idella had a sister, Emma, who
married a Henderson. Idella
was bora in Tennessee In 1868.
Joseph was bora Jan. 31,1868 in
Alabama.
Peter Bell France was my
great-great-grandfather and
was probably born in the early
1860’s in Missouri. His
daughter, Marguerite, married
a Gregory, and their only child,
Marguerite Leona, married
W.B. Jordan.
Clarence T. Johnson was
related to this family, although
I do not know the relationship. I
believe his motha’s name was
Stella.
I will be happy to exchanger
information with anyone who is
interested. - BARBARA
DOUGLAS, 1082 Welch, Hen-
derson, Tx. 75652.
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