Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 227, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 24, 1980 Page: 4 of 14
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4—THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Spring. T««, Wodnosdwy, Sopt. 24,1W0.
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In our opinion
Middle East fighting
is highly dangerous
Open fighting in progress between
Iranian and Iraqi forces in the highly
volatile Middle East lends emphasis to
fears that the two countries are the
prime candidates for breaking the
uneasy peace that still prevails in that
area.
Warfare anywhere in that region
must be regarded as a highly
dangerous diversion, but Iran’s
predicament must be viewed as the
most uneasy of the group. Iran has
been unable to form a stable govern-
ment in the last vear. It has lost most
of the market for its once huge oil
sales. Unemployment is extremely
high, productivity unusually low.
It is something of a wonder that Iran
has been able to hold itself together as
long as it has, given both its internal
and external problems. The quarrel
with Iraq is an old one based largely on
conflicting territorial rights. Iraq now
appears to hold the upper hand in the
power balance after being held back
for years by the Shah’s superior forces.
Now the Shah is dead and his army in
shambles. Iran, recognizing its severe
predicament, is out looking for help at
its most likely source. What the
Iranians will find in Moscow nobody
knows. This is not the best time for the
Soviets to make another investment of
Cubans in the cause of world
domination, but that is no sign they
won’t try it and see what happens.
Continuing study
planned on nitrate
Slipping Southern support?
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (NEA) - If President Carter needs
the solid support of his native Sooth to win re-election, he’s in
serious political trouble.
Carter faces the potentially devastating prospect of being
defeated by Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan
in perhaps three or four states in the region.
Moreover, efforts to convince Southern voters to support
the president on the basis of regional pride are likely to meet
with less success than they did four years ago.
IN WASHINGTON
Robert Walters
Carter’s weakness in approximately a half-dozen Southern
states is disguised in the national political surveys that
emphasize his relatively high popularity in the region, espe-
cially when compared with other sections of the country.
For example, a poll conducted by the Gallup Organization
in mid-August gave Reagan a slim 39-38 edge nationally but
showed Carter leading in the South by a wide 48-39 margin
while Reagan was ahead 39-35 in other regions.
Similarly, a Washington Post survey conducted in early
September produced a 37-37 tie between the two contenders
on a national basis, with Reagan leading in every region
except the South, where Carter was ahead by a 47-34 margin.
But Reagan is expected to carry Virginia, the only Southern
state that didn’t support Carter in 1976, and is likely to be
victorious in Texas, whose 26 electoral votes make it the most
important political prize in the region.
In Mississippi, Democratic Gov. William F. Winter admits
that "Reagan probably is now ahead” but claims “the momen-
tum is swinging to Carter.” Other observers are not as san-
guine about Carter’s chances there, however, and Reagan
could well carry the Magnolia State.
The president is virtually certain to carry his home state of
Georgia and is considered relatively strong in Tennessee,
where Republican Gov. Lamar Alexander acknowledges “it
should be Carter’s state.” But a recent poll shows Carter and
Reagan locked in a 45-45 tie in the Volunteer State and the
Reagan campaign reportedly has given it a high priority,
believing it can successfully build upon traditional Republican
strength in east Tennessee.
The president apparently enjoys a current edge in South
Carolina and his prospects are considerably better in Arkan-
sas and North Carolina. “It’ll be a tough battle but Carter is
ahead and I think he’ll carry the state,” says North Carolina
Gov. James B. Hunt Jr., a Democrat.
Most experts believe the race in Alabama is currently too
close to call. The contest also is very tight in Louisiana, but
Reagan apparently enjoys a slight edge there.
Florida, the second most populous state in the region with
17 electoral votes, is shaping up as a major battleground
between Carter and Reagan. One recent poll produced a 39-39
tie between the two men, but Democratic Gov. Robert
Graham is working vigorously on Carter’s behalf.
Graham notes, however, a phenomenon that disturbs other
Democratic loyalists throughout the region: “Southerners are
still emotionally tied to a Carter candidacy, but there’s less of
a sense of empathy than four years ago. Voter identification
with him as the region’s native son is significantly lower than
in 1976.”
Carter, meanwhile, has not been able to significantly cut
into Reagan's support in the West, an area of the country that
overwhelmingly rejected Carter in 1976 and provides
Reagan’3 most solid base of regional support this year.
Those developments don’t bode well for Carter because a
loss of only 29 of the electoral votes he won in 1976 — assum-
ing that he scores no gains elsewhere and that Reagan wins all
the remaining electoral votes — would deprive him of a sec-
ond term as president.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN)
The U.S. Department of Agriculture
has announced plans to undertake a
study on the procedures used to
evaluate research on toxic substances
in foods. The study follows closely the
recent controversy surrounding the
regulations of sodium nitrate in the
food supply.
The study is needed to confirm cur-
rent opinions about nitrate and to
recommend possible future alter-
natives.
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
Carol Tucker, in announcing the new
study, said that information on poten-
tial alternatives to nitrate will be
sought from both private industry and
the federal government.
“We have taken regulatory action to
deal successfully with the problem of
preformed nitrosamines in bacon, but
the possibililty still exists the
nitrosamines can be formed through
the combination of nitrites with amines
Sulphur Springs Needs....
•Cooper Reservoir
• Broader Vocational Education
•More Downtown Parking
•Continued Industrial Development
•A More Prosperous Agriculture
and amides in the human digestive
tract,” Secretary Foreman said. “For
this reason alone, the use of nitrite as
an added substance in our food supply
will continue to be a matter of signifi-
cant concern to the agencies under the
existing law.”
She noted that the USDA is spending
$2 million in 1980 on nitrite alternative
research and will expend a similar
amount in 1981.
“There is little wisdom in having an
entire industry and one-tenth of the na-
tion’s food supply dependent on the use
of a single food additive,” she added.
“If that substance is thrown into ques-
tion, then there is nowhere else to
turn.”
It is hoped that the new study and
continued research will provide
suitable answers to questions raised.
But there may be no simple anwers.
Hardly anything in life is without at
least some degree of risk.
•A City-County Health Unit
•City Beautification
•Enthusiastic Citizens
•Minimum Housing Standards Code
•Improved Streets & Drainage
The Almanac
By The Associated Press
Today is Wednesday, Sept.
24, the 268th day of 1980. There
are 98 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On Sept. 24, 1963, the U.S.
Senate ratified a treaty with
Britain and the Soviet Union
limiting nuclear tests.
On this date:
In 1780, Benedict Arnold
escaped to a British ship after
trying to betray West Point
fortifications during the
American Revolution.
In 1789, John Jay was named
the nation’s first chief justice
by President George
Washington.
In 1869, thousands of
businessmen were ruined in a
Wall Street crash known as
“Black Friday.”
In 1934, Babe Ruth made his
farewell appearance as a
regular player with the New
York Yankees.
Ten years ago, Palestinian
guerrillas agreed to peace
terms to end fighting with
Jordanian forces.
Thought for Today: Have no
friends not equal to yourself —
Confucious, Chinese
philosopher (551-479 B.C.).
Jack Anderson
Watchdogs' aims too good?
Carter cuts strangling agency
By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON - Whistle-
blowers - those dedicated
government employees who
risk their careers to report
incompetence or misconduct
in their agencies - are being
stripped of protection by
Jimmy Carter, the man who
promised to defend them
The Office of Special Coun-
sel, which was set up to be
the whistleblowers' shield
against reprisal, is being
quietly strangled in its crib.
Two years ago. as part of
Carter’s civil service reform
program, Congress created
the Office of Special Counsel
as an independent body with
extraordinary powers It
was authorized not only to
protect employees who
exposed waste and misman-
agement, but to investigate
and punish crooked bureau-
crats on its own.
The mini-agency pursued
its mandate vigorously -
perhaps too vigorously. In
July, For example, it turned
up damning evidence that
high officials of the Small
Business Administration
were illegally transferring
employees deemed to be
“politically unresponsive.”
Acting Special Counsel Mary
Eastwood wrote to SBA
chief Vernon Weaver asking
him to take disciplinary
action against his deputy,
Paul D. Sullivan, for his role
in the illegalities.
Earlier, the special
counsel’s office, to the
intense annoyance of Attor-
ney General Griffin Bell,
filed charges against his
protege, Ron Angel, chief
federal marshal in Atlanta.
He was accused of railroad-
ing four deputies who had
tried to expose corruption in
the marshals’ service.
The office also launched
corruption probes aimed at
high officials in the Veterans
Administration, the Air
Force, the Justice Depart-
ment and the Mine Safety
and Health Administration
Apparently the young
watchdog was chewing on
the wrong ankles. Although
administration officials
deny their purpose was to
kill the special counsel’s
office, their actions had that
effect •
Under a budget cut pro-
posed by the president two
months ago, the special
counsel’s already meager
funding was slashed by |1
million. With this clear sig-
nal from the White House,
Congress cut another $1
million, leaving the office
broke.
The staff was reduced by
60 percent, leaving only 37
attorneys and investigators
still on the payroll. Some
survivors told my associate
Indy Badhwar they have to
scrounge and beg in other
agencies for such basic sup-
plies as Scotch tape and
writing paper
All the investigations have
been halted. All the branch
offices have been shut down.
The special counsel needs
8135.000 to continue investi-
gations already started, but
the president has refused to
make money available.
“The amount we need just
to keep going," said one
staffer, “is less than the
8150.000 the administration
spent on redesigning the seal
for the Department of
Transportation.”
GUN LOBBY MISFIRES:
Extremists have taken con-
trol of the National Rifle
Association, and as a result
the powerful gun lobby has
become a loose cannon that
is frightening some of its
staunchest supporters on
Capitol Hill.
The new leadership of the
NRA is apparently intoxi-
cated by past triumphs of
this most successful of the
single-issue lobbying groups.
What the association's lead-
ers have done is to insist on
tying a longtime NRA goal -
weakening of the 1968 Fed-
eral Gun Control Act -- to
the criminal code revision
that has been in the works in
the Senate for more than a
decade.
But the NRA's heavyhand-
ed tactics have succeeded in
alienating several members
of Congress who have sup-
ported the gun lovers for
years.
"The whole criminal code
effort could get bogged
down if people are in the
position of having to vote on
(NRA-backed gun control
‘reform’) before the
election,” said Rep. Thomas
Kindness, R-Ohio, who has
received hundreds of dollars
in NRA campaign contribu-
tions.
In the Senate, where Sen.
James McClure, R-Idaho,
will offer the NRA's amend-
ment to the criminal code
measure, traditional oppo-
nents of gun control are
shaking their heads in won-
der at the gun association's
tactics. They are convinced
the NRA move will fail, and
concerned that the criminal
code revision may be
dragged down with the
amendment.
“We can’t understand why
(the NRA) is doing it,” said
one Senate source, who add-
ed that he is reconsidering
his longtime support for the
NRA
UNDER THE DOME:
House Speaker Tip O’Neill’s
Irish temper flared up the
other day, when Rep. Robert
Walker, R-Pa., demanded a
recorded vote on a Billy
Carter matter Recrimina-
tions bounced back and
forth, including an O’Neill
charge that Walker was
guilty of "childish
behavior.” Later, O’Neill
regretted his outburst, and
sent an emissary to Walker
to apologize and suggest
that the mutually unflatter-
ing comments be expunged
from the record. The two
later ratified their peace
treaty over a drink.
• Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind.,
chairman of the Billy Carter
subcommittee, has long sus-
pected that Sen Richard
Lugar, R-Ind , also on the
subcommittee, is deliberate-
ly trying to prolong the
hearings to keep Bayh in
Washington when he should
be mending fences back
home in Indiana. Bayh's sus-
picion that Lugar is c t to
get him wa: confirmed when
some Bayh staffers went
spying on a meeting of the
National Conservative Polit-
ical Action Committee,
which has targeted Bayh for
political extinction this year.
There, in the heart of the
enemy camp, was - Richard
Lugar.
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Hypertension, VA and you
Albert Rayford is a big, ex-military officer who works in
Washington at the Veterans Administration.
One day a couple of years ago Rayford and several of the
fellows in his office were talking about hypertension, which
you’ll recognize is the same thing as high blood pressure. Ray-
ford felt fine but thought he’d go have a blood pressure test at
his VA medical unit, just to make sure.
His pressure was so high the nurses couldn't believe it.
After double-checking, they sent him straight out to Andrews
Air Force Base, where his medical records were kept The
doctor took one look at his blood pressure and said, “You’re
staying right here. Usually, we start losing people with your
hypertension. They stoke out on us.”
A1 was hospitalized a day, put on a regular course of diuret-
ics and drugs, changed his diet, lost 20 pounds, learned to
avoid salt, sugar, carbonated drinks and fatty foods, and
began exercising regularly. He goes to a medical unit once
every four months for an hour of tests, takes two little pills
each morning and carries his blood pressure “scores" in his
suit pocket. His latest pressure test was 102 over 70, better
than the normal 120 over 80
Hypertension is a disease. Proportionately, it afflicts more
men than women, more blacks than whites. A VA advisory
committee in 1978 said:
— Hypertension affects more than 15 percent of all adult
Americans.
— Mortality rates are doubled and tripled by only slight
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increases in blood pressures.
— Heart failure occurs six times more frequently in hyper-
tensive patients than in normal persons.
— Almost three-quarters of all strokes are associated with
hypertension, and it is the most common cause of kidney fail-
ure.
The VA advisory committee calculated that 8.7 million vet-
erans can be expected to have some blood pressure elevation;
3.9 million need therapy.
A decade ago a pioneering VA study showed that treating
hypertension lowers death rates markedly. But that wasn’t
enough to convince some folks.
A quarter of all veterans coming to VA hospitals weren't
aware they had hypertension. Two-thirds were getting no
treatment at all.
So the VA set up a pilot program of doctor-supervised
hypertension clinics, 32 across the country. For five years the
clinics screened veterans, 400,000 in all, and treated nearly
40,000. Four-fifths of those 40,000 controlled their high blood
pressure under the voluntary program. Border-line cases not
on active treatment are checked periodically.
Reason for the VA interest: There are 30 million veterans,
mostly men, and a large number of black men.
In the mid-1970s VA hospitals treating veterans with circu-
latory diseases (results of hypertension) spent more than 8250
million a year on such treatment. That doesn't count the cost
of keeping hypertensive veterans in VA domiciliaries (old
soldiers’ homes) and in community nursing homes.
Yet the VA figures that for about 8250 a year per veteran,
hypertension can be controlled, just as A1 Rayford's has been.
What’s this got to do with you?
If you’re a veteran you can have your blood pressure
checked at any VA hospital or clinic in the nation. FREE.
If your test shows elevated blood pressure, you — or any
other veteran — can be prescribed an anti-hypertension regi-
men and get needed diuretics and drugs. Again, FREE:
For the VA, this makes good sense. VA saves money and the
trouble of treating seriously stricken people.
If you’re a veteran, this free service could be a life-saver, as
A1 Rayford knows. And even if you’re not a veteran, you
should get the old blood pressure checked periodically. It’s
worth the investment.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
BARBS Phil Pastoret
How could storks possibly
deliver babies, when it’s the
doctors who have the bills?
The plumber’s revenge:
telling the doctor with a flood-
ed basement that, sorry, the
plumber never makes bouse
calls.
Our mayor says the fix is in
at city hall — for the ailing
air conditioner.
Look on the bright side and
wutch it tarnish, says otr resi-
dent cynic.
People who sing their own
praises almost never learned
how to carry a tune.
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