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4—THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Springs, Texas, Thursday, May 1,1980.
In our opinion
Lowell Cable merits
support in primary
Lowell Cable has, through direct ac-
tion, worked strongly for the benefit of
Hopkins County and its people. These
efforts merit support for Cable Satur-
day in his bid for the Democratic
nomination for state representative
from the 10th District.
Through his efforts on the Sulphur
Springs school board during its big
building program, as a planning board
member of the Hopkins County
Regional Civic Center during develop-
ment and construction, and as one of
two Sulphur Springs representatives
on the Sulphur River Municipal Water
District, attempting to break the log-
jam on Cooper Reservoir, Cable has
shown his dedication to area advance-
ment. He has also shown his propensity
for getting value for today’s high-
priced dollar.
As a businessman and rancher he
has maintained close contact,with the
various aspects of the area economy.
This is extremely important in a time
when more and more power in the
state legislature will be swinging to the
metropolitan areas.
His down-to-earth philosophy ac-
curately reflects the viewpoint of the
residents of the legislative district.
Cable would be an effective
representative for this area in Austin
and has earned the support of his
fellow citizens in his bid.
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Carter's Bay of Pigs
Third time is not,a charm.
What the Israelis accomplished at Entebbe and the Germans
at Mogadishu, Americans have been • disastrously unable to
pull off in Iran. ~ -
The situations are not, of course, precisely comparably
Those two commando operations to free airliners held by a
handful of terrorists were logistic-ally relatively simple com-
pared with the challenge of penetrating the capital of a hostile
nation to rescue the hostages of street mobs backed by what
passes for that nation's authorities.
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COMMENTARY
Don Graff
. But intents were identical — to resolve an impasse with a
swift and unexpected use of force, the surgical strike beloved
of strategists. And the potential impact upon public opinion as
great ;
In the cases of Entebbe and Mogadishu, it wSs exfoliating.
In Iran, it is, initially, devastating.
Objectively, it is too early to pass judgment, to add up plus
- if any — and minus points and balance them. Too much is
still unknown; too many questions still to be asked and
answered, if ever.
But at times such as this, it is inevitability rather than
objectivity that prevails. And the inevitable initial judgment
is that the nation and the Carter administration have been
visited by a disaster
The American public has been not only first surprised and
then crushingly disappointed, but has suffered a blow to the
collective pride What naturally follows, once the shock wears
off, is anger. That may not in itself overwhelm the Carter
presidency, but it is going to narrow options and make much
more difficult efforts to deal with the Iranian crisis with any
degree of finesse. /
And .let “s not forget the allies Having grudgingly come
around to supporting American economic and diplomatic
moves, they have been rewarded by being deceived as to
American military intentions. If initial reports are to be
believed, they are bitterly resentful at having not been
informed. It is likely to be very difficult indeed to get them to
rally again to the cause as defined by Washington. .
There will be no rallying problems in Tehran, however.
There, the revolution had been coming apart at the seams.
Civil war between extremists of the religious right and Marx-
ist left appeared imminent. That prospect may not have been
removed, but is likely to be postponed as the factions again
make common cause against the American menace
It. may well be, as sqme supposedly knowing observers have
suggested, that this is no more than the tip of the icebferg. That
there is more to come and that all is far from lost.
Possibly. But whatever may be coming \yill find it much
rougher going. If the militants’ grip on the hostages to date
has been tight, it is going to be crushing henceforth.
Recalling a similar blow to national hopes and pride
requires going back almost 20 years, to the Bay of Pigs. John
F. Kennedy on that occasion, like Jimmy Carter on this, took
full responsibility. - •»
But Kennedy had the good,fortune in that initial misfortune
to be at the very beginning of his administration with a poten-
tial four years to recoup his loss, which he largely did.
We all know where Jimmy Carter is.
’Nuff said
npletely different comment on that turkey
■White House.
And now for a comp
that settled in at the'
No comment.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
Cleveland is facing
rough solvency route
The people of Cleveland are now
being called upon to pay the piper for
the dubious luxury of years of
municipal extravagance and ill-
advised governmental practices.
The cost of extricating the city from
insolvency will be high.
A program recommended by a state
commission includes the layoff of 650
municipal employees, increases in
water and electricity costs’', payment of
$110.5 million in accumulated debts,
establisment of a sound accounting
system and payment of $10.5 million
remaining in defaulted bank loans.
The new period of austerity will be
made more difficult by the fact that
Cleveland has been losing both people
and industry and also is in an area
Sulphur Springs Needs....
•Cooper Reservoir
•Broader Vocational Education
•More Downtown Parking
•Continued Industrial Development
•A More Prosperous Agriculture
Jack Anderson
particularly exposed to recession
forces now gaining momentum.
Like other cities in trouble,
Cleveland owes its predicament to
attempting to live beyond its means as
a municipality over a long period of
time and to electing incompetent
people to office.
Cities and other governmental
agencies are much like individuals
when it comes to preserving financial
stability. Those that keep their
spending within realistic limits, face
their problems squarely and hold their
debts down to manageable size will
find the going relatively simple. Those
that attempt any other type of ap-
proach will find themselves
trouble.
in big
•A City-County Health Unit
•City Beautification
•Enthusiastic Citizens
•Minimum'Housing Standards Code
•Improved Streets & Drainage
The Almanac
Today in History
By The Associated Press
Today is Thursday, May 1,
the 122nd day of 1980. There are
244 days left in the year.
Today's highlight in history:
On May 1, 1931, the Empire
State Building — then the
tallest building in the world —
was dedicated in New York.
On this date:
In 1522, England declared
war on France and Scotland.
' In 1898, an American naval
force under Adm. George
Dewey destroyed a ^nish
fleet in the Philippines’ Manila
Bay.
In 1945, German radio an-
nounced the death of Adolf
Hitler in Berlin.
In 1960, the Soviet Union shot
down the American U-2
reconnaissance plane piloted
by Francis Gary Powers.
Ten years ago, in the Viet-
nam War, American troops
thrust deep into Cambodia to
search for enemy command
posts.
Five years ago, the Com-
munist Khmer Rouge govern-
ment in Cambodia was
recognized by the United
Nations.
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POPPET GOVERNMENT
Reverse side of creativity
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Pakistani outrages vs. women
hushed up by state department
By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON - Some
frightening outrages were
aimed at American women
trapped in the embassy com
pound when Pakistani mobs
sacked the U S. Embassy m
Islamabad, Pakistan, last
November The mobs were
responding to a false Iranian
charge that the CIA had
engineered the terrorist
attack on the sacred mosque
at Mecca.
But the Carter adminis-
tration, truckling to Pakista-
ni dictator Mohammed Zia -
whose police stood by
without interfering, and
whose army troops were
hours late coming to the res-
cue - has virtually ignored
die victims and clamped a
shameful lid of silence on
their accounts of their night-
mare. f"
The women were spat and
urinated on. punched,
roughed up, threatened and
molested, according to
signed depositions I have
obtained from the victims
Yet the State Department
has not even-debriefed all of
the women to get their
accounts.
Instead, the department's
genteel spokesman, Hodding
Carter HI, extended public
thanks to Gen. Zia for his
belated help in saving the
Americans from the hysteri-
cal mob. The victims, mean-
while, were advised not to
talk about their ordeal, lest
the Pakistani president’s
feathers be ruffled.
One focal point of the
Islamabad mob’s attack was
the American Club, where
1$ Americans, including
eight women and a 5-year-
old girl, were gathered for a
fashion show. They were
trapped inside when the mob
overran the embassy
compound, and the building
was set afire
The Americans fled out a
back door and took refuge in
a depression in the ground
There they remained, ter-
rorized by thousands of
screaming, hostile Pakis-
tanis for the next two hours,
sources told my reporters
Indy Badhwar and Lucette
Lagnado
Sharon Jones, wife of the
embassy air attache,
described an attack by a
Pakistani woman who
pounced on her “She
grabbed me, insulted me,
spit in my face and tore my
clothes," Mrs. Jones report-
ed
The wife of another diplo-
mat said it was “a terrifying
experience" adding "All of
us felt really scared The
mob would pinch us, they
<^ould punch us, but there
was little one could do "
Arlene Erickson, an
embassy secretary who
remained in Islamabad after
the evacuation, said she had
been "bruised enough to last
me the rest of my life."
"Needless to say, I was
scared to death,” said the
deposition of Mrs. Audrey
Williamson, wife of an
American banker in Islama-
bad. “They verbally abused
us and shouted anti-Ameri-
can slogans. Occasionally,
they spat at us ... Some of
the mob actually urinated on
us, which was most disgust-
ing.”
Siraj Patel, the Pakistani
manager of the club, stayed
with the Americans through-
out the ordeal and did nis
best to protect them from
the raging mob. In a signed
statement, he said the police
not only failed to help the
group, but actually joined in
harassing the women.
In his account, Patel
states that Mrs. Williamson
had to hit one of the police-
men who was “continually
mauling her.” Mrs Jones
also claimed that on several
occasions the policemen
molested her.
When the Americans were
finally rescued and taken to
the airport for evacuation
home, State Department
officials told them they
should not talk about the
incident. "We were told to
please keep in mind that
there were still people in
Islamabad," said Mrs.
Jones, who added that U.S.
officials later impressed on
them the importance of U.S.-
Pakistani relations.
Thomas Putcher, an
employee of the Agency for
International Development,
was badly beaten, robbed of
all his possessions, and held
hostage for several hours.
He was not even met by a
State Department official
when he arrived in the Unit-
ed States. His wife and par-
ents had to spend all day at
the State Department just to
find out what flight he was
on.
More than six months
have passed, but the State
Department has yet to
release a report on the
embassy attack. Rep. Lester
Wolff, D-N.Y., will hold
hearings on the matter, to
determine whether there
was a cover-up.
Footnote: A State Depart-
ment spokesman confirmed
that a report on the Islama-
bad outrage has not been
completed. He acknowl-
edged that not all the vic-
tims had been debriefed, but
said there would "probably”
be more interviews some-
time in the future.
THANK-YOU NOTES:
When he was governor of
Louisiana, the late Huey
Long once said he'd "rather
have thieves and gangsters
than chain stores in Louisi-
ana.” The Kingfish must be
turning in his grave.
Last September, Huey's
son, Sen. Russell Long, D-
La„ met with a group of gro-
cery industry representa-
tives, including a vice
president of Winn-Dixie, a
huge food retailer with
many stores in Louisiana
They were pushing legisla-
tion that would give
retailers a price break when
they picked up their mer-
chandise at a manufactur-
er's loading dock.
The bill, according to the
Federal Trade Commission,
would “immunize anti-com-
petitive discriminatory pric-
ing practices that are pres-
ently condemned by the
Robinson-Patman Act,” a
key anti-trust law
Shortly after the meeting,
Long introduced the legisla-
tion the chain stores wanted.
On March 11, it was tacked
onto trucking legislation.
One week later, according
to Federal Election Com-
mission records, Winn-
Dixie's Sunbelt Good Gov-
ernment Action Committee
reported a 83,000 campaign
contribution to Russell
Long. It was the second-big-
gest donation made by the
committee to any senator
since 1977
What’s more, during the
same period, FEC records
show, Winn-Dixie’s presi-
dent, chairman of the board,
vice-chairman and a vice
president all -made $1,000
contributions to Long, as did
the wives of two of the offi-s
cials.
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By the Editors
of Psychology Today
You've probably seen the
reversible figure below. Now
fix your attention on the dot in
the middle for 60 seconds and
count how often the figure
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PSYCHOLOGY
TODAY
reverses. Ask your friends to
try it, and compare results
Are there great differences
among people in the number
of reversals? Do the “high
reversers’’ seem more
creative?
They did when Judith and
Bruce Bergum, psycholegists
at Texas A 4 M University,
tried this experiment (using
six similar ambiguous figures)
with 25 undergraduates each
from the schools of architec-
ture and business administra-
tion. The potential architects
reported 67 percent more
reversals than the business
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students.
On two tests of how they
perceived themselves, the
architectural students also
said they saw themselves as
generally more creative than
did the business students — a
characteristic that other stud-
ies by the Bergums have
shown is typical of both pro-
fessors who publish a great
deal and of inventors.
The Bergums then gave the
same reversal tests to a more
random sample - 59 female
and 69 male students drawn
from all the major schools on
the Texas A 4 M campus In
this group, too, the top 30
reversers saw themselves as
more original and creative
than < the low 30 saw them-
selves. In both experiments,
the researchers found no
important differences
between men and women.
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To some extent, the Ber-
gums say, people who think
they are creative probably
are The researchers conclude
that such people's rapid rever-
sals may be a sign that they
quite literally "see" the world
differently from less creative
sorts.
* • •
The older and more experi-
enced managers get, the less
friendship seems to mean to «
them - at least in the'Bell
system.
That observation comes'
from the work of two industri-
al psychologists at the Ameri-
can Telephone and Telegraph
Co., Douglas Bray and Ann
Howard. They have been look-
ing at the lives and careers of
80 college-educated men as
part of a larger study of
AT4T managers. The average
age of the 80 men is now 44.
Among new recruits in
1957, the men scored in the »
56th to 57th percentile — just
above the middle — when
they were asked to indicate
how much they enjoyed
friendship. (They responded to
items such as “I like to share
things with friends,” and “I
like to make new friends.”)
Twenty years later, the val-
ue put onv friendship by com-
parable new recruits had not
changed, but the amount the
80 original managers said
they enjoyed friendship had
dropped to the 29th percen-
tile.
Meanwhile, on a scale mea-
suring hostility and aggres-
sion, the 80 men moved up
from the 55th percentile to
the 70th; when it came to the
"need for independence," they
rose from the 65th percentile
to the 83rd.
Howard says that for these
men, family relationships are
still important. Nonetheless,
she says, “there’s no question
that the middle-aged manager
in the Bell system is pushing
away from others, becoming
more autonomous about his
work.”
“I wouldn’t be surprised to
see more of these men getting
involved with others as they
approach retirement age,"
she adds, “but right now,
they’re just too busy running
their jobs.”
(c) 1980 Pyschology Today
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
BARBS
Phil Pastoret
If the local beanery’s morn-
ing eggs get any smaller, the
hummingbird is going to be a
prime candidate for the
endangered species list.
When it takes you 60 min-
utes for a 20-minute drive,
why do they call it the "rush”
hour?
Paying the piper is what
you do when the plumber's
bill arrives.
That the economic indica-
tors are on a downturn is an
elaborate way of saying that
the gas gange is showing pret-
ty near empty.
f
There’s a great difference
between reaffirming some-
thing and merely repeating
yourself.
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