Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 31, 1980 Page: 2 of 16
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2—THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Spring*, Toxo*. Thundoy, Jon. 31, 1980.
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Jack Anderson
In our opinion
Disgruntled Kennedy
shifts to far left
Jolted by a bad defeat in Iowa,
Senator Edward M. Kennedy came,
charging back into the Presidential
race with new banners waving this
week.
For his second try Kennedy was
back on familiar ground as the com-
plete liberal. To emphasize his new
credentials he pretty well covered the
entire creed in a single speech.
He cajled for freezing of prices,,
wages and other sources of income, for
gasoline retaioning, for free health
care for everybody and for a more gen-
tle attitude toward our critics in Iran,
Russia and elsewhere.
Kennedy also had harsh words for
his most immediate adversary, Presi-
dent Carter, whom he accused (among
other things) of maintaining
Republican policies of government.
Somehow it is reassuring to find the
senator back in the land of. political
milk and honey, even though most of
what he is advocating would be
disastrous for a country already suf-
fering from a severe case of excess
government.
In his earlier campaign phase, Ken-
nedy was trying to sell himself in the
role of a statesman and was not finding
too many buyers.
He should find the going more com-
fortable in his familiar territory in
deep left field and there should be no
room for doubt over just what he has to
offer.
Small
saver may
get tax break
By an overwhelming vote of 94 to 4
the senate recently approved a tax
break for many Americans who have
savings accounts or stock paying
dividends.
The bill exempts the first $200 a
year an individual earns in savings ac-
count interest and-or investment
dividends, the first $400 for a couple.
The senate-approved bill is not quite as
generous as it might sound because
currently the Internal Revenue Ser-
vice permits deduction of the first $100
investment dividend for an individual
or $200 for a couple.
But it does give the exemption for
earned interest. And that is a
reasonable proposal. For years the
government has been punishing people
for saving money and rewarding them
Sulphur Springs Needs....
•Cooper Reservoir
•Broader Vocational Education
•More Downtown Parking
•Continued Industrial Development
• A More Prosperous Agriculture
Armory use suggested
. , . * ... - i
a YMCA project
Editor:
Recently this paper ran a
story on the possibility of using
the old armory building for an
art center. The idea certainly
has merit. But I wonder if an
alternative use might be
considered.
Take a look at the Spring
Village parking lot on a Friday
night. Note the great lack of
athletic facilities in town. Think
of the great growth prospects of
Sulphur Springs and the rise in
petty crime and drug abuse
that is sure to follow. Then
think of the answers offered in
a Y.M.C.A.
My husband and 1 have been
in Sulphur Springs for almost
four years and have been in-
creasingly concerned with the
problems mentioned — and
more. We feel that a Y.M.C.A.
could offer many benefits at a
low cost for members. And the
old armory Would be the ideal
site. Many “Y” activities could
be carried on in the building
itself. And its location would
allow for fuller use of the
swimming pool, park area and
civic center complex, not to
mention being near the high
school.
An art center might be more
financially attractive, to the
‘‘city fathers." But I honestly
feel there is an immediate need
by every member of the
community for a Y.M.C.A.
Please consider these
arguments and study the need
that might be met with the
revision of the old armory to a
Y.M.C.A.
Terri Kurkjian
Route 2
Laingen s warnings on Iran
have proven woefully correct
for spending.
Congressman Philip Crane, R-Ill.,
one of the conservative candidates for
president, phrased it this way: “We let
you deduct your interest payments on a
loan, and we clobber you for saving. So
you end up at the end of the
year...behind where you started.”
Americans are currently saving on-
ly 4.1 percent of their disposable in-
come. Additionally, the United States
has a lower overall investment than
any other country in the industrialized
world.
The new savings-investment tax in-
centive, if finally enacted into law, will
not be a decisive factor in boosting the
economy, but it will be at least a step in
the right direction.
•A City-County Health Unit
•City Beautification
•Enthusiastic Citizens
•Minimum Housing Standards Code
•Improved Streets & Drainage
By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON.-- By an
irony of fate, the man who
forecasted most clearly the
frustrating dilemma of the
Iranian crisis was himself
■ caught in the middle of it.
He is Bruce Lainger>, the
‘US Charge d'affaires in
Tehran, who was taken into
protective custody' at the
Iranian Foreign Office the
day our embassy was seized
by radical militants
The 57-year-old diplomat,
a veteran of the Foreign
Service, arrived in the Irani-
an-capital only last June
But it didn't take him long to
size up the situation with
. remarkable perception ,
Nor did it take long^for
Washington to start pepper-
ing I.aingen with disturbing
cables about the possibility
that the exiled shah would
be given, sanctuary in the
United States. On July 26,
Secretary of State Vance
cabled Laingen ‘T would
like to have your personal
and private evaluation of
the effect of such a move on
the safety of Americans in
Iran, especially the official
Americans in the
compound ."
Laingen promptly replied
that admission of the shah to
the United States would
undoubtedly touch off anti
American reprisals, includ-
ing action against the
embassy, which he noted
was poorly secured against
attack Ag
On Aug 2. an even more
disturbing cable arrived
from Henry Preeht, head of
the Iranian desk in Foggy
Bottom His use of the pecu-
liar, telltale phrase, “when
the decision is made to
admit the shah,” indicated
that the decision was no
longer in doubt - only the
timing of its announcement
Preeht suggested a plan for
counteracting the anti-
American outburst Laingen
had predicted would follow
the shah’s entry
First, Laingen counseled
against letting the shah in
Then he laid out his reasons
in a penetrating, 1,000-word
analysis of the Iranian char-
acter that proved to be an
incredibly accurate predic-
tion of subsequent events
Basically, Laingen -told his
superiors in Washington that
the Iranians were impossi-
ble to negotiate with
Noting his .difficulties in
dealing with the Iranians.
Laingen said, "Underlying
cultural- and psychological
qualities, that account for
the nafore of these difficul-
ties are and will remain-rel-
atively constant."
He explained "The single
dominant aspect of the Per-
sian psyche is (perhaps) an
overriding egoism Its
antecedents lie in the .long
Iranian history of instability
and insecurity, which put a
premium on self-preserva-
tion."
The result is "an almost
total Persian preoccupation
with self (that) leaves little,
room for understanding t
points of view other than
one's own," Lainjen cabled,
adding "Thus, for example.,
it is incomprehensible to an
Iranian that U S. immigra-
tion law may prohibit issu-
f ing him a tourist visa when
he has determined that he
wants to live in California,"
The Iranians' "unease
about the -nature of the
world jn which one lives"
has led to a certain para-
noia, Laingen indicated
^."The Persian experience has
been that nothing is perma-
nent and it is .commonly
perceived that hostile forces
abound." he wrote "In such
an environment, each indi-
vidual must be constantly
alert for opportunities to
protect himself against the
malevolent .forces that
would otherwise be his
undoing"
This every-man-for-him-
self "bazaar mentality,”
Laingen cabled, produces a
".mind-set that often ignores
longer term interests in
favor of immediately
obtainable advantages, and
countenances practices that
are regarded as unethical by
other norms '
These psychological
quirks, added to the Irani-
ans' faith in the omnipotence
of God, blind even Western-
educated Iranians to the
inter-relation of events;
Laingen wrote He noted, for
example, that. Ibrahim
Yagdi, then the Iranian for-
eign minister, was "resisting
the idea that Iranian behay-
ior has consequences on the
perception of Iran yin the
US, or that this perception
is somehow related to Amer-
ican policies regarding
Iran."
Other Iranian character
traits Laingen noted were
"an aversion to accepting
responsibility for one's own
actions ... a proclivity for
assuming that to say some-
thing is to do it ... (and) the
Persian concepts Of- influ-
ence and obligation
Iranians "are consumed
with developing parti bazi -
the influence that will help
get things done - while
favors are only grudgingly
bestowed, and then just to
the extent that a tangible
quid pro quo is immediately
perceptible."
Finally. Laingen warned
that one should never
assume his side of the issue
will be recognized, let alone
that it will be- conceded to
have merits."
Unfortunately for
Laingen. the other American
hostages and the United
States as a w:hole, Jimmy
Carter and his policy, advis-
ers chose to ignore the pres-
cient warnings of their
expert on the scene. Mean-
while. events in Tehran have,
unfolded precisely the way,
Laingen predicted they
would.
Footnote: Sources told my
associate Dale Van Atta that
Laingen, like a front-line
solider who winds up paying
with his neck when his
advice is brushed off by the
brass, has refrained from
remonstrating with his supe-
riors in Foggy Bottom. The
least he might say, in all
fairness, is "1 told you so."
ffnpvright 1980
I ruled Feature Syndicate. In<
FTtA FORT WOFTH STAF-TEteGEAM-
HULM6 N'e'a9°
.J '
BARBS
Phil Pastoret
Pioneering, 79 style: Car-
rying the •rubbish out in a 30-
gaflon trash can because
you’re out of plastic ba
My upbeat outlook on life
is your refusal to face the
facts of the situation.
.. is*..
‘‘We won’t need the anesthetic
gold crown would cost.”
she passed out when I told her what the
Don't complain about
being stepped upon till
you're sure you weren’t fool-
ish enough to put your hand
under the other fellow's foot.
April showers bring May
bills for repairing leaky
foundations.
The five-cent cigar hasn’t
disappeared. It now sells for
three for $1.95
One of the best ways to
acquire a good case of anxi-
ety is to realize that you
apparently have nothing tii
worry about.
Most damning aspect
WASHINGTON (NEA) — If there is any recent event more
curious than Sen Edward M. Kennedy’s 1969 auto accident on
Chappaquiddick Island, it surely is the bizarre 1980 debate
over the tidal current on the night of the accident.
Two influential publications, the Reader's Digest and The
Washington Star, inexplicably decided late last year to launch
major investigations into one of the most obscure and inconse-
quential elements of the Chappaquiddick controversy.
Both publications committed considerable resources to
detailed probes of the direction and velocity of the tide in
Katama Bay, which separates Chappaquiddick Island from
the larger island of Martha’s Vineyard, in the hours immedi-
ately following the infamous accident. ,
Kennedy responded in kind, spending at. least $10,000 for
legal fees and expenses incurred by a pair of $80-an-hour
admiralty lawyers and enlisting the services of a professor of
ocean engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technolo-
gy
Depending upon which of the thrqe accounts (Kennedy’s, the
Our files are in perfect
order the sole problem is
that we can't recall what we
put under which heading.
*■
One way to go on a diet is
to live rigidly on your sal-
ary.
Even the unhandiest of
men can puttei; around the
golf course.
Berry's World
Note to the unemployed: compensation is taxable
1 By Ray DeCrane
(Fourth in a Series)
A few million Americans
* receive unemployment com-
• pensation yearly following
. temporary layoffs from their
1 jobs
Until now, the millions of
dollars received * from the
states in such payments have
been totally exempt from
" income tax This is now
‘ changed
Fearful that exempting
; such payments from income
tax created a “work disincen^
live” and encouraged sonic
people not to seek anotheriob,
’ the lawmakers have mjjde
unemployment compensate
taxable
For your copy of the 1980
edition of “Cut Your Own
Taxes and Save" by Ray,
check or
lus 50
DeCrane, send a
money order for $1.50 (p
cents postage and handling) to
"Cut Ydur Own Taxes" e o
this newspaper P.O. Box 489,
Radio City Station, New York,
New York 10019
For the first time ever, the
50 states are now required to
furnish Form 1099-UC to all
laid-off workers who received
any unemployment compen-
sation during the year The
form is similar to the Form
W-2, which reports earnings
t received from companies dur-
ing the year
Whether Form 104QA or
Form 1040 is used, the
amount shown on Form 1099-
UC must be entered on the
face of the return
Then, on a separate
worksheet, recipients of such
compensation must compute
received for the year
ludes wage and salary
what part, if any, of their
compensation is taxable
In doing that, they add to
the unemployment compensa-
tion received all other taxable
income re
This inelud
income and income from
interest and dividends
A subtraction is made from
this total amount The amount
subtracted depends on the fil-
ing status.
If the recipient of the unem-
ployment compensation is
single, or if he is married, not
filing a joint return and did
not live with his spouse at any
time during the year. $20,000
is subtracted
If married and filing a joint
return, $?5,000 is subtracted
The part of the unemploy-
ment compensation that is
taxable is either 50 percent of
the excess remaining after the
subtraction is made, or the
full amount of the compensa-
tion, if that is a smaller
figure.
But for a married person
who is not filing a joint return
and who is living with his or
her spouse for at least part of
the year, the full amount of
the unemployment compensa-
tion is taxable
For purposes of this special
computation, supplemental
unemployment benefits — so-
called SUB pay paid by a
company during layoff peri-
ods - is not considered to be
unemployment < compensation
and must be Included in wage
or salary income.
(NEXT: New earned income
credit rules.)
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"They're very fashionable these days, sir, AND
THOSE CLOGS ARE YOU!"
IN WASHINGTON
Robert Walters
Digest’s or the Star’s) is to be believed, Katama Bay was
either open to the sea at its south end or closed at the time of
the accident, the tide in the bay was flowing from either the
north or the south and the current was either weak and slack
or so swift it almost swept Kennedy out to sea.
But all of that conflicting information concerns a single
event that is only marginally relevant to the accident itself -
the senator’s middle-of-the-nigtft swim from Chappaquiddick
to Edgartown on Martha’s Vineyard, where his hotel room
was located.
Moreover, Kennedy s successful navigation of the 500-foot
channel in Edgartown harbor never has been disputed. Indeed,
it’s one of the few universally accepted elements of his other-
wise dubious account of the events on the night of July 18-19,
At issue only is the senator’s claim that he was “absolutely
exhausted" by the swim because of a strong tidal flow from
the south and “a current pulling me out toward the sea.”
But even if it could be proven that he overdramatized, exag-
gerated or lied about the tide, far more fundamental questions
would remain unresolved. Among them:
- What were Kennedy's motives, intentions and proposed
destination when he drove from a party with a young woman?
- Why did he wait 10 hours before reporting the accident to
local law enforcement authorities?
- Was Kennedy-inspired political influence responsible for
the failure of those authorities to ever conduct an open hear-
ing or a full investigation into the accident?
If the news media have failed to advance the state of the art
while concocting a tempest in a teapot, Kennedy and his aides
once again have displayed the contempt for the public’s intel-
ligence that has become the hallmark of the senator's facile
post-accident explanations.
For more than 10Aj years, neither Kennedy nor anyone rep-
resenting him ever scheduled a press conference specifically
to discuss the incident. But Stephen E. Smith, the senator’s
brother-in-law and campaign manager, finally did so on the
day the story in the Digest's February issue was to be
released.
We were not given an opportunity to review these allega-
tions in advance of publication," an indignant Smith
complained. Basic standards of fairness require a chance to
respond to allegations before they are published."
But the Digest claimed that it “repeatedly asked Senator
Kennedy for an interview so that he could respond to th,e deep-
ly troubling question" while the story was being prepared.
He would not agree to meet with us,” the magazine said.
When Kennedy s press secretary was questioned about those
conflicting claims, he admitted that the magazine's request
indeed had been received — but was rejected because it came
at a point where the senator was extraordinarily busy "
That episode typifies the most damning evidence against
Kennedy with regard to Chappaquiddick For more than a
decade, he has played fast and loose with the facts, offering
only lame excuses When pressed for specific explanations.
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