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*—THE NEWS-TELEGRAM. Sulphur Spring*, Texas, Mondoy, March 10,1980.
In our Opinion
Anderson's candor is
appealing to voters'
One of the more gratifying aspects of
the 1980 nolitical campaign has been
the emergence of Illinois Represen-
tative John Anderson as a candidate of
national stature.
Anderson’s principal asset at this
stage is his intellectual honesty.
With a candor that is rare among
contemporary politicians he apparent-
ly believes in telling the voters where
he stands on controversial issues in-
stead of sticking to what he believes his
audiences want to hear.
It is true that the silver-haired con-
gressman appears to be more on the
liberal side of the»fence than most of
his party and this may prove a han-
dicap, as will lack of prior national
recognition.
If Anderson continues battling in the
long round of primaries at his present
pace, however, he could'gnaerge as a
ranking figure in the Republican
camp.
A candidate who isn’t afraid to say
what he thinks may draw opposition,
but he also will attract plenty of atten-
tion.
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ROCKY MTN.
Industry Week should
bring response here
Domino theory gives
Reagan boost in South
Governor William P. Clements, Jr.
has proclaimed the first week in April
as Texas Business and Industry Week.
The governor points out that
business and industry form one of the
state’s greatest resources. He notes
that during 1979 alone 396 new and ex-
panded industrial plants created
countless additional jobs for Texans
and invested hundreds of millions of
dollars in the state’s economy.
The Texas Association of Business,
which is joining local chambers of
commerce in sponsoring the observa-
tion, is expecting a variety of ac-
tivities, including , community-wide
seminars, plant tours, publicity-,
career days and industrial fairs.
Sulphur Springs can view with pride
its broad-based collection of manufac-
turing and related plants, which pro-
vide employment for 2,500 or more peo-
ple-
We should be figuring out an ap-
propriate way to join the rest of the
state in expressing this sentiment dur-
ing Texas Business and Industry Week
next month.
Lower speeds saving
700 Texas lives a year
Statisticians estimate the 55 MPH
speed limit saves more than 700 Texas
lives a year because of its effec-
tiveness in lowering the rate of serious
accidents.
This information comes from the
state highway department’s Texas
Traffic Safety Section, which points
out that with greater compliance by
Jack Anderson
drivers far more lives would be saved.
The 55-mile limit originally was im-
posed as a means, of conserving
gasoline and it is achieving extremely
valuable results in this field.
These 700 lives a year can be counted
as a sort of unexpected dividend and
there is no way to calculate their value.
By WALTER R. WEARS
AP Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON (AP)
Ronald Reagan is testing the
domino theory in three Deep
South states that cotton to his
kind of conservative politics.
The theory: as South
Carolina goes so, perhaps, go
Alabama, Georgia and Florida.
It’s not a bad bet in the South,
although it didn’t work that
way for Reagan in New
England.
The theory was propounded
by former Texas Gov. John B.
Connally before the South
Carolina primary election that
made him a former candidate
as well. He should have bitten
his tongue.
"I believe that what happens
in South Carolina will have a
tremendous impact on Florida,
Alabama and Georgia,” said
Connally, who quit in defeat
Sunday.
That left Bush to contest
Reagan alone in the southern
primaries Tuesday and Bush
hardly is dealing from a
position of strength.
Reagan overwhelmed
Connally and left Bush a distant
third in the opening of the
southern primary competition.
Connally, who quit after
getting twice as many votes as
Bush did in the South Carolina
Energy department loaded
with oil industry people
By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON - After
each new leap in oil profits,
Jimmy Carter assumes the
pose of public watchdog and
raises a racket against the
oil industry But the oil com-
panies have discovered the
president is more bark than
bite.
So instead of listening to
what Carter says, the oilmen
pay more attention to what
he does. All the while he has
condemned the oil industry 's
windfall profits, for exam-
ple, he has encouraged the
price increases that caused
them In the name of oil
conservation, he has stimu-
lated runaway prices at the
gas pumps.
Then he has tried to
reduce the political damage
by woofing at the oil compa-
nies. This is the same politi-
cal strategy he has used in
international crises, seeking
to project himself as the
hero of his own catas-
trophes.
Carter has put on a public
spectacle, for instance, of
yowling for a windfall tax
on oil profits. Yet his wind-
fall tax proposal would
leave half of the oil profits
untaxed. The oil companies
would still wind up after the
tax with greater profits than
they have accumulated
under any other president
Carter’s pro-oil policies
have been generated in the
Energy Department which
he created and populated
Key positions are staffed
with oil industry apologists
and sympathizers. Not Tong
after the new department
opened for business in 1977,
Rep. Richard Ottinger, D-
N.Y., warned that it was
being packed with pro-indus-
try officials.
The president not only
ignored the warning but, as
his next appointment, select^
ed Lynn Coleman to be the
general counsel. Coleman
came to the Energy Depart-
ment from John Connally’s
Houston law firm, which has
represented such oil giants
as Exxon, Mobil, Shell, Tex-
aco and Union Oil
The department's latest
recruit from the oil industry,
incredibly, has been
assigned to manage the staff
that writes petroleum pric-
ing and allocation regula-
tions. He is Allan P. Weeks
who has bounced between
the government and the oil
industry like a bird caught
in a badminton game
He ricocheted from the
Federal Energy Administra-
tion, now defunct, to the
Energy Department, ever
deficient. Then he departed
government altogether for
an important position with
Crown Central Petroleum, a
major marketer of gasoline
operating out of Baltimore
His job was to help Crown
Petroleum cope with the
price regulations that were
issued by the Energy
Department. Now he is back
with the same fuddle factory
again as a deputy assistant
administrator. He will
supervise the corner of the
bureaucracy that drafts
pricing and allocation regu-
lations.
He will oversee govern-
ment decisions that directly
affect profits and losses to
oil companies. My associate
Tony Capaccio discovered
that at least seven pending
regulations, affecting gaso-
j?
Ei
line refiner-retailers such as
Crown, will pass across
Weeks' desk. One of them
could be worth 81 million a
week to Crown if Weeks
makes the right decision.
A spokesman contended
that Weeks had been
employed in an ‘'interpre-
tive,” not a policymaking,
job at Crown. But at the
nergy Department, it is
increasingly difficult to sep-
arate the oil advocates from
the oil regulators
CLOSE CALL - Locked in
secret Pentagon files is star-
tling evidence that Israel
maneuvered dangerously
near the edge of nuclear war
after the 1973 Arab assault.
The secret documents
claim that Israel came with-
in hours of running out of
essential arms. At this cru-
cial moment, "the possibili-
ty of nuclear arms was dis-
cussed with the U.S.,”
declares one report
American authorities
feared the Israelis might
resort to nuclear weapons to
assure their survival. This
was the most compelling
reason, according to the
secret papers, that the Unit-
ed States rushed convention-
al weapons to Israel.
The emergency shipments
created another problem.
States a secret study: “The
large-scale U S. response in
providing military support
to Israel during the October,
1973, conflict dramatized
the dilemma of total
resource requirements for
U.S. security assistance.
Actions to meet Israel’s
most urgent requirements
seriously depleted U.S.
iment stocks."
FINANCIAL SLALOM -
primary, had been saying for
weeks that his campaign would
begin with the South Carolina
primary. It ended there*, too.
Despite a costly, all-out
campaign effort, Connallv got
only 30 percent of the vote.
Reagan won with 54 percent.
Bush had said a respectable
finish would suffice for him. He
didn’t define respectable, but it
doesn’t reach down to 15 per-
cent of the vote, which is where
he wound up.
The shakier Bush looks, the
more certain it is that former
President Gerald R. Ford will
move in soon for an effort to
stop Reagan.
There’s never been much
doubt about Reagan's
dominance in Alabama and
Georgia. In the 1976 Republican
primary in Georgia, Reagan
got 68 percent of the vote; Ford,
32 percent.
Alabama didn't have a
primary, but Reagan men
dominated its 1976 delegation.
In the Florida primary that
year, Ford beat Reagan, 53
percent to 47 percent.
At the time that seemed
likely to be a death blow to a
staggering Reagan campaign,
but he came back - with major
assistance from other southern
states — and narrowly lost the
nomination to Ford.
Reagan swept the 25
delegates awarded in Satur-
day’s South Carolina primary,
and ran his national total to 62
of the 998 it will take to gain the
1980 GOP nomination. Bush is
second with 36.
Connally was the second
Republican to quit in a week.
Sen. Howard H. Baker of
Tennessee got out Wednesday.
That left Bush and liberal Rep.
John B. Anderson of Illinois,
who is bypassing the South, as
the only challengers to Reagan
— until Ford is ready to take
him on. Reagan said Connally’s
supporter's would probably split
among the other candidates,
then added, “There aren’t too
many directions for them to go
anymore.”
The three primaries Tuesday
are for a total of 142 Republican
delegates. So Reagan has a
chance to approach one-fifth
the nominating votes he needs
before the week is over.
Unfinished business
By Don Graff
It's a familiar enough story by now
Congress, with some reluctance, has agreed to prop up a
shaky foreign government with an emergency package.
The pricetag is $75 .million and the recipient is Nicaragua,
the Central’ American country that has still not found the
answer to the question of what is to follow the Somoza dicta-
torship overthrown last year — a reasonable facsimile of
democracy or radical chaos. »
At a time when a figure of $400 million is being discussed as
a possible beginning of aid to a Pakistan that may or may not
be threatened by the Soviet advance into Afghanistan, $75
million is not exactly high stakes. Particularly not for a coun-
try virtually nexFdoor, rather than half a world away, and in
an area in which the United States has long been deeply inter-
ested and intimatply involved...........................
Why.( then, the dragging of congressional feet'* The decision
w4s especially close in the House, a five-vote margin There
were and are, however, strong reservations as to the inten-
tions of the new Nicaraguan regime.
With reason. The revolutionary junta is a mixed bag of
Marxists and moderate elements. Communist influence is a
potent fact oi the new Nicaragua, manifested most visibly by
a Cuban presence of more than a thousand teachers.
Nicaragua could become another Cuba. But it has not gone
the’Unite yet.
Should it eventually do so, Washington will have to write off
the $75 million as a bad investment, as it has had to do over
the years with much larger sums. <
But if the aid, designed primarily for recovery of private
business and to restore public facilities destroyed in the civil
war, encourages development of a democratic new Nicara-
gua, it could prove one of the most profitable U.S. investments
of recent years.
. . . and some bad business
Elsewhere in Latin American, there are less encouraging
prospects.
El Salvador appears to be sliding into a civil war, only with-
out the broad opposition to an authoritarian regime that char-
acterized the Nicaraguan revolution. It is shaping up as a
standoff between rightist-military elements and left-wing
groups, offering American policymakers much less room for
maneuvering.
El Salvador might be characterized as more a crowd than a
country — the smallest geographically in Central America
and the most densely populated. With not enough land and
wealth to go around, no matter how a reform pie is sliced,
there are no easy answers to its problems. An explosion may
be inevitable.
More distressing are developments farther south, in Colom-
bia, where terrorists are at work in the by-now familiar fash-
ion. For a change it was not the American embassy that was
’seized, but that is small consolation since the American
ambassador was netted among the distinguished hostages.
Colombia is a major Latin nation that not so long ago
emerged from a decades-long civil war. A sensible compro-
mise between conservative and liberal political parties pro-
vided for sharing of power and alternating possession of the
"presidency.
Long known primarily as a source of superior coffee and
currently notorious as a primary source of marijuana enter-
ing the United States, Colombia has considerable economic
potential that has only begun to be developed in recent years
of relative stability.
If is, also one of the Andean Pact nations — along with
Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia — that have concerted
efforts in behalf of democratic trends throughout the region.
Should Colombia be dragged down into self-destructive ide-
ological terrorism, the loss would be devastating.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN )
THE BILL RUSSELL COLUMN
Despite myth, Games are political
equipi
FID
Frank Potter does double
duty as staff director of the
House subcommittee on
energy and power and as a
member of the energy com-
mittee of Colorado's Aspen
Institute. He is also a long-
time skiing enthusiast
Here’s how Ski magazine
commiserates with the 47-
year-old Potter for being
stuck in Washington most of
the time, half a continent
away from the posh ski
resorts: "Living and working
in the nation's capital has
cut into his ski time.” the
magazine reported sadly.
But Potter’s duties with
the Aspen Institute give the
legislative aide an opportu-
nity to get in a little time on
the snowy slopes now and
then. And his financial
arrangements would be the
envy of any ski bum.
The institute has picked
up his tab for room, board
and travel expenses to
Aspen. And those bills the
private group doesn't pay
are charged pff to the
taxpayers.
During one eight-day trip
to Aspen in 1978, for exam-
ple, the taxpayers reim-
bursed Potter for $400 per
diem expenses. For the
same time period, the insti-
tute gave him $207.15 for
housing costs and $552 for
transportation.
Potter insists that he’s
very careful not to let the..
public and private payments
overlap. “All I’m trying to
do is not lose money," he
explained.
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The greatest thrill of my
athletic career was the
march of the athletes
through the stadium at the
1958 Olympics in Melbourne,
Australia. It was a greater
thrill than receiving the
Gold Medal. It was an indes-
cribable pleasure just to be
there — surrounded by the
best that all nations could
offer and 1 among them, for
America.
Our whole nation was
more patriotic then, and my
feelings that day were of
overwhelming patriotism.
They were good feelings, al-
most unbearable pride
I am saddened that a lot
of young Americans who
have worked very hard
might miss the chance for
that feeling because of a
political decision.
And yet the Olympics are
not intended as a political
event.
There is a difference be-
tween Olympic public rela-
tions and practices.
The international Olym-
pic Committee Is an inde-
pendent multinational body.
The governments of the par-
ticipating nations have no
control over its decisions.
The original concept of
the Olympic Games is nei-
ther patriotic nor nationalls-
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guess, being filthy rich DOES have its
moments."
tic. In fact, there even was
considerable resistance to_,
allowing team sports since
the Games were intended to
represent individual
achievement.
The athletes are intro-
duced to us as “representing
the U.S.A." or “represent-
ing the Soviet Union.”
And still we naively say
that the Olympics are not
political. Yet the Games
have a considerable political
history.
Some of you old-timers
will remember Hitler seek-
ing credibility for his mas-
ter race theories at the 1936
competition.
In 1956 Russia had just
invaded Hungary. At the
1958 Games, the most
watched competition was
the water polo match be-
tween those two countries.
The pool literally ran red
throughout a bitter and
bloody “game.”
1 recall 1960 and 1964 as
being relatively peaceful.
Then In 1968 the world
changed. We had a boycott
threatened and watched,
horrified, as black Ameri-
cans raised black-gloved
fists to the national anthem.
I’ll never forget 1972 in
Munich, when part of the
Israeli team was politically
assassinated.
In 1976 at Montreal a
number of black African
countries boycotted the
Games because of racism
and other atrocities commit-
ted by South Africa.
Yes, the Olympics have a
political history.
The ads say; “America
doesn’t send athletes to the
Olympics, Americans do.”
But my joy was patriotic.
And patriotism is the good
twin of nationalism.
' That is the problem.
The change in the national
attitude about using the
Games politically has been
pretty dramatic as well.
In 1968 when Professor
Harry Edwards of the Uni-
versity of California at
Berkeley suggested that the
American black athletes
boycott the Mexico City
Olympics because of human
rights violations in the Unit-
ed States, he received thou-
sands of death threats by
mail and phone.
He owned two dogs at the
time and came home one
day to find them killed and
mutilated on his lawn.
Years later, the President of
the United States says,
"Let’s not go .because of
human rights violations by
the Russians,” and every-
one says, “Yeah, the hell
with it, let’s not go.”
I have an idea that dogs
everywhere are resting
peacefully today.
What has happened is that
the United States has recog-
nized that other countries
have effectively used the
Games for political pressur-
ipg In the past and we will
use them again, effectively,
I hope.
If you think NBC Is stuck
with a financial albatross,
how about the poor guy In
Kiev who’s been making
cute little Russian bears for
two years and is sitting on
about 10,000 of them. You
have no idea how mad those
Russians will be if they get
stuck with all those bears.
Fat chance they’ll show up
in Los Angeles In 1984.
But seriously, and honest-
ly, this could be the death or
dark ages of the modern
Games.
If we protest the Russian
invasion of Afghanistan by
refusing to sell wheat to the
USSR and refuse our at!
letes’ involvement
Moscow Games and-then go
back to business as usual
with the Russians, it will be
the crime of the century.
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