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Jack Anderson
l»i our opinion
.
Castro has manpower;
Brezhnev the weapons
Clayton s future takes
on cloudy outlook
Texas Basse Speaker Btlh Claytons
pafilfrnf faEarelats come aader a doad
*t£fc fee sasbctsies! on charges stonft-
nsg fries aBegataans caeeeraiag
pmsttj briber?
He smut qmdkly reLnquisft las
pewrfa part atehosigT. in Alaska's
iagfc. hizmat a person is wmcerJL Mtii
proved c«iienrist Is Clayton's sxtaa-
tsooL iceptrw. be s a sadfc a sensitive
raie ‘±ac be- car. nek serve effectively
abie Sbe case is pending ^
G£ s«tarst. Gavte® is entitled to a
spate? Snal Put £ wookJ not appear
left ttae be could be called to coort
aad tae case fsaDy settled fast enough
to keep ts* rrperiant speaker 's alike
fsactuxirg at tbf kadersfatp note that
a expertise ' ’ ’
Comae, 'tats bees renominated by his
pi&taca: party for another term in the
state boose and he is unclosed in the
general election. The people in
Gaytan's district in West Texas cer-
tainty have the right to choose their
representative. But the remainder of
the state should not be forced to re-
mam ir a state of flux while awaiting
the dzspcs&on of his criminal charges.
A free and open election among the
Texas House members should be stag-
ed at. the appropriate time to name a
replacement for Clayton, whose
troubles will not be washed away
aukxdy His own actions could prove
mat be is a statesman by stepping
aade with no strings attached until his
case is determined. Then, if he is
cleared, let him stage a comeback.
Elections on Tuesdays
might boost turnouts
apathy among Texas
7 icers lim-ast stale elections raises
AraiK the ©iiesDcr of whether a change
k sebeduiine to a week-day might pro-
ve osee 'Convenient and bring better
■artkxpaflMB
Certauh the prevailing use c# Satur-
days f ar kale and local elections is
moftetf « M afferent age and ’a cm-
saderadiy rbaaeec society.
Texas was 1
state r is first 130 years
trasspectfeixc: was a slow and
vnwte’jfs ibSinsil matter. Farm
By eased then work
. as the week ended and made
tbesr way to the nearest town for sbop-
pesg and similar errands. City
resujeXs whc> weren’t working that
day tended to stay pretty dose to
Al those thg«^ have changed now
s prananiy an agncultural
first 130 rears or so and
Many people spend week-ends away
from home. Others are accustomed to
concentrating on sports or other hob-
bies an Saturdays. Some are loaded
with home chores that must be done
over the week-end. Some just want to
relax and bestir themselves as little as
passable
. - -
In the contemporary society people
seem to prefer stopping at a polling
place an their war to or from work or
getting a bnef interval off the job to
cast their ballots. They already are
geared up and in motion so it seems
easier that way.
The degree of competitive spirit
generated by an election always will be
the prime factor in its drawing power,
but we can't help feeling that stan-
dardization of Tuesdays as election
days would help get the voters moving.
QUon/UNQUon
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great disserv ice to Hoover
— Sea Harmon H. (Jack)
Schmitt R N Mei.(Oro»n
Ore of the really shocking
things is that I m not very
good in bed I guess that's
probably why 1 just keep
trying '
— Bart ReyaoMs. actor
noted far heiag a sex symbol
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By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON - While
the Pollyannas insist that
the mass flight of Cuban ref-
ugees to the United States
shows the moral bankruptcy
and economic failure of
Fidei Castro’s Communist
regime, the professionals of
the American intelligence
community paint an entirely
different picture
Secret assessments pre-
sented to Congress by the
De/ense Intelligence Agency
warn that Fidel Castro, far
from being at the end of his
rope, is at the peak of his
military efficiency, thanks
to the Soviet Union’s mili-
tary assistance
The refugee exodus
exposes Castro’s Cuba as a
sham But his Big Brother in
the Kremlin supplies him
with the practical support to
keep him in control the
100,000 Cuban refugees may
have the principles, but Cas-
tro has the firepower
In fact, humiliating as it
seems, the Cubans may have
achieved - thanks to their
Soviet buddies - a military
capability that the United
States is still just dreaming
about a rapid deployment,
force that can be rushed into
the breach in brush-fire situ-
ations short of an all-out
nuclear confrontation.
The Cuban armed forces
have graduated from what
was a defensive force to one
which, with Soviet assist-
ance, can deploy a large
number of troops to distant
conflicts on short notice,”
the CIA briefers recently
informed the House subcom-
mittee on inter-American
affairs,- chaired by Rep 'Gos
Yatron, D-Pa
Obviously, no one is sug-
gesting that Fidel Castro
can successfully attack the
United States - although our
intelligence has unearthed
information that the Cubans
in fact can strike targets in
Florida with their Soviet
weapons. The point is that
Castro has the military mus-
cle to attack his Latin Amer-
ican neighbors on quick
notice
Thanks to the Russians,
Cuba has ‘the best-equipped
air force in Latin America,”
according to the Pentagon’s
intelligence experts Among
the Cuban air force's recent-
ly acquired planes is the
MiG-23 “Flogger" which,
fully loaded, “can reach por-
tions of the Southeastern
United States, Mexico, Cen-
tral America and the west-
ern islands of the
Caribbean,’ according to the
secret transcript.
In addition. Soviet-sup-
plied AN-26 transports have
’ "the capability to airdrop
troops in portions of Florida
all of Jamaica, Haiti and
the Bahamas, hnd most of
the Dominican Republic,"
the CIA analysts warn
But as anyone who has
ever done business with the
Soviets knows, the Russian
Why voters are tuning out
Hme! CREEK. CmM SEA - Far re
mmd mcTcaKinf.' term prftfyi sad pweromes* a
' Iran take * kwk re m «pec*aB?
Cretin «f Sms Fnrenseo. speaker of the «re*
i of Las Aagries. ckauraua of tike Areem-
speaker has the sole authority to assign bills to committees
sad to select the members and chairmen of those committees
Last year McCarthy antagonized his colleagues when he
began planning a 1982 campaign for higher office, probably
either California's governorship or a seat in the U S. Senate
A Los Angeles dinner featuring Sen. Edward M. Kennedy,
D-Mass . as the principal speaker produced more than
$5iMM for McCarthy's campaign treasury, while additional
collected at a San Francisco cocktail party star-
i welfare of the
Vice President Walter F Mondale
’s displa y
ong other legislators - especially Berman, a for-
nag\i«Pn
McCarthy
»v of ambition engendered some petty
1 dun sa i
McCarthy.
reCO
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row pnhtiral ally who promptly launched a drive to strip
McCarthy of the speakership and capture the post for himself*
To gain the support needed for that showdown, tfie two lead-
en bached opposing candidates seeking the Democratic nomi-
22 of the state's 80 Assembly districts during the
reccat primary campaign
fat every instance, the sole criterion for support was
whether the candidate was a McCarthy loyalist or a Berman
. Ability and willingness to serve constituents were
8* a
Is, corporations and labor unions aligned
rival or the other pumped an estimated $2.5 million
e races, divided about equally between McCarthy and
allies More than $400,000 was lavished on one espe-
esafiy heated contest in the San Francisco area.
In'the nine Assembly districts where the two men backed
mowg candidates. Berman edged McCarthy by a slim 5-4
mufM After adding in the returns from the 13 districts
who* erty owe of the men had a candidate, the overall result
was 11 rectories each. The entire competition was, in effect, a
reik mmrire — but it left a bad taste in the mouths of both
I voters
e no met. no record - just smears. I’ve never
hfce it in all the years I've been in the legisla-
_I a McCarthy ally.
t was the dirtiest campaign I've even been involved in,”
dded a Berman supporter.
Yet. there is no evidence that politicians here in California
■ state are prepared to abandon future reckless
1 their power or advance their careers at
bear hug is not a purely
affectionate embrace It
requires a certain quid pro
quo
The Soviets and the
Cubans have consummated
what you might call an
effective marriage,” states
a Pentagon report obtained
by my reporter I.ueette
Lagnado, where the Cubans
are providing the troops and
the Soviets virtually all the
equipment'.’
As a result, the intelli-
gence1 analysts have
concluded, “the Cubans are
now able to serve as an
important regional military
actor if) the Caribbean
areac’
NIXON'S ADVICE -
Richard- Nixon's favorite
presidential candidate, John
Connally, took the biggest
pratfall in the Republican
primaries. Yet in Nixon’s
opinion, Connally might
have won the nomination if
he had ‘ heedbd- the right
advice
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as*
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Nixon has told intimates
tjhat he advised Connally to
reject the liberal definition
of a “conservative,” to rede-
fine the word in positive
terms and then to campaign
as an unabashed conserva-
tive. But by Nixon’s account.
Connally was taken in by a
group of moderate Republi-
can Senators who persuaded
him to blur his political
image
Nixon professed not to be
surprised at the result Con-
nally spent $12.5 million on
his campaign and garnered
only one delegate.
FLYING BACKWARD -
Commercial airline pilots
who are alcoholics have
been able, for the past eight „
years, to acknowledge their
problem without fear of per-'
manent grounding Once
they have agreed to proper
treatment -- and have
agreed to°sfay dry - they
are allowed by federal regu-
lations to keep their jobs.
But a federal court ruling
last month may drive
alcoholic pilots back into the
closet -- to the detriment of
the flying public
As it happens, the court
suit, brought by Delta Air-
lines against the Federal
Aviation Administration,
had nothing to do with
alcoholic pilots. Like all but
one of the nation’s major
airlines (Northwest), Delta
has gone along with the FAA
program that permits reco-
vered alcoholics to regain
their wings.
But the court decision,
which involved Delta's right
to impose higher medical
standards on its pilots than
the FAA required, may-
shoot down the industry-
wide rehabilitation program
for the approximately 300
recovered alcoholics who
now pilot American com-
mercial airlines The deci-
sion also affects pilots who
have overcome heart
disease, psychiatric- prob-
lems and other medical
conditions
INSIDE THE KREMLIN -
- If President Carter can t
keep his allies in line, it may-
comfort him to know that
his nemesis in the Kremlin.
Leonid Brezhnev, is having a
similar problem An intelli-
gence report claims that
Hungary. Poland and. of
course, Romania balk
increasingly against Soviet
policies .... The decision to
inVade Afghanistan, accord-
ing to another intelligence
report, has caused tension
within the Kremlin
Although their differences
are papered over some Pol-
itburo members reportedly
believe the invasion was. a
mistake The grumbling,
apparently, isn’t directed so
much at Brezhnev as at the
hardheads who pushed the
invasion plan on their falter-
ing leader
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Metric system, round one
By Ann McFeaters
If it hasn’t happened to you yet, it will. Gasoline for 36 cents
a liter.
More than 6,000 service stations in 46 states now sell gas by
the liter instead of the gallon. The prediction is that soon at
least half of all gas stations will switch.
If you’re normal, you have just let out a groan. Having the
metric system shoved down our throats is a pure pain. Who
wants to remember that one gallon is 3.785 liters to know that
36 cents a liter is equal to $1.36 a gallon?
Every survey on the subject has shown that Americans
despise the idea of switching to the metric system. Meters,
grams and liters may be simpler and more scientific than
yards, ounces and quarts, but we don’t like them. It doesn't
bother us one bit that we are the only nation in the world
except for Burma, Brunei and Yemen that has not converted
But like it or not, we re going to convert. Congress voted
that it is U.S. policy that we switch (gradually) and has set up
a U.S. Metric Board to oversee it.
Well, on what probably will be the first big testtf metrics
in this country, the board wasn’t even notified.
The American Petroleum Institute, the trade association
for the oil companies, and a task force of retailers and
weights-and-measures officials put together a voluntary
three-year plan for converting the sale of gasoline to liters.
The plan is being promoted by the American National Metric
Council, a business group with about 1,700 members. The
Berry's World
THIU.S.ANDYOU
William Steif
council didn’t even submit its plan for approval to the official
Metric Board on grounds the board is too poorly organized at
this point to bother with
Thus, the oil industry is going ahead with conversion to the
metric system and ignoring the government agency that is
supposed to control the process.
Ironically, the agency was the originator of the idea to
switch. Last year gas prices started shooting up over the $1
level, and most gas pumps couldn’t handle the extra digit The
Metric Board said it would investigate the possibility of sell-
ing by liter instead of gallon as a remedy.
The immediate cry came from consumer groups who com-
plained that a penny increase per liter translates into almost a
4-cents-a-gallon increase and that consumers could easily be
hoodwinked by unwarranted price hikes.
The industry council got around that complaint by incorpo-
rating consumer groups into its planning. Thus its voluntary
plan now says that service stations that switch should provide
charts showing customers how to compare the price per liter
with the equivalent price per gallon.
Esther Peterson, President Jimmy Carter's consumer
adviser, went along. She said the industry's plan is a good one
and should be adopted widely to avoid consumer skepticism
and confusion.
The industry has found that it’s easy for a station to switch
to liters. There is an initial two-week period of adjustment
with some consumer hostility but few problems after that.
Martha Duggan, of the American National Metric Council,
says it could be that consumers accept the industry's argu-
ment that they buy gas by the dollar, not the gallon, anyway.
Or it could be, she admits, that consumers are “so numb"
about the price of gas, they just rive up.
If the industry is right in its findings so far - that Ameri-
cans will just give in and accept gas by the liter as inevitable
- there is a good argument that we will eventually just give
in and buy by the kilogram, measure by the centimeter and
travel by the kilometer. . __
At toast that’s what the U S. Metric Baord likes to think. At
the moment, it doesn’t have a very good-image because of the
liter-gallon incident. But it does have plenty of information
about the metric system and how we should convert to it.
If you have any questions about the board, its work or the
metric system, write them, the U S. Metric Board, Suite IWO?
1815 North Lynn St., Arlington,.VA 22209.
NOTE: William Steif b temporarily out of the country oa
assignment.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
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