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4—THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Springs, Texas, Thursday, July 24,19M.
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Bigger things at stake
In our opinion
Lid is off Carter's
flip-flop budget again
Jimmy Carter’s triumphant cam-
paign trail of 1976 was marked with a
great many promises
The first, brought out in January,
called for a deficit of $16 billion.
One that’kept bobbing out into the
latently concerned the
spotlight pers
sorely tried federal budget.
Candidate Carter assured the
voters he would start narrowing the
gap immediately and complete the job
by producing a balanced budget for the
government’s 1981 fiscal year.
Fiscal 1981 starts next fall and
where is President Carter’s balanced
budget? •
The chief executive is now working
on his third 1981 budget version in the
last six months.
By March inflation was roaring
again and Mr. Carter made a fast right
turn into a budget version calling for a
surplus of $16 billion instead.
Now the President is more concern-
ed about recession than inflation and
the budget that was to be balanced car-
ries a deficit of $25 billion. It could ap-
proach $50 billion if tax reductions
under consideration are enacted.
When all the chips are in, the reelec-
tion of Jimmy Carter may turn out to
be the most expensive single project in
all the nation’s history.
New federal criminal
code long overdue
DETROIT (NEA) - The political mating of Ronald Reagan
and George Bush is hardly a marriage made in heaven, but the
Republican Party's national ticket could prove to be especial-
ly durable and popular in the forthcoming campaign.
As everyone who didn’t sleep through the entire Republican
National Convention knows by now, Bush was Reagan's sec-
hall that evening to deliver a previously scheduled major
address, he was informed that negotiations with Ford were
well under way and probably would be successful - thus
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ond choice for a running mate, chosen only after the abrupt
collapse of a torrid but brief political romance between
Reagan and former President Gerald R. Ford.
IN WASHINGTON
Robert Walters
In addition, the lack of any positive personal chemistry
between Reagan and Bush suggests that they are something of
a political “odd couple.” But marriages of convenience are
neither unknown nor unfeasible in contemporary campaigns
When Reagan ran for his first term as governor of Califor-
nia in 1966, for example, he embraced an ideology perhaps
more conservative than his current one - but he gracefully
and readily bowed to the ticket-balancing exigencies of the
time in campaigning alongside Robert H. Finch, the moderate
Republican who was running for lieutenant governor.
Reagan’s uneasiness with Bush — a man viewed by the
GOP presidential nominee as too stiff and aloof — was an ill-
kept secret throughout the primaries earlier this year.
Bush's inflexible performance during the Nashua, N.H.,
debate with Reagan already has become a major piece of 1980
campaign lore, but less publicized was a similar incident that
occurred only hours before he was picked by Reagan for the
GOP ticket.
The two men sat next to each other at a luncheon that day
sponsored by the Polish-American community in nearby
Hamtramck, Mich. Bush was so tense and nervous that he
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ly crucial this year, because Rep. John B. Anderson, R-Ill.,
threatened to attract moderate and progressive Republicans
to his independent candidacy for the presidency.
“The addition of Ford to the ticket would have totally elimi-
nated the Anderson problem,” says one knowledgeable Repub-
lican insider. “Bush isn’t quite that strong, but he’ll cut Ander-
son off at the knees.” . . ,.
Ford might well have been on the Reagan ticket if he hadn t
insisted upon the transfer of so much power and authority
from the president to the vice president in a Reagan-Ford
administration.
“Ford wanted too much,” says one senior member of the
Reagan campaign staff. “The only thing left for Reagan would
have been (the Interior Department’s Bureau of) Indian
Affairs.”
Bush, on the other hand, offered himself to Reagan as a
“team player" during a subtle but impressive campaign for
the vice-presidential nomination conducted during the week
prior to his selection.
While others striving to be Reagan’s running mate — nota-
bly Rep. Jack Kemp, R-N.Y. - were waging high-powered
propaganda campaigns replete with rallies, petitions and a
blizzard of promotional literature, Bush and his senior cam-
paign staff were quietly yet effectively serving Reagan's
cause. ■
On the second day of the convention, for example, Reagan s
political operatives were faced with the threat of opposition to
the proposed Republican platform from as many as 10 state
delegations — a potential display of disunity the party was
determined to avert.
When the Reagan forces traced a substantial portion of that
dissention to delegates originally committed to Bush, he was
called upon to aid in quelling the nascent uprising.
“Bush cracked heads,” says one observer of what followed.
“He made it very clear to his people that there were to be no
platform fights on the convention floor because bigger things
were at stake.”
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It’s not a lead pipe cinch, but there
is reason to believe that a new federal
criminal code may come out of the cur-
rent session of congress. It’s
something of a 14-year-old dream that
congressional leaders hope will be
developed in the current legislation.
Attorneys, as well as lay persons,
have charged that the federal code, as
it now exists, is a jumble of inconsis-
tent and outdated federal laws that
needs to be clarified and modernized.
It is interesting that the chairman
of a subcommittee which has been a
moving force in the House to bring
about the new code is a Jesuit priest.
He is Rep. Robert F. Drinan, D-Mass.,
who is bowing to a papel rule and will
not be seeking re-election in November
as he completes his fifth term. If
Drinan can see the successful conclu-
sion of the updating of the federal
criminal code, he can mark it down as
a rewarding congressional career.
Drinan says that one of the House
bill’s greatest achievements is its pro-
vision for a federal sentence commis-
sion, and for guidelines to prevent the
widely varying sentences different
judges impose for the same crime.
The new code proposes to arrange
the criminal statutes in logical order so
they can easily be found.
One thing the code could ac-
complish easily would to wipe out out-
dated statutes that clutter the law
books now.
If the new code could be written in
simple enough language that no one
could challenge the meaning il
The Almanac
leaning it would
be a real improvement. But that is ask-
ing for too much. And simple laws
might reduce the workloads of judges.
By the Associated Press
Today is Thursday, July 24,
the 206th day of 1980. There are
160 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On July 24, 1870, the first
railroad car from the Pacific
coast reached New York City,
ushering in transcontinental
train service.
On this date:
In 1783, the Latin American
patriot, Simon Bolivar, was
bom in Caracas, Venezuela.
In 1946, the United States
made the first underwater test
of an atomic bomb, setting off
the explosion at Bikini atoll in
the Pacific.
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Sulphur Springs Needs...
•Cooper Reservoir
•Broader Vocational Education
•More Downtown Parking
•Continued Industrial Development
•A More Prosperous Agriculture
•A City-County Health Unit
•City Beautification
In 1973, President Richard
Nixon welcomed the Shah of
Iran to the White House and
proclaimed a him crucial
friend of the U.S. in the Middle
East.
•Enthusiastic Citizens
•Minimum Housing Standards Code
•Improved Streets & Drainage
Thought for today: It is a
great nuisance that knowledge
can only be acquired by hard
work — W. Somerset Maugham
(1874-1965).
Jack Anderson
Peace Corps and VISTA live
Advice to Johns in Moscow:
say, 'Nyet' nyet Ninotchka'
By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON - There’s
an unpublicized but impor-
tant athletic event that’s not
on the official schedule of
the Moscow Olympics - the
her apartment because of
the relatives living with her.
And the hotels are constant-
ly watched. So any girl who
does this successfully must
have the protection of the
police -- or the KGB.” If she
has her own apartment - a
rarity in Russia - she is cer-
tainly working for the KGB,
he said
A typical example of the
Soviet badger game was the
case of a vacationing Ameri-
can engineer who did top-
secret research for an Air
Force contractor. The com-
pliant chippy startled him
By screaming rape, and the
cops came bursting in. The
engineer spilled everything
in the six-day interrogation
that followed
Another case involved the
administrative aide of a U.S.
senator. A toothsome young
lady named Natasha was
seated “by chance" at his
table in a Moscow hotel, and
a pickup followed. Natasha
dragged him from store to
store to buy presents for her,
and casually got him to sell
her dollars for rubles at the
black market rate. -
The Senate aide grew sus-
picious - partly because of
her stunned reaction when
he snapped her picture with-
out warning - and told
American Embassy officials
about his affair. He was
hastily sent home, where
CIA debriefers assured him
that he’d have been nabbed
on currency exchange viola-
tions. He has been advised
not to travel in Communist-
bloc countries, where the
ever-watchful secret police
could snare him for the
KGB
free-style entrapment of
by Russian
Western visitors
prostitutes working for the
Soviet secret police. And the
Russians are after as many
gold medals as they can
hook.
Indeed, U.S. intelligence
experts glumly predict that
some West Europeans, or
even Americans, with access
to sensitive intelligence
information, have already
been caught up in the lush
toils of comely KGB agents
they have met in the festive
Olympic atmosphere. The
danger comes when the
unwary victim, blackmailed
by the threat of embarrass-
ing publicity or a one-way
ticket to the Gulag Archipel-
ago, agrees to spy for the
Kremlin when he returns
home.
Although the huge influx
of foreigners into Moscow
during the Olympics may
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make it more difficult for
the KGB to maintain its nor-
mal surveillance, the chanc-
es of a genuine pickup are
slifn indeed. Intelligence
sources told my associate
Dale Van Atta it’s a safe
assumption that any Russian
woman who makes sexual
overtures to a foreigner -- or
who responds to such over-
tures - is working for the
secret police.
The reason is as obvious
as the Soviets’ perennial
housing shortage. As one
source explained: “The girl
can’t take the John back to
The KGB flesh peddlers
cater to all sexual prefer-
ences, the experts noted
They have homosexual men
and women on their payroll,
as well as gigolos who prey
on susceptible foreign
women.
STEPPING STONE? Shir-
ley Hufstedler, Jimmy
Carter’s controversial
choice as secretary of the
new Department of Educa-
tion, has embarked on a
busy cross-country speaking
tour to sing the praises of
the president. Insiders tell
me the reason is that Carter
has promised to make her
the first woman on the
Supreme Court.
Critics complain that
Hufstedler’s Supreme Court
ambitions have led her to
follow middle-of-the-road
policies, hoping to avoid con-
troversy that might block
her appointment to the high
court.
But Hufstedler’s actions
as education secretary - and
her appointment to the post
itself - stirred bitter resent-
ment in the Hispanic
community. They insist that
Carter promised he’d
appoint a Hispanic, as a sign
of his support for the
Hispanic community - par-
ticularly for bilingual-bicul-
1 educational policies.
turali
“Hufstedler and Carter
are stabbing the Hispanic
community in the back,"
tty i
Colorado State Rep. Federi-
blintl
co Pena blintly charges.
The key to implementa-
tion of the Bilingual Bicul-
tural Education Act are reg-
ulations that must be
published in the Federal
Register before the Office of
Civil Rights can move in.
After lengthy stalling,
Hufstedler has agreed to
publish regulations next
month.
But Hispanic leaders tell
me the regulations "are so
watered-down and weak
that we re worse off than
when we started this
struggle.”
ENVIOUS DIPLOMAT:
Testifying behind closed
congressional doors, Myles
Frechette, the State Depart-
ment’s Cuba desk director,
commented a bit wistfully:
“The Cubans are tremen-
dously flexible in their for- „
eign aid program. There are
no strictures. There are no
legislative amendments.
There is no Congress The
Cubans can do whatever
they want.” Then, realizing
who his audience was, he
added quickly: “I did not
imply any criticism.”
Spiteful slowdown:
Like a reformed drunk, the
scandal-ridden General Ser-
vices Administration is
anic
quisi-
agencies
according to the strict letter
of the law. GSA officials say
the time-consuming process
is required by new restric-
tions designed to prevent
further fraud and waste. But
some officials think the GSA
is deliberately going over-
board. The Nuclear Safety •*
Oversight Committee, for
example, has been stymied
since its formation three
months ago because GSA
still hasn’t provided enough
desks and typewriters.
ConrlgM. INI.
United Feature Syndicate Inc
Thousands of new college graduates are looking for jobs. At
the same time, many Americans retire to what they think are
lives of leisure and discover they are bored and want useful
work.
Nearly a generation ago the federal government devised a
pair of programs to use these pools of talent. The programs
are still around and still provide satisfying work for their
participants.
They are the Peace Corps and its domestic version, VISTA.
There are now nearly 6,000 Peace Corps volunteers in 60
nations. Applicants must be United States citizens, at least 18
(although most are 21 or older), must be in good physical
shape and, if married, must serve with spouse. There’s no
upper age limit; last year more than 330 volunteers were old-
er than 50. Peace Corps volunteers serve 24 months (after a
short training period). They get monthly allowances for r^nt,
food, travel and medical needs and have a readjustment
allowance of $125 a month set aside, payable (and taxable) at
the end of service.
THEU.S.ANDYOU
William Steif
Berry's World
Nearly 4,000 VISTA volunteers work among poor Ameri-
cans, in both rural and urban settings. About two-thirds of
VISTA volunteers are recruited locally, and a sixth of them
are 55 or older. ThdV must be in good health, though some
physical handicaps are not disqualifying. They also get living
allowances, based on the cost of living in the area of service,
and they serve 12 months. VISTA volunteers have $75 a month
set aside for them, payable on completion of service.
Those are the bare facts. You may ask: What do the volun-
teers do?
I can tell you a few of the things I’ve seen.
In Liberia a volunteer organized a leper colony.
In Niger a volunteer got local men to clean out wells so that
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villages again had water.
In Thailand a volunteer organized a rural cooperative.
In Guatemala a volnteer acted as the nurse at a mountain
health center.
In North Yemen a volunteer taught at a school in the town
oflbb.
Work within the United States is similar. VISTA volunteers
are helping poor folks insulate their homes in rural New
England; other volunteers see that nursing-home residents in
Wyoming are well treated.
Kim Duke, recruiting director for both programs, says that
“about half the people we’re looking for nred special technical
backgrounds." Some need college, some don’t.
One “extremely valuable" qualification is what Duke calls
“life experience.” Example: “If you’ve always had a vegeta-
ble garden and can teach others how to raise vegetables, we
can use that skill.”
That doesn’t sound like a big deal in a nation where, if you
want carrots, you drive down to the supermarket. But there
are no supermarkets in the forests of Honduras or on South
Dakotas’ Indian reservations. Home-grown vegetables can be
an important dietary supplement.
Duke also is looking for people with what he calls "house-
hold skills - brick masonry, carpentry, plumbing, machine
repair, especially engine repair
None of the Pe
one of the Peace Corps volunteers is forced on a nation.
Instead, nations request volunteers with specific skills. Right
now, Americans with backgrounds in farming, forestry, math
and science are in special demand.
VISTA projects make rather similar requests from Quke’s
office. For instance, several dozen architects and lawyers are
being sought Also in demand are accountants, psychologists
and nutritionists.
VISTA.
If you’re interested, write the Peace Corps or VISTA, 806
Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. 20525, or phone this
toll-free number, 800-424-8580 and ask for Extension 93.
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