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4—THE NEWS-TELECRAM. Sulphur Springs, Texas. Wednesday, May 28. 1980.
Jack Anderson
In our opinion
George Bush bows
out with dignity
Not enough people believed that
George Bush is No. 1 and should be
elected president of the United States.
Obviously, he gave his campaign for
the Republican nomination his best
shots and came up short of the goal he
had set for himself.
The former Texas Congressman,
ambassador, CIA director and GOP
national chairman finally reached the
conclusion that the nomination was
beyond his grasp and wisely decided to
admit it was fruitless to continue cam-
paigning.
But George Bush should not
withdraw from active political life. He
has proved himself as a solid, level-
headed and strong figure. It would be a
tragic loss if he departs the political
arena. And he has indicated that he
will continue to work for his party and
the nation to make better things hap-
pen.
There are not many political can-
didates who can take setbacks
graciously. George Bush appears to be
an exception. He has suffered a great
disappointment, but he has bowed out
with dignity.
He fought a good fight. This just
was not his time. For the Republicans,
the day belongs to Ronald Reagan.
Budget balancing act
futile performance
Congress and President Carter are
continuing to struggle with their objec-
tive of giving the country a badly need-
ed balanced budget in the govern1
ment’s 1981 fiscal year.
The ambition is a worthy one. A
balanced budget probably would do
more than any one thing to put the
brakes on inflation.
Regardless of what is said or done
in Washington, though, the chances
for attaining this objective may be
regarded as exactly zero.
Despite the commotion over the
budget balancing act, the government
remains committed to record expen-
ditures next year. The recession is ad-
ding pressures for still higher federal
outlays and for tax reductions.
Under such circumstances it is
almost inevitable that prospects for a
balanced budget will disappear far
more quickly than they arose.
The modem counterparts of Don
Quixote will continue to do battle with
their windmills for a while and that
will be all of it.
Ms. banned as ugly,
silly, poor English
latest reknowned publication to
abandon use of the title “Ms.” is The
Times of London, which states its
reasons in biting terms:
“It is artificial, ugly, silly, means
nothing and is rotten English. It is a
faddish middle-class plaything, and
far from disguising the marital status
of women, as is claimed, it draws at-
tention to it.”
In addition to these deficiencies, Ms.
also must rank as a lazy writer’s
refuge. If one doesn’t know whether a
subject is a Miss or a Mrs., it is a lot
easier just to let her go as a Ms. than to
verify the proper term.
Another practice is the same
disputed area of terminology that has a
grating effect is the news magazines’
use of last names only for women.
This common denominator ap-
proach gives the feminine militants
what they say they want, but to us at
least it tends to diminish the image of
the women concerned.
Both these practices fall under a
category known as style that defies fix-
ed rides and is governed largely by in-
dividual preference.
Ms. is likely to be hanging around
the outer fringes for a long time
regardless of what The Times of Lon-
don thinks about it.
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
•Enthusiastic Citizens
•Minimum Housing Standards Code
•Improved Streets & Drainage
Terrorists and nuclear power:
a dreaded nightmare of the '80s
By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON - While
the possibility of a nuclear
holocaust is of paramount
concern to world leaders, a
more likely threat is worry-
ing intelligence analysts
The increasing danger that
some irresponsible terrorist
group will acquire a nuclear
bomb or the material with
which to make one
This is no wild-eyed fanta-
sy dreamed up by
scriptwriters for a Holly-
wood disaster >epic It’s a
dead-serious appraisal by
the cold-eyed men of the
Central Intelligence Agency,
who have been keeping
track of terrorist groups for
years
In fact, intelligence
experts told my associate
Dale Van Atta, there is no
question in their minds that
sooner or later terrorists
, will achieve nuclear
"capability” - and their
guess is that this nightmare
will become a reality'before
the end of this decade
The CIA recently reported
that while the number of
international terrorist inci-
dents had decreased some-
what in 1979, the actual
destructive violence of Jheir
operations had increased.
What the public report
left out, however, were the
ominous conclusions of a
secret CIA document If the
current trend of increasing
terrorist violence continues,
we would expect a corre-
sponding erosion of the cons-
traints against terrorist use
of nuclear explosives."
What has stopped them so
far? "Terrorists are and will
continue to be greatly sensi-
tive to the quantity and qual-
ity of security systems pro-
tecting nuclear weapons and
the materials from which
nuclear explosives might be
made," the report states
Because weapons are
guarded more closely than
nuclear ingredients, the
report concludes, a terrorist
group will most likely try to
steal the material and make
its own bomb "None of the
individual steps involved
would be beyond the capa-
bilities of a sophisticated,
well-funded group, the CIA
warns.
The CIA analysts figure
that of known terrorist
groups, "the most compe-
tent" for a nuclear attempt
would be "one of the Pales-
tinian groups," possibly in
collaboration with Western
European terrorists and-or
the "Japanese Red Army."
For what cold comfort it
provides, the CIA analysis
predicts that nuclear-armed
terrorists would be most
likely to use their bomb as
"a credible threat for black- v
mail and-or publicity,"
rather than for a direct
attack. "In an extreme situ-
ation, however, some might
attempt a detonation," the
report warns
MEMO TO THE PRESI-
DENT: There's only one way
to end this nation's danger-
ous dependence on foreign
oil We must develop alter-
native fuels.
As Miami goes..?
How swiftly time passes and how easily we forget — or
relegate events to the dimmer recesses of our collective recol-
lection
The era of dreaded racially “hot summers" Is a decade and
more behind us and the details of Watts and Detroit — even
more the full roll of the cities that underwent trial by fire and
looting - are hazy at best.
The civil-rights movement of which the summers were the
violent aspect was overtaken and submerged in the tide of
opposition to the Vietnam War, after that by the neglect,
benign or otherwise, of post-Watergate apathy.
simmering beneath the surface of American society, it is giv-
ing rise to some concern that more uncomfortably warm sum-
mers could be ahead - -
Even should it not come to that extreme, it is a reminder
that what has passed is not all that past. Or as the French
would put it, the more things change the more they are the
same.
Which is precisely the point many blacks have been making
for some time now
Enter Fritz?
f**T
1*8
COMMENTARY
Don Graff
And then comes Miami, It comes as a surprise, for several
reasons. It follows more than a decade of civil-rights legisla-
tion, of desegregation in education and employment opportu-
nity, of the steady expansion of political rights irrespective of
race, color and the rest.
And it comes in a city which, although geographically
minimal black community as tne nation’s
Southern, has a _________________ __________v_________
urban concentrations go - some 12 percent.
Miami in this sense may be different and the spark that
touched it off — the acquittal of white police on trial for the
beating death of a black - a local issue. But the basic situa-
tion is not unique — broad dissatisfaction of the racial minori-
ty with what the law says is equality but that personal experi-
ence reveals still falls far short of it To Miami as recent
settings of discontent add Philadelphia, Memphis and Mobile.
But it is Miami that has exploded, and now joins the roll
with Watts and Detroit - Cleveland, Newark, Harlem and
Washington. In its frightening demonstration of fury still
While the president who never promised us a Rose Garden
because he appaiently wanted to keep it all to himself has
been sticking close to his crisis command post, a collection of
surrogates has been out campaigning for him
Rosatynn Carter and Walter Mondale to name two And
there are some out here who are commencing to think that
either one might be a more effective choice for the presiden-
tial nomination than the candidate himself.
Particularly the last-named. So much so that a syndrome
that might be labeled the "Mondale alternative" is spreading
among liberal Democrats.
The thinking is that handicapped by the Mideast mess and
dragging economy, Jimmy Carter might be persuaded to step
aside and allow the convention to nominate Mondale, thereby
carrying on the banner of the administration in which he
served while still giving the electorate a fresh choice.
But to those who know the two men well, it is definitely
wishful thinking. Mondale, who has played every bit as mean-
ingful a role in the Carter administration as originally
promised, is reported to be particularly anxious to squelch
speculation on such an alternative.
And he has the enthusiastic assistance of campaign director
Robert Strauss and party chairman John White, among others.
All together, and providing the Carter handicaps do not prove
to be of the uncontrollably proliferating variety between now
and the Democrats’ August rendezvous in New York, they
majHbe successful in squelching too vocal speculation, if not
Now about Rosalynn...
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
The Central Intelligence
Agency expects the Soviet
Union to cross the great
divide into ojl dependency
within a year Soon the two
superpowers will be compet-
ing for Persian Gulf oil
Your strategic advisers have
warned that the resulting
confrontation could lead to
World War III
The crisis can be defused
simply by finding some
other fuel to operate our
automobiles, trucks and
tractors. For years, I have
been calling for an emergen-
cy alternative fuels crash
program I believe the
nation that landed the first
men on the moon can devel-
op a substitute for oil
But it will take another
Manhattan Project, mobiliz-
ing all the resources of the
United States. We must
draft the best scientists,
engineers and managers
from American industry, not
just those the corporations
consider expendable We
must make this the nation's
first priority, not just a sub-
ject for political rhetoric
The first task is to over-
come the obstruction of the
oil companies, which are
quietly blocking the develop-
ment of new fuels until they
have squeezed every last
dollar out of every last
available oil well. True,
they're studying alternative
fuels, because they know
their wells eventually will
run dry But the time ites
come to stop studying tysk
start developing oil substi-
tutes
POLITICAL POTPOUR
RI: Both the Democratic and
Republican national chair-
men have held worried con-
sultations with party leaders
about the huge number of
undecided voters. They're
worried that the November
election could be thrown
into the House of Represent-
atives. with irreparable
damage to the two-party
system Republican favor-
ite Ronald Reagan has been
criticized for his short,
sharp, simplistic answers to
complex issues Republicans
seem to love his style, but
there aren’t enough regis-
tered Republicans to win the
election for him Some
GOP moderates in Congress,
who’ve had their doubts
about Reagan all along, are
now saying they’re afraid
Jimmy Carter will chew
him up in any campaign
debate. The GOP doubters
fear Carter’s careful,
detailed responses to ques-
tions will make him appear
more knowledgeable than
Reagan ... The California
Democratic primary looks
like a toss-up. with most
blacks for Carter, most
Hispanics for Kennedy and
most others undecided ...
Carter is not popular in
Ohio, but neither is Kennedy
The latest polls show Carter
ahead in next weeks's cru-
cial primary ... John Ander-
son wasn’t the first presiden-
tial candidate to consider
TV news dean Walter Cronk-
ite for a running mate,
Reagan's advisers also had
Cronkite on their vice presi-
dential list until the TV
celebrity took himself out of
politics.
WATCH ON WASTE:
Since 1971, the Pentagon has
spent some $534 million
trying to correct problems
that turned up in the engines
of two aircraft -- the Navy
F-14 and the Air Force F-16
The problems have yet to be
solved, so the brass hats
have decided what they need
is a new backup engine - at
a cost of $93 million to start
with. Government auditors
have expressed doubt that
the new engine will work,
either
('opy right 1980
United Feature Syndicate Inc
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TOjdKT
Fair-weather friendliness
By the Editors
of Psychology Today
Fine spring days — and
days in any season that are
sunny and clear - really are
likely to put people in a more
helpful frame of mind than
cloudy, grey days, according
to a Minneapolis study
During the spring and sum-
mer of 1974 and in the winter
and early spring of 1974-75,
experimenters at four sites
asked 540 passers-by how
many of the 80 questions on a
survey of social opinions they
were willing to answer.
Michael Cunningham, a psy-
chologist at Elmhurst College
in Illinois, then compared the
results with hourly readings
of the amount of sunlight
striking the earth, tempera-
ture, barometric pressure,
relative humidity, wind veloc-
ity and even the phases of the
moon.
All the weather variables
except the moon had a slight
influence on helpfulness, but
PSYCHOLOGY
TODAY
sunshine had the most. On the
brightest days, participants
offered to answer an average
of 63 questions; on the most
dismal days, they were will-
ing to answer only 13.
Suppose you are a college
student, female Suppose,
further, that you want to be
considered likable and attrac-
tive by other college students,
male. Should you wear
perfume?
The answer is yes. Or no. It
depends on how you are
dressed.
For 94 male undergradu-
ates at Purdue University in a
recent study, perfume seemed
to be alluring when a woman
Berry's World
"All this talking to tha issues and candor —
what do you suppose John Anderson's trying to
puk?’'
wore it with jeans and a
sweatshirt, but not when she
wore it with a skirt, blouse
and stockings.
Each student sat next to a
female undergraduate while
an experimenter asked them
in turn for answers to five
innocuous questions like
“What are your favorite
hobbies?” The woman, a con-
federate of the experimenter,
gave the same bland answers
each time, but with half the
men she dressed up in a
blouse, skirt and stockings.
With the others she wore a
sweatshirt and jeans.
Half the time, in each
outfit, she wore two drops of
Jungle Gardenia behind each
ear.
When the questions were
over, the men filled out a
“First Impressions Form”
about the woman, describing
how much they liked her and
how attractive they found her
on a scale from 1 to 7. They
also rated her on 20 specific
traits like being conceited or
unconceited, romantic or
unromantic, cold or warm,
and energetic or lazy.
With perfume on, the
woman’s likability and attrac-
tiveness ratings were high
when she dressed down and
low when she gussied up.
According to Robert Baron,
the psychologist who conduct-
ed tne test, the students’ other
ratings and comments after
the experiment showed that
the combination of more for-
mal dress and perfume made
the woman seem cold,
conceited and unattainable.
One student noted: “I figured
that she was all dolled up that
way for someone special.
There was no chance for me.”
The experiment shows that
scents and attraction go
together in complicated ways.
Naturally, Baron says, Purdue
students' reactions to perfume
may be different from those
of older and presumably
wiser noses.
(c) 1980 Pyschology Today
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
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The Almanac
Today In History
By Tho Associated Pross
Today is Wednesday, May 28,
the 149th day of 1980, There are
217 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
in 1941, more than 300,000 Allied
troops began evacuating
Dunkirk, France as Belgium
fell to Germany in World War
n.
On this date:
In 1863, under Col. Robert
Shaw, the first black Union
regiment left Boston for the
front in the Civil War.
In 1892, the Sierra Club, an
organization dedicated to the
conservation and preservation
of our natural resources, was
founded.
In 1934, a Canadian Woman,
Olivia Dionne, gave birth to
quintuplets in an Ontario
farmhouse.
In 1977, a fire at the Beverly
Hills Supper Club in Soutlgate,
Ky., killed 184 persons and
injured 130.
Ten years ago, the Americi
Army charged two Sou
Vietnamese infantry office
with the attempted murder
several Vietnamese in tl
Mekong Delta.
Five years ago, in Pari
Secretary of State Hem
Kissinger announced a series
steps to be taken by the Unit
States to help ease the plight
the world’s poor.
Last year, EgyptU
President Anwar Sadat a
nounced the opening of a
corridors between Egypt ai
Israel.
Today’s birthday: En-
vironmental activist and
People’s Party presidential
candidate Barry Commoner is
63.
Thought for today: Caution is
file eldest child of wisdom. —
L*d Alfred Tennyson (1808-
1892)
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