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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Wednesday, March 23, 1988
(EDITORIAL
Iran, Iraq cannot
have it both ways
It -seemed such a mockery when Iran’s U.N. am-
bassador announced he had notified United Nations of-
ficials that Iran is ready to cooperate in implementing a
resolution demanding a cease-fire in the Iran-Iraq war
that has raged for almost eight years.
If it wasn’t a mockery, timing of the statement was
terrible. It came as the two sides stepped up their “war
of the cities” in which Iran’s and Iraq’s capitals are be-
ing devastated by missiles and bombs.
It would seem more appropriate that such a peace-
prone statement be made at a time when there was a lull
in the fighting or some other indication that both sides
realize the enormity of the tragedy being visited on their
countries.
As destructive missiles rained down, killing and injur-
ing scores, angry Iranians accused Moscow of supplying
missiles and other weapon? to Iraq as crowds
demonstrated at Soviet diplomatic missions in Tehran,
the capital, and the central city of Gsfahan.
Iran has said it is ready to agree to a cease-fire and to
simultaneous establishment of an independent panel,
also proyided forjn the cease-fire resolution to deter-
mine responsibility for starting die war.
Both sides are likely to oppose blame placing, but it is
encouraging to see that Iran, which has insisted from
the outset that it is in the war to win, no matter the cost,
now appears to be ready for a negotiated settlement.
The U.N. also should lose no time laying groundwork
for whatever procedure is needed to bring about a cessa-
tion of hostilities. As long as missiles are falling, peace
overtures are useless.
From Sun files
'33: Kubik recalled war
From The Bayown Sun files,
this is the way it was:
55 YEARS AGO
Joseph Kubik, who served in
the German Army, says the
movie, “The Big Drive,” now
playing at the Texan Theater, is
authentic in its depiction of the
World War.
Kubik served with the 1st
Regiment of the Prussian
Guards, famous shock troops of
the Imperial German Army and
he participated in battles in
France, Russia and Italy. He
was taken prisoner by the
British during the last few mon-
ths of the war.
A garage owner here, he has
lived in Goose Creek since he
came to America in 1923.
In response to resolutions
from the Parent-Teacher
Associations, school trustees
agree to retain all present
departments in the schools and
to eliminate only such teaching
positions as is found necessary.
A.H. Carter, electrician in Pel-
iy, files as a candidate for the
Pelly Board of Aldermen.
L.D. Pierson and J.C. Ward
apply for a permit to operate a
bus between Goose Creek and
Dayton.
50 YEARS AGO
A telephone exchange with
from 50 to 60 subscribers will be
established in Highlands in the
next few weeks by Southwestern
Associated Telephone Co., says
W.W. Hunt, division manager.
40 YEARS AGO
Dr. George Bruce becomes
chairman of the Tri-Cities
Health League.
30 YEARS AGO
Donnie Duplissey is named on
the Distinguished Student list at
TexasA&M.
20 YEARS AGO
Travis Tomjack is elected
president of the Young
Democrats at Lee College.
S.P. Adams of Highlands
retires from Shell Chemical Co.
after 24 years.
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Tom T
'I'm still over here'
WASHINGTON - V.J.
Donahue has had one consola-
tion in the 20 years since his son
was reported missing in action
during the Vietnam War. He has
received numerous reports from
various sources that the Air
Force navigator is still alive and
being held in detention camp in
the mid part of Laos.
But the comfort has not been
sustained by the U.S. govern-
ment. On the contrary, Donahue
says the authorities have con-
sistently denied the reports.
Washington has decided that
there are no American prisoners
of the war surviving in Southeast
Asia, and the hard line has
become policy.
For example:
“I have received several
reports about my son in the last
year alone,” Donahue says,
“and one of them is the most en-
couraging yet. Someone saw him
living in a compound in the Lao-
tian province of Khammouan_
That sighting was given to the
U.S. Defense Intelligence Agen-
cy, which passed it along to me.
“I don’t know who made the
sighting. The name was blanked
out on the report I received'. But
it is quite specific. It gave my
son’s full name, Morgan Jeffer-
son Donahue, his date of birth,
May 2, 1944, and it said he was
being held in a prison at
Phoubaytong, Muang
Khamkeut, province of Kham-
mouan.
“What’s really important is
that the report contains a hidden
message. The report lists my
son’s airplane as a AC-123, and
then gives the number of the
plane as 32931. Well, 32931 is my
ZIP code number in Cocoa
Beach, Fla. I think my son slip-
ped it in to say, ‘Hey, Dad, it’s
really mp, I’m still over here.’
"Naturally, I’ve been over-
joyed since I got it. But the of-
ficials in Washington don’t feel
that way. The DIA says the
report is ‘routine,’ and people
I’ve contacted have dismissed it
as ‘hearsay.’ Never mind the
facts, in other words, the govern-
ment has put up a Berlin Wall on
the issue of POW’s.
Donahue is one of many who
have been trying to scale that
wall since 1973. That was the
year the last of the live prisoners
returned from the war and the
government began its
pessimism. Relatives think
many. PQWs -were- simplyaban-
doned then, and that as many as
200 may even now be held
against their will.
That figure may be wishful
thinking. But Donahue says the
relatives are not simply hoping
against hope. He says the
evidence is there. He is a former
Air Force officer himself, a
retired colonel, “and I’ve in-
vestigated it Qn my own, I’ve
seen the proof; some of these
men are still alive.”
Donahue says he started in-
vestigating after his son disap-
peared in 1968. Lt. Donahue was
23 at the time, and flying night-
time reconnaissance missions
over the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The
father says the son’s plane ac-
cidentally collieded with an
American bomber and crashed
along the Laotian border.
The elder Donahue was to go
to Thailand 10 times in the years
after that. He says he was told
by the pilot of the plane that
Morgan had bailed out, so the
young man probably reached the
ground safely; Donahue also
gathered a file of encouraging
data from refugees, paid sleuths
and former Laotian officials.
Donahue says he gave all the
information to the U.S. govern-
ment, but it was for most intents
and purposes ignored. He says
the government head collected
evidence of its own (“it has
always known some prisoners
are still alive”), yet he claims
that Washington decided it
- would be best to give up the men
for dead.
Why? Expediency, for one
thing. Donahue says William
Casey, the late CIA director,
once told POW investigator that
“there is no groundswell in the
United States to get them out.”
Donahue adds that Henry Kiss-
inger has more recently been
quoted as saying he couldn’t
understand the commotion
about “a few stupid soldiers.”
More importantly, Donahue
thinks the government establish-
THE AMERICANS MUST BE SHAWNS IN THE\R
BOOTS, AND WITH GOOD REASON. WE
SOVIETS ARE GATCHIN6 U? WITH
THEM IN ANOTHER AREA.
GORBACHEV IS INTRODUCING THE
INCOME TAX IN THE O.S.S.R.
THERE ARE HUMORS AROUND THE
HREMUN THAT OUR AGENTS IN THE
U.S. HAVE GOT HOLD OF ADVANCER
AMERICAN TAX TECHNOLOGY.
I'P LOVE TO SEE THE AMERICAN £
FACES WHEN IT DAWNS ON THEM
WE HAVE THE IOH-OA AS
WELL AS THE IQH-OE'Z.
worth
Robert Walters
Pesticide threat
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WASHINGTON — Here’s “a fable for tomor-
row” about a community in the country’s
heartland “where all life seemed to live in har-
mony with its surroundings” until a “strange
blight” afflicted plants and animals.
“No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced
the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The
people had done it themselves” — with pesticides^
in general and DDT in particular.
That comes from the opening pages of “Silent
Spring,” one of the most influential books publish-
ed since World War II. Written by Rachel Carson in
1962, it alerted the nation and the world to the
dangers posed by the pollution and contamination
of the air, water and land.
The domestic use of DDT was virtually banned
by the Environmental Protection Agency in 1972.
But more than a quarter of a century after “Silent
Spring” was published, the federal law regulating
pesticides — Carson’s broader concern — remains
the weakest of the country’s environmental protec-
tion statutes.,____________________________________—"Tri""”
Clumsily titled the Federal Insecticide,
Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, the law was
enacted in 1947 and amended in 1972 and 1978. On
each occasion, however, powerful political and ec-
nomic interests successfully lobbied against a
strong statute.
For example, FIFRA contains a provision that
requires EPA to purchase the entire inventory of a
banned pesticide and pay for all disposal costs.
Thus, the federal government becomes a
guaranteed customer for any substance it deems,
hazardous.
EPA already has paid $1.2 million to buy the en-
tire stock ethylene dibromide, a fumigant
suspected of causing cancerous tumors and
damaging human reproductive systems. It was
banned by the agency in 1984 after traces of it were
found in the groundwater of several states.
Disposal of EDB could cost the agency another
$8 million. Dinoseb, a pesticide whose use was
halted by EPA in 1986, could consume another $60
million in public funds.
Repeal of this indemnification provision is only
one of the issues now facing the Senate Agriculture
Committee as it seeks to amend the law to control
the 2.6 billion pounds of pesticides consumed an-
nually.
The Grocery Manufacturers of America wants to
remove the part of the current law that allows
In her book, “Silent Spring, ”
in 1962, Rachel Carson alerted
the nation and the world to
dangers posed by pollution and
contamination of air, water
and land.
states to pre-empt federal standards and establish
more stringent safety guidelines.
The Chemical Specialties Manufacturers
Association wants to deny states with strong laws
their present authority to require detailed health
test data from pesticide producers.
_ The American Farm Bureau Federation seeks to
exempt not only family-owned farms but also
-agribusiness .CfirBorations and possibly pesticide
manufacturers from having to pay the costs of
cleaning up pesticide contamination.
(Many farmers who long opposed a tough federal
law now have switched sides because they
recognize the dangers posed by pesticide pollution
of groundwater, their principal source of drinking
water. A number of agricultural organizations
more progressive than the Farm Bureau are com-
mitted to strengthening FIFRA.)
Among the reforms being pressed by en-
vironmental groups:
• The right of citizens to sue both EPA and
pesticide producers to halt FIFRA violations — a
provision similar to those contained in all other
major federal environmental laws.
• A measure to protect farm workers by man-
dating agricultural operators by keeping long-
term records of pesticide usage and worker ex-
posure.
• Right-to-know standards that would require
pesticide labels to prominently display informa-
tion about the products’ known or suspected
adverse health effects.
The continuing dispute among opposing interests
groups and Congress’ abbreviated election year
schedule could produce a postponement — but the
law inevitably must be strengthened to contain the
dangers posed by pesticides.
Newspnper Enterprise Association
ment has abandoned the POWs .
in ofder to cover itself. He says
four living presidents have
faltered in the matter, and
thousands of other officials. He
claims, “It is simply in
everybody’s best interest to go
along with what has become this
monstrous lie.”
Donahue quotes one more
source regarding the latter >
point. Gen. Eugene Tighe, a
former director of U.S. defense
intelligence. Donahue says
Tighe has told him that the
government “cannot permit”
the return of any more POWs
from Southeast Asia “because it
would cause political chaos in
Washington.”
So after two decades the father 1
still waits. And he says the U.S.
government still stonewalls. He
says his wife has suffered a
heart attack from the stress in-
volved, he has become an
authoritative leader in the POW
movement, and he adds reluc-
tantly that he has turned into
something of a militant: • ,
“I have always been of the old
school. I love my countrv and
our way of life. But this thing is
just not right. My father was in
the military, I served in three
conflicts, and my son flew in
Southeast Asia, and I have come
to know the real enemies of
America. They have been runn-
ing things in Washington.”
Newspaper Enterprise Association
Bv The ASSOCIATED PRESS
On March 23,1775, in a speech
to the Virginia Provincial Con-
vention, Patrick Henry made his
famous plea for American in- :
dependence from Britain, say-
ing, “Give me liberty, or give
me death!”
On this date:
In A.D. 752, Pope Stephen II
was elected to succeed Pope
Zacharias; however, Stephen
died only two days later.
In 1743, George Frederick
Handel’s oratorio “Messiah”
had its London premiere. (Dur-
ing the “Hallelujah Chorus,” a
captivated King George II rose
to his feet. The audience follow-
ed suit, and the tradition of stan-
ding during the chorus was
bom.)
In 1933, the German Reichstag
granted Adolf Hitler dictatorial
powers.
In 1942, the U.S. government
began moving Japanese-
Americans from their West
Coast homes to detention
centers.
In 1965, America’s first two-
person space flight began as
“Gemini Three” —nicknamed ;j
the “Molly Brown” — blasted off
from Cape Kennedy with
astronauts Virgil I. Grissom and
John W. Young on board.
Five years ago: Artificial
heart recipient Dr. Barney Clark
died at the University of Utah
Medical Center after 112 days
with the device.
One year ago: Jerry Collins, a
millionaire greyhound race
track owner, donated $1.3
million to help evangelist Oral
Roberts reach his goal of raising
$8 million for medical scholar-
ships.
To The Sun:
When ROTC came to town in
Baytown some years ago, I went
over to Lee High School and met
Sgt. Long. He was the advance
man who got things started.
Then when Sterling was given
a unit the next year, I did the
same for Capt. Robert Corral
and I have been working with
him ever since.
Having been associated with >■
Air Force and Reserve since
1941, it is very close to my heart.
Thank you so much for the pic- v
tures and article in The Sun. I do f.
believe students are proud, and
Capt. Corral is running out of
space for trophies.
Now, I shall try to help any
way I can. To your fine organiza-
tion, thank you so much.
Robert P. Kelley
Lt. Co. USAFR (Retired)
Bible verse
Through faith we under-
stand that the worlds were
framed by the word of God,
so that things which are
seen were not made of
things which do appear.
Hebrews 11:3
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 123, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 23, 1988, newspaper, March 23, 1988; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1051801/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.