The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 203, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 26, 1983 Page: 4 of 67
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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Sunday, June 26. 1983
4te
Dave Sorter
^EDITORIAL
Western Europe Pulling Apart
Very quietly. Western Europe Democratic Party philosophy by
Is coming apart at the seams, and turning to Ronald Reagan. Two
the United States doesn’t seem to years ago. West Germany replac-
be noticing the many ways in
which it is pulling.
In the past four years, the pig
five NATO powers have held elec-
tions. and a right-left split seems
to be just one wrong move away.
On one hand, the voters in three of
the five have decided that the way
to fix the vicious circle of inflation
and recession is to move to the
right, while the other two have
veered toward the left.
The overwhelming victory of
Margaret Thatcher and the Con-
servative Party in Great Britain
earlier this month was just proof
that the Anglo-German peoples of
the world feel that tight money
and fiscal conservatism is the
way to end economic ailmem
and keep nuclear bombs in their
silos. The romantic Europeans —
the French , and Italian T are
moving increasingly towards
socialism.
Thatcher's landslide was only
the latest in the string. In 1980, of
course, the American electorate
repudiated the liberal
ed progressive Helmut Schmidt
withl right-wing Free Democrat
ilmut Kohl.
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At the same time, France was
electing the Socialist government
of Francois Mitterand, shattering
to tiny pieces the right-leaning
centrism of DeGaulle and
Giscard-d Estang. Italy hasn’t
really been able to keep a govern-
ment long enough to matter, but
the trend is toward electing more
Socialists and Communists to the
Parliament, so much so that the
Christian Democrats have only
been able to keep power through a
coalition by making concessions
to the Socialists.
The polarization of the big five
in different directions can mean
othing but trouble in the future.
lough the Williamsburg Summit
recently seemed to be a love
feast, Mitterand and the French
delegation were privately but
quite strongly questioning the
Reagan-Thatcher-Kohl methods
of economic healing.
The first open fight might come
in the Common Market. France
has already made noises like it
wants to leave the European
Economic Community if its right-
leaning allies won’t try and con-
vince the United States to weaken
the dollar against the franc.
France’s economy is in the
worst shambles of any of the
others. Inflation is running wild
and the populous doesn’t trust the
franc.
While Reagan is advocating a
strong dollar, true to President
Nixon’s repudiation of Bretton
Woods and the golfl standard in
1971, the American currency is
destroying the franc. The French
money has been devalued twice in
the past year, and Mitterand does
not want it to happen again.
While most analysts talk about
missile deployment and arms
control as the major breaking
point between the United States
and Europe, it is really the right-
left split. Reagan, Thatcher and
Kohl are pretty much of the same
mind about everything, while Mit-
terand and whoever is running
the Italian government today
want a weak dollar and no
missiles.
In a way, this tension seems
amazing. Reagan’s secretary of
state is perhaps the most learned
economist ever to make foreign
policy. George Shultz, before he
was ever considered for a cabinet
post, was a highly-respected dean
of the University of Chicago
Graduate School of Business, a
much-praised institution that has
also brought the world Nobel
Prize winners Milton Friedman
and George Stigler.
If there is ever a man who could
eliminate economic tensions bet-
ween the U.S. and Its allies, Shultz
is he. While, agreed, he has had
his hands full with the Middle
East and Central America, it
seems that the secretary has left
the possibilities of concilliation to
Reagan, Paul Volcker and David
Stockman.
Liberal and conservative
governments have been able to
work out differences before.
While Williamsburg might have
helped things a little bit, the
Reagan Administration needs to
come out with some foreign
economic policy fast to avert a
right-left NATO split that further
threatens the already teetering
alliance.
Investments Shadow
CIA Chief's Image
William J. Casey has arvadvantage over the average in-
vestor whose information generally is limited to news
reports and whatever tidbits a brokerage firm may care
4 to pass along. As director of the Central Intelligence
A’gencv. Casey has access to secret data about global
economic trends that could.be worth a fortune in deciding
what securities and commodities to buy and sell.
Nobody has accused Casey of using his inside
knowledge in the purchase and sale last year of stocks
worth millions of dollars. Nor has he been accused, of let-
ting his investments influence his official decisions as the
nation's chief foreign intelligence officer.
But the mere fact that he refuses to place his in-
vestments in a blind trust can make him the object of
suspicion and undermine his credibility. Last year, for ex-
ample. Casey purchased substantial amounts of stock in
concerns that have foreign subsidiaries in nations that
are targets of current and potential CIA activity.
Casey’s investments first became an embarrassment to
the Reagan administration when it was disclosed that he
sold more than $600,000 worth of oil stocks in 1981. That is
the vear oil prices plunged due to an oil glut. Casey was
one of the few officials to see CIA estimates of global oil
production and sales.
In an attempt to alleviate criticism, Deputy CIA Direc-
tor John McMahon and CIA General Counsel Stahley
Sporkin began reviewing Casey’s investments. They are
supposed to suggest that he disqualify himself .from any
CIA decision that could affect his financial holdings.
This is hardly reassuring. Casey is under no obligation
to accept the advice of his top aides and they should not
have to spend their time keeping track of his investments.
Moreover, the director of the CIA should not have to
refrain from taking part jn agency decisions that Presi-
dent Reagan appointed him to make.
Other government officials realize they should avoid
- even'the“appearance of 'impropriety as well as the
temptation to use public o'ffice for private gain. Casey’s
. two immediate predecessors at the CIA, Stansfield
Turner-and George Bush, placed their investments in commercial-type containers were
blind trusts managed by financial advisers without their consumed by American Gis in
clients’ knowledge. So have Mr. Reagan and a number of and out of the u.s. during World
Cabinet members with influence over economic policy.
Casey ought to follow their prudent example.
From Sun Files
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Award In AF
From The Baytown Sun files,
this is the way it was 40 and 30 and
20 years ago:
JUNE 25,1943
Sideline Slants ^
SPAM: The Meat 'What Am'
For Easy, Nutritious Meal
By PRESTON PENDERGRASS
Americans and George Hormel
know when they have a good thing
in a can.
Hormel’s SPAM has been
villified for years in homes and
supermarkets across the nation,
in military kitchens and even on
was toast-brown on both sides,
dipped in batter that bore a
resemblance to pancake mix and
baked, and sometimes served as
cold cuts.
SPAM salesmen would agree
the more it is villified the better It
sells. Latest figures show demand
exceeding 90 million pounds a
foreign battlefields. But that, _____
seems to have stimulated sales of year
the canned meat rather than Food experts ip Hormel kit-
retarded them.,------—- chens say versatility is the key to
., c. , No telling how many millions of SPAM’S popularity in American
tne UA. Siansiieia pound87 0f SPAM in large homes, expecially among blue
: * •***" collar and middle-class workers.
They point out you can fry it, put
it in pancakes, slice it for sand-
Warll. wiches, bake it like a small ham
. Despite derogatory descrip- or dice it and put it in a casserole,
tions of SPAM, GIs devoured it by I don’t recall having eaten
the ton prepared as only Army SPAM before I was drafted into
cooks can do it. It was especially ' ‘ * ” 1
been used to eating at home and
in civilian restaurants, so I didn’t
have a problem with it in the Ar-
my.
In fact, I’m still a SPAM lover. I
keep two or three cans in the cup-
board and often use it on sand-
wiches or have it with scrambled
eggs. It is highly nutritious. It in-
cludes chopped pork shoulder
with ham added, along with salt,
water, sugar apd sodium nitrite.
SPAM has concerned 96 percent
of the canned luncheon meat
market in New England where
more than five million cans were
sold last year, according to
Hormel executives. It is also a
leader in other parts of the coun-
try.
SPAM watchers are saying its
popularity may diminish as the
Pvt. Eugene J. Litton, son of
Mr. and Mr. Fred Litton, is near-
ing completion of basic training a
Camp Roberts, Calif.
The two sons of Allie Dickerson
of La Porte are in different bran-
ches of the service. Perry Dicker-
son is in the Navy on a destroyer
tender in the Pacific. Tracy
Dickerson is an aviation cadet in
pre-flight school in San Antonio.
W,W. Sloan will retire as station
master for the Southern Pacific
Railroad after slightly more than
25 years of service in the Goose
Creek Station.
JUNE 25,1953
Quarterback Gerald Orton and
tackle Norman Adams are se-
lected to represent the Ganders in
the North-South, All-Star game in
Rice Stadium Aug: T. Lee Briga-
diers are invited to perform in the
halftime show.
J.F. Mathis is elected chairman
of the official board at' St: John’s
Methodist Church.
New directors on the board of
the Friends of the Library are
Mrs. A.A. Draeger, R.L. Gillette,
A1 Melinger, Dr, A.R. Padgett,
Walter Rupdell, Mattie Skeete
and J.W.Strickler.
W. Marion Davis, ..principal of
Carver School, is guest speaker at
a dinner meeting of Highlands
Methodist Men. ,
JUNE 25,1963
An. award named in honor of
Col. Jack G. Hester of Baytown, is
presented to Sgt. L.C. Courts of
Nederland at a reserve awards
ceremony at Ellington Air Force
Base.
C.R. Upchurch is elected presi-
dent of the Baytown Employees
Federation. H.T. Harvey is vice
president; L.B. Philips, secre-
the Army. I sold it in my Dad’s generation that lived and fought
popular as a breakfast meat in grocery, but never had any desire in ww II gets older. After all, it tary; H.a! Edmonson, treasurer,
military training camps before , to sample it. Because of the rigors was this generation 'that gave the t Mary Armstrong is hired to
and after WW II. ■ of Army training, I could eat most canned delicacy name recogni- teach the first grade at Lamar
SPAM was served with eggs, anything. SPAM was delicious, ,no tion its makers could never have
macaroni and cheese, and with matter how they fixed it. bought with advertising dollars -
other vegetables. It was boiled For thejnost part, SPAM was a by calling it unflattering names,
with beans and peas, fried until it better grade of meat than I had SPAMwich,.anyone?
Today
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Today is Saturday, June 25, the
176th day of 1983. There are 189
days left in the year, if ' •
Today’s highlight in history:
On June 25, 1950, North Korea
invaded South Korea, triggering
the Korean War.
On this date:
In 1876. Gen. George Custer’s
forces were massacred in the Bat-
tle of the Little Big Horn.
In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte
made his farewell speech before
being exiled to the island of St.
Helena.
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“Ye that love the Lord, hate evil:
he pFeserveth the souls of his
saints; he dellveredth them out of
the hand of the wicked. ’ ’
Psalms97:ip
V'-'
the first grade
Elementary School.
Baytown Kiwanis Club orga-
nizes the Seabrook Kiwanis Club
which will meet at noon every
Tuesday at Eric’s Restaurant in
Seabrook. Ben Wilson, past presi-
Club.«wi
dent of the Baytown Club, will
speak at the new club’s first regu-
lar meeting.
Reader's Views
About GeorgeMurns
ToTheSun: 7
In “The Family Weekly’’
magazine of The Sun (June 19)
there is an article “George
Burns: Still Sexy After All These
Years.” -
Still sexy to who? He looks like
an old man, he walks like an old
man, he talks like an old man. He
is an old man! If he is sexy to
anyone she has to be 75 years old.
Just because he is seen with a
“young chick” hanging onto his
arm doesn’t mean a thing. We all
like to have “grandpas” in our
life.
I admire the guy for being as
“chipper” as he is, etc — but sexy
— never!
Myrtle Hudgins
>471
3047 Ferry Road
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 203, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 26, 1983, newspaper, June 26, 1983; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1063296/m1/4/?q=Cadet+Nurse+Corps: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.