The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 206, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 29, 1983 Page: 4 of 83
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‘EDITORIAL
Bi
Jack Anderson
Potential For Disaster In
Nuclear Plants Terrifying
ing ominously. So far, the acts of • '■ the secret number.
Pope's Visit Bolsters
Poles' Freedom Fight
Poland’s Communist leaders may have made a grave
political mistake by allowing Pope John Paul Iras much
freedom of movement and direct contact with the people
as he had while visiting his homeland.
On the other hand, to have restricted his movements
and contacts might hqye been an even greater mistake
that could have set the people against their Communist
masters in dangerous and destructive demonstrations.
There were demonstrations in cities visited by Pope
John Paul but for the most part they were orderly.
The thrust of the pope’s visit was to generate new hope
, for the enslaved people of Poland. He appealed to the
Polish government to restore full ties with the United
States and not to lock the nation into the Soviet bloc. He
urged them to abide by labor agreements that helped
establish the once-independent Solidarity labor union.
Pope John also called upon Polish Premier Wojciech
Jaruzelski to lift martial law imposed several months ago
when the government crushed anti-government
demonstrations across the nation, outlawed Solidarity
and imprisoned the union’s popular leader, Lech Walesa. Washington - incidents of had challenged Diabio’s security _________
Walesa, whg§OUght and was greeter) permission the sabotage to. Poe nation's nuclear plan as inadequate. The-iawyers Pakistan's warm
government; to talk privately* with Pope John, has been power plants have been increas- were forbidden to tell their clients changed the cal
constantly watched by Polish secret police since he was
freed from prison and at times has been under house ar-
rest at his home.
In an apparent effort to pacify restive Poles, Premier
Jaruzelski promised John Paul the Communist regime
would lift martial law if the Solidarity underground avoid-
ed open clashes with authorities during and after the
pope’s visit.
Defying official warnings against causing new anti-
government protests, the pope defended Solidarity’s right
to exist before a cheering qrowd estimated at more than a
million people.
The pope’s open defiance of Communist authority and
his strongest condemnation of the government sparked
thunderous applause and cheers of “Longlive the pope!”
“It’s a question of a people’s right to free association. It
is not a right given us by the state. The state has the
obligation only to protect and guard it so that it is not
violated,” John Paul declared as the crowd waved
outlawed Solidarity banners,
It was his second homecoming since becoming pope in
1978. He has kept up continuous papal pressure on the
Communist regime aimed at persuading it to lift martial
law imposed in December 1981.
Along with Solidarity banners proclaiming peace,
courageous Poles waved American flags while the pope
appealed for an end to political slavery.
If it accomplished nothing else, John Paul’s visit en-
couraged Poles not to abandon their fight for freedom and
served notice on Communist rulers that the struggle will
not end until the goal is achieved.
Economy Expanding
The best news on the economic front since the recession
started two years ago is that the nation’s economy is now
expanding at an annual rate of 6.6. percent, its strongest
performance since early 1981.
That’s the real clincher as far as indicators of recovery
from the recession are concerned.
The preliminary projection of inflation-adjusted growth
in the gross national product (GNP) during the second
quarter of the year is the latest, most persuasive of
statistics pointing to a strong rebound from the 1981-82
slump. —
Although the Commerce Department’s estimate fell
shorf of optimistic predictions for a growth rate of 7 to 8
percent, some economists, including President Reagan’s
o.wn chief economic adviser, said the latest figures add up
to no more than a below-average recovery hampered by
high interest rates and budget deficits.
sabotage have been discovered
before any harm was done, but
the potential for disaster is terri-
fying.
In this situation, you might ex-
pect the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission — the government’s
nuclear safety watchdog — to
take vigorous action to strengthen
security at nuclear plants. This
would reassure the American
public that thousands of lives
won’t be endangered by terrorist
gangs, disgruntled employees or
deranged troublemakers.
Well, the NRC has taken action,
after a fashion. It issued a bulletin
warning plant operators to be on
the alert for sabotage.
But the bureaucrats have tried
to lull the public by giving the in-
cidents of clear sabotage a
soothingly euphemistic label:
“possible deliberate destructive
acts.” This sounds more like k 3-
year-old’s temper tantrum than
the malevolent act of a terrorist
that could lead to a nuclear
meltdown.
What is far worse, though, is
that the NRC has determinedly
kept secret how ill-prepared
nuclear plants may be to defend
themselves against saboteurs.
One reason they could be sitting
ducks is that the NRC’s safety
regulations are ridiculous. And
that, of course, is the reason for
all the secrecy. The agency
doesn’t want the public to know
how ludicrous its anti-sabotage
standards are,
According to the NRC’s rules,
every plant must have a
minimum of five guards on hand
Why all this "Sensitivity about a
mere number? The NRC’s official
position is that the number of at-
tackers is “safeguards informa-
tion” that could give terrorists
damaging information.
But the real reason is that the
NRC has something tsr hide —
namely, the absurdly low level of
protection it requires of its
nuclear plant license holders.
According to classified
documents seen by my associate
John Dillon, the number is — are
you ready? — four.
The NRC’s internal documents
define the attacking group as a
“small external group (two to
three people), armed with legal
weapons, with the possible
assistance of a plant employee. ’ ’
A handful of rent-a-cops — or
even a troop of Girl Scouts —
might be able to handle two or
three intruders, who may or may
not have a buddy inside the plant.
But what could the minimum
guard force of five do against a
dozen or more professional ter-
rorists armed with submachine
guns and bazookas? The NRC
doesn’t say.
Oddly enough, the NRC itself
recognizes in an internal memo
that “the major threat of
sabotage to a nuclear plant is
associated with the insider or
plant employee who has access to
vital areas.” Another memo
what Douglas was saying about
generosity^ be
call to a dinner.
Later, he changed it again to a
preliminary call and then din-
ner.”
But shortly before dinner, the
64-year-old actor suddenly felt
woozy. “The president came out
into the hallway to see what was
wrong..Douglas was feeling
lightheaded and dizzy,” the USIA
reported. “Douglas was taken to
the president’s own bed, where
President Zia removed his
shoes.” Zia sent for his personal
physician to examine Douglas.
The star’s indisposition was
temporary and not serious. After
he moved from the president’s
bed to his hotel, Zia sent flowers
and several messages of concern.
“The visit was an extremely
successful one,” the USIA con-
cluded.
JOHNNY ONE-NOTES: Life on
the Managua cocktail circuit can
be oppressively doctrinaire even
for a devout leftist. One left-wing
source — a “revisionist San-
dinista” now in exile — reports
that Nicaragua is a haven for all
kinds of leftist extremists, from
Palestinians, Irish and Cubans to
Bulgarians, Chileans, Argentines
and Uruguayans.
“All those aren’t so bad,” he
said. “The ones you have to run
from are the North Koreans. All
they do is talk about Kim II Sung.
It’s enough to drive you crazy.” •
From Sun Files
Wehring Led
Rotary Club
40 Years Ago
From The Baytown Sun files,
this is the way it was 40 and 30 and
20 years ago:
JUNE 29,1943
Outgoing Rotary President
W.C. Swain will turn over his
gavel to the new president,
August Wehring, tomorrow.
Goose Creek city tax rate for
1943 will remain at $1.40.
Four local men graduate from
Army Air Force aviation mechan-
ics schools. They are Charles L.
Barnhill, Albert J. Wolff and Jack
Odneal, all of Goose Creek, and
James Alton Humphrey of
Wooster.
Eucjid Norris, John Grant,
Bubba Kiber and Earl Berry, who
are leaving for service in the
Marines, are honored at a dinner
party by Mr. and Mrs. F.R.
Kiber.
JUNE 29,1953
Albert Mike Zarsky, 20-year-old
oil field worker from Highlands,
drowns in Tank Lake just off the
Beaumont Highway near the San
Jacinto River.
M.C. Rushing, Baytown Junior
High principal, discovers wide-
spread vandalism in the school
taiWfeg he opens his blftcfe
this morning. Police Chief H.E.
McKee says, “Everything in the
place was messed up.”
A.R. Booth is injured in a car
wreck on San Jacinto Street.
JUNE 29,1963
Lee College students get too
many A’s and B’s and not enough
C’s, according to the Visiting
Committee of the Southern
Association of Colleges.
Company B of the 143rd In-
fantry leaves for summer Na-
tional Guard camp at Fort Hood
tomorrow. The Baytown com-
pany is commanded by Capt.
Robert Williams of La Porte.
Cadet Harold E. Wert, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Harold C. Wert, is
attending the General Military
Science ROTC Camp at Fort Sill,
Okla. He is a student at Texas
A&M.
Reader's
Views
Japanese-American
warns that current regulations
‘ ‘do not provide enough protection
against threats by insiders.”
Footnote: An NRC official said
to defend against “several” at-
tackers. But the agency has taken A FAN IS BORN: It was a twist
great pains to cover up its defini-J on an old Hollywood flick. AH it
tion of the key word, “several”. lacked was a hard-boiled stage
For example, in 1981 the NRC’s
Berry's
World
"Oh, / am against sex discrimination, EXCEPT,
of course, as it relates to insurance and pension
plans."
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Leon Brown.....
Fred Hornberger.
Fred Hartman ...
Mike Graxiolaf
Bill Cornwell...
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ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT
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Atomic Safety and ,Licensing Ap-
peal Board issued an opinion ap-
proving the security plan for the
controversial Diablo Canyon
nuclear plant in Calfornia. But
the panel — and later the commis-
sioners themselvesi — classified
as secret the number of attackers
it expects the power plant
operators to defend against. Each
reference to the number of at-
tackers was deleted from the
board’s opinion. '
The commission even swore to
secrecy lawyers for the California
governor’s office and the San Luis
Obispo Mothers for Peace, who
Today In History
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Today is Wednesday, June 29,
the 180th day of 1983. There are
185 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On June 29, 1966, the United
States bombed North Vietnam’s
(fapital of Hanoi and the port of
Haiphong for the first time during
the Vietnam War.
On this date:
In 1880, France took control of
the Sputh Pacific island of Tahiti.
In 1973, former White House
counsel John Dean completed his
testimony before the Senate
Watergate Committee, unshaken
from his central charge thaf
President Richard Nixon had
taken part in a cover-up.
gible Verse
“turn not to those who have
familiar spirits, pr to wizards; do
not seek them out to be defiled by
them. I am the Lord your God.”
Leviticus 19:31
DOCTORING THE FACTS?: A
Veterans Administration doctor
in Milwaukee has been accused of
putting unsubstantiated charges
of alcohol and drug abuse into pa-
tients’ medical records. One pa-
tient, Ervin Carpenter of
Oshkosh, Wis., told my reporter
Leslie Adler that the report on his
, _ ____compensation-pension examina-
"manager to tell Pakistani Presi- . tibn by Dr. Axel Trangsrud “had
the agency is working to improve
the situation.
dent Mohammed Zia ul-Haq:
“You’re going out there a dic-
tator. You’ll come back a fan. ”
The star was Kirk Douglas. He
was visiting Afghan refugee
camps in Pakistan and was
mightily impressed by what he
saw: the Pakistanis giving aid
and comfort to thousands of
Afghans &ho had fled their
Soviet-occupied homeland.
“The president’s office had
agreed to have Douglas make a
call,” according to a confidential
U.S. Information Agency synop-
sis of the episode. “But as he
(Zia) began to-hear reports of
complete lies in it,”
Carpenter was given a medical
discharge for disabilities
resulting from several hundred
parachute jumps during his 11-
year Army career. He was stun-
ned to find an accusation of
“significant narcotic prescription
abusage...a continuing habitua-
tion... and a suspected intoxicant
misusage” in his file. »
Hospital officials acknowledged
that Trangsrud has been the
target of other, similar com-
plaints. But they said he was due
to retire soon. Trangsrud couldn’t
be reached for comment.
To The Sun:
I just finsished reading the
editorial, “What About
Americans Who Suffered in the
War?” (June 20). The editorial
discussed the recommendations
of the Commission on Wartime
Relocation and Internment of
Civilians to compensate Japan-
ese-Americans who were interned
during World War II.
I am a Japanese-American and
I was born in one of the intern-
ment camps during Wprld War II.
When I came into this world in the
shadow of barbed wires, I.
represented the third generation
of Americans in my family:
I was bo.rn in the Rowher in-
ternment camp in Arkansas; it
was the farthest east of camps in
the country. My family was sent
there after being abruptly
uprooted from their grocery store
business in Los Angeles. Because
of their short notice given then
and the nature of the times, my
parents sold their business at a
fraction of its worth.
Yes, I stand to gain from the re-»
cent decision of the Commission,
By
Ned
"BUDGETIN’"WILL BE WHAT
MOSfOFUS WILL BE DOIN'
NEXT MONTH - AFTER $ PENDIN’
THIS MONTH'? PAV LAST MONTH.
■\n
but that is not the reason for this
letter. My purpose is to clarify the
error which formed the basis of
the editorial. It stated that
“Japanese were spared injuries
and death suffered by scores of
Americans on the battlefields and
at home.”
This is not true. Japanese-
Americans VOLUNTEERED to
serve in the U.S. Army during
World War II. They fought and
died for their country in Europe.
In fact, the most decorated com-
bat unit in WWII was the 442 — a
group comprised solely of Japa-
nese-Americans. Their most
notable accomplishment during
the war, interestingly, was the
rescue of the 36th “Texas” bat-
talion. They were on the brink of
annihilation in the Vosges Moun-
tains in France when the 442
came successfully to their aid —
? not without extensive losses to
their number. The experiences of
the Japanese-Americans in the
442 was made into a movie entitl-
ed “Go For Broke”.
My father was in his late 30s
-when we were at Rowher, and he,
too, served in the Army. That is
one of the few things that I know
about our family’s experience in
the camp — they have chosen to
tell me very little about it.
Albert T. Kondo
2208 Cedar Bayou
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