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Editorials • Features • Opinions
tington Report - -
arlned Products Are
Being Shipped Abroad
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‘Hereafter’ Talk 7
Is Big Business
Is there life after life?
Perhaps. But one thing is certain. None of the supposed
, scientists or researchers wtw claim to have studied it have
done so. ■* -
How, you may aik, can we be rare,
it's fairly simple.
Life itself is a biological state of being with a rather
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precise sei or urnnnjons
Death, too, has a definition. One of the key words in the
definition of death is "irreversible."
Thus, if a person U dead, be is dead and not coming
back to life as we know It - not even to give us a sneak
peak at the hereafter as many have claimed.
One reason the confusion has arisen la commercialism.
Death and mysticism are b)g business, and those who Hde
the book and lecture circuit talking of "out of body" ex-
periences are raking in money by the fistful.
People want to hear that they are Immortal. It makes
them feel good - though we don’t know why. Humans
are willing to pay a good buck torhear what they want to
hear from an authority figure.
A second reason for the confusion over the supposed
"return from the dead" is the new medical technologies
that have forced scientists to be more precise in the
definition of death.
Once a person was thought to be depd when his natural
breathing stopped, or when his heart ceased to beat. /
Today, however, there are machines that can sustain
and restore arrested heartbeat or respiration. So we have
turned to the brain - the seat of emotion and Intelli-
gence - as .the final criterion to determine death.
Once the brain is dead, the person Is dead. No matter
how hard the doctors work they cannot restore a dead
brain to life.
Thus, the old story about the man who says he died, but
doctors restored him to life, am no longer hold water.
J That Individual merely suffered a cardiac arrest, but
physicians managed to get his heart working again before
serious damage was done to his brain. ___________
* So how do we explain the "out-of-body" experiences
which, according to Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, occur
regularly when individuals an resuscitated after a clou
brush with death?
Dr. Nathan Schnaper, a psychiatrist at the Maryland In-
stitute for Emergency Medicine, says the stories these
patients tell are psychological fantasies. Dr. Schnaper °
sees hundreds of revived trauma patients every year.
In a recent article in Medical World News he is quoted
as saying "these people are experiencing a vacuum, and
psychologically we cant abide a vacuum. It’s a void that
must be filled, so they Invent there experiences"
He adds that "in most cases, especially after cardiac
1; arrest, they-are amnesiac," ,
"I don't believe there is any proof these people have
visited an afterlife," Dr. Schnaper says, “But they think
they were dead and brought back to life, so everything
they get now is bonus time."
From Sun Files - -
\ Henry Cathriper Led
Welfare League, 1938
8^ MB™ «,OF
<x»ReE,TBea9S an BfeRey orastfe “
Sadat: ‘No Room To Deal’ - -
Egypt, Cyprus Divided
On ‘Hireling Killers’
By PAUL GREENBERG
Syadkalti MhiIm
Anwar Sadat continues to im-
press When • prominent Egyp-
BaaasitkailJsiwwdUinwki -
Nicofli and the government*
there refuses to hand over thoee
deemed responsible hot instead
wants to talk about it, Sadat re-
plies that he has nothing to say
until "typra hands over the
, hireling killers, and then we
rittlrtait talking."
Diplomatic relations with Cy-
prus an broken off and tbs
Egyptian president minces ho
words: "riiereisnoroom forus
to deal «dth dwarfs such as
these." For Sure , -t
H Anwar Sidat's reaction
seams harsh, consider the cir-
cumstances There an still in-
numerable and unanswered
questions about the esse with
whkhYouitti total, (he Egyp-
tian editor, was slain.
Why is Cyprus cracking down
on various reportrs and the dep-
uty police chief who dared talk
to them? Nicosia showed ire,
markable readiness to gwBre '
ate with (he terrorists in getting -
than to the atari, out of the
country and back in.
Cypriots working closely with
tbf Palestine Liquidation Or-
ganization in the matter, despite
the PLCs format protestations.
- Turtarcyifiw twgnH'Mr
Egyptian interrogate the sus-.
pects enhances those suipi-
' dons. .
For yean Cyprus has been a
. notorious Safe House for the
PLO and various other brands of
terrorists - from the Irish Re-
publican vArmy to the Japanese
Red Army.
Its government didn't object
so long as the bloody deeds
planned on Cyprus wfaf carried
out elsewhere.
Tha^ attitude lends credence
to {he rumor tHSrt Nicosia was
preparing to furnish the killers
of Youseff Sebaei with pass-
ports out of the country when
the Egyptian commandos in-
traded, did were shot slovm.
And now in the aftermath of
this assassination, and in light of
his country’s long record, the
president of the Cypriot repub-
lic - Spyros Kyprianous - can
ptoosly plead: "We do not wish
typrus to be turned into an .
arena for the settlement of Arab
disputes,”
i Baytown Sun Hies,
ray It was 40 and SO
FTWr'
this is th#N
Directors of the W-CIties
Welfare Leagued Henry
Cathrincr president i
groundwork for a |S,000
rial drive;
Ooeie Creek Cl
Commerce dtaton nsk
Missouri FacUle not. to cwtall
passenger service between here
and Houston. .
m theoUfJMta Barton Hill.
i . Ed J. Dickens, former Itoas
Ranger and Oooie Qteek City
STrut
Memorial Hospital, savseon-
siruction is almost completed on
the hospital and expects It wiU
be open in April.
QnmMctbodlMCSitirclilereu
(114,000 contract for an Oduci-
tkm building.
OmriesT Forque. Jack
Cwpetata Mmpky jMeNrity'
v comprise a trumpet trio in a
Robert E. l.ee Bahd program
Their accompanist is Jerilyn
Wilburn.
James FVymlre, Patsy Cater,
Peggy Miner and H, E. Brunson
RUMORS ABOUND about the CAN ANYONE Name Anwar
Sadat (or Nb show of contempt?
His refusal to compromise with
international terrorism, when it
is directed against Ms own peo-
--*
One might not agree with An-
war Sadat’s every word and tac-
tic in this affair, but his attitude
bespeaks an elemental sense of
national self-respect. It might be
described, if His Exeelleuty’
would not be offended, as Is-
raeli.
There is much to be learned
from President Sadat’s ap-
proach to this matter. What a
mob on Cyprus killed the Ameri-
can ambassador a few yean agp,
Snd its government proved re-
markably'dilatory in seeking out
the killers, Washington did not
break Qffrelations.
WHEN THE killers of not one
but two American diplomats at
Khartount-pt^j^fUsed in
Egyptian custody, Washington
did not break relations with
Cairo and say: “Hand over the
killers and then
talking.”
Yes, Anwar Sadat’s attitude
impresses. One wishes it would'
inspire our own State Depart-
ment. And one wishes, again,
^ that this guy were on our team.
- By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON - The UJ.
government shamelessly allows
profiteers to opart cancer-caus-
ing products, defective baby
goods and hazardous pesticides
to the unsuspecting people in un-
derdeveloped countries. Even
products that have been banned
from the American market can
be legally sported. -
' Ibis may not fit the image
most Americans have of them-
selves as a compassionate peo-
ple who pour out food and cloth-
ing to the leas fortunate.
YU M
the government permits com-
panies to export products that
have been withheld from Amiri-,;
cans as unsafe. Our associate
Gary Cohn nailed down the evi-
dence by poring as a clothing
representative who wanted to
• unload Tris-treated children's
' sleepwear overseas.
The Consumer Product Safety
Commission has banned Tris-
treated sleepwear from U.S.
stores after discovering it could
eatue iafleer. Yw Cotafrad do -
trouble finding companies will-
ing to purchase the harmful
sleepwear for export to children
outside the United States. >'
We should tan that it is not
-illegal to Sell the banned chil- .
dren’s clothing overseas, but it is
certainly morally reprehensible. '
At the LMR Trading Co. in
New York City,.an official told
Cohn that his firm would un-
load the Tris-treated* sleep-
wear ia South America. He cited
Argentina, Brasil and Peru as
markets his company could sup-
' Ply- .
However, in a subsequent
phone call, Frank Rodosta told *
Cohn that after checking on the
Tris-treated sle^wear, “I
wouldn’t touch it and I wouldn’t
export it." Companies that ex-
port the products, he said, have
“no consideration for human life
.. . children.” A lot of export-
ers, Rodosta said, "don't care
what the hell they sell.”
ANOTHER NEW York firm,
called Cresmond Industries, of-
fefed to purchase the sleepwear
but refused to say where it
would be shipped. Helena Fab-
rics ol New York City would not
. buy. Tris-treated garments but
would consider exporting Tris-
treated fabric lor sale “mostly to
Africa.”
An official of Intercontinental
Dyvours, Inc., in Hialeah. Fla.,
stated that his company would
purchase the condemned sleep-
wear lor export to South Ameri-
and take credit with the voters
for bringing federal money into
their community. The president
iariracted his Cabinet members
"personally to double-check in
their departments and to raise
the subject at their next staff
TRADE AMBASSADOR Rob-
' eft Strauss, doubling as a politi-
cal adviser, urged the president
to meet with business, labor,
consumer, religious and ethnic
groups. Cuter not only agreed to
lit down with more delegations
out laiieu on ms csoifrci iaip -
cers to sttend “such meetings si
the White House whenever they
■ are asked to do so." .......- -
+ The secret minutes for the
Nov. XI, 1977 Cabinet meeting
show that Attorney General
Griffin BeU "outlined the Jus-
tice Department’s attempts to
institute merit selection of Ui.
Attorneys.” Apparently the ef-
fort fell flat. Not long after-
ward, be fired David Marston,
the U.S. Attorney in Philadel-
phia, fm purely political ire
SOM,
+ Defense Secretary Harold
Brown offered the president his
analysis of the emotional op-
position to the Panama Cinri
treaties. "The general unease
about the treaties," he sug-
gested, “derives chiefly from the
belief that they are part of a gen-
eral retreat of American power
and influence."
+ Labor Secretary Ray Mar-
shall has been trying to weed out
unnecessary regulations that
have grown up around job
safety. He reported to the presi-
dent on his efforts to eliminate
over one thousand regulations
"|knt ssa gifld |
vnm arc inn i
worker safety and health.'
told the president ruefully that it
isn't easy in bureratiatlc Wash-
ington “to revokb regulations.”
+ President Carter is deeply
troubled over the U.S. obliga-
tion to the Vietnamese refugees
who have been turned away by
one country after another. They
have become a people without a
country. He directed his nation-
al security adviser, Zbigniew
Brzezinski, to “seek ways to ad-
•mitmore refugees to this coun-
try and to encourage other coun-
tries to accept them.”
HEALTH
By Lawrence E. Lamb, M.D.
School Reporter's Views -
Gwen Davis is elected preiu- £
What is unfit for American
children, apparently, can be sold
to foreign children.
, , „ , Footnote: Cobn made an-
we shall start other telephone call to each
company listed in his story and
identified himself as a reporter.
A Cresmond Industries official
conceded he had made inquiries
about selling Tris-treated gar-
ments to Central Africa, but had
never actually made any sales. A
representative of Intercontinen-
\l tal Dyvours, Inc., also said that
his company hadn’t sent any
Iris-treated garments overseas.
“Stardust,” the senior play at
MARCH t, INI
DEAR DR. LAMB-I am
male, 46 years old; 165
pounds and am 5-feet*8. I
have had high blood pres-
sure since 1972.1 am in the
Air Force and doctors tried
several medications pnd did
not agree. Finally they Rut
me on my present medicines
of Aldomet, 250 mg, two
tablets three times daily
plus Dyazide, one capsule
two-times a rtery. ■ -..........
My blood pressure is con-
trolled and is 108 over 78.1
have a slight headache occa-
sionally. I am hot on any ■
-special diet or a low salt
diet. „ • .
„ Do you think l am taking
too much medicine? What
^ will taking too much medi-
cine do to my health in the
future?
DEAR READER Your
. pressure is certainly well
controlled.. That objective
has been reached- The other
question is now you feel; and
if you have no more com-
plaints than you mentioned,
■ you are doing great.
The decision as to whether
a person is taking too much
medicine depends upon
whether the medicine
causes any unwanted symp-
toms or complications. If it
doesn’t then everything is
fine.
Individuals have tq be in-
dividually regulated dri vari-
ous combinations of. blood
pressure medicines. What
works for one is not neces- ,
sarily-yjp best program for
the next case.
I would advise you to lose
weight. It might enable you
to get .along on less medi-
cine. You are too heavy for a
person of your height, unless ‘
you have a lot of;muscles.
The test is whether you have
You should know' that if
both parents had exception-;
illy good characteristics
that such a union might
produce some exceptional
children too.
Finally, with new tech-
niques of drawing fluid out
of the sac around the baby in
the uterus the doctors can
determine from cells ja_the
fluid in advance if the baby
wiHbe healthyornot.-fhen •
you are faced with the deci-
sion of whether to continue
the pregnancy or hot if the
baby has a defect.
of the Methodist
it St. hull
Church Murray
JaneUe Smlthermsn, secretary
City of Baytown commends
Red Own woriten for their
work after the explosion at
United Rubber and Chemfoal
Co. in January.
Here Is Not The Issue
By O’ EVA LUTTOUNGER
Some parents have complain-
ed for two yeara that their
children are not learning what
they should in school and, now,
get their money’s worth, It
seems to me.
I started ofl by saying I
haven’t heard criticism of
teachers in gmenl and !'d like
to reiterate that.
“outsidera” as “we,” it’s going
to be very difficult, perhaps im-
possible, to effect a true evalua-
tion of the problems and work
Anyway, that’s my opinion -
Barbs
B> FM1L PASTORBT
When wishing on e star,
tint make aure it’a not a
747,’s wing light.
What dM they de with
etaieate before eUvn were
kveeted te at»« ft ta?
some teachers are comphiniM to reiterate that Anyway, that s m
that tacutty morak ts at an att What f have heard criticisms for wtud it^i worth,
time tot because of the oThay^ been “progwaatoe" 4 *
The Way
It Was
W$t Paptoton ^>un
Leon Brown ..............................................Editor and Publisher
Fred Hornbtrgor.......Asiiitnnf to Publisher'
Fred Hartman.......................... Editor and Publisher, IM0-IW4
(Chairmen ol Board Southern Newspapers, mci)
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Preston Pendergrass.........................................Executive Editor
jlm Finley........................................................Managing Editor
Wanda Orton...........................Associate Managing Editor
AOVIRTIMN® DiPARTMINT
jerry Winfon....................I.......................Retail Manager
Pat B. McDonald........................................Classified Manager
criticisms. ■
I’ve been to many meetingii
about schools inthetott couple
of yean and hive never heard
one person level charges of in-
competency against tills dis-
trict's teacbcnia general.
There has been a suggesttoh
that teachers be required to take .
annual cesnpe4ency t«#ts,vbut 1
can’t understand why this should
upset teachen, people who
went thrcHip at leMt fouf ,mn .
of college training to Irani to
fwwH-fo and who are dedicated to
this district's children.
It srould seem, conversely,
competency teats.
This couWebminate those few
leachen who »re not competed,
trends in educational propams,
undermining of parental
authority, lack of dtedpitae,
cused us of deceptive tactic!, #
; fused to. answer our questions,
i told us to “go drop dead" and
slammed down the phone.
, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Gslif.,
will introduce legislation pro-
hibiting the export of products
banned from the U.S. market.
Behind Closed Doors: What
happens behind dosed White
> House doors is often more news-
worthy than the public an-
nouncements. Here are some
news items from confidential
White House
any significant fat under the
skin around the waist. If you
do and have any tendency to
high blood pressure you
should get rid of it. And I do
think it is a good idea to cut,
down on your salt as well as ,
keep your potassium intake
up through fresh fruits and
fruit juices.
DEAR DR. LAMB --A
friend is going to marry his
first cousin. If they should
have any children will it
affect their health any?
DEAR READER - That
depends. If both have strong
Today In
History
Today ,is Thursday, March 2,
the 61st day of 1978. There are
304 days left in the year.
.Today’s highlight in history:.
On this date in'1836, Texas i
proclaimed, independence from
Mexico.
On this date: —--------
In 1585, Sir FYancis Drake-
left Britain for the West Indies
as a privateer.
In 1775, colonists in Provi-
dence, R.I., publicly burned 300
. pounds of British documents
and tea.
In 1776, American Marines
fought their first battle, captur-
ing a. British fort in the Ba-
hamas. * .
In 1861, Dakota was; organ- ,
ix«l as a U.S. territory.', ” ^
i In 1949, an American B-50 Su-
perfortress landed at . Fort
± President Garter told sub- genes free of transmitting j
«u«ren to be compete
Don’t they have i rig
mand better education
rig* to de-
tforthefr
see tint
imWi
N.
wnctfptwmn.
sit
graduates, lack of educational
- standards, committment'to l
single teaching approach and the
attitude of closedness in the
schools.
Ali of theae things are decided
> and implemented by peo-
thu teachers and I
people recogniae
that. ■
latootobik~lhwie1thattoi
that most people are not in- |
terestod in ptacinx btaroe for
pa« Wtores
comfitiom which dn lead to
But, I believe there is no
to determine how to improve un-
til the reasons far the failures
Teachen have called for unity.
Administrators have called for
unity. Parents have called for
“with ail the oil far utoty.lt *
capes me bow some people can
stilt be thinking interim of we
yg dfey,
Trine and again I have heard’
administrators refer to school
W»*
i«H_.
"they.” ■:
Until everyone is ready to
thtok of school people and the
March \ 1778 - fob bfrthday
of DeWitt Ctiatoa, “father” o<
Erie Cta ■
Bible Vi
verse
I endure all
THEREFORE I endure ail
tth|l for toe elect's takes,
that they may ebtato the
salndtoa which h to Christ
Jama with etenal gtory. D
Timothy 2:10
ordinate that he ”i» I
in keeping in close touch with
the ndltuy in tattoos ways, in-
duduig frequent meetings with
the Joint Chiefi and visits on air-
craft, .nuclear submarines” and
other ixxUitoury craft. The presi-
dent boasted that he “has gen-
erated a .compatibility among
the.stntta planners of our gqv-
enunent unknown in former ad-
ministrations.” ' { - -
+ Jimmy Carter is eager to
scratch cocgreeriooM backs rad
win more friends on Capitol ffill.
Congressmen mipiefr to Mm,
be informed-the Cabinet, toot
they aren’t notified about feder-
al grants to their districts They
iike to issue the anoouncements
any disease the children
should be healthy. But, if
both cousins happen to have '
a weak gene for some dis-
ease that neither knows
about, and one child gets
such a weak gene from rach
parent, the child will have a
defect related to that partic-
ular gene.
Usually we can’t tell If we
have a weak gene or not
because the strong, gene of
the paired genes determines
our characteristics and >
health.
Tfre only good way to re-
solve such a problem is to
have genetic counseling. By
studying the potential par-
ents the danger of , having a
child witjl a problem, can
often be pinpointed. I
Worth Texas, after completing
the first non-stop flight around
the world.:
In 1962, there was a military
coup in Burma in which Pre-
mier U Nu was, overthrown tor
Gen. Ne Win. „ . :
Readers’
Views
Dear Editor: '_______
Has anybody wondered,
the controvosial film, “You and -
the Law, ” was initially approved
by the director of the school dis- *
trict Media Center, . Clyde ,
Messiah, and the curriculum
torector, CuffixMetring?
If I were a teadier in tto -
system said these well-paid ad- •
ministrators approved this film, .'
I believe I would probably feel ;
is my opinion, if there has j
been a/hpe ia toe proper :
screening of material presented *
for teaching aids, the fault does
hot Be toth the individual .
teacher
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