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Editorials • Features • Opinion
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• THE BAYTOWN SUN W*dn*iday) January 25, l»7l
No Results In
U.S.-Viet Talks
The third round of discussions aimed at normalizing
relation* between the U S and Vietnam ended In Haris
with a rommumque that the negotiation* were "trank,
positive and cordial ' - the usual diplomatic patois lor
concealing a lack ol major results r"
Minor improvement was evident, however, as was the
case alter the two previous meetings in Hans Vietnam
agreed to release three captured America ns. and
yacht sqptf a team Of experts to Hawaii Ip learn U S tech
mrjbcs for identifying war dead, and lo attend a fourth
meeting 1
Undoubtedly, Vietnam's comparatively more rational
approach in Hans was partially due to the slight thaw in
Jhe American attitude toward Hanoi since May Alter the
previous two meetings, the U S. permitted Vietnam to
enter the United Nations, allowed private U S .organiza-
tions to send aid to Vietnam and relaxed its opposition to
international lending to Hanoi
These movements are at the periphery ol the problem.
I
Washington Report
A PfeaTo Kidnappers
Of William Neihous:
Vietnam Hanoi has almost a complete disregard tor
human rights as it consolidates its hold on the former
South Vietnam And flanoi continues to insist that the
U S owes it as much as $5 billion, either (or war repara ‘
tions or because ot moral obligations
Most assuredly, the political climate in the U S, would
not permit the administration or Congress to yield on
these issues as the price lor normal relations with Vjci
twin ” .* '
.CONGRESS
itiaasgi
J s
Taking The Sex Out
Kurther on government language, (he Department ot
Labor is taking the sex out of one of its standard refer-
ence works ’. . . . .
In the latest edition ot its dictionary o! occupational
titles, updaUnl Irom 1965. 3.0jW have been revised to
eliminate connotations ol sex "Draftsman, lorex
ample, has become drawer and bat handler is the
new handle lor you guessed it - bat boy
The new rnllUon also contains more than 2,000 new or-
Which says something about our rapidly changing socie-
ty '
"Shucks-we figure the sun will thaw it out-"
Capital Spotlight - -
I
Bayh Renews Fight To
Kill Electoral Gollege
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Berry’s World
Jake me W Steven Spmergi -
») HAUL GHKENHKRt,
\n\iluHint (olumnm
lie s starling up again Sen
Urn'll Bayh ol Indiana ts bark
living to do in the Klertroal Ubl-
lege__.
The bulky mailing m lavnr of
direci election ol (lie president
that he seat out recently ronxti -
’Hites the most euriou* larraga ol
—political reveres «nnee--tf—t?—
Hunt s "Alpaca nr mav.be
Walden II
Sen Hally s product comes tin
leavened by even a pinch ot his-
torical. experience Judge lur
yourself Irom these remarkable
and revealing, excerpts from (he
senator s letter
America s democracy is
rooted in ike tenet that every
and the candidate who receives
Uie iinsi votes wins It is a stm
pie and fundamental concept '
Hilt imeffias democracy is
rooted in perhaps the most com
, plestrcftecked and balanced; arts
■ tie and shifting, meehamcal and
'""organic; and therefore reslnmt
political product ol Hie not very
simple, nund of ISth Century
Western man The Constitution
—of the l mled States
Iti,it .Newtonian system was
not dosiitncd to i«me anything
-o simple mi! arhidarv as One.
•Man One Vote H'was meant to ~
ensure ttui a multiptertvoT m-
terwts would not- tie ifwffinatetf
to any -Single one I>T.tfera, .md
. that score then the Affiencan
( (institution would soon enough
have proven a brittle failure
It is perhaps because the blee-
joral College s function changed
to -relied developments largely
unanticipated in IW7" Tike trie
two-party system, that it has en
(hired and the presidency with it.
Senator Hash makes the all aw
- to (fttiitofi smimpfum an- these.
times that the. old must'Ik- the
archaic - •: ,
And then m- cites an institu-
tion s ability to change its (unc-
tion js.pruut.ftuUt.is.nu longer
needed and never wa. His is as
we noted eartien remarkable
perlor'manre
whisk threatens to subvert the
popular will and place m the na-
tion s highest elected office a
person who was defeated in the
popular vote . Isn t it-strange
then how regularly, just about
every four.years this terrible in-
strument ol subversion faith-
fully. rapidly, accurately beyond
any doubt or quibble, translates
thPTvrlt ot millions id1 rotervmto ~
i dear mandate, usually over-
night ’ That s an awful lot to at-
tribute to luck
Only it the historical record is
Ignored, and il Senator Hayh s
entirely llicoreticai calculations
take its place, might the sena-
tor s bogeyman retain its power
to scare Americans into the di-
rect i
By JACK ANDERSON
WASHING,TUN We hive ah
urgent meskagf for the masked
- guerrillas who barged into Wd; „
liam "Neihous home in Vene-
. zueia two years ago and earned
. him olf at gunpoint '
Niehous is an Owens-Illinois
executive who has been held for
political ransom by anti-go*ern-
ment forces A grim, alive-or-
dead question- mark -has hung
over his fate ever since hishaig)
written jppeai,mrimsfhl syd-
Backstage effort to save Nie- v
hous' life 18 months, ago Wc
wdre approached hy an inter
, mediary who suggested that the
kidnappers would accept our in-
tervention We were'directed to
write a letter to Venezuela s
President Peres ottering to serve
as an intermediary for Nielidus
sale return Unaccountably. the
.letter was ignored.
We can now cite evidence that ■
the American businessman was
• itfrrmmmtrTapmT artate as -~
March 1977, A new ransom of-
‘‘“ferTSirnjHiHe wiffipol^jpuc””
' proof that Niehous was alive,
' was secretly mailed to an
Owens-Illinois office in Europe
r last April..........— ——
The company "was warned,
sternly to say nothing to the po-
lice or the press But tragically,
the negotiations misfired
through rio one's lault. Not. an-
other word has been heard trom
life kidnappers. We have no al-
ternative, therefore, but to make
another attempt to communi-
cate with the kidnappers,
through our newspapers,
Here's what happened The
-Venezuelan guerrillas, probably
unfamiliar with the European
. postal service, deposited their
’ ransom oiler in a seldom-used
mail drop Thus the packet
showing Niehous still alive
wasn't found until a week later
’ Meanwhile, Owens-Illinois ot-
-ticrah......remveW-Tererat - tele- -
phone calls demanding a blunt
ves-or-no response to the unde-
livered ransom demand. The
-puzzied—exeputives protested _
that they had no knowledge of -
any ranswrj note Impatiently,
the woman caller hung up
million acres out of production
m order to keep wheat prices up
the farnWare not to blame
, they ranqol afford to sell wheat
tor less than their production
costs
THE l S HAS also been more
generous than any other nation
when it comes to feeding the
hungry Six. million metric tons
—ot I S wheat, stored on farms
-and in gram elevators, are now
earmarked for emergency uses
around^hjj world, •
.But impoverished nations are
alarreedtyer the U S. cutback in .
wheat production.' Agriculture
•Secretary Bob Bergland has
been questioned bv a number of
agriculture ministers about this
wheat sdt-aside'prografh.
He reported to President Car-
ter recently that he has beeyi
frequently asked whether, in
light of the U S. restrictions on
wheat set-asides, there* will be
enough wheat to go ar-dund next.
year " Bergland told the preS]-
ifent he was able.tpjsassufe 1...
other countries that there is 1
HEALTH
By Lawrence E. Lamb, M.D.
UTAH nit
want to find
Mi me if an
the first (ear
IAMB 1
ut it you can
ilness during
at my life. -1)8
u> agoi has anything to
with the illness' i liave
n li.iv i;.c fundi vears, ' —
director ftvr the National
Commission for the control
of Epilepsy and its Conse-
quences estimates that
20,000 new cases of epilepsy
occur each year because of
automobile accidents. ;
i hud iijeninv;itis. St Vitus - -
The i oinmission is m om-
i lain c ,im!'partial par.iBsi-
■' fnending lii the president
"f my left si'lt vutii '■unviil-
and c<uigres.-: that the 55 mile
si>>is> Em Ihu weeks G‘>' tors,
an hour speed limit he vigor-
ihoiiiHi! J wen!<1 nut live, hut ■ -
ously enforced This obser-
/liter the fnnrth we.ek.Hiev
vation alone should remind
N.ll'i I wtml.T
everyone that he or she can
Mme than .fa \ear.- ai'.u. I
become an epileptic in the
Hiucan Jf.r. im; epileptic
future if y stroke, automo-
,ill.ii k-. li.tuili: to be hte.pl-
bile .undent or illness of
lalized -rwrai limes Ms
any type causes brain dam-
no,"i<l «ill -t.i> - torn up hut 1
age
have not had a seizure m
Coping with your illness
oxei five year- I am Jaking
and medications may tic fac-
the ineda ine that 'was pre-
tors in your depressions.
mTilled for me and was told 1
.,..,.14 .. i.TTrr'.—rvrr.-,.-,«..
However, many people have
n1 b» jy> _'h<
Mr K tCrrl T -t t 0 - u,
lo II round oi electoral roulette and incalculable risks
nTlfit mri tested" pri i mtses
From Sun Files - -
In 1958 Plans Began
For St. James House
from Rte IteyhpyfyfiHiwttte.
this is the way it was 40 and 30
and 20 years ago
• JAN 25, 192*
• The Petty water system will be
;>n vViti-r hieters as soon assays
Mawr E I Petlv The Hat rate
:,*vf;g 3h a monti;-will iie (ih-
Kagle Awards to Bdbert Smith
.It, Lirry White add JoeJEccles
Tit a Boy Scout Court of Honor
' Construction plans are an-
mranred tor StThimes House, a
home tor the ageC to tie built
near thrTWerkectioh of Baker
I (cut and H.ivwav three
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Readers’ Views
that ttw liberties of all would not
he coiwumed hy the amawed
jkiwei of all *
One Man Hue Vote m.iv he
one of Hie simpler and later ga
1 pies atop this remarkable and
I'ver evDlvme Mrucliire. but it is
-4g-5it-tor the trrst TOtcgiHtaiw
••bed • - ’ -
l (• (Yantord is chahciMlor
. omin mdt! ui the Emghb of
iMt'- o \liv Medora Vidrine jsJ
- miist excellent chiel ot . the .
Pythian Mvier-'
Haymvvn Police Chief Hoy
Atontgomefy promises . a
crackdown-oh youths who are
■operating motor scooters and
niotoi hike-, on HreeB without
Twators licenses.
’ JAN 25, 194* '
IT IE NEXT D.WLshe called
tvvice aeafn with a terse ultima-
tum that the company -'agree or
disagree m the ransom propos-
. at ’ The executives still had to
plead ignorance. They rah-
>ai,k«FWlro!(?fe‘sMil( hihgth,
vain for some communication
Irom the kidnappers
.A day later, the caller was
back on the line m an angry,
. mood. 'T know you have the let-
ter. T she declared "What T the
decision'1 "Ini' not going to call
again." A distracted official
tried to persuade' her the com-
i jany was still in the dark. She
i hung up for the Iasi time,
j After it was too late, the pack-
et belatedly arrived. . IL con-
,tamed a poignant letter from
Niehous to his colleagues and his
Wife. a. men;icing threat irom his
colors and dramatic proof-ihat.r
he was still alive.
ThicioseiLwas a piiTn-rinTfInrfF
I get very despondent at.
'.-lines I c'i-t things mi mv
mmd- th;4- uiuibt amt lo- be
there and canntW act rid of
-them, and get very nervnus
lan these depicssed
. Ihiiiiphts come from.the ill
jess i bad. ,vv!icn_,j. _ was.
TTUIiui l*an I cvcr-fmpc To be
ridievCii from' tins tension
and depression '
!)K.AH HEADEH Epi-
jiqisy is more common than
ncoplc real'..')' There
an two general .categories,
acquired epilepsy and
idiopathic 'cause unknown»
As ■ ways to study the brain
have improved, more cases
of acquired epilepsy have
been found Anyone can be-
come art epileptic. A major
cause for acquired epilepsy,
is brain injury. The injury ■
can come from trauma or
from an illness such as you
tlcscri be that-Aran i‘a usi •_
da iiuiije a reads the potent ia I
holding a newspaper clearly
dated March 19,4977, There was
also a note in his own hand,
pleading “please keep this se -
cret and urging his wife Don-
na, to “remain strong." The cap-
tors added a.warning .that the
attacKs"' Individuals who
have sfrbkeTTnav develop.,
epilepsy as a' complication
, caused by the brain ddin-
agxjTa in the stroke” ; .,
Vim may be . greatly
surprised to learn that Dr
Richard Mas-land, executive
depressions or feel de-
pressed who do not have
epilepsy either. To give you
a--better tuu/mtandifig of
depressions and what to do
about them, I am also send-
ing you The Health Better
number 10-10, Depression:
Wte Bps and-Uw-wns of Bite-
iteaders who want this issue
can send 50 cents for it to the-
s.jiiic address.
".’Vour five years without
convulsions is an example of
how w ell .controlled attacks
• can he with "the proper-use of
modern medicines. Some-
times it does take a long
time, to find theTight combi-
nation of medicines, but al-
most all case's can be man-
aged to thejioint that coiivul- -
sions are ..rare .Or 'non-'
existent.1 The 'HTedical
advances have made it pos-
sib'ieTor most people with
epilepsy to lead a com-.,..
pietely normal life. The big-
gest problem inost epileptics
have is coping with theteno-
-r(mee-,-of-tht-general-piibtic
concermng this rather com-
mon disease. If you get de-
pressed about having epi-
lepsy just rfrmember, that
many of the world's greats
were epileptics, including.
Julius Caeser and Alexander..
thc-Crcat
record-setting wheat crop in the
ITS this year" ■> -
But the world hunger prob-
lem will get, worse, not better
Bergland believes the develop-
ing countries mould do better to
import US farming methods
than U S. wheat "One of the
most difficult problems." he ex-
plained lo the president, "ts gett-
ing the producing countries to
accept-modern technology, even
m its simplest form “ .
. Carter's Shoe Box - Presi- ■
’ dent Carter has been directing
his o^-lobbying campaign ;,to ;
"^usp an energy bill trhough Con-.
. gresl. He has"met personally-
wish House Energy Chairman
Thomas "Lud" Ashley. D-Ohio.
and Ways and Means Chairman
Al t.llman, IHJre <
Afterward, the president in-
structed Energy Secretary
Janies Schlesmger to consult
closely with. the two powerful
chairmen. One Ways and Means
member told us: "the presi-
dent is so desperate for an en-
ergy btlt that he would-accept er
shoe box if it was labeled Eft-,.______
ergy.'".
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' - Dear Editor
On June 7.1977, the voters m
Ifeidc County, Fla . deleated an
1 . ordinance Hat Would law
HVUffp* tonomostx- ”
The g»y» ol fade Coun-
tv demanded the "rtfhr lo
feachTn privale and religious
homosexuals on a quota -bawx -.
ThisTvould include schools, hos-
pitals and. other institutions. —
IT should be noted also (h
"rtvtl rights" loir’ homosexuals |
one of the issues promoted at l
rteent National Women's CorTI
Terence in Houston ■
American dcmocM, \
THE'KI ECTOKAL (Wllege T?
sysiem. whtdr never
rated as the framers ot our””’
t ‘onstitutii* intended tl is m ab
irottf to the principles of Amen -
(-an democracy." Lots of things
|M.i\s sh.H - worn that were
made m.fHe I88tls and 1890s
Mrs Ucriic AA tsiH-, Eyvhii
I
acceptable lifestyle
Now pending fcglslaiion.
Mouse Resolution 299« intro-
dined by Edward I Koch of
New York, is proposed to grant
rtvil rights lo homosexuals
Specifically tbe blit would
amend the Civil Rights Art of
1964 The change would require
employers' to seek out and hire
pose Hus bill write to their rep-
resentatives in Washington now
In Dade County V S pereenf or
me voters asked lot repeat ofthe
, jay '' ordinance Let $ get busy
’ m»w and defeat this immoral leg-
islation m Washington
etale the way its framers in-
tended. it they ever did Includ-
ing the body of which Senaie
Bayh is a member The Umied
Stales Senele ran be an affront
lo the principles ol American de-
morracy on quiet -different
Mrs Charles E Seim gmumty .including Jlsuiffliibei?’
’ - ®*6 historical illiteracy. -
riH-enliy moved from the nurses
l5«4rrfH«g.at Ui
Wisromsin. is honored at a
housewarming -
, JAN. 2a. 195.x
James E Sherwood presents
are adopted in yesterday s elec-
lion fav a thumping maiority ot
‘sevemlo one .Vole count is 1.888:
TgTalTtraTjgainst' ™~~--
• Electric truth service between
the TrHIties and Houston is in-
terrupted alter a power line
hreqks. ......
Today In History im
Sfxiartotim »un
Highlands
The getuus of the Founding
5 well, part of it - was
t#on Brown .............................................Editor and Publisher
Fred Hornbtrgtr.....................................Assistant to Publisher
Fred Harfmen...........................Editor and Publitjier, i«0-ltZ4
(Chairmen of Board Southern Newspapers. Inc.)
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Pteston Pendergrass-:......... .......u.CMeofivo- Editor
Jim Finlay. ....................................................Managing Editor
Wanda Orton..........Associate Managing Editor
ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT
Jerry Winton
Fathers - well, part of it -
that they left room for changes
they could not foresee That is
the genius of all tmyxmsena-
usm - that it allows lor change
fo preserve the essential if the
Constitution had operated pre-
cisely in the way its framers had
anticipated, tl indeed there has
been unanimity among them on
Today is Wednesday, Jan 25.
ite Tatis d.iy of 1,978 There are
34(1 days left in-fhe year
Today s highlight m history
_ On this, date in 1915 trans-
txmtment.il telephone service
was inaugurated in the'United
Stales Inventor Alexander Gra-
ham Bell spoke the first words,
over aUine from New York to
San Francisco
On this date
fn 1802. Napoleon Bonaparte
-became'presidem of the Italian
Republic
In .1863. during the Civil War,
the tiret f4l.uk regiment in the
In 1944 the World War 11
battle for Cassino in Italy be-
gan .....
. In 1949; the first elections
were held in the new state of
Israel
One year ago !>remier Rene
Levesque ot Quebec told a
meeting of business leaders in
New York that independence
for the French-speaking Cana-
dian province appeared inevi-
table
friends And Romans
prcss wcFo informed
But as a calculated risk, Nie-
house frttirnates have asked us to
Me! the kidnappers know about"
—Hie -cmhirtunate tmH-up—Fhey-
j are desperate to learnThe fate of
1 the missing businessman Again,
we are willing t„o serve as the in-
termediary if the kidnappers
wish. We will meet them any-
where in (he world. ' '
Meanwhile; a curtain "of sil-
ence has fallen over William Nie-
hous. —s
Right to Eat - The most basic
human right is the right to
estimated 500 million people go
to bed at night hungry and un-
dernourished
The birth rate meanwhile, is
sleadilv gaining on agricultural
production The number pf mal-
nourished people in the world,
the hard core of human misery. .
is expected to reach 750 million
by 1985.
► It seems obscene, therefore,
that the U S, government has
taken between U milhon andT2
Possible----—
By Robert Schuller
High in the mountains becomes a river, it has also
I there is a spring whichimb* become a sewer. Who is to
j bles out of the rocks, turn- blame? Certainly it is not
| bling down to form a crystal the fault of the spring high in
i clear brook im The canyon the mountains,
i valley. At its source, you can- God is the Spring and
cup your hand and drink the Source of Joy, Peace and
fTOutagopfroemm:
:• _____i. r% :“r 4C4
*»►. v.vw.syw.wylRt'BKt, ►Lxive, God vsoufd never pol-
Sevecal miles down- lute the stream of humanity-
stream, you can see a rusty with The stain and spoil of/
beer can bobbing along, sorrow. God onlv creates
leaving a rusty brown wake life, love, health and whole-
behind in the midst of scat- ness.
tered litter. Up ahead an —-—__
occupant of a nearby cabin Reverend Schuller, pastor of
comes out his back door, ,he Garden Grove. Calif, Corn-
walks over to the stream and mun,,7 Church, can be seen
■srsicfsr!at®S»!s?«
Power?
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Hour-qf
P«f 8. MeDorald................. ..............CImOMmI AMnager
InlerfdiVWcaBacHiu
Cwu|,«nolM»rtr)l III*
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( CHEE6B AMP EA> RAV0f2 J
YOU COMB y———^
Thoughts
^—
The man who trusts rrien
will make fewer mistakes
than he who distrusts
them" 1— Camilo Benzn
“There is no dependence
that can be sure but a de-
pendence upon one’s self:’’
— John flav Rnolich rvwn.
Th§ Way
irse
THIS IS . htth^iytag, ad
worthy of an acceptation, that ••
Christ Jesus came into the
wat« to save sinners: af
whom I am chief. I Timothv
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7 Poetic fool
13 Mountain
pheasant
14 Bird home
"15 More.
16 Plural j;Mr.
17 Awav from
18 Low.tide
20 Shed
21 Safety ager
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.23. Scale noje
24 Rosins
25 See,
27 Length' :
_ 30 Author
Fleming
32 Biblical.
- character"
33 inventor
Whitney
34 Olympic
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35 Receive
38 Pius
41 Telephone >c
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