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THE BAYTOWN SUN Monday, February U. 1*1
We Are What We
Eat And More
We have long known that we are what we eat.
Now it appears that we may also act according
to what we eat. Or so a professor of psychology at
Pittsburgh’s Carnegie-Mellon University
believes.
Dr. Kenneth Moyer, who specializes in the
physiology of aggression, has, according to a wire
report, been looking into the relationship between
allergic reactions and behavior and believes he’s
on to something.
The evidence suggests that individuals who
become angry, irritable or aggressive for no ap-
it good reason may actually be experiencing
mood change for a very good reason. It is their
reaction to something they have eaten or
bly breathed.
If allergies can cause external rashes and welts
on the skin, he says, it is reasonable to suppose
similar internal effects. If these occurred in parts
of the brain governing anger and aggression, the
result could be anti-social behavior.
Suggested causes are numerous, including
sugar, chocolate, milk, food coloring, onions and
pollutants in the air.
So the next time you get into an argument at
dinner, don’t blame it on the topic under discus-
sion. It could well be the scalloped potatoes, or the
cheesecake, or her perfume, or his aftershave
or...
Washington Report -
Carter's Hostage Staff
Ignored Expert's Advice
Don't Take The
Smile Seriously
Which brings to mind another recent news item.
Those smiles that are apparently grafted onto
airline attendants aren’t to be taken at face value.
According to research by the Aviation Safety In-
stitute, as reported in the Wall Street Journal,
they could be camouflaging severe cases of the
miseries.
And because the attendant may be feeling
miserable inwardly, the real message in the smile
beamed at a passenger may not be good will but
hostility.
The reasons are varied and not fully understood
in all cases. Part of it is the natural stress and
fatigue that result from working on tight
schedules in confined quarters.
Particular routes and typical passenger
characteristics also seem to be factors. Hyperac-
tive Southwesterners can be especially trying on
attendants’ nerves, likewise overdemanding Nor-
theastemers.
Although food is also touched on in a negative
sense - attendants have a tendency not to eat
enough on flights — it might have been worth the
researchers’ effort to have gone into this aspect of
the problem more thoroughly. It may be a ques-
tion of not too little but too much, and Camegie-
Mellon’s Dr. Moyer may have the answer.
Allergic reaction. Overexposure to those in-
flight prepackaged meals could bring out the
savage in anyone.
By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON - To help get the
hostages back from Iran, the Carter ad-
ministration called upon Herb Cohen, an
internationally respected lawyer, whose
specialty is negotiating. He not only told
Jimmy Carter’s people what they were
doing wrong — while they were doing it
- but he predicted the release of the
hostages almost to the exact hour.
There was only one problem: The
Carter strategists paid no attention to
him. They sought his expert views, then
excluded him from their deliberations.
Not until Ronald Reagan’s advisers con-
sulted Cohen, ironically, did anyone
listen to him.
He submitted his conclusions in
writing to Reagan’s campaign manager,
Wiliam Casey, on Oct. 25 — 10 days
before the election. “Khomeini and his
mullahs know that they are selling to an
anxious buyer,” advised Cohen.
"Therefore, the maximum price that
they can extract from his administration
will be just prior to the election...
“To put it bluntly, any experienced
negotiator or bazaar vendor knows that
on Nov. 5 the Iranians will have to put
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The Heel As Hero
their ‘illegally obtained merchandise’ on
sale at a cut-rate price.” ~ —$ —
Although the anxious Carter might be
willing to pay the maximum price,
Cohen predicted, there wouldn’t be time
to cut a deal before Election Day. The
release of the hostages would come too
late, therefore, to bail out Carter. “And
so, it is possible that Gov. Reagan will be
the President-elect on Nov. 5,” wrote
Cohen.
With Reagan the winner, this would
puj Carter “in an excellent position to
negotiate a palatable agreement’’ before
the transfer of power. “If by word or
deed the President-elect and his
spokesmen make clear that there will be
a radical departure from the existing
policies with respect to government-
sponsored terrorism,” Cohen advised,
“the Iranisns will view Inauguration
Day as their final deadline.
Justice Department and the FBI.
He advised Carter’s people to abandon
their “passive policy” and take the of-
fensive. His plan was simple. He listed
two dozen new sanctions to impose on
Iran — embargoing food and medicine,
expelling Iran from the satellite com-
munications network, cutting off all
commercial flights, sealing the borders
against smugglers, etc.
The idea was to impose these
penalties, one at a time, five days apart.
This would put the United States in the
( position of acting instead of reacting,
Cohen argued, keeping the Iranians off-
balance, wondering what was coming
next.
The plan was rejected if it was ever
considered. Then on Oct. 23, when the
Republicans were still nervously
wondering if Carter would pull an “Oc-
tober Surprise” to get the hostages out
and himself re-elected, Reagan’s cam-
paign manager flew to New York City
for a five-hour talk with Cohen that
lasted until 2 in the morning.
CASEY ASKED him to put his views in
writing, and two days later, Cohen of-
fered this analysis: “Since January, the
ineptitude of the Carter administration
caused the ‘Iranian Hostage Crisis’ to
become mired in Wonderland, where the
Red Queen is the sickly, senile Kho-
meini, the drowsy dormouse an
American President and Alice, the
figure of reason, has been out on a pro-
longed coffee break.”
Cohen said the Carter administration
had failed to grasp — and exploit — the
key point in the hostage seizure: It was a
criminal act, and the Iranian mullahs
were kidnappers. Cohen'faulted Carter
for having “no coherent and consistent
strategy,” commenting: “This uncer-
tainty and impotence have given even in-
eptitude a bad name.”
Headlines And Footnotes: Intelligence
reports warn that the Kremlin has lost
patience with Poland and will send in
troops. They are expected to cross the
This last item does not involve food, but you
might say it comes down essentially to a matter of
taste. ““
Madame Tussaud’s Waxworks in London has
released the results of its latest annual poll on its
customers’ preferences. The Ayatollah Khomeini
is out as the first among the worst in the “hate and
fear” category, and an old nonfavorite — Adolf
Hitler-is back on top.
That’s no particular surprise, but the runners-
up may provide a mild one. British Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher edged out deposed
Ugandan dictator Idi Amin for third place.
Among heroes and heroines, the surprise comes
at the bottom end of the top five, where Queen
Elizabeth II has been knocked right out of the
listing. Her replacement: J.R. Ewing, the heel of
TV’s “Dallas.”
Which has to say something about the taste of
the times in public and private character.
“AS A RESULT, they will select the op-
tion of dealing with Carter, the Satan
known, rather than Reagan, the Satan
unknown.” Cohen added prophetically:
“There is a negotiating truism that most
concession behavior and all settlements
will occur at the deadline. ”
Reagan issued statements calculated
to exploit the Iranian apprehension
about him. Cohen correcUy calculated
that the statements would impress the
Iranians because, he wrote, they saw
Reagan as “a person who means what he
says.” Thus Reagan responded as Cohen
recommended, and the Iranians reacted
as Cohen predicted — on the exact
deadline he had foreseen.
From the beginning, Cohen studied the
Koran for clues to Ayatollah Khomeini’s
behavior. He also brought to the hostage
crisis his experience in dealing with
other hostages, as a consultant to the
border, however, not as invaders but as
“allies” on “maneuvers.”
- — Advisers have warned President
Reagan to treat Egypt’s mercurial
President Anwar Sadat delicately. They
believe Sadat is edgy and may make
another dramatic move to distract
Egyptians from their frustrations. On an
impulse, he might even tear up the
Israeli-Egyptian accords, the experts
fear. ,
— Japanese-American relations may
take a turn for the worse. The new trade
troubleshooter, Bill Brock; has already
threatened to play “hardball” with the
Japanese unless they curb automobile
exports to the United States. But Nippon
Steel has offered an olive branch.
Reports a confidential memo, prepared
for Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Tex.: “Nippon
Steel of Japan will be helping Armco in
Houston to improve its blast furnaces
and steel plate production. ’ ’
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Today In History
In Washington - -
What If There Were No
■Government Regulations?
By ROBERT WALTERS
(Second of two related columns)
WASHINGTON (NEA) - From all
across the last come the cry of the
beleaguered entrepreneur. "Regulatory
overkill!" screams the headline in the
Amway Corp. advertisement harangu-
ing against “unelected, unaccountable
bureaucrats.”
An official of the Associated General
Contractors says his industry and others
have been "abused, neglected and vic-
timized by a combination of laws,
regulations ... and muddle-headed
thinking” emanating from the federal
government.
The president of a proprietary drug ,
firm complains of “excessive federal
regulation that inhibits economic
growth.” A textile-industry organization
charges that “over-regulation is making
everything you want or need more ex-
pensive.”
How valid are the business communi-
ty’s claims that federal regulations are
unreasonable, irrelevant and op-
pressive? There are obvious excesses in
the government’s activities, but there
also are exaggerations and distortions in
the propaganda campaign being waged
by many industries.
Perhaps most important, however, is
the fact that Weidenbaum’s oft-cited
figures fail to consider any benefits that
federal regulations provide to society.
A number of thoughtful businessmen
acknowledge that important distinction.
“We wouldn’t have the kind of safety
built into automobiles that we have had
unless there had been a federal law,”
says Henry Ford II of Ford Motor Co.
MANY OF those corporate complaints,
for example, cite the unscientific
estimate of Dr. Murray L. Weidenbaum,
the recently designated chairman of the
Wljite House Council of Economic Ad-
visers, that compliance with federal
regulations drains $100 billion from the
nation’s economy every year.
Weidenbaum, an outspoken proponent
of free-mprket competition, never-
theless includes in his $100 billion
estimate the cost of administering two
major government efforts to promote
that goal — the antitrust programs of the
Justice Department and Federal Trade
Commission.
Similarly, approximately one-quarter
to. one-third of all “government paper-
work” — always a popular target for
corporate critics — involves forms
issued by the Internal Revenue Service
and Census Bureau as part of their in-
dispensable tax-collection and enumera-
tion functions.
“YOU KNOW and I know that the
market system would not give us en-
vironmental protection, worker safety
and health,” says Fletcher L. Byrum,
board chairman of the Koppers Co., a
major producer of industrial chemicals.
“The only way to improve the quality of
health is through intervention.”
For those who doubt the necessity of
federal regulation in the marketplace,
consider these statistics:
— Industrial accidents, according to a
1970 survey by the National Safety Coun-
cil, claims the lives of 14,000 workers an-
nually while 2.2 million others receive
disabling injuries. The yearly cost of lost
wages, medical expenseslind insurance
claims now exceeds $25 billion.
— The emission of sulphur-based air
pollutants from power plants is responsi-
ble for an estimated 13,000 deaths and 45
million aggravated heart and lung cases
annually. Federal clean-air regulations
can produce $23.3 billion in yearly health
benefits, according to one study.
From Sun Files r-
A 1970 SURVEY showed that 20 million
product-related injuries occur every
year along with 110,000 permanent
disfigurements and 30,000 deaths. The
devastating cost to society of allowing
toxic chemicals to be dumped in an
unregulated manner is only now becom-
ing apparent.
Numberous problems are posed by
federal regulations — conflicting rules
promulgated by different agencies,
duplication of requests for detailed in-
formation and a bureaucratic obsession
with trivia.
But the cost of mindlessly sweeping
aside government regulation is in-
calculable because it involves health ir-
reparably ruined, lives unnecessarily
lost and dreams forever destroyed.
2 Baytonians Killed In Air
Crash In Belgium In 1961
From The Baytown Sun files, this is
the way it was 40 and 30 and 20 years
ago:
FEB. 16,1941
Verta Broussard, daughter of Mrs.
Lillie Broussard, accepts a position in
Waco as assistant project supervisor for
the WPA lunchrooms in McLennan
County. She recently graduated from the
University of Texas.
O.O. Dorris, president of the Pelly
Fire Department, is the new president of
the Gulf Coast Firemen’s Association.
Dorris also is a member of the Pelly
Board of Aldermen. W. Audrel Vinson,
Pelly city secretary, is elected
secretary-treasurer of the association.
Among the trustees for the association is
E.W. Buelow of Baytown.
A Baytown Baseball Booster Club is
formed to support the Humble Oilers,
announces Charlie Boykin, athletic
chairman of the Humble Club.. ’
FEB. 16,1951
Rollin Russell will captain the REL
basketball team next season.
Baytonians driving down Texas
Avenue this morning found the street lit-
tered with wrecked autos. They were
placed there by the Jaycees to
dramatize traffic hazards, says J.O.
Ware, chairman of the safety program.
Pictured in the new guidance office at
REL with guidance counselor Winnie
Brown are students Martha Anderson,
Mickey Pillow, Evelyn Mitchell, Charles
Elliott, Bill Tomerlin and Mary Ann
Robason. _
Cedar Bayou High School basketball
team wins the district championship.
FEB. 16,1961
Linda Foster and Daurice Herring,
airline hostesses from Baytown, are kill-
ed in the air crash in Belgium that took
the lives of 73 persons, including the 18-
member U.S. figure skating team head-
ed for the world championship in
Prague. Miss Foster and Miss Herring
were on the ill-fated craft because their
flight on another plane was delayed by
mechanical trouble........ .
C. “Dutch” Ptacek files for mayor in
the April 4 City council election.
Kathy Retz, Patsy Littlepage and Ed-
die Comeaux, students at Robert E. Lee,
are three out of 25 high school students in
Texas to be named runners-up in the Na-
tional Council of Teachers of English
contest for outstanding achievement in
English.
The Way
It Was
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Today is Monday, Feb.
16, the 47th day of 1981.
There are 318 days left in
the year.
Today’s highlight in
history:
On Feb. 16, 1959, Fidel
Castro became the premier
of Cuba.
On this date:
In 1904, a force of U.S.
Marines slipped into Tripoli
harbor and burned the U.S.
Navy frigate Philadelphia,
which had been captured by
pirates.
In 1873, a republic was
proclaimed in Spain.
In 1967, 13 ^American
helicopters were shot down
in fighting over South Viet-
nam.
Ten years ago: Defense
Secretary Melvin Laird ad-
vised President Nixori to
expect some difficult days
ahead in the drive to cut
communist supply lines in
Laos.
Five years ago: Patricia
Hearst and the jury in her
bank robbery trial visited
the two San Francisco spots
where Miss Hearst said
she’d been held by kidnap-
pers.
One year ago: United Na-
tions Secretary-General
Kurt Waldheim prepared to
name a panel to investigate
alleged crimes committed
by the ousted shah of Iran.
Today’s birthdays:
Movie director John Schles-
ingeris55.
FEBRUARY 16, 1838:
Historian and writer
Henry Adams born.
Quote/
Unquote
Bible
Verses
“I believe it is necessary to
have an American military
presence close to the Indian
Ocean in order to restore
some of the balance that has
been lost.”
— Henry Kissinger, former
U.S. secretary of state, warn-
ing of Soviet moves in the
Persian Gnlf region.
TO OPEN- THEIR eyes,
and to turn them from
darkness to light, and
from the power of Satan
unto God, that they may
receive forgiveness of
sins, and inheritance
among them which are
sanctified by faith that is
In me. Acts 26:18
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social purposes The third coulif
be for business. .
AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Fob. 19l
Parfners may be a bit more com!
petent than you are today in harf
dling your collective interests
Instead ot bucking their effort^
emphasize cooperation
Romance, travel, luck
resources, possible pitfalls anl
career for the coming month!
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plishments of their brood. Dorj
be one-upped. ____
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hole
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nickname
8 Reduce
12 Egypt (abbr)
13 Makes perfect
score
14 District
15 Over (prefi^
16 Having better
figure
18 Ran
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21 Compass
point
22 Squeezes out
24 Red meat
26 Arab country
27 Female saint
(abbr.)’
30 Selfish
individual
32 Main artery
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34 Tighter
35 Spins
36 Commercials
37 Young lice
39 Dill ......•—
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41 Was
introduced
42 Characteristi|
45 Next
49 Fourth day o|
week
51 Marsh
crocodile
52 Idea (Fr.)
53 Mexican
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54 Doctrine
55 Pitch
56 American
(a.bbr.)
57 Romaine
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2 Yelp
3 Mistaken
4 Sew
5 Languish
6 Made into
spheres
7 Extrasensory
perception
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9 Song for a
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