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Whatever became"of-detente would appear ti
an easily enough answered question, post ”
Afghanistan." ! “
It went thataway. But surprisingly, a. few
pockets of East-West disengagement appear to be
surviving
One is in Vienna: ■ where “representatives of
NATO and the Soviet-block Warsaw Pact recently
"• met as scheduled for another go-around on
mutual reduction of forces in Central Eiifbpe
Nothing came of it, of .course But the mere fact, -J’
that it took place at all could be considered an ac-
- ^complisjiment ;r. :he present chilly atmosphere . .
1 ’ For the record the Soviets and their satellites
continue to balk'at NATO's proposal for initial
withdrawal of 30.000 Russians and 13,000
Americans The discrepancy is justified, NATO
argues, because the American forces haye to
withdraw a much greater distance. Besides, it is
_ suspected that the Soviets actually; have- more
- troops in the area than they
■ So much for Vienna Next meeting, same place,
later this year — maybe » v ' .. .
Meanwhile, in neutral Switzerland there has
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leadership sessions A A
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.masleis David U Funderburk ac'
11 1,10 i assic a t-epts the position of the ci
league composed of Latin
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E v a Af a*e M a s s p v chief and 1. B Bailey is
secretary treasure! named assistant fj^re chief
Jack Banta leads hi in -.Herbie Freeman, who.
dividual ■ scoring in in resigned Jan 1 Bailey
tramural sportAal KKI. In becomes the first irersoinhe
secund place is Billy (Ben . hold. Uw-assistant lire chief. ..
. Davidson followed hv Har position since it was
-ns KelleV and Leon created by city council by a
• Sanders ■*»•' ■ ■*■■■ " reel,issif-icapon ordinance
Allen ifeister. is el.- led ’ . Mrs- Mark M Carter a
chairman of the t><>ard <>f elected -president of the ; ■
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After boycojtingf the Geneva Disarmament Con-
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seats long reserved for them. Deputy Foreign*
Minister Zhang Wehjin took the opportunity to
deliver a rhetorical haymaker to the Soviet
Union,- accusing it of 'fraudulent”, exploitation of
detente to further an aggressive, expansionist
policy. >
None of this.is new, of course. The Chinese have
been publicly accusing the Soviets of this and
•much'worse for years. But tough talk is not the
way to the Geneva negotiations, which have.taken
on somewhat the character of an old-boys club.
Direct political attacks,.as the affronted Soviet
delegate responded, are not according to the rules can now ^ told o( th
—presumably along with such other behavior as dramatic rescue of th£
whispering during speeches and passing notes. Forgotten Hostage He is
. .If it was anALCQnkdatiOIU7the^V4ete-wer-e-noU~-Bic^ard starr^a. ^year--Tbew-ffunary... o
the onlv target The Chinese critiaue also imolied old-Peace Corps botanist • wasn't- poftftcal but clandestine meetings, in-
,, ^ who spent a grueling three- pecuniary - the guerrillas solving whispered conyer-
joUUgm urb^ - progress in arms .....looted - American green-'-satiWover pay telephones
reduction and put Peking on record as rejecting tainous jungles of Colom- backs and lots of them and-predawn rendezvous
; any agreement that might be worked out between bia. '. with several contacts. Mit;
Washington and Moscow rather than negotiated. As the White Housequiet- starb s mother. Mrs cheii was instructed to fly -
■ hvthp entire conference - • ly negotiated with the new Charlotte Jensen, was on in the single’ engine
W ED * - Iranian government for the the edge of nervous exhaus- airplane of an intermediary
- Vyeii, ftlease of 50 American cap- ' tion when a long-awaited -" to Neiva. a city 130 (biles'
' The Geneva conferees have, been trying to, COax , tives in Teheran, we were breakthrough occured dur southwest of Bogota
the Chinese into their discussions for almost two secretly bargaining for the . ing the- last week of'... On Feb 7. Mitchell arriv-
decades. Now that they have.them, there may be return or the unfortunate January Our contact con-
reason to question exactly whaf it is thev’ve got. starr firmed that the reyoiu-...
'. Among 6ther things. it«0uld b€ a new approach J*J**$*g*&- “ ■— “
to all the American and Soviet dithering of late. b th arl. corning
over the playing of Chinese cards. That may all . of Feb 14 t97? when 3
turn out to be beside yie- point since the ChipesS ed communist guerrillas a quick consummation of
seem to prefer bringing their own deck when they fr°'m the Revolutionary the deal
inin dame "* - * a ■ . * a”. ■ ■ Armed Command of Colom- .negotiating
join a game - - :r, • > h. bia (FARCN attacked the Although we realized the
danger of acceeding to ran-
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stonewalled us or! positive,
proof of Starr's weiHwing
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in a designated hotel in the
city square He was soon
welcomed by other
members of the conspiracy.
eating »b:k< reading at 'he under .the title.of ‘In Tune *
table
. By WANDA ORTON-,-.
I.eafing '.hrough back,
issues of Texas Monthly
w ith the Times '
to ’ Harris Galvestbn Cuustai , ■
William- Subsidence District in-
corporates a swim, suit
company with the label
"SmJtorSiArnt ”
* Toyota starts a sewing l
in an’otber jesmtest., • machine company • in- •-
punsters were instructed.Ie Japan "Ah. Sew ' Their
■ make up names for h*ww’. farm equipment company •
businesses connected with. .As-spelled Ah .Sow "
~ well known coTporations."1 'tiVMVpji goes "ii'ifriniie - -1
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defnands clear to him via
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Marston s,account pf fteing
magazines, I came across
some notes I’d scribbled on
patches of. paper here and . fired by Attorney (leni (.>rif
there, illegibly-’: il|ogicaHy ’
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short wave, radio^ They
wanted $250,000 in cash and They expertly repackaged
the money in a small plain
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no more box
Two -hours later, the bag
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The longhand ravings of a
• madpun-iac -
• Ti>v:is Mntilhly if. ynq
recall, used to. save- the
blast for. last — the, back
.page of each issue was
reserved for word-play
What fun Contest chief
Pauj Burka. every edit ion.
■would announce the game
rules for the. next contest,
and we phrase crazies
would- be off and running
-again - at the sound of a
handsome Colombian who
swallowed a beer in three
qmrratau-gfTtr-He "issut ed
village of- La Mac'arena.
where Starr was a
Today In History
Richard s ordeal’ indicated
that buying his freedom Mitchell that Starr would
was the only way to secure
it. Time meant nothing to
the FARC 'guerrillas. They
cowed villagers. When would hold him for years if.
Starr", whose Spanish
wasn’t- yet fluent, couldn’t
give his answer? quickly the business world who
enough to suit the gun- .prefers to, remain
toting outlaws, r-he - was-*- anonymous. He generously
tersely ordered to pack his offered to lend us the full
$250,000 on my personal was accompanied by two
a2Cpl-
full regardless of the out- om'bian military offiC'er in
come of our negotiations mufti- Followingr-some „ ....... ,.
with'Starr’s taptors \iit- ' polite questioning.' the'of- • So did contributions from _ dishes, comes, up with a
chell had. to visit three bank •- ficer assured the delighted 'Peggy Atkins’. Jim -Fyle^ company named . Souper
branches in order to gather -rescue* party they. could ' Dap artjrv.and some other
. sufficient cash the.evening leave for Panama Baytown punsters . whose
before he left for Cblmribia The’following morning. names Lean t recall.
He concealed it in a an estatic CharlotteJensen. 2- y Among my old notes, I
“■jfiohtlescnpt canvas- duffle -broke into-tears-as she sa-w -■ - these,attempts in the
her sob for the first time in
over three years as—he
strode across a runway at a
U S. Air Force base near
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volunteer After a pre-
dawn shootout which left at
hearing aid equipment
■business with a company
named "Good Far
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be released m three or four
days then quietly slipped
out five minutes after his‘
decades of isolation, the
United States and China
agreed to establish liason
offices in • each, other’s
least three dead, the guer-
rillas picked the still sleepy
Starr from, the crowd of
By The Associated Press
Today is Friday. Feb 22.
.the 53rd day of 1980 There
are 313 days left in the year.
.Today’s highlight in ^ capitals
history:-
On Feb. 22. .1732. George
Washington was bortj on his
> parents' plantation near
Fredericksburgjv’a
U. ' On this date* ? ______
>Ja >18.10, cimposer:
' - ‘ Frederic Chopin was born’
in W'arsaw. Poland.
In -48-19,' Spain ceded
-■ Florida to the United
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France "Zee Rock’s *■
Alley Theater fbrrtis a /
reptile farm called .“.-Ylley '•
Gators "
younger partner had left
. with the box of money ” * '
Finally, after four days of
agonizing waiting and
several coded phone calls.
Richard Starr appeared
outside Mitchell’s hotel He
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Exxon, if it formed an
e I ev a t o r in a nu fa c t u ri ng
company, would name j!
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The movie studio, MGM.
decides to start a’ jewelry
company and cal!’ it MG
Emeralds"
‘Campbeij Soup (’h’. going
into the -manufacture-' of
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necessary
So 1 called on a friend in
In 1974. Pakistan
recognized "the in-
dependence of its- former
eastern province,
- Bangladesh. —
Last yeajr, Iran’s bag. "You’re coming with
Ayatollah Ruhollafi Kho- usT'hewastbrdj'~'i';’r'"'r''
meiqi promised a national-- Stuffed .with pesos and
referendum so Iranians stolen booty, the revolu-
could decidfe if they wanted . tionarids retreated casually
the Islamic •Republic he into the jungle confident
’ promised as the goal of the that neither the police nor
the army would be. able to
track them down in the
tropical undergrowth. It
was the prelude to more
■than 1,100 days of cruel in-
terrogation; psychological,
torture and unrelieved
boredom for the Seattle,
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and perhaps ,|ven why _
Texas Monthly no longer im1^- .
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of books by President
Carter, his farpily friends
and government leaders
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Starr lived under a
plastic tarpaulin, strung
between two trees, and was
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four or six guards He spent , -I 1 • I—AA L_ III T.’,, .
most of his time gathering Y ^---’ 1 ------ Carter s Little Lillian The Baytown Girls Soft- -.
botanical samples, listen By .Lowfefee—-- -.P^^-.'Tfcrny's^ollec- ' ‘ balt Association ha^ becdl
ing to the radio arid sleep- H *** • 4io.n of sayings by his together foupyears arid has other on Wednesday. Feb.
ing the long hours from ^ mot.h/r '/ ’ continued to grow on a. hand-delivered to
dusk to dawn DEAR DR LAMB In one strual periods That’s.because My Son Shines ^ vearlv basis: This year we Mike Mann to be printed in
Hk nnlv friendlv comba- of your columns you advised a ^troger, stimulates thebody Lillian-Carter’s biography had hoped to double our the paper. Itis my opinion
uiorp two evntir hirris ■’ weight reducer that the.pur- to retain salt , and when you. of her son. the President. , enrollment but to do this . that the Girls Softball ,
posfof losing weigh,^ was to retam sait.vou retain water.,, . . --Re’s .Not Heavy- w/neeS puSuctty Tn The Association should be-en- ’
famous Soviet dissidents northf noTmT water in the . The body,has to have a cer, - - Headffj;..He SjY.BFothe^l;.—Baytown Sun,- ? • Btied to as much coverage
Alexander Solzhenitsyn and bodv But isn’t .t true that the tain amount of water to be in . Jimmy s defense of BiL Girls are becoming in-. as any org.an!za' '
Andrai Sakharov. The body can have excess water a gor>d heaHhy state If it lows l-v,,T, „ „ volved in sports and the , ^rea’^,udln8
names were deliberately and hence contribute to obesi this water its dehydrated The Merry Kiddo — Girls Softball Association Lea8ue. We need
owo irritate hk can ’ tyrBr does the body automat- This varies, but on the_aver Opera singef Beverlv Sills' a i™- ™ y°ur he,P- -the paper's
chose_to irritate^his^c p ?aUv eljriunatt. exCess age between 50 and <0 per- friendship with Amv provides a .remendous-op-. , puijlicitv and thecoopera-
tors. But the insult seemed . y, ask this because in cent of a person s your body r ^ - portunity for any girl m this tion of Sports Editor Mann
to go over the heads of his addition to exercise I was weight is water Men tend to . v, D ... area between the ages of ' . p 0 j1 nn
illiterate abductors, even Sinl^ktng steam baths have a higher percentage of 3 eight and 18 to participate ^™ke our organizational
though they constantly to lose some weight. , body water than women.- ^ardeS in a team'sport arid receive u^cess’ i
spouted communist dogma. DEAR READER - There - . - . White House gardeper tells the benefits that our league Several hundred girls, as
than 9 ooo miles are a lot of conditions that it you lose this norma) all, -- - „ n _• . well as their parents,
More than 2,000 the .bodv. to-retain amount pf-water which is. , . vAmy for the Stars""— c.an Provlde Our, .assbcia- COacheS and league of- *
aw^y, meanwhile, my- • exce^'waier. 'Iwf 'tlaEs'llot-' \ Mai to your- basic .npetpbM^ C'Anxv Carter writes about - ,lon -,s • *n organization.. ,are invoivP?,ta the’
associate Jack Mitchell S Obes.ty refers .to halance/you’re tike a plaW separate from the city S'tEV ■
was negotiating with FARC exc^fat Eve/a pe'rson who that hasn’t been watered and’ famous celebrities she has leagues,'. as is- the Little Baytown Girls Softball -
intermediai s. for Starr's has heart failure may accu- you begin to wilt, In older peo- .Un,, ' .. D League Association' ‘ Association and any atten- ^
‘•release Mitchell went to r miilate excess water. That’s. <;ple this can. cause mental Hail to the Reef - .. T . tion you can give us in this
because the bodv retains too confusion. This can also occur White House staffers’viewsEvery year Little League matterwouldbegreatlyap-
much sodium because of poor in younger people, but elder onlegalizing-'majffjugffl#?TV' receives a great amount pf predated. ” . '
......__.. , r„, circulation-and the body people, are more susceptible , * “The Coal War’’ - publicity, and as a result, r- DebbieS. Henderson
chief intermediary- a t retains the water in response to changes and their, bodies “carter’s energy policy .thousands of boys and girls ,
ombian native whose iden- t0 the retained sodium salt. are sometimes less able to -the Paces Please" ' Xign ud for the teams We
:-«■ <« titv we can’t reveal You see the same thing in cope with the abuses imposed Pass tne Rages, Please sign up rnr me teams, we
Dear Editor.
I would like to thank The-,
.Baytown Sun for printing
the picture-of the two girls
■ signing up for giris-softball
signups, the.iast of which is
Saturday and have had only k
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