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THE BAYTOWN SUN
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‘EDITORIAL
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A second late-night cliffhang-
ing session occurred as Senate
and House conferees tried to end ;
two years of legislative deadlock •
and pass a bill to establish a new
bankruptcy system.
For the past two years, lob-
byists for consumers, business,
labor, judges, farmers and other
groups flocked to Capitol Hill,
trying to persuade Congress to
include provisions favorable to ;
them.
This pressure reached a fever
pitch in another post-midnight
session: The labor lobby got the
conferees to agree that corpora-
tions filing for bankruptcy could ;
not cancel existing labor con- ;
tracts. Lobbyists for several cor- ;
porations, such jts Continental ■
Airlines, won agreement that the.
new provisions will not apply
retroactively to companies that
had ended their union contracts
after bankruptcy. I
Lobbyists for major retailers
won approval of language that .
will make it more difficult for in-
dividuals to declare personal
bankruptcy. Finally, farmers
succeeded in establishing a pro-
vision that protects family .
farmers with grain in bankrupt ~
elevators.
The other major lobbying bat- ’
tie has been over a new banking
long jntd the night — and each T)ilt. In a marathon drafting ses-
migljt have benefited orjiurt sion, the House-Banking Com-
powerful individuals Or groups. mittee reported out a bill-that
For example, there was the closes the so-called “non bank
matter of some $12 billion in bank’’loophole.
There was no doubt that the
loophole would be closed, but the
WASHINGTON - Once in a
long while, the work ofCongr
becomes an , almost-gripping
drama — but it doesn’t usually
happen on the House or Senate
floor. Instead, the drama takes
place in congressional back
rooms, where committees jha^k
up legislation or House and
Senate delegations meet in con-
ference to iron out differencesin
bills. ti-
lt’s in these sessions that laws-
are really made. Millions or hun-
dreds of millions of dollars often
hang on the whim of a few
senators or representatives who
are attempting to reach a com-
promise or protect the special in-
terests they’re beholden to. At
these sessions, Washington’s
megabuck lobbyists earn bvery
cent of their six- or seven-figure
incomes. * ■
Three such sessions took place
recently. The first was the
Senate-House conference on tips'
year’s tax bill — a 207-page
document that will cost dr save
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West tightening
nuclear controls
^Vtlore talks "are scheduled by representatives of
Western nations that supply nuclear technology on tjie
need to tighten current controls on nuclear exports.
They agreed during an unannounced meeting in Lux-
embourg that contrpls are inadequate and determined
that a-number of topics Require further consideration,,
including strengthening International Atomic Energy
Agency safeguards. • - ;
The three-day meeting was initiated by the United
States and was not announced because Western leaders
felt the purpose could be undermined by nations not
authorized to receive nuclearexports. >, „
Conferees.Will meet again soon .to pursue ,their initial
agreement on how the commitment to non-proliferatilm
of nuclear technology and materials pan be translated I
into action. - J. jfl
Progress toward some limitation on shipments of I
nuclear Supplies was also made at the meeting, B
spokesmen ^aid, but the consensus was-not reduced to Washington - Congres- various congressional commit-
written agreement. Future sessions will deal with that sional investigators digging.into, tees on what our claim is really
General Dynamic’s billion- worth. ...Hidalgo asked that all
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helped in bailout
corporations, individual tax-
payers and special interests
millions of dollars.
The tax bill’s major provisions
have
However, there were hundreds
of seemingly minor issues over
which the conferees deliberated
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The meeting brought together members of the London '"ST*** kep' lhe
Suppliers Club,- a 15-nation group that first met in 1974 to p y
n widely publicized
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in the role played by then
discuss the spread of nuclear technology. It last met in Assistant Navy Secretary Ed
ward Hidalgo. • -—- ——-
Initial agreement by participants in the session was The company’s internal the taxpayer’s.
hailed by the U.S.. which has long advocated a tougher documents on a multi-million* determined to pr
nnlirv the snrpad nf nurlear weannns- s' dollar submarine contract hdve bailout of General Dynamics,
policy against the spread of nuclear weapons. been examined by my associate even though. the oCompany.-s
Whatever is accomplished in that directionFat future Indy Badhwar. The documents S0Und financial condition dis-
meetings will be bad news for the Soviet Union and other indicate that Hidalgo was in
Eastern bloc nations
The internal documents make
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one wonder whose ^ide Hidalgo
was on — General Dynamics’ or
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deferred taxes. This money was
owed by a large number of ma-
jor corporations because of the committee heatedly debated two ■
law concerning profits earned issufe^ the new legislation’s ef- •
abroad by their subsidiaries, or......fective date and .exemptions —
domestic international sales cor- and put them to extremely close
porations. , votes. For example, by a 25-22
Dozens of lobbyists prowled v9te’ an amendment was ac-
the halls on this issue, some cepted keeping alive 3H existing -
arms were twisted, some con- non-bank banks; and by 24-21,
ferees were reminded about past tbe committee killed an amend-
and future campaign contribu- ment that would have made
tions and presto! — the law was Sears exemPt from the legisla-
changed retroactively. The cor- bon,. *
porations can now bring $24', The committee also adopted
billion or so in profits back into other amendments that, in ef-
this countrv tax-free feet, increase federal regulation
ZSiw<^pUghts»f. »f the
the Hunt family of Texas, the someth hg-that the industry s
Halls of Missouri and a number lobbyists fought hard to prevent
of other very rich families, all of However, the lobbyists will get
whom would have to pay another backroom chance to un-
millions in estate taxes within do the House committee’s work,
the next few years. By a few
votes, an estate-tax exemption
was created that will save these
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qualified it for such help under
the law.
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i i / —i .1 . I l , . _____ _______. pany executives to drop their According to a MacDonald
World nealtn QOCl riUMQ6r., c Claims for cd§toverruns and, iij^ memo, when company ex-
• ,--r~ ' stead, to ask for a congressional ecutives insisted on pressing
Irv a presidential election year when all kinds of bailout on grodnds that the com- their original claim, Hidalgo told
- charges are being made against the “ins” by the “outs,” SnSVLSSSontSS “Absolutely not, it would
at least one favorite; topic of opposition may not t00k p Hidalgo’s advice, even blow our mam case that is,
generate as much emotional reaction as it has in the though General Dynamics
past • in soun'd financial shape and
Democrats, when iUsuited their purposes, charged the rtherefore
Reagan administration with being insensitive to the bailout-
plight of hungny people at home and abroad. It is a
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Company Vice President Max
Golden noted in another memo
that Hidalgo told him at a
private meeting that he had met-
with aides of several con-
gressmen who had General
Dynamics contracts in their
districts. *;/’ *
According to Goldin, Hidalgo
stated: “One message that came
through loud and clear was:
‘There, could be no further re-
, not .entitled to a
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The result was that General
, , .....A Dynamics was given $1 billion
ridiculous charge because no one wants anyone to be bv Congress - roughly twice the
amount it had originally claimed
It is* interesting to note from information prepared by it was owed in cost overruns,
7 organizations that-keep track of such things as world Hidalgo became'a consultant to
health and hunger that the nu^bir of people dying of
hunger has decreased in recent years despite a global gay he earned about $75,000 in
population jump , ’’ fees from the company.
This, conclusion comes#, as a *reSulfe;of a. study by a ■* -The. company’s claim for $544
> vxjtx ■■■assisted by million was disallowed by the
representatives ol tfie world s leading hunger response Board Vts^dT/gs 5“Egw
organizations. • Adm. Hyman Riekover that he
The data also indicates a continuing trend of lowered askedfor a Justice Department
iijfant mortality-rates in virtually every country. These investigation a grand jury was
are based on the number of. deaths- of Inf an t-s* under age 1 convened but the case wa% cios-
per 1.000 live births in-a given year This* measurement
is recognized as-one of the best,available indicators of approved theP$i billion Windfall
the extent of worlcj hunger IQ a society . for General Dynamics.
\lthough the number of people dying of hunger in the Now P Takis Veliotis, a
world each year is still ipr too high, 13 million to 18 former company vice president
million, figures in the decade of-thfc 1970s show the rate-
was between 15 million anc|20 million anhually. - john Dihgeii D-ivfich , that even . argentine accident; As
One of the leading factors affecting the hunger rate the $544 nfiuion overrun claim a matter of principle, U.s. of- From Sun files
decline is crop breeding, reported to be yielding was fraudulent, let alone the $1 . ficials were worried about
. dramatic results Wlth-SiX kev ffyoxterdbs /' - , billion bailout He.estimates ttfat Argentina’s ambitious nuclear
: , ..General Dynamics owes the program, fearing that the world
■ government about $1.5 bill ion.<• would soon have another nuclear
Company documents make power, — and one with a dubious
7 7 clear that Hidalgo and General record for peace and stability. •
■-- Dynamics executives con- Now they’re worried on safety •
sidered the “blue gutts”-V grounds. Last Sept. 23, an acci-A From The Baytown Sun files, Bayou, will receive his pilot’s
By THE ASSOCIATEDPRESS - - In 1923, the 29th President of uniformed Navy officers — to b€ dent at an Argentine researcMr this is the way it was 40 and 30 wings atanairfield nearVic-
■ Today is Thursday, Aug. 2. the the United States,, Warren G,' the chief stumbling blocks to the reactor caused the death of one and 20 years ago: toria riekf^^t'J,\ \U V'i\\\f:
215th day of 1984. TfigYe are'151 Harding, died in San Francisco. company’s multi-million dollar person and exposed 16 others to , AUG. 2,1944 AUG. 2.19i>4‘ ' .*
days left in the year ....... " in " 1927, President Calvin, claim,-^Gne- intef-MHee #memgr-da^CTe«s radiation. Whatimmfe^^gt?George F. Birtrsbn ofMfT"* Tfohn Bolmanskie, a retired
one-sentence referred to two admirals. tHe accident cause for alarm is and Mrs. E.F. Bird of Baytown, farmer, died early today ip a
became dictator of Germany ' statement to reporters in South Donald Hall and Albert Kelln, thlat ifwas apparently caused by is recovering from battle Houston hospital. —~ 7 , ,_7
upon the death of President Paul Dakota. The statement read, “I who were perceived to be hostile sheer carelessness. wounds in a hospital in Italy. He Four oil companies operating
von Hindenburg, do not choose to run for Presi- to the'company’s interests, as An internal Nuclear and his wife have a young son, in Barbers Hill and Cedar Bayou
. On this date#—■* , d'ent iiU^'^ <- “the two admiral clowns.’’ Regulatory Commission report Geferge Eugene, whom the ser-
“5In 1776. members of the Con-1. In 1943. Na.vy LieuTenant'Jolin "^"According to another memo by explains: “Because the reactor geant has never seen. Sgt. Bird’s tion of Cedar Bayou Stream
I jinentat Congress began to p' Kennedy became a war hero General Dynamics Vice Presi- has been operating for so many brother, Sgt. Clarence E. Bird is * Doyle Simmons, son of Mrs.
tach tfaeir signaturest^to ttje by7 rescuing member^, of pis dent G.E. MacDonald, Hidalgo years without incident, an ex-^ in the Marines in the Pacific. J.E. Applegatfe of Cedar Bayou,
midnof lndependence crew after his PT boat Mas thought of another admiral, F.R. cessive degree of confidence had Capt. Ralph Bolster, son of is promoted to corporal. He is •
In 1921# opera singer Enricd scared in tw6 by a Japarjelse Manganaro, as an adversary to been fostered.” And the opera- Jessie Bolster of Baytown, is stationed in Kofea
destroyer." • Cr be evaded. The Memo said the tions that led to the accident decorated with the Di&tin-
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The Senate has also passed a
banking bill, and the only thing it
has in common with the -House
measure is the. dosing of the
non-bank lbopfi^W^nate
bill actually relaxes federal
banking . regulation in several^
areas. •
There will be a very
acrimonious conference on the *<
quest of Congress for claim
money.’ He stated many times
that he Was laboring on our
behaUDepartment •vjf.f^rnmes millions; ^
of Defense^iu The Office of Then dozens of other exemp-
tions were passed
one that will save Amax Corp.
about $200 million and Levi
Strauss Co. about $15 million,
and another that will prevent the
Internal Revenue Service from
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Management and Budget. He
suggested that we meet again ...
indicating that it probably would
be best to continue to meet alone
for the time being.”
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Dynamics spokesman collecting million^ in bac’k taxes
vehemently denied charges of from commodity traders who
wrongdoing by the company. He had claimed deductions for ^^s of lobbyists will try to work
said the Justice Department had “straddles’5 — complex behind-the-scenes magic : to
vindicated the firm. maneuver*; that the IRS has aSnisi/orNewspaper _
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assistant Navy secretary “had Were performed “Without the guisjied Flying Cross. Now sta- ^ p Dixon of Baytown ad-
_ withdrawn the (overrun claim-), concurrencfi or presence qf a tioned as an instructor at Fort
hold in the day of trouble; and frdnj the Manganaro Claims safety official or the operations Knox. Kv.; he was cited for out-
He knoweth them that trust, in Board, and that he had establish- supervisor.” An investigation standing participatioR-in.-aereal
Him.” > - ed a new review team within the commission found shortcomings flights in the Southwest Pacific
secretary’s office.”
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base in Germany
Pvt. Lawson Simmons, son of
Olen Simmons of Channel view, • -
leaves for Korea with the 2nd ; .
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’ The severe drought hits lawns,
shrubs and victory gardens as
the mercury climbs to 100
decrees. *“ “ ~~
Staff Sgt. Arnold L. Smith,,son
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in six heavy bombardment mis- Comic Book Shop on the lawn of A
sions over Germany and Ger- the Melinger home. Pictured on
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Willie W.Gentry, son of Birdie ing a pet raccoon, while Mike
Wilson of Pelly, is promoted to sells a comic book to Richard
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 237, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 2, 1984, newspaper, August 2, 1984; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1153028/m1/4/?q=1966+yearbook+north+texas+state+university: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.