Port Lavaca Wave (Port Lavaca, Tex.), Vol. 93, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 20, 1983 Page: 4 of 10
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editorials/comments
execution with intravenous
needles in his arms
A saline solution was cour-
sing through Autry’s veins in
preparation for injection of
the deadly chemcial that
would end his life when word
of the stay was received at
the Huntsville prison
Americans who contend
the death penalty is cruel
and inhuman punishment
found their argument in this
case substantially
strengthened by “cruelty of
preparation.”
The stay was based on a
last-minute appeal to the
Supreme Court that Autry’s
case should have been
reviewed for proportionali-
ty, or making sure his crime
was not less aggravated than
other murders sentenced to
life imprisonment.
The state contends Texas
has proportionality review of
death sentences and is ask-
ing the Supreme Court to
dissolve the stay and clear
the way for Autry’s execu-
tion. He was convicted of
killing a convenience store
clerk.
It seems to us the propor-
death penalty unconstitu-
tional,” he declared.
Gov. Mark White, an ad-
vocate of capital punishment
but a champion of overhaul-
ing procedure in execution,
argues the death penalty is
appropriate and should be
carried out without undue
delay during the appeal pro-
cess.
A few hours before Justice
White granted Autry’s stay,
the full court routinely refus-
ed to block the execution, as
well as those on appeal from
other states.
Each time the debate
flares we hear from people
who argue the death penalty
is not a crime deterrent. But
there is no way to determine
how many murders are
prevented by fear of it.
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staff officials, because it is situation to our advantage
too experimental and a
"rush job.” Rep Joseph
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tionality doctrine, if clearly
defined by the Supreme
Court next month in a case
on appeal from California,
will call for changes in lower
court procedure, including
explanation to juries how
they should go about equaliz-
ing punishment for capital
crimes
The ruling could also lead
to a standardization of
punishment in capital cases
requiring proof of all allega-
tions before the sate could
seek the death penalty.
The Autry case prompted
former Supreme Court
Justice Arthur Goldberg to
say the high court doesn’t
know what it is doing. “They
are faced by an intolerable
situation that can only be
solved by declaring the
Democrats' annual Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner.
Much of the speech delivered at that dinner early this
month was composed of questions propounded by Askew, but
all were rhetorical queries and his tone of voice left little
doubt about his preferred answers. Some excerpts:
"I can understand and appreciate why so many of you who
have been so active in our party for so long have begun to
describe yourselves as the real Democrats... Even so. I must
tell you frankly that you and I are not the only real
Democrats...
“It is one thing to advocate a closed shop. It is quite anoth-
er to advocate a closed party... We must decide: Is ours an
exclusive and exclusionary club, a glorified debating society
devoted primarily to defining the dictates of ideological
purity?
“Is there no room in our party for those who don't neces-
sarily believe that a nuclear freeze is the surest path to
pace?
'Is there no robin in our party for those who believe that
Wfe must Strive tojulfijl the potential of life both before and
alter birth... (and for those) De mocrats who don't believe in
Virtually unrestricted’Eight to an abortion?
"Is there no room in our party for those who don't neces-
sarily agree with many labor unions that protectionism and
compulsory unionism are the best guarantee of jobs and
gulf states and cause
severe world oil shortage.
It should also be pointed
out the U.S. could quickly be
drawn into war in the Middle
East that could involve the
Soviet Union and other
enemies of the U.S.
There is not word yet
whether Arab supporters of
Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein have persuaded him
to relinquish plans to use his
French weapons, fearing
Iran would retaliate by bom-
bing their oil facilities
The non-communist world
gets 20 percent of its oil from
Saudi Arabia, the United
Arab Emeritaes and Kuwait,
which must ship most of
their product through the
Persian Gulf.
Although the U.S. buys on-
ly about 5 percent of its oil
from these producers
American officials consider
gulf shipping lanes vital to
U.S interests in that part of
the world
watchdog arm of Congress, encouraged all of the above
misdeeds have in fact been -** In service to the
committed at legal services, ideological interest of the
but not by recent boara ab-<’ '
pointees The problem,
cording to "*■ ‘ .
elsewere, with hold-over
staff and radical client
groups who use taxpayer's
money for political projects.
By statue, legal services
staff attorneys are not sup-
posed to be involved in
politics, lobbying, or elec-
tioneering. Yet according to
the findings of the GAO legal
services staff have done or
mM to toparW
attention at* I
— provided we ignore the longer-term consequences that
befell the policy after Mr. Nixon retired from public life.
Just how well, for example, have Mr. Nixon’s arms con-
trol agreements with the Soviet Union succeeded in limiting
By William A. Raster
NEW YORK (NEA) — Richard Nixon seems well on his
way to carving out a new career for himself as an author.
First came "Six Crises’* — in effect a mid-life autobiogra-
phy, focused on major climacterics in his political history.
Next were the “Memoirs,’' bringing his own story — or at
any rate his version of it — down through his resignation
from the presidency in August 1974. Then there was a quick-
ie volume on geopolitics entitled "The Real War,” published
in 1980 Last year he was out with "Leaders' — his reminis-
cences of great men he had encountered on life’s path.
Now Mr. Nixon has written a second book about the ongo-
ing struggle with the Soviet Union: "Real Peace: A Strategy
for the West.” You won’t find it at your local bookstore just
yet, but galley proofs have already been distributed to vari-
ous favored individuals, and an excerpt showed up recently
on the Op Ed page of The New York Times On the evidence
of that excerpt, Mr. Nixon has learned practically nothing
about the Soviet Union or bow to deal with it since he left the
Oval Office nine yean aso.
Wave Wanderings
The protracted war bet-
ween Iran and Iraq has
taken a more dangerous
turn.
Western diplomats and
military sources say they’re
convinced Iraq will use its
new French jets and Exocet
missiles to stop Iran's oil
traffic in the Persian Gulf.
Iraq’s strategy, the
sources say, is to destroy
Iranian oil terminals and
provoke Iran to close the en-
tire gulf, as it has threatened
to do. Iraq believes the
United States would send a
naval task force to reopen
the waterway to oil ship-
ment, including Iraq's, and
force Iran to sue for peace.
U.S. officials have said
they would take "ap-
propriate action” if Persian
Gulf oil shipments were
threatened.
One Western diplomat said
the Iraquis are playing a
dangerous game. It could
ruin the economy of several
to training proposals ...”
Another LSC official wrote
a grant recipient: “It would
be extremely helpful to us if
you would rework your
grantee reporting form and
delete the references to
voter education, legislative
and political process
Perhaps you could rephrase
the language to say
something to the effect that
the project focused on
citizenship and advocacy.”
All in all, a pretty com-#
prehensive picture of legal
services money going for
political purposes — with the
knowledge and encourage- •
ment of legal services staff
Unless it should yield to
demands to declare capital
punishment unconstitu-
tional, the Supreme Court is
likely to fuel the spreading
debate when it rules next
month on “proportionality,”
or fairness, of the death
penalty.
Although the court has had
opportunities over the years
to deal directly with propor-
tionality, it has yet to hand
down a definitive ruling by
saying a particular case did
not meet that criteria.
A last-minute stay of ex-
ecution in a Texas case,
granted by Justice Byron
White, rekindled national
debate on whether the time
has come to abolish the
death penalty.
There are strong
arguments on both sides of
the issue, which makes it
more difficult to resolve
One of the facets in the
James David Autry case
that quickly propelled it into
the national debate forum
was that the condemned
man lay strapped to a
hospital gurney for. almost
an hour before his scheduled
justice... (and for those) who support the right of the states to
have right-to-work laws?
"What about all the millions of working people who don't
belong to labor unions? What about all the women who don’t
belong to the National Organization for Women?”
The speech reportedly was crafted to gain attention by
promoting views that were unconventional, if not unpopular,
for many in the audience of 6,000. And it succeeded in that
goal by provoking scattered jeers, catcalls and boos.
For Askew, the new approach apparently is the product of
frustration if not desperation. Although he served with dis-
tinction as governor of Florida for eight years during the
1970s and later was named in a study as one of the nation’s
10 outstanding governors during the 20th century, his cam-
paign for the presidency has not been notably successful.
The irony of the situation is that the man who now is
positioning himself as a conservative in a national context
long has widely been viewed as a moderate-to-liberal politi-
cian in his home state.
But the new strategy is a logical one not only because the
liberal side of the field of contenders for the Democratic
presidential nomination already is overcrowded, but also
because the views expressed here on “right-to-life,” “right-
to-work” and other controversial issues honestly reflect the
long-held personal beliefs of the 55-year-old Askew.
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vaunted "leverage" they had given us, what happened? The
other communist-controlled nations were, for all practical
purposes, repudiated, and the U.S. Treasury is actually pay-
ing the interest on them today to keep American and West
German banks from going broke as a result. The grain and
pipeline with which we had tempted Moscow in the high old
days of "linkage" proved an irresistible temptation indeed
— not to Moscow, but to American farmers and European
industrialists, who forced their governments to go through
with these deals precisely when we should have refused to do
so.
"Hard-headed detente," eh? Mr. Nixon ought to phone
Henry Kissinger and inquire what his old adviser thinks of
detente and linkage these days - he just might be surprised.
Above all, Mr. Nixon ought to put his well-thumbed copy of
the works of Machiavelli back on the shelf and try to realize
at last what President Reagan understands so well: that a
moral dimension is indispensable to any successful Ameri-
can foreign policy.
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unearthed be Sen. Orrin
Hatch <R.-Utah> concerning
legal services responses to
grant recipients makin
gproposals of dubious legali-
ty. According to internal
LSC memoranda, staffers
encouraged such recipient
groups to rehprase pro-
posalsin different terms.
Thus one LSC staffer
wrote a client group that its
grant proposals "call for
worthwhile, very important
activity, but as described on
your forms, it may be the
very kind of activity Con-
gress has specifically pro
hibited us from funding.
Maybe they can be turned in-
building to oppose the
domestic programs of
Ronald Reagan following the
teft. Itwte this sort of abuse election of 1980 In numerous
proDiem, the Reagan board ap-
GAO, lie< pointees were trying to cor-
rect when they conveniently
got hit by a barrage of
charges in the media
Among the actions of the
legal services forces, accor-
ding to the GAO, were efforts
to promote liberal ap-
pointees to the board,
fighting against a tax reduc-
tion ballot measure in
California, and coalition-
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By Robert Walters ]
DES MOINES, Iowa (NEA) — There’s a new attraction in
the crowded field of contenders for next year’s Democratic
presidential nomintion — a conservative candidate.
He’s former Florida Gov. Reubin Askew, who really isn’t a 1
newcomer to the race. He declared his candicacy for the ,
nomination last February and has waged an active cam-
paign for the presidency in the ensuing months.
Akew’s positions on a number of sensitive issues always
have been somewhat more conservative than the views
embraced by many of his opponents, but until recently he
didn’t seek to stress those differences.
Instead, he concentrated on presenting to potential sup-
porters a comprehensive strategy for the long-term restruc-
turing and revival of the nation’s ecnomy, with particular
emphasis on the importance of international trade. ;
That approach, however, wasn’t especially fruitful in
terms of making progress against the other half-doten men
with whom Askew is vying for the nomination. Indeed, he -
has placed either last or next to last in most public Opinion
polls conducted in recent months. •
Selected by Askew for the unveiling of a new campaign
theme was an occasion that in recent years has been a major
event for the party's presidential contenders — the Iowa
Commentary
Illegal services for Legal Services Corp
A few months back the ma-
jor media were full of stories
about the alleged misdeeds
of newly appointed
Reaganite members of the
Legal Services Corporation,
the group entrusted with pro-
viding legal help to poor peo-
ple.
According to the just-
published researches of the
General Accounting Office,
The latest Nixonian prescription for coping with this 1
admittedly knotty problem is "hard-hMded detente." DfwFcvJ
we are all familiar with the word “detente,” Which tertred
characterize the policy of Mr. Nixon and his Ridtelteu, Hen- t
ry Kissinger, toward the Soviet Union whentiNtejMHLj&
power and thus able to prescribe ad>dlMMi||||
headed" is new, however, and apparently Mr. HfWjyfWPy1
ed it to distinguish his own brand of detente MB Ml
allegedly favored by certain others — perhaps fflbst notably
Jimmy Carter
New or not, it is “hard-headed detente" that Mr. Nixon
now claims he was pursuing
House. What’s more, as Mr. Nixon remembers it, the policy
was a howling success:
"As we practiced it from 1969 through 1974, hard-headed
detente worked. During that period, we used a combination
of military and diplomatic pressures to block Soviet advanc-
es. We were prepared, if necessary, to give direct or indirect
military aid to any country they threatened. We also under-
took negotiations with the Soviets on a broad range of issues.
Som* like arms control, were of mutual interest. Others,
“We like to think of ourselves as a real, honest to goodness full-service
bank."
Is Reubin Askew on right track?
pages
this year evefl logged average Scholastic solute enemy^of legal. ser-
person to shut up and sit
viewers* IhoPe all **
"1 think what we need to
do now, as much as we ever
have, is to be more explicitly
political in our activities
because that is where the
stands7o"reason"they would issue is going to be decided
like the granting of most-favored-nation status, were of par-
UeuMr interest fft the Soviets That gave us leverage over
gpm Wndh they threatened our interests, We slowed or sus-
^fgdtHtions When they relented, we proceed-
jffitMfriBtmd pretty hard-headed, doesn't it?
hMMffify or two that the Soviet Union man-
tbtil of tne Western orbit while Mr Nixon’s
elsewhere, one can even argue that it worked
ignore the longer-term coi
ifter*"
Just how well, for example, have Mr. Nixon's
Soviet build-ups in either nuclear or conventional weaponry?
And what concessions, precisely, did the granting of most-
favored-nation status to the Soviet Union lure Mr. Brezhnev
into making?
Above all, when it at last became glaringly apparent that
these and Mr. Nixon’s other bonbons were being wolfed
down without the slightest effect on the grim march of Sovi-
•* '■wnerialism, and the time was plainly at hand to use the
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There's a new scandal in-
volving congressional pages
It dosen't concern sex or
drug use with their mentors,
but Congress' predictably
wasteful way of reforming
its errand-boy institution.
Seperate schools for ' the Page BdArd. counters
Senate and House pages grt-.-thaI pages in the we ever think about, if your
estimated to cost taxpayvrii- DrC -UdthinUtdred dchool particular member is an ab-
$500,000 CL tu—VKr-wr--- ' ** 7.
though one school could ac- Aptitude- Test stores pearly vices, your job is to get that
commodate AU 96 pages at, # points person ^to shut up l.._
half the price. Thirty BBnate ‘ffcbuc School' students ih down, that s all
pages go to school operated:^ suburban Washington
under the administration of ^(although higher than D C.
public school scores).
While pages may serve a
bicameral legislature, it
be more properly and — in political forums, not in
economicallly supervised in legal forums
a unicameral school Also interesting are data
cases, said GAO, “LSC fund
recipients had
violated statutory prohibi-
tions.”
Of particular interest in
this study were quotes pro
vided from a legal services
seminar in Boulder, Colo.,
organized to stir resistance
to Reagan Budget cuts at
LSC. Among the statements
from the participants:
“What's at stake is the sur-
vival of the committed, ag-
gressive, political
staff . . . What is at stake is the
survival of many social
benefits — entitlement pro-
grams that we struggled,
since 1965, to make real for
The Senate has refused to poor people Our challenge,
go along with the House in general, obviously is to
school, according to Senate manupulale the political
la 1 — eiAtialirkw 9/t arli/anfnrtn **
“We’re pretty narrow in
our office. All we want are a
Minish, D-N.J., chairman of majority of votes in the
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Surber, Chester C. & Potter, Tim. Port Lavaca Wave (Port Lavaca, Tex.), Vol. 93, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 20, 1983, newspaper, October 20, 1983; Port Lavaca, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1288451/m1/4/?q=war: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Calhoun County Public Library.