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disapproving projects
Because financing for the
projects would be difficult if cities
were allowed to pick and choose
tn what projects they wish to
participate, the power sales
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By ART BVCHWALD
Syndicated Columnist
WASHINGTON
The other man is Martin Price. 22.
an employee of the Ford Motor Co
assembly plant in the suburbs of
Atlanta which Teng visited
By JACK ANDERsON
Syndicated Columnist
WASHINGTON - Malcolm Toom,
the irascible 62-year-old American
ambassador to the Soviet Union, has
achieved what might seem to be
impossible for the professional
diplomat in just two years on the job.
he has managed to alienate his
colleagues in the State Department.
Kremlin leaders and even Soviet
dissidents. ;
It s not as if Toon were. seme
If you up the permissible amount of
pollution, aren’t you endangering
the lungs and life of the average
person’"
“I believe you're getting into a
sensitive area You're now talking
about someone's health
“I guess that is the area I was
talking about."
Harbinger continued, "EPA can
do just so much to keep a person
alive. When we set certain anti-
pollution standards we expect
Americans to live up to them If
they're going to get sick even after
we've announced that these stan-
dards are perfectly safe, it's their
fault, not ours We publicize these
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sensitive political matters, even these
innocent exchanges, say our sources,
were broken off when Toon, took over..
_ Lyudmila Alexeeva, a prominent
dissident who eventually fled Russia
to escape prosecution. - recalled in-
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to the Soviet dissident movement •
Recent State Department cables
confide that Toon's attitude toward
the dissidents has stirred complaints
One, for instance, quotes a letter from
Robert Bernstein of Random House
publishers, who visited the Moscow
embassy He pleaded with Toon to '
open the embassy doors to dissidents
But Bernstein came away with the
impression that “in 1979 we will pay
lip service" to the idea but that Toon's
"heart isn't in it”
"And so would most people. To
— Americans a car is a necessity, and
they don't wish to be penalized just
because there are a few health nuts
out there who want to go back to
Walden Pond."
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explained that Toon had forbidden the
Americans to go "The official said
-they were embarrassed and ashamed
but they could not-break these or-
ders." Alexeeva told our associate
Tom Rosenstiel.
State Department sources claim
Toon has not changed the policy on
dealing with dissidents The am-
Everyone has to make tradeoffs in
this world. Before you throw your
weight behind the clean-air en-
thusiasts, I would like to ask you a
question Would you rather spend
$500 extra for a new car in 1982 or
live a few more lousy years?”
“Is that my only choice?”
“Yes “
"I'd prefer to save the *500 on the
car."
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movement The net result, say our
sources, has been a drying up of
potentially important contacts
Toon's coolness toward dissidents
apparently hasn't improved his stock
with Soviet leaders Once he had to
break-through a security cordon at a
diplomatic reception in order to
Perhaps But maybe they want,
like the Soviet Union did, to be our
friends only while they are inferjor
to this country militarily
Once a parity is reached, the
situation could change if the United .
States does not keep its guard up
And Teng. with all his friendly ways, -
has the ability to persuade you to
drop your guard
two young men
One of them is Hsun Chichia, 35
an artist in a glass and ceramics -
factory tn the city of Chi Po nr
China’s Shantung Province Hsun
paints figures and landscapes with a
tiny brush on the inside of glass snuff
bottles
He can turn out six bottles a day
which sell for 50 yuan, or about *35
each For his,art, which took three
years to learn.’ Hsun earns a bit
more than 40 yuan — less than $30 —
a month, on which he supports his
wife and two small children
price also works with glass He
applies glue to a car s rear window
and assures that it is tightly and
safely in place He gets $1,216 a
month for work which took little
time to learn
veteran politician
There are seldom any witnesses to
his confidential conversations with
American officials. The White House
has learned that Dobrynin habitually
misquotes these conversations in his
dispatches to the Kremlin But U S
officials don't quite know what to do
The. White House can hardly
complain without jeopardizing in-
telligence methods A complaint
about some specific misrepresen-
tation might reveal our eavesdrop-
damage to the human body, which
during an inflationary period could
save this country billions of
dollars ”
"How have you been able to do
this?"
"Instead of demanding a standard
of 08 per million, we will now allow
12 I know it doesn’t sound like
much on paper, but it really has a lot
of significance for the little guy who
produces automobiles and burns
coal to produce electricity."
"How do you know it's safe?"
"Oh, it‘s safe for autos and
electricity. They can take twice as
much pollution as that."
"I wasn't talking about autos and ,
industry. I was talking about people '
By JOHN RODERICK
AP Special Correspondent
SEATTLE (AP) — The Chinese
have a saying it is bad lo put a cap
on someone else’s head But it is all
right if you put it on your own
At a rodeo in Houston, Teng ac-
cepted a cowboy hat and, with a grin
and a flourish clapped it on his
head By doing so, he told the world
Chinese modernization would have a
peculiarly American cut
Modernization for the 900 million
Chinese will be difficult.
The problems are illustrated by
should attend tonight’s City
Council meeting beginning at 7 If
the council approves an or-
dinance being considered this
evening voters may be taking a
front seat driver's side position,
in the city's future
Up for the council's con-
sideration will be an'ordinance
proposed by Councilman Bill
Nash to require a popular vote of
Denton residents before any—
future projects of the Texas
Environmental Protection Agency
relaxed the nation's smog standards
last month by 50 percent because it
believes the average American can
breathe twice as much smog as was
previously thought, without falling
down on the sidewalk.
As soon as the news was an-
nounced I went over to see a friend
at EPA, named Harbinger
"How do you feel about relaxing
the nation's smog standards’" I
asked
"Very relaxed," he admitted
"We've been able to thicken the air
with pollutants without doing any
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proved his stock with Soviet
leaders.
—Another cable reflects the concern
of two senators who recently visited
Moscow, S I Hayakawa, R-Calif , and
Malcolm Wallop, R-Wyo. "The
senators," reports the cable, “claim
the embassy has discouraged
Americans from making contact with
dissidents in order to maintain good
relations with the Soviets.”
Under Toon's predecessor, Walter
Stoessel, Soviet dissidents enjoyed
frequent and close personal contacts
with American embassy officials
new recreation center We are
now talking of the city s future .
power supplies
The power sales contract — the
document which binds the city to
Teng: fox or good ole boy?
Want to have your say about
community-related problems, to
be heard, to have an influence on
events that shape your city,
county. state, nation'’
The Record-Chronicle
welcomes letters from its
readers however, letters must
include the signature and full
address of the author, plus a
future participation in TMPA for
the cities which disapprove a
project
Though the cities may continue
to purchase power supplied by the
agency from new projects, the
city loses its power to approve
any future projects Its par-
ticipftion in future projects
becomes one of a buying
customer, not a member city
The decision therefore is not
only one of whether the city will
participate'in a new project, but
how the city will participate in
TMPA from that day on
The issues will require study by
voters before a decision can be
made — careful study Voters will
not be able to educate themselves
on the issue the morning of the
election
. Denton citizens have wanted
and needed this voice in deter
mining their power future One
hopes, though if the council
approves the ordinance, rational
thought and not emotional
reaction will provide the basis for
TMPA related decisions.
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"s) 1K 1 4 HAPMAN
Managing E ditor
U ever this, country had to worry
about the political prowess of a
-visiting- rt is now Not so
much because of his doctrines but
because of his ability to sway the
hearts and minds of his doubters
Tfe dignitary is the dimiutive
Teng Hsiao ping vice premier of the
People s Republic of China ‘
Teng has taken this country by
storm Legislators. businessmen
and women carry mg babies have
swarmed to meet the Chinese Ped
Piper and each has come away
swearing he found a new friend
The whole friendly phenomenon is
understandable Teng has the
.magnetism of a warm-hearted
The gap between Chinese and
American workers is not as great as
it appears The rent Hsun pays. f»r
example, is about one-thirtieth of his
Anatoly Dobrynin is a favorite in
Washington He has a shy cordial
charm that has won friends in high
places He is considered a decent
, civilized person who sincerely
believes in better understanding
between the superpowers
He has easy access. therefore,~to
bassador, they say, has merely at American leaders He can see the
tempted to get the contacts on a more highest officials, on short notice or
orderly basis bv having them cleared reach them on the telephone He can
with-him first Whatever the reason also backslap on Capitol Hill like a
for the change, both dissidents and
State Department officials feel that it
was done to mollify the Kremlin
______ bumbling amateur envoy, a pci....al
appointzw’being rewarded for cam-
paign contributions with a prestigious
ambassadorship He is a professional,
a career diplomat with more than 30
years in the Foreign Service, much of
it in Eastern Europe
A tall, athletic, gray haired non-
smoker. Toon is apparently as con-
servative in his politics as he is in his
dress. Although considered an anti-
Soviet hardliner—so much so.'in fact,
that the Russians were reluctant to
people should keep up with any
changes we make in them
"If I tell you on the basis of
medical and scientific evidence you
can breathe twice as much smog as
we originally thought, it's up to you
to get the word "
"But there are some people who
say you're lowering the pollution
standards at the behest of the auto
industry and other large urban
polluters, who will have to spend
billions of dollars to meet the
guidelines set by the EPA."
"Let the environmentalists say it.
There's always someone who can't
get enough clean air. But they're not-
the ones who ask how much this
salary while Price may pay more
than one-fourth
What makes the differences
between Hsun and Price important
is that Price is contributing much of
his salary to a humming productive
society while Hsun s goes into
keeping himself and his family
alive
Teng's mission to the United
States was a shopping trip for
American machinery and know
how Asked whether China would be
spending millions of dollars abroad,
be replied, "Billions and billions, not
millions "
The White House is alsoreluctint to
offend Dobrynin Although he tells one
story to American leaders and
another to his Kremlin saperiors,
Dobrynin is more reasonable and
understanding than any past Soviet
ambassador
As for Toon, he was Henry
Kissinger's choice for ambassador to
Moscow His actual appointment was
delayed by the Soviets' hostility until
the Carter administration took over----
Toon's sponsorship by Kissinger,
coupled with his crusty demeanor and
hisindependent thinking, hasn't made
him popular with his new bosses in
Washington They regard him as a
hard-liner and a grandstander who
doesn't like to take orders.
Toon, meanwhile, is acting like a
short timer whose tenure is about
over He has been granting more
press interviews and keeping a higher
profile — moves that might land him
an important post retiremen: position
in private business •
United Featur Svndicate
approve him as ambassador — Toon T Although the dissidents claim they
has turned out to be surprisingly cool were always careful not to discuss
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prior to publication
To assure a fair hearing for all.
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approved .
Considering the confusion and
distrust some Denton residents
have had of the power agency
since its creation two and one-half
years ago and considering the
criticism the City Council has
drawn for the participation in
TMPA. It is not surprising the
council might pass the respon
sibilityof involvement in future
projects of the agency on to the
voters
in giving that right to Denton
voters, the city and TMPA have
taken on a burden of providing
adequate public information on
which voters can base their
decisions concerning new
projects
. Perhaps at last the city and
the TMPA will be forced to
provide clear, concise and ac-
curate information on__the
projects — an area in which they
have had little success in the past
For Denton voters, if the or-
dinance is approved there will be
a new burden, also
The decision will not be one of
whether the city builds a new fire
grandfather
His smile lights up the room and
his handshakes carry the heft of
sincerity And that traiLin Texas-
will carry any politician. regardless
of his nationality, a long long way
He is also an earthy person, not
given to all the pomp and cir- -
cumstance thets State Depart
ment would like to blanket him a ith
Even,his Mao jacket which you
uould think would set him apart
from the crowd as an obvjous
comrianist, works to his favor
While surrounded by government
officials dressed in their three-piece
business suits? Teng’s tieless garb
gives the Chibese diplomat the
appearance of a relaxed, informal
individual who would rather discuss
the issues of the day over a cup of its issues that Teng was not a
coffee or a could beer than over a , tobacco chewer but an excellent
state dinner < « ■ expectorator. nserthejess
. . . ", , . . . . He can hit the spittoon squarely
And his reputation, which must , T 7.
i Ta-afrom remarkable Distances.
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vepremer moremtormat Chna told the Journal vee premiers spunk
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For example, the Wall Street Doesn't Chira just want to be our
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