The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 16, 1987 Page: 4 of 60
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I HURSDAY, JULY 16, 1987
HARRY CONNER (on horse) worked for the JA ranch many years and
was the first child born after Swisher County was organized.
WT Prof Comments On
Contra Hearings
B% ED STERLING
_Stqff Writer_
As the fevered pitch of the Iran-
Contra scandal reaches a crescendo
with the nationally televised congres-
sional hearings featuring Marine
Corps Lt. Col. Oliver North, public
opinion is zeroing in on alleged impro-
prieties perpetrated by the lame duck
Reagan Administration.
Political science professor Fred
Marsh, a West Texas State University
faculty member, commented on the
North hearings Thursday, having
closely monitored the international
episode over the past months.
“I generally think that the episode
represents the failure of the Reagan
Administration in the understanding
of foreign affairs and how to conduct
foreign policy.
"The idea of raising money to try to
privately finance a foreign political
episode and the way they did it is
ludicrous.
"Damages to our international af-
fairs in the Middle East were grave, not
in mention the thousands of deaths it
made possible in the Iran-Iraq war.
That it was allowed to happen
indicates the president doesn’t know
anything about foreign affairs and that
his advisors aren't much smarter.”
Marsh said he believes North is a
sincere man, but a zealot.
"He is a military officer pul in
charge of the development and execu-
tion of foreign policy,” Marsh added,
indicating that such a powerful role is
an unlikely assignment for a man in
North’s position.
"The president should be sitting
before the Congress. Congress should
be asking Reagan the questions,”
Marsh said.
"Assuming the money got to the
Contras or not, do they (the Reagan
Administration) actually believe (hat
that little bit of money would be
enough to finance the overthrow of
Marxism m Nicaragua?”
Answering his own question.
Marsh said, “It was doomed to failure.
If the United States is interested in
involving itself in Central American
affairs, we should do so forthrightly,
not covertly.”
Marsh said when the president’s
request to aid (divert funds) to the
Contras was voted down by Congress,
the U.S. leader by law had no political
option.
That’s that,” Marsh stressed
“Right or wrong is another matter. The
fact is that Coneress said not to aid the
Contras.
"Reagan should have adapted pol-
icy to adust to the congressional real-
ity.
“If he was unable to convince Con-
oi the plausibility of Contra
support, his actions should have fol-
lowed propriety "
( am.in Resident Believes North
ketired Marine Corps 1 t Col John
Regal ot Canyon said last week that he
believes Oliver North's testimony in the
ongoing Iran-C ontra congressional
hearings.
Basing his belief on the integrity ol
North's past character. Regal said
though he has not been in contact with
i he Mar me < orps officer. who has been
under tire in the diverted aid and arms
sale v im. lor I s years, vet stated “Col
Fred Marsh
North is just exactly what an officer
should be."
Regal said he first became acquainted
with North at Marine Corps Officers
Basic School at (Juantico. Va. in 1969
I hen a major. Regal was a Ouantico
faculty member when 1st L.t. Oliver
North reported in after a tour ol duty in
V letnam
"I remember him as the very, verv best
'first looie’ I had seen he was filling a
captain's billet before he was promoted
to captain. When he made captain, he
became a better captain than most.
“He was very personable, very articu-
late," Regal said. "He was a great guy and
well-respected He was absolutely inge-
nious in our tactical section."
Regal said North became adept at
handling public relations issues, espe-
cially when national sentiments over
Vietnam were in a state ot deterioration.
More than once, according to Regal.
North anneared on William E. Bucklev’s
nati onally-televised news forum. “Firing
Line" to discuss the United States mil-
itary situation overseas.
Regal said based on North’s character
in the past, he believes the colonel's tes-
timony to be “credible, yet careful.”
Explaining what he means by “care-
ful." Regal said. “North's had to answer
the same questions so many times,
phrased in so many dilferent ways. U nder
that type of cross examination, he must
be careful no to perjure himself, espe-
cially under what they call limited
immunity. From what I can tell, he's
sticking to his original testimony in all
the interrogations.”
Regal praised North for "giving the
American people for the first time a
clearer, more concise understanding” of
theCommunist and Anti-Communist move-
ments in Nicaragua and El Salvador
“Ollie is action-oriented His superiors
have always recognized this trait. His
actions have apparently shielded the pres-
ident and his higher cabinet members
from some of the heat.
“Everybody. I'd say. knew the presi-
dent let him go beyond the normal
situation."
Regal explained that North’s road has
been a tough one. and credited the man
with making a "huge sacrifice" bv shoul-
dering an extremely demanding role in a
time of crisis
"He's always gone He hastoleaveona
moment's notice It's hard on his family.
The allegations of North's misuse of
funds - I've talked with other officers
about it
"W hen you get called on an assign-
ment. you often don't have time to collect
pay. have a check cut You need ready
cash It's not unusual to be reimbursed
lor out-of-pocket expenses that way
Besides North would not jeopardize his
DOE Didn’t
’Fess Up
By ED STERLING
Staff Writer
Nuclear waste dump opponents
criticized the Department of Energy at
a news conference in Hereford last
week and accused local DOE officials
of withholding news of a May ^acci-
dent at a nuclear waste repository shaft
under construction at Gorleben, West
Germany.
Five injuries, two of them critical,
and one death resulted from the col-
lapse of a wall of Gorleben's 25-fcet-
wide shaft, located more than 200
meters beneath the earth’s surface.
Nuclear Waste Task Force presi-
dent Delbert Devin and Angela Lamb
of the Texas Department of
Agriculture's Amarillo office admon-
ished the DOE for considering produc-
tive farmland in Deaf Smith County as
a future nuclear waste dump site.
“The TDA has argued repeatedly
that punching holes in the Ogallala
Aquifer for a nuclear waste dump was
insane, and now the accident at the
German nuclear waste dump construc-
tion site makes it even more impera-
tive that we stop the DOE,” Lamb read
from a prepared statement.
Citing the relevance of the accident
to concerned citizens, Devin said the
Gorleben site, which penetrates a salt
dome formation, is similar in geology
and hydrology to the Deaf Smith site
A repository shaft at the nine
square- mile Deaf Smith sue would
require entry into a salt bed lormauon
and the piercing of the ecologically
sensitive aquifer, a natural under-
ground water formation that spans
from West Texas north into the Dako-
tas.
World Information Service on En-
ergy (WISE), an Amsterdam-based
news service, released a June 12 com-
munique that said the Gorleben acci-
dent was not caused by faulty building
material as the shaft's construction
company first announced, but as a
direct consequence of the geological
conditions present.
According to WISE, the shaft build-
ers used several emergency methods
to counteract “unexpectedly high”
underground pressures, including
freezing the ground prior to sinking the
shaft.
Devin and Lamb said the same
technology would be used at the Deaf
Smith site.
“On June 29. Jeff Neff, (DOE Deaf
Smith) project technical director, testi-
fying before the Senate Energy and
National Resources Committee, indi-
cated that the proposed freeze tcchnol -
ogy had been used for 100 years and
indicated that there were no technical
problems, that it was a proven technol-
ogy,” Devin said.
“The past record of 40 percent fail-
ures, as confirmed at a Hereford meet-
ing by Susan Zimmerman of the
Governor’s Nuclear Waste Programs
Office, along with this recent tragedy,
gives added proof that the freeze tech-
nology is indeed proven: proven to be
totally unreliable and unacceptable.”
In a separate interview, Linda
McLain of the DOE Hereford office
admitted that the DOE had “sketchy
information” of the Gorleben accident
almost two months ago, but that in-
complete information was unaccept-
able for public release.
McLain said that when a thorough
study of the Gorleben accident is re-
ceived by the DOE, reports will be
analyzed to determine if the accident is
relevant to the Deaf Smith site.
“There’s a difference between the
sites,” McLain explained. “A salt
dome rises up through rock so that the
top and sides are deformed. Bedded
salt, like in Deaf Smith, is evaporate
rock. The bedded salt has been sitting
there undisturbed for approximately
200 million years.
“Although the surrounding rock is
the same type at both sites, the geologi -
cal make-up is quite different.”
McLain said the number of Deaf
Smith site project staffers has in-
creased to 102.
Of the total, 37 staffers reside in
Hereford, with 33 in Amarillo, seven
in Canyon, two in Vega and 23 more
living in rural areas
career over a few bucks."
Regal said North was never a close
personal friend, but that the school in
Quantico was a “tight outfit where we all
knew each other."
Moreover. Regal said. “North always
set a proper example for the younger
officers. He never drank too much He
was heavily decorated in Vietnam "
Regal retired from the Marine Corps
in 1981 He now heads the ROTC pro-
gram at C'aprock High School in
Amarillo.
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Texas A&M handbook
explains Texas water law
for general readership
COLLEGE STATION — It's been
said that a canoeist needs a law book, a
copy of the original land grant, a survey-
or's instrument and five justices from
the Texas Supreme Court to determine
whether lie has the legal right to use a
Texas riverhauk. Or start with a new
hand hook published by Texas A&M
University.
A new booklet, ‘Hand Book of Texas
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A&M, enables the average person to
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Stressful events linked to
higher incidence of
pregnancy complications
COLLEGE STATION — Stressful
events such as death of a spouse, job loss
and divorce have been linked to in-
creased risk to mother and child during
pregnancy in a study by a Texas A&M
University doctoral student.
“I am totally convinced that our
minds have a great deal to do with the
health of our bodies,' said Ruth Tucker
who surveyed 2:W post partum women
and found that those who had high stress
levels during the six months prior to
delivering their babies had a higher
incidence of complications during their
pregnancies than did women with lower
stress levels.
Tucker, a graduate student in health
and physical education, said if these
“stressed out" mothers can be identified
early, some kind of stress intervention
can be done to ease the burden and
protect both lives. She suggested a
strong network of family and friends
they can call on to help them cope with
their problems, adding that severely
pressured women might need profes-
sional counseling.
The increase in stress among women
in general prompted Tucker to study the
effects of stress on childbearing.
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Tooley, Wendell. The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 16, 1987, newspaper, July 16, 1987; Tulia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth507315/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Swisher County Library.