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4—'THENEWS-TillGItAM, Sulphur Springs, Texas. Wednesday. May 20.1991.
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' Both the Senate and House
Agriculture Committees have
spearheaded what may become
another major victory for President
Reagan. The two panels have approv-
ed deep cuts in one of the nation’s most
f sacred” entitlements - food stamps.
The major victory, however, can
pot become a reality until flow action
in both the Senate and House, where
there probably will be some stiff
at present, it may /ace reductions of
about $1.5 billion from fiscal 1962,
which would cost taxpayers almost $12
billion during the year beginning on
October 1.
The conftnittees have proposed
with some deferred increases.
One way in which food stamp costs
would be reduced concerns the barring
of entitlements to striking workers and
their families. This measure, if it wins
final acceptance, is one that many tax-
payers feel should have been adopted
years ago. If a worker by his own
choosing elects to strike, he should not
be provided a cushion by the govern-
ment. If a striker is given food stamps,
he is, in effect, being subsidized not to
work.
The last month on which data is
available — August — shows that tax-
payers subsidized strikes by about
90,000 workers through the food stamp
program.
Food stamps were not envisioned to
subsidize strikers. This is one area that
needs to be clearly eliminated.
on behalf of
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Child hostage aftermath
Traffic accidents
claim young people
Forty-three percent of the people
killed in traffic accidents is Texas last
year were young people; that is, those
from infants through age 24. The 43
percent fleshes oat to 1,896 young peo-
ple fatally injured in Texas crashes. In
all, there were 4,424 persons killed on
Texas streets and highways last year.
The director of the Texas Depart-
ment of Public Safety, Colonel Jim
Adams, observes: “The real tragedy is
that so many o$the* deaths could be
avoided if more people of every age
would wear their seat belts.”
With the Memorial Day holiday
period coming iq>, the safety director is
urging all motorists to use safety belts
Sulphur Springs Noodt....
•Broader Vocational Education
•Mare Downtown Parking
•Continued industrial Development
■ *A More Prosperous Agriculture
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Jock Anderson
to cut back on life-ending crashes. Ad-
ditionally, he advises the utilization of
safety belts thoughout the year as well
as wi Memorial Day.
Adams points out that when a crash
occurs there are really two collisions.
Following the initial impact, the driver
and passengers are tossed about inside
their car and their bodies strike
something inside the passenger com-
partment The second collision, Adams
mftea, is often the one that causes
serious or even fatal injuries.
The public never has been sold on
safety belts, but they’re betting their
lives when they fail to buckle up.
•A City-County Health Unit
•City Beautification
• Enthusiastic Citizens
•Minimum Housing Standards Code
•Improved Streets A Drainage
By the Editor*
of Psychology Today
In July 1976, 26 children in
Cbowchilla. Calif., were kid-
napped and held hostage for
27 hours. A recently published
study on bow the experience
affected the children has
found that, to a child, they suf-
fered some form of serious
psychological distress, which
expressed itself in such symp-
toms as persistent fear-ridden
dreams, panic attacks and
impaired performance in
school.
The children, aged 5 to 14,
were being taken borne from
summer school in a bus. Three
armed men wearing stocking
masks commandeered the bus
and drove it to two waiting
vans with blacked-out
windows. The children were
driven around in the vans for
11 hours, then transferred, by
ladder, to a buried truck-trail-
er, where they and the bus
driver were trapped for many
more hours. At the end, two
boys - Bob, 14, and Carl, 10
— aided by the bus driver,
succeeded in digging a pas-
sageway to the surface.
Five months later, Lenore
C. Terr, a psychiatrist at the
University of California Medi-
cal School in San Francisco,
read a newspaper report on
the children’s continuing
distress. She contacted sever-
al of their parents, offering
counseling help in return for
their participation in a study.
They accepted, and Terr met
at least once over the next
eight months with 23 of the
children and many of the par-
ents (the families of three
U.S. will aid Guatemala
despite brutal massacre
I By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON - The
’, Reagan administration still
; plans to resume the sale of
; arms to the military govern-
; meat of Guatemala, despite
; warnings by our embassy
then that right-wing terror-
! ists supported by the regime
! were probably responsible
! for a recent massacre of 24
| townspeople-one of them a
! young girl
The torture and execution
of the villagers occurred in
I the small fanning communi-
i ty of Ghuabtjtte on April 9,
; according to the U.S.
; Embassy s confidential
; cable to Washington. Any-
where from 20 to M masked
men in civilian clothes,
armed with machetes and
automatic weapons, des-
‘ cended on the town in three
: trucks that had no license
I The invaders went from
! hOUSe tO hOUK demanding
i supposedly hidden firearms.
’ They fired shots in the air
; and pet up leftist revolution-
I minded up 13 men and
i blindfolded to the
cable
unclaimed.”
The bodies were buried in
a mass grave. Some of them,
according to Guatemalan
reports, bad been brutalized
to the point of decapitation.
When reports of the mas-
sacre began to filter out of
the hinterlands, the govern-
ment of Mai. Gen. Fernando
Romero Lucas Garcia
promised a complete inves-
tigation. Within a week, the
military regime issued a
report planting the atrocity
on ‘‘criminal subversives” -
meaning leftist guerrillas.
But political experts in
the U.S. Embassy smelled a
rat. Their analysis, based on
knowledge of the intricate,
dog-eat-dog of right-left vio-
lence in Guatemala, suggest-
ed that the military was cov-
■ J
ering up for a right-wing
death squad. The cable to
Foggy Bottom, reviewed by
my associate Bob Sherman,
explains the experts' reason-
ing this way.
“The government expla-
nation strains credulity.
Although the guerrillas
claim more campesino
(peasant) victims than they
are usually credited with,
torture is not usually part of
the modus operand) nor
would guerrillas he search-
ing tor arena in campesino
homes, or be traveling in
plahrieas vehicles, which
eouM la exported to attract
bthard to
uniform...”
The embassy analysts
concluded that the brutal
attack may have been part
of a pattern of government
retribution against peasants
in areas in which the leftists
enjoy wide support. “Grim
experience suggests that
Chuabajito was a reprisal,
with a bow to plausible deni-
al, in the pattern of earlier
indicents.”
The Reagan administra-
tion appears to be unmoved
by the suspicions of the
embassy experts on the
scene, however. My sources
say the State Department
still plans to recommend a
resumption of weapons sales
to the Guatemalan regime.
The sales were halted by
President Carter in 1977
when the military regime
failed to give satisfactory
assurances that it would try
to clean up its human rights
act.
GERMAN QUALMS: West
German Chancellor Helmut
Schmidt is due in Washing-
ton today, and most diplo-
matic observers believe his
talks with President Reagan
will be genuinely warm.
But there is one issue that
can bring trouble if it is
raised: arms control. Both
the Carter aad Reagan
administrations supported
the upgrading of short-range
‘theater nuclear weapons
a Europe Like our other
European allies, the Wert
Germans are
the space shuttle. The Euro-
peans just don’t believe that
this latest achievement of
the U.S. space program is as
peaceful as the United
States has insisted it is. They
note that future shuttle
flights will carry military
payloads.
The Europeans also note
admimstra
that ad
ration hawks
i M the pritUraHy
are bringing pressure to
exploit the full military
potential of the space shut-
tle. Intelligence analysts say
that within three years the
Pentagon could ferry
enough weapons into space
on the shuttle to give the
United States an
“overwhelming” strategic
advantage. What they mean
by this, according to a
recent Defense Intelligence
Agency analysis, is that we
could annihilate the Soviet
Union while suffering
“acceptable” losses of 40
percent of our industry and
20 percent of the population
- or 40 million casualties.
STEADY, EDDIE!: New
York's ebullient Mayor Ed
Koch is a Democrat, but he
has been cozying up to the
Reagan administration in
apparent hopes that he’ll get
re-election endorsements
from botbparties. So far,
however. White House aides
have been cautious about
Koch’s courtship "He's still
a Democrat, aad we are
interested ia electing
Republicans.” said one
Raagan insider, adding
slyly But we are always
PSYCHOLOGY
TODAY
children had left Cbowchilla).
Although some post-trauma
symptoms had not emerged
immediately, all of the chil-
dren were suffering when
Terr saw them. Their levels of
distress ranged from moder-
ate (for six children) to
moderately severe (for seven)
to severe (for 10).
For example, Johnny, 11,
believed be had (ailed to heed
a warning that might have
prepared him for the kidnap-
ping. A year earlier, his father
had taken him to a movie in
which a school bus was briefly
hijacked, and had asked him
what he would do in such
circumstances. Johnny, not
surprisingly, didn't know, but
after the real hijacking, he
blamed himself for his lack of
awareness. He was seeking to
build up his body for the next
test — which he was sure
would come.
Eighteen months after the
kidnapping, Bob, 14, one of the
“heroes" who dug the escape
passageway, was asked by his
parents to find out why a
strange car had stopped in
front of their house. He shot at
the driver with a BB gun. It
turned out that the kidnapping
had begun when a strange van
blocked the school bus, and
Bob reacted to the strange car
as if it signaled the start of a
second kidnapping in which he
again had to be a “hero.”
Terr found that none of the
children displayed the forms
of "denial” (amnesia, hazi-
ness) that are frequent in
adult accounts of traumatic
experiences. Each child could
recount the whole story. In
addition, Terr found that since
both "heroes” of the kidnap-
ping were among the 10 chil-
dren who exhibited severe
post-trauma symptoms, they
in fact “were victims first,
heroes second.”
Members of the kidnapped
children’s families manifested
in less intense form many of
the same fears and anxieties
as the children themselves —
the kidnap-related dreams,
the anticipation of a second
kidnapping, the feeling that
they had failed somehow to be
ready for the first.
Terr is now completing a
four-year follow-up study.
(c) 1981 Psychology Today
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
The Almanac
By The Associated Press
Today is Wednesday, May 20,
the 140th day of 1961. There are
225 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On May 20, 1862, President
Abraham Lincoln signed the
Homestead Act, opening
millions of acres of land to
settlement in the American
West.
On this date:
In 1506, Christopher
Columbus died in Spain.
In 1861, North Carolina voted
to secede from the union.
In 1902, the United States
ended its occupation of Cuba.
And in 1927, Charles Lind-
bergh began his solo flight
across the Atlantic on his
monoplane, the Spirit of St.
Louis.
Ten years ago: Nine soviet
jews on trial in Leningrad were
found guilty of anti-Soviet
activity and sentenced to
Prison.
Five years ago: the Senate
voted to put off until the
following year a decision on
whether to produce the con-
troversial B1 strategic bomber.
One year ago: The death toll
from the latest eruption of
Mount St. Helens in Washington
state stood at six, with 98 people
believed missing.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor
James Stewart is 73. Comedian
George Gobel is 61.
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COMMENTARY
Don Graff
It’s not over yet
By Don Graff
Perfect foresight is given to no one — not even Charles de
Gaulle, the late French leader’s own firm opinions on that
subject to the contrary.
If it were, France would probably not be in the fascinating
(or alarming, depending upon the politics of the observer,
French or foreign) situation that it is as a consequence of
Socialist Francois Mitterrand's presidential victory.
It is not the coming to power of a Socialist after a quarter of
a century of center-right domination in France that, as such,
is so jolting. After all, the party took a prominent part in the
political jockeying of the early post-war years, notably under
the leadership of one-time Premier Guy Mollet.
But back then it was one of the crowd, a player among
many in the multi-party political games of the Fourth Repub-
lic in which parliament was predominant and power so frag-
mented that no single social ideology could dominate all
others
This is the Fifth Republic, designed by de Gaulle specifical-
ly to transcend factionalism and prevent revolving govern
ments The presidency dominates, and it is on paper the most
powerful elective office in any major democracy It was
tailored to the purposes and personality of de Gaulle himself,
and it is questionable whether he ever seriously envisaged
that its powers might fall into the hands of someone whose
concepts of what France should do and what.it should become
radically deviated from his own /
Francois Mitterrand is such a someone A survivor of the
Fourth Republic's games, he reappeared in the politics of the
Fifth with only one purpose: to establish a credible leftist
alternative to the center-right domination of France that de
Gaulle sought to institutionalize
Mitterrand is only part-way home, however. There's still
parliament, which was created unequal and assumed disposed
to go along with a president on the big issues if not always the
minor details. But the deputies do possess some powers that,
should they be brought to the point of outright mutiny against
a president, could give him real trouble. If one side were not
prepared to make concessions, the consequences could be gov-
ernment paralysis and even a constitutional crisis opening the
way for a Sixth Republic.
Mitterrand, inheriting a center-right parliament elected in
1978, intends to avoid that situation by calling a new election
in June, two years ahead of schedule.
But what if the French, having second thoughts about what
they have done in the presidential election or as a result of a
realignment of political factions, do not give him a leftist
majority?
Election returns can be analyzed to the point of meaning-
less abstraction. But it would appear in the French presiden-
tial vote that Mitterrand's victory was at least as much the
result of the electorate being turned off by incumbent Presi-
dent Valery Giscard d’Estaing and his record as of being
turned on by the dour Mitterrand and his program.
That program, calling for nationalization of 11 key indus-
tries, resembles more those of Britain’s post-war Labor gov-
ernments than it does those of the more pragmatic Socialist
parties in other countries of the Continent. France is already
well-acquainted with nationalization - Renault, the major
auto maker, is government owned. But the possibility of so
much more, and the questionable British example, may sway
votes.
Then there are the Communists. Mitterrand is feuding with
their leadership, but their votes were crucial to his victory
and they are now demanding government positions. Short of a
clear Socialist majority, which would appear unlikely, the
alternative is a coalition with center parties to give a Mitter-
rand government a dependable parliamentary base. But that
would necessitate compromises in the Socialist program,
which Mitterrand might have difficulty selling to his ideologi-
cal constituency.
It undoubtedly will become even more complicated by June
when the French will clarify what they have actually voted
for in the presidential election and pass judgment of sorts on
the Fifth Republic. The present system of government was
designed primarily to perpetuate power rather than facilitate
its transfer. But the latter is now the challenge it must meet.
If it is successful, Charles de Gaulle may be proved even
more prescient than anyone but himself might have believed
possible.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN)
Message to
Washington
DOWNTOWN HOUSING FOR SENIORS
MESSAGE—I’m a senior citizen trying to make ends meet on
a tiny Social Security check. To my relief, I recently qual-
ified to live in a government senior citizen housing complex
planned for my town. We “oldsters” who will live In the com-
plex were polled nbout where it should be located. After a long
search, we all agreed that the perfect site Is an abandoned bank
building In the center of town. Not only is the building a great
location for our activities, but the government can save by
renovating Instead of starting from scratch. Yet HUD officials
say the bank site Is “not acceptable” and won’t explain why.
Please check this out. There are 52 old people relying on your
help to get this project off the ground. R.C.—Brownwood
SENATOR BENTSEN RESPONDS-The bank building
should turn into your new apartment complex within a year.
At my request, HUD officials again reviewed the bank as a
potential site and decided that its location will give residents
access to many shops and help revitalize your town's business
area. Renovation work will begin soon.
MILITARY FOOD CONTRACT
MESSAGE—The Defense Department contracted with my
small egg farm to have fresh eggs supplied to a local base. My
contract stipulated that the base would figure what It needs
and then order at least 80 percent of that amount regularly.
That way, I would know bow much to supply and be able to
plan my expenses. Under the contract, the base estimated It
■ceded at least 3,600 dozen eggs. But so far, it hasn’t ordered
that much or paid Its bill. Please help. D.J.—Name of Town
Withheld
SENATOR BENTSEN RESPONDS-Offidats with the De-
fense Logistics Agency advise me that you will be paid once
you submit a report comparing the estimated orders with the
actual number of eggs you supplied. Officials state that, under
the terms of the contract, you voluntarily agreed to accept
orders for amounts below the minimum. As a result, officials
claim that when the base didn’t need as many eggs as it es-
timated, the contract permits the Air Force to order on an
"as needed" basis.
Do you have a problem with government? MESSAGE TO
WASHINGTON cult through the red tape to get answers to
your questions about Social Security, veterans benefits, immi-
gration matters and other problems you may have run into in
your dealings with the Federal Government in Washington
Write MESSAGE TO WASHINGTON, c/o Senator Lloyd
•entsen, U.S Senate, Wathtnftoa, D C JOSIO Inquiries to
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