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Page ^Th# Hondo Anvil Herald, Thursday, November 13.19M
Anvil Herald
Viewpoint
A page of comment and opinion
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Guest
Editorial
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Nests of Spies
. By Richard A. Viguerie
For the personnel at the Ameri-
can embassy in Moscow, it means
"bag lunches," as one embassy offi-
cial put it. For the Soviets, it
means fewer Central Park rendez-
vous with their spies inside the
U.S. government. "The Soviets ope-
rated the largest spy network in the
world, right here in the United
States," said an Administration
spokesman, "but ho longer will
they have a massive, bloated num-
ber of intelligence officers here."
r In other words, the President s de-
cision to stop mollycoddling Gor-
bachev has already produced a clear
benefit - fewer Soviet spies on our
Soil. It appears that the worst the
Soviets can do in retaliation is to
Ship a few of our non-spy personnel
back home and to keep the cooks,
maids, and chauffeurs (50 chauf-
feurs!) at our Moscow embassy out
0n strike.
j Expelled from the United States
were the station chiefs for the GRU
(Societ military intelligence) in San
Francisco, Washington, and New
York, and the KGB residents in
Charge of three areas - scientific
data, political intelligence, and
penetration of the FBI and CIA.
Also included were numerous
$oviet technicians whose job was
to eavesobop on Americans' tele-
phone conversations.
< According to the Associated
Kess, the Soviets are reduced to
arguing among themselves: the
|CGB and the Soviet foreign
ministry (state department) "are
expected to vie over how many of
the 251 posts remaining in the
embassy and the consulate will go
|o legitimate diplomats and how
many to spies." Maybe they’ll
come up with a quota system.
This all started, you will re-
member, with the decision to kick
Out 25 Soviet spies stationed at the
United Nations. Ever wonder why
(he Soviets insisted that the UN be
headquartered in New York? Ever
wonder why they scoff at Jeane
Kirkpatrick's suggestion (endorsed
by the President) that the General
Assembly rotate its meetings, one
year in New York. one year in Mos-
cow. one year in Nairobi, and so
tin?
It's because the UN has been an
especially friendly place for Soviet
agents. Former Deputy UN Ambas-
sador Charles Lichenstein writes:
"They are diplomats and bureaucrats
with a status even more privileged
than diplomats ... they use as a
base the diplomatic missions,
agencies and secretariats affiliated
with the United Nations, in the
heart of Manhattan.
"Their numbers run into the hun-
dreds. At least one in three of all
Soviet, East bloc, and client-state
diplomats posted to the United
States engages in espionage." The
one-in-three estimaie is the con-
sensus of U.S. intelligence experts,
t i many defectors put the number
at one-in-two.
UN headquarters in New York har-
bors some 1,200 Soviet-bloc "dip-
lomats" and "bureaucrats." But even
that figure is not complete; it
doesn't include family members
who, according to defectors, are also
used as spies. All told, it appears
that at least 800 to 1,200 Soviet-
bloc spies are based at the United
Nations headquarters in Washing-
ton. This is despite the fact that, as
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
(D-New York) points out, the plac-
ing of KGB agents in the Sec-
retariat of the UN is a violation of
the Charter itself.
Soviet-bloc nations in general
have much larger UN Staffs than
other nations of comparable size.
The Cuban mission, for example,
numbers 56 - 250-350 percent lar-
ger than the missions of other na-
tions the size of Cuba. The Soviet
mission numbered 327, three times
the sue of the U.S. mission. And
certain UN positions are guaranteed
to the Soviets, including the top
post at Political and Security
Affairs.
The Soviets have come to expect
special treatment, after years in
which the U.S. government neg-
lected to call their hand. While the
Soviets built their new embassy at
the highest point in Washington.
D C. -- the better to intercept phone
calls -- they put our new Moscow
embassy below sea level and
bugged it so thoroughly that it
may never be used. Maybe now
their free ride is over.
Why did we wait so long to expel
the Soviet agents? No explanation
I've heard is really sufficient, but
the best one is like the old story of
11 11 """ ^
SPARKS
By Frances Racer Proctor
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AN EXAMPLE OF YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK:
...On Monday, Nov. 3, radio station KRME received an express mail
package from the US Office of Personnel Management with a pottage
charge of $10.71 noted on the next-day-service label. Inside was a single
sheet of paper announcing that a voting rights examiner would be available
in Dallas for any eligible registered voter denied the right to vote in the
Nov. 4 election.
Now, it would seem that every radio station in the state, or at least in
the 12 counties listed in the release probably received a similar dispatch.
Surely the release could have been sent earlier so that express mail would
not have been necessary But then, when you recall how much the
government will pay for a wrench, I guess we got by pretty cheaply this
time.
WONDER IF A LOCAL GROUP
...would be interested in supporting the Keep Texas Beautiful program by
adopting a section of highway in Hondo?
; Any local group who agrees to pick up trash at least twice a year along a
djesignated section of highway can have their good deed acknowledged on a
big, blue 4x8-foot sign at either end of their" section of highway. Not
ohly does the group get the recognition, but the signs serve as a constant
afid vivid reminder that someone has taken a personal interest in that
sfretch of road. The signs turn an act of littering into a personal affront to
ajgroup of people that a motorist may very well know personally.
' All the sponsoring group must do is sign a contract agreeing to furnish
Manpower to pick up trash on a regular basis along a designated stretch of
highway. The state highway department erects a sign at each end of the
segment of highway and provide trash bags, safety vests, warning signs
ajid trucks on cleanup day.
l In late October, Keep Texas Beautiful found in a survey that 691 Texas
cfvic groups and employee organizations are now picking up hash
regularly along 1,452 nules of state highway.
; Any group who would like more information on the program can
contact Laura Bucci in San Antonio, 696-1110.
the hounddog on the porch.
A traveling salesman walks up to
a farmhouse, where an old farmer is
sitting in his rocking chair on the
porch. Next to the farmer is his old
hounddog, a '-groanin' and a-
moanin’. "How come your hound-
dogs groanin’ like that?" asks the
salesman. "Cs siltin' on a nail,
says the farmer. "Well, why don't
he get off it?" asks the salesman.
"'Cause it ain't hurtiri enough yet,'
says the farmer.
With the exposure of Whitworth
and Walker, Howard and Pelton and
Miller and other spies about whom
the public hasn't been told -- at last,
the presence of hundreds of Soviet
bloc spies in this country got to
hurtin’ enough for us to quit
moanin' and get off that there nail.
Letter to the Editor
The Hondo
Anvil Herald
P.O. Box 400
Hondo, Texas 78861
The
Old
Philosopher
Dear editor:
When the New York Met- won
the World Senes, over two million
New York fans turned out the next
day to cheer the team as it paraded
through the city streets
Addressing the mammoth, cheer-
ing crowd. New Yorks mayor ex-
claimed: "The Mets have made u- a
small town. Today were all one
family."
It seems like a round-about wav
to produce a small town Most
small towns have done it on their
own and not a one of them ha' ever
had to produce a World Senes bu'C-
ball team.
Moreover, a place as ill-located
and as crowded as New York is an
unhandy place to locate a small
town in Many New Yorkers have
to nde a train an hour and a half
each morning getting to work and
another hour and a half getting bask
home. Five or ten minutes at the
most is all it takes in a small town
id get to work. Out here on this
farm 1 can step out the bask door
and be at work, if that s what I have
in mind.
As for the Mets making New
Yorkers "all one family," 1 wonder
how many of them, having cheered
themselves hoarse at the big celebra-
tion, got mugged on the wav
home1
I wouldn't want to live in a town
where, to achieve the benefits of a
small town, you had to win a
World Senes. Or, for that matter, a
district football championship
Actually, except for the inconven-
iences, / the over-crowding, the
smog, the noise, the high costs,
there's not much difference between
people in a big city and a small
town. Because of television, both
get the same national and world
news just as fast and inaccurately
and watch the same TV shows
during which both, I have an idea,
fall asleep at about the same time
It may take New Yorkers a little
longer because their nerves are shot
by the time they get home from
work.
Yours faithfully,
J.A.
Letters
to the Editor
Election judges did a good job Nov. 4
Dear Editor,
This letter is in response to a
newspaper article that appeared on
page 9-A of the San Antonio
Express-News which was dated
Friday, Nov. 7, 1986. (Editors
note: the story was about the
general election in Medina County ,
with special attention to the close
race for Pet. 3 Justice of the Peace,
between Irma L Torrez and George
Ernst.)
Most of the article written by
Ralph Winingham refers to Voters
Precinct No. 3. One paragraph
states. "Election officials said the
countinc of the box was not
Letters to other editors
Hancock County Journal
CartlageJLL
To the editor:
I remember as a small 8-year-old
girl standing on a board fence look-
ing at our team of horses and cry ing
all alone because thev were being
sold at auction.
Even at this young age I knew
my way of life was being taken
away from me by force My father
was sick and no longer could work
on his farm. Fortunately, a year
later he was well enough to resume
farming and 1 returned to that won
derful life of a farm girl.
This happy ending is not going
to occur for one third of our farm
families who have been forced to
sell out. They will carry the scars
throughout their lives, never fully
recovering from the agony of losing
their land. Their children will never
know what they have missed
America is not just losing the
family farm, it is losing its heart.
When the farms go, so do the small
towns, the rural schools,-the county
fairs, 4-H achievement nights and
everyone's past’or future. You can-
not live without your heart and 1 do
not believe America can either
One thud of our farmer-ranchers
already have been sold out by the
FmHA and-or the bankers while an-
other thud are being threatened. If
you go to court to fight foreclosure,
the judge tells you that you are
wrong and the banker is right to
sell you out anytime he feels like
■ it. I say the judge is immoral.
The farmer is a small voice in
Washington, but plays the biggest
part in feeding the world. The A-
mencan farmer is being sold out for
doing the best job the world has
ever seen. We are told we are the
problem--we worked too hard and
did our job too well.
Government policy has resulted
■ in our country having elevators full
of grain while 40,000 people in the
thud world starve to death every
day. Our farmers have done theu
job, but our government has poll-
completed until 1:1.0 am
Wednesday because of a mis-
understanding about the counting
process by several election judges."
The following paragraph states,
These two paragraphs seem to
indicate that Voters Precinct No 3
had difficulty counting the votes It
is my understanding that this did
not happen in that particular
precinct. W e did have a slight mis-
"The judges said they thought the
county clerks office tallied the
straight party voting at the
counhouse after the boxes were
brought in"
longer
cies that send children to bed hun
gry We are in this together the
world watches as we store grain and
let our own ciuzens go hungry
Farmers and ranchers around the
world are angry bec ause our gov ern
ment has pitted everyone against
one another American farmers a
gainst foreign farmers, labor unions
against bur ness, imports against
exports and so the merry-go-round
goes on and on
The wealth of our nation is in the
hands of a few for example, early
this year Metropolitan lafe Insur-
ance Co bought the Farmers Na
tional Co. in Omaha, Neb, the
country s largest farm management
company They operate 3,700 farms
in nine Midwestern states, thereby
controlling $1 billion worth of real
estate
The commodities trade is domin-
ated by a few large multi-national
companies. Ninety-six percent of
U.S wheat exports, 95 percent of
com and 80 percent of oats and sorg
hum are handled by these few com-
panies. These few organizations set
the prices and wages, and control
the interest rates
W e farmers are told we are wrong
to ask for pants prices, lower inter-
est rates and caring about conserva-
tion practices. When we are cut, we
are not even supposed to bleed, our
children are not supposed to cry and
our spun is not supposed to die.
When a farm family loses its
farm, the children cry because they
want to go home and dad cnes be-
cause he no longer has a home
Americas heartland is dying,
never to return, Tom Paine said it
best 200 years ago: "It is not a field
of a few acres we are defending, but
a cause." Our small towns are dy-
ing, our rural way of life is dying
and something very good about
America is dying.
Let s not have the only family
farm in Illinois be the one in the
Chicago Museum of Science and In-
dustry.
Judy McCrery
Route 1
Monmouth, 111.
understanding in some of the other
voters precincts. However, the
judges were very cooperative and
refigured their totals to include the
total number of straight party
votes to the total for each candidate
of that political parry before the
evening was over
There was a record turn-out in
Voters Precinct No 3. with 62
percent of the registered voters of
that precinct actually vi>ting Mr
Myles W'cynand. the presiding
judge, had mx anticipated such a
large turn-out. therefore, he did not
hire two teams of counters Since
most elections run into the wee
hours of the morning, they were
very surprised to hear that they were
the last precinct to bring in their
returns
All of us in this office (eel that
Medina County has an excellent
team of election judges and clerks,
and we wish to extend our support
and appreciation to them at tho
time
Sincerely,
Anna \ an De Walle
Medina County Clerk
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