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Page 4. The Hondo Anvil Herald. Thursday, October 23. 1986
Anvil Herald
V iewpoint
A page of comment and opinion
Star Peace
Leave it to Ronald Reagan: Just
|Vvhen his enemies think they have
gh>m beaten, he turns the tables on
j!em.
t That's vs hat happened to Gor-
ibachev in Iceland. "Gorby" -- as he
|)s known in some White House
Stnemos -- thought he held the high
Inland. Having tricked President Rea-
gan into agreeing to the Iceland
Mummit. Gorbachev could black-
niiail the President: Either give in to
any demands and be seen as a
Peacemaker, or defy me and confirm
gfnat you are a "warmonger." Either
sweaken the security of the United
"Slates or see your party lose control
of the Senate in die November
faction.
£ The Sov iets had learned from his-
aory that American presidents are
Vatsies at summit meetings. From
pDR to Carter, they succumbed to
She temptation to believe that the
Soviets want peace. Carter went so
Far as to kiss Brezhnev on the
S-heek.
I For 45 years, it was at summits
aike the one in Iceland that U.S. lea-
ders had "kick me” signs applied to
She seats of their pants. This time
•was different.
i This time it was the forceful.
§:ombative Ronald Reagan who
^howed up at the conference table.
I Not the Reagan w ho occasio tally
Iwimps out on us, not the Reagan
Av ho sometimes seems desperate to
vin the Nobel Peace Prize (fat
:hance, anyway!), and not the Rea-
gan who blindly follows George
Shultz's advice. It was the Reagan
■who fired the air traffic controllers,
vho ordered the mid-air capture of
re Palestinian hijackers, who
grabbed the microphone one cold
day during a debate in New Hamp-
shire and annihilated his opposi-
ion. It was the Reagan with fire in
lis eyes.
When Gorbachev demanded that
J^agan give up the Strategic De-
fense Initiative - "Star Wars"
- his backbone steeled. SDI, he
will not be negotiated away.
Si Among the media, USA Today's
leaction was typical, w ith headlines
ILch as "Summit crumbles on star
Stars ". Star Wars' spawns costly
Jigh-tech race"..."The nuclear pact
It',.it down by ’star wars ." Typical
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STATE CAPITAL
HIGHU6HTS
By Lyndell Williimi
TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
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i AUSTIN—With Election
Pay just over a week away.
Some political campaigns are
throwing bombs like a losing
Quarterback would during a
|ivo-minute offense drill,
j And out-of-state experts are
trying to influence or predict
tvhat is happening in Texas, as
it they were sitting in a press
I* x.
; Texas voters don't like to be
• read" and generally keep
their cards to their vests. P>ut
Hie crystal ball game is always
Inn t<’ try, and it's even more
fpn watching non-Texans trv
It
i Last week, news broke here
Shat an ABC-N.ws-U'ashinu-
Bvi Pos'f poll done in Septem-
Bir showed former Gov. Hill
ftp* ments. R* publican, beating
few. Mark White, Democrat.
By some 15 points, 56 to 11
|S< rcent.
; In Capitol halls, that was
fie-, big a drink of water to
Ifva’.low. A recent Texas media
lb 11 had Clements leading by
■£ point- and two lobby polls
Ihd the difference at * points.
|j Street talk saw s the election
•fill be close, as alwav s.
Hobby Slams GOP
Ij You can count on one hand
f|t; times Lt. Gov. Hill Hobby
has publiclv gotten mad and
fought back, but he did it last
week.
among commentators was David
Broder of The Washington Post,
who was crestfallen: "the glimmer
of hope for deep cuts in nuclear wea-
pons went out the window as fast
as you can say 'SDI.'...One can
only hope the legacy of the Reagan
years turns out to be something
other than the soaring deficits and
the escalating arms race that now en-
gulf us."
But then something strange hap-
pened. As the implications of the
summit sunk in, the American
people rallied to the President's
s'dc. They seemed to understand
that the Soviets had offered us a bad
deal, and that Reagan had been right
to reject it.
lrdeed he was. The Soviet
Union's master propagandists may
be working overtime to cor v ice the
world that SDI won't work, but the
Soviets know better. They've been
working on their own system far
decades, and tliey've test-fired killer-
satellites at an altitude of over
1.000 miles.
The United States, however, has
a stupendous adv antage over the So-
viets in the development of SDI
technology, which depends mostly
on the development of high-speed
computers. In this country, every-
day citizens are allowed toow n com-
puters -- the Apple Computer com-
pany actually started in somebody's
garage — and. as a result, computer
technology is advancing as fast as
every little hacker in his basement
can push it. In the Soviet Union,
by contrast, computers are strictly
controlled by the government and
independent experimentation is un-
heard-of. In a society where Xerox
machines are kept under lock and
key, computers are the ultimate
threat to the government’s power
over they flow of information. Re-
member the joint U.S. Soviet space
mission a decade ago? At a time
w hen pocket calculators were'on
sale at Sears, the Soviets didn’t
even have an on-board computer s v s-,
tem on their spacecraft.
If the U.S. develops a shield to
protect it from a successful Soviet
attack, the Soviet l nion will no
longer have the ability to hold us
and the rest of the world hostage.
Internal pressures within the l SSR
He was provoked by what
many fee! is a transparent
attempt to discredit him and
other Democrats on the brink
of an election.
After a Washington. D C.
newspaper story claimed the
FBI was investigating him and
other Texans for peddling in-
fluence in a land development
scheme, Hobby lashed back,
calling it “Republican election
time sleaze."
Hobby charged that GOP
political operatives peddled
that story to the Texas press
last spring, but finding no tak-
ers, they went north to the
Wash in (/ton T inics,
The Republican Party denied
any involvement.
No evidenci of an FBI probe
was found. The FBI didn’t con-
firm any probe. None of the
officials reportedly involved
had been contacted by the FBI.
The other Democratic offi-
cials reported to have invested
money in the Houston develop-
ment are Houston Congress-
man Mike Andrews, Railroad
Commissioner Jim Nugent,
Land Commissioner Garry
Mauro, Texas Coordinating
Board director Bill Caraway,
and former Texas State Uni-
versity System Board regent
Bill Wright.
Judicial Probe Ends
A real T-x.ts House inves-
tigation into charges of im-
pioper conduct by two Texas
Supreme Court justices will
apparently die on the vine, pro-
ducing no fruit
Committee chairman Frank
T>. Vva. a representative who
will advanr. to the state sen-
ate this elee ti"h, said a defama-
tion lawsuit had scared off
witnesses Another panel mem-
ber, Rep Juan Hinojosa, said
no smoking gun had been
found and most committee
members probably favored call-
ing no more witnesses.
The Stab Commission on
Judicial Conduct will continue
By Richard A. Viguerie
will cripple its ability to maintain a
far-flung empire. And, someday dur-
ing the lifetimes of our children,
the Soviet threat just might vanish
from the face of the earth.
That’s what was so important, for
Mr. Reagan to stand up to Mr.
Gorbachev.
Here's what I wrote immediately
prior to the summit: "Conserva-
tives cling to a small hope: that,
when Gorbachev puts his demands
on the table, confident that he holds
the high hand, Ronald Reagan
reaches down inside himself and
finds the Old Reagan.
"Nothing would so energize the
Republican troops nationwide as
the return of the combative, forceful
Reagan who toppled one incumbent
president after nearly toppling an-
other. Mr. President, I say: Hang
the scenario, and make Gorbachev
the latest in a long line of oh-so-
elever politicians whose greatest
mistake was to underestimate
Ronald Reagan."
That's w hat he did. As his reward,
he wont win the Peace Prize, but
he may w in something far more im-
portant: peace and freedom.
Where to write
to your reps
District 45
Rep Eldon Edge
P O ‘Box 2(110
Capitol Station
Austin. TX ?sTB(i
District 25
Sen Bill Sims
P O Box 1206s
Capitol Station
Austin TX TsTbd
C.S. Congressional Dist. 23
Hon Albert Bustamante
House (Iffwe Budding
241.1s Rayburn
Washington. D C 20515.
1 .S. Senate
Hon Lloyd M Bent sen
2 to Russell (Itfiee Building
Washington. 1) C 2o5lo
Hon Phil Gramm
M2 Russell (Mine Building
Washington DC 2o"dn
U-
to look into charges against
Justices C. L. Ray and William
Kilgarlin. Both denied any
wrongdoing.
Other Highlights
• Texas Attorney General
Jim Mattox accused the State
Board of Insurance of caring
more for insurance company
profits than workers' safety
and La.Marque legislator Lloyd
Criss offered to file legislation
giving that authority to the
AG’s office.
Mattox also issued a legal
opinion giving the board man-
datory duty to revoke the li-
cense of companies which fail
to provide accident prevention
services.
• Democrat Andrew Bris-
coe III. who finished second
behind Mark White in the
spring party primary, last
we>-k endorsed GOP candidate
Bill Clements over White.
White's campaign promptly-
called it a buy-off, accusing
Briscoe of selling his endorse-
ment to pay his campaign debt.
Both Clements and Briscoe
denied any such arrangement.
• Texas banking experts
were fearful of a drop in net
income for Texas banks after
one of the healthier banks,
Republic Bank Corp showed a
55.1 percent year-to-year de-
cline last quarter.
Certainly, the third quarter
is not viewed as a turn-around
period for Texas banks trou-
bled by shaky energy loans.
• Former state Rep. Mike
Martin was being sought last
week by a Dallas grand jury
on charges of taking illegal
custody of his children.
Martin, a Longview Repub-
lican. -made headlines in ‘81
for allegedly staging his own
shooting to make himself a
public hero, according to a cou-
sin involved in the incident.
Martin’s former wife
charges he has not returned
their two children following
their annual summer visit with
him.
Dear Editor
My family and 1 would like to
commend the Hondo Chamber of
Commerce for the great time we
had Saturday night at the Fiestafest.
There was more food than we could
sample, great music and some nice
gift items for our family. The
pageant was really nice and added a
special flavor to the evening.
Everyone there seemed to be
having a lot of fun and for such a
large crowd all seemed to go real
well.
One other Liing that really im-
pressed us the next day was how
clean the area was. There were no
cans or bottles anywhere A few
pieces of paper was the only sign
that such a big block party had been
there the night before. Our admira-
tion goes out to those who put to-
gether this event and saw to it that
the area was left clean.
Sincerely,
The L.C Reed Family
To the Editor:
1 agree with every statement in
Doug Johnson's fine editorial of
last week. English is the language
of this country, official or not
With each right is a respond-
ing obligauons. Some people only
see one side of the issue. Several
recent occurrences beat this out.
This issue has caused more tur-
moil in the last few years than any-
thing that I can think of.
Yours truly.
Will J Ne> Jr
Dear editor
I got to speculating on how
much a summit meeting like the
one in Iceland costs and how the
cost could be lowered. In deficit-
busting times like these we need to
reduce the cost per page of non-
agreements
Like it is, the cost is tremendous
It probably costs more to hold the
one in Iceland than a Senator spends
getting re-elected The President
flies over in Air Force I w ith escort
planes fore and aft and alongside
too There probably are ships
strung out along the way. Other
planes carry bullet-proof limou-
sines, staff members, communica-
tions gear, Secret Service people,
etc. No telling what u costs to fly
2,000 reporters there to report
there s nothing to report.
Figure up what it costs Russia to
do the same, and the cost gets
monumental.
I have pointed out there's a way
to reduce summit costs to a few
thousand dollars, at a cost per page
of non-agreements to about $35
If you watch talk shows on TV
you've seen David Brinkley for
example in Washington talking to
SPARKS
By Frances Reitzer Proctor
HURRAH FOR THE OWL BAND
...Go to Alice Nov. 1 and show them what Owl Spirit is!
SATURDAY'S FIESTAFEST
...would have to be termed a success, judging by comments from those
who participated in the event. There was plenty of food, entertainment and
music. The event was sponsored by the Hondo Chamber of Commerce,
assisted by Mary Lopez and the FiestaFest committee.
The judges for the Little Miss Beautiful and the FiestaFest Queen had
tough choices to make in order to come up with the six top winners: Little
Miss Beautiful Amy Ibarra, First runner-up Leticia Mares, and Second
runner-up Iris Trev ino; and Queen Non Reyes. Princess Vanessa Sandoval,
and Duchess Debbie Torres. Every one of the girls who participated could
have worn the titles equally well. Judges for the event were Lupe Sanchez,
Elizabeth Moreno, Johnny Villa, Martha Toles and Oscar Dominguez.
some big-shot in Moscow They
talk back and forth as though they
were in the same room.
Why couldn't Mr Reagan sit in
the Ova1 Office in Washington and
Mr Gorbacheve sit in his office in
the Kremlin and have technicians
hook them up on closed TV? They
could argue back and forth for a
couple of days, have supper at
home, and at the end report the
other side is to blame
The main achievement of the
Iceland summit was forcing every
TV and radio reporter in the country
to learn how to pronounce
Reykjavik, an achievement they
have no more use for now than the
ability to recite the names of all the
capitals of the U S
I mentioned the shape of the
Presidents office Its oval, ot
course I don't know the shape ot
Mr. Gorbachev s office, although 1
suppose it has double walls to har
monize with the Soviet motit ol
double dealing
Yours faithful!y /
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IX*ar Editor:
Another year of reading pleasure
and update on news from home,
(Medina County). Thanks for past
and future years of reading enjoy-
ment
Jenny Stansbury
NOT ONLY DIE THE CHAMBER
...sponsor an outstanding downtown event they even cleaned up after
the crowd went home. I was amazed to drive up to the area Monday
morning to find very little litter.
There must have been a crowd of at least 1000 people at the street dance
and coronation and yet Monday morning you wouldn't have been able to
tell there had been an event held on 16th Street if it hadn't been for the
crates and barricades stacked on the medians.
Now 1 call that going all the way to make an event a success. Later I
learned that a number of people had been out picking up trash until four
o'clock in the morning.
If you re as impressed as 1 am at what the chamber does for us, give
them a call, 426-3037, and say so. j
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