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2—THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Spring*, T»xo» , Thursday, Feb. 28, 1980.
Jack Anderson
Zbigniew's promises to Zia
backfiring for Mr. Carter
in our opinion
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Deficit spending is
fuel for inflation
An authoritative new voice has been
added to the chorus urging restrained
federal spending as an essential part of
the nation’s effort to slbw down in-
flation.
The recommendation came from
Federal Reserve Chairman Paul
Volcker, whose agency has been the
‘Only branch of government to assume
the unpopular role of slowing down the
economy by increasing interest rates.
In view of the current behavior of
prices, it is obvious that credit
restraints alone won’t get the job done.
Other factors may figure in the
.inflation formula, but the weight of
informed opinion follows the theory
that when a government consistently
spends more than it takes in it creates
an excess supply of paper money that
necessarily forces prices upward.
The OPEC oil trust’s role can be
noted in January’s leap in the Con-
sumer Price Index to 18 percent, for
instance, but Germany and other
countries much more dependent on
foreign oil have been able to hold their
inflation to relatively nominal rates.
For the United States the record is
clear. Severe inflation started more
than a decade ago when it was decided
to fight the Vietnam war on credit
Prices reached one peak in the era of
lavish federal spending in the early
1970’s, then settled back to an annual
rate of 4.8 percent as Gerald Ford used
a long string of Presidential vetoes to
restrain a profligate Congress. A
rapidly growing federal deficit and
soaring prices have gone hand in hand
during the Carter administration and
no end is in sight.
There is no painless method of
halting inflation at its present level,
but the longer the job is delayed the
more severe the ultimate impact will
be.
Fire prevention
is vital now
Dry grass, strong winds and
careless burning habits can combine to
offer costly, dangerous fires in both
urban and rural areas. It is important
now to step up fire prevention efforts to
protect residents and property in all
areas of Hopkins County.
Hopkins County is fortunate to have
both centrally located fire-fighting
equipment in Sulphur Springs and
rural areas, but grass fires spread so
rapidly that they pose extremely
hazardous problems at this time of the
year. The response time to fires varies
depending uppn distances and
availability of equipment and man-
power.
At this time of the year, the dry,
Sulphur Springs Needs....
•Cooper Reservoir
•Broader Vocational Education
• More Downtown Parking
^Continued Industrial Development
•A More Prosperous Agriculture
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fast-burning grass often conceals soft
ground which deters movement of the
fire trucks. If the trucks can not reach
the flames promptly, the fires can race
over wide areas almost in a flash.
It is against the law to burn without
permits in Sulphur Springs. In the
rural areas where laws are less
restrictive, residents should exercise
extreme caution with fires to avoid
losses to themselves and their
neighbors.
Rural area citizens especially
should serve as look-outs and quickly
spread the word if fires are spotted. It
is important to get to grass fires as
quickly as humanly possible.
•A City-County Health Unit
•City Beautification
•Enthusiastic Citizens
•Minimum Housing Standards Code
•Improved Streets & Drainage
By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON .-- In his
• eagerness to show -a Ion#,
overdue toughness in dealing
with the Soviet Union, Jim-
my Carter sent his national
security adviser Zbigniew
Brzezinski to Pakistan for a
highly publicized embrace
of President Muhammad
Zia’s shaky military regime,
Bui congressional leaders
even some who are sym-
pathetic to Carter’s firm
stance toward the Soviets -
are not at all convinced that
Brzezinski’s negotiations
with the wily Zia were the
triumph the administration
has tried to make them
seem Stung by Zia s jibe
that the $400 million ITS.
offer was "peanuts," Carter
and Brzezinski made conces-
sion after concession with-
out extracting anything in
return from the Pakistani
dictator.
With the Russian hear
huffing and puffing
threateningly just' across
Pakistan’s border in Afghan-
istan. Zia should have been
desperate enough to make
concessions for U S. support
What has upset Capitol Hill
leaders even more, my
sources say, is that the
president's emissary seri-
ously overstepped his
authority, making commit-
ments on behalf of the Unit-
ed States that he had no
business making.
The most alarming of
Brzezinski's promises to Zia
was his assurance that the
United States would come to
his defense in the event of a
Soviet attack One angry
congressional source pointed
out that the existing treaties
between the United States
and Pakistan in no way call
for us to go to war for Zia’s
regime.
“Brzezinski had no author-
ity to promise that,” the
Soviets are cranking them out
Bogus documents haunt U.S. abroad
By Tom Tiede
WASHINGTON (NEA) -
The Soviet Union has never
hesitated to enlist outside
assistance in the implementa-
tion of its foreign policy Wit-
ness the Afghans But now
there is evidence it is getting
help in this regard from a
most unlikely source the
highest officers in the United
States government
>: Intelligence agents say the
Russians are forging an imag-
; inative variety of official-
> looking U S documents, and
are signing them with the
names of administration exec-
utives The purpose is to cre-
ate'friction between America
and its allies.
In recent months, according
to the Defense Intelligence
v Agency, the Soviets have
i< forged diplomatic cables, mil-
;• itary manuals and several let-
ters and speeches by ranking
‘ officials
The bogus documents have
> been sent to third nation
;• envoys, or to members of the
;* press, where they are intend-
* ed to give a distorted view of
U.S. attitudes on sensitive
world affairs
1- For example the D1A says
the Soviets'forged a speech by
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Jimmy Carter which has been
circulating in the diplomatic
community for some time.
The invented speech is related
to matters concerning Greece
and Turkey, and the language
is designed to irritate both
nations at the expense of the
Western alliance
The Carter forgery is
rather heavily done And it’s
suspiciously blunt. At one
point the president is made to
say that it’s "the duty" of
Greece and Turkey “to whole-
heartedly support the efforts
of the United States." That, of
course, is not the way presi-
dents solicit the cooperation
of friendly countries.
Yet despite its transparen-
cy, intelligence agents say the
Carter forgery represents a
newly sophisticated offensive
by Soviet agitators. The DIA
believes .the Russians have
been inventing American doc-
uments since the end of World
War II. but now they are using
the White House itself in the
enterprise
Furthermore, they are
doing it rather well. Commu-
nist techniques have come a
long way since the 1950s.
when East Germany and
Czechoslovakia cranked out
stilted misrepresentations on
balky postwar presses. In
those.days the effocj amount-
ed to little more than smudgy
propaganda announcements.
The quality of the early for
geries was so poor, actually,
that the Soviets stopped
trying The DIA estimates
they forged 50 major docu-
ments between 1950 and 1960,
then slowed the pace. Report-
edly, the’ Russians did not
forge any papers during the
first half of the 1970s, the hal-
cyon years of detente.
Now the Russian presses
are running again, and
authenticity is stressed as it
never was before Real names
are being used, as is practical
psychology Forgery writers
are even allowed to include
criticisms of East European
nations, all for the sake of
^covering up the origins of the
documents.
There is still room for qual-
ity improvement. In one for-
gery Vi.
Mo ‘
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Gospel according to ‘Fritz’...
This is an excerpt of a forged interview of Vice
President Walter Mondale. The interview was con-
ducted by a nonexistent reporter named Karl Douglas,
who. at one point; asked "Mondale" his opinion of the
Middle East crisis
The answer, in part
uWe are continuing
ing again between
truth - as was emphasized by the talks with Begin
and Sadat — I do not consider either Begin or Sadat
suitable for the task, especially because as everyone
knows Begin has a terminal illness, and all Sadat's
energy is pinned down by his domestic worries, and he
probably won t be able to stand up long in the face of
his internal opposition."
in.
ng our efforts to get the talks mov-
Israel and Egypt, but to tell the
nphasized bv the talks with Begin
Vice President Walter
londale is described as spy-
ing that Ahwar Sadat's Egyp-
tian regime is on the brink of
collapse. The statement is
quite impossible to imagine;
besides, there are frequent
grammatical errors through-
out the Mondale paper
In large measure, though,
the continuing flaws are being
adequately camouflaged For
one thing the forgeries are
invariably photocopied The
DIA says" the copies are legi-
ble, but the print is purposely
blurred or indistinct; this
gambit masks some of the
imperfections and defies tech-
nical analysis
Once assembled, the docu-
ments are distributed accord-
ing to time tested methodolo-
gy. The papers are attached to
covering letters which are
prepared by anonymous writ-
ers who claim they are acting
out of righteous indignation.
And then the bogus documents
are simply sent through the
mails.
State Department officers
say it's impossible to tell how
many of the document recipi-
ents are fooled by the forger-
ies. However, it is known that
newsmen who've received the
material have rushed the con-
tents into print on several
continents. The Carter speech
still receives occasional
publicity.
Even when the natureof the
documents is suspect, though,
harm can be done The DIA
says the forgeries are normal-
ly sent to left wing groups,
who lack the will or the
means to authenticate them
The groups then publish or
pass on the material, because
it is in keeping with their ideo-
logical point of view.
And so here is the real dan-
ger of the Russian forgeries
Once they are distributed the
lies take bn a life of their own.
The DIA cites one well-worn
forgery — telling a tale of
U.S. ‘and British efforts to
recruit Moshe Dayan for intel-
ligence work — that has been
printed and. reprinted now for
almost 15 years
Of course, no governments
have fallen as a result of the
Dayan forgery Nor have the
Carter or Mondale papers cre-
ated insurmountable prob-
lems. But the administration
is worried about the potential
of this curious Soviet potter-
ing, mainly because, once
again, nobody seems to know
what to do about it.
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TOM TIED!
source told my reporter getting a lot more weapons
Lucette Lagnado "Nor,, for , lor then dollar than the pub-
f trauma tier jtiws President ‘ ■ -iicTy -iinbuneed figure'
Carter. He complained that
the administration has
returned to unilateral deci-
sion-making' -- the kind of
secret actions that charac-.
terized so much of the Viet-
nam war
In addition to this wholly
improper guarantee of
protection Brzezinski
assured the Pakistani dicta-
tor that U S. aid' would far
exceed the reported $400
million - again, a promise
he had no rightTo give
One top-secret cable
reporting on the Zia-Brzez
i n s k i meetings states:
Brzezinski said that the
$400 million represents only
the beginning. He tried to
convince the Pakistanis that
the value of the American
contribution is much higher
than he could presently
publicize
What Brzezinsk' explained
to Zia was that the I'.S
weapons would come from
Pentagon inventories *
where I he prices are
discounted by as much as 40
percent (iff the cost of arma-
ments purchased from regu-
lar arms merchants In
other words. Zia would be
would indicate.
Aid to the Afghan rebels
was also discussed by Zia
and Brzezinski In particu-
lar. according to one secret
cable, they weighed the pos-
sibility of "greater coordina-
tion of efforts between
China, the U.S. and Pakistan
to foment the rebellion from
Pakistan." One method dis-
cussed for expediting aid to
the rebels was the use of
planes' to fly weapons
from China to Pakistan.
Brzezinski’s decision-......ta-
aid the Afghan rebels has
caused resentment on Capi-
tol Hill - and not just on
grounds that he overstepped
his authority. Critics feel
that helping the rebels is not
only futile, but is probably
counterproductive, giving
the Russians an excuse for
staying in Afghanistan
permanently.
-vgecret reports on the
meeting between Soviet For-,
eign Minister. Andrei Gro-
myko and Indian President
Indira Gandhi show how the
Russians are using U.S. aid
as a justification for their
presence in Afghanistan.
"Gromyko said he would
only consider withdrawal,of
troops . when attempts to
under mine A fg ban 1st an
from, bases in Pakistan
ceased.' one cable states.
Gromyko also expressed
. Soviet concern at “Ameri-
can efforts to turn Pakistan
into a military base."
Footnote: A White House
spokesman denied that
Brzezinski overstepped hjis
role" in the consultations
with Zia Brzezinski’s negoti-
ations with the Pakistani
leader, said the spokesman,
were based on "written
instructions from the presi-
dent which were scrupulous-
ly followed " .
' SMILE: YOU'RE ON!
When the House of Repre-
sentatives allowed televis-
ing of floor debates last
year, the Rules Committee
forbade members from
using videotape segments in
their re-election campaign
commercials. The fear was
that members would waste
time trying to look good for
the cameras.
But the ban was not
extended to the incumbents’
opponents. Now some House
members are afraid their
rivals will buy footage of an
incumbent yawning,
stammering or making
remarks that could prove
embarrassing in an election
'Campaign.
Rep. Charles Rose, D-
NX., introduced legislation
that would extend the ban on
campaign use of House
debates to congressional
challengers as well. But the
bill died for lack of support
Rose and others are now
exploring different ways to
block access to the video-
tapes, through the Federal
Elections Committee, copy-
right laws and even the
criminal code!
If a sizable number of
incumbents loses this fall to
opponents who use embar-
rassing TV tapes, the House
may decide that unstaged
television exposure is too
dangerous, and pull the plug
on the all-seeing cameras.
FAD FOOLISHNESS: The
zeal of federal bureaucrats
to spend the taxpayers’ mon-
ey is as healthy as ever The
Agriculture Department
recently shelled out $65,000
for a year-long study of
nutrition enthusiasts” -
health food addicts, that is.
The study will result in
psychological profiles" of
the organic food faddists.
Copyright. 1980
l ruled Feature Syndicate. Iru
CfTA foFt woFth N.E.R. 80
By The Associated Press
Today is Thursday, Feb. 28,
the 59th day of 1980. There are
1)07 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On Feb. 28, 1704, American
colonists in Deerfield, Mass.,
were attacked by Indians.
Those who survived the
massacre were forced to march
to Canada.
On this date:
In 1483, the Renaissance
painter Raphael was bom in
Urbino, Italy.
In 1808, French forces cap-
tured Barcelona, Spain.
“We can’t seem to get the hang of it — you say we should take from the which
and give to the what?”
Twice-told political tales
The year is still young, but already it is proving a big one
for political comebacks
So far we have seen two of major proportions — Indira
Gandhi in India and now Pierre Trudeau in Canada.
And disparate as these two nations are in almost every
respect save their adherence to a common British-style parli-
amentary process, there are interesting similarities in the two
situations.
Both Mrs Gandhi-in 1977 and Trudeau last year were
removed from power -in explosive public expressions of no
confidence They were not defeated by opponents so much as
they defeated themselves.
'* Mrs Gandhi, thanks to the excesses of her near-dictatorial
emergency rule, succeeded in uniting a scattered political
opposition having nothing in common other than opposition to
her That was, however, enough for the Indian electorate.
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_ COMMENTARY
Don Graff
For the Canadian electorate in 1979, 11 years of the bril-
liant but difficult Trudeau were enough Canadians preferred
a virtually unknown young conservative, Joe Clark, from the
prairie west to the Anglo-French intellectual from Montreal.
Both Mrs Gandhi and Trudeau have now regained power in
much the same fashion — through votes of no confidence in
their successors. And in both cases, the victories appear con-
siderably more impressive than they actually are.
Mrs. Gandhi, with some 40 percent of the popular vote, was
able to win Two-thirds of the Indian parliament’s seats against
the splintered opposition factions.
Trudeau, with 50 percent of the Canadian vote, has secured
a more modest but still solid parliamentary majority The
decisive votes came, as they did last year, from Ontario,
which alone returns one-third of the members to Ottawa,
Ontarians, who rejected Trudeau last time, rejected Clark this
time.
And in the process, they left a divided Canada even more so.
Energy-consuming Quebec and Ontario are now lined up
against the energy-producing west in a conflict of regional
interests that may prove every bit as nationally divisive *as
has the traditional Anglo-French cultural split.
The situation in India is not so clear-cut. Mrs. Gandhi’s
strength is more widespread throughout the country - but so
is her weakness. Whether she has learned her lesson is still
upclear. She has given contradictory indications during these
first few weeks, both of governing with a more moderate hand
and of returning to her old autocratic ways. The latter most
recently in the wholesale sacking of state governments con-
trolled by the opposition.
Trudeau has unquestionably learned at least a lesson, and
acted upon it. Aware that his own personality has become a
primary national political issue, he kept an exceedingly low
campaign profile. And he is promising that he will carry
through on his pre-election intention to retire at some point
before the end of this parliament’s five-year life, turning over
power to an as yet undesignated successor.
Which adds another dimension to the Canadian situation. In
rejecting the little-known Clark, the voters have now opted at
some point not too far down the road for a complete unknown.
Call it grab-bag politics, but it’s still politics. As both India
and Canada have demonstrated, selection by rejection is one
way to settle an election Whether, however, it is a construc-
tive way to choose the leadership of countries with major
problems to resolve is a question the new Indian and Canadian
governments now have a chance to answer.
And should they succeed in doing so, it could prove a real
boost for the comeback business.
What was that’ Did someone back there mutter something
about Richard Nixon?
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