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PAGE FOUR—Sapulpa (Okla.l Herald, Monday, February 23. 1»H1
Sapulpa Herald
Notebook
Ed Livermore
WF. ARE INCLINED to agree with
Gov. George Nigh. TCie best way to
approach industrialization in
1 iklahoma is via the bill passed by the
last session of the legislature which
iovided a tax incentive on the basis of
w jobs created
HIE BIIJ., authored by former
;islator Bill Wiseman, in effect
moved some of the complaints about
ust financing in this state
PROMD1NG TAX CREDITS for
i tual jobs created keeps industrial
velopment in its true conception
rdahoma. like many other states,
uffled around in the trust financing
ena and made some commitments
.it were illegal, although made in
ncere efforts to provide more jobs in
e state
St BSE.iJUKNT Ki LINGS by At-
torney General Jan Eric Cartwrighi
have tightened the belt of trust
financing to a degree, especially in the
matter of forgiving ad valoreum and
sales taxes. Those matters are still
before the courts and it may be some
time before a definitive ruling is
handed down.
MANY INSTANCES can be found in
Oklahoma where questionable
businesses have taken advantage of
previous industrial financing practices.
lYitting the matter strictly on number
of jobs provided would seem to be the
bottom line in attracting industry.
AFTER ALL, it’s jobs of lasting
tenure that will be helpful to the state.
The law was not passed to permit in-
dustries, or concerns with no industrial
flavor, to make savings in interest and
taxes, yet provide no tangible evidence
of new jobs for Oklahomans.
we will Share
The &urden of
« Budget cut&
equally...
...AND gOME
B>URDENc) are
more Equal
than others.
Commentary
The Tehran antidote?
hat other Editors Say
Brunswick, Maine Times Record
In* Kremlin responded, to
-.nlenl Reagan’s vitriolic attacks on
Soviet l mon calling i the ad-
,lustration charges absurd
Perhaps, from the Soviet per-
: active, the \ineruan charges are
umii d
the Kremlin described the < IA as
he main center of international
rrorism." chatged the agency with a
nmber "I political assassinations,
lamed Reagan with sabotaging
"l id peace, and. i ailed George
a ashmgton and the I- minding
1 others terrorists.
the l tilled States is not guiltless of
sing coercion to gain its ends
\merican leaders do have a habit of
otifusing tes ronsm with legitimate re-
\ nits against lepressmn, and
historically the tinted Slates has often
idl'd with dictatorial regimes
And the massive Soviet arms buildup,
a hu h is viewed here with such alarm,
uasavery different meaning to the So-
lids.
the Soviet l mon is surrounded
derally by hostile powers. It is no
Aoiidel that the Soviets have developed
i siege mentality
I In recent verbal warfare between
be Soviets and the l lilted States is
essentially meaningless. Self-interest,
at rhetoru . will motivate H e behavior
t both nations
lint the burden >1 proving good
intentions rests will the Soviets. The
\mcrn an people. • remember too well
he L niti'd Nations performance of
tikda Kbrushi hev. who beat the table
with Ins shoe and declared We shall
Charleston S C News and Courier
The applause, the cheers, the peal of
church bells, the swirl of yellow ribbons
that greeted the former hostages on
their return to this country were
manifestations of a joy ful public mood.
Plainly, the release of the prisoners
triggered a release of tensions in
\mcnca The national spirit has been
given a needed lift, a lift it hasn't felt in
a decade or more
That elation, comes at an opportune
time \> Ins administration gets down
In work and tries to get a handle on
some lug problems. President Reagan
can use to advantage the renewed
feeling of opLmusrn that abounds.
Release of the hostages eliminated
one problem for Mr Reagan but
presented another The questions
before him now are these: What does
Ins administration do about honoring
commitments made by the outgoing
( artcr administration in the agreement
by which Iran freed the hostages? How
does the United States take punitive
action to teach Iran a lesson without
driving Iran into the Soviet sphere and
thereby creating a graver geopolitical
crisis'’
T he answers won't be easy. T hey can
be arrived a’ only through con-
sideration of the facts and application
of logic Answers, are going to have to
reflect national resolve
1 hat's where Mr Reagan could have
a leg up Mr t aider's handling of the
hostage affair reflected in many eyes a
lack of resolve By contrast, a popular
perception, right or w rong, was that the
shadow of Mr Reagan in the wings
quickened the Iranian decision on
treeing the hostages
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WASHINGTON lUF'Ii We live,
friends, in times that are fraught with
novelty If further evidence of
fraughting is needed, here are a couple
of fresh examples:
While browsing through the
periodical rack at a supermarket
checkout counter the other day. I saw
not a single magazine article about a
television actress who was leaving the
cast of "( harlie’s Angels "
At first. 1 could hardly believe what I
wasn't seeing. Articles about actresses
leaving the cast of ( harlie’s Angels"
have been a staple of supermarket
literature for about as long as I have
been buying groceries Most weeks, it’s
the cover story.
1 can't say how many times the east
has turned over but I get the impression
that magazine w riters hang around the
set like stage door Johnnies" waiting
to interview departing actresses.
There are two possible explanations
for the startling breach of publishing
tradition:
1. "( harlie's Angels" now has an all-
male cast.
Trick of memory
'lemon experts say you have a built-in harrier in your
mind that makes It difficult to remember more than seven
digits in a number Habit, mavbe You get used to handling
nothing bigger than telephone numbers, so the mental
Machinery simply stops at seven.
Duick which of the United States, besides Texas, was
once an independent republic'’ Say Vermont It was so de-
lared in I'” under the name of New Connecticut.
If vou were to ask all the people who go to public li-
braries what they're doing there, only one out of 100
would say "I’m a researcher " Or words to that effect
Remember, vou can't taste anything right in the center
of x our tongue
HATL( HILDRLN
0 What x "misopedia"7
N \ dislike of children tomes to mind you never see
hi adults-onlv apartment house called Misopedia Manor.
Odd.
If it's water you want to save, raise chickens. Twenty
toe hens altogether only need a gallon a dav Just the
opposite with cattle One cow needs 25 gallons.
0. What sort of living thing in all the animal kingdom
has the largest brain in proportion to its size7
A. The ant
Claim is there has never been a tribe of people who
didn’t in some way decorate their bodies. With clothes,
mostly Or with stain. Or both Or bones and stones.
PHILIPPINE MAHOGANY
If it’s Philippine mahogany, it’s one of seven different
woods that look a lot like genuine mahogany .
Surgeons now at Ohio State University are stapling
across the stomachs of obese patients in such a manner so
as to create two compartments almost but not quite closed
off from one another This prevents the heavyweights from
eating too much at one sitting. Report is they are losing
about 15 pounds a month down to the desired point The
operation is said to be easily reversible
Said Christopher Moriey: "There is only one success to
be able to live your life your own way.”
If you want to get your galoshes on real easily, my dear,
first put plastic Baggies over your shoes.
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2 The program is no longer on the
air
If neither condition prevails, the
assumption must be that what we have
here is one of those freakish situations
like Hie one expected to arise soon in the
US. Senate.
Ordinarily, a Senate confirmation
vote on a sub-cabinet appointee is about
as gripping as another "(harlie's
Angles" cast change. Nevertheless, the
impending consideration of President
Reagan's appointment of William C lark
to be deputy secretary of state has
generated a measure of anticipation.
I he rare element of interest stems
from Clark's testimony before the
foreign relations committee.
Senators, as you may know, get the
great bulk of their information about
foreign relations through the com-
mittee hearing process. They call in
and question all sorts of expert wit-
nesses, and from this brainpicking
process keep abreast of international
affairs.
Hut ( lark's confirmation hearing was
singularly devoid of enlightment.
Typical of his testimony were these
answers to requests for intelligence
from Sen Joseph Biden, DDel.:
( an you tell me who is the prime
minister of South Africa?”
"No, sir, I cannot."
( an you tell me who the prime
minister of Zimbabwe is7”
It would be a guess."
Senators don’t operate in a vacuum,
you know. C onceivably, the identities of
the prime ministers of South Africa and
Zimbabwe could be useful information.
So Biden’s thirst for knowledge was a
legitimate inquiry.
( lark did not argue the information
was classified or claim executive
privilege or take the F ifth Amendment
or anything like that. His failure to
supply the requested information
simply defies rational explanation.
It will be interesting to see what the
Senate might make of it during the
confirmation debate
Almanac
by United Press International
Today is Monday, F eb. 23, the 54th
day of 1981 with 311 to follow.
The moon is moving toward its last
quarter
The morning stars are Mercury,
Venus, Jupiter and Saturn.
The evening star is Mars.
Those born on this day are under the
sign of Pisces.
German composer George Frederick
Handel was bom Feb. 23, 1685.
On this date in history:
In 1942, a Japanese submarine fired
25 shells at an oil refinery near Santa
Barbara, Calif., two and a half months
after Pearl Harbor.
In 1945, six members of the 5th
Division of the U.S. Marines planted an
American flag atop Mount Suribachi on
the Pacific island of Iwo Jima.
In 1969, President Richard Nixon
arrived in Belgium to start a tour of
Europe.
In 1972, President Nixon conferred in
Peking with Chinese Premier Chou En-
lai.
A thought for the day: Thomas
Jefferson said, "When a man assumes
a public trust, he should consider
himself as public property.”
The Stockholm syndrome, it seems,
didn't play in Tehran.
Why it did not is one aspect of the
prolonged hostage crisis that is likely to
continue to be of special interest to
psychologists involved in research into
a baxic question in the complex
problem of terrorism: What motivates
terrorists and how can they most ef-
fectively be dealt with in situations in
which the lives of hostages are at
stake?
briefly, the Stockholm syndrome
refers to the development of a bond
between captives and captors. It gets
its name from the attempted robbery of
a bank in the Swedish capital some
years back that had some bizarre
consequences.
During five days of captivity, the
attitude of the bank staff toward its
captors shifted from fear to sympathy.
One declared publicly that the robbers
were actually protecting the hostages
from the police.
Effects of the syndrome have been
observed in several other incidents.
The Symbionese Liberation Army
kidnapping of heiress Patty Hearst
comes immediately to mind. Also
possibly the terrorist seizure of a
number of foreign diplomats in
Colombia. In the end, the terrorists had
considerable technical assistance from
some of their captives in working out
details of a deal with Colombian
authorities.
That may be explained as sharp
application of the skills of their trade by
the diplomats in their own best interest.
But there may have been something
more to it.
There apparently wasn't any more to
the Tehran situation, however. On the
basis of initial reports. The relationship
between the 52 Americans and the
Iranian militants during their more
than 14 months of enforced association
was adversary all the way.
The hostages, according to one of
their number, Richard H. Morefield,
were aware that the Iranians were
attempting “to break us" and were
determined that it would not happen.
It may be that the militants out-
smarted themselves with the abuse
visited upon their captives, from
physical mistreatment to annoyances
such as withholding mail. On the other
hand, it may be that this was their
intention, that they were aware of the
Stockholm syndrome and wanted no
part of it.
For it can have a reverse twist in
which captors become sympathetically
involved with their prisoners. And in
revolutionary Iran, that would never
do.
Also, one element of the usual
hostage situation was missing in
Tehran. Terrorists customarily are
themselves besieged, threatened by the
forces of authority seeking to bring
them to justice and free their captives.
This is a situation the captives them-
selves can empathize with, the more so
since they also may be in peril from any
rescue attempt.
It was not present in Tehran. There
the captors were not besieged but had
the active support of what passed for
authority outside the embassy walls.
There were no grounds for empathy.
Tehran will provide much material
for the continuing study of the
psychology of terrorism. It cannot be
said, however, that it either disproves
the Stockholm syndrome or suggests an
antidote It was too much a special
case, too much a rule unto itself.
That is pretty much what can be said
about Iran in general these days.
With warranties?
Second T houghts on Headlines
Department:
“Chrysler’s latest debt plan may hit
snag as leaders doub, its ability to pay
cash."
t From the Wall Street Journal,
reporting concern among some banks
that the troubled automaker may
decide not to retire more than $1 billion
in loans on a cash basis, i
Not to worry, Now we have these
sweet little baby blue Horizons with
bucket seats that are steals at. .
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The Wagman File
Return of the gas line?
WASHINGTON (NF,A i —Contin-
uation of the Iran-Iraq war into spring
will most likely bring about a new-
round of gasoline allocations by major
distributors—and a new round of gas
lines for U.S. motorists. That is the
warning contained in a confidential new
report on the world’s oil suupply by
experts at the Energy Department.
Crude-oil exports from Iran and Iraq
since the outbreak of hostilities last fall
have averaged no more than one-tenth
of their previous 4 million barrels a
day. This has substantially reduced the
world’s oil supply.
When it became apparent that oil-
production and oil-export facilities
would be major targets of both warring
parties, analysts predicted that major
shortages and skyrocketing prices
would result if the war stretched into
1981.
But this has not yet happened for a
combination of reasons. F irst, other
countries in the region have increased
their oil exports by about 1.5 million
barrels a day. In addition, the war
began at a time when world oil stocks
were at a record high and demand was
at its lowest level in several years
because of conservation and the
weakened economies of many oil-
importing nations.
The large oil supply and cooperation
among member countries of the
International FJnergy Agency have kept
the pressure off the spot market. But
aggressive purchases by F ranee since
November have forced up world oil
prices.
Now the experts at the Energy
Department say that several indicators
point toward a worldwide oil shortage
by late spring unless Iran and Iraq
resume major exporting.
Their report notes that the oil surplus
is only half of what it was last fall; it
will disappear by April if the decline
continues at its current rate. This is
compounded by an unusually severe
winter that is depleting home heating
oil at a faster rate than had been ex-
pected; as a result, refineries will have
to continue producing heating oil for a
longer period before switching over to
gasoline.
If a major worldwide shortage occurs
in the spring, oil companies would be
faced with the choice of acquiring
additional oil at premium prices on the
spot market or parceling out whatever
supplies they have left to their
customers.
The experts fear that sliarp buying
pressure on the spot market would
cause oil prices to soar to levels
unacceptable to most Western nations.
Thus, governments would encourage oil
companies to make only limited spot
purchases.
That would inevitably require the
allocation of remaining supplies. F ew
U.S. drivers need to be reminded of the
last time that happened—of odd and
even days, red, yellow and green flags,
hours of waiting in line.
Administration officials are aware
that a major gasoline shortage is
possible. However, those aides say that
the chances of another 1979-style gas
crunch were substantially reduced by
President Reagan’s recent lifting of
controls on oil prices and distribution,
they think that those controls
exacerbated the earlier shortage.
But some experts at the Energy
Department are not sure that lifting
controls will be enough to avert a crisis.
One expert-who asked that his name
not be used "because I want to keep my
job as long as possible"—commented:
"They ithe Reaganitesi have a great
deal of faith in the free-market system
and the private sector. I wish I could
share their belief, but I can’t.
“They have not yet faced the
possibility that the federal government
may have to move aggressively along
with other Western nations to insure
that the spot market does not explode
and that the oil companies do not
shortchange one segment of the
economy if they manage their own
allocation programs.
"I don’t think that the energy people
in this administration have faced that
possibility, but they had better soon.
Everything we see points to the fact
that time is running out on this one."
[ Bobby Newton SaysT)
Oil companies are holding board
meetings in their favorite room, the
vault.
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