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THE CHICKASHA DAILY EXPRESS, Monday, October 7,1985
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Women in Montana will mark a significant victory
in their struggle to achieve economic equality with
men tomorrow, when that state becomes the first to
institute unisex insurance.
The new law means that insurance companies do-
ing business in Montana will be barred from setting
their rates on the basis of gender or marital status.
Critics of the new law — primarily representatives
of insurance companies — argue that gender-based
rates are only fair. Statistics show that women on
average live longer than men. The common practice
has been to charge women lower life insurance pre-
miums, but higher premiums for health and disability
insurance.
The longer life expectancy also has been used to
justify paying women less per month in pension
benefits, although they contribute the same as men to
the retirement plans.
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did show a couple of positive reac-
tions, but Agriculture researchers
dismissed these results as "false
positives.”
Dr. Teas said when British re-
searchers got positive results in pre-
liminary tests, they were discouraged
from further experiments by the Ag-
riculture Department. And when Dr.
Gus Grossman of St Vincent’s Hospi-
tal in New York suggested injecting
pigs with the AIDS virus to see if they
got sick, the department asked the At-
lanta disease center in a memoran-
dum if there was “any way to deal
with Dr. Grossman.” Grossman said
be would have expected "a little more
professional attitude.”
“They treat you like you’re crazy,”
complained Beldekas. “That’s not the
way to do science. Human life is at
stake.”
in the past,” Texas State Sen.
John Montford of Lubbock said
recently while encouraging Tex-
ans to adopt the new state water
plan Nov. 5.
“My generation has not seen
hard times like my grandparents
saw during the Depression,”
Smith said, adding he expects
the current farming economy to
continue to worsen for the
nation’s family farmers.
“Farmers everywhere are
looking for alternate crops,” he
said. “I think farmers are
coming to a consensus that we’ve
got problems and need to cut our
production.”
“I don’t know what to do for
next year,” Smith said while re-
viewing this year’s losses he has
taken on his onion and potato
crops.
“I’m going to cut acreage,
plant more wheat and do more
grazing of cattle. Whether it’s
right or wrong I have no idea.”
Almanac
By United Press International
Today is Monday, Oct. 7, the
280th day of 1985 with 85 to follow.
The moon is in its last quarter.
The morning stars are Venus
and Mars.
The evening stars are
Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Libra. They in-
clude poet James Whitcomb
Riley in 1849, Danish atomic
physicist Niels Bohr in 1885,
singer Vaughn Monroe in 1912,
and actress June Allyson in 1917
(age68).
Mention “ethics” in a room full of Oklahoma law-
makers and a few are going to shudder visibly. That’s
not necessarily a sign of unethical behavior. It would
be a reflex, conditioned by years of public criticism.
Most in state government would agree that the public
perception of how state officials police their own
behavior is not good.
To be sure, the track record is not good. Improving
it, and popular perceptions, would require a com-
prehensive but uncluttered initiative. Something on
the order of a high-profile state ethics panel such as
has been recommended by the governor’s Comm-
ission on Ethics in Government.
For the sake of image, if nothing else, every state
official has a considerable stake in this recommend-
ation. It is a no-nonsense proposal that has a potential
for strict and thorough oversight. Most officials, we
would hope, have no cause to fear that potential.
As proposed by the governor’s commission a few
days ago, the ethics panel would have seven members
appointed by the governor to six-year staggered
terms. Senate confirmation would be required. Mem-
bers would not be compensated and no one political
party could be represented by more than four mem-
bers.
The panel would employ a full-time staff, an attor-
ney and an executive director. The staff would
receive all financial disclosure statements involving
public officials and candidates for office. Judging
from additional requirements recommended by the
commission, the staff workload would be con-
siderable.
The definition of lobbying would be broadened to
include people who lobby without compensation. All
lobbyists would be required to report activities in-
volving a single expenditure of $50 or more, or ex-
penditures totaling $500 within a year. The panel also
would require reports of lobbying activities of grass-
roots campaigns at the end of each calendar year.
In addition, the commission recommends am-
ending state campaign finance law to clearly state
that no campaign contributions may be converted by
any person to any personal use. It also recommends
limits on political contributions, significant fines for
not filing campaign expenditure reports, and regu-
lations on the political activities of state employees.
It’s probable that many of these recommendations
will not survive the attacks that are sure to come. The
key recommendation calling for a new state ethics
panel, however, should be difficult to put down. It’s
potential is attractive, and the need for such an effort
is unquestionable.
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One Agriculture consultant, Dr.
William Hess, said he would like to
see Beldekas finish his tests. “I don’t
think African Swine Fever could
cause AIDS by itself,” Hess said, “but
many people feel there are co-factors,
helping (the virus) along.” Hess add-
ed, “I have a feeling the government
is not too interested in (Beldekas’)
research.”
Footnote: An Agriculture depart-
ment official denied that it had tried
to suppress research, and said the de-
partment had been "more than hap-
py” to supply Beldekas with testing
material.
CONFIDENTIAL FILE: Look for a
change in the near future in the lead-
ership of Poland. Reports from War-
saw suggest that Gen. Wojciech Jaru-
zelski’s health is worsening, and he
might be thinking of stepping down.
One report says a long-troubling back
ache now has him in excruciating
pain. The most likely successor to the
general is Interior Minister Ceslaw
Kiszczak.
DIPLOMATIC DIGEST: A televi-
sion game show used to ask, ungram-
matically, "Who do you trust?” Up at
the combination sitcom and soap op-
era known as the United Nations, the
State Department trusts the Libyans
least. Libyan diplomats assigned to
the United Nations are the only ones
not allowed out of the five borough*
of New York. These tight restrictions
don’t apply to Bulgarians, Cubans,
Czechs, East Germans, PLO mem-
bers, North Koreans, Vietnamese or
Soviets.
MINI-EDITORIAL: The Nuclear
Regulatory Commission’s decision to
allow the undamaged reactor at
Three Mile Island to resume opera-
tions is as flawed as the facility’s
safety record. The reactor was shut
down as a precaution when its twin
nearly reached meltdown six years
ago in the nation's worst nuclear
plant accident. Studies suggest that
serious health hazards were caused,
and residents of the area dread a re-
currence of their nightmare. Su-
preme Court Justice William Bren-
nan has blocked the startup
temporarily, but we urge the full
court to make sure that chances of a
full-scale disaster are remote — a
hard case to make.
Copyright, 1985, United Feature Syndicate, Ibc.
WASHINGTON — Some medical
researchers suspect the federal gov-
ernment is discouraging tests that
might identify a deadly swine virus as
a cause of AIDS, for fear that such a
revelation would wreck the pork
industry.
U.S. officials have discounted re-
searchers’ suggestions of a connec-
tion between AIDS and African Swine
Fever virus, saying that all the gov-
ernment’s tests have proved nega-
tive. In fact, they say, no cases of Af-
rican Swine Fever have ever been
found in U.S. pigs.
But while officials claim the scien-
tists are sounding needless alarms,
the researchers charge that their
work is being impeded by the Agricul-
ture Department, which controls the
material necessary for swine fever
tests.
The department “is afraid the
(pork) industry would fail if African
Swine Fever is related to AIDS,” Dr.
John Beldekas of Boston University
told our reporters Corky Johnson and
Stewart Harris. It took Beldekas
three months to get swine fever ma-
terial from reluctant department of-
ficials to conduct his research.
Though his initial tests showed some
positive results, he said Agriculture
officials criticized his work.
Beldekas said he had been ordered
not to talk to the press for national se-
curity reasons, but he charged that
Agriculture officials have been leak-
ing word of his research to worried
farmers. “I have been indirectly
threatened by pig farmers,” he said.
At the very least, the new contro-
versy makes clear the frustration
that independent scientists feel be-
cause of the gpvernment’s ironclad
control of AIDS research.
The theory that African Swine Fe-
ver might be a cause of AIDS was
first advanced publicly by Dr. Jane
Teas in a letter printed in the respect-
ed British medical journal, Lancet, in
April 1983. Dr. Teas wrote that she
had found a parallel between a swine
fever outbreak in Haiti and cases of
AIDS in humans there. Haitian doc-
tors testing for a correlation in Haiti
said they found no evidence to sup-
port this.
Dr. Teas theorizes that a new strain
of swine fever was contracted by Hai-
tians when they ate undercooked
meat, then spread through sexual
contact to visiting Americans. The
two diseases have similar symptoms,
including fever, loss of appetite and
swollen lymph glands, she said.
Dr. Teas complains that she was
brushed off by Agriculture Depart-
ment officials and researchers.
Internal memos of the Centers for
Disease Control in Atlanta indicate
that doctors there believe sufficient
testing on a possible AIDS-swine fe-
ver connection has been done.
"From the outset,” states one
memo, “extensive investigations of
specimens from AIDS patients have ,
been undertaken, which would have ,
identified African Swine Fever Virus
should it have been present." j
The memos reveal that the tests
LUBBOCK, Texas (UPI) —
Young farmers struggling to find
a profit despite falling comm-
odity prices are turning to crops
their fathers and grandfathers
never considered planting.
Although the use of alternate
crops has moved from ag college
theory to working practice on the
High Plains, farmers planting
their fields to something beside
cotton have yet to find a sure
winner.
David Smith of Hart was dub-
bed the Outstanding Young
Farmer of Texas in 1978. This
year he planted eight crops on
7,500 acres of irrigated land in
Lamb and Castro counties.
“For me being diversified has
kept me in business,” Smith
said. “Then came 1985. It’s been
a different year for me. I’ve not
harvested a single crop yet that’s
made a profit... hopefully it will
be the peanuts.”
He planted potatoes, corn, cot-
ton, soybeans, onions, peanuts,
wheat and alfalfa. Extension re-
searchers for years have en-
couraged farmers to consider
planting small plots of alternate
crops instead of simply following
their neighbor in planting huge
acreages of com or cotton that
require irrigation.
One alternate crop that has
gained popularity on the High
Plains in recent years has been
grapes for wine production.
Oklahoma vegetable specialist
J.E. Motes of Stillwater believes
asparagus is another attractive
option.
Smith encouraged farmers at-
tending an agricultural chemi-
cals conference to consider
alternative crops, but he told On this date in history:
them they needed to research the In 1916, in the most lopsided
answers to three questions be- football game on record, Geo-
fore planting anything new. rgia Tech humbled Cumberland
The proposed crop must be University 777-0
adaptable to the region’s In 1963, Bobby Baker resigned
weather and its water re- as Senate Democratic secretary
quirements must be studied, after being charged in a $300,000
Smith said. He said producers civil suit with using his influence
also need to plan how and where for personal monetary gains
they can sell the crop. In 1977, Maryland Gov. Marvin
Smith said he negotiated con- Mandel was sentenced to four
tracts with various food com- years in prison on charges of
panies in advance this year so he fraud and was stripped of his of-
knew he would have a place to fice.
sell his produce for a certain in 1984, Democrat Walter
price despite falling market Mondale and President Reagan
prices at harvest time. faced off inLouisville,Ky.,inthe
“We’re gonna have to do a bet- 1984 campaign’s first presiden-
ter job of thinking for the future tial debate. Reagan’s faltering
to enjoy the type of life we’ve had raised the issue of his age.
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WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Soviet Union, which President
Senate has gone on record in Reagan once characterized as
favor of denying tax exemptions an ‘ ‘evil empire ’ ’
to groups that support witches. Take it from me, no witches
Wickedwitches, that is. riding Halloween broomsticks
It s OK, apparently, to pro- have nuclear warheads. So they
mote witchcraft as long as it is would not be included in
benevolent. Tax writeoffs would Reagan’s “Star Wars” defense
be prohibited only if “super- plan.
natural powers” are used “with When I made an effort to find
malicious intent. ” out where the House stood on the
In other words, you could de- witchcraft issue, I was told some
duct contributions to “Glenda congressmen might be involved
the Good without so much as in a conflict of interest
raising a senatorial eyebrow. Perhaps it would be better for
However,any dona tions to "The the House merely to reaffirm
Wicked Witch of the West” would that wicked witchcraft had noth-
be made strictly at your own ex- ing to do with the recent disap-
pense. . .. , pearance of the black dots from -
That, at least, is the way I in- its portion of the Congressional
terpret an amendment to an Record
appropriations bill offered by Printers call these markings, ‘
Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., and once used to designate all non-
approved without debate last oral congressional statments, as
month. * < 0 "bullets." When I first noticed
Deductions for contributions they were missing from the
to religious groups, presumably House transcript I assumed
including those that abet ben- some over-zealous congreMman
evolent witches, currently are not only had bitten the bullet but
permitted under the internal re- swallowed it as well.
venue code. I was told, however, that under
I gather nothing sexist was in- new House rules, oratinns and
tended by the Senate, although remarks never actually spoken
ever since the Middle Ages on the floor are reproduced in
witches are presumed to be fe- boldface type. If a lawgiver
male. really says something, rather
Helms’ amendment included than submit unspoken words for
devil worshippers, who may be publication, it is printed in a
any gender you can think of, and lighter typeface.
defined witchcraft as the use of in the Senat, gat;on . 4L.
powers derived from evil spirits, cord, bullets still “identify
the use of sorcery or the use of statements or insertions which
supernatural powers with mali- are not spoken.” And in the Ap-
cious intent, pendix, where both chambers
He did not make clear whether may extend remarks with after-
witches included males but male thoughts, second-guesses, home-
witches are known as sorcerers town poems and the like, both
and warlocks. Nor was there any bullets and boldface are used,
explanation of whether the With bullets and boldface tvne
amendment might apply to the however, anything is possible.
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