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6 THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION, Thursday, November 6, 1975
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reasons for making the loan to
Zaire, just as, there are good do-
mnestic policy reasons for not
making a loan to New York.
That is the distinction Congress
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Southern Newspaper Publishers Association —
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pollution alert in 1973 in Appala-
chian communities a stone’s
throw from Washington.
day when a politician knew how to take
umbrage. Despite the verbal fire and
brimstone of the past two decades,
America hasn't had an important duel
since 1804, when Aaron Burr shot a fat-
al hole in Alexander Hamilton.
WHEN TWO planes landed in Flor
ida. Rusk said, he was told they were
“Cuban," not American, and he so in-
formed United Nations Ambassador
Adlai Stevenson who, in all innocence,
denied US involvement in the assault
by the Cuban refugees
Not until the next day, Rusk said,
did he learn the truth about the "Cu-
ban" planes, and he realized too late
that "they were frauds " Rusk never-
theless defended the CIA against the
critics who would destroy it because of
evidence that it schemed to undermine
several foreign regime:., including the
Marxist government of the late Presi
dent Allende in Chile
If similar undercover efforts could
have kept Adolf Hitler and his storm
troopers from seizing total power in
Germany, Rusk said, “I would have
been delighted. They would have saved
50 million lives in World War Two."
The National Security Council and
Congress must keep a closer watch
over the CIA to prevent future abuses,
he said “But I hope we don't demobi-
lize the CIA and lose thousands of
people who did not have anything to do
with the monkey business Perhaps we
should change its name "
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members (76 at the time) Then Reed
described the first election
"When the ballots had been collected
and spread out, the Chief Justice, who
presided, was observed to hesitate and
those nearest could see by his pallor
that something unexpected had hap-
pened. But with a strong effort, he
rose to his feet and through a mega-
phone, then recently invented by Edi-
son. shouted to the vast multitude the
each other privately that invite mutual
mayhem, and although matters have
not yet progressed to a point where
Rocky and Barry are checking avail-
able dates for a meeting in Lafayette
Park some rosy-fingered dawn, there
have been references on both sides to
punches in the snoot.
Of such material are duels made,
perhaps signalling a return to a lustier
sign in order to run) Alternatively —
and although I have beaten this drum
before, it has merit — the United
States might do well to move towards
a parliamentary form of government
Then leading politicians would advance
towards national leadership by their
skill in governing rather than in pri-
mary campaigning And once in office
as Prime Minister, President or what-
ever. they would be less prone to post-
uring and electioneering in the style of
America's recent Congressional Presi-
dents.
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By FRANK VAN DER LINDEN
WASHINGTON - Although he was
then secretary of state. Dean Rusk
says he was kept out of the detailed
planning for the Bay of Pigs and was
deceived by one cover story designed
to conceal the United States' role in
the bungled invasion of Cuba
Only a few officials were allowed to
look at the Central Intelligence
Agency's scenario for the attempted
coup against Fidel Castro when it was
laid before President Kennedy and the
National Security Council, as Rusk re-
calls the i vents of April. 1961
"Very little of it was in writing and
they would take the papers home after
wards, so we had no precise notion
about the plans," the former cabinet
member told the Oral History Associ-
ation at its national colloquium a few
days ago at Asheville, N.C.
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IT WOULD be safer, of course, to
borrow a leaf from Napoleon’s book
When King Gustavus Adolphus of Swe-
den challenged Napoleon to a duel
back in the good old days before the
Swedes discovered the financial advan
tages.of neutrality. Nap replied that he
was too busy slaughtering Englishmen
but he'd be glad to send his fencing
master to give Gus a workout
To most of our governing lords. that
sounds more like it.
Boren is prepared to play a starring
role if anyone ever develops a TV show
called "The $80 Million Man.”
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T reasurer
Other Editors Say . . .
The number of people who are unem-
ployed isn’t as great as the number
who aren't working. — Frank A. Clark
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America needs laws to guard
against air pollution. It does not
need a strangling, no-growth
economic policy imposed on the
nation in the name of air quali-
ty.
Community leaders in Lawton
should remain alert to these
dangers and resist any designa-
tion that would seriously retard
our growth.
Ted Ralston
Monoging E ditor
Win H Sullivan
Advertising Director
James T Gentry
Mechanicat Svoerintendent
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legislators will ever break a speed lim-
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I HOPE not Fist fights are too mes-
sy But I confess to a lifelong wish
which could be fulfilled ere too many
more inchoate speeches are delivered.
That is to say. the Washington atmos-
phere may provide me. at long last,
with an opportunity to cover a real. 24-
carat duel
if I read the omens rightly, the first
duel might star Vice President Rock-
efeller and .Arizona's Sen Barry Gold-
water. They are saying things about
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Andy fought at least 11 on-the-record
duels and heaven knows how many se-
cret ones. His most important joust
was with one Charles Dickenson, who
was alleged to have bandied Mrs
Jackson's name about. Andy killed
Dickenson by trickery, he moved a
button on his coat so Dickenson would
aim at the button and miss Jackson's
heart Well, that's what Andy said
Possibly our potential duelists could
rationalize their confrontations at 10
paces as did the ancient Germans, who
invented duelling The Germans used
the duel to settle legal arguments, on
the lofty theory that since God knew
which party was right He wouldn't let
him be killed But somehow I can't see
Senate Majority Leader Mike Mans-
field and Minority Leader Hugh Scott
buying that hit. Suppose. I can hear
both of them asking, God happened not
to be looking when the bullets flew?
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ALL THOSE things seemed true at
the time but, if Roosevelt had said
them, "he would have been telling a
lie, because we won the darned war,
remember'’" Rusk said "Of course I
was trying to support success in South-
east Asia. But I don't recall that I
lied.”
Rusk did not bother to conceal his
contempt for the writers who threw to-
gether the mishmash of fact and fic-
tion called "The Pentagon Papers.”
"Is there any such thing," he asked,
"as history by anonymous letter?"
As for Ben Bradlee’s book, which
quoted his private chats with John F.
Kennedy and portrayed the late Presi-
dent as a profane, sometimes petty and
calculating politician, Rusk com-
mented: "Who needs enemies, with
friends like that?"
Travelers, crisscrossing the
United States by air or auto, are
comforted by the vast stretches
of open, undeveloped land that
promise elbow room for a grow-
ing population
But some of the extreme envi-
ronmentalists in Congress are
promoting amendments to the
Clean Air Act of 1970 which
would ban not only new in-
dustry, but new housing, farm-
ing operations and recreation
from specified geographic areas.
The Chamber of Commerce of
the United States has analyzed
the contemplated regulations
and estimates that as much as
SO per cent of the land in many
states — particularly in the
West — would be set aside as
“clean air preserves.”
The quality of the air we
breathe, certainly, is a matter of
oncern to all Americans. The
proposed controls, however, go
far beyond the attack on pollu-
ion. The advocates would rule
arbitrarily that regions boasting
lean air should be left undis-
urbed, even where development
poses no threat to health and
welfare.
I And if the amendments should
be adopted, jobs and economic
progress would be sacrificed —
often in the areas of greatest
poverty.
- The chamber study revealed
that "permissible emissions"
envisioned in some of the pro-
posed new air quality standards
already are being violated even
in the most pristine areas. The
natural oxidation of vegetation,
for instance, caused a six-day
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LIKE JULES Verne and H G. Wells,
Speaker Reed prophesied better than
he knew. Unfortunately, there is no
longer anything very whimsical about
the process. Since 1960, Presidential
candidates have been men with Con-
gressional backgrounds, and the Sen-
ate has turned into a launching pad for
Presidential ambition Huge staff sup-
port and public relations structures
have grown up around this change.
The quality of government has suf-
fered.
Two solutions suggest themselves If
one truly believes in the historic U.S.
separation of powers, then perhaps
there ought to be a constitutional
amendment prohibiting serving mem-
bers of Congress from running for
President (thereby forcing them to re-
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must make when it views for-
eign military aid in the context
of other pressures on the budg-
et. What the government spends
both at home and abroad must
be consistent with good policy
and national priorities.
If the new aid commitments to
Middle East countries are cur-
tailed. the prospect for sustain-
ing the truce and further peace
negotiations could be jeopard-
ized. To trim other military aid
for the sake of keeping the
Middle East promises would
pull the rug out from under
many of our allies who are
relying on U.S. assistance to
meet their own security prob-
lems.
Those aid recipients include
Greece and Turkey, whose rela-
tions with the United States are
already strained it includes
South Korea, which is maintain-
ing a delicate power balance
with the hostile North Koreans.
It includes Indonesia, which has
been promised increased U.S.
aid in the wake of the fall of In-
dochina to the Communists. It
includes the Philippines, facing
an insurgency movement sup-
ported and armed by the Com-
munist world.
We can anticipate the usual
rhetoric in Congress attacking
“give-aways” to foreign coun-
tries when we are trying to cut
federal spending. We should not
lose sight of the fact that what is
really at stake is the ability of
our government to make and
keep commitments which are
basic to American foreign policy
and our credibility as an ally.
The security and stability
abroad which our aid helps pur-
chase must continue to be a high
priority item in the shaping of
the federal budget.
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THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION
Published Evenings Monday Through Fridav of Eoch Week
3rd and A Avenue. Lawton. Oklahoma
Hill I- Bentley Editor and Publisher
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... LONELIEST JOB IN TOWN.
WASHINGTON - Poor Gerald Ford
His penchant for jetting around the
country to hold hearings and press the
flesh at political dinners has generated
concern that he is too much of a never-
say-die Congressman to be an effective
President
The argument is cogent enough, but
it's time for a little political balance.
What about the way the U.S. Senate is
too busy running for President to func-
tion as an efficient, thoughtful legisla-
tive body? This problem, too, is cen-
tral to the inefficiency of our govern-
ment.
By my count, 35 to 40 of our 100
United Stales Senators are past or
present candidates or frequently-men-
tioned possibilities for President or
Vice President. And that is excluding
the private dreams of other men who
also spend a lot of time looking in mir-
rors
AT THE moment, only Senators
Lloyd Bentsen, Scoop Jackson and
Birch Bayh are announced Presidential
candidates. But everyone knows of the
interest and possible availability of
Senators Kennedy, Muskie and Hum-
phrey. Other Democrats who may be-
come favorite son candidates (or fui-
fledged entrants) include Senators Ad-
lai Stevenson, Frank Church and Dale
Bumpers. George McGovern probably
won't run, and Minnesota's Walter
Mondale dropped out quite awhile ago.
On the Republican side, two Senators
— Charles Percy of Illinois and How-
ard Baker of Tennessee (son-in-law of
Hie late Senator Everett Dirksen) —
are known to be playing with the idea
of entering the Mar. 16 Illinois pri-
mary against President Ford and (pre-
sumably) Ronald Reagan
This hungry Senatorial focus on the
Presidency is not at all new. It was an-
ticipated as far back as the 1880s by
House Speaker Thomas B Reed of
Maine in a futuristic whimsy purport-
ing to be a history “published in
1940.” The American people, it seems,
have adopted a constitutional amend-
ment providing that Presidents should
The annual debate in Congress
on those programs lumped into
the category of "foreign aid” is
taking on unusual significance
this time around Although a
measure providing $1.35 billion
in foreign economic aid sailed
through the House recently with
no trouble, that is not likely to
lie the case when the adminis-
tration hands Congress its bill
for foreign military aid.
The bill will be swollen by
new military commitments to Is-
rael and other Middle Eastern
countries — an integral part of
Secretary of State Henry Kissin-
ger's Sinai agreements and the
basis for his hope that those
agreements will lead to further
peace negotiations between Is-
rael and the Arabs When these
items are added to the military
aid we have promised to other
friends and allies, the package
may carry a price tag as high as
$5 billion — or $2 billion higher
than last year’s figure
With our own Defense Depart-
ment facing severe slashes in its
own budget, congressional
knives will surely be sharpened
when this request arrives. The
military aid bill could become a
captive of President Ford's chal-
lenge to match tax cuts with
budget cuts. Recently, a rela-
tively small loan to an African
country was seized on by Sen.
Hubert Humphrey as an ex-
ample of how the federal gov-
ernment was "bailing out" a
foreign government while refus-
mg to "bail out" New York City.
WASHINGTON - Although the Pres-
idential election is still more than a
year away, voices are being raised and
wattles are swelling redly in the cham-
bers and corridors of government.
Sen Ed Muskie, D-Mame, and
James T Lynn, director of the Office
of Management and Budget, had at it
the other day at a hearing on tax cuts
and federal spending Muskie was
shouting all over the joint Lynn s tone
was icy and almost contemptuous and
he was overheard upon his departure
for the safety of the White House to de-
scribe Muskie in a phrase whose in-
itials do not stand for Senate Office
Building
All this has caused an anonymous
correspondent for the London Times to
suggest in a brief dispatch from Wash-
ington that the time may not be far off
when American political opponents will
come to blows.
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astounding result: Seventy-six Senators
had each received one vote! For a mo-
ment a stillness of death settled upon
the multitude Never until that mo-
ment had the people realized that the
Senate of the United States was one
level mass of wisdom and virtue, per-
fect in all its parts, and radiant from
North to South with the light of in-
telligence which never shone on sea or
shore."
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"Well, this day after elec-
tion. many a good man will
find he has been replaced
because he failed to bring in
enough government loot
from Washington
"Did you ever figure what
constitutes our modern rep-
resentative-’ It’s the one that
can bring home the new
Federal Post Office, even if
they wasn't using the old
one Federal aid for roads
that nobody may ever drive
on, and a government dam
"Yes, the height of states-
manship is to come home
with a dam, even if you have
nowhere to put it. Just raid
the National Treasury
enough, and you will soon be
referred to as a 'states-
man.' ”
November 5, 1930
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Romers Memorial
ED MUSKIE is a good duelling pros-
pect. He is mostly a kindly and
gracious man, but he’s got a short, hot
temper, and a showdown between him
and Jim Lynn would be a study in con-
trasts. Like so many folks who deal
with big money, Lynn is a cool custom-
er. but intimates deny he once gave a
pint of ice water to the Red Cross
Politicians who are interested should
bone up on Andrew Jackson who
really worked at the duelling trade
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RISK, WHO never had a chance to
shine as a superstar of jet-set diploma
cy during his eight years as secretary
of state under the dynamic Presidents
Kennedy and Johnson, showed no jea-
lousy of Henry Kissinger's long-run-
ning performance in the spot light of
world publicity
if the present Secretary of State can
solve the "dangerous, stubborn, in-
tractable problem" in the Middle East
he deserves the credit. Rusk said "I
don't see the Europeans or the United
Nations doing anything about it, and
the Russians only throw a little gaso-
line on the fire."
Rusk left Washington six years ago
beneath a barrage of brickbats from
enemies who hated the Vietnam war
Barred from speaking on certain
campuses, he retired to teach law at
the University of Georgia, happy to be
at home again in his native state
The former Secretary received a
standing ovation from the Oral History
Association a sign that the end of the
Indo-China nightmare has signaled a
cease fire also in Academe, a time to
forgive and forget
One questioner, however, accused
him of having told "lies" in his de-
fense of Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam po-
licy during the war
Rusk replied by asking how the na-
tion would have responded if, in early,
1942, President Franklin D Roosevelt
had told the nation. "The German ar-
mn*s are marching on Moscow; Rom-
mel is racing to Alexandria, Egypt; my
intelligence people tell me the Rus-
sians won't last more than a few
months and the Japanese have de-
stroyed the heart of our fleet at Pearl
Harbor. The jig is up "
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