The Lawton Constitution (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 75, No. 268, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 17, 1977 Page: 6 of 28
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Raising The Lid Again
the Bronx Community College At 24 he
was one of the young generation whose
adolescence fell in the latter part of the
disturbed and disturbing decade of the
1960s He grew up in the Bronx with his
father and stepmother He is a clerical
By JEFFREY HART
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his meaningless life and his twisted
impulses
Only in
Oklahoma
IF THE YOUNG man arrested and
arraigned for the Son of Sam" attacks
really planned to kill again, as he told
police after his arrest, it answers the
question of his compulsion to do the
killings
Many of the facts are not yet in to
flesh out a psychological profile But
changing the weapon to a submachine
gun
police and to Jimmy Breslin, while
Craig" showed up in a mystical semi-
lyrical note the police found when they
seized him
Ted Ralston
Manoging Editor
Wm H Sullnan
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James T Genir
Mechonicot Superintendent
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sequence would be a suspension
of congressional pay
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WITH THE BG AUTOMOBILE... IT LASTED
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Shirley Shepler Bentley
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of the town flirt Miss Margaret
Shippen The lady could do more to
Benedict Arnold was a bona fide delphia He had fine lodgings, a flag, a
hem So he quit the army and returned sedentary command and the embraces
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6 THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION, Wednesday, August 17, 1977
ARNOLD QI IT again General W ash
ington begged him to return to his
command He did The colonel fought
two frenzied engagements with the
British, and Congress commissioned
him a major general — junior, howev-
er. to five others
Bible Thought For Today
society in which.a wildly disturbed and
driven man can operate as a killer for
over a year until he is seized by an
organized manhunt
You pay the social cost in pain and
death for the social freedoms you val-
ue
To keep an eye on this impetuous
fighter, Congress ordered him to Phila.
THE CONTINENTAL Congress pro
moted Arnold to full colonel. They also
sent $800 in British pounds The money
was left for the care of the children
"Sam" told of having his dog shot by ophrenics, his was an ambulatory case
the suspect, after several letters com He went about his daily tasks and er-
plaining bitterly about the noise he rands almost unnoticed He worked in
made "Craig" told of a fire built out- the Post Office side-by-side with co-
to deal for land and
the same federal
And thinkest thou this, 0 man, that judgest them which do such
things, and doest the same, that thou shall escape the Judgment of
God? Romans 2:3.
The judgment, as well as the blessing of God, is fair and just
falling on each man as God directs
ing in general are most per-
sistent in their pursuit of cov-
trolled federal spending As long
ago as 1949, he was warning that
the fiscal prospects were
"fraught with the gravest public
consequences." The public debt
at that time was around $250 bil
lion
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AWARENESS IS also beginning to be
fairly widespread that the 1973-74
Watergate atmosphere was to a large
degree a matter of "focus " Ax Ervin
Committee counsel Fred Thompson
explains in his book, "At That Point in
Time the Democratic majority on
that committee persistently refused to
admit any evidence or testimony re
girding past presidential practice and
focussed relentlessly on the deeds of a
few Nixon aides The effect of this was
to project Nixon as a unique villain
The media used the same technique of
narrowing the focue — and also turned
up the decibels, day after das week at
ter week inducing a heightened and
even slightly hysterical public con
sciousness
But a variety of things have been
working to create a spreading skeptic
ism about that earlier focus
Another consequence would be
an immediate halt to the sale of
all governmental securities. The
law makes the Treasury secre-
men with blue eyes over a fluttering
fan than General Arnold could with a
regiment
He married her The bride loved uni-
forms and whatever was inside them
Within six months Arnold was desper
ately in debt He was ordered to be
court-martialled for using his post for
private gain Arnold despaired He was
sure he was caught in a triangulated
vise between his wife, his Congress and
General Washington.
THIS SI GGESTS that the compulsion
to kill was still on him but that he re.
tained some control over timing and
methods His urge to kill was accom-
panied by a conviction that he was
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some things are clear David Berkowitz possessed by forces beyond his control
had served in the Army He had only a in the last letter found he speaks of
middling education, with one year at
THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION
Published Evenings Mondoy Throuoh Fridav Ol goes week
Jrd ond A Avenue, Lawton. Okichoma
Bill F Bentley Editor and Publisher
worker in the Post Office He lives "My Master Craig " He told police he
alone in a scantily furnished flat in a was "Sam’s creature " He seems also
black and Hispanic neighborhood of to have believed that "Sam" used his
Y onken, NY He keeps his flat in dog as a medium, to instruct him on
squalor whom and how to kill.
Arnold returned to battle The Red
coats beat him at Quebec, but now they
knew him and feared him
He and his men built and bough!
ships all winter in the summer of 1776
Benedict Arnold fought General Cariton
so fiercely that, even though the British
won the engagement, Carlton sent a
message to Admiral Howe and General
Burgoyne that he could not join them
outside New York until he had
regrouped his decimated regiments.
The Second Continental Congress
feared Benedict Arnold almost as much
as the British did They promoted five
of his juniors as generals and left him
a colonel. General George Washington
NI MF Roly NIXON aides, including
Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and several of
the Cuban burglars have speculated sc
riously that the Watergate break in
may have been a CIA set up in his
book Fred Thompson conveys a strong
— through not conclusive — impression
that the CIA was much more deeply in
volved than has yet been disclosed
Nixon himself aired this possibility last
May A variety of possible CIA motives
have been suggested, including bureau
cratic rivalry between langley, Vir
ginia, and the White House Fred
Thompson also shows that individual
Democrats had advance knowledge of
the Watergate break in
A number of historians and other
scholars have been pursuing a parallel
between Nixon's downfall and the
famous Dreyfus case in France in both
cases, enormous political and social
forces clashed with one another An
Oxford scholar Prof A L Goodhart, is
writing a book which explores the
Nixon-Dreyfus parallels
ARNOLD SENT a friendly letter to
General Sir Henry Clinton in New
York A secret courrier brought a
friendlier response Impetuously, he
wrote that he was prepared to work for
King and Parliament if he was given
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to New Haven The drug store was
failing Mrs Arnold had died a month
before his return He said he fell more
sick than angry He would remain at
home with his sons
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THE DRUGGIST locked his phar was angered at the slight and said so
macy and went to war The people of Congress said it already had two major
New Haven knew him They weren’t generals from Connecticut
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money genuine recognition, and a
commission in the British Army
Clinton was cautious He wanted
proof of loyalty first Benedict Arnold
sent traitorous letters with information
about the movements of the Continental
Army, the command, supplies. weak
nesses, and the strength of the French
fleet sailing for the colonies
The following summer George Wash-
ington gave Arnold command of the
plains at West Point. He surveyed the
place, and sent a note to Clinton that he
would betray the fort lor $100,000 if he
succeeded; 000 and a British com.
mission if he didn’t
Clinton wanted the prize He com-
missioned Major John Andre to get
through the opposing lines and tell
Arnold that the terms were satisfacto-
ri The two met secretly Benedict
Arnold said that he would dispose his
forces so that they could not fight well
He gave Andre the plans for Wes:
Point
Andre carried them in his stocking
He was captured above Dobbs Ferry
and hanged at a tavern in Tappan Bi n
edict Arnold fled in the night to Gen-
eral Clinton
He was commissioned a British of-
ficer and fought against his old army
up and down the coast Arnold burned
New London to the gorund He fought
well for both sides
in December, 1781. he sailed for Eng.
land He knew he was a hero In
London, military men saw him, heard
his name, and spat The King another
loser gave Benedict Arnold 331575 and
land in Canada
His drug store in New Haven was
stoned At 60, he died He was bankrupt
of money and worse character
accompanied congressional in-
creases in the public debt ceil-
ing is the most cursory treat- eted projects for their own con-
ment accorded the hresent stituencies. The late Sen Robert
boost. S. Kerr used to say that he
In perfunctory fashion, the would become an advocate of
House Ways and Means Com- economy when the federal gov-
nuttee recommended the other ernment was spending as much
day that the ceiling be raised to in Oklahoma as it was spending
$775 billion, an increase of $75 in Sen. Byrds home state.
billion above the present limit A question sometimes asked
It wasn’t always thus For when the debt ceiling is under
years, the late Sen Harry F review is exactly what the con-
Byrd of Virginia used these oc- seguences would be if Congress
casions for uttering his memo- refused to g0 along with a re-
rable jeremiads against uncon- quested increase One con-
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I am frequently asked, especially by
students, what I think about Watergate
and what the verdict of history to likely
tn be
Three years ago when I would assert
that Watergate seemed to me largely a
kind of optical illusion the reaction
was usually one of disbelief and even
outrage Watergate was an enormous
scandal, the political crime of the cen
tury. even a menace to our democratic
institutions I was regarded as a mon
ster of cynicism
Today however, the atmosphere has
changed a great deal and is continuing
to change
People are now more aware that
presidents from Roosevelt through
Lyndon Johnson lso presided over
break in and buggings a record now
summarized by Victor Lasky in his
book “It Didn't Start With Water
gale " Ben Beadier has published an
account of President Kennedy cheer
fully obstructing justice
tary personally responsible for
In a single year — the 1977 fis- all Treasury obligations ex-
cal year — the government will ceeding the legal limit
have added almost 170 billion to tk
the total debt when the books nThegovernment would begin
are closed Sept 30 missing payments on its defense
in the unlikely event that contracts “-J* armed services
President Carter succeeded in payrolls, as well as the salaries
his announced attempt to bal- nwedits civilian workers. Social
ance the budget, it would be the security. Medicare and Medica-
first time since 1969 that red ink ' Payments would stop, as
was avoided. The government would railway retirement and
has had only eight balanced veterans' benefits The Treasury
budgets since’fiscal 1931 would miss interest Payments on
t . the federal debt and would be
In the presence of these monu- unable to redeem maturing obli-
mental and largely uninter- gallons
rupted deficits. Congress appar- n
ently is resigned to the necessity f andemonium would descend
of keeping the debt limit rising on money markets throughout
ahead of the rising tide of red the worid, and a global financial
ink. Nothing much is heard any debacle would threaten Thus
longer of the distinction once the recurring increases in the
made between “temporary” debt imit become almost auto-
ceilings and “permanent” ceil- matic This element of inevita-
ings Nobody expects the govern- 11ty raises a question con-
ment to stay long within any cerning whether there should be
kind of statutory debt limit, any statutory debt ceiling atall
side his apartment door, with bullets workers who knew little or nothing
thrown into it about the volcanic fires within him As the Sooner Cynic understands it Dad Hillis has decided to nass un a
Several iino. m... , .. There was no therapist who look we are paying Panama about $50 CB radio. He said he used tPA.k
toSsketchy profile erg Eromathis ‘barge of him Several of his neighbors million a year to take the canal of our same thing when he was growing up in
would come up theas ■' ■■* *“ theythezcountry. only then ths calledl an
him as a schizophrenic with a very thin w. h I c. . right-family party line. — Burton Hill-
link to reality, and with a markd ™ We have become so accustomed to Several, areas are saying their cur- is in Better Homes and Gardens
anoid sense of l"p marke 1 k living with strange people around us rent drouth conditions are worse than „
people wiM hate him buurrounded by that we take even extreme cases of Oklahoma s in the Dust Bowl days .I you re really pressed to say some-
feels strangely eh nd to whom he Strangeness in our stride if Sam Carr That’s one championship we can cheer thing nice about the $2 bill, you can al
He tcound: , g i is to be believed, he did tell the police fully give up 5 ways point «“ that it doesn’t seem to
another kjl ice tha the had planned his suspicion that his neighbor and tor. be damaging the ecology - Franklin
again posimg Suffolk Counts locale mentor was the killer But the police. The first thing a perennial candidate F Jones in Quote
ing atoTfXm the narked c.™ tn. du who had been receiving hundreds of in Oklahoma leans is not to pat a spec. Not one - ,n □ th a
cotheque as his epar d ’ dis- such tips, passed it off as coming from ifie year anywhere on his hamper stick- keen I .Per ina thousand can
Sothedueas his target and presumablv another confused slob suffering delu. ers Ste gePhisshands ,n pockets while
5-‘4‘6 M-I E- nuns. — 5IIS \ Pleces
THI MAJOR AMERICAN sociologist
Robert Nisbet writes in his recent
book "Twilight of Authority " that the
Dreyfus analogy will operate in the
. . .. years ahead and “On balance I think
and caught up by the hysteria Watergate will prove to be the Amer-
which the case generated When they ican Dreyfus case
.Opinion is beginning to shift on
8 Vietnam, always intimately linked to
America is an open society which has Watergate As the horror stories begin
largely learned to be tolerant of 10 seep out of Vietnam and Cambodia,
strange people and their lifestyles the "anti-war" side will inevitably lose
There are many of us who are resigned moral and political stature
to the conviction that we live in a world Perhaps not surprisingly, reporters
which has become an insane asylum, found sympathy for Nixon increasing
like the play within a play which the after the David Frost broadcuts After
Marquis de Sade mounted in his nut a Midwest trip, Christian Science Moni-
house tor reporter Geoffrey Sperling wrote (6
This makes for considerable freedom N) that support for Nixon s growing
also makes for a haphazard, uncohesive After he finishes the present book
Richard Nixon ought to consider the
following He could write a serious
essay on political power, drawing upon
his own experience at the top. illus-
trating his theoretical observations
with actual examples It could be a
great book a classic. a successor to the
Discorsi’ of Machiavelli, a corrective
to the cam about politics that is still
widely credited
Nixon may still have the last laugh,
and as Hemingway used to say, "What
do you think of that, gentlemen?"
Columnist Takes
Another Glance
surprised Benedict Arnold was a man
of impulses He was too quick, too bra
ve, too swift of tongue
He was short and broad a man with
a rocking horse gm His hair was
black and thick, his eyes were as pah-
as a Ming vase He left the shop to
Mrs Arnold and three sons. 7. 6 and 3
The Connecticut militia needs me,"
he said, which was a statement and a
farewell
HE HAS AN obsession with guns. He What we have here is a crazy-guilt
is also a compulsive letter writer not pattern of a personality, which never-
only to police but to neighbors The let theless shows a discernible pattern
ters combine threats with obvious fixa- within its chaos it is a design for a
Hons on the receivers Two of them killer who has convinced himself that
were older men — one called Sam Carr, he is possessed by demonic guides to
the other Craig Glassman "Sam" whom he responds, when actually he is
showed up in the original letters to the responding to the inner distortions of
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