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4A THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION, Thursday, December 23, 1982
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starting in late 1983.
“ABOVE ALL, OUR people on the
West Bank and Gaza are concerned
with the loss of their land."
It is so easy — and for many atheists
and disrespectful believers a macabre
kind of fun — to look at Christmas in
Ted Ralston
Monaging Editor
Wm H. Sullivan
Advertising Director
Alfred Wallace
Circulation Manoger
I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing.
—Psalm 101:1
Our response to God’s infinite love is praise and adoration. He is
just and maybe trusted in life and death.
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and ROBERT NOVAK
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it could lead to further rate producing relatively cheap gas produced a scene seldom matched even
n- in that venerable political cockpit.
The fact that the Soviets are
not seriously negotiating on re-
duction of intermediate-range
missiles in Europe is shown by
their last “informal” proposal.
Under the plan the Soviets
would reduce the number of
their SS-20 intermediate-range
particular and at religiosity in general
in the Holy Land with cynicism. And
the bureaucrats of all the churches
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The U.S. government and the dictably for a number of rea-
natural gas industry have sons. The 1978 decontrol legis-
repealed the law of supply and lation established pricing
demand. Between them, they categories which permitted the
have bollixed up the market so highest price to be charged for
that prices are rising sharply newly discovered gas and gas
even though there is a surplus from unusually deep wells,
of gas. By the accepted eco- Pipeline companies wary of fu-
nomic laws, an oversupply ture shortages contracted to
should be bringing prices buy large quantities of gas at
down. the higher prices because they
Wholesale gas prices climbed assumed it would be the most
by 5 percent in November plentiful. Contracts are in ef-
alone. In some localities prices feet which assumed the price of
have risen 30 percent within a crude oil would be rising in the
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WASHINGTON — An ugly incident in Domenici — to set their own policy has the floor in a caucus, asking Baker how you need only go to church. This year,
the Senate Republican cloakroom dur- met surprisingly little resistance from it was that he used such pressure to on the eve of the birth of Christ, a
ing the wee hours of last Sunday morn- the president. Reagan followed their shut down conservative filibusters dispute erupted in Jerusalem’s Holy
ing cast doubt on the Senate GOP lead- lead in last summer’s $100-billion tax against higher taxes but not liberal Sepulchre Church between Armenians
ership’s ability to set national policy increase, and meekly complied with filibusters against Helms’s school- and Syrian Orthodox believers over a
next year by leading rather than fol- their demands after the election that prayer and anti-abortion measures doorsill,
lowing President Reagan the gas-tax increase not be joined with As East’s senior colleague from
5 the president’s desired tax cut speed- North Carolina, Helms might have Police had to be called in when doz-
azav. .00. JU ,_________ ______________________o While freshman senator John East of up. been expected to help. But similar sup- ens of Syrian Jacobite young people
year The price is creeping past 1980s at the rate it did in the North Carolina was droning on through port in caucus came from other conser- charged Armenian clerics after the
the equivalent price of fuel oil 1970s The oil price didn’t rise, a filibuster blocking Reagan’s nickel-a- THE THREE JUNIOR senators vatives, including Colorado’s Bill Syrians uprooted the doorsill in one of
leadine industrial users to but the gas prices are pegged gallon gasoline tax, one of East’s aides filibustering the gas tax - East, New Armstrong and Wisconsin’s Bob the chapels that both faiths share by
egq8emino us to oiI Such at a higher level regardless seated in the cloakroom was subjected Ham pshire’s Gordon Humphrey and Kasten (who wondered why similar intricately worked-out ancient laws,
switch trom gas to Oil. bucn at a nigner 6 esadino to a tongue-lashing from two esteemed ‘___________________________ pressure was not applied to renowned
conversion is contrary to an According to congressional senators _ Utah’s Jake Garn and Mis- .. _ -- -----Democratic filibusterer Howard ON A DEEPER LEVEL than
energy policy aimed at investigators, some companies
reducing oil consumption, and have shut down old wells
missiles deployed
"ET 19 BACK! HE WANT ROYALTIES!"
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gye, a, again, little white Christmas lights are
ya strung in the glorious old square of
sarusyexgy .ssgs 282 worn golden stones. Once again, Chris-
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But this year, Christmas in the Holy
Land will be different. "We are
approaching Christmas with heavy
hearts,” Bethelem Mayor Elias Frej
says, sitting in his municipal office
overlooking the old square. “The cir-
cles of violence and tragedy that have
been engulfing the area have not
subsided. We are very disturbed about
the future of our brethren, the refugees
of South Lebanon and Beirut.
Metzenbaum of Ohio). Such conserva- doorsills, the Middle East is awash in
tives complained in caucus about Bak- religious fanaticism and fervor this
er speeding action in the Senate by Christmas. Christians still fight
- eliminating roll-call votes on amend- Moslems in Lebanon — which now has
Bystanders heard Garn chairman of oklahoma’s Don Nickles -were ments. natictsnennaeridke Mystomashistestii
n-ying a share of distribution ers the gas producers are cut- the Senate Eanki ng ommitteM5 L Reaganites rebeling not against THE CONSERVATIVES aflame in Iran, and the nations of the
paying a Share Ot distribution ers thegas proaucers are^ui aide that East h ad broken his pick Reagan but his solidifying alliance with CONTINUED to grumble when Baker Persian Gulf fear its spread there. In
Cos arJalsn inviting retaliatory ac- opposing eaga h„ poli Y, andthat the Senate s Republican and Demo- agreed to a roll-call vote on just one Israel itself, the government is rapidly
In short, natural gas is going . , inviting _ such as a therewas The Absence of fraternity crahc leadership united against the Republican amendment (eliminating annexing the West Bank of Mayor Frej
off on a tangent that makes no tionby -ongresssuchgsa in 1986. -hesabsenceotaterny GOP’s right wing. They were subjec t to the requirement for union wages on for “religious” reasons. One new set-
sense The Reagan administra- retreat from the concept 0 e- among epu icansenatorsWas browbeating from the leadership in an new highway construction) and traded tlement, Gilo, is built on land officially
tion needs to rethink its own control and the reimposition of reflected when an overwrought Gar extraordinarily plain-spoken Senate that for a roll call on a Democratic registered as the "Land of the Cross.”
tionneeds.toirethink,inown lower price ceilings. gratuitously.suggested.thatthewheeis Republican caucus. amendment (exempting people As one prominent Israeli intellectual
ambivalent policy toward natu Such a retreat would be no ought to be taken off the chair of polio The highly esteemed Sen. Paul earning less than $10,000 from the gas puts it, “Because of the failure of West-
ral gas price deresulatio , favor to consumers in the long victim as Laxalt, the president’s friend and he tax). Nor did the majority leader en- ern secularism, Begin has returned to
this topsy-turvy situation, the run, because it would lead IE croAKpOOM INCIDENT new general chairman of the Repubi dear himself to his rank-and-file when the leadership of just being a Jew.
best hope for stabilizing prices eyentually back to production , e‘ AR MNe Lsi; can Party, joined Baker in reading the he cast his own vote against the union- People are returning to religion."
may lie in speeding up the re- cutDacksrandishortages of/nat riot act-The recalcitratnts werrpaintod wagesamendment. But when youdigstili a little deeper.
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sgntralmofafaarggnpricesinai ing the omplk relationship Howard Bata will find conserrames “Vyearold Don Nickles was anvasdeagudsnensomevazptongasgn TAKE THE CASE at Yuval
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controls on oil prices, and said powers of the Federal Energy tax increases. to support his leader. tors - perhaps a majority - enter the man far more conservative than Prime
ne later wouia propose legis a- Regulatory Commission to sort The intent by Senate Republican new year prepared to oppose new tax Minister Begin. Ne’eman, a short, in-
tion to accelerate the decontrol out the equities of pricing elders - chiefly Baker, Finance Com- THE PRESSURE DID NOT sintimi increases even if their majority leader tense man who makes no bones about
of natural gas prices. The legis- , icies mittee Chairman Robert Dole and Bud- date the filibusterers but did win them wants them and their president lacks his intentions to enforce the Jews’
lation never came. The presi- p It WOn’t do to blame the ex- get Committee Chairman Pete some support. Sen. Jesse Helms took thewin to resist them. rights to land because of biblical
dent and his advisers were “ "inni ri, in p‘s nrices claims, nevertheless says clearly:
worried that a sudden upsurge t- . r-rrifitring by the || | • • | v, I • | | “I’m an agnostic. When I mention the
iacfnezsrscmpagstkbla industry. Hand-wringing doesnt pay bills eludes authoritative historical informa-
Anwn Le inflatinn rat) market in natural gas, Its pro- • • I / tion. When we mention the Bible, we
donthennauonrangor that duction and distribution is sub- mean that our claims are based not on
a mepmPvoui jectto a regulatory system that WASHINGTON - The Social Securi- Democratic propagandists try to hide included. The president is willing to promise but on the fact that the land
asPeenupingesnr-Wouin is supposed to operate in the ty system is hurtling toward bankrupt- the fact. 7 consider this, but the Democrats find it wasOurs.
not make much uilierence in public interest. When it allows cy. intolerable. Too many government “if you ask me whether international
what consumers will be Paying gas prices to rise in the face of This is a fact that the Democrats did BUT THESE CONSIDERATIONS workers vote, after all. law is important, I say it is not. I say
for natural gas. The schedule a gas surplus, and even to ex- their best to sweep under the carpet aside, there is a devastatingly serious The entire Social Security system that what is important is the fact that
called for the price to reach a ceed the price of imported oil, during the November elections. In- problem which no one wants to face, can be revamped so that it is run on an my ancestors prayed three times a day
par with the price of oil by 1985. Len tLe regulatory system stead, they ranged the country telling Unless revisions are made in the Social actuarially sound basis by the insur- toward Jerusalem."
The price already equals or —gchemor’nibe the voters falsely that the Reagan ad- Security system, it will run out of mon- ance companies. This would give Much of what we are seeing done in
surpasses the price of oil. needs to De .e0 or ---- -5 ministration wanted to cut or destroy ey. This means that all Social Security retirees larger benefits, but the Demo- the name of religion today is actually
Mees have behaved unpre- done away with. SocialSecurity. _ mu oppose it because the private acquisitive or ethnic nationalism. »
Today, the Democrats and the TV insurance companies would also bene- gion is being used for power, whether
pLm, CA1:.+ AFFer networks are screaming that a pro- prI mi EnANO fit. That thought is anathema to the in Iran, Lebanon or Jerusalem, just as
1 11 Oily QU VIC I UI lel gram to remove Social Security cheat- By AcopieyNewsservice liberal mind. Better bankruptcy for power is sometimes used for religion.
ers from the rolls is a Reagan adminis- _________Social Security than having it
If this proposal were to be tration plot to impoverish the aged. ■— reconstituted in a sound and satisfacto- OF COURSE, JUST AS in the time of
adopted, the Soviets would still That program, since TV commenta- recipients will have their checks cut ryway. Christ, there is genuine religiosity ev-
have an advantage in tors won’t tell you, was mandated by off. erywhere, in all the faiths. There are
intermediate-ranee missiles in an act of Congress and the Democrats President Reagan and the Republi- EXPERTSHAVE LABORED long simple good people leading the simple
Eirone Of 1 KO tn l and an edo, therein. Some $4 billion a year is going cans want something done about this, and mightily, coming up with other good life that Christ called people to,
nf 900 tn 0 in n‘nioden8, out in checks to those who claim The Democrats refuse to accept any of plans which would restore Social Secu- just as there are others who would use
oi t to - in memumlanee disabilities but do not qualify for the the solutions proposed by the adminis- rity in a relatively painless manner, religion for power. To differentiate is
missiles. benefits. Obviously, President Reagan tration. And having politically milked The Democrats won’t even look at really not that hard.
This is the way the Soviets is a hardhearted skinflint because (1) the situation for all it is worth, they them. After all, why give the Reagan
have kept the West on edge for he is doing what Congress ordered him refuse to come up with any solutions of administration credit for rescuing So-
the last 20 years - always to do, and because (2) he agrees that their own. For the sake of a few votes, cial Security? Better to let it sink and
talking about possible arms re- stealing money from Social Security they are willing to see Social Security make it an issue in the 1984 elections,
didtion but never agreeing to funds should not be tolerated. That collapse, with all the hardships it will Unfortunately, something must be
money comes out of your pocket, bring to America’s senior citizens. done now. But ask Speaker Thomas Collectors of intriguing monikers
any..poPsds."awyt. though the TV commentators and the The answers to the problem are "Tip” O’Neill about Social Security may wish to add to their lists that of a
fectively limit or reduce their these and to all of them — whether and you get an anti-Reagan diatribe. Detroit man named Marshal Arts. Al-
unprecedented arms buildup. A . • proposed by the administration or not Ask him what he plans to do, and when so, possibly, the New Orleans fellow
-Reprinted by permission of The St. Louis Globe UOSTIOnS -the Democrats say, “No!” the double-talk is sorted out, he will be named Chuck Upp.
Democratsaying that it’s none of his business.
THE SOCIAL SECURITY lax can be Let Mr. Reagan sweat it. The Republi- Falconers feed their hawks the heads
CnC OnSVers increased, although it takes an increas- cans, on the other hand, say to the of ducks.
ingly big bite out of the taxpayers’ Democrats, “It’s your baby. Anything
n . .... .. earnings Both the Reagan administra- we propose will be gunned down by a To get your bright child’s bubblegum
Q. Do any wives in this country habit- tion nd the Democrats oppose this. Democratic House." out of clothing, put said clothing in the
ually go to some other room out of sight Benerits can be reduced. The Demo- Perhaps the senior citizens who freezer overnight, then hit it a quick
of their husbands to get dressed in the crats and the president oppose this, too. voted against the Republicans because lick with a hammer. To get your bright
morning; , « Retirement age can be pushed ahead they believed the Democratic propa- child’s bubblegum off a sidewalk,
A. A few, a few; One in 25 goes to 68 Mr Reagan has said that ganda are having second thoughts. If spray it with Freon, then whack it with
elsewhere 10 put on her stockings. One this would help but the Democrats are they are worried about the future, they that hammer. If the bubblegum is in
in 50, likewise, to put on her bra. One in aj jt P‘ should. All they seem to be getting your bright child’s hair, give it some
100, also to put on her scanties. Such “Government employees, who do not from the Democrats is hand-wringing thought. Might rub it with peanut but-
perptercinfinsndntiontudzbsthotoyen contribute to Social Security, can be and rhetoric. That doesn’t pay the bills, ter, that works.
known whether these statistics hold for
women who leave the room when they
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the buyers are gullible enough to think •
it works, they’re innocent of suspicion,
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