The Sunday Constitution (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 4, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 23, 1981 Page: 4 of 68
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Ted Ralston
Managing Editor
Wm H Sullivan
Advertising Director
terior Committee chairman — an in-
ferred threat given national attention
this week by the Washington Post.
Watt has himself to blame for
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Donald S. Bentley
Treasurer
Stephen F Bentley
Secretary
" IF WE POUT GET THIS GRANT, A LOT OF
MICE ARE GONG TO HAVE TO STOP SMOKIN.
By ROWLAND EVANS
and ROBERTNOVAK
Field Newspaper Syndicate
paraphrase: "The Earth was put here
by the Lord for His people to subdue
undoubtedly can be counted in
the tens of millions of dollars.
pushed by Udall if he had to resist
hostile questioning condoned by the In-
in our opinion, this is the best
money that can be spent by the
published an article contending that
Watt agrees with this dubious biblical
difficulty of catching crooked
officials and their allies in the
Plugging such open loopholes
should bring an immediate end "RNA6E
to most of the stealing. Still, the
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This effectively blocked the would allow Memorial Hospital
proclaiming his belief in the second
coming, shared by millions of Ameri-
can Christians, during his early weeks
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Universal Press Syndicate
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in office. Wisely, he no longer discusses
religion. But that prevents any re-
sponse to the lunatic stereotype now
perpetuated by "Doonesbury."
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the money."
By JIM BISHOP
King Features Syndicate
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Memorial, which was complications can be
constructed 30 years ago, has anticipated. We know that Mr.
been enlarged twice and the Cartwright is the No. 1 enemy
hospital trust still owes about of public trusts and- has dealt
$5 million for the last expan- several crippling blows to in-
sion. Another expansion pro- dustrial trust developments in
gram is necessary to fill the the state. Chances of a quick,
growing medical needs of favorable ruling thus are slim.
Southwestern Oklahoma. Such What is equally damaging to
a program has been developed, the hospital project is the fact
The hospital trust has received that the Attorney General
a very good bid of about $16 could take several months to
go-ahead to the hospital trust, interests for failure to make
which operates the hospital for debt payments. If necessary,
the county. Mr. Tannery also we believe, the people would
has asked Attorney General vote modest annual levies to
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WASHINGTON — Portrayal of Inte-
rior Secretary James Watt as a reli-
gious fanatic intent on despoiling the
land, based on congressional testimony
taken out of context, has penetrated
political folklore so deeply that
“Doonesbury” now accepts it as fact.
In the Aug. 16 Sunday strip,
“Doonesbury’s” oil magnate, asked by
his wife whether Watt’s resource devel-
opment policy isn’t “very short-
sighted,” replies: “Hell, yes. But the
man believes Jesus is due any minute!
Who am I to say he’s wrong?” Indeed,
the slander that Watt favors pillaging
America because of Christ’s imminent
second coming is Washington’s conven-
tional wisdom.
That’s no accident. The well-financed
environmentalist lobby has marked
Jim Watt for destruction. Since his
environmental views are identical to
Ronald Reagan’s, the way to separate
them is ridicule. If Watt is transformed
from an intense conservative into a
madman, the environmentalist lobby
has hopes that the president’s advisers
will toss him overboard for Reagan’s
sake.
supply business makes it un-
likely that all of the waste and
corruption ever will be
stopped.
What makes the revelations
of such large-scale thefts so
disgusting is the fact that every
dollar stolen has resulted in
fewer paved roads and
improved bridges serving the
rural areas of Oklahoma.
Federal officials who are
waging the war against state
corruption have estimated as
many as 60 public officials
eventually will be exposed,
similar arrangement now ex- discourage pursuit of this goal,
ists on the current hospital it is unlikely that the people
THE SUNDAY CONSTITUTION
Published Evening* Monday Through Friday of Each Week
3rd and A Avenue, Lawton, Oklahoma
Bill F. Bentley Editor aid Publisher
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when the May issue of “Audubon1
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taxpayers. In the past 30 years,
the ripoff of the taxpayers in
such corrupt practices
“SOONER OR later,” one leading
environmentalist told us, “Ed Meese
will see this guy is hurting Reagan
politically and get rid of him.” In fact,
presidential counselor Edwin Meese III
and Ronald Reagan. Westerners who
have been fighting the same cause as
long as Watt, encourage him to be even
tougher in attacking the environ-
mentalist lobby. That’s why Watt s
enemies changed the topic from envi-
ronmental policy to the second coming.
their opening in his first days as secre-
tary at a Feb. 5 House Interior Com-
is that the Russians believe there is Libyan embassy staff from Washington mittee meeting. Democratic ReP
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million dollars more to the months will pass. Meantime, concerted Soviet policy to reassert its . without solving such underlying prob- Watt. What he actually answered was
cost. the hospital project will have power in the Middle East and the ques- Georgie Anne Geyer lems as the poison that homeless this: “Absolutely. That is the delicate
To finance the program, the gone down the drain and infla- tion of whether the Reagan administra- ‘ Palestinians inject into the entire situa- balance the secretary of the interior
hospital trust has arranged to tion will have substantially in- tion is moving deliberately to get rid of__-nvemessyndicote_________ tion _ and which the Soviets exploit so must have _ to be steward for the
issue $31 million in revenue creased the project’s costs in Libyan President Khadafy. ---- well. natural resources for this generation as
bonds, and assign the leasehold the future. 4 It isoften said these days that Presi- shooting was carried out by Ne Ar AIN thp Middle East has well as future generations.”
estatelas collateralcitibankcof Mr. Tannery may have had dentMuemrmarKbagafdeisbeaztdiybtt ’C ... this means, therefore, is decDred -iiiTI'XS Then, after a pause. Watt. uttered
New York would in etiect legitimate reasons attack American planes. This idea had that a new and extremely dangerous new American president on its own words that have haunted him. I do not
sign the note and share its AAA questioning the hospital trust S to come from his abundant Soviet ad- situation now exists in the area. terms — it always does, and unless and know how many future generations we
bond rating in order to gain intention of using the leasehold Vjsers Worse, it is a situation that the until these basic problems are solved, can count on before the Lord returns,
better interest rate on the as collateral for the $31 million Reagan administration, basking in its it always will. Whatever it is, we have to manage with
bonds. Also, the hospital trust it will have to borrow, even MOREOVER, this is only an exten- popularity, seems strangely unable to But there is still another crucial a skill to have the resources needed for
has arranged for short-term though this is standard banking sion of the new Soviet position in Syria. address. question. The administration has al- future generations.
financing at about 9.5 percent procedure. But his decision to The untold story in the bitter struggle The first mistake of the administra- ready, in El Salvador, followed an idea
interest in order to delay going invite Mr. Cartwright into the between Lebanon and the United States tion is its primitive, one-dimensional advocated by Henry Kissinger: to BY ANY FAIR interpretation, Watt
into lone-term financing where whole trust financing Question over Syrian missiles these last months policy of “hate the Russians.” The choose a battle in a place where we can was not saying that Christ’s imminent
int iongte rate now is much whle his intentions less than is that Syria’s Soviet advisers were, at Russians want, in effect, a condomini- win and throw all our troops and efforts coming made resource preservation
:the interest rate now is: much makes hisintentionsess than various points, actually urging the Syr- um with the U.S. in the Middle East, into that. unnecessary but, on the contrary, in-
higher. Hospital trustees y clear. It he were e y p ians to attack Israel. With the missiles Since in fact they cannot be kept out of The Reagan administration has, step ability to predict its occurrence makes
they have only a few days to portive of the hospital, as he and other new weaponry on the spot, the area, it would be far wiser to deal by step — from the ousting of the it all the more necessary for human
complete the financing or the claims, his office should be do- the Soviets had gauged that this was no with them on all levels — diplomatic, Libyan diplomats to frank offers of aid managers to protect the Earth. In any
contractor will withdraw his ing everything possible to help longer a no-win proposition. political, economic — to solve the prob- to Libya’s anti-Khadafy neighbors — eVent, there was no commotion at the
•bid. obtain financing rather than Behind this story lies a murky area lems there. made it clear that Libya is THE target hearings. Weaver merely told a long-
But there is a fly in the oint- throwing up large roadblocks which is only now beginning to clear. THE SECOND mistake has been in this area. Secretary of State winded biblical joke, “seeing (that) the
ment that may well have killed that apparently have killed the Before, Soviet policy in the Middle East constantly to throwout dares to the Alexander Haig has said privately, of secretary brought up the Lord.”
the entire project. District At- proposed expansion. was designed to keep the cauldron Soviets, on such things as international Khadafy, that he was “going to fix that Watt’s «I do not know
torney Dick Tannery, acting as What all parties, including boiling, but not to encourage it to over- terrorism, without apparent ly knowing littemanet,, that this is a fight we how many future generations, etc.”
legal counsel for the county Mr. Tannery, should remem at long-held policy has now hhero resnon real danger that we are really wanted? If so, the administra- was being widely rported ashisuan
commissioners who must ap- ber is the expansion and changed. Stdents of the Soviet Union now the response. tion is playing with fire in an area that swer to Weaver s originalguestion “
prove the program, ruled it is updating of Memorial Hospital saythe primary reason for this change The third mistake was to oust the all too easily ignites. witho utrep eating whatcamebefeor
illegal for the hospital trust to at the earliest possible date de- • after. The caricature was embroidered
mortgage the leasehold estate serves the highest priority.
without a vote of the people. A Present difficulties should not
and nursing staff for treatment in bringing the Attorney Gen-
when the need arises. eral into the local picture, other
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Hospital is vital to the Lawton- people. The Oklahoma Su-
Fort Sill community because it preme Court held several years
is the largest and most modern ago that such action was in fact |
facility in this region. Tens of legal. Mr. Tannery thinks the §
thousands of residents depend court may have changed its |
on the hospital and its medical mind.
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TEN YEARS before the attack on
Poland, a young German major
devised a third way. Heinz Guderian
called it “Blitzkrieg” (lightning war).
Guderian realized that, until the attack
on Poland, planes were used to bomb
enemy depots far behind the lines, in-
fantry was used to advance to the next
town, and tanks were used to exploit a
breakthrough.
He proposed to use them ।
simultaneously. Light Stuka bombers.
could shriek down as dive bombers on
enemy positions immediately in front,
to be followed at once by medium tanks
busting through the hole laden with
infantry clinging to their sides.
Poland met this terror with gallant
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troops of cavalry carrying pennants Marshall found himself glutted with their way to the hereafter.” There is
and banners. Von Blaskowitz’ southern soldiers. There weren’t enough convoys nothing in Watt’s often cantankerous
™e MILITARY tour of Secretary of r-sx 2X.X?1 rhetorc that suggests this.
Defense Caspar Weinburger proved American military observers sent keep them; the Army was dangerously
that his worst fears are true: America detailedreports back to our generals. close to robbing the manpower pool WHEN WATT appeared before the
. . - . . . , „ is not prepared. This should not alarm reriweAT ,L1 which turned out the new planes and House Interior Committee July 16, Jim
Jan Cartwright for an opinion keep the hospital financially him. We never are. No matter how GEN. Leslie mlnaik sa-nay tanks and rifles. Weaver was ready with more than bib-
on the legality of mortgaging sound and under local control many hundreds of billions we spend on tanks should not fight other tanks. They Keighley says that, on July 1, 1943, lical jokes. He misquoted Watt as tell-
the leasehold estate, plus where it could continue to pro- weapons and manpower, when war should decimate infantry While Ger- the generals decided to hold the Ameri- ing the committee in February “the
whether it is legal at all for vide vital medical services for comes it takes a year for this nation to many was churning out tnousanas or can Army to a total of 90 divisions Lord could come at any time,” then
public trusts to issue revenue Southwest Oklahoma. gird for battle- Aantheatngsath.fantntttiefones (about 1,400,000 men.) By this time it asked: "Are you approaching the envi-
P We think of war as a horror which Army had a total or 404 ue ones, was also frantically designing heavier ronmental issue of surface mining ...
occurs, now and then, to other nations, mostly armed with machine guns. Our tanks with cannon. (with) ‘Why worry, the Lord's return is
Except for the Civil War, the thunder airfore -.under Army command - America was almost ready to fight imminent?”'
and furyroesnotnrain onmournhomes; S£S,,me. « bad to Blitzkrieg style. After the first year of Stunned, Watt replied he had taken
r«dal»!t”soXl“htrX we armored divisions while Hitler was seasoning, oursoldiiers deve loped a an oath to enforce all laws, the surface
Some people are lamenting charged and removed from are not°peace-ioving, then we are at forming armored brigades. The Ger- " withitestorwaik Mining Act included. Weayer insisted
thp fact that as much as $1 their posts. This is the worst least war-hating mans were so pleased with their weap- ay.tob -nuydesein the on determining whether the imminent
million may be spent in the scandal in Oklahoma’s history To remain at peace - to guarantee it ons and theirdedicationnto victory shat Army consisted of 8,000,000 men and returnaofthesrwrdtsppavingeanhain19
next few months for special and the public must insist on - we must be as strong as any con- they inen e drtil lery chassis to repel women, a remarkable achievement, religious freedom is guaranteed under
elections to fill vacancies getting a new and better deal glomerate of enemies and as mounted on^open tank chases to repe WHAT SECRETARY Weinberger the First Amendment." When Weaver
created by the resignations of through statutory changes and dedicated Secretary Weinberger has on -he day before peari Harbor, the would like to achieve these days is five persisted, Republicans raised a point of
county commissioners in Okla- closer scrutiny of buying prac- 1 not the readiness to fight U.S. Army said it would need 200 divi- divisions (75,000 men) in a constant order. "This is not a hearing on reli-
homa. More than a score of tices by state auditors and the weapons eaa s to g t. sions to annihilate the enemy’s will to stateof efficiency, mobility and dedica- gion," shouted Rep. Donald Young of
vacancies already have been district attorneys offices. IN WORLD WAR II S.L.A. Marshall, resist. This comes to about 3,000,000 tion. It seems like a small goal for a Alaska.
created as the result of com- Meanwhile, the opportunity the combat historian, found that less men. We had 36 divisions. General mighty nationbutit.isnt western
missioners pleading guilty to to elect new commissioners to than 30 percent of American soldiers at George C. Marshall, in the year after rsaw will have tn he COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN Morris
felony charges of accepting replace those guilty of wrong- the front fired one shot at an enemy. He Pearl Harbor, managed to create 37 u rope, th05, ew men winn ae Udall told us he thought Weaver's com-
kickbacks from salesmen who doing is greatly appreciated by thought the figure was closer to 15 more divisions. ments "in poor taste” and that “my
peddle supplies and equipment the public, and the cost of the percent. reached the and semhautomaUcs, to instinct” was to uphold Youngs point
used in the construction and elections is well worth getting a if our soldiers weren't ready to kill, haAEspontFAAndPyet, according to Nobody wants war. The best way to oforder. Butsince Wattfirstraisedshe
maintenance of rural roads, new deal. miaassurrdnthateauy gsneralsendada Rsseil Weigley’s magnificent insure against it is to be ready for it - relgi UdaI tier pJjvately apologfzed
time, from 1939 to December 1941, to “Eisenhower s Lieutenants, General anywhere... to Watt. But on July 21, Watt informed
gear up for World War II — to observe re IA a ARIAC rrAri g Udall he would not have time for the
new field tactics, the combined use of LUNNK3IN • a •VFLL massive Central Arizona water project
weapons by nations already at war.
The single, solitary aim of war is to
annihilate the enemy’s will to resist.
This is usually achieved by attacking
his main force in one of two ways:
either frontally, en masse, or by ma-
g neuver and mobility, envelopment and
3 double envelopment.
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