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neer Tom Aitken was presented
an American Petroleum Insti-
tute award in Dallas Thursday
for “meritorious service” in the
oil industry’s public infor-
mation and service program.
Aitken, a Sun Oil Co. petroleum
engineer, won recognition for
his accomplishments as Oil In-
formation Committee vice
chairman of the 14-county
North Central Texas area for
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The stage was set Thursday
night, an overflow crowd
packed in the Era High School
gym and the curtain went up on
the District 37-B basketball
showdown of the 1958 season.
One of the “actors” failed to
live up to expectations, how-
ever. Era’s fine Hornets hur-
ried and scurried to completely
maul what was supposed to be a
sound, strong Alvord Bulldog
team by a one-sided 63-36 mar-
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While the superpowers are
negotiating nuclear arms re-
duction treaties, biological
and chemical weapons are
proliferating to the Third
World. They present a fright-
ening threat not only to re-
gional conflicts but to man-
kind.
“I’m more worried about a
terrorist using a chemical or
biological weapon than a suit-
case nuclear bomb,” a senior
State Department official re-
cently said.
Chemical or biological
weapons are being developed
by Iraq, Iran, Libya and
Syria, U.S. officials say. All
have been state sponsors of
terrorism.
Fifty-six kilometers south-
east of Baghdad, the Iraqi
government has built a bio-
logical weapon laboratory,
says Jane’s Defense Weekly.
“It is not clear where they
are receiving their scientific
and engineering support
from,” says the British maga-
zine. “The fact that it is a
germ warfare facility has
been obtained from the archi-
tecture of the building.”
It may be unclear where
Iraq is getting its support for
germ-warfare research. But
it is clear as a petri dish that
the United States is increas-
ingly supporting Iraq in its
war against Iran.
In December, Iran’s Prime
Minister Hussein Musavi an-
nounced Iran is manufactur-
ing “sophisticated offensive
chemical weapons.” Use of
such weapons in war is
banned under a 1925 Geneva
treaty. Iran pledged not to
use them unless Iraq uses
chemical weapons, as it has
been accused of doing in the
past. But such pledges are
useless unless the treaty is
enforced.
The ideology of Ayatollah
Khomeini may be virulent to
so-called “moderate” regimes
in the Mideast. But chemical
or biological warfare used by
Iran or Iraq could spread be-
yond their borders.
Libya also is believed to be
building a chemical weapons
facility, Reagan administra-
tion officials say.
One would think that the
United States, inflicted with
an AIDS epidemic resulting
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A resolution favoring a
county bond issue to partially
finance construction of a new
hospital in Gainesville has been
passed by the Cooke County
Medical Society. The report
submitted by the Society states
that “after one year of ineffec-
tual controversy concerning
the need for hospital facilities
in Cooke County, the Medical
Society sent a delegation to
Austin to confer with Dr. D.F.
Winn of the Texas State De-
partment of Health to obtain
information which would en-
able the local group to adopt a
definite course of action. ”
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At the movies: Alan Freed
starring in “Mister Rock and
Roll,” with co-stars Frankie
Lymon, Chuck Berry, LaVern
Baker, Clyde McPhatter.
Brook Benton, Little Richard,
Ferlin Husky, The Moonglows
and Shaye Cogan. Also play-
ing: the uncensored, wild and
wicked, “Motorcycle Gang,”
starring, Anne Weyland, Steve
Terrill, John Ashley and Carl
Switzer.
“ Jimmy 'The Greek- said THAT?! What's he tryingto do, run for
governor of Arizona?! ”
learned of the work being done by explained: It has become an estab-
the Dutch, decided to try it. lished phenomenon of public life
He inoculated 14 diseased elm that someone can generate an at-
trees on campus — but — horror of mosphere of fearful controversy
horrors — he neglected first to seek around some aspect of modern
permission from our government’s technology — whether genetic en-
EnvironmentalProtection Agency. gineering, nuclear energy, what-
And said agency has strict guide- ever — and politicans and
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The president asks for more arms back.” Thus goes the Arias plan for off the airplane into a Nacaraguan got Castro for a quarter-century (so in a country of less than 4 million Ortega. But the revolution will be
with which to aid the contras. The peace in Central America. jail where he was grilled for seven far). Let down the contras, and people, when the Great Bear in o-v-e-r-.
Arias countries complained that Every time Daniel Ortega makes hours. we’ll have Ortega for a quarter- , Moscow could, with the flick of a Gorbachev has the alternative of
Honduras isn’t meeting its ob- a concession, it is indeed a setback. Several weeks ago Mrs. Jeane century. And all that this would
ligations, that it is providing sane- Here is how it works: On MOnday, Kirkpatrick returned from a visit to mean throughout Central America
tuary for the contra fighters. The Ortega can, with appropriate Nicaragua, a country she know bet- andMexico.
Soviet bloc continues without any drumrolling, release seven political ter than Christopher Dodd knows One wonders: What does Congress
apparent interruption to supply its prisoners. This is done in full view of Connecticut. And she reported that want from the executive? Nota
little satellite country, mostly from CBS, ABC and NBC. The release of for the very first time there was whole lot. The Democratic con-
shipping on the west coast, but also seven Nicaraguan prisoners is the actually “a chance.” A chance that gressmen want re-election, and
with supplies that come in by air equivalent of locking seven U.S. a Markist-Leninist country might would like a Democratic executive
from Cuba. The Democratic whip Democrats up in fantasy land fail to lock that final prison door on and more cousins on the payroll.
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down inevitably it would have to do, would get in his way the next time
since Cuba under Castro has run he parades into summit con-,
short of sugar and cigars and can ferences to charm the ladies and the
from nature, would be mov-
ing swiftly and decisively to
halt the proliferation of germ
warfare technology. But our
fixation on nuclear arms
talks and containment of both
the Soviet Union and the Ira-
nian Islamic Revolution has
blinded us to a threat to our
health and security.
A Star Wars defense would
be useless against chemical
or germ warfare. So would
conventional and nuclear
arms. Once germs are
unleashed, medicine would
probably be ineffective to
halt its spread.
One crucial way to defend
ourselves from germ warfare
is to prevent technology from
proliferating. In 1972 the
United States signed a bacter-
iological and toxin weapons
convention. It banned the de-
velopment, production, stock-
piling, possession and trans-
fer of biological agents, other
than for peaceful purposes.
But it has no enforcement
mechanism.
The Geneva Treaty for
chemical weapons signed
after World War I bans the
use of chemical weapons in
war, but not their production
or stockpiling. Chemical
weapons have grown far
more lethal than mustard gas
used in that trench war.
In 1984, Vice President
Bush proposed a treaty in Ge-
neva to ban development,
production, use, transfer and
stockpiling of chemical weap-
ons. Negotiations are continu-
ing both with the Soviet
Union and other nations.
They should be speeded up.
Indeed, nuclear arms re-
ductions may be increasing
the threat of a chemical arms
race. In an attempt to reas-
sure our European allies
about the U.S.-Soviet nuclear
arms treaty, President
Reagan said on Dec. 24 that
the United States intends to
modernize its own chemical
weapons in Europe. That is
anything but reassuring.
Nuclear arms negotiations
are a top U.S. priority. Nego-
tiating and enforcing chemi-
cal and biological weapons
treaties should be a close sec-
ond.
A virulent germ can be as
lethal as a missile.
says: “The White House does not where communist dictators are its people. But, she warned, what- Who else makes a difference?
want peace in Central America, seen as little angles, playing pad- ever hope there is of this happening, Mikhail Gorbachev makes a
They want a military victory at all dycake with the kids. It is not fre- there is one certain way to guaran- difference. And he wants a great
costs. They don’t care about quently noticed that the seven tee that it will not happen, and that deal. Everything from disar-
anything else.” (Rep. Tony Coelho prisioners released on Monday are is to impoverish the only force in mament treaties to cultural ex-
neglects to account for the peace replaced by five other prisioners Nicaragua that has stalled the changes to economic aid. Linkage
that follows some military vic- taken on Tuesday. Sandinistas. has never been a discredited con-
tories.) Sen. Christopher Dodd con- The opposition political leaders, Imagine if the contras had never cept; rather, it has been adriotly or
tributes, “Every time the returning to Nicaragua to taste the materialized as a fighting force in maladroitly handeled. Why should
Sandinistas make a concessiom, the newfound freedom, find the experi- Nicaragua. They are our Bay of we be wasting ourselves in depair
White House sees it as a major set- ence jarring. One of them stepped Pigs. We let the Cubans down and over a situation in Central America
Professor Stroebel's Pyrric victory
The streets of our suburban lines governing genetic engineer- bureaucrats tremble.”
Chicago village once were lined ing. Thus many American scientist
with magnificent elm trees, tower- when word got out what are taking their work to other coun-
ing most of a hundred feet into the Professor Strobel had done, the sky tries — Japan,.rWest Germany,
sky, arching over the street until fell down. Switzerland - where they are less
their branches met. Each street. His own colleagues, the Montana hampered by scardy-cats and bu-
any time of year — was a splendid state biosafety committee, rec- reaucrats
canopied nave ommended uprooting and burning But something most extra-
Then came the beetle and the the trees. , ordinary has happened
Dutch elm diseases and orders to Self-appointed custodians of the The National AC-demy of
cut down every tree that displayed environment screamed about Sciences re-researched the issue
symptoms — until eventually vir- “wanton violations of federal and found “no hazards” in what
tually all were cut down. rules, ” and they filed petitions with Strobel was doing.
They’ve since been replaced with three federal agencies. The National Institutes of Health
scrawny maples, but our village The Industrial Biotechnology decided that strobel’sexperiments
will never be the same. Assn, clamored for “the EPA to “had not violated guidelines ”
In the Netherlands they have de- throw the book at Gary Strobel.” And now the EPA has decided
veloped a strategy for curing the In August of last year the EPA that its own guidelines should allow
disease rather than cutting down formally reprimanded the Montana experiments that have been cleared
thetrees. State scientist. On Sept. 2 he cut, by private biosafetv committees
Itinvolves inoculating the trees down his 14 trees and burned them At long ast,the scientific omm-
with a genetically altered bac- in a university incinerator. unity is daring to confront and to
terium. . The Netherlands scientists had overrule the self-appointed watch-
University Avenue, leading into demonstrated - and indeed and dogs who know only how to bark at
Montana State University, has long rational agronomist knew - that anything they cannot understand,
been lined with giant elms. Pro- the injected bacterium posed no
fessor Gary Strobel, danger. .
biotechnologist at that universtiy, But as The Wall Street Journal
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for use in Nicaragua without some is a good idea. Maybe Sen. Daniel
help from behind the Iron Curtain. Inouye, that bastion of rectitude,
Put it to Gorbachev: To prove could sneak it into the next $600 bil-
-----History today-----
By The Associated Press the Northwest Territories.
Today is Tuesday, Jan. 26 the Five years ago: Paui “Bear?
26thday of 1988. There are340 Bryant, one of the winningest
eftin the year... .... coaches in college football history,
Today s highlight in history: diedinTuscaloosa,Ala.,atage69.
On Jan. 26, 1802, Congress passed Oneyearago: President Reagan
an act callingfora library to be issued a statement condemning the
established within the U.S. Capitol, kidnappings of three Americans
The collection would become a fore- and an Indian-born U.S. resident in
runner ofthe Library of Congress. west Beirut two days earlier, but
On this date: also noting the U.S had repeatedly
In 1979, former Vice President warned Americans to get out of
Nelson A. Rockefeller died in New Lebanon.
York at the age of 70. Today’s birthdays: Actor Paul
In 1982, President Reagan de- Newman is 63. Singer Eartha Kitt is
livered his first State of the Union 60. Movie director Roger Vadim is
address, in which he asked Con- 60. Cartoonist Jules Feiffer is 59.
gress to join him in transferring $47 Sportscaster-actor Bob Uecker is
billion worth of social programs to 53. Activist Angela Davis is 44.
state and local governments. Movie critic Gene Siskel is 42.
In 1986, the Chicago Bears de- Hockey star Wayne Gretzky is 27.
feated the New England Patriots, Thought for today: “If the egotist
46-10, to win Super Bowl XX at the is weak, his egotism is worthless. If
Superdome in New Orleans. the egotist is strong, acute, full of
Ten years ago: Officials announ- distinctive character, his egotism is
ced that a U.S.-Canadian search precious, and remains a possession
team had detected a source of radi- of the race.” — Alexander Smith,
ation probably caused by the re- Scottish poet and essayist
mains of a fallen Soviet satellite in (1830-1867).
5 © 1988 by NEA. Inc.,- /- .
"Oh, yeah? Well, I’ve got news for you, bud-
dy! MY students know less about geography
than YOUR students. 1‘
that things are going to be different lion bill that goes through: a hidden
under the new regime, you can be- subsidy to finance a delegation of
gin a modest little retrenchment in Democrats to travel first to Mana-
Central America. As of today, in- gua for a tour, then to Moscow, to
struct your satellites to stop Oper- confer with Gorbachev, then to C-
ation Sandinista. No more military SPAN to report their findings to the
shipments, no more fuel. We’ll go people.
along with the face-saving necessi- Mr. Reagan cannot afford to lose
ties. We’ll have an election, and this one. Neither can the people of
maybe dig up a minor portfolio for Nicaragua.
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