El Paso Herald-Post from El Paso, Texas • 12

1 Give Light And The People Will Find Their Own Way 'Hi Folks! It's a Brand New Ball In Old El Paso El Paso Herald-Post A SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWSPAPER ROBERT LEE Editor Mills ovenue and Kansas street Phone $32 INI SECTION PAGE 2 Monday July 17 1972 The Connally Charge FIFTY YEARS AGO From tlio HoroW of July lUf22 Approximately 300 acres of land which now includes -the business district of Elpaso sold in 1797 for $80 according to records in the hands ST Herbert Oppenheimer attorney The sale was made by the supreme government of the State of Chihuahua to one Juan Ponce de Leon Arthur Horn candidate for justice of the peace in the place now held by Clark Wright spends his days campaigning and his nights studying law he said TWENTY FIVE From ttio HoroM-Post Of JulyvA7 1947 Officials of the Vgprans Unity Club fortified -with a petition bearing 4525 today appealed je City Council for application of municipal building ancQlgalth regulations in South EkPaso The petition was preselfied to the Council by Joe president Germany Hotbed of Spying waterand sr valley Lower A survey of sewage needs of areas between Ysleta Clint is being made by tlje El Paso County Water Control and Improvement DistrictNo 1 Fred Bunsen president said today A scant two days after George McGovern won the Democratic presidential nomination the campaign got under way on a low level The dubious credit for such a start belongs to John B' Connally the Texas Democrat who until re- cently was President Treasury Secretary After a three-hour session with' Nixon and standing in his house in San Clemente Calif Connally charged: That McGovern through bis Vietnam policy "sabotages the efforts of this Administration and of the peace negotiators to try to bring the war tq an end on a negotiated In point of fact the so-called Paris "peace have been going on since May 1968 Nixon has been in overall charge of the UJS delegation at 150 plenary sessions since' Jan 29 1969 During this period his agent extraordinary Dr Kissinger held 13 secret meeting with ranking man on the scene Out of all these negotiations and meetings has pome po real progress toward peace This has been frequently and publicly stated by Nixon and Kissinger They laid the blame on intransigence ambition and demands that the United States decapitate the Soutty Vietnamese government Now Connally asks the public to believe that the trouble is point seems to be tht the possibility of McGovern being elected President influences Hanoi to delay peace in hopes of having the UiL pull out with no conditions imposed on the North But this hardly explains the past four years pf fruitless negotiation true of course that Vietnam policy is more favorable to North Vietnam than He would stop bombing the North on inauguration day pull out all Americans within 90 days and not concern himself with what hap- pened to the South Vietnamese The President on the other hand wants a cease-fire and a guaranteed return of American prisoners before withdrawal He would also try to give the Saigon regime a fighting chance to survive On several occasions this newspaper has disagreed with Vietnam stand- But there is no reason why he should not as Connally seems to imply argue bis position One of the strengths of democracy is its opportunity for clear-cut choice There are sharp differences between the McGovern and Nixon Vietnam policies and during the campaign America' is entitled to a thorough rational debate on them so it can epme to an intelligent decision We dislike loaded words like sabotage with' their imputation of unpatriotism and hope remark will not' set the tone for the campaign The Fence By DR CONNER Chess champion Bobby Fischer made as many headlines as did the Democrats last week He raised all kinds of fuss about his big match in Iceland forfeiting his second game with his Russian opponent because he was upset by the presence of TV cameras By contrast every Democratic delegate meeting at Miami Beach was mighty anxious to get his mug on camera The difference was that everyone knew where Fischer was while the delegates were anxious to prove to the folks back home that they really were the convention hall rather than out on the beach with a blonde TEN YEARS AGO From Itw HoroM-Post of July 1M2 Mayor Seitsinger has started action intended to merge the City and County into a caasoli-dated municipality thaCRouId save the taxpayers an estimated $2 million yearly He has asked County Judge Bob Schulte to initiate the merger movement by naming A City-County Merger CommjJJef to push the proposal to conclusion The water level in a key observation well in thq3Tyeco Basin main source eff El underground water supply has reached the lowest point in history The well is located hear Ft Bliss Registration records 3or the second semester at Texas Western summer school toppled today as a total of 2020 students signed up for clashes It was a new record for-the second day of the Second semester Total at thiQfame time last year was 1672 By HENRY TAYLOR BONN New West German Military Intelligence Service Director Brig Gen Paul Albert Scherer states that 25000 Communist agents now besiege this country dedicated to wrecking the NATO alliance He finds West Germany today a Njbelun-1 genland shroud-ed in the cover-ing mist of conspiracy General words Tayler have an authenticity that generates its own power Speaking in slow measured tones and relying frequently on the documentation of the West German Bun-desnachrictendienst (B D) counterespionage apparatus he confirmed the French SDECE findings I described from Paris on July 10 General Scherer coupled his revelation with the recent Istanbul conviction of a NATO spy Nahit Imre for relaying military secrets in Brussels to Rumanian and Yugoslav agents at the NATO headquarters there These included 20 NATO film containers found by the BND in briefcase He states that as a result many NATO codes were changed and NATO communications put in turmoil The NATO top-secret security clearance is known as COSMIC for Coordination of Security Measures in the International Command Money is to espionage what gasoline is to a motor car A NATO financial expert Imre held a COSMIC clearance GENERAL SCHERER gives no estimate of Red agent infil Nazi party members still alive in West Germany Regarding former Nazis and East Germany General Scherer estimates that there are today at least 400 hard-core ex-Nazis in the East German government including General Willi Stoph the Prime Minister no less General Scherer finds that the Soviets will frequently trick their own agents here by telling them they will place large sums for them in escrow in Moscow Then the apparatus will liquidate them at the end of a mission for knowing too much the Red messengers for example sometimes learn too much from the messages they carry or they carry messages some superiors would rather not have delivered GENERAL SCHERER finds that East German espionage chiefs in turn frequently cast their own most knowing agents into a special prison at Hauer-furth about 10 miles from the West German border escape-proof surrounded by thousands of tree stumps and by mines set in a bog to die or to be executed there hv their own superiors General Scherer reveals that the BND investigated 31000 reports of espionage activity against NATO and this country in 1971 and calls about 5000 of these "genuine threats to He estimates that three-fourths of all this Red espionage last year was aimed as currently at military security targets with the main targets the NATO armed forces and the West German Defense Ministry fully as heavily infiltrated as the worried French SDECE counterespionage headquarters outlined to me in Paris tration into NATO as a whole but estimates that of the 25000 now active in West Germany 12000 are in West Berlin alone He asserts that large number of spies come in from the Soviet Union Poland and Czechoslovakia but that are East The East German government admits that 25000 East Germans have escaped to the West in the 10 years since the Communists put up the Berlin wall But they do not say how many more tried and failed Nor do they say how many were Red agents purposely put through for espionage They practice their technique of or inundation If one Red agent is caught or disappears he Is replaced by four or five With the wartime collapse of Germany the Gestapo files were moved from Berlin to the Saz- burg area and scattered through the Styrian lakes and Tyrolian Salzhammergut regions The Nazis put the files in watertight chests along with millions of German counterfeit British pounds and lowered them into hiding in such places Lake Toplitz SEVEN YEARS LATER two British agents were murdered in search of these and left on the crags above the lake before the first find And five years ago Soviet agents located similar Gestapo files in Czechoslavakian lakes by large-scale diving and dredging operations Using these Gestapo lists for blackmail the Reds enlisted numerous former Gestapo agents for Red espionage and planted them under caver throughout West Germany There are five million former Confused Consumerism TODAY'S SPANISH LESSON Wltoro hovo you been? DONDE AH ESTADOT (Dotwvdeh oh-oha-tah-doti?) Didn't you sto mo on TV? NO ME MIRO EN TELEVISION? (No mah meo-roft aim teh-leh-vee-oeo-ehn?) 2iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiimiiiiii(tmiiim another bureaucratic overlay If this proposed agency arises from a need as Sen Abraham Ribicoff puts it police the departments and one may justifiably inquire who or what is to Before it invents any new agencies Congress at least should abolish old agencies if they doing their jobs One aim of the consumer movement after all should be to protect the taxpayer against waste and duplication in Washington That way he might haye a few extra dollars to spend on he services he really needs Thinking Out Loud No Humor One pf the first tasks to confront Congress when it reconvenes later this month will be to hack its way out of the consumer legislation jungle So many consumer bills are popping in and out of the House and Senate that consumer protectionism is fast becoming consumer con-f unionism The consumer protection agency approved last year by the House has no apparent connection with the Food Drug and Consumer Product Agency approved last month by the Senate How either of these would relate to the production safety commission now under consideration in the House is a mystery Nor is it clear how the House version of the Senate bill or the Senate version of the House bill would affect the existing Food and Drug Administration The only sure thing is that whatever happens will cost the taxpayers money For several years now there has been a campaign afoot spurred by Ralph Nader and others to create an independent consumer protection agency at the federal level The campaign might have some merit if it were aimed at combining the functions of the dozen or more federal agencies already the consumer But as Yale law professor Ralph Winter Jr points out: mind boggles at the argument that the failure of regulation in the past calls for imposing yet It Was Humphrey's Last Stand Sometimes we feel that the the Russians have are not as frightening as the sense of humor they have Humor in our opinion is an essential lubricant of human relations on the international no less than the personal level If the Soviet government had even the most rudimentary sense of humor it could never have allowed its Tass News Agency to distribute recently a report on an official inquiry into the amount of political dissent which currently exists in the Soviet Union Tass reported with great earnestness that the inquiry showed Russia has only three political dissidents They are Tass said "a lunatic who is locked up in an asylum and two very old began to believe he was dogged by ill fortune It was a conviction which grew with time and nearly engulfed him at the end It was his poor luck to make his initial try against the late glamorous John Kennedy By mid-May that year Kennedy had crushed him in West Virginia and he was out of the race TWO MONTHS earlier on a brutally cold morning in Wisconsin I first saw him give way to that feeling of being dogged by fate He thought he was the victim of an unfair news story He was enraged He muttered for hours about the poor South Dakota boy running against the wealthy lionized Kennedys got is drug he said He really was never his best self again in that 1960 campaign His anger trigged some demagogic impulse and he often spoke recklessly in the fruitless day ahead Once beaten he shook off that mood The Kennedys helped by showing him warm compassion the night of his West Virginia defeat Thereafter his course was up again He advanced to authority in the Senate and fought more good fights His self-confessed flaws were still there He tasked too much proposed too much claimed too much must be something in my he said Then in 1964 with Kennedy gone and Lyndon Johnson president his new chance for the presidency took shape It came to the full in 1968 when he won the Democratic nomination YET ONCE MORE fate burdened Humphrey He was linked tightly that time to an unpopular Johnson and a controversial war- Emerging from the bitterness of Chicago he battled valiantly but lost narrowly tQ Richard Nixon It was that feeling of having been done in by the fates that led him to try in 1972 He would not believe his time was past Thinking himself free of old burdens he was sure he could win and believed he had earned victory In December 1971 he told me is my Here in Miami Beach half a year later he sadly saw that it Berry's World McGovern's Underdog Role Could Win Sympathy Vote By BRUCE BIOSSAT MIAMI BEACH (NEA) Thirteen years ago I sat with Hubert Humphrey one evening in a New York hotel room as he gazed eagerly upon the prospect of the presidency for the first time He would not admit to powerful ambition He said he was being propelled toward the high quest by liberal friends They were investing him hope born brated eight-hour Kremlin talk with then Soviet Premier Khrushchev in that spring of 1959 The talk caught the attention On a steamy July 11 in Miami Beach that long long quest finally flickered out With a sad face and a tear Humphrey spoke the words of withdrawal from the 1972 presidential race There will never be another try His thanks to friends for their loyalty "these many had the sound of true finality HIS LAST moments on the big stage had the grace and dignity that unhappily were missing so often in recent days as he was making his desperate climactic lunge for the office that had eluded him for almost a decade and a half I am just one among many reporters who saw Hubert through the whole course We all liked him at personal range He was decent genuinely committed to his causes zestful and funny Since his purposes were high and his labors prodigious Humphrey by I960 had come to feel he was fit for the White House But almost from those first steps on that first mile he riimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiqgjmiK Baffle Rages Over Ancient Greece EDITOR: Olen Grant persists upon inflicting TOL SSaders with his comparisons of the United States and ancient "Athens (TOL July 12) Analysis by analogy is perfectly valid Sit the analogy must be appropriate to the problem at hand I have questioned the appropriateness of the United-Ctates-Athens analogy previously and I continue to do so In aSSltion Mr Grant hqs conveniently neglected to include certaAfacts pertenent to his analysis The likening of the USgR to Sparta is I feel aSTover-simplification But the real bone of contention is the' United States republic to the Athenian city-state analogy Mr contentions: (1) Athens and the United States went from to democratic governments from agrarian to commerciaCstates a great increase in personal as well as national wealth Both were open and more or less free societies in search of the wealth and material easy (2) Government in Athens did not attract men of reputation and ability their ideal was not efficiency in government but pure unadulterated (3) The Pelopennesian War (Athens vs Sparta) was the direct cause of moral degradation Corrections and the other half of the truth: (1) Athens and the United States did evolve from monarchies to democracies although Athenian democracy was not the same as what is now understood by democracy But at no time did Athens become a commercial state The Athenians hfld farming in high esteem and for them nobility was of more import than money Athens was not an open society a fact I have pointed out in a previous letter Citizenship was sharply restricted whereas the ideal of the United States is universal suffrage (2) That men of reputation and ability were not attracted to office is a remarkable charge Certainly Pericles would contest it as would Cleisthenes Demosthenes PisSEratus Solon and Themistocles And of course universal suffrdgfe was not an ideal of Athenian democracy (3) Whatever degradation the Athenians suffered was from the Spartan conquest true But as Mr Grant fails to iflgntion they lost because of a plague that consumed one-quaater of population along with their general Pericles although Sparta did win the campaign they eventua lost Greece Through their harsh rule all Greece revolt and soundly defeated the Spartans Classical Athens is dead and gone yet I cannot understand why Mr Grant deplores its ideals This was a people that reached a cultural peak surrounded by barbarians but knew Tiow to make war When Xerxes called upon Athens to surrender after the fall of Thermopylae in 480 BC the population abqpdoned everything and took to the battle I hope we would do as well under similar Hernandez Jr PO Box' 354 Fabens Wants Better Zoo Supervision EDITOR: Something has to be done about the situation at the El Paso City Zoo Hie death of Rajah our only tiger shows the lack of responsibility of our zoo officials Incompetence of their employees destroyed one of the finest and most baautiful animals El Paso has ever acquired It seems that the dbath of an animal is almost a weekly occurance at our zoo This gross carelessness is despicable I wonder who does the hiring of these people and what qualifications if any are necessary? Certainly an applicant is carefully screened as to prior experience with animals Does the zoo offer training of any kind once these people become employees? Or does our City Council fcpl the njoney should be spent somewhere else? If the care of our animals means so little to our City why maintain a zoo at all? I personally am ashamed of our zoo It is cramped and crowded and for this reason unhealthy Since our City Administration chooses to ignore this condition I feel it to be the responsibility of the citizens of El Paso to act Zoos are for the enjoyment 6f both adults and children But who enjoys looking at an empty cage? Rajah brought our city much happiness and beauty His life will not soon be forgotten Nor will his death Christine Glore 4300 Pershing TO OUR CONTRIBUTORS: Because some letters to' TOL have carried fictitious signatures and fictitious addresses we ask that all letters to Thinking Out Loud carry the telephone number so that we may verity them in case of jfoubt about their origin Editor Humphrey to the respectable center? The answer is here in that in the convention which looked like the cast of they were as alien as a tribe out of the jungle The new forces pushing way into the political process are a thousand leagues away from the old guard whose topmost barricade here is manned by the intractable figure of George Meany presiding the power and the money bags of the AFL-CIO Despite all the pushing and prodding frnn the federal government building trades he began in the union have hardly breached their racist barriers Apprenticeships for blacks and chicanos are scarce THE SYSTEM OF statewide primaries that cast up McGovern is mad bound to produce accidents and sorry mishaps But after al McGovern did get 5305218 votes with his total in New York omitted since New York is apparently still unable to come up with a figure Humphrey was close with 5245461: George Wallace had 3617282 and Muskie 1875973 If nothing else that shows how deep are the divisions in the party This may be a revolution whose time has come In view of the frozen structure of the economy and the political system it may be too ate for a peaceful change in response to the newcomers who have moved into the dominating position in the Democratic party Or more likely it may be too far in advance of the great troubled uncertain volatile mass The doomsayers can be proved right in Mni-prpbAr T' prtHs nrohahlv with them But given the nature of the times the swift upward and downward movements of the barometer anything can happen and in that classic phrase it probably will By MARQUIS CHILDS MIAMI Geared up by the old guard and with the help of a large part of the media ti dooipsday machine was rolling long before the outcome of last week's convention became a certainty It will now be zipped up with lights bells emptying device fireworks all to pronounce the inevitable defeat of Sen George McGovern Like a' litany the catalogue of his all-embracing opposiiton is almost daily recited Labor is against him Big business is against him- Small business is against him The Jews are against him The ethnics the Catholics are against him The farmers are against him The party pros are against him This can have only one effect It makes McGovern the and that as recent history has shown generates a sympathy vote The Republicans fearful of overconfidence should caution their allies on the right Including the Demcrats already on the starting line to form those "Democrats for clubs that this is not the way to help the great crusade THE MEDIA HAS a lot to answer for and I confess my own share of the guilt We were writing in January that Sen Edmund Muskie was the front runner Democrats in Congress and among the big-money contributors were moving fast their endorsements The frontrunner label was surely no service to the unfortunate Muskie More serious was our failure to comprehend the yeasty new political forces and the part they would play in pie 1972 presidential campaign However' broad a band they are in the political spectrum they turned out in the primaries to give McGovern the edge in 10 of those primaries What happened to Muskie to Hubert and A Which planet has the greatest number of satellites or moons? Jupiter with 12 moons Which is the longest single interstate system route? A 1-89 stretching 2910 miles from New York to California What is indicated by the term timberline? A The timberline is the mountainside point beyond which trees do not grow 172 ky NEf kcV "7OU) YOUR 'TRANSITIONAL REMAINING FORCEST A.