The Daily Telegram from Adrian, Michigan • 4

Washington Merry-Go-Round Rabin: CIA Tried To Undermine Israel The Daily Telegram Editorial Page Saturday 7 1976 Poge 4 The MIS Dollar Flow pointed out herd the Iraqis were distracted by Kurdish rebels Recently however to dtsosay the CIA has wrthxh awn Hs support of the Kurds Umb freeing foir more Iraqi divisions for possible action against Israel In addition Rabin said the United States is unrealistic thinking that Saudi Arabia with Hs sophisticated US arms is not a potential Israeli opponent Meanwhile the Soviet bloc according to Rabin's top secret reports is replenishing its Arab friemfe with planes tanks and other war supplies at a rate five times faster than the United States is restocking Israel Indeed observed Rabin during one conference Israel has bad to incorporate Russian equipment captured from the Arabs into its own military forces The problem is he noted sardonically that Israel cannot buy Russian arms and ammwition KOREA CAPER: In a wild journalistic career misted by congressional investigators the CIA once tried to bribe the Communist world's most famous newsman Wilfred Burchett into defecting to the United States for $100000 Defection by the talented Australian whose byline is familiar all over the Communist world would have been a juicy intelligence and publicity coup for the United States The bizarre idea of buying off Burchett originated with Maj Gen Blackshear Bryan a top US negotiator at Pan- been promised the scoop mi the defection as part of the agreement nadn" he said forget thoee day we all felt differently aboM the WASHINGTON WHIRL: The oil industry often ha been accused of making obscene profits but until mm no one has accused them of ooeceoe advertising However a chemical industry magazine recently featired full -page Amoco Arco and Ashland Oil ads featuring bare breasts and buttocks A risque Tcnneco cartoon ad shows a three-handed salesman telling a three-breasted businesswoman tell you Miss Jarvis how pleased I was when they told me I was selected as the Tenneco salesman to call on While ordinary air travelers pay to $6 a day to park at Washington airports members of Congress diplomats and Supreme Court justices get free parking right adjacent to the terminals This year the taxpayers are forking over $48000 for guards to keep anyone else from parking on the VIP lots Rep Millicent Fenwick R-NJ returned from a visit to China with a recipe for duck that is not likely to make it onto the staid House of Representatives restaurant menu It calls for cooking up the tongue and webbed feet along with the usual cuts One of Washington's leading electronic surveillance experts Clyde Wallace of the Spy 9iop recently moved and found that 25 wires from a Spansih government office next door ran temptingly through his new quarters He bugged the telephone company to remove them but has no intention of bugging the Spaniards (Copyright 1978) basis contributing $450000 annually to the community in form of payroll The program operates on a 24-hour-a-day basis seven days a week 340 days a year The remaining 25 days are used to conduct the racing events In addition to payroll contributions MIS Testing also spends $42500 with the local business community in the purchase of support materials in tis testing program MIS racing division responsible for scheduling promoting and conducting all racing events employs six people on a fulltime basis with an annual payroll of $100000 In conducting racing events MIS employs 700 part time people with a weekend payroll of $9500 Of the 700 people 300 are supplied by clubs and service organizations to which the Speedway contributes $3500 per event All other related activities including fire protection medical personnal security services and cleanup are secured on a local basis at a cost of $17500 per event MIS advertising costs to promote events in 1975 came to $185000 It all adds up to an impressive $8835500 figure munjom Korea in September He diaruned it with a US newsman a US intelligence officer in World War II who was an acquaintance of Burkett elk apier Rowdy The newsman sat down with the CIA and ik-afted a plan in which the flMttM would be offered to Burchett as he and the newsman walked down a Panmimjom path At the end of the path was a US landing pad where a helicopter would be ready to spirit off Burchett The newsman who asked that his name be withheld because he still may visit Communist countries told us that his mrpoee in serving as intermediary was to force the CIA to get information for him on two captured friends The friends correspondents Don Dixon and Richard Applegate had been seized in a yacht off Hong Kona by Red China Skeptical of the Burchett success The newsman nevertheless raised it with the Communist reporter before they began their walk news organization can offer you $100000 for your life the newsman said take very-good care of The $100000 was to be CIA funds But Burchett had a wife and newborn child in Peking and also apparently liked his life as a globe-trotting Communist star reporter He gave the US newsman no encouragement When the newsman-intermediary advised that the scheme be dropped the CIA cancelled Footnote: The newsman told us he had Inflation The economic impact of Michigan International Speedway is an established and growing situation and one not generally realized by area residents Here are a few attendance and dollar figures which give some indication of what MIS located in Lenawee county just 15 miles from Adrian) means to the state and local community: 33 per cent of all spectators attending events at the Speedway come from out of state More than 240000 people attended the four race weekends in 1975 The Jackson Chamber of Commerce estimates that each person spends about $30 per day and that each dollar turns over seven times in the area Of this 240000 people about 10000 stay in the area for three days or more Based on the $30 per day estimate Speedway spectators contributed $7800000 to the state's economy last year Most of this money was spent in the immediate area MIS contracts with American Motors to perform emission testing employing 90 people on a full and part time Smoking In A bill to restrict smoking in hospitals is back in the Michigan House for final action after winning unanimous Senate passage The bill heavily backed by clean air and health lobbies would require that each patient be asked upon admission if he or she prefers placement with smokers or nonsmokers Smoking would be restricted to private rooms rooms with other smokers or those who didn't care or designated smoking areas Visitors and employes would be able to smoke only in designated areas Hospital staffers could not smoke in rooms or while performing their duties around patients The bill would prohibit the sale in hospitals of cigarettes Don Oakley BY JACK ANDERSON WtthLesWhtttaa WASHINGTON Dsapite the cordial smiles that ahowdad (hiring the recent visit of Israeli Prime Munster Yitzhak Rabin to Washington his secret talks with US leaders were marked by bitter Coro plaints against the CIA The fluttering blue and white Israeli flags along downtown streets the warm greeting by President Ford on a rainy White House lawn and address to Congress created an impression that S-lsraeli relations were trouble-free In private talks however Rabin pulled out sheafs of top secret Israeli intelligence reports in an attempt to show the CIA and its recently departed director William Colby tried to undermine Israel Colby advised key senators late last year that Israel had a respectable military advantage over its Arab neighbors Partly as a result President Ford is asking only $18 billion in aid for Israel at least $500 million less than the Israelis are seeking Tank Figures Disputed But during his visit Rabin denounced estimates as incomplete citing figures from his own highly respected intelligence services For instance he charged Colby had de-emphasized 600 to 700 tanks and another 000 tanks in Iraq Rabin was particularly furious over the estimates on Iraq which suppled three large units of troops to the Arabs in the 1973 war At that time Rabin acidly Tom Tiede Congress BY TOM TIEDE CONCORD (NEA) When members of Congress failed to win support last year for a straightforward pay raise they resorted in their greed to legislative trickery Using stealth secrecy and the subsection of an obscure bill which they knew would draw no public scrutiny the lawmakers established an unprecedented cost of living salary increase that will be automatic on an annual basis Thus the nobles have at the expense of their souls insulated themselves from the bother of inflation And thus too have they established the fundamentals for what could and should become a major and air-conditioning equipment could be a much lower capecity There is a public as well as a private stake in the more efficient use of our energy resources Taxpayers are turning down bond issues Schools are closed to community use during off-hours Public buildings must close early Not all of this is due to the cost of energy to be sure but energy is an important factor It will take ingenuity if money -short communities are to survive this era of scarce and expensive energy and architects and builders are in fact developing new concepts in structural design furnishing ana maintenance to meet the challenge as well as making more use of old ones The substitution of plastic plumbing Timely Quotes philosophy of mandatory imprisonment does not envision vindicative punishment of the criminal but protection of the innocent victim Reasonable mandatory minimum sentences can restore the sense of certain imprisonment essential to preserve the deterrent impact of criminal President Ford calling roc mandatory minimum prison sentences overwhelming majority of the international community finds it natural to support the Palestinian aspiration for independence and sovereignty in Farouk Kaddoami leader of the delegation to the United Nations startled me what impressed me the most was their forgiving attitude Every person I talked with both in the North and South said they are eager to establish normal relations with the United States" Sen George McGovern on his recent visit to North and South Vietnam Effects Americans can not law allows the-President the annual per- says separation of legalities moored to the sinking' has shown utter of this yearssince the days paid with $6 per Congress save the a salary increase been done by one Congress that way were thereby Johnson adds the of last year may He says both houses a measure which would in-effect salary increases of before this is as possible will not know what public then that campaigns in New is his Bicentennial can start but that In this respect he candidate indeed ballot here who is-soliciting system rather than predation to the Adrian police officers for the extremely prompt efficient and courteous treatment we were given last Saturday afternoon during a traffic accident Their primary concern was the welfare and Immediate care and treatment of the people involved This is indeed reassuring at a time like that Paper work was capably and politely handed Thank you to the fine officers who assisted at the tirine of the accident Mr and Mrs Max June 503 Lafayette Blvd Bowling Green Ohio Note: Tlte policemen involved were Phil Tutak and Dale Martin a 1 (auxiliary) Th Daily Telagram Hutxatod duly CTcty Sunday i North Winter Scree: Mich Mm Second clan infy pntd at the pat dTiH at AAiin Mich WSliLwdwto art at MarcftS 1 HOWARD LEAHY PUBLOKER COWARD PORTER Maaf BURKE GILLESPIE IMdM EdK or Term of Subscription Delivered by cwrto cwto a wo kin By RED or mail la tome canto nrrW a Oatlabfa in I Mam WaiBWiw JkUm i HUladeM CaantMa Ml mi Cmrntj 0 i Ill to tow tfaaRdMMtoowwfc By mail to aay pW ditto UX iddh to tow wwttl tr on mwth voting in the cost of living increase last summer some uncomfortable legislators said it was done in such a way as to keep the public ignorant and quiet The measure was ramrodded through Congress in five days When it appeared to be in trouble in the House a recorded vote actually showing it defeated cries of electronic miscount echoed the floor the balloting process was forced into extend on and the shouting ended only when the matter passed by a single vote Obviously not every legislator favored the fra ud (only 272 of 535 voted yea) Many feared the risks involved particularly in view of the elctions (the no vote was weighted with members facing reelection) Others agreed with the congressman who argued thusly against the implications of congressional immunity from inflation: American people would be better off if Congress got a pay decrease when the cost of living went up and a pay increase when it went down Then we might see more fiscal responsibility here in Washington" For his part Johnson (a sfender bald man whose trouser cuffs are held above his ankles by the electricity of his executive length hose) believes the congressional action was as much legally as legislatively punk Accordingly he has filed suit in a California federal court asking that the cost of living statute be stricken for constitutional reasons One he says it violates due process of law in that Congress has given to itself a Mailbag Praise For Police privilege which most get Two since the to determine centage hike Johnson powers is ignored But beyond the primary anger is thought that contempt for the people He says that for 180 when congressmen were day stipends no present one has voted for iLself always Congress for the next members up for reelection answerable to the more congressional contempt be just the beginning are already considering granting members income tax deductions amount to 1976 from $6000 to $12000 being done as surreptitiously so that the taxpayers hit It is to awake the Wallace Johnson Hampshire He says it project something he everybody must finish is a unique and admirable the only one on the votes for the for himself How To Cut Rising Fuel Hospitals cigars and pipe tobacco The Senate voted Wednesday 33-0 for the bill sponsored by Rep Michael Conlin R-Jackson It is one of four antismoking bills now before the legislature The others which are expected to receive heavier opposition would limit smoking in restaurants public meetings and grocery stores The dispute over the restaurant bill has centered on whether a customer should have to request the operator to designate a nonsmoking area Backers of the hospital bill which still requires House approval of Senate amendments said about 75 per cent of Michigan hospitals (including Bixby in Adrian) already have smoking guidelines and policies new home buyer he says For starters a doubling of current Federal Housing Administration minimum standards for insulation in attics walls and floors have an immediate impact in lowering home energy This of course would mean more business for the makers of insulation and less business for the energy utilities But the latter are in little danger of running out of customers for all the energy they can provide in the foreseeable future There are also other energy-saving steps builders can take such as double paned windows insulated doors with magnetic weatherstripping and tighter construction to reduce air infiltration Nor need the low house cost more says Mabry For instance the use of 2-by- studs on 24-inch centers instead of the traditional 2-by-4 studs on 16-inch centers would both accommodate thicker insulation and save significantly on lumber costs In addition because of a more efficient "thermal healing ventilating Elks Gub rooms The mid-winter meeting of the Lenawee County Federation of Gube was held today in the Adrian Public Library auditorium nearly every club in the federation being represented Mrs Truman Rentachler of Tecumseh presided at the sessions 4 YEARS AGO reft 7 ltM The leadership training school of the Adrian Council of Churches designed for teachers and workers in Sunday Schools opened in the First Baptist Church with an enrollment of 30 Dr CL Norton was appointed a member of the Rate committee of public health and oral hygiene Nearly 4 min bars of the West Side Workers and their families enjoyed a Get Together party in the home of Mr and Mrs Arthur Towle on North McKenzie Street Playing the Odds Immune To issue in this federal election is Congress the master or the servant of the public good? not a new argument but in the Bicentennial year one that should be settled and closed One man pushing the point is Wallace Johnson 62-year-old former mayor of Berkeley Calif He has entered himself on the New Hampshire ballot as a vice presidential candidate solely concerned with the repeal of the congressional cost of living escalator not interested in the vice he says the only way I can present a kind of referendum to the people Are we still in control of our Congress? what asking The question is not rhetorical After Bills pipe for metal can save a substantial amount of energy because plastics require only a fraction of the energy it takes to produce metal products The insulating properties of carpeting can save up to an eighth of heating fuel requirements Substitution of fluorescent lights for incandescent bulbs cuts down on electrical consumption and lighting cost Buildings with exteriors of mirror glass can bring about a 44 per rent heat reduction Heat-transfer systems are being designed coupling air-conditioning and heating units to pump warm or cola air from areas where it is not reeded to those where it is Then there is the use of solar energy for heating and cooling the possibilities of which we have scarcely begun to explore the war in South Vietnam Five years ago: The US Apollo 14 astronauts were speeding toward a splashdown in the Pacific after a successful moon landing One year ago: Two Soviet cosmonauts returned safely to earth after 30 days in orbit around the earth birthdays Writer Gay Talese is 44 Former Puerto Rican Governor Luis Ferre is 72 Thought for today: We are under a Constitution but the Constitution is what the judges say it is Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes 1862-1948 Thought For not from the east or from the west and not from the wilderness comes lifting up but it is God who executes judgment putting down one and lifting up another Psalm 75:67 guides below and rules above the great disposer and mighty king than He none greater next to Him can be or is or was supreme He singly fills the throne" Horace poet of ancient Rome BY DON OAKLEY Not only has the high cost of housing placed home ownership out of reach for millions of Americans but many people who already own homes are finding the cost of running them taking increasingly large chunks out of their household budgets Addressing a meeting of the National Association of Home Builders in Dallas the other day Guy Mabry vice president of Owens-Coming Fiberglass Corp cited the case of a New Jersey homeowner whose annual fuel bills were almost as high as his mortgage payments and warned that and cooling a house may soon become a luxury unless the nation's builders take immediate steps to effectively reduce home energy Mabry calls for a home energy efficiency rating system similar to Detroit's miles-perallon designation to help consumers Just as mpg has become the watchword of new car buyers (energy-per-month) costs are fast becoming the major concern of Today In History Backward Glances TO THE EDITOR These days when it seem police officials are receiving criticism from all directions we would like to take time to commend your Adrian police An accident is an unpleasant experience to be involved in However when handled in the manner it was by your local police it becomes much less traumatic We would like to express our ap- World "New Wig criticised becaase we're raaaiag low fm eggheads la the caftiaet get some!" By The Associated Press Today is Saturday Feb 7 the 38th day of 1976 There are 328 days left in the year highlight in history: On this date in IMS the postwar future was being shaped by President Franklin Roosevelt British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference on the Black Sea On this date: In 1778 Daniel Boone and 27 others were captured by Indians at Blue Lick Ky In 1812 the English writer Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth England In 1904 a fire virtually wiped out downtown Baltimore In 1941 in World War II British forces captured the port of Bengasi in IJbya In 19H Gen Dwight Eiaenhowoer reigned as Army chief of staff He was succeeded by Gen Omar Bradley In 1962 298 miners were killed in a coal mine explosion at Saarbruecken Germany Ten years ago: President Lyndon Johnaon and South Vietnamese government chief were confer mg in Hawaii on 10 YEARS AGO Feb 7 166 Lyle Buckingham of Parchment Mich would assume duties Tuesday as principal of Madison High School Superintendent David Youngs announced today Elder and Mrs RK Nelson left for a four day convention of Michigan Adventist ministers in Lansing Machinist Mate First Gass Gerald Baker was royally welcomed when he arrived at the home of his parents Mr and Mrs Robert Baker or Trenton Road after an absence of four yean 25 YEARS AGO reft 7 151 Mrs Lawrence Mitchell of College Avenue was hostess to the JCC Auxiliary this evening The Bov Scouts of Troop 43 the troop sponsored by the Adrian Lodge of Elks enjoyed an anniversary banquet at the.