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Carter Mas Drawn Hufuan By KEVIN LAMIMAN Star Staff Writer before Jimmy Carter came on the scene. But with the explosion of the world's population and the wide range of technological aids available to those in power, political repression is more efficient and affects many more people. If the government wants to get you, it usually will. One organization that has fought for human rights for some- 30 years is- Amnesty International, This is the group, you may remember, The Way I See It It was much worse in the last decade, of course. Many federal prison inmates were draft resisters-people put behind bars because they did not want to kill anybody (and all the while, convicted murderers were making -Then there were individuals like David Sinclair grand poo-bah of the radical White Panther Party in Ann Arbor, Mich, sentence He served two years of a 10-year prison for marijuana -possession.

As I remember it, they nailed him for having Just one or two joints. Sinclair described himself in those days as "Public Weirdo No, 1." He got an unreasonable sentence, many believed, because he was a convenient, target for- the hippie haters. Ironically, the former hippie has turned into a hip capitalist. He's a rock music promoter and, apparently, a devoted family you can't make a revolution if you have to make a living," he said in a 1977 Newsweek interview. Then there were the anti-war types like Phillip Berrigan and Daniel Ellsberg, whose ideas were considered so dangerous some federal officials became obsessed withtrying to put themaway.

What it all boils down to-is that we must remain vigilant if we expect to remain free to hold unpopular beliefs. I- hope future generations never have the chance to read accounts of the "Alaska Archipelago" written by an -American coun-. terpart of Russian expatriate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Romanians are confined to psychiatric hospitals for political reasons. One is Dumitru Biidaru, who was confined after he wrote President Nicolae Ceausescu to protest persecution of "neo-Protestants'' like himself.

The Romanians apparently have taken a few lessons from the Russians. Al says prisoners routinely are given inappropriate sedatives with unpleasant side effects. As for Uganda, when you see reports that the death toll under Amin is at least 100,000, not much else can be said. "Civilized" countries like Northern Ireland also come under AI scrutiny. In June AI called for- an inquiry into reports that IRA suspects were tortured by authorities.

And guess what, folks. The U. S. does not get a clean bill of health from the human-rights organization. AI cites 20 American cases, a lot less than the "hundreds, maybe thousands" of political prisoners- S.

Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young mentioned this summer in a newspaper interview. Sixteen of the people AI refers to are civil rights activists believed to have been framed on arson charges stemming from two separate racial upheavals earlier in the decade. Fortunately for us, only a few countries-Monaco and Liechtenstein, perhaps can boast better human rights records. But having due process protection does not always prevent the government from "getting" its enemies. Members appeal to foreign governments on behalf of prisoners who are-being mistreated.

Average citizens demand inquiries into the whereabouts of the missing. And sometimes they get-results. Here is a sampling of what the organization is up against: Argentina, it is a crime to have a' "subversive mentality." AI maintains that since the military- took over again) in 1976, approximately- 15,000 citizens have disappeared. Over 8,000 are believed to be imprisoned for political reasons. In fairness, it should be noted that many kidnap victims have been snatched by unofficial, right-wing para-police groups, It can be dangerous to be a member of the wrong profession.

Susana Lugones, a journalist, was abducted Dec. 24, 1977. Her fate remains unknown. The same thing happened a few days earlier to a pair of French nuns who had attended a meeting-of relatives of missing persons. Two other foreign nationals who displeased the -Argentinian government were Diane Houston, an American, and Elizabeth Kasemann, Of West Germany.

Houston was working in a Christian Community -Center when she was arrested briefly and brutalized. AI reports her-friend, Kasemann, was killed by authorities May 23, 1977 after three months of detention and torture. AI reports receiving evidence that at Jeast 30 Jimmy Carter has taken his share of criticism since tie was elected. But I think he deserves credit for doing at least two things right-He's kept us out of Nicaragua, hasn't he? Not to mention Haiti, Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and a tot of other places where U. S.

troops have fought. Carter also has drawn attention to the human rights question. Opinions vary on the significance of the administration's sniping at countries with poor human rights records. Some say the White House is just giving lip service and should get tougher. Another view is that pressures on "friendly" governments to shape up can wreck U.

S. foreign policy and give aid and comfort to leftists and other bad guys. Whichever is correct, at least the question no longer is being ignored. Systematic violation of human rights is a problem of global proportions. In many countries saying -or writing -the wrong things, belonging to the wrong profession or ethnic group, or Just being in the wrong place at the wrong time can get you kidnapped, imprisoned, tortured, deprived of food, water and medical care, or placed in a mental asylum.

Thousands simply disappear. PouticaJly-inspired cruelty was around long which won a Nobel Peace Prize last year. The London-based organization must be dbing something right, because itscritics can be found all over the political spectrum. AI has earned credibility over the years by emphasizing impartiality, balance and accuracy in its reports. The mandate of Al is "to work for the release of prisoners of conscience; to work for fair trials; and to fight, wherever we find it, the use of torture and the death to Matchbox, the organization's chief publication.

The lever AI uses to gain better treatment for political prisoners is international nublic Vrf SM-yiuurcffsacX-nAma. Merry Go-Round MARION THE Published Daily Donald F. Miller, Publisher Saturday September 9, 1978 An Editor's Outlook compromise TV Throw Off The Sackcloth On Aug. 21, when Sen. George McGovem proposed an international military force to topple the murderous-government of Cambodia, something significant may have happened in Amonran history.

JCNKM llOYD JONES Presidency on the theory that brutal American militarism had frustrated justice and order in Southeast Asia, now calling for more militarism in an effort to bring back at least a degree of both. It is not important that McGovern's new idea is as impractical as most of his old ones. He helped condition not only his own country but the world to nonresponsiveness to Communist terror The ta STAR Member of Associated Press Established October 8, 1877 iron Communist disciplines. Then South Korea was assaulted. Although the response was technically a U.S., "police action," actually the United States stood alone.

We spent the gold and-shed the blood and eventually bought half -a loaf. Harry Truman fired Douglas MacArthur for wanting -to extend his hot pursuit across the Yalu River. But at least we saved South Korea. We have no way of knowing the thinking of the strategists in Moscow and Peking, either before or after the celebrated split between the two. But it is a fair bet that both recognized that the best way to handle the American giant was to overcome its people with war-weariness and a distaste for any further resistance to -Communist expansion.

Vietnam was the answer. Beginning with John Kennedy and proceeding through Lyndon Johnson we expanded "advisers" into a gigantic military operation that, incredibly, was operated as a no-win war. At the insistence of the war's critics, we granted the enemy 600 miles of sanctuary on our flank. Slowly we fed young America into a meat grinder. Finally, we threw in our cards and retired to shaken isolation.

But the most intriguing thing was not our defeat, but the successful- sale to both the American people and our allies of America's Almost overnight the liberal left had the CIA painted in blacker colors than any similar Communist apparatus. Counterrevolutionary intelligence was gutted, and the Weather Underground, aided by the courts, began wading about in FBI files. We junked the draft and produced an overexpensive, under-talented and often in-disciplined volunteer defense force in the face of rampaging Russian armament and the recolonizatioh of Africa -under Marxist puppets. We bought phony history. We bought "new think." We knocked ourselves down.

And that's wby the compassionate twitterings of George McGovem over the unspeakable genocides in Southeast Asia is a good sign. Radical chic has a red face, and the hour has come for Americans to think better of themselves. ll creasinelv bizarre United fee Qji WASHINGTON This is a we-told-you-so story about an old attorney who joined the government on his solemn word that he would cut his oil ties. We warned that the appointment of Texan Lynn Coleman as general JACK ANDERSON counsel of the Energy Department would lead to inevitable conflicts of interest. He came out of Houston, a city spawned by oil fortunes.

He was a law partner of ex-Treasury Secretary John Connally, the darling of the oil industry. Their law firm, Vinson and Elkins, represents the giants of oildom, including Exxon, Mobil, Shell, Texaco and Union Oil. The firm not only litigates but lobbies for its oil and gas clients. Coleman was a registered lobbyist himself. Nor 8ld the firm merely represent oil companies; it got into bed with them.

Its partners served on the boards of oil companies. Coleman is an able attorney, who can argue a case like the champion college debater he once was. He persuaded the White House with a written promise that he would step aside if any issues involving his former clients cropped up. He similarly pledged to the Senate energy committee that he would disqualify himself from such cases. Our forebodings about Coleman unfortunately have come true' An Energy Department investigation is focusing on at least three Vinson and Elkins clients.

Not only has Coleman not stepped aside in the case, he apparently is supervising the investigation. We have obtained an Energy Department memo, intended for official eyes only and dated less than three months after he was sworn in. This shows he has been in charge of an investigation that could send a number of his Houston oil pals to prison. One high official has declared privately that the investigation has already uncovered "the largest criminal conspiracy in U.S. history." It Involves more than 20 oil companies, including at least three of the Vinson and Elkins firm's law clients.

Several oil outfits allegedly defrauded the public during the 1773 Arab oil embargo a swindle that amounted to an estimated $1.4 billion. It began after the oil cartel sent petroleum prices Into orbit in 1973. This meant that U.S. oil companies had to pay more and, therefore, charge more for overseas oil. But there was no justification for raising the price of domestic oil that had been drilled before the price boost.

So the government established two categories of crude oil. The oil companies weren't supposed to charge more than $5 a barrel for "old oil." But they could charge $12 a barrel for newly drilled oil. Evidence soon came to light that several companies were swindling consumers by peddling the "old oil" for the higher price. On June 26, Deputy Energy Secretary John O'Leary notified Coleman by memo that Coleman's office would supervise a "special team" that had been assigned to Investigate this sensitive, $1.4 billion scandal. Specifically, the memo announced that the team would have authority over "special investigations of crude resellers in Houston." O'Leary told Coleman that Avrom Landesman would head the task force and submit names of additional investigators to Colemaa The memo made it clear that the special team would operate under Coleman's direction.

"Mr. Landesman's responsibility over the cases will include coordination with the Department of Justice, subject to the supervision of the general counsel," the memo stated. Since Coleman is the general counsel, the memo unmistakably gives him the power to. determine which oil companies should be prosecuted for the massive price swindling. Records show that at least three of the companies under investigation are law clients of the Vinson and Elkins firm: Aminoil, USA; Westland Oil Development and Permian, a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum.

But 73 oil companies in the Houston area haven't even been audited. These may include still other former Coleman clients. One of the attorneys assigned to the investigation, incidentally, flew to Washington in June to complain about the lackadaisical investigation. He charged that the Energy Department is stalling the $1.4 billion probe. This has resulted in some belated action; the department has just referred five cases to the Justice Department for prosecution.

Aminoil and Permian declined comment on the situation. No spokesman for Westland was available. Coleman himself was on vacation but a spokesman denied in vintage gobbledygook that the pledges to the White House and the Senate had been violated. "What you have there is an institutional memo," the spokesman told our reporter Shula Beyer. "Coleman has not participated in any of the details of these cases.

He's dealing on a managerial level, on assigning resources to the investigation. At the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, one group of flyers got 12 pairs of sunglasses apiece at $6.88 a pair four flight jackets, which cost the taxpayers $49.80 apiece; three pairs of $21.50 boots and six pairs of $11.50 gloves. The Defense Department, meanwhile, hasn't purchased any new colt .45 handguns since 1945, but is spending $314,000 a year for 48,000 rawhide holsters especially made for these guns. Nations pleads that it cannot do anything about alleged genocide in Cambodia because it has "insufficient information." Presunably, Marxist mass murder will remain safe from C.N, attention as long as the murderers don't issue bulletins. But give- Sen.

McGovem credit. He really abhors inhumanity. It took courage to retreat from his naive position that if the Americans -would only collapse in Southeast Asia all would be, if not well, at least better. But where are the Berrigans? Where is Eugene McCarthy? Where are Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden? Where- are Doctor Spock and the ad hoc committees or "concerned" preachers and professors who dilated upon the corruptions of tbeThieu regime and demanded that the United States withdraw from that "most immoral" of Is Easier 1 Dntnbuud by L.A. Twwi SvndicMt victim of a divorce." "It's funny," I said, "I thought the singles life was all cream and strawberries." "Boy, you are dumb," Harlequin said.

"I've put up with fits of jealousy that no married man would stand for. When you're married you can at least flirt around with somebody and the other partner doesn't get too shaken up if you don't make a big deal of it But when vou're living with somebody, if you so much as dance with another person, your roomie makes your life miserable. I'm too young to be stuck with one woman," he said, practically in tears. I didn't know how to console him. "Look, this is a crazy idea, but why.

don't you marry Saralee?" "What would' that accomplish?" he screamed at me. "Once you're married you can ask her for a divorce and then turn the whole problem over to your lawyer He kissed me on the head and said, "I knew you'd come up with a solution. I'll go out and buy the wedding bands today. wars? Where are the insurgent college kids who burnt the Armories and waved Viet Cong flags? For what is going on now in Southeast Asia is not only an utter squashing of liberties but a cynical elimination human beings unmatched since Hitler's abattoirs. Where is the voice of America's liberal left? Who weeps for the boat people? We cannot undo recent history, but the time has new come to put some of it in perspective, Following World War the United States was the only nation capable of frustrating Russia's plain desire to extend its central European -empire, seized by force in defiance of solemn treaty, to the Mediterranean and the Atlantic.

We took expensive risks. We not only created NATO but had to finance most of its weapons and flesh out its forces. The Russian surge not only slowed, but much repression was needed to hold its vassal states. Free -Western Europe exists today because of American resolution in a moment of balance. We should be proud.

vThe Russian -Chinese -axis after the triumph of Mao Tse-tung first moved upon Korea. North Korea, created by a line that was supposed to demark temporary Russian occupation territory from that of the Americans to the south, was given the Central European treatment, an imposed -Communist government laying down "Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall Bttyoaup." True humility is discipline over pride. God will give us our place of prominence in His time, and we should be willing to wait. recall some of the things Billy is telling us: "Every sin that was ever committed in this world is being committed in America right today; and, just as sure as America does not repent, God is going to judge us." Billy is telling us, America's problem is a spiritual problem. And, America has tried everything but God.

No doubt he has allies among some of our leading members of Congress such as the late Hubert Humphrey, who said: "Billy, it is going to take more than legislation to get us out of, this mess we are in today." Billy says: "For every two marriages in California, there is one divorce." And as for Ohio, it is running one to three. Not long to wait until it will equal California. Yes, Billy, your prophecies and the Bible's are beginning to come true. For instance: "In the latter days, there shall be a falling away." That is already upon us as churches who some years ago had an attendance of one to two hundred, now have IS to 20. A full time evangelist calling on me some months ago, said: "Elmer, a few more years and the rural churches are going to be a thing of the past." May God have mercy when that happens.

Bible prophecies of thousands of years ago now are being fulfilled: "And the time shall come when the people shall become lovers of pleasure, money and self, but not lovers of Elmjr Miller Bible Digest Your Opinion Why I No Longer Doubt Nor Marvel News Of Other Years ArtBuchuxtld WASHINGTON Beine married man, I always believed mat single people living together had the best of both worlds. Whenever I met someone in a leisure suit with a gold chain around his neck and ART BUCHWALD a ki.j u- ihZ hi d.eiLn whom he introduced to everyone as his "roommate," I must admit I was wild with envy. But things are tough even for unmarriedcouples tougher in some ways. I discovered this the other day when Harlequin came to see me without an appointment. Harleguin is 30 open up a big residential area to city service and would be dedicated to the -district upon Milo Hill, prominent 60-year-old Marion County gunsmith, was shot- and killed in an accident on his farm located in the northeastern section of the county.

Marion City Board of Education approved architects' plans for a two-classroom addition onto N. Main -Street school at an estimated cost, without furnishings, of 162.000. 10 Yean Ago York Center school building in Union County was sold at public auction for (2,200, to Community Ino. The-building, former elementary pupils had been moved to Byhalia, would be used as a community and youth center. The Fighting Irish of Marion Catholic High School opened their-football season under new coach Paul Rose with a strong display of power, whipping visiting Woodmore 45-12.

New manager of the Kroger Co. Marion Plaza Store at 1360 Mt. Vernon -was John Porter, formerly co-manager of the Kroger store- in. Steuben-ville. 4 Marrias a DUNAGIN'S PEOPLE years old and until his visit I -always believed he had the perfect setup.

His "roomie" was a sweet thing named Saralee, and they shared a lovely apartment overlooking the Potomac. They had a pet dog named "Pothead," and the thing they both used to brag to me about was that they had all the benefits of being married, without any of the hassles. That's the part I envied the most. Therefore, when Harlequin told me what he came to seVme 1 "I want to break up with Saralee," he said. "That's too bad.

But what's the problem?" "I don't know how to go about it." "You just tell her, I guess." "That's easy fur you to say," Harlequin said. "But you're married and if you want to break up with your wife you ask her for a divorce. Since we're not man and wife what do I ask for?" "I guess a I suggested. "Easier said than done," Harlequin whimpered. "If I do that she'll want to keep the apartment." "Whose apartment is it?" "It was originally my apartment, but as far as she's concerned it's ours.

Why should I give up the apartment just because I don't want to live with her any more?" "I know apartments are hard to find, Harlequin, but I'm net a lawyer. When you start talking about property settlements you should seek legal counsel." "It won't work. When you married people want a divorce, each of you hires a lawyer to thrash things out. Lawyers don't want to have anything to do with single people who are breaking up." "Why don't you just tell Saralee that you don't want to live with her any more and you want her to get out?" "You don't know Saralee. She looks like a lamb, but she fights like a tiger.

She'd throw all my stuff out the window." "But didn't you have some understanding when you moved in together? That if either party wanted to call it quits there would be no hard feelings?" "Of course we did. All singles say the same thing. But after you live together for three or four years the vows don't mean anything. The one who is rejected acts worse than the Dear Editor: Quite some years ago, a James White and 1 were painting a house for a very devout man of God and minister of the Gospel. One' midafternoon that minister came out to where I was working and said: "Elmer, I believe God has called Billy Graham as a prophet unto the nations in this generation.

His call came early. While yet in his teens, he would enter the garage, close the doors and start preaching. In the meantime, mischievous boys in the neighborhood would assemble behind the garage and after Billy had gone on for some time, be would bear voices: "Amen amen Bless the Lord," and Billy would come out, always grinning. As I now write, this thought comes forcibly to me: Those boys still are living who heard Billy's boyhood messages. As they watch his television programs and he makes a call to all who have a desire to make Christ Lord and Master of their lives and fifteen or eighteen hundred respond, coming down those aisles gray-haired men and women middle-aged youth of all ages small children clinging to parents' hands, some weeping.

When Billy prays for them and gives them literature on how to obtain salvation and cultivate and keep it, I simply can't help but wonder what really goes through those garage boys' minds. Now, back to the subject and in castlhat pastor was right as to Bmbein a proohet. let us 9-9 TOfrtjC 40 Yean Ago Thousands of school children journeyed by boat to the Commodore Oliver H. -Perry monument at Put-in-Bay, near Sandusky, for the opening of a three-day -celebration commemorating the 125th -anniversary of Perry's victory over the British in the Battle of Lake Erie. Miss Gertrude McCoy, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. L. McCoy of Richwood, was planning to sail for Palestine to teach music. With a party of six, Miss McCoy was being -sponsored in the one-year venture by the American Friends Board. She was a graduate of Richwood High School and -Wilmington College, and had taught the previous year In New Carlisle School.

20 Yean Ago Construction began that day on a new sewage line off Ohio 629, to serve homes in the Royal Oaks-subdivision, the Zachman-Vernon Acres-development, a new -shopping -center -east of the County Home. It would connect with the Forest Lawn -Boulevard trunk, also under construction. The privately built sewer would Pentagon officials have privately told House investigators that they're trying to cut down on excess supplies. The Marion Star 15t Court St. Marion, Ohio 43302 Phone 387-S40 Subscription Rates: 15 cents single copy daily 25 cents Sunday.

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