El Paso Herald-Post from El Paso, Texas • 7

EL PASO HERALD POST Wednesday February 16 1977 A Pravda claims sabotage Moscow warns of pressure ADD Kiss his ring Dccadei ago a Harvard University club dubbed 19-year-old Elisabeth Taylor the worst actress In the world And she agrees that at the time she was Miss Taylor yesterday was back at Hap vard but this time she was named the 27th Woman of the Year by Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals for artistic skills and feminine qualities" leased Protests began to spread in the Soviet bloc ai eight Romanians signed a letter protesting forms of psychic morsl and intellectual oppression" the first open sign of organised dissent in that Communist country The protest letter was addressed to the organ-izers of a conference scheduled for June in Belgrade Yugoslavia to review the effectiveness of the 1975 Helsinki sgreement on human rights Dissidents regulsrly sccuse Moscow of violsting those accords At the same time a Yugoslav newspaper Borba accused the West of the atmosphere" of the coming Belgrade Helsinki conference with its stress on human rights violstions Former Agriculture Secretary Earl Buts brought the same sense of humor that made him notable while in office with him last night when he spoke to a farm group in St Louis Buti criticised AFL-CIO President George Meany for opposing American grain sales to the Soviet Union and said he hopes Congress won't allow farm poilicy to be strongly influenced by organized labor heard the suggestion the other day that Jimmy Carter make George Meany a cardinal then he would have to only kiss his ring" Butz said First investiture Prince Charles conducted his first investiture yesterday conferring knighthoods and other awards on 137 persons at Buckingham Palace in the Ford tradition Jack Ford should have found his frozen fish by now That's not difficult in the desert sun Ford the former president's 24-year-old son boarded an airliner in Sacramento Monday afternoon bound for his parents' new Palm Springs home with a bag of frozen fish Apparently he did not know the plane Find tne wee Serenade your flowers as you water them! Jack Ford lost hit fish was to make a stopover in Ontario Calif Most of the passengers got off and Ford went along The plane took off with his fish heading for Palm Springs 90 miles away Ford called friends there to come and get him Earl Butz kept his wit By RH BOYCE Icngpe-Howird Miff Writer WASHINGTON Moscow haa warned the Carter administration it should ease up on its criticism of the way Russia treats its citizens The warning came this week in an unusually tough article in Pravda the Russian communist party newspaper which said in effect that pressures for change both in Russia and in Soviet bloc countries carry too many disturbing Implications to be tolerated any further THIS WAS A CLEAR indication that tougher crackdowns by the Kremlin may be expected The Pravda article even called the American comments a planned and coordinated act of sabotage" aimed at stirring up Communist and said the US criticism of the arrests and harassment of Russians like Andrei Sakharov and Alexander Ginzburg the bounds of what is permissible" US diplomats studying the situation say Russia is worried at growing dissent in the Communist countries not just from intellectuals as in the recent past but now also from peasants and workers troubled by recent price rises and severe shortages of meat and bread especially In Poland Czechoslovakia and East Germany SOME US OFFICIALS have cautioned the administration that it might be wise to shift from making public statements about human rights to privte pressures In their view it might be more effective if the Kremlin were told privately by the administration that Russia's continued tough handling of unrest could mean the Senate might not ratify any new US-Russian agreement on limiting strategic weapons which Russia apparently wants There also is concern here in the other direction that Russia despite its desire for an arms deal may break off negotiations in anger if American talk of human rights continues unabated Russians were particularly incensed when President Carter's delegate to a United Nations Human Rights Commission Allard Lowenstein was instructed to raise the human rights issue openly at the Commission's Geneva session YESTERDAY Moscow followed up on the Pravda article by arresting still another dissident Valentin Turchin 46 who is a founder of the Soviet branch of Amnesty International Turchin told newsmen two Russian secret police took him to police headquarters for an "interview" in which he was told his activities were "damaging to the interests of the Turchin later was re- City to back Caballero City Council will formally back the appointment of El Paso attorney Ray Caballero as ambassador to Mexico in action at tomorrow's council meeting The item for a resolution added to council's agenda today will follow County action Monday in authorizing a letter to supporting Caballero for the appointment Also added to council's agenda is discussion on approving the closing and removal of the North-South runway at El Paso International Airport to make room for the Tierra del Sol Industrial Park Opposition to the move has been developing and council wants to officially back the Airport Board Council will also discuss the responsibilities for the administration and supervision of the newly-opened Lincoln Community Center 29 77 Our exquisite white porcelain flower sprinkler with pastel flowers plays "Oh what a beautiful morning!" 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