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bruce biossat
WT x . u WASHINGTON (NEA)
Notwithstanding the flurry of interest over the Russians*
recent earth-orbit space link-up, it was America’s dra
matic Apollo 8 flight to the moon which left Europeans
gasping in admiration. Yet there is an unhappy side to
this.
A trained observer, familiar with Europe and just back
from a visit, reports that no event of the postwar era has
so stunningly persuaded the European peoples who com
prise the Western community that they are out of the
mainstream in the great leaping scientific revolution.
Whatever varying judgments they may have as to the
wisdom of space exploration, they know that only a highly
advanced technological society can conduct it, that the
other giant, the Soviet Union, is the only conceivable com
petitor with the United States.
The psychological and hence political significance of
this discovery, which can only be underscored by any
further space triumphs we attain in 1969 and thereafter,
has to be profound.
Western Europe, geographically an amazingly small
part of the world sphere, has lived prldefully for many
decades with the knowledge that from its tiny enclave of
diverse peoples came the drive, the imagination, the
skills that gave birth and full life to the modern world of
great industry and expansive, worldwide commerce.
Though the shift away from Europe as the center began
long before, it was the draining disaster of World War II
that ended its dominance.
In the generation since the war, the Western Europeans
have had to accustom themselves, grudgingly, to second
ary economic and political status. The pain has been great
and the resentment deep.
Astonishingly, many Western European lands came in
time to enjoy incredible surges of prosperty which led
them to imagine they were beginning to keep pace—even
without the sought-after unity.
But the 1968 economic crises in Great Britain and
France revealed the fragility of their foundations.
The flight of Apollo 8, hailed though it was, dealt the
last shock. The awareness of reality spread from the few
to the many.
For a United States which wants warmer understanding
and better practical relations with its European allies at
all levels, the dilemma—now in President Nixon’s lap—
has only been magnified.
How do you win warm-hearted help, or even extend
help, when once-senlor partners in W’estern progress see
with pain in their eyes, that they are mired in inferior
status, committed to the sidelines?
Obviously, no simple expressions or acts of good will
and friendship from a Nixon administration or any other
can bridge the gulf. New, persuasive ways of U.S.-Euro
pean partnership need to be devised, ways which enlist
Europeans in the scientific revolution we lead and yet heal
their crippled spirit and dispel our airs of superiority and
condescension toward these proud peoples.
Ft. Gordon Soldiers
Draw Rob Sentences
t GREENSBORO, Ga. (UPD-
Five Ft. Gordon soldiers have
been sentenced in Greene Coun
ty Superior Court on charges
stemming from the Nov. 7 stab
bing and robbery of a Hines
ville attorney.
Harold Guzzardo, 20, identi
fied as the man who stabbed
’ Rene Kemp, entered pleas of
guilty Wednesday night to
, CARD OF THANKS
The family of the late Rev.
W. J, Graham is sincerely
grateful to friends, neighbors,
Emanuel Tabernacle, Faith
’ Baptist Church, Rev. Hoyt
McGhee, Rev. John Morris,
McDonald Funeral Home; for
their many kind acts of sym-
* pathy during our bereave
ment. Our appreciation can
not be adequately expressed.
Wife: Essie Graham
, Brothers: Mr. and Mrs.
Homer Ogletree, Mr. and
Mrs. Horace Ogletree
Sister: Mr. and Mrs. Troy
Hortman
Children: Rev. and Mrs.
Thomas Greer, Mr. and Mrs.
Lee Greer, Mr. and Mrs.
Herman Womack, Mr. and
• Mrs. H. C. Lewis.
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Regain Full-Partner Role
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
NEA Washington Correspondent
- charges of robbery by force
5 and attempted murder. He re-
- ceived 10 years on each count,
s to run concurrently.
A second soldier, Steve Man-
- ion, 18, was found guilty of rob
bery by force. He received a
. six-year sentence and now must
i stand trial on charges of at
f tempted murder.
j The three others, Earl Miller,
- Jack Cunningham, and Joe Vol
ny, were placed on probation
after entering pleas of nolo con
tendere to charges of assault
and battery.
Kemp was out for a walk
with his two children after the
Georgia-Houston football game
and was returning to his motel
room when he was attacked.
He told police he spotted two
men running from his wife’s
motel room with her purse and
pursued them.
CARSON CITY, Nev. (UPD—
The Nevada Assembly unani
mously passed a measure
Monday giving the state Plan
ning Board authority to condemn
a taco stand, which is blocking
construction of the legislative
building.
It Is the only parcel of land in
the Capitol complex not owned
by the state.
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BIG CLEANUP NEXT —A waterfall cascades down where Big Tujunga Canyon Road once
was in the Los Angeles area. This is a small part of the repair and cleanup job in Cali
fornia after those days of rain that evacuated thousands and left nearly a hundred dead.
American Jets Hit
219 Cong Sampans
By JACK WALSH
SAIGON (UPD — American
Air Force jets and Navy patrol
boats destroyed or damaged at
least 219 Viet Cong sampans in
raids on Communist supply
bases at the southern tip of
South Vietnam, military spokes
men said today.
Four U.S. Navy men were
wounded in the strikes Tuesday
and Wednesday that drew heavy
Communist fire, the spokesmen
said.
In Saigon, the U.S. Command
announced American battlefield
deaths in the Vietnam War had
passed the 31,000 mark. Spokes
men said 190 Amerincans were
killed and 1,277 wounded in
fighting during the week ending
Jan. 25. The losses pushed total
U.S. casualties to 31,181 killed
and 19%£25 wounded.
Eight 50-foot-long Navy
“Swift” boats travelled more
than 400 miles crisscrossing the
Ca Mau Peninsula along river
channels and battering Viet
Cong positions on the shores
with mortar, rocket grenade
and .50 caliber machine gun
fine, the spokesmen said.
Three Boats Hit
The aluminum-hulled boats
destroyed or damaged 185
sampans and 189 bunkers and
fortifications. At least three of
the U.S. boats were hit with
Communist automatic weapons
or rocket grenade fire but only
one was seriously damaged.
The spokesmen said Air
Force FIOO Supersabre strikes
killed at least 12 Viet Cong and
destroyed or damaged 34
sampans and 31 bunkers on the
peninsula. Bombs triggered at
least three secondary explosions
and sent flames shooting 200
feet into the air and smoke
trailing 1,000 feet high.
Maj. Richard A. Mayfield, 38,
of Alamogordo, N.M., one of the
pilots, said the attacking planes
drew Communist rocket fire.
None of the aircraft was hit,
spokesmen said.
Rise In Terrorism
The U.S. Mission in Saigon
reported a sharp rise in
Griffin Daily News
Communist terrorism during
the past two weeks. Spokesmen
said kidnapings of civilians
increased six-fold from 176 to
1,147. In the past, they said, the
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Communists have prepared for
large-scale attacks by forcing
large numbers of civilians into
service as ammunition and
supply bearers.
Committee Opposes
Stanley Impeachment
Graham Jackson
Stricken III;
In Hospital
ATLANTA (UPD—Negro mu
sician Graham Jackson, enter
tainer to three presidents Is in
serious condition at Holy Fami
ly Hospital after suffering an
apparent heart attack Wednes
day.
Jackson, 66, who entertained
for Presidents Franklin Roose
velt, Dwight Eisenhower and
Harry Truman, was at the Lit
tle White House in Warm
Springs when Roosevelt died
there.
A versatile musician, Jackson
specialized in the piano, accord
ian and organ.
NO RELIEF
COTTAGE GROVE, Ore.
(UPD—The owner of the
automotive and housewares
store breathed a long sigh of
relief Wednesday when he saw
the truck lumbering through the
snow toward his door.
His customers were happy,
too, for tire truck, they believed,
carried 100 sets of badly needed
tire chains. There is almost
three feet of snow on the
ground of this small communi
ty.
The truck carried water skis,
life jackets and lawn mowers.
By MARCIE RASMUSSEN
ATLANTA (UPD—Controver
sial State Corrections Board
member John Stanley has won
a legislative committee fight to
keep his state post, but it may
be at the expense of his other
job—warden of the Jefferson
County prison camp.
The House Institutions and
Properties Committee Wednes
day voted 18-3 against a pro
posal to impeach Stanley, who
has retained his seat on the
policy-making board but was
removed as chairman.
Atlanta Rep. Kil Townsend,
sponsor of the impeachment
resolution, charged that Stan
ley’s two posts represented a
“conflict of interest”.
The committee said Stanley
could not be held responsible
for the situation because it is
not prohibited by Georgia law,
although it said, the practice
should be considered a conflict
of interest and should be stop
ped.
The committee, verbally
chastising Stanley, said it would
introduce legislation to prevent
such situations in the future.
MISTAKEN IDENTITY
DENVER (UPD—Police said
Robert J. Cohen, 39, of Wallace,
Neb., made a recruiting mis
take. i
Police said he asked Don
Brennan and Ed Hansen to help
him in an armed robbery.
Brennan is a detective sergeant
and Hansen is a patrolman.
Cohen is now in Denver City
JalL
Stanley was replaced as cor
rections board chairman recent
ly following extensive criticism
by the Governor’s Penal Re
form Commission of practices
at the Jefferson prison cr.mp.
“Mr. Stanley has a choice—
he can either be warden or a
member of the board,” said
committee chairman Phillip
Chandler of Milledgeville.
“The committee definitely
agrees Mr. Stanley was in the
wrong, but he was a member of
a system that’s been promul
gated for 25 years,” Chandler
added. "Twenty-five years ago
it was all right—now it’s
wrong.”
Chandler said that while the
committee agrees that service
in both capacities does consti
tute a conflict of interest and
should not be permitted, “we
cannot make the conflict of in
terest an impeachable offense,
in this case, when the policy
has been to appoint a warden
as a member of the Board of
Corrections since it was first
created in 1946.”
The chairman also said the
committee felt Stanley was
"derelict in his duty...in his ca
pacity as a warden,” but that
the committee does not have
authority to impeach an em
ploye of Jefferson County.
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