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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, August 10,1972
Kidnap surge may prompt
FBI to beef up its force
WASHINGTON (UPI)-Pre
dicting a resurgence of kidnap
ings in the wake of the
hijacking craze, acting FBI
Director L. Patrick Gray 111
said today he may have to ask
Congress for supplemental
funds to beef up his force of
nearly 9,000 agents.
Gray said in an interview he
would justify the need for more
agents because of “the in
creased amount of crime
occurring in certain areas
which require instant diversion
of agents.” He listed hijacking,
kidnaping, bank robberies and
bombings.
“I don’t have that many
agents to work with when you
consider all I have to do,” Gray
said, mentioning the recent
hijacking to Algeria and the
record $1 million ransom paid
kidnapers of the wife of a
Minneapolis financier as cases
which required instant assign
ment of many agents.
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"We just had another a few
hours ago,” Gray said, punch
ing a button on the huge
console beside his desk to check
the facts in the most recent
kidnaping of the son of a
wealthy Visalia, Calif., rancher.
“I think we’re going to see
more kidna pings stem from the
hijacking of aircraft,” Gray
predicted. “It’s really an
outgrowth of air piracy cases.
Others are beginning to see
how easy money is to take and
they say to themselves, ‘We’ll
jolly well take someone and ask
for ransom.’”
The late J. Edgar Hoover,
whom Gray succeeded last May
3, did not request any more
staff when he made his annual
appearance before the House
Appropriations Committee.
Gray, who had been selected
to become deputy attorney
general until Hoover’s death,
ranged over many topics as he
talked for more than an hour
about his 14 weeks in the office
occupied for 48 years by the
founder of the FBI.
He said the first two women
accepted as agent-applicants
once he removed Hoover’s all
male ban were “doing very
well” in their 14-week training
period at the FBI academy at
Quantico, Va.
Gray disclosed that he
probably will not fill two top-
U.S. engineers tackle
Panama’s swamplands
By PENNY LERNOUX
Copley News Service
BOGOTA — In the forbidding
swamplands and jungles of the
Darien Isthmus, where the sun
is only a shadow, men are
working to achieve a decades
old dream of uniting North and
South America.
By 1977, the plan is, traveler
will be able to drive from
Alaska to Tierra del Fuego
along the 16,533-mile uninter
rupted Pan-American High
way. The impenetrable Darien
Gap, which separates Panama
from South America and is the
only uncompleted section of the
highway, will be no more.
Backed by U.S. financial and
technical support, Panama and
Colombia have begun construc
tion of the $l5O million, 266-mile
Darien road on each side of the
gap. Like the construction of
the Panama Canal, the Darien
road promises to be an epoch
making project not only be
cause of the physical chal
lenges of the terrain but also
because of its far-reaching con
sequences for hemisphere rela
tions.
Site of the Spaniards' first
settlement on the mainland, the
Darien Isthmus is a literal
green hell where giant ants
compete with hoards of mos
quitos, scorpions, snakes, sting
rays, electric eels and alliga
tors in a swamp sea that ex
tends the breadth of the isth
mus along the right bank of the
Atrato River. The fetid, brack
ish waters are covered with a
surface growth of vegetation
and are deep enough to cover a
man to his shoulders should he
be foolish enough to venture
from his canoe.
A land of eternal rains, the
Darien Isthmus has the second
highest annual precipitation in
the world.
Kelvin Kent, second-in-com-
level vacancies in the FBI
because the structure of the
hierarchy established by Hoov
er “doesn’t comport with the
way I like to operate.”
After Hoover died, two key
men, who had held the title of
assistants to the director,
retired. They were Alex Rosen,
who was in charge of all
investigations, and John P.
Mohr, who was responsible for
rnand of a British expedition
which recently spent three
months crossing the Darien in
4-wheel-drive trucks, described
the terrain as among the
world’s most difficult.
Kent, who climbed Nepal’s
26,504-foot Annapurna Peak in
1970, said that compared with
his Annapurna ascent or even
climbing the highest peak in
the Himalayas, the Darien
crossing was “more difficult
and much harder.”
“When I compare this with
the jungles of Borneo and
Malaya, I think that the Darien
is infinitely worse.”
The 61-man expedition has
had many predecessors. As
early as 1927, a Brazilian mo
torist tried driving from Rio de
Janeiro to New York. It took
him two years and, unable to
penetrate the Darien, he made
that part of the trip by boat in
stead.
Various U.S. Army and sci
entific expeditions have cov
ered the Panamanian portion
of the gap by Jeep. However, as
the British team proved, the
most difficult part is on the
Colombian side in the no-man’s
swampland between the Atrato
River and the appropriately
named Lomas Aislads (Iso
lated Hills).
In a dress rehearsal of what
is to come, the expedition's
engineers and scientists, along
with hardy members of the
Panamanian National Guard
and the Colombian navy and
army, spent most of their time
trying to find suitable routes
through the swamps and
jungle. Trees had to be dyna
mited. Reconnaissance teams
walked through miles of terrain
that would never support a
road. Supplies had to be flown
by helicopter from Panama to
a specially constructed air
field. Malaria, yellow fever and
dysentery depleted the expedi-
all administrative matters.
“I [refer to deal more
directly with the No. 2 man,”
Gray explained, referring to W.
Mark Felt, whom Hoover
promoted to the No. 3 spot
behind his longtime friend and
associate director, Clyde A.
Tolson. The ailing Tolson quit
the day after Hoover’s death
May 2.
tion’s members, and regular
reinforcements were sought
from Colombia and Panama.
Only the quick action of a
Colombian worker saved the
life of a British engineer from a
deadly snake bite.
The Colombian and Pana
manian governments are well
aware of what faces them in the
Darien. Though many of the
studies and some of the work
will be done by the Latins, they
will receive aid from U.S. gov
ernment technicians. The
United States also will provide
two-thirds of the money.
U.S., Colombian, Panamani
an or mixed companies will be
eligible for participation in the
bidding for construction work.
Due to heavy rains, teams
will work at different points
along the gap during the rela
tively dry weeks in order to ac
celerate the work. In addition
to the Atrato swamps, the most
difficult construction job will
be a sl3 million, 1.1-mile bridge
spanning the Atrato River.
The Colombian public works
minister says the Darien strip
will be paved two years after
the dirt road’s completion.
While the Darien is being built
the government will pave the
Pan-American Highway, now a
dirt road, between Turbo,
where the Darien will connect
with the highway, and the in
dustrial city of Medellin 238
miles south.
Davis
lead
increases
ATLANTA (UPI) -Georgia’s
Seventh District congressman,
John W. Davis, increased his
lead over opponent Dr. Larry
McDonald as returns continued
to trickle in today from moun
tain precincts in northwest
Georgia.
With 153 of 170 precincts in
the district reporting, unofficial
returns gave Davis, of Summer
ville, 35,257 votes to 32,152 for
McDonald, an admitted mem
ber of the John Birch Society
from Marietta.
Nixon secluded
at Camp David
THURMONT, Md. (UPI)-
President Nixon has secluded
himself at the Camp David
mountain retreat to review
material for his acceptance
speech at the Republican
national convention Aug. 23.
The President was expected
to return to Washington later
today, concluding a three-day
stay in which he concentrated
on his re-election campaign.
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CHESSINGTON, SURREY, England—Bella, a baby elephant at Chessington Zoo, is not on a diet,
hunger strike, or worried over the dock strike. The sign on her forehead is simply a warning,
provided by her keepers who have already seen one elephant at the zoo die due to thoughtless
feeding. (UPI)
Mideast picture changing
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Soviet planes no longer fly
surveillance over U.S. 6th Fleet
units in the Mediterranean,
according to Israeli reports.
Naval facilities at Alexandria,
Matruh and Salum have re
turned to Egyptian command.
The withdrawal of an esti
mated 15,000 to 20,000 Soviet
military advisers, pilots and
technicians is reported going
faster than expected and to be
more complete than had been
believed.
The United States is pleased
because it believes chances now
are improved for direct Israeli-
Egyptian negotiations to settle
the Mideast war. The Chinese
are pleased because they
believe they now can hold up
results of President Nixon’s
Commentary
summit meeting in Moscow to
the Arabs as an example of
Soviet perfidy.
They declare the Moscow
accords were reached at the
expense of the Arabs.
Russian are Withdrawing
All these are evidences of far
reaching change in the Middle
East. The Russians, after
advancing the Egyptians some
$5 billion in loan for Russian
arms, are withdrawing as if at
the normal end of a military
assistance program.
But there is an important
residue left from that first $350
million arms deal negotiated
between Communist Czechoslo
vakia and Egypt in 1955. It is
the remaining Russian in
fluence on Egyptian industry
and foreign trade.
By accident, or farseeing
design, the Egyptian oil indus
try is just about the only major
project in which the Russians
are not involved.
The oil industry is being
developed with the help of U.S.
companies and, despite the loss
of its Sinai field to Israel,
Egypt is now an oil exporter.
A Russian credit of $1 billion
is helping to build small
factories throughout the coun
try. These include fertilizer and
other chemicals, automobiles
assembly plants and a growing
iron and steel industry.
Other Projects
Other projects undertaken
with Soviet aid include an
aluminum plant, footwear and
textiles.
At Alexandria a shipyard
equipped and supervised by the
Soviets is turning out merchant
ships for the Egyptians and
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small tankers for the Soviets.
In fact, the Soviet will take
about 25 per cent of all of
Egypt’s exports as part of a
developing campaign to absorb
nations outside the Communist
bloc into the Soviets’ economic
framework.
The pyramids have been
described as Egypt’s link with
the past, the $1 billion Aswan
Dam built with Soviet assis
tance its links with the future.
Its hydro-electric power is to
spread across Egypt and its
backed-up water supply to
irrigate two million acres.