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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, December 28,1972
Quake
Shoot to kill ordered
MAN AGUA, Nicaragua (UPI)
—Gen. Anastasio Somoza or
dered troops to shoot to kill
today in enforcing a dusk-to
dawn curfew in the earthquake
destroyed center city in an
effort to “restore Nicaragua’s
honor, our only salavation.”
Officials said National
Guardsmen bullets killed at
least two persons, including a 4-
Hughes may shuck privacy
LONDON (UPI) -Elusive
billionaire Howard Hughes may
abandon his obsession with
privacy—a trait that has made
him the world’s most famous
recluse, one of his closest aides
said today.
“I guess he thinks that life
has been passing him by a
little,” said John Eckersley,
who flew with Hughes from
earthquake-devastated Nicara
gua where Hughes had been
holed up in the Intercontinental
Hotel. They arrived Tuesday in
circumstances which already
have provoked anger from
members of Parliament.
“He (Hughes) is going to
change that,” Eckersley said.
“He is hoping to live more of a
life if people will let him.”
The news from Eckersley
was the first indication in years
that Hughes may be thinking of
changing the style of life which
has kept him an isolated,
invisible man for a quarter of a
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year-old boy, after Somoza
warned over an emrgency radio
broadcast that his troops had
been ordered to kill looters.
Martial law was declared
Saturday but not enforced until
Wednesday.
Somoza said the toughened
measures were taken “to help
protect the people in the area
and restore Nicaragua’s honor,
century.
Hughes’ aides said the
Ixmdon trip had been planned
before the Managua quake, but
was accelerated by it. They
said their wealthy employer
planned to stay in Britain “at
least six months.”
Hughes today was character
istically sealed off from the
outside world. Three locked
doors guarded the ninth floor of
the Inn on the Park, a
fashionable modem hotel oppo
site Hyde Park, where Hughes
and his entourage have a 12-
room suite.
Hotel officials said the entire
floor was out of bounds to
visitors. Newsmen were permit
ted as far as the main door,
accompanied by hotel staffers,
but conversations at the door
went like this:
“Can I speak to Mr. Hughes,
please?”
“Mr. Hughes is not here.
There is no Mr. Hughes here.”
our only salvation.”
Nicaraguan officials said
least 3,000 persons were killed
in the three major tremors
early Saturday. Estimates of
the death toll range up to 10,000
but the total may never be
known because many bodies
are still buried under tons of
rubble.
About three-quarters of the
400,000 population has fled the
city, Managuan officials said.
(In Washington, the Ameri
can Red Cross said it had
received a report from its
team in Managua relaying an
estimate by the United Nations
relief team that feeding pro
grams would have to be
sustained for at least three
months.
(Spokesmen said the Red
Cross team reported that 1,000
bodies were buried in a
common grave on Wednesday.)
U.S. Army engineers spear
headed clean-up efforts Wednes
day and today in the central
part of the capital where rubble
was covered with a fine gray
ash from uncontrolled fires.
“Once we get these streets
clear,” said an officer, “then
they can decide what to do with
the houses and buildings—
what’s left of them.”
U.S. Army and Air Force
troops in green khakis also
worked long hours in portable
field hospitals and set up at
least one refugee relocation
center. A platoon of U.S.
engineeers helped set up blue
and white tents on a dusty
field 2*4 miles south of the city
Wednesday. It was the first
relocation center of several
promised by the Nicaraguan
government to help the home
less.
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua—Wearing a handkerchief to ward off the stench of decaying bodies, a
Nicaraguan soldier stands guard in downtown area of this earthquake-devastated city of
Managua. (UPI)
Some suggestions
for resolutions
NEW YORK (UPI) - Man
kind has been making resolu
tions for centuries. Also
breaking them.
As early as 194 8.C., Plautus
was writing, ”’He means well’
is useless unless he does well.”
A translation of an early
Chinese proverb goes, “One
with lifelong resolution rivals
the loftiness of heaven.”
In 1640, George Herbert
wrote, “The resolved mind hath
no cares.”
In 1875, Henry Wadsworth
Ixmgfellow said, “Resolve and
thou art free.”
And one of the masterful
comments on resolves came
from Oscar Wilde—’’The fatal
ity of good resolutions is that
they are always too late.”
Which brings up the closing
hours of 1972 and the opening of
another year—the traditional
time for trying to make oneself
over or at least improve oneself
in some way with reassessment
and a list of New Year’s
resolutions.
Kept Her Resolutions
As for mine, I kept every
one, not only from 1972 but for
several years past. I’ve just
been recycling them each year.
At present, the 1972 list is in a
file on the den desk. The file’s
marked “pending” and among
other things pending are those
resolutions.
First resolution for 1973.
Clear out the pending file.
I asked some of my
associates in the office about
their resolutions. One of them
said she first would simply try
to straighten out her desk
sufficiently to find last year’s.
Another said his only resolu
tion so far was “to live out the
old year joyously.” He headed
resolutely for a bar, leaving
behind a sheet of paper in his
typewriter that started, “Dear
Mom.”
Behavioral scientists tell us
we make resolutions because
inwardly we know there’s
always room for improvement
and setting aims down on paper
helps enforce the promise to
keep them.
Help Others
We break them because to
err is human and because
ingrained habits are difficult to
change.
In the interests, though, of
offering some encouragement
to myself and perhaps to you,
I’ve made up a suggested list.
You take it from there.
LOVE. In capital letters.
There is too little of it around
and little danger of our over
indulging in this area.
Help others. In today’s busy
world, many of us find excuses
for not realizing that we are all
' a piece of mankind and should
in some way serve. Volunteer
for a charity, a hospital, for
Recording for the Blind, to read
at an old folks’ home. The
areas for service are boundless
and you can make the time.
Remember the saying, “If you
want something done, ask a
busy person to do it.”
Quit procrastinating. Get the
onerous chores out of the way
and leisure then is a pleasure
instead of something to haunt
you.
Practice my religion more
physically too. The effort some
Sundays of dressing and going
to church seems too much. But
a friend of mine who makes
that effort at least each Sunday
says the spiritual lift she gets
lasts her through the week.
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Meals for Skylab
spacemen studied
SPACE CENTER, Houston
(UPI) — The astronauts’ chief
dietician hopes meal time
aboard the Skylab space station
set to start flying this spring
will be something spacemen
will look forward to.
Dr. Malcolm C. Smith, head
of the food and nutrition office
at the Manned Spacecraft
Center, has spent three years
preparing, packaging, testing
and tasting foods for the
nation’s first orbiting laborato
ry-
“It will be like eating in the
same restaurant three times a
day,” Smith said. “We hope the
food won’t become tasteless
and joyless after a few weeks
up there.”
The few weeks will stretch to
four weeks for the first Skylab
crew to go into space May 1.
The next two crews each will
spend eight weeks aboard
Skylab, conducting medical,
earth resources and solar
astronomy experiments.
Separate Menus
The astronauts will spend an
additional 21 days before flight
and 18 days after the flight on a
rigid, balanced diet necessary
for the medical tests, Smith
said.
Space doctors will be looking
for any ill effects from
prolonged weightlessness.
Smith said doctors must be
sure that any physical prob
lems after the flight were not
caused by the food, so the diet
must be carefully planned.
That planning entailed sepa
rate menus for each of the nine
astronauts scheduled to fly and
the six backup astronauts.
“We had to make sure the
diet conformed with their
eating habits,” he said. “Like a
guy that eats bread with his
meals. If he didn’t have bread
with a lot of meals up there, he
wouldn’t be as happy.”
Six Different Meals
All but five days of food per
man will be launched with the
workshop April 30. As each
crew goes to the lab, he will
carry the first five days of
provisions.
There are six different meals
planned for each astronaut. The
same meal will come up in
rotation every sixth day with
such delights as lobster New
burg, filet mignon, spaghetti
and ice cream filling out the
menus.
“We didn’t want the meals to
be on a seven-day rotation
basis,” Smith said. “Then they
would have been able to keep
track of time by what they
were eating.
In memory of my dear
husband Emanuel Lamar
Rest In Peace
You are not forgotten loved
one.
Nor will you ever be.
As long as life and memory
last.
We will remember thee.
We miss you now, our hearts
are sore.
As time goes by, we miss you
more.
Your loving smile, your
gentle face,
No one can fill your vacant
place.
Died Dec. 20, 1970
By wife Mary Alice Lamar,
Daughters & Grandchildren.