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Moynihan
‘JFe are not intimidated. We are
not afraid. We will not take care’
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPI) -
Daniel Patrick Moynihan glared across
the Security Council table Friday night
at Yakov A. Malik, ambassador of the
Soviet Union. He leaned forward in his
chair and in measured tones told the
acidtongued Russian:
“We are not intimidated. We are not
afraid. We will not ‘take care’.
“We do not give a ...! ”
Moynihan, maverick of American
diplomacy, was in the closing phase of
an eight-month stint as U.S.
ambassador to the United Nations.
Noting his tenure as president of this
group this month, Malik said it was a
“swan song.”
Then the Soviet diplomat noted that
“one permanent representative and a
secretary of state” had sought to distort
Moscow’s position concerning Angola,
where the Soviet Union and Cuba back
one side in the former Portuguese
territory’s civil fighting. He called this
an “anti-Soviet fabrication” and
warned Moscow’s critics to “take
care”.
Casting aside presidential
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impartiality to speak as the U.S.
delegate, Moynihan stormed back at
Malik, who sought to head him off by
saying that the council was considering
an issue between France and the
Comoros Republic, a four-island group
in the Indian Ocean.
“I will say in the most solemn terms,
sir, that we have gone under your
direction, and at your initiative, from
discussing the Comoros Archipelago to
evoking the Gulag Archipelago,”
Moynihan said.
“It is said that this representative
and his secretary of state have
‘shamelessly been making slanderous
charges against the Soviet Union to the
effect that it intends to colonize Africa’.
‘“Take care,’ we are told, beware
your ‘anti-Soviet fabrications.’
“Now, gentlemen, the distinguished
ambassador may speak as any of you
may speak, as he will, of this
ambassador. Do not, however, presume
to speak of my secretary of state in
such terms. Do not address the
secretary of state in the language of a
purge trial.”
ATLANTA (UPI) - When Lt. Gov.
Zell Miller asked Gigi Leverette if she’d
like to be the one of the first women
doorkeepers of the Georgia Senate, she
jumped at the chance.
The petite blonde had developed an
interest in politics when she was 10 and
her father ran for sheriff of Butts
County.
He lost, but Gigi got a thrill out of
passing out campaign literature on
street comers, attending campaign
functions, and just meeting people and
asking them to vote.
“Who would listen to a 10-year-old
girl saying vote for somebody?” she
exclaimed. “But that’s what I did.”
Since those early campaign days,
Gigi, a bubbling 19-yearold, has been
actively pursuing a life in politics.
Last year, she became the youngest
member of the state Democratic
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Wallace: evil times
Carter raps article
Wallace
ATLANTA (UPI) - Gov. George
Wallace of Alabama said Friday night
“social experimenters” have allowed
American military might to slip below
Soviet strength, and predicted missile
competition and control of the seas will
be major issues in next November’s
presidential election.
“I predict that by the first, by
November, that you’re going to hear
more talk about the missile gap, you’re
going to hear more talk about the sea
lanes, which is very important to this
country,” Wallace told the Atlanta
Jaycees.
“And those social experimenters who
want to take all the resources of our
country, and bring our armed forces
down below that of the Soviet Union —
which they already are — are in for evil
times in the future,” he said.
Interrupting his presidential
campaign in the Florida primary for a
brief stop in Atlanta, Wallace applied
the “social experimenters” label
equally to the judiciary and executive
branches of government. He said
judges have experimented with busing
while administrators have toyed with
complex guidelines for private business
and ignored inflation and recession in
favor of welfare and military ex
periments.
“I think that’s one of the number-one
issues that faces the people of our
country, it’s whether or not we can
negotiate in the future with the Soviet
Union from a position of strength,” said
Wallace. “That’s the only way you can
do it.
The only war that you’ve ever wot is
the war that you didn’t fight — and the
only way to prevent war, and not be a
warmonger, is to be one that says that
until we know that our adversaries are
disarming, and it can be shown and
proven, that we’re not going to risk it,”
he said.
Domestically, Wallace said, business
is hamstrung by conflicting federal
requirements and guidelines written,
he said, by administrators with no
practical experience in the
marketplace. He said the schools and
criminal justice system is similarly run
by “bureaucrats” far removed from
the problems with which they deal.
The Country Parson
Executive Committee and was named
to Who’s Who in American Politics. She
had worked the previous year as a
volunteer in Miller’s campaign for
lieutenant governor.
“I thought he had a lot of good ideas
about what ought to be done in
government,” she said.
This year, she and Adrienne Jones, a
Clark College student, became the first
women named as assistant Senate
doorkeepers.
Before the legislative session
convened, Miller announced a plan to
name the president of the Georgia
Jaycees as doorkeeper in order to keep
political favoritism out of the appoint
ment. His announcement stirred
protests from women who complained
Miller’s plan was discriminatory
because the Jaycees did not admit
women.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday Afternoon, February 7,1976
Carter
ATLANTA (UPI) — Jimmy Carter’s
presidential campaign staff has issued
a 22-page, point-by-point rebuttal to a
forthcoming national magazine article
that describes Carter as an insincere
opportunist.
The statement labels the copyrighted
article entitled “Jimmy Carter’s
Pathetic Lies” to appear in the March
issue of Harper’s Magazine a “gross
distortion” and accuses writer Stephen
Brill of misquoting sources and
reporting untruths.
The statement calling the article a
“trip through distorted trivia,”
prepared by Carter press secretary
Jody Powell, was released Friday after
three days research by campaign
aides.
“Jimmy Carter’s campaign is the
most sincerely insincere, politically
anti-political, and slickly unslick one of
the year,” writes Brill.
—Brill quotes the former Georgia
governor as telling him Sen. George
McGovern’s “biggest mistake” in his
1972 presidential campaign was “he
never should have made the Vietnam
War an issue.” Powell charges the
quote “is a fabrication.”
—Brill quotes public relations man
Ray Abernathy as saying the 1970
Carter gubernatorial campaign
financed advertising for opponent C.B.
King in order to take votes away from
candidate former Gov. Carl Sanders.
Brill reports Abernathy worked for
the Carter campaign but Powell says
“Abernathy never worked on the
Carter account. His work was directly
with a C.B. King supporter, the spots
were not paid for by the Carter
campaign ... “
—Brill quotes Carter as calling
former Gov. Lester Maddox “the
essence of the Democratic party.”
Powell says Carter praised “the way
Maddox campaigned ... as the essence
of the Democratic party.”
—Brill reports Carter “now says that
although he is against busing, he does
not favor a constitutional amendment
to ban it. But in 1972 he praised a
Georgia legislative resolution calling
on Congress to pass such an
amendment ... ” Powell says when a
statewide boycott protesting busing
threatened to close public schools
“Carter suggested instead that a
legislative resolution on busing would
be a more appropriate expression of
discontent.”
“If nobody ever got up after
falling down, we’d all be on the
ground.”
When the session started, the state
had two women doorkeepers.
“I think its great being the first. I
think more women should be in jobs like
this,” said Gigi.
She said Miller, the Senate’s
presiding officer, was attending a
banquet in her hometown of Jackson
last year when he approached her about
the doorkeeper’s position, which pays
$27 a day.
“I’d do it volunteer,” she said. “If he
had said it’s a volunteer job, I’d have
grabbed it.”
When she got the job, Gigi had
decided to skip a semester or two at Tift
College in Forsyth. Now she says “it
will be a surprise to me if I go back.”
The school doesn’t offer a major in
political science, and that is what she
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Peach expert Dr. E. F. Savage checks buds on trees at Experiment Station and
says this and other sections of the state have had enough cold hours to moke a
good crop. If the favorable weather conditions continue, the crop this year
should be a good one, Dr. Savage indicated. But he said there are many other
factors which figure in a crop and only time will tell if all of them work together
for a crop.
News summary
By United Press International
Moat protection
ROCKPORT, Tex. (UPI) - Warren
“Gator” Lynch, 45, an alligator
rancher, was on probation on a
marijuana conviction last October.
When he was arrested on a charge of
possessing 20 pounds of marijuana
earlier in the week, he violated that
probation.
Surgery today
BOSTON (UPI) — Nancy Kissinger is
scheduled to undergo surgery today to
remove part of her stomach to cure a
chronic gastric ulcer.
Dr. Gerald Austen, chief surgeon at
Massachusetts General Hospital, said,
“Results under these circumstances
are almost always quite satisfactory. In
general, no further treatment is
required after convalescence.”
Outlook good
Nixon to visit
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (UPI) —
Former President Richard Nixon will
visit Peking on the fourth anniversary
of his first visit there that reopened
Sino-American relations.
China is sending a jet to
ferry Nixon back to China.
Black Jack dead
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The last
“Army-issue” horse, Black Jack, was
put to sleep Friday, because of old age
and related illnesses. He was 20—
comparable to more than 100 in
humans. He was the last horse to carry
the “U.S.” brand and grew old serving
as the riderless horse for the nation’s
dead heroes.
Gigi
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