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THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS-JUNE 29. 1972-
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Established 1908
Tony Maddox, Editor & Publisher
Minor Martin, Advertising Mgr.
John 0. Solesbee, News Editor
Published every Thursday by The Forsyth County
News Company. Second Class Postage paid at: Post
Office in Cumming, Georgia under Act of March Bth
in 1897. Subscription rates in Forsyth and adjoining
counties, $4.12 per year, including State Salas Tax.,
elsewhere, $5.15 per year.
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BEBE REBOZO: BEHIND BUGGING?
HHH, MUSKIE AGREE ON ACTION;
WAS LUMBER PRESSURE APPLIED?
By Jack Anderson
1972 Pulitzer Prize Winner for National Reporting
(Copyright, 1972, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
WASHINGTON-President
Nixon’s favorite Cuban, Bebe
Rebozo, has been associated
through a Miami real estate
firm with the Cuban buggihg
crew that allegedly attempted
to install listening devices
inside Democratic party head
quarters.
The suspected leader of the
bugging crew, Bernard Bar
ker, is a joint investor in real
estate developments with Mi
guel Suarez. Cuban sources
tell us that Rebozo has been
involved in some of their deals.
v We were unable to reach
Rebozo or Suarez for com
ment. However, we managed
to slip into the D. C. jail to
talk to the suspects. They
denied that Rebozo had
anything to do with the
bugging attempt. But they
acknowledged that their hotel
accomodations at the fashion
able Watergate and all their
legal expenses have been
provided by a mysterious
benefactor.
Meanwhile, Manuel Giber
ga, the Cuban-American Co
ordinator of the Republican
National Committee, and Re
bozo are blaming each other
for the bizarre bugging epi
sode.
—Stop George!
The 1968 Democratic run
ning mates, Hubert Humph
rey and Ed Muskie, are
working together again. They
have quietly joined forces to
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Familiarity
And Unfamiliarity
stop George McGovern from
winning the 1972 presidential
nomination.
A few weeks ago, Hum
phrey and Muskie met quietly
for breakfast at Muskie's
home. They compared notes
and agreed to keep in touch.
Muskie mentioned that he was
sore at McGovern over some
remarks he had made during
the Wisconsin primary.
The two 1968 nominees met
again at six o’clock the
evening before Muskie an
nounced he would stay in the
race. Muskie was tempted to
end the agony and throw his
support to McGovern. This
would have wrapped up the
nomination for McGovern.
But Humphrey urged him to
hold out against the front
runner.
Humphrey and Muskie
made no secret deal to support
one another if their own
fortunes faltered at the Miami
convention. They agreed only
to join in stopping McGovern.
According to Humphrey's
private arithmetic, McGovern
can muster a maximum of
1,345 votes. This would be 164
votes short of the nomination.
Humphrey argued, there
fore, that the majority are
opposed to McGovern. The
only question is whether they
can find someone else they can
agree upon.
-’Timber’! -
Our national forests are
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Threatening Murder Is ‘Absurd’
Dear Sir:
I would like to respond to a
letter titled “Why Show
Mercy?"
Punishment Is a tool - no
thing else! To try to control
Individuals who murder by th
reatening murder by the state is
absurd. There are societies who
are more successful in pre
venting violent crimes. The Co
mmunist society of China is an
example. They are, as we would
say, very permissive with their
criminals. Could It be that our
obsession with punishment is
also the source and motivation
of much of our crime?
There is no permanent dlf-
rapidly being depleted by
timber harvesting. Designated
areas are completely leveled
with the full approval of the
National Park service. This is
good for the giant timber
companies, if not for our
forests.
It’s not that the lumber is
desperately needed in the
United States. A huge portion
—some two billion board feet a
year -- is exported, most of it
to Japan. Some is shipped
back to us as expensive
plywood.
Senator Robert Packwood,
R-Ore., decided a few weeks
ago to put a stop to this. His
figures showed the United
States would face a serious
timber shortage in a few years.
He announced he would
introduce a bill banning the
export of timber from our
national forests.
One day later, he made
another announcement.
He said he had changed his
mind.
Our sources tell us the
Nixon Administration
brought pressure on him to
change his mind.
Packwood denied any pres
sure. The real reason he
dropped his plan to ban timber
exports, he told us, was simply
because he found out he
couldn't win. The timber
lobby, he said, was too
powerful.
Bleak Homecoming
President Nixon has now
deactivated all American
ground combat units in
Vietnam. But the returning
troops are coming home to a
bleak reception.
Many of them can't find de
cent jobs. The disabled are
consignee! to veterans hospit
als. where conditions are
terrible. The thousands of
disabled Gls who manage to
rejoin society find the military
bureaucracy won't leave them
alone.
Consider the case of Ser
geant Bill Richardson of
Springfield, 111. He stepped on
ference between a decent person
and a criminal person. The
difference Is temporary. When
we deal with criminals we deal
with ourselves at another time
and under altered circumstanc
es. If, as my friend’s letter
states, “a person that kills—
gives up any rights that he had*’,
then it follows that none of us
have any rights. We decent peo
ple kill through our agents -
the state, the Army, the police,
the hired, etc. If, as Jesus said,
the wish is of close kinship
with the act, then even the pure
at heart are not so pure after
all.
Putting down the criminal is
a mine in Vietnam and lost
both legs. He made it home
only to see his marriage break
up. Then came a letter from
the Army. There had been an
overpayment, the memo said.
He owed the Army $212.34.
Richardson paid the money. A
few months later, he got
another Army memo. This
time, the bill was for an
additional $1,900.
Another legless veteran
from North Carolina put in an
application for what is known
as a “wheelchair home.” The
first thing the Veterans
Administration did was de
mand a physical examination
to see if his condition has
improved. The V.A.then en
tangled the hapless ex-soldier
in red tape for eight months. It
took letters to his senators to
cut through the red tape.
Whether we believe in the
war or not, the least we can do
is take care of our returned
veterans.
Peking Talks—
Henry Kissinger, President
Nixon’s foreign policy czar, is
engaged in his second round of
talks with top Chinese leaders.
The meetings, as usual, have
been cloaked in secrecy.
But we have had access to
Kissinger's reports from Pe-'
king, hot off the secret
diplomatic wires. Kissinger
reports little good news.
There’s small hope, he says,
that the Chinese will intervene
in the Vietnam negotiations.
The cables describe Chou
En-lai-the cagey Chinese pre
mier-as cordial but cautious.
Meanwhile, the rift between
Hanoi and Moscow is deepen
ing. Hanoi, according to the
secret cable traffic, is still
furious that the Soviet Union
did nothing to stop the U.S.
mining of Haiphong harbor a
month ago.
Soviet President Podgorny
visited Hanoi last week to
placate the North Vietnamese.
But Hanoi wants more arms
from the Russians, not words
of friendship.
merely one way of trying to
control our own criminal im
pulses. In organized crime the
! high-class criminal does his
violence through an agent or a
hired underling. In this respect
he is similar to the good, res
pectable citizen who organizes
his violence in a legal way and
calls it the military, the law,
ETC. You see, violence becomes
an unconscious burden pre
cisely when it Is consciously
or legally accepted as good.
We have too many unimportant
definitions of values which
falsify our life. Crime, war, po
verty, etc. are close relations.
What Is intelligent about supp
orting one end of a psycholo
gical thing (as in Vietnam) and
resist the other end (as crime
at home)? All of the parts of our
life are related. What Is really
Hughes, Here!
By Jan Hughes
Someone said, “they were flying fifty flags on their front
lawn this Flag Day simply because they love this country
so much.” In Ohio, what a great attitude!
In Georgia, on my way to Athens last Wednesday, it occ
urred to me Just how fantastic Georgia and this nation really is.
The Southern scenery was something like, “O World! I Can
Not Whole Thee Close Enough.’*
As people drove to their homes for dinner and an evening
with their families a freight train rolled down the track. What
a proud feeling to feel—l Am An American, and to realize,
we can never escape an organized style of life. Certainly,
all of us are having to adjust to the changes in this Country
and world; yet, we all feel a sense of worth as we while back over
the historical adventures and events which made tills Nation of
America, : so great.
Turning your eyes to Dallas, Texas, can you believe the succ
ess of the Expo ‘72? From ages 18 to 25, 100,000 young people
gathered at the Cotton Bowl from every state of the Nation and
other countries of the world to learn about their roles in witness
ing for Jesus Christ. According to the Billy Graham Crusaae,
now, they will go back into their home towns like Cumming,
Georgia, and tell others, I hope, people must have a set oi
convictions if they are to function with successful meaning.
With things like this being reported from all sections of the
nation, don’t your thoughts lead to the unveiling of a new hor
izon in which America will awake to its mistakes and move into
the future with a clearer understanding of Peace and Love?
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Important, to prevent crime
or to punish crime? The sweat
and nysterla associated with
being for or against a thing is
too often a cover for an oppo
site tendency.
We good, respectable people
'have made crime prosper by
splitting our world into neat lit
tle parts of this and that and
then trying to deal with each
part as if it were a whole.
Religion, government, money,
education, race, war, crime,
law, sickness, etc. are each unto
themselves nice little provinces
of the typical American’s mind.
Life as a whole never disturbs
him.
Thanks,
A Reader
Johnny Solesbee
Write On!
Highway Hazards
Vacation time is coming up from now until this fall sometime
and this means additional hazards on the highways as Ameri
cans take to the roads.
The challenge of a driving vacation is no longer whether your
car will make the trip, or if you’ll find where you’re wanting
to go. The challenge these days is whether you can out guess
what the other drivers are going to do and if you can out guess
them, whether you can out guess them in time to avoid an
accident.
Pve adopted some self-made rules to help me outguess
the other drivers. In case it help somebody else, Pll
share them.
—A good rule of the thumb is to never trust anyone (including
yourself) driving a modern automobile. Automobiles are subject
to defects and can careen off embankments or across centerlines
with little or no effort on your part. Automobiles are especially
notorious for careening across centerlines even if the yellow
line is to the right.
—Beware of all cars that drive along slowly. Don’t pass them
at the first opportunity but make sure to pass them at the second
opportunity which is usually on a hill or in a curve. Slow moving
cars either have defects, old people who can hardly see (like I
said, defects) or they're unmarked “Fuzz” cars looking for jail
bait.
—Beware of all Volkswagens. They usually contain business
men who have to travel a lot and get there in a hurry. Or they
contain Mothers taking the neighborhood kids to swimming les
sons and who has to reach in the back seat sporadically to whop
a shape-up lick.
—Beware of Cadillacs because they contain businessmen who
have been there already. Or they contain people who are subject
to hallucinations from malnutrition and who swerve this way and
that. You never know who’s driving until you follow them to their
house. ,
—Beware of Corvettes because they can zoom by fast enough
to create a whirlwind and can go fast enough to create halluc
inations even for the most well-nourished individual.
—Beware of Ramblers, Valiants, Vegas, Pintos and other
similar models because they usually contain ladies who*ve just
been to the beauty parlor and have to give a post-parlor ins
pection in the rear view mirror while meeting Mercedes’ with
ladies just going to the beauty parlor.
—Beware of LTDs because they contain a variety of people
and their rear bumpers are very expensive. I know. I bought
one once because I didn’t beware.
—Beware of fire engine red Gremlins. They’re a relatively
new breed of car and carry all kinds of folks and at least one
reporter who drives along with a mind wandering on every sub
ject except driving. 1
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