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(Editor’s note: Mr. Anderson is one of the most
popular and controversial columnists on the
American scene today. The Home Journal
publishes his special weekly column but by doing
so does not necessarily agree with what Mr.
Anderson writes. His column is not the editorial
opinion of this newspaper. It is published only to
give our readers a wider selection of journalistic
opinion ... the editor.)
WASHINGTON —New evi
dence has come to light that
India and Israel have made
the scientific breakthrough
necessary to develop nuclear
weapons.
We first learned of this
alarming possibility in an in
telligence report which we saw
a few weeks ago. Although the
report offers no conclusive
proof, it quotes reliable
sources who claim that Israel
and India have actually de
veloped atomic weapons.
We have now uncovered a
new document, prepared by an
associate group of the United
Nations, that tends to confirm
the intelligence report.
The U.N. report states that
India has the material and
scientific expertise available to
produce 19 atomic bombs and
that Israel is capable of pro
ducing eight.
One crucial step in making
these bombs is converting plu
tonium found in nuclear power
reactors for use in atomic
weapons. Apparently, the con
version process is no longer a
scientific monopoly among the
five nuclear powers.
BOONDOGGLE CLOSES
DOWN
The biggest construction
boondoggle in history has
quietly closed down in Viet
nam.
Two constructions firms,
Raymond International and
Morrison-Knudsen, started
out in 1962 to build airfields in
South Vietnam. This bur
geoned into a construction
program that transformed
sleepy villages into great air
bases and seaports.
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AUGUST
18- Sidewalk Art Show - Town Square, LaGrange
19 Square Dance - City Recreation Building,
Brunswick
19 Antique Auto Show - Bell Auditorium, Augusta
19- L & M Grand Prix - Road Atlanta,
Gainesville
20 Auto Race - Forsyth County Speedway,
Gumming
20 Snipe Fleet Sailing, Frederica River - St.
Simon’s Island
20- Exhibit - Making the City Observable - High
Museum of Art, Atlanta
22-23 Georgia Apple Festival - City Square, Ellijay
26 Exhibit - Beautiful, Historic St. Simons Island
by Mildred Huie - Left Bank Gallery, St. Simons
Island
26 Country Music Show - Lanierland Country
Music Park, Gumming
26 All Night Gospel Sing - Memorial Stadium,
Waycross
26 Square Dance - City Recreation Building,
Brunswick
26-27 Radio Jamboree - Gracewood Community
Center, Augusta
26-31 Art Show - Bob Dixon - Museum of Arts and
Sciences, Macon
27 Auto Race - Forsyth County Speedway,
Gumming
27 Snipe Fleet Sailing - Frederica River, St.
Simons Island
29 Alfresco Dinner Dance - Beach Club, Sea Island
SEPTEMBER
1 Tarpon Derby - Coastal Area, Brunswick
I*2 Art Show - Bob Dixon - Museum of Arts and
Sciences, Macon
1-3 “Water Sports Weekend *72” - Donaldsonville
1- 4 Jack Oliver Golf Tournament, Valdosta
Country Club - Valdosta
1-4 Powers Crossroads Country Fair and Art
Festival - Newnan
1- Georgia-Carolina Adult Tennis Tournament,
Augusta Tennis Club - Augusta
2- Second Annual Ga. Apple Harvest Fair, Ap-
Pletree Alley - Cornelia
1-30 Exhibit - Foreign Countries - Albany Area
Museum- Albany
PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUG. 17, 1972
Mountains of lumber, steel,
cement and machinery piled
up faster than the construc
tion crews could use the
material. From these dockside
mountains, truckloads of sup
plies frequently disappeared in
the night.
The loss from pilferage has
been estimated over SIOO mil
lion. What supplies weren't
pilfered were often used to
build fancy quarters for com
pany officials and officers'
clubs for the brass.
The losses didn’t come out
of the profits but were merely
charged to the taxpayers. For
the construction firms had a
cost-plus-fixed-fee contract.
This was clearly the biggest
windfall that had ever blown
their way.
In early 1965, two more
firms, Brown and Root and
J.A. Jones, were cut in tor a
share. Together, they formed
RMK-BRJ, which signed con
tracts to complete history’s
largest construction job.
It is an interesting coinci
dence that the Brown and
Root firm, whose owners help
ed finance the political career
of Lyndon B. Johnson, was
dealt into the contract after
Johnson became president.
With the profits quaranteed
under the contract, the giant
combine never spared the tax
payers' money. It went
through nearly two billion
dollars in government green
like a cow through clover.
Now, the big construction
bays'afd’quietly packing their
tools and going home.
THE DIRTY DOZEN
The environmentalists have
all but given up hope that they
can make ecology a major
issue in the presidential race
this fall. So they are concen
trating on the elections in the
House and Senate.
They have singled out 12
congressmen —dubbed the
Dirty Dozen— for defeat. The
number one target of the envi
ronmental movement is
Wayne Aspinall, the chairman
of the House Interior Commit
tee,
At 76, Aspinall probably
has more influence than any
man in America over govern
ment land policy. His critics
charge that his record is the
dirtiest one in Congress.
He has opened wilderness
areas to mining operations. He
has supported an amendment
that would repeal the Presi
dent's authority to establish
national monuments. He has
spoken out against establish
ing a big redwoods national
park. Once, he even supported
a dam that would have backed
water into the Grand Canyon
National Park.
He devoutly believes that
America should exploit its
natural resources rather than
preserve them.
Aspinall boasts that he has
never lost a committee bill on
the House floor. But he suffer
ed a moral setback this sum
mer when the Colorado state
Democratic party refused to
endorse him and instead en
dorsed his opponent, law pro
fessor Alan Merson.
The showdown between
Merson and Aspinall will take
place in the Democratic pri
mary, September 12. Environ
mental groups plan to lead the
fight against the dirtiest of the
Dirty Dozen.
IT’S BUGGING GOP
The confident smiles around
Republican campaign head
quarters these days quickly
turn to nervous frowns at the
mention of one subject: the
bugging of the Democratic
National Committee. No one
knows what turn the bizarre
espisode will take next, but
the signs always seem to point
toward the White House.
The most damaging disclo
sure so far is that a $25,000
check, intended for President
Nixon’s re-election campaign,
somehow ended up in the bank
account of one of the men
arrested in the bugging inci
dent. What’s more, two offi
cials of the President’s cam
paign organization left sud
denly after the FBI began
investigating.
Adding to the intrigue, a
White House consultant
named Howard Hunt was list
ed in the address books of two
of the men arrested in the case.
Hunt, meanwhile, dropped out
of sight when his name became
connected with the case.
Officials now are trying to
play down Hunt's White
House connections, but em
barrassing details keep popp
ing up. I have learned, for
example, that Hunt and his
wife were present at a White
House soiree last year.
The bugging caper has not
yet exploded into a major,
election-year scandal. But the
ingredients are all there and
they are making the Republi
cans extremely nervous.
ELECTION BRIEFS
•The White House has been
noticeably reluctant to fire any
of its customary broadsides
against the media in recent
weeks. Even Spiro Agnew has
been on good behavior. The
reason: President Nixon does
not want to discredit the press
while it is focusing on George
McGovern’s problems.
Now that McGovern has
finally patched up the Eagle
ton affair. President Nixon’s
undeclared truce with the
media is likely to come to an
end. We expect any day now
new charges from the White
House that the TV networks
and liberal newspapers are
biased in their reporting in
favor of McGovern.
•Despite the polls, it is still
too early to count McGovern
out of the presidential race.
But McGovern insiders admit
that the next few weeks will be
crucial to their man’s chances.
Unless McGovern begins to
move up dramatically in the
polls this month, even Demo
crats predict that he will lose
in November and lose badly.
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Rev. Dick Reese
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“We know that all things
work together for good to
them that love God.”
(Romans 8:28)
these words from the book
of Romans are a marvelous
statement of the faith which
possessed the apostle Paul.
Paul did not come to this
important conclusion while
sitting in an easy chair
removed from the
challenging issues of life. It
was not a product of his
mind, but a statement of his
own experience. It had
proven to be a reality in his
own life that “all things work
together for good to them
that love God.”
Paul had traveled most of
the known world of his day.
He had suffered more than
most men. There had been
times of great difficulty. But
through it all he had come
to the realization that
somehow, under the
guidance of God, all things
work out for the good. This
was not something Paul
hoped for, it was an ex
pression of his faith based on
his experience.
You and I need this kind of
assurance concerning life.
But we don’t come to it
simply by desiring it. We
come to it by stages as we
experience God’s love
and concern for each
of us and for all his
creation. We can make a
good beginning when we
realize that under God all
things work. Nothing that
happens to us is
meaningless. Every ex
perience is a part of us. At
the close of each day we are
not the same person we were
at the beginning of that day.
All things work and their
effect is never lost because it
becomes a part of us.
We move to the next step
and learn that all things,
under God, work together.
One day’s tears are balanced
by another day’s joys. It is
not always easy to see
beyond the experience of the
present moment, but under
God this moment is con
nected with every other
moment, and all work
together.
The highest step is to be
able to see that under God all
things together for good.
This is the breath-taking
goal of God’s creation. The
goal is not happiness, or
prosperity, or comfort, or
success, or a million other
things we might name. The
goal of God’s creation is
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goodness. ‘‘God created ...
and saw that it was good.”
Paul had discovered that
as he lived each day, not all
things pleased him. But
because he loved God, he
came to see that all things
taken together worked for
good. This was the con
fession of Paul’s faith. Is it
yours?
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Dear Mr. Branch:
I am a student at West
Georgia College, and I
receive your newspaper
each week. I enjoy reading
the hometown news but I am
often so busy I only have
time for a quick glance at the
headlines. So it was not until
this week that I noticed your
relatively new column by
Jack Anderson.
Although Mr. Anderson is
a distinguished and ex
perienced newsman, he
exceeded his editorial
license in his recent com
ments on former Vice-
Presidential candidate
, Thomas Eagle ton. Although
I was not an avid supporter
of George McGovern’s
running mate, I felt that no
one under fire for what is a
relatively common type of
mental illness, should have
been exposed to drunken
driving charges for which
the reporter had no
evidence.
Although Mr. Anderson
retracted the charges, the
damage had already been
done. It is fine for Anderson
to bury the hatchet after he
had beheaded Eagleton
politically. I feel that his
actions must have been
evoked from some personal
malice he held for Eagleton.
Otherwise, a seasoned
reporter like himself would
not have written such an
article without proper proof
of his statements.
It is for these reasons that
I am slightly chagrined to
find this type of com
mentator’s article in what is
otherwise a fine newspaper.
I was particularly glad to be
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