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Wednesday •August 22, 1979
Young’s views different
By ROBERT SHEPARD
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The 15 Americans
who have served as ambassador to the
United Nations varied widely in their view
of that world body and perhaps none dif
fered more than Andrew Young and his
immediate predecessor, Daniel
Moynihan.
Their sharply contrasting attitudes were
outlined earlier this year when both Young
and Moynihan testified before the House
Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Moynihan, now a Democratic senator
from New York, saw the United Nations as
an organization threatened with takeover
by Soviet spies and a place where U.S.
ideals and influence were in rapid decline.
Young, more optimistic, saw the world
body reclaiming some of its effectiveness
as an organization where progress could be
made in solving international problems.
His unauthorized dealing with another
U.N. figure — the representative of the
Palestine Liberation Organization —
clearly was in keeping with that view. But
it also caused Young’s downfall.
Moynihan offered the thesis “that the
United States intellectual influence in
both UNESCO and the United Nations at
large has declined dramatically.”
He blamed the decline on U.S. un
willingness “to propound and defend the
liberal principles which ought properly to
govern those organizations.”
Moynihan complained that because of
the increased U.N. membership — largely
the result of new Third World countries —
and changes in international politics, the
United Nations was being steered away
from the “western liberal” principles on
which it was founded.
The Soviets and others have “proceded
to distort the procedures of the body and
we have not resisted this,” he said.
In his own testimony. Young addressed
the frustration expressed by Moynihan
and others.
“It has been hard for some to accept that
the U.N. can no longer be the instrument
of Pax Americana,” Young said.
There were those who “became angry
rather than seriously reformulating our
policies and approaches to the U.N. And
these reactions put us right in the center of
the minefield.”
“So preoccupied were we with our own
hurt” that the United States in recent
years failed to recognize the United Na
tions “as an imperfect place, but still the
only place where nations talked instead of
fought with each other.”
The often rude rebuffs from the emerg
ing nations caused the United States to not
recognize “that we draw on a remarkably
deep reservoir of goodwill and friend
ship,” Young said.
More recently, however, the mood of
the country has changed, “and with it have
changed our policies and attitude toward
the U.N.”
Wile some administrations have tended
to ignore or barely tolerate the body.
Young said President Carter chose to place
the United Nations at the center of U.S.
foreign policy.
The change apparently has paid off. In
the last two General Assembly sessions,
“We have worked in an atmosphere of
much greater cooperation,” Young said,
citing U.N.-assisted progress in several
areas — Africa, the Middle East, and arms
control.
“We are no longer on the defensive —
without falling into an equally erroneous
posture of the offensive. Instead, we are
recognizing the influence we have, that in
matters of importance we still command
enormous support and influence, that our
ideas and initiatives are welcomed and our
leadership is expected.”
Budget office
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By DAVID S. BRODER
Washington — One certain effect of the shakeup by Jimmy Carter of his
domestic Cabinet agencies and his White House staff is to increase the
power of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and its quiet direc
tor, James T. McIntyre, Jr.
McIntyre maintained a conspicuously low profile during the “mid-summer
massacre. ” But he has emerged, in the view of White House insiders, with
enhanced standing in the sharply remodeled administration.
It is said on good authority that his comments to President Carter on the
Cabinet members who had been least cooperative in past dealings with
OMB proved an accurate guide to the resignations which were sought or
accepted.
He played a role in recruiting several of the replacements and has been
busy in recent days briefing some of the newcomers to the Cabinet on issues
awaiting them in their new jobs.
All this is a far cry from the situation when the diminutive and soft-spoken
McIntyre was thrust into the OMB directorship by the forced resignation of
his predecessor, Bert Lance.
The 39-year-old McIntyre, a former Georgia budget chief, had been com
pletely overshadowed by his blustering boss during the time he was Lance’s
deputy. He appeared extrememly tentative in his early months in office.
^Businessmen who heard him reached a private consensus that he would not
be tough enough to withstand the pressured of his job.
Inside his elite agency, McIntyre was criticized for delaying for months in
hiring a deputy to fill his old job. The gossip in the Executive Office Building
across from the White House was that he was afraid of being overshadowed
by anyone he might name.
But in his own time, McIntyre moved to reduce the criticism. He brought
John P. White, an able executive, over from the Pentagon as his No. 2 man.
More recently, he has hired Rodger Schlickeisen away from the Senate
Budget Committee as an associate director of OMB.
What really established his authority was the backing the President gave
him last winter in the heated battles over the cuts in some domestic pro
grams — and the subsequent willingness of Congress to endorse the main
lines of the Carter-Mclntyre budget with minimal alterations.
With that success behind him, McIntyre will be playing from a strong
hand in shaping the election-year budget that Carter will send to Congress
next January. His position is undoubtedly aided by the fact that many of the
Cabinet officials who might be inclined to challenge his judgments on their
departments’ programs are newcomers to the battle, in many instances just
learing their way around their own agencies.
But McIntyre will need every advantage he has gained — and more — to
withstand the political and policy pressures in the new budget fight. Already
he is engaged in a battle over the size of next year’s defense budget with the
Pentagon and senators seeking higher arms spending as the price of their
support of the strategic arms limitation (SALT) treaty with Russia.
That argument is for from settled. But it may be significant that Carter has
begun citing some McIntyre-supplied figures showing that Congress has cut
defense spending requests, anywhere from $774 million to $6.8 billion, in
every one of the last ten years.
Carter is using the figures to suggest that the ultimate decision on defense
spending is in Congress’ hands, not his. But he may, in the end, have to
boost his Pentagon budget in order to obtain ratification of SALT II.
That will make it even harder to make room for the election-year tax cuts
which Republicans and some Democrats are demanding. And it will make it
harder to resist congressional pressures for new job programs as the reces
sion boosts unemployment.
In sum, the political, economic and diplomatic stakes in the coming battle
of the budget are of a scale it is impossible to exaggerate.
Jim McIntyre has emerged from Bert Lance’s shadow just in time to learn
how much pressure there really can be in his job.
(c) 1979, The Washington Post Company
Nicaragua calm
Government surprising
By JOHN VIRTUE
United Press International
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Nicaragua’s
leftist revolutionary government has sur
prised many people by its moderation in
its first month in office since dictator Pres
ident Anastasio Somoza fled the country.
First of all, there have been no sum
mary trials and executions like those in
Fidel Castro’s Cuba 20 years ago or as in
Iran today.
The ruling five-member junta has been
releasing imprisoned National Guardsmen
who in another time might have gone be
fore a firing squad. Some guardsmen even
sought out and surrendered to members of
the Sandinista National Liberation Front
whom they felt would treat them better
than the average citizen.
Those released so far included a 75-
year-old former guardsman who gave the
“coup de grace” in 1934 to Gen. Augusto
Sandino, the guerrilla leader presumably
assassinated on orders of Somoza’s father
and after whom the Sandinista movement
is named.
Secondly, the junta “Government of
National Reconstruction has respected
private property. The exceptions have
been the holdings — including 75 com
panies — belonging to ex-president
Somoza and other property belonging to
his family, top aides and National Guard
leaders.
However, many wealthy Nicaraguans —
fearing the worst is yet to come — have
left the country and some worried midde
class Nicaraguans now are seeking exit
visas.
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American neighbors?
There is a general feeling that the
make-up of the junta, put together in the
final weeks of the offensive against
Somoza, will be changed. If a strongman
emerges, the betting is on a man who isn’t
even a member of the junta — Tomas
Borge, 48, a co-founder in 1961 of the
Sandinista front.
Although just over 5 feet tall, Borge is a
charismatic figure who is known as “El
Jefe to the thousands of teenagers and
young adults who fought under the San
dinista banner to end the 43-year-rule of
the Somoza family.
Sophistication key
to consumer mind
By DICK WEST
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The magazine
Omni is running a contest that forward-
looking readers should find challenging.
The idea is to invent a product or service
for the 21st Century and then think up a
catchy brand name for it.
By way of illustration, the magazine of
fers such imaginative products as Com
puter Tutor, a training program for robots,
and Rockaway, an asteroid repellent.
I certainly would agree the coming cen
tury’ will see a need for merchandise be
yond what is currently available. But I am
not at all sure it will take the form Omni
suggests.
The magazine apparently believes fu
ture brand names will be primarily related
to space and automation innovations. I
deem it more likely that next century’s
consumers will go in for goods bearing
some of these trademarks:
Literary Digest — A general circulation
magazine that occasionally publishes polit
ical predictions based on telephone polls
taken during presidential campaigns.
Edsel — An all-new automobile de
signed to satisfy the motoring public’s
burning desire for a medium-sized family
car with a distinctive front grill.
Instant Bananas — A new type of break
fast food ingredient. Saves consumers who
like bananas in cereal the trouble of sficing
the fruit. In the package. Instant Bananas
look like small cardboard poker chips. But
when milk is added, they puff up and taste
like puffy cardboard poker chips.
Spruce Goose — A hugh seaplane that
meets the requirements of 21st Century
aviation by having a ply-wood fuselage.
Continental League — Two major
baseball leagues obviously will not suffice
in the 21st Century. This new league ful
fills demands for expansion by placing
major league teams in cities that are de
nied franchises by existing leagues.
Von Hindenburg — Prototype of a
light er-than-air craft that is ideal for an
energy-short century. Flies long distances
on small amounts of fuel. Needs no runa
ways and thus can be docked at small air
ports near cities. Inflated with helium. Or,
if helium unavailable, some type of flamm
able gas.
Cyclamate — An artificial sweetener to
meet the 21st Century’s need for a low
calorie sugar substitute.
Nehru Jacket — A breakthough in
men’s fashions, this garment revo
lutionizes the sports coat by doing away
with lapels. Takes its name from a 20th
Century Indian leader who was known as a
fancy dresser. x
Maidenform — An undergarrnent engi
neered to provide stability, thrust and ele
vation to the upper portion of the female
anatomy. Enables 21st Century women to
achieve a "natural" look.
STATE
Lubbock mans throat slashed
Lubbock police have found the body of a 74-year-old man whose
throat was slashed and a blood-soaked sheet wrapped around his
neck. Charles Doyle Benton, who lived near the Texas Tech campus,
was the city’s fourth homicide victim since Friday. Until Friday, the
city had recorded two homicides since July 20. Ambulance atten
dants, who said the victim’s throat had been cut “ear to ear,” were
unable to save Benton, who was pronounced dead on arrival at a local
hospital about 10 p.m.
Engineer tried to avoid collision
A train engineer said he blew a warning whistle as he approached a
crossing in Tulia and applied his emergency brakes but could not
avoid striking a car and killing a man. Pronounced dead on arrival
Monday at Swisher Memorial Hospital was Houston Childress, 66, of
Tulia. Childress was eastbound on a service road for State Highway
86 when the collision with the northbound train occurred about 5:30
p.m., authorities said. Engineer Brad Bryan of Lubbock said the train
was traveling 48 mph.
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Lubbock firemen want pay hike
Lubbock firefighters have rejected in principal a 7 percent salary
increase and say they will request at least a 12 percent wage hike
because of double-digit inflation. If the 12 percent increase is denied
by the city council, firefighters say they will petition for an election to
secure a 15 percent increase. Council members received a letter late
Monday from Luther Dean, president of the International Associa
tion of Firefighters Local 972, detailing the group’s grievances and
demands.
Juvenile officer charged with solicitatm ®
A county juvenile probation officer has been charged with four
counts of official misconduct arising from allegations he solicited a
teen-age girl for nude dancing, prostitution and nude photography.
The charges — all class A misdemeanors — were filed Monday
against Roy King, 25, of Lubbock. Authorities alleged that pictures of
the 15-year-old girl were taken Saturday, and that King also arranged
to collect a percentage of money the girl might have been expected to
make as a prostitute. King also was accused of accompanying the
teen-ager to a “known house of prostitution” and exceeding the pow
ers of his office by soliciting her services as a nude dancer.
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Transient arrested for sex killings
William J. Guatney, 57, a vagabond county fair worker who has
been on the road since he was 14, waived extradition to Nebraska
Monday from Springfield, Ill., where he was arrested Saturday in
connection with the 1975 sex killings of two Lincoln boys. He will be
taken to Topeka, Kan., for questioning in another murder case before
his arraignment in Lincoln later this week. Authorities said Guatney
is suspected in the murders of as many as 12 youths in four states and
has murder charges pending against him in both Nebraska and Kan
sas. Described as a transient, herdsman and groom who worked the
Midwest state fair circuit and traveled mostly by rail, Guatney was
arrested at the Illinois State Fair. Lancaster County, Neb., Attorney
Ron Lahners said the arrest of Guatney culminated a four-year inves
tigation that began in 1976 when the Lancaster County sheriffs office
began tracking down a lead.
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The night time is the right time
Two Little Rock women convicted of loitering for prostitution have
been sentenced to 21 nights — not days — in jail by a judge who says
he wants to force the women into another line of work. Special Judge
Robert Fussell told the women to report to jail at 6 p.m. each day
starting next Monday. They will be released at 6 a.m. each morning.
Fussell also gave the women 30-day suspended sentences Monday
with the warning that future violations would get them 60 days —
around the clock — in jail.
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A couple of “broke millionaires” in the Wyoming State Peniten
tiary in Rawlins, Wyo., are looking for partners on the outside who
will help them develop two gold mines they estimate are worth $10
million. Long-term convicts Weldon Kennedy and Elmer DeVore
claim that between them they own one gold mine in Nevada and
know the location of another in Idaho. But neither has much hope of
getting out to reap the benefits. DeVore is in frail health and suffers
from high blood pressure. And after serving a short term in Wyom
ing, Kennedy is scheduled for a permanent stay in a California prison
for two murder convictions, a term he says will get him killed by
members of a vengence-minded motorcycle gang. So he is offering 50
percent interest in his share of the mines to an experienced trial
lawyer who can get the convictions overturned. The pair’s attempts to
verify the Nevada claim haven’t been successful.
WORLD
Tight jeans hazardous for genes?
Habitually wearing tight-fitting jeans causes pelvic congestion and
can even result in sterility for men and women, a Mexican
gynecologist says. Dr. Oscar Bravo Cerradel of the Mexican Social
Security Institute in Mexico City said constant rubbing of tight jeans
against the pelvic area produces irritation and infections that, left
untreated, result in sterility. The doctor said many youths wear dirty,
tight-fitting jeans without underwear, heightening probabilities of
infection.
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