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THE BATTALION
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Ladybird: LBJ
afraid of bomb
NEW YORK (UPI) — President
Lyndon Johnson was more afraid of
right-wing pressure to use nuclear
weapons in the Vietnam War than
left-wing politicians demanding an
end to the fighting, Lady Bird John
son says.
“Lyndon’s real fear was not from
the left but from the right — people
demanding that we get this thing
over with by dropping the deadliest
of bombs, ’’ the former first lady said
in the December issue of American
Heritage magazine.
“Forced to that test, what do we
do,’’ she said. “He didn’t want to do
it. I just don’t think we ever would
have gotten over that nightmare.
What would we have loosed?
“The one time we did it, when
nobody really knew the extent of it,
left a scar. Once we’ve seen seen the
bomb and know what it can do, how
can any succeeding president ever
ever give in to that last horrible
thing?”
She said another problem during
her husband’s presidency was the
Vietnam War’s overshadowing of his
administration’s domestic programs.
“What was red meat to Lyndon’s
abilities and his agenda and desires
were in the fields of health and edu
cation and equal rights,” she said.
“He’d repeat over and over the
phrase about the only war this nation
wants to wage is the war against pov
erty, ignorance and disease and he
really took overwhelming pleasure
in prosecuting that war,” she said.
Barges, rig just look like toys'
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Oil drilling rig drains lake
United Press International
JEFFERSON ISLAND, La. — It looked
like somebody had pulled the plug in a giant
bathtub — except it was drilling rigs, boats,
barges and trees that were swirling down the
drain.
The surrealistic scene was created Thursday
when an oil drilling rig under contract to Tex
aco Inc. punched through the top of a salt mine
1,200 feet below the surface of Lake Peigneur,
a IVa-square-mile brackish lake that is a spawn
ing ground for shrimp and other forms of
marine life.
“I thought it was the world coming to an
end,” Viator said. “Before we got on the bank,
we seen barges and boats rushing to that hole
.... The water was all in a circle and it was like a
whirlpool and everything was going in there —
trees, dirt, every thing just rushing out there.”
Viator said he and Dore tied their boat to a
tree and ran ashore.
The 3-foot-deep coastal lake quickly drained
and turned into a giant mud flat, while a grow
ing whirlpool sucked water through canals
from nearby bayous and Vermilion Bay.
No one was injured, but seven workers on
the rig and 50 miners had to flee as water
rushed in. Some 15 families and about 300 to
500 mine employees were evacuated from the
island later as the land cracked and crumbled.
Two fishermen, Leonce Viator and his
nephew, Timmy Dore, were nearly sucked
into the pit.
“We looked back of us and there goes that
tree into that swirling water,” he said.
Greenhouses and a visitors’ center collapsed
at Rip Van Winkle’s Live Oak Gardens, a sce
nic garden tourist attraction that is listed on
the National Register of Historic Places.
Susan White, news director at KANE radio,
flew over the lake late Thursday and said she
was astonished.
“It was awesome/’ Mrs. White said. “It
looks like a great big hole in the ground. There
are 10 barges, at least one drilling rig and a
tugboat in the bottom of it. They just look like
toys. There’s a waterfall effect coming over one
end where the water is being drawn in.”
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New Orleans. “However, Texaco represetl government 1:
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proposed location of the well site.” Initially, a 1
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amend Crystal for the accident, Buras i ®d the whole
dined further comment.
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Runaway gets
life in cop killing
as
United Press International
LITTLE ROCK, ARK.
Edward Eugene Little, a 16-year-old
runaway from a shattered Spring-
field, Ill., home who was convicted
of gunning down a police detective,
was sentenced to spend the rest of
his life in prison with no chance for
parole.
A six-man, six-woman jury found
Little guilty of capital murder, aggra
vated robbery and first-degree bat
tery deliberated for five hours
Wednesday before returning the
verdict.
Little, who showed virtually no
emotion during his three-day trial in
Pulaski County Circuit Court,
showed none when Judge Lowber
Hendricks read the sentence. He
also was given 50 years on the rob
bery conviction and 20 years for bat
tery.
The youth, who was labeled by
psychiatrists as brain damaged dur
ing the trial and whose mother testi
fied she had been married six times
by his 13th birthday, was convicted
of robbing the Little Rock conveni
ence store on May 14, wounding its
clerk and then killing Nil
McGuire, 23, with founki|
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