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Page 8/The Battalion/Thursday, July 26,1984
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — A Texas con
gressman said Wednesday he was
the only House member to vote
against a bill to crack down on pilots
involved in drug smuggling because
“I think our drug laws are all
wrong.”
“The whole system isn’t working,”
said Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas. “The
more laws that we pass, the more
drug dealing that we get. I think our
drug laws are all wrong and I in
tended this vote to be a protest of
that.”
The House, on a 393-1 vote Tues
day night, passed its version of legis
lation to toughen the penalties
against pilots and owners of air
planes involved in drug-smuggling
— much of it through remote airs
trips in Texas and other parts of the
Southwest.
The Senate last September passed
a similar bill and technical differ
ences in the two versions are ex-
g ected to be worked out in a House-
enate negotiating committee.
The legislation adopted Tuesday
would expand to five years the li
cense revocation period for pilots in
volved in drug smuggling, but allow
for a reduction to not less than a
year at the discretion of the FAA ad
ministrator. It provides for a hear
ing process and judicial review of a
revocation.
In addition, aircraft owners who
let their planes be used for drug
smuggling would lose their certifi-
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Louisiana ‘blue laws’ nixed,
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NEW ORLEANS — U.S. District
Judge Charles Schwartz Wednesday
threw out Louisiana’s so-called blue
law, saying the statute prohibiting
the sale of certain items on Sunday is
unclear.
“We are very delighted with the
judge’s ruling,” said Robert Barkley,
who represented two chain stores in
the suit against the state. “Now you
will be able to shop on Sunday.”
Attorneys for the state said they
would fully review the ruling and
their options before deciding
whether to appeal.
Barkley said he thinks the deci
sion sets a precedent for Sunday
opening of retail outlets statewide.
“I believe stores in Louisiana can
now open on Sunday,” Barkley said.
“The decision applies across the
state. A statute can’t be constitu
tional in one part of the state and
unconstitutional in another part of
the state.”
But Caddo Parish District Attor
ney Paul Carmouche said Schwartz’s
ruling is not binding on the western
federal district of Louisiana, which
includes Shreveport.
Schwartz, ruling on a challenge of
the law filed by Home Depot and
Gaylords, said last month he would
declare the statute unconstitutional
unless the state could show" a good
reason why he should not.
“There is no new evidence to be
introduced at this hearing,”
Schwartz said at Wednesday’s hear
ing. “The court holds ... the statute is
unconstitutionally vague.”
Schwartz allowed Home Depot
and Gaylord’s to introduce two doc
uments to show their gross sales,
prompting assistant Attorney Gen
eral Louis Jones to say, “There’s no
doubt if they are open (on Sunday),
they are going to make money.”
But Scnwartz denied a request by
Bowater Homecenter Inc. of
Shreveport and Baton Rouge to join
the suit and jump on the anti-blue
law bandwagon.
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and Gaylord’s have branches in Or
leans and Jefferson parishes, and
Gaylord’s
Houma.
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been raised in any federal ca
Barkley said. “It sure hasbeenali
time coming f or Louisiana.”
He said tne law is designe
vide a uniform day of rest.buia
15 percent of the state’s total«t
force reports to jobs Sunday. Bj
ley said retailers are unfairly prok
ited from working on thesaiM
“Why should a hardware a
close when grocery stores are
lowed to open?” he asked.
State District Judge Clarence
McManus also struck down tBe
Monday, saying it was uncoi
tional because it breeds unfair
petition and is selectively enforo
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WASHINGTON — The United
States in 1966 considered building
an “iron curtain” across South Viet
nam, infusing the soil with atomic
dust and mustard gas to stop Viet
Cong infiltration, declassified docu
ments show.
Another previously top-secret re
port said the Air Force used C-130s
to drop chemicals designed to “des
tabilize” the soil in areas of Laos
across which the North Vietnamese
moved supplies.
At least two tests of the so-called
“Commando Lava” program were
conducted
before the unusual scheme was ap
parently abandoned.
The documents were released to
CBS Inc. as it prepared to defend it
self against cnarges brought in a
$120 million libel suit by retired
Army Gen. William Westmoreland.
Westmoreland claims the network
libeled him in a 1982 documentary,
“The Uncounted Enemy; A Viet
nam Deception,” that said he and
others minimized enemy troop
strength to make it look like the
United States was winning the war.
Infiltration is a key issue in both
the documentary and the libel suit.
CBS obtained the information on
the infiltration barrier, which was
proposed in February 1966 by Sec
retary of Defense Robert McNa
mara, to prove guerrillas were mov
ing south in significant numbers and
concerning the U.S. command.
A March 22, 1966, memo from
Gen. Earl Wheeler, head of the joint
chiefs of staff, shows he was ordered
to assess the viability of the “McNa
mara Line” without regard to cost or
political impact, which explains why
mustard gas — outlawed by interna
tional law — was considered.
The same day, Gen. Harold John
son, chief of staff of the Army, pre
pared a memorandum to Wheeler
that included a “talking paper for
my use in discussions with the secre
tary of defense.” The paper detailed
plans for a 10-mile-wide “buffer
zone” apparently patterned after the
Berlin Wall.
The zone, which Johnson esti
mated would take one year to build,
would be cleared by defoliating
agents and would contain a series of
atomic reactor. A guard wouldta
been posted every 400 meters
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military, “seed the cleared strip if'
atomic dust (radioactive isotopel
although it noted the idea was:
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cient radioactive isotopes wouldi^j
available to saturate 150 squ
miles,” Johnson wrote.
500-meter-wide strips peppered
with about 11 million anti-personnel
mines and 412,500 anti-tank mines.
Down the middle of the zone
would be 843,720 fence posts fes
tooned with barbed wire, 72,000
floodlights and 1,800 12-inch rotat
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persistent chemical gas. Disregai . c €
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method is feasible. Mustard gasfc P nal
prolonged persistency and could I
used at a cost of approximatl r 1
$5,000 per kilometer for a stripl
meters wide.” '
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