Banner Graphic, Volume 9, Number 241, Greencastle, Putnam County, 16 June 1979 — Page 2
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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, June 16,1979
Carter, Brezhnev open initial round of summit talks
By FRANK CORMIER Associated Press Writer'’ VIENNA. Austria (AP) President Carter and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev got down to business today, spelling out their often-conflicting world views at the opening of the first East-West summit in nearly five years The sun broke through leaden skies as the two leaders began their first round of talks at the U S. Embassy, a baroque building dating back to the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph. The ailing Brezhnev. 72, stumbled and was grabbed by aides as he entered his Sovietmade Zil limousine for the short drive from the Soviet Embassy. " Carter was on the sidewalk outside the embassy to welcome his guest with a handshake and a grin. Brezhnev replied with a grin of his own.
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Guns, punctured tires making it tougher for woman trucker
Bv RICHARD EGGLESTON Associated Press Writer MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Debbie Stomberg says it was hard enough being a woman truck driver before the independent haulers’ protest. Now she’s scared scared of having a gun pointed at her, scared of having tires on her truck punctured by nails, and scared of losing her job. Ms. Stomberg has been hauling freight in her truck since
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As the three days of talks got underway, the American and Soviet presidents were in
March, but her new job is getting off to a rocky start. “I had a gun pointed at me last night,” Ms. Stomberg, 29. of St. Paul, Minn., said Friday. She was at a truck stop just north of here waiting for the two flat tires punctured by the same kind of nail to be repaired. She said she was afraid of continuing on to Eden Prairie, Minn., where she is to drop off a shipment of flour. And she’s afraid of losing her job if she doesn’t. The independent truckers are trying to close the nation’s highways to truck traffic in protest of high diesel fuel prices and government regulation, and spokesmen for the protest in Wisconsin contended truck traffic Friday was lighter than usual. “If there’s nobody else out on the road, I don’t think I should go out there,” she said. “I’m just a rookie.” Ms. Stomberg said she was so scared after she saw the gun pointed at her from a passing car on Interstate 90 between Janesville and Madison on Thursday that she didn’t notice what kind of car it was or what color it was. She did not call the police.
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She had unloaded a shipment of meat in Pennsylvania, hauled oil to Chicago, then picked up the load of flour. “I didn’t have any trouble until I got to Wisconsin and, oh wow, there was just nobody running,” she said. Then, she said, she noticed a car in her rear view mirror. It followed her for miles. Finally, when it passed her, she saw the gun. “It was a rifle or a shotgun, I don’t know,” she said. “I just saw it and went, ‘Ooh.’” She pulled into a truck stop and rented a room. “When I woke up in the morning, I had two flat tires, and I pulled identical nails out of each tire,” she said. The Wisconsin State Patrol said nails were scattered on U.S. 151, U.S. 12-18 and Wisconsin 19 interstate interchanges Friday. “I’m already way late,” Ms. Stomberg said of her disrupted schedule. “My dispatcher is pretty unhappy about it, real unhappy. He can just fire me, I guess, but I think I’m using good judgment.”
Red Adair working to cap runaway well Huge Mexican oil slick may threaten Texas
By WILLIAM K. STEVENS c. 1979 N.Y. Times News CIUDAD DEL CARMEN, Mexico Beyond the steaming coastal swamps of what used to be the lapd of the Mayas, past - the surf and turquoise shallows that drop off into deep-blue seas where boats from this onceplacid little town fish for shrimp, lies Ixtoc One. Ixtoc One is a runaway oil well some 50 miles offshore, one of the biggest and most stubborn of its kind. It boils like a witch’s caldron, spreading crude oil the color of Mississippi mud over the Gulf of Mexico. It burns, too, the flames dancing over the erupting oil at the wellhead, forming a 50-foot orange corona visible.for miles. The sight is a flashback to the Texas and Oklahoma of half a century ago, when flaming gushers became a part of industry legend. Despite attempts to tame the well here, it has flowed unchecked since it blew out in a spectacular gusher on June 3. Since then some 15
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more often. The formal talks opened with an exchange of verbal statements outlining often-conflict-ing positions on global, regional and bilateral issues. Carter and Brezhnev exchanged brief pleasantries Friday in a formal call on Austria’s president and shared a box at a glittering first night performance of the Austrian state opera. They met for their first time in the splendor of the imperial Hapsburg palace before paying a ceremonial call on Austrian President Rudolf Kirchschlaeger. During their brief confrontation, Carter expressed regret that they had not met sooner. B-ezhnev agreed and said their next meeting should not be so long delayed. The two men cut short their stay at Vienna’s famed opera
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million barrels of oil, worth more than $250 million on the world market, has surged to the surface of Campeche Sound. Petroleos Mexicanos, Mexico’s government-owned oil company, may have been granted some grace by geography and weather. Ixtoc One lies west of the main Yucatan shrimping grounds, which are worked by fishermen not only from Mexico but also from Florida and Texas. Prevailing currents, which run east to west roughly parallel to the Mexican coast, are taking the oil away from the grounds. And although winds of late have been coming from the north and northeast, the oil slick, which extends some 80 miles south-southeast of the well, has yet to come closer than about 20 miles from shore. Eventually, oceanographers say, the oil should be carried northward, along the eastern Mexican coast, toward Texas. While a tropical storm could change everything in un-
house. The ailing Brezhnev left at the intermission. He was followed less than a half-hour later by Carter and a sleepy daughter Amy. Mrs. Carter stayed behind for the show, sharing the plush VIP box with the Austrian president and his wife. Brezhnev and Carter both seemed more intent on resting up for the summit opener than in the performance of Mozart’s “The Abduction from the Seraglio,” a love story set in a Turkish Palace. The agenda for their first twohour meeting today at the American Embassy was confined to the presentation of formal statements, known in the language of diplomats as “Tours of the Horizon.” A senior White House official, who asked that he not be named, said Carter’s purpose was not only to recite for
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predictable ways, time has been granted for a clean-up operation. Emergency crews led by Red Adair of Houston are trying to cap the well. If they can free underwater devices called blowout preventers, which jammed open during the blowout, that will do the job. Otherwise, the capping operation must rely on a relief well being drilled from a platform a thousand yards away. The new well, it is reasoned, will relieve the tremendous pressure on Ixtoc One. Meanwhile, clean-up crews are attempting to contain most of the oil near Ixtoc One within floating barriers. Boats equipped with special “skimmers” are also attempting to recover the oil for transfer to tankers. Petroleos Mexicanos says that it hopes enough can be recovered to offset the 30,000 or so barrels of oil escaping each day. A plane is also sowing chemicals on the edges of the
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Brezhnev his positions on key topics but to convey the strength with which he holds his views. Morning and afternoon talks at the U.S. Embassy were to be followed by a working dinner at the residence of American Ambassador Milton Wolf, the Carters’ host during their four-day stay. Summit talks shift Sunday to the Soviet Embassy, followed by the ceremonial signing Monday of the new SALT II Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, capstone of the historic meeting. The state of Brezhnev’s uncertain health looms large with the U.S. delegation here one reason they hope to lay the groundwork for regular Ameri-can-Soviet consultations, perhaps on a military as well as a political level.
huge slick to help the oil decompose faster. The other day, as every day, a four-engined DC-6 was making repeated passes over the waves at 50 feet, pouring out four trails of white powder. But Gordon P. Lindblom of the Exxon Chemical Company, who is helping to supervise the sowing of the chemicals, said about all that could be accomplished was to “blunt the edges to keep it from going ashore or threatening the shrimp breeding grounds.” “We’re doing the best we can,” he said, “and I think we’re doing some good but it’s an awfully big slick and it may beat us.” In the meantime, Ciudad del Carmen is watching and hoping. “Like anything in nature,” said Felipe Charat, a local shrimp boat owner who is the president of Mexico’s National Fishing Industry Association, “it can take a turn for the better or a turn for the worse without much warning.”
Carter was understood to have found his Soviet counterpart alert at their brief encounter Friday when they went in separate motorcades to the imperial palace. Brezhnev, puffy-faced and sometimes unsteady on his feet, twice took to elevators while Carter climbed long flights of stairs. It was a long day for Soviet leader, starting with a flight from Moscow, two wreath-laying ceremonies, his first encounter with Carter and, finally, the opera. While attention focused on Brezhnev’s health, Carter also appeared tired and gaunt, possibly from his intense pre-sum-mit preparations. The American president’s “ash-pale, deeply lined face” prompted one Austrian newspaper to comment that Carter the jogger did not look much
Army Gen. Rogers predicts Russian advantage in 1980 s
By BERNARD WEINRAUB c. 1979 N.Y. Times News WASHINGTON - The Army’s chief of staff, Gen. Bernard W. Rogers, predicted Friday that the United States would fall behind the Soviet Union in strategic capability in the early 1980 s, and said that Russia may then “test” the resolve of the United States. Rogers, who is scheduled to succeed Gen. Alexander M. Haig Jr. as supreme commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, said in a meeting with reporters that “we will lose our essential equivalence” with the Soviet Union in the next few years. “I think we should be prepared to be tested,” said the 57-year-old general.’ Although Defense Secretary Harold R. Brown has said that United States land-based missiles will be vulnerable to a Soviet “first-strike” attack by the early 1980 s, military and civilian officials have generally declined to go as far as Rogers and say pointedly that the United States would be strategically weaker than the Soviet Union for a period of years. “There will be a timeframe,” said Rogers, “in which, in my opinion, we will have lost what is considered the level of strategic ability to insure essential equivalence.” This period, he indicated, was
What if there is a hurricane? “Talk to me again,” he said. . There is perhaps no more fitting symbol than Ixtoc One of both the opportunities and hazards facing Mexico as it begins to exploit its potential as a major oil producer. The blowout, besides being a major accident, is a major Oil discovery. Thie bustling and crowded town, once just a fishing village, has become the operations center for Mexican oil and gas exploration in the Gulf of Mexico. Mexico estimates the offshore oil reserves to be nearly six billion barrels. That is enough, if developed, to make Mexico one of the world’s top oil producers. “The oil industry and the shrimp industry have done very well together in Louisiana and Texas,” said Charat. “If the shrimp industry can do so well off the state of Louisiana, why can’t it do the same thing off the state of Campeche?” Nonetheless Charat and others are keeping a close watch on the oil slick. No discernible environmental damage has taken place yet. “This is a terrible accident,” said Charat, “but so far we’ve not had an impact from it. We may be like somebody falling off a 40-story building and as he passes the 20th floor, he says, ‘Don’t worry, nothing’s happened.’ But we don’t feel that way. We feel that the oil is being contained."
healthier than Brezhnev “whc all his life consumed huge quan-* tities of greasy food, alcohol* and nicotine.” “To be head of state is always an occupation of stress,” the. newspaper Kurier said in an| editorial. The final summit agenda wasdrafted Friday afternoon by Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. The two men, it was learned,; agreed that at some time during the Vienna talks Carter wilt give Brezhnev a list of promi-; nent Soviet dissidents the’ United States would like to seefree to leave their homeland-" They also agreed that lower level U.S. officials will turn over lists of Soviet citizens who want to be reunited with relatives who have left the Soviet Union.
somewhere between the early 1980 s, when increasingly powerful and accurate Russian missiles would be capable of knocking out most of the 1,000 Minuteman rockets in fixed - U.S. launch sites, and 1986. At that point the United States is scheduled to start deploying, 200 giant mobile missiles that will be fitted with 10 separate warheads, each with an explosive power of 335 kilotons, the equivalent of 335,000 tons of explosives, about 22 times more, powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The S3O billion mobile missile system is expected to be fully deployed by 1989. Rogers, at his breakfast meeting Friday, made it plain that the “critical window” the time period in which the United States is open, of, vulnerable to attack leaves military leaders worried. “During the Cuban missile crisis the strategic balance was completely different from what it will be in the early 1980 s,” said Rogers. He indicated that, if the Soviet Union were as powerful in 1962 as they will be in the early 1980 s, the Russians would not have withdrawn their missiles from Cuba. At another point, Rogers said > the Joint Chiefs of Staff have not yet taken a final position of the strategic arms limitation agreement with the Soviet Union, and will make their final evaluation after studying the completed treaty’s language. The treaty is set to be signed in Vienna on Monday. But Rogers said the agreement ‘‘provides thet framework to overcome” what i he termed looming strategic ■ weapons deficiencies, only if the country has the “will” and resources to build and deploy its new mobile missile system. Rogers said United States conventional forces have not yet obtained the kind of advanced tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and helicopters they: need to keep pace with the idcreased sophistication of Soviet weaponry. As he has done in the past, Rogers called for immediate steps to rebuild the military reserves, particularly for the ; manpower pool needed to replace casualties in the firs! few weeks of a European war. Rogers called for a draft of young men into the reserve manpower pool, and said that * lottery draft, without exemptions, was one possibility in order to avoid the inequities that* occurred during the Vietnam-, war draft. Oh yeah? Take that! TOLEDO, Ohio (API a gorilla imported from Germa*.; ny, is expected to be one of the* most colorful attractions at th<£ Toledo Zoo. The 312-pound male animal i£ already up to pulling tricks. * To knock out Max for a phys-" ical examination and movement to the zoo’s new ap*: house, Dr. Joseph Hardin, veterinarian, shot a tranquihzetl dart into the gorilla’s hide. $ Max pulled it out and threw* it at Dr. Hardin.