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■B THE SCOTT REPORT by PAUL SCOTT MOSCOW SUPPORTING SPANISH TERRORISTS Madrid, Spain: From this vantage point, one can trace the long arm of the Soviet- Cuban supported interna tional terrorist network to the increasing assassina tions of Spanish military and security officers. The principal group invol ved in the killings is the nationalist underground ETA, a Marxist-Leninist Basque terrorist organiza tion whose avowed aim is to create an independent so cialist Basque nation. Their assassinations have jumped from 11 in 1977 to 64 in 1978, 79 in 1979, and 317 in 1980. At their present rate of killing, the total for 1981 will reach 400. Evidence gathered by Spanish security officials here clearly shows that hun dreds of ETA’s assassins have been trained in Cuba, Algeria, and South Yemen, while being armed and fin anced by the Soviet Union. This international dimeir- sion of Spanish terrorism was highlighted recently by Foreign Minister Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, who charged that the violence was direct ed at preventing Spain from becoming a member of North Atlantic Treaty Or ganization (NATO). The Spanish leader has told foreign diplomats here that Andrei A. Gromyko, the first Soviet Foreign Min ister to visit Madrid, even indicated the link in an extraordinary private offer in November, 1979. Investigations by Spanish security officials have docu mented that the first bgtch of Basque terrorists went to Cuba in 1964 after the Russians decided to increase their investment in terror ism abroad. From Cuba, the ETA ter rorists fanned out to train with the Tupamaros in Ura- guay and like-minded Mont- oneros in Argentina. They then moved on to Algeria, whose guerrilla camps were opened wide to other Europ ean terrorist groups and members of the FLO. Cuban instructors were there from the start, and in the late 1960s advisers from the KGB, the Soviet secret pol ice showed up. liberty or give me death!" TOM ANDERSON GOD, FAMILY, COUNTRY - IN THAT ORDER If Spain discontinued its plans to join NATO, Gromy ko reportedly said, the Sov iet Union would be prepared to help in combating Spain's most trying domestic prob lem, terrorism. Gromyko then implied that a decision to go forward with NATO membership could leave Spain’s young democracy vulnerable to more terrorist Peaches Early Elberto U-Pick Bring conttiiners $5.50 per bushel Open 8 a.m.-8 p.m. E.W. SMITH ORCHARD Hwy. 97-Hickory Grove Phone 925-2178 actions. After Spanish officials made it clear that they planned to continue to try to join NATO, large amounts of Soviet-built arms began arriving covertly in Spain for the terrorists. The num ber of assassinations of gov ernment security officials thep jumped by 400%. Long Soviet Involvement Soviet involvement and support for terrorists here go back long before Gromy ko issued his blunt threat. In 1971, Spanish intelli gence reports, the KGB instructors in Algeria brought the ETA- and the Provisional IRA (the Irish terrorists) together for com bined training. During the 1970s, several meetings between ETA ter rorist leaders and KGB a- gents in southern France were monitored by Spanish intelligence. Eight Soviet diplomats and officials have been expelled from Spain since 1977 because of con nections to Separatist groups in the Basque region of the Canary Islands. This steady increase in Soviet-Cuban supported ter rorism is seen here as the reason for the growing un rest among the Spanish mili tary. Unless the govern ment takes more forceful action, the military sees the possibility of a repeat of the Spanish civil war of the 1930s. Despite their present overwhelming loyality to the King and support for Spain’s new democracy, it is very doubtful that the Spanish military will permit this to happen. Two centuries ago when our nation was being taxed and persecuted beyond en durance and some other faint-hearted Americans were crying peace at any price, a Virginia patriot named Patrick Henry arose and said: “They tell us. Sir, that we are weak — unable to cope with so formidable an adver sary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a Brit ish guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolu tion and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effect ual resistance by lying sup inely on our backs and bugging the elusive phan tom of hope, until our ene mies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak,-if we make proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. “Three millions of people. FRAZIER’S SHOES Tri-City Mail and Shelby Here’s What You Have Been Waiting For Annual Summer Shoe Sale Starts Wednesday, July 1st - 7 A.M. Will Be Closed All Day Tuesday To Prepare For This Gigantic Sale! Ladies’ Shoes Red Cross Life Stride Easy Street Ladies Bass Footworks Sandler Aigner Flips Huspuppies Candies Schoils Wimzees Grass Hoppers Danelle Dexters Reg. Price 38.99 35.99 28.99 45.99 37.99 32.99 48.99 27.99 26.99 22.99 37.99 19.99 15.99 29.99 36.99 Sale 24.90 19.90 19.90 19.90 to 39.90 18.90 to 24.90 24.90 22.90 to 39.90 19.90 19.90 11.90 to 15.90 19.90 to 24.90 11.90 to 14.90 12.90 14.90 to 19.90 19.90 to 24.90 I Florsheim I Dexter’s 39.99 Men’s Shoes Reg. To Sale 29.90 to 49.90 $29.90 LmnmmmTnmnniminiMi Men’s Dingo Boots I Reg. 63.99 Sale 39.90 to 49.90 ^iiiiiiiiiitiiitiiiiiiiimiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiflilTiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHtiiimiiimiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiil I Ladies’ Handbags Drastically Reduced siiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiMmiHmimiimiiiimiiiiiniiniMmiiiirnnnnmrTiminirTnimmmiimiiimiiiiniMi Reg. 88.99 Reg. 64.99 Ladies’ Boots Dingo’s Sale 69.90 Dexter’s Sale 49.90 Hundreds Of Children’s Back To School Shoes All Reduced To Va Price Our Most-Needed Weapon armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a coun try as that which we pos sess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, Sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who shall raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle. Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have not election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slav ery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston. The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat. Sir, let it come! “It is in vain. Sir, to extenuate the matter. Gent lemen may cry. Peace, Peace! — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the North will Our nation was founded by men who believed in God, in individual freedom, in high moral values, in per sonal responsibility. Wheth er we survive as free men or slaves depends on whether we can resurrect our moral strength. We must fear slav ery more than we fear war. We must fear Hell more than we fear poverty. The wages of wealth are com fort, complacency, caution, cowardice, compromise. As any fool should know, we can’t possibly save the world unless we can save America. Missile strength, bomb ers, H-bombs, get the head lines, and we need more and better ones than the enemy. But the weapon we need most is spiritual strength. Who, we or the Commun ists, has the dedication, the fanatical zeal, the faith and works necessary to survive? Which will make the most sacrifices and th« least com promises? Let us remember that right is might. Let us remember that ours is not just America’s battle. Nor our personal battle. It is God's battle. Let us give battle joyously to the foes of Christianity, here and worldwide. Francis Scott Key said in his Star Spangled Banner: which deserve to be saved. And all nations get the kind of government the people deserve. So don’t look to the President, look to yourseli. Who eke? Why not you? You are the government. So let us hold, with Ten nyson: Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just, And this he our motto: "In God is our trust. " And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. God saves only nations “Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho’ We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are; One equM temper of hero ic hearts. Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. " Fifty-nine percent of the people in Puerto Rico get our food stamps. That’s about 10 percent of our back-breaking food stamp expense going to Puerto Rico. And what do we get from Puerto Rico? Nothing worthwhile. Why Not You? Let us say with William of Orange: "There is one cert ain means by which I can be sure never to see my coun try’s ruin — I will die in the last ditch.” Black leftist Reverend Jesse Jackson’s Push- Excel organization in Chicago has been paid nearly one million dollars of the taxpayers’ money. And Ernest Green of the Carter Administration, 20 days before going out of office signed a federal grant for two million dollars more. The Reagan Administration plans to end the federal financing of the Reverend Mr. Jackson’s leftist lecture bureau. bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our breth ren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it. Almighty God! I know not what course others may take: but as for me, give me VISA AND MASTERCHARGE WELCOME No Refunds No Charges No Exchanges No Layaways FRUIER’S SHOES Wednesday - 9 A.M. Tri-City Mall And Shelby 7 A.M. - Wednesday Shelby 7 A.M. - Shelby 7 A.M. - Shelby 7 A.M. - WHY JOHNI CAWT SPEL By Edward S. Rankin, Executive Director . Americanism Educational League, Buena Park, Calif. "The different me and my parents thay are mare re- laxs Thin I am. So I like to Be more Taets thin thay are Thay Drink more Thin me But I smok more Thin Them. I'm different Thin my parents Because I like To in Jouy Life more Thin Thay Do..." Part of a freshman English essay, University of Nevada-Reno, 1980 The above is not by a grade school or high school student. It is part of a freshman essay, written by a University of Nevada- Reno student in 1980. Prob ably the same inability to spell and write a logical sentence could be found on almost any college campus in the United States. This is because the public education system, which is costing us more and more, is doing an ever less adequate job. It’s because of the lack of discipline in the schools and a refusal to insist that certain basic standards be met before a student goes on to the next grade. We have been prisoner for many years of the psycholo gical nonsense that if you don’t promote little Johnny or little Jane, even though they don’t deserve to be promoted, it will hurt their egos and make them psycho logical cripples. This situation is so bad that large U.S. corporations are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to educate their employees so that they can function properly in a good-paying job. Think of the complete waste, which in the end the consumer pays for. First of all, the taxpayer spends billions on education which is supposed to do the job. Then it has to be done all over again by businesses which, of course, charge the cost of that second education in the prices they charge for their goods. They have to! In a recent Wall Street Journal article, a number of examples were cited. For instance, at JLG Industries, Inc., a manufacturer of cranes and aerial lifts in McConnellsburg, Pennsyl vania, “poorly educated workers are our No. 1 problem, the main factor slowing our growth,” says WUliam Barnes, vice presi dent of finance. One employee who didn’t know how to read a ruler mismeasured yards and yards of steel sheet. “He wasted nearly $700 worth of material in one morning,” Mr. Barnes said. Also, JLG purchased elec tronic equipment to help regulate inventories and manufacturing schedules. But employees who fed the equipment incorrect five digit numbers were “wteck- ing havoc,” Mr. Barnes said. As a result, wrong invent ory numbers sent the wrong spare parts from the comp any’s warehouse to manu facturing shops, disrupting both inventory control and manufacturing schedules. So far JLG has spent nearly $1,000,000 just to correct those incorrect ent ries, wiping out the savings that the equipment was supposed to provide! Also, it is not a matter of just blue collar workers. At Mutual of New York, an estimated 70% of the insur ance firm’s correspondence must be corrected and re typed at least once, because typists working from dicta tion recorders don’t know how to punctuate sentences and often misspell words. The company also says that clerical workers who speak ungrammatically and have difficulty communicat ing even simple information to company clients may be costing Mutual some lucra tive business. Under-educated workers can be dangerous, both to themselves and to others. One illiterate worker, em ployed at an unspecified company cited in a study, was killed because he could n’t read a warning sign. And an assembly line worker at a large industrial equipment manufacturer almost killed several co-workers when a heavy piece of metal, that he hadn’t attached properly to a machine, fell off — because he couldn’t read the assemb ly instructions! A National Conference Board survey indicates that 36% of 800 companies said they provided some instruc tion in subjects that are “really the responsibility of the schools.” More and more there is coming a realization that public education, as it is now constituted in the United States, is a ghastly and expensive failure which is undermining the foundation of the Republic by producing uneducated, undisciplined young people unable to cope with modern society. For example, in New York. City, black parents who can afford it are taking their children out of public schools and sending them to private black schools so they learn something. All across the United States, parents are making a sacrmce to send their child ren to private religious orj secular schools so that they will grow up to be literate, self-disciplined individuals. Perhaps at some future date the educational concept using the voucher system will be put into nationwide use. Under the voucher sys tem, parents would be given a sum of money equal to the cost of educating a child in a public school. This money could then be used to pay the tuition at a private school. Of course, the huge edu cational lobby m the United States, consisting of public school teachers and adminis trators, is up in arms at the concept of a voucher system because this would mean competition and they might end up losing their present jobs. But at least Johnny would learn how to spell! . ■/ i'.] • m • •, • -• • • • •. • Ml • • • • • • • • • • • • i» ' • • . • • • • • ' . • L.., '0-: -'it' Apr.: •. '• v; ■ '■’,0 . A ' V'’ 'Ax' k ■. V.» • , A V- V--
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