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Turner confirmed for CIA
WASHINGTON - The Senate yesterday confirmed the appointment of Adm. Stanfield Turner to head the Central Intelligence Agency. The approval came on a
The 53-year-old naval officer takes control of the CIA at a time when it once again is in the news as a result of alleged clover activities.
The latest controversy involving the agency revolves around published reports that the CIA paid off millions of dollars over a 20-year period to Khalifah Hussein of Kuwait, who have made millions. The report has sparked debate.
Carter sent Turner's nomination to Capitol HF Feb. 7, not longer after his first choice for the post, former White House aide Theodore Sorensen, had asked that he be reelected.
Carter affirms rights goal
WASHINGTON—President Carter pledged yesterday that his administration's foreign policy would be marked by a concern for human rights and declared that "when I speak and when Cyrus Vance speaks, I want it to be the absolute truth." Carter, during a visit to the State Department, stressed the moral underpinning of his administration's view of the world. He also urged U.S. foreign aid obligations to foreign service political appointments. The State Vance and assembled State Department employees that his administration will be "tenacious and determined in our search for greater world peace."
Damage to crops serious
A low pressure system that generated winds of 72 miles an hour and blew silt over southwestern Kansas for 36 hours, has moved south—allowing agriculture officials to find wheat crop damage is serious, but not critical.
"It it did not destroy all the wheat in western Kansas, but it was the beginning of something that could be very devastating," said Early Hayes, president of the Kansas Association of Wheat Growers. "If we could get rain or snow almost immediately, any further windworm, there could be some salvage and recovery." And a silt rod on winds up to 72 miles an hour that started Tuesday and continued through 9 p.m. Wednesday. The dust reduced visibility to almost zero most of Wednesday, prompting closing of almost all highways in southwestern Kansas, but they were reopened when the dust settled.
BROOKLINE, Mass. AP—Convicted Watergate burglar and former CIA agent E. Howard Hunt says giving money to foreign governments, like the reported grants to Jordan's King Hussein, is "an honored tradition within the CIA."
Hunt asserts payoffs often made by CIA
He said at a news conference yesterday that he made substantial cash payments to government officials in Japan, Mexico and India while working as a CIA station chief.
"The payments to foreign governments are a long and honored tradition within the CIA." Hunt said. "There is certainly nothing illegal about this."
Hunt, 58, made the comments at his first news conference since leaving federal prison at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. Wednesday.
Hunt didn't say how much money was in the bag, where it came from or who received it.
The session was held at the suburban Boston office of his booking agent, who will oversee a series of lecture tours Hunt has planned.
Hunt served 32 months in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy, burglary and illegal wiretapping in the 1972 Watergate break-in.
He said he assumed the payments, which were made in exchange for questioning.
"When I was station chief it was common or me to pay substantial figures for personal expenses."
of the local host government. "Have said"
"I certainly support Uruguaian in-
intelligence, a Mexican intelligence service—that is, the most different ones—and the Japanese are the perilous.
Hunt compared his role in the Watergate burglary to his earlier job as a CIA officer.
Hunt, who recruited the break-in team, said he had been instructed to "photograph" the attackers.
"My involvement at Watergate was solely a continuum of my years in the CIA in which I followed the orders of my superiors," he said.
He said he didn't deal with then President Richard Nixon and top White House advisers, but assumed from the amount of money involved in the case that the Watergate break-in was a White House-approved activity.
Hunt said he felt "a pretty good amount of bitterness" toward Judge John Sirica, who sentenced him, and White House officials, and his family. "We themselves after his career was ruined.
"I paid my price for Watergate in sorrow and lost wasted years in tragedy, ridicule and humiliation." Hunt said. "I feel no act of constriction can be required of me."
Nixon could have averted the "horrene-dougery tragedy" of Watergate by admitting soon after the break-in that the men in charge thought it would be the thought was a good cause. Hunt said.
"The break-in itself was a minor legal problem," he said. "It was the hysteria afterward that ballooned this into a major international tragedy."
Rumors of trouble, shakeup persist at ABC
NEW YORK (AP) - Her friends say it's unfair. Her critics say it's long overdue. At issue is the criticism and mounting controversy swirling around Barbara Waters, not only the first woman in a network audience, but the highest-paid newscaster in television.
Fed by corporate leaks and colleagues' criticism, questions are being raised about her performance as co-anchor of the ABC Evening News and about the status of the network news executives who last year her to a five-year, $10 million contract.
In the past three weeks there have been published reports that Walters and her coanchor, Harry Reasoner, aren't getting along and that one of them might step down. There also have been rumors that a news division management shakeup is possible and that ABC's wizard sports executive, Roone Arledge, will be brought in.
Arledge is known to be reviewing tapes of each evening's show and making recommendations. And be has mentioned that the addition of a star such as Howard Cossil in a sports slot on the evening program might lift it up.
One ABC board director, in a private conversation, recently mentioned the possibility of Arledge taking over the news division. Arledge has declined comment. Denis greeted him with an enthusiastic shakeups at ABC. But as the reports continue to surface, senior executives have all retreated behind "no comments."
There is enough comment on the record, and plenty of behind-the-scenes chatter, to suggest that ABC is concerned that the expensive gamble of hiring Walters, 44, hasn't worked out and that the format of the show may have to be altered.
ABC officials are unhappy that the dirty corporate linen is being washed in public.
ABC's hope that the wooing of Walters away from NBC's "Today" show would
significantly improve the ratings of its evening news program haven't been realized. The ratings have gone up only a point or so, with ABC currently holding down 19 rating points to NBC's 28 and CBS's 30. ABC executives say the show has made inroads in metropolitan areas and with youthful viewers.
Another problem: intentions to expand the show to a ground-breaking 45 minutes were frustrated by reluctant affiliate stations.
"That didn't leave us much room to ac-
commode the massive eagos of Harry and Barbara," said one production assistant. He said field reporters found they were getting lost in the maze of the new format, much less money - in the new format.
The initial hostility of the veteran Reasoner to his superstar co-anchor subsided but only to "a simmering smoulder," according to insiders.
Walters hasn't been available for comment but is known to be vigorously defending her position on the show. She is currently in Teheran interviewing the Shah
Conservative spokesmen announce shadow cabinet
WASHINGTON (AP)—Leaders of the conservative movement announced a "shadow cabinet" yesterday to keep an eye on President Carter and his policies. The counterpart secretary of state, New Hampshire Gov Meldrum Thomas, said he planned to travel to Panama to express concern about the Panama Canal talks.
The conservative 'shadow cabinet' includes a counterpart to each member of the group. Ron Paul, secretary for the group is Ron Paul, a former Republican congressman from Texas, who introduced himself by saying he had included the fact that he was an obstetrician.
The group's organizers say the shadow cabinet idea was based on the British government's policy of organizing such a cabinet with counterparts of each of the individual official cabinet members. The opposition cabinet members advocate that government's policies and prepare alternatives.
Thomson, a Republican, said he intended to lead a delegation to Panama, which is seeking greater control over the Panama
of Iran for another of her special programs. Reasoner also is publicly silent but has told friends he wonders whether he will survive the hassle.
Canal. U.S. and Panamanian diplomats are negotiating the canal's future.
William Rusher, publisher of the National Review, a conservative magazine, was elected chairman of the conservative group that will serve as the shadow attorney general.
The project may upstage plans for the Republican party to organize itself into a shadow government now that it is out of control. A committee from Garford Ford as he left the White House.
"Practically speaking, the difficulty of the Republican party picking a shadow cabinet is there is nobody in authority in the Republican party who can specify who the particular members would be," Rusher said.
Rusher, a Republican who has been a leading advocate of a new conservative party, brushed aside the GOP plans as "politically impossible."
The various elements within the GOP, Rusher said, would battle over each appointment without an incumbent President. The Republican-led Senate was more in agreement.
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"WHY DO THE HEATHEN RAGE?"
There was one member of this Board — call him Brother Jones — in whom all the people in the Church and community had great confidence on account of his character, integrity, sincerity and faithfulness of his church vows and all causes of his life. That is why he is neither Mr. Smith's experience of hearing the "leaves ratite" was ground enough for accepting him.
Psalms 2 and Acts 4:25
The Church Official Board has just come to order. The Moderator stated that Mr. Smith was present and wished to make application for baptism and membership. "Mr. Smith will you please give us a statement and testimony of your spiritual experience leading you to make this request." Mr. Smith spoke loudly, and I listened with interest. I live my home is several hundred yards of the main road, and is connected by a lane that has a heavy growth of trees on both sides. Recently walking home late at night, suddenly I heard the leaves rattle in a tree above me — the head was calm and no wind was stirring. It frightened me I stopped a moment, and they rattled again; it was like a fire alarm. I walked in and in the house as quickly as possible. The more I think of this experience the more I am convinced that it was a warning for me to 'Get right with God!'
Brother Jones got up and made a talk about as follows — we will not try to quote him. Two things he had in mind, First, impress his hearers that The Bible revealed there are great, powerful, even terrible "UNSEEN POWERS" both good and evil unseen powers all of us. Second, take to heart things to do in order to show the GOOD and the BAD POWERS and be blessed with a true and right experience of "hearing the leeches rattle." The angel of The Lord encampment round them who learn
The Moderator then asked the Board if they thought this experience entitled the man to be accepted for baptism and was allowed.
One brother got up quickly and said: "I move we take him in. It appears to me that we got a lot of members in this Church, in this Deacon Board, and may the preacher himself, 'WHO AIN't NEVER HEARD THE LEAVES RAT.'"
Him, and delivereth them" — Psalm 34:7. The Bible also tells us of "evil angels!"
Brother Jones then related to them the experience of King David just after he had been ankinged King over all Israel. The Philistines made war on him. There is no telling how many times David had already whipped them in battle—including the giant Galloway—yet it seems that he fight to unit them up and go up; he fets a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the muberry trees, and let it be, WHEN THEU HEAREST THE SOUND OF A GOING IN THE TOPS OF THE MULBERRY TREES, THAT THEM THOU SHAFT BESTHE THEM THE TREE, THOU THEM THE TREE, TO SMITE THE HOST OF THE PHILISTINES! After "hearing the leaves rattle" David won a great victory! 2nd Samuel 5:23, etc.
The King of Syria made war against the King of Israel. The King of Syria thought he had a traitor in his camp that told the King of Israel his strategy. However, one of his soldiers told him it was that Prophet over in Israel who could tell what words he spent in his own headquarters. The Syrian King went and surrounded the Persians. His servant saw the army that surrounded them he was greatly frightened, but Elshaaï said to him: "Fear not for that they be with us are more than they that be with them." Doubless for a moment the servant thought his master had gone cray, but Elshaaï prayed to the Lord to open the eyes of his servant so he could see:"And the Lord opened the eyes of her servant." And the Lord opened the eyes of all horses and charms of fire round about Elshaaï." — 2nd Kings 6:8-23) it appears there was plenty of cause for the "leaves to rattle" in this instance.
Consider what Moses saw at the Burning Bush, the leaves alire but not consumed? Consider how the "unseen power" struck down the Apotheke Paul on the road to Damascus, and how he got up and went about to "tum the world up-side-down" I think they tell us that the enemy had a special knowledge or less, who make some claim of being Christian in this great land. It is to be feared that most of us have never heard "the leaves rattle." Go to reading your Bible and let nothing hinder you!
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