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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand Page 10 The Utah Independent June 30, 1977 USING TV TO CLEAN UP to leave the strategic CASTROS IMAGE By Paul Scott Washington: A no holds barred, let the chips fall where they may! congressional inquiry is urgently needed of those behind the TV networks carefully orchestrated campaign to build up the image of Fidel Castro and save his Communist regime from bankruptcy. Aimed at influencing congress to lift the economic-politic- al embargo of Cuba, the propaganda campaign is one of the most brazen undertaken within the media in recent years. Significantly, the propaganda drive has the full backing and support of the White House and State Department and Castros supporters and agents both here and abroad. A graphic illustration of the campaigns careful timing was the pro-Cast- American ro Broadcasting Companys (ABC) scheduling of Barbara Walters highly publicized interview with the Cuban dictator. The hour long show was aired as the senate prepares to vote this week on legislation providing for the first step in the lifting of the 16- U.S. embargo against year-ol- d red Castros regime. Authored by Senator Hubert the embargo Humphrey (D-Mwould allow amendment gutting Castro to make massive purchases of badly needed agriculture products and medicine in the U.S. N), These war-supporti- food and medicine provided to Castros expeditionary forces in Africa, now numbering more than 35,000 and daily killing anticommunist blacks, in Angola and Ethiopia. Population wise this is the equivalent ofthe U.S. sending a military force of 700,000 abroad. Staged to present the new the Walters show turned into a real coverup of the Cuban dictators massive violations of "human involving political prisoners. Without, a single 'Challenge, Castro was permitted to use his free prime-tim- e to tell the American audience that he had reduced the number of political prisoners in Cuba from 15,000 to between 2,000 and 3,000 a big lie. In addition to the more than 4.000 Cubans and Americans, which has U.S. intelligence documented as being locked up in Castros prisons, there are another 35.000 to 40,000 Cubans confined in camps because they dont agree with the way Castro is running the country. THE TV COVER-U- P Never once did Walters raise the explosive question about the more than 30 Americans (The State Department admits there are 27), who have been rotting in Castros prisons for more than 15 years. The CIA reports list 127. Neither was there any mention of the more than 800 persons with so-calle- dual d Cuban (10 minutes to and American citizenship which Castro now has under house arrest" and refuses to let them leave the country. Nothing was said about the more than two million other Cubans, who have notified U.S. authorities over the years, that they would like Castro's hour) clearly indicating where the network stands. If THE TRUE STORY ABC or any of the other networks really wanted to present the true story of what is going on in Cuba, they could interview a slight, grayhaired lady by the name of Anna Galbis. A holder of several high ranking posts in the Castro government, Anna Galbis speaks with authority and gives a completely different picture , of Cuba today and the Castro regime that was portrayed on TV. In 1959, when Castro shot his . way to power, Anna Galbis supported the new regime enthusiastically on her return from studying political science at the University of Paris. After joining the government she served in the Cuban Embassy ,n Washington and then as second soft-spok- an Emb Peking- - Later she wai employed Otban Ministry of Armed Forced. As a translator and ' interpreter, Anna Galbis served the Cuban government at a number of conferences including the International Marxist Congresses . ,n Havana, By 19W she had seen too many human rights violations Ca,,r0 and asked 10 country. It took her seven years to win her freedom. CONCENTRATION When interviewed, CAMPS Anna Galbis charges that Castro has sold out completely to the Soviet Union, turning the country's intelligence system over to the Soviets KGB, secret police. According to Anna Galbis, Castro holds more than 50,000 political prisoners. They are confined to 56 prisons, 26 concentration camps, and 108 prison farms, the latter being known as camps. The political prisoners are subjected to a system of forced labor along the Stalinist line", she r'Prts- - The showcase buildings in Cuba, now being shown foreign diplomats and newsmen, were built by this prison labor. Anna Galbis has a cousin. who only last month reached Mexico City after spending the past 17 years in and out of Castros prisons as a political prisoner. Her first hand account of Castros hell holes and human rights violations should he heard by every member of the senate before they cast their critical vote this week on whether to ease the U.S. embargo of Cuba. This brave woman's story will be told in a future column. It is my hope that the senate will serve as a voice of the people and help these two brave women tell their .stories to all America. - CONGRESS CAN Your Man In Washington CREATE RIGHTS? By Larry Wilcox Recently the Supreme Court apparently decided that congress could create rights. Perhaps I have missed some momentous news. .Has it been announced that congress is now giving birth to citizens? Have they also established the fact that the citizens of their country were created by By U.S. Senator Orrin G. Hatch Looking Back In History On June 13, 1975, Congress approved Public Law 94-3- 3 declaring the 21 days from Flag Day (June 14) through Independence Day (July 4) as a time to America with public gatherings and events. - them? I really dont want to be facetious but itseems to me that the people of congresss country must certainly have been created by President our Somehow fathers must have been mixed up since they stated that the people were created by. our Creator and they also announced that we the people" created the congress. Several years ago a young man made history by flying the Atlantic after he had stated that he intended to fly from New .York to Los Angeles. He was nicknamed wrong-wa- y Corrigan". We. must assume from the Supreme Courts n that either it or our founders should also be nicknamed recent-decisio- wrong-wa- y. Si nee it seems self-evide-nt that congress hasnt bad any birth pangs bringing forth people it also seems impossible that congress is the source of any kind of rights. Even congress must recognize that it is a creation , not a Creator. Since congress is a creation we must search for its Creator. The preamble to the Constitution states that we the people arc the The Declaration of creator. Independence concedes that it is that we the people" are the children of our Creator. Since congress did not exist at that time we must conclude that someone other than congress created the people. No matter who our Creator is, congress is not He. Congress, therefore, has no rights. Instead, congress has certain restricted authority delegated to it by the people who created it. That authority does not include giving birth to citizens or creating rights for its creator, the people. This is true, no matter what the Supreme Court, which was also created by the people, . self-evide- nt says. our Creator, is the source of all of our rights and we, the people, are the source of the limited authority conferred by us on our servants who make up the government. Any attempt by our servants to reverse this order is an attempt by them to elevate themselves from servantship to godhood. God, health . . has worth examining the blems our new country was undergoing two centuries ago. The Declaration proclaimed our independence, but the new nation then had to meet the realities of survival. The Continental Congress found itself with dubious powers over the 13 states, powers which failed to include the ability to raise money directly, to muster troops, and it pro-hon- Jimmy that urged Americans to participate will in activites that demonstrate their pride in their Nation and its acto comcomplishments memorate the 200th anniversary of the adoption of the Stars and Stripes by the Continental Congress. A year ago considerable numbers of us were beating the drums, hoisting the flag and lining up for parades to celebrate our nation's Bicentennial. Now the United States is nearly a year older and the enthusiam has significantly subsided. America will soon be 201 years old, an age that doesnt particularly stir the imagination or inspire celebration. Most of us are back at our every day tasks and the future of the United States has a slightly lower priority in our lives than it had a year ago. A closer look at our history reveals that we are not the first generation to react this way, however. After the Declaration of Independence fervor had dimmed, Alexander Hamilton expressed his concern about the fumbling young government, The frail and tottering edifice seems ready to fall upon our heads and to crush us beneath its lacked pro-Marxis- ts to government functioned Dedicated, discerning with confidence in its own strength and began its ascent as a world power. All Americans . can profit by bearing in mind the circumstances which brought the Constitution into existence. It was predominantly a matter of intellect and persuasion. Americans cut through seemingly insurmountable difficulties to accomplish their purpose. ' ruins. Perhaps es authority regulate commerce. George Washington wrote in 1786, I do not conceive that we can exist as a nation without having lodged somewhere a power, which will perva'de the whole Union in as energetic manner as the authority of the State government extends over the several states. This and similar comments gave momentum to a demand for a constitutional convention. Sectional differences had to be settled. Small states had to be assured their rights would not be usurped by larger states. Ultimately an agreement was ratified by the states in 1789. Thirteen years, however, had passed before the U.S. v The Palm Beach Post-Timan ultra-lefti- st sheet loosely called a newspaper, headlined an Associated Press story on May 15: Conservatives Like Carter's Stand. The whom conservatives, are among acknowledged homosexuals and all lean so far to the left, they are about to fall off the world. or . all a similar mood exists today amid a large segment of the population. Answers to important questions seem further out of reach. Where can our government find individuals with the perception and skill to solve such intricate problems as the energy shortage, Middle East strife, the budget, disarmament, and If today's issues appear insoluble, it might be June 11, 1977. The Presi- dent insurance countless others? declaration in his Flag Day and National Flag Week Proclamation on founding welfare, unemployment, reiterated Carter congress if congress can create If citizens receive their rights. rights from congress, then it follows that congress must have created the people. en ng supplies ate needed to replace the rights island Communist stronghold and Soviet base. In a ten minute interview" on ABCs "Good Morning America" show, Castros sister tried to tell the story of her brothers massive human rights violations in Cuba but the interviewer kept trying to interrupt her with questions about the CIAs alleged attempts to kill Castro. The program ended with one of the interviewers questioning Castro's sister, who is now living in the U.S. in exile, claiming that the network had given her equal time With - sufficient diligence and effort on the part of each American citizen, these qualities can be applied as effectively in the search for solutions to the problems of the 1970s as they did with the problems of the 1770s. ...a man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small dange of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself because he cannot help perceiving what a pompous ass he would become if he did. -- Konrad Lorenz |