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Show 1 PIMIOM Sun Advocate V1 r I 4b Tuesday, October 16, 1990 Israeli spy book raises issues There are two extremely repugnant aspects of the controversy over a new book that discloses activities of the Israeli intelligence service, the Mos-saThe first is the reasoning behind a judges order that temporarily blocked U.S. publication of the book; the second is the nature of the disclosures themselves. According to the book, written by a former Mos-sa- d agent, Israel had information about terrorist plans to use a Mercedes truck for an attack in Lebanon before such a truck was used in a 1 983 bombing that killed 241 U.S. Marines and sailors at the d. Beirut airport. But Israel gave only vague warnings to the Americans because it wanted to damage U.S. relations with Arab countries, the book says. It also says the Mossad spied on Americans, even members of Congress. Israel sought to prevent the books publication, claiming that it would risk Israeli lives. Initially, a New York judge agreed. But he did so on the basis an unsupported assertion. a free society, the constitutional right of free expression is vital ; it must not be denied on the basis of a mere claim that someone might be harmed. Such assertions must be proved by facts and weighed against the harm d that censorship inflicts on the flow of information. Fortunately, an appeals court recognized those obvious truths and promptly lifted the of In court-impose- lower courts ruling. Significantly, neither the Israel embassy in Washington nor court papers filed by Israel denied the authenticity of the claims, in the book. The books disclosures are both provocative and sad. One expects an adversary to snoop on Americans. For Israel to do so is not only an unfriendly act, but an ungrateful ore. It is particularly appalling when the targets, of such covert action are those who give Israel billions of aid dollars every year. If the books allegations are true, then Israel did even worse when it failed to give a timesomething of a terrorist ly warning attack; it put American lives in danger. Israel is entitled to an espionage agency and is entitled to a secure existence. But it cannot spy Cn Americans and risk their lives while claiming to be a reliable ally. Reprinted from The Milwaukee Journal. r . . Anything under the sun Oral histories Blue Mountain Shadows, a periodical published in San Juan County, has received recognition from the American Association for State and Local History. The little history magazine publishes articles gleaned from oral histories of the San Jaun area. Each of its five publications have sold out. The hours of work on the magazine have been done by historians, students and volunteers. J. As reporters from the Sun Advocate have interviewed locals residents who have lived a century, I have thought how fun it would be to collect oral histories of Carbon County. Few weeks pass that someone does not stop at my office to reminesce. They remember how Main Street in Price looked years ago, how the business section has changed. They remember the people who were and the rare experience of growing up in a cosmopolitan atmo , Give it a chance . . The movement has long stirred fears that living near a nuclear power plant increases a persons chances of dying from cancer. That claim has now been largely discredited by a two-yestudy conducted by the National Cancer anti-nucle- ar their-neighbor- ar Institute. . sphere. They remember life in the coal, camps, sometimes with fondness and sometimes with a hint of sadness. And then there are the pictures. Nothing says quite so much as old black and whites and sepia tones. Whether they are chipped, cracked or in perfect condition, we gaze at them, picking up the details of another era. A few days ago, a lady from American Fork visited my office. I love the old photos you sometimes run in your paper, she said. They are so delightful. There are history buffs, galore in our area. It would seem to me, they would make a great contribution to Carbon County if they published an. annual or history magazine similar to Blue Mountain Shadows. The material is here. It only lacks organization, form and semi-annu- al s ' shape.- ' By the way, Mack - looking for old pictures of Price Trading Company. We can find pictures in books and newsdippings, but no originals or copies. If you have a picture of any of the old PTC stores, please call me at the Sun Advocate or Mack at Price Trading. i Over the next few months, the Sun Advocate will be collecting histories and old photos ofthe Carbon County area and businesses for our centennial edition. If you have any you think would be of interest, again, please call me. They will be treated with care and returned to you immediately. History in Carbon County is never a dull subject. When you add the human element found in oral histories, it takes on more emotional significance. I hope someone with an interest and the time will consider creating a magazine filled with those histories for the populace to , Johnson and I are treasure. The study compared cancer death rates in counties near nuclear plants to rates in counties without such facilities. It found no conclusive evidence of increased cancer risk among people living- near nuclear, power plants. Authors of the study, including John Boice, chief of the National Cancer! nstitutes Radiation Epidemiology Branch, said counties near nuclear facilities had ho higher death rates from cancer than counties with less exposure to ' radioactive - pollution. According to .the researchers, the findings did not definitively rule out damaging health effects that might be limited to smaller areas closest to nuclear plants. They also noted that, in the case of plants that began operation in recent years, cancers might not be evident yet because of the period between substance and the exposure to a cancer-causin-g time it takes for cancer to appear. Still, a major blow has been dealt to one of the movements anti-nucle- ar er got what she deserved when the guy waved his whatsis at her in the locker room. I didnt ask you. Then ask me and Ill tell . you. You already did. Oh. Yeah, I guess I did. What I mean is, she brought the whole thing on herself. If she hadnt been there, it most frightening arguments. The bottom line is that no increased risk of death from cancer has been uncovered by an exhaustive study by a prestigious medicaf institute involving 400 counties, 60 nuclear facilities, 16 types of cancer, 900,000 cancer.deaths and health records covering a period .from 1952 to 1984. A separate report published in the American journal of Epidemiology concludes that even in Americas worst nuclear accident, at Three Mile Island in 1 979, theres no solid evidence that radiation releases influenced cance rates. The study, which reviewed the hospital records of 160,000 people living within 10 miles of the plant, echoes health effects previous findings of no long-terlinked to the accident. . Fear of cancer is one of the reasons why no new permits have been granted for nuclear plant construction in the United States since the 1 970s, even as the nation has grown dangerously dependent on imported oil. The new studies should cause Americans to give fresh thought to the low level of risk related to atomic plants. The greatest risk is clear that misguided fears will leave us short of the'ener-g- y needed to sustain the nation in the future. 32-ye- wouldnt have happened, would it? If we werent sitting here having a beer, we wouldnt be sitting here having a beer, would we? ar I dont understand what that means. I dont either. But I thought it might shut you up. Y ou still dont understand. So what was she doing in that locker room? She was there doing her job, as the laws permit, as the football league rules permit and as simple decency should permit. There is nothing new or novel about female sportswri-ter- s going into locker rooms. Its been going oh for years. m You stUl , r I dont understand why it was her1 own fault. Then please enlighten me. I seen her on TV. She sounds like a nice, intelligent, rb.- jirl. Good education and all that. So why - I would she do such a terrible thing? What terrible thing? . Whyd she become a sportswriter? If you ask me," said Slats Grobnik, that woman sports-writ- 3 " Yes, they do tend to be and take a narrow view of life. I listen to some of these jocks talking on TV and I ask Ah, Im beginning to myself how they got through understand. four years of college. Then I Didnt you do that for a ask how they got through four while? Write about sports? years of high school. This guy Very briefly and many, Dingleberry' on the Mets. many years ago. Strawberry. Whatever. I read that he Why didnt you stay with it? got offered $3 million a year to Well, I found that most of play baseball. He says it was the people I came into contact an insult. Hes 28 years old. with were...Im having trouble After one year, he pays his finding the - appropriate' agent anddiis taxes and hes wonL.they were...how shall I got $2 million left. He puts put it?...uh... that in bonds, and hes got Stupid? ' $150,000 interest a year for Ah, thats precisely the the rest of his fife. And hes word I was groping for. Thank insulted. If somebody would you. insult me like that, Id kiss Youre welcome. Yeah, I their galoshes." listen to these mopes on TV They do tend to get a bit and I read what they got to spoiled. say. And I never heard a worse If I got caught doing dope bunch of moaners. They moan on my job or getting sloshed, about not making enough Fm these guys, the lions. They moan that the manager says its so sad and coach dont appreciate them. tragic and we should all be They moan that they gotta go understanding, and they go on TV or answer a question. to a clinic to get their away They moan that they gotta noses cleaned out, and when take a drug test. They moan they come back the fans stand that they dont like their con- up and clap like trained monk-- . tract. Then when they get a eys. Then when the fan wants hew contract, they moan that an autograph, hes got to pay a they dont like that one either. 10-- 8 pot before the mope will You got more cheerful people scribble his name. in a hospital emergency Yes, they seem to be self-center- , out.-Wit- room. ed .Theyre making all this money .and getting all this attention, . but theyre too dumb to put on a bathrobe? When the neighbor lady comes over in the morning to have coffee with my wife, I dont run out of the shower and jump in front of her telling her, Take a look at this! Shed call the cops. No, my wife would call the cops. No, my wife would stab me. I put on a bathrobe. Youve always been a gent So what I want to know is why that woman would take a job like that? I mean, can an editor force somebody to be a sportswriter? No, there are alternatives. "Thats what I figured. She . could be the kind of reporter who interviews normal people. Like when theres a tornado or a flood and you ask somebody how bad their house got wrecked, they dont take off their underwear and wave : their privates at you. Fve never seen that. Or if you cover a school board meeting and ask somebody on the school board about how big the budget is going to be, he dont unzip his pants and ask if you wanna peek? That would be unusual. "So she decided on her own that she was going to be a sportswriter, even though she knew shed have to go in and . (Continued on Page 5B) fit f I a ' '4 |