Official Says U.S. Heading Into Major Materials Crisis
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OFFICIAL SAYS U.S. HEADING INTO MAJOR MATERIALS CRISIS INDIANAPOLIS (AP)--The United States is heading into a minerals and materials crisis that will make the fuel crisis look like a Sunday School picnic, a Ford administration official says. Monday. September 30, 1974 John Kyl, assistant secretary of I I the interior, said in an interview Saturday night with the Associated Press: "We'll have a crisis in ma- 1A;rt terials within five years." Kyl addressed the Indiana Repub- lican Editorial Association. He re- I turned to Washington yesterday. "If you list the basic minerals we use regularly, a number of them we SOUTH AFRICA'S have to import 100 per cent," Kyl SOVIETS JOIN MOVE TO QUESTION U.N. STATUS said. "Not only minerals, but also UNITED NATIONS (AP)--The Soviet are likely to run into a Western- forest and agricultural products." Union joined the Africans yesterday power veto in the council. But they Kyl said America's mining industry in a move to have the General Assem- will make their case against South has not developed necessary techno- bly, for the first time, send the Africa at length. logy and added that the nation also question of South Africa's U.N. The resolution would have the needs to make some basic decisions status to the Security Council. assembly "call.upon the Security on conservation matters. Forty-five of the 138 U.N. member Council to review the relationship countries sponsored a resolution between the United Nations and for that purpose officially circu- South Africa in the light of con- "This country can no longer af- lated for the assembly's adoption stant ford the luxury of planned obsoles- violations by South Africa of today. the cence," Kyl said. Asked if he inclu- principles of the charter and ded automobiles, he replied "Any- Besides the Soviet Union, the the universal declaration of human thing." list includes Albania, Romania, rights." India, Kuwait, Guyana, Trinidad- The U.N. charter provides that any Tobago and 38 of the 42 non-European "We've got to quit treating min- member country "which has persistent- erals and timber as disposable items. African governments--all but Malawi, ly violated" charter principles may We've got to reclaim them again and Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland, be expelled by the assembly upon again. which are close to South Africa. recommendation of the council. The Africans have proclaimed their "But in order to do that, you have intention to get South Africa dropp- to have more research. You have to ed from the United Nations until its FORMER POW SAYS HE KNOWS change some laws. In fact, you prob- white minority government drops ra- ably have to have economic incentive cial discrimination and gives the OF NO AMERICAN PRISONERS for reclaiming instead of looking vote to the non-white and predomi- for new materials." nantly black majority. PLAIN OF JARS, Laos (AP)--A Thai They are sure to get their reso- army captain released after nine lution through the assembly. They years in Communist prisons said yesterday he met a number of Amer- icans in captivity but that all had been freed. TESTIMONY DISCLOSES FBI KEPT WATCH ON HARRIMAN'S HOME Chaicham Harnnavee, who was cap- tured WASHINGTON (AP)--Newly released Harriman, a former New York gover- in Laos in 1965, said he had been Senate testimony disclosed that the nor and former U.S. ambassador to kept in a North Vietnamese pri- FBI kept watch on former Ambassador the Soviet Union, at that time was son with two Americans but that they W. Averell Harriman's home to iden- a vocal opponent of American policy were freed last April. He did not tify participants in a meeting there in Indochina. identify them. He said he had seen no other Amer- of State Department personnel op- The Harriman surveillance was dis- posed to the 1970 Cambodian invasion. closed Saturday when the committee icans since then, nor had he heard Former FBI agent Bernard Wells released transcripts of closed hear- of any other American prisoners in told the Senate Foreign Relations ings on Secretary of State Henry A. Indochina. Committee he believed that the FBI Kissinger's role in the wiretapping Chaichan, who served more years learned of the May 18, 1970 meeting of 13 government officials and four as a POP than any other Thai, leaned through a wiretapped conversation. newsmen. on a cane and looked fatigued as he However, there was no indication that The released testimony showed was handed over by the Pathet Lao. the tapped telephone was Harriman's. that Kissinger told the panel that A total of 64 Thais and 44 Laotian it was then-FBI Director J. Edgar prisoners were freed yesterday. Wells also said there was no at- Hoover who fingered the first four The POU swap got under way Sept. tempt to overhear conversations individuals wiretapped in a 1969-71 18 when the Pathet Lao freed Hawaii- during the meeting inside Harriman's investigation into leaks of nation- an pilot Emmet James Kay, 47, Amer- house here. al security secrets. ica's last-knowm POW in Indochina. Page 2--LOCAL Guantanama Cazette Monday, September 30, 1974 %# LOCAL a "team" but you are the team captain. Always keep BRIEFS vour motorcycle under complete control and project as TRYOUTS FOR far ahead as possible. Expect the unexpected. A parked LITTLE THEATRE BEGIN TONIGHT automobile may suddenly pull away from the curb. A Tryouts for the Little Theatre's next production, car door may be opened without warning. A child may "Dark of the Moon," begins tonight from 7-9:30 p.m. at dart into the street - but you can ride with safety Morin Center. for yourself and for others if you follow the basic The play needs the following people: a young man and rule: think safe and be alert. Adjust your speeds to woman to play the parts of John, the witch boy, and existing conditions and exercise extra care at all Barbara Allen; 12 other women and 11 men of assorted intersections. ages for speaking roles. Also needed is a young fellow who can play the guitar and sing passably, and two girls who can do modern dance. ADDITION TO TELEVISION SCHEDULE Parts are open to all GTMO residents. There has been There was an omission in this week's Channel 8 tele- no pre-casting done for the show. vision schedule, which was printed in Friday's paper. The play is an unusual folk tragedy, combining drama, A 30-minute show, "Here Comes the Future," is sche- folk song and dance with exciting production effects. duled at 9:30 p.m. Thursday, following the 9 p.m. It will be presented Nov. 21, 22 and 23. show, "Victory at Sea." The tryouts will continue through Wednesday. Every- one is urged to try to attend as many of the tryout nights as possible. Pot Can For further information, contact Sandra Bernstein, Induce Psychosis the director, at 99272 AWH. In contrast to claims by marijuana advocates, Dr. Nils Bejerot recently told a U.S. Senate panel that cannabis is addicting and can SCHOOL PICTURES WILL BE TAKEN seriously hurt a person psychologically. "All euphorising drugs may give rise to psychological dependence A representative of the school photography firm will or addiction, and this has the character of an artificially induced be at the elementary school Wednesday and Thursday and drive, in many cases far stronger than sexual drives," contends the at the high school Thursday and Friday to take indiv- acting professor in social medicine at the Karolinska Institute in idual and class pictures. Stockholm, Sweden. Bejerot said a team of German scientists, in experimenting on DR. KELLER WILL SPEAK TO SURE LOSERS addiction with the character of an artificially induced drive, found a center in the brain which controlled it and destroyed the tissue. Dr. J.M. Keller, chief of psychiatric service at the This ended the craving for the drug. Naval Hospital in Gitmo, will be the guest speaker at "In human experiments, largely carried out on addicted physician the Sure Losers meeting Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in the volunteers, sexual potency was affected, and this indirectly supports hospital classroom. All club members and prospective the theory of the drive character of drug addiction," he states. new members are urged to attend. The doctor said a serious complication of cannabis abuse is chronic psychosis, a condition long recognized in areas where CRANE HILL WIVES WILL MEET cannabis abuse is endemic. Acute marijuana intoxication can cause an altered sense of reality with a tendency for magical thinking. The quarterly business meeting of the Crane Hill Accompanying this is intellectual deterioration, which may be Wives Club will be held at the home of Nancy Milburn, irreversible, and vagabondism commonly develops, states the CO-69, at 7:30-p.m. Wednesday. Holiday activities will report. be planned at this meeting. For further information The United States is currently in the throes of a marijuana call Nancy, 85740. epidemic which threatens to approach endemic stages. Another witness appearing before the subcommittee, Dr. William SAFETY SAM SAYS. T. Moore, said he and his colleague, Dr. Harold Kolansky, are convinced that "marijuana smoking carries enormous risks of Think safe and be alert. You and your motorcycle are physical and mental damage." Local Forca WATER STATUS Water figures for yesterday: Partly cloudy with scattered WATER PRODUCED: showers. Visibility unre- 1,144,000 02SC. stricted except lowering to . .- A - ff. 2 to 3 WATER CONSUMED: 1,198,000 ~. P5k. miles in shower areas.