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U.S. Riles U.S. Riles Allies With Anti-Soviet Move By JACK ANDERSON WASHINGTON In its determination to counter Soviet strength in the eastern Mediterranean, the Reagan administration has stepped into a minefield of hostility between our two NATO allies in the area, Greece and Turkey. It will be little short of a miracle if the administration emerges unscathed, much less achieves its goal. Admittedly, the administration's hopes for the strategically vital area would tax the diplomatic skills of a Metternich.

It wants nothing less than to retain U.S. military bases in Greece despite the opposition of the socialist government, while strengthening its military ties to Greece's arch-foe, Turkey. To accomplish this, the administration proposes to double military aid Turkey, but give no increase in aid to Greece. All this would be tricky enough if the sensibilities of the members were the only consideration. No matter what the political coloration of Greek and Turkish regimes are, their mutual suspicions toward each other remain constant.

The United States needs Turkey to block Soviet routes to the oil fields of the Persian Gulf region. Congress, therefore, must approve the administration's to beef up Turkey's deteriorating military equipment. But Congress, ever mindful of the powerful Greek-American constituency, has traditionally given respectful attention to the articulate Greek lobby in Washington. Senate sources told my associate Lucette Lagnado there is widespread suspicion that the Reagan administration is ready to turn its back on the Greeks and their socialist regime in favor of the Turks. At first glance, it is easy to see evidence of an administration tilt toward Turkey in the proposed increase of military aid to Ankara from the current $400 million to $755 million, while Athens' aid package would be "straightlined" at last year's $280 million.

To Greece's friends on Capitol Hill, the administration is discarding the longstanding aid ratio of $10 for Turkey to $7 for Greece. The rationale for the 10-7 ratio is lost in the mists of legislative history, and Merry-Go-Round ound is at least arguably unfair: Turkey has five times the population of Greece, six times the territory and at least equal strategic value. But the 10-7 ratio has achieved the status of a sacrosanct commitment in the eyes of the Greek lobby and its friends in Congress. The aid ratio proposed by the administration would be almost 3 to 1. So the administration has undertaken an energetic lobbying, officials, effort to headed win by Congress Richard over.

Teams scenes Perle, assistant defense secretary for security, have called on key members of Congress in both parties. In addition to supposedly safe administration supporters, like Sen. Charles Percy, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, the Pentagon THE DAILY TIMES Editorials VIEWPOINT Edward C. White, Publisher and General Manager Mel Toadvine, Managing Editor Donald Brown, Advertising Manager Barbara Bradley, Classified Supervisor James Mixon, Circulation Manager PAGE A-4 Salisbury, Md. Mar.

20, 1983 Hearing Needed The Environmental Protection Agency apparently has heeded a 'call by Rep. Thomas Carper, and others for a public hearing on the proposed dumping of sewage and chemical wastes in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Henlopen. No dates have been set for the hearings but the proposal should be aired now and not after the five-year dumping period advocated by the agency. The EPA admits there has been insufficient research on the effects of sludge dumping at the ocean site. The impact on the ocean environment remains unclear.

It makes little sense to dump waste into the ocean for five years and then make a study on the effect, yet this is what the EPA is proposing. The agency sees the ocean site as a dumping ground for sludge and waste from New Jersey and New York City. There is the threat that other East Coast cities as far away as Boston may be waiting to dump their waste in the ocean if the EPA proposals not rejected. Carper week he had learned that the 106-mile dumping site is identified by the U.S. Department of Interior as an area abundant with natural gas and oil.

Dumping sewage and industrial waste in that area may jeopardize future gas and oil drilling there, he said. Americans must soon solve the problem of waste disposal. We cannot keep dumping it into oceans, streams, rivers and landfills. Future generations will have to pay a tremendous price if we don't solve this problem soon. Hidden Message By EUGENE W.

GOLL policies. Public education serves to teach democracy, not to practice it, was the message hidden behind what state board of education members told the student government representatives. The students had asked the state board to allow a student to sit on the board. Becky Newburn and Tommy Robbins are top-level student government officers. the February meeting they surprised the state board, which normally likes to know in advance what a person is going to talk about before the meeting gets under way.

The two high schoolers wanted to be given an opportunity to have a non-voting student sit on the board. The nine-member state education board is autonomous and is a powerful body in terms of education in the state. For example, it can, through its bylaws, determine what subjects are to be taught and what qualifications are needed by persons who do the teaching. The point is, the state board has much more to say about what the county school boards do. And it is easy enough to argue that the state board's power is growing at the expense of the local boards, but that is another subject.

In the long run, students are the recipients, of one policies thing is developed clear by board the members even said it students are seen, let alone heard from at meetings where the state board makes Also clear is that students are not selected to join the various committees and task forces that are set up to study different aspects of education. A recent example was the 29-member blue ribbon committee to look into the quality of teaching in Maryland and to make suggestions for improvements that might be needed. Who, for instance, would be better qualified to comment on the quality of teaching, a student who sits through classes or a private industry person who has little actual contact with the schools? Or, would it be a PTA member who often sees the school when it is at its best? The students have a point! Certainly what the students have suggested is not that big a deal. Some county school boards, such. as Montgomery, Prince George's, and Anne Arnudel, have student members.

So, too, do some higher education boards. Most have only a single member, hardly a voting bloc able to force great changes. In response to their request, state board members gave the two students a dose of. verbal syrup. Nevertheless, the answer was no! Students, after all, may not be ready to participate in the real democratic process but are to learn to do what they are told.

Letters To The Editor- New Jail Needed Editor Of The Times: During the past month, I was given a tour of the Wicomico County jail which also serves as the City of Salisbury jail. Since there is recent activity of fund procurement directed toward a new jail, my voice may help to speed progress. While I hope never to be an inmate, it was inevitable not to picture myself in this setting. It seemed appalling that an inmate could be incarcerated for as long as 179 days in this facility with the only available source of exercise for the majority of prisoners being personal hygiene and housekeeping. The most critical deficiency of the jail is the acute overcrowded condition which is not surprising since the structure has existed nearly one half century.

Additional bunks occupy needed floor space and the deficient lighting, ventilation, narrow corridors and dingy colors all contribute to an environment of depression. These are conditions which promote inmate instability and unrest. Warden John Walsh is outstanding and the prison staff is coping with great effort and difficulty. They should be given the opportunity to do a better job with improved working conditions which a new facility would provide. The civic center, park-zoo and plaza are outstanding local facilities.

I hope that at an early date a new jail may be added to this list of facilities which generate local pride. Concerted effort and up front priority should directed to "catch up" and hasten the construction of a new jail which would provide the humanity and economy of efficient inmate rehabilitation. James W. Berrigan Salisbury More On Food Stamps Editor Of The Times: After reading the pros and cons on recent letters regarding food stamps and other social programs, I would like to recommend an excellent article in Feb. 1983 Readers Digest, Time to Crack Down on Food Stamp Fraud.

This can be found in a public library if unavailable elsewhere. I am a taxpayer and am also proud to contribute to many worthy causes. I also feel there are needy people lobbyists have met with Democrats who would be expected to oppse their Turkish aid plan including one of the two Greek-Americans in the Senate, Paul Sarbanes of Maryland. The main argument for the Turkish buildup is that the Turks, miles of land border with the Soviet Union and Bulgarian to defend, plus 625 miles of Black Sea coast, have an appallingly antique military machine. Pentagon reports seen by my associate Dale Van Atta reveal the sorry state of Turkish military equipment.

Some examples: The air force large on paper, but hopelessly outdated. Its 350 combat aircraft include 100 F-100s and lesser numbers of F-4s, F-5s and F-104s. Many of these aging aircraft have been cannibalized for parts over the years, and are totally useless. Pentagon sources estimate that fewer than half of Turkey's 350 combat aircraft are actually combatready. Pilot training is negligible, for fear of wearing out the operational planes.

Against this, the Russians have more than 500 planes in the region and about 500 helicopters. Turkey has a large tank force 3,500 but the Soviets have nearly 5,000 in the area. And most of the Turkish tanks are, quite literally, museum pieces. When Gen. Kenan Evren, now head of the ruling junta, visited the Patton Museum of Cavalry and Armor at Fort Knox, in 1979, he was flabbergasted to see his main battle tank, the Korean War vintage M48, on display.

The museum is intended to exhibit only historic armor no longer in use. The Soviet Black Sea fleet includes 28 submarines, 81 major surface ships, 25 amphibious craft, 90 bombers and 150 other aircraft. Against this armada, the Turkish navy mostly old submarines and 14 destroyers; its 0.5. made combat vessels are all more than 30 years old. Turkey's air-defense weapons, artillery, anti-tank guns and nuclear missiles are either pitifully obsolete or inadequate in number compared to Soviet forces.

The administration's lobbyists have coupled their arguments of Turkish military needs with strong hints that Greece will eventually get more than the $280 million in military aid this year. It all depends, they say, on whether the socialist government of George Papandreou agrees to renew the leases on American bases in Greece. Surely Congress wouldn't want to increase aid to a faithless ally. Whether this sly attempt to divert Greek-American pressure from Washington to Athens will bear fruit is not year clear. Papandreou ran on a promise kick the American military out of Greece, and his followers particularly the far left are determined to hold him to his campaign pledge.

And he administration's attempt to link an increase in aid to renewal of the base agreement has prompted the leftists to "Blackmail!" All things considered, it's a situation of Byzantine delicacy. And when it comes to Byzantine intrigue, the Reagan administration is a rank amateur compared to the Greeks and Turks. THE EVERLNU6 Copley 100 News Service DEFENSE BUILD VP CONTRACTOR a CONTRACTOR TRACTOR CONTRACTOR CAN YOU WIDOWS, ORPHANS, RETIREES AND I UNEMPLOYED IN THE BACK HEAR ME ALRIGHT THIS IS, AFTER ALL, FOR YOU, TOO! Modest Help Required ed By WILLIAM A. RUSHER NEW YORK (NEA) President Reagan's request to Congress for increased military economic aid to El Salvador undeniably does, at first blush, exude an unpleasant aroma of deja vu. Haven't we been through all this somewhere before: the troops of a rightist and (let's assume, we won't be far wrong) corrupt government that either can't or won't fight communist -backed guerrillas; Washington's early involvement, in the form of personnel; the invocation of the "domino the requests for larger and even larger commitments of money or economic and military assistance.

Surely one could be forgiven for wondering if there isn't a better way, and (whether there is or not) if we shall not soon be confronted with a proposal to send American troops to the who should receive assistance but I do not feel assistance should become a way of life. The above mentioned article stated there is a vast difference in needy and greedy and also said the food stamp program is fraud ridden and poprly run. Recently there was a case in point published in The Daily Times, the politician who allegedly was involved in food stamp fraud. There must be a better, more efficient way to help Like those in another needier. I too, knew poverty in childhood.

Social programs were unheard of to us, but my folks would have been too proud to ask. We gardened, canned, raised chickens and eggs and a hog (all on a small plot in a small town). I wore madeover hand-down clothes until a young I could work in summers and earn money. I have also known unemployment when my husband was laid off and I had to leave new-born baby to-take a job. I am saying that I can relate to real needs but I feel if possible we should ourselves to become independent and that social programs should be monitored more closely.

Name Withheld Upon Request Coal Burning Opposed Editor Of The Times: I have been noting lately that Delmarva Power has been issuing news releases stating that electric bills are dropping. I am always glad to see this, as are most ratepayers. The company cites that lower bills are directly related to its greater use of coal, however, and this disturbs me. While burning coal to generate electric power is easy for the electric industry to placate its disgruntled customers, it is my opinion that the growing use of coal as a fuel to generateelectricity is one of the most environmentally dangerous practices in effect today. The most drastic example of the harmful results of coal usage is "acid rain," a phenomena so serious that citizens in the Northeast have caused a "no more acid rain" referendum to appear on an upcoming ballot.

So, as with many things, including lower electric bills because of coal, "all is not gold that glitters." It should be strongly noted, though, Delmarva Power, and many other electric utilities, are truly "between a rock and a hard place" on the fuel issue. area. Mr. Reagan, however, is not allowed the luxury of such intellectual fatigue. Yes, there are similarities both real and only apparent between situation in El Salvador and the swamp into which the United States wandered, and where it lost 55,000 of its sons, in Vietnam.

But there are also monumental differences, and this country must formulate its policy toward El Salvador in the light of both the differences and the similarities. The biggest difference, of course, is that Vietnam was 10,000 miles away, whereas El Salvador is right on America's doorstep closer to Washington than is the coast of California. Even if all the dominoes had fallen in strict sequence in Southeast Asia (as Laos and the last to fall woul have Cambodia promptly, did), been Indonesia, more distant from the United States than Vietnam itself. But El Salvador's northern neighbor is Guatemala, ruled by another rightist regime and plagued by its own dissidents; and directly north of Guatemala lies Mexico: huge, hungry, impoverished, corrupt a gigantic human grenade, just waiting to explode. The most fascinating omission in the entire 35-year cold war between communism and freedom has been the total absence of communist That maneuvers was because Moscow hasn't been ready but Mexico's day may be coming soon.

If and when that day comes, the United States will be obliged to commit to the defense of Mexico sums of money beside which the $363 million President Reagan seeks for El Salvador will seem piffling, indeed. And the case for using U.S. troops to fight alongside the Mexicans will be enormously persuasive. Outrageous OPEC oil prices have put them in the midst of a firestorm of customer protest on the one hand. On the other hand, nuclear, power, the logical choice for electric generating from an environmental and economic standpoint, has been shouted down by a loud, but uninformed, activist minority group.

Apparently those opposing electricity generated by nuclear power prefer acid rain to a clean environment. To those who would cite "Three Mile Island" as a counter to my letter, the nuclear power industry has said since 1954 that "no one has ever been killed or inuured as a result of an accident at a nuclear power plant. Can any other industry make this claim?" The statement held true before, during, and after Three Mile Island. James V. Fineran Salisbury Not A Prude Editor Of The Times: I don't think of myself as a prude, straight-laced, prim and proper, but on the other hand, what kind of people have we turned into? It has not been that long ago that we pushed "prime time" TV.

We may not have enjoyed it but at least we did not have to worry about our children, or adults for that matter, who wanted clean things up. Now we have one soap after another and who knows what is to be said or done? Nothing left to the imagination. Come evening we get the news. You would think we would be safe there. However, they all but tell you how to commit a crime, what to use and how long it will take.

No wonder there is so much crime as well as fires created by arson. Of course, I believe in freedom of speech but does the news media carry it too far? Should some of what is being reported be held back? After the news you can relax for a little while. Then come the comedies, or so they should be but now you cannot get through a comedy, i.e., "Alice" or the "Jeffersons" without a fowl word of some type. Wouldn't it be just good left out. It is not needed.

On later shows you might expect it although it still is not needed and does not add a thing. Then we get to the movies. That is ridiculous. The writers must have something better to say. Do they think we are completely stupid? To laugh at some of Surely it is better to stop the contagion in El Salvador, with military and economic aid alone, than allow it to reach Mexico's border with the southwestern United States.

Congressional critics of the Reagan request, like Maryland's Democratic Rep. Michael Barnes, owe the American people an explicit description of what they propose instead. and what their response will be if El Salvador, despite their highest hopes, is simply incorporated into Moscow's fast-growing sphere of influence in Central America. Opponents United States involvement in Vietnam largely escaped serious recriminations over the results of our bug-out there. The Daily Times East Carroll Street.

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It was out of character for him. The movie was cheapened by it. Going all the way back to "Saturday Night Fever," another good movie put down because of one four letter word. It did not add a thing. If anything, it took away.

I might be in the minority, but I am not by myself. If we all voiced our opinion, we would be heard. Gloria Porter Salisbury Prison Site Opposed Editor Of TheTimes: I would like to inform the people of Somerset County, the entire Eastern Shore of Maryland and the Eastern Shore of Virginia, that I have received their many notes and clippings in reference to the Maryland prison site. I wrote Gov. Harry Hughes and received a letter explaining why a decision was made to use the land adjacent to Beverly for the prison facility.

He said he would continue to work with Somerset County, state and local officials and take whatever steps needed to minimize the construction and operational impact of this facility on nearby historical properties and the community. I am prejudiced but I can't help wondering why he didn't use land in Cecil County near the duPont estates. Of course I am sure there is an excellent reason. I question why he left the building of a prison from 1979 until this year. A federal court decision was made in 1979 to house up to 1,103 inmates.

In the present penitentiary as of this date it has 1,688 inmates. If some of you wonder what my interest is in Beverly, it is because I was born and raised there. My maiden name is Carolynde Stuyvestant Catlin. father, Lynde Catlin of New York, spent 25 years in the restoration of Beverly. I really feel sorry for Mr.

Hayman as he has spent a lot of time and I am sure expense, in Beverly after he bought it. I also feel sorry for Beverly, itself, as it has seen both good and bad times. I feel a house that old takes its own personality. Again let me say I am sorry about the situation but did my best. Carolynde S.

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