European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday August 23,1988 Book calling lbs paranoid denounced by former aides Washington up former aides to presi Dent Lyndon Johnson say they Are outraged by a new Book that depicts lbs As tormented by paranoia Dur ing escalation of the Vietnam War calling the claim vicious exploitation to make a fast in the Book titled remembering America a voice from the sixties Richard n. Goodwin a special assistant to the White House in 1964 and 1965, wrote that Johnson displayed irrational distrust of Blacks Andsen. Robert Kennedy. Goodwin whose Book is to be published next month said Johnson once remarked that he thought communists were taking Over America that Kennedy had Martin Luther King or. On his payroll and that the new York senator was trying to Cash in politically on race riots. Goodwin s characterization of the late president was criticized by Liz Carpenter who was press Secretary Toady Bird Johnson. I m indignant that an erratic yet talented aide to lbs would put out this garbage Carpenter said Sun Day in Austin Texas. It was an anxious time for him Johnson. But to distort that anxiety into something More sinister is a most vicious kind of exploitation to make a fast Buck. None of us saw anything that was any sign of paranoia and i think you la find that Dow the former Secretary of state Dean Rusk also dismissed the allegations. I think those observations Are More reflective on or. Goodwin than on or. Johnson Rusk said sunday from his Home in Georgia. In Short i believe they Are unworthy of former Johnson aide Jack Valenti said sunday he read proofs of the Book and denounced Goodwin in Aletter to the author. I just pointed out to Dick that i thought this was a fable that he had concocted and had no basis in fact As stateside school dropouts targets of new Media Campaign Louisville by. A a nationwide advertising Campaign kicks off this week aimed at drawing attention to the problem of High school dropouts. Government statistics show 682,000 students an average of 3,789 daily disappeared from their classrooms during the 1985-86 school year. A series of 30-second television and radio spots and newspaper and Magazine ads will be released identified As Public service announce ments from the Council for state governments in Lexington and the advertising Council inner York. Ashland Oil co. Donated materials and serv ices for the ads but gave the on air credit to the not for profit organizations said company spokesman Dan Lacy. Ashland has distributed at least $ 10 million in the past five years in scholarships and Colleg endowments. Intruder chides Eye expert noting he s shortsighted los Angeles a someone broke int and ransacked an optometrist s office then left a note chiding the Eye specialist for leaving thedoor unlocked police said sunday. You re pretty dumb to leave your Back door open. Please in the future Don t leave it open the Handwritten note said. In a world like to Days you can t Trust anyone. So Don t be the Panorama City office was ransacked be tween 5 . Saturday and 7 . Sunday when a janitor discovered the break in sgt. Jeff Shel Don said. Some pairs of glasses were thrown around theoffice and someone had drawn on posters with Felt tip markers he said. Police did t yet know if anything had Bee stolen. The address of the office was not release because the proprietor had not been notified. Well he knew said Valenti now president of the motion picture association of America in Washington. I suggested to him that i thought this was All part of an assertion that he put in this Book that i thought was calculated just to sell More Goodwin wrote that Johnson s conduct during 1965 As the War escalated was frighteningly different from anything i had observed previously. My conclusion is that president Johnson experienced certain episodes of what i believe to have been paranoid according to the Book Johnson remarked i can t Trust anybody anymore and he told Goodwin you know Dick the communists Are taking Over the coun when Domestic opposition to the Vietnam War in creased Goodwin said Johnson sitting around the Pool at his Texas ranch with some of his staff declared i m going to be known As the president who lost Southeast Goodwin also quoted Johnson As telling his poolside staff i m going to be the one who lost this form of government. The communists already control the three major networks and the 40 major outlets of comm Johnson thought Kennedy was trying to overthrow his presidency Goodwin wrote. He quoted lbs As saying Bobby saw his Chance. He saw i was in Trou ble so he put King on the Kennedy payroll to roil up the negroes. That s Why we had the riots. After All i have done for the negroes they never would have attacked me if they had t been put up to it. Bobby gave the communists the idea Goodwin quoted Johnson As saying. Now i m not saying he s a communist mind you. But they saw they might be Able to Divide the country against the author wrote that Kennedy troubled by John son s hostility asked Goodwin Why does he keep worrying about me i Don t like him but there is Noth former president Lyndon b. Johnson a file ing i can do to him. Hell he s the president and i m Only a Junior Goodwin said the first sign of Johnson s paranoid behaviour came in april 1965 when he abruptly called off the scheduled . Visits of the presidents of Paki Stan and India both of whom opposed american poli cies in Southeast Asia. When the move caused some controversy Goodwin said Johnson told him do you know there Are some disloyal Kennedy people Over at the state department who Are trying to get me Johnson s widow could not be reached for comment. Coke Worth $400 million seized new York a agents seized about 5,000 pounds of pure cocaine and $2 million in Cash including some stashed in bags marked just say no authorities said in announcing one of the nation s largest drug confiscations. Four people were arrested including the local Leader of a colombian drug Cartel authorities said sunday. The cocaine with an estimated Street value of $400 million was the largest amount Ever confiscated in new York City said Robert m. Stutman special agent in charge of the Federal drug enforcement administration s office Here. The largest cocaine shipment Ever confiscated in the United states was seized in Tampa fla., on april 28. It involved 9,230 pounds found in plastic containers that were concealed in hollowed out lumber. The larg est in the new York City area occurred last month in Hicksville where agents discovered 6,000 pounds of cocaine hidden inside blocks of chocolate from Ecuador. Only a few cocaine seizures nationally have exceeded 5,000 pounds. But customs service agents in 10 months have seized 10 tons More cocaine than they did in All of the last fiscal year customs commissioner William von Raab said earlier this month. Among those arrested Over the weekend was her Nando Grajales Rizzo 39, of Colombia a Leader in the colombian drug Cartel Stutman said. Stutman would not say when or How the smugglers brought the drugs into new York. The drugs were found in the Queens apartment where Rizzo and two other men were arrested officials said. The arrests were announced at a news conference where Auto writes displayed Small plastic wrapped boxes containing the 5,000 pounds of cocaine and boxes of . Currency. Some of the Money was in supermarket bags imprinted with the Reagan administration s slogan just say no to i Hope it will have an Impact but the amount of the drugs coming in is very very Large said chief Raymond l. Jones of the City police department s organized crime control Bureau. The problem is that a 2-Pound, 2-ounce package a kilo can be broken Down to about 14,000 vials of crack. That is our the suspects will be arraigned this week authorities said. Oregon probes death tobacco link Salem Ore. A Oregon will add a Section Testate death certificates next year. It is asking doctors to comment on the role tobacco played in the deaths of their patients. Joyce Grant Worley the state health division Schief research analyst said last week that the 1989 death certificates will ask did tobacco use contribute to the death doctors will be Able to Check boxes marked yes no probably or Oregon is the first state in the nation to add such Section to its death certificates Grant Worley said. The information will be used in continuing studies of the link Between smoking and death rates she said. Oregon s research began in 1987, and while doctor were encouraged to report smoking related deaths the state provided no reminder on the forms. In the past the state sent letters to doctors asking about tobacco use if lung cancer emphysema Bronchi tis or heart disease was reported on the death certificate without mention of smoking. We know that cigarette smoking kills said Bonny Groshong a spokeswoman for the american cancer society. Maybe this will give us stronger ammunition to take to the Public to convince division statistics gathered since 1987 from the voluntary participation of doctors indicate that tobacco use contributed to 70 percent to 82 percent of respiratory disease deaths in 1987, smoking was listed on fewer than 5 percent of the death certificates that listed the respiratory diseases As the cause of death. Researchers say the deaths of about one in seven men and one in 10 women in Oregon were caused by lung cancer or other respiratory diseases in 1987.state health officials Hope the statistics eventually will help lawmakers and health groups to plan pro Grams 19 Cut the smoking rate and identify those at risk for respiratory la probably find that cigarettes Are responsible for a tremendous number of deaths in Oregon Saidur. James Parosa a Salem lung specialist. Oregon has one of the highest rates of Respirator disease in the nation. The state s 1987 lung cancer death rate was 59.7 per 100,000 population -9.1percent higher than the estimated National rate
