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Despite the civic caterwauling, Crystal Beach will still have a local government. It is now an unincorporated area administered by Galveston County, as are neighboring communities along the Bolivar Peninsula. The problem is that Galveston officials say they cannot afford to provide more than 25% of usual city services. Police protection has been reduced to Lowry and a lone sheriff's deputy in a patrol car. That is not much law-and-order for a blue- collar resort town whose summer population swells to 20,000. As County Commissioner Eddie Barr put it, "I can see 12,000 drunks shooting...
Government has a lot more to do with how people feel about their world than how "experts" vainly try to make it. I once found myself standing in a park in Bolivar, Tennesse listening to Senator Jim Sasser give a speech. An old farm lady who saw my grey suit came up to me with tears in her eyes. She wanted to thank me for what the Senator and his staff had done. They had gotten her son discharged from the Marines when the Marines were about to put him in jail for two years...
While the full extent of the security damage Walker caused may never be known, he had access over the years to some of the most sensitive information that the Navy possesses. After serving on two nuclear-missile-carrying submarines, the U.S.S. Andrew Jackson and the U.S.S. Simon Bolivar, from 1962 to 1967, Walker was posted to Norfolk from 1967 to 1969. There he was privy to communications codes for the entire U.S. Atlantic submarine fleet...
...these "freedom fighters" are defeated, their countries will be irrevocably lost behind an Iron Curtain of Soviet domination. And democratic tradition, said the President, because to support "our brothers" in revolution is to continue--"in Afghanistan, in Ethiopia, Cambodia, Angola . . . (and) Nicaragua"--200 years of American support for "Simon Bolivar . . . the Polish patriots, the French Resistance and others seeking freedom...
...Paul II arrived at a $ Rome airport in a Mercedes-Benz limousine, quietly bade farewell to Vatican aides and boarded an Alitalia DC-10. Once again the Pope was airborne, setting forth this time on a strenuous twelve-day "pilgrimage of hope" to Latin America. Arriving at Caracas' Simon Bolivar Airport under a warm afternoon sun, the Pontiff, his white robe flapping in the soft Caribbean breezes, was greeted by Venezuelan President Jaime Lusinchi. Waving to the crowd, the Pope traveled in his converted Land Rover Popemobile along a twisting hillside road into the capital...