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J Friday, October 26, 1934 Daily Nebraskan Pages Jack Anderson and Joseph Spear lOtoiiieiiii 'brainwasSies' followers; embassies brace for terrorists The aging Ayatollah Kho- East on full alert. In addition to tary precautions as temporarily meini is getting too big for the battered Beirut embassy and blocking the entry road, while his burnoose. According to the ambassador's residence there, waiting for the steel gates to be intelligence sources, he not only the endancered embassies in- positioned. thinks he was the one who cost elude those in Kuwait (already BACK COUNTRY VANDALS: Jimmy Carter the election four bombed once), Oman, Bahrain senseless vandalism, usually con- anu joraan. une embassy in sidered a phenomenon of big-city Amman, Jordan, is especially blight, has reached the rugged vulnerable, situated less than 10 back country of Alaska. Near the feet off a main road and thus easy awesome Mendenhall Glacier, the prey for truck-bombers.) National Park Service put up Administration critics blame Skaters Cabin, in which hikers Reagan for the continuing threat can find protection from the arctic of terrorist ttacks. They say Kho- winds that whistle across the years ago but he thinks he can memi and nls suicide squads have glacier. But vandals keep breaking pull Ronald Reagan down this been encouraged by Reagan's fail- the cabin's windows. tjme ure to retaliate against the ter- A Park Service memo notes Khomeini plans to use roughly rorists or tneir sponsor govern- that the rangers have "tried a the same weapon he believes top- ments r tne earlier bombings, variety of products, including ma pled Carter: armed fanatics brain- 4UIfthecriticsareright,ofcourse, terial designed for use in prison washed into a frenzy of anti- tnere would be no reason for facilities." None of them proved a American hatred. Khomeini to carry out a pre- match for the vandals, so the Shiite Moslem fundamentalists eecon strike to sink Reagan, service has come up with a bizarre devoted to Khomeini are planning Logically he'd rather see Reagan solution: Hikers are issued por- to carry out another bombing re-elected so he can kick sand in table replacement windows, attack oh an American facility in nis ace for anotner four years, which they can install themselves. the Middle East before Election H"1 sme wnen naa&c governed watuii waste: Accoraing ivnomeini or ioreign policy 10 an analysis Dy tne unice oi critics, for that matter? . Personnel Management, thous- The terrorists' ultimate goal is ands of federal employees are to drive the United States out of paid more than they should be. the Middle" East entirely. Their The analysts concluded that perception of how this can best 185,000 bureaucrats about 14 be done with Reagan or Walter percent of the total hold job Mondale in the White House grades higher than they should, will presumably decide whether "Misgrading," as it is called, costs they actually carry out their the taxpayers about $700 million threat before Election Day. a year. Meanwhile, the Senate Foreign CONFIDENTIAL FILE: Intelli Relations Committee is due to gence analysts have begun to fear release its report this week on the that next year's elections in September bombing in Beirut Our Greece could spark violence that sources tell us the report will be conceivably could turn this valu-"hard-hitting," but not tough able NATO ally into a dictatorship enough to please the Democrats, of the right or left. Apparently, the report won't The an-American rantings of fault either the decision to move fcahs Mirmter Andreas theembassytoEastBeirutorthe Papandreou, sources say, have replacement ofMarir.es outside polarized the nation to the point the embassy with Lebanese that outright violence has become taking no chances. It has ordered guards. But it will sharply criticize Piumty. several embassies in the Middle the failure to take such elemen- 1S34, Unittd Featurt Syndicate, Inc. Letter Policy The Daily Nebraskan welcomes brief letters to the editor from all readers and interested others. Letters will be selected for publication on the basis of clarity, originality, timeliness and space available. The Daily Nebraskan retains the right to edit all material submitted. Readers also are welcome to submit material as guest opinions. Whether material should run as a letter or guest opinion, or not run, is left to the editor's discretion. 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