DAR APPEALS TO U.S. TO SUPPORT CIA, FBI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100370004-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: April 22, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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STAT
NEW ORLEANS TIMES-PICAYUNE (LA)
22 APRIL 1980
By EDGAR F& a -'; Patricia Shelby of:Beulah, Miss., as the
WASHINGTON"'=`Thb National :her 40s and :described by~ members
Society of the Daughters of the Ameri? generally as probably "the best looking
can Revolution, noting the, hostage cri- president general in generations," was
scs :inn Iran and'America is serving as first vice president general
endangered by a 1a 'a internal'secu She headed a slate of officers that
rity Monday appea id tb;U : officials}..triumphed.by a one-sided: vote over the
to 'unshackle and suport an effective :slate beaded by. Mrss Winifred Mason,
CIA and FBI:"..; *W'
. sr; ; toe. former; District: of Colualbia state
leasing- final edited- copies of a 'regent : Mrs. Shelby,Alves. -on a .bi
serteepf-. resolutions thii organization-- Bolivar County;-Mlss%,cotton- soybean
went on record urgi gitr-mediate mea- and rice plantation. She succeeds Mrs.
sures by Congress and the White House Jeannete Baylies, outgoing, president
to 'restore the military` strength of the ,.general from Wisconsin.
United! States to?its;former. position of '43 -The first of. the ' resolutions. adopt
supremacy"' to insur jSnrvival of our ,was entitled "ThesEleventlr Hour'
country and to affh d protection to, This-300-word measure stated that
the tree world:"' ,. # 41 ;since the end of World War.II there has
After concluding~g the`.final proceed- t-bees a concerted campaign of unilat-
ings-of the 89th Continental Congress eral disarmament and ;because of our
at Constitution Hall Monday, the 4,000 foreign policies "we- are now faced..
-Daughters representing the 50,states. with a situation of almost .complete
headed for their homes. encirclement by Communist. forces.:
The Congress earlier elected Mrs. These policies have steered our great
nation to the brink of disastez, .i. - - i
Mrs. Arthur F. Felt Jr.-of-New
Orleans, long active in the, DAR in-
Louisiana and on the national level, is.
a member of the organization-'s resolu4
tions committee.-Mrs. Phyllis; Hlaflyi
of Alton,- ilL, was chairman. of the
National- Defense Committee during
the administration of Mrs. Baylies.
Declaring- that.: the United, Nations
once again has proven its "ineffective
ness" in trying to aid in the release off
the American hostages: in Tehran,,the4
DAR reaffirmed: its. positioo- in' oppos-
ing the presenm of Aber United Nations.
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