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. Every spring, the Dallas International Bazaar gives local residents a taste of foreign culture. Dallas calls itself an international city, and the stagnant local economy has given Dallas an economic reason to become more of one. In April, ambassadors representing over 30 countries attended groundbreaking ceremonies for a new international trade resource center designed to serve as a link to international markets. Increasingly, this kind of marketing effort is reaching beyond what used to be called the Iron Curtain.

This year, the mayor's international ball entertained ambassadors from communist and socialist countries, which are as eager to do business with Dallas, has dalsias to do business with them. More and more people are recognizing the crucial changes going on on our small globe. More and more people are recognizing that we are facing global problems, we have to solve, we can only solve if we improve our cooperation. I have in mind new energy resources, I have in mind pollution for instance, I have in mind such very common problems like AIDS. These are problems which don't ask whether you are communist or socialist or third world country or I don't know whatsoever. However, we have certainly to face realities and realities are such that we have to cooperate to survive.

I pledge allegiance to the flag. However, some Dallas area citizens interested in establishing friendly relations with the Soviet Union have run into opposition. Last March, a sister city proposal linking Plano with Orgenikitsa, a Soviet city between the Black and Caspian seas, sparked a bitter debate before the Plano City Council over a city whose name many had trouble pronouncing. I took two years of Russian but no, I probably couldn't. No, I can't pronounce it. Sir, do you know? I ask you. I can't. Ordzana, could see. Orgenikitsa. Orgenikitsa. I do not believe we need to have cultural exchanges with a country in which world domination is their sole purpose. A country whose citizens are literally dying to get out. The average Soviet citizen wants exactly what the average American citizen wants and that's basic human needs, a healthy environment,

peace in our world, and a better world for our children. Communist Russia loves to adopt children, cities, and countries. Witness Afghanistan recovering from the most recent embrace of a sister country by the Soviet Union. This little boy that was running along the old city wall in the old city. In Dallas, an organization called the World Cultural Alliance hasn't found the going any easier. They've been having trouble persuading the city of Dallas to establish an official relationship with the Soviet city of Riga, a city of nearly a million people located in Latvia, a former Democratic Republic occupied by the Soviet Union since the end of World War II. Well, I saw this as an opportunity to have citizens of Dallas participate in creating better relationships with the people of the Soviet Union. And I believe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union is the most important strategic relationship in the world.

Without that relationship being effective and peaceful and secure and cooperative, the world is intimidated, is controlled and dominated by our two great superpowers. But strong opposition to the Dallas Riga proposal surfaced last year from the depths of a painful historical memory. Some members of the Dallas Jewish community cannot forget that over 35,000 Jewish residents of Riga were murdered by occupying Nazi troops aided by Latvian collaborators. It has been 40 some of the years I still have wounds which have not healed. And I don't think to open up new wounds for me and for many other. We have citizens here in Dallas who are citizens of Dallas now who have lived in Riga, who were born in Riga. And they tell the most horrible stories about a city that they have been born and lived.

The stories of they being annihilated in their own city, living in ghettos like I lived in my city in a ghetto, taken to a concentration camp in their city, being guarded by their own citizen. This is a tragedy and it's hard to forget. And again I want to emphasize that was not all of them but some of them did. And I think we should look for a better city than that. Former Dallas City Councilman Jerry Rucker was an early supporter of the Dallas Riga initiative. I believe that the council generally is favorable toward the proposition that jobs here and the future here and the entry in international trade should not be deflected or blunted by a lot of less important transitory issues. Such as we don't like Russian so we ain't going to trade with them.

Or they remain to us in World War II and so we don't like them and so we're not going to trade with them. Because it repels the very kind of people that are going to have to be here. If we are going to have an economy in the 20th century which will permit our children to stay here and to permit them to work in the global economy, that is coming, that is here in which we will either be participants or spectators while somebody else is participants. Ray Wade of Plano and a member of the John Birch Society doesn't see it that way. The whole question does not revolve around profitability. It revolves around what is right and you simply don't do business with murders, thugs, liars and thieves. Yeah, Dallas is seeking expanded trade relations with communists and socialist countries. That's very unfortunate. And it may say something about those who are endeavoring to promote those kind of trade agreements. Those people are our mayor city council chamber of commerce. I mean they're well-intentioned people. I don't know that they're well-intentioned or not. They may say that they are and they may be.

I'm simply saying that they're either very idealistic, uninformed on some of these points that we've made very clear here in Plano. Or that they're very socialistic, that they are very well-informed, but that they're intellectually dishonest. And they are not doing what they pledged to do when they took office, when they swore a solemn oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic. They need to go back and reread that oath that they took and take it seriously. One of the things that I just have to recognize is political reality. A classroom full of students is there, whether by compulsion or desire, with a requirement to master the material. And a good argument is a useful thing to have and they understand it a lot of give and take. That's not what political campaigns are and that's not what people as a rule want from their politicians. They don't want somebody to educate them. They don't want somebody to do what they tell them.

And that doesn't leave a lot of room for growth. And I think it probably rewards mediocrity, which then produces mediocre government. In Plano last March, the elected representatives of the people listened to the impassioned arguments of a divided community. So what are you going to say when your grandchildren crawl up in your lap and say, grandpa, what were you doing when Russia took over America? Plano people should be speaking here, but I like to answer the young lady because I have five grandchildren. And I am very concerned about universal peace and we have tried other methods that we haven't tried so much of this. And I think it's time to try it because I'm concerned about the planet being blown from beneath the feet of my grandchildren. And then I won't be able to answer that question at all because we won't be here. The communists who rule the Russian citizens are criminals. They are murderers. Recognize that that's exactly what they are and get on your side. Treason is supporting the enemy. And if you vote for this, you are guilty of treason, friend.

Thank you. The great difficulty I'm having is how can we communicate with Russians? Well, we really aren't communicating with each other at all. I see a lot of anxiety in this room tonight. I don't think this issue created it. I think it's been there and I think the issue has exposed it. In the end, the Plano City Council voted unanimously to accept and offer to withdraw the sister city proposal for the time being. Both sides claimed victory even though nothing was decided. It was an unsatisfactory compromise, a classic case study in the virtues and limitations of the democratic process. Meanwhile, supporters and opponents of the Dallas-Riga initiative are preparing to take the same issue before Dallas's city council later this year. If the city leadership would encourage it, this would be a heck of an opportunity for people like you and me to participate in the international arena and support Dallas as an international city.

The trial of a sudden is so imperative that we become an international city, and especially at the expense of our national sovereignty, which a lot of these people who are pushing internationalism are very ready to compromise. I want them to answer that question. I think it would be a good question. Above the ground, I would be cleared out. Are you going to arrest us? No, I'm going to ask you to remove the cameras from the courtroom. Well, Judge, I'm moving down. I just like to ask you why you are doing this. If this is a public meeting, the open meeting's access to the media. We have a law in our country. No move, no move. Exactly what is that law?

For the second time in two weeks, Titus County deputies have been ordered to remove television cameras from a meeting of the Titus County Commissioners Court. Two weeks ago, the commissioners voted to bar TV coverage of their meetings. We call on Dr. Patkins to repent, to change his evil ways, to quit slaughtering innocent children and to ruin their profit. We call on him to stop his evil practices. We're mad about him, and we're not going to take it anymore. And whatever it takes to stop it, we're going to do it. So you don't deny belligerence and intimidation and harassment at all? Absolutely not. Those are the tools of trade that we use. We are mad. I think that there's a line between the expression of your opinion and the intimidation and harassment and threatening someone else. And I think that the people in this particular movement have long ago crossed that line. It is mid-morning, and in this unair-conditioned room, a 19-year-old Mexican woman is about to give birth. It will be her first child.

The mother-to-be stuffs her mouth with a cloth so she won't scream. The heat in the room is oppressive. Seven hours without drugs, without any medical help, and we all push. No matter how hard we work, the baby doesn't seem to want to come out. The part that... In this nice middle-class neighborhood in the Oclifary of Dallas, Dan Pararo, his wife Colleen, and their two daughters, all seem to live a very ordinary, all-American life. Watching Saturday morning cartoons on TV, negotiating the chaos of the kitchen, playing with the pets in the backyard.

It is from this familiar, everyday setting, that the artist is inspired with ideas for his popular, somewhat offbeat cartoon strip called Bizarro. Now syndicated in some 64 newspapers in the United States, including the Dallas Times Herald. Dan Pararo, with only one semester of formal art training and still holding down a day job in advertising, seems to be on his way to a successful career in the extremely competitive business of cartoon syndication. He counts himself lucky, but admits it didn't happen overnight. I read an article, and I remember I read an article in People magazine about the girl that draws Kathy, and it just sounded so easy, but, you know, People magazine. Who knows how authentic it was, but it just sounded so easy. It was like, you know, one day she scribbled something on a napkin and someone walked by the table at her restaurant and saw it and handed her a 10-year contract in a million dollars.

I thought, wow, I can do that. I can draw better than that. I'm a funny guy. I can do this. So that's when I literally started trying to do it. It took me two years to catch anybody's attention, and another six months after that actually got anybody to sign me. So it was a lot harder than I thought. And I've been doing it for four years, and I'm only just now making enough money to cover the postage. So it's not the overnight. It's the worst get rich quick scheme I ever had, but it's been a lot of fun. At first, Pararo submitted safe, sure to be published drawings designed through much personal research to fill any voids needing to be filled in the cartoon business. When no interest was shown, he decided to create cartoons he thought were funny, cartoons that made him laugh. Pararo says that drawing a cartoon is no problem. Knowing what a draw is. The downside is that my cartoon prints six days a week, so that ends up being a 52, I mean, 365 minus 52.

So that ends up being like 312 ideas a year, something like that. The downside is that it's relentless. You can't take a vacation unless you work double time for three weeks and get caught up. You've got to be, I did a cartoon one time where this young guy standing with his portfolio in front of this fat rich guy with a cigar and the fat guy saying, he's shaking his hands and saying, congratulations to the kid. We're giving you a shout out at the big time. Give us 15 brilliant ideas a week for the rest of your life or we'll throw you a sign like a piece of wet clean x. And that's the way you feel. That's the way I feel. You have to constantly be funny. Constantly come up with a new joke every single day, and it's impossible, of course, to be hysterical every day. And my readers know that. That's the part that's difficult. Additionally, it doesn't pay at least at first for a long time for several years. Even the really big shots have to hold down two jobs, a day job to make the money to pay the rent, and you do your cartooning at night.

Are there any taboos, any subjects you won't get into? You know, as long as I can stay within my style and not be canceled, that's my main goal, because if you're not in the paper, then what good is it? However, in terms of controversial subjects, there's almost always a way to get out of controversial subject without being controversial literally. You can infer things. And I put a lot of social comment in my cartoons where I try to. I take jobs at insensitive rich people. I'm not the kind of person who, you know, like I said, I can't poke fun at racial groups, or particular organizations, or handicaps or anything like that, because you get a lot of bad mail. And I'm not out to hurt anybody's feelings anyway. I don't feel like picking on people. Bizarro, which will soon be published in Europe, has also spun two paperback anthologies, the latest being two Bizarro, published by Chronicle Books. There is also a greeting card line and t-shirt and video deals in the working.

The day we visited Pararo, he drew a very frustrating scene anyone who has ever been in a post office can relate to easily. But through the mind of Dan Pararo, we are allowed the opportunity to find the humor in it all. And laugh. And laugh. On you. So to my colleague in the field of journalism, to my comrade in this continuing struggle for truth, to my friend, Mia Squilla, I refuse to say goodbye or farewell. I shall simply say, see you later. And you know, you can always count on me.

Or people down on their luck in the streets of downtown Dallas. He just keeps on playing. Now he has somewhere to go when he's done. I shall be in the way that goes. I don't think it's a way to achieve equality for black students. I'm not going to let you go.

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