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Show Wednesday, January IS. 1992 The Daily Utah Chronicle - Page Five Letters Japanese cars vs. U.S. jeans Tibetan and Navajo cultural presentation provided good information about religions Editor Well once again I am incensed by the shallow rhetoric appearing in the editorial section of the Daily Utah Chronicle. This time it is the article titled "Car Wars" that appears in the Jan. 8 edition of the Chronicle. In the article, the unnamed author reduces the problem of continuing trade deficits to an assertion that Japanese products are superior in quality. If it is indeed the case that some products are produced having superior quality and price by Japanese companies, than that is one thing, but what of the products produced at superior price and quality by American manufacturers? If the unnamed author would take the time to read the newspaper hesheit writes, hesheit would notice on the last page an n it i f advertisement offering to buy used Levi 501 jeans. These jeans are bought and then resold in Japan for an excess of $80 each. Do the Japanese just like soiled American jeans or is the attraction that a new pair retails for a price in excess of $200? In fact it is the case with jeans, automobiles and a host of other that the market in Japan is Eroducts closed. The market is in that open you can sell anything but at what price? want, you editors considered why Levi Strauss corporation cannot make, transport and sell a pair of new jeans for less than several hundred dollars? The fact is that they can, but the Japanese system is inimical to distribution. If the Japanese had open markets, $80 woula buy two pairs of brand new 501 jeans versus one pair of used ones. These closed markets are the problem and the emphasis of the current trade negotiations, not issues of quality. To be completely honest, I believe that the quality issue is perpetuated by Americans as a way to rationalize their destructive consumer choices that contribute to domestic unemployment and poverty. Drive a new LH series Chrysler, a modern Ford product, a Cadillac or a Jeep and then you will realize that the claims of deficient quality and fuel economy are as antiquated as the oil shocks of the 1970s. If you find it personally convenient rationalizing your decision abrogating your responsibility to American workers with a series of erroneous assertions, please do not present your confabulations as facts in the form of an anonymous editorial. Paul Bogdanich Junior accounting Have any of your enlightened DON'T SING IT.. .TAPE IT ON ck free carrying case Now only $17.95 for 8 tapes DON'T DRAW IT... TAPE See it just like it was TDKT-12- IT ON of the Spirit" (and Greg Thilmont's excellent coverage) upset the UISASE. I personally thoroughly enjoyed and was inspired by it. It seems that they could not have been satisfied as they apparently wanted more knowledge from Peter Gold's presentation, but consider someone is who not Tibetan and simultaneously Navajo sharing anything substantial about these cultures with people who were there, cross-cultur- al discussing. These Navajo and Tibetan cultures are shared for the benefit and connection of all sentient beings while yours are difference in motivation. It is their cultures, I for one, am interested in and am grateful for those who have shared it. Of course the point of their the same time that Navajo religious words were used. I could feel that Peter Gold was sensitive to these issues when he remarked that he felt better because it was during the information, including photos and recordings, he conveyed cultures that Peter Gold was significant Tibetan Resettlement Project, as disrespectful. They were angry that a Navajo prayer was not offered, and at appropriate days of the year. The interested audience. The culture of UISASE is different from the preserved for yourselves alone, a primarily through involvement in the Navajo Project and about sharing these insights now were shared by the monks, chanters and others involved, conscious of the fact that they would be shared with a wider (both Navajo and Tibetan), as distilled by Peter Gold is, by discovering the culture, Circle of the Spirit, to discover your best self in that universal connection, in doing the best you can for the world and its fellow travelers which we find are a large part of ourselves. Their cultures and individuals healthier communication are for this and lifetime's study, (as the cultures themselves are based upon looking deeply at the nature of things). I hope those who were there, or those who find out otherwise, are inspired to learn more and to join the wonderful service which sponsored and Erojects from this event, or whatever other service project that is true to your spirit. Finally, it is not without mixed sadness, as well as appreciation, that I see 'sacred ceremonies' performed out of their appropriate time and place, but then they are no longer 'sacred ceremonies' which inherently contain a different ingredient of reverence. But I understand that these symbols are communicated to share the spirit of the true ceremony, to make a better, more mindful and compassionate world. And we received numerous expressions of gratitude for this from Tibetans, in and others Navajos attendance. interconnection. And awareness seems to invite deeper inquiry into what no one denies is a Bob Palais Friends of Tibet &TDK Hit the highs and the lows TDK SA-9- 0 with 8-pa- Editor: I am sorry that anthropologist Peter Gold's presentation "Circle College Keepsakes sTDK. . . . Extra High Grade D Memories Saving Special $8.95 for D0N7 two-tap- brick e LOSE IT... BACK IT UP ON &TDK Just in case. Special on . . ten-dis- c boxes $14.95 $7.95 3V2 in. 3V2 in. 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