| Show 6A Standard-Examin- 16 1988 Wednesday November er Opmioims Thursday good day to ‘kick the habit’ Last year 195 million of the nation's 50 million smokers stopped smoking for at least one day in honor of the Great American Smokeout Thursday at least as many are expected to “take a breather” The American Cancer Society which sponsors the event is handing out pamphlets posters “kiss me I’m a stickers and asking groups throughout the do their part in promoting the effort to country The event which has been promoted annually for the past 12 years is intended to be an good natured effort to encourage people to stop smoking The cancer society has noticed a decrease in the number of smokers since the day’s observance started Carla Glas-kdirector of public information for the Utah Cancer Society said many smokers use it as a resolution day to quit This year the effort is focusing on youth Suckers are being handed out nationwide with the slogan “lick it for good have a sucker instead of a cigarette” As part of the national focus third and forth graders who are members of Reactors Against Drugs and Alcohol at Horace Mann Elementary School will be releasing red balloons and receiving suckers today at 4:30 pm at the non-smoke- r” up-be- at er Newgate Mall Balloon releases will also be taking place at schools in Huntsville and Morgan Most the local schools and many companies are involving themselves in some way in the activities Officials at Kimberly Clark diaper company are sending notes with as employees’ paychecks inviting them to go smoke-fre- e well as advocating a smoke-fre- e lifestyle in other ways Babies born Thursday at both Ogden hospitals will be Addithat say “I’m a born given tionally both St Benedict’s and McKay-De- e Hospitals will be beginning a policy of not allowing smoking inside their facilities Cold turkey will be served at a celebration of the new policy Thursday noon at St Benedict’s Participants will throw ashtrays and cigarettes into the “world’s largest ashtray” “We felt that the health care centers should take the lead in the effort” said Jim Alvey Director of Public Relations at McKay-De- e Hospital “It is inconsistent that a health care institution encourage anything that is not good for people’s health” McKay-De- e Hospital will be offering free gum and mints to encourage people to refrain from smoking “Everybody seems really excited about the smokeout” said Lynda Richards executive director for the Northern Utah Cancer Society “More and more businesses and corporations are becoming involved in it” The American Cancer Society as well as participating members of the community are to be commended for their efforts to promote good health by encouraging smokers to “kick the habit” — JB rts non-smoke- non-smoki- r” ng Mansfield carved successful career Former Montana Sen Mike Mansfield has given a of public service During his decades in the Conas ambassador to Japan the tall Westerner has and gress exemplified statesmanship qualities He has been a model of performance and integrity Most men of 74 would have called it a day after 34 years in the Congress His last 16 years were spent as the top officer in the US Senate — majority leader Not the man from Montana In 1977 Mike Mansfield accepted an appointment by President Carter in 1977 as ambassador to Japan Three years into his ambassadorship the complexion of the administration changed with the election of Ronald d Reagan There was never a question that the remain would dignified Mansfield Although criticized as being somewhat “soft” on Japan the former college professor has been successful in encouraging the Japanese toward greater expenditures for defense of the Pacific rim area and toward fewer restrictions against imports of American goods He has been a staunch defender of Japanese investments in the United States saying both countries are beneficiaries Mansfield has been generous in his praise for President Reagan and Secretary of State George Schultz Their policies toward Japan and Asia he said “have almost always been right on the button The president and the secretary of state are the first Americans who have held those offices who have indicated an active and a continuing interest in our relationship with Japan East Asia and the nations bordering the Pacific basin” Mansfield who has frequently been criticized for seemingly taking the side of Japan rather than of the United d in his States said he believed he had been I as “I the like treated have would to Japanese diplomacy be treated and they have returned the favor in kind” he said At age 85 Mansfield has earned the rights of retirement He has decided to retire for good He has been a good and loyal public servant He found what eludes others — the formula for success in government half-centu- ry low-keye- even-hande- Time running out for WASHINGTON — Time is running out for Alcee Hastings By March 1 “or as soon thereafter as the Senate may order” the flamboyant Florida jurist will go on trial before the Senate If convicted he will become only the fifth federal judge in the nation’s history to be removed by impeachment For reasons I have argued many times before I believe Hastings should be acquitted not because he is innocent — I suspect the fellow is as guilty as Cain — but because the ancient principle of double jeopardy ought to be jealously guarded In this regard the facts may be briefly stated In December 1981 a federal grand jury in Florida indicted both Judge Hastings and a Washington DC attorney named William A Borders Jr The charge was that Borders had entered into a conspiracy with Hastings by which Hastings would accept a bribe in exchange for going easy on a defendant in his court Hastings and Borders were tried separately The evidence against both men was substantially identical In March 1982 a jury found Borders guilty on all counts But in February 1983 a different jury found Hastings not guilty on all counts Subsequently several of Hastings’ fellow judges convinced that he had lied on the witness stand set in motion the investigation that led to impeachment by the House six weeks ago For all practical purposes 16 of the 17 articles of impeachment against Hastings recite the identical charges on which Hastings already has been tried and acquitted I am fully aware of the argument that impeachment is James fice All this may be true but the constitutional language relating to impeachment is couched in terms too familiar to be misunderstood The Constitution speaks of “high crimes or misdemeanors” It directs the Senate to “try” an impeached officer Twice the Constitution refers to one who is “convicted” by the Senate Article III provides that the trial of all “crimes” except in cases of impeachment shall be by jury Tell me that Hastings’ trial in March will not be a criminal proceeding! Nothing quite like the Hastings affair has come to this juncture In 1803 federal Judge John Pickering of New Hampshire was impeached and convicted for drunkenness on the bench In 1862 Judge West H Humphreys of Tennessee was impeached and convicted for promoting secession In 1936 Judge Halsted L Ritter of Florida was impeached and convicted for corruptly accepting money in a bankruptcy case In 1986 Judge Harry Claiborne of Nevada was impeached and convicted for cheating on his income tax Those are the precedents Never before has a judge or any other federal officer been impeached and tried for offenses for which he already has been acquitted Claiborne it will be recalled had been convicted of income tax evasion before the House impeached him In the matter of Alcee Hastings the Senate will be taking the kind of second bite that the Sixth Amendment positively forbids Hastings will be twice put in jeopardy for the same offense The House has resoundingly rejected the argument of double jeopardy and it is likely the Senate will follow suit Under the tentative timetable approved before adjournment of the 100th Congress the Senate Rules Committee will begin hearings on the Hastings case in the week of Jan 23 A report on procedures is to be filed a week later During February both the prosecution and the defense will prepare their cases House “managers” as they are called will offer 18 witnesses on the bribery charge and another six witnesses on a additional charge that Hastings willfully messed up an FBI investigation The Senate will create a committee to sit for 10 to 12 days of testimony in March The full Senate will review the record and by or thereabouts will vote on the articles of imof those prespeachment It takes ent to convict Hastings is the 14th person in US history to be impeached by the House His predecessors include one president (Andrew Johnson) one Supreme Court justice (Saipuel Chase) one Cabinet member (Secretary of War William Belknap in 1876) and 10 federal judges For high drama on Capitol Hill nothing surpasses an impeachment trial but the trial of Alcee Hastings I submit is a trial that ought not to be held Universal Press Syndicate make-weig- top-not- two-thir- ds -- show tune Howard Means ch anything like a resume and what a resume it is! Oh sure he hasn’t actually stayed anywhere very long except in the which is hardly heavy lifting But the point in modern Renaissance resume building isn’t to actually stay anywhere very long or lift anything terribly heavy You touch here you light down there you make a pass through This & That and when you're through — when it’s time to go for the big enchilada — well just read my lips: CIA Texas China Congress etc It's the resume equivalent of a sound bite a photo opportunity Perfect Now because no column is complete without a problem it ought to be mentioned that there is a little one here The world George Bush so powerfully evokes the gentler kinder Eisenhowerish sort of time he seems to want to (without naturally its racism etc) doesn’t really exist anymore What's more to resist almost any effort to bring it back to life Back then — Mantle is at the plate Bush is out in the oil fields — young families with a little gumption could reasonably expect to say own their own houses As recently as 1967 buying the average-price- d house took rough-and-tumb- it’s-likel- ht mid-Apr- il oid-fashion-ed WASHINGTON — I confess it: There is something about George Bush that just makes me feel swell keen Five minutes of George Bush on the idiot box (the Gentle Ben George Bush not the Jack the Ripper one) and I get desperate for a mai tai I want to throw on a madras shirt tighten the buckle on the back of my chinos and zoom off in that ’58 Chevy Impala convertible to a sock hop (Mark my words: Madras will make a comeback in the Bush Era and rum drinks with little umbrellas in them) Bush is of that time when men and women of the middle class and below freely acknowledged that indeed we did have “betters” — folks who went to places like Andover Academy and Yale University had oodles of family money and were destined by divine providence and their own sense of noblese oblige to by golly get us off our duffs and out on that yellow brick road He’s an show tune — even if as I suspect he can't really carry a melody He’s a Gene Kelly movie — even if as I suspect he's got two left feet on the dance floor But much the 9arre can be said about Ronald Reagan who probably can carry a tune and cut a rug What makes Bush truly unique material for the Oval Office is that he’s a modern Renaissance man Good gosh he’s our first president in — what? — 16 years with y Kilpatrick not a criminal but rather a civil proceeding — that a Senate trial does not threaten Hastings’ “life or limb” and that conviction by the Senate results only in removal from of- Bush off-ke-y jim-dand- J Judge Hastings le only 21 percent of the median income of families headed by someone under 30 years of age Today it takes over 50 percent Back then — Mercy is that Jo Stafford singing? Or George Bush’s famous falsetto? — the term “young family” actually meant something society could agree upon Today it means almost anything As recently as 1974 only about one in four women who headed young families had never been married Today more than half have never been down the aisle and more than one in five children born to women ages 20 to 29 are bom out of wedlock Naturally other problems flow from these ones: an almost unbelievable poverty rate for young families — according to the Children’s Defense Fund it’s up 76 percent since 1973 alone — and attendant long-terdifficulties in education nutrition health and productivm ity But contemplating George Bush — blinded by those thousand points of light — I confess that I barely can contemplate anything else “Don’t worry be happy” the Republican campaign theme song went but the true spirit of the Bush victory is caught in an older number one more of Bush’s vintage: “With someone like you a pal good and true I’d like to leave it all behind” Escapists after all want to escape by definition Orlando Sentinel |
