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Show r-iHji imn" y m jg -(t""),wh"",TTl"l"""l""l T""- -'"D-'r'y"'"f""ll""""""" "" rioy ncBWTTDCiDnnnil; Will the "Billygate" scandal affect the way you will vote in the presidential elections in November? BeaKummer No, it will not affect the way I'll vote because you can't be your brother's keeper. I'd hate to have to account tor my Droiner, anu i t i ' Page 2 Thursday, August 14, 1980 IEdlfiitqpHaill don't feel Carter should have to account for Billy. Good Management Court Trials, Other Jan Sylvester was found not guilty, and a new city manager likely will be hired within the next 10 days. On the surface, those two items may seem unrelated. But after hearing the testimony in the Sylvester case, it appears as though her problem was not entirely her own. There's no doubt that keeping more than $5,000 of Mt. Metro bus revenues in her home showed outrageously bad judgment, but the court apparently was sympathetic to her claim that she was handicapped by the lack of tools to do her job adequately. The buses do not have decent collection boxes, there are no counters or change sorters, no defined system for deposit of the money, and there seems to be dissension in the ranks. The city manager is the one who should have told Sylvester from Day One what her responsibilities were, and precisely when money was to be deposited. There certainly should have been a way to determine that the money was not being deposited before nearly seven weeks had passed. It is also the duty of the city manager to make sure that lines of communication are open between department supervisors and their staff; Sylvester's syperior, Leon Uriarte, testified that he had personal conflicts with her, and that he decided not to ask the city manager for the equipment she requested. The Sylvester case came to light during the county's investigation in-vestigation of. the city in May At the same time, the building inspector was charged with official misconduct and neglect when he failed to properly assess building fees and perform adequate inspections. Again, the city manager I rZ " by Stanley Karnow flimfteippipetiii w IEepnBt Presidential Because Two Washington.D.C One of Ronald Reagan's Rea-gan's shrewdest campaign tactics is his repeated reference to Franklin Roosevelt. Roose-velt. For, by evoking Roosevelt's memory, he not only hopes to attract traditional Democrats but also to try to create the impression that, despite his Republican label, he transcends partisan parti-san passions in his quest to form a "new coalition." It remains to be seen whether this approach will steer him into the White House. But win or lose, Reagan consciously or instinctively has perceived per-ceived a significant trend in American politics. The two-party system, never very strong, now is virtually dead. Thus voters, feeling no special commitment to either faction, are receptive to which ever of the candidates appeals to their senses or to their special interests through the medium of television which has replaced re-placed the party as the intermediary between the politician and the public. Ideology has lost its meaning in this process, so that tags like "right" and "left" or "conservative" and "liberal" have become pointless. Here Reagan stands to benefit, not because he represents sound doctrines, but simply because Jimmy Carter, whose beliefs are surprisingly similar, has performed perform-ed abysmally in office. In other words, the election is going to be a contest between pragmatic rivals competing for the support of pragmatic citizens, and that quality already is visible in the views voiced by the electorate. Reagan is considered to be more conservative than Carter. Yet, a New York Times survey conducted in June showed him to be more popular than the president among families with incomes of less than $10,000 per year, who usually are presumed to profit from the Democratic party's focus on welfare. The same unpredictability is evident in conversations with potential voters. Enter an industrial area, for instance, and it is immediately apparent that numbers of blue-collar workers, reputed re-puted to be staunch Democrats, intend to cast ballots for Reagan because of Carter's failure to cope with inflation Will Prevent City Problems is ultimately responsible for his staff's actions. If the building inspection department was understaffed, the city manager should have seen to it that more employees were hired, or fewer buildings were inspected. If Bob Skantei was not the man for the job, he should have been dismissed. The problems that have surfaced in the past months serve a useful, if embarrassing, purpose. Park City is no longer a remote hamlet; it handles a huge tourist trade and faces incredible building pressures. The city needs to be managed accordingly. The new city manager faces a difficult and challenging job. The time is right to set things straight. To begin at the beginning, the new manager should be informed, on paper, exactly what the position entails. From there, job descriptions descrip-tions should be drawn up for every other city employee, stating very clearly what the responsibilities are, and when each duty is to be performed. The city manager then should keep in close contact with supervisors through regularly scheduled staff meetings. Potential problems then could be caught before they become criminal cases. The mayor, the City Council and the finance director have been divvying up the duties of the city manager for the past several months. It certainly has not been an ideal situation, but it likely gave each of those individuals a real sense of the complexities of the job. That, no doubt, will weigh heavily in their final selection. The appointment of a qualified, competent and efficient city manager will go a long mile toward reuniting the residents and the city, and hopefully will make the end of a stormy summer. Candidates Inadequate - Party System Floundering and unemployment. Marxist dogma notwithstanding, the proletariat also is fiercely nationalistic, and Reagan's pledge to carry on an anti-Communist crusade may boost his rating among workers as well. If Democratic sysmpathizers see their way to underwriting Reagan, moreover, more-over, it could be too that the sociology of the Republican Party has changed. No longer the party of Wall Street and the Eastern Establishment, it currently is centered in the Southwest, as reflected in the fact that three of its four candidates since 1964 Reagan, Richard Ri-chard Nixon and Barry Goldwater are from either California or Arizona. As a consequence, the Republicans have acquired a populist tinge to overlay their patrician past. This pragmatism baffles European observers, who frequently make the mistake of transferring their own ideological, notions to the American scene. The result is that they often misread events in the United States. Paradoxically, though, the same shift away from ideology is taking place in their countries. Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives gained power in Britain last year, for example, because a substantial proportion propor-tion of the working class abandoned the Labor Party. In France in 1978, to cite another case, the Socialists and Communists met defeat largely because be-cause many of their left-wing constituents consti-tuents voted for the government. As Daniel Bell has pointed out, American politics has not always been free of ideology, but ideological movements had to compromise their demands or function as single-issue groups within a larger framework in order to succeed. When Samuel Gompers guided the American Federation of Labor into politics in the 1890s, he refused to associate the organization with the Socialist Party but lobbied for pro-labor legislation among all the parties in Congress. The same path was taken by George Henry Evans, the father of the Homestead Act, who worked in the legislature to get free land for workers mmumi? HIMArWPRGSwVB HisweiWAriwe ut Tit in 6 W o o rather than start a new party. Time and again throughout history, these advocates of special issues have aligned themsejves in coalitions of the kind Reagan is attempting to shape at the moment. The difference now, however, is that the country is more split than ever into single-issue factions. Accordingly, many voters are prepared pre-pared to support the candidate who satisfies them on their favorite issue, no matter what else he represents. The other day, for instance, the wife of a former close aide to President Kennedy, a lifelong Democrat, told me she was fed up with Carter and would vote for Reagan but only on condition that Reagan came out for the Equal Rights Amendment. If not, she said, she either would back John Anderson or abstain, both protest gestures. That sort of attitude explains why fewer and fewer Americans vote and instead count on pressure groups and lobbies to plead their cause. And that, in turn, explains why the political system produces such pitiful candidates candi-dates This fermentation can be seen more plainly in Congress, where party discipline has evaporated and the lawmakers have become a disparate collection of individuals almost impossible im-possible to control. Whether the Democrats or Republicans have a majority on Capitol Hill is irrelevant when the parties are disunified. Running in 1976 as an outsider, Carter was a beneficiary of the bust-up of the parties, and so is Reagan today. Their one-man drives have made for dramatic drama-tic campaigns. But the outcome is unlikely to be a stable government. The real flaw in the present system, then, is not that the candidates are so inadequate, but that the parties have ceased to operate as mechanisms for compromise and coherence. As long as this situtation persists, the candidates will continue to be inadequate and so will the government. (Released by The Register an Tribune Syndicate, 1980) I ' jTt I! it '"""If 5( I Tom Fallbach For myself, no. And I don't think it will have any affect. You have to look at the individual's record and accomplishments. Weekly Special Brother Billy, Sister Ruth Travelers in Arab World Washington Jimmy Carter's brother Billy isn't the only member of the president's family who has brought the Arab point of view into the Oval Office. Of-fice. The president's sister, Ruth Carter Stapleton, has also discussed the Arab cause with him. Few people are closer to Jimmy Carter Car-ter than his sister Ruth. She guided him through the religious experience that transformed him into a born-again Christian. Like brother Billy, Ruth also received a free trip into the Arab world. She, toured several Arab lands earlier this year. Most of her expenses were picked up by an Arab-American businessman. Wherever she went, she had private audiences with Arab leaders. She was quoted in the Arab press as taking pro-Arab pro-Arab positions on several issues. For example, she expressed sympathy with the Palestinians. She also expressed a desire to meet Yassir Arafat, the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He is just about as controversial con-troversial as Billy's Libyan friend, Muammar Qaddafi. Ruth communicated the views of the Arab leaders to President Carter by overseas telephone. He reassured her that she was doing the right thing. After her trip, Ruth stopped by the White House to report her impressions to both the president and his national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski. We asked Stapleton whether she had any influence on the president. She carefully disassociated her views from him. But, she added, "There would be an influence there, in the fact that he would be listening and weighing everything I say." Don't Blame Me: The Pentagon's secret evaluation of the hostage rescue attempt has come up with some surprises. sur-prises. The Newspaper Subscription Rates, fSayear in Summit County, U2 a year outside Summit County Published by Ink, Inc. USPS 378-730 Publisher jan Wilking Editor Bettina Moench Advertising Sales Jan Wilking, Bill Dickson General Manager Terry Hogan Business Manager Rick Lanman Graphics.. Becky Widenhouse Reporters .David Hampshire, Rick Brough Photo Editor Phyllis Rubenstein Typesetting Kathy Deakin, Dixie Bishop Subscription & Classifieds. Anne Bennett Entered a second-class matter May 25, 1977, at the post office in Park City, Utah 84060, under the Act of March 3, 1897. Published every Thursday at Park City, Utah. Second-class postage paid at Park City, Utah. Unsolicited manuscripts and photographs are welcome and will be considered for publication, however The Newspaper will assume no responsibility for the return of iuch material. All news, advertising and photos must be received prior to the Tuesday noon deadline at our office 419 Main Street in Park City, by mail P.O. Box 738, Park City, Ut. 84060, or by calling our office (801)649-9014. Publication material must be received by Tuesday noon for Thursday publication. Chuck Folkerth . No, it will not affect the way I will vote. There's not much choice with or without Billygate. JudyErickson r No, because I'd probably vote for Reagan anyway. .'if. r Stephen Austin Billy, who? Dick Culler No, he already screwed it up a long time The investigating team doesn't blame the military planners for the fiasco in Iran. The team concludes that the planning plan-ning was adequate, the resources sufficient suf-ficient and the command-and-control procedures satisfactory. But their secret report is critical of the security measures that were taken. It charges that the mission was jeopardized, jeopar-dized, for example, by the granting of emergency leave to a sailor whose assigned task was essential to the operation. The radio traffic and navigational beams also gave away the mission. The report reveals that Israeli intelligence detected the rescue attempt by monitoring radio communications. But then the Israelis covered for the United States by sending out confusing signals of their own. The report states that the Soviets were "certain" to have picked up the U.S. signals but might not have interpreted inter-preted them correctly. The Iranians, however, never knew what was going on. Here, from the secret document, is the most frightening news: "Under the best of circumstances, a certain number num-ber of casualties" among both the hostages and the rescuers was expected. expec-ted. There were U.S. nationals living in Iran at the time of the misison, and it is "unclear," states the report, whether the Iranians would have retaliated against them. Unsung Hero: Last month, potential troublemakers were herded out of Moscow so there would be no incidents to spoil the Olympics. One of those "troublemakers" was Vladimir Kislik who dared to criticize the Soviet system. The Soviet authorities didn't want the world to see his possible repeat performance, so t ,'. .S&&t ago. X". Both they locked him in a psychiatric ward. He may never get out. That's his reward for courage beyond anything seen in the sports stadium. And that is the reason Vladimir Kislik should be awarded an Olympic gold medal. Kislik never sought to be a hero. He is a mild-mannered scientist, more interested in-terested in research than politics. He did some nuclear research at a secret Kiev institute. Then, in 1973, he tried to leave the country. He was abruptly fired from his job and eventually found employment as a bookbinder at a meager salary. The authorities continued to harass him, but they couldn't intimidate him. A few weeks before the Olympics, he spoke boldly with three visiting clergymen from the United States. And on July 4, Vladimir Kislik became one of the "troublemakers" who were rounded up by the Soviet police. Headlines and Footnotes: Health experts ex-perts say that dog bites are the second greatest public health problem in the United States. The biggest health problem is venereal disease ... Of all the legislators on Capitol Hill, the most frugal with the public's money is Rep. William Natcher, D-Ky. He typically requests about one-fifth as much expense ex-pense money as his colleagues . . . National security chief Zbigniew Br-. Br-. zezinski recently told some White House visitors that foreign nations are wrong to assume that the United States is reluctant to use its power. The United States is only "playing possum," he explained ex-plained . . . The Environmental Protection Protec-tion Agency guidelines on pollution standards for imported cars were recently relaxed to permit the Russian Embassy to bring in a Soviet-made "Lada" automobile. (c) 1980, United Feature Syndicate, Inc |