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Show V MdDW ADDaDDntt Hit? TT TO O a y newTTDdDnDQic With over 40 places to eat in Park City, do you feel there is a need for a variety of food or restaurant that isn't currently available? Lee Christensen , . I think they need to have more family-type restaurants, bo many of the restaurants up here seem to be so high priced that c Page 2 Thursday, October 2, 1980 BMitoiriiaiH families find it difficult to atiord. Accident Points Out Need For New State Highway By now, most residents have heard about the truck rollover on Tuesday that left Steve Florio seriously injured. While there is no doubt that the accident has had a devastating impact on Steve, his family and friends, it did serve to illustrate two important facts of life in Park City. First, the readiness of individuals in this small community com-munity to react quickly and compassionately when one of its residents is in need of help. More than a dozen trained emergency crewmen responded to the call on Tuesday, and were aided by numerous residents who worked diligently to pull the injured man from under the truck. Second, that this is a growing, small community of individuals in-dividuals whose safety is increasingly threatened by oversized over-sized vehicles lumbering down streets originally made to accommodate foot and carriage traffic. On the surface, those two facts may seem to have little in common. But it's important to note that until the new state highway is constructed to take heavy equipment traffic off residential streets, that residents are willing and able to deal with the results of a bad situation. In this particular case, a new four-lane highway wouldn't have helped Steve Florio, since no road modifications are planned for Marsac Avenue. But a similar accident with another dump truck or a fully-loaded ore truck could hap rT -1 r.:-i.:l,im . . ........ ISk i cannot I teiuue. i cannot, v trubh. wuttie by Stanley Karnow IIlfflttBirpB(BltfiV(B Fullbright Suggests Parliamentary System for Washington, D.C. Former Sen. J. William Fulbright was a more distinguished distin-guished educator than legislator during his three decades in Congress. His famous fellowship program sent scholars abroad at a time when most Americans were foggy about the world, and his spunky Vietnam hearings alerted the U.S. public early to the futility of the war. Now a lively septuagenarian practicing practic-ing law here, Fulbright still is promoting instructive and controversial controver-sial innovations his latest, which has fascinated him for a generation, being that the United States ought to contemplate the adoption of some form of parliamentary system in order to modernize its creaky political structure. struc-ture. This is the kind of notion that patriotic protectors of the Constitution probably would denounce as subversive, subver-sive, since it implies that the Founding Fathers were not eternally infallible. Or, given the nature of American society, it may simply be unworkable. But considering the government's failure to operate effectively, not to mention the increasingly dismal array of presidential candidates, it seems to me that Fulbright makes a good deal of sense when he submits that alternatives alterna-tives should at least be examined and discussed. To report his proposal succinctly, Fulbright suggests that the current American system be reformed so the president is selected by Congress from among its own members much the same way that the British Parliament picks the prime minister and the West German Bundestag chooses the chancellor. chan-cellor. This would mean, in short, an end to the concept of separation of powers as prescribed in the Constitution and a blending of the executive and legislative legisla-tive branches. Among other things, Fulbright asserts, as-serts, such a system would make both the president and the legislature more responsible, particularly in the conduct of foreign affairs. For example, it would be virtually impossible under a parliamentary system for an administration to conclude an accord like the Strategic rms Limitation Treaty with the Soviet Union, only to shelve it because of congressional opposition to its ratification. ratifica-tion. For the president under the parliamentary par-liamentary system would not have initiated negotiation of the pact without the support of the legislative majority that selected him to be chief executive in the first place. If the majority rejects his policies, he is compelled to resign, dissolve the legislature and call for a national election. Fulbright further contends that a parliamentary system makes the chief executive more accountable, and, at the same time, it would spare the country some of the prolonged struggles strug-gles that have pitted the White House and Capitol Hill against each other. The agony of Watergate could have been avoided, to cite a drastic episode, since Congress could have merely given Richard Nixon a vote of "no-confidence," and thereby forced him to quit without exposing the nation to the traumatic impeachment process. On the other hand, Nixon could have gone to the people for judgment by sending Congress home and having a general election. Fulbright argues, too, that the quality of U.S. leadership, would improve significantly in a parliamentary system, sys-tem, since the executive would automatically auto-matically be a political figure seasoned enough by years in politics to have risen to the head of his or her party. This is. of course, the case in Britain and West Germany, where a Jimmy Carter or a Ronald Reagan would be unthinkable, since the prime minister is an experienced politician who led the opposition before attaining office. In those countries, which Fulbright re-I'.-inN ;h lie mosi -.iv.-s.-,iul (Iciihh -ri pen tomorrow on Park Avenue with equally tragic results. Most people would like to see Park City remain the cozy, close-knit town it is today, but few will dispute the need for the re-routed and widened highway. With ore production starting up at the mine, and construction at a full gallop in Deer Valley and around Main Street, it's ludicrous to expect ex-pect Sunday drivers and pedestrians to compete with tractor-trailers and bulldozers on Park Avenue. Anyone who has been near the Kimball Art Center when a 10,-wheeler swings precariously from Heber Avenue onto Park Avenue understands just how dangerous the situation is. This week, Blaine Kay of the Utah Department of Transportation Tran-sportation gave assurances that construction on the new highway is to begin next summer, with the completion date scheduled for 1983. Until then, a temporary measure has been proposed by the city. Councilman Bob Wells said Wednesday that a 25-foot roadbed will be carved from Bonanza Drive in Prospector Square to Heber Avenue. Optimistically, Op-timistically, Wells said, that will be completed this winter, but more probably next spring. Park City residents would be well-advised to urge both the city and the state to meet their commitments, so that similar accidents of that magnitude might be less likely to happen. BBM U.S. des on Earth, cabinet members also are well-grounded, usually having served in the legislature. In Fulbright's view, the parliamentary parliamen-tary system strengthens the political party structure as well, and that in turn makes the government more stable. For the chief executive and his legislative majority are unlikely to clash frivolously, as they often do here in Washington, if they both know that a defeat by their adversaries spells their downfall and new elections that may not return them to office. As attractive as Fulbfight's idea sounds in theory, however, a British, West German or even Japanese system would hardly suit the United States, for one principal reason. The British and West German political parties are disciplined organizations organi-zations founded on ideology. Thus, they retain their unity not only because they seek to gain or keep power, but because their members subscribe to the same general doctrine. American parties, in contrast, are coalitions that stick together on the rare occasions that they do out of expediency. As a consequence, I suspect, a parliamentary system in the United States might resemble the Fourth Republic in France, where the legislature featured a dozen parties and prime ministers changed like the weather. Indeed, the French finally supplanted that absurdity with a presidential structure that has become more imperial than Nixon's royal White House. But despite these reservations, Fulbright Ful-bright merits broad support in his quest for a fresh evaluation of the U.S. presidency. For unless they are prepared to reappraise and modify the present system, which plainly disappoints dis-appoints them, Americans have no right to complain as loudly as they are these days. Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate The only type of food We need more family . 9- - i It I John Peck We need a good French restaurant. Presently I'm remodeling the Depot, and I would like to see either a French restaurant or a Country Kitchen there. Battle Over A Threat to Washington The war between Iran and Iraq could affect the welfare of every American. The victor will, in all likelihood, dominate the Persian Gulf, a region which holds more than half of the world's known oil reserves. U.S. strategists tried to set up the late shah of Iran as the guardian of the Western world's enormous stake in the Persian Gulf. They armed him to the teeth and flattered him to the ears. But the shah was deposed by Ayatollah Khomeini, who is viciously anti-American. Khomeini has brought Iran to the brink of chaos, and Iraq is seeking to take advantage of the situation by challenging Iran as the dominant power in the region. But unfortunately, Iraq's President Saddam Hussein has also been staunchly staunch-ly anti-American. He has called for the political and economic isolation of any Arab nation that cooperates with the United States. In the past, Iraq has had close ties to the Soviet Union. But this, at least, is quietly changing. We have had access to secret intelligence reports which tell what is going on behind the scenes. A top-secret Defense Intelligence Agency report, for example, claims that Iraq is easing away from the Soviet Union and moving closer to Saudi Arabia. The report calls the Saudi-Iraqi relationship "an evolving alliance-combining alliance-combining Iraq's political stability and military potential with the almost unlimited financial resources" of Saudi Arabia. " Another document states that, the French are providing Iraq with the planes and tanks they no longer are getting from the Soviets. There is one final, ominous note. The top-secret report warns that the Iraqis, with French help, are building a Newspaper Subscription Kates, Publisher. Kt,l,or ' Bettina Moench Advertising Sales Jan Wilkin. Bill Dickson (ieneral .Manager Terry ,,0!an Business Manager Rick Lanman (;i'!,l),m's Becky Widenhouse Importers David Hampshire, Rick Brough Photo F.ditor ,,hvis Rubens,e,n Typesetting,. Kathv i)eMn I)ixie Bish Subscription & ( lass.lieds A)ne BenneU Kntered a second-class matter .May 25, I!I77. at the post office in Park City, I'tah SIWKl, under the Act of .March :t IK!t7. Published every Thursday at Park City, I tali. Second-class postage paid at Park City, I'tah. Unsolicited manuscripts and photographs are welcome and will be considered for publication, however The Newspaper will assume no responsibility for the return of uich material. All news, advertising and photos must be received prior to the Tuesday noon deadline at our ofrice 41!) Main Street in Park City, by mail P.O. Box 7:18 Park City. I t. moiiii, or by calling our office (KIM MH1WMI1 1. Publication material must be received bv Tuesday noon for Thursday publication. ' Calle Russell I would want is a good Chinese restaurant. DeDe Milner Yes. There should be more ethnic foods. Al Minerva restaurants where a family could afford to eat at family prices. Fred High tower Yes. We need a Chinese restaurant badly. by Persian Gulf U.S. Interests nuclear bomb. Here, There and Everywhere: Organized Or-ganized crime has now surpassed the automobile industry as the nation's second biggest business! Only the oil industry generates more revenue. The crime syndicates' total cash flow is estimated at more than $150 billion. These enormous proceeds are largely unrecorded, untaxed and unregulated. The crime lords usually deal in cash delivered in briefcases, cardboard card-board boxes and grocery sacks. Occasionally, the Justice Department Depart-ment makes a case against a crime boss. But he usually continues to run his criminal operation out of prison; sometimes a subordinate takes his place on the underworld board of directors. Not since the late Robert Kennedy left the Justice Department, however, has there been any real effort to break up the mobs. Organized crime also couldn't flourish without the support of the public. Most of the mob's profits are skimmed from the pockets of everyday Americans in small transactions 50 cent bets, $50-an-ounce marijuana purchases, $5 pornography peep-show fees, the quarters dropped in mob-controlled mob-controlled vending machines. The criminal tycoons have their hands in everything from peddling drugs and processing bets to operating nursing homes and running church bazaars. It sounds incredible, but lawmen tell us that mobsters even run bingo games and "Las Vegas nights" for some churches and recreation centers. In New York, for example, law enforcement officials discovered that gaming events for worthy causes were directed by mobsters of the Vito Genovese family. They took a generous $6 a year in Summit County. $12 a year outside Summit County Published by Ink, Inc. USPS :S7H-7:fl 70 1 f j -iff Jack Anderson ear cut out of the profits, of course, for their services. The same Vito Genovese family that helps out at church charities also does murdering for hire. A confidential federal crime report states that "this family is particularly active in contract killing." They specialize in quiet executions with .22-caliber revolvers. Political Potpouri: Sen. Jacob Javits, R-N.Y., was a surprising casualty of recent primary elections, and he was so disheartened by his loss that he privately considered dropping out of the race altogether. But friends and old political allies pressured Javits to stay in the Senate contest as the nominee of New York's Liberal Party. The 76-year-old Javits finally gave in and promised to make a fight of it. Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass,. showed up for a Jimmy Carter fundraising dinner last week to help the president present a united front. But we've learned from inside sources that Kennedy had another reason for his appearance. The Carter and Kennedy forces, it seems, have agreed to split the money raised at joint appearances fifty-fifty. Deadly Exports: Many American companies export products that are banned in the United States. Included among the deadly good's, which are sent primarily to developing nations, are pesticides, flammable clothing, cancer-causing cancer-causing drugs and contaminated food. Now the federal government has created regulations designed to license hazardous products instead of embargoing embar-going them. This means the poor people of the world will still be buying products that are considered too dangerous for" American consumption. (0,1980 United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Jan HilkiiiL' ' s |