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Show MdDw AItoint Utt? TT TO dDfiimtt Ayn What measures do you think could be taken to prevent the shooting of prominent promin-ent figures, such as Ronald Reagan, John Lennon and Pope John Paul II? Bill Bloom ' There are no measures that can be taken to prevent such actions that I know of. If someone wants to kill someone, there is usually a way. Page A2 Thursday, May 21, 1981 EMndoDiriisall 1 WTJD i i V- - w Marching to a different drummer can mean migraines for others - If brass bands were popular in Park City, you might say the police department would be on the horns of dilemma. '. But brass bands aren't popular here, rock bands are, and so is Scotch on the rocks. What isn't popular is the noise that goes with them. And therein lies the police department's dilemma. On one side are those who love a night out, dancing and drinking in the bustling resort town of Park City. On the other side are those who love a night in, dozing and dreaming in the mountain moun-tain community of Old Park. In between is the police department, which has to maintain order without spoiling the party. This week, the police department received a formal complaint com-plaint about the late-night noise on Main Street from a resident who lives behind Swede Alley. It's not the first complaint, and it likely won't be the last. And no doubt, most of the complaints are legitimate. The Newspaper office of-fice is on Main Street, and we've clearly heard beer bottles crashing on the sidewalk, screaming fights, and abusive language at 2 a.m. But we've also heard groups of orderly people laughing and having fun as they leave the nightspots for their cars. Although their sounds travel as easily, we don't regard it as noise, but instead evidence that Main Street offers good entertainment. en-tertainment. The police are not ignoring the fact that some people have a little too much fun. They patrol Main Street during the by Stanley Karnou Imnteirpireilive MepqDirit Will Reagan policies aggravate inflation? ' Washington, D.C. Lord Keynes, the famous British economist, once observed ob-served that no society can long remain intact under the pressures of soaring inflation. in-flation. A key question today, therefore, is whether his thesis applies to the United States. History abounds with evidence to support Keynes. Unbridled inflation led to the Nazi takeover of Germany, and it contributed to China's fall to communism. com-munism. But is America, with all its present wealth and stability, headed in a similar direction? I am rarely alarmed by forecasts of doom. Yet it seems to me that Lester Thurow, the M.I.T. economist, argues persuasively that the Reagan administration's ad-ministration's policies threaten to aggravate rather than arrest the country's coun-try's already serious drift toward disaster. Thurow's warnings, contained in recent issues of Foreign Policy magazine and the New York Review, ought to be heeded by anyone who believes, as I do, that U.S. strength is vital to world peace. For, as he puts it, the projection of military power envisaged by the Reagan administration will be a useless check against Soviet adventurism if America's slide into economic weakness continues during the coming decade. So the answer, in Thurow's view, lies in a sound domestic economy. But the Reagan budget, he contends, offers j'is the opposite by proposing bigger defense de-fense expenditures that are bound to exacerbate inflation and wreck the economy in the process. To place the problem in perspective, it should be recalled that Lyndon Johnson is the original culprit. By refusing to raise taxes to finance the Vietnam war, he set the nation on an inflationary in-flationary course that did not become apparent until 1970. President Nixon halted the spiral with wage and price controls, but his measure was only temporary. Inflation erupted again when he lifted controls, and it skyrocketed after the Middle East oil producers hiked the cost of energy. Now, Thurow asserts, President Reagan is going to make matters worse with his plan to boost defense spending from $162 billion in fiscal year 1981 to $304 billion in fiscal year 1985-an increase in-crease of $142 billion. Corrected for inflation, in-flation, the buildup is three times larger than the one that occurred during the Vietnam war. Thurow stresses that military expenditures expen-ditures are a form of consumption, since they do not enhance the economy's ability to produce more goods and services. To underwrite them means, cutting another form of consumption, such as social welfare, or raising taxes. But Reagan cannot curb social programs drastically enough to find the '" ("'i t.ir w." '' fictions peak bar-hopping hours, and they check the clubs at closing time. Each week there are a number of arrest reports filed in the police department noting that people charged with disorderly conduct or public intoxication have been hauled off to the county jail. Since the noise complaint was filed this week, Police Chief Mike Crowley has agreed to increase law enforcement enforce-ment on Main Street late at night. But increasing arrests as a deterrent means one of the three officers on duty must leave his beat for a two-hour round trip to Coalville, thus reducing the force should something really serious happen. Chief Crowley also said he would consider putting an officer of-ficer on foot patrol on Main Street to help control noise problems. The idea has merit. There's no doubt that an officer of-ficer walking the streets would put a damper on screaming, fighting and property destruction. But officer or no, people still are going to come to Main Street to drink and dance, and they're still going to laugh when they walk to their cars. And as much as people love to sleep, they should remember that this is, after all, a resort town. Hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent yearly to encourage patrons to frequent businesses on Main Street, and customers who leave laughing likely will return. It's a difficult problem and the police seem to be working toward a solution. But there's a limit to how quiet residents can expect a commercial district to be. After all, one man's misery is another man's music. BBM in other government spending generate sufficient sums. He also intends to slash taxes, which will deprive him of the funds he needs for defense projects. One approach, Thurow points out, would be for the administration to shift capital investment, skilled manpower and raw materials from civilian to military production. But this could not be done without aggravating inflation, since it would create shortages of consumer con-sumer goods. Yet another danger is that an America committed to bigger defense expenditures will be poorly positioned to compete in international markets against industrial rivals like West Germany and Japan, who, by no coincidence, coin-cidence, are deliberately limiting their military outlays in order to turn out export ex-port products. As it is, the United States already has fallen behind all of its West European allies, Britain excepted, in per capita gross national product. Thus, as Thurow suggests, America sooner of later may be compelled to relinquish its claim to head an alliance in which it is the weakest member economically. Unless Reagan can work out a way to rearm without prompting further inflation, in-flation, then, he may be deluding himself him-self into thinking that he is reinforcing the United States. At the very least, his grand design merits close scrutiny. Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate 1981 Strictly speaking, there are no measures that can be taken. Long-range Long-range education of people in dealing with the personal stress that society seems to be facing these days might help some. t I really feel hand gun control would be a start. Ultimately, these problems have to be solved within individuals and, as a result of society's changing. Nothing will prevent Weekly Whistleblower's tips lead to reopening of N-plant probe " Washington This is a story about a whistleblower the dedicated employee employ-ee in government or private industry who blows the whistle on misbehavior by the top brass. The name of this whistleblower is Thomas W. Applegate. What makes his story interesting is that he was a private investigator who was hired to dig up dirt on employees of the Zimmer Nuclear Power Facility in Moscow, Ohio. Applegate did manage to dig up some dirt on the nuclear plant's employees. But he unearthed even more on his employer, the Cincinnati Gas and Electric Company, which owns the Zimmer nuclear power plant and he has affidavits from employees and secret tape recordings to back him up. But when he reported what he had found, his lawyer told my associate Indy Badhwar, he was told to shut up. When he persisted, he was fired. Here are the details : Cincinnati Gas and Electric hired Applegate as an undercover agent at the plant. Company officials suspected that employees were cheating on their time cards, and they wanted Applegate to check it out. The private eye was given an alias Tom Jackson and was hired as a cost accounting engineer. He did his undercover work and found that cheating on time cards was the least of what ailed the nuclear plant. Employees in the facility's control room were storing liquor there and drinking on the job, according to Applegate. Some workers were consuming con-suming "angel dust" and other drugs on the job while management looked the other way, the private investigator reported. Applegate also told his employer about faulty welding of pipes and other construction mistakes, as well as the Newspaper Subscription Kales, Publisher r.uuiii .i:. .... , . Kriium .Murum Advertising Sales , ,. . . Ja uiki1, Bi UWUsum General Manager Terrv llogan Busmess Manager Ritk ,.ailman ("'al'i,,ts Becky idenhouse, l.h lleimos K,'l""',e,s David Hampshire. Rick Brouijh Hhol"KIUm' Phvllis Rubenslein I ypeseUing Ptult I)jx jp Bjs Subscription & ( lassil.eds Amie BemipU ,)lrh lhu,,r : V, Bob Grieve Kntered as second-class matter May 2:.. l!)77. at the post office in Park City, l lah K4(MiO, under the Act of March I IWI7. Published every Thursday at Park City. I tab. Second-class postage paid at Park ( itv . I'tah. 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When he was rebuffed by the company, Applegate took his complaints to the FBI, the U.S. attorney's office and to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. According to Applegate's sworn testimony, the company not only fired him, but also sacked some employees on time card violations and deliberately deli-berately told them that Applegate was the culprit who had reported them. Since then, he says, he has been subjected to threats and even an attempt on his life. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission conducted an investigation of Apple-gate's Apple-gate's complaints but failed to confirm them. A spokesman for the utility company dismissed Applegate's charges as the product of a "vivid imagination." But now, at the insistence of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel that's the whistleblower's official protector the nuclear agency has reopened the investigation. With prodding from the Government Accountability Project, a private watchdog group, the agency will try to find out if its initial investigation was a whitewash. It will also attempt to determine whether the nuclear plant in Moscow, Ohio, is indeed another Three Mile Island in the making. Watch on Waste: President Reagan's call for increased defense spending is laudatory in light of the growing military might of the Soviet Union. But it doesn't help the armed forces to waste money. Take the Firebrand, for instance. This is a drone missile built by the Navy. It's supposed to simulate a Soviet $6 a year in Summit County. $12 a year Published by Ink, Inc. ISPS :i7x-7:to u....i.... i l Doug Day ' I X YV. I Z -. f 1 4ff&. r ' Hobgood be done. Jack Anderson missile launched against U.S. ships. There is no doubt such a drone is useful. It will provide Navy gunners a realistic test of their ability to defend the fleet against lowflying enemy missiles. But the Firebrand project, which was begun in 1976, is already three years behind schedule and $65 million over budget. The Navy doesn't admit this. We got the figure from confidential sources. Whsnwe asked the Navy how much the Firebrand is costing, a spokesman said he didn't have a clear idea. He also didn't know how much has been spent in the past or what the final cost of the project will be. Meanwhile, the target drone has grown to such a size that nothing smaller than a giant cargo plane can launch it. The target missile is supposed to be reusable, and there's something to be said for that. But the cost of launching and recovering the Firebrand and then preparing it for the next mission will exceed $100,000 a shot. Headlines and Footnotes: President Reagan's proposed tax reforms call for tax deductions for charitable gifts to be reduced from 70 cents on the dollar to 50 cents on the dollar. Charities fear the move would cost them upwards of $10 billion a year... Why doesn't the FBI catch more big-name mobsters and white-collar crooks? According to a secret Justice Department report: "The FBI has used substantial quantities quanti-ties of its scarce, high-cost criminal investigative resources to conduct low-priority, non-criminal investigations"... investiga-tions"... The federal government always has plenty of applicants for its professional improvement seminars. That could be because many of the courses are held in such spots as Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe, Palm Springs and San Diego. 1981 United Feature Syndicate, Inc. outside Summit County .Jan Wilking V. - |