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Show Modw AltoaDiintt Hit? VnewnDdDnnntl; The city has attributed part of its recent water shortage to user waste. What are you doing to conserve water? John Crandali Drinking gin and tonics instead of Scotch and water. Page A2 Thursday, July 16, 1981 EM i i itiraal Only a thin wasted nights and wasted lives As most people know . by now, local resident Jim Langhorne was killed three weeks ago by a man accused of drunk driving. The man charged with criminal homicide apparently was no novice to driving a car while inebriated he was convicted twice of the offense before he ever ran into Jim. In each of the prior convictions, he lost his license for a year. No doubt, losing your license for that length of time is a burden, especially if you depend on driving for your livelihood. A worse burden, however, is the one Mark Williams will carry with him for a lifetime. Park City is a party town. There are lots of places to go, lots of reasons to celebrate, and lots of friends to tip a glass or two with. When the party's over, most people will wend their way safely home, and the next day they will measure their good time by how "wasted" they got and how bad their hangover is. When all goes well, drinking is good, innocent in-nocent fun. But an unlucky few will distinguish themselves after they leave a bar by weaving their cars down the street in front of . a local police officer. Each week, at least a few locals are escorted over to the Summit County Jail, where they are charged with driving under the influence. Those who can't post bail generally spend an embarrassed and uncomfortable uncomfor-table night in jail. Mm. jtt? ?! OK, lI3 CHOOSE M0N$,lta MANAGEMENT NEGOTIATOR yOU m FREE AGENT IN THE RE-ENTRY PRAFT..VW BE A, by Stanley Karnow Domestic issues are important, but president's big role is foreign policy Washington, D.C. Presidents usually are able to impose their foreign policy on Congress with relative ease while battling hard to get their domestic legislation passed. But Ronald Reagan appears to be having the opposite experience. He has made a good deal of headway in persuading the legislature to approve ap-prove his economic and social programs. On several international issues, by contrast, he has gone down in defeat. To a large extent, I think, this phenomenon reflects Reagan's own sense of priorities. Unlike many of his predecessors, most notably Richard Nixon, he seems to be more comfortable comfor-table with domestic questions than with foreign policy. Moreover, he appears to lack a global strategy apart from his simplistic conviction that the Soviet Union is the root of all evil, as he repeated during his election campaign and has stated since. Most significantly, his view of the U.S. role in the world tends to be nationalistic, as if he believes that putting putt-ing America right will resolve problems everywhere else. One of the main flaws in this approach, ap-proach, in my opinion, is that Regan so far has failed to build a foreign policy constituency on Capitol Hill. He cannot count on support from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee nor from its equivalent in the House. Senator Jesse Helms has been tamed, only after he hobbled the administration ad-ministration for months. This portends the possibility of Reagan being blocked by a Congress line separates Some find it amusing and laugh about it with their friends the next day. But, because we think it isn't funny, The . Newspaper now prints the nanies of those people charged with drunk driving.' Then there are the very few who will drive home drunk and kill someone. According to one Summit County official, five automobile homicides have occurred in as many years. Of the five people convicted, four had previous drunk driving records. Does that mean that only convicted drunk drivers are likely to be involved in a fatal accident? Of course not, and that's the point. Many people drink in Park City, and many have driven drunk. Holding their heads the next morning, they announce, "I don't even know how I got home last night," expressing amusement and astonishment." If they made it home, they figure, they either weren't driving that badly, or they were lucky enough not' to be spotted by the police. Luck and circumstance, those are the key words. There is a fine line that separates those who drive home drunk ahd make it without incident, and those who don't. One day you could laugh about what a knock-out, bang-up good time you had, and the next you could cry over it. It's a scary thought. BBM 21 determined to exercise its powers in international affairs. Thus his freedom of action could be limited in the future as he strives to deal with America's allies and adversaries. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Com-mittee's rejection of Ernest Lefever as assistant secretary of state for human rights was the most dramatic blow, since Reagan had put his own prestige on the line in favor of that nomination. But he has sustained a series of other setbacks of a similar order . For example, Congress rebuffed his request to become more actively involved in-volved against the Marxist regime in Angola, and it spurned his plea for a tough stance in El Salvador. His plan to sell sophisticated weapons to Saudi Arabia is stalled on Capital Hill, and the legislature sidestepped his appeal for authorization to furnish arms to Argentina. This lackluster performance may be due in part to the fact that, except in the appalling Lefever case, Reagan has not deployed the full influence of the White House behind his foreign policy aspirations in Congress. Nor, as one congressman suggested to me the other day, has he assigned the job to someone as effective as David Stockman, his budget director, whose knowledge of Capitol Hill certainly accounts ac-counts for the administration's gains on domestic matters. Instead, he has delegated Secretary of State Alexander Alexan-der Haig to cope with Congress on international in-ternational affairs. The choice has been unfortunate. Haig lacks what one of my colleagues calls a "congressional metabolism." Stiff and sometimes sanctimonious, he - i. FTP in tends to lecture legislators as if they were cadets, which is a formula for disaster. A couple of weeks ago, for instance, he astonished and antagonized a member of the House who asked him during a closed hearing why the United States should resume arms deliveries to Argentina. "Because," Haig replied, "we share a belief in God." Though he is more flexible than many of Reagan's conservative aides, Haig also has been unable to win much sympathy from liberal Republicans, not to mention Democrats, perhaps because of his abrasive manner. As a consequence, he has not mobilized the middle-of-the-roaders in Congress whose support is critical. It may be as well that congressmen, who have an unerring nose for power, also suspect that Haig does not rank high among Reagan's viziers, and therefore lacks the clout they respect. Perhaps Reagan is being extraordinarily extraor-dinarily shrewd in subordinating international in-ternational affairs to internal matters, which preoccupy Americans much more than events overseas. He may have calculated that his first objective must be to construct a solid foundation at home. He has been lucky until now that no big crisis has erupted to test him. But the test will come sooner or later, and it will underline the fact that, though domestic issues are important, the essential role of a president is to conduct con-duct foreign policy. Released by The Register and. Tribune Syndicate, 1981 t i t i j lusdvc wdier i wuiuu Linda Myers I follow the restrictions and I don't water my lawn as much so I I am watering my lawn someone enforcing fWlHr UU iCICmiL J U.S. aid gets Washington True charity, we are told, enriches the giver. And the truly charitable don't need gratitude to feel good about doing the right thing. In this context, the American taxpayers tax-payers may be the most truly charitable people in the world. The millions our government gives to help disaster victims abroad often bring not the slightest thanks or even acknowledgement. This isn't peanuts we're talking about. The Agency for International Development has been giving out more than $700 million a year for disaster relief. The money has gone to earthquake earth-quake victims in Italy and Romania, refugees in Cyprus and the people of war-torn Nicaragua. Auditors at AID have followed up some of these assistance programs. Their findings show that gratitude is in short supply on the international scene. Take Cyprus, for example. The United States has been the biggest contributor con-tributor by far to the United Nations aid fund there. A U.S. contribution of $875 million made possible a handicrafts handi-crafts center on the island. U.S. inspectors in-spectors visited the center recently and found a plaque acknowledging the help of the Greek government and the United Nations. But there was no mention men-tion of the United States. In Nicaragua, AID provided a $15 million loan to stimulate production and employment. Once again, little credit was given by the Nicaraguan government. In fact, in some places where AID posters were put up, they were promptly torn down by anti-Yankee anti-Yankee Nicaraguans. In Romania, the United States offered of-fered $20 million in reconstruction aid following a devastating earthquake a Newspaper Subscription Rates, $6 a year in Summit County, $12 a year outside Summit County Published by Ink, Inc. USPS 378-730 Publisher Jan Wilking Edi,or Bettina Moench Advertising Sales jan wilking, Bill Dickson Business Manager Kck Uamaa Graphic Consultant Terry Hogan GPhits Becky Widenhouse, Liz Heimos Reporters David Hampshire, Rick Brough, Doug McCulloch Photo Editor Phyllis Rubenstein Typesetting Di)je Bishop, Paula Gibson Subscription & Classifieds Anne Dis,ribulion Bob Grieve Entered as 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 such material. 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Hill Explosion: Since 1960, the number num-ber of U.S. senators has stayed the same. Four non-voting delegates have been added to the House. But in that same time period, the size of the congressional staff has more than doubled from 7,000 to almost 18,000. Members of Congress used to be given a maximum of two rooms. Now they have a minimum of three. To take care of the exploding population, congressional office buildings have been spreading over Capitol Hill like a granite glacier. But apparently this growth has only increased Congress' appetite for more. The Capitol Architect has just spent more than four years and $450,000 on a master plan for the future. What the Capitol Architect envisions is so-called "congressional enclave" that will seal Congress off from the real world around it. Landscaping techniques will be used to construct a border around this concrete Casbah. We have been assured that the congressional enclave won't be exactly a Forbidden City like the one in old Peking. Tourists and other members of the public will actually be allowed to visit. But the master planners have made it clear that the only people they're really concerned about are the 535 members of Congress. To a lesser degree, they worry about the comfort of the congressional staff. After that, they may spare a few thoughts for the 'jm " " tt : f w wora p bunaay. u Y T-K - f mow it. Jack Anderson Joe Spear neighbors on Capitol Hill. Last and quite least are those nuisances from the rest of America the taxpayers who are paying for it all. One of the first targets on the planner's plan-ner's hit list is the modest parking lot outside the East Front of the Capitol building. It will be put underground so the lawmakers won't be offended by the sight and sound of delivery trucks and trash collectors. They also want to screen out the railroad line that runs just south of the House office buildings. The architects want to build a few more office buildings that would shield the congressional compound from the trains. To the north, the planners would like to add some more Senate office buildings, and to the east, they would like to have the Supreme Court moved out. To the west lies the Washington mall and its magnificent monuments. That inspiring view apparently will remain unobscured. Headlines & Footnotes: Oil companies com-panies are delighted by the choice of Charles Butler as the new chief of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Com-mission. Butler is a former aide to Sen. John Tower, R-Texas, the darling of Big Oil....Penny-pinching budget boss David Stockman rewarded his hardworking hard-working staff with four days off over the Independence Day weekend. His generosity to his 500 employees cost the taxpayers $76,480.... Federal investigators in-vestigators have learned that some wealthy farmers have used disaster loan money to invest in the stock market. 1981, United Feature Syndicate, Inc. 2 V . fj v |