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Show Meow AlbaDirait lit? r-r 704: v. What do you miss most about your childhood? (This question was shamelessly stolen from the Jackson Hole News. ) tBODnrinu; Lance Fromm What I miss most are friendships that are true. -'-V .. Page A2 Thursday, October 28, 1982 i - 1 5? I ' 'I IEdlfittnirnffliIl j The Newspaper endorses Wilson, Williams, White There are a number of qualified candidates running for office in next Tuesday's election, and local voters will be faced with a number of difficult choices. We don't feel we have the insight or the time to comment on all the candidates can-didates in all the races. However, there are three races where we feel a clear-cut choice exists between the candidates, can-didates, and where your vote could make the difference. Fire District Commission: Endorsement goes to Jim White for his proven dedication to, and concern with, the Park City Fire Protection District. Although White's opponent, Vince Desimone, is older and claims more experience in business and government, he has demonstrated a tendency to act and speak impulsively, putting himself in the position of having to issue apologies or retractions. Desimone last week published a letter that implied a faster response by firefighters could have saved the life of a Park City man who died in a grease fire in his home. A medical examiner's report has not been made in that death, but officials have stated the death could not have been prevented, regardless of the response time. Desimone may not have intended the implication (he later issued an apology), but the letter indicated a lack of thought. Desimone's statements during the campaign come across as being motivated more by political ambitions rather than true dedication to fire protection in Park City. White has served 5Vfe years as a firefighter with exceptional excep-tional dedication. His knowledge of firefighting techniques and equipment is respected by the entire department. He holds the rank of captain and serves as an emergency medical technician. He has become knowledgeable on commission business and department operations through steady attendance of fire district commission meetings. His expertise, professionalism and incentive will serve the commission well . County treasurer: In spite of his reluctance to go door to door and press the flesh, Bob Williams deserves your vote in this contest. The key difference between Williams arid his opponent, Gwen Larsen, is his experience in investing large sums of money. Thanks to the booming ski industry and development in the oil fields"; Summit County's tax base is becoming one of the largest in the state. Investing tax revenue is becoming big business. Gwen Larsen has worked many years for the Democratic Party in Summit County, and is well-respected in all areas, including Park City. But we think there are better ways to show our appreciation. U.S. Senate: It is too soon to scuttle Reaganomics, but the program clearly needs repair. And one way to give that message to Washington would be to send Ted Wilson to the U.S. Senate. After two years, the major flaws in the program are clear. The Reagan administration asked the social programs to bite the bullet, and requested citizens to bear with rising unemployment. But at the same time it raised funds for defense, and refused to look at eliminating waste from the pampered Pentagon. There is increasing evidence that, in their haste to start the Reagan Revolution, the administration slashed at social programs with too little study and too much ideological bias against "left-wing" projects. The Reagan economists unleashed a series of tax cuts, relying on the supply-side premise that high taxes discourage buying and investment. That's okay as far as it goes, but the) neglected to think there are other reasons like the prospects of huge federal deficits that will also discourage businessmen from investing. Far from "giving the program time to work," the GOP expected the tax cuts to do everything at once stimulate the economy, balance the budget and fatten defense. And in the meantime, mean-time, their tax breaks for business incited an avaricious round of merger-mania among corporations. While all this was going on, the administration constantly vowed it could see the light of recovery at the end of the economic tunnel, only to revise their predictions again ... and again ... and again. There may be indications of an upswing up-swing now, but who's going to believe them? Orrin Hatch is an articulate, high-powered spokesman for Reagonomics. But that's just the trouble. His style and his substance give the impression that he doesn't stop long enough to consider the emotional and logical complexities of the issues. True, his dynamism has given a national visibility to Utah's conservative values, but in his flirting with the elements of the New Right who are glib at best and demagogic at worst he threatens to discredit those same values we cherish. In his campaign, Ted Wilson has talked about incentives for business, a fair tax plan, and a method to provide a cheap, effective military defense. (See interview on Page 3.) There have been flaws. Wilson is fuzzy on his remedies for a bloated federal budget and an overextended Socials' Security system. His campaign spent too much time hit-i picking at Hatch's campaign tactics, or efforts at branding Hatch "the carpet-bagger from Pittsburgh." But Wilson shows a thoughtfulness, a capacity for new ideas. And we believe he deserves a chance in the Senate. The GOP have a point when they say it takes time to cure the economic blues. (After all, the last time we saw that horrible 10 unemployment rate was in 1970 after eight years of the hallowed New Deal!) But to truly "stay the course," you need senators who will keep the economy from running up on sand bars. HWxTIt-TI-kt iaaSH by Jack Anderson Utf VClClift.Jly HJVCtCllcmi & Joe Spear Liberal targets turn tables on ultraconservative groups Washington Two years ago, the National Conservative Political Action Committee known in political circles as "NCPAC"-was riding high. It was the scourge of liberal Democratic senators seeking re-election. NCPAC's negative, sometimes vicious campaign tactics were given credit for the defeat of such liberal Democratic senators as George Mc-Govern Mc-Govern of South Dakota, Frank Church of Idaho and Brich Bayh of Indiana, Contributions poured into its war chest by the millions. This year, however, NCPAC may be riding for a fall. Its questionable techniques have been ineffective or worse. In some cases, the liberal targets of NCPAC's venom have been able to turn its attacks to their own ad1 vantage. In Maryland and Tennessee, Democratic Senators Paul Sarbanes and Jim Sasser have been successfully playing pin-the-tail-on-the-elephant. They have managed to identify their Republican opponents with the half-truths half-truths and innuendoes of the NCPAC ADS. They accused the GOP candidates can-didates of welcoming help from "outside "out-side interest," and forced NCPAC's favorites onto the defensive. In Maryland, the Republican candidate, can-didate, Larry Hogan, has had to issue repeated denunciations of NCPAC after af-ter initially welcoming its costly television campaign against Sarbanes. In Texas, Democratic Sen. Lloyd Bentsen is a NCPAC target. But he beat the ultraconservative group to the punch, thanks to a sophisticated early warning system. His spies found out which Texas districts NCPAC was going to concentrate on. Then Bentsen told the voters in those areas to watch out they were about to be hit with an out-of-state smear campaign against him. Our associate Peter Grant has learned learn-ed that the anti-NCPAC techniques have been the subject of several meetings of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. In these closed sessions, senators running this year have shared their NCPAC experiences with colleagues who will be running in 1984. The most important advice being given to the Class of '84 is to start early. In that respect, they're borrowing borrow-ing NCPAC's own technique. Right after af-ter the 1980 elections, NCPAC confidentially con-fidentially announced its target list of 19 senators for 1982. This year, if NCPAC NC-PAC still has the nerve to announce its 1984 hit list, it will tmd tne Democrats ready to fight. Mid-East Maneuvers: There's a story behind the Washington visit last week of Lebanon's new president, Amin Gemayel. The tale is told in documents that are locked in the secret files of the Central Intelligence Agency. The documents describe the behind-the-scenes skirmishing between Israel and the United States over the future of Lebanon. The CIA correctly anticipated the Israeli invasion of Lebanon more than a year before it happened. One secret report, dated March 6, 1981, states: "Israeli incursions (into Lebanon), if not imminent, are nevertheless inevitable. inevit-able. "The question is not so much whether or when such incursions will occur, but the scope and purpose of such incursions, and their potential for igniting a wider and more dangerous confrontation." The CIA not only expected the Israelis to move into Lebanon, but warned that Israel would use its Christian connections to dominate the future Lebanese government. The agency, therefore, sought to counteract counter-act Israel's influence by secretly supporting the same Christian militias. Here is an excerpt from a top-secret CIA memo: "It is concluded that the agency should provide military and financial assistance, as requested, to the Phalangist militias. Should the militia remain solely dependent upon Israeli support, the U.S. will forfeit all influence in a post-incursion environment. environ-ment. So the CIA secretly funded the Christian Phalangists. This gave the United States the ear of its leader, Bashir Gemayel. Officials in Washington Washing-ton persuaded him to resist Israeli pressure and to refuse to sign a treaty with Israel. Bashir's assassination brought his brother, Amin Gemayel, to power. The United States immediately courted him. In response, he flew to the United States and called for the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Lebanon including Israeli forces. This means that the Reagan administration ad-ministration has successfully out-maneuvered out-maneuvered Israel. As one Israeli leader grumbled privately, Lebanon "will now become a U.S. protectorate." protector-ate." Headlines and Footnotes: The computer com-puter microchip is rapidly bringing automation to white-collar jobs. Labor experts predict this will promote the development of white-collar unions... A new Defense Department antidote for nerve gas has turned out to be a powerful hallucinogen, according to our sources. The Army, Navy and Marines have banned its use, but the Air Force is still supplying it to the flyboys. 1982 United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Jillbette Fletcher Having Christmas with my grandma. fr-V - v rfi if: V N '. - f Linda Blake Freedom from daily chores. ?"? ' V Steve Soli Nothing. I'm still in it. Rock Not hurting as much when I fell. I 1 I- . 4 ? Bonnie B. Park Fishing every day after school. ff f I I If -i ' l r mini I iMiiuil I Republican alarm bells "Why is it," asked my earnest young friend who's studying political science, "that people can't connect the misery in their lives with the bastards they've voted into office?" It's a good question. It presupposes rightly, I think that decent, caring men and women can make a difference, whether they sit in Congress Con-gress or on the local city council. But here's a sorry fact of life: The people living in misery jobless, broke, despondentare des-pondentare the people who don't vote. Sunk in apathy and worried about paying for tomorrow's bread and milk, their inner voices tell them that it makes no difference who wins the next election, that their lives will be untouched. "So why vote?" they ask with a shrug. Census Bureau studies substantiate this indifference to politics among the poor. Voting by the unemployed runs 20 percent lower than voting among people with jobs. Not surprisingly, thf non-voters include many blacks and Hispanics. But this year citizens boycotting the polls include disillusioned dis-illusioned students and other citizens who have, until now, taken their voting obligation seriously. A 64-year-old machinist in New Jersey, out of work for the first time in 29 years, told a reporter he never intended to vote again, ever. "I don't trust politicians," he said. Candidates are worried about this new mood, this unprecedented "alienation." "aliena-tion." Educators and historians are also alarmed. They see a refusal to participate in democracy's most sacred rite as evidence that the whole system is in peril. They remember that it was a bitter, hungry, out-of-work nation that allowed Adolf Hitler to rise to power. He promised jobs and the rebirth of Germany as a mighty military power. A tragic flaw in President Reagan's philosophy is that a huge military establishment will create jobs and that those jobs will obviate the need for social programs. Heavily documented studies by labor groups and think tanks tell us that Mr. Reagan is wrong, cruelly and stubbornly wrong. A report by the Council on Economic Priorities demonstrates that a high military budget will drive up inflation while failing to reduce unemployment. Military contractors spend less per dollar on labor than other industries. It should also be noted that new jobs created by the military call for highly skilled technicians. The hard core of our 11 million unemployed remains unskilled or of very modest attainment. attain-ment. Reporters, noting the apathy of people shuffling through the lines at the unemployment offices across the land, are struck by the lack of anger. Obviously, feelings of rage and resentment are still deeply repressed. But people can shuffle along in resignation just so long then the bricks begin to fly. Pre-election polls published in the past week indicate a healthy gain for the Democrats. One district in Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania is expected to vote Democratic Democra-tic 10-to-l. In all depressed areas, efforts are being made to register the unemployed for the Nov. 2 ballot. But registration is useless if nobody hustles the registrants to the polls. Here's one hopeful note in a generally gloomy picture. Women this year are expected to vote in unprecedented un-precedented numbers. In general, their party loyalties are evenly divided, but polls show women under 30 inclining strongly to the Democrats. These are the women most concerned about the "social issues" abortion, school prayer and the environment. They are also the women most likely to be out of work. In all these pre-election surveys one hears alarm bells ringing for the Republicans. 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