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Show flfldDW AHDflUMt lit? ikbwitd Wild I Was U1C IllUSi 1I1C111U1 auic 1111115 m iiHjipvuvu v j uu . Allison Einhorn I met Chuck, my fiancee. Page A2 Thursday, December 30, 1982 iPiPf IMfitiawriifflll 111 aDnnQtt isy 3 1 Looking to 1983: we can dream, can't we? For the New Year, we wish That the tourists will take the bus, and leave the parking to us. That the barroom locals will refrain from seeking self-destruction self-destruction on the highways or in the dark privacy of their rooms. That members of the City Council or Planning Commission Com-mission will never have to leave the room for a conflict of interest. That Frank Singleton will make a new friend every month. That a local businessman will open a pub for dogs, where the owners have to wait out on the sidewalks. That the city will finish its comprehensive plans for hillsides, valleys, streets, sidewalks, open space, zoning, historic buildings, timeshare, planned unit developments, and the ozone layer. That Park City will take the state football championship, in the course of which they defeat Beaver High by a 70-16 score. That the Grand Canyon look of Main Street building is confined to its present enclave near Heber Avenue. That audiences flock to the productions from Intermoun-tain Intermoun-tain Actors Ensemble, Park City Performances, and Kimball Kim-ball Art Center and that the quality of the shows is proportionate propor-tionate to the level of attendance. That Blair Feulner's new transmitter never lets him down, and he gets the station on the air faithfully every morning at 6 a.m. That a member of Bill Ligety's staff is chosen as a center fold for "Planning and Zoning Monthly." That a developer gets his process project through without (a) going to court, (b) putting on a two-hour slide show at Planning Commission, or (c) leaving a large hole in the ground. That Park City supplies the next big star on the U.S. Ski Team. That the members of Aspen's City Council worry about living up to Park City's standard. That we do not lose any historic structures this year to fire. That the belt route is at least, (Lawdy, Lawdy) finished between Park Avenue and Deer Valley. That the new Summit County Commission responds to the needs of Parkites. That motorists learn how to use this thing called a turn signal when navigating onto Main Street from Heber Avenue. That there are more bars for Park City's wild and crazy populace to safely let off steam. That outdoor concerts cater to Park City tastes at a price that would not be considered extortion under most criminal codes. That drivers stop practicing for the Indianapolis 500 on our side streets. That Park City finally develops employee housing that is both affordable and in a location that doesn't look like de massa's slave quarters. R B f lASTYMdW 4 PEOPLE LASTYEAR IN ENIANP," HJwqUNS KIUEP 37 PEOPLE Q3 l&IYEARIN AMERICA, HiwwJIw mtv 20,000 FWIE, IMM WERE 1 NUMBER Anderson WeekBy Special Global bank holiday might be in the offing Washington During this holiday season, there is talk in Washington's backrooms of a more ominous holiday. The Central Intelligence Agency is investigating the feasibility of a global bank holiday. CIA agents have been secretly interviewing financial tycoons about the prospect, which may be the best way to pull out of the international monetary crisis. CIA experts figure that if the banks close down temporarily temporari-ly around the world, they may not have to close down permanently. Here are the details: International bankers have extended $500 billion in loans to developing countries. Of this amount, U.S. banks hold about $150 billion to $200 billion in bad paper. But the continuing world-wide recession reces-sion has hit the Third World countries right in their treasuries. They don't have a prayer of repaying most of the money they borrow. In some cases, they can't even meet the interest payments. The debtor nations have only two choices. They can default on their loans or they can borrow more money to pay the interest as it comes due. Up to now, the international bankers have preferred to lend their customers more money so they won't default. In some circles, this is known as throwing good money after bad. At first glance, this might seem to be the banks' problem. They made the bad loans; let them suffer the consequences. Unfortunately, it's not that simple. Many of the gigantic loans are guaranteed by the federal government. In other words, the taxpayers will have to bail out the banks. Take, for example, the agricultural loans guaranteed by the Commodity Credit Corporation. Uncle Sam has already paid out more than $400 million to keep Poland from defaulting on its agricultural loans. The U.S. government govern-ment has also thrown in $25 million to keep Sudan from defaulting and $18 million to Romania. And that's just one loan-guarantee program. Why does the CIA worry about all this? The spy agency is charged with gathering information on the secrets of the international bankers. The CIA, therefore, knows what's going on that the international monetary system could collapse. That's why the agency is proposing a bank holiday. A temporary halt to international lending, it is believed, would give the bankers and the governments involved some time to sit down and work things out. Shuttle scandal: Two years ago, we exposed a scandal in the space-shuttle program. We charged that the contractor, contrac-tor, Rockwell International, had billed the space-shuttle program for work that had actually been done on other contracts. We reported that Rockwell executives execu-tives had charged luxury junkets to the taxpayers and cited the example of two Rockwell employees who flew to Paris on a Concorde jet to review the James Bond movie, "Moonraker." The Justice Department investigated inves-tigated and confirmed the charges. Recently, the government settled the case with Rockwell for $1.5 million. But this was a mere fractior of the actual fraud. One auditor charged that the firm got away with $6 million to $9 million in fraud. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration inspector gener; I, June Brown, said the settlement "was not something 1 would have uone." In a letter to the Justice Department, an assistant inspector general wrote that "the dollar amounts detected by auditors are negligible compared to the actual fraud." Why did the Justice Department let Rockwell off the hook with such a light settlement? We don't know, but we can tell you this much: The company has some friends in high places. Attorney General William French Smith was a partner in the law firm that has represented Rockwell for years. The firm attempted to go over the head of the local U.S. attorney by sending letters about the case to Rudolph Giuliani, the associate attorney attor-ney general. Giuliani denies he was influenced by the letters. Meanwhile, Congress may investigate. investi-gate. Rep. Manuel Lujan, R-N.M., has asked the House Committee on Science and Technology to hold hearings on the Rockwell case. Political potpourri: Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis has reportedly considered taking a job in private industry. But our sources believe he will eventually be bidding for political office. Republican leaders say Lewis laid the groundwork during Pennsylvania's Pennsyl-vania's last gubernatorial race by helping Republican Gov, Richard Thornburgh. Thornburgh can't run again, so Lewis might try to succeed him. Some officials at the Democratic National Committee are frantically trying to put together a presidential ticket that can beat President Reagan in 1984. Some leaders want to float the idea of what they consider a "dream ticket" Ohio Sen. John Glenn, with newly elected New York Gov. Mario Cuomo as his running mate. 1982 United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Chuck Garland I met a unique woman, and it's never been better. ' I ' , I ' " Marilyn Blair Returning to the United States after living in London for eight months. Mark Johnson Moving to Park City. I , iV.,iL mmmmmm v ' - Gill Shook The first big snow. Jeannie Rea Skiing at Snowbird on my birthday with Brad Makoff. Terrorizing. 11 11 1 1 1 j,, " j!' W y , W ft ; - ' m 1 ManrMeil; Wan Mqpipim No hiding place here In these terrifying times it takes an act of blind faith to plant a tree, buy a house or have a baby. As long as we continue to prepare for a nuclear war we are virtually guaranteeing that nuclear war will come. The thing that makes war possible, the peace movement warns, is having so many trigger fingers ready for war. Who does not shudder a little on reading that President Reagan could, with one brisk command, fire all our land-based ICBMs within three minutes? min-utes? The Soviets, before the mushroom mush-room cloud rose over Moscow, could lob a few right back at us. In that event, we will have 17 minutes to prepare for annihilation. Living in this exciting era, you can see why it takes courage to send in the big, money-saving, five-year renewal to your favorite magazine. You may expire before the subscription does. It should be clear by now that we have no foolproof nuclear game plan and no hiding place anywhere. Building a deluxe underground shelter with a chemical toilet and a year's supply of canned food won't save your life. Unless you hide out in the depths of a coal mine, you and your loved ones will be roasted alive. Even if we and the Soviets manage to rein in the dogs of war for a few more years, we live with the very real risk of a nuclear war by accident. On a CBS documentary about the hazards of living in a nation obsessed with war, a Pentagon official dis missed the notion that the planet could be blown up by accident. Not with our fine data system, he chortled. "We laugh and say the computers become more excited than we do." All computers are subject to strange glitches and twitches. Military personnel person-nel have their strange glitches and twitches, too. Some 100,000 human, fallible creatures have "some form of access to, or responsibility for, nuclear weapons," the New York Times reported the other day. In a single year, 1,219 of them had to be removed from such access because of drinking, drug abuse or mental instability. Reading those appalling figures, one suddenly remembers the proposal seriously urged by many doves that the president be obliged by law to murder the aide who carries the hot line in that everpresent satchel. Only then could he activate the line that connects to the switches that would start the war. Faith in the vast nuclear defense system 9,000 warheads at the ready-is ready-is not exactly enhanced by reading of the near-misses. In one 18-month period there were 147 false alarms. A Soviet training launch triggered one; a fire in the Siberian pipeline set off another. Add to that the computer chips that fail, and the crazy potential of those tipsy or otherwise incapacitated incapaci-tated military men and it's a wonder anybody plans beyond tomorrow morning. If you concede the truth of the peace movement's arguments that total security is a mirage and that arming for war begets war you must ask, in horror, why we are squandering our treasure and degrading our society by bestowing hundreds of billions on the Pentagon each year. It is the single most urgent question of our time and we ought to be directing howls of fury at the White House. Thomas Powers' recent book, "Thinking About the Next War" (Knopf) says unequivocally that if we don't negotiate a disarmament treaty with the Russians, nuclear war is inevitable. Powers, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Prize-winning author, added up the cost of the social programs the administration would like to cut. The grand total-money total-money that will not be spent on the poor, on education, mass transit or medical research came to $321.6 billion. "What Reagan is proposing," Powers writes, "is a breathtakingly direct trade social programs for military programs not a 'saving' of $321.6 billion, but its reallocation, pure and simple, along with borrowing additional billions." As we were saying, it takes an act of blind faith to plant a tree these days, or renew your magazine subscription. And of all the wars ever fought, Powers reminds us of one true generality: "Very few of the dead had anything to do with starting it." 1982, Harriet Van Home Distributed by Syndication Sales Corp. Special Features Park City Newspaper Publisher , Subscription Rates, $8 a year in Summit County, $15 a year outside Summit County Published by Ink, Inc. 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