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Show p o PageA2 " V VMS AT WM1AWW- KM VI II II III IM I II I K WERE LOT ID QET HIM,, HE HAPA F00FBSM1 SCHOLARSHIP UNHLTHE NfifA RNSEP ITS ACAPEMIC 5TAHMRPS , Starving in As morning shows the day, hard times show the stuff we're made of. There are deep wells of compassion in this troubled land. But there are also fetid pools of selfishness, racism and hate. Regrettably, some of our decision-makers in Washington have risen from these pools. As this depression worsens, we are seeing them more clearly. They sit on the right, these sleek and comfortable Americans who are urging urg-ing the president to cut $1.4 billion more from the food-stamp program. They are the righteous who would deprive the poor of legal aid, but increase the millions being sent to El Salvador. Right now these thrifty folk are calling for retribution against judges who have restored disability payments to the sick and the helpless who have been deprived of the pittance paid by Social Security. They are also urging further cuts in the school-lunch program, which has already dropped 1 million children. Twelve million Americans are now out of work. Some are stable, educated people who have always eaten well and paid their bills. Some are skilled workers who imagined "the plant" Ford, General Motors or whatever would always be there. Some will V3L SP 3Zf someday son 1 NONE OF THIS ) ncBWiTDODnniiu; I II II If II iJ i J Miff I M r i ii ii i ill i7i ill"' l South Succotash never work again. We are getting acquainted with these people because they turn up night after night on the TV news. This annoys the president. He would rather see them all hunkered down in South Succotash a jokey place he invented until he brings off the miracle that will balance the budget and rouse the economy from its coma. The agony of the times runs across America like a knife slash. Every Main Street is hurting. Farmers a peaceable peace-able lot riot to stop foreclosures. On a typical January night New York's shelters for the homeless take in 4,600 peopie. In Flint, Mich., where unemployment unem-ployment stands at 20 percent, hard-up autoworkers are selling their blood. "It keeps me in cigarettes and gasoline," a bearded young man explains. In Chicago recently, thousands waited all night in near-zero temperatures tempera-tures to register for a few hundred temporary jobs. In Los Angeles 1,000 persons lined up at dawn for five yes, five manual-labor jobs. In Phoenix a city ordinance has made sleeping in a public place a misdemeanor. But Phoenix is also the headquarters of Second Harvest, a voluntary-aid group that solicits food from wholesale grocers and packagers and distributes it to 43 food banks around the country. o 1 February 3, 1983 Page A. Nationally, 2 million persons are said to be homeless and on the road. We read about a man from Minnesota now living in a broken-down school bus parked behind a church in Denver. A year ago he owned his own home and a busy filling station. Our blinkered president believes that private charities and an army of Lady Bountif uls with goody baskets can ease the poor over this "rough spot" in his dream world. The Rev. Paul Moore, Episcopal bishop of New York, calls that notion "naive and dangerous." Private charities are already in "financial jeopardy," he notes. Guaranteeing Guar-anteeing social and economic justice, he adds, is the province of the government, not the church. The quality missing from what history is sure to call Reagan's Depression is outrage. It's not enough that the president's approval rating has dropped to 39 percent. There ought to be a deep national outcry. "Rage, rage! " this citizen wants to cry. "Rage against the cold, the want, the price of bread, the hearts of stone in the White House. March, protest, channel your anger!" This is no time to lie down and die in South Succotash. 1983 Harriet Van Home Distributed by Special Features Syndication Sales Assuming that Ronald Reagan decides to run lor a "second term, who would you like to see run against him? if U . J r.tStt, 36f' : '. - " . ' A I. . J ' . I have Many elderiy Americans caught in peso squeeze Washington The plummeting Mexican Mexi-can economy and the ensuing dive of the peso have proved a boon to many American tourists. The devalued Mexican currency allows them to get good bargains with their strong American dollars. But other Americans haven't been as fortunate. The shrinking Mexican peso is proving disastrous to elderly U.S. citizens who invested their retirement nest eggs south of the border. The once-promising guaranteed government-interest rates are being wiped out by the financial crisis afflicting the Mexican economy. Lured into investing their retirement saving? in Mexican government-controlled government-controlled banks by tax breaks and fixed-term accounts, these Americans find themselves caught in thbe peso squeeze. The peso has been devalued by nearly two-thirds compared to the dollar, and strict currency controls prohibit recovering all but minimal amounts of investments. Some estimate esti-mate that Americans living both above and below the border could lose as much as $12 billion a year in the financial crunch. One American particularly hard hit is an 84-year-old widow who moved to Mexico to be with her son. She took the proceeds from the sale of her home along with her modest savings totaling total-ing $40,000 and deposited the money in a fixed-term account in Mexico's National Financiera. But the high altitude and problems with the water didn't agree with her, and now she wants to return to the United States. 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She is prohibited . from converting the pesos back into dollars,! and is forbidden to leave Mexico with more than 5,000 pesos in Mexican currency. She also becomes subject to criminal prosecution if she fails to deposit her U.S. Social Security check with the Banko de Mexico for pesos within 24 hours after receiving it Submarine races: Remember that unidentified submarine that escaped the clutches of the top-secret Swedish naval base last October? Intelligence sources say at least five unidentified submarines were spotted in the waters off Stockholm last year. Now the Swedish government is taking steps to crack down on these infiltrators. Special information leaflets leaf-lets have been printed on how to spot these hot subs, and what to do if they are spotted. The leaflets are being distributed to fishermen, yachtsmen, customs agents and others on the coast. Meanwhile, Soviet dissidents from Estonia, directly across the Baltic Sea, tell another story. A gang of 200 political prisoners has been put to work cleaning Soviet nuclear submarines at a base near Paldiski. Many of these prisoners are thought to be suffering from radiation sickness. The crumbling capitot: The U.S. Capitol building, America's greatest symbol of democracy, is cracked and crumbling. This is not a new problem. The building has been decaying for 25 years. Still, Congress can't decide what to do about the problem. " ""' '' f l - i Jack Anderson r And, in typical fashion, our legislators legisla-tors have commissioned five separate studies over the last 25 years to solve the dilemma. The cost for the studies alone has totalled $2,5 million. The latest analysis was completed four years ago and recommended an extension to the Capitol that would cost $70 million. But there will undoubtedly be several more costly investigations before Congress will finally agree on what to do about the problem. Homing pigeon: Pentagon sources have told us of a serious problem with the Navy's billion-dollar vessel, the Aegis air-defense escort ship. It employs a state-of-the-art radar system to fend off attacking enemy planes. But while it's tracking them down, it also emits a strong, distinctive radar signal that acts like a homing beacon for enemy missiles. In fact, experts say an inexpensive missile based on "fuzz-buster" technology could be used to knock the Aegis out of commission. And experts say that even if the ship's crew were able to shoot down the first few enemy missiles, what about the 10th? Softball savings: Officials at the Norfolk, Va., Naval Base made a suspicious purchase on the last day of the fiscal year in September 4,800 softballs. But officials denied our hunch that the softballs were bought to avoid returning unused funds. They insisted that by buying them in such large quantities, they got a bargain price. 1983 United Feature Syndicate, Inc. nrtnnirrf |