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Show sr "You can love a person deeply and sincerely whom do not like. You can like a person ' you passionately whom you do not love." Robert Hugh Benson, English clergyman (1871-1914) Tuesday OplIMOI Finally, shark in jail Superior Court judge in Los Angles wealth .helped restore public faith that ' that maybe a few can't buy justice and of "those responsible for the savings-andloan calamity will pay for their greed. Charles Keating Jr. went to jail. even Judge Gary Klausner surprised for bail set he when the prosecutor three and million. at Keating $5 Keating associates face charges of misrepresentin junk bonds ing the sale of $250 million and lying to regulators. The judge's decision reflects public anger over the S&L bailout, which will cost Americans The $500 billion during the next 30 years. Lincoln of Savings Keating's collapse and oan will account for $2 billion. Keating is a symbol of the greed that '.resulted in the S&L looting, but he can't ;take. all the blame. Keating took advantage of misguided legislation and lax regulations that turned S&L's from hon- 6 l'M 1 DOhlT STILL NOT KNOWCLEAR ON THI5...MAYBE IF WE DO MOTHER STUDY,.. Herald comment est sources of middle-clas- s home loans into money machines for corporate sharks. The responsiblity for that spreads throughout Congress, the executive branch and federal and state banking agencies. But it was Keating and other S&L chiefs who seized the opportunity to use publicly insured deposits to invest in an array of bad deals. The principle underlying those risky investments was that if private money loses, public money pays. Keating is behind bars. But he and others charged in the S&L scandal will .be out of jail long before we finish paying the bill for them. B r. A" -: Sept. 25, 1990 5Tia MORE. M fl HOKE AIR I'j STUDIES PAST AIR I OTPKS 3TTJW& r in h - ' I Letters Along with her, there were no other girls Old college try started out at Editor: , ; - ; Well, I gave it the old college try. For the past month I picked up garbage on my daily walks. For what? I had hoped to be able to influence other people to do the same. If everybody did their share, we could have a clean city as far as litter is concerned. I suppose a lot of people thought I was crazy. It's okay, I've been called a lot worse. .When I lived in Maryland, the mayor of Baltimore ran a campaign to get people to jick up their own trash. He put trash cans on the corners, and invited everyone to pitch in.. Maybe it would be a good idea if our mayor ran a campaign like that. Then those ' of us who try could make some headway. .Then there's the idea of having a clean-u-p day and having everyone pitch in, or better yet, Why not let the culprits who uttered the highways clean it up. Of course that would raise our taxes by having to have more policemen on duty. I would be willing to help, but I can't do it alone. I tried and only got frustrated after a weekend that I didn't I wonder who picks up after ; pick up trash. these people at home. Wihna Ada Reed Provo - '. Restrict canyon trucks Editor: Over the last three years, I have served as a member of the Provo Canyon Parkway Committee. This committee was organized by the county commissioners to work in conjunction with the Utah Department of Transportation to guarantee that the integri- ty of Provo Canyon would not be destroyed with the development of the new highway. Hundreds of hours have been spent working with various landscaping firms to determine what could be done to improve those areas of the canyon in which the highway has already been built. ' In my involvement with the committee and UDOT, I have witnessed first-han- d UDOT's commitment to accomplish the completion of a safer road while they maintained the beauty of Provo Canyon. We jshould acknowledge the efforts of UDOT. True to their word, they have been committed to relandscaping, territorial e :tion,-thestablishment of parks along the course of the parkway, and to the building of federally-approve- d barricades and roadside-guards for the safety of all canyon traffic. While UDOT should be applauded for their efforts in the beautification of the canyon, we should also hold their feet to the fire with respect to the implementation of a policy restricting interstate truck traffic. . UDOT is dragging their feet when the topic traffic restrictions is raised. Unfortunately, Provo and Orem are likely to be the only two cities in the state which have the unique problem of trucks using their tlowntown areas as a major thoroughfare. I believe strongly in a focused and policy for truck traffic in Provo Canyon. The creation of this policy would ; permit onliy those trucks with a Wasatch Front destination to use the parkway. This ?wfll "benefit the citizens of Utah County in j several ways. First, it will assist in making ; the parkway a safer, more convenient route for those automobiles traveling through the canyon. Secondly, it will eliminate the vast numbers of trucks using local roads and aid ' in the fight for cleaner air. lastly, the downtown roads in Utah County will be less congested and safer. ;of-triic- k well-defin- James T. Young Provo Equal pay deserved Editor: In the work'orce today, there is a problem called favoritism; although it is illegal, it still goes on. Today if you are a man it is likely you will be paid more than a woman even if you do the same job. Women are getting cut short and we are standing there watching it happen. I recently met a girl who we will call "Tricia." Tricia has been working at a large, local store for 12 months, she was hired on at minimum wage of $3.45. "John" one of her fellow employees was hired on three months later at $4.00 an hour. These two individuals both perform the same duties. Now 12 months later John is still making more than Tricia. Tricia is making $4.25. We all may look at this figure of money and think she is doing pretty good. The fact is not how much money she is making now, it is how she was started out. $4. They were all started at minimum wage. John is still receiving higher pay. Why? The reason seems to be because John is a man. I would like to offer some advice to any women out there who are in this kind of a situation right now. The first thing to do is talk to your employer and find out if what you feel is happening really is, and then get it straightened out. We do not need to be afraid, we all have equal rights. We need to get this stopped, and we need to do it today. Kari Summerill Orem Stop the speeders Editor: Drivers speed excessively on Palisade Drive in Orem. We seldom get any patrols by the police department. It was a major problem before, but now that the city has extended Palisade Drive from Center Street to 800 North, an increasing number of motorists are using Palisade and exceeding the 25 mph speed limit. Palisade Drive is a heavily populated area with many young children. This creates a very dangerous situation. One solution to the problem would be to place speed bumps or dips along Palisade Drive. Another solution would be to have increased police patrols. These actions need to be taken before it's too late. Jeff Adams Orem Abortion is murder Editor: Abortion is a topic which does not receive the necessary attention. Abortion is murder which should be illegal. I have no sympathy for those who become pregnant who wish to have an abortion. The best possibility, rather than abortion, is to put the child up for adoption. This allows those who are unable to have children to receive the gift of having a child. Why is it when someone is killed that it is called murder, and yet, when a baby is aborted, it is merely an object; not a real human? Babies have definite characteristics and personalities before birth. They are human. When you choose to have sex, you have just involved a third party the unborn child. What if the baby endangers the mother's life, the woman was raped, or the woman was involved with incest? There is the question raised on whether babies with known disorders should live, or be aborted. These are interesting points and hard questions to answer. Each situation is different. The children shouldn't suffer. If parents taught their kids about sex, schools allowed sex education programs, and had more support for unmarried mothers, abortion would be cut. Abortion on demand is used irresponsibly. It is a way of escaping reality and using the baby as a scapegoat for a nustake. Who knows who may have just murdered the next President of the U.S., Marie Curie, John Flutter, Beethoven, Shakespeare, or Van Gogh? Each person has a contribution to the world; everyone has an important role to play, all life is precious. Charisse Marchant Orem A garbage problem Editor: Americans are letting far too much garbage be thrown away. Many of our natural resources are slowly being deteriorated by the effect of waste on them. Americans throw away thousands of pounds of garbage every year. This adds up. On a recent visit to Washington, I found out that one city must recycle all glass, metal, newspaper and plastic items. What is thrown away costs about $100 a month for two garbage cans to be picked up by the city. That kind of price is ridiculous. Many people there have resorted to burning what garbage they can. But this doesn't help the environment any. Recycling centers should provide free containers for people to deposit their recyclables. This would dramatically cut down on the price of regular garbage pickup. We need to start looking at the problems we could face in the future if nothing is done about the garbage problem of today. Let's try to make a change before we are hit as hard as some cities. Jason Woods Orem Defense gift fund suddenly flush - WASHINGTON With Saddam (AP) Hussein as the poster boy, the national defense gift fund is suddenly flush $20 billion and counting, for an unlikely charity that used to draw only petty cash. Under prodding from Congress and administration solicitors, U.S. allies have agreed to provide at least that much in money and services to share the financial burden of the Middle East crisis. The government has been accepting donations for national defense for 36 years, donations totaling $603,105.33 in all that time. The gifts went to the Pentagon without much notice because there wasn't much money involved. That changed when the United States sought and got pledges of allied contributions to help pay for Operation Desert Shield and other costs of countering the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. At first, the administration figured on using the old system to handle the new bonanza, so that the donated funds would be funneled to the Pentagon. It also sought to make that explicit in an emergency appropriations bill, with a provision to permit use of donated funds and supplies as the secretary of defense deems appropriate. But Congress quickly spotted the loophole in its authority over defense spending, and is moving to shut it. An amendment adopted by the House and a bill proposed in the Senate would require Hppropriations by Congress before the Pentagon spends donated funds, and regular accountings of the use of supplies, services and other gifts. That takes away leeway the Pentagon wanted, but the administration is not insisting. It would have been anyhow, and politically costly. Sen. Sam Nunn, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, had warned high-profi- le no-w- in D-G-a., Wjr if Walter Mears ASSOCIATED PRESS COLUMNIST two weeks ago that if U.S. operations in Desert Shield were to be "largely bankrolled by outside contributions" there would have to be a way for Congress to supervise the spending. He told Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney two weeks ago that the 1954 Defense Gift Act wouldn't suffice because it was set up for "relatively small donations to the defense effort." For almost 20 years, nobody gave a penny. The first contribution wasn't made until 1973; the fund got $279 that year. Defense donations since then have varied widely, often up in times of stress, down when times are placid. Under the 1954 law, money donated for defense goes into the National Defense Conditional Gift Fund, and is added to the Pentagon appropriation that comes closest to the intent of the donor. "The statute certainly never contemplated that such a petty cash fund would be used to accept donations of billions of dollars from foreign countries," said Sen. chairman of the Robert C. Byrd, Appropriations Committee. "If we learned anything from it is that you don't have these kind of slush funds," added Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, t. At the same time, Congress is keeping up the pressure for other nations to contribute more toward the cost of defending Iran-Contr- a, Saudi Arabia and punishing Iraq. The administration had opened that drive with Secretary of State James A. Baker III and Secretary of the Treasury Nicholas F. Brady traveling world capitals, seeking commitments to share the burden. In Congress, there were angry protests that other nations dependent on Persian Gulf oil, particularly Japan and West Germany, weren't contributing enough to the operation. Japan first offered $1 billion, upped to $4 billion in military and other assistance after a storm of protest that included a House vote to start withdrawing U.S. forces from Japan unless Tokyo paid in full for keeping them there. West Germany now has offered $2.1 billion. The, rest is coming, in various forms, from other nations allied in the operation and the sanctions approved by the United Nations. It isn't clear how much of the foreign contribution will actually pass through U.S. hands anyhow. The Japanese announced Friday that they were setting up a $900 million "peace fund" as the first installment of their pledge to the Persian Gulf operation, that it wouldn't be used for weapons, and that they would administer it in cooperation with the Arab states. That doesn't fit the notion that allied checks are in the mail to Washington. "Promises are easy, cash is harder," Leahy said. "I want to see the cash." Nor does it fit the idea that foreign fandraising drives may become a fixture in U.S. diplomacy, "a new device we'll try to be using more often in the future," as Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagle-burgtold a House hearing. Without Saddam Hussein or his ilk as the villain, vital oil supplies as an underlying issue, and an atmosphere of urgent crisis to spur the process, it will be hard to mount a matching quest for contributions. er Noriega trial could reveal many secrets - Prosecutors in the WASHINGTON drug trial of former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega are lining up potential witnesses to testify against him. Their testimony could leave the public gaping in disbelief about what Noriega allegedly got away with while under the protective wing of the United States government. But what you won't hear during the trial is even worse. Sources in Panama tell us that the prosecution is being very picky about who it puts on the witness stand. Our associate Dean Boyd has learned that many potential witnesses with intimate knowledge of the dictator's dirty work are not on the list to testify. Their stories could embarrass the United States and shed light on intelligence operations that the government would rather keep in the dark. For example, don't look for Maj. Felipe Camargo on the stand. He was a ranking member of Noriega's intelligence force and today is in jail in Panama awaiting trial on 18 counts of brutality. A former schoolmate of Camargo's told us that several months ago an intermediary for Camargo asked him to put Camargo in touch with U.S. authorities. Evidently Camargo hoped to cut a deal to testify against Noriega in return for a lighter sentence for himself, is not allowed in although Panama. Camargo is one of the few people in Panama who could talk about one of the that key assertions in the Noriega case Cuban leader Fidel Castro mediated a drug dispute between Noriega and the Medellin drug cartel of Colombia in 1984. "Noriega would be very worried if Camargo testified," a leading Panamanian journalist told us. Nevertheless, the Justice Department has given Camargo the cold shoulder. Why? Michael O'Kane, a Miami lawyer representing a client who was indicted along with Noriega, told us that the prosecutors "won't touch anyone that smacks of intelligence." Camargo has extensive ties to Cuban intelligence and also reportedly knows about Noriega's cozy relationship with the Central Intelligence Agency. Jack Anderson & Dale Van Atta UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE Another man who won't be called to testify against Noriega is Mike Harari, a former Israeli intelligence agent. As a "businessman" in Panama, Harari forged ties with the CIA and probably knows more about Noriega's alleged crimes than anyone else, including information about drugs used as" barter in the Nicaraguan contra resupply operation. Harari was in Panama at the time of the U.S. invasion last December, but soon after, turned up safely in Israel. Informed sources in Panama told us that U.S. intelligence agents shipped Harari to Israel to get him out of the picture. The Bush administration is doing everything it can to stay away from "people who know about contra drug connections," according to another Miami lawyer, John Mattes. Mattes represents a drug trafficker who has already told a Senate subcommittee some details about the contra-dru- g connection. Today, most of Noriega's closest officers are in jail in Panama with a wealth of information in their heads. But sources in Panama told us those officers have been given only token debriefings by U.S. authorities. Rodrigo Miranda, a former Panamanian special prosecutor, told us that several of the men could give "very explosive" testimony. A former Drug Enforcement Administration agent agreed that there are many Panamanians with dirt on Noriega. But, he said, "The people they really don't want on the stand an the U.S. officials who knew what Noriega was up to for all these years and let it slide." We asked Diane Cossin, executive assistant to the U.S. attorney who is prosecuting Noriega, about the charges that the Justice Department is deliberately ignoring hot witnesses. She refused to comment "on any speculation by people not involved in the prosecution or the investigation." - SUICIDE ATTACK U.S. officials are on the watch for suicide attacks by terrorists in Saudi Arabia like the attack that destroyed the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut. That suicide mentality goes right to the top. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein may prefer to go down in flames rather than leave Kuwait. In the face of defeat, he may choose to take the ultimate gamble an attack on Israel that would transform the Persian Gulf crisis into an Arab-Israe- li war. - The Persian Gulf crisis has given the military brass the excuse to revive a dangerous notion that no amount of money is too much if it is needed for national defense. That's the kind of thinking that brought about the collapse of the Soviet system. The Soviet economy simply wasn't strong enougn to support the heavy military spending. The Pentagon may indeed need a blank check to do the job in the Persian Gulf, but will there be anything left to come back home L to? Address letters to Letters to the Editor, PO Box 717, Provo, UT 84603. They should be typed, double-spaceand less than 400 words in length. Letters must be signed and include tlie writer's full name, address d, and a daytime phone number for |