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Show The Salt Lake Tribune OPINION Sunday, September15, 1996 Expect More Smears in This Campaign Sieeteesniieceene——<— MYRIAM MARQUEZ SENTINEL Washington sex scandals aren't anything new, but the steamy mess involving President Clinton's former campaign guru, Dick Morris, and a call girl isn’t about to fade away fromthepolitical radar screen. Like a hurricaneover warm waters, the Morris story is picking up strength. Right now, the story seems to be, in hurricane-forcewinds terms, a category 1 or2: It Hike Taxes, Don’t Sell Out Parks BY DONELLA H. MEADOWS FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES Most Americans haven't heard of the government’s plan to com- mercialize the national parks. To the few who have,it seems like eethat we have gone much too far with our national experiment in shifting from public to private responsibility. The park proposalis not an in- vitation for corporations to plaster their logos across Half Dome, the Lincoln Memorial or the Grand Canyon. Rather,it is an opportunity for 10 or so selected companies to contribute around $15 million apiece each year to the national parks. In return, the companies can usein their advertising a special symbol — like the Olympic rings — to proclaim themselves “official sponsors” of hasn't affected cies'spepe ity in the polls, but Clinton’s criticseeet nuts not to blow morehot air into the Morris hurricanewith the eeof after your opponent's character weaknesses. Differences on issues between the two just aren't as sharp. Clin- ton has Morris to thank for that. Morris’ “ ition” strategy has kept the president on a ‘‘moderate, middle course” since 1994. turning it into a category 5 Election Day. The Morris story is, after all, the best hope that Clinton's Republican opponent, Bob Dole,has right now to hit Clinton where he’s most vulnerable — ontheis‘sues of trust and integrity. When you're as much as 20 percentage points behind your oppo- investigations into the Clintons’ involvement in the Whitewater land deal, the White House travel-office fiasco and, most recently, the improper use of Federal Bureauof Investigation files just nentin nationalpolls, as Doleis,it haven't produced a backlash Republican-led congressional simply makes strategic sense to go against Clinton, In each case, most people question the credibility of the president and his wife, but noneof those seandals has resulted in permanent damage. What's left for Dole to do? Not much. The tabloids are doing the dirty work fer him Prediction; The American public will be treated to at least one new Morrvis-related story a week from nowuntil November. The second tabloid installment of Morris’ sordid affairs hit the newsstandslast week, with a report that Morris — the so-called architect of Clinton's “family first” agenda — had a child out of wedlock with a woman he has known for 20 years. There's more. The Star, which paid prostitute Sherry Rowlands AAS to dish the dirt on Morris, is publishing more entries from the hooker’s diary. In the diary, Row- landsstates that Morris told her that the first lady ordered the Olympics to imagine a slippery slope that could carry the parks into a commercial swamp, There maybe a soul somewhere who be- lieves that the Golden Arches or Mickey Mouse will not follow the moneyinto the parks,but thereis no such innocencein the advertising world. NyueVy president was coasting on a 60 Prediction II: More hearings Imagine: Sen. Al D'Amato calls percent approvai rating. Right before Christmas that year, Troopergate broke, followed by Jones’ allegations and news of the dee- the hearing to order and asks a leggy blonde to start reading from her diary. Next he calls on Arkansas state troopers to retell their scandalous tales about Clinton's days as governor. Next comes Paula Jones with her story of Clinton’s alleged sexual harassment. Then a secret witness behind a screentells. . . Of course, Sen. Jesse Helms and many other Republicans, who present, passing it to the general Treasury. Greater sums also could come from park concessions. More than 650 private companies earn a total of $700 million a year operating campgrounds, restaurants, hotels and other enterprises in the parks. They pay $19 million a year for their monopoly licenses, which are granted for 10 to 30 years and are usually renewed automatically. Here's a place where market principles could benefit our parks. 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