Show Bush Would Easily Win If New York Times Service WASHINGTON — Vice President Bush is running a puzzling campaign He is trying to be as cheery as Ronald Reagan and as folksy as Jesse Jackson but even the great mass of his supporters are not very happy with his performance The reason for this is that he is not really cheery or folksy but a serious and conventional man More than the other two candidates in the race his record particularly in the field of foreign affairs entitles him to speak intelligently of the coming problems of the world but instead he speaks of Jimmy Carter and bygone malaise He says he wants to be the "education president" and one purpose of a presidential election campaign is to educate But so far he has been following the Reagan line that the way to succeed in politics is to evade and equivocate to spend and spend borrow and borrow He is not however likely to sell another rerun of the Reagan role — at least not for long The movie is over the audience has changed and many of the problems have changed at home and abroad His way is not Reagan's Unlike the President he can't wave for the television cameras to people who aren't there or pretend that Reagon-omic- s was a triumph And it's a tribute to him that he seems false when he tries Reagan was the last of the big borrowers and even Wall Street is looking for something different The vice president is in a good position to lift this campaign out of its present rut His nomination is assured The campaign has now gone on for six months without producing a single memorable speech on either side He has the ability and the staff to change that but he ran around Ohio campaigning on his loyalty to the past It won't be easy for him to lose this election but he could do it by backing into the future and being more IV v ! James loyal to the president than to himself Hubert Humphrey tried that in 1968 when he hated the Vietnam War but backed it in deference to President Johnson and lost to Richard Nixon This election unlike the last two is not likely to be won by personality and televised public relations Fortunately neither Bush nor Governor Dukakis is a Madison Avenue or Hollywood type They may be unexciting or uninspiring but both are competent thoughtful moderate unifying men which may be precisely what is needed after eight years of incompetence faction and ideology The vice president has benefited in greatly by his record as the White House former head of the Central Intelligence Agency member of Congress businessman and ambassador to the United Nations and China He claims fairly that this is what sets him apart But this is relevant only if he demonstrates that this experience has given him a vision of the coming age if he has one he has been remarkably quiet about it Among the central tasks for the fun ture are the restoration of a foreign policy the recruitment of a Cabinet and White House staff of talented men and women the control of nuclear weapons and the budget and tyranny in the world Bush could be expected as a result of his long public service to tell the country what he thinks about these things rather than defending Ed Meese who is almost as irrelevant to the future as Jimmy Carter co-pil- The Salt Lake Tribune m Dukakis may be expected to press him for answers to these questions and to come up with some answers of his own and at least he will want to have these questions debated fully later in the campaign — a prospect for which the vice president has shown little enthusiasm in the past Unless I misread the mood of the voters they are sick of partisan wrangling false promises of "Star Wars" security disgraceful budget and trade deficits alluring promises and phony proclamations that everybody's better off amid clear evidence of homelessness sickness and the decay of decency and plain speaking For eight years now we have had a government that has concentrated on public opinion rather than the public interest told the people what they wanted to hear and argued at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue that they could have what they weren't willing to pay for But the bills are coming in and the guess here is that the voters may be ready for a little creative common sense Fortunately Bush and Dukakis unlike the last two presidents at least are not tearing down Washington and blaming it for all the nation's troubles They know or should that the government is no better than the public servants on whom they must depend and that if you turn over the Justice Department to your brother or your personal lawyer or some other crony you'll get what you deserve The trouble in the campaign so far however is that the candidates are not really talking about these fundamental questions but sliding around them Admittedly it's early It's more than three months until the end of the nominating conventions in Atlanta and New Orleans! This is a long time to rely on kissing babies on TV but unless the people and the press ask tougher questions and demand some plain answers the chances are d they'll get the same old run-aroun- Soviet Forces Are Greatly Improved Special Features Syndicate America's defense establishment would be wise not to accept hints from Moscow that the Soviet Union's armed forces are considering going on the defensive and are prepared to cut their superiority in tank and artillery over NATO's armies in Western Europe as proof of peaceful intentions Intelligence services in Washington and at NATO show that on the contrary the USSR's conventional forces have improved steadily throughout this decade in almost every respect and are far better qualitatively in 1988 than they were in 1980 Moreover no matter what Mikhail S Gorbachev and his government want the West to believe Defense Minister Dmitri T Yazov wrote recently that it would be impossible to destroy an aggressor that is NATO through an effective defense and that Soviet forces must be capable of conducting "decisive offensive y Middleton There is as Secretary of Defense Frank C Carlucci has concluded a wide gap between Soviet rhetoric and reality This and future administrations must keep in mind that they cannot be certain about Gorbachev's tenure He may remain in office for another quarter of a century Or he may be ousted by a combination of hostile elements next month For America's armed forces the situation is particularly sensitive Whatever the outcome of the presidential election they can expect unless there is a severe international crisis that defense budgets will continue to be reduced Continued and perhaps more strident appeals to reduce U S forces assigned to Europe The Public Forum Tribune Readers' Opinion and behavioral problems within the Singer Saga I enjoyed the article in The Trib2 entitled "Tourist Tide: Waves of Misconception" I work as a tour guide in downtown Salt Lake City and the surrounding areas and have had many questions and comments similar to the ones in your article I have also had a couple of unique comments such as one from a lady from New Orleans who told me that it made her very uncomfortable to be surrounded by mountains for fear they would fall on her but it made her feel a lot more comfortable knowing that someone had gone up and cemented in the tops (pointing to some remaining snow fields on the tops of the mountains) Just last week I took a group of tourists to Heber City and one of them asked me where the Singers lived I said they lived near Heber City but I wasn't sure just how far away and I turned and asked the bus driver how far from Heber City the Singers lived He said "Well I think they live in Salt Lake" "No they don't" I said "They're there now but they don't live there" "Well I don't know then" said the driver "because that's where I thought they lived" Then suddenly the light dawned "Oh!" he exclaimed "You mean the John Singer family I thought you were talking about the Tabernacle une May classroom environment How will Jordan School District justify the fiscal "curing" of these students? Oh but of course it must be that the following adage rings of great truth and that a special education miracle occurred at the exact time that the district had to trim the budget: "We the unwilling led by the unknowing are doing the impossible for the ungrateful and have done so much for so long with so little that we are now qualified to do anything with nothing" It seems that is just what the kids will get — nothing RODNEY CLAWSON Forum Rules Public Forum letters must he submitted exclusively to The Tribunt and bear writer's full name signature and address Names must be printed on political letters but may be withheld for good reason on others Writers are limited to one letter every 10 days Preference will be given to short typewritten (doable spaced) letters permitting use of the writer's true name All letters are subject to condensation Mail to the Public Forum The Salt Lake Tribune PO Box 867 Salt Lake City Utah 84110 Choir" LYNDA SHIELDS Press On and Smile Well here we are in the midst of an educational cataclysm yet we are told to do more with less and maintain a "Pollyanna" countenance Just this week Jordan School District let it be known that they are cutting one "resource" (special education) teacher from each of their high schools and middle schools That is a total of 18 (19 if you count the alternative high school) teachers who 500 handiserve approximately capped students It has also been said that as a result of this staff reduction these 500 students will be returned to the "reg- ular" (mainstream) classrooms which have no special services for them Furthermore this will again increase the class loads of teachers as well as exacerbate the learning 1 and Korea and to close foreign bases may also be heard Before Congress wields the knife too deeply on defense budgets and too many people start shouting about bringing the boys home it makes sense to examine how the Soviet threat in conventional forces alone has expanded in this decade in everything from the number of field guns to the size of ammunition stocks for the forces facing NATO in Western Europe Eight years ago the conventional wisdom at NATO was that although the forces of the alliance were outnumbered by those of the Warsaw Pact the West's qualitative edge would drastically reduce the East's numerical advantage in combat The qualitative advantage Snookered Again Look out Utah citizens you're about to get snookered again It's interesting to see Gov Bangerter coming out for a tax cut Why now and why not back when the State Legislature was in session? I'm sure the call for tax cuts will soothe those who while favoring the tax limitation proposals were still undecided if they would vote for it I have no doubt that the governor's politically inspired show of compassion for the Utah taxpayer will be the death blow for the tax limitation coalition That's really too bad The citizens of Utah were one election away from taking control of their own destiny Instead they will defer in good faith to the "politics as usual" mentality that permeates this state TIMOTHY A JARC Layton r mm®®) (mm em M mi it A LriL f I TIMES m Let Moscow Bail Out Poland Chicago Tribune Service When Gen Jaruzelski sent his truncheon-wieldin- g security police into the Lenin steel mill outside Cracow busting heads and breaking the legs of Polish workers Warsaw's military dictator may have inadvertently bollixed up the latest Bolshevik bailout cobbled together by the Department of State According to Deputy Secretary John Whitehead the United States was about to become Jaruzelski's rabbi at the World Bank and the IMF at the very moment the thugs entered the steel mill We were about to help Poland win access to the Big Loan windows at both institutions The next logical step adds Whitehead would have been renewed US bank lending to Warsaw and "direct US government assis- tance" In his recent interview with the national press Secretary Whitehead's dismay shown through "The situation there in Poland is very sad We have to condemn the violence the imprisonments the beatings that are reported to be taking place" As for the basket of goodies put together at State for the general "all of these things are now in jeopardy" Unfortunate is it not that a little outbreak of Communist repression can interfere with the sweeter schemes of detente Will sanctions now be upon Poland Mr Whitehead was asked No he replied because sanctions "would damage people whose cause we are trying to support" Hopefully Mr Whitehead will make the same persuasive argument when Congress takes up the question of tougher sanctions on the Republic of South Africa which does not belong to the Warsaw Pact A dozen years ago the presidential candidacy of Gerald Ford was badly wounded by a statement attributed to a State Department official about it being in America's best interest to promote a closer more "organic" relationship between the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe Even Jimmy Carter scored points denouncing the "Sonnenfeld Doctrine" Now it would appear the Republicans have come up with a Whitehead Corollary to the Sonnenfeld Doctrine whereby the American taxpayer becomes lender of last resort to Warsaw Pact countries facing Chapter 11 Set aside for the moment the wisdom of propping up Poland's dictatorship and consider the politics With the total "Reagan deficits" exceeding $1 trillion with the Democrats denouncing the GOP for having "mortgaged the future of our grandchildren" does it make political sense to be enlarging the deficit by borrowing money to bail out the man who strangled Solidarity in its cradle? Perhaps Mr Whitehead can provide some useful language for the 1983 Republican platform to go under the heading "On Foreign Aid for the Evil Empire" Has the Department lost its institutional memory? During the detente decade we traveled this road it leads to a dead end Some $100 billion in Western government and bank credits went to the Soviet Bloc and Yugoslavia with Poland getting almost $30 billion And the whole vast treasure was lost either stolen squandered wasted or frittered away By the early '80s every Communist state in Eastern Europe Romania alone excepted was walking away from its debts Poland after the crushing of Solidarity defaulted cn its loans to the Commodity Credit Corp and rather than put Poland in default the Reagan administration transferred Jaruzelski's f Pat 2) - Buchanan"jt i j overdue grocery bill to the Americair taxpayer Why are we doing this )n4 IT iF ii I ra inn I 4 t '!?!"' 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V As we are routinely admonished the United States is the most heavily indebted nation on earth Why- go-"deeper into debt to bail out commu-??- J nism in Central Europe? If Poland is stagnating let it stagnate Surely as'u" the linchpin economic and military ally of the Soviet Union the zelski regime is Moscow's problem' ut not ours If the United States has billions ih: loose cash for Poland send it to Soliy ' darity to the Polish Catholic Church or to the centrist and conservative parties struggling to be free Why "1 send it to Moscow's puppet who will"'" use it to strengthen and legitimize " regime that does not deserve to be ' J strengthened and legitimized? Where is the fresh thinking at the Department of State? The Communist regimes of Cetf-tral and Eastern Europe led by such ' relics as Kadar Jaruzelski HusaV Ceausescu and Zhivkov are all headed for the garbage disposal of histfcvV ry They have no allegiance they( rule by force alone they are some of" the most conspicuous failures on tnfr" face of the earth Why is America v? coming to the rescue of the past --kzI siding with dead Marxist regimes- rather than with the people and th&'l future? How many times must we be - ! taught the lesson that you do not te'in'' the freedom of captive peoples bribing and appeasing their captors? Fred G Meyer I ' "MM r "Always think like today s Customer"! m motor-transpo- v mUAQtt m T-7- m M ir re- mains but it is by no means as great as it was in 1980 The Soviets also appear through improvements in the logistics of ground and air forces to be better organized to support and maintain military operations At this juncture the reader may ask: How do we know all this? Isn't it simply propaganda for more money on defense? The answer is that in this day of satellites and electronic surveillance not to mention human intelligence there is very little about a nation's military establishment that is not known The unknown is the intentions of the potential adversary Probably the most significant improvement in Soviet ground forces in this decade has been the modernization of firepower in armored and infantry divisions Today for example guns have replaced towed pieces and the number of guns in both types of divisions has risen The Soviets waited a long time before they finally began fielding guns but in the last eight years they have done a thorough job NATO faces and 152-mmortars howitzers and 240-mThere is also a 203-mgun that can land a nuclear or a high explosive round on targets deep behind an enemy's lines 2 and 4 The newer 0 tanks are now taking over as the Soviet main battle tanks although it should be noted none is as new as the American M-- l Abrams A still newer tank derived from the 2 with greater firepower and mobility is now being delivered Not only have the Soviets increased their ammunition stocks for the forces facing NATO but they have also made extensive improvements in storage facilities Several new depots have been built and the capacity of many of the old ones has been expanded The capacity for ammunition storage has doubled and construction continues Concern over logistics has also led to improvement of transportation systems in Warsaw Pact countries through which Soviet troops and supplies would pass to a front in Germany In addition large amounts of bridging equipment rail road and airfield repair materiel has been stored at strategic points behind the front At the same time the system within the Soviet Union has been modernized with the introduction of a newer sturdier truck the KaMAZ which owes much to Western technology The Russian military now hopes it has sufficient means to support operations without undue dependence on civilian vehicles This discussion has been simply about some aspects of the irmy When in the future we touch on the air force and the navy similar qualitative improvements will be noted The message for Americans is simple: Summit or no summit this is not the time to relax T-8- All 1988 11 Wednesday May I LowPrices& Shopping Each of these advertised items must be readily available for sale at or below the advertised price in each Fred Meyer 6tore except as specifically noted in this ad (KXJlCNGTNT) 4 J ' |