Salt Lake Tribune | 1989-09-07 | Page 16

" 4wih 1 i - ZWi"12Rit---tilitoctiogi- S z11:tI fake Tiiitibune 'qThe Thursday' September --- s --itp - Section Page 16 A -- 1‘01: - War Needs National Enlistment Anti-Dru- g All-O- ut 4 IA For instance while Colombian cartel "war" against drug abuse as gangsters get rich from cocaine profits t'resident Bush declared Tuesday night passing this kind of prosperity along to then every concerned American must farmers growing coca plants in Peru and Bolivia those countries suffer from enlist in the campaign That may mean for taxes govresulting inflation but more to the expanded paying higher ernment efforts it may mean devoting point from reduced foodstuff production Bolivia always poor could usually more time and resources to involvement feed itself But even that is now doubtby private voluntary agencies but certainly it means a realization that "casual ful as more of its agriculture turns to use" is far more harmful than such usraising the lucrative coca leaf ers think Assuming the "casual user" can do without cocaine the current situation Administration spokesmen includczar William Bennett conrequires such abstinence whether ening forced law shifts Bush the firm that by stark fear of exposure or the strategy enforcement emphasis to finding and realization that it isn't worth gaining pleasure at other peoples' expense disciplining recreational cocaine customers It's a timely tactic Not that curbing demand this way is war does the sole answer "All-out- " Quoting Colombian President VirgiIBush Tuesday night mean greater mobilization on all fronts JO Bare° Mr better police work against the supplistressed the complicity in worldwide necnot who ers while of Americans improved education about the harm crime in drug abuse expanded treatto are cocaine addicted responlurking essarily sible for the substance being sold here ment for addicts alleviation of economic social and political conditions which in enormous quantities Since that is "weekend" cocaine foster narcotics use and trafficking true since users are as fully to blame for deadly Serious questions are being raised underworld narcotics trafficking as about the adequacy of only a $79 billion confirmed addicts they can't be issued "war" effort against a domestic enemy a pass through the looming battlefield already so entrenched and apparently Mr Bennett's proposal is to make pervasive President Bush says the tools exist that he's merely providing the life considerably more risky for the "casual users" — to arrest them prosecute heretofore missing strategy But those them fine them heavily embarrass and long in the trenches mayors and goverhumiliate them publicly — no less than nors throughout the land while praising federal initiatives contend the resuch condemnation is called down upon sources envisioned are pitifully short illegal drug labs street peddlers and orIs this to be "war" like the late Lynganized crime bosses So be it But there also ought to be a way to don B Johnson's war in Vietnam — reasonboth guns and butter bought without fiappeal to the still Amerof nancial ableness of this particular part honesty such as higher taxes? An unwinnable "war" that is one ica's population Just as former declared national emerfought on money borrowed to the edge of economic disaster? gencies enlisted the freely given assistance of sensible Americans The Republican administration and Democrat-lecountrywide Congress are obliged to President Barcos mentioned only make the crucial decisions Americans one part of the story generally are prepared to expel the narcotics marketing in the United drug menace from their midst Finally States not only spawns murderous the country's politicians seem to understand that but if they insist on playing crime — the kind now tearing his coun— it profoundly disrupts politics with the crisis the war will be try apart lost before it ever begins economies i ? lb kz 14 41h" t ill-o- g d Ever-expandin- g d Send Things Not Troops an people It would be quickly seen as Since President Bush said Tuesday night the United States would consider requests from other countries for military assistance in the global -war" it was a relief to know that Colornbia for one isn't overdoing such petitioning Colombian Defense Minister Oscar Botero has already promised We can face this challenge alone- The "challenge" of course is the enormous Colombian war against drugs and the drug cartels installed in that beleaguered Latin American country : The ability of Colombia to "go it alone" in its battle against the drug traffickers obviously will be reinforced by the Bush administration's dispatch of ( million in US military equipment $65 and other aid to Colombia and by the president's plan to quadruple military add law enforcement assistance to the " Andean region next year as a on a $2 billion inn program : That is where American efforts on behalf of Colombia's war against narcotics should end: material aid but no significant commitment of US troops To date augmented American military personnel for Colombia has been drastically and prudently limited to 100 military trainers Assignment of additional US people to Bogota would be unwise politically and diplomatically The US public while supportive of the materia' reinforcements for the regime of Colombian President Virgil lo Barco isn't ready to send anything resembling the force that former President Reagan sent to Grenada Any large scale escalation of active US military presence in Colombia even if invited would be an affront to the Barco government and the Colombi : one more case of "Yankee imperialism" Also suppressing Colombian drug manufacturing and trafficking is a law enforcement task not a military assignment It is a job for cops not soldiers anti-dru- g American troops are simply for such a job However US military equipment can play a productive role in helping Colombia rid itself of the drug dealers their processing plants and plantations This is what President Bush so far has sent to Colombia and it's all that should be sent The 80000-maColombian army is ready and with the aid of US equipment undoubtedly capable of finding and destroying illicit drug headquarters and factories Colombia's own criminal investigators have already been quite effective in locating and seizing the assets and properties of drug lords including weapons cars yachts motorcycles and aircraft n "down-payment- drug-eradic- The US equipment including planes helicopters small arms ammu- nition boats and communication equipment will go a long way toward blend- - ing military high technology with civilian efforts to stem the flow of marijuana and cocaine from ColombiL as well as Peru and Bolivia into the United States If the Colombians are going to make effective use of this sophisticated gear those 100 US military advisers are nec- set-vic- e r 7r4VANAJ - 1Irio Vim '4- essary They will help Gen Botero quickly and effectively redeem his pledge that "we can face this challenge alone" But any prudent US effort to help Colombians battle the drug cartels will be restricted to sending things not troops - -- (- il'S011'-----4tp- J d — - e 14'4' - - 0 ' -- J - - 42':i:e11 ! 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I said "Well when they got married he was Captain Mark Phillips and now 16 years later he's still Captain Mark Phillips You'd think he'd be at least a major by now He must be getting fitness reports that look like my junior high school report cards" "I don't think he's actually in the Army anymore" I said "Of course try to look at it from his point of view" Charlie went on as if I hadn't spoken "He comes home from company headquarters after work He's had a bad day There was nobody to bomb — " "He was never in the Air Force" I tried to interject "I think he was a cavalry officer in the Dragoon Guards" " and his sergeant-majo- r has somehow forgotten how to stomp his feet before he does to leave the room the way the an about-fac- e in the movies always English sergeant-major- s do it This sergeant-majo- r salutes and then e does a sort of that just drives Captain Phillips up the wall I mean it's as if Phillips has been assigned some old 'audeville hoofer instead of a regular English sergeAnd every time the sergeant-majo- r ant-major is reminded that his stomp has gotten kind of dainty he says 'Mustn't disturb the chaps below sir' even though the company headquarters is on the ground floor "So Captain Phillips gets home and all be wants to do is take off his boots and have a drink and relax and have a nice dinner and try soft-sho- leave-the-roo- can-open- Calvin Tril lin I t to forget about having this sergeant-majo- r who can't leave the room without doing 'Tiptoe Through the Tulips' on the way out But there's his wife at the door saying 'Guess huswhat! Prudence Poofingham-Thistle'- s band just got promoted to Lieutenant Colonel!' And she pronounces it 'Lefftenant Colonel' in that snotty way just to rub it in' -Charlie all English people pronounce it You used to say that Nigel had pretty much the same IQ as his saddle and now just look where he is I bet they give him plenty of people to bomb I bet his sergeant-majo- r just s when be about shatters the "And she says Poofingham-Thistl- floor-board- leaves the room' "Look Charlie Mark Phillips is not in the Army He's got some sort of business that has do with horseback riding" "So she says 'You might as well just resign your little commission and go start that dude ranch in Surrey you're always talking about'" "Charlie" I said "It's not a dude ranch They don't have dude ranches in Surrey" "And of course the dinner is burnt" Charlie goes on "Because you know a princess is not really brought up to cook In the palace she always had a courtier to open a can of blunt-speakin- k‘JA14ft I to Cry Thomas Gorey g d now-famo- court-ordere- d pro-nose- :e11 Rep Frank it seems did not want to know what was going on in his apartment until the landlord's second complaint forced him to deal with the issue That doesn I necessarily mean that Rep i'rank approed of Goble' call-boBut ignoring real' operation doesn t entitle Rep Prank to now cry woei me over how Gobi(' used his apartment 41 ' 7 " ' Goble for his part charges that Rep business He Frank did know of his call-boin Washington that the contold WUSA-Tgressman would call before leaving his Capitol Hill office to make sure he didn't interrupt anything asking "Can I come home now?" Rep Franks explanation of why he hired a male Prostitute as a $20000-a-yea- r personal aide also strains credulity The congressman maintains that he wanted to wean Goble away from his trade to a better way of life In so doing the five-terlawmaker said he wanted to show that he was a liberal who cared for "particular individuals" as much as "humanity at large" Rep Frank compared himself to Henry Higgins the fictional aristocrat in George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" who tries to transform a cockney waif into a well-bremember of English society "Thinking I was going to be Henry Higgins and trying to turn him Gobiel into Pygmalion was the biggest mistake I've made" Rep Frank said at his press conference Just why Rep Frank thought he — after buying Gobie's sexual services — could serve as a role model isn't exactly clear But regardless if Rep Frank ended his sexual relationship with Goble before hiring him as a bona fide aide as he insists then the congressman should have issued him paychecks or withheld Social Security taxes as required by law Rep Frank did not and his assertion that he considered Goble "a consultant" can only be dismissed as laughable Gobie it should be noted has disputed Rep Franks characterization of his alleged duties as a chauffeur and housekeeper which he calls a cover for their sexual relationship Gobie told WI:SA-TV- : "I drove his car because I didn't like the way he drove it I was a better driver" Rejecting the housekeeper label as "ridiculotLi" Goble said "Anybody who knows me knows I don't do windows Anybody who knows me knows I don't do my own dishes never mind anybody else's The only housekeeping I did was making the bed up for the next client to come over" Rep Frank preempting what a Republican colleague had threatened to do has asked the House ethics committee to determine whether he has broken any House ethics rules The Massachusetts Democrat predicts he will be cleared he presumably feels that fared with a choice of accepting his word or Goble's the committee members will believe colleague To discredit his accuser Rep Frank can rohie s criminal record arid the prostc y flesh-sellin- g d f I) e Frank Isn't Entitled Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON DC — During his nine years in the House Rep Barney Frank DMass has earned the reputation of being one of the chamber's most liberal most and brightest members But the savvy Harvard-educatelawyer's claim that be was taken advantage of by a male prostitute isn't convincing Is Barney being frank? Rep Frank who publicly acknowledged his homosexuality in May 1987 has admitted hiring male prostitute Stephen Goble for sex in 1985 He then paid Gobie out of his own pocket to work in the capacity of he claims a housekeeping aide and driver Rep Frank insists he didn't know that Gobie had been using his Washington apartment for prostitution during periods when the congressman was out of town He asserts that once he found out that Gobie had been doing just that — about 18 months later in mid1987 — he fired him Yet by Rep Frank's own admission at his Aug 25 news conference it took two complaints by the landlord about Gobie's suspicious activities before Rep Frank acted Why the congressman doubted his landlord's initial complaint makes no sense Rep Frank already knew Gobie was a convicted felon on parole The lawmaker went so far as to hire a lawyer for the putative aide pay for some of his psychological cowl- seling and write letters to Virginia parole officials on congressional letterhead stating that he had hired Gobie Furthermore Rep Frank concedes that be didn't expect Goble would go "cold turkey" and stop his prostitution immediately But despite the landlord's original complaint despite Gobie's criminal record and despite his recognition of Gobie's unreformed character Rep Frank has cast himself as the victim of a con " He f Gobiel was just taking advantage of me- Rep Frank asserted at his press conference " The guy had a perfect setup lie was in charge of keeping my house clean he He would had keys to my house you know know when I was leaving town and would drive me to the airport He would know when I was coming back Ile had absolute security" Rep Frank long knew of course that Gobie enjoyed this "absolute security" Appropriately enough he said he told Goble once convicted of cocaine possession that no elrugs were permitted in his apartment But the congressman said it never occurred to him to tell s Gobie not to engage in prostitution on the soup for her anytime she wanted it All she had to say was 'Cream of Mushroom' or 'Spring Garden Vegetable and this courtier had a pot on the stove and the just " whirling away I don't think courtiers "And right through this burnt dinner there's Anne nagging" Charlie said "She's talking about how Portia Rimplesnitt's husband is a colonel and even old Trevor Carstairs-Spod who everybody knows still sleeps with his teddy bear is a major She's telling him that just about everybody in the country has a higher rank than captain Laok at Major Gray's Chutney! Look at Colonel Bogey's March!" "Those are not real people" I said "And Captain Phillips has had about enough" Charlie went on "All he wantl to do is finish dinner and go off to shine his boots and spend some time on his hobby which is rhyming Dragoon with words like croon and moon and June But try to see it from her point of view I mean she's absolutely right about what a piddling little rank captain is "Just take a look ai some of the doormen they have over there in London — the ones who wear those dress uniforms and all of those decorations like they're off to watch Emperor Hirohito surrender or something Some of those doormen look like they're at least colonels When I'm over there I salute them half the time Which is hard for therm because its not easy to 'alute back when you're holding a door" "Charlie" I almost shout "Mark Phillips is not in the Army! If he were in the Army the Queen could just promote him" -Exactly my point" Charlie said "And while she's at it she should get him a sergeant-majo- r vvho knows how to I11 stomp" Woe Is Me' tote's mercenary admission that he wants to be a successful author like the "Mayflower Madam" But Rep Frank can't understand why anyone would even doubt his version of the story The dismayed congressman whose intelligence is only exceeded by his arrogance said: "It didn't dawn on me that people would believe him Goble" Rep Frank insists he has not broken any House rules: he may be right While the lawmaker has broken the District of Columbia's laws such and lawbreaking does not constitute in and of itself a violation of House rules The ethics committee composed of SIN Democrats and six Republicans will not be passing judgment On Rep Franks homosex uality The congressman's constituents of course tan do that at the polls although the have already Rep Frank once since he ''came out of the closet But the ethics committee must examine the legal issues involved in Rep Franks solicitation and employment of the prostitute his knowledge of his activities and whether the congressman's conduct has brought discredit on the House The ethics panel formally called the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct will be taking up three other sex cases this fall has been accused of Rep Gus Savage sexually assaulting a Peace Corps volunteer in a car when he visited the African nation of Zaire last March Rep Donald "Buz" Lukens has been found guilty in an Ohio court of contributing to the deliKuency of a minor by having sex with a girl Rep Jim Bates has been accused of sexual harassment by two women who used to ork on his staff All four sex cases merit the attention ot the ethics committee on which Rep James V Hansen serves The panel depending on its findings could recommend santtions against any or all of the lay makers ranging from a reprimand to expulsion from the House Rep Franks case has attracted the most notoriety thus far partly because of his homosexuality: partly because he consorted v Oh a prostitute: and partly because his sharp mind and acerbic remarks have made him one of the better-knewpoliticians on Capitol Hill Rep Frank may survive the ethics committee inquiry or he may be punished by the House: whatever happens his credibility has been damaged The congressman in acknmk edging his homosexuality in 1987 said "-I don't think my sex life is relevant to iw- Job- But sexual bw havior is part of a pohticians character and voters usually insist on deciding kt lid icr someone is morally it to hold office Former Sen Gary Hart found that out dor mg his run for the prestdency Nwt Rep Frank 111r1 threc other House members kW see him the sohlect Affects their polittcal r II 1 I '4 I d II 1: I :: ti 1 AI i I Is 4 tt Al tun 1 t AS!!1Jq471PivtPO'kAlkirNdirrMm'oVINNti!t4rp241 orfmnrrmolive t I "