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No That Would Be a Poor Plan King Features Syndicate WASHINGTON — Drug czar William Bennett has taken his first enemy fire It came not from the street-cornepusher in the ghetto hut the ivory towers of the intellectual elite That's right The first crowd to complain about the country's hot nest drug program formally unveiled this week was not the huddle selling crack on the corner but those highbrows who view cocaine as the harmless diversion of the trendy "Ivy League college students and suburban stockbrokers who smoke marijuana or snort cocaine on weekends" the New Republic declared this week "do not represent a na ' t tonal I Chris Matthews try-m- tions drug holocaust The with-i- t hip young bond salesman lawyer or who thinks he has a perfect right to score some "nose candy- - when he feels a taste for it: the Ivy League swell who considers himself' or herself immune to the laws of nature and man: the sons and daughters of the elite who consider beer to be hopelessly 'bourgeois' but thinks nothing of lining up a snort at their friend's apartment come Friday night Why should such culprits be brought to justice? Why should they learn the delights of having their mug shot their rear end slammed in a jail cell? Here's why: Because there are more than 8 million people in this country who've admitted using cocaine over the course of last year Only 10 percent of them are addicts Nine out of 10 in other words are people who can either take or leave the stuff Threat of an overnight stay behind bars a stiff fine and a criminal record should be a pretty good reason to leave it Because the elite upper-clas- s user injects millions of dollars into the drug market every day of the week millions of dollars to pay neighborhood retailers wholesalers ship- emergency' The influential magazine did not stop there "Tracking down and punishing people who have managed to reconcile recreational drug use with a fairly productive life" its editors observed "constitutes a waste of public resources" There you have it for the first time in print the American cultural elite has formally demanded separate treatment If the police catch some illiterate street pusher they should nail the dude But it' they should happen upon some Ivy League type some "swell" with the right academic and social credentials consuming exactly the same subwas selling stance that the low-lifthey should pat him on the back Better yet they should congratulate the fine fellow on being able to balance two careers: bond selling lavvyering or whatever on the one hand lawbreaking on the other What burns the elite about the drug plan is not that not that it's too ifs poverty-stricketough but that it fails to honor the distinction between rich and age-olpoor The plan is aimed directly at the culprits in the na e Bush-Benne- pers n pilots d rul42S1011 'Nu rximliz GO 9)W4( INLSOOM bS ‘foo gOOK cOmttNi MC r -r 8 osdal - Vre fil r Z- ' 2?- - 4NrAeQT-411- K - - 11 i N tot '' t - i) i 2- 40N a Z 9- 7r " ) ‘ ty i s t ' ii'' L ' ' I ' -- - )cc k ' q lk ttx 4444 I s ' 4' I :s cti)11 -) ' s sis s)1 I Is i ) t l 1 s Ail4r Tgoi '1 : --- - ' 1 ' Ii 1 i1 s I ii 4) 1 i" s s )1 t ' I i ''s ' I ' i ' “!' o' ' ' i ) 0 I 1 t y 't i Ill i I tis ' s 1 ' '' t i l - s t i ' s t i i ' ' t1welsTI Kiyoluku Chuma Asalii News Service Japan's overall defense capability has been beefed up through a series r 'Jr programs since the Forces came into being during the years of the Korean War One such program is the Intermediate-TerDefense Buildup Program for 13y five-yea- 1986-9- e C e d the ' ( Defense Intermediate-Ter- Buildup Program' This would be a significant develupment in Japan's efforts to beef up its defense capability For one thing most previous defense-builduprograms have ended without all its requirements fulfilled The fulfillment of the program — even if "almost e 100 percent of the requirements-armet — would signify the start of p - Li iciArt SAVINGS e 1 approved a senior US Defense Department official said on condition of anonymity that "when this program is realized Japans defense capability will take on a strategic - nature in terms of military powerThe author is an Asahi Shimbun editorial writer In the course of the current pro- gram updated l‘lcDonnell Douglas Eagle fighters became the mainstay of the interceptor corps Lockheed Orion antisubmarine In aircraft were also the next fiscal year when the finish-Japamg touches are made on the program the Defense Agency plans to guided-missilorder another Aegis-typdestroyer Developed for the US Navy the Aegis system is designed to simultaneously destroy a number of incoming missiles at high altitude In addition the agency has requested funds to buy 30 new tanks capable of speeds up to 43 miles an hour for the Ground Force The joint development of the support fighter an upgraded version of the called the FSX began under the current program In the next fiscal year hich marks the second year for this i pi 0 itr1 Hat 1' S X will lie g in a ttrial proilutlion 5 mass-produce- n e e L eememoo USs-Japa- n 6 L3 — i :(kr k 11 ( cr14 I' 4 sone 's Cabinet in September 1985 is designed to attain the capability first envisioned in the guideline e r ii :rf :' 41 M011 - ------ —1 I 1 "Id tikc to make a i -) Inzto--- sitabe ) deposit! institution than can lose billions to refund it mitt ttet Ihn gmernnw vertainh has ISO conriaelice— n aried Approach I've followed with great interest and amusement various forums concerning wilderness I can't help but notice the varied ambiguous approaches all take in order to conince me that these individuals have all the answers and in best interests at heart Congressman Wayne Owens states the economy id southern Utah can and will be saved by tourism dollars Yet these tourist dollars must come on foot or horseback not automobile RV or bicycle polAer The Forest Service seems to agree To accomplish this some roads in Forest Service areas are being obliterated to preserve the environment of rural Utah However the roads to be wiped out by the Forest Service are not really roads at all According to one Utah Valley resident these roads are nothing more than cow trails This 111 Valley resident follows his name vith the title Math Departmentapparently to lend credibility to his sage observations On rural Utah roads Who is right? limy can a road that isn't a road be taken out of circulation? Or whose definitions are going to decide what is roadless or not? I don't know but Fin told to relax because all of these details will be agreed to by a Congress that can't agree on anything except an annual pay raise Do not despair though through all of the theatrics that surround the wilderness proponents' camp Con- gressan Owens promises us that if ye place our trust in the ledei al government all issues vitt be Nvorked out for our benefit and well being ‘Vhat this means is that we are rec eiving the same promise that was given to our Indian brothers in the late I800s I guess that we have noth- ing to fear until the rivers don't flow the grass doesn't grow and the buffa- lo don't roam anymore DAVID WISE Orem e ernacular Prayer Elizabeth Phillips says in her attack on Geneva Steel (Forum Aug 24) that Joe Cannon wants to sacrifice "ottr economic well tieing" and "our health Most people in this valley know that Geneva has (mriched our "economic well heing' In the article which Mrs Phillips alludes to did it not state that Geneva committed to borrow and spend almost $400 million to conform to state and federal health standards and to modernize? She chides Joe Cannon for just one sentence in a article She stated that he prayed for higher pay for Korean steel workers and also for a weak dollar I concede that without background information this certainly could sound negative But the "prayer' comment was probably spoken in a vernacular sense It seemed so apparent that the main thrust was that Korean steel workers are paid just $3 an hour 700 percent less than US steel workers: tind the Korean industry has government backing It's a tough world out there In regard to a "weak dollar" she should consult with leading economists There are mixed views But apparently some government leaders have nudged the economy in this two-pag- - e - - ' - PAH 4 spending has surpassed 100 billion yen Though the battle plan has been formulated to attain the goal put Deforth in the Intermediate-Terfense Buildup Program the war is far from over Next year's defense budget request is in jeopardy of not being approved Pbecause the Liberal Demolost its grip on the cratic upper house of the Diet and is now e outnumbered by the ) 4 v 4- - ' : - ilt 411 — ' us LET ) ' z 4 daiof 1 P 1 ‘ 1 r '' '''''' Ity0 OJ P 12' P'ISCRIIIPTII(OMS FEILL Vi '' ' - : 1 ‘I: 1 I Yll MI - li IT RR A - d 141 lii - 40 " abii ' ie It 0 billion) Buildup Program approved by Prime Minister Yasuhiro Naka- - 0 Hoping to complete the buildup by the 1990 cutoff the Defense Agency on Aug 25 requested 417 trillion yen ($290 which starts in April 1990 The amount represents only about 1 percent of the nation's gross national product but the steady increase in defense spending has become controversial in a nation whose constitution bans war The request is an increase of 635 percent from the initial defense budget earmarked for fiscal 1989 But Hiyoshi chief of the agency's Defense Bureau said the money -would enable us to fulfill almost 100 perceut of the requirements of cl phase in Japans defense capability both in quality and quantity Japan's Defense Program Outline the guideline by which the current defense policy is based was formulated by Prime Minister Takeolsiiki' s Cabinet in October 1976 The existDefense ing Intermediate-Tera new holocaust A111- 111m- Political and Economic Scales Weigh Heavily on Japan's Defense Buildup - Forum Rules Public Forum letters must be submitted exclusively to The Tribune 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 (double 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 Jew-hater- i d ' ' io ' 'Ili ik ta - - f -- - - ') ' 1 ' l 's ''s 1 '1 ( 'A 't l i ll11 4 t- 4 0 ) Is c'-''- '‘- I 'A 's' s ' I - is :ts' s ''' s '' I t ' ' 1 ss ' I tl't - '1) ' c A f ) 's i 11 i t 'I 14'''1 i s' Zi't tt c ' ' -4 ' ' ' L - s I' 0 : v ‘ 17 -- — r- jc zriop1:-I '" tv1 2 4b - i --- - -- : - ittoe -- ' II''1 T7 411110 - MapIet Oil quasi-pristin- - 111 I BLAINE: The dispute over the existence of a Catholic convent just outside the fence of the Auschwitz death camp in Poland needs to be placed in a historical perspective The Sept 4 Tribtow news item "Cardinals Want Auschwitz Convent Moved' states the convent has become a source of growing tension between Roman Catholics and Jews in Europe and "Jewish groups say the convent and its Christian religious symbols offend the memory of the 25 million Jews who died there' Why are the Jews offended? Does the answer lie in the centuries of persecution that the Jews experienced at the hands of the Christian church? Are the Jews just being unreasonable in this instance? "Why The Jews?" a book by Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin outlines the similarity of antisemilic laws passed by both the Catholic Church and Nazi Germany Catholic an tisemitis m over the centuries is well known What is less known is Protestant antisemit ism Martin Luther one of the all time s and father of the great Protestant Reformation wrote a pamphlet towards the end of his life entitled "Concerning the Jews and In this pamphlet Luther proposed actions to be taken against the Jews These included: burn all VOLD n Christian persecution of the J eWS not responsible for the Holocaust perpetrated by Nazi Germany but it is apparent from these facts that centuries of Christian antisemitism laid the foundation for Jewish slaughter With this in mind it would be appro priate to remove the convent at Auschwitz from its present location 101IN MICHAEL EGGERTSEN Murray is profitable Olympic Base of ON 61NS 07 wriMENCAN C1-- ' a produce direction hoping that good will result Possitily because under our strong dollar- sve were importing some S9 billion every month in excess of our export sales Our economy was being mauled Cannon was one of the top four figures in the LIS Environmental Protection Agency The highest governMent officials are aware of his commitment to a clean en ironment and his dedicated leadership There vill always be different per ceptions and undercutting Rut I believe the informed Utah community knows that Joe Cannon's integrity is nassailable bo'r Games The Men and women chosen gave a year of their lives to the games and Yere obligated by law not to use taxpayers money In Los Angeles leaders were chosen who are financially independent with great internat ional influence: the top FBI manager for security men who had received national awards for their professional advertising and television work negotiators to deal with networks and nations along with men and women on committees with outstanding business ability With pressing needs for money in other areas especially education the people of Utah do not need yet another tax burden The first goal of the Los Angeles Olympic Committee was not to find out how much they could tax but how much they could profit by lode pendent and responsible leadership KENNETH ZIMMERMAN StkID VAAkT A23 1989 S September Opinion synagogues destroy Jewish homes forbid Jews to travel forbid rabbis to teach confiscate Jewish 111'v books forbid Jews to live by Christians force Jews to do physical la- Before anyone makes a decision to vote for the Winter Olympics in Utah they should be required to read -- Made In America" Peter Lleberroth's own story about the Los Angeles Summer Games While we have many great people in Utah there are only a very few who have the talent and capability to i IKOWJKAOM 1 9:- g The LA Example d armed Colombian awl) NA Tribune Header non-addi- guards all the way down the line to the fat dealers in the suburbs of Bogota Because nobody fears the humilia 1rida The Public Forum non of arrest and booking more than he bright young hotshot with a clean police record Getting busted is something that is simply "not dune in certain circles Most important because the roam "carrier- - of the drug epidemic is not the addict (People at deaths door make poor salesmen for the product that got them there) It is not some furtive character in a trench coat to sell drugs to strangers It is the you meet at a party the guy who convirees his friend to try this stuff The best way to discourage this "casual" user from fobbing the coke habit onto others is pose the threat of criminal prosecution not just for the professional pusher but for the generous amateur as well So here's the story: Like it or not the United States is currently involved in a wartime situation very similar to the one we faced in 1941 We've got to fight on two fronts We've got to spend our manpower and weapons fighting in two different theaters For FDR it was Europe and Asia For Bush it is the street corner and the Yuppie apartment party And just like in World War IL America has to decide where to hit first who to hit the hardest as quickly as humanly possible In an era of tight budgets we have to go for the biggest bang with our limited bucks This administration is betting that the crowd most sensitive to its new hard-noseapproach is the upwardcocaine sniffly mobile middle-clas- s er for whom an arrest record much less a day or two in jail looms as a extremely frightening prospect Based on the squealing and handwringings witnessed at the New Republic this week Commander in Chief Bush may have his gunsights trained on just the right target F r The Salt Lake Tribune ha: altri bgon to set ikutik iid e inereasortly greater funds for thc Itelynse 11tireao's research aml do elopownt projects For the next fiscal year the agency has requested 104 2 billion ell iS724 million) for 11&1) op 13 2 percent from a year It ill la the first lune li&I) di2J I about in mind the Finance Ministry may be forced to scrutinize the Defense Agency's request But it would be difficult for Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu's government to drastically reduce the demand in climate light of the that hangs over Congress Trade friction with the United States is too rious to think of defense and economics separately of the 417 trillion yen budget request 4416 billion yen ($3 billion) would be diverted to the Defense Fa- Agency for the maintenance of US military forces in Japan asserts that it would be simply impossible to share a greater burden unless the Status of Forces agreement based on the Security Treaty was amended But this assertion is hardly likely to convince the Bush administration All told the day might come when the treaty itself would have to be laid on the negotiating table Then there are some Americans who are gravely concerned about a buildup of Japans defense capability In the beginning the concern was exfar tent that Japan is concerned there is a need to consider sentiment both in neighboring Asian countries and the United States to say the least of vigilance against the Soviet Union With existing Intermediate-TerDefense IMildup Program coming to in tnd m the next fiscal year the gokernment has plans to initiate another program ni 11191I It is sure to have even greater impact on the Japiint'SC and other Asian countries And it will surely affect the strateI I gies of the United Slates and the So net I 'mon — j ll '' 111r1 '01biosim $ PRESCRIFMON COVERAGE PLANS HONORED! 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