Show e - 3 I 114 The Salt Lake Tribune r 1 Ii For Milthail I an Universal Press Syndicate NEW YORK — It was a wonderful scene at least that much of it that television let us in on Seated on the royal throne: Mikhail I founder of Gorbachevism And fanned out before him the distillate of American cultural prestige ranging from the director of the Library of Congress to Jane Fonda President Gorbachev had warmed them up with a impromptu remarks One must hope they were impromptu because if they were prepared they were miserably prepared wandering all over the lot His mood was genial and he lapsed quickly into the vernacular-didactic- : half-hour- 's Einstein addressing high school sophomores on the nature and habits of the fourth dimension See isn't something capitalism just usher in any more than just usher in a baby It takes nine months! So that all those protests here and there in the Soviet Union are to be expected because there are birthing pains Under you can you can The t IiIs Juillic William F Buckley - ei stand? The class nodded their heads and chuckled We then saw or read about recitals by class members done to catch the fancy of the king I saw Henry Kissinger who with that gift he has for total solemnity pronounced peace the most important objective n to which is half-tru- e and Dr Kissinger to be exactly that: All his life he has fought for peace with freedom The New York Times' Bill Keller wrote "Mr Kissinger reportedly recounted how President Nixon his former boss had been hampered in pursuing detente by hard-liner- s well-know- within his administration" These are words unquestionably misreported since what the Nixon administration primarily lacked was hardliners as Mr Kissinger's two books amply and eloquently document But there is no question that in closing standing at the lectern opposite the king Henry had a little lapse He said that he was "confident" that President Gorbachev would do the right things to bring peace to the world and then he said that he "hoped" President Bush would do the right things The presence of Mr Gorbachev is said to be hypnotic and Mr Kissinger has had several encounters with him But it was at least amusing at most disconcerting to hear our most original foreign policy thinker express within the bounds of a single sentence confidence that Soviet leadership would go in the right direction and mere hope that US leadership would go in the right direction Then we heard from Professor Palk Forum It Up Last week played golf on one of our city courses The clerk who took my money didn't ring it up on the cash register he merely put my money in the drawer A few days later I played a different course and the same thing happened Last year after noticing that the practice of not ringing up the green fees seemed rampant I called the city to inform the golf course management that they might not be receiving all of the income And as had been my experience with public officials on other occasions no one was available I finally spoke to a secretary and informed her of the potential problem The golf course may have some secret system of accounting for cash from the green fees However the basic purpose of a cash register is to ring up sales and issue receipts There is no acceptable excuse for not ringing up a sale at the time it is made Also it should be mandatory that each player be given a receipt This is my experience from playing courses in other areas and from many years in retail business DANIEL M SWAFFAR Misplaced Pride This morning's paper carried the story of a $66 million loan for a new sports arena downtown along with a large picture of Governor Bangerter enthusiastically proclaiming his civic pride He supporls the businesses of Utah Wouldn't it be wonderful to see this same burst of pride accompanying the headline "Governor Applauds Legislative Restoration of Cuts to People Programs" or "State Puts Poor and Digible as Top Priority" Attending celebrations with business and industry is politically cheap and easy The governor would do himself and the state of Utah proud by calling a spedal legislative session to address the needs of the poor Does he have the wisdom and compassion and courage to also support the least powerful citizens of his state? ROBERT L JACKSON Utah Alliance for the Mentally III God Help Them Forum Rules I am writing in response to an article that appeared in the local section of The Tribune on May 8 1990 The article was "Governor's Priority: Salt Palace or Mental Health'' In the article it stated that the governor said that he would give first priority to the Salt Palace over mental health I called his office as this is disgusting One of his people told me he was misquoted I have seen no retraction of this statement I understand that Utah ranks 48th in its expenditures for care of the mentally ill Would the state like to do away with all mentally ill and save what little they do pay? People who are mentally ill are human beings with rights and feelings like everyone else They do not belong pushed back in society or locked in a closet They deserve to live just like you and me They did not ask for this illness nor do they need to be punished for it To say the least to fund a building over a sickness certainly shows just how much this state cares I certainly hope that the governor never has anyone in his family who becomes mentally ill or God help them GORMAN REAGAN I Public Forum letters must be submitted exclusively to The Tribune and bear writer's full name signature address and telephone number Names must be printed on political letters but may be withheld for good reason on others Writers are limited to one letter of 300 words or less every 14 days Preference will be given to 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 AI Tone Down Zeal I concur with The Tribune's editorial "Religion Threatens Schools" The article contends that religion was originally taken from the public schools because the officials didn't know where to stop Yes religion has and continues to play an important role in world and local history philoscphy current events and culture Mentioning a particular sect in conjunction with its influence on a given situation or event is appropriate even necessary if one is to fully understand the topic at hand Teaching with a religious influence however I find utterly offensive The Utah Constitution states that morality shall be taught in conjunction with regular school work This is fine! The Golden Rule and the differences between right and wrong have been taught to youth for generations without the undue influence of religion being brought into the matter so too can morality! I think the time is overdue for some of our overzealous Utah citizens to relax and keep their "missionary spirit" in its proper CYNTHIA KELM e Cut Off Repeaters' Are your tired of tax money being spent to support unwed mothers? I am As a taxpayer seeing so little of my paycheck I can barely take care of my own I'm not referring to the "first-time- " young woman that finds herself in this situation I'm referring to the "repeater" Such a k i '''' t i-- 's oil-sha- man-mad- 900-degre- 175 years It may be unfair to finger Exxon alone Chevron Mobil Tenneco and Occidental were among the other oil giants angling to develop the massive reserves President Jimmy Carter had already declared the energy crisis "the moral equivalent of war" and signed legislation creating oil-sha- the government-backe- Synfuels d Corporation promising it $100 billion to develop all manner of synthetic fuels Virtually none of this ever came to pass After investing nearly $1 billion to build extraction facilities and its new oil town on Battlement Mesa near the town of Parachute Exxon ! Npeeairt cit Itwo -- - t abruptly pulled the plug on the whole project Oil prices were dropping OPEC atomizing The other oil giants soon withdrew Congress later put the Synfuels Corporation out of its misery territoAfter visiting the ry in summer 1980 1 chronicled the environmental costs that seemed apparent even at the start Two to four barrels of water would be needed for each barrel of shale oil So Exxon calmly suggested a water diversion project of incredible proportions-- three pipes to transfer (pumping uphill) 17 million acre-feof water from the Oahe Reservoir on the Missouri River in South Dakota 600 miles distant As for air pollution the Environmental Protection Agency was estimating that an industry would reduce Western Colorado visibility from 150-20- 0 miles on clear days to as little as 12 miles Denver 200 miles to the east would see its pollution increase 15 times Exxon's shale scenario I suggested might be "the ultimate example of the giant technological fix an idea on the shoals bound to cost overof the runs environmental disputes and bitter fights over Western water on May 2 1982 oil-sha- 10-fo- oil-sha- Brown-cloud-afflict- self-destru- rights" And now comes Andrew Gulliford an historian who lived in Silt Colo during the frenzy with a book "Boomtown Blues" (University Press of Colorado) It's an intrigus environing tale of the mental issues on the fragile western plains and especially the personal and community tragedies of the oil-sha- high-stake- people who found themselves caught cycle up in the fastest ever in territory renowned for it He recounts how in the boom stage job seekers flooded in: Workers often had to live in tents and even tepees O'Leary's Pub in Parachute opened in the fall of 1981 and by spring was selling more Budweiser beer than any other bar in Colorado Some 30 years' worth of municipal improvements such as schools and sewers were finished in just three years Reports Gulliford: "Rural communities previously characterized by the relative stability of farming and ranching economies encountered the disruptive elements of boom-towgrowth: drunkenness depression delinquency and divorce Then just when city planners school teachers social workers and county sheriffs had begun to stabilize and improve local life the boom towns became bust towns and thousands of the newcomers left as quickly as they had arrived" No one suggests Gulliford believed "any company even the largest corporation in the world could simply turn its back on a $920 million investment" But Exxon did leaving in its wake bank failures double-digi- t unemployment and a s rash of bankruptcies "Not a single plan existed for a bust of such epic proportions" the author notes All this may happen again: The United States is today more dependent on foreign oil than during the peak in 1973 At current consumption rates our supply runs out in 20 years — unless we tap oil shale No one's planning for the next potential onslaught — environmental and human — on the Western Slope The obvious answer is careful future planning So that when we next hit the energy panic button well at view of oil least have a clearer-eyeshale's costs and all possible alternatives Hopefully the June anniversary and Gulliford's book — will wake some people up boom-and-bu- it 10 public-relation- to mind that wonderful moment at Bretton Woods in 1944 when planning was being done to found the United Nations Already there was gridlock The Soviet Union with its usual subtlety wanted the San Francisco founding conference to begin on May 1 We were pushing for April 10 The wrangling went on for hours when finally the voice was heard of an assistant secretary from the British delegation lie was acknowledged and proposed the date of April 25 "Why April 25?" the presiding official asked "It's my birthday" said the secretary And April 25 it John Kenneth Galbraith commanding as always in style presence and altitude What he said was that he hoped to see a world order in which plural systems could coexist peacefully You have to remember that Professor Galbraith is more worried than Gorbachev about the survival of socialism Since the birth of socialism takes not nine months but 99 times nine months Mr Galbraith needs to be reconciled to the unlikelihood of socialism succeeding anytime during the lives of his grandchildren But Gorbachev was unquestionably reassured that JK Galbraith would not lead a war movement against a desocialized Russia The next episode was by all accounts the most charming It brought All his intention was to move on to the piano and play a medley combining the Soviet national anthem and "The Banner" But no! He said he wanted President Gorbachev to meet his mother Rildia Bee There were tremors of amused delight by the cognoscenti and the interpreter hesitated for a moment in relaying in English Mr Gorbachev's words Someone with a smattering of Russian thought he had said something like "That lady can have one of my dachas when she comes to visit" But that wasn't it at all though whatever one got through the interpreter was appropriately maternal perhaps a reference to the nine months of gestation that had been necessary for Van to be born with such skills d was The next person to approach the lectern was Van Cliburn and the guests must have wondered whether So What's the Real Gain in Summit Talk? Bush Still Losing Points in Home Trials Chicago Tribune Service WASHINGTON — It is axiomatic among politicians that summit meetings are political gold for presidents of the United States One inevitable result seems to be an improved standing in public opinion polls as Americans rally around their leader This has been the case even when things har gone sour at the summit The classic case in political lore was the hastily arranged summit meeting between President Lyndon B Johnson and Soviet Premier Aleksei N Kosygin at Glassboro NJ in June 1967 Although the summit produced nothing but a clear delineation of the stark differences between the US and Soviet Union on the war in Vietnam and the Middle East Johnson's stock immediately rose Johnson quickly patched together that summit — Kosygin was attending a session of the United Nations and Glassboro was chosen because it was at the halfway point between New York and Washington — but the gain he realized proved to be shortlived Within a few weeks of the summit his approval ratings had and the problems of skidded again selling his policy on Vietnam and confronting race riots in American cities were still there Nor should it be surprising that the poli ratings that grow out of summit meetings are more often fool's gold than the real thing Except in times when a particular crisis is being addressed — such as the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 for example — foreign policy questions don't have much direct bearing on the lives of voters or the decisions they make at the polling place That was never more clearly demonstrated than when President Jimmy Carter brokered a peace treaty at Camp David between Israel and Egypt without arresting his downward spiral in political strength ident generally is being accorded a level of approval matched in post World War ll politics only by Dwight D Eisenhower There are nonetheless some clouds on the political horizon that won't be dissolved by the glow of the summit with Gorbachev The most threatening are clearly economic The downturn in the Northeast has reached the level of at least a mild recession And there are visible signs of a downturn in the South and elsewhere The reports on automobile sales and housing starts are discouraging So despite his remarkable personal popularity Bush is becoming the target of increasingly pointed questions about the kind of leadership he intends to offer Although the federal deficit may seem a remote concern to most voters Bush is causing some unease with his strange approach of calling for a domestic summit on the issue then refusing to be more than a passive bystander in dealing with it Increasingly nervous Republi-- cans are saying — usually privately — that it is time for Bush to spend some of his political capital before it is frittered away The deficit aside there are also more frequent questions about the gulf between Bush's rhetoric and performance on such issues as education the environment and civil rights Bush's easy personPI style has carried him through the first 16 months of his presidency but not even his most optimistic supporters believe it is enough to sustain him for four years The attention that has been focused on the summit by the news media has been too intense to leave any room for other concerns over the last few days But the president would be making a mistake if he imagined anything has changed — other than perhaps the opinion polls ttr Jack W Germond - Jules A x Witcover 4 And that lack of relevance is certainly true of the summit between President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev The future of Germany may be an issue of genuinc significance but it is not what politicians call a "voting issue" at a time when everyone has begun getting used to the idea that the Cold War is finally a thing of the past There are of course few parallels between the situation of Lyndon Johnson in 1967 and George Bush today At the time of Glassboro huge numbers of Americans were taking to the streets to protest the conduct of the war in Southeast Asia and the racial situation was explosive Today most Americans are enjoying peace and prosperity and displaying a remarkable lack of interest in what happens in Washington or politics in general The only issue that seems to arouse any passion is abortion and except among a few zealots even that one has never reached the fever level of the protests on Vietnam Moreover Bush is an extremely popular figure Although his performance ratings have slipped a few points in the last few weeks the pres person should not be allowed to be a continued burden or society She should be offered some alternatives such as sterilization or birth-contrdevices I believe that people should be able to have as many children as they want provided they can take care of them properly If a young woman does not want to use the alternatives mentioned then she should not be allowed to receive any more public assistance JAYNE WOOD Don't Forget Shale Boom in Utah Colorado Washington Post Service WASHINGTON Don't count on s the already-besiege- d Exxon department to alert you But this June will mark the 10th anniversary of one the biggest corporate missteps of all time That's when press reports broke "white about the paper" to exploit the 500 billion barrels of oil shale that underlie western Colorado and neighboring Utah Later in the summer top Exxon brass jetted into the little city of Grand Junction on Colorado's remote sagebrush-covered Western Slope to stun an audience of 800 civic leaders with the details The scale dwarfed all prior plans corporate or governmental alike that had been cooked up to cope with the nation's severe and unnerving energy crises of the '70s Exxon said it would dig six monstrous pits in northwest Colorado's Piceance Basin and Utah's nearby Uinta Basin Each would rank high among history's greatest a half-mil- e e declivities deep 35 miles long 175 miles wide Total excavation of Exxon's pits would equal a Panama Canal a day Each pit would produce 1 million barrels of fuel daily from the crushe cooking of 37 ing and million tons of oil shale Each pit would require 22000 miners and 8000 refinery workers With growing production there'd be enough oil to fuel the nation's energy needs for 4 1990 Show From Sublime to Ridiculous Tribune Readers' Opinions Ring Monday June Read this and you could feel better for at least a years There's a Certificate of Deposit available at Valley Bank that just might eliminate some of your financial worries (For at least a year) It's a way to get a good rate of return on a safe secure investment in a solid stable bank The minimum investment is $1000 You choose the term from six months to one year As with all Certificates of Deposit there's an interest penalty if you withdraw early Call 0 for more information or visit any Valley Bank office A year from now you'll be glad you did - 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