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Show - -- -- C1,riburic Q:br 8. Thursday MorningMay q111 Nor i A m I9'A Section Page A - 14 . .1b Important Leadership Emerges With Governor's Lake Stance It was refreshing this week to see Gov. Norm Bangerter take a leadership position on the west desert pump- ing proposal. Sure. he had announced support for this important method of controlling the level of the Great Salt Lake several weeks ago. but he finally appears committed to the idea and ready to fight to get it done. The change in course was obvious during a meeting with supporters of the pumping project when Gov. Bangerter announced he was tired of receiving "back of the envelope" schemes for controlling the lake. "I challenge any persons with 'better' ideas to come to me with facts and figures. not rhetoric." he said. The governor said state engineers have looked at all of the options and concluded that only one offers hope of providing relief soon enough to be effective: west desert pumping. "I don't like pumping. Nobody likes it. But like henry Kissinger said. easy to make a decision he when there are no alternatives. said. Hurrah for Gov. Bangerter. It will take this type of commitment and aggressive salesmanship to convince skeptical legislators to appropriate the $55 million needed to implement the pumping scheme when they meet next week in special session. Any ambivalence on the part of the governor could result in the legislators shirking their flood control responsibilities and deciding to do nothing about the rising Great Salt Lake. Even with the governor's unequivocal support. its going to be tough convincing lawmakers to fund the pumping scheme. Gov. Bangerter is right when he says no one likes west desert pumping. lake-contr- ol its Water is a precious commodity in Utah and it seems such a waste to pump salty water from the Great Salt Lake into huge evaporation ponds rather than capturing fresh water upstream and putting it to beneficial use. But the problem is that northern Utah has much more water than it can possibly use right now. Developing a market for this water and facilities to move it to where there's a need would require many years, maybe decades. Solutions to the flooding are needed six-ye- pace. Not only has the United States suffered a major blow to its space science and technology esteem, the de- lays imposed by the necessary investigations and adjustments threaten catastrophic economio loss 77:1". A a.dideb,..... "Our quilt) control is out of control and product tailtlIT is at an inhigh. lticariN. thc rihing to do- is crease our adCillill4 htid40.all-tim- e , Alio r '' r l'. A.K3 V i IS" 1 " ''' la ? lar; ,. ' . i't4 4 '? 4,:,:, l ' , , . I ." . - 0010. 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This would reduce the need for costly maintenance work on the miles of dikes which now protect the mineral extraction industries. railroads. highways. sewage treatment plants and homes. Once the lake level has returned to an acceptable level. the pumps could be used to help keep the lake from rising so quickly again. There is no quick fix for the Great Salt Lake. Excess water can't simply be diverted into the Snake or Sevier rivers and it can't be drained into huge underground caverns. An extensive series of dikes would be too costly and too risky in this earthquake-pron- e region. The only reasonable solution, as Gov. Bangerter has so forcefully pointed out. is west desert pumping. Dr. Fletcher's Task For James Fletcher. the second tour as National Aeronautics and Space Administration chief is a far different proposition than the first. The United States Senate has at last confirmed his appointment. but that just starts an exacting process of "making good." When he became NASA administrator in 1971. Dr. Fletcher presided over one of the agency's more renowned periods. with mostly successful projects expanding this nation's confidence and capabilispace-ag- e ties. But a sequence of numbingly tragic disasters. severely damaging the program's reputation as well as shelving its scheduled payloads. finds Dr. Fletcher picking up pieces rather than laurels. And if the rescue mission wasn't chore enough. the reappointed NASA executive was by some senators grudgingly restored to duty. Testimony during committee confirmation hearings. claiming Dr. Fletcher's initial term as NASA administrator included agency waste and inefficiency. will surely dog his second term until performance refutes the implications. If the country's space program is to regain the momentum it had before the shuttle Challenger exploded with seven astronauts aboard. followed last week by the equally forlorn failsatellite-carryin- g ure of an Delta rocket. an immense reevaluation and modification task must be at a reasonably brisk achieved d AA' , 'V '' v A ,,g. IIEW , oTift , - ,,,, - i, The longer it takes to put NASA flights back on the track. the farther ahead competitor space carriers such as the British-Frencpartnercan gallop. ship From being a glittering star performer. NASA has fallen into dark. somber eclipse. Yet the already immense investment in its achievement. it's established purpose and remainh cant simply be abandoned. His experience. his standing as scientist. technical expert and executive. his knowledge of the NASA organization. its personnel and its functioning parts. made Dr. Fletcher a superb choice as President Reagan sought someone who could reassemble NASA as quickly and as effectively as ing potential possible. The reappointment did succeed on an 89-- Senate vote. indicating overwhelming Senate confidence in Dr. Fletcher. The man himself is too intelligent to underrate the workload he faces. But the former University of -Utah president has usually made with daunting obligations he's goodaccepted before. Chances are excellent he will again. 9 There should bt a breaking-Iperiod for peop!e about to go on ptsnston They could call t retirement Anti-Nu- Universal Press Syndicate -- anti-ruclea- r -- the movemcnts As it turned out. she was right I found self atch:ng. first with disbelief and then with disappcintment. as person al,.er rILISOn from the U S and European anti-nu- , :ear moements and by that I mean those against nuclear power as well as those against nuclear war - went on telev!stor, t:iat night. They were sair.?, nothing about the Russians deception or IA k it concern human safety arty,Ahtsre but just push-neLnts vehemence the samtthat nuclear power in the West must go That same week. the Methostist thishcps all good men. no question atvut that ut ,,tied not k,n1y against nuclear weapons ecn against the United States ha mg a nuclear deterrent' That this wouldi in effect . neutrali:e the entire Western world and allow tre So RI Union to Impose its wtll, 1. di,1 not sftttll to deter them in the Itist tht our potential oil is Tt ino7s0e tt,;t tt I, !7!' ;,!,.t:t! t Ls in bulletproof glass. like goldfish in Newspapers Knight-Ridde- r gun-craz- I -- e pro-Wal- let them be caught in a terrorist attack?" she said. Ridiculous? Maybe. But she's not alone. This is a town with a deeply pervasive case of Terrorist .'itters. The galloping Lis started three years ago and 3.509 miles away. The destruction of a Marine barracks in Lebanon showed the truck could wreak. havoc a dynamite-loade- d A late-nigbomb outside the Senate chamber hyped the TJ's. Inch by inch. Terrorist Jitters changed the way Washington looks and operates. Concrete barriers and flowerpots around the White House. Police cars in front of the Stat? Department. Many entrances to federal buildings closed. Everywhere. metal detectors Cabinet officers at cocktail parties with a cadre of bold guards. Then we dumped explosives on top of Moammar Khadafy's home turf and Washington went on a "gray alert: described by a police official as 'heightened awareness." Now the chief mandarins in the Senate and House have gone on their own terrorist alert They want to build their version of the Great Wall of China around the Capitol. They call it The Captol Complex Security Enhancement Perimeter. That's Washington gobbledygook for "fence: Envious of the wrought-irofence around the White House. they want one just like it around the Capitols 127 acres. All. but chat a fence. This baby would have infrared. seismic and radiation sensors. hydraulic gates. Delta barriers. police kiosks. mach:nes and closed-circucameras. g Throw in 12 dogs and more dough for 1.22 Capitol police (2.2 cops per congressperson). Somehow they left out a pod of Midgetman missiles. Total cost for the fence pardon me. would Security Enhancement Perimeter "Why should three-piec- suits. "You have to harden the target.- - said police chief Carvtno. We had 178 bomb threats last year, We.re vulnerable." Two Senate chieftains. Republican Bob l. Dole and Democrat Bobby Byrd. are But plebes in the House are sitting on the fence, so to speak. House czar Tip O'Neill grumbles. "I'm not enthusiastic; we've got enough security around here. "Tip won't be here next year," said Simpson sweetly "If you build a fence," said a reporter. 'aren't you admitting the terrorists have WASHINGTON You'd think the nervous woman was talking about downtown Beirut. where flying lead is an everyday San Salvador. Or Tripoli. thnll Or where bombs fall from the sky But she was talking about Washington. where so far the greatest danger is being struck by a myopic tourist's station wagon. She's a suburban schoolteacher who canceled plans to bring her 30 kids for a tour of the Capitol sights. Reasonable people take reasonable argued Simpson. pre- cautions.- OK. before hoisting a Great Wall. why not take -- reasonable precautionsr Along with tourists. lobbyists and reporters. IA hv not make thousands of congressional statiers. none with security clearances, go through magnetometer checkpoints? And given the fear of car bombs.. why not remove those 850 staff and member cars that make the Capitol look like a Kmart parking lot? Inevitably. I guess, in a violent climate. the Great Wall will win out Its a lousy idea whose time will come. - Otis Pike Yippee! Senate OKs Budget And Doesn't Even Blow Up ht News Service Nev.-hous- WASHINGTON It is hard for even the most avid of scorekeepers on the Cold War to be certain which of the superpowers is ahead. The Russians have managed to blow up one nuclear power plant, and we have managed to blo',v up three successive space shots. The Soviets give massive media coverage to our space failures. and we give massive coverage to their nuclear explosion. For a commentator weary of the daily compendium of what blew up yesterday. and casting about for some good news. it was cheering to read a headline on an editorial in Mondays Washington Post that proclaimed. "Hooray For The Senate." Hooray for the Senate. indeed. It did not blow up. It did not even blow too hard. What it did was pass something. Hooray for the Senate. Vhile this is indeed a refreshing change of pace from the normal fare, before we yell ourselves hoarse in tribute to the pinstripe-robe- d and blow-drcoiffed members of the nations most exclusive club. let us examine exactly what it was that they passed. What they passed was a budget. This is no small feat. to be sure. what with the president not merely dragging his feet. but out and out saying that their budget is not to his taste at all. They passed it nicely. better than two to one. with a majority of Democrats as well as a majority of Republicans voting "Aye.- But hooray? law. about Under the Gramm-Rudmawhich there has been so much weeping and wailing. Congress had to pass a budget resolution by April 15. That is the Congress. not the U.S. Senate. The House of Representatives hasn't done a thing yet. The Senate did not pass its version until May. Hooray? When the House does get around to it. and it may not. the House version will have to be reconciled with the Senate version. and that compromise will again have to be voted upon by the Senate. Members of both House and Senate are sort of hanging around waiting to see whether the Supreme Court. which has heard the argument already. will decide whether Gramm-Rudmais constitutional. n it y bomb-sniffin- be $13 million. Before the Great Wall rises. a hot argument is guaranteed from critics who wonder if a it will really add to the Capitols security and b how much it damages the image of a free Capitol Sens Alan Cranston. and Alan Si mpsen. . holding a press conference on the Capitol lawn with Police Chief Jim Carvino, think the Great Wall might allay n Terrenst Jitters l'It's the only way to preserve a symbol of democracy: said Simpson. "W eve got 25.000 p:,,ple a day. seven to ten million a year. cermng .rough here. We have to protect !hem Somehow I got the idea that protecting curists isn't top priority. One proposal floating around is to encase the House and Senate n Senate Majority Leader Hobert Dole. ftKan.. when asked about the possibility that the delay might trigger cuts under Gra mmHudrilati that would be really painful. replied. "We don't really worry until the the flames start coming under the door. Smoke doesn't bother us." The Senate passed its budget after tacks ing a couple of meaningless on it. Sen. Pete Wilson. offered an amendment to take $281 million out of the budget function that pays for congressional mailings and newsletters and spend it on research on AIDS and Alzheimer's disease. That is not an easy one to vote against. although Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici. pointed out wholly accurately that the money might never get transferred because for the budget functions out of which and into which the transfers allegedly were to be made each coYered hundreds of activities and senatorial newsletters might never be reduced. nor AIDS research crowd-pleaser- benefited. Nu matter. the Senate passed the amendment 95 tu 2. Hooray? If there is one senator w ho deserved the hoorays. it is Domenic i With patience. understanding. persistence and solid help from his Democratic counterpart on the Budget Committee. Lawton Chiles of Florida. he mothered the budget through the Senate When an amendment was a piece of fluff. like the one on newsletters. he said so and voted for it. He did that at 12 30 last Wednesday afternoon. When an amendment sounded marvelous. like an amendment to increase the funding for the Superfund to clean up toxic waste sites. but wasn't ever going to get spent because the money wasn't there. he voted against it. He did that at 3.50 p m. last Wednesday, When an amendment to add $633 million over three years for a verv pope ular program. the program. was offered without specifying where the money was to come from. he managed to be elsewhere when the vote was taken. He did that at 520 p.m. last Wednesday. He reappeared immediately after the vote. So a sort of quiet hooray for the. Senate. but a real one for Domenici work-incentiv- deep-throate- d Activists Should Point Finger at Soviets, Too ke New the WASHINGTON movements will finally have to react a4amist the So iets, too.- I told my assistant. Tam Mehuront on the night of the first reports on the nuclear disaster in Kiev This is going to a lot of things clarify -No.- she said thoughtfully. w hat it w:l: do Terrorism Fans D.C. De Fence The Reagan administration. even at its nost outrageous. dots something odd. By from the positing such a different plsition old generlly accepted "liberal- One and by r) 1....,....,i...... et Georgie Anne Geer i ' ...,i,,,, , If simply acting decisively. it often clarifies a reality. That has happened in the wake of the I.ibyan bombing Suddenly. terrorists and thelr fel:ow urravelers of society have unconsciously re ealed their networks as never tutore with their sordid strikes around the ,Aorld Now. it seems that. sadly. in the wake el the Russian nuclear disaster. both Amen-camovements and k:urorean have revealed themselves in srnilary tell- n r ing ways. They till. at heart. only ceneerne,1 of thelr own the L'gtalt atlq..wt of rnar,dni:, eletrenThey re tiU the d:tfereners hesitlo:t t,v:: f7ee ti.k i! Jrt s rcx,-.,.41!- their different relationships to nuclear power. Worst of all. they still are unwilling to show minimal courage in challenging the Soviet Union and its ways. That is particularly dangerous because they have come to know over the last year that the Russians have brutally stifled any genuine peace movement in their own country and have infiltrated the Western European one. And they ought at least to recognize. now. how little the Soviets cared about informing the world of the disaster and saving the lives of those folks who happened to lie innocently in the path of their mistakes. When one tries to analyze the "why" of these odd responses on the part of so many moral Westerners. it comes to a kind of ideological 'spiritual political brick wall The all is composed of many utopian bricks, for the people seem to think the best of all worlds is not a world of balance of forces and the deterrence of evil but of the lgood luck.). The mortar is abolishing of a mixture of guilt and And the wall is built on a base of geouine fear, fear of a world that is crumbling. I wish I could agree entirvly I rea:lv d I wIA I could be a utopian who bolio es that man is perfectible. But I can't The best I we arid it can be a vof, possible Or111, Intit:Ckt is a world In whwS anti-nucle- man's creative and destructive passions are balanced. a combination of love of the good and dogged deterrence cf the bad. Though we certainlv are not perfect. as a society and as a system IA e have built that balance and those constraints into our thinking and into our doing. The Soviets have not. not because they are monsters. as the Reagan rii:ht sees them. but because they come out of a deeply paranoid society whose history of barbarian conquerors overrunning them has made them fanatically sup' and maniacally secretive. My quarrel. therefore. 'A 1.1.1 the r movements. response ,or. to the Soviet atcclent is that the., hare done all of us a sertolis dIssen. ice b:, not chal!engtrg tte Soviets. no'v larly earlier They could hare &Ilittonal and povverful force tt,e sians into a more open w, rid they have ht:lpell them stay Cosed t gir mg them still anther eveu,t. blime d, always. the West. NUCfrar science is neVer going to be mantled and destroyed. But tt ATI con. trolled br free societies throi,gh Thert fore, it is a shame that tht. vitt nucicxtuocmcnts criticism IlAs hg,cr And vv.u-1,- e so tio:-ItroTt- mg to 1,A I to re...0 to that vvh;t h the ,r |
