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Show Enterprise Review, January 20, 1 076 Page Eleven An Eagle Without Claws A Harvard research report disclosed that oil companies op- erating in Libya paid bribes to Libvian government officials and their relatives whenever the oil companies are threatened bv government delays in essential shipments, government customs clearances and various other skullduggery. on Multinational Corporations The Senate was reported by The L.A. Times as feeding newsmen profound questions alxxit how the U.S. might devise laws to police such international corruption. So far so good. Hut now listen to this: They are not, repeat not, upset with the foreign governments or their brothers under the skin, as it Sub-committe- e were. No siree. wants is the power to disWhat the Semite credit, fine and even jail the executives of companies who con customs of the corrupt foreign operate under the governments involved. Many years ago the same question arose when the government of the Barlxirv Coast successfully extorted monev from American merchants. Our governments response then was millions for defense, not one penny for tribute. Our government stopped the extortionate practices of the foreign government in question, and no one even dreamed about jailing the American merchant victims for international Sub-committ- ee graft-ridde- 12 million for not seizing your pipeline and 5 million for not telling your senate that you bribed me. So that's Dogmatics Pragmatic BARKER SENATE DES FOR by Kent Shearer hard to find, goes the torch song. That lyric rings true to A good man so now-a-da- ys is those of us, in either party, who have engaged in candidate recruitment. Any aspirant must run unclothed across hot coals through mass meetings, party conventions, primaries, and finally the general election. Those prerequisites eliminate the faint hearted, among which I count myself. They, at the same time, place a premium either on liare intestinal fortitude, or an unusually strong desire for public service. Frankly, I am surprised with the calibre of candidates the public received. Their faults, real, imagined, or invented, are magnified by their opponents. Blemishes are embellished. Caseous emissions are amplified, and, in general, any candidate places his neck on the proverbial chopping block. Thank God, however, that - despite these disinclinations - there are persons who - accepting the inevitable presence of formidable dragons that will tax spirit and soul - run. One such is Des Barker, president ot a Salt Lake City advertising agency, who proposes, as a Republican, to deny U.S. Senate reelection to an aging Democrat, Ted Moss. am convinced that Des has distinguished himself in at least three regards that his announced opponent, Jack Carlson, and his putative one, former Congressman Sherin Lloyd, cannot I match. First, party service. As an unpaid volunteer, IXs - along with Jake Cam and others - helped establish the Utah Young Republicans as a viable, visible force in the earlv 60s. He has been an invariable financial contributor to the party, and is the only aspirant who lias served on its state executive committee. In a professional capacity, he handled public affairs and communications for, among others, Wallace F. Bennett in 1962 and 1968.' Second, public service. Des has provided, again unreiinbursed, his considerable talents in this arena. I am especially aware of his partici :e cme? cw ID WORK FAULT. e&evnAc. service s - on committees as the only to upgrade the Utah judiciary. This sort of activity earned him loth the 1971 Meritorious Service Award of BYU and the 1972 Journalism Alumni Achievement Aw'ard of his alma mater, the U of U. Of import to some, including me, he is an armed forces veteran, in the American pation - non-lawy- er Naw, Third, business experience. Des had devoted, unlike his opponents, most of his lifetime to the pnxluction of taxable income, not its bureaucratic or trade association consumption. From his early days as a disc jockey in such wonderous liabitats as Twin Falls, he developed a public relations corporation that has few peers in Salt Like City. Des Barker is, lastly to me, a comrad of former lialtlcs; and if vou will, an old friend. For that reason alone, I shall participate in his Senatorial journey. For there is a greater goal. Ted Moss has misrepresented Utah for nearly 1 8 years, and its alxmt time that a guy like Des Barker will rectifv the lxilance. 194-4-46- . , vtwmw SOARS. IMPDSIRV CRIME SOAPS. BJtCJJKlBS. IHEMWE. CLASS &&K COM. EVACUATES. me ernes are MP5GS&&.TE- P- FffiM TbEBL- - AHERIi cetmm. prospers ' iu THE MADOFACTUEE OF FENCES AUP AfWMajrs aup SPY PLAUES AUP afcreooicTO sme SflOSDRS cm. AMERICA. pream. |
