Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday October 18 1984 fiTTABOVQO GET HER! v Childish rhetoric in ’84 campaign is embarrassing The presidential campaign is degenerating more vitriolic approach by the presidential and vice presidential candidates on both sides of the fence as the election draws nearer g The is increasing each day and the campaign is losing any pretense it may have once had of being a race between sophisticated politicians The whole thing is becoming a bit embarrassing Consider for example these recent comments from the We sense a OHHqHqHo! WHlNEoN MOONHWA HARVBT Jti ftlj HEY NANCY' FRED WON THE DEBATE! FUNNY LINE! name-callin- candidates: Mondale has said President Reagan has a "naive and primitive notion of national strength” Ferraro has suggested that voters should consider Reagan’s age Reagan replies: “I’m not really this old They mixed up the babies in the hospital" Vice President George Bush claims the Mondale-Ferrar- o ticket has suggested the Marines killed in Lebanon died "in shame” Mondale and Ferraro claim Bush “has distorted” the Democratic candidates’ comments on the deaths of the Marines in Lebanon and Mondale demands an apology from Bush Bush refuses to apologize and says "Mr Mondale and Mrs Ferraro can argue all they want they can demand apologies every day But the fact of the matter is accusing young men of dying without a purpose and for no reason is in the lexicon of the American people a shame” Mondale replies: "The American people see (in Bush) driver and somebody sort of like a political he’s hit us with a false chargeHe doesn’t have an answer and he doesn't have the manhood to apologize” The childish diatribes continue as of this writing and we suspect the meaningless exchanges will become even more caustic as Reagan and Mondale meet in the final debate of the campaign this Sunday We believe there are no excuses for such immature behavior and we hope the candidates will move quickly to "clean up their acts” and conduct themselves as mature professionals able and willing to discuss in specific ways the many important issues facing this country To do otherwise in our view is to insult the American people Crank pins doodads cause headaches hit-and-r- Letters to the Editor 3 i at age 80 Danile Callahan writing in the Hastings Center Report says: “A denial of To the editor: nutrition may become in the run the only effective way If Cache County changes its long to make certain that a large form of government the execunumber of biologically tenative would assume the ad- cious patients actually die” ministrative duties of the three Government commissioners and perhaps some if not all of the half-tim- e administrative assistant I fail to see how Mr Curtis Miner (Guest Commentary HJ Thursday Oct 11 1984) proves that this will cause any more litigation than the present form The other elected officials will perform their duties as they presently do Litigation is a scare word but sometimes litigation can be beneficial Because of litigation Logan has gone from substandard auditing and substandard fiscal procedures to an award of excellence The city has gone from indiscriminate buying selling and trading of city property to scrutiny and approval by the council through the budgetary process The means justified the end Mr Miner Cache County government should be managed as economically and businesslike as possible As you stated in 1975 “The present commission form does not lend to such an operation” Three high-price- d legislative commissioners with equal authority in management only adds to confusion and waste Carol W Clay Logan Death To senile” When highly-place- d politicians and professionals infer that our elderly have value only as manure for society's garden: advocate a fatal form of “mandatory retirement” suggest abandoning well-respect- slightly senile our grandparents and recommend deliberate starvation for those who refuse to act on their "duty” to die — then we should all be concerned Because while we’ve survived the prenatal period (when inconvenient people are aborted) we must eventually enter the senior-citize-n stage (when inconvenient people may be euthanatized) If you’d like more information I suggest you contact Right to Life of Utah PO Box 9544 Ogden Utah Joan Feltman Reading about the five French doctors now working to legalize euthanasia was like look at the getting a crystal-bal- l way we’re heading in this country For example the euphemistic "right to die” is widely promoted in syndicated columns women’s magazines and popular movies The dangerously deceptive "living will’’ is ” praised as a measure by the Advisory Council on Social Security The code is simply chalked in (often without the family’s knowledge) then swiftly erased at hospitals like "cost-saving- ng scientist Nobel Dr Francis Crick advocates compulsory death for everyone Prize-winnin- to "ethically permissible" withhold treatment from several classes of patients including those who are irreversibly demented or even "pleasantly 84409 the editor: Sloan-Ketteri- Colorado Gov Richard Lamm makes headlines (and wins the sympathy of national media) by stating that the elderly have not a right but a "duty” to die and thereby to serve as humus for the other plants And the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine publishes an article in which 10 prominent physicians insist it is g Quality editor: Former County Commissioner Marion Olsen's belief that it is the quality of those serving the public office not the form of government that makes for good government is a classic non CIA sequitur Quality people have always made for good government but it is the "form” of government that saves us from the occasional lemons Nora Slauson Logan I 13 Hall The Lewiston Tribune conclusion halfway through the process that the instructions are surely wrong But that’s rarely true Technically the instructions are correct They make perfect sense to anyone who has done it a few hundred times They are merely a mystery to people like me who have never heard of a crank pin — and are proud of it This process is complicated by instructions translated into English by people who are not fully fluent in English That is common for instance with Japanese products The alleged English instructions on Japanese products have a tendency to say confusing things like "Put screw at device side” Or “Attention: Never drag little lever before closing gear over blue wheat spindle He may break real big” Or "If device spark a lot consult electric wire person or you probably die” But the language is not much clearer on products made in America with the instructions written from the start in something that approximates English but doesn't quite achieve it For instance those instructions on door locks manufactured in the United States told me "Install reinforcer box and strike” I began the project thinking that strike is a verb thinking I should install eight-mont- so er later) The elder Rewald is now facing multiple counts of fraud for his involvement in an investment operation he claims was a CIA front In an exclusive interview Jim Rewald said he set out to follow his father's footsteps one night at dinner in the Rewald home A guest a CIA agent known as Richard Cavannaugh asked him "Would you be interested in collecting information students?” Young Rewald accepted on the spot "It t Jack Anderson Merry-go-rou- the reinforcer box and strike it to knock it into place That was after I figured out what a reinforcer box is It turns out that “strike” is a noun the name of something It's either the little metal box the door bolt slides into or the brass plate that goes over that I'm not sure which but I’m virtually positive it’s a noun and not a verb You install the strike along with the other doodad and you don’t strike anything My favorite instructions are the ones that assume I’m an idiot They include a little drawing of the device to be installed or assembled with lines pointing to various parts and giving you the names Then when they refer thereafter to things like the strike or the crank pin you can refer to the little drawing and see what they are talking about But most companies don’t do tha They figure everybody knows what a strike is Everybody knows what a crank pin is And eveiybody knows what a spade bit is The instructions on the box said all I would need were a few “simple tools” including a “spade bit” I’m not proud I went to a hardware store and asked They snickered a little because only women and a few dumb men don’t now what a spade bit is And then they told me that a spade bit is a long electric drill bit with a flat wide end on it that drills oversize holes It looks like a little garden spade — a spade bit A garden spade by the way is one of those big spoon-lik- e things you use in a garden to open up the dirt stuff to plant the seed things (See diagram next page or you probably die) BYU-Hawa- ii - WASHINGTON The CIA is apparently back in business on American college campuses less than a decade after it was slapped down by Congress for covertly financing student groups and paying youthful undercover agents to spy on campus “radicals” This time the CIA’s infiltration of academia may actually be legal under a 1981 executive order signed by President Reagan It allows the spy agency to collect "significant” intelligence secretly within the United States as long as the espionage isn’t aimed at the domestic activities of American citizens or corporations An investigation by my associates Dale Van Atta and Indy Badhwar indicates that from September 1982 to May 1983 the CIA paid a Hawaiian student to spy on foreigners at two colleges and a Mormon tourist attraction on Oahu If the student spy’s information was indeed “significant” the CIA got a bargain: He was paid $100 a month for his h undercover mission he said The young spook is Jim Rewald who was 19 when the CIA recruited him for work in July campus 1982 He had just been accepted for the fall term at Brigham Young University (Hawaii) in Laie Oahu Young Rewald also had impressive family credentials: His father Ronald Ray Rewald had earned 36000 by spying on students for the CIA at the University of Wisconsin in the early 1960s (It was this sort of domestic espionage activity on college campuses that led to the congressional crackdown on the CIA a decade or on See LETTERS on page Bill behind spy on cloak-and-dagg- Ogden To the I’m not one of those dips who never can understand the instructions on how to put something together I’m one of those dips who can’t understand the instructions until after I have finally figured out all by myself how to put something together The instructions kind of come clear after you have been through the assembly process Some vicious power has decreed that those who have the language skills to write instructions can’t tell an engine from a broom handle And those who are competent in mechanical matters are not competent in language — in writing instructions on how to put some gadget together But competent or not the blacksmiths often write the instructions for their own products And their principal failing in writing instructions is that they take far too much knowledge for granted They assume for instance that everyone knows what a crank pin is I was replacing a worn dead-bo- lt lock on the front door the other day and the instructions warned me that not only should my bolt be extended but my crank pin "must’’ be on top A thing like that can upset a person if he doesn’t know what a crank pin is When they start throwing around words like "must” you can be pretty sure that you better keep your crank pin on top or you could be badly hurt After considerable trial and error I finally figured out what the crank pin is: It’s that thing up on top when you have the round thing in the right posititon Most people who have trouble putting something together will come to the nd campus ternship program in Parliament and Rewald’s handlers evidently foresaw a bonanza in House of Commons gossip from their young spy Alas! It was not to be His father’s investment business collapsed at that inopportune time and young Rewald's CIA career came crashing downwithit CIA-connect-ed was my chance to start with the CIA before I left college” he explained "They had known I wanted to join the agency for a couple of years” Young Rewald signed a contract His n "control” was a agent CIA some the case officer was reason For posing as a Japanese named Tadao Suzuki — in the one state where such an ethnic masquerade would likely be spotted by the population large Japanese-America- n For his 3100 a month Rewald was assigned to keep close watch on six visiting students from the People’s Republic of China The CIA wanted information and current photographs Rewald diligently clipped articles on the Chinese students from the college newspaper surreptitiously snapped their pictures and tailed them to the Polynesian Cultural Center a tourist attraction next to Brigham Young University-HawaHe also obtained college computer lists with details on the Chinese students’ activities by telling the registration office he was working on an English paper Once he said he rifled the office for further information After one semester at BYU Rewald transferred to Chaminae a Catholic university in Honolulu Suzuki was delighted by his recruit’s ecumenical enthusiasm The CIA had about all it needed on the Chinese students at ii and the agency had never had a man in place at the Catholic school The pickings proved to be slim though and Rewald's interest flagged “I thought it was important work” he said "But after a while it seemed sort of ridiculous” Still when he decided to pursue his studies at a university in London England in the fall of 1983 he dutifully notified Suzuki The London school had an in Chinese-America- ii BYU-Hawa- STRICTLY PERSONAL: I’m astonished at how many experts there arc on food stamp fraud A startling number of readers called or wrote to protest the answer I gave in a recent Taxpayers' Quiz I claimed the food stamp program lost a billion dollars a year from fraud It has now been impressed on me that I was wrong Although the government “overissues” a billion dollars a year in benefits not all of this can be called fraud Much of the waste is caused by human and computer error My critics make another point: While the Agriculture Department overissues a billion dollars worth of food stamps with its right hand it underissues 3250000 with its left So the total amount of the waste is food-stam- p 3999750000 If this makes you feel better it doesn’t comfort me Whether the money is wasted e or embezzled it’s still bucks — What does Geraldine Ferraro think of her hometown? She gave her views in a letter to New York Zoe trope Inc The company is working on a book commemorating the 300th anniversary of Queens NY and will quote its most celebrated resident “The exciting thing about Queens is it’s a big city but it's also a small town” wrote the Democratic vice presidential nominee She recalled that her first teraching job was at Public School 85 in Astoria (Queens) After she became the first woman elected to Congress from the Borough she had fun “bumping into some of my old students — second graders who now had families of their own” bye-by- O 1914 United Feature Syndicate mr |