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Selling 'em the rope
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Paul Harvey
Gainesville Daily Register
Donald W. Reynolds, Chairman of the Board
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Register photo: Gainesville
beauties at TCU, Miss Ann
Kinne and her sister, Dorothy,
prepare to enter the Robert
Carr Chapel at TCU. They are
the daughters of Mr. and Mrs.
W.B. Kinne, 302 Hird. The girls
are freshmen.
already are plunging deeper
and deeper into direct debt.
They owe us nearly $40 bil-
lion, up from $22 billion in
1984, and they are dipping
into Western credit markets
at the rate of nearly $800 mil-
lion a month, now being sup-
plied by the Japanese and the
Germans, who are eager to
foster this expanded trade.
U.S: officials have even begun
suggesting that it is time for
the Russians to join the World
Bank and the International
Monetary Fund, which are
funded in a large part by U.S.
taxpayers.
In pursuit of detente during
the 1970s, the West made
huge amounts of credit avail-
able to the Soviet bloc at low
interest rates. Everybody
“knew” that loans to commu-
nist countries were virtually
risk-free, since such countries
were “efficiently” (dictatori-
ally) run. It was also believed
the credits would help foster
political reform.
Not only have the Eastern
European nations not paid off
their loans, they rolled back
the little political reform that
was allowed during the 1970s.
In Poland, members of Soli-
darity who took the reforms
seriously paid with their
lives. There is no reason to
think it will be any different
this time around.
President Reagan should
bring Verity and his rope-
sellers home. If American
companies want to do busi-
ness with the Soviets in non-
critical goods and materials,
we can’t object. But they
should get cash on the barrel-
head for their products and
not ask taxpayers to bail
them out if things get tough.
Subsidies will only reduce
the pressure on the Soviets to
open up their economy and
liberalize their political sys-
tem. There is little enough
prospect that true reform
will take place. There is al-
most none if the West subsi-
dizes their current ways of
doing business.
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OPINIONS
— Gainesville Daily Register—
(Reprinted by permission
of The Detroit News)
Warren G. Flowers,
General Manager
Eric Williams, Managing Editor
David Scott, Advertising Manager
Floyd Ferguson, Circulation Manager
LOCALLY OPERATED MEMBER
DONREY MEDIA GROUP
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’ NEwS EEVICE
4- © 1988 by NEA, Inc.
Lenin once boasted that
when it came time to hang
the capitalists, they would
sell the Soviets the rope with
which to do it. U.S. Com-
merce Secretary William
Verity seems determined to
^fulfill that prophecy.
Even .as Congress was de-
bating penalties against
Japan’s Toshiba Corp, for
" selling propeller technology
to make Russian submarines
quieter — an act that may
cost U.S. taxpayers $10 billion
in countermeasures — Verity
and his crew of rope-sellers
are lusting to open up the
floodgates for trade with
Moscow.
We have no quarrel with
selling the Russians grain,
pizzas and even PCs. We can’t
think of any better way to
bring true glasnost to the So-
viet Union than to arm every
Russian home with a personal
computer and a modem. It
would make control of infor-
mation almost impossible.
But selling the Russians
our more advanced high-
speed computer technology,
especially such things as the
super high-speed RISC chips,
which can be found in some of
the advanced PCs, is too
much. And asking the taxpay-
ers to subsidize that trade is
scandalous, considering what
happened when we tried that
in the early 1970s.
The Russians, to be blunt
about it, have little to offer in
exchange for our trade. With
a total annual hard currency
income in foreign exchange
of less than $30 billion, or
about one-quarter of the an-
nual sales of General Motors,
there is no way the Soviets
can purchase $10 billion a
year from U.S. companies, as
Verity reportedly hopes. They
will need Western credit to do
so. At this very moment, for
example, U.S. Agriculture
Secretary Richard Lyng is
making irresistible cheap
deals with the Soviets on
grain, which is now driving
up U.S. food prices.
The Soviets have only three
products they can export:
gold, oil and weapons. They
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Register photo: Clean-up
campaign gets going full
strength today in the last week
before the city-wide pickup and
to emphasize this, Mrs. Jeri
Milburn does her share of pick-
ing up the litter. Unless every
citizen does his share, the
Clean-Up Paint-Up Fix-Up
effort of the Civic Pride Council
will fall flat.
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Register photo: Moving day
arrives for Mrs. Nancy Brown
arid Dean John Henry Parker of
Gainesville College. They are
shifting their offices into new
quarters at 1121 Lindsay St.
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Register photo : On the job
training is gained by Texas
Christian University students
who put out the Gainesville
Daily Register today. Dr. War-
ren K. Agee and Dr. Max R.
Haddick are advisers. On the
staff are Lee Roy Grimsley,
Galyn Wilkins, Barry Stephen-
son, George Anne Bennett,
Alice Buford, Frank Perkins,
Linda Major and Richard Tip-
ton.
Corporate capitalism has been standing, each new management unemployment benefits for dis-
criticized as an efficient system but was an improvement over the one placed workers.
a cold one, inconsiderate of the in- before. A more specific example':
dividual worker. And I believe with each GM shut down the Janesville,
Recently, a spate of takeovers “overhaul” the consumer has been Wis., pickup truck plant because
and mergers has left thousands of served better. the factory was antiquated and the
workers — including management- But again — many innocents suf- imperfect product was not selling,
level executives—in limbo. fer in the cross fire of a corporate The entire work force was offered
Two years ago there were eight takeover. two million hours of training for
supermarket chains competing for with most unions gelded or erod- employment at the new truck plant
customers in Southern California, ing, merging American industries in Fort Wayne, Ind. There the same
Today there are seven. Within are able to maneuver and manipu- people are now producing what
months, as Vons swallows Safeway, late with minimal organized resist- most industry analysts acclaim as
there will be only six. Next on the ance. "the best pickup truck in the
block are Ralphs, Lucky Stores and But time and again, experience world.” The product of the new
Boys’Markets. has demonstrated that excesses, plant is already sold out for the en-
Retailers, involved on or affected inevitably, are their own undoing, tire year.
by store mergers, are fighting for Industry’s “robber-barons” of two This demonstrates an “en-
their own jobs and for those of their generations ago misled us to the lightened selfishness,” if you will,
employees. brink of anarchy until they were Our nation’s corporate leaders
Changes and consolidations ere- themselves fettered by restrictive now have an opportunity to demon-
ate opportunities and unemploy- legislation. strate magnanimity or callousness
ment in almost equal proportion. An old automobile after enough — and history says they will reap
Unions hate the upheaval; years and enough miles isn’t worth whichever they sow.
competitors fear it. repairing anymore.
No place more than in Southern Automobile factories also outlive
California is the grocery industry in their usefulness, but when General
upheaval, but the resultant prob- Motors elected to phase out
lems there parallel problems 68-year-old factories and build new
everywhere. ones — sufficiently efficient to
While I could not presume to “ex- compete in the world marketplace
pert” the problems and prospects _ GM calculatedly offered re-
for this industry, I have had first- training, relocation and/or early re-
hand experience with half a dozen tirement to long-term hourly
changes in ownership of the broad- workers.
casting network that employs me, in closing the Norwood, Ohio,
and I can say with certainty that, assembly plant the corporation set
inevitable displacements notwith- aside $100 million in supplemental
By MIKEORSBURN the astral ether yourself. Yes, I’m work it off. You work it off by doing once upon a time you used to be who they used to be. I have it on keep them open Did you just close
Register Columnist talking about you. good deeds, but it takes a long time Cleopatra. You’re probably a big good authority that the IRS is mak- them? Good vou are now hvnnot-
Boy, am I enlightened. I said that You see, MacLaine believes in re- to work off all your karma. So long fan of Liz Taylor’s, too. ing a real effort to find out if there is ized.
to my wife the other day. I said, incarnation. She believes that you that you can’t do it in a lifetime, or Of course, every other person who anybody with unpaid taxes from a start with what ever age you are
Boy, am I enlightened.” and I and anyone else has lived even a dozen. Sometimes it takes believes in reincarnaton thinks that previous life. (be honest!) and count backwards
• esaid, “Oh, you lost some many lives here on earth. several lifetimes to work off credit they were Cleopatra at one time. So, if you find out you owe taxes with everv number vou will be a
We 8ht: She likes to drop little Now, if I were you I would be a card debt, too. The rest of them think they were from a past life, at least you would year younger. You will think as vou
hints like that. little skeptical of someone who has Anyway, that’s why you get re- Napoleon. have time to hire a lawyer and did at that time and remember
5 Ut no, I haven t lost weight, carrot juice and tufu burgers for incarnated. So you can come back Either there was more than one make up some real good lies to tell things you haven’t thought about in
what I did was read Shirley lunch, but she says our souls live in and work on it some more. If, at Cleopatra, or somebody is trying to the auditor when he corned calling. years.
MacLaine’s book, “Out on a Limb.” a human body until it wears out, some point along the line, you get all fool somebody. What I’m going to do, to help you When you get to zero vou will be
Hound this old planet is a lot more then they go back to the astral ether your karma worked off, then some- But this reincarnation business is remember your past lives, is to back in the astral ether before vou l
com plicated than J had at first until a new body comes along. It’s thing else happens to you. I don’t kind of exciting when you think hypnotize you. I saw this particular were born. Now start counting/
thought. I used to think the most like what we do with automobiles. know what that is, but if it happens about it. I mean, your next door technique used in a movie called, negative numbers. That will take
complicated thing in the world was The reason all that happens is ka- to you, you’ll probably know. neighbor could have once been Geo- “On A Clear Day You Can See For- you back to your previous life,
the new simplified tax code, fol- rma. Karma is sort of like credit Now, I know what your thinking, rge Washington. Has he ever ever.” Some French guy did it to if you don’t remember what
lowed at a distant second by the card debt. You know about that. “If I’ve lived hundreds of lives here chopped down any of your trees? Barbara Striesand, and she re- negative numbers are call vour old
space shuttle. You put that little piece of plastic in on this earth before, how come I That could be a clue. membered a past life where she got high school math teacher. He’ll
Now I m told there are a lot of your wallet thinking you’ll just use don’t remember any of it. There’s no doubt in my mind that burned at the stake or something. I probably be glad to hear from vou.
spiritual entities floating around it “just once” for something you Good question. The reason is, you Jimmy Joe Sparks used to be Geo- figure if it will work in a movie, why Well I guess you’ve gone back far
out there in the astral ether, really want and the next thing you have poor physical memory. Ac- rge Patton. I think I used to be not in a newspaper. enough. When I count to three vou
They re waiting their turn to come know, you owe $200 at the interest tually, when you were a baby, you Albert Einstein or possibly Elvis Here’s what I want you to do. Go will wakeup.
down here and inhabit some bodies, rate of 25% compounded semi- did remember floating around in Presley. to a dark room, as dark as you can Oh one more thing; Everytime
I think something like that hap- hourly. the astral ether as a spirit. Have you I think the guy in charge of the get it. Then sit down or lie down and you hear a telephone ring you will
pene d.in " „nvasionof the Body Karma sneaks up on you like that, ever known of a baby crying for no Marine barricks in Beruit used to be make yourself very comfortable. sit down write out a check for $100
Snatchers.” I think Donald The bad things you do add to your apparant reason? Well, the kid’s George Custer, and I think that Are you in a dark room? Good, and send it to me in care of this
Sutherland got zapped in that one. karma. Suppose you get up one upset because he’s back in a human Ronald Reagan, George Bush and now pretend that I’m standing in newspaper.
But, I’ll bet you want me to tell morning with not a bad thought in body and he’s going to have to start Ed Meese used to be Larry, Curley front of you swinging a pocket OK. One two three wake un ’
you what the astrel ether is. OK. I the world, really planning on being working for a living again. That’s andMoe. watch on a long chain. I hope the hypnotizing worked out
don’t know. I don’t know where it is a nice person for once. Then when all. But now, you are probably asking Keep your eyes on the watch, for you. If it didn’t there’s another
located either. There are some you go outside to leave for work, you But many times a person’s sub- yourself the question, “How can I Your eyes are getting very heavy, way you can find’out about vour
things you’ll just have to find out for notice your neighbor’s dog is curled conscious does remember living find out who I used to be in past Count backwards from 10, and with past lives You cna talk to a sniri_
yourself. I do know that astral is a up in your drive-way and you can’t those past lives. Suppose you mar- lives?” each number pretend you have tualentity. •
French word meaning, "guillible." resist giving it a good swift kick, ried some guy named Mark An- Well, your lucky because I think I taken a step down a staircase into a Next week I’m going to have a
Anyway, Shirley MacLaine says Well, you just added to your karma, thony. You think it was just an can help you. And I think it’s pretty deep blackness. real spiritual’entity live right here
you have spent quite a bit of time in So what that means is, you have to accident? Not hardly. It means that important for everyon to find out Your eyes are so heavy you can’t in this column ’ 8
_ History today-----
- By The Associated Press In 1971, Amtrak began oper-
Today is Sunday, May 1, the 122nd ations, taking over passenger ser-
day of 1988. There are 244 days left vice from the nation’s railroads,
m the year. , . .
Today’s Highlight in History: Today’s Birthdays: Actor Glenn
On.May 1,1960, the Soviet Union Ford is 72. Actor John Beradino is
shot down an American U-2 recon- 71. TV personality Jack Parr is 70.
naissance plane near Sverdlovsk Actor Dan O Herlihy is 69. Author
and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Joseph Heller is 65. Former
Powers. Imprisoned for espionage, astronaut Scott Carpenter is 63.
Powers was released by the Soviets Singer Judy Collins is 49. Singer
in 1962 in exchange for a Soviet spy Rita Coolidge is 43. Singer-
captured by the U.S. songwriter Ray Parker Jr. is 34.
On this date: Jockey Steve Cauthen is 28.
In 1967, entertainer Elvis Presley Thought for Today: “The tragedy
married Priscilla Beaulieu in Las of love is indifference. ”—W. Some-
Vegas, Nev. (They divorced in rset Maugham, English author
_ 1973.) (1874-1965).
Jaycee-Ettes met Friday even-
ing in the Demonstration Room
of the Texas Power and Light
Co. and elected a corps of offi-
cers. Mrs. Louis Stephenson,
who served as temporary
chairman of the new group was
elected president; Mrs. Cli-
fford Lumpkin, first vice-
president; Mrs. Bob Davis,
secod vice-president; Mrs. Don
Woodruff, third vice-president;
Mrs. Ed Magee, secretary;
Mrs. Ben Turbeville,
treasurer, and Mrs. Lloyd Rid-
ner, reporter.
“Well, what good quotes have you attributed
to me lately? Hey — just kidding, Fitz!”
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