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OPINIONS
Gainesville Daily Register
Thurs., June 30,1988—3A
William Bwcldey
Many points to consider as Pentagon situation unfolds
30 years ago
Editorial
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S&Ls are dreaming
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authritis and insulin-dependent
diabetes mellitus. An injury two
comes a technical question that is
relayed to competing manu-
facturers. There is already a prob-
lem — namely, that not many
manufacturers produce certain
items meeded primarily by the
military. (For instance, there are
only two manufacturers of hard fuel
of the kind used by most rockets.)
A Pentagon technical consultant
having advised one or more manu-
facturers of what is desired, the
manufacturers now go to their pro-
duction people and come up with
working estimates of how much
they need in order to produce the
new landing wheels at a profit. The
same consultants with whom they
were in touch now evaluate the
plans proffered by the manu-
facturers and make recommend-
ations to the decision-makers
within the Pentagon. Assuming that
two manufacturers are ready to
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Donald W. Reynolds, Chairman of the Board
charity and
peoples.”
Barbecuing meats sale at
Safeway: round steak, 85 cents
a pound; sirloin steak, 79 cents
a pound; T-bone steak, 89 cents
a pound; chuck roast, 49 cents a
pound; crown roast, 53 cents a
pound; short ribs, 29 cents a
pound; bacon, 59 cents a
pound; ground beef, 39 cents a
pound; franks, 49 cents a
pound. ’
Twenty-four Girl Scouts from
Gainesville and Whitesboro
and their three leaders, Mmes.
George Villers of Bowie, W.W.
Davis of Whitesboro and Geo-
rge D. West, city, returned
home Friday afternoon from a
ten-day encampment at Cam
Laird West near Athens. The
three patrols, composed of
eight girls and a leader, rep-
resented the two counties of the
Cross Timbers Council.
When darkness obscures the
scene on the municipal course
tonight, battle lines will have
been drawn for Friday’s open-
ing round of the Gainesville
Area Golf Tournament. Qual-
ifying actin was climaxed on
the course today and linksmen
will line up their respective div-
isions for* the Friday opener.
Miller Barber, Pertin Field
hotshot, was expected to have
been included in a large list of
qualifiers that swarmed the
Gainesville golfing grounds
today.
traffic cop?
There is considerable resistance
on this point, given that we come
quickly to know that there are more
policemen minding those particular
beats than mind the Combat Zone in
Boston. The figures come pouring
out: 1 million hours of testimony
before 5,000 congressional sub-
committees, producing 1 trillion
pages of testimony.
What about the second possible
vulnerability? It is that of “the sys-
tem. ” There has got to be something
wrong with a system that yields
such a harvest of malefactors. What
is it? How can one avoid putting a
consultant in a position to do so
much damage unnoticed? And
haven’t we, in the past dozen years,
added safeguard after safeguard to
avoid the system’s doing this kind of
mischief? And by the way, which is
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On this date:
In 1859, French acrobat Emile
Blondin crossed Niagara Falls on a
tightrope in front of 5,000 spec-
tators.
In 1936, Margaret Mitchell’s
novel “Gone with the Wind” was
published in New York.
In 1952, “The Guiding Light,” a
popular radio program, made its
debut as a television soap opera on
CBS.
In 1971, a Soviet space mission
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supply the unit exactly to speci-
fications, then the award is going to
go to the lower bidder.
It is at this moment, we are to
assume, that the consultant goes to
one of the two manufacturers and
whispers in his ear what is the bid of
the competitor. Given his knowl-
edge of this, the producer shaves a
nickel from his projected estimate
and that way lands a billion-dollar
contract. One assumes that a bu-
ndle of those dollars are awarded to
the consultant, to compensate him
for — for what? Well, let’s leave it
for his unethical act.
2) An inflamed political comm-
unity now casts about trying to sort
out its complaints. These are in
three parts. There is, to begin with,
a criticism ad personam. How care-
less were the monitors on the spot?
Was it primarily the fault of the
By The Associated Press
Today is Thursday, June 30, the
182nd day of 1988. There are 184
days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
Twenty-five years ago, on June
30,1963, Pope Paul VI was crowned
the 262nd head of the Roman Cath-
olic Church in an outdoor ceremony
at St. Peter’s Square. In a homily
delivered in nine languages, the
Pope said he intended to encourage
“greater mutual comprehension,
the competing system that is obvi-
ously more nearly foolproof ?
The third problem has to do with
human nature. Casper Weinberger
is quoted as saying that there are
Concerning the Pentagon busi-
ness, a few observations:
1) If for the past 10 days you had
been so fortunate (as I have been) to
be removed altogether from the
news of the day and, returning, had
immersed yourself in the ac-
cumulated papers, columns, maga-
zines and commentary of days gone
by, you run into mystifying impal-
pables. We know that a number of
people in and around the Pentagon,
in the course of performing double
services, did unethical things. We
wonder exactly what.
It appears to be generally con-
ceded that in many cases, if not
most, the same individual needs to
advise both the manufacturer and
the Pentagon. If, let us say, the Pen-
tagon’s research team desires stif-
fer landing wheels for aircraft
carrier fighters, then just how
much stiffer these ought to be be-
In 1985, 39 American hostages
from a hijacked TWA jetliner were
freed in Beirut after being held 17
days.
In 1986, in a 5-4 decision, the U.S.
Supreme Court ruled that states
could outlaw homosexual acts be-
tween consenting adults, even in the
privacy of their own homes.
private companies compete for
public business — are we on the
whole likelier to find honest brokers
among Democratic appointees?
3) Inevitably, the political point
will be handled, and manhandled. It
is probably safe to say that there
are two general vectors of graft.
The one is the straightforward theft
kind — phony up the figures and get
an extra 10 percent. The second is
the oblique kind — vote to maintain
a useless military installation in
your home district so as to keep
your constituents happy. It is not
absolutely obvious which of the two
character deficiencies caos the pub-
lic more, though offhand one
guesses that Tipp O’Neill cost the
republic more in useless ex-
penditure than Ivan Boesky.
Warren G. Flowers.
General Manager
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avoided.
Rep. Charles Schumer, D-
N.Y., responding to the loss
predictions, told The New
York Times, “This makes
clear that taxpayers are
going to have to bail out the
thrift system one way or an-
other, and we ought to do it
sooner rather than later.”
Schumer’s colleagues are
divided on that very question.
So far, they have settled for
piecemeal efforts — legisla-
tion that’ wouldextenda one-
year moratorium barring
thrifts from leaving the Fed-
eral Savings and Loan Insur-
ance Corp. and going to the
financially more secure Fed-
eral Deposit Insurance Corp.
Meanwhile, industry ex-
perts predict that the $10.8
billion in new borrowing au-
thority Congress provided the
FSLIC last year will not be
sufficient to solve all the
problems.
Schumer is right about who
will bail out the American
thrift system: Taxpayers will.
But we should take the time
to do it right.
Doing it right will involve
re-regulation of the industry
and insistence that S&L exec-
utives do some self-policing.
They should craft and enforce
a code of conduct that would
establish standards for the in-
dustry. Only then, should we
even consider joining them as
“partners in the American
dream.”
Anyone could lead her remi- weeks ago left her with greatly dim-
niscencegroup,butlcantakeherto inished range of motion in the left
the old homestead on Route 33 and knee. I am a registered nurse; I
—-------History today
ended in tragedy when three cos-
monauts aboard Soyuz 11 were
found dead inside their spacecraft
after returning to Earth.
In 1971, the 26th Amendment to
the Constitution, lowering the
minimum voting age to 18, was rati-
fied as Ohio became the 38th state to
approveit.
In 1977, President Jimmy Carter
announced he had decided against
production of the B-1 bomber, say-
ing it was too costly. The B-1 was
later revived by President Reagan.
In 1982, the time limit for the pro-
posed Equal Rights Amendment to
the U.S. Constitution expired, with
proponents falling short of the three
additional states needed to ratify it.
peace between
help her find the spot where the
house stood.
Anyone could react kindly to her
accusations of theft, but I can guide
her gently to the bottom of her
sewing basket where the “stolen”
brooch is hiden.
Any nurse could report her needs
to the physician, but I can explain
and perform her new treatment in a
way that gains her cooperation and
preserves her dignity.
Any nurse could give her her
weekly B-12 injection, but I can
offer her a bit of autonomy by
allowing her to choose where and
when.
My client is over 80 years of age
and has been a resident in my
extended-care facility for four
years. Her family doesn’t come
anymore; her spouse departed this
earth nine years ago last March.
Her bank account and property are
gone. She is on public assistance,
which she finds humilitating. She
suffers from hypertension, ar-
teriosclerotic heart disease,
bad men engaged in every enter-
prise. One finds them in the Su-
preme Court, in the White House, in
the Pentagon, in Congress, and in
the priesthood. But observers are
entitled to ask: Isn’t this a rather
dense collection of bad men, if the
figures are correct, that dozen of
presumptively honest Americans of
executive background have been
engaged in cheating the govern-
ment? And a subordinate question:
Is there a presumption that the sin
that drove these gentry to crook-
edness is more distinctively a Re-
publican than a Democratic sin? In
other words, if we find that we can-
not readily change the methods of These are matters to reflect upon
supervision, or the system by which as the particulars come in.
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May I yield my space today to
Linda Hatke Ruholl, a ger-
ontological nurse at Van Dyke Con-
valescent Center in Effingham, Ill.
Anyone could ambulate her, but I
can position her bunion pads so each
step causes less pain.
Anyone could provide nourish-
ment, but I can make sure her diet is
low in sodium and high in the pot-
assium her failing heart needs.
Anyone could give her a bath, but
I can arrange to keep her out of the
shower she hates because the water
gets in her ears.
Anyone can buy toothpaste, but I
can go to te only shopping mall in
town that carries the tooth powder
she has used for 53 years.
Anyone could record her blood
pressure, but I can recognize that a
systolic over 200 mm means she
needs to rest this afternoon.
Anyone could change her linens,
but I can note that her special
afghan is clean and positioned at the
foot of her bed.
Anyone could try to cheer her, but
I can perceive that no mail today
means she doesn’t feel like talking.
have been in the field 20 years. Sev-
eral years ago I returned to school
to sharpen my skills and broaden
my outlook.
My client is considered a non-
productive member of society by
some and a drain on the public co-
ffers. She paid her dues. For 30
years she taught in the public school
system. She did without during the
Depression, lost a son in World War
II and a grandson in Vietnam. Her
only crime is that her life has out-
lasted her savings. I don’t want to
be an educator or an administrator
or a researcher, although I value all
those roles. I am what I want to be—
a staff nurse in long-term care. I
assess, diagnose, plan, implement
and evaluate my clients’ care. I
deal with the myriad of rules and
regulations imposed by the feds and
the state. I get what she needs in ■ mm M ye
spite of a system that arbitrarily dFeny
pays for this, but not for that. I give •
hands-on professional care, and I The Register encourages readers
manage my enthusiastic, but often to express their views. Letters are
overworked, ancillary staff. My job limited to 400 words, about one page
has low status and worse pay. Yet, I typed or two pages handwritten,
am proud to care for my client. She Longer letters will be condensed.
£ ZMZSS The ^gister reserves the right to
a diferene, accept or reject all letters and re-
serves the right to condense, delete
and edit all letters for content in
’ order to conform to good taste,
„ , ,.0 , readability, the laws of libel and
Today S birthdays: Actor David space considerations. All letters
Wayne is 72. Singer Lena Horne is must be signed and include the
.Actress Nancy Dussault is. • writer’s address and telephone
Thought for today: The cynic is number. Unsigned letters will not
one who never sees a good quality in be published nor will letters re-
a man, and never fails to see a bad questing that the writer’s name be
one .He is the human owl vigi lantin withheld. The Register accepts no
darkness and blind to light. — responsibility for maintaining or
Henry Ward Beecher, American returning letters submitted for pub-
clergyman (1813-1887). lications
The U.S. League of Savings
Institutions recently launched
a new $5 million advertising
campaign. In it, the nation’s
thrift institutions claim to be
“your partners in the Ameri-
can dream.”
That’s a bit presumptuous,
we would say — given the
steady diet of news for the
past several years about
bankrupt and scandal-pla-
gued institutions across the
country. We would just as
soon decline the partnership
— at least until many savings
and loan institutions resume
their place in the economy as
responsible and conservative
thrift institutions. That will
take some doing.
The Federal Home Loan
Bank Board announced re-
cently that the industry lost
$3.78 billion in the first quar-
ter of the year. Analysts
predict that the industry will
incur its biggest yearly loss
ever, perhaps in excess of $8
billion. Fully 259 S&L’s across
the country are officially la-
beled sick.
What this all means, of
course, is that the American
people are indeed going to be
partners — in a fiscal night-
mare. Although the Federal
Home Loan Bank Board is
working to complete transac-
tions allowing healthy thrift
institutions to take over trou-
bled ones, heavy government
assistance — possibly $1 bil-
lion or more — cannot be
Jim Reed’s American Legion
Junior basebailers, suffering
an unexpectedly disastrous
District 3 season, close out their
campaign Saturday night at
Locke Field. Sherman will pro-
vide the opposition for the
locals in the district affair and
the Reedmen have their sights
sets on at least closing the year
with a victory. The last time the
Sherman and Gainesville
teams clashed, the Grayson
County boys rallied for an 11-10
triumph.
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