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PAGE 4A-THE POLK COUNTY ENTERPRISE, THURSDAY JULY M, 1983
Editorial
Offensive
What a difference a recovery makes. Less than
one year ago, Ronald Reagan cast his own fiscal
game plan aside and barked out the signals for a
record tax hike in August, defense cuts in the fall,
and gasoline user fees and a major jobs bill in
December. A blitz of tax-and-spend Democrats,
White House advisers, and wishy-washy GOP
leaders in the Senate had the Gipper scrambling
for dear life. Now, the president is on the offen-
sive, promising to fight the $850 billion budget
resolution worked out just recently in Congress-
and, even if it passes, to veto whatever individual
taxes or expenditures he disapproves of.
In politics, as in football, it’s fun to watch a
master at work. Ronald Reagan’s decision to
chuck “the budget process,” an institution which
enjoys sacredcow treatment among the
Washington establishment, is a bold call-a
political bomb, to continue the metaphor. It’s a
good call, too, precisely because it goes against
the conventional political and economic wisdom.
Reagan advisers David Stockman and Martin
Feldstein, for example, warned that without a
budget resolution, even a bad one, the whole
economic recovery might abort. Fiscal stalemate
would cause interest rates to rise and the stock
market to tumble, they said. Funny how the
recovery has actually been picking up this sum-
mer just as the budget process has broken down.
If the Stockman-Feldstein thesis were right, the
economy should have started booming about 1979,
when deficits were coasting down; it should be
sagging now that the president and Congress are
headed toward budgetary grid-lock, with deficits
as far as the eye can see.
Our guess is that while deficits are a bad thing,
their role as a cause of today’s high interest rates
is overrated. A one-point increase in real
economic growth for the next two years, for ex-
ample, chops $46 billion off the 1985 deficit. Yet
Feldstein and Stockman have already revised
their growth forecast for 1983 alone by two points,
and will have to revise still more given fresh
evidence of a stronger recovery. Hence, the credit
and stock markets place little faith in the deficit
projections of Stockman, Feldstein, or the Wizard
of Oz deficit beyond more than a year or two.
If the markets are going to trust anything, it will
not be yet another congressional spending resolu-
tion, the domestic equivalent of a Soviet treaty,
but greater resolution from the White House to
keep Congress under control. Mr. Reagan’s fiscal
attack plan is just what the broker ordered, and it
fights red ink the right way; with spending
restraint and economic growth.
Whatever the economic realities, the
president’s decision to fight still meet with some
stiff resistance from his political staff. Jim Baker
and Richard Darman both warned1 that a confron-
tation strategy could backfire by removing even
the fig leaf of fiscal modesty that the budget
resolution imposes on congressional spending
plans. Joining them was a host of GOP Senators
afraid of either losing their seats (Pete Domenici,
Charles Percy) or their presidential ambitions
(Robert Dole, Howard Baker). Jim Baker, if
press reports can be believed, even went behind
the president’s back in April to encourage
Domenici’s efforts to pass a “compromise”
resolution that cut the Reagan defense increase in
half.
Baker reasoned that rejecting the Domenici
compromise might lead to a confrontation bet-
ween the president and the Senate leadership. In a
huddle with the president, Defense Secretary
Caspar Weinberger delivered the correct
response: So what? The president, it’s true, will
face some political defections from his own party.
On the other hand, there are some equal and op-
posite divisions in the opposing ranks; 79
Democrats in Congress, for example, have
already indicated they will oppose the Tip O’Neill
plan to leap the third year of the Reagan tax cut.
The bottom line is, Ronald Reagan grows
stronger with every day of good news.about the
economy, whch is just about every day. He has
behind him a solid majority of the people, who
know that at $850 billion for 1984, federal spending
has not yet been tamed, and that the modest tax
relief of 1981 was just that: Modest. In poll after
poll, Americans support the idea of still further
tax and spending cuts. The drive is on, and anyone
who tries to stop it is likely to wake up with the
Gipper’s cleat marks running straight down his
back.
■ • ""'-s'
Jack Anderson
Foreign policy may turn tide
WASHINGTON—The apparent disar-
ray in the administration’s foreign
policy could become a major issue in
the 1984 presidential campaign if Presi-
dent Reagan decides to run again. One
problem, high-level sources tell us, is
the question of just who is in control of
Latin American policy.
Until last month. Thomas Enders,
assistant secretary of State for inter-
American affairs, was running the
show. He had gone out on a limb to im-
plement his policies in Central
America, but insiders say he went too
far and he was forced to resign.
Now we’ve learned that after Enders’
resignation, Secretary of State George
Shultz told Reagan that he too would
resign unless the president guaranteed
that Shultz would have control over
Latin American policy.
Sources say Shultz was worried about
(two powerful contenders for that role -
Nationa1 Security Advisor William
Clark, an old Reagan crony from
California, and U.N. Ambassador
Jeane Kirkpatrick, the outspoken con-
servative who has shown no hesitation
in voicing her views on that sensitive
region.
Shultz apparently feared that Clark
and Kirkpatrick might attempt to
establish control over foreign policy
decisions for Latin America. But
Reagan assured Shultz that he would
retain control, and the secretary of
state was molified, at least for the time
being.
Meanwhile, at least two other high-
ranking foreign policy officials are con-
sidering leaving the administration.
Kenneth Dam, the No. 2 man at State
and a close friend of Shultz, has been of-
fered the job of dean at a prestigious
Ivy League law school. And Bud
McFarlane, the deputy assistant to the
president at the National Security
Council, has been asked to join a major
corporate foundation.
If Dam and McFarlane do decide to
leave, the political damage could be
severe. It would reinforce the
arguments of critics who have charged
that the Reagan administration’s
foreign policy is in shambles.
A NEW FACE FOR KHOMEINI: Our
intelligence sources have detected new
rumblings from Iran’s despotic ruler,
Ayatollah Khomeini. The news has
taken even the administration’s top Ira-
nian experts by surprise. Khomeini is
Iryinc to improve his image in the
Western world.
Specifically, he is quietly courting
Western European nations in order to
improve economic ties to the outside
world. Iran desperately needs commer-
cial goods from Japan and Europe and,
to secure them, Khomeini is attempting
to downplay his brutal image.
But this is merely a public relations
ploy. Iran’s human rights record con-
tinues to be dismal. Minorities are
regularly harassed, and more than a
dozen followers of the Bahai faith have
been executed in recent weeks.
007 IN THE WHITE HOUSE: Presi-
dent Reagan recently became embroil-
ed in yet another controversy. This
time it was over his television promo-
tional spot for the producers of the
“James Bond” movie series, filmed as
part of a TV special.
The president praised the fictional
“James Bond” spy character as “skill-
ed, courageous, optimistic” and he
always get his girl.” Feminists are
outraged at this remakr. They say it
was sexist and will do nothing to im-
prove Reagan’s low rating among
women voters-an issue which deeply
concerns the president and his aides.
Meanwhile, we’ve seen internal FBI
documents that indicate the govern-
ment took a different view of “James
Bond” 19 years ago. According to the
documents, bureau officials refused to
allow the producers of the hit movie
“Goldfinger” to portray the FBI In the
film.
' Here’s one interesting quote from a
memo to FBI Director J. Edgar
Hooweer: “Author Ian Fleming’s
stories generally center around sex and
bizarre situations and certainly are not
the type which we would want to be
HEADLINES AND FOOTNOTES:
The controversy over former President
Jimmy Carter’s stolen briefing book
has the Oval Office in an uproar. The
book was allegedly stolen by a “mole,"
perhaps planted in the Carter cam-
paign headquarters by the
Republicans. This had led to grim jokes
1 within the White House that the press is
making a mountain out of a molehill.
Meanwhile, Rep. Donald Albosta,
D-Mich., who as chairman of the
obscure House subcommittee on
Human Resources is spearheading the
investigation, will widen the scope of
his inquiry. Look for Albosta to in-
vestigate campaign improprieties by
both parties.
-Fugitive financier Robert Vesco has
been on the lam since 1972, when he
allegedly fled the country with $224
million stolen from an overseas invest-
ment fund. Our sources tell us Vesco is
alive and well and spends much of his
time in Managua, Nicaragua. There, he
has been offering both contributions
and financial competition to the San-
danista junta. The rest of his time he
spend in Havana, where he is on good \
terms with Cuban strongman Fidel
Castro.
-Look for the Occupational Safety
and Health Administration to come
under fire soon. The agency will be ac-
cused of failing to uphold the safety
laws that govern the workplace, thus
exposing U.S. workers to undue
hazards.
•1983 Copley New* Service
T-Wheeler . ,
In the swim
By Alan Miller
We hear all kinds of strange bits and
pieces on the early morning newscasts.
Not that we aren’t trying to pay atten-
tion. It’s just that when you get your
head under the shower spray, or fill
your ears full of lather, you lose some of
the words.
Like the other morning. Somebody on
the tube wanted us to take a look at a
$12,000 bathing suit. We practically slic-
ed off an ear at that point, but then the
whole swim suit craze got us to noodling
around a bit.
It used to be that one swim suit could
last a kid through a lot of summers.
Back then they were designed with a
drawstring around the waist, the legs
came to about mid-thigh, so you could
do a lot of growing in both directions
before that suit had to be discarded.
Then the girls all wore a one piece
suit that covered up more than it expos-
ed. Mostly solid, colors, the only bright
accessory was the bathing cap. Bathing
caps were worn then for the same
reason girls wear caps in the shower to
keep their hair dry.
That was before television came
along and everybody seemed to be div-
ing into the swimming pool bare-
headed and worse chasing soft drink
cans.
Or that character on Houston televi-
sion who sells furniture by throwing it
in the pool and diving in after it.
But back to swim suits 1984. We don’t
seem to see many mens’ swim suits be-
ing featured on the fashion pages. It
may be that they are still wearing the
same suits we did, drawstrings and all.
But the ladies?
Sports Illustrated gets in trouble
every spring highlighting the swim
suits for’the new year. Pretty girls all
whopper-jawed on a coral reef
somewhere in the Caribbean about to
be sunburned over ninety percent of
their bodies. SI gets a lot of cancella-
tions over their swimsuit photo section,
but there must be a lot of folks out there
who like what they see, because those
scanty suits keep coming.
You thought that was a typo up there
earlier when we said “swim suits 1984.”
But the suits displayed this year carry
that date, so that everything left in
stock can be marked down, and you can
buy the 1983 suits at half price. That lit-
tle bit of fooling with chronology would
be difficult to translate into beginning
Russian.
We just had a peek (ha-ha) at the 1984
styles, and ladies if you all get into
some of those getups, you’ll have the
guys tripping over beer coolers all the
way from here to Galveston Island.
Most husbands will have a stroke at
the prices, but no, we won’t mention
that $12,000 item on TV the other morn-
ing.
There was a cute little bikini model
however that caught our eye. Priced at
$28 which doesn’t sound too bad in this
era of $70 running shoes. But then we
estimated the cloth involved, and
figured that piece of fabric came in at
about $250 a yard.
There was even one called a Grecian
toga. A toga was kind of a nightshirt
thing that Julius Caesar wore, a big
sack with armholes. The toga bathing
suit on the other hand would be called a
negligee in polite circles, and we
couldn’t help wondering how the young
lady l^ept that piece of apparel in place
after she left the diving board.
The nearest thing we saw to what
Rita Hayworth wore in all those pinup
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Letter to the editor
Airport should be concern
| To the editor:
Both of the local Livingston area
papers carried articles announcing the
(then) upcoming meeting, held June 17,
by the Texas Aeronautics Commission
(TAC) at the Trinity County Court
building in Groveton, Tx. The purpose
of this meeting was for the TAC to
review present airport conditions and
discuss future needs or plans for each of
the local airports in Houston, Polk, San
Jacinto and Trinity counties.
The meeting was open to the public,
officials for each county and for air-
ports and the Federal Aviation Ad-
ministration (FAA), all of which had
representatives present. Unfortunate-
ly, there was no representation from
Livingston Municipal Airport;
therefore, the review and dicussion for
1
future airport growth was very brief.
The airport facility provides a
valuable investment for air transporta-
tion for local business and resort
recreational activities on Lake Liv-
ingston. *
Air travel has been increasing and, if
air traffic is to continue, the officials of
Livingston must have more concern.
Otherwise, the airport will become a
grassed-over asphalt strip which is un-
safe for aircraft.
I am concerned and wish to see the
Livingston Municipal Airport progress
with the modem area growth.
Donald Thomas
Aircraft licensed mechanic
authorized Inspector
P.0 '0x1299
Onalaska
photographs we remember from World
War II was a black number all covered
with nailheads. We couldn’t help but
wonder if all those rivets and the skin
tight fit didn’t make that particular
model a little uncomfortable especially
where you sit down.
Another spiffy one featured lacing up
the back, almost from top to bottom as
it were. We wondered how you laced the
dam thing, then we looked closer and
realized it had a “disposable” strap.
You can be the judge of what a
disposable strap is, except we would
have to assume it makes the suit easier
to get in and out of.
Just to make sure that the stores
aren’t snookerin’ you, and that you’re
getting a bona fide 1984 swim suit, you
ladies should make sure that the hip
line is cut pretty high, that a lot of
animal prints such as zebra stripes are
being featured. There’s even an
abstract leopard pattern in magenta
and black. That’s about the color of a
four day old-cat lying in the fast lane of
Highway 59, we would gather.
But let us return to that toga type
swim suit that looks suspiciously like a
nightshirt with a low V-neckline. The
guy who made that little item also
features a matching sunhat, and a wrap
around skirt so that you can wear the
darn thing right out of the pool to a for-
mal coctail party at the Hyatt House.
You know we have a lot of eating
establishments here in East Texas that
warn all customers that they ain’t be
going to be let in if they’re barefoot and
not wearing a top of some kind.
Wouldn’t you kind of like to be the
proprietor of one of those
establishments watching a pretty
young lady turn a swim suit into a
cocktail dress right before your eyes.
Last one in is a rubber duck!
POLK COUNTY
ENTERPRISE
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