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WHEREVER WE MAY GO, OUR
FUG IS A BEAUTIFUL SIGHT
Imagine yourself traveling in a foreign land, whether
you have ever been to one or not. You're probably
enjoying the sights, but you may also have
encountered some difficulties. Then, suddenly you
see the embassy of your country, with its flag rippling
in the breeze. What a beautiful sight that would be!
It would reassure you that wherever you go in this
world, you are never far from the freedom and
protection of your homeland. However, even at home
we should always rejoice at the sight of that flag, with
our nation s glorious history symbolized by its
pattern and colors. We should teach our children to
honor and respect it. Also, we should go to our
House of Worship and thank the Lord for the
freedom He has granted us, and vow to make sure
that the banner which signifies this freedom will
wave forever over our Land.
A thoughtful mind...
sees not the flag only,
but the Nation itself.
—Henry Ward Beecher
"Lift ye up a
banner upon the
high mountain."
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DATES AND EVENTS FROM YESTERYEARS
June 9, 1896—Contralto Jessie Davis, in Chicago, sings world
premiere of popular wedding song * ‘O Promise Me, ”
written by Reginald De Koven.
June 16,1956—Earthquakes in northern Afghanistan took 2,000 lives.
line 11,1865—Frontier village of Detroit swept by fire.
June 12,1775—British Gen. Thomas Gage declares martial law in
Boston.
Jane 13,1939—Himmler sent to crush Czech revolt.
Jane 14,1846—American settlers in the Sacramento Valley, in what
becomes known as the Bear Flag Revolt, proclaim
the Republic of California, at Sonoma.
June 15,1836—Arkansas admitted to Union as 25th state.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
The Moscow Summit And
The Economic Summit
STATE CAPITOL
HIGHLIGHTS
By Lyndell Williams
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AUSTIN-Comptroller Bob
Bullock last week predicted
Texas will have sufficient reve-
nues to maintain current spend-
ing levels without a tax in-
crease for the next two years.
A real plus in the state's
econoic growth has been helped
in part by Texas ranchers and
farmers who made $2 billion
more last year.
Ongoing efforts led by Rep.
Dudley Harrison and Sen. Bill
Sims with assistance from
other top agricultural leaders
are aimed at increasing those
profits.
Simply stated, much Texas
produce is shipped out of the
state for processing. If it's
processed here, more profits
stay here.
The Texas Agricultural Di-
versification Program, passed
last session by Harrison and
Sims, has $500,000 to award
small grants to firms which can
match an amount with private
dollars.
The funds are seed money for
expanding textile plants, flour
mills, slaughterhouses, and re-
tail facilities.
"Kill It Myself'
No state agency will approve
grant applications. Instead, a
panel comprised of top farm
and ranch leaders oversees the
funding.
Harrison, a conservative, of-
ten called 'The Wiley 01’ Fox”
by other lawmakers, and Sims
sit as ex-offcio members to
monitor the program’s cost
effectiveness.
“It's not going to be another
give-away. If it’s not cost-
effective, then I’ll kill it my-
self," Harrison vowed.
Matin Seeks State Share
Former U.S. Sen. Ralph
Yarborough was a key state's
witness in a lawsuit last week
over whether parties involved
in a West Texas oil lease owe
the state millions of dollars in
delinquent royalty payments.
Texas Land Commissioner
Garry Mauro seeks to halt
payment of oil royalties to the
owners and says the state and
owner should split the $161
million which has been produc-
ed by the lucrative four-acre
lease since 1934.
Mauro says Texas has re-
ceived only $10 million and is
demanding the balance be paid
to the state.
Yarborough was an assistant
attorney general in 1935 when
the state approved a deal
whereby the owner assigned
the lease to another business-
man.
The question now is whether
the owner illegally assigned the
lease to himself behind a dum-
my operation, a move that
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Yarborough said, if known,
would have killed the 1934
settlement.
Probe Sought for Senator
Though it smacks of politics
more than a mission of good
government, the Texas GOP
called for an official budget
probe of state San. Richard
Anderson, D-Marshall.
After Anderson admitted
someone in his office ran up
more than $1,000 on the state
phone bill for calls to his
campaign offices, the Republi-
cans asked the attorney general
and Travis County district at-
torney, both Democrats, to
investigate all of Anderson’s
state office expenses.
Political Vendetta
Some veteran observers feel
there is a whiff of vendetta
here.
In 1986, Anderson narrowly
won a Northeast Texas special
election which ultimately pitted
U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm’s re-
alignment movement against
Texas Democratic Party Chair-
man Bob Slagle’s machine,
right in Slagle’s backyard.
Since then, Anderson is re-
garded by some as Slagle's
protege senator, and he has
hired several staffers also close
to Slagle. Anderson was hospi-
talized last week, but Slagle
said Anderson would repay the
state for a careless mistake by
an overzealous staffer.
The GOP tried to make
political hay once before when
Anderson was arrested for
DWI. Now they’d like to make
this an issue all the way to the
November balloting, and mud-
ball Slagle to boot.
Other Highlights
* Former Gov. Mark White
and his partners have dissolved
their law firm which was based
in Houston, Dallas and Austin.
White hasn’t said what line of
business he will next pursue.
* Gov. Bill Clements said he
would not call a special session
in 1988 to deal with school
financing, but would wait until
the regular session opens next
January.
* Supreme Court Chief Jus-
tice Thomas Phillips, a Repub
lican, announced endorsements
by seven former House speak-
ers: Bill Clayton, Rayford
Price, Price Daniel, Robert
Calvett, Byron Tunnel], Reu-
ben Senterfitt and Jim Lind-
sey.
* Secretary of State Jack
Rains, the state's top elections
officer, drew criticism over his
judgment and partisanship af
ter he announced plans to
attend the Republican National
Convention.
* Federal Judge William
Wayne Justice, who wrote the
court order calling for reform of
the Texas prison system, now
has a plan to phase out reform
monitoring in 1990.
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By Ronald Reagan
I recently returned from my
historic Moscow summit meet-
ing with General Secretary
Gorbachev - and it so happens
that later this month, I will be
visiting Canada for an economic
summit with the leaders of the
world's industrialized nations. I
thought I would tell you about
both.
First, my meeting with Gen-
eral Secretary Gorbachev in
Moscow. The event that held
perhaps the most immediate
historic importance took place
on the first of June. It was then
that General Secretary Gorba-
chev and I exchanged the
instruments of ratification
bringing into effect the I.N.F.
Treaty. The effect of this treaty
will be, very simply, to elimi-
nate an entire class of U.S. and
Soviet intermediate-range nu-
clear missiles.
The significance of the I.N.F.
Treaty can hardly be over-
stated. For the first time ever,
the levels of nuclear arms will
actually be reduced, rather
than having caps placed on
their growth. These missiles
will not simple have been
shuffled around on the map, or
placed in storage. They will
have been destroyed.
The exchange of these instru-
ments of ratification alone
would have made the Moscow
summit a success. But the
General Secretary and I made
important progress in other
areas as well. We moved ahead
on START negotiations, ne-
gotiations that could lead to a
dramatic reduction in both
sides’ arsenals of strategic nu
clear arms.
On bilateral issues, I am
especially pleased by our agree-
ment to hold increased ex-
changes involving high school
students. The number of stu
dents will at first be in the
hundreds, but could grow into
the thousands. Imagine it: hun-
4gpds, and then thousands of
young people who have first-
hand knowledge of each other’s
country - and, yes, who have
made friends.
Turning to regional conflicts,
Mr. Gorbechev and I discussed
ways to reduce tension in areas
around the globe - Southeast
Asia, Africa, Central America,
the Persian Gulf, and the
Middle East. The withdrawal of
Soviet troops from Afghani-
stan, of course, represents an
historic step in itself-one that
the General Secretary and I
agreed could serve as a model
for settling other regional con-
flicts.
A key part of my agenda for
this Moscow summit, as for my
previous meetings with the
General Secretary, involved
human rights. Recently, the
Soviets have begun to show
somewhat more respect for
human rights-in the past year,
for example, they have releas-
ed some 300 political detainees
from detention. It is my hope
that what took place in my
Moscow visit will lead to still
greater individual freedom for
the people of the Soviet Union.
You see, in addition to my
meetings with Mr. Gorbachev,
I held other meetings. With
monks at a missionary in Mos
cow. With nearly 100 dissidents
and refuseniks - men and
women who have worked for
years for the freedom to speak,
to worship, to assemble and to
travel. And at Moscow Univer-
sity, with students - indeed,
with the very students likely to
become the Soviet Union’s next
generation of leaders.
To the dissidents and re-
fuseniks, I was able to say: the
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^American Viewpoints
people of the United States and
elsewhere support you. To the
students, I suggested: there is
another way to live and govern
your country-* way of demo-
cracy and economic growth, a
way in which creative human
energies are released.
If anyone had suggested,
even as recently as ten years
ago, that an American Presi-
dent would one day be able to
meet with Soviet dissidents
inside Moscow itself-or be able
to speak to Soviet students in
their own university about
human freedom-a prediction
like that would have been
dismissed. But it has happened.
Seeds of freedom and greater
trust were sown. And I just
have to believe that-in ways
we may not even be able to
guess--those seeds will take
roots, and grow.
Accompanying these new po- i
litical freedoms are a series of i
economic reforms that may
begin to inject elements of free
enterprise into the Soviet eco-
nomy. Soon I will be attending
my final economic summit in
Toronto, where the Western
countries will celebrate the
success of free markets. It is
my belief that liberty should be
as important a concern in
Toronto as it was in Moscow.
Liberty in the economic
spere means low taxes. It
means paring away needless
regulations and reducing
counterproductive government
planning and interference. And
it means keeping down barriers
to international trade-here and
around the world, r
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THE MYTH OF
ELDERLY AFFLUENCE
by Ronald F. Pollack
ews stories about the
elderly no longer picture
them trudging up the
road to the poorhouse on their
65th birthdays. Instead they’re
shown as moving into Florida
condominiums, their incomes
guaranteed by ever-rising Social
Security benefits, their health
care bills paid by Medicare.
Portraying the elderly as rich,
healthy, and carefree is
misleading—and dangerous. It
ignores the persistent problem of
elderly poverty (millions of old
people are very poor), and it also
provides a convenient excuse for
those who want to slash social
welfare programs. What is most
disturbing is that this stereotype
fuels the notion that the young
should resent the old for grab-
bing scarce resources away from
others seemingly more needy.
We should celebrate the fact
that the poverty rate for all older
Americans has (kopped signifi-
cantly in the last two decades.
Twenty-five years ago, more than
one out of three seniors were
poor: today, it's just one out
of eight.
Social Security has made the
crucial difference. More than
90% of the elderly receive Social
Security. On the average, it
provides about 40% of their
retirement income (for the low-
income elderly, it’s 80%). The
across-the-board benefit increases
in the late 1960s and early 1970s,
and the annual cost-of-living
adjustments begun in 1975,
helped most of the elderly stay
out of the poorhouse.
Despite the progress, about
3.400,000 older Americans still
live below the meager poverty
line of $445 a month (for an
individual). These individuals live
on less than $15 a day (or $18
for couples). An additional
8,000,000 elderly are struggling
to eat and pay rent on incomes
under twice the poverty line—a
modest $29 a day for a person
living alone (or $36 (or couples).
So making ends meet is still a
struggle for more than four out of
ten of the elderly.
Poverty is an especially
crushing problem for certain
vulnerable groups of the elderly:
women living alone, minorities,
and the very old. Almost three-
quarters of the elderly poor are
women. More than one out of
every five elderly Hispanics and
almost one out of every three
elderly blacks are poor. An older
black woman living alone is five
times as likely to be destitute as
an older white man.
And the longer we live, the
more likely poverty is to loom in
our future. People over 85 are
twice as likely to slip under the
poverty line as those between 65
and 84.
What's more, older people,
once poor, have fewer chances
to escape poverty by getting a
better job—or any job. That’s
why one-third of the “long-term”
poor are elderly.
But what about those costly
government benefits the elderly
get Social Security, Supplemental
Security Income (SSI), Medicare,
Medicaid, food stamps? How can
anyone be poor when they are
"entitled" to all those federal
dollars?
Fust of all, the average Social
Security benefit is only $479 a
month—with many older women
and minorities getting well below
that sum.
SSI—the income support
program for the two million
poorest seniors—pays only $336
a month to people living alone,
well under the poverty line of
$445 a month that the govern-
ment says marks the boundary
of destitution.
And despite all of the Medicare
benefits paid out, seniors today
must pay more of their incomes
for health care than before
Medicare was enacted'
Moreover, many of the elderly
don’t even qualify for those
programs, such as women who
worked sporadically or never
worked at a job covered by
Social Security. Millions more just
don’t know they are eligible for
SSI, Medicaid, and food stamps.
The myth of elderly affluence
harms the elderly and harms our
society. It makes it easy, even
justifiable, to ignore the existence
of 11,000,^X1 Americans living
on the wrong side of Easy Street.
It pits generation against
generation in the fight for an
ever-shrinking federal dollar—at a
time when all generations need
to be fighting shoulder-to-shoulder
to protect all poor Americans
from suffering the heaviest
casualties in the battle of
the budget.
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Mr. Pollack is Executive Director
of The Villers Foundation which
works with and on behalf of the
elderly.
SeniorWatch is an information service ot
The Villen Foundation. 1334 G Sheet.
NW, Washington. DC 20005.
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