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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Monday, March 14, 1988
(EDITORIAL
Are you ready for
this good news?
If oil prices remain relatively stable and the national
economy does not sink into recession, Texas’ economic
recovery is expected to gain strength during the re-
mainder of 1988.
Signs of recovery are solid and widespread, and
Texas’ economic recovery, which began in the summer
of 1987, will continue throughout the current year, enabl-
ing the state’s economic growth to match U.S. growth.
These conclusions are based on statistical summaries
and other information compiled by State Comptroller
Bob Bullock’s office and are rated highly reliable by
economists.
At any rate, the news is good after a long and depress-
ing siege of bad economic reports that accentuated the
state’s rapid downturn after collapse of the oil industry.
An increase (somewhat surprising) of about 83,000
new jobs in Texas during the last half of 1987 appears to
be ample evidence the worst phase of the state’s
economic decline is over, and the economy should con-
tinue to expand modestly.
Even though the outlook is much more encouraging
than it has been for two years or more, there fu^louds
on the horizon that could adversely affect brightening
predictions.
A national recession caused by a volatile stock market
or a decline in national consumer spending could slow
consumer spending and the overall recovery in Texas.
Further, a sustained drop in oil prices, to $15 a barrel
or less, could bring another downturn in the oil industry
followed by debilitating effects throughout the rest of
the state’s economy.
Jack Anderson
INF treaty last choice
WASHINGTON — The first and only treaty
President Reagan has signed with the
Soviets — the one eliminating medium-range
nuclear missiles — is only the third choice of
the American public when it comes to
disarmament treaties.
Reagan knows that because of an extra-
ordinary series of secret polls taken for the
National Security Council by a Washington
think tank in 1986.
We have been reporting on these un-
precedented poll because of the insights they
provide into how foreign policy decisions
were maije during that critical year of the
Reagan presidency.
When Americans were asked in November
1986 what issues would tje their top priorities
at a summit, they favored first a strategic
missile treaty, then a ban on nuclear
weapons testing and, bringing up the rear, a
medium-range treaty. Even the Europeans,
who have the medium-range missiles in their
back yards, ranked the medium-range treaty
dead last on their list of priorities when they
were asked by the NSC pollsters.
But those polls also made it clear that
Reagan was under minimal pressure to nail
down any arms-control treaty with the
Soviets.
results as the March poll. Only 20 percent
“agreed strongly” that the president was
“too slow” in achieving an arms control
agreement with the Soviet Union. And while
the November poll showed that 58 percent
thought Reykjavik was a “failure” in nar-
rowing our differences with the Soviets on
arms control, about the same number, 59
percent, thought some good would eventually
come of the meeting.
The pollsters found that 49 percent of
Americans blamed IVfikhail Gorbachev for
the failure. Only 29 percent blamed Reagan
and 24 percent blamed both men.
It was in that same poll that Americans
were asked to set their arms-control
priorities. Forty-one percent said their first
choice was “cutting the number of U.S. and
Soviet strategic weapons — that is, missiles
and bombers.” Thirty-nine percent said their
first choice was “banning all testing of
nuclear weapons.” The elimination of
intermediate-range missiles in Europe came
at the bottom, with only 17 percent.
The results may suggest why, even if
Reagan doesn’t feel pressured by the public
to bring home treaties of any kind, he may
feel a strong desire to score the No. 1 choice
There is no hint that he is interested in
what’s behind door No. 2 — a ban on nuclear
weapons testing.
it would “not bother” a whopping 60 percent
of the American public if Reagan didn’t have
another summit after the 1985 meeting in
Geneva. A followup poll in September of that
year revealed that 58 percent of Americans
said it wasn’t necessary for Reagan to offer
arms-control concessions to get a second
summit with the Soviets.
Although he wasn’t under pressure,
Reagan held a second summit with the
Soviets in October 1986 in Reyjavik, Iceland.
It failed to produce any agreement, so the
pollsters, in November, asked the public
again how they felt about Reagan and arms
control.
The November poll came up with the same
POLITICAL PREDICTIONS - Political
analysts believe that the stock market
plunge last October will hurt Republicans
more than Democrats. GOP candidates had
hoped to hit the hustings with bragging rights
on the longest period of peacetime economic
growth in years.
That was before the crash. Now it’s the
Democrats who are hoping that those who go
to the polls in November will reaffirm the
cliche about voting their pocketbooks. If they
do, our sources believe, the Democrats have
a good chance of capturing four of the 15
Senate seats up for grabs and currently held
by Republicans.
The vulnerable GOP senators are thought
to be John Danforth of Missouri, Chic Hecht
of Nevada, David Karnes of Nebraska, John
Chafee of Rhode Island, David Durenberger
of Minnesota, Malcolm Wallop of Wyoming
and Pete Wilson of California.
Democrats believed to be occupying shaky
seats include Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico,
Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey, Howard
Metzenbaum of Ohio and Daniel Moynihan of
New York.
RUTHLESS RUSSIANS — With the excep-
tion of the Khmer Rouge butchers in Cam-
bodia, the Soviets have few peers when it
comes to targeting young people in countries
they try to subdue. In Afghanistan, the
Soviets have deployed bombs disguised as
toys to kill or maim children. Now we have
seen intelligence reports that tell of a Soviet
soldier who strangled to death a young
Afghan pickpocket in Kabul’s main bazaar
last year. An older boy who interfered was
shot and wounded by the soldier.
HAVE YOU HEARD about President
Reagan’s new high-tech hearing aids?
Volume can be controlled remotely, and a
“suppression” feature can filter out un-
wanted background noise. This could in-
clude, reported Time, “shouted questions
from the press corps.” When you finish giggl-
ing, Philistines, consider the implications: If0
this thing can ever be made target-specific,
we’d never again have to listen to telephone
solicitations, television commercials,
political pitchmen or lapsed evangelists.
This might even call for an R&D grant.
United Future columnist Jack Anderson wu assisted by Dale
Van Attain writing today's story.
To The Sun:
In response to A.C. Little’s let-
ter March 8: I have enjoyed
many of Mr. Little’s letters in
the past, but this time, he missed
the ball.
First, two local unions, No.
9145 and No. 7756, claimed the
closure of USX’s Texas Works
Plant was the fault of the USX
Co. The facts dfl^ support this
claim. USX, as all companies
warn their employees, did warn
us there could be problems if we
went on strike.
Months before the deadline,
the union, both local and inter-
national stayed in Pittsburgh in
negotiations. An agreement
could not be reached, so we ask-
ed USX to allow us to work under
the old agreement, but they
refused and did, in fact, lock us
out of the plant. So, it was a
lockout and not a strike.
Wq received unemployment
compensation, which we could
not have done, if we had been on
strike, as ruled by the State of
Texas. Furthermore, I know of
no steelworkers’ family, who has
asked for sympathy, only under-
standing and concern — not only
for themselves — but for the
related businesses and other
families this plant closure has
hurt.
You said the employees have
themselves to blame for listen-
ing to the union’s demands and
not considering the world condi-
tions in the steel business.
Mr. Little, what makes a
union? It is the members, the
employees. During these trying
times, our members have
received many benefits, because
there is a union. To name a few,
unemployment compensation
(sub pay) continuance of health
insurance, assessment and job
development through the HRID
program and still to come are
shutdown benefits.
If, there were no union, there
would be none of these benefits.
We would be out on the streets
with nothing.
As far as the world steel busi-
ness, USX and pther steel com-
panies, have it just the way they
want it. American Steel com-
panies can now produce and sell •
steel cheaper than foreign coun-
try companies can import it. The
demand is high, the price is high,
and there is several weeks’ wait-
ing period for the product. They
do not want to change this!
I was recently in Pittsburgh
meeting with company repre-
sentatives concerning the plant
closure. Among the things dis-
cussed was the fact that our sal-
aries were not a factor in the
shutdown.
Texas is right-to-work state
which means you have choice of
belonging to a union or not. It is
also in our contract, that the
company lias the right to sched-
ule and direct the work force.
Most businesses would prefer no
unions, therefore they would not
have to give the employees
anything that they are not forced
to by competition for contract.
No working man would want to
go back to the sweatshops of the
20s or 30s.
A union stands for hunan
rights, a livable wage and a bet-
ter standard of livipg among
other things.
So, Mr. Little, please be more
sensitive to the plight of people
who are in a desperate situation
and are only trying to better
themselves.
Hollis Cathey
2206 Nolan
President Local No. 9145
United Steelworkers of America
From Sun files
Grandson killed in Vietnam, '68
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
On March 14,1794, Eli Whitney
received a patent for his cotton
gin, an invention that revolu-
tionized America’s cotton in-
dustry.
On this date:
In 1743, the first town meeting
in America was held, at Faneuil
Hall in Boston.
In 1879, physicist Albert Eins-
tein was born in Ulm, Germany .
In 1883, German political
philosopher Karl Marx died in
London. \
In 1923, Prudent Warren G.
Harding became the first chief
executive to file an income tax
report. „
In 1951, during the Korean
War, United Nations forces
recaptured Seoul.
In 1964, a jury in Dallas found
Jack Ruby guilty of murdering
Lee Harvey Oswald.
In 1967, the body of President
John F. Kennedy was moved
from a temporary grave to a
permanent memorial at Arl-
ington National Cemetery.
In 1980, a Polish airliner crash-
ed while making an emergency
landing near Warsaw, killing all
87 people aboard, including 22
members of an amateur boxing
team from the United States.
Ten years ago: Israel sent
thousands of troops supported by
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air and naval forces into
Lebanon to attack bases used by
Palestinian guerrillas to launch
attacks on Israel. Israel seized a
four-to-six-mile strip of land
along its northern border in the
assault, which began late at
night and continued throughout
the next day.
Five years ago: The Organiza-
tion of Petroleum Exporting
Countries agreed for the first
time in its history to cut prices in
hopes of regaining control over
the world oil market.
One year ago: President
Reagan, in his Saturday radio
address, said he should have
listened to Secretary of State
George Shultz and Defense
Secretary Caspar Weinberger
when they advised him not to sell
arms to Iran.
Today’s Birthdays:
Bandleader Les> Brown is 76.
Cartoonist Hank Ketcham is 68.
Former astronaut Frank Bor-
man is 60. Actor Michael Caine
is 55. Composer-conductor Quin-
cy Jones is 55. Former astronaut
Eugene Cernan is 54, Actress
Rita Tushingham is 46. Come-
dian Billy Crystal is 41. Prince
Albert of Monaco is 30.
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From The Baytown Sun files,
this is the way it was:
55 YEARS AGO
Fred Hopper is a candidate for
finance commissioner in the
Goose Creek City Commission
election.
Three young men, H.L. Yann,
H.E. Hewlett and L.L. Martini,
board the tanker Prometheus at
the Baytown Docks early today,
bound for Aruba, Dutch West Irt
dies, where they will work for
Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey.
Martini was feted with a
farewell party yesterday at the
Royal Cafe by his friends, Ray
Allen, Pete Gonzalez, Sherman
Walker, Louis Nichols, Fred
Sanders and Victor Lohon.
50 YEARS AGO
Joanne Ellender, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. H.L. Ellender, is
feted with a party on her third
birthday.
40 YEARS AGO
Mrs. Hugh Echols Jr. reviews
“Raintree County” for the Book
Review Club.
Allen N. Shaw withdraws as a
candidate in the city council
election.
30 YEARS AGO
Baytown City Council tables a
request from the East Harris
County Bar Association to call
an election to name a charter
commission for the purpose of
deciding on a new charter or
amending the present one. The
request is presented to city coun-
cil by Robert P. Beeman Jr. Ask-
ed by Mayor R. H. Pruett
whether the purpose was- to
change the present city
manager-council form of
government to a mayor-council
type, Beeman says, “That was
considered.”
20 YEARS AGO
Mr. and Mrs. R.J. Bradbury of
Baytown learn that their grand-
son, Donald Irby, 18, of Houston,
was killed in action in Vietnam.
Corky Wilson serves as mayor
when Sterling students take over
city government for a day. -
Dave Bloom and Mary
Korenek will star in “Barefoot in
the Park,” a comedy, to be stag-
ed in April at the Baytown Little
Theater.
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