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Wednesday, January 4, 1984
THE BAYTOWN SUN
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Jack Anderson
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Prosperity Era Possible
DITORIAL
WASHINGTON — President Oil remained cheap as long as on until the oil price bulge was bootleg OPEC oil and non-OPEC
Reagan has a dramatic op- the United States controlled the flattened. oil may cause prices to slide
portunity to heal the economy and oilgates. If the OPEC powers another $4 or $5.
inaugurate a new era of prosper!- tried to create a shortage in an at-
ty. All he has to do is to drive tempt to jack up prices, the somewhat in the predicament of a
United States merely raised the st^iclJf" perso" in, *he pre.' the Droblem The radical oil
scientific age: The victim must ~*e P,,ine raai., ,
^simply suffer the full ravages of ed pY ran’ are ca br!g for
the\lisease, his recovery depen- tighter production and higher
Then Richard Nixon became ding on how much punishment his Prlces- They are supported
president. Through a jumble of system can endure ‘ and how behind the scenes by the big oil
companies and international
OSH A»Suffers4
Thorne' In Side
This has left the Western world
Today, the OPEC ministers are
gathering in Geneva to discuss
down the price of oil.
In an earlier column, I warned oilgates enough to keep the
that the cost of crude could soar to storage tanks filled,
new altitudes. A flare-up in the
Volatile Persian Gulf region could
During the 1980 presidential campaign, Ronald Reagan create another oil panic, which is .. J , .
promised to abolish the Occupational Safety and Health SI*?fimTdftS’hen£1onntrorof^e * durableisthediseaseitself' banks, which have a vested in-
Administration, deriding the nation’s worker-safety agen- "flict tbe next price gouge upon oilgates. Thereafter, the United iFor a Pamful decade, we have terest in high prices. The oil com-
cy as a needless nuisance to business. vldReaBan can force the nrice States not only Paid whatever Xldarad the illness ^hilt the panies share in the extortion, and
As nrpqiriprit Rpa^an has fnnnH a Ipss visihlp and Ipss »et Reagan can force the price 0PEC chose to charge but also 0PEC governments have the banks want to prevent any
as president, Reagan has found a less visible and less of oil down by the skillful use of ^L enose the credit ar digested a trillion dollars «,of withdrawal of opec's
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fective. The federal cop no longer patrols the industrial c”“ pay their oil Mils. ESSta SsT, “ W* Satellite' S
Deai- . >. needs to lift the oilgates and flood pvprv fimp thp consuming v OPEC countries and regain con-
Reagan’s choice. Of Thorne Auchter to head OSHA the West’s Storage tanks with oil. world cut consumption or raised Now at last, OPEC’s resolve is trol of the oilgates. America has
signaled his determination to gut the agency. Auchter, This would expand the oil glut, its own oil production, OPEC begitnningt0 crack Half of the ®u* the military power to prevent any
ncatidAbpa Fjorid^ C°nSt™Cti0n CrPany th*TaSCiteJ by sumlu^rSs6 W°U‘d *“* “ ““ simply sl™ed down its pumpat° moV'revenSes 'S'ke^u^Wlth
°SHA for 48 violations during the 1970s, had no evident Tpcre J ocean f H behind JaJ^v oua ttbl The their spofidtng' arc “f*1* scl1 back to earth, we should bemik-
quallfications for the job Other than hlS involvement in the dam _ en0ugh t0 sPupply the ggfpLk nriros made it oossi ing oil below the 0PEC Wel ing about $3-asbarrel nil, not $30-
Reagan/s 1980 campaign. «. an.icipa.fd neediS I.. KfflST 5“op!c*C’S,rK?1 abarrelolL
Auchter’s initial action - ordering the destruction Of to the 21st century. This is oil that duction and still collect more ° ‘ ippT,, 'mrirkpHno cnmnnnv Every. $1 drop in the price of
100,000 copies Of a booklet on black lung disease which he has already been discovered, billion's than they had ever iny Switzerland ThecomDanv crude would add at least 0.1 per-
quent acuvities. ... ., „ will be found. The reserves are As the cost of energy Saudi crude on the free market. dent Reagan has not taken the
1 be number Of ObHA inspectors has been CUt by 30 per- expanding faster than consump- skyrocketed, consumers had less This has weakened the price of necessary steps to restore U S
cent since 1980 to 1,077, and the inspectors’jobs have been tion is increasing. There has and less disposable income to buy oil on the “spot market” where oil ^dominance of the oil distribution
redefined, making them at most advisers not monitors.*^ never been a year, not even dur- other gbods, which cost more and is sold for immediate delivery, system. He isn’t even prepared to
ing the era of cheap oil, that oil more to produce. Hence, there Grudgingly, OPEC, has already cope with another oil crisis, which
men didn’t find more crude than was A progressive shrinkage of rolled back its prices*to around could rescue OPEC and catapult
they pumped. economic activity that had to go $30 a barrelj. Now the gush of oil prices back into orbit.
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In many locales, inspectors are now instructed to ex-
amine company logbobks, not the actual work-site where
health and safety violations are likely to surface. Those
firms that break the rules are often asked to report on M
their own compliance, rather than face follow-up inspec-
tions.
The number of serious violations cited has been halved
and fines dramatically reduced. In 1980 there were 98
fines of $10,000 or more. Two years later there were just
WIESES THE
GREENHOUSE EFFECT
NOW THAT WE
REALLY HEED IT?
'44: Saunders
1 OrrGasoline
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I Ration Panel
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“Cooperative regulation,” Auchter calls the present
direction of OSHA. While cooperation among industry,
labor and government is better than adversarial rela-
tions, the prevailing approach is more aptly described as jjJiP
». self-regulation. . . „8K!
' Self-regulation is neither an adequate response to work-
place dangers nor consistent with Congress’ mandate.
Congress needs to subject OSHA to the detailed scrutiny
needed to embarrass it into changer
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From The Baytown Sun files.
|1 this is the way It was 40 and 30 and
If '20 vearsago:
JAN- 4,19$
m Jack Saunders becomes the
* 12th man on the Tri-Cities________
Gasoline Rationing Board:; He
succeeds R.F. "Dick” Bradberry.
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Karl L. Sminger is promoted to
-- it. colonel. For the pastt'several
months he has been stationed at
various Air Force bases in
California and Arizona.
Robert Ray Bolmanskie can.
claim the title of Mr. 1944 of the
Tri-Cities. He is the new-soft of-
Mr. and Mrs. L B. Bolmanskie,
. Sgt. John Bettis was killed in
action in Italy, according to a War
Department message receivedfSV^ '
. his parents. Mr. and Mrs. J.(T.
Bettis of Goose Creek.
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At War Without The Press
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When the Reagan administration and the Pentagon f
decided to conduct the Grenada invasion without the fj
press to accompany the troops, there was an outcry of /
protest from the press but the public didn’t seem to mind.
Polls showed most Americans supported the govern-. "
mentis policy. , ’ ------w ■;
Both the public and the government should be remind-
ed, however, that war is not a private game. It is a public _ f ^ D I* D Linnri
business and must be as such. iKGQIlZGS I rODIGlTI Thre?Tfi-cities men who have
Press coverage will not change the nature of-war but it ^ ^ > . 1 • . - been togt?tfier_■■t;yr^dghotii ■ 1 ^
wijl give civilians a'more realistic look at war.*It will \i/;+L C-w;fliP KU+ Cimnln ‘V " 8
make our government and military commanders more W tM jOVlGtS INOt OUTIDIG Cadets e.v. Biissard Jr. John
directly accountable for the way in which they conduct n Allman and Sam Alford
war. This can Only to be healthy for OUr democracy. ' NEW YORK (NEA) — Most of ments are far more profound than isn’t quite so simple The Soviet Congregation K’Nesseth Israel
Rpsnnnsihlp npnnlp in thp npws inrinstrv shmilH fhe ^ so-called “issues” about mere name-calling, and that they Union is based on a view of celebrates its new debt-free
xvespuns ue peop e in i e e s muusiry snouiu which people argue - certainly direct our attention to something mankind so fundamentally wrong status with a mortgage-burning
recognize their coverage Of military operations must be those involving policy toward the that places sharp limits on the (and indeed evil) that it cannot ceremony. Mose Sumner is pres,
balanced and fair, must serve the best interests of the na- Soviet Union — are essentially possibilities open to diplomacy. reform, but can only collapse, dent of the synagogue, Sam Dav
tion and must not be merely sensational. *---- secondary. Underlying them are What Mr. Reagan was saying, • This doesn’t mean that the free js vjce president and J. Guber”
ReSDOnsibl»fcDeODle in the military should recognize deeper differences that are rarely at bottom, is that there are in fact world must necessarily go to war rnan, secretary-treasurer
that most news neonle are natriotic Americans atm that if ever discussed openly, because-such things^sgopd and evil in tfie against it; but it does mean U*at « JAN 4 1954 ■
inaumosi news people are pajriouc Americans ana mat their existences only reluctantly .‘world; that one • fundamentally'vwe must remain defensively nr inhn C srhiiima fnrmpric
the rules of engagement for any war fought by Arhericans acknowledged Indeed it may not flawed product of the I8th- strong whije it struggles’against
late in the 20th century are going to include on-the-spot even be realized. century Enlightenment was a its destiny, and that meanwhile h' His sisfer ATffiie Schilf' "
coverage bj^both print and electronic media. But the deeper differences do • concept of mankind stripped of there are severe moral and prac- lives in Cedar Ravau Their
F exist, and recognition of that any relation to God; that the tieal limits to the possibilities of
fact is essential, to an undefsta^ .Snyiet Dniori is the primary car- “detente,” - P . P .
ding of what is really going on in rier of this diseased view of the w r ..Pnn.. Sv.,3in rP,irPSis?—
the world. Inevitably, such human condition in the modern Mr. Reagan’s critics evidently Ravtown dPi,jsjnn manaepr J ,
realism'is painful to those who world; and that as suejv it can ’ recognize the implications of this „ ' , . i-htino* PnwPrrn
comfort themselves by ignoring never find a permanent' place view, of the Soviet Union because c„P Hirimum-mpmhpr nf Thp
the facts, or cling to a different in- among vthe world’s civilized na- their responses tend to insist .on _ , d t ,
lerpretation of tl^em-. tions, but is doomed to final, the “common .humanity” of the „p.
Recently President Reagan, by failure as a society. Soviet leaders. Lewis, for exam- ’ J
speaking frankly on the subject of Now in a sense, of course, it is pie, quotes with approval George JAN. 4,1964
the Soviet Union, has distressed bad news if Mr. Reagan is correct Kennan’s speech at Dartmouth a Anarew j Lannie ot Houston,
people of the former/sort and abbut all this/It would be much couple of years ago, in which Ken-,an assistant Harris county at-
angered / the / latter. ; He had easier if the Western world’s pro- nan said that an American presi- “mey, moves lo Baytown to
described /the! SovietJunion as b^m With She U.S.S.R. were dent dealing with the Russians baco"?.e an asaofiat® °LGe°rg®
“ti?e focus of evil in tjjie modern merely, as Lewis graciously con- ought to “accept their common chandler m the Chandler and
world,” and confidently predicted Cedes, that we “disapprove of the humanity and their common in- “an?ie firm- chandler, who
thft Marxism-Leninism will end Soviet system with all its tyranny terest in peace.” Unfortunately, nas been Baytown city attorney 14
up “On the ash heap of history.” artd injustice.” Then it would Kennan’s reference was quite ex- pars, will continue his work at ci-
Mr. Reagan’s critics have con- simply be a matter of not letting plicitly to the Russian “people,” "a11- several years
demned these statements as relations, deteriorate to the nqt th^oviet leaders — almost ago gave Chandler permission to
.“name-calling,” and warned that shooting stage while waiting for ' certainly nothing more than a conduct private practice.
(in Anthony Lewis’s words) they the Soviet Union to ease up a bit failure of dialectical nerve, but Ronda Kay Wheeler is the first
“obstruct the real work of on the “tyranny and injustice”’ one that largely robs the quota- baby of the new year.. She is the
diplomacy.” But the critics plain- But unfortunately, as Mr. tion of its value from j.ewis’s daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace
ly sense th&t Mr, Reagan’s com- Reagan points out, the problem standpoint.*- -Wheeler.—~ — .—
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