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time, during a suit against a Philadelphia newspaper, the
mayor said from the stand he was going to strangle a reporter
It is not an exaggeration to say that the majority in this
community has been infatuated with Rizzo's goon-like
demagoguery And not only the hard-hat crowd, but many of
the sophisticates as well The/business community and the
middle and upper classes have wanted a strong arm in city
hall to forestall the possibility of ruinous racial conflict Even
the local news reporters who now have a thousand knives in
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turers, including Pace, are offering customers who buy 23-
channel sets the opportunity to have their units factory-
modified to « channels after January 1, for about 20 per cent
of the unit s suggested list price
Amid all the confusion and controversy, two things are cer-
tain: The Citizens Band phenomenon is here to Slav and the
EC. has not issued its last ruling concerning it Arid that’s a
big ten four.
Speedometer psychology
At the behest of the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration. General Motors and Ford are equipping many
of their 1977 model cars with speedometers that show a max-
imum speed of 85 miles an hour By 1900. all automobiles sold
in the United States may be required to have such
speedometers
The idea is that this will have a subtle psychological effect
on drivers Because the 55-m p.h. mark will be closer to the
right side of the dial, it is believed that people will be less
hostile to the lower speed limit that was decreed in 1974 in the
wake of the gasoline shortage They will think they are going
faster than they actually are.
Whether they will or not, the change is welcome if for only
one other reason: The would-be Indianapolis racers among us
may be less tempted to see if their cars can really do the max-
imum posted on their speedometers, which up to now has been
a quite unrealistic and totally unnecessary 110 or 120
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exchanges these days, something less than $1.70 at the latest
quotation
We have been informed of one gentleman, however, who
successfully unloaded his founds for 345 56 each — the kind of
pounds, that is, that most of us carry around in excesssupply
That was the record amount John Williams of Rochester.
N.Y , raised for each pound he lost in a project called the Diet
Workshop Lose-A-Thon for Care.
The project began last February when members of the Diet
Workshop, a chain of weight control classes, were officially
weighed in in their respective communities around the coun-
try and then set about seeking pledges from family, friends
and business associates
All told, more than 1,000 participants in the Lose-A-Thon
dropped a total of 40,423 pounds, which was translated into a
check for $60,000 recently presented to Care to be used to aid
starving children in the countries served by the international
relief agency
This is one case where everybody gained by losing
kept no personality secrets* Actually. he flaunted his vulgari-
ty During one campaign he told the locals that as mayor he in-
tended to make "Attilla
Computer rip-offs
are hurting you
The really clever crook doesn't physically break into an of-
fice or bank these days He does it electronically
The growing problem of computer break-ins has drawn
record attendance at recent computer industry conferences,
where stories like the following are told:
In New York City, a Neighborhood Youth Corps employe
with access to the agency's computerized check-writing
system had more than 900 unauthorized payroll checks printed
for his friends, at a cost of 32.7 million to the taxpayers.
In Washington, D.C., a swindler substituted his own
magnetically marked checking account deposit slips for the
blank ones a local bank kept on the counter. His account ac-
cumulated 3250,000 in four days from other people s deposits
He then made a hefty withdrawal and hasn't been seen since
In. California, a young graduate student stole about 31
million worth of inventory from a utility company with the
assistance of the company 's own computer He simply had the
computer order equipment to various warehouses, where he
picked it up in a disguised truck He then sold the equipment
through a dummy company.
Elsewhere, private computer files have been invaded by
people adding huge amounts of money, in the form of personal
credit, to charge accounts.
To protect computer-stored files, many companies have
devised systems as tight as Fort Knox, and a whole new in-
dustry has grown up in the field of computer security For ex-
ample. a company called Sycor, Inc., of Ann Arbor, Mich, has
come up with magnetic badges, key locks and even passwords
to ensure that only legitimate personnel have access to
specific file banks
Despite all the safeguards, an estimated 3200 million will be
stolen from business this year by means of computer
manipulation — an electronic np-off that will inevitably be
passed on to honest consumers in the form of higher prices
FCC throws CB industry
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radio space. The Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) had decided to allocate a total of 40 channels to CB an
increase of 17 over the present 23
In doing so, however, the FCC has thrown industry a curve
and unnecessarily so, in the opinion of one concerned
observer. It is another example of government regulators
regulating without fully considering the effect on the people
they regulate, says V.J. Rice, president of The Antenna
Specialists Co. in Cleveland
By Dm Oakley
Everybody in the country knows what Jimmy Carter said in
response to one question in that now-notorious Playboy inter
view Scarcely one in 100 could tell you what the question was
Essentially Mr Carter was asked what reassurance he
could give to those people who are a bit put off by what they
see as a rigidly moralistic and judgmental Baptist faith and
are concerned about the untoward influence it might have on
, his conduct in the presidency
Here was an opportunity for the candidate to give a brief
homily on the traditional American principle of separation of
church and state dropping an appropriate Jeffersonian or
Madisonian quote and to pledge that be like other presidents
before him, would continue to uphold that principle
instead, as we know, be unburdened himself of a rather silly
confession in which his candor was less to be admired than
his judgment was to be deplored Actually, however, it could
have been much worse
Mr Carter might have said something like this That
however strongly held one's personal religious faith may be.
we live in a pluralistic society in which different people have
different beliefs Since no one has ever been able to prove to
everyone's satisfaction who's side God is on, the only way we
can get along together and conduct the daily affairs of the na-
tion is for everyone to behave like practical atheists
If Carter's use of the word screw" alienated an unknown
number of voters, the word "atheist" would have lost him a
lot more After all, even Richard Nixon acknowledged that the
only person he would consider unfit to be president would be
an atheist
Well. in any event, we can now believe Jimmy Carter when
he says be will never lie to us But that doesn't mean be has to
tell us everything
the mayor. treated him gingerly for years, happy with a
quotable character. and phoud of the gold police badges he
passed out to favorites
If it is true, then, that citizens generally get the officials
they deserve, Philadelphians have only themselves - not
Frank Rizzo — to blame for their leadership They have
elected the churl twice, both times by overwhelming margins
Clearly. Mayor Rizzo is not an imperial bigot by accident
sentiment for his kind apparently runs deep here
Crime is good business
toprrvenagrimeornhosgycompanies in the business of trying
Spending by the private sector of the economy for protective
seryices, deterrent and monitoring equipment and fire control
puipment will more than triple 10 $13 billion by 1990 predicts
Pesdresttin. 3 Cleveland, Ohio, business information and
Protective services will account for the greatest growth
with revenues approaching 36 billion by 1990 says By that
year, more than $2.5 billion will be spent on guard services
glands with over 40 per cent of industry utilizing outside
The effective date of the new channels should have been
delayed until at least the middle of next year, he argues to
enable manufacturers to clear their inventories of 23-channel
models and gear up for production of the new 40-channel
models. Already, he says, one consequence of the decision has
been widespread discounting of 23-channel sets, with atten-
dant economic dislocation in the industry
There will be another scramble, he predicts, as manufac-
turers submit new 40-channel radios to the FCC for type cer-
tification. This is a process that takes a minimum of a month
and could mean that only a few lucky makers will have ap-
proved radios for sale on 40-channel day in January
As a company that makes nothing but communications
antennas and related accessories, and which sells more of
them than any other manufacturer in the country. Antenna
Specialists is not directly affected by FCC decision-making
But as a CBer himself. and as a person active in the electronic
industry's affairs. Rice is strongly critical of the com-
mission's entire performance as regards Citizens Band Radio
At the very least, he points out, the decision has caused
quite a bit of confusion in the minds of consumers, and the
currently available 23-channel radios are now being viewed as
very questionable investments by the buying public
This is unfortunate, says Rice, since the 23-channel sets will
provide more than adequate communication ability to any
purchaser Although 40-channel sets will, of course, have 17
additional channels for conversation, most people aren't
aware that the range of the 40-channel sets will not be nearly
so great as that of the present 23-channel radios
.Anyway, be adds, the idea that an individual needs 40
channels for conversation borders on the ludicrous, since most
active CBers normally use only about half a dozen channels
The president of another company which does happen to be
directly affected by FCC decision-making agrees with Rice
about the future of 23-channel CB
Not only will the current 23-channel sets continue to be quite
useable but their value, in terms of less-crowding, will in-
crease with the addition of the 17 new channels, says W I
Thomas, president of Pace, the largest supplier of CB radios
They will become considerably less congested and easier to
"get out” on.
Consumers who are thinking about the purchase of a CB
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"If I lose in November? My last act as President would be
to veto the elections."
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General Motors
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WASHINGTON — iNEA) — As predicted by the men who
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encouraged the proliferation of special interest political
groups a thousand today as compared with 500 two years ago
oThesresuit groups » the first nine months
given twice as much to favored Senate and
House candidates as in the same period of 1974 - $10 million
as compared with 35 million, according to a Common Cause
analysis And the worst is yet to come Typically the heaviest
givingisin September, Oclober and eary November, months
Hhroughen “nithis report, which covers only contributions
More than a tenth of the Aug 31 total of 310 million or
something over 31 million in special interest money went to
iust 101:Senate candidates - Hubert Humphrey-Minn.),
Vance Hartke (D-Ind.), Lloyd Bentson (D-Tex ), John Tunney
(-Cal Harrison williams (D-NJ ), James OHaran.
Mich.). Paul Sarbanes (D-Md.), William Green (D-Penn >
Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), and Robert Taft (R-Ohio5
Close to atenth °f the$1o million given by speciai interest
roupszin.this. period came from American Medical
Associations followed by dairy committees. AFLCIO com-
mittees on political education (COPE), mantime unions
NnttedaAutoWorkers, Fational Education Associations, the
of Machinists, financial institutions and the United
.Common Cause notes that a new political committee formed
by the American Trial Lawyers Association had by Aug 31
made contributions of 3118.000 to 1976 congressional can-
didates more than half going to candidates for the Senate
where no fault insurance has been a major issue in con-
troversy.
Again, of,the $10 million, $ million was given by labor
Eroups.. 27 million by business groups. 31 3 million by
medical, denial and other health groups, $780,000 by dairy and
other agricultural groups. 3137,000 by attorney groups
A study of the pattern indicates what seems to be a strong
desire to influence legislation by heavy giving the new
morality here being indistinguishable from the pre-Watergate
As noted at the opening of this column, the new rules favor
incumbents, especially first tuners who have not yet built a
firm base at home from years of service, and especially those
from marginal districts The reform law thusis of specias
benefit to those newcomers who first won their seats to 1974 on
reform slates to the wake of Watergate Many were elected in
marginal districts and their seats, i was foreseen, would nor
mally.be in serious danger this year. Numbers of this group
Not it is impossible to read the minds of senators and
representatives But it seems clear from the attitudes ex-
pressed at the time the reform law was being debated that one
object in the minds of some who voted for it was the creation
ofrules which would, as is being borne out, tend to insure their
and their friends re-election. The loopholes deliberately
created to favor certain special interest groups makes this
objective doubly clear.
.Those who voted to insert these financing provisions with
that thought in mind were using their votes to legally rig elec
tons.They were inmymind as guilty 01 political corruption
as those jailed in the Watergate scandals
Rizzo & Philadelphia,
made for each other
By Tom Tiede
PHILADELPHIA - (NEA) - Former U.S. Sen Joseph
Clark refers to Frank Rizzo as "Philadelphia's Mussolini" —
and that's about fair The beefy, macho mayor of this town is a
genuine stinker
In five tempestuous years in office his honor has dishonored
virtually all that he's touched Federal officers have con-
ducted continuous investigations of his operations,
newspapers have charged him with using police to spy on his
political enemies, even a leader of his own party
(Democratic) has accused him of bribery.
The latter peculiarity is perhaps most revealing. When
Democratic dignitary Peter Camile complained that Rizzo
had offered him a political bribe, the mayor denied it. What's
more the mayor said he'd take a lie detector test to back up
his denial He did. And failed.
Indeed, adds Joe Clark, Frank Rizzo is "ignorant, arrogant
and stupid " The result being be has brought the City of
Brotherly Love to the verge of civil war. Civil libertarians and
others spent most of the year collecting a reported 154 000
signatures to recall Rizzo, an effort that has now been in-
validated by the state supreme court The court ruled the peti-
tion was constitutionally inadequate. And it’s probably just as
well Rizzo loyalists say the city might have fallen into near
anarchy had their hero been dragged from office
The recall attempt was an act of desperation Unlike im-
peachment. it did not require formal charges of illegalities to
be lodged against its subject In Rizzo’s case, actually, the
rationale behind recall was that many perceive him to be a
dictatorial buffoon During the last election, for example, he
promised to hold the tax line, and then after winning he hiked *
real estate and wage taxes 30 per cent. In short, the mayor
was threatened with removal because some did not like his
style
At best the recall maneuver was loaded with risks and im-
plications Rizzo's lieutenants correctly pointed out that there
is no law against politicians promising one thing and doing
another As for the opinion that his honor is overbearing (he
was a staunch Nixon ally )..he is hardly alone. Congress too, is
full of gorillas
What was most disturbing about the attempt to recall Frank
Rizzo was that he in fact is more or less innocent of doing
anything except being himself It should not be suddenly sur-
prising to the people of Philadelphia that the mayor is ham
fisted He has been so for decades, and has been thoroughly
appreciated for it in this community
Rizzo was Philadelphia's police commissioner during the
civil rights disturbances of the 1960s He became a part of the
local folklore for his tough, crude. uncompromising attitude
toward blacks, youths and Vietnam-era nonconformists He
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