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In our opinion
Election-year economics?
Positive campaigns
better than negative
It would appear that the upcoming
presidential campaign will be waged
with a negative approach. There will
be charges of tottering age, inex-
perience, poor judgment, ineptness,
and a wide variety of other allegations.
The matter of religion also may be
tossed into the combat zones. Bob
Wagman, who writes for NEA,
foresees a prayerful plot in the mak-
ing.
Oh, there will be promises, to be
sure, but at the moment the emphasis
in both camps is tinged with negative
attitudes. More than likely there'll be
charges and countercharges over the
state of the defense posture and the
danger looming over the direction of
the military power of the United
States.
One thing that may not enter the
campaign, or influence any voters, will
be straight-forward and realistic
assessments in unflavored terms. It
may be easier to confuse than to give
the unvarnished truth. But perhaps the
state of the union is so multicomplexed
that even those in the upper echelons of
leadership are handicapped in con-
cocting the right answers.
It has been a hot summer. While the
weather may change in the next month
or so, do not expect the political cam-
paign to cool off. It should begin soon to
reach a new blistering pace with a
great many unkind remarks and
charges to be hurled by the contenders.
Fortunately, there are only about 80
days to go for a decision.
By Robert J. Wagman
WASHINGTON (NEA) — A staple of U S politics is what
might be called 'election-year economics." It is usually con-
sidered mandatory for a president seeking re-election to pur-
sue an economic policy that attempts to maximize Americans'
personal income and minimize unemployment on the oft-
proved theory that a prosperous electorate is a happy elector-
ate that will return the incumbent to office
But for the last year and a half. President Carter and his
economic advisers have made much of pursuing an economic
policy based not on what is best for an incumbent seeking re-
election but on what is best for the nation as a whole Faced
with raging inflation, the White House chose to trigger a deep-
ening recession with accompanying unemployment
THE WAGMAN FILE
Bob Wagman
Alfred Kahn, chief White House inflation fighter, is fond of
saying things like "We are doing what is right for the country
We can only hope that the people will see that while it will
hurt some in the short term. it.is what's best for all of us over
the long term It is not good politics, but it is good economics "
But now has appeared the first indication that election-year
politics may have begun to influence Carter's economic poli-
The White House and the Carter-Mondale Presidential Com-
mittee had for some weeks been quietly telling their farm-
state operatives and leaders of farm organizations that the
president was preparing to do something major for the hard-
pressed farmer
That something has now been announced. It is a major boost
in federal price supports for grain that will add perhaps $1
billion next year to farm income At the same time, of course,
higher price supports - essentially, higher floors on grain
prices — will substantially increase the costs to consumers
not only of grain products but of products such as beef, which
is grain fed
Increasing price supports thus appears clearly at odds with
the administration's previous strategy of fighting inflation at
all costs
In a press conference following the price-support announce-
ment, Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland explained that the
huge jump in price supports is necessary because "farmers
are in a serious cost-price squeeze that has depressed farm
income over the last 18 months and this increase is designed
to give farmers needed relief.”
Meanwhile, administration officials are trying to play down
the inflationary impact of the price-support rise. While it may
add |1 billion or so to farm income, they argue, the impact on
the consumer will likely be "only about $100 million in the
first year."
Bergland and other White House advisers insist the decision
was made "on the economic merits," not on political ones
"We have no way of knowing what the political impact will
be," says Bergland
But Carter-Mondale planners can pretty well guess what
would have happened had the billion dollars not been put into
farmers' pockets. It does not take a long memory to recall the
"tractorcades" of irate farmers circling the White House to
voice their outrage at sinking farm profits.
While Carter did well with farm voters in 1976, his cam-
paign workers in farm states and Democratic congressmen
with large farm constituencies had begun bombarding the
White House with warnings that unless the president did
something major for farmers — and did it quickly — the
Republican could sweep the farm vote in November.
So, how "non-political" was the increase in price supports’’
Well, the decision was personally announced by Carter to the
leaders of 16 farmer organizations who had been invited to the
White House for the occasion The meeting was attended not
only by administration officials but bv major Carter-Mondale
campaign workers who deal with farm states
To most observers here, the decision on price supports
seems almost purely political. Many believe that it signals a
return to election-year economics as the president starts to
sink out of sight in the polls.
INEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN l
Weightlessness seen
as secret ingredient
Excitement in the scientific field
continues to run strong as the real
thinkers of today exercise their brain-
power and plan for the 21st century.
They are envisioning a new age of in-
dustrialization in outer space that will
provide men with enormous advances
in medicines, materials that will make
solar power competitive with fossil
fuels, and a wide variety of other pro-
ducts that will change the existing way
oHife.
One of the key factors that may help
bring about the great advances in
space is weightlessness. Scientists
claim that gravity is one of the biggest
obstacles to developing new or better
materials on earth. They note that
limitations imposed by gravity will not
handicap scientists working in orbiting
Jack Anderson
labs.
Biologists are confident they can
create new agents to fight disease by
pursuing their work where gravity will
not be a factor.
Harry Gators of MIT regards
gallium arsenide as the “material of
the future”. It could be produced in
outer space and then utilized to help
reduce the cost of solar power.
While space experiments already
have provided earthlings with many
advances, the future industrialization
in the skies may bring about a super-
market array of new products.
It is an exciting time to live now. It
could be even more exciting in the 21st
century if you're inclined to wait and
see, or contribute toward those goals.
The Almanac
Today in History
By The Associated Press
Today is Friday, Aug. 15, the
229th day of 1980. There are 138
days left in the year.
Today's highlight in history:
On Aug. 15,1914, the Panama
Canal was officially opened to
traffic.
On this date:
In 1769, Napoleon Bonaparte
was born on the Island of
Corsica.
In 1935, humorist Will Rogers
and aviator Wiley Post were
killed when their plane crashed
near Point Barrow, Alaska.
In 1947, two. centuries of
British rule ended with the
creation of the Independent
states of India and Pakistan.
Ten years ago, warrants went
out for the arrest of black
militant Angela Davis on
charges of murder and kid-
napping in a shootout in San
Rafael, Calif.
Vesco, Civiletti, Billy:
White House and black plots
By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON -- Attor-
ney General Benjamin Civi-
letti had a chance to snare
White House intimates in a
bribery plot much like the
ABSCAM caper, but he was
far more enthusiastic about
investigating congressmen
than he was about investi-
gating Carter cronies.
The Justice Department
had a team of undercover
agents and middlemen,
equipped with all the spy
paraphernalia of ABSCAM,
working on the Libyan
invesUgation. They accumu-
lated stacks of investigative
reports and dozens of tapes
containing hours of incrimi-
naUng conversations.
Heard on the tapes are
such worthies 9s rogue
financier Robert Vesco and
Libya's United Nations
Ambassador Mansur Rashid
Kikkia. They were secretly
recorded as they engaged in
conspiratorial discussions
with middlemen about
multimillion-dollar payoffs
for members of President
Carter’s inner circle, includ-
ing Billy Carter, Hamilton
Jordan and Democratic Par-
ty Chairman John White.
The secret tapes and doc-
uments indicate that Vesco
played a backstage role in
the acquisition by Charter
Oil Company, Jacksonville,
Fla., of the profitable Carey
Oil refinery in Nassau This
is portrayed in the docu-
ments as a complex finan-
cial deal, involving special
erode oil arrangements with
Libya.
Tie documents also impli
cate Vesco in an oil deal
similar to the one
Billy Carter has now
admitted signing with Char-
ter Oil. The promised com-
med by the FBI.
lly Carter also arranged
Libya's top diplomat in
lington, Ali Houderi, to
strikingly
that Billy
missions would have been
worth millions to Billy.
These deals depended on
the willingness of Libya to
ship extra oil to Charter Oil,
at the behest of Vesco and
his fellow conspirators. But
first the Libyans demanded
evidence that the conspira-
tors could pull strings in the
White House as they had
boasted. At this crucial
point, White agreed to meet
with Ambassador Kikkia - a
rendezvous that was secret-
ly filmed by the FBI.
Billy Cart
for Libya's
Washington,___________, „
visit the president. Not long
afterward, the same
Houderi delivered the first
check to Billy of a promised
$500,000
The president and his men
claim they were ignorant of
any backdoor dealings and
innocent of any wrongdoing.
The voices on the tapes, con-
fiding otherwise, belong
largely to shady operators
whose credibility can be
challenged. So Justice
Department officials wanted
their undercover team, with
cameras and tapes, to focus
on the White House.
Here was Civiletti’s
opportunity to do unto the
White House as he had done
unto Congress. In fact, the
chief of his criminal divi-
sion, Philip Heymann, had
assured congressmen that
President Carter himself
would have received the
same treatment if he had
stepped in front of the FBI’s
hidden cameras. “I would
have swallowed twice,”
Heymann said, "but I
wouldn’t have stepped
back."
As it actually happened,
both Civiletti and Heymann
stepped back. They withheld
funds that had been request-
ed for the Libya investiga-
tion and rejected a proposal
to appoint a special prosecu-
tor to conduct a full-blown
investigation.
This is in dramatic con-
trast to Civiletti s enthusias-
tic support of the ABSCAM
operation, although here
again he seemed more eager
to pursue anti-Carter than
pro-Carter congressmen.
The FBI’s star witness, Mel
Weinberg, was reported
"frustrated and bewildered”
over the Justice Depart-
ment's lack of interest in
Carter loyalists
At one ABSCAM strategy
meeting, a Justice Depart-
ment official asked eagerly
"Hey! Did we get Kelly'’"
Another responded: “Yes,
we got that troublemaker."
They were referring to Rep
Richard Kelly, R-Fia., the
only Republican congress-
man caught in the ABSCAM
net.
Now the soothing voice of
Heymann has been heard
again assuring alarmed con-
gressmen that nobody from
the Justice Department
“dangled bait in front of a
congressman." But my asso-
ciate Gary Cohn has exa-
mined hours of the sealed
ABSCAM videotapes. These
show that the undercover
agents repeatedly dangled
petrodollars in front of
congressmen.
A Justice Department
attorney monitored the bri-
bery scenes from an adjoin-
ing room. He would inter-
rupt the undercover agents
with a telephone call when
they pressed their victims
too hard to take the bribes.
There are frequent tele
phone interruptions on the
videotapes. Each time, an
agent would answer and
would subsequently modify
the bribe offer
Some politicos refused to
accept the bribes until they
had been pressured by mid-
dlemen who, in turn, were
repeatedly urged by agents
to get their political con-
tacts to stop playing games
and take the cash
The public can merely
speculate whether White
House intimates could have
been enticed to accept direct
payoffs if Civiletti had per-
mitted the multimillion-dol-
lar bait to be dangled in
front of them, with the FBI's
cameras grinding
WATCH ON WASTE
Great boondoggles from tiny
programs grow In 1975, the
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration hired
outside experts to do a one-
year study on the states'
drug and alcohol laws as
they relate to highway safe-
ty. The fee was a modest one
by government standards
$17,600
At the end of the year, the
study was not yet complet-
ed. but NHTSA officials
were so pleased with what
results they had seen that
they extended the contract
for another year - and about
$10,000 more. The following
year, the study had really
taken root, and was extend-
ed once again, for about
$28,000 Repeated exten-
sions and "modifications,’’
year after year, have trans-
formed the original $17,600
study into a $106,082 extra-
vaganza.
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A day in Heaven
By George R. Plagenz
The problem many of us have with heaven is not that we
are afraid we won't get in It's that we have the .dea that
things won t be too exciting once we are there
We understand the question of that little girl who asked her
mother, "If I am very good in heaven, will thev let me go
down to hell on Saturday afternoons and play a little?”
Then there is something else Most of the mental pictures of
heaven which have been drawn for us are too vague to be
interesting.
Marty saw this problem and took his concern right to the
top.
“Dear God," his letter began in the neat but uncertain hand
of a child. "I have got to know something What is it like in
heaven? I know it s nice but what kind of nice9 What happens
when it rains?"
Marty probably had good reason for going direct to the
home office with his question. He may have discovered most
clergymen couldn't help him much. As a matter of fact, it was
probably a clergyman who told Marty that heaven was a
“nice” place but was stumped when Marty said, "What kind of
nice?"
Some churches, of course, are willing to be more explicit
Berry's World
SAINTS AND SINNERS
George Plagenz
about what heaven is like, but this often has the effect of
killing off any interest in heaven. An eternity of hymn singing
is a dreary and boring prospect to a lot of people.
If the first question we have about heaven is if we will be
reunited with our loved ones, the next thing we would like to
know is what will we do in heaven
Sherwood Eddy, an orthodox churchman who spent 13 years
near the end of his life investigating psychic evidence for life
after death, relates in his autobiography a conversation with
his father who had “passed over.”
"When I asked him about his work over there," Eddy writes,
“he said, T was always an organizer and I am organizing over
here, working for others. Mother is as aggressive and dynamic
as ever.’”
Before he died, Rev. Arthur Ford, the medium who is said
to have put Bishop James Pike in touch with his departed son
told of talking with scientists in "the next world” who were
continuing to do research in their new environment.
After his own death, Ford was able to give an eye-witness
account of conditions on the other side. Through a medium, he
related his impressions of some of the famous people he had
seen on his new plane of existence:
Of Hitler: "He still prances, rants and shouts, but to no
avail. There is none here so low as to seek association with
that monstrous soul."
Of Clark Gable: "He is as admired here as he was there He
works with out-of-work actors on earth to help them find
employment.”
Of Sen. Robert A. Taft: "I've seen him and Tom Dewey in
earnest thought-exchange several times. Taft is teaching over
Will we see our loved ones again when we get to heaven?
Emmett Fox, one of the most popular of the metaphysical
writers, says, "Wherever there is a strong emotional link —
either of love or hatred - there is likely to be a meeting when
you have passed over.”
Jesus himself spoke of renewing human relationships in the
Kingdom of God. He seemed to suggest that heaven would not
be devoid of all earthly pleasures. While he was eating the
Last Supper with his friends he said, "I will not drink hence-
forth of the fruit of the vine until I drink it new with you in mv
Father’s kingdom." ’
Without our earthly bodies, how will we recognize one
another?
According to H.W. Price, professor emeritus of logic at
Oxford University, life and awareness after death will be
comparable to the world of our dreams, which seem to be
physical but aren’t. The difference will be that the people we
meet in the next plane of existence will be really there -
unlike those who appear in our nightly dreams here and now
If we can believe all this, the next world could turn out to be
a lively place, full of vigorous and varied activity and intense-
ly interesting - so much so we won't have to go to hell on
Saturday afternoons (or Saturday nights) to have fun and a
good time.
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