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Jock Anderson
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In our opinion
Roberts to close out
congressional career
Congressman Ray Roberts of
McKinney, who succeeded the late,
famed Speaker Sam Rayburn 19 years
ago, is closing out hi&career on Capital
Hill and looking forward to taking life
at a less hectic pace.
During his time in Washington,
Roberts has proved himself a friend to
areas seeking water supplies and to
veterans, along with other programs.
Although a Democrat, he lias proved
himself independent, often disagreeing
with the administration and occa-
sionally pushing legislation specifical-
ly opposed by the president. In defen-
ding his independent role, he asserts
that he has beat voting for the best in-
terests of the nation.
Congressman Roberts has proved
an able legislator, skilled in promoting
legislation he favored. Sane of his col-
leagues say he is one of the best con-
ductors on the floor of the House when
be throws his strength toward passage
of favored bills. -
Residents of District One, in which
Hopkins County is located, have found
Congressman Roberts cooperative
with many of the projects within this
area. They appreciate his help in the
past and wish him well in the future.
Roberts is predicting that former
State Senator Ralph Hall of Rockwall
will succeed him as the Fourth District
UJS. Congressman. Hall has many
friends here who supported him in an
unsuccessful race fa lieutenant gover-
nor several years ago.
Hall will face John Wright, a
Republican and native of Smith Coun-
ty, in the, general election in
November.
Hoffman banking on time
being best lawyer
; After recently emerging as a
fugitive from justice following six
years of running and hiding, former
Yippie leader Abbie Hoffman obvious-
ly is expecting the authorities to
forgive and forget his past activities.
He emerged from his hideout in the
glare of publicity afforded by the
television cameras. As he has used
television to exploit his revoluntionary
ideas in the past, he again appeared to
arrange for his coming out of hiding
event to promote his own interests in a
visible, favorable light.
Many old-time legal experts have
contended that time is the best lawyer.
Prosecutors will be less enthusiastic.
Witnesses will disappear. The public
interest will diminish.
Hoffman appears to have weighed
the facts in his favor and is betting that
the odds will bring about complete
freedom.
It may be a few more years before
the Hoffman story comes to a close. It
may be a sad commentary about the
system, but Hoffman’s running and
hiding — and the elapse of time —
could bring him in a head of the game.
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The Almanac
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By The Associated Press
Today is Wednesday, Sept. 10,
» the 254th day of 1980. There are
112 days left in the year.
Today's highlight in history:
On Sept. 10, 1813, an
American naval force under
Oliver Perry defeated the
British in the Battle of I.ake
Erie in the War of 1812.
On this date:
In 1608, John Smith was
elected governor of the
Jamestown colony of Virginia.
In 1846, Elias Howe of
Spencer, Mass., received a
patent on his sewing machine.
In 1898, Empress Elizabeth of
Austria-Hungary was
assassinated by an anarchist in
Geneva.
In 1939, Canada declared war
against Germany.
Ten years ago, Vice President
Spiro Agnew denounced the
Democratic Congress as
reactionary, derelict and
dominated by “cave-dwelling
leftists."
Five years ago, a federal
appeals court reinstated the
Army court-martial conviction
of William Calley in the murder
of 22 civilians at My Lai in
Vietnam.
Last year, British Foreign
Secretary Lord Carrington
formally opened the Zimbabwe-
Rhodesia peace talks in London.
Today’s birthdays: Golfer
Arnold Palmer is 51. Former
baseball star Roger Maris is 46.
Thought for today: A little
learning is not a dangerous
thing to one who does not
mistake it for a great deal. —
William Allen White, (1868-
1944).
Joint Chiefs give two messages:
our defenses A-OK or disastrous
By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON - The
Joint Chiefs of Staff have
executed a bizarre reversal
of the classic waffling
maneuver: They have
marched down the'hill and
hack op again
b their annual report on
the United States military
pooitioo. the generals cata-
log a hair-raising number of
areas where we are hope-
lessly outgunned bv the Sovi-
ets, with apparently no like-
lihood of catching up
Then, in an effusion of
bureaucratic bafflegab, the
joint chiefs conclude that
everything may be hunky-
doj7 after all
Toe 96-page annual report
is classified Top Secret "
My associate Dale Van Atta
has obtained a copy, and the
bulk of it makes depressing
reading for anyone who
hopes Uncle Sam and the
Western allies can stand up
to the Soviet bloc bullies
Some examples
* “The overwhelming U S
advantage in terms of nucle-
ar warheads began eroding
in the early 1960s This
decline was temporarily
reversed in the early 1970s
(but) by the mid-1970s, the
decline started again and
has been continuous since
that time."
* "The continued success
of (NATO) strategy has been
jeopardized by the rapid
modernization of Soviet and
Warsaw Pact nuclear and
conventional forces."
* “The Soviet Union will
hold a 2-to-l advantage in
long-range theater nuclear
force weapons by the early
1980s, assuming that NATO
modernization programs
proceed as planned. In
terms of equivalent mega-
tons and hard target kill
capability, the Soviet advan-
tage will range from 2-to-l
to 4-to-l. These advantages
(sic) continue to increase
throughout the 1980s "
* “The Soviet drive to
modernize the conventional
forces of the Warsaw Pact
threatens the military bal-
ance in Europe, thereby
increasing risk of conflict,
or, more likely, political
intimidation The United
States and its NATO allies
have little choice but to
offset the growing Warsaw
Pact advantage by strength-
ening and modernizing their
own land, sea and air forces
or be forced to accept the
consequences of military
inferiority."
* "Current assessments
are that NATO forces might
be successful ... so long as
the combat is restricted to a
stable front where the
defender can take advan-
tage of prepared positions
NATO’s defense posture
however, is vulnerable to
breakthroughs, and has inad
equate forces available for
What cost regulation?
By Robert J. Wagman
WASHINGTON (NEA) — Hardly a day goes by when you
cannot pick up a newspaper or magazine and find a full-page
advertisement by some company or industry trade association
decrying the cost of government regulation.
Typical is a National Cotton Council advertisement that
appeared w many national magazines in July. Under a large
picture of a businessman with his office set up on a sidewalk
and the bold headline Over-Regulation Could Cost You Your
Business," was the statement “The cost of over-regulation
comes to a whopping $121 billion a year."
When business groups talk about government regulation,
they usually fix the annual pnee tag at about $100 billion. But
how have they arrived at that sum?
A
THE WAGMAN FILE
BobWagman
The father of the $100 billion figure is Murray Weidenbaum,
an economist at Washington University in St. Louis and direc-
tor of its Center for the Study of American Business It should
be noted that the Center gets extensive funding from business
organizations and that Weidenbaum has become a favorite
economist of big-business.
In 197$, Weidenbaum and his associates at the Center decid-
ed to try to determine the exact cost of government regula-
tion. It was to be a pioneering effort; nobody inside or outside
government had ever collected this information before.
There was no central source for data. So, says Weidenbaum,
his researchers “carefully searched all public- and private-
sector estimates of regulation cost." Agencies as large as the
National Labor Relations Board were omitted if there was no
basis upotr which to calculate their coats In all cases, says
Weidenbaum, "conservative” estimates were used.
The study found that federal regulatory agencies had annu-
al operating budgets in fiscal 1976 of $J.2 billion and estimat-
ed that business spent $62.9 billion to comply with the regula-
tions of those agencies Thus, they put the total cost of
government regulation at $66.1 billion
Weidenbaum concluded from these figures that the ratio of
compliance cost to agency budgets is about 20-1. By 1979,
agency budgets had grown to $4.8 billion. So, he calculated
that the cost of compliance had reached $100 billion annually
Using the 1979 figure as a base, organizations like the Cot-
ton Council are tacking on an inflation factor and concluding
that government regulation now costs $121 billion annually -
or, as Amway Products says in its advertisements, costs "a
family of four more than $2,000 a year ”
The Weidenbaum study has come under sharp attack from a
number of sources.
Shortly after the original study appeared in 1978, the Con-
gressional Reference Service of the Library of Congress said
that Weidenbaum’s work “has serious shortcomings and
limitations.” The CRS was especially critical of Center
researchers for using dated figures.
More recently, the Weidenbaum study has drawn fire from
the Ralph Nader organization. Mark Green, director of
Nader’s Congress Watch, calls the data “Chicken Little
economics” and “ideological arithmetic." Green charges that
the Weidenbaum study ~‘is shot through with methodological
errors and combines incommensurate numbers
Moreover, Green says that two-thirds of the costs found by
Weidenbaum are actually businesses' costs in complying with
regulations that protect them from anti-trust action. In other
words, that's the price they have to pay to be allowed to oper-
ate in an non-competitive environment v
Other studies have tried to confirm Weidenbaum’s figures.
Last year, the Business Roundtable, a Washington-based
lobby representing the biggest U.S. companies, asked its mem-
bers how much they would save if they po longer had to com-
ply with federal regulations. Their responses totaled only $2.6
billion The Roundtable study has been used to argue that
Weidenbaum’s figures are grossly overstated.
But at the same time, a study commissioned by the Com-
merce Department concluded that 1976 regulatory costs were
probably higher than Weidenbaum’s estimate.
One thing is certain: A burning issue in the fall political
campaign will be the cost of government regulation of busi-
ness - or, as Ronald Reagan and the Republicans always
term it, “over-regulation of business." You can count on hear-
ing that $100 billion figure many times in the coming weeks.
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reinforcements or a
mobile reserve
rl Concerning tanks, other
armored vehicles artillery
and attack helicopters, it is
"readily apparent all trends
are unfavorable to the Unit
ed States and NATO "
* Tactical air balance is
much closer, despite a 2-to^
1 numerical edge for the
Warsaw Pact in the central
region, because of NATO's
“qualitative lead in high per-
formance aircraft."
* The Soviet bloc is supe-
rior in chemical warfare
capability, and NATO con-
tinues to decline in this area
the report indicates
* While the Western allies
•continue to maintain a
modest margin of superiori-
ty in the Atlantic.'' this has
been achieved "at the likely
cost of conceding naval
superiority on one or both
flanks
* Even with “a sharp
reversal of the trend of
declining American defense
spending," there is no way to
reverse the Soviet-U S.
imbalance for several years
Incredibly, after painting
this grim picture of the
nations plummeting mili-
tary fortunes, the Joint
Chiefs of Staff somehow
conclude that the United
States has not irretrievably
yielded its former position
of military preeminence to
the Soviet Union ”
The Pentagon Pollyannas
explain their conclusion this
way The United States
continues to enjoy important
military strengths vis-a-vis
Soviet forces . U.S forces
of all services are generally
more versatile The United
States maintains a qualita-
tive edge in many weapons
systems and equipment
"Finally.” says the report
in what sounds like a script
from an old World War II
movie while the military
advantages which the Unit-
ed States derives from its
democratic political system
and superior technological
base defy easy quantifica-
tion there is no question but
that they weigh heavily in
the military balance."
Pick the paragraphs of
your choice and either sleep
better or be scared stiff
TALL TALE: One of
Egyptian President Anwar
Sadat's favorite stories is
how he almost put David
Rockefeller under house
arrest According to the
story. Rockefeller, chairman
of the Chase Manhattan
Bank, was Sadat's house
guest a few days before
Egypt launched its October
1973 offensive againt Israel.
Sadat says he had the feel-
ing he may have hinted a bit
too strongly about the super-
secret invasion plans to
Rockefeller, whose bank is
the agent for Israeli bond
sales in the United States.
So. Sadat says, he ordered
Rockefeller placed under
surveillance, and. if need be.
confined to his quarters until
after the attack was
launched
A nice story. But a Rocke-
feller spokesman points out
that the banker left Egypt in
late September 1973, for
Kenya, and was in fact there
when the invasion took
place. Rockefeller figures
Sadat is just making a small
presidential joke when he
tells the tale
ALL IN THE FAMILY:
The Carters of Plains, Ga.,
may have found a way to
flummox the people who
claim they’re getting special
treatment from the govern-
ment because one family
mempher is in the White
House: They're playing both
ends against the middle.
A farm cooperative called
Gold Kist Inc has asked the
Agriculture Department to
let it manage peanut price-
support loans for its
members. Gold Kist leases
the peanut warehouse owned
by Jimmy, Billy and Lillian
Carter
But the co-op's request is
being vehemently opposed
by a group of peanut clean-
ers and shelters Their chief
spokesman is G.C. Davis,
whose daughter. Annette, is
married to President
Carter's son Jeff
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Muggable moves
By the Editors
of Psychology Today
Pedestrians may signal
criminals that they are easy
targets for mugging by the
way they walk
So concludes an unpub-
lished study by a professor of
marketing at Hofstra Univer-
sity and a psychologist at New
York University. Betty Gray-
son and Morris Stein They
obtained ratings of 60 New
York City pedestrians’
"muggability" from the peo-
ple who may be most quali-
fied to judge — prison
inmates who had been con-
victed of assault
Grayson and Stein secretly
PSYCHOLOGY
TODAY
videotaped walkers in
Manhattan's garment district
on three weekdays between 10
a m and 12 noon. They taped
each pedestrian for six to
eight seconds, the time the
researchers assumed it takes
to size up an approaching
person. They selected 60
taped segments of an equal
number of men and women of
varying ages.
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"Disgruntled viewers are becoming VERY
angry. If the actors' strike isn’t settled soon,
this country could blow wide apart. "
In a pilot test, they tried ojit
the segments on a group of 12
prisoners who had been con-
victed of assaults on persons
unknown to them, asking the
inmates to comment on how
muggable each of the people
seemed The comments
became the basis of Grayson
and Stein's 10-point scale rat-
ing "assault potential ."
A rating of one meant
someone was "a very easy
rip-off"; two. "an easy dude to
corner.” At the other end of
the scale, nine meant a person
“would be heavy, would give
you a hard time " 10, "would
avoid it, too big a situation,
too heavy."
Grayson and Stein
explained the scale to 53 other
convicted muggers and asked
them to rate each of the peo-
ple on the tape At least half
the convicts agreed on rating
20 people as either ones, twos,
or threes - the potentially
easy victims. Similarly, at
least half the convicts gave
ratings of four or more to 19
other walks - the least likely
victims
Just what were the
“muggables" doing? The
researchers had a trained
dance analyst classify each
person's use of 26 movements
that are basic components in
a common system for describ-
ing and notating movement.
Several movements charac-
terized easy victims: their
strides were either very long
or very short; they moved
awkwardly, raising their left
legs with their left arms
instead of alternating them.
On each step, they tended to
lift their whole foot up and
then place it down, while less
muggable sorts took steps in
which their feet rocked from
heel to toe
Overall, the people rated
most muggable walked as if
they were in conflict with
themselves; they seemed to
make each move in the most
difficult wav possible
According to the common-
sense opinion offered by the
Crime Prevention Section of
the New York City police
department, crime victims
typically walk around in a
daze, oblivious to what goes
on around them That dreami-
ness, the study confirms, is
expressed in body movements
that criminals read as a clear
signal to move in
• • *
People concerned about
productivity should be inter-
ested to learn that the
country's office workers
agree they could work harder
Pollster Louis Harris
recently surveyed 1,000 secre-
taries and clerical workers
around the country and found
that 74 percent of them felt
they could "do more work in a
day" than they do now. A
majority (55 percent) even
said they favored attempts by
their employers to measure
their productivity.
When the Harris research-
ers asked if office workers
who are more productive
should be rewarded with pay
raises, employees and bosses
differed sharply. About two-
thirds of the office workers
favored such incentives, but
only 40 percent of the execu-
tives did.
(c) 1980 Psychology Today
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN I
BARBS
Phil Pastoret
People who recall the good
old days will find that memo-
ries are sharpest on nice,
comfortable, air-conditioned
nights.
Sore sign of fall: When, on
the first brisk day, the bos
windows, sealed all summer,
automatically fall open.
One of the best ways to
keep the family cat from
scratching the furniture is to
buy wrought-iron furniture.
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