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2—THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, & iphur Springs, Trai, W#dn#sday, July 11,1990
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Lotteries bring out
the hidden feelings
In recent months, lottery jackpots have inspired at least
two Florida lawsuits filed by an ex-spouse and a former
fiancee who claim their one-time ‘‘significant others”
squeezed diem out of a rightful share of seven-fgure
jackpots.
Observers stress that with 32 states and the District of
Columbia now churning out lottery prizes virtually every
week, such lawsuits may be the next ‘‘growth market” in
the legal profession.
A spokesman for a national lottery player’s publication
notes there have been similar cases in Massachusetts and
Illinois. The problems often arise between people who
know each other but don’t have a written agreement as to
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how a big payoff might be split
Not long ago, a Port St. Lucie (Florida) woman sued
her ex-hancee, a Palm Beach Cardens man, saying he
owes her one-quarter of a $16 million New York jackpot
won in 1987. The woman claims her former boyfriend
ght the winning ticket with money earned at a plumb-
business she owned but failed to give her any of the
bou
ing
proceeds when the couple split up last December after
they moved to Florida.
That comes on the heels of a much-publicized trial in
Stuart, Fla., where a jury awarded Lewis Snipes one-
quarter of his ex-wife’s $31.5 million Florida jackpot.
nipes claimed he bought the winning ticket only to see
brnpes
half of
the jackpot.
nng rejecting the award and seek-
Alas, this is just"the kid of “growth industry” America
needs at a time when budget deficits, balances of tarde
things when we can dwell on such mind-boggling con-
cepts such as which persons paid what for which ticket
and who gets what from lottery payments.
By George, let's
tax the rich
By Vincent Carroll
George Bush, you’re no Abraham
Lincoln.
Few presidential press conferences
in recent years have witnessed a mo-
ment of such surpassing humbug as
when Bush the Prevaricator invoked
Lincoln the Emancipator's theory of
leadership to explain why he had be-
trayed 49 million voters and agreed to
raise taxes.
Of course, Lincoln hiked taxes in his
day, too, but he did it to support an
army charged with keeping the union
together. Bush, a man of dime-store
dreams, agreed to raise taxes merely
in order to hold together a “budget
summit’' of foot-dragging politicians.
Now the vital question becomes
who will pay for the president’s men-
dacity. Will it be the average fe’low
hoisting a six-pack off the shelf, the
commuter filling his gasoline tank,
the pom* tobacco addict in line for an-
other carton of Camels?
Quite possibly it will be all three,
since every list of likely tax targets
seems to mention alcohol, gasoline
and tobacco. Yet why should an al-
ready heavily taxed middle class be
forced to ante up still more to sate
Washington? There happens to be a
much better place to locate additional
revenue: in the bank accounts of the
president’s establishment friends.
Yes, it’s time to soak the rich, and
here are two good reasons why:
1) They asked for it.
OK, so they haven’t exactly begged
for higher taxes on themselves.
Wealthy, they are. Masochistic,
they’re not. Nevertheless, surveys of
corporate leaders have consistently
revealed a large portion of the na-
tion’s highest-paid executives itching
to see taxes raised on the rest of us.
The same attitude apparently typifies
the high-fliers of the financial mar-
kets, who showed their appreciation
of the president's decision to chuck his
The opinion page
What to do with all these spies
By Jack Aadenaa
and Dale Van Ana
MUNICH - So many East German
spies are coming in from the cold that
Western intelligence agencies are
overwhelmed as they try to sort out
the information from these defectors
and the files they bring.
Not that the West is complaining
Jack
Anderson
i_
about the windfall — it's the espio-
nage equivalent of stumbling onto
King Solomon's mines. For the Soviet
Union, whose KGB worked closely
with East German spies, it's probably
the greatest intelligence loss since
World War II.
source noted there’s no point in
hoarding data, because there’s so
much.
The Western mood is “exultant."
according to one West German intel-
ligence official. He and others are
preparing for a highly secret meeting
to be held here soon between top U S.
and West German intelligence offi-
cials They'll sift through reams of in-
formation received so far from a del-
uge Of hundreds of East German
defectors
He predicted the “marvelous" co-
operation would get even better in the
future. One reason be gave is what he
called “the internationality of issues’
that will unite the CIA and the BND in
their efforts.
There have already been almost
daily meetings between the West
German foreign intelligence service,
the BND. and the Central Intelligence
Agency here and in Washington since
the Berlin Wall fell last November.
Both CIA and BND sources describe
their current cooperation on the
"take" as first rate. One German
Another, more compelling reason,
he said, is both the CIA and the BND
expect cuts in manpower and budget
as the Soviet threat wanes and the
Warsaw Pact withers. “We’ll all have
less personnel and fewer resources,
so we’ll really need to share them,*
the German official added.
The East German secret services
came under the State Security Minis-
try. Defectors with the most value to
the CIA and the BND come from the
ministry’s foreign intelligence ser-
vice, or HVA, by its German initials.
They are also the hardest to get.
Except for a few top-notch HVA de-
fectors who’ve revealed excellent in-
formation, intelligence sources con-
cede, no key people at the top of the
service have come over. To hear a top
West German counter-espionage offi-
cial, they are ‘fanatic and ideological
about communism* and unlikely to
defect Worse, he added, they trans-
ferred more than a tenth of their most
sensitive files to Moscow last year as
reformist East German officials
moved in.
Even without their defection, the
HVA has changed its tack. ‘Since last
February,” the official said, “we have
no sign or information that the GDR
(East Germany) is spying on us.
That’s when the East Germans
stopped espionage and entered into
secret agreements of cooperation
with us.’
The most important defector so
far. according to these intelligence
sources, is a top ministry official
named Alexander Schalck-Golod-
kowski. He was East Germany’s chief
foreign trader until he ‘jumped* the
wall last November. He was jailed
briefly in West Berlin but was re-
leased for extensive debriefings on
East German intelligence activities.
In his guise as a trader, he worked
full-time with cover firms, one intel-
ligence source told us: ‘So he has
shown us all the firms the East Ger-
mans and KGB intelligence agents
E
use for cover around the world.*
The lion’s share of defectors, so far, -
have come from the Stasi, the dread-
ed secret police that East Germany
used to spy on its own people. Stasi
employed 85,000 people full-time and .
id a network of 109,000 citizen-in-
ormants. Some 2,100 agents' sole
task was to steam open mail while an-
other 1,052 tapped phones. Stasi had a
fleet of 20,000 vehicles and an arsenal
of 200,000 weapons.
Stasis files on feUow East Ger-
mans have been measured in kilomc
ters. Our sources estimated that the
files, now in the safe hands of a 100-
member citizen’s committee, were
le. That’s near-
ly’s popu-
lation of 17 million, or most of the
adults.
kept on 5 million people. Thai
ly one-third of East Germany
THE CONGEE?? will
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no-tax pledge by pushing up the stock
market nearly 20 points on the very
next day.
Poetic justice alone demands that
they sup on the stew they helped
prepare.
2) They can afford it.
In 1981, the highest-paid corporate
executive made $5.7 million. By last
year that figure had jumped to nearly
$54 million (we re talking about annu-
al incomes, hard as it is to believe).
And while in 1980 the average chief
executive officer could expect to
make 40 times the income of an aver-
age factory worker, by 1989 that
same CEO was pulling down 93 times
as much.
But let's not pick on CEOs alone. At
least they run companies that create
America’s wealth. As Kevin Phillips
recounts in his new book, “The Poli-
tics of Rich and Poor," the real action
in recent years has been in finance
and law. Michael Milkin’s estimated
take of 2500 million may have sur-
prised even some of his peers on Wall
Street, but annual earnings of 240 mil-
lion or so among such wheeler-deal-
ers are not uncommon.
Meanwhile, there are’many more
lawyers than CEOs making six- and
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THEN THE REPUBLICANS
Running for office
in’90 WILL PUSH
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East German officials want to de-
stroy the files; West Germany, while
mindful of privacy issues, would first
like a peek at them. They could show
the West whom to trust: the thicker
the file, the more likely it’s on an anti- ,
communist. Negotiations on the files’
fate are underway.
SENATORIAL CENSOR - Repub-
lican Sen. Jesse Helms, North Caroli-
na’s relentless conservative, might do
well to curb ms campaign against
government funding of sexually efv
plicit art. Sources tell us he could
come to regret it as he faces a tough
re-election battle this year.
While the public may find some
artwork offensive, they are even ■
warier of seeming attempts at cen-
sorhip. Helms’ crusade might be seen
as an attempt to violate the public’s
right to view what they choose. That
sort of thing, some nervous fellow Re-
publicans feel, backfired on the 1988
presidential prospects of Sen. A1
Gore. His wife, Tipper Gore, kept a
high profile in her push to label ex-
plicit rock music lyrics.
MINI-EDITORIAL - Japan’s su- *
per economy has beat touted, vener-
ated and envied for so long now that
it’s easy to overlook the same social
and economic upheaval there that
seems to follow rapid development
everywhere. Japanese women are re- .
belling against the male-dominated
culture. Women are going back to
school and entering politics. Some
Japanese factories are suffering un-
der a labor shortage. The suicide rate .
is soaring among an overworked citi- -
zenry. Children, to the dismay of their *
elders, are turning to American cut- f
lure for.their music and idols. Some
of it should be familiar to Americans, :
who went through all of it one time or
another.
Copyright. 1M0, Catted Fee lure Syndicate, lac.
Dollars spent with a social conscience
seven-figure incomes today. Phillips
....... Jo ‘ '
reports that trial lawyer Joseph Ja-
mail pulled down 2450 million in 1988
alone.
Rather than taxing beer, gasoline
and cigarettes, how about taxing ex-
travagant luxuries? Slap a 1 percent
tax on furs, cars costing more than
250,000 and similar toys of the rich.
And cap mortgage-interest deduc-
tions for the second and third homes.
The truth is that Uncle Sam doesn’t
need more revenue, if only Congress
dared to trim unjustified spending.
But if we can’t stop higher taxes alto-
gether, we might as well shove them
onto the few people who might not
miss the cash.
© »»• NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN
By Mike Feinsiiber
WASHINGTON (AP) — Time
was when buying a can of beans
was as easy as pie.
You had to consider whether the
beans would be tasty and nutritious
and wouldn’t have too much salt
It’s not that simple any more.
Now a savvy consumer considers
whether he should be buying his
beans in biodegradable containers
and, beyond that, the social policies
of the company that cans the beans.
Does it hire and promote
women? Trade with South Africa?
Also manufacture cigarettes? Pol-
lute? Recycle? Test its products on
animals?
Some investors also are raising
questions like that. They want to
know whether the companies they
support do more than merely make
a profit They want their investment
dollars to have a social conscience.
That process of looking into cor-
porate policies has been given a lot
of names: “green consumerism,”
“economic democracy,” “cor-
porate responsibility” or “em-
powerment” Opponents might call
representative of the Council on
Economic Prioritie% a 21-year-old
nonprofit research organization and
a proponent
“In the ’90s, people have a need
to be empowered,” she said. “They
want to know the policies behind
the companies they support and in-
vest in. We’no longer want to be
guided only by advertising slogan.”
Last year, the council published
a booklet, “Shopping for a Better
World: A Quick & Easy Guide to
Socially Responsible Supermarket
Shopping,” which rates companies
and products on 10 criteria.
The a
council took a chance and
initially published 100,000 copies.
The booklet is now in a mass
market paperback published by
Ballantine. Total sales have ex-
ceeded 699,000.
Growth has been rapid, too, in
investment funds that buy stocks
only in firms that meet “social
ing; have progressive records on e-
qual opportunity and promotion of
women into the corporate
boardroom; make safe, non pollut-
ing and recyclable products and use
alternative fuel sources.
“It turns out that of the top 1,000
publicly traded companies, 60 per-
cent pass our criteria,” said Steve
Schueth, Calvert vice president for
socially responsible investing.
John Schultz, {Resident of the
Social Investment Forum, a Min-
neapolis-based trade association,
said the amount of money put in
such “screened” investments went
from $40 billion in 1984 to $500
billion this year.
Schueth said the phenomena
goes balck to the 1920s, when
church groups steered their invest-
money a'
ment
responsibility” criteria.
The ‘[socially responsible” in-
vestment funds of Calvert Group of
it supermarket socialism.
“We call it
Ve call it casting an economic
vote,” said Leslie Gottlieb,
t funds of Calvert Group of
the Washington suburb of
Bethesda, Md., favor firms that
avoid South Africa, Northern
Ireland, nuclear power, weapons of
mass destruction and animal test-
ey away from stocks in
tobacco, alcohol or gambling firms.
“Socially responsible” investing is
much further advanced in Europe,
where it is pushed by the “green”
environmental movement.
In America, “it is growing, but it
is still minuscule because 99 per- ,
cent of all decisions are made on ,
other grounds,” said sociologist
Amitai Etzioni of George
Washington University, who has *
kept an eye on the phenomenon.
Nobel Prize-winning economist
Milton Friedman, a well-known
conservative, makes a distinction '
between, how people spend and in- *
vest their own money and other
people’s money.
With their own money, they can
do what they like, he said; but if :
they spend or invest on behalf of ‘
others it is irresponsible to make '
the decision on criteria not *
specified by the money’s owner —
usually to maximize profits or get -
the best buy.
“I doubt very much that much of ‘
the endowment of Harvard Univer-
sity, to take one example, was con-
tributed by people who intended
that Harvard should sacrifice inc- ’
ome for some supposedly superior !
purpose,” said Friedman. ;
Reservations about hotel reservations
By Lewis Grizzard
It’s summer and you are asking, “How
can I be assured of getting a reason-
able, comfortable hotel room during
my annual vacation?*
It may sound great that you can
stay in The Ramshackle Inn for $27 a
night and the kids can shower free,
but if you want to assure yourself a
pleasant vacation, there are a lot
more questions you need to ask when
considering a hotel than, “How
much?”
‘ I am a veteran traveler and
I am here today to
‘ my wealth of knowledge on the
of booking >r«q!n
Lewis
Grizzard
gtve you a choice. Coke hotels tend to
have larger towels.)
3. Is room service prompt, or
should I go ahead and order morning
coffee now for my August visit?
4. Does any member of the hotel
staff speak English, in case I need to
ask a question like, “Is the water in
this hotel supposed to be brown?”
5. How long after midnight will the
maids start banging on my door if I
forget to hang out my ‘Do Not
Disturb* sign?
6. If you have Spectr&Vision and I
fall asleep diving “Naughty Stewar-
desses,’ and it plays all night,-will I be
charged for each showing or just the
one 1 intended to watch?
7. Will I be able to figure out the
shower control without a degree from
MIT?
8. Do you prosecute for stolen
robes?
9. How long is the average wait for
an elevator? I only have two weeks.
10. Which is more expensive per
day, my room or what it costs to leave
my car in your parking garage?
11. Will there be a college fraternity
convention in this hotel or in any
'hotel within a 50-mile radius during
my stay?
12. What will the sound of the air
conditioner in my room remind me of
— a freight (rain? A tractor and trailer
climbing a hill? The Battle of Midway?
13. If there is a mini-bar in my
room, is financing available for what
it will cost me if I use it?
14. Does the band in the lounge
ever play “Feelings," ‘Jeremiah Was a
Bull Frog,’ or “Proud Mary"?
15. Which is cheaper — a Cutlass
Supreme or what you charge for local
phone calls?
*M6. Is the
the key to my room an
honest-to-God key with my room
number on it, or some flimsy piece of
plastic that may, or may not, open my
door depending on how badly I need
to use the bathroom?
17. How long will it take me to
figure out how to turn on the lamp
next to my bed?
18. Is the food in your restaurant
comparable to most hotel food?
19. How far to the nearest Waffle
House?
20. How long will it take me to
check out or should I just get into the
line and you’ll get to me as soon as
you’re finished checking out the
Mormon Tabernacle Choir?
Ask questions. Demand answers.
Otherwise you could wind up
where the towels are too small, the
pillows are too soft, there’s no hot
water or cable and your room is next
door to the honeymoon suite that
includes a trapeze.
Welcome, then, to Hotel Hell.
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