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PAGE FOUR—Sapulpa (Okie.) Herald, Tuesday, November 26, 1691
Opinion
How can we improve the economy
Today in History
By The Associated Pram
Today is Tuesday, Nov. 26, the
330th day of 1991. There are 35 days
left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
Nov. 26,1789 was a day of thanks-
giving set aside by President Washing-
ton to observe the adoption of the
Constitution of the United States.
On this date:
In 1825, the first college social
fraternity, Kappa Alpha, was formed
at Union College in Schenectady,
N.Y.
In 1832, public streetcar service
began in New York City. The fare:
12'A cents. (The horse-drawn streetcar
was unveiled 12 days earlier.)
In 1940, the 500,000 Jews of
Warsaw, Poland, were forced by the
Nazis to live within a walled ghetto.
In 1949, India adopted a constitu-
tion as a republic within the British
Commonwealth.
In 1950, China entered the Korean
conflict, sending troops across the
Yalu River to begin a counter-
offensive against soldiers from the
United Nations, the United States and
South Korea.
In 1965, France launched its first
satellite, sending a 92-pound A1
capsule into orbit.
In 1973, President Nixon’s personal
secretary, Rose Mary Woods, told a
federal court she had accidentally
caused part of the 18'/i-minute gap in a
key Watergate tape.
In 1975, a federal jury in Sacramen-
to, Calif., found Lynelte Fromme guil-
ty of trying to assassinate President
Ford.
In 1983, gunmen robbed a ware-
house at London's Heathrow Airpom
1939, the play “Key Largo," by
Maxwell Anderson, opened at the
Ethel Banymore Theater in New
York.
In 1942, during World War II, the
French navy at Toulon scuttled its
ships and submarines to prevent them
from falling into the hands of the
Nazis.
In 1945, Gea George C. Marshall
was named special U.S. envoy to
China to try to end hostilities between
Barb Wire
the Nationalists and the Communists.
In 1953, playwright Eugene O’Neill
died in Boston at age 65.
In 1970, Pope Paul VI, on a visit to
the Philippines, was wounded at the
Manila airport by a dagger-wielding
Bolivian painter disguised as a priest.
In 1973, the U.S. Senate voted 92-3
to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice pres-
ident, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew.
In 1978, 183 people were killed
when a Colombian Avianca Airlines
Boeing 747 crashed near Madrid's
Barajas airport.
In 1987, French hostages Jean-
Louis Normandin and Roger Auque
were freed by their pro-Iranian captors
in west Beirut, Lebanon.
In 1989, 107 people were killed
when a bomb blamed by police on
drug traffickers destroyed a Colom-
bian jetliner, minutes after the plane
had taken off from Bogota’s interna-
tional airport.
Ten years ago: Singer-actress Lotte
Lcnya, remembered for her role as
Jenny in “The Threepenny Opera,"
died in New York at age 83.
Five years ago: Published reports
said the FBI was investigating whether
fired National Security Council aide
Oliver L. North had destroyed papers
from his personal files as the Iran-
Contra affair began to unravel.
One year ago: Britain’s Conserva-
tives chose John Major to succeed
Margaret Thatcher as party leader,
paving the way for Major’s appoint-
ment as prime minister. The Senate
Armed Services Committee opened
hearings on the Persian Gulf crisis.
Today's Birthdays: Actress Mona
Washboume is 88. Broadway produc-
er David Merrick is 79. Children's
entertainer “Buffalo Bob" Smith is
74. Former Czechoslovakian
Communist leader Alexander Dubcck
(doob’-chek) is 70. Former treasury
secretary William Simon is 64. Singer
Eddie Rabbit! is 50. Caroline Kennedy
Schlossberg is 34. Actress Robin
Givens is 27.
Thought for Today: “Love your
neighbors, but don’t pull down the
fence.” —Chinese proverb.
David Brinkley threw a high, hard
one past his fellow participants on the
“This Week with David Brinkley*
show two Sundays ago. What can and
should be done to Improve the econo-
my? he asked.
It came to me first, and I struck
out, mumbling something or other
which didn’t make much sense even to
me. The other regulars fared better,
but none really had an answer at
hand. Considering that we were all of
Washington's nattering class, which
usually has a snappy (if not always ra-
tional) answer for everything, that
collective incoherence said some-
thing important To put it plainly,
there is no panacea for what ails the
country today.
Or, to put it another way, there is no
formula that can revitalise the econo-
my and rebuild our human and physi-
cal infrastructure which will not in-
volve shared sacrifice by just about
everyone. Since sacrifice has not been
that brought us to our present sorry
state. It was an interesting coinci-
dence that David Brinkley asked his
tough question on the 10th anniversa-
ry of hk ABC-TV Sunday talk show, a
10-year period that almost coincides
with the Reagan-Bush years. During
most of that time, the prevailing or-
thodoxy was that the government had
invented the first balloon in history
which would only go up. Defying i
erything experience had taught,
were told that no damage would ere
if we cut taxes and vital domestic i
ing to be almost Irresistible, nartlcu- *3
larly for Democrats, If only because ;
the. Reagan-Bush team was aortteriy
androees! But the situation 1st
which would only go up. Defying ev
we
i would ensue
[domestic ser-
vices even while overall spending was
rising. Borrow and spend became the
approved twist on tax and spend, ex-
cept that at the end of the 1980s, we
were simultaneously borrowing at re-
cord levels, spending at record levels
and taxing at previous levels.
No one seemed to care during much
metaphor, those who pretend other-
wise are actually peddling the old
firewater in the medicine-man's new
bottle.
Congress’ flirtation with the idea of
price controls on the cost of money —
a cap on credit card interest rates -
was illustrative. In the midst of a re-
cession-depression, with banks teeter-
ing on the brink and credit hard to
find, it would have deprived millions
of Americans of the only credit they
of that “longest peacetime expansion can find and pushed several big banks
and rases. But the situation is too seri-
ous for cheap-shot politics. Per once,
politicians must tell the people what
they know instinctively to be true.
Having taken years to dig this bole, it
will take us years to dig out.
More to the point, the extra co*
and labor will have to be shared by
everyone except those in the bottom
quarter of the population who were
excluded from the binge of the 1980s.
The emphasis must be placed on the
future, on the next generation. Having
drawn down on our savings and eaten
the seed corn, we need a decade in
which replenishing both is the central
priority.
That means sharply curtailing enti-
tlements for the middle class and
raising taxes on the rich. That means
reordering the tax system to empha-
a favored idea of late, that is not a deficits piled upon record deficits, would have punished the big boys lor uving, im| de-emphasixe con-
message which the average politician with the result that the national debt past sins and present excesses, it sumptjon. It means saying no to each
will go out of his way to offer. Instead, went from below $1 trillion to above would have targeted a scapegoat, far- new for special treatment. It
we are likely to hear variations on a
familiar theme: Let’s stick it to Label
X of the population (the rich, the wel-
fare class, etc.) and relieve the burden
on Category Y (the middle class, the
average American, the productive
rich, etc.)
But that's essentially the message
$3 trillion. Living on borrowed mon
ey, we were also living on borrowed
time in one of the biggest parties the
nation ever threw for itself.
Now it’s hangover time, and the po-
litical reality, like the physical one. is
i magic poti
away. To
that there is no magic potion to make
a hangover go away. To stretch the
off and anonymous. And, as it was de-
scribed by its sponsors as opposed to
how it would actually have worked, it
would have been beneficial to most of
us and harmful only to the “malefac-
tors of great wealth,’ as Franklin
Roosevelt once put it.
Such economic demagoguery is go-
OKC lost the United Airlines
contract but are now working on the
Trump Shuttle.
OU is known more for Anita Hill
than football.
Stale Indians want $45,000 for a
feasibility study for a cultural center so
it can be used for Bingo if it doesn't
work.
State Indians expect over $175,000
people to their cultural center and
more if they build a road to it.
Indians want $10 million for seed
money. If they used that much for
marijuana seed, they’d get $10 billion
later.
Indians need co-operation from all
the tribes for their center, especially to
main two warring tribes; Democrats
and Republicans.
Inside the Indian museum you will
see such things as the first buffalo robe
Bingo card.
Indians don’t think they’ll get rich
from the museum, but the smoke shop
on the way will do very well.
There are two Indian groups that
want the center in different locations.
They could always mount it on trailers
and move it.
Indians have found the trouble with
dealing with the Great While Father is
signs checks with a forked pen.
Indians will have a 2000 seat theatre
in their museum and NO JOHN
WAYNE MOVIES.
Indians will build a mock Indian
village, but can’t get approval from the
Mock Tribe leader.
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Bush said the economy is climbing
slowly and he’ll need another four
years to fix it.
The U.S. economy grew in the third
quarter or to about 75 cents if you
count all three quarters.
Bush blame the economic slump on
one technical point, or only 999 more
points to go.
We’ve had three quarters of nega-
tive growth, not counting the extra
night job Quayle has a at McDonalds.
The FBI probe of Wallers slowed
down after the federal govenment cut
funding and they dropped their
subscription to the Oklahoman.
An adult of the Oklahoma tourism
department found misuse of funds.
Some were used to promote the state.
Most of the tourism budget since
1990 has been used for court cost and
lawyers.
One proposal for keeping tourists in
Oklahoma longer was to drop roofing
nails on all interstate highways.
The tourism department was
charged with “poor” management, but
from their salaries, it should be
“RICH” management.
One critism was the state gets $20
million from state parks and lodges
and there’s not one bear on the board
department Has 1000
employees and a $40 million budget
and not one Republican!!
The tourism department has a prob-
lem with mis management, or probab-
ly a case for sexual harrasment.
FDA integrity comes under fire
une answer nas Deen lor me rimw
ly increasingly on the honesty of
mpanies applying for permission to
irket new drugs and medical de-
WASHINGTON (NEA) - This is
one of those “inside-the-beltway’ sto-
ries that proves - depending on your
viewpoint — that bureaucrats are ei-
ther touchingly naive, shockingly in-
ept or, in the worst interpretation,
downright unscrupulous.
The Food and Drug Administration
is an agency in deep trouble. While
the number of new drug, medical de-
vice and food applications has soared
above 150,000 annually, the FDA has
seen its budget frozen and cut. The
agency is constantly being asked to do
more, and faster, with less resources.
It is an agency being buffeted from
all sides. There are demands that it
strengthen its oversight of foods,
drugs and medical devices. Others de-
mand that it streamline its approval
procedures in order to more quickly
bring to market drugs that might aid
in the fight against life-threatening
diseases.
One answer has been for the FDA to
rely
comi ...
market new drugs and
vices. The agency admits it does not
have the time or manpower to verify
all the information contained in scien-
tific studies of safety and efficacy
that must accompany new drug and
medical device applications. So the
FDA has been relying on the honesty
and integrity of the submitters.
The result has been a disaster. It
has now been shown that some drug
companies have submitted false test
and clinical trial results. Last year’s
drug scandal - where it was shown
that a number of generic drug makers
were falsifying effectiveness studies
— is one example of how serious the
problem has become.
A number of congressional com-
mittees have been especially severe
in their condemnation of FDA's regu-
latory standards. Perhaps the har-
shest critics have been Rep. John Din-
gell, D-Mich., and his General
Oversight and Investigations
subcommittee.
So the FDA decided to get ahead of
Dingell's criticism. It called for a
complete review of its internal integ-
rity procedures. To make sure that
the review was “unbiased,* the agen-
THE WAGMAN FILE
ROBERT
WAGMAN
cy hired an independent law firm to
conduct the evaluation and to suggest
changes.
After an involved competition, the
Washington law firm of Shaw, Pitt-
man, Potts and Trowbridge was
awarded a $710,000 contract to con-
duct the year-long review. The FDA
proudly announced the awarding of
the contract and said it was an exam-
ple of how it was confronting its po-
tential problems even before being
prodded by Capitol Hill.
Now, however, the integrity review
has been halted and the contract re-
scinded after Dingell's investigators
learned of some startling apparent
conflicts-of-interest involving the law
firm conducting the study.
Health and Safety Council, to lobby
federal agencies and Congress — in-
cluding the FDA - in opposition to
strengthening occupational safety
and health standards.
Dingell reportedly sent a letter to
the FDA demanding all the details of
the integrity review contract award,
and his staff instituted discussions
with the FDA on the matter.
’At first they told us they were well
aware of the law firm’s client list and
saw no problem,’ says one staff
source, ‘but that fell apart after the
interview.’
The interview referred to was one
given by a senior Shaw, Pittman part-
ner to the newspaper “Legal Times’
in which he bragged that conducting
the review would help the law firm to
understand the internal workings of
FDA and would allow it to aid its cli-
ents in working their way through the
system. Having the review contract,
the partner said, would allow the firm
to ‘open up new professional opportu-
nities in the future.’
That was the final straw. Dingell
forwarded a copy of the interview
with some very pointed questions to
the FDA. Within a matter of days the
FDA announced it would conduct the
means that equity and fairness must
be the guiding principle, rather than
‘I've got mine, Jack. It means that
management must be content with
fair recompense for its services, rath-
er than the obscenely high salaries
routinely paid to our economic
royalty.
But it must also mean remember-
ing that ours is a capitalist society,
with enterprise the engine that drives
the economy. Profits are absolutely
necessary to its functioning. What
doesn’t exist can’t be reinvested. The
temptation to penalize the successful
entrepreneur must be resisted. The
politics of envy is the politics of eco-*
nomic disaster.
Yes, this sounds like a collection of
truisms and platitudes. It is, but it’s
also the only way to go. Much as we
would like to deny it, we got into this
mess together, Republicans and Dem-
ocrats, labor and management, mid-
dle class and rich. We can only get out
of it together.
L M. Boyd
Sisters
brothers
Why sisters and brothers sometimes
look alike is more mysterious than
why they don't. A man can produce 8
million genetically different sperm, a
woman, that many egg types. So to
seed, in theory, 64 billion children
with no genetic duplicates. So reports
a student of the subject.
Advises a helpful hintologist: To
free stubborn ketchup from its bottle,
grip the bottle at the bottom and swirl
it around you head. Can you visualize
it? No, wait, with the cap on!
When you go for a job interview,
odds are the interviewer will have
made a decision about you before you
say a word. That’s the claim of one
placement specialist. First, the appli-
cation form. Second, the way you look
as you walk in. Thai's not invariable,
says this authority, but it’s the case in
about 85 percent of the interviews.
All marijuana
female plant.
comes from the
Instead of winning praise on Capitol Hill for
getting on top of a problem, the FDA faces a
probe into its integrity review contract
Apparently known, but not recog-
nized as a conflict by the FDA, is the
fact that Shaw, Pittman represents a
host of drug and food makers. The
FDA later said they did not consider
this to be a conflict because the firm
represented these companies in a gen-
eral lobbying way, and did not specifi-
cally represent their new drug or new
food product applications.
Then Dingell also learned that the
law firm had organized a new busi-
ness trade group, the Workplace
integrity review in-house and was
canceling the contract.
Now, instead of winning praise on
Capitol Hill for getting on top of a
problem early, the FDA is facing a
new probe into the integrity review
contract. The investigation is aimed
at finding out whether the FDA set up
a deal with Shaw, Pittman in order to
be given a clean bill of health by a law
firm positioning itself to do a great
deal of drug application business in
the future.
Our Language
MEMORY
Short-term memory lets you
remember your room number at the
hotel while you need it. Long-term
memory lets you remember your
honeymoon stay therein. Short-term
seems to hold onto what you tell it to.
So you can manage your memory, or
part of it. How much control you have
over long-term is still a mysteryt
Researchers say they know that much
about memory, and not much morel.
Historical footnotes say Charle-
magne was heavily into Roquefort
cheese. So vice versa.
SELLERS
Before Peter Sellers really had a
career, he telephoned a BBC producer;
introduced himself as a well-known
English radio personality, and imitat-
ing the voice of same, told the produc-
er he ought to check out a certain
talented unknown named Peter Sell-
ers. Then he called again, introduced
himself as a different well-known
radio personality, and repeated the
recommendation. The producer
bought both impersonations and asked
the last caller where to find Sellers,
You've found him, said Sellers, or
words to that effect.
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Something BIBULOUS (“BIB-yoo-
lus”) soaks up well or is highly absor-
bent. For a “fabulous’ hint in spelling
this adjective, end BIBULOUS like
FABULOUS.
OUR LANGUAGE AD-VICE: The
Ad-Vice Award is being served to a
restaurant menu that offers “breake-
fast." The noun BREAKFAST, with
only one E, has been used since the
15th century for the first meal of the
day. The FAST of BREAKFAST
doesn’t describe the speed of eating;
instead, it refers to abstaining from
food since the previous evening’s
meal. When you break that fast with
BREAKFAST, there’s no need to add
an extra E. ‘Breakefast’ was a vari-
ant spelling back in the 16th and 17th
centuries, but nowadays BREAK-
FAST is the only spelling that's in
good taste.
Q. Why do some people pronounce
SCHEDULE as if it starts with SH?
I’ve been hearing that pronunciation
frequently.
A. The preferred American pronun-
ciation of SCHEDULE is “SKED-jul,"
although the second syllable is some-
times stretched into two, as in
‘SKED-joo-ul.’ British pronuncia-
tion, however, lacks the hard C:
“SHED-yool." Also heard in Canada,
this pronunciation that starts with
“shed* may eventually gain accep-
tance in the United States, but for now
it's ahead of schedule.
Q. My brother talks in his sleep.
What is the technical term for talking
in your sleep? (I know there must be
one.)
A You’re right; the word is SOMNI-
LOQUY This little-used noun is
formed from the Latin SOMNUS,
“sleep," and LOQU1, “to speak’ (as in
the one-sided talk of a SOLILOQUY).
Usually the noun indicates the habit of
talking while asleep, but it can also re-
fer to the actual words spoken during
sleep. If you're going to use SOMNI-
LOQUY, practice pronouncing it
“som-NIL-oh-kwee” until you can use
this word in your sleep.
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