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OPINION
Sapulpa Daily Herald
Acid rain now being
felt in western U.S.
PAGE FOUR Sapulpa (Okla.) Herald. Friday. August |«,,
HAMILTON. Mont. (NEA) - Acid
rain, long feared to present a serious
danger to the lakes, streams and for-
ests of the Northeast and Midwest,
may also pose a previously unsuspect-
ed threat to aquatic and timber re-
sources here in the West.
The potentially destructive impact
of airborne sulfuric and nitric acids in
the Adirondacks of New York and the
Berkshires of Massachusetts, the
White Mountains of New Hampshire
and the Green Mountains of Vermont
has been well documented
Now, however, there is evidence
that the Bitterroot Range here in Mon-
tana, the Sangre de Cristo Mountains
in New Mexico, the Wasatch Range in
Utah, the Olympic Mountains in Wash-
ington, the Wind River Range in Wyo-
ming and more than two dozen other
mountain chains in the region may be
similarly vulnerable
"Decreases in acid-neutralizing ca-
pacity are underway in sensitive parts
of the West." says Dr John Harte of
the University of California at Berke-
ley "Biological damage with serious
long-term effects is the likely result"
Environmentalist David Brower
notes that "the same devastating
symptoms identified earlier in the
East now are becoming apparent in
the West New Mexico Gov Toney An-
aya sees "a growing concern in the
West" over the problem
"We no longer have only suspicions
For the first time, we have a reason-
L.M. Boyd
In the ancient tombs of Egypt,
archeologists found honey - still
edible.
Doctors say they still aren't sure
why blond women in particular
tend to bruise easily.
New York City's Central Park
was a dangerous place at its begin-
ning, too. Squatters kept throwing
rocks at the surveyors. Drew
blood, too.
Robert Walters
ably complete picture of the scientific
facts." says Gus Speth, president of
the World Resources Institute, a poli-
cy research organization based in
Washington, D C
"Acids in the West s snow, rain, fog
and dry air pose disturbing - and in-
creasing - threats to the West 's valu-
able commercial and recreational re-
sources,” adds Speth "We now see
that acid rain is a national issue ”
Westerners were slow to recognize
the scope, stress and severity of the
problem in their region, in part be-
cause of initially inadequate monitor-
ing facilities
As recently as 1980, the National
Acid Deposition Program maintained
45 monitoring stations east of the Mis-
sissippi River but only 20 west of the
Mississippi
Moreover. 16 of those 20 Western
facilities were in only three states -
California. Colorado and Oregon —
and few were in the region's remote
forests, alpine lakes and other isolated
areas.
In recent years, however, enhanced
monitoring capability has been ac-
companied by accelerated study on
the part of scientific, environmental
and governmental organizations
One of the most comprehensive ex-
aminations, concluded earlier this
year by the World Resources Institute.
identified the Cascades in Washington,
the Sierra Nevada in California and
the Rockies in Colorado as “three par-
ticularly vulnerable regions."
Also at risk are some of the nation's
most popular national parks — includ-
ing Yellowstone, Yosemite, Olympic,
Glacier, Crater Lake and Sequoia
Sources of sulfur dioxide and nitro-
gen oxide in the West include coal-
fired power plants in Nevada and New
Mexico, copper smelters in Arizona,
active volcanoes in Washington and
automobile traffic in California
Especially vulnerable to emissions
from those sources are the mountain-
ous areas of the West whose bedrock
and thin soils lack the capacity to neu-
tralize acids deposited by high levels
of precipitation.
Potentially endangered are the for-
ests that cover almost one-third of the
land in the region In about half of that
area, the timber has substantial com-
mercial value.
In the West’s lakes and streams,
acidic water can be toxic to algae, fish
and amphibians The damage then
moves up the food chain to the birds
and animals that feed on aquatic life
Finally, the danger can reach hu-
mans through consumption of food or
water containing high levels of toxic
metals — such as lead, mercury and
cadmium - released by the acidifica-
tion process.
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VNY PRIVATE
LIFE' ;
Miami full of vice
whistle, so it didn't sound so much
like a moose mating call.
LITLE FISHERMEN
You've heard the fisherman talk
about the three foot trout that got
away. Light rays bend where sky
and vater meet Objects under
water look bigger from above.
Objects above look bigger from
underwater. Presumably, if trout
could talk, they'd discuss the little
tiny fishermen.
Newfoundlanders for a long time
there couldn't figure out why bull
moose kept charging their railroad
locomotives. Finally, they got it,
and changed the tone of the train
Q. How long would it take you to
get scurvy, if you ate no Vitamin
C?
A. In about 90 days you'd have
a full case of it.
The first and last names of how
many U.S. presidents began with
the same letter? Four. Ronald Rea-
gan leaps to mind, no? Plus
Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge
and Herbert Hoover.
It was that Scottish writer James
M Barrie who said, "Nothing is
really work unless you'd rather be
doing something else."
Fifteen percent of the payrolled
wives earn more money than their
husbands.
Sir, anymore you don’t wear
shorts in Iran, remember that. Nor
even short-sleeved shirts.
The television show "Miami Vice
has proven to be all that was asked
lor
While the show' was on summer
vacation, thugs ol the real world
have taken over and bandits are
stalking the shopping centers,
freeways and all lorms ol life in that
part ol the state
"No one is sale in South Florida
anymore Miami Herald publisher
Dick Capen w rote in a rare midweek
column recently.
What is happening in Miami and
Dade County is the blood and guts ol
TV mayhem coming to life. Rush
hour trailic jams or disabeled cars
along the highways are the new in
terest points ol heavily armed rob
tiers. Other known career criminals
have moved into residential areas
and committed all sorts ol crimes on
unsuspecting home owners.
The chairman ol the Miami anti
crime commission notes "1 came
here 41 years ago and it was
Ed
Livermore
u u Notebook
Herald
Publisher Emeritus
paradise Now, seemingly, its
anarchy
V\hat is taking place in Miami is
prevalent elsewhere, although to
lesser degree The foundation lor in-
creased criminal activity in Florida
is the drug trade
It s disturbing to read ol things
like the Miami situation. But leaving
such reports out ol the newspapers
or oil the air solves nothing The
criminals won t go away. Unlike the
activists m the Middle East, these
participants do not want publicity
they want money, jewels, anything
ol quick value.
How. the average citizen might
ask. can our government and its en-
Jorcement agencies become helpless
bet ore the criminal element? No use
to direct that question to members ol
Congress — they're taking a "much
deserved" month's vacation running
around the world on junkets Same
lor seeking help Irom the judiciary.
Congress and the courts and the
White House are a good part ol the
problem.
Here’s a new interest group
The Democrats think they've lost
four of the last five presidential elec-
tions because they focused too much
on narrow groups of special-interest
voters
Under this analysis, they've paid too
much attention to blacks, women,
gays. Hispamcs and labor, and have
ignored the rest of America
Many Democrats are now demand
Julian Bond
have become a majority of the elec-
torate since 1976 "
"Wait a second.” I said "Is this an-
other of your scams, like the Clarence
M Pendleton School, where students
many Liemocrais are now demand- are taught to sing I Get a Negative
ing that their party move closer to the Reaction from Affirmative Action"?
"center" of the political spectrum, to Not at all," Robinson said Lead-
present a broad appeal to the average. mg pollsters have known about this
middle-of-the-road American voter group of voters for years But the
But is this analysis correct'’ group's intellectual slowness and self-
I asked my friend Robinson for his ,shness has simply kept its members
opinion of what's gone wrong with the *rom forming formal organizations
Democratic Party But they're there How else do you ac-
Robinson. whose last political posi- count for Reagan's ability to say. with-
in was as director of a school where out challenge, that trees cause air pol-
a/'lrc uiaro t-sunki l lilt lain unci tk-it ______ l ...
tion
cation reference was a trick to appeal
to American voters too uninformed to
know there's almost no interracial
education in South Africa, or that
blacks have to pay for public educa-
tion while whites are educated for
free And the mention of the change in
marriage laws is a blatant appeal to
those Americans who believe that the
right to marriage across racial lines is
equal to the right to vote and own
property "
"That still sounds a little far-
fetched to me. I said
Then try these on for size" said
Robinson "The president says that
people who sleep on street heating
grates in Washington in the dead of
winter are homeless by choice Then
there s the woman he named as senior
adviser to the Department of Educa
French don’t like Americans,
except for Bruce Springsteen
Dad tc /mcvav n. __
Sr---™ SrSswSS* ssstBsiS
"The Democrats have given the Re- ‘Ah" • said "I've go. vou now Hea- ,heir dtlsa^>t*es And don t
publicans under Ronald Reagan a vir- San made tlxee remarks when he was I T . ,?P?ln,tee t0 lhe CoPyri6hl
tual monopoly on a hitherto unsolicit- governor of California We re talking ' „ Vh°Ha.d wr,tten that Amer‘-
ed group of voters." Robinson sard presidential politics and demograph -. ,!’s,st on preserving their
ed group of voters," Robinson said
"While Walter Mondale and Geraldine
Ferraro were wondering whether Jes-
se Jackson would endorse them, or
whether the gender gap was wide
enough. Reagan and George Bush con-
centrated on that large pool of voters
usually ignored by both parties - the
simple-minded and the mean." he
explained
"How many of them are out there."
I asked
"More than you want to believe,"
Robinson replied "We think they may
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ics now'
Precisely, said Robinson "Just
look at Reagan s latest remarks on
South Africa He gives constructive
engagement credit for producing a
biracial education system.' and he
takes credit for liberalizing the law
that regulates interracial sex "
So what, I said "Maybe diplomat-
ic efforts did help to make a difference
in South Africa's bedrooms - if not its
schoolrooms"
"You're missing the point The edu-
jungle freedoms
All right, you've got me." I said to
Robinson "But what can we do about
it?"
Hey. I figured that one out too. he
said "If you can't beat 'em. join em
Next week I begin work as director of
the Office of Stupidity and Cupidity "
"And where are you going to find
voters who'll admit they fit your new
department's description?" I asked
Easy I'm beginning. Robinson
said, "with you "
PARIS (NEA) — Parisians are
again focusing on their two favorite
topics: politics and Americans
Europe is awash in Americans,
thanks to the strong dollar and the
favorable exchange rate, and this has
provoked the expected French back-
lash. If you speak American (as
opposed to English) and phone a good
restaurant, you’ll probably be told
that no reservations are available for
weeks or months If you call back and
speak fluent French, you'll almost
surely get the reservation you
requested
The overt anti-Americanism of five
to eight years ago isn’t evident in
most major French hotels Instead,
hotel employees just seem weary of
seeing too many free-spending Amer-
icans; their low-level resentment
implies that all Americans are rich
barbarians
This has spilled over into the politi-
cal arena, where the major topic of
conversation is whether Socialist
President Francois Mitterrand’s
government, which swept to power in
a 1981 landslide, can survive next
March's critical parliamentary elec-
tions.
Most political commentators say
that it can't survive - at least in its
present form Public opinion polls
show that the Socialists' popularity is
in a sharp decline, while the populari-
ty of both the centrist and the con-
servative parties is growing
This has led to a sharp debate with-
in the Socialist Party — one that
could split the party asunder. One
wing believes the party can only sur-
Berry's World
——— —— made no secret of its delight that Gal-
Kobert Waeman ;s‘favin8 How«ver, Galbraith
p _ added fuel to the fire in an interview
tefoMth f°rmS 3 centrist all,a"ce SKT ‘n^lhe6
before the upcoming campaign This per, Figaro He said some h«h?v
angers purists, who say that such an uncharitable things about Mtt«SS
alliance would virtually destroy the and the Socialists^reHirtaHih ? d
Socialists’ traditional left-wing Anti- in [to ^S£££?SSS 5
„ e*Pressed pleasure at the rebirth of
Mitterrand has added to the debate the political center and right
wRh theconservatives**™th^wm^ resented "T Wf*dely
N*“r! ma)or“’ «K£,
As Mitterrand sees it. the National it as U.S. meddling in France's8,nte7
Assembly wouW elect a government nal affairs In addition, the French
that would run France's internal are publicly unhappy that Galbraith s
affaia\ nnd econ°my Mitterand successor isn't a career diplomat
would still manage foreign policy and He's Joe M Rodgers, a Nashville
be responsible for national security, construction-company owner who
which are his greatest interests won the post because of his fundrais
However, both Socialists and the ing efforts
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the leader of the centrist party known can sentiment bul th!w
as Union for a French Democracy, cont^stm/ eveni ih? * ^ bWn 3
flatly dismissed the idea “If we win "The Boss8 1 the Invasi0n of
the 1986elections, "hesaid, "it will be . _
our policies that are applied in all , Am*nca" rock star Bruce Spnngs-
areas including foreign policy.” V*" played a ser,es °f concerts here
. . ..... „ during his just-completed European
This year s chief ugly American tour The concerts were sold out
- outgoing U.S Ambassador Evan almost instantly. Springsteen's
Galbraith - has stepped into this cli- records have shot to the top of the hit
mate of political uncertainty, lists and French youth are snapping
Galbraith, an investment banker, is up almost any kind of Americana
giving up his post and returning to That’s Paris »ki. ____ „
Wall Street His political conservativ- spending Americans are uF6e
ism has made him a thorn in the side and while French arfnitceryWhekie’
of the Socialist government since his about the invaders theil £Umb d
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This is a report on a remarkable
people-to-people undertaking and two
even more remarkable people
First the latter, Etta and Oscar
Payne of Thermopolis. Wyo.
Only once, says Etta Payne, has she
felt in real danger That was in
Ethiopia They were negotiating a
steep hill when suddenly “all these
people seemed to just rise out of the
ground." They crowded around the
vehicles. A child clambered onto the
bumper of a trailer ahead, fell off,
bumped his head and began to bleed
"'Oscar,' I said, you'd better get a
guard out there
The Paynes were with a recreation-
al vehicle caravan through Africa.
The Ethiopian government had insist-
ed they be accompanied in that coun-
try by armed guards. They hadn't
much wanted this protection but it
turned out to be needed on this occa-
sion to hold back the crowd. Other-
wise, she s convinced, there could
have been real trouble
On that same Capetown to Cairo
caravan, they also heard of "a little
skirmish in Kenya and of a full-scale
riot in Durban, South Africa, sparked
Don Graff
- Fujian Province, only recently
opened to foreign visitors They will
--= £ VhPping w the v,llaSes topping
by a ban on home-brewed beer But ,n , markets and meeting the
they weren’t on those scenes at the
times Apart from the dicey encoun- r,.^0 years negotiated with
ter in Ethiopia, three decades of trail- Vunese authorities, the expedition is
er-traveling the world have been lhe m°s‘ recent and one of the more
without serious incident for the amblt‘ous undertaken by the Wallv
Paynes Byam Caravan Club, named for the
Still, at some point on every trip ‘railer-traveling pioneer who initiat-
Etta asks herself. "How could I have ed Per*°dio foreign tours 30 years
been crazy enough to do this?” The a8°
ssttsssrTbe nm da>- jvr* "''v'r*»•* «"■
The Paynes are among many thou- since Thev^'xU-ndpH ?h a*? °"eS
sands of retired Americans for whom van in 1959 into .in Cdr?,i
travel in recreat.onal vehicles has tour Alone rw.lfv
become a way of life and more. It is tried to talk us ou tni^' h'mself
adventure Few, however, are quite "but we're stubborn t
as adventurous as the Paynes where I and overland
The next time Etta, 82, has cause to necessary thev wen/ thh'P
question her own sanity, she and Middle East anH tf|r°ugh the
Oscar, 90, will be in China. They are Asia aCr°SS S0Uthern
SSI* ^ “V"
as Caravan Amer.ca-China Living shops locallv for E‘U
out of specially designed 20-foot Air- fruPs an(j y . ^ ,ooklng
stream trailers for 28 days, they will seen ” In Iran g. ables you ve ever
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