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Notebook
Ed Livermore
AS OKLAHOMANS move closer to will not be an easy weekend Job. Crime
Sj another vote on parimutual gambling, is imbedded in die sport in Louisiana,
An£ it would be wise to watch developments just as it is elsewhere, and like it will be
cou; underway in Louisiana. in Oklahoma in event voters accept the
aer opportunity. The best police and en-
pes' LOUISIANA IS a favorite watering for cement agencies in the U.S. have
reai spot for many Oklahomans who like to been unable to keep the Mafia out of
the watch the bangtails gallop, and from legalized gambling and there is no
spr time to time we hear conversations reason to believe it can be done in
fnii extolling the virtues of the “good life" Oklahoma.
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res and start getting some of that good easy
vlrc tax money?” is the usual ender.
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Cou THE STATE of Louisiana is getting
aga ready to spend a lot of that “easy tax
are monev” trying to cleanup its crime-
resi ridden racehorse commission. And it
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SO KEEP your eye on Louisiana.
Unless the backroom boys get control
of the investigation and turn it into a
white-wash coverup you can expect
some revealing facts. But if the
problem dies on the vine, just consider
somebody got to somebody and the
wind left the sails in dry dock.
What other Editors say.
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But... it is important to understand
what the court said and what it didn't
say.
The court didn’t say women couldn’t
be drafted. It said Congress could draft
men, or require them to register
.without drafting women or requiring
Waterbury, Conn., Sunday Republican: ^e decision “categorically excludes
The Supreme Court showed perfect women from a fundamental civic
coni restraint in upholding the 1949 draft law obligation.’’
heal that excluded women. The court said ...Even if there were a sound basis for
/ simply ... it is up to Congress to excluding women categorically from
. determine... combat duty — a separate issue — that
/ ...Significantly the court’s decision wouldn't justify excluding them from
removes any shadow of doubt about the having the same obligation as men to
legality of the 1980 law requiring 18- serve in the armed forces, where there
yearold males to register for the draft. are many Jobs in which women have
| The court’s sound action has, proven themselves fully competent,
naturally resulted in a howl of protest
from the radical women's libbers.
They are out of touch with the broad
O mainstream of female opinion which,
^ while fully as patriotic as their male
M counterparts, do not see any con-
additional mandate that all drafts
anij include females. That is a question that them to register .“it didn’t say women
groi wou^ ** *®r better handled in the were categorically unfit for military
L t political arena of Congress than in the service. It said Congress had the
sne graven stone of constitutional law. authority to decide that women weren’t
natj This 6-3 decision is also a victory for suited for combat duty. It affirmed the
Pre those concerned for the defense of the authority of Congress, in matters in-
hav, United States. The suit originally had volving national defense, to go beyond
been brought in an attempt to force the what the Constitution might otherwise
A' inclusion of women in the draft to make a]]ow.
Sam Congress choose between no draft and jt inportant to note ...the
coui drafting women. The goal was to make decision specifically applied to matters
jal, * draft unthinkable. of national defense It has no ap-
and With the Prescnt status of plication in civilian life. And ...that the
roaj country’s defense, a draft should not be decision leaves the authority - and
los unthinkable, but a real possibility. The thus the question of fairness - in the
onG court has allowed Congress to deal with hands 0f Congress. The present
wee! ct'a^en£e reasonably. Congress, unfortunately, isn’t likely to
rln> - change its mind about women and the
Char lotto, N.C., Observer: draft. But nothing in the court decision
lead <^*e ■" Supreme Court’s decision prevents a future Congress from
AId! allowin« discrimination in draft correcting the inequity...
registration is unfair to men, insulting
fron women> offensive to reason and
unnecessary. As Justice Thurgood
Marshall wrote in a dissenting opinion,
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Editorialt-ComineiiU-Obpervationi
In Washington
Another question
of ethics
Robert Walters
The Almanac
By United Press International
Today is Wednesday, July IS, the
196th day of 1961 with 169 to follow.
The moon is approaching its full
phase.
The morning stars are Mercury and
Mars.
The evening stars are Venus, Jupiter
and Saturn.
Those bom on this date are under the
sign of Cancer.
Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn
was bom July IS, 1606.
On this date in history:
In 1912, led by all-round athlete Jim
Thorpe, the United States won the
Olympic Games In Stockholm, Sweden.
In 194S, Italy declared war on its
former Axis partner, Japan.
In 1971, President Richard Nixon
disclosed plans to make an un-
__ precedented visit to the People’s
'***—[ ■ ---------■ —-—■* Republic of China, which he did in
^.iiypk< uipp*tr__February 1972.
T- *r*u -T’."’-’ ,,HW In 1976, Democratic presidential
nominee Jimmy Carter picked Sen.
Walter Mondale of Minnesota to be his
running mate. They were elected in
November.
A thought for the day: American
writer Mark Twain (Samuel Oemens)
said, “Truth is the most valuable thing
we have. Let’s economize it.”
WASHINGTON (NEA)-Now that
he’s an Important government official,
explains Gilbert A. Robinson, it just
wouldn't be appropriate for him to
comment on the recent unpleasantness
Involving the China Exhibition Corp.
That’s unfortunate, because
Robinson was both principal organizer
and board chairman of CEC — a firm
whose trail of unpaid debts, amounting
to more than $1 million, stretches from
coast to coast.
Robinson's experience is hardly an
isolated one. In fact, it typifies an
emerging pattern in which those closely
identified with President Reagan’s
administration find themselves ac-
cused of engaging in questionably
commercial practices.
That situation was perhaps
unavoidable because the president has
relied heavily upon the business
community as a talent pool to staff his
administration, yet he has demon-
strated little personal sensitivity to the
ethical problems that often arise in the
hurly-burly of the business world.
The record to date includes the
following cases:
—Apparently oblivious to the
potential for conflict-of-interest
problems, Reagan appointed to his
transition team numerous lawyers,
lobbyists and business executives
whose organizations had a commercial
interest in the work of the departments
and agencies to which they were
assigned.
—A leading Treasury Department
official has been repeatedly in-
vestigated for his role in awarding a
$223,000 non-competitive federal
contract for access to an economic
forecasting "model” he earlier
developed and owned.
—Michael Reagan, the president’s
son, was forced to resign from his
position with two firms after it was
disclosed that he had used his father’s
name in letters soliciting government
contracts for one of those companies.
Those cases have been w’dely
publicised, but Robinson’s has received
little attention — even though his
company’s long list of creditors ranges
from major banks to small businesses
in New York, Chicago and San Fran-
cisco.
A veteran New York public relations
man and political operative, Robinson
was selected last year to organize the
first trade show staged in this country
by the People’s Republic of China—not
withstanding his complete lack of
experience in staging such exhibitions.
At an estimated cost of $5.5 million,
the trade fair ran for two to three weeks
in each of three cities— San Francisco,
Chicago and New York —last autumn
and winter.
San Francisco attendance of almost
300,000 far exceeded the firm's
estimates, but the show attracted fewer
than 200,000 of the 300,000 expected in
Chicago and in New York the turnout
was only 200,000 of the projected
500,000.
As a result of what industry officials
describe as inept planning and
execution, CEC’s unpaid bills are
estimated to range from $1 million to $3
million. Robinson even made a trip to
Peking in a futile effort to convince the
Chinese government to bail him out.
New York’s Manufacturer’s Hanover
Trust Co., Chicago’s First National
Bank, Crocker National and Wells
Fargo of San Francisco and the
Midlantic Bank of New Jersey are
reportedly owed substantial amounts
by CEC.
The list of creditors also includes
numerous small companies — in-
cluding electricians, caterers, florists,
printers, accountants and others — who
provided services to CEC.
Robinson, however, disclaims any
responsibility for those debts and
currently is ensconced at the Inter-
national Communications Agency, the
parent organization of the Voice of
America.
He has been working for most of this
year as a $50,000-a-year “special
assistant” to Charles Z. Wick, the ICA
director and a longtime personal friend
of the'president.
That job doesn’t require Senate
confirmation, but in mid-June Reagan
nominated Robinson to be ICA’s deputy
director, a post that pays $55,000 an-
nually and does require a confirmation
hearing and a Senate vote.
“I’m in government now. I’m o_. of
it,” Robinson explained to one
newspaper erpoter curious about CEC’s
problems. “I don’t really think it’s right
for me to talk about this in my new
capacity.”
(Bobby Newton Says]
The Supreme Court okayed strip
mining and strip dancing.
The baseball strike is hurting Billy
Martin. He doesn't have anyone to
shove around.
Ayatollah Khomeini wants to go back
to the old ways, or firing squads with
bows and arrows.
PAUL HARVEY
Column
A new book outcoming by James
Evans Is called “America’s Choice.”
It says backward is forward.
It says in the names of “welfare” and
“security” Uncle Sam’s shoulders have
been overloaded.
There are now more people supported
by taxes (80.6 million) than there are
people working in the private sector to
pay taxes, (71.6 million).
If we don’t get the freeloaders off his
back, Sam’s going to drop them on us!
President Reagan sounds callous,
proposing more money for the military
and less for welfare.
But, Evans notes, he’s trying to
correct two generations of Imbalance.
L.M. Boyd
Marathon runners
‘1
Any 27-year-old man who h S-feet-7-inches taD and
weighs 133 pounds might take note that he is exactly
typical of die average winner of the Boston Marathon.
Oldest winner was 41, a printer named Clarence DeMara,
1930. Youngest, at 18, was a plumber named Timothy
Ford, 1906. Heaviest winner was Lawrence BrignoUa, a
blacksmith who weighed 173 pounds, in 1899. Latest was
a Japanese clerk, Keizo Yamada, 108 pounds, in 19S3.
Q. Where in New Yoifc City k “Needle Park”?
A. That’s the drug addicts' torn for Sherman Square,
where 71st Street, Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue meet.
A junkies’hangout
JAPANESE STUDENTS
Japanese high school students spend 60 more days a year
ki the classroom, than do such students in the United States.
Correspondents who report this also ssy the Japanese crime
rates are dropping instead of rising as elsewhere, but they
don’t claim the two facts are related.
Q. b it legal for a bffi collector to telephone you on the
^A. Not If your boss doean’t allow personal phone calls
Credit the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act of 1978 with
that one.
At Fort Myers, Fla., in the memorial muaeum that used
to be Thomas A. Edbon’s winter laboratory, there's a
chandelier with light bulbs that have burned daily since
1925. The filaments are carbonized bamboo. You see, it
can be done. It’s quite poarible to make bulbs that last for
decades. But that would kiO the market, wouldn’t it? Pity.
ALIMONY
Q. How often now is alimony awarded in divorces?
A. In one out of every seven. It’s paid regularly in less
than half of there. That’s alimony, not child support, please
note. Forty-four percent of the divorced mothers with
custody of the chfldren are granted support payments.
Likewise it’s paid regularly to leas than half of three.
Jacob, the sou of Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin, died tat a
German Prisoner of War camp during World War II after his
father refused to negotiate the young man free in a prisoner
exchange deal.
That sort of complaint apartment managers here moat
frequently has to do with loud noire.
During the last 24 years military
spending increased by 113 percent
while nondefense spending was in-
creasing 800 percent
Congress is scared witless to tamper
with Social Security though during the
last 20 years Social Security taxes have
multiplied ten times faster than the cost
of living-though benefits have in-
creased only three times.
Indeed, if there had never been a
Social Security program - if you and
your employer had put the same money
in the bank - even at 5 percent - at
retirement you’d have an income of
more than $2,000 a month for the rest of
your life. That’s three times more than
you’ll get under Social Security.
Evans has a gift for reducing
economic complexities to their
elements.
He says the traditional American
freedom was never a “freedom from
want”
He notes that you can have freedom
from hunger, nakedness, unem-
ployment, cold and medical bills In any
prison.
Our founders’ concept of freedom
was not “freedom from” but rather
“freedom to.”
Primarily a freedom to own property
and the fruits of one’s labor.
But Americans of recent generations
have so perverted this premise that the
“right to earn” has been supplanted
with a “right to steal” from earnings of
others.
And he notes that Americans who
would not think of stealing, one-on-one -
- will insist on their right to steal when it
is done collectively.
Then on Page 106, the zinger: “We
spend $100 billion a year defending
ourselves against communism and $250
billion a year adopting programs
essentially communistic. Ouch!
“America's Choice” by James
Evans.
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4 * 9,v *
The Wagman File
‘Amateurish
performance
WASHINGTON (NEA)-“We have
really screwed It up.” So says a
longtime member of the U.S. Foreign
Service regarding a subject of much
concern these days around the State
Department: U.S. relations with the
new Socialist government of France.
(This expert on European affairs
agreed to speak “on background”
provided his name was not used
“because they are leak crazy around
this place these days.”)
Professionals at the State Depart-
ment are upset both at the tone and,
especially, at the unofficial, “back-
channel” manner in which the Reagan
administration has gone about
establishing relations with the
government of President Francois
Mitterrand.
They are particularly distressed that
Mitterrand’s first significant contact
with a high-level U.S. official came
about not through regular diplomatic
channels but through an overseas
junket bySen. Paul Laxalt, R-Nev., one
of President Reagan’s closest friends
and confidants.
Laxalt was part of the official
delegation that attended the annual
Paris Air Show. The senator and some
friends and family members then took
a side trip south to the Basque region
from which his parents had emigrated.
The trip, which was well-publicized in
the French press and covered by a
French television crew, came to the
attention of a member of the Mit-
terrand government who was hosting
the new president at his villa in the
region. He invited Laxalt to pay a brief
call on Mitterrand.
Laxalt did, and what was supposed to
be a five- to 10-minute “courtesy call”
turned into a 90-minute discussion of
U.S.-French relations and the views of
the Reagan administration as tran-
slated by Laxalt. The meeting was
followed by an impromptu news con-
ference given by the senator to the
French television crew.
Then came the visit to France by
Vice President George Bush, who
dwelled at length on the concern of the
Reagan administration over the ap-
pointment of four Communists to
Mitterrand’s Cabinet. The State
Department professionals are
dismayed not because Bush expressed
serious reservations about the ap-
pointments to Mitterrand in their
private two-and-a-half hour meeting
but because he repeated those concerns
in explicit detail at a press conference.
Says the State Department observer:
“By going public on French television
with the U.S. concerns over Com-
munists in the Cabinet, Bush ef-
fectively backed Mitterrand into a
comer and got the issue of U.S.-French
relations involved with Gallic pride. It
was proper for Bush to discuss the
situation with the president privately
but self-defeating to immediately voice
those feelings publicly. Diplomatically,
it was a serious error.”
It was not until Laxalt and Bush had
mit with Mitterrand that U.S. Am-
bassador Arthur Hartman held his first
private meeting with the new French
president. Hartman reportedly spent
much of that meeting explaining Bush’s
actions and answering Mitterrand's
questions about whether Laxalt’s views
were shared by the Regan ad-
ministration.
Hartman, one of this country’s most
experienced diplomats, had been slated
by the Regan administration to become
ambassador to the Soviet Union. Word
that he was to be replaced in Paris by a
Republican businessman with no
foreign-affairs experience was also
unsettling to the French.
Now, as a measure of the ad-
ministration’s growing concern with
the state of relations with the Mit-
terrand government. Hartman is to
stay in Paris for at least six more
months. Only then will he move on to
Moscow.
So, for most of the first year of the
Reagan administration, the United
States will not be represented by an
ambassador in the Soviet Union. That
does not help to get the administration
off to a steady start in its relations with
the Soviets.
Members of the foreign-policy
establishment say that it will take at
least six months of effort to get
relations between the United States and
France back on an even keel. They say
that Laxalt should not have visited
Mitterrand or at least should not have
discussed substantive matters, that
Bush should not have gone to Paris
until Harman had been able to lay a
foundation with the new government
and that Bush should not have gone
public with the Reagan ad-
ministration’s concerns.
“So far it has been a totally
amateurish performance and is being
viewed as such in the Quai d’Orsay,”
says the State Department expert.
“How this administration handtaa ita
relations with the new Socialist
government in France is being closely
watched all over Europe, and getting
off to a start like this is not very
helpful."
This U. S. And You
Saving on home sales
William Steif
Reagan administration officials are
predicting that interest rates will edge
down this summer. Finally, you may be
cautiously considering selling or buying
a house.
If you do, there have been some
developments in recent months that
could save you a lot of money.
About 85 percent of all homes sold
involve real estate brokers, many of
whom get 6 percent of the selling price
of the house.
A not-yet-released study by the
Federal Trade Commission explores
whether the prevalence of identical
commissions is price fixing. Although it
found no evidence of overt price fixing
in the legal sense, the report indicates
the cost of buying and selling property
could be cheaper if there were more
competition in rates.
Although there is no likelihood at this
point the federal government will take
legal action to Introduce more com-
petition in the practices of real estate
brokers, many pricefixing suits have
been filed. Recently, the Supreme
Court refused to consider the case of
brokers in six real estate companies
Montgomery County, Md., that had
been convicted of price fixing when
they all raised their commissions to 7
percent.
Groups of real estate brokers take
strong exception to the argument that
the close proximity of commissions is
price fixing. They say there is so much
competition In the industry that the
marketplace dictates the fee, for
example, of 6 percent.
The message consumers should be
getting is that commissions on property
sales are negotiable. As with so many
things, It pays to shop around.
Real estate brokers have contracts
for the seller to sign before they agree
to try to sell the house. These contracts
often have a flat percentage printed in
them. Sellers should never accept that
fee without challenging it and trying to
negotiate it.
Some houses are easy to sell and in
those cases the broker may have little
work to do. Some houses are hard to sell
and the broker may snend fruitless
months trying to arrange a sale. This
should be a factor in negotiating a fee.
In some cases, you list your house
with one broker but it is actually sold by
another real estate agent who takes a
buyer to see your house. In that case,
the two brokers usually split the
commission. But you would save money
if you have a contract with the broker
that gives a small percentage if he or
she sells the house directly and a larger
percentage if another broker is in-
volved.
Another option that few home sellers
have tried is contracting with a broker
for certain services or hour-bv-hour
advice, similar to hiring a lawyer. If
you try to sell your house yourself, for
example, but feel you need some help,
you may be able to find a broker who
will sell advice for several hundred
dollars. That’s better than paying $6,000
on a $100,000 house sale.
You should know that there are
relatively few discount brokers. But
there does seem to be a trend to cut-rate
broker services.
Most government publications
supposed to help the home buyer are
simplistic, outdated and generally
useless.
A new one — “Buying a Home? Don’t
Forget the Settlement Costs!” —Is
much better. It tells you what your
rights are, what questions to ask, what
is negotiable (try getting the seller to
split the costs of loan fees, title in-
surance, survey and transfer taxes)
and painful facts you might not have
considered. You may be required, for
example, to pay the legal services of
the lender.
One trick that many people overlook
is that if you are buying a previously
owned house, you may not have to pay
for a new survey if you get the seller’s
affidavit that no significant changes
have been made.
This pamphlet is free. Write the Real
Estate Practices Division, Office of
Neighborhoods, Voluntary Associations
and Consumer Protection, Department
H Housing and Urban Development,
tVashington, D.C. 20410.
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