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"My, we have so much in common. I'm under-
valued, underpaid and have no voice in my
work situation, too!"
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A thought for the day:
British poet George Herbert
said, "The best mirror is an
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Almanac
United Press International
Today is Tuesday, Aug. 23,
the 235th day of 1883 with 130
to follow.
The moon is full
The morning star is Mars.
The evening stars are Mer-
cury, Venus, Jupiter and
Saturn.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Virgo. They
include poet and novelist
Edgar Lee Masters in 1889,
General Jonathan Wain-
wright, hero of Bataan in
World War Two, in 1883,
dancer-actor Gene Kelly in
1912, and bandleader Bob
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GUATEMALA.
Merry-Go-Round
corporation’s inspector gen-
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hasn't yet found a practical
replacement for fossil fuels,
but it’s not for lack of look-
ing. Synfuels executives
have been diligently explor-
ing golf courses, sauna baths
and nightclubs around the
world.
As I’ve reported earlier,
the Synfuels brass are
exceedingly well paid for
their unproductive efforts;
some of them earn more
than Cabinet secretaries.
Their offices in downtown
Washington are elegantly
furnished. And when they
junket all over the map, they
take their taste for life’s lux-
uries with them.
The publicly funded
corporation’s travel
expenses amounted to
almost 1600,000 for 1981-
1982. My associates John
Dillon and Corky Johnson
combed through hundreds of
pages of Synfuels travel
records. Here are just a few
examples of the corporation
executives' sybaritic extrav-
agance at the expense of the
American taxpayers.
- Four members of the
board and five corporation
executives took a two-week
trip to South Africa last year
to visit a synthetic fuel
plant. The bill for Synfuels
President Victor Schroeder
alone came to 14,290. Both
he and Board Chairman Ed
Noble flew first class to and
from South Africa. Before
the junketeers left, the
“See? There one goes again — the Central American species can’t
seem to get rid of that accent. How are you at speech therapy?"
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On this date in history:
In 1821, Mexico was
declared an independent
nation under the Treaty of
Aquala
In 1926, movie idol Rudolph
Valentino died, triggering na-
tionwide mourning by his
fans
in 1939, Nazi Germany and
the Soviet Union signed a
nonaggression pact. Less
than two years later, German
troops flooded into Russia
In 1962, Christian leader
Beshir Gemayel was elected
president of Lebanon. He was
assassinated less than one
month later.
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Debategate and all that
I had been having some difficulty deciding whether the
Reagan team's coup in liberating Jimmy Carter's crib notes
in advance of the great 1980 presidential campaignn debate
was a serious matter of state or not
It seemed to have more elements of farce
When along comes the Wall Street Journal, bless its
predictability, to decide the matter for me Well, not exactly
the Journal in its entirety. but one of its editorial page
contributors, Suzanne Garment, whose moderately laid-back
observations frequently offer some relief from the hard-
nosed editorials and those interminable dissertations by Her-
bert Stein and others between which they are sandwiched
Ms Garment doesn't think much of debategate The affair
is, as she sees it, less a genuine political scandal than this
summer's fun and games for a capital press corps desperate
for real news
in other words, not serious
That convinced me it is serious
Ms Garment must have a low opinion of her colleagues in
the Washington press corps of her calling, in fact
At the very. very least, we have in debategate the embar-
rassing admissions and or contradictory recollections of
four of the very tiptop people in the Reagan administration
James Baker. William Casey, David Stockman, David
Gergen — as to their roles in the affair
We also have the spectacle of a president grimly deter-
mined to plug leaks in his own administration dismissing a
burst main line in his predecessor's as much ado about noth-
ing
If Ronald Reagan has a problem with seepage of unau-
thorized information from his White House so serious that lie
detector tests for senior aides could be considered, then he
has a problem with debategate
if that isn't enough to set the newshounds sniffing after
more, what is? And if it isn't, it certainly should set their
editors to wondering what they're being paid for
William F Buckley Jr made one of his inimitably irrele-
vant contributions to the debate over debategate with the
recollection in a current column of the prankster Dick Tuck,
who had all sorts of fun with the 1964 and 68 campaigns of
Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon
Very true And he might have mined that vein for more
Such as the newswoman spy the Nixon campaigners planted
on George McGovern's train in 72
College stuff, to be sure But while we re recalling it, let s
also recall that there have been none better at it than a
couple of fellows named Erlichman and Haldeman, who
excelled in campus dirty politics at Southern Cal and kept
playing by the same rules all the way to the White House
Not so collegiate was the leaking of details on the Paris
negotiations on Vietnam that in 1968 reached the Nixon
camp at a crucial point in the campaign, as Seymour Hersh
reminds us in his current study of the ways and means of
Henry Kissinger, The Price of Power ”
(You may be getting the idea at this point that there is not
an original idea in this exercise, and you may be right.)
All that is now history And appropriately, Ms Garment
puts the explanation of her personal reaction to debategate
in historical context
She admits that she is "lousy at scandals Back in the
Watergate days. she confesses, every time Richard Nixon
made a televised speech I announced that he had blown his
critics out of the water so eager was she to be done with
the dreary business
Ms Garment. I'm convinced
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ing the unseemly size of the
South Africa party, but the
criticism was ignored
— Leonard Axelrod, vice
president for technology and
engineering, is clearly the
Marco Polo of Synfuels.
Some months he is away
from his office for more
than 10 work days. He flies
to energy industry meetings,
conferences and synthetic
fuel sites - and a surprising
number of the get-togethers
are held in posh resorts.
In April 1982, for exam-
ple. Axelrod spent four days
in a $160-a-day room at the
Americana Canyon Hotel in
Palm Springs, Calif. He
played two rounds of golf
and attended a National
Council of Synthetic Fuels
Production meeting. In Aug-
ust 1982, he spent two days
at the Tamarron resort in
Durango, Colo., at 8103.95 a
day. While there, he played
golf and attended a Midwest
Gas Association conference.
— Schroeder and his wife,
Kathryne, a Synfuels
employee, spent eight days
in Japan last fall. Among the
items in their expense files
were bills for a massage, a
health spa, camellia plants
for their hotel room and use
of a hotel "mini-bar.”
Two of the eight days
were set aside for sightsee-
ing. The purpose of the trip
was to confer with Japanese
businessmen and energy
officials. The tab for the
Synfuels president’s trip was
39,082. A spokesman said
Mrs. Schroeder took vaca-
tion time for the trip and
P“In October of both 1981
and 1982, the peripatetic
Axelrod took two-week trips
to London, Brussels and Dus-
seldorf to attend annual
symposiums. His wife,
Karen, accompanied him on
the 1981 trip, but Axelrod
said he paid her fare and
lodging. He pointed out that
taking his wife along saved
the corporation money,
because he got a better deal
on a double room.
— In May 1982, Axelrod
and his wife took the train to
New York and back, billing
Synfuels 3272 for the tickets
An alert staffer wrote a note
with the expense voucher
regarding Mrs Axelrod’s
ticket: “Shouldn’t Mr A. be
paying for this one?”
— One notation on an
Axelrod expense form listed
“entertainment "at the Four
Seasons Lounge in Houston
and described the reason for
the expenditure as “techni-
cal discussion." The lounge
does dispense alcohol, of
course, though generally not
of high enough octane to be
used for fuel.
— A four-day trip by
Axelrod to the American
Petroleum Institute's
midyear meeting in New
York cost the taxpayers
3840.45. including a 3121-a-
night room at the Hotel
Madison.
Footnote: A Synfuels
spokesman explained that
Axelrod's job requires
extensive travel to visit sites
and gather "baseline" data,
which is often too volumi-
nous or confidential to be
shipped to Washington.
WATCH ON THE ECON-
OMY: The economists at the
International Monetary
Fund have completed a
detailed, confidential study
of the U.S. economy. They
foresee a steady growth in
output through 1984, a grad-
ual rise in employment and
an improvement in produc-
tivity. But wages won't quite
keep up with the economic
surge, they predict, resulting
in “a continued deceleration
in unit labor costs.”
— The bad news is that
the economic revival may
not last. "The prospect of
large federal deficits even
after the economy emerges
from the current recession
does not augur well for an
enduring expansion of eco-
nomic activity,” warns the
confidential study
— The massive federal
debt will “tend to pre-empt
savings and keep interest
rates high,” predict the
economists. Any steps by
President Reagan to reduce
the deficit would likely have
a dampening effect on the
economy But this tempo-
rary stagnation may be
necessary, they say, “to
enhance the prospect of a
lasting economic
expansion.”
— The IMF expects the
oil import bill to rise
"substantially" next year -
not because of higher prices
but higher consumption.
Other imports are expected
to flood into the United
States through 1984,
“reflecting the growth of
domestic demand." At the
same 'time, exports will
probably continue to decline
this year before leveling off
next year.
„ .Copyright, IMS
United Featur Syndicate, Inc
By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON - The
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States.
With a couple of telephone
calls to the Agriculture and
the Health and Human
Services departments, the
president should be able to
get a pretty good picture of
the situation along with a list
of possible solutions.
But information isn't
always what presidents want
from study commissions
First, they want to demon-
strate concern with a
problem that affects voters
in this case, the sympathetic
well-fed as well as the
hungry. There is nothing like
appointment of a blue-ribbon,
non-partisan, distinguished
panel of experts, to show that
the president is aware of a
problem
Secondly, they usually try
to pick commission members
who will arrive at what
political scientists call
"political truth” — con-
clusions that coincide with
the president's views on the
subject. In these cases, one of
the principal purposes of the
commission is that it provide
an "impartial” outside
source for the recom-
mendations the president
wants
The report, by the way.
need not say the ad-
ministration is doing a good
job or the best one that can be
done on the problem. It can
call for a radical new
departure, if that is what the
president has decided is
needed.
Finally, a study com-
mission insulates the
president from the initial
reaction to its recom-
mendations just in case its
proposals outrage the public,
or worse yet, the president
If the report is what the
president wants and isn’t
being pelted with rotten eggs,
there is plenty of time and
opportunity for the White
House to make the whole
project appear to be one
man's brilliant idea. Guess
who.
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DEAR DR LAMB - I
had heartburn for several
months I didn't think too
much about it at first
because I kept thinking it
would go away Finally 1
saw a doctor and he sent me
to a gastroenterologist. He
kept me in the hospital for
three days. He did the exam-
ination where they put a
tube down and look around
He said I had peptic
esophagitis I thought I had
an ulcer He recommended
that I take Tagamet and
drink Mylanta The doctor
didn't tell me how long I
would have to take this
medicine. I don’t take it all
the time except when I have
a severe case of heartburn.
Should I take the medicine
every day even though I
don't have the heartburn all
the time"’
DEAR READER - I wish
all patients would find out
exactly what their doctor
wants them to do regarding
their medicines Call his off-
ice and find out.
Usually the doctor wants
a person taking Tagamet
and antacids for your condi-
tion to take them daily, on
schedule. The Tagamet is
prescribed to prevent your
stomach from producing too
much acid. Once you have
heartburn you already have
too much acid and it is
already irritating your low-
er esophagus.
Your condition is related
to acid digestive juices
regurgitating into your low-
er esophagus As the irrita-
tion progresses it can
become an ulcer. These
ulcers are much like peptic
ulcers in the duodenum,
other than for the location.
By avoiding irritation you
can promote healing. That is
what your medicine is for.
You should follow a pro-
gram similar to that of the
patient who has too much
acid or actually has an
ulcer I'm sending you The
Health Letter 15-10, Under-
standing Ulcers and Acidity,
to help you Others who want
this issue can send 75 cents
with a long, stamped, self-
addressed envelope for it to
me. in care of this newspa-
per. P.O. Box 1551, Radio
City Station, New York, NY
10019. No coffee, lea, colas,
alcohol or cigarettes.
DEAR DR LAM. My
doctor has just confirmed
my fears that a distention of
my left groin is a fferhia. I
was advised to wear a sup-
port but if there is an
increase in discomfort I will
have to have an operation.
How safe is an operation'’
What does it entail and how
long would I be laid up9 Will
the surgery cure the hernia9
Can an athletic supporter
such as I am now wearing
really help9
DEAR READER - Evi-
dently you have an inguinal
hernia The cord to your tes-
ticle passes through your
abdominal wall and down
under the skin into your
scrotum The cord is sur-
rounded by muscles and lig-
aments to hold your intes-
tines inside your abdomen.
When you have an ingui-
nal hernia the muscles and
tendons are stretched and
torn enough to allow the
opening around the cord to
enlarge The bigger hole
then permits a loop of intes-
tine to slip out of the abdo-
men and even down into the
scrotum.
The surgery is simple in
skilled hands And you will
probably not have to stay in
the hospital more than a few
days at the most The sur-
gery is to repair the torn and
stretched structures and if
the repair holds you should
have no more problems. If
you really mean an athletic
supporter, about the most
you can expect is some sup-
port to the scrotum. It will
not prevent the hernia from
slipping out
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WASHINGTON (UPI) -
With the exception of "waste,
fraud and abuse" and its own
red tape, it is hard to think of
a subject has been studied
more often by the govern-
ment than hunger
So when President Reagan
announced recently he had
appointed a new commission
to study hunger in the United
States, it came like a breath
of used air for anyone who
has been watching
Washington for any length of
time.
Starting with John Ken-
nedy, almost every president
has ordered up studies of
hunger, poverty, welfare
dependency or some other
problem that amounts to the
same thing under another
name.
(The different labels af-
fixed to these studies is
similar to another
Washington practice: trying
to mute criticism of foreign
aid by changing the name of
the program or the agency
that doles out the money.)
In any case, all of those
commissions, committees
and task forces eventually
reached conclusions, the
White House usually an-
nounced that the problem was
being addressed, and in a few
cases even declared it was on
the way to solution.
If all goes as expected, the
new group eventually will
report to the president, and
the same old procedure will
ensue.
At this point, it may be
asked, to mix a couple of
metaphors, whether the ad-
ministration is not just in-
venting a new wheel to spin
The answer is "no" if the
political justification for all
these studies of the same
general subject is un-
derstood
To begin, the government is
not as dumb as it sometimes
seems. Almost surely, it al-
ready knows how much
hunger exists in the United
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