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• Chickasha Daily Express
-Tuesday, September 13, 1988
• Page 4
THE CONSERVATIVE
ADVOCATE
William A. Rusher
JACK ANDERSON and JOSEPH SPEAR
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Tami Butler, Adv. Mgr.
JoAn Wyatt, Prod. Supervisor
SukenaFidaali, Spotlight Editor
Rex Voyles, Circ.Mgr.
Patrick Bowman, Managing Editor
Brenda Baker, Office Manager
DONALD W. REYNOLDS,
Chairman of the Board
Charles C. Drew,
General Manager
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NEXT MAJORITY LEADER - As
long as Michael Dukakis was far
ahead in the polls, Democratic sena
tors weren't too concerned about
picking a strong Senate majority
leader to succeed Robert Byrd of
West Virginia They reasoned that as
president, Dukakis might work better
with a malleable majority leader
More cynically, individual senators
always have more power under a
weak majority leader, as Byrd is re-
garded, than under an overwhelming
one. as Lyndon Johnson was
A victory for George Bush would
change that The Democrats would
want a strong leader in the Senate
They may have been willing to sup-
port amiable senators such as Daniel
Inouye, of Hawaii, or Bennett John-
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and he speaks through an interpreter BY PHIL PASTORET
(Gregory Burnside) He says he was Diplomatic immunity protects those
born in the Ukraine, raised partly in who have it from just about everything
an orphanage, and began to question except the common cold.
the communist way of rule after To today's dancers, the waltz is what
World War II, when he was a 16-year- you need four of to prevent the roof
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nJ William A Rusher amiable, well-intentioned front man
By William A. Rusher for a pack of ruthless, nail-hard politi-
By the beginning of the Labor Day cal operators John Sassohas or
weekend Michael Dukakis's presiden- years been the undisputed boss of the
tial campaign was dead in the water Massachusetts pack, and as such the
The week-long TV preoccupation with brains and mos.of theother re evan
ing Dukakiscdisappetrgehr There- rilla (Who was then Dukakis's cam-
upon his ridiculously inflated poll paign manager) wassooverpowering
margins over George Bush simply that Sasso was ob ligedto stepdw
IHtad and run the campaign from behind the
evpporatedinhanny juncture. more- scenes instead. This fooled nobody ex-
over, Bush had the nerve to lead a cept th public; Dukakis-coud he
smaiisfiqtiilang T s runn hsMasnacmpettsn thinout
Boston theg all during Dukakis's Sasso whispering in his ear. (The New
Ewstadmhnrstrationsasthe-pro-envi- York Timesc calisnstheg relationship
ronment” governor of Massachusetts like a brother ... unique )
Worse yet, Dukakis was reduced to But by the end of August the Duka-
excusing his veto of a bill to start each kis campaign had sputtered to a near-
school day with the Pledge of Alle total halt. It simply wasn't enough for
giance by saying he'd been assured Dukakis to hold long telephone talks
the bill was “unconstitutional" by the with Sasso every night The master's
state's top court - a court so nuttily practised hand was needed directly mi
leftist that it recently went out of its the controls - and that is where, in
way to admit the communist spy and desperation, Dukakis has now put it.
convicted perjuror, Alger Hiss, to John Sasso is officially back as boss of
practice law before it. the Dukakis campaign
In this overlapping set of extrem- The immediate consequence will be
ities, what did Michael Dukakis do? that the presidential campaign will
He did what he always does in a jam get meaner and dirtier. One veteran
He sent for John Sasso Mark that watcher of Massachusetts politics
name well, for Sasso will for all prac- told me back in May that he was try-
tical purposes be your president for ing to get to the Bush people and warn 4 I
themnexeduryearsirDusakiswinsin Bad water more prevalent than reported
You may have noticed that the observer not only credited Sasso with A came up with 73 different pesticides the Federal Insecticide. Fungicide
“wimp issue," as an argument against turning Biden into a political corpse, . p found in wells in 34 states, according and Rodenticide Act. At that time
Bush, suddenly disappeared from our he was convinced that Sasso was be- ana josepn spear to an advance copy of its report given Sen Dave Durenberger, R-Minn , and
liberal media's overstuffed arsenal hind the media's destruction of Gary WASHINGTON _ Pesticides have to our associate, Stewart Harris Rep Jim Oberstar. D-Minn , intro-
just about the time it became clear Hart too. And he regaled me with sto- WASHING TUN t spokesman told us the duced tough proposals to control
that Dukakis was going to win the ries of: various Massachusetts politi- £towe^ agency reporUn February used lower groundwater prlluton But the
Democratic nomination. The reason cos whose bleaching bones attest to Scan" Vmore contamination figures because it counted only the chances are slin that the bills will
was simple: The real wimp in this the grim prowess of John Sasso. ^an "previously reported by the cases that had been "confirmed" by pass before Congress recesses in
race is Dukakis, and the media didn t So my advice to the Bush staff, and srmnen P the federal government "We are not October
want to draw attention to that fact by to the vice president himself, is: ean Egoend reent of rural Ameri- trying to hide that issue at all We are Durenberger's provision has made
harping on the issue. Watch out Sasso is back get thr drinking water from trying to highlight it," the spokesman it through committee and is waiting
Dukakis is, in fact, a prize example gpm coppie- assn can Sent An estimated 13 million said. The EPA has promised to re- for consideration by the full Senate
of a very common political type: the © . . g million people lease its own updated numbers in Oc- Oberstar’s bill remains bottled up in a
nationwide tober based on continued work to dou- House committee with little chance
------------------------- The Environmental Protection ble-check the information. A of making it to the floor before the
Aoencv gathered test data from groundwater contamination survey 'recess. , A. . . crat
45 000 wells and found that 5,500 of based on the EPA's own test data will , The data from P!RG doesnot mean many are looking to Sen George
them were tainted with harmful lev- not be completed until 1990 that one out of every four wells in the Mitchell of Maine He is likeable and
els of at least one pesticide Another While the EPA's written data may coun try i s contaminatterwithapeit. intelligent. as are Inouye and John-
5.500 wells had traces of 73 different be conservative, the report from cide. The data comes from 101 s ston but he has a stubborn Maine
pesticides in amounts that would not PIRG may lean a little too far in the les by state of ficials, chemtca conn streak that senators of both parties
be harmful other direction Some of the test in- panies and research institutionsand believe would make him a tougher
The EPA had that information last formation is not holding up to scien- they were focusing on problem are negotiator with a Republican presi
February, but it issued a written re- tific scrutiny by the EPA, according Nevertheless. the dlata in Cats either of the others,
port saving only 19 pesticides had to agency scientist. Patrick Holden groundwater contamination is more
been found in wells in 24 states How- Even taking that into consideration, widespread than previously thought. MINI-EDITORIAL — Warning to
ever EPA officials verbally ac- Holden said the final figures, to be re- Among other things PIRG Michael Dukakis and anyone who
knowledeed that between 50 and 60 leased Oct. 1, will exceed the 19 pesti- reported might be tempted to call George Bush
pesticides were found in 30 states cides in 24 states cited in the EPA’s • Of the 73 pesticides, at least 25 a Wimp: A state police lieutenant in
Environment' groups demanded February report. can cause cancer, 18 can cause birth Connecticut called a local legislatoi
to see the data earlier this summer October will be too late to affect defects and 14 can cause genetic an “arrogant pompous little twit
The Washington headquarters of Pub- congressional debate over the issue damage. Now, an inquiry has begun to detert
lie Interest8Research Group (PIRG) Concern over pesticides contamina- • California, with 31 different pes- mine if the police officer should lose
assembled the data in a report that is tion of groundwater reached Capitol ticides found in tested wells, led the his job
scheduled to be released today PIRG Hill last spring during debate over other states Copyrh" 19881 Unt6 testh .
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Russian exile says glasnost is phony ed States is in fact supporting contin-
ued oppression in the Soviet Union. He
rv om Fiede “I found that I did not like the exist- the Nazis fed the Jews at Buchen thinks it should instead be support ing
- ing relationships between people wald. I was in solitary for 47 days in a the people there Makarenko says the
WASHINGTPNANKAHaItsnms TOMakarenko continued to protest af- AnoPRudsinotowantrtendpithdyws
fate, of the Soviet Union’s Mik- bosses and the rest of us were the ter prison For a time, he had to live them to continue to be firm enemies
thepraisesfeth eSuitirsnsorrsmlt And I couldn’t hide my con- incognito in Moscow When he was The reason is simple. Makarenko
the gentleman’s domestic reforms, tempt, either In other words, I did not told to leave the country, he went to says an isolated Russia is a doomed
plitcians admire his international have the Soviet expression’ on my Germany firsto and thenasettlednin Russia. He says the people in the
Flon “nd Mr and Mrs John Q face I couldn't pretend. Washington in 1978 Makarenko touna country are now engaged in what
Public are led to believe that he's the Makarenko was arrested initially ed Resistance International in 1982, amounts to a national strike against
rube Remitn since Peter the for nonconformist behavior. He says and has used it to try to influence the communists, they are forcing al
Great he wssosubsequently arrested 10 American policy towards the Soviet of the present conciliations, and.
But there are still a few skeptics times. and served various jail sen- Union. . k He eventually, they will institute perma-
around One of them is Michail Ma- tences. He eventually became widely He says that Poly1iwronsnent reforms of their .own.k i
karenko. He says the United States known for trying to organize a strike saysthereisnogoodreeasonstelesitt .The sooner the bet ' too. Michail
has been grossly misled concerning at a concrete plant, after which he mize MikhaipGorhache;,, Hl tell Makarenkosays he hopes Gorbachey
Gorbachev, and he holds his nose at was placed in a series of gulags for a changed. inRussa savs he wants to isthe first to fail He says itwouldbe
. meti’n nf the Soviet leader's total of eieht vears you what Gorbachev says he wants to better to have someone like Josef Sta-
name He says I communist once is a “Some of the jails were worse than have more competitionin.the eleg Un in charge, or Leonid Brezhnev
communist always - regardless of others," he says “One bad one was at tions. That means sratherthan.hae again because they would show their
however else he is packaged Vladimir, a town not far from Mos oneecommunist on the ballot, he wants real faces, and that would stiffen the
Makarenko used to be a “social mis- cow We had five people in a cell that tohavetwo th Russian neoole people’s resolve to bring the regime
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driving force behind the corrections; E——ttT— reg,
Gorbachev is only acting to prevent a TODAY’S HISTORY: On this day in
complete overthrow of the commu- 1788, New York was declared the first
nist system. federal capital and the seat of the U.S.
And so in this view Gorbachev is Congress.
)^l a modernized tool of totalitarian- TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Walter Reed
ism. Makarenko says his goal is o (1851); John "Black Jack" Pershing
keep the lid on another srevoution: (1860); Roald Dahl (1916); Mel Torme
He smiles, he says nice things andhe Jacqueline Bisset (1944)
drinks champagne with Ronald Rea- . ,
gan but he does not want genuine re- TODAY'S QUOTE: "(Reduction of ar-
form in all truth, his job is to prevent maments) would be a long step to-
genuine reform " wards the prevention of war - Gen
Makarenko is in his middle 50s. He John Pershing
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