Chickasha Daily Express (Chickasha, Okla.), Vol. 99, No. 272, Ed. 1 Friday, January 25, 1991 Page: 4 of 12
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•Chickasha Daily Express
•Friday, January 25,1990
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A LOCALLY OPERATED MEMBER OF THE
DONREY MEDIA GROUP
Donald W. Reynolds, Founder_____
projected that at least $624 million
in hardware on hand does not meet
safety standards. It is junk that
could fail and kill American sol-
diers.
In the past three years, about
100 firms have been prosecuted for
selling bogus fasteners and for falsi-
fying tests. But industry sources
say that it will take another year to
feel the full enforcement effect of
Some higher-ups in the party be-
lieve that, after the Persian Gulf
crisis, George Bush will need all
the help that he can get if he wants
to be re-elected. And Quayle offers
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mends that the Pentagon implement
a rigid testing policy, including
testing the bolls it gets from rep-
utable manufacturers.
The Pentagon’s supply system is
so disorganized that it has been
known to throw out bad bolls and
then buy them back again. Last
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In 1965, parents on average spent
approximately 30 hours a week with their
kids. By 1985, parent-child interaction
dropped to just 17 hours per week.
lion. or more in salary and bonuses (210)
So I called Business Week to as- and how many are married (960).
certain the basis for its list. You're No statistics arc available on the
going to find this hard to believe, number of Business Week CEO
but nobody at Business Week could mistresses.
explain the rationale for the Busi- What's most startling, though,
ness Week list! is the uncontained greediness of
The operator bounced me all many of the CEOs.
over the corporate offices—from the
two editors who first developed this How does Reebok International s
list to the staff editor who worked CEO justify paying himself $14.6
with them to the assistant manag- million in salary and bonuses?
ing editor who supervised them. Chris Crafts CEO is rewarded with
None of them were available, and $13.7 million and Wall Disneys
nobody else could speak with any CEO gets paid $9.6 million, when
By WILLIAM MATTOX, JR. son. During the 1970s and '80s,
Contrary to the claims of profes- constant-dollar earnings of Amcri-
sional children's advocates in Wash- can husbands grew less than 1 per-
ington, the number one problem cent per year compared with a real
facing American children today is growth rate of 3 percent per year in
not a lack of subsidized day-care the 1950s and '60s. Moreover, for
centers, or poor nutrition, or declin- some groups -particularly non-
ing school performance. Nor is it management employees and men
poverty, though 20 percent of our under 25 -- real wages have actually
children live below the poverty fallen since 1973.
line While wages have stagnated,
American children face a crisis of taxes have risen dramatically. In
another kind - one that rivals our 1950, a median-income family of
budget and trade problems: a deficit four paid 2 percent of its annual
of time spent with their parents, gross earnings to the federal gov-
Parents today spend 40 percent ernment in income and payroll
less lime with their children than taxes. Today, it pays 24 percent. In
did parents in 1965, according to addition, state and local taxes, on
data collected from personal lime average, take another 8 percent from
diaries by sociologist John Robin- the family's gross income
son of the University of Maryland. Moreover, the erosion in the
States Association is trying to use discriminatory and illegal. The edu-
its accrediting arm to muscle uni- cation establishment soulcry caused
versilies into obedience. ihc Bush administration to pressure
And the incentive for a campus the Education Department to recant
to swallow the new orthodoxy of What is outrageous is that this
"political correctness" is strong: A new form of intellectual imperial-
college that loses its accreditation ism has established so many beach-
also forfeits federal aid and academic heads on our nation's campuses,
legitimacy. In what is becoming an academic
All of this is making the U.S. inquisition, educators will have to
Department of Education a little choose sides. ,,
queasy. The department is withhold- Note: Feulner is president of I
ing the Middle States Association's Heritage Foundation, a Washing-
accrediting authority while it re- ton-based public policy research in-
views its diversity agenda. Educa- stitute.
By JACK ANDERSON
AND DALE VAN ATTA
WASHINGTON—Judging by
the numbers of counterfeit bolls in
the Pentagon’s hardware inventory,
the U.S. war machine is held to-
gether by no better than chicken
wifmnindraiPentagon report re- fying tests. But industry sources year a California firm was convicted 8
veals that cheap bolls made from say that it will take another year to of falsifying tests and selling bad "
weak metals have found their way feel the full enforcement effect of bolts to the government. The com- W
into the military stockpiles in the new consumer protection law. pany had picked up many of the (
alarming numbers. Meanwhile, distributors arc scram- bolts at military surplus auctions. 9
Many of the back-up machine bling to dump their bogus bolts on DUMP DAN Pressure is build- (
screws used to fasten wing parts on the market, ing in the Republican camp to re- 7
the Navy's Corsair A-7 attack jets "H's dump time," warned move Vice President Dan Quayle V
arc fakes—substandard imitations of Tommy Grant of Grant Fasteners from the GOP ticket in 1992.
what the Pentagon thought it was Inc. in Houston. Grant is the leader
buying. The same weak screws arc of a pack of honest boll makers
used in the Army's Apache heli- who forced the issue onto
copters and Tomahawk missiles. Congress's front burner with the
Many of the spare machine bolls help of Reps. John Dingell, D-
for the M174 gun mount are also Mich., James Bilbray, D-Nev. and little help, except as an aggressive M
bogus, as arc the bolts on the Helen Bentley, R-Md. Many U.S. fund-raiser among the rich right. V
Lamps Mark HI helicopters and the manufacturers were run out of busi- The name of Gen. Colin Powell is 4
studs on the Phantom F-4 jets. ness by the cheaper foreign fasten- being bandied around again, as it
We have been warning for years ers before buyers in America caught was in 1988 as vice presidentia 5
that foreign manufacturers were on to why the foreign products were material. Powell, the chairman of «
passing off weak bolts as the real cheaper, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has a 2
thing Congress passed a bill in its The counterfeit glut affects more good reputation now and his stock .
last session to stop the traffic. But than just the military. A recent would be boosted by careful han-
the Pentagon is just now figuring General Accounting Office report dling of the troops in the Middle .t- , c, c;;gc hv mgc, rinc the
out how many of those bolts it determined that almost two-thirds of East. I measured the outmigration of East Coast cities by measuring t
bought and used before the brass re- the nation's nuclear power plants MINI-EDITORIAL - President up-and-down migration of the New York subway.’’
alized it was being fleeced. bought fasteners that don't meet Bush has more than the Persian n
The revelations about the spread safety standards. Bogus fasteners Gulf crisis on his plate. The great- q A gV 1 • A y •4 KKT_-
of bogus bolts through the military have also surfaced at the National Cst threat to the United States, and g 4v(VT4 H1,( EIE W it JI
appear in a Defense Department in- Aeronautics and Space Administra- to Bush's administration, is the fail- “NA -W- -- • “ mi •% C
spector general report obtained by lion, the Energy Department and ing economy. But some Bush aides “
our associate Jim Lynch. other federal agencies, are dismayed that they can't draw By CHUCK STONE
Pentagon investigators estimate Fraud is rampant because it is his attention away from the Middle "Tis the season to compile lists:
that 62 percent of the hardware in easy. The bad bolts can't be detected East. That crisis has only given shopping lists. New Year's resolu-
the military's "ready-lo-issue" in- by the eye. Expensive metallurgical Bush an excuse to ignore domestic tion lists—and media lists.
ventory does not meet the required tests are needed, and the test results problems that he had no solutions In order of cerebral importance,
strength and size demands. The in- in some cases have been faked. The for anyway. current lists include: Soap Opera
vestigators took samples and then Defense inspector general recom- © 1 'u e ues Y a ' Digest's "best and worst soaps of
. 1990; the National Enquirer's 10
Children Need More Attention 1991,gTimc magazine's 18-page
scope oi government to replace "best of 1990 People maggzinss
families, policymakers can help 25 most intriguing people f1990
parents fulfill their child-rearing re- and Associated Press 2 b
sponsibilities by dramatically reduc- news stories of 1 •
ing the tax burden on families with But thelistthat Week's2 list of uuy- ......- eight of the 10 largest Fortune 500
children. Allowing parents to keep mostrpsrBugsines;Weckhe 1,000 No wonder the Japanese are win- CEOs arc paid less than $2 million
more of their own tame into chier executives of what it calls ning the industrial war. in salaries and bonuses.
would give fami ics greai ersC "America's most powerful public I wanted a simple explanation: Another depressing part of the
of their money - and their U . companies." How could Business Week's list Business Week list is its white
Th , are a Le, of ways to If you believe the accuracy of the purport to represent America's most male dominance. Only two of the
mere arc i u f Business Week list, let me intro- powerful corporations when the CEOs are women, and only one is a
provide sue . , duce you to two very close friends. Business Week list omitted 167 of black male. Had Business Week in-
raise ' he tax cxemptisonfordep the the tooth fairy and the Easter Fortune’s larges corporations, in- clded TIAACREF, its CEO. Dr.
dentsto he bunny. cluding Shell Oil (Fortune's 13th Clifton R Wharton Jr., a distill-
sarned S nr d, exoand the 1 decided 10 compare Business largest), RJR Nabisco (Fortune's guished black educator, would have
v T, Scmremg (-.refund Week's list with the more chans- 24th) and household names such as further integrated the list.
YoungshrldiTihatwds seated as mauc Fortune 500 (the largesi 500 Bayer. Beatrice Revlon Land Certainiy, a good education and
age, and number of children. U.S. industrial corporations,:andt OLakes, Mack Trucks and Lo ’ good ol' boy Ivy League connec-
Tax relief, while much needed, LsurpriShcfircnersdoicom17 “h. but Business Weck’s list "ionsnelpwogreasc,shsraverage
niesrullysspercengwerenolon docshavconcidiolicmeri"nis ^i^^Tbi:^
seek what American Enterprisc In- theEusinssowe, 335 of Business ineiabos „ namcd Smmi 48. ticular power is cqualiydetcrmina-
X more fluiidolrgri gjdjh Than S100 million in sales. That from College (84), how many are So give me any of the other
mat over when where and how didn't seem to make sense when, for Harvard Business school graduates lists, silly as many of them are. At
Cont hours thev’ work ’ Accord- example, TIAACREF, which was (an impressive 98), how many least soap operas have one redeem-
Ahon nolievmakers should cncour- not on Business Week's list, had a graduated from Ivy League schools ing virtue— they arc democratic.
gehiExibienours,part-uimenwork, 1989 premium volume of $3.6 bil- (159), how many Can,Cd Si million o1 NowepopovEmorpmeauin
job sharing, and home-based em- A _ • ryy 1 A wp 1 e 6)
In 1965, parents on average spent value of the personal exemption ploymcnt. /nord m Im I A(iy( ■ ((°( -
approximately 30 hours a week (the tax code's chief mechanism for Americans believe that parents hh“CU Villi V l IlVUglll — •
with their kids. By 1985, parent- adjusting tax liability to reflect having ess time t send with their FWIN FUELNER awareness" seminars, harassed into tion officials rightly fear that the
child interaction dropped to just 17 family size) has shifted more of the famins* is tne mosPimporant rea- this an iron-fisted aca- silence, or run off campus. obsession with diversity will trans-
hours a week. federal income ux burden onto the son for the family’s decline in our demic noon saiiad ready to rough up Even now, with U.S.-led forces late into quotas in admission and
This meteoric decline in family backs of families with dependents. j ( according to a recent sur- demicg0 or professors who don’t engaged against Iraq, the students faculty hiring, violating a 1988 law
time can be attributed to increases Had the exemption kept pace with parents would like to see d h. rpro Brand of nolitical Who ed angry anti-war protests in prohibiting discrimination in public
in .be number of single-pawn, fam- inflation since 1950,itwouldnow IE wXS$SpndulumIswing IX to its brand ° Political the11960s now .be professors or private universilies .ba. receive
iliesandin the total hoursitwo-par beworthcloset 97,000. Instead, back in the direction of the home. No, is not the National Social- preaching anti-American, politically federal money
ent families devote to their jobs. A it stands at $2,050.. iet Partv nf Nazi Germanv It’s the correct propaganda in the class- Unfortunately, the Middle States
true "pro-child" policy would seek On top of this, increases in the So would most kids. When g. ni« dA ggtro- o•_ room H Association has its henchmen. The
to combat the economic and eul- cost of major family expenses - 1,500 schoolchildren recently were Mod 8igee-n Unfortunately, the movement is National Task Force for Minority
tural forces behind these trends, housing, health care, transportation, asked, "What do you think makes a 5865 and-nyens 51 “4 — ar finding fertile ground. At New York Achievement in Higher Education
rather than trying to replace fami- and higher education -have signifi- happy family?" they did not list —on * inmnuimns in University School of Law, students is calling for public universities to
lies with government programs. candy outpaced the general inflation money, cars, nice homes, or televi- dny an 1 Nowerrei refused to debate a mootcourt case ensure that minority groups not
While America has experienced rate for the last 25 years For ex- sions. Their most common answer: venade‘"wn ‘ involving a hypothetical divorced only enroll, but graduate in rates
steady growth in its gross national ample, in 1973, the typical 30-year- ‘Doing things together.” Pennsylvania, Maryland, a nd the lesbian "Kother trying to win cus- proportional to their population in
product, the economic pressures on old man could get a mortgage on a Nole: William R. Mattox, Jr., is Dis,1 raise tody of her child .. because arguing each state. Vincent Sarich, a profes-
families with children have risen med >an-priced home with 21 perent a policy analyst who focuses on Lnnssacunuraldilrst“n against her would be harmful to sor at the University of California
significantly. How can it be that at ofhis gross income. By 1987, a work and family ^ues for the thenbanns o euDhcS sm for racial gays. Al the University of Michi- al Berkeley, rightly asks, "How do
the same time we hear so much median-priced home mortgage took Family Research Council in Wash- camprsesgete minie_sing gan noted demographer Reynolds you mandate graduation rates except
about the longest peacetime eco- 40 percent of that wage-earners inglon. This article is excerpted duqtas8manigsttimnsorcort Farley, was harangued after reading by cheating?" How indeed.
nomic expansion in our nations gross income. from the Winter 1991 issue of Pol- .... .. Heretics are all but a passage from the autobiography in a similar display of selective
history, we also hear talk that eco- What, then can government do icy RevieWi the quarterly journal of ‘ 8 Professors or of black activist Malcolm X, in discrimination, the National Asso-
nomic pressures are forcing families to foster more family time and nur- 7 he Heritage Foundation, a Wash- . h Sttion lhc agenda which the author calls himself a ciation of Independent Colleges and
to have two incomes? ture stronger parent-child relation- ington-based public policy research . into ’sensitivity pimp and a thief. Farley dropped his Universities, representing 815
Wage stagnation is one big rea- ships? Rather than expanding the institute. course. mostly overpriced institutions,
This crusade, like so many other blasted as "outrageous" an Educa-
holy wars, is being waged through tion Department announcement that
forced conversions. The Middle "race exclusive scholarships are
Brenda Baker. Office Manager H.S. Caldwell, Press Room Supervisor
Bad Bolts Plague Pentagon
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