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Latin policy
criticized by
ex-diplomat
America’s Latin policy has come
under criticism by a senior foreign
service officer who served as a diplo
mat to several Central and South
American countries.
M. Gordon Daniels, now serving
as diplomat-in-residence at Texas
A&M University, called the de
terioration of political and social sys
tems in Central and South America
“very dangerous to us.”
“The odds are greater for chaos
than for peaceful and orderly de
velopment,” the diplomat said.
“I am not optimistic for the future.
America is so mesmerized by the
Middle East, I am not even sure it is
aware of Central and South
America. ”
Daniels served for 25 years with
the American Foreign Service in
Colombia, Bolivia, Panama, Chile
and Saudi Arabia and will retire at
the end of his current assignment.
Daniels expressed his “personal frus
tration” in a speech to a Texas A&M
student group.
He said the United States has a
five-point Latin American foreign
policy although at times “it might
appear otherwise.”
The Carter administration policy
statement includes respect for na
tional sovereignty; support for eco
nomic development; acceptance of
ideological pluralism; commitment
to encouraging the democratic pro
cess and respect for human rights;
and support for multilateral and re
gional cooperation.
“You cannot really quarrel with
these goals,” Daniels said, adding
that he “did not question the good
will and intentions of the govern
ment.”
He said it might seem “strange
that the United States had to state
explicitly its respect for national
sovereignty, but it was precisely this
point — the long history of American
intervention both militarily and
ecnomically — which causes such
deep resentment and suspicion in
Latin America with respect to our
intentions.”
A recent “lapse of memory” in sug
gesting a multinational force be put
together to intervene in Nicaragua
did not help the U.S. standing, he
pointed out.
Other points of tension include
statements of acceptance of ideolo
gical pluralism, meaning the admi
nistration recognizes “Cuba is here
to stay” and that Latin American
countries may choose to align them
selves “politically, socially and eco
nomically in ways alien to U. S. tradi
tion,” Daniels said.
He called the government’s sup
port for regional cooperation shor
thand for “we wish these countries
would do more to help themselves.”
Daniels said the United States
“has clashed head on with old
friends, especially Brazil and Argen
tina, over policy differences relating
to nuclear energy development and,
in addition, the vigorous attention
given to human rights as a foreign
policy objective has succeeded in
further alienating these two coun
tries.”
WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1980
Food price hikes
seen to year s
end
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market chain owner reiterated Tues
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prediction that retail food price in
creases at an annual rate of up to 11
percent would continue through the
end of this year.
Bernard Weisberg of Warren,
Mich., said the largest part of such
increases cannot be controlled by re-
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tailers because the marketing costs
that will lead to the increases repre
sent 60 percent of all retail food
prices.
Weisberg spoke at a food editors’
workshop at the Food Marketing In
stitute’s 43rd annual meeting.
He said marketing costs include
wage and fringe benefits to super
market employees — and two-thirds
of the market owners’ gross margin
goes to pay for those items.
“Gross margin is the difference
between what the retailer pays for
merchandise and the price he sells it
for,” Weisberg explained.
“During the ’70s labor and fringe
costs rose by an average of 10 percent
each year, and there is no end in
sight,” he said.
“If present rates continue, by the
end of the ’80s the minimum wage
will be $6,” he said, quoting figures
from FMI’s research department.
“Supermarket checkers in metro
politan areas who now average $7 an
hour will be making $15.68; meat-
cutters who average $9 now will be
making $20.16. There is no indica
tion that the demands of labor will be
reduced.”
Weisbert quoted Cornell Univer
sity’s annual grocery chain survey
showing supermarket utility costs
have risen 225 percent during the
past 10 years; labor costs 171 per
cent, and supplies 166 percent.
During the same period sales rose
only 125 percent.
“Last year’s surge in oil prices is
just now beginning to work through
the economy,” he said, “and experts
say the explosion in energy prices is
expected to continue through 1980
with no relief in sight. ”
Weisberg sees consumers benefit
ing from the predicted slow growth
of the industry in the ’80s because
competition for customers will con
tinue to be fierce.
“Competition benefits the cus
tomer with lowest possible prices
and best possible service,” he said.
He said food retailers will have to
innovate, following examples set in
the 1970s when companies began to
diversify and to open super, com
bination warehouse and limited
assortment stores.
He said scanning checkouts are
teaching better inventory control
and better methods of controlling
theft by employees and customers.
Weisberg expects retailers to use
such scanning information to intro
duce money-saving practices and
procedures:
wo 11 SMSgiftted retailers follow
Japan’s example of encouraging em
ployees to assume responsiblity for
the quality and quantity of their
work.
Brilab ‘spy’
gets 2-year
prison term
United Press International
PHOENIX — FBI informant
Joseph Hauser, federal prosecutors’
chief witness in the “Brilab” investi
gation of Southwest labor leaders
and politicians, including Texas
House Speaker Bill Clayton, has
been sentenced to two years in pris
on in a plea-bargaining arrangement. .
At the urging of a federal prosecu
tor, U.S. District Judge William
Copple Monday ruled Hauser could
serve his term concurrently with a
California bribery sentence he now
is serving.
Hauser’s sentence was for helping
swindle $5.5 million in union funds.
He conspired with three other men
to misapply funds of various labor
unions throughout the country, in
cluding $750,000 from the Arizona
Laborers’, Teamsters’ and Cement
Masons’ Health and Welfare Fund.
“I realize I made some mistakes, ”
Hauser told the judge. “I got a tiger
by the tail and I couldn’t get off. I
want to repay my debt to this
country.”
H auser’s well-guarded court
appearance was a rare public outing
since his role in Brilab was made
known. He supposedly gave Texas
House Speaker Bill Clayton $5,000
and promised $600,000 more for
help in landing a state insurance con
tract.
The grand jury investigating
Clayton and the Texas Brilab scandal
reconvenes June 2.
Prosecutor James Henderson of
the Justice Department’s Organized
Crime and Racketeering Section in
Los Angeles, said Hauser exposed
himself to danger by being the “prin
cipal operative” in the investigation,
nicknamed Brilab for bribery-labor.
The indictment alleged this occur
red between 1973 and 1976.
Charges have been dismissed
against two of Hauser’s co
defendants and the third was given a
10-year prison sentence concurrent
with a Florida sentence.
Of the Brilab case. Sen. Sam
Nunn, D-Ga., said it was a “classic
example of how labor union trust
funds can be defrauded by modern-
day labor racketeers.”
Nunn chaired a U.S. Senate sub
committee investigating the situa
tion for three years.
Hauser also reportedly led author
ities to New Orleans crime figure
Carlos Marcello and is a key figure in
the Brilab investigation in Louisiana.