Page \ 4/The BattalionATuesday, April 9, 1985
Anti-nuclear
protesters
call for U.S.
to join freeze
Associated Press
urope s anti-rra-
larcnine by the
dear protesters, marching by
thousands in traditional Eastertime
peace rallies, called on Washington
Monday to match Moscow’s freeze
on deploying medium-range mis
siles.
Arrests of trespassers and demon
strators were reported outside U.S.
missile bases in Britain, Italy and
West Germany, but police reported
no major incidents linked to the anti
nuclear rallies.
British Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher rejected the call made by
Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev
on Sunday for a freeze on deploy
ment of new U.S. cruise and Per
shing 2 missiles in Europe.
Thatcher said to end NATO de
ployments now would “freeze in” an
enormous Soviet advantage, esti
mated by the While House at 10 to 1.
Other U.S. allies in Europe de
clined specific comment on Gorba
chev's announcement of a freeze,
made in an interview with the Com
munist Party daily Pravda.
Gorbachev said the Soviet Union
would halt deployment of SS-20 me
dium-range rockets in Europe until
November, but would resume the
sit ings if there were no similar action
taken by the West. He also said he
accepted President Reagan’s offer to
hold a superpower summit.
Initial press and political reaction
in Europe was divided between
those who dismissed the Kremlin
gesture as a ploy aimed at. splitting
the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza
tion, and those who hailed it as a
breakthrough in the East-West im
passe.
Paris’ conservative newspaper Le
Figaro said, “The Kremlin’s ‘good
faith’ gesture is aimed much less at
the White House than at Moscow’s
targeted allies in Europe — the Ger
man, Dutch and Belgian pacifists.
(It) is just so much smokescreen.”
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India to sue
Union Carbide
for damages
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Jack Maho
ney says that in 42 years of working
for the Army, he encountered
plenty of “silly rules” that led to
waste.
However, he said, offering a sug
gestion for change would bring on
the old “we’ve always done it this
way” runaround.
In 1964, when he was a transpor
tation officer at Fort Sill, Okla., Ma
honey proposed a logical way to save
money and time. His proposal: Stop
requiring Army recruits with civilian
licenses to take a military automobile
driving test.
“It was a ridiculous, silly rule; we
were giving 100 tests a week to sol
diers who already proved they could
drive,” Mahoney said.
Ridiculous or not, Mahoney’s su
periors said that was the way it was
done, and rejected his idea, not just
once but three subsequent times.
Now, 20 years after he first sug
gested it, the Defense Department
has not only implemented Maho
ney’s idea, it has given commanders
at Fort Sill and 26 other military
bases the right to eliminate any other
unnecessary rules.
It all began three years ago, when
Defense Department officials seek
ing less costly and better managed
bases asked local commanders how
they would feel if contract and rule-
making actions were more central
ized.
The response from the field was
overwhelmingly negative, said Army
Lt. Col. William Mullen, a Pentagon
officer. “They said, ‘We know what
... we’re doing, leave us alone,’ ”
Mullen said.
It r s an experiment aimed
at proving the Pentagon
doesn't always know best
and that doing things by
the book"is often as obso
lete as a cavalry chatge.
The result was the Model Installa
tions Program, in which command
ers at the Army, Air Force, Navy and
Marine bases in the United States
and overseas are encoutaged to ask
the services or the Defense Depart
ment for permission to alter or dis
card unnecessary regulations.
The first group of 15 installations
was phased in gradually, beginning
in late 1983; a few months ago, a
dozen more were added. Four of the
bases are overseas.
To encourage the bases to give the
program high priority, any savings
resulting from the rule changes are
plowed back into the installation’s
budget.
At Whiteman Air Force Base,
Mo., authorities switched from mili
tary specifications to civilian build
ing codes for on-base housing.
“This is an exaggeration, but in
effect, they were building carports
on family houses that could withs
tand a direct hit from an 8-inch how
itzer,” Mullen said.
At Great Lakes Naval Training
Center, near Chicago, new recruits
who needed eyeglasses were out
fitted with two pairs, even if they al
ready had a civilian set. Now, re
cruits who have a pair of proper
glasses when they arrive get only one
pair from the Navy. That will save
about $ 100,000 a year, said program
manager Burton Krain.
At Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M.,
the commander instituted base-wide
purchasing of copy machines. In
stead of each office picking its own
brand of copy machine from a De
fense Department catalog, the base
put a contract up for bid and got the
machines at a lower overall price.
Hickham Air Force Base in Ha
waii no longer buys its cooking
equipment through Defense Depart
ment channels, a procedure that of
ten took months. Now, if a toaster
breaks down, officers can go down
town and buy a new one.
Col. Robert Zierak, in charge of
the program at Fort Sill, said the
base has wiped out between 300 and
400 regulations in the past two years,
mostly at the suggestion of “worker
bees.”
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Mahoney, who retired from Fort
Sill two months ago as a civilian em
ployee of the Army, finally had the
pleasure of seeing his driving test
suggestion enacted throughout the
Army.
Fear of overzealous rule-slashing
led the Defense Department to limit
the program.
Nevertheless, Mullen added, the
C rogram has become a valuable “test
ed” for innovation.
Referring to Mahoney’s idea,
Mullen said, “With a stroke of the
pen they cut something that was a
classic example of the dumbness of
bureaucracy.”
NEW YORK — The government
of India filed suit Monday against
the Union Carbide Corn, seeking
unspecified damages for the Decem
ber chemical leak which killed more
than 2,000 people and injured thou
sands of others in the city of Bhopal.
The suit in U.S. District Court in
Manhattan said that “because of the
enormity of the Bhopal disaster,
plaintiff is not currently able” to
specify a dollar amount on the dam
ages. A number of American law
yers, however, have filed separate
suits seeking an estimated $15 billion
in damages for Bhopal victims.
The suit asks the U.S. court to
award punitive damages “in an
amount sufficient to deter Union
Carbide or any other multinational
corporation from the willful, mali
cious and wanton disregard of the
rights and safety of the citizens of
those countries in which they do
business.”
The suit charges Union Carbide
with designing the plant negligently
and with misrepresenting the safety
of the nacility.
It maintains that the Danbury,
Conn.-based corporation is ultima
tely responsible for the accident,
though the plant was operated by an
Indian subsidiary of which Union
Carbide held 50.9 percent own
ership.
Professor’s unique ministry
combines business, religion
Associated Press
TACOMA, Wash. — Darrell Reeck is a Ph.D., a pro
fessor, an investment firm consultant, author, husband,
father of two -— and an ordained United Methodist
minister whose unusual ministry is a new academic pro
gram designed to improve the business leadership skills
of college students.
“I have a unique ministry to college students, and
also to business,” says the 45-year-old professor of reli
gion at the University of Puget Sound here.
From his non-traditional pulpit, as co-director of the
university’s new business leadership program, he aims
to add an ethical perspective to his students’ intellects,
help them better understand trends in society and cul
ture, and teach them the vocabulary of big business.
Reeck, who specializes in ethics and society, has been
teaching at the University of Puget Sound since 1969.
“I came here straight from Sierra Leone, Africa, where
I did my dissertation research on the social conse
quences of missionary activity in western Africa,” he
says.
Since arriving at the university he has been teaching
business ethics and in 1979 began developing, with a
colleague, the university’s business leadership pro
gram. Which he describes as a fusion of liberal arts and
business concerns. The university enrolled its first class
of 31 students in the program last fall.
The leadership program seeks to prepare students
for careers of sustained advancement and executive-
level achievement, Reeck says.
“We have combined the academic with the practical
and offer a rigorous course of study designed to equip
students with the analytical tools and language of busi
ness,” he explains. “This is accomplished while provid
ing them with a broad understanding of the intellectual
and cultural framework in which business functions.
“Business leaders have told us that graduates ot busi
ness schools are too often poorly prepared for lifetime
careers of increasing responsibility,” he adds. “We’ve
found that the typical business school graduate is defi
cient in the various things that liberal arts and humani
ties provide, namely communication skills, reasoning
skills and, most importantly, the ability to make dis
cerning judgments.
“Some business people feel that church people only
stand at the sidelines of business and fire broadsides
without knowing what they’re talking about because
they’re not in business. But good business and doing
the right thing, which is what religion teaches, should
and do go together.”
The university’s new business leadership major em
phasizes the humanities, but includes courses in finan
cial accounting, marketing and management and busi
ness policy.. It offers exposure to business leaders in the
form of a mentorship.
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