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V Monday, September 16,1985AThe Battalion/Page 9 World and Nation SHOE by Jeff MacNelly J«rr S (so^kOTununlcatlon«7Inc I9M ~1 Dl»trlbutx3 by Trlbun> M»dl« ST»lca», Inc j Texas senators state opinions on complex U.S. trade issue Associated Press WASHINGTON — Texans Lloyd Bentsen and Phil Gramm are considered by their colleagues to be among the most knowledge able members of the Senate when it comes to the complex and often partisan issue of trade. In separate interviews, Gramm, a freshman Republican, and Bentsen, a four-term Demo crat, voiced very different ideas about the U.S. trade imbalance, its effect on jobs and on what should be done. “I am opposed to protectio nism," Gramm, who has a Ph.D. in economics, said. “The Demo crats are trying to cast this as a jobs issue. In reality, the issue is fair trade.” Bentsen is a ranking minority member on the Senate Finance subcommittee on international trade. ‘Tve been a free-trader all my life . . . but there’s been a change,” he said. Bentsen is the Senate sponsor of a bill that would impose a 25 percent tariff on goods from countries whose exports exceed imports by 55 percent. Gramm opposes tariffs and fa vors negotiation and stricter en forcement of current laws against “dumping” — the selling of for eign goods in the United States at below-market prices. Gramm said trade restrictions in the United States will only re sult in restriction of overseas pur chases of U.S. goods. “If you listen to the Democrats, it’s as if people sell things here and then take the dollars and eat them,” Gramm said. “Nobody wants dollars to eat. They don't eat good. So they take the dollars and invest them, they take the dollars and they lend them, they take the dollars and they buy. “What we have got to do is not stop world trade and produce an other depression as we did in the 1930s. What we’ve got to do is work to try to make the system fairer.” Bentsen said the foreign com- f ietition in many cases has an un air advantage due to govern ment subsidies and cheap labor. Their unfair trade practices, he says, are costing American jobs. “We’re charged sometimes with shoddiness in merchandise and for some of our merchandise that’s true,” Bentsen said. “Or with management mistakes, and sometimes that’s true. All those things have to be corrected, but in the meantime, you’ve got to buy time. Otherwise you lose your world market share of the busi ness, and when you lose it, it’s hell to ever get it back. “You have one of these inter national companies move a half billion dollar plant abroad, that’s not going to come back in this century.” Gramm said, “If you listen to the Democrats, America is losing millions of jobs. But yet, in the last three years, we have created 8 million net new jobs, more than Japan and Europe put together. More than Europe has created in the last 20 years. More than we have ever created in any three years in the 20th century.” Bentsen adds, “For us to go to a debtor nation for the first time since 1914, and to see that escalat ing where by 1990 we’ll owe over a trillion dollars in debt because of our trade deficit — to foreign countries we’ll owe it —we can say to Brazil and Mexico and Poland, ‘move aside, you’re pikers.’ ” Gramm states, “ The truth is that nations owe us tremendous amounts of money and the only way they can pay their debt is to run a surplus. You can pass all the laws you want to and you can’t change that.” If the Bentsen bill is passed, Bentsen said, “I think that we’d never have to put on a tariff. The Japanese are not going to run off their number one customer. They’re too smart for that. They would cut their surplus by 5 per cent and avoid the tariff. It’s a lot better than trying to tell them what to ship to us or what not to ship.” Gramm said, “Any tariff, whether it’s the 25 percent tariff that’s been proposed by some, or whatever, is paid by the con sumer, not by the foreigners. Most studies show that tariffs and quotas cost about $50,000 to the consumer for every job in the protected industry that they save, and yet a job is lost somewhere else because something is not be ing bought, money is not being invested.” Bentsen said, “The Japanese don’t expect to have to change. They are tremendous, tough, able competitors. But what you’ve got to look at is the bottom line, the net effect, never mind all the rhetoric.” Gramm, who opposes protec tionism, said, “The problem with raw protectionism is it will bring more protectionism against American goods and it can bring on a depression.” Bentsen said, “I think it’s time we have a healthy dose of prag matism and I don’t think we ought to be apologizing for self- interest.” Assassination orders unveiled in testimonial Associated Press SEATTLE — Members of The Order were assigned to assassinate Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller and other prominent people as part of their oath to rid America of Jew ish influence, a former member of the white supremacist group testi fied Friday. The members went as far as to plan a suicide bombing at the Olym pic Hotel in Seattle in November 1983, when a member of France’s wealthy Rothschild family suppos edly was to visit. The testimony Came from Denver Daw Parmenter II, one of 23 people indicted for racketeering in what the government says was a crime wave by the group that included murder, armored-car robberies and coun terfeiting. Parmenter, 33, pleaded guilty in January to racketeering in exchange for a 20-year term in a medium-se curity prison. Ten other indictees pleaded guilty earlier, and one defendant pleaded guilty Friday. Thomas Bentley, one of 11 de fendants on trial, changed his plea after the trial adjourned for the day. Bentley, 57, of Hayden Lake, Idaho, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to rack eteer. Sentencing was set for Jan. 24 and details of the plea agreement were sealed at the government’s request. Ten defendants remain on trial. In a 21-count federal indictment, Bentley was accused of helping kill Walter West, an Order member said to have been slain by his fellow mem bers. Parmenter was the second gov ernment witness in the case before U.S. District Judge Walter McGov ern. The government alleges the de fendants ran a national crime cam paign to support their white su premacist views with the ultimate goal of overthrowing the U.S. gov ernment. Parmenter testified that at a Sep tember 1983 meeting at which the Order was formed, the nine people attending were each assigned an as sassination target. Those targets, he said, included Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller and the heads of the three American television networks. Parmenter’s target, he said, was Fred Silverman, then head of NBC. The networks were targeted be cause “it was felt that the news media was one of the (vehicles) responsible for indoctrinating our race, poison ing the people,” he said. Henley gets top honor at video awards Associated Press NEW YORK — Don Henley, whose video “Boys of Summer” won the top honor at the MTV Video Music Awards, says he did little more during the making of the piece than stand m the rear of a pickup truck that was driven around Los Angeles. “Boys of Summer” took the prize for best video and three other awards Friday, while the video for “We Are the World,” the star- studded benefit recording that raised millions of dollars in aid for African famine victims, captured best group video and viewers’ choice awards. Two of the participants in the USA for Africa project, Bruce Springsteen and Tina Turner, won for best male and best female videos at the second annual awards. Hen ley’s former bandmate, Glenn Frey, won best concept for a clip that be came the basis for an episode in the “Miami Vice” television series. “This is an award for best group, so we have to thank all 45 artists who articipated,” said Ken Kragen, who elped arrange the “We Are the World” recording session and ac cepted the best group award at Ra dio City Music Hall. “And certainly we have to thank Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, who wrote what has become an an them for our time,” Kragen added. “Boys of Summer” was honored for best cinematography, best art di rection and best direction, as well as best video at the awards ceremony in Radio City Music Hall with come dian Eddie Murphy as host. “I have to admit, I had very little to do with this video,” Henley said. “They just put me on the back of a pickup truck and I drove through Los Angeles.” Springsteen, whose “Born in the U.S.A.” is in its second year on the charts after six hit singles, was cited for best male video (“I’m On Fire”) and best stage performance (“Danc ing in the Dark”). Frey, the former Eagles guitarist, won best concept for his “Smuggler’s Blues” video. “I’d like to thank all the drug smugglers and drug users who made this such an in-vogue topic,” Prey quipped. The Alice in Wonderland parody “Don’t Come Around Here No More” from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, captured the award for best special effects. Art of Noise, whose “Close to the Edit” clip fea tured band members using a chain saw, wrenches and a belt sander on a piano, also won twice — for most ex perimental and best editing. The award for best new artist went to the Boston-based band ’til tuesday, which scored a hit with its first single, “Voices Carry.” Former Earth Wind 8c Fire vocal ist Phillip Bailey and Phil Collins of Genesis won the award for best over all performance in the video “Easy Lover.” Elton John’s clip “Sad Songs (Say So Much)” scored a surprising tri umph for best choreography, best ing videos from Madonna, Prince and Tina Turner. 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