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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.
The winners were selected from
videos first screened on MTV be
tween May 2, 1984, and May 1,
1985.
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