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World/Nation
Bush’s personnel chief
interacted with Reagan
WASHINGTON (AP) — Even be
fore George Bush was elected presi
dent, his personnel chief was clos
eted with President Reagan’s, going
over hundreds of sheets of paper
that will help shape the staffing of
the new administration.
It was part of a project initiated by
the Office of Presidential Personnel
designed in part to provide the in
coming president with an unprece
dented amount of information
about the nature and requirements
of the jobs he must fill.
Bradley H. Patterson, a White
House staffer in three past Republi
can administrations, discussed the
project in his new book, “Ring of
Power,” saying, “Such interpresiden-
tial foresightedness shows the mod
ern White House at its best.”
“A catalogue of all the full-time
and part-time presidentially ap
pointed jobs in the Executive Branch
- their titles, terms, pay levels, and in
brief their current duties - is being
saved for the recruiters who, serving
the next president, will occupy the
Presidential Personnel Office
chairs,” Patterson said.
“The catalogues may even be
available to the candidates following
the conventions,” he wrote.
It didn’t turn out quite that way,
though. Although Bush’s people
were poring over the documents be
fore Nov. 8, aides to Democratic
nominee Michael Dukakis never
even got a peek. However, many al
legations concerning Dukakis have
been circulating before, during and
after the election.
“We never heard from the Duka
kis people,” Robert H. Tuttle, direc
tor of presidential personnel, said in
an interview. “They never called.”
He conceded he didn’t call them, ei
ther, but said: “They knew where I
was. They knew my number.”
He said the information was
shared with the Bush staff “in antic
ipation of Bush’s victory.”
Tuttle said he met with Chase Un-
termeyer, Bush’s transition person
nel director, “just about the time of
the election — I think we did some
before and some after.”
Untermeyer, briefing reporters
Wednesday, said, “The people
whom we are hiring right now to go
to work on . . . recommending the
jobs to be filled on behalf of the
president-elect have as much
material preparation as has ever
been the case before.”
“One of the resources available to
me that, frankly, wasn’t available to
my counterpart on the Dukakis cam
paign, was being able to spend 12
different sessions in the White
House with Bob Tuttle and his peo
ple, going over just what is the cur
rent presidential personnel system,”
Untermeyer said.
Too often in the past, said Unter
meyer, the system used was one
known by the acronym BOGSAT,
which he said stands for “bunch of
guys sitting around a table” among
other synonyms.
Tuttle said there are 551 Exec
utive Branch positions, not counting
135 ambassadors, filled by presi
dential appointment subject to Sen
ate confirmation.
“We went through each one in de
tail with my associate director and so
we probably spent 20 or 30 hours
with Chase Untermeyer going
through these,” he said.
Many nursing homes
fail to meet standards
WASHINGTON (AP) — A fourth of Texas nursing
homes failed to administer drugs properly and one-
fifth did not meet sanitary standards for food, accord
ing to the federal government’s first consumer guide to
nursing homes.
Yet in almost all of the 32 health, safety and care
standards surveyed, the performance of Texas nursing
homes was equal to or better than nursing homes na
tionally, according to ratings released Thursday by the
Department of Health and Human Services.
Three cases of either physical or mental abuse were
found, however.
The agency’s Health Care Financing Administration
examined some 1,047 skilled and intermediate care
nursing homes in Texas qualified to receive federal or
state funds through Medicare or Medicaid.
HCFA chief Dr. William L. Roper said the “met-un-
met” criteria for each of the 32 categories included in
state-by-state reports contains no measure of severity
and represented a one-time “snapshot” of conditions at
the nursing home’s most recent unannounced inspec
tion. To some degree, he said, it relied on the subjective
judgment of the inspector.
“It would be a big mistake for anyone to try to choose
a nursing home out of this guide. Anyone would be bet
ter off using common sense,” said Sara Speights, a
spokesman for the state’s largest nursing home associa
tion, the Texas Health Care Association.
One criticism of the four volume, 3,400-page report
on Texas nursing homes is that it is based on only 32
criteria out of the more than 500 requirements that
nursing homes must meet, she said, and “this isn’t going
to tell anybody about a nursing home or the quality of
care given in a nursing home.”
“You have to go visit, see how the patients are cared
for, visit with patients’ family members, sit down and
eat a meal, and see how the patients and staff interact,”
Speights said.
Roper also cautioned against reading more into the
figures than is warranted. “This is not the ultimate re
port card for nursing homes around the country.”
John Willis, state ombudsman and director of the ad
vocacy department at the Texas Department on Aging,
said the study, while only a shapshot, still shows there is
room for improvement in the state’s nursing homes.
Part of the problem, he said, is the state’s low daily re
imbursement rate for Medicaid patients. The state
ranks 47th nationally in what it reimburses nursing
homes, giving them $47.17 a day for skilled care pa
tients and $34.64 for intermediate care patients on
Medicaid.
Socialists, capitalists try
new trends for economy
NEW YORK (AP) — In socialist
and capitalist societies alike, the mo
tive is the same — to increase eco
nomic values by a greater reliance on
private initiative. It is a worldwide
trend.
Their economies bogged down by
bureaucratic obstacle courses, social
ist nations are allowing — and rely
ing on — a much greater degree of
private sector initiative in the form
of profit-seeking businesses.
And for reasons roughly similar,
countries more inclined toward capi
talism than socialism are seeking
ways to privatize, or turn over to the
private sector a variety of govern
mental activities.
In each instance the goal is to
stimulate economies, raise revenues
and dear away bottlenecks through
reliance on individual initiative in
the belief that society is best served
when goals are clear and achieve
ment is rewarded.
Though action is stalled for the
time being, the privatization effort
in the United States is building sup
port because of one of the country’s
most persistent failures, the inability
to live within the constraints of bud
gets.
Government is seen as wasteful,
cumbersome and unable to extricate
itself from its problems, especially
debt. Wouldn’t it be better, say the
advocates of privatization, to let the
private sector handle some of the
problems?
It is hardly an American phenom
enon, since Britain, France, Japan,
New Zealand and other nations have
done more. Since 1979, for example,
the British government has sold
more than $36 billion in public as
sets.
Not only did the British Treasury
boast a $17 billion surplus for 1987,
but some of the once subsidized
state-owned enterprises are now
profitable, tax-paying private enter
prises.
Often ridiculed just a couple of
decades ago, U.S. privatization advo
cates now can be found in govern
ment, academe, industry, not-for-
profit institutions, and even to some
extent in the labor movement.
While movement has been slow,
the agenda is packed. Consider some
of the items: Selling government
loans, federal lands, surplus military
bases, the U.S. Postal Service, the
airwaves and even the nation’s high
ways and bridges.
The air traffic control system is a
candidate for privatization. Educa
tion too. So is the Tennessee Valley
Authority. Prisons also. Even Social
Security.
Some privatizing already has oc
curred in the United States, but only
on a relatively modest scale. Conrail,
the rail freight operation, went for
$1.7 billion. More than $5 billion in
federal loans were sold during the
Reagan administration. Some low-
income housing was privatized. And
contracting out of government serv
ices and production has occurred on
a small scale.
Of greater future consequence,
however, is the research that has
been stimulated at the Heritage
Foundation, the Reason Founda
tion, the Political Economy Research
Center, the Pacific Research Insti
tute and elsewhere.
The Reason Foundation, headed
by Robert W. Poole Jr., often cred
ited with coining “privatization” in
his 1980 book, “Cutting Back City
Hall,” has just published “Federal
Privatization,” with emphasis on the
federal deficit.
Among other things, the founda
tion’s book lists assets that could be
sold for about $310 billion, plus
huge savings in the annual operation
of these assets.
Included are obsolete military
bases, TVA, 370 million acres of
land, a multibillion-dollar loan port
folio, Dulles and National airports
serving Washington, D.C., Amtrak,
the postal service and naval petro
leum reserves.
Soviets decide to drop
visa denials
MOSCOW (AP) — Soviet officials
informed 45 Jewish refuseniks who
have been denied visas on the
grounds of state secrecy that barriers
to their leaving the country are be
ing dropped, a refusenik spokesman
said Thursday.
The notification, made in tele
phone calls from the OVIR visa
agency Wednesday and Thursday,
did not amount to permission to em
igrate, but was a signal that officials
probably will let many of them leave
in the near future.
“They told several people to ex
pect permission in a month,” Vladi
mir Kislik, a spokesman for Jews
denied permission to leave the So
viet Union, said.
Kislik, a physicist who first ap
plied to emigrate in 1973, and Yuli
Kosharovsky, who has been awaiting
permission for 17 years, were among
those who received telephone calls.
Kosharovsky had been denied a visa
for classified work he performed as
an electronics engineer until 1968.
No reason was given, but in the
for Jews
past Soviet officials sometimes let
promiment refuseniks go before a
major international meeting. Presi
dent Mikhail S. Gorbachev leaves
next week on a trip that will take him
to the United States, Cuba and Brit
ain.
Thursday’s move followed the ap
parent ending of Soviet jamming of
American-financed Russian lan
guage broadcasts. Together, the two
steps were seen as representing a
major improvement in human rights
by Gorbachev before his meeting
next week with President Reagan
and President-elect George Bush.
Under Gorbachev’s more liberal
policies, most prominent refuseniks
were allowed to emigrate in late
1987 and early 1988. The Union of
Councils for Soviet Jews said 13,039
Jews were allowed to emigrate be
tween Jan. 1 and Oct. 31, 1988.
Many lesser-known refuseniks re
main behind, and they complain that
the Soviet Union arbitrarily has used
access to state secrets as a pretext for
keeping them here.