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Page 10 The Battalion Monday, January 16,198S
Bush makes plans
for ‘ultimate job’
WASHINGTON (AP) — George
Bush is dampening expectations of
dramatic moves during his first 100
days in the White House, tacitly ac
knowledging that he will be busy
wrestling with Congress over the
huge budget deficit.
With the House and Senate both
controlled by Democrats, Bush will
face “a nine-month siege, not a 100-
day breakthrough,” predicted
Mitchell Daniels, a former political
adviser for President Reagan who
also worked in the Bush-Quayle
campaign.
Indeed, the incoming president
himself said in a recent interview
that he would “feel like a spring colt”
if it were not for the fiscal challenges
accompanying his elevation on Fri
day to what he called “the ultimate”
job.
Even as he struggles with the defi
cit, Bush also will give priority to re
fining his strategy for dealing with
the Soviet Union in the rapidly chan
ging climate under Mikhail Gorba
chev, officials said.
Moscow has put new pressure on
Bush by recently promising major
troop cutbacks and destruction of
some chemical weapons.
Bush’s first major trip will be to
Japan for the Feb. 24 funeral of the
late Emperor Hirohito.
He has said he would like to see a
NATO summit as the alliance marks
its 40th anniversary in April and will
gather in Paris in July with the lead
ers of six other Western powers for
the annual economic summit of ma
jor industrialized nations.
During the campaign, Bush said
he wanted an early meeting with
Gorbachev. But after he and Reagan
and Gorbachev got together in New
York last month. Bush said there
was no pressure for him to see the
Kremlin leader again soon.
Bush has promised several other
summits: a global conference on the
environment, a hemispheric meet
ing on illegal drugs and a meeting of
the nation’s governors about educa
tional problems. Bush may be ready
to announce the dates for the educa
tional summit when the governors
hold their annual meeting in Wash
ington in late February.
On another front, Bush has made
clear he will move quickly to propose
new ethics legislation covering ad
ministration officials and members
of Congress. As one of his first steps,
Bush will name a commission to pro
pose ways to strengthen ethics laws.
and instruct the panel to report
within 30 days.
Another priority will be “attacking
the perception that the Republican
Party is somehow not interested
the problems of the poor, minoridt-
and disadvantaged,” David Bed
with, press secretary to Vice Presi
F
dent-elect Dan Quayle, said. Hit
deficit sharply limits funds for ttiii
effort, but Beckwith said, “Makint
them a priority makes a statement
and nothing gets done unless it’s oj
the front-burner.”
Along those lines, the While
House staff will contain a new slot
filled by Gregg Petersmeyer, to
spearhead Bush’s “thousand points
of light” campaign to encourage
people to volunteer their services
the poor.
Typically, a new president triest<
do something to distinguish himsell
from his predecessor and set a tone
for his administration. Yet, analysts
caution against anything dramatic in
the Bush White House
Daniels, the former adviser to
Reagan who was a top adviser to
Quayle’s campaign, said: “Fast start
are always useful but it is a lesset
concern in this administration
cause . . . their opportunities are
ited. The Hill is stacked against
them.”
Moreover, Daniels said, “They’re
also constrained by the budget and
by the shortage of flagship issues
coming out of the campaign.”
Bush says the change of command
also is different now because it’s the
first time in 152 years that a vice
president was elected to succeed hi:
boss.
“I’ve been part of this administra
lion and it isn’t like there is the need
for radical change,” Bush said in an
interview. “It’s the concept of build
ing on what has been done.”
Bush said he would make his
mark by “style, message, people -
be yourself . . . I’m not vice press
dent. I’m president. I’m the one
who’s calling the shots. I’m tlie one
who’s going to set the agenda
the one who’s going to have to do
that which President Reagan
very gracefully — take the heat
:thi
something went wrong.
“So, automatically that happens,
he said. “That happens at the time
when I put my hand on that Biblt
and hold my right hand in the an
and say that oath,” he said. “It ha)>
pens.”
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Your
hand slides into a bag of potato
chips, but a twinge of guilt makes
you hesitate.
Potato chips are junk food, right?
Not necessarily, says a professor at
the University of Rochester Medical
School. “If you ask people what are
junk foods, potato chips are proba
bly one of the first things they will
name,” Dr. Gilbert Forbes, who spe
cializes in nutrition and body com
position, says.
“But if you break down the com
position of potato chips, you find
that they have the same amount of
protein as rice and wheat, more iron
than milk, less sodium than cow’s
milk, and as much niacin as milk.
They’re low in thiamine and ribofla
vin, but they have a bit of Vitamin C.
All in all, there’s more nutritionalv
lue than in apples.”
So, we can lick the grease off otii
fingers, dig into the chips and ca!
aside that old apple-a-day adage?
Well, not quite, Forbes says. “T
real point is that some of the lot
that get labeled as ‘junk’ are pei
fectly wholesome — in moderation.
“There are two pitfalls in allowiti
our children to fall into the i;
food’ habit as a steady diet,” he sat
“One is that the hamburger-shakf
and-fries diet has no variety — it
green vegetables, no fruit — and
the variety of nutrients that is essen
tial to good health.
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convenience and cheapness of fai
food restaurants tend to result ii
over-eating and turn into obesity.”
Author suggests resisting ads
for new computer technology
Associated Press
Just about the time you get your
current technical pet housebroken,
quiet and paid for, a new technology
starts whining at the door and you
get the urge to let it in.
Resist. New technologies, partic
ularly new software and hardware
upgrades for home computers, don’t
chew on slippers, they chew on
money — your money. Columnist
Jim Seymour, writing in the Jan. 17
issue of PC Week (Ziff-Davis, $2.95)
makes the excellent point that
software these days is already pretty
good and the upgrades are “evolu
tionary, not revolutionary.”
That column deserves reading in
full because it’s in an issue in which
PC magazine announces its annual
awards for technical excellence, rec
ognizing products that honed the
cutting edge of personal computing
in 1988. The magazine also lists
those products considered best in
1988. For computers, the selections
included IBM’s PS2 Model 70-A21,
which lists out at $11,995. For print
ers, they included the Apple La
serWriter IINTX, which goes at list
for $6,999.
Of course you could still get a lot
of computer out of the also-men
tioned Compaq 386S for just $3,799
(if you want a hard disk, it’s $4,499)
and don’t forget the IBM Quickw-
riter for a printer at $1,699 list.
And for word processing, you’ll
probablv want to get WordPerfect
5.0 lor $495.
Unless, of course, your budget
barely supports a less-than*$ 1,000
PC or PC-XT clone or Apple, Atari.
Commodore or Tandy computer
And your printer is a nine-pin dot
matrix that you got for less than
$250. And you have to supply ttit
spelling dictionary for your word
processor from the bookshelf.
In which case you might be de
pressed, until you read Seymour’s
column and consider the idea that
the gear you have may already do
more than you probably want it to
do and more than you probably use
There’s little point in popping for
the wonderful capabilities of Word
Perfect 5.0, for example, if most of
your word-processing is writing let
ters and your current program has
been getting them written and
printed. How many times while writ
ing a letter to Aunt Millie are you
going to “remap the entire keyboard
with special characters or macros
and switch from one keyboard loan-
other with a keystroke,” as the re
view of the software says you can do:
If the new computer the ads are
trying to sell you stores parts of that
letter on the disk in 20 thousandths
of a second instead of 50, what's
your plan for the added 30 thou
sandths of a second of time?
And if you use one of those new
printers w'ith multiple kinds and
styles of type, what are the chances
that Aunt Millie is going to think its
some kind of advertisement?