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Bush decides against settling
Eastern strike by intervention
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Bush on Tuesday virtually
ruled out intervening in the Eastern
Airlines strike, saying “man-to-man
negotiation” is preferable to a gov
ernment-imposed settlement.
While he didn’t flatly rule out
stepping in to end the walkout, Bush
said his policy “will hold firm” de
spite pressure in some congressional
quarters to force him to act.
Fielding questions for more than
40 minutes in the White House
briefing room, he insisted that
“there isn’t malaise” in his adminis
tration because of the drawn-out
fight over confirmation of Defense
Secretary-designate John Tower.
“A lot is happening,” the presi
dent said. “Not all of it good, but a
lot is happening. . . . We’re on track.”
Bush defended his chief of staff,
saying John Sununu, the former
New Hampshire governor, knows
his way around Washington and is
doing his job well. Bush said he has
“total confidence” in Sununu.
Bush noted that Tower has
pledged not to drink a drop of liquor
if he gets the job and told his nation
ally televised news confreence,
“You’ll have 25,000 people in the
Pentagon making sure that’s true.”
The president said his backing of
Tower against Democratic opposi
tion in the Senate “isn’t iron-willed
stubbornness; it’s a question of fun
damental principle here.”
The president had spare time in
hie HTn^cHav Hor'siiic** in-
news conference statement to “res
tate my belief that free collective bar
gaining is the best means of resolv
ing” the strike.
He exhorted Eastern manage
ment, the Machinists union and
other unions to conduct “head-on-
head, man-to-man negotiation” and
said he thought that would be “bet
ter and more lasting . . . than an im
posed government settlement, which
could cause the airline to totally shut
down.”
On other subjects during the
more than 40-minute question-and-
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Bush administration will replace
Alan C. Nelson as head of the Immi
gration and Naturalization Service,
an administration source said Tues
day.
Attorney General Dick Thorn
burgh, who recently received a de
partment audit that criticized man
agement and operations of INS, is
searching for someone to take over
the agency, said the source, speaking
on condition of anonymity.
The source confirmed a report in
Tuesday’s editions of the Los An
geles Times that Nelson would be
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answer sesion, Bush said he wouli
like to see Palestine Liberation Orp
nization Chairman Yasser Arafe
“speak out” against raids that hatj
been carried out by Palestinian guti
rillas against Israelis in southen
Lebanon.
Bush said he hoped these ina
dents would not jeapordize US
talks with PLO representatives bn
said he thought that Arafat shoa!;
“forthrightly condemn any tene
that might be perpetrated by the Pal
estinians.”
1986 immigration reform law, whid
provided for massive amnesty for}
legal aliens.
INS became embroiled in a mm
ber of lawsuits charging that it mi
improperly making it difficult fori
legal aliens to obtain legal status ut-
der the new law.
The Justice Department audit
completed two weeks ago, cited INS
for its failure to conduct backgrouni
checks on many applicants forcit
izenship and found that 23,000valir
able naturalization certificates hat
been lost by the agency’s Miami rt
gional office.
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immigration head, source says
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Paying homage to a pocketful
of bureaucratic expenditures
By Glenn Fogerty
■ The Observer
U. of Notre Dame, IN
Over the past few years, there has
been alarm in the media and Congress
about a monster called the Federal De
ficit. But when it actually comes to “cut
ting it down to size,” there are a myriad
of complaints. Each senator yells, “No
cuts in my state!” Each congressman
yells, “Oh, no! Not my district.” The
worst yellers of all are the bureaucrats.
But the major difference between the
bureaucrats and elected officials is that
bureaucracy never goes away.
There is something wrong with the
idea that bureaucracies are created to
solve problems. If the bureaucracy
actually “solved the problem” it would
put itself out of business. Bureaucrats
keep themselves in business by making
problems worse (or by letting them be
come so), in order to expand their
“necessary functions” later. That makes
sense, because bureaucracies receive
money according to how big they are
and not according to the purpose they
serve. Still, a bureaucracy must justify
its existence. Thus, I think it’s about
time to pay homage to the wise expendi
tures of our beloved public servants in
Washington.
In June 1973, the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) ruled that all
cherry pies sold in interstate commerce
could contain no more than 15 percent
blemished cherries. Really, is anyone
going to sit on a cherry pie assembly line
ready to knock off the sixteenth ble
mished cherry out of every hundred
that come along?
The FDA loves to give out “urgent
warnings.” This agency actually issues
an “urgent warning” to the public not to
eat the heart-shaped boxes that Valen
tine’s Day candies come in.
What qualifies as art to a bureaucra
cy is pretty interesting too. The Nation
al Endowment for the Arts gave a
$6,025 grant to an artist to make a film
about throwing crepe paper and burn
ing gases out of high-flying airplanes.
Much of the grant was spent on the
artist’s trip to a Caribbean island which
had been “influential in the develop
ment of the artist.”
Bureaucrats casually waste millions
on “studies.” For example, the Federal
Aviation Association (FAA) spent
$57,800 on a head-to-foot physical
study of 432 airline stewardesses, in
volving 79 specific measurements. One
interesting fact is that stewardess’
noses average 2.18 inches long. Now we
know.
It gets better. The National Institute
on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism con
ducted a $102,000 experiment on fish,
one that included extensive tests in
tended to answer the question “Are sun-
fish that drink tequila more aggressive
than sunfish that drink gin?”
I could think of better things for
which the government could use its “re
venues.” Better yet, the government
and its army of bureaucrats shouldn’t
get that much to begin with. It’s safer
that way. Remember, don’t eat those
heart-shaped boxes. You’ve been
warned, so there are no excuses.
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By Elizabeths Holland
■ The Daily lllini
U. of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
The old woman’s face is patterned
with deep grooves and peppered with
age spots. Her eyes are cloudy blue.
Though Ada Wilson, a 104-year-old
woman from Washington, Ind., is physi
cally deteriorating, her mind remains
active.
Wilson, like most of America’s elder
ly, has thoughts, memories and even
aspirations. Her memories and her past
are her foundation, and in a sense, a
foundation of her community, as the
memories of our elderly are the founda
tion of the country.
Wilson has stories to tell. She remem
bers moving in a covered wagon to Indi
ana and the night her sister was kid
napped by Indians and never returned.
She remembers raising her family dur
ing the Depression.
Though these accounts are intensely
interesting and may even hold valuable
lessons for this and future generations,
no one seems to want to hear. For the
most part, Wilson’s stories go unheard.
People who visit her appear to be visit
ing out of guilt more than desire.
This treatment is a growing phe
nomenon in our American culture.
Family ties, sympathy and love seem to
be slipping in our hierarchy of wants
and needs as materialism treads upon
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regard for the elderly.
There was a time when eldeisj
considered sage, intelligent
enced and prominent membersofi
ty. Now we send them to homes
attendants and family nodattl
ments without really listeningl(J
they are saying. With so many
(more than 12 percent of the popii
and so many stories, why does dually see
body want to listen? jeforsevera
Ada Wilson could not be
wanted to hear her storiesJ
could any of the six other senior^
with whom I recently visited,
citizens are not members ofadis
society. We cannot forget them ai
only about our own destinies, li
so, we encase the elderly in
ahead of time. Aging is inescapati iec ^ ^ ^
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respect and possibly settingthet
the future worth a few meai
visits to a nursing home or pi Itfication rei
to an elderly relative? k lot of he
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and laugh about. She only ^ : f| commun i|
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“Historically, all tragedies had one thing in common — the peop; |
involved didn’t know what was happening to them.” man y lit
— Peace activist Norman Cousins speaks at the U. of Utah. ■ Christi: mate stu
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But then I wondered what everyone
else had done. The manager of the
theater hadn’t even stayed to talk to
the police. What about the three cars
that were lined up behind us as he was
grabbing her?
This incident indicates to me that
there is something wrong, not only
with the way we treat those who ask
for our help, but also in our rela
tionship with the police. Is it that peo
ple think it safer not to get involved?
John Kuprevich, Director of Brown
U., R.I., Police and Security, ascribes
this attitude of‘looking after No. 1’ to
three factors. “Our legal system does a
terrible job with witnesses and vic
tims,” he said. “People think they will
end up in a legal battle and they’d
simply rather not.” Secondly, Kupre
vich said that by giving evidence, wit
nesses fear opening themselves up to
attack from the guilty party. Finally,
he said; “I think people reason that
maybe the victim had it coming, and
it’s not for us to get involved.”
So why is there a breakdown of com
munity to the degree that people won’t
help a victim? And why is there such a
lack of faith in the police? Is it fear of
the police and the legal system that
leads them to turn their backs? “The
only way things change is if people
realize they can work together for
their mutual good .. . and that the
police can help them,” Kuprevich said.
I relate this problem, however, to a
larger aspect of American ideok' right Nicf
seems that a Republican A# ;i cs and ?
wants lower taxes and wants to- Pees. “As
money on defending this corner: ^ow the d
planet from everyone else.
Where does such a mentality ^e
Is such insularity in states or|c
viduals conducive to a healthysor
If someone needs our help, web
stop thinking about ourselves to
moment and help them. I triedt(
that woman who was attacked:
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