Capitol Ideas/Luncheon Reveries
Bethell, Tom
in society, the champions of standpattism assert that the innovator is a dissembler and an opponent of minorities. If a policy-maker claims that change is needed in welfare policies to bring the...
...Courter seemed pleased to have made a convert, but he had been following another train of thought himself...
...I didn't ask...
...Courter recently in one of those subterranean dining rooms inside the Capitol Building, where clocks light up, buzzers ring every few minutes warning of impending votes, and everything happens at about double speed of normal restaurants, for half the price...
...The truth is that many Americans, even many teachers, do not care all that much about English or about any other language as it is spoken and written on these shores...
...General Motors supports the use of such alternative fuels to lessen our nation's dependence on imported oil...
...And that leaves about half the House which, Courter said, "is playing a waiting game, trying to determine which way the body politic is going...
...Bennett values higher education and is serious about improving it...
...Fugitive Industry is must reading for anyone concerned with the economic and societal...
...CAPITOL IDEAS LUNCHEON REVERIES It's surprising to find someone like Congressman Jim Courter, a conservative Republican, representing the congressional district that includes Princeton, New Jersey...
...Maybe I was just been on the track of irrelevant minutiae...
...Bilingualism has failed to make a sufficient number of foreign-speaking students bilingual...
...But in time the evidence that the Soviets themselves are installing Star Wars will become undeniable, and then we either deploy it or die...
...effects of government restrictions on plant closings...
...He is himself learned and thoughtful...
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...About "a quarter of the House" is "bullish" about Star Wars...
...Can you imagine the technical and bureaucratic problem involved in getting thousands of these mothers up at the same time...
...It's incredible," I said to Mr...
...Use either unleaded or the new lower-lead gasoline...
...36.00 FUGITIVE INDUSTRY The Economics and Politics of Deindustrializatinn By RICHARD B. McKENZIE Foreword by FINIS WELCH Legislative efforts to restrict the mobility of businesses are supported by a broad spectrum of organizations...
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...So we pretend that the ABM works to our advantage by tying their hands when we know perfectly well it ties ours...
...Where were we...
...I still felt a nagging doubt about this, so I checked with the great Richard Perle himself...
...You probably won't notice any difference at your service station...
...Bullies don't have to pack so much punch if their potential victims don't wear padding...
...It is the feeling of some on Courter's staff that Reagan would like ultimately to finesse the Star Wars issue, by keeping research and development going for the next three years, but leaving his successor to make the hard decision about deployment...
...let us not dignify it with the word "treaty" . . . piece of paper more like...
...Why should such prescriptions not apply, at least occasionally, to youngsters learning English...
...President Reagan is keen on the idea but President Nixon is not (he signed the ABM treaty, after all), and Nancy Reagan...
...We can guarantee him an Assured Place in History, and a handshake with the King of Sweden, although he'll have to share the latter with Mikhail, of course...
...Think of all the anti-poor jokes one hears and the plots to keep the poor wretched...
...and playing kiss-and-make-up with the whole Martha's Vineyard set...
...And it would be difficult for them to "swamp" Star Wars...
...Foreign language instructors always prescribe perseverance and full immersion in the language being taught...
...He was sitting and drinking Turkish coffee in his cozy, booklined lair in the Pentagon...
...Not entirely irrational either because they really are dangerous, could decide that if their missiles were neutralized they'd be through as a superpower...
...examines the record of Federal Reserve policy since 1913...
...One thing I wanted to ask Mr...
...Give your castle thin walls and the enemy will come at you with smaller battering rams...
...That's why we support the requirement that gas pumps show the alcohol content of the fuel...
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...General Motors supports this effort to reduce lead in the atmosphere...
...Nor is it the British Isles where practically everyone contributes to the music of the spoken word...
...It is time to let local authorities try new approaches...
...The effect of alcohol blends...
...I was thinking about this one day while watching a Cape Canaveral "countdown" on TV...
...Courter, who had cast his vote on some utterly mysterious issue, I'm sure unrelated to strategic defense...
...Just be sure your gasoline meets the requirements below...
...In the 1980s comes an unexpected deliverance: the technological capacity to destroy these missiles in mid-flight (an offshoot of the computer revolution...
...For 1971-74 model cars and light trucks...
...Therefore bullies are less dangerous in an unpadded world...
...Suddenly, another and apparently critical bell rang and Mr...
...This is America where grammar and diction are sacrificed by the vulgar urge to emote rather than to speak vividly and correctly...
...Reagan himself won't make any such decision, however...
...Mutual vulnerability would encourage the reduction of arms," he said...
...How about that...
...The new lower-lead limits for leaded gasoline are still too high: lead in gasoline will harm the emission-control system...
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...These vehicles were designed to run on either one...
...Then there is another group of about the same size that is "one hundred percent against it...
...In simple terms, continue with the same gasoline you've been using...
...If missiles are hard to fire, that makes a first strike difficult...
...Soon they would have so many bombs Gerard Smith and Lou Cannon, the Washington Post's resident arms control advocate and Richard Nixon admirer, would tell us now we must submit to reality...
...well did you know she has been strolling the beaches of Martha's by Tom Bethell Vineyard with Katharine Graham and Bill Styron (the Bill Styron...
...He did, too...
...In a pinch, you can even use unleaded gas for normal driving...
...Incredible," I said...
...What deters the Soviets from attacking us (obviously) is the possibility that we will retaliate...
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...The Princeton Congressman (he is wearing a very smart navy-blue pinstriped suit) was trying to draw my attention to the rationale for signing the 1972 ABM...
...Admittedly missiles are simpler, but they are still immensely complex, with a thousand things that can go wrong...
...It is hard to believe that Bennett's critics care all that deeply whether, say, Hispanics learn English...
...Current policies "rely almost exclusively on instruction in the youngsters' native language," leaving students with English skills that are "no better than the skills of those who simply remained in regular classrooms where English was spoken, without any special help...
...The Soviets might well conclude, and reasonably conclude, that we would not...
...And in the case of methanol, be sure it contains cosolvents (to prevent The Environmental Protection Agency is reducing the amount of lead allowed in leaded gasoline by more than 90...
...Courter seemed interested and said he would "get back to me" on it...
...The Soviets are certainly not going to permit renegotiating a "treaty" that is working so satisfactorily for them...
...He checked with some high-level aide to Caspar Weinberger who came back with the news: No problem-the Soviets can and do engage in simultaneous missile launches...
...Learning a foreign language is arduous and uncertain...
...I posed my question, and my intuition was that he didn't welcome it...
...Use the new lower-lead gasolines...
...You would have thought it would be overwhelmingly in favor, right...
...Tip: Use only enough octane to avoid frequent knocking...
...Of course another possibility is that the bullies would figure out they could rule the world without having to throw a punch...
...That was the theory when they signed the treaty...
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...They test-fire theirs from their actual silos, which gives them quite an tant during continuous highspeed, high-load conditions such as towing a heavy trailer or large boat over a long distance...
...A small-battering-ram world is safer than a world with large, destabilizing battering rams...
...But it also augurs well for Star Wars...
...The pass, to Moore...
...Before that he was in the Peace Tom Bethell is The American Spectator's Washington correspondent...
...McKenzie explains the importance of capital mobility, underscores the fallacious reasoning behind the proposed policy prescriptions, evaluates_ the competition between communities to attract new enterprises and jobs, and proposes effective private solutions to problems confronted by workers and communities affected when plants close their doors...
...It wasn't easy with the waiters rushing about, and the menu to cope with...
...But here is what he said...
...And of course what the Vineyard Crowd tells Nancy is quite simple and straightforward: "Nancy, if the President can be persuaded to give up Star Wars, don't worry...
...Defenses are threatening...
...These vehicles need leaded gas to lubricate exhaust valves...
...On their theory Gorbachev could force us to surrender by ordering hydrogen-bomb assembly-line comrades to work overtime...
...Only the reactionaries object...
...His voting record suggests that congressmen have more philosophical latitude than is generally recognized...
...B 1, San Francisco, CA 94108 10 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 1985 European cringing and whimpering, have the courage to strike back if attacked...
...But to avoid operating and other problems, don't use gasoline containing more than 10 percent ethanol or 5 percent methanol...
...Incredible" was the word Courter used to describe the present situation...
...Fugitive Industry convincingly demonstrates that holding industries captive will only increase the number of business failures...
...General Motors is taking steps to ensure that its future vehicles can operate problem-free with gasoline containing alcohol...
...Others may add octane enhancers such as ethanol and methanol (more informally known as grain alcohol and wood alcohol...
...He is 44, and was first elected in 1978...
...and proposes bold new directions to make monetary institutions strictly acceptable, including freemarket banking, commodity reserve currencies, and constitutional limits on fiscal and monetary policy...
...Not many years ago he was a liberal Democrat...
...Repudiating ABM will make a lot of people mad and that Reagan cannot take...
...But would a country that was too intimidated to strap on a suit of electronic armor in the face of Soviet threats and West THE AUTHORITATIVE NEW BOOKS MONEY I N CRISIS The Federal Reserve, the Economy, and Monetary Reform Edited by BARRY N. SIEGEL Foreword by LELAND B. YEAGER Despite the American public's desire for sustained real economic growth, reduced inflation, and low unemployment rates, no agreement has existed among economists, monetary authorities, or politicians on how to proceed...
...The new lower-lead gasolines should always be used in: • 1971-78 trucks over 6,000 lbs...
...This is not France where the native language is revered...
...For now, you should know the contents of the fuel going into your gas tank...
...Which means two things: It would be difficult for them to launch one of those hypothetical first strikes where they knock out all our missiles at once...
...This is where we test-fire our missiles-out into the Pacific ocean...
...At some point, he said, they are going to have to "get off the fence," but they don't want to right now, and which side they get down is going to be the object of much upcoming propaganda...
...Such labels are being used in some states, but they are needed nationwide...
...I tried to concentrate on what he said...
...This should come as no surprise...
...Having sustained a first strike, such a counter-thrust would be bitterly opposed domestically (by the same people who now oppose Star Wars), on the grounds that deterrence had now failed and would only involve the massive loss of innocent life (an argument that would appeal to Reagan, on his recent showing...
...To get the efficiency, driveability and performance we design into your GM vehicles, be sure you use the right fuel...
...Since the development of intercontinental ballistic missiles in the 1950s we have lived in this shadow of worry about a potential surprise attack by the Soviet Union, a country which has aggressively sought world domination since 1917 and doesn't hesitate to say so...
...Continue to use unleaded gasoline only...
...But our customers need to know how this action may affect their vehicles...
...Meanwhile I voted for an omelette and sank back into another reverie .. . Vulnerability encourages the reduction of arms...
...I had lunch with Mr...
...Now he is making a name for himself as a member of the House Armed Services Committee...
...The problem today with bilingual education, as with so much else in American life, is not that we have the wrong values but that we have no values, at least none that we will resolutely defend...
...Professor McKenzie cites a wealth of evidence showing how such restrictions destroy more jobs than they protect, and how they stifle economic growth in the process...
...Don't talk about the Geneva summit, Samovar & Dialogue with the MarxistLeninist Philosophy Professor, Raisa, and her tubby hubby...
...So how do we react...
...I can believe it...
...Bennett insists that his changes in bilingual education are "to ensure that students learn English...
...An occasional "ping" wont harm the engine...
...One of his main concerns these days is the use of the 1972 ABM treaty to obstruct development of the strategic defense system known as Star Wars...
...Which (I should have thought) makes the MX superfluous...
...Here was the unpleasant thought that came to me as I picked at my omelette...
...For all pre-1971 model cars and trucks...
...But if we find it difficult, I'm sure the Soviets encounter even more problems with their missiles...
...I mentioned all this to Courter and he said that he had never even heard the subject brought up in all the Armed Services Committee hearings he had attended...
...Today he is doing the same thing he would have been doing in his liberal days, namely: suggesting reforms to advance opportunity for all...
...Touchdown, Moore...
...If they did they would note the unpromising results of present policy and throw in with Bennett's less rigid approach...
...Thus we hear news and sports commentators as they reduce spoken English to a series of yells, and the verb as a part of speech seems to have disappeared completely: "Marino, back to pass...
...I'm always amazed when we launch anything at all," an Air Force major at Vandenberg Air Force Base told the Los Angeles Times last year...
...The proper identification and use of gasoline is good for both GM customers and GM cars and trucks...
...Most conservatives just appreciate the issues at an instinctive level...
...I decided to ask him about the balance of sentiment in the House of Representatives about defending ourselves against Soviet missiles...
...Hmmmmm, this is like saying the absence of armor will induce the enemy fleet to reduce the bore of its guns...
...Courter is surely a "comer" in conservative politics...
...You can see why this might be a sensitive area, as far as the Pentagon is concerned...
...invited to the right parties by those gloriously languid, thin, and powerful people at the Social Summit...
...We had one Minuteman that we tried to launch every night for a year...
...It will be "hard" in the sense that it will certainly involve repudiating the ABM treaty...
...Although Princeton itself votes inevitably for the Democratic candidate, Courter wins comfortably in his district, capturing 66 percent of the vote in 1984...
...Corps in Venezuela, and worked as an assistant prosecutor in Warren County...
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...Next to this patois, Dizzy Dean was Shakespeare...
...It is the sheer unruffled calmness of the man that always impresses me...
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...El separation of the alcohol from the gasoline) and corrosion inhibitors...
...To meet the new regulations, oil refiners will turn to other methods to maintain or increase octane ratings...
...Some will elect to refine gasoline more intensively...
...They understand it, like it, and would "proceed with full funding" right away...
...Because she wants to be, how should one say, accepted...
...Must make note to ask Richard Perle what this word "strategic" means...
...We argue that putting up defenses is intimidating to the attacker...
...For post-1974 model cars and light trucks (less than 6,000 lbs...
...That was it, you see (I went slinking off playing mental hookey again, although I was sitting there nodding agreement whenever the Congressman said anything...
...For some reason I felt vindicated, although logically I could have advantage, although it must be uncomfortable for the Soviet population...
...The lead raises octane ratings and helps to avoid "knocking" and "ping ing:" The lead is most impor clinging to my own theory...
...The Americans are 9 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 1985 really afraid of the Soviets, our reaction to Star Wars is fear of how the Soviets will react if we threaten to shoot down their missiles...
...Courter can really articulate them...
...If a policy-maker claims that change is needed in welfare policies to bring the poor out of the ghetto and into productive lives, the champions of stand-pattism assert that the innovator is an opponent of the poor-and you know how many of your fellow Americans are out to get the poor...
...Courter had to dart off to the House floor for a vote (somewhere above us I think...
...It's incredible," Courter was saying, his voice, the winking clocks, and buzzing bells finally piercing the fog of my reverie...
...Trouble with these arms controllers is that they are obsessed with quantity, don't think about intentions, have the whole thing worked out in their heads like a game with chips and counters...
...He told me the Soviets indeed have test-fired missile "salvoes...
...Put another way, most liberal legislators from the Northeast are that way not so much because their constituents want them to be as because they want to be...
...But how many in a salvo...
...He hopes to increase flexibility in bilingual programs so that "local school districts" can "pursue whatever educational methods they judge best suited to help non-English speaking students learn English...
...post-1978 trucks over 8,500 lbs...
...Courter about: It is often said that Star Wars won't work because the Soviets will be able to "swamp" the defensive system by simultaneously launching "thousands" of missiles...
Vol. 18 • December 1985 • No. 12
