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O WASHINGTON Arthur Jones Uncovered It probably was the largest single volume of War and Peace in Washington this spring: more than a quarter-million words of testimony and exchange before...
...Like Nancy at the Pennsylvania Avenue Petit Trianon, Marie Antoinette simply could not satisfy her critics...
...Retired Rear Admiral Gene La Roque, director of the Center for Defense Information, recommended that Congress establish its own Office of Defense Appraisal to provide a "centralized, coherent integration of U.S...
...She should borrow scholars from the theology department of the American Enterprise Institute and send them to the Bibliotheque de Haute Couture...
...The $17 million will return nonenforcement to lax enforcement levels...
...Tufts University economist Franklyn D. Holzman argued that NATO outspent Warsaw Pact countries by so much from 1970 to 1979 that "the CIA's $300 billion gap in the U.S.S.R.'s favor over the United States is turned into an almost $250 billion gap in NATO's favor...
...Did the U.S...
...So the Government loses its means of keeping tabs...
...The judge fought, successfully, to have that reprimand expunged from the record...
...Dutton, 1973), even when Marie switched from elaborate gowns to simple white Flemish muslin, "she was accused of trying to ruin the silk weavers of Lyons...
...Americans don't need to keep diaries anymore...
...political history and a guide to future conduct...
...He began his judgeship in 1973 crawling through tunnels to examine "low coal" mines...
...The compassion, however, is already qualified in the eye of Federal Administrative Law Judge Joseph B. Kennedy...
...But his remarks in his final decision were excoriating, quoting earlier findings that Scotia mine operators exhibited "reckless indifference to . . . and reckless disregard of" mine safety...
...A dozen more witnesses gave their specialized interpretations of the impact of Reagan Administration spending that confuses nuclear arms with global foreign policy...
...The owner...
...military strategy, available resources and military spending . . . that should also assess the impact on American society and the economy of the military establishment...
...However, as microeconomist Pollyanna Pangloss would say...
...miner killed for every 100,000 tons of coal mined...
...In 1976, Kennedy fined the Harlan, Kentucky, No...
...Nonenforcement has meant that Kennedy's inspection violation caseload of 100 to 150 cases pending has dropped to fewer than sixty: "Down to a trickle...
...Kennedy, who calls the Federal Coal Mine Safety Act of 1969 his bible, delineates the steady decline in mine safety inspection: "From soft enforcement under Nixon and Ford, to lax enforcement under Carter, to nonenforcement under Reagan...
...As biographer John Hersey recalls (Marie Antoinette, E.P...
...The inspectors haven't been writing out the tickets...
...The sansculotterie would be piqued by cotton pique...
...It's difficult for an inspector to get tough with an operator this week when he might be filing a job application with him next," says Kennedy...
...My telephone bills are computerized, my shopping lists are itemized, what my lunch guests ate can be scrutinized...
...In Virginia, one's driver's license number is one's Social Security number...
...Seventy-two years ago, miners in Ave-lia, Pennsylvania, dragged a mine operator from his house, stuck a crown of thorns on his head, and crucified him across mine timbers...
...Blue Diamond Coal Company, fought to have another judge, but finally agreed to pay a $20,000 fine...
...audience missed was the point of it all...
...As judge, he does not want anyone crucified...
...At a mere touch of the button, then, the Government can know where I am, where I've been, what I spend, whom I call, and who calls me...
...involvement in Vietnam, congratulated Dellums on his "courage" in holding the hearings...
...She is leader of the Parvenu Party, a sort of women's auxiliary to the Big Greedies of the Nouveau Riche Nouveau Right (NRNR) Party that elected her husband...
...They could find Cardinal Rohan's son's severe rebuke to Marie Antoinette: "Madame, the sansculottes have no trousers...
...media miss anything...
...Nancy Reagan is finding that a rising tide of economic discontent is no time to dazzle the crowd with sequins, even if they are hand-sewn...
...Not the major media...
...Dangers mean violations, and violations mean mine operators shop for other judges to try their cases, or appeal to apparently sway able review commissions...
...Every decision they make," says Kennedy, "they figure, 'How's this going to look to my backers?' That's instead of calling it down the middle...
...O liberte, O egalite, O fraternite...
...Judge Kennedy learned about mine safety not on the bench but on his belly...
...Kennedy accepted the settlement...
...Earlier this year, Kennedy ruled in the Scotia mine disaster case, two 1976 explosions that claimed twenty-six lives, including those of three mine inspectors...
...The Parvenus and NRNRs create their own myths so they will have something to believe in...
...If the U.S...
...Tass, based in Moscow, had three reporters present...
...Name, rank, driver's license, and a credit card...
...As Fulbright said, it may well be that the Administration is using the nuclear arms race "as a form of psychological warfare...
...My motel bill shows where I spent the night...
...Mining is deadly work...
...That's hard on the political analysts and social commentators who did not sign up for Country Club 101 as a college elective and who still sing, "O say can you see," . . . instead of the currently more popular, "O say can you seize...
...Brooklyn and Chicago are among the first twelve culturally deprived cities to receive their allotment of what the Parvenu Party thinks is the American social fabric...
...What the media and their U.S...
...He explained, "It was 90 per cent of what I could have fined them...
...There's nothing in the pipeline...
...In the long wall mines, where machines slice the coal face like Swiss cheese and the roof constantly falls down, you can hear the ribs and the roof talking to you .It's better to go down when you don't know as much about the dangers...
...Well, former Naval War College professor John Lewis Gaddis said that "throwing money indiscriminately at the problem, as the Reagan Administration seems to be doing, is an approach more likely in the long run to produce military weakness instead of strength...
...U.S...
...National Public Radio (NPR) piped a report on the hearings to the morning commuter traffic...
...I was at the White House, and listed my Social Security number on the little brown card at the gate booth...
...The President, unheralded by his personal Here's Ronnie, Ed Meese, has unveiled his new image: He's compassionate...
...Marie Antoinette didn't pay for her frocks either...
...But NPR relied on the Soviet news agency Tass's account of J. William Fulbright's opening testimony...
...So Nancy Antoinette is trying to solve her image problem by sending her frocks to museums...
...If the NRNR Party draws its economic policies from People magazine, the Parvenu Party researches its political philosophy in the society papers...
...O WASHINGTON Arthur Jones Uncovered It probably was the largest single volume of War and Peace in Washington this spring: more than a quarter-million words of testimony and exchange before Representative Ronald V. Dellums's ad hoc hearings on the Full Implications of the Military Budget...
...Nancy Reagan needs a good historic precedent...
...Paying by check...
...And who wants to keep tabs anyway on someone who stays home all the time...
...And he backed up his testimony with a Department of Defense chart...
...But when Dellums opened six days of hearings on the Reagan Administration's $1.6 trillion military budget for the 1980s, CBS was nowhere in sight or sound...
...If it is a psychological game, it is a complex and delicate operation requiring experience and subtlety in its execution, qualities which are hardly the hallmark of this Administration...
...Opening witness Fulbright, who, as the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, broke with the Johnson Administration fifteen years ago over U.S...
...I renewed my Senate Press Gallery pass the other day, and stuck my Social Security number on the card at Capitol police headquarters...
...NPR, based in Washington, had none...
...After all, she follows the Parve-nuitry Manual: Wear expensive party frocks, especially if you don't have to pay for them...
...Louis XVI replied: "Let them wear Halston...
...media missed the underbelly of the nuclear whale story, the foreign media did not: Japanese television and newspapers, German radio and Der Spiegel, British and French reporters were on hand for the opening three days...
...Bob Barrett...
...Barrett said, "There's no need for a miner to die in the mines," and that's Kennedy's guiding principle...
...People can't afford to travel, or to buy, or to eat out...
...miners are being killed at the rate of three a week...
...The commission reduced it to $10,000...
...At least not with her cash...
...To which Mrs...
...We get a new Administration and the word comes down from the White House: 'Cool it,' " says Kennedy...
...What Dellums missed was the media attention and full-scale television coverage that made Fulbright's own mid-1960s hearings into Administration policies in Southeast Asia both an important footnote to U.S...
...In 1975, Kennedy ordered the Eastern Associated Coal Company to correct deficiencies in a dam which, he believed, posed an imminent danger to the people living below...
...CBS had pursued California Democrat Dellums for more than three weeks in a bid to air his views on high school ROTC for black youth...
...There was an uproar over the temerity of an Interior Department judge telling a coal company to spend $1 million...
...German radio's antennae picked up when Frank von Hippel and Barbara G. Levi from Princeton University's Center for Energy and Environmental Studies gave lengthy testimony on "the consequences of 'limited' nuclear war in the Germanies...
...To Kennedy, commission members are "political appointees who every six years have to get their constituencies—labor or management or Capitol Hill—to push for their $60,000-a-year reappointment...
...The Department's mine operations appeal board reversed Kennedy...
...Reagan put $2 million back into the pot...
...Department stores no longer have check-outs, they have check-ups...
...My credit card shows where I fly and, if I rent a car, how far I drive...
...Kennedy doesn't condemn all operators...
...Two weeks later, as 1982 mine death tolls mounted...
...Reagan is about to risk $17 million, in a $758 billion budget, on mine safety...
...The Government does it for them...
...He has reduced by $2 million the previously announced cuts in the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) budget for 1982...
...Everyone knows it, but not everyone shares the risk...
...Because Parvenus talk only to each other, Nancy Reagan is unprepared for unpopularity...
...Kennedy in that decision called Reagan's MSHA cutbacks "institutional manslaughter...
...Was anyone listening...
...He says the best administrator he ever served under was a long-time coal mine operator...
...Kent Frizzell, then Under Secretary of the Interior, reprimanded Kennedy...
...But he doesn't mind being the violators' crown of thorns...
...a recession has its good points...
...A half century ago the rule of thumb was one U.S...
...4 Coal Company for twenty-five safety violations...
...More, he will ask Congress for a further $15 million for 1983...
...I recently fined the Southern Ohio Coal Company $20,000 for killing a miner...
...Nancy Reagan's image problem is her political base...
Vol. 46 • May 1982 • No. 5
