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Vol. 138, No. 1 ARTICLE s WATCHDOG FOR VETERANS

The Legion will monitor VA s study ofPersian Gulfveterans who are sufferingfroni mysterious illnesses. 20

DISASTER DETECTIVES

To prevent accidents, they1 11 look at exploding coffee pots and space shuttle parts. By Phyllis Zauner 24

OFFICE ETIQUETTE FOR THE 90S Cellular phones, faxes and more women in the workplace redefine good manners. By Robert McGarvey 26

WINNING IMAGES

The right clothes may not makeyou a king, but people may treatyou like one. By Robert McGarvey 30

WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME? Sick Gulf War veterans ask and ask, but medical researchers and VA havefew answers. By Ken Schamberg 33

HOT DOG HARRY

This Legionnaire gives time and money to serve ail-American meals to GIs overseas. By Frank Bentayou 38

THE GREAT DEFICIT DEBATE

Two leading experts argue whether the deficit is good or badfor the nation. 40

WE'RE WINNING THE GARBAGE WAR

Alarmists started us recycling sooner than we needed to. Good thing, though. By Norm Crampton 43

IS ANYTHING MADE IN THE USA ANYMORE? Many ofthe world's best products are made here, and respected worldwide. ByJoel D.Joseph 46

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©1995 NordicTrack. Inc.. A CML Company • All rights reserved. Fighting For Enola Gay spoke in Japanese, and the interpreter "Rewriting Enola Gay's History" The American Legion deserves translated: "The war is over. We are made me madder than hell — mad now friends." enough to write my congressman and boundless praise on its rightful stand Thank God for the Enola Gay and demand that we withdraw all taxpayer against the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum the role it played in history. It saved support from the Smithsonian. These those of us who held on to life by a brats' revision of history is uncon- ("Rewriting Enola Gay's History," thread. scionable. Our problem is that they are November, by Brian D. Smith). The Everett D. Reamer younger than us and will be around truth about the Smithsonian's anti- Lake Havasu City, Ariz. longer to do their dirty work. What American bias is out. It planned to use will happen when the WWII vets are the Enola Gay as a symbol of Ameri- The Japanese were the brutal forces gone? can aggression. If that is the prevailing in World War II, not the Americans. I Allan C. Stover attitude of the Smithsonian, then I think the Japanese got every bit that Ellicott City, Md. think the Enola Gay should go to the was coming to them. The Japanese Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio, pledged to fight to the last man. We Tibbets was right on target with his where it would be accorded the certainly did the right thing. comments in "Our Job Was To Win." respect it is due. Joseph DeClue Charles A. Dowling I am proud of the Legion's firm Jefferson City, Mo. Warwick, N.Y. stand on this issue. Keep 'em blinking Commander Detweiler. Three cheers for Paul W. Tibbets Let us give thanks to the Smithson- Joseph L. Nelson Jr. ("Our Job Was To Win," Novem- ian. They solved the problem of how Nauvoo, III. ber) and his crew of the Enola Gay! I to conquer Japan without dropping the was on the island while they were bomb. When the bomb fell, I was a The idiots at the Smithsonian do putting the mission together, but I did battery commander in a 40mm anti- not recall that after Pearl Harbor, tech- not know it at the time. I flew over aircraft battalion on the island of nology gave us many weapons and Hiroshima after the bomb was Luzon in the Philippines. We had just techniques we did not have before. dropped. If it saved only one Ameri- completed rehearsing for the invasion The atomic bomb was another step in can serviceman's life, it was worth it. of the Japanese mainland. our favor. Our enemies would have Richard E. Quinn Jr. The people upstairs told us flat out used it against us if they had the North Attleboro, Mass. that about 50,000 of us would die choice. Hitler, for example, used V-ls establishing the first beachhead. While and V-2s against English civilians. I admit to a lack of impartiality in this Pete Hardiman Please turn page Hillsboro, Ore. WE WANT YOUR OPINIONS Only when everyone connected Corrections with the whole Enola Gay subversion The American legion • The October article, "The Battle attempt is completely out of the MAGAZINE welcomes letters to For Leyte Gulf," should have stated Smithsonian will the veterans' organi- the editor concerning articles that there were 39 PT boats positioned zations have won a permanent victory. that appear in the publication. Be across the Surigao Straits. These PT Leland E. Smith sure to include a daytime phone boats reported on the position of the Nashville, Tenn. number for verification. Short Japanese southern force and attacked letters are more likely to be ships exiting the straits. • It was my privilege to defend Cor- published, and all letters are The November article, "The Bat- regidor. We reluctantly surrendered to subject to editing for clarity and tle Of The Bulge," should have stated Japan on May 6, 1942. At that point, brevity. Volume precludes in- that the 285th Field Artillery Observa- we became Japanese prisoners of war. dividual acknowledgments of tion Battalion was involved with the The harsh, bitter, inhumane treatment comments on editorial content. Malmedy massacre. • that followed is beyond normal human You can leave an electronic In our recent coverage of WWII comprehension. letter to the editor at battles, some contributions of our inadvertently omit- I was among the first to be trans- (314) 474-7474 armed forces were ported to Japan from the Philippines to Callers' opinions are considered ted, including: Glider pilots who perform slave labor. Starvation and for publication and receive a Q assisted U.S. troops trapped in Bas- harsh treatment was the rule for the symbol when used. togne; the U.S. 7th Army during the counteroffensive in northern months that followed. I was tortured Or you can write to: German for attempting to steal food. The American Legion Magazine Alsace; the 30th Infantry Division dur- to Rhine; the 11th On Aug. 22, 1945, I was escorted P.O. Box 1055 ing the march the to a room with Japanese military offi- Indianapolis, IN 46206 Airborne and the 77th Infantry divi- cers and an interpreter. One officer sions' efforts at Leyte Gulf.

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IN 4781 1 1 2. 144S/S95 matter, I can believe that the bomb spiracy by a liberal media to brain- married on Lucky Baldwin's yacht off saved the lives of more Japanese civil- wash us all. the Southern California coast. Mother ians than American soldiers. Richard O. Waters could not substantiate this and doubted When we went ashore the day after Etowah, N.C. they were ever legally married. the surrender, we found their coastal Walter D. Cason defenses in caves facing outward. The TV networks do, indeed, run Deer Park, Calif. Their defenses could have cost us the media in America. They are able 50,000. It is true that there were to do so because their most consistent Pavlov's TV tremendous civilian casualties at viewers are those who have a great By constant repetition, TV viewers Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On the other deal of time on their hands and no ini- are conditioned to accept dishonesty, hand, our conventional bombings had tiative to work or occupy their lives. immorality and teenage sex as normal already cost them thousands of civil- This is particularly true in the daytime acceptable conduct ("Screens Of Vio- ian casualties. with the insulting fare offered by lence," October). Television and the Ben Harney Oprah, Donahue, Sally whatever-her- movies have used Pavlov-type condi- Spokane, Wash. name-is and those of the same ilk. tioning to destroy our values so that The liberal press has made any we now are a nation of pleasure seek- The WWII vets won the war. The intelligent discussions of the social ers and money grabbers. battle to take away that victory and breakdown unfashionable. They do so William F. FitzGerald replace it with shame began some time by immediately calling any position White Horse Bay, Mass. ago. It has surfaced with force at the contrary to their own view as "bigot-

Smithsonian. I am proud that the ed" "racist" or "homophobic." These I urge Legionnaires to resist the ris- Legion has engaged the enemy! Let's buzz words are used to reduce any ing tide of violence in the entertain- not quit until the truth prevails. arguments contrary to the media's as ment industry. Every combat veteran Everett L. Johnson hatred. knows that violence is never accompa- Augusta, Kan. Rocco L. Campagna nied by the nauseating faux-witty Dunmore, Pa. remarks contained in trash movies How were the Japanese "defending such as Die Hard and The Terminator. their unique culture against Western Flag Respect The American Psychological Asso- Imperialism" as stated in the Smith- I really enjoyed your article on our ciation recently reported that the aver- sonian's original script? Was the Flag ("To Protect Our Flag," October, age child sees 100,000 acts of violent Bataan Death March an expression of by Assistant Editor T. Douglas Don- "entertainment" by the time he or she "their unique culture?" The Japanese aldson). Let us hope that in the future, finishes elementary school. If this sort military was as brutal and arrogant as respect for the great traditions for of mindless glamorizing of violence the German Nazis and had the same what the Flag stands for will once damages even one child, isn't that one contempt for the Geneva Conventions more be brought back into focus. child too many? in their treatment of prisoners of war. Leonard Owczarzak Michael H. Dougherty Is this some more of the politically Brooklyn, Mich. High View, W.Va. correct agenda rampant now in Wash- ington? We have been distributing our peti- Posting A Reply Karl R. Tripp tions to keep the American Flag fly- The reply by Postmaster W.S. Houston, Texas ing. Anybody who thinks they have Chasteen to the Paul Craig Roberts the right to burn the American Flag in article was pretty pathetic and typifies Aiming At AIM protest is a disgust to the American what is wrong with the U.S. Postal Accuracy in Media (AIM) is noth- people. Service ("Pocketing Property," ing more than a fringe organization H John J. Lyons November, Vetvoice). People and established to foster the slanted view- Benton, Ky. businesses do vote with their pocket- point of founder Reed Irvine ("The books. Fast and reliable delivery is Press's Prejudices," November). For Euro's Marriage important to them. several years, I worked for main- My mother wrote one of the manu- To penalize businesses for using stream media, including the Associat- scripts that the book "I Married Wyatt high-priced, private services for relied Press, Newhouse News Service, Earp" was based on ("On The Trail Of able delivery is preposterous. Armed Forces Radio and Television Wyatt Earp," October, by Larry Trit- Gerald L. Clendenin Service in New York, and American ten). Mother's manuscript covers the Modesto, Calif. Forces Network in Frankfurt and years after Tombstone and came

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"left-wing bias." I find it extremely About Wyatt's and Josie's mar- congratulated on the special Septem- difficult to believe that there is a con- riage: Josie told mother they were Please turn page

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The prostate is a gland located below the bladder. It notice with your doctor. nology for police could also be suit- surrounds the urethra (you-REETH-rah), which is a Other important facts able for widespread testing in the tube that drains urine from the bladder. BPH is an • You should see an effect on your symptoms in workplace" ("Drug Testing," Wash- enlargement of the prostate gland. The symptoms of 2 to 4 weeks. So, you will need to continue see- November). BPH, however, can be caused by an increase in the ington Watch, Horror of ing your doctor to check your progress regarding tightness of muscles in the prostate. If the muscles horrors! your BPH and to monitor your blood pressure in inside the prostate tighten, they can squeeze the ure- The idea that U.S. citizens should addition to your other regular check-ups. thra and slow the flow of urine. This can lead to willingly give up their bodily fluids symptoms such as: • Your doctor has prescribed HYTRIN for your for testing by an employer or the gov- BPH and not for prostate cancer. However, a • a weak or interrupted stream when urinating man can have BPH and prostate cancer at the ernment is incredible. • a feeling that you cannot empty your bladder same time. Doctors usually recommend that men Please, America, do not openly completely be checked for prostate cancer once a year when invite Big Brother into our lives. Too • a feeling of delay when you start to urinate they turn (or 40 if a family member has had 50 many of our freedoms have already • a need to urinate often, especially at night, or prostate cancer). These checks should continue been seriously eroded by policymak- even if you are taking HYTRIN. HYTRIN is not • a feeling that you must urinate right away. a treatment for prostate cancer. ers who think they know more about Treatment options for BPH • About Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA). Your what is good for us than we do. There are three main treatment options for BPH: doctor may have done a blood test called PSA. Sidney E. Gilbert • Program of monitoring or "Watchful Waiting". Your doctor is aware that HYTRIN does not Redondo Beach, Calif. Some men have an enlarged prostate gland, but affect PSA levels. You may want to ask your doctor no symptoms, or symptoms that are not bother- more about this if you have had a PSA test done. Veterans Day Kudos some. If this applies, you and your doctor may How to take HYTRIN decide on a program of monitoring including reg- On behalf of the Mineral Wells Follow your doctor's instructions about how to take ular checkups, instead of medication or surgery. High School and myself, I thank you HYTRIN. You must take it every day at the dose pre- • Medication. There are different kinds of medica- for featuring our Veterans Day pro- scribed. Talk with your doctor if you don't take it for tion used to treat BPH. Your doctor has pre- gram in the November issue of the a few days, you may have to restart it at a 1 mg dose scribed HYTRIN for you. See "What HYTRIN and be cautious about possible dizziness. Do not magazine ("Veterans Day: A Celebra- does" below. share HYTRIN with anyone else; it was prescribed tion For All Ages," by Les Brindley). • surgery. Surgery. Some patients may need Your only for you. This program is truly outstanding and doctor can describe several different surgical pro- Keep HYTRIN and all medicines out of the reach of cedures to treat BPH. Which procedure is best spotlights the efforts Post 75 started children. depends on your symptoms and medical condition. 1 1 years ago. The community and the FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT HYTRIN nation should be more aware of what What HYTRIN does AND BPH, TALK WITH YOUR DOCTOR, veterans have given to ensure our HYTRIN relaxes the tightness of a certain type of NURSE, PHARMACIST OR OTHER HEALTH our muscle in the prostate and at the opening of the blad- CARE PROVIDER. heritage of freedom. Brindley did an der. increase the rate urine This may of flow and/or Ref. 03-4458-R1 -Revised Sept., 1993 excellent job of getting the essence of decrease the symptoms you are having. the story to your readers. The pho-

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EPORTS of low U.S. Just as Agent Orange caused birth casualties in the Gulf War defects in the children of exposed were apparently prema- Vietnam veterans, the Gulf War Syn- ture. The risk of death and drome is showing evidence of having suffering continues for similar consequences for children of thousands of GIs stricken Gulf War veterans. The American with a mystery illness that Legion is not going to allow the gov- has spread fear among ernment to treat victims of Gulf War

active duty troops, Persian Syndrome the way it has treated Agent Gulf veterans and their families. Orange victims and their families. Seemingly without cause, more Our government failed Agent

than 20,000 GIs who served in the Orange victims as it delayed compen- Gulf War are reporting symptoms sation until many of them had died. ranging from bleeding gums and Our government fell short of conduct- aching joints to extreme physical dis- ing an unbiased, comprehensive study

ability. They do not know what has of Agent Orange and its ill effects to

made them ill and they are worried. determine service-connected condi- The unknown is always frighten- tions even though The American

ing, especially when it involves ill- Legion has demanded it for years. And ness. But the concerns of Gulf War our government forgot the plight of GIs has heightened with each bit of the families. information that has Secretary is a emerged from a Nat' I. Cmdr. William M. Detweiler VA Jesse Brown number of ongoing investigations. good man with a long track record of Here are some of the disturbing to stress. And a lack of understanding standing up for veterans and their fam- revelations (as reported by THE is still a concern, according to the ser- ilies. He has an opportunity to step AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE'S vice men and women who have con- above the poor choices of his prede- Assistant Editor Ken Scharnberg in tacted The American Legion. cessors and help Gulf War veterans the article "What's Wrong With Me?" Chemical or biological weapons who are now sick or who will become

beginning on Page 33): of war may have been used against ill in the near future. Gulf War GIs are dying. In a U.S. troops. In a report of the General As National Commander, I will put report by former Michigan Sen. Don- Accounting Office (GAO), a Defense the resources of The American Legion ald W. Riegle Jr., 200 deaths were Intelligence Agency (DIA) investiga- at his disposal. We must work together linked to a mysterious Persian Gulf ill- tion was said to conclude that troops to find out what is making Gulf War ness. The Department of Veterans may have been exposed to chemical GIs and their families sick. And we Affairs (VA) cannot accurately assess weapons, which could be the cause of must find a way to cure them. the death toll from this illness because some of their health problems. Offi- In addition to helping veterans file

it does not track the cause-of-death of cially, DoD denies that American claims with VA, The American veterans. forces had such weapons. DIA sug- Legion has set aside $100,000 to mon- GIs who report Gulf War Syn- gests "a possible accident involving itor a VA investigation of the Gulf drome jeopardize their careers. The chemical agents among coalition War Syndrome to see that it is both American Legion has heard from forces." unbiased and comprehensive. At the many GIs who are afraid to seek help Deadly man-made and regional Fall Meeting, Oct. 19-20, 1994, the for medical problems resulting from health hazards may have combined National Executive Committee passed service in the Gulf War. They fear the into a toxic cocktail. Here are just Res. 4 authorizing the National Com- reprisals that they say have befallen some of the health risks that could mander to act on behalf of Gulf War others who have come forward. GIs have combined to cause illness among veterans who are ill. tell the Legion that a diagnosis of Gulf Gulf troops: nerve and blister agents; While we will work with our gov- War Syndrome is the kiss of death for radiation; local diseases; experimental ernment, we will not be content to

a military career. drugs used to immunize U.S. troops; wait for it to act. We must act now to Indeed, the Department of Defense and a variety of chemicals from insect help our fellow veterans and save their (DoD) has maintained from the begin- repellent to burning oil fires to highly lives and the lives of their unborn chil- ning that Gulf War illness is a reaction toxic paint. dren.

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Rep. Mike Bilirakis (R-Florida) Rep. Sherwood L. Boehlert (R-New York)

As I write this, the The sights and sounds "Boys of Summer" are of baseball are an inte- somewhere on a golf YES NO gral part of American course — or in the lawyer's office. life and when many Americans go to a For over three years now, I have ball game, it's minor league baseball been trying to solve one of the problems they're watching. Because of the major that presently plague the game of base- league baseball strike, this year's minor ball. One reason the players were not league attendance rose to 33.3 million playing and why the 1995 season is in nationally, from 30 million last year. jeopardy is because baseball operates wholly within its own As an unabashed fan, the baseball strike has me in warped economic system. mourning. But my greatest concern is the future of the We have $1.2 million average-player salaries and $3 hot minor leagues. dogs at the ballpark for one basic reason — major league Baseball is much more than just a sport. It is a business baseball is a monopoly without competition. It is controlled exempt from the antitrust laws that govern our land. It is by 28 ownership groups that have operated for two years also a business plagued by uncertainties, most notably the now without a commissioner. As such, the baseball monop- labor dispute which brought an abrupt end to the 1994 sea- oly has been free to self-destruct outside the rules of normal son. As a result, Congress has reopened the book on the business practice, and millions of fans have been left hold- all-American game. ing the bag. But Congress has largely overlooked the minors. That is I think we need to bring baseball fully within our why I decided last year to organize a group of my col- nation's commercial laws. This primarily means ending the leagues who were similarly interested in the minors. Thus, 70-year-old exemption that major league owners enjoy the minor league baseball caucus was formed. Now we from our nation's antitrust laws. find ourselves focusing on the threatened repeal of that That may soon change. On Sept. 29, 1994, the House antitrust exemption. Unfortunately, there is a dearth of Judiciary Committee approved a bill to revoke the antitrust understanding about how baseball is organized and how a exemption as it pertains to the present labor impasse. While repeal of the antitrust exemption could affect the minors. this bill will not be enacted during the present session, this The need for the antitrust exemption is clear; profes- action will set the stage for the new Congress that convenes sional sports teams do not operate in what we traditionally this month. think of as a free market. Minor league teams truly are

Thus, I believe the days of a complete antitrust exemp- partnerships among players, owners, local governments tion are numbered. Many of my colleagues now realize that and fans. And while no other professional sport enjoys an baseball is a business, indeed a big business. exemption from antitrust laws, no other sport has a minor Although Congress must concern itself with important league system similar to baseball's. budget, trade, crime and health-care legislation, many of Just about everyone in minor league baseball with my colleagues have come to recognize that Congress whom I have talked, ranging from the rookie leagues to should act to end this historical anomaly and bring the Triple A clubs, is convinced that lifting the exemption game of baseball fully within the laws that all other busi- from baseball would be a crippling blow to the minors. If nesses and all other sports operate. the clubs lose the exemption that — among other things — The alternative to inaction is readily apparent. It permits the player development contract, the incentive for occurred in living rooms across the country, where long- the majors to finance the minors will be gone. time baseball fans like myself settled into the couch on a Without the cash from on high, gone too will be clubs Saturday afternoon only to like the Oneonta Yankees, remember sadly that YOUR OPINIONS COUNT, TOO the Utica Blue Sox, the there's no baseball game Durham Bulls and the Senators and congressmen are interested in constituent view- on TV. points. You may express your views by writing The Honorable Memphis Chicks and oth- There's something very (name), U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510, or The Honorable ers. A colorful, and I wrong with that and, I (name), U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC 20515. would submit, important Or, you call the U.S. Senate at: 224-3121; and the might say, something may (202) piece of Americana would House at (202)225-3121. almost "un-American." be lost forever.

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Brimelow, an Judge Exposed editor of Forbes magazine, contends An Illinois judge faces being kicked that immigration — legal and illegal off the bench, fines and a possible jail — is changing the cultural makeup of term because he allegedly falsely America and undermining its Western advertised himself as a Medal of European roots. Honor winner. According to press Wilson, once considered politically reports, Kane County Circuit Court dead, came back largely on the judge Michael O'Brien, 57, admitted strength of his anti-illegal immigration he concocted the deception in 1992 stand. while battling alcohol and emotional His calculated use of the issue has problems. O'Brien had obtained two political analysts speculating that he copies of the Medal of Honor, both could become the front runner for the engraved with his name. One hung in 1996 GOP presidential nomination. his chambers. On the other side of the aisle, politi- r Harold Fritz, an authentic Medal of cal tea leaf readers say Jerry Brown, Honor recipient for heroism in Viet- former California governor and now a ATCH nam, uncovered the case after being talk show host, could mount a 1996 informed by a state official that primary challenge to President Clinton By CliffKincaid O'Brien had applied for Medal of for the Democratic presidential nomi- Honor license plates. nation. Brown campaigned for the Fritz has filed a complaint with the nomination in 1992, opposing special show U.S. oil dependence rising from Illinois Judicial Inquiry Board. U.S. interest money in politics and support- 50 to 80 percent by the year 2010. law provides for fines and imprison- ing a flat income tax. Meanwhile, oil rich Alaska is pro- ment of up to one year for unautho- What has many politicos raising ceeding with its $29 billion lawsuit rized use of the award. their eyebrows is Brown's apparent charging the federal government with pitch for conservative votes, especially violating Alaska's compact of state- from the Pat Buchanan wing of the Public Servants hood by preventing large tracts of fed- Republican Party. The new Congress is expected to eral land from being commercially In an interview in the conservative take another hard look at compensa- developed. intellectual journal, Chronicles, Brown tion for public employees, beginning outlined a possible alliance between with Amtrak, the federally subsidized liberals and conservatives opposed to Middle East Troubles passenger railroad, whose severance the influence of big government and President Clinton's proposal for packages can amount to $1 million for big corporations. Brown also resolving the Israeli-Syrian dispute is a laid-off manager. expressed sympathy for Buchanan's running into serious problems. One of Under current law — an old "nationalist message." the biggest is the growing opposition arrangement worked out with a rail to placing American troops under UN union — most Amtrak employees are Oil auspices on the Golan Heights as part entitled to six years in severance pay if Dependence of a settlement. they lose their jobs or don't want to be Look for a big fight this year on Clinton's proposal for "security transferred more than 30 miles away. how to cut the nation's ever-increasing guarantees," given to Israel and Syria Texas Congressman Joe Barton is dependence on foreign oil. The admin- last October, was aimed at preventing expected to reintroduce an amendment istration, its national energy policy the strategic Golan Heights from to the Amtrak reauthorization bill, cut- plan due the middle of this year, is becoming a threat to Israel again. ting severance pay to just 6 months. expected to push for alternative fuels The administration hopes the pro- Meanwhile, the American Legisla- and energy efficiency. But the oil and posal will end the stalemate within a tive Exchange Council has released a gas industry wants tax incentives few months. study that found employees at all lev- (a.k.a. tax breaks) for domestic oil pro- The exact extent of the security els of government are paid more than duction. guarantees has not been revealed those in the private sector. The dispari- Behind the fights are figures from because the Clinton proposal is secret. ty is greatest at the federal level. the U.S. Department of Energy that But Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak The investigation discovered that Rabin had previously requested U.S. employees of the federal government Washington-based Cliff Kincaid troops to help monitor a possible peace received, on average, 26 percent high- writes for Human Events and other accord with Syria. er income than private-sector employ- publications. The dangers were recognized by ees.

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Yellow 10 and FD&C Blue 2. Endocrine (Hormone) Function: MEVACOR and other drugs in this class may affect the

production of certain hormones. Caution should be exercised if a drug used to lower cholesterol Patients with Liver Problems: MEVACOR should also not be used by patients with active liver levels is administered to patients also receiving other drugs that may decrease the levels of activity disease or repeated blood test results indicating possible liver problems. (See WARNINGS.) of hormones (e.g., ketoconazole, spironolactone, cimetidine). If you are taking other drugs, tell Women Who Are or May Become Pregnant: Pregnant women should not take MEVACOR your doctor. because it may harm the fetus. Women of childbearing age should not take MEVACOR Central Nervous System Toxicity; Cancer, Mutations, Impairment of Fertility: Like unless it is highly unlikely that they will become pregnant. If a woman does become most prescription drugs, MEVACOR was required to be tested on animals before it was marketed pregnant while on MEVACOR, she should stop taking the drug and talk to her doctor at once. for human use. Often these tests were designed to achieve higher drug concentrations than

Women Who Are Breast-feeding: Women who are breast-feeding should not take MEVACOR. humans achieve at recommended dosing. In these tests, some of the animals had damage to nerves of the blood vessels in the central nervous system, including the brain. Others developed

WARNINGS : certain cancers or tumors of the liver or lung. Male dogs and rats sustained injuries to their reproductive systems. Your doctor can tell you more about how drugs are tested on animals and Liver: what the results of these tests mean about safety for you. About 2% of patients who took MEVACOR for at least one year in certain studies Pregnancy: Pregnant women should not take MEVACOR because it may harm the fetus. developed significantly elevated levels of liver enzymes, as determined by blood There have been rare reports of birth defects in humans taking MEVACOR, including a report of tests. (See SIDE EFFECTS.) Patients who had these increases usually had no symptoms. These an infant born with birth defects of the skeleton and digestive system. Therefore, women of elevations appear to become more likely as the dose increases. Liver disease with symptoms such as childbearing age should not take MEVACOR unless it is highly unlikely that they will become jaundice has been reported rarely at all dosages (see SIDE EFFECTS). pregnant. If a woman does become pregnant while on MEVACOR, she should stop taking the drug Your doctor should perform routine blood tests to check these enzymes before and and talk to her doctor at once. during treatment with MEVACOR. The tests should occur every 6 weeks for the first 3 The active ingredient in MEVACOR has been shown to produce birth defects in the skeletons of months, every 8 weeks for the rest of the year, and afterwards at about 6-month mice and rats given 40 times the human dose or more. No such defects were seen, however, when intervals. If your levels increase, your doctor should order more frequent tests. If your liver enzyme rats were given eight times the human dose, when mice were given four times the human dose, or levels increase to an unusually high level, your doctor should discontinue your medication. If these when rabbits were given three times the human dose. elevations persist after the drug is discontinued, a liver biopsy may be necessary. Nursing Mothers: Drugs taken by a nursing woman may be present in her breast milk. Because Tell your doctor about any liver disease you may have had in the past, and about how much alcohol of the potential for serious adverse reactions in nursing infants, a woman taking MEVACOR should you consume. In patients who have had liver disease or consume large amounts of alcohol, not breast-feed. (See WHEN MEVACOR SHOULD NOT BE USED.) MEVACOR may be more likely to cause these side effects. Pediatric Use: MEVACOR is not recommended for children or patients under 20 years of age Muscle: because safety and effectiveness have not been established. Tell your doctor right away if you experience any unexplained muscle pain, tenderness, or weakness at any time during treatment with MEVACOR, particularly if SIDE EFFECTS : you have a fever or if you are generally not feeling well, so your doctor can decide if Like all prescription drugs, MEVACOR can cause side effects, and some of them are serious. MEVACOR should be stopped. Most patients tolerate treatment with MEVACOR well. Side effects that do occur are usually mild

Muscle Breakdown and Kidney Damage: and short-lived. In clinical studies with MEVACOR, less than 5 percent of patients dropped out Rarely, patients taking MEVACOR can develop severe muscle breakdown or kidney because of side effects. The most common reason was significant increases in liver function tests. damage. The risk of muscle breakdown is greater in patients taking certain other Some of the side effects that have been reported with MEVACOR or related drugs are listed below. Lopid (gemfibrozil), drugs along with MEVACOR, such as the lipid-lowering drug a This list is not complete; it does not give the frequency of these side effects which varied from fibrate, lipid-lowering doses of nicotinic acid (niacin), the antibiotic erythromycin, study to study. Only your doctor can weigh the risks versus the benefits of any prescription drug (called immunosuppressive drugs, such drugs that suppress the immune system as for you. If MEVA COR is prescribed for you, be sure to ask your doctor about side effects at that Sandimmune® [cyclosporine]), or azole derivative antifungal therapy (itraconazole). The time and any time you think you may be having a side effect. risk of muscle breakdown is also greater in patients with kidney problems or diabetes. Digestive System: Constipation, diarrhea, upset stomach, gas, stomach pain/cramps, Because kidney damage from severe muscle breakdown has been seen more heartburn, nausea, acid regurgitation, dry mouth, vomiting, hepatitis, jaundice, fatty changes in the possible benefits of commonly with the combination of MEVACOR/gemfibrozil, the liver, and rarely, severe liver damage and failure, cirrhosis and liver cancer, loss of appetite, combined therapy with MEVACOR/gemfibrozil usually do not outweigh the risks of inflammation of the pancreas. severe muscle disease, muscle breakdown, or kidney damage. Also, the combined Muscle, Skeleton: Muscle cramps, aches, pain, and weakness, leg pain, shoulder pain, chest use of MEVACOR with other fibrate drugs should generally be avoided. pain, joint pain, muscle breakdown. Muscle breakdown can be severe. See WARNINGS, Muscle. Because there are risks in combining therapy with MEVACOR with lipid-lowering Nervous System: Dizziness, headache, insomnia, tingling, memory loss, nerve disease, nerve doses of nicotinic acid (niacin) or with drugs that suppress the immune system, your palsies, anxiety, depression, tremor, vertigo, facial paralysis. doctor should carefully weigh the potential benefits and risks. He or she should also or nails, dryness of skin or carefully monitor patients for any muscle pain, tenderness, or weakness, particularly Skin: Rash, itching, hair loss, lumps, discoloration, changes to hair mucous membranes. Causal relationship is unclear. during the initial months of therapy and if the dose of either drug is increased. Your doctor may also monitor the level of certain muscle enzymes, or of MEVACOR, in your Senses: Blurred vision, altered taste sensation, eye irritation, progression of cataracts, eye body, but there is no assurance that such monitoring will prevent the occurrence of muscle weakness, impairment of eye movement. severe muscle disease. Hypersensitivity (Allergic) Reactions: On rare occasions, a wide variety of symptoms have

Because of a risk of kidney failure with muscle breakdown in patients receiving been reported to occur either alone or together in groups (referred to as a syndrome) that appeared

cyclosporine, lovastatin should be temporarily discontinued if systemic azole to be based on allergic-type reactions, which may rarely be fatal. These have included one or more derivative antifungal therapy is required. Patients not taking cyclosporine should be of the following features: a severe generalized reaction that may include shortness of breath,

carefully monitored if systemic azole derivative antifungal therapy is required. wheezing, digestive symptoms, and low blood pressure and even shock; an allergic reaction with

swelling of the face, lips, tongue and/or throat with difficulty in swallowing or breathing; If you have conditions that can increase your risk of muscle breakdown, which in turn in immune system attack parts of can cause kidney damage, your doctor should temporarily withhold or discontinue symptoms mimicking lupus (a disorder which a person's may various disorders of MEVACOR. Such conditions include severe infection, low blood pressure, major surgery, his or her own body); severe muscle and blood vessel inflammation; bruises; problems) or abnormal blood trauma, severe metabolic, endocrine, and electrolyte disorders, and uncontrolled blood cells (that could result in anemia, infection, or blood clotting hives; fatigue and weakness; sensitivity to sunlight; fever; chills; seizures. Discuss this with your doctor who can explain these conditions to you. tests; inflamed or painful joints; flushing; difficulty breathing; and severe skin disorders that vary from a rash to a serious

Muscle Disease and Enzymes: burn-like shedding of skin all over the body, including mucous membranes such as the lining of

Temporary, mild elevations in muscle enzymes are commonly seen in patients treated with MEVACOR. the mouth.

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disease, i.e., muscle pain or muscle weakness associated with significant elevations in muscle Laboratory Tests: Liver function test abnormalities including elevated transaminases, alkaline enzymes. Your doctor should discontinue therapy with MEVACOR if significant elevations in muscle phosphatase and bilirubin, rare reports of thyroid function abnormalities. enzymes occur or if muscle disease is diagnosed or suspected. Note: This summary provides important information about MEVACOR. If you would In studies, about 30% of patients on drugs that lower the immune system (including cyclosporine) like more information, ask your doctor or pharmacist to let you read the and MEVACOR developed muscle disease; the corresponding percentages for patients on MEVACOR professional labeling and then discuss it with them. and gemfibrozil or niacin were approximately 5% and 2% respectively.

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that The American Legion will not back down in its efforts to see the Enola Gay exhibit appropriately displayed by the Smithsonian Institution. The Legion became involved when early scripts for the exhibit — now titled "The Final Act: The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II" — contained a number of inaccuracies and omissions. It portrayed the Japan- ese as victims of American aggression, included only a one-half sentence mention of the FOR THE FLAG— Japanese attack on Pearl Virginia NECman Harbor, and contained Roger N. Messier, few words about Japan- left, gives ese war atrocities. The Nat'l. Cmdr. scripts also questioned Detweiler petitions supporting a America's decision to amendment. drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. "The Enola Gay and WWII veterans have been prostituted in order to make a political statement about the horrors of atomic warfare," Harrington Watchdo told the NEC. Harrington reported that Legion representatives continue to work with The Legion will vigilantly monitor VA's study of the Smithsonian Institution to ensure an honest representation of America Persian Gulf veterans' ailments and the and U.S. veterans in the National Air Smithsonian's exhibit of the Enola Gay and Space Museum exhibit planned for May. Immediately following the Fall Meeting, the Legion met again with A WILL NOT get away Legion to become involved early in Smithsonian representatives to discuss with a haphazard, shallow any VA investigation of Gulf veterans' the exhibit. At press time in late study of the ailments of ills and to suggest changes in VA's November, the Legion still had not Gulf War veterans, as it study methods, if deemed necessary. endorsed the museum's exhibit, did with the Vietnam "We want to find out what hap- despite major changes that were made War's Agent Orange vic- pened to our troops in the deserts of at the Legion's request. tims. The American Le- the Mideast," said National Comman- "Justice is what this controversy is gion will be scrupulously der William M. Detweiler. "We will all about," said Harrington, a WWII looking over the Depart- not be content to sit back and wait for veteran. "Justice to the memory of the ment of Veterans Affairs' shoulder results. We want to participate in the WWII veterans. Justice to the genera- whenever it begins its study of Gulf study from the outset." tions we leave behind. And justice to a War GIs, as mandated by Congress. The plan to monitor VA's study of nation that nurtured and sustained us At its Fall Meeting Oct. 19-20, the Persian Gulf veterans is the latest over the past 50 years." National Executive Committee (NEC) Legion effort in support of the nation's Harrington called working with the of The American Legion unanimously newest wartime veterans. The Legion Smithsonian "an unusual battle" that passed Res. 4, which authorizes up to created the Family Support Network in pits The American Legion against "the $100,000 to be spent to review VA's 1990 to provide assistance to the fami- most highly regarded, most influential methods of studying Gulf veterans. lies of Desert Storm troops. When and most American of institutions in "We want to make sure VA thor- troops returned home from the Gulf this country." oughly and accurately examines all the War, the Legion was the first to warn Harrington concluded by saying the medical problems experienced by Per- them about giving blood and among exhibit "breaks the faith of the 2,000 sian Gulf veterans," said Chet Stellar, the first to urge them to file VA claims Americans still in the hull of the USS Chairman of the Veterans Affairs and if they had medical problems. Arizona." His remarks drew a standing Rehabilitation Commission. "We also ovation from the NEC. want to be sure VA hires a research DEFENDING THE ENOLA GAY Following Harrington at the podi- organization that is capable of under- In an emotionally charged report, um, National Commander Detweiler taking such an enormous study." Internal Affairs Commission Chairman reiterated the Legion's position on the Stellar said Res. 4 directs the Herman G. Harrington told the NEC Please turn to page 68

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According to Fanion, Legion Today has given the Post a good image in the community, and Post membership has increased by 12 percent since the TV show first aired. of "All of our episodes help promote The Power PR our Post," said Fanion. "People are seeing what the Legion is all about." Building and maintaining a positive

image for The American Legion is the function of public relations, which worked for Post 330 and Post 199, and can work for your Legion Post, too. Here's how your Post can tap into the power of PR. Select a public relations officer. PR officers must become the eyes, ears and voice of the Post. They need strong communication skills and must be knowledgeable about Post activities. They must be comfortable deal- ing with reporters. A good PR officer shapes how a community views The American Legion, not just locally but nationally, too. ON AIR—Post Meet the press. Remem- 199, Plainville, ber to publicize your Legion Conn., produces activities in local newspapers, Legion Today, a and on radio and TV. When 30-minute TV meeting with a reporter, talk show devoted to about your Post and the good veterans' issues their town newspaper, things it does for the commu- and Post activities The Culpeper Star Ex- nity. And remember, don't Public relations ponent. wait until the last minute to helps your Post With pride and confidence, they publicize an event. Alert your local build a positive pitched a story idea that wound up on news outlets way ahead of time about the front-page of the paper with the important upcoming events. image in your headline "American Legion a lot more Sponsor community events. Your community and than old soldiers." The article Post can sponsor community activi- explained how the Legion and Post ties, from Special Olympics to Legion can get you new 330 were far more than social clubs. It programs such as American Legion members, too. told everyone in Culpeper about the Baseball. Join with local schools and great work of Post 330. And suddenly, churches to help young people. Legionnaires enjoyed new-found As National Commander William respect from citizens. Post member- M. Detweiler says: "Be visible and EGIONNAIRES from ship shot up 25 percent. show a command presence. Mobilize Post 330 of Culpeper, Va., Another PR success story is Legion Legionnaires to stand up for the issues have always been active in Today, a 30-minute cable access tele- that matter." their community, from vision show that airs on Channel 5 in With PR, that's what you can do. donating money to charity Plainville, Conn. Produced by Neil And when you are visible in a positive to providing honor guards Fanion and Nick Pipitone, two mem- way in the community, reporters will for veterans' funerals. But bers of Legion Post 199 in town, the seek out your opinion. But being visi- these good deeds went show calls attention to veterans issues ble doesn't always mean you will look unnoticed until James and highlights their Post's community good. Nichols tapped into the power of pub- involvement, from American Legion Prepare for bad news. At some lic relations (PR). Boys State to helping people in need. point, your Legion Post may have to "We wanted to show the public "We get about 10 to 15 letters a deal with unfavorable publicity. How- who we are and what we stand for," week from Legionnaires who enjoy ever, it's possible to turn the bad news says Nichols, the Post's PR officer. the show," said Fanion, Post Com- into something positive for your Post To promote the Legion's activities, mander and Public Relations Officer and for The American Legion. When Nichols and several Post officers initi- for the Department of Connecticut. something bad happens, tell the truth. ated a meeting with a reporter from "They tell us to keep it going." Please turn to page 92

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last century's. "Etiquette matters and it Office Etiquette changes. That means you've got to keep pace," says Phillips. 9 0s Does anybody still know which lit- THE tle fork is for FOR the fish is and which for the dessert — and does anybody think that matters? "That's not what manners are about. Manners are involved in all our interactions," says Marjorie Brody, an office etiquette expert in Philadelphia. "Bad manners are why one job hunter loses out while a more polished applicant lands the job. Bad manners are why a business may lose customers. Nobody likes rude people." "When your manners are polished, that's another arrow in your quiver of skills," says Phillips. SHAKE— Besides, he adds, imagine you're in a situation — you offer to eyeing that cellular phone shake a woman's or the woman exec's over- hand? And, if so, stuffed briefcase for how hard? The answers: Yes, and instance. You know eti- just as firm as you quette rules apply, but a man's. you're not sure what they are. What happens? "Likely you'll get anxious, meaning you are ineffective," says Phillips. • Walking down a street with a cus- "You're uncomfortable and so is tomer, you suddenly remember you everybody else." Cellular phones, must make a phone call. There's a pay "Manners isn't rocket science. It all phone across the street but it's occu- comes down to common sense and faxes and more pied. Then you remember your cus- common courtesy," assures Brody. women in the tomer has a cellular phone in his brief- Cellular phones, for instance, are workplace have case. Do you ask to use it? convenient but costly. Cellular compa- • You are sent to the airport to meet nies impose surcharges up to $1 a redefined good a top executive who's a woman. Do minute for calls. What's proper eti- manners for you greet her with a handshake? How quette here? firm? She's lugging a bulky attache "Don't borrow somebody's cellular today's business case. Do you carry it for her? phone without asking if it's OK — and environment. If the answers to those questions if the call is long, offer to pay for it," don't pop instantly to mind, don't be says office etiquette expert Brody. As surprised. "You cannot count on the for placing a call to a cellular phone, old rules anymore," says Wayne the best policy is often to wait until the Phillips of The Executive Etiquette person can be reached at a convention- By Robert McGarvey Co. in Taunton, Mass. "Business man- al phone, especially if the call likely ners have changed a lot." will be lengthy. ERE ARE three everday The same factors that changed the Speaker phones also have their pit- business situations. How way business works compared with a falls. They are desktop staples, but would you handle them? generation ago also have rewritten the "you've got to be cautious in using • You want to sched- etiquette rules. them," says Brody, who offers this ule a job interview with For starters, there's the equal role horror story as proof: an applicant. You call his of women in the workplace that has A woman executive had a Saturday current work number and made much of the old etiquette obso- Please turn page get his voice-mail box. lete. High-tech innovations — cellular Do you save time and phones, voice mail and faxes — didn't Robert McGarvey' s most recent recite the details now? Or just leave exist for most companies a mere five article for this magazine was "Rus- your name and ask for a return call? years ago. And corporate downsizing sia's Loose Cannons" in April.

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Today, he is among a small group of veterans undergoing government-sponsored experimental treatments at Hilton Head and New York University. Smith is one of tens of thousands of Gulf War veterans who have complained of physical dete- rioration, short-term memory loss, painful skin rashes, crippling joint pains, chronic fatigue, children with birth defects, and more. VA figures as of June 1994 showed 2,232 Gulf War veterans have died of service-connected causes. However, no one knows exactly how many died from Gulf Syn- drome because VA does not track the cause-of-death of veterans. In his investigation of Gulf illnesses last year, Michigan Sen. Donald W. Riegle Jr. confirmed at least 200 deaths directly related to Persian Gulf illnesses. "The Legion is deeply concerned that many of the reported deaths may be related to the Per- sian Gulf Syndrome," says Chet Stellar, Chairman of the Legion's Veterans Affairs and Rehabilita- tion (VA&R) Commission. As complaints of mysterious illnesses mounted, the Department of Defense (DoD) set up a hotline for sick Gulf War active duty troops in June 1994. By September, the hotline had registered more than 10,500 calls and was averaging 152 calls per day. More than 7,000 sick GIs' names are already on

DoD's list. Based on reports from private physicians, Senate testimony, veterans support groups and veterans themselves, there could be more than 40,000 ailing Gulf War veterans who have not sought medical care from VA or military hospitals. Many of those no longer in the military claim they are avoiding

Veterans Affairs Editor Ken Scharnberg wrote "Healing the Horrors of Agent Orange, " in the October issue.

34 VA because they do not trust it. GULF still in THE WAR they 5 OF Those uniform say three Iraqi nuclear power are afraid that a Gulf War Syn- plants bombed by allies. drome diagnosis will end their

Symptoms Hair loss, bleed- careers. In spite of guarantees that ing gums, skin rashes they will not be punished if they resembling sunburns, nau- report to sick call with Gulf illness

sea, birth defects. complaints, many active duty per-

sonnel just don't believe it. LOCAL DISEASES There is a very real basis for this fear, as documented by those active Names Leishmaniasis para- duty personnel who have contacted sites, Q-fever, cholera. The American Legion. "When ser- Sources Sheep, camels, vice personnel inform their superi- sandflies, bird droppings, ors and medical professionals they ill contact with local residents. RADIATION are ill, they are treated as second Symptoms Nausea, muscle class citizens," says the Legion's and joint pain, flu-like symp- Legislative Commission Chairman, toms, blood poisoning, diar- Charles Pesso. rhea, skin rashes. "When we asked why they were reluctant to come forward, the GIs EXPERIMENTAL unanimously told the Legion that DRUGS they saw the harassment their peers Names Anti-anthrax treat- suffered when they admitted they ments, anti-nerve agent were sick," Pesso says. treatments, anti-botulism One of those who was harassed treatments. was Marine Gunnery Sgt. Michael for treatment Sources Given to GIs in the Adams, who looked Gulf to counteract possible from the Naval hospital at enemy chemical and biologi- Portsmouth, Va. "When the Marine cal attacks. approached the internal medicine department," a Legion spokesman Symptoms Extreme allergic told the Senate Armed Forces Com- reaction in some cases, debilitating nausea, cramps, mittee, "one of the doctors assigned diarrhea, fatigue, confusion. to the protocol program stated, 'Here is another one who served in PETROCHEMICALS the Gulf who thinks he's ill. This is all a waste of time.'" Names Carbon monoxide, "The track record is very poor," benzene, hydrocarbons, says Army Maj. Jane Monville, vet- diesel and other fuels. erans health coordinator assigned to Sources Oil well fires, oil- the mobilization branch of the Cali- based heaters, contaminated fornia National Guard. shower water, fuel exhaust. "If VA doctors can't arrive at a Symptoms Fatigue, lowered diagnosis, they tend to ascribe the immunity to disease, problem to Post Traumatic Stress extreme allergic reactions to Disorder [PTSD]," says Monville, common chemicals, skin who also suffers from the chronic problems, possible cancers. fatigue, aching joints and short-term memory loss that have become the OTHER trademarks of sick Gulf War veter- CHEMICALS ans. "For an officer in the line of Names DEET, malathion, command, a PTSD diagnosis is the cleaning fluids, special kiss of death to a career." paints, CARC (Chemical Indeed, DoD has stubbornly Agent Resistant Coating). maintained from the beginning that

Sources Pesticides, coatings stress or psychological disorders on clothing and weapons, was the primary cause of the Gulf paints, solvents. illness. "Nearly every veteran seeking medical attention was given the Symptoms Skin problems, same diagnosis, even though the possible cancers, increased physiological symptoms persisted susceptibility to other chemi- as cal exposures, respiratory after taking antidepressants such problems, headaches. Prozac," a Legion spokesman told BIOLOGICAL AGENTS

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the Senate Armed Forces Committee in September 1994. "Almost all veterans were given the same diagnosis for psychological problems and the physiological problems were not being addressed." Nor is the mystery illness limited to American GIs, as U.S. government officials claim. The British have more than 1,500 on a nongovern-

ment sponsored Gulf War illness registry. Canada, which only sent 2,500 to the Gulf, already has more than 30 sick veterans on its two- week-old registry. The World Health Organization and other health experts who have visited Kuwait report that illnesses among Kuwait- is are reaching epidemic proportions. ans themselves. What has license of the U.S. Com- As American medical scientists been pieced together, what merce Commission, includ- continue to grapple with the Gulf War is known and what is sus- ed varieties of anthrax, bot- Syndrome, they cannot expect too pected about the Gulf War ulinum, tetanus and much help from government circles. Syndrome is not a pretty brucellosis, just to name a However, in October Congress autho- picture. few. rized a $20-million epidemiological According to all sources — govern- This may have explained the sub- study, which the Legion demanded ment studies, medical experts and the stances found in some allied and Iraqi must be done. To ensure the project is victims — the Gulf War GI could gas masks and filters given to Riegle 's properly conducted, the Legion will have encountered three kinds of harm- staff to be scientifically checked. The hire medical and statistical specialists ful agents: biological, chemical and masks and filters had "a peculiar

to monitor it (see "Watchdog For Vet- radiological. Some occur naturally, sticky yellow growth" on them, erans," Page 20). some were manufactured and still oth- according to testimony at Senate hear- Currently, the government is rely- ers were created as weapons of war. ings. The items were turned over to ing on more than 30 small scientific Biological exposures. The Gulf Livermore Labs in California, a lead- study projects. This "shotgun" ap- region is rife with diseases rarely ing biological research laboratory. proach to science, Legion experts say, encountered in the western world. The lab's initial report released to

is a major reason it has taken nearly Among the more worrisome native Riegle revealed that unique fragments 20 years to get anything done with biological risks is a parasite known as of the yellow growth's DNA were a Agent Orange. leishmaniasis, which sand flies carry. strain of brucellosis and Q-fever. Both At least with Agent Orange, Viet- Humans infected with the parasite diseases can be found in the Gulf, but nam veterans knew what was causing experience pain and weakness. they are also commonly used as bio- their problems. But for Gulf War vet- In addition, U.S. troops may have logical warfare agents. Follow-up erans, not even that small comfort been exposed to chemical and biologi- analysis revealed that while initial exists. "If we just knew what was cal agents that were American-sup- DNA tests indicated the presence of causing these problems, it would plied. A report released in May by these microorganisms, subsequent help," says Maj. Monville. "It's not New York Sen. Alfonse M. D'Amato DNA comparisons did not match up. knowing that really works on your and Sen. Riegle revealed that U.S. bio- One possible explanation for this mental attitude." logical manufacturers had shipped result is that these microorganisms In an effort to separate fact from several items that had the potential to might have been genetically altered fiction, THE AMERICAN LEGION be converted into chemical or biologi- biological agents. MAGAZINE has conducted hours of cal warfare weapons. But perhaps the most damning evi- interviews with experts and the veter- The shipments, which were under dence of possible biological warfare

36 THE AMERICAN LEGION age tank was leaking copper- colored fumes from a bullet hole. Two Fox vehicles, equipped with mass spec- trometers that identify chemical substances, independently confirmed the presence of mustard gas. So did other testing devices used by the military to detect poison gas.

The Army says the Fox is the most advanced mobile chemical warfare detection system. The Pentagon insists the fumes were nitric acid used for rocket fuel, but chemical experts say nitric acid bears no resemblance to mustard gas, either in appearance or chemical makeup. DoD also claimed that no chemical warfare agents were detected on the uniforms of the personnel. Yet, eyewitnesses say the uniforms were burned on the spot and never subjected to DENIED— Betty testing. Mekdici of the Lt. Col. Bill Harkey, a Association of spokesman for the Army in weapons has come from Birth Defect cal agents in the Gulf War. Washington, says the Army can nei- Dr. Nancy Nicholson at a Children says Based on an analysis of ther confirm nor deny the presence of University of Texas DoD has ignored battlefield intelligence, chemical warfare agents in the storage research facility. concluded that tank. Nevertheless, the saw fit She has research. DoD "we Army isolated and identified a have no confirmations of to award its Meritorious Service microorganism called any chemical or biological Medal to members of a chemical mycoplasma incognitas and linked it use of those types of weapons," Hart detection unit. The citation accompa- to a disease known as Chronic Fatigue told THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGA- nying the medal to the unit comman- and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome ZINE. der said the officer "supervised the (CFIDS). The Texas researcher's tests For many veterans this is simply positive identification of a suspected on victims of CFIDS have all revealed not a satisfactory answer. chemical agent." the presence of the microorganism. "There is strong evidence that our DoD has an even harder time Two related developments make troops were exposed to explaining away this an extremely important discovery. chemical and biological Army Pfc. David First, the Pentagon and VA have agents," says VA&R Fisher. Fisher had to diagnosed many Gulf War GIs and Chairman Chet Stellar. be treated for burns veterans with CFIDS. Second, Nichol- "What is worse is that WHERE he received from son believes that mycoplasma incogni- DoD may have known what his Army tus is the result of recombinant DNA about it, but chose to CAN physician confirmed splicing. In other words, it is a modi- cover it up under the YOU was a blister agent. fied, manufactured organism — a bio- guise of 'military securi- Fisher was burned logical warfare germ. ty,'" he says. when he brushed Further evidence of biological Chemical exposures. GET HELP? against some crates exposure comes from Dr. Edward One example of that marked with a skull SEE Hyman, a Louisiana researcher. "military security" is the PAGE 80 and crossbones that Hyman discovered bacterias in yeast Pentagon's dogged were inside an Iraqi that existed in urine samples taken denial that any chemical bunker. Chemical from sick Gulf veterans and has suc- warfare agents were detected during tests run in the field found traces of cessfully treated some of them with the Gulf War in spite of more than Lewisite, a blood agent, and mustard massive doses of antibiotics. 1,000 eyewitness and unit reports of gas on Fisher's uniform; but DoD later Air Force Col. Douglas Hart, a alarms sounded by electronic chemical reported that tests on his uniform indi- DoD spokesman, says DoD had sensors. cated no chemical exposure. looked into the possibility of biologi- In one case, a captured Iraqi stor- Please turn to page 72

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This Ohio Legionnaire spreads patriotism and goodwill while traveling across the world to feed 00064 U.S. troops a good old ail-American meal.

By Frank Bentayou could get real American meals over heard the awful news: Many of the there, hot dogs — and I'd take them Marines he had served had died tragi- myself!" cally in a terrorist blast in their bar- T ALL STARTED as a bet Harry won the wager. He hustled racks. By December he was back in for Legionnaire and one- contributions of franks, air freight and Beirut, this time with 1,900 more time hot dog vendor Harry money, and within months was trans- wieners. The emotional reunion

Hirschinger. When he porting 1 ,875 dogs to the Marines as a capped months of hard labor tying learned of a restaurant Valentine's Day gift in 1983. He down more donations of food, drinks, owner's plan to send ham- proudly shows pictures from his visit transportation. He dipped into his own burgers to U.S. Marines there: Harry serving hot dogs to a line savings, too. guarding the American of Marines in the city synonymous "I had to go back," Harry says. embassy in Beirut in 1982, with random terror. "It's just such a small thing compared

he said, I bet her a cup of coffee I "The kids," he recalls, "were won- to what these young people were sac- derful. They thought it was great rificing," he says. "I was just taking Freelance writer Frank Bentayou somebody cared that much. They were them hot dogs. But they loved it." wrote "A Campus Correctness Cru- so young and so dedicated to keeping Since then, Hirschinger has served sade" in the April 1994 issue of this the peace there." hot dogs to the U.S. Armed Forces in magazine. Seven months later, the world Lebanon, Korea, Japan and the former

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says. Harry traveled to other cities, asked questions and, eventually, bought a second-hand cart for $700. He began push-

ing it around town, franks on the fly for busy '80s yuppies. Business grew. Soon he had a dozen carts, then 18. He was everywhere, from the city's center to the Ohio State University campus. Everyone ate Hot Dog Harry's dogs. Then came the bet that changed his life, but Harry's story doesn't end there. More than a year after his second trip to Beirut, he launched another journey, this one with franks and drinks for troops in the bleak hills of the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). Again, Hirschinger accompanied his all-American meals and personally served them to thousands of far-from- home soldiers. On this visit, he offered something new: hand-delivered letters by the hundreds from parents, WITH RELISH spouses and sweethearts to military Harry Hirschinger personnel. He also solicited letters personally from school kids in Ohio and carted provides GIs with them halfway around the globe to Natural Casing a taste of home, deliver them, alongside letters from from Lebanon to just plain interested folks back home Beef Russia to Korea's willing to write to lonely troops. He was taking Main Street to the boon- Polish Sausage DMZ. docks — along with the all-American NETWT. 10 LBS. meal. "They were incredibly pleased to get all these letters, all this attention," Harry says. "I think people in the armed services begin to wonder if Soviet Union. When asked why, he Another brother, Walter, survived folks back home have forgotten them. sums up his motivation very simply. "I serious injuries on Iwo Jima as a Taking hot dogs and letters over there love my country." young Marine. is like a reminder: We care." America began earning Harry's While Harry never had to fight, he Communicating that care became loyalty when he was still a child. did do an Army hitch in the '50s. an obsession. Harry mounted other Before World War II, his family fled After his discharge, he went home to a trips, again patching financing togeth- Germany for Amsterdam, Holland, sales job in the New York garment er from donations, the occasional where Harry was born. As the pressure district. Eventually, his company goodwill of the military and his own from the Third Reich grew in Holland, moved him to Columbus, Ohio. resources. the family moved to New York. Times grew tough in the late '70s After the two trips to Lebanon, he The Hirschinger family took their and Harry, by then with a family of his took four forays to Korea and one to patriotism seriously. When the United own, lost his job. "The industry Moscow. There, in 1986, he fed 500 States went to war, Kurt, Harry's old- looked bad then, so I decided to go Marine guards at the U.S. embassy. est brother, shipped out to Europe. into business for myself." An inspira- He shows framed pictures of himself He was shot down on his final tion struck him. joking with enlisted men, standing scheduled mission and imprisoned "There were no street vendors in arm-in-arm with Marine brass, and more than a year in a concentration Columbus. You know, the kind with shoveling out food. camp. carts, like you see in big cities," he Please turn to page 82

JANUARY 1995 39 INTERVIEW ROBERT EISNER vs. PETER PETERSON

The Great Deficit Debate

Notions, fomilies ond businesses borrow to build. Thofs why o deficit isn't bod, soys one expert. Nonsense, soys onother.

The U.S. deficit won't build o future, it will ruin it.

VERY DAY of the week, the federal govern- tions, the decline of public education — all are serious prob- ment spends $600 million it does not have. lems.

Before the year is over, it will run up a deficit of But when we have huge deficits, the very public invest- about $200 billion. That's in addition to the ments that could address these problems get crowded out of existing deficit that places the national debt at the budget. Maybe the deficit is not our most important prob-

more than $4 trillion. lem. But it is a critical problem we know how to solve — Should we tighten our belts, cut spending and and if we do, we will be in a far better position to tackle make do with the monies we have? other problems. Definitely not, says Robert Eisner, a professor of economics at Northwestern, past president of the Ameri- EISNER: As Mr. Peterson said, the United States has prob- can Economic Association, and author of The Misunderstood lems but "it's not the deficit, stupid," as The New York Times Economy: What Counts and How to Count It. reviewer closed her review of my book. People think, "nei- While austerity might be the perfect solution for a spend- ther a borrower nor a lender be," but the reality is that our

thrift family, for the nation it would be "devastating," he economy could scarcely function without debt. Private warns. Balance the budget now and the economy would go investment in homes and in businesses is financed largely by into recession, jobs would be lost, and benefits — including borrowing. Social Security and veterans' benefits — might have to be I agree with Mr. Peterson that we need more public cut. "The deficit is good for the average American," says investment in schools, roads, research and development. But Eisner. like private investment, public investment ought to be Not true, says New York investment banker Peter Peter- financed by borrowing. Deficits can be too small as well as son, Secretary of Commerce in the Nixon administration and too large. Right now, we would benefit from a bigger deficit, author of Facing Up. "We are mortgaging our children's both to finance needed public investment and to sustain our future. We're eating well today and saddling our kids with a economic recovery. very expensive check for our free lunch. If we don't get our financial affairs in order, the American Dream could become Q. How big is the national debt? the American Nightmare." In this exclusive interview with THE AMERICAN LEGION EISNER: You'll hear figures as high as $20 trillion, but MAGAZINE, Eisner and Peterson present opposing views on that's including substantial future obligations — for Social this critical issue. Who do you believe is right? Security, for instance — that we can expect to pay out of future tax revenues. The official total public debt is about American Legion Magazine S Is the budget deficit $4.5 trillion, a figure deficit hawks like to cite. But that too is America's Number One problem? overstated. It includes $1 trillion in what amounts to an accounting entry — debts the federal government owes PETERSON: as a nation, we face enormously challenging itself. social and educational problems. Illiteracy, the eroding work The actual debt held by the public is nearer $3.4 trillion. ethic and quality of the future work force, crime, race rela- How big is that? For individuals we relate debt to income.

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"Only an ignoramus would propose doing it today. "A balanced budget would have negative

Jobs would be lost. The nation would plunge into consequences only if we do it too fast. Long term recession. Right now, we would benefit from a consequences are all to the good — more larger deficit to sustain our economic recovery. savings and a higher standard of living.

"It's coming down sharply. The people who persist "Mr. Eisner may be the only economist in America in screaming about it are fighting an old war that who thinks this problem is going away. He suffers has been won. The deficit is way down. from a serious case of short-termitis.

How does the deficit matter?

"Deficit hawks like to say each child is born owing "That's utterly absurd. There is a profound $17,000, but you couldjust as well say he is born difference between a nest egg that could be with a nest egg of $17,000 in government invested to produce growth and a debt the young securities. will have to pay.

"Let's not cut entitlements. Why sock the elderly "There is no solution for the national debt without on Social Security, by far our biggest entitlement cutting entitlements. Unless we confront program? Entitlements in the United States are entitlement spending now, our kids can look much less than in much of the rest of the world. forward to the American Nightmare.

JANUARY 1995 41 For a government, we look to the national we are getting some temporary progress after economy. The United States is the world's last year's struggle to pass a deficit-reducing most productive economy, and it's growing. If budget. But I know of no one at OMB or the we look at it that way, the debt isn't a problem General Accounting Office [GAO] who now, or in the predictable future. doesn't concur that the deficit will grow And remember this: Federal accounting rapidly later in the decade, reaching $400 bil- policies would make any private accountant lion annually shortly after the turn of the cen- shudder. Long-term investments are counted tury. Frankly, I think Mr. Eisner suffers from in the current deficit. If private businesses did a serious case of "short-termitis." It's time we that, most of our biggest corporations would focus on the long-term problem. be showing "deficits" — in other words, losses. Q. Mr. Peterson, why do you say the deficit will grow PETERSON: Mr. Eisner casually dismisses factors that sharply? make the debt devastatingly larger. Those "future obligations" he mentions are in fact unfunded federal liabilities that PETERSON: We're facing a demographic time bomb, as amount to over $14 trillion. That's benefits — for Social Baby Boomers become "Senior Boomers" and start collect- Security, Medicare, federal pensions — we've promised but ing Social Security and Medicare. An enormous demograph- haven't provided the taxes for. Eisner can talk about how the ic change will occur in America, starting around 2010. Peo- debt is overstated, but if the government used any reasonable ple over 65 years of age will grow in numbers by 125 to 150 accounting standard, as required in the private sector, the percent. While we used to have 16.5 taxpaying workers per debt would turn out to be immensely understated. retiree, today we have 3.2. That means just three young

workers are expected to support every retiree. By 2040 it 0. Would jobs be lost if we balanced the budget? could be 1.6 to 1.

EISNER: Many jobs would be lost and the nation would EISNER: Mr. Peterson's worries about his "demographic plunge back into recession. Only an ignoramus would pro- bomb" are exaggerated. What we'll have are more elderly pose balancing the budget today. Cut the deficit and the people as a percentage of population, but we'll also have spending of individuals will go down. Is that better, or fewer young people, that is, ones not yet in the labor force. worse, for GM, home builders, IBM? Would GM build a The percentage of population of working age won't change new plant if we're not buying cars? Will it hire more work- much and that is the key number in terms of supporting the ers? Of course not. nonworking population. Deficit hawks talk about long-term benefits of a balanced budget but I believe the long-term is a succession of short- PETERSON: It's ludicrous to mix the elderly and children terms and no one can tell me that putting the United States together. On a per-capita basis, federal spending on the into recession today will help us tomorrow. elderly exceeds that of children by 1 1 to 1, so a decline in the number of children won't do much for the budget. And I can PETERSON: A balanced budget would have negative say this because I myself am an old fogy. I was brought up to short-term consequences only if we try to reach it too fast. believe in spending money on children. You train and edu- That's why in Facing Up I outline a plan over six years that cate them. That's investing in the future. However, spending gives the economy ample time to adjust. Furthermore, Mr. money on seniors like me is pure consumption. Eisner ignores the good that would come from this in the short-term. EISNER: As for Mr. Peterson's $400 billion deficit "shortly

I asked Alan Greenspan [chairman of the Federal after the turn of the century," the Congressional Budget Reserve] what the result of a balanced budget would be. He Office (CBO) projects the deficit at $212 billion in '99. The said long-term, real interest rates would fall about 2 percent, larger point, though, is that projecting into the next century and that would have staggering effects on investment, creat- and trying to act on it now is absurd. Bush's OMB, as I ing many new jobs. People pretend balancing the budget pointed out, overestimated the '93 deficit by 28 percent and would be an economic disaster, but they're overlooking the they were already in '93. The budget can always be adjusted positive consequences. when we have to, but it's the economy and the prosperity of the American people that are the real issues, not the budget. 0. Is America's budget deficit growing? Q. Does the deficit matter to the average American? EISNER: No, in fact it's coming down sharply. As Presi- dent Bush was departing, his Office of Management and PETERSON: Most economists I know think it matters a lot. Budget [OMB] projected the fiscal year '93 deficit at $327 What's the purpose of economic activity? To increase the billion. Less than nine months later, as fiscal '93 ended, the average worker's real income and therefore his living stan- deficit was actually $255 billion. In the current fiscal year dards. it's expected to be about $200 billion. We can debate Yet, for the first time in this country's history, real whether the deficit matters, but the people who persist in incomes have been flat over the past 20 years. Why? Produc- screaming about it are fighting an old war that has been won. tivity growth has stagnated. But every study shows a strong

The deficit is way down. link between investment and productivity. No matter where you look — plants and equipment, research and develop- PETERSON: Mr. Eisner's comment astonishes me. Sure, Please turn to page 84

42 THE AMERICAN LEGION WE'RE Wl N N 1 N G THE GARBAGE WAR

Exaggerated cries In fact, there really wasn't a By Norm Crampton garbage crisis in the first place — we of a garbage weren't running out of garbage IVE YEARS ago, lots of "crisis" scared us dumps. We were running out of badly Americans were worried managed, poisonous, small, local into about garbage. Taking it recycling and dumps, and most of them have now out was no longer a mildly cutting back on closed. But the hyped-up shortage of pleasurable act of house- dump space led us to reform some trash. thing, hold cleansing. For many Good wasteful ways. During the past five of us, toting the trash to too. years we have: the curb had become a big • Learned how to recycle, cutting guilt trip. a big slice out of the old household

Forecasts of disappearing dump ALIVE . . . An Environmental Crisis garbage load. space had us down in the dumps. A Reaches Our Doorstep.'" • Nudged manufacturers to pack- tidal wave of trash was about to bury Here we are more than five years age products in less material and use us under our wasteful lifestyles, or so later, and things look pretty tidy, more recycled ingredients. we thought at the time. The cover garbage-wise. What happened to the • Cheerfully told check-out clerks

story on the Nov. 27, 1989, issue of "crisis?" Did we solve it or did it just to skip the bag for small purchases. Newsweek was typical: 'BURIED go away? The answer is, some of both. • Started to pay our full, fair,

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household share for garbage service — a sharp spur to waste reduction. Yet we're reluctant to take credit for our efforts, possibly because garbage bulletins often aren't so optimistic. They are saying, if we've really reformed and are winning the garbage war, what about those reports telling us we are producing more garbage than ever before? For instance, in 1970, total U.S. garbage divided by population equaled 3 pounds per person per day. In 1990, total U.S. garbage divided by population equaled 4 pounds per person per day That may look like business as usual in "The Throwaway Society," but it's not, according to Marge Franklin, president of a Kansas firm that tracks "municipal solid waste" — the technical term for all our household leftovers. Franklin says that the total garbage figure also includes things we recycle. There's evidence of change in Delaware, for one place. N.C. Vasuki, head of the Delaware Solid Waste Authority, says garbage production in his state on a per-person basis peaked in 1989 and has been declining since 1991. Recycling is the reason. It's easy to understand why we became nearly hysterical about garbage a few years ago. We had seen the infamous "Garbage Barge" sail port to port looking for a dump. And other environmental matters were clamoring for attention and action acid rain, ozone depletion and global now receive curbside ly a result of tough new feder- warming. collection of their old al regulations that have pad- But garbage was something we newspapers, advertising mail, empty locked a large number of leaky old could understand. And the front line of food and beverage containers, card- sites. The new dumps are environmen- defense against garbage — recycling board boxes and the like. At last count tally much better and bigger. That is — was kids' play. In fact, in many there was curb service in 6,678 cities one reason why Ed Repa, the research households kids brought the lessons and towns. That's a huge increase director at Environmental Industry home from school and taught their compared to about a thousand pro- Associations, believes total dump parents. grams only five years ago. space has remained fairly constant Recycling has spread like wildfire. During the same period, garbage during the past five years. One survey reports 101 million Amer- dumps — landfills, as they are called The big change with dumps is they icans — up 24 million in a year — by the pros — dropped from 8,000 to are getting farther away: Seattle, an less than 4,400.But that reduction may outstanding recycling city, loads its

Norm Crampton is executive direc- not be as startling as it seems. At any nonrecyclable leftovers on a garbage tor of the Indiana Institute of Recy- given time, it's fairly accurate to say train for shipment 325 miles to a dis- cling and author of The 100 Best that half the dumps will close in five posal site in eastern Oregon. Small Towns in America. He wrote years. Just as cars wear out and are But the best news, perhaps, is that "Keeping Smalltown U.S.A. on The replaced, dumps fill up and are Americans may really have reformed Map" in the February 1994 issue of replaced. and given up their garbage-spreading this magazine. The decline in total dumps is main- ways. Recycling programs are here to

44 THE AMERICAN LEGION stay. They're hugely popular with the public, and industry has invested an estimated $15 billion so far in gearing up to handle recycled raw materials. You hear less about the success of recycling these days, experts say, because

it has become a routine part of so many households and communities. Yet prices for recycled materials are shaky. The problem is simple: supply — large and growing larger — is chasing demand, which is small, but gain- ing. Thus, supplies of old newspaper, plastic jugs and other items periodical- ly pile up. Pete Grogan, former president of the National Recycling Coali- tion, isn't worried. He points out that recyclables, like all commodities, will have their ups and downs in price. A better indicator is how recycling is reducing the other GNP — the "Gross National Pile." In 1989, recycling reduced 9

percent of it. This year, according to best estimates, recycling will reduce our garbage by 19 percent, including yard wastes such as grass, leaves and brush. And the buying public Please turn to page 90

SEATTLE'S CLEAN SWEEP STEVE AND Karen Jones, a 40- 32-gallon can of garbage per week something professional couple at $14.98 a month. If he needed two in Seattle, generate a heap of cans a week, he'd have to pay garbage for a two-person household. $29.96 each month, etc. Pretty He's a veterinarian and she's a pricey trash. schoolteacher. They bring home The Seattle garbage plan has loads of paper and receive more in caught on in many other places. The the mail. They entertain, and like to idea is to change behavior — reduce cook and garden — all "trashy" pur- the volume of garbage by charging suits at the end of the day. And cost- plenty for it and encourage recycling ly, if they were tossing all the left- by offering it "free," meaning the overs away. cost is built in. The strategy works. Garbage service in Seattle is Before pay-by-the-can was intro- billed by the can. Steve pays for one Please turn to page 90

JANUARY 1995 45 COMMENTARY IS ANYTHING

The answer is that many things are made here, and they are made exceptionally well. Surprisingly our products get more respect overseas than in the heartland ot America.

Bell telephones have two things in By Joel D. Joseph common: They sound distinctly American, HE AMERICA Series and they are not made in the United shirt by Perry Ellis, the States. Official NBA Basketball A recent television commercial HOMEBUYS —The and the official Major trumpets the new Chevrolet Camaro — number of Americans League Baseball, GI Joe "From the Country that brought you who decided against action figures, Nike, Rock 'n' Roll." Quite frankly I didn't buying foreign goods Reebok and L.A. Gear realize that Canada brought us Rock grew from 21 percent athletic shoes, American and Roll — the new Camaro is assem- in 1985 to more than J Tourister luggage and bled north of the border. Many people have asked me, "Isn't 50 percent in 1994, Joel D. Joseph is chairman and anything made in the United States according to the founder of the Made in the USA Foun- anymore?" The answer is that many Made In The USA dation, ,000 things here, and they Foundation. a 60 -member , nonprofit are made are organization dedicated to promoting made exceptionally well. Surprisingly, American products in the United we get more respect overseas than we Slates and overseas. do in the heartland of America.

46 Do you think that U.S. manufacturers don't make quality products anymore? You're wrong. In fact, Japan's national telephone company, Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Company, is buying "state of the art" equipment from, guess who, AT&T. Kimio Taza- ki, executive director of NT&T's Net- work Systems Development Center, says "AT&T has the most advanced technology in the world."

U.S. industry still leads the world in technology from electronics and aerospace to sporting goods and food pro-

duction. It comes as a surprise to many Americans that we produce more electronic products than Japan. In Europe, American computers dominate the market, with IBM in first place and Apple in third. Toshiba is the largest Japanese computer company in Europe, in seventh place, with a mea- ger market share.

In Japan, it is a status symbol to wear American sportswear and to use American golf clubs. U.S. -made Spalding golf balls are the world leader, yet Spalding's "Official NBA Basketball" is made in South Korea.

I can understand inexpensive products being made offshore, but why does an all-leather, top-of-the-line, officially licensed product which sells for $60 have to be imported? (The Wilson Official NFL football is made in the U.S.A.). After all, basketball was invented and perfected in the U.S.A., and NBA player's salaries average AMERICA'S BEST about a million dollars a season. The NBA (as These product categories well as other major sports leagues) top the list of import American should refuse to license busters that have had the products which are man- largest impact on saving ufactured overseas. A American jobs and reducing "Dallas Cowboys" foot- the deficit. See article for ball hat made in China the names of specific presents conflicting loy- alties to most die-hard companies and products. fans. • Automobiles Rather than hiring • Laser Printers low-paid workers in Asia to make American sport- • Personal Computers ing goods, we should be • Cellular Telephones hiring unemployed • Beer & Wine American workers • Clothing & Shoes (including those who didn't have talent to • Copiers the make the major leagues) • Televisions to produce and sell real Ail-American products. As a sports fan, and a

47 consumer, I would rather pay $1 or Dodge/Plymouth Neon. Chrysler

$2 more for a team hat or souvenir Corporation has decided that it can made in the good old U.S. of A. replace its Mitsubishi-built Colts than an imported one. with a superior American-made product. The new Neon all by itself CAR WARS will save thousands of American The trade war with Japan is pri- jobs and turn a billion dollar corner marily being fought with automo- in the trade imbalance with Japan. biles. The U.S. trade deficit with Japan totals $60 billion, with more COMPUTER PRINTERS than half of the deficit due directly IBM introduced the first U.S.- to automobiles and auto parts. made computer laser printer a few Even though they favor their years ago. This product, which now own market, the Japanese have U.S. INDUSTRY sells under the Lexmark name, is respect for American workman- important because the market for ship, particularly the Honda Corpo- still leads the world in these fast printers is several billion ration. Honda is manufacturing its dollars. Previously all laser printers sleek Honda Accord Coupe and its were made in Japan, even Hewlett- new Honda Stationwagon only in technology, from electronics Packard's laser jet. Marysville, Ohio, and plans to export 50,000 per year of them to MOTOROLA CALLING and aerospace to sporting Japan. Motorola is ahead of the world in The Accord Stationwagon was cellular telephone technology, with designed from the ground up in the goods and food production. a two-year lead over Japanese rivals. U.S.A. and will be exported to A few years ago Motorola intro- Europe and Japan. Thanks to duced the lightest portable cellular Honda, U.S. auto exports to Japan increased from 21 percent in 1985 to phone, the MicroTac, for $2,500. Now increased significantly last year. 39 percent in 1989. Made in the USA the Motorola flip phones sell for far

According to a recent survey of estimates that, in 1994, it now surpass- less than $500. prospective automobile purchasers es 50 percent. In automobiles, the U.S. conducted by the Made in the USA marketshare has increased from 73 BREWING BEER BATTLE Foundation, most consumers do not percent to 75 percent since 1992. America is one of the most open know where cars are made. More than markets in the world. Beer is a good 75 percent of American consumers THE 10 BIGGEST example. surveyed thought that the Pontiac IMPORT BUSTERS We charge an import duty of only LeMans was made in the U.S.A., when These are the 10 products or prod- 13 cents per case of beer, about one- in fact it is made in South Korea. uct categories that have the largest half penny per bottle or can. On the The majority wrongly believed that impact in reducing the American trade other hand, Canada completely bans the Honda Accord was imported from deficit, according to our studies. the import of American beer. Ger-

Japan. Similarly, Motor Trend maga- 1. Neon automobiles many, Holland and England, three of zine awarded the Honda Accord its 2. Saturn automobiles the largest beer exporters, charge $2.94 Import Car of the Year award for 1994 3. Ford Taurus a case for imports of American beer.To even though the Accord is made in 4. Lexmark (formerly IBM) laser protest this, a small Philadelphia brew- Marysville, Ohio. printers er, the Dock Street Brewery, is putting A significant problem, then, is deter- 5. American personal computers its labels on upside down and will con- mining what products are made where, with Intel or Motorola micro- tinue to do so until beer duties are so that consumers can make informed processors equalized. purchasing decisions. Because of this 6. Motorola cellular telephones Meanwhile, follow the advice of confusion in the marketplace, the Made 7. American beer and wine brewmeister James Koch of the Boston in the USA Foundation was able to 8. American clothing and shoes Beer Company (brewers of Sam convince Congress that a new law was 9. Xerox copiers Adams beer): "Drink the local brew." needed: The American Automobile 10. Pro Scan televisions He advises that beer freshness is the Labeling Act became law in the Fall of most important ingredient of good beer. 1994. It requires all new cars to include VICTORS IN THE CAR WARS So drink American and tell those Ger- the U.S. content of the car on the price The Saturn is taking the Asian man beer snobs that their brew is stale. sticker. Because of this law every Sat- imports on head-on. General Motors Even the French are beginning to urn will proudly announce that it is 98 assigned its top engineers to the Saturn recognize that American wines are percent American. division, already resulting in 16 patents world class. French wine expert On the other hand the number of being issued for improvements to auto- Michel Laroche has become an Americans who want to buy American mobile technology. Saturn has 15 other unabashed admirer of California products is rising. According to Cam- patent applications pending, and Sat- chardonnay. He regularly uses Califor- bridge Reports, the number of Ameri- urn engineers developed the sixth gen- nia wines in blind tastings (where the cans who made a conscious decision eration of anti-lock brakes. drinker does not know the source of against buying foreign products Joining in the battle is the new Please turn to page 94

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ONGRESS has directed VA to conduct med- • Accepts, in most claims cases, the veteran's written ical exams and tests on sick spouses and chil- statement as proof of marriage, divorce, birth or death of a dren of Persian Gulf veterans. For family family member. Previously, veterans had to provide certi- members to be eligible, the veteran must be fied copies of these documents. C • listed on VA's Persian Gulf Registry and the Directs VA to accept a private physician report on a veteran's spouse or child must be ill or suffer from disorders such as health condition for claims, if the doctor's report birth defects, miscarriages or stillbirths that could be the is sufficiently complete for adjudication. result of the veteran's service in the Gulf. • Establishes a Veterans' Claims Adjudication Commis- VA must get the spouses' permission to include their sion to study and evaluate the claims system and to find medical data on the registry. The tests will be used to deter- ways to reduce the number of pending claims and improve mine if there is a link between the veterans' health prob- the delivery of benefits. lems and those of family members. Of 400 sick Gulf veter- • Grants U.S. veterans who participated in allied atomic ans interviewed by then-Michigan Sen. Donald W. Riegle tests the same benefits as those who took part in U.S. atom- in May 1994, 75 percent of their spouses reported medical ic tests. problems. • Establishes as service-connected for veterans exposed Some $2 million has been allocated by Congress for the to Agent Orange: Hodgkin's disease and multiple myelo- tests, which are to begin in February. ma; porphyria cutanea tarda, if it appeared within one year The tests are just one of the provisions of the Veterans' after leaving Vietnam; and cancers of the lung, bronchus, Benefits Improvement Act of 1994 (PL 103-446). The law larynx or trachea, if contracted within 30 years after leaving also: Vietnam. • Requires VA to develop guidelines to grant compensa- • Calls for establishing a panel to determine the feasibili- tion to Gulf War veterans suffering from as-yet undiag- ty of studying the health effects on families of veterans nosed illnesses. exposed to ionizing radiation. • Establishes performance review procedures for mem- • Establishes a VA Center for Minority Veterans and a bers of the Board of Veterans Appeals. Center for Women Veterans.

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Flag Alliance been spread . Mississippi formed last August. (CFA) plans to through the Citizens Gov. Kirk For- For example, 44 states T present Con- media nation- ~~lag dice wrote have passed memorializing " gress with 20 wide. He said CF Itis resolutions supporting such Alliance, Inc. J>- million signatures of Ameri- the alliance is in a disgrace an amendment. These states cans who want the U.S. Flag the process of getting legisla- to desecrate something our represent 94 percent of the protected by a constitutional tors to commit to passing a country has long held so U.S. population — more amendment. constitutional amendment to dear. The American Flag than 234 million people. As of press time in mid- protect the Flag. should always be held in the The six states that have yet November, the CFA had The amendment would highest regard as a symbol of to pass resolutions are already collected 2 million allow Congress and the our nation, proud and Hawaii, Iowa, Kentucky, signatures from individuals, states to pass legislation pro- strong." Oregon, Vermont and and 75 organizations repre- tecting the Flag from physi- And from Gov. lim Edgar Washington. senting more than 27 million cal desecration. of Illinois: "As citi- Americans had joined the Already, 188 members of zens of the United Citizens Flag Alliance. the House and 24 senators States, it is our duty MBNA DOUBLES "Our petition drive is have agreed to co-sponsor to reaffirm the honor YOUR DONATION rapidly moving forward," such legislation. Wheeler and respect our Flag said CFA President Daniel said the number of congres- so richly deserves. LEGIONNAIRES and Auxiliary mem- S. Wheeler. "Get out to the sional co-sponsors is grow- This campaign is an bers using their MBNA VISA or malls, fairs, churches, parks ing weekly. outstanding tribute to MasterCard to donate to the CFA will and grocery stores to give State governors also have freedom and demo- double the amount of their contribu- the people a chance to speak sent the CFA letters support- cracy." tion. MBNA will match any donation out for what they believe in." ing the amendment. "In the The American dollar for dollar, up to $100 per indi- To get your petition to Gulf War, the Vietnam War Legion's campaign vidual. support the Flag, call (800) and the Korean War, World to gain nationwide Call the Citizens Flag Alliance hot- 424-FLAG. War I and II, and the Civil support for a Flag line 1-800-424-FLAG to make your Wheeler also reported War, many men and women amendment began donation, or for more information. that the message of protect- fought and died to protect even before the Citi-

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ARL S. Wipper- served on the National Con- man, 68, of vention Parade Committee, Everett, Wash., and is a member of the Nation- c has been selected al Association of Department to fill the remain- Historians of The American ing National Historian term of Legion and the National M. LaReine Maxey, who was American Legion Press Asso- killed in an automobile acci- ciation. He was Department of dent in October. National Washington Vice Commander Commander William Detweil- in 1986-87 and Department er appointed Wipperman dur- Historian from 1987 until his ing the Legion's Fall Meeting current appointment. At the in Indianapolis. local level, Wipper- Wipperman, a re- man has been Post tired Army sergeant Commander and ALL'S IN THE FAMILY— Post 22 of Hood River, Ore., first class, is a veteran Adjutant, and editor boasts having two brothers and a sister who have of the Korean and of the Post newslet- served as Post commanders. From left, Roy Elliott, commander in 1980-81; Reta Byrd, the trio's mother; Vietnam wars. ter. Betty Luther, current commander; and Alan Elliott, the A member of Post He and his wife, 1 985-86 commander. 127 of Bothell, Wash., Ruth, have one child, Wipperman has WIPPERMAN Maria Baird.

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CONNECTICUT TOWN CELEBRATES V-J DAY LEGIONNAIRES IN ACTION OR 33 years, and Moosup's 4,000 resi- parade. rain or shine, dents claim to have the only "We're pretty proud of Post 12 of Yankton, at precisely such parade now existing in it," says Poprosky. "Every- S.D., delivers groceries to F 1:01 p.m. the country. body around here wants to local elderly and others the exact time Post 91 Commander Bill remember those who fought physically unable to shop the Japanese surrendered — Poprosky says the parade, and those who didn't come for themselves. Post 91 of Moosup, Conn., which is conducted on the back." Post 1254 of Bingham- has honored WWII veterans Sunday closest to Aug. 14, Last year's parade saw ton, N.Y., received the with a V-J Day parade. continues to grow. Many of more than 15,000 spectators National Star (Region II) Similar parades were the 365 Legionnaires in Post lined the streets as about award of The American common after the end of 91 work all year raising 5,000 participants in 230 Legion for its "Safe Kids" World War II, but Post 91 money and organizing the entries marched the mile program, in which 1,200 and one-half route. Veterans school children were finger- from as far away as Ohio printed last year. traveled to the eastern Con- After many years of necticut town to participate work, Post 253 of Bronx, in the parade. N.Y., opened the Bicenten- Planning for this year's nial Veterans Memorial 50th anniversary V-J Day Park in New York City. The parade on Aug. 13 began adjacent roadway was years ago. Poprosky says he named Veterans Memorial expects about 300 entries Drive. and 6,000 to 8,000 partici- Post 1 of Tulsa, Okla., pants, including color guards purchased a 15-passenger from Wisconsin, Michigan van for The American Le- and Ohio and a re-enactment gion Children's Home in of the Flag raising at Iwo Ponca City. Post 1 claims Jima, using authentic uni- the home is the only child- forms and weapons. care facility in the United WALK THE WALK More than 230 units and 5,000 marchers "The 50th anniversary," States for children of veter- participated in last year's V-J Day parade sponsored by Post 91 according to Poprosky, "is ans. of Moosup, Conn. going to be big, real big." Aaron Morah, a member of Post 85 of Miami Beach, POSTS SHOULD BE EXEMPT FROM 0SHA REGULATIONS Fla., may be the oldest and largest blood donor in The HOUSANDS law would require employers sound the death knell for American Legion. At 82, of Legion Posts to either ban smoking or pro- some Posts and bring an end Morah has donated 26 gal- would go bank- vide separately ventilated, to the service and support lons of blood during his life- r rupt if they had segregated smoking areas. provided to the nation's time. to comply with OSHA regulators recently communities," Detweiler Volunteers from the Sev- the Occupational Safety and recommended listing struc- said. enth District of Wisconsin Health Administration's tures such as Post homes as He told OSHA officials remodeled a fish pond in (OSHA) proposed new in- "non-industrial work sites." that Posts are places of Tomah, Wis., which they door air quality standards, The new classification "camaraderie and service" named "American Legion said National Commander would require Posts to com- where members and their Fish Pond." Seven thousand William Detweiler. ply with the OSHA stan- families congregate to help dollars was spent by the Testifying before OSHA dards. their communities. He noted District,' who installed officials in Washington, In addition to costs of that many Posts serve as wheelchair ramps and side- D.C., last October, Detweil- new heating and air-condi- temporary shelters and distri- walks near the pond, which er said renovations required tioning equipment, Posts bution centers in times of took four years to complete. to meet the air quality stan- would need to hire new disaster. For 22 years, volunteers dards could cost many of employees and train them in At press time, OSHA was from Post 284 of Colonial the Legion's nearly 15,000 monitoring air quality, considering the Legion's Heights, Va., have been dri- Posts between $6,000 and maintenance and record request as it continues to ving local senior citizens to $12,000. keeping. study the new standards' grocery stores and doctor OSHA's proposed new "These standards would cost-effectiveness. appointments.

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legislators to commit to passing a con- conduct our programs for America's stitutional amendment to protect the youth, and we cannot maintain a FALL MEETING Flag. strong voice on Capitol Hill," said Continuedfrom page 20 Already, 158 members of Congress Bettylou Evans, Chairperson of the have pledged to co-sponsor any bill Membership and Post Activities Com- introduced to protect the Flag. Wheel- mittee. er said more congressional co-spon- Evans reminded the gathering that controversy. He said the decision to sors are expected as the campaign the Legion is losing three Posts to drop the bomb was the right one continues. every one new Post created. To the meeting, reverse the because it ended the war and pre- During NECmen trend, Evans and Detweiler served civilization and the bulk of the dropped off petitions containing the urged Legionnaires to seek prospec- Japanese empire. signatures of hundreds of citizens who tive members from other organiza- In a later interview with ABC's support a constitutional amendment to tions. Nightline and a news crew from a protect the Flag. "Each year, we see fewer and fewer Japanese public television station, "We want the issue to be decided at faces, but it's reality," Detweiler said. Detweiler defended the Legion's role home not in Washington," Wheeler "We must work with other organiza- said. "It's in revising the Enola Gay script. "We time to let the legislators tions to get the word about The Amer- have tried to offer creative criticism, know it's time to listen to the people ican Legion out. We've got to stop not just throw rocks," he said. or come home and be one of them." preaching to the choir. We must go to Wheeler also reported that a draft meetings in other organizations — FLYING THE FLAG of the amendment would be finished that's where our potential membership As the Fall Meeting convened, 71 within weeks. "The Constitution and is." organizations representing more than the Flag have existed 200 years with- During her report, Evans recog- 27 million Americans had joined the out conflict. By passing an amend- nized the Departments of Delaware, Citizens Flag Alliance Inc. (CFA) in ment to protect the Flag, we honor Florida, Indiana, New Mexico, Utah support of a constitutional amendment both," he said. and Vermont for achieving all-time to protect the Flag from physical dese- membership highs for 1994. cration. SEEKING MORE MEMBERS Daniel S. Wheeler, the CFA's presi- Repeatedly stressed during the AUXILIARY 75TH dent, reported that the message of pro- October meeting was the critical, ANNIVERSARY tecting the Flag has been spread ongoing need for increased member- Noting that the American Legion through the media nationwide. He said ship. Auxiliary this year is celebrating its the CFA is in the process of getting "Without new members, we cannot 75th anniversary, National Auxiliary President Linda Newsome thanked the Legion for its support and said she hopes Legionnaires will share the vsm :*v was vision that the Auxiliary will someday reach that 3 million-member goal. "What a powerful force that would be on Capitol Hill, when our organizations' representatives say they speak Emblem Sales for 3 million Legionnaires and 3 million Auxiliary members," Newsome said. She also reaffirmed the Auxil- iary's support for the Citizens Flag Catalog Today. . Alliance and the National Emergency FINAL Fund. HONORS & EULOGIES Magazine Commission Chairman Milford Forrester presented Past National Commander (PNC) E. Roy „ Jth Anniversary of WWII Stone Jr. with a laminated plaque bearing the article, "This We Believe," which Stone wrote for the 75th anniversary issue of THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE in September. "I National Emblem Sales, The Legion American am overwhelmed," said Stone. "I am P.O. Box 1050, Indianapolis, Indiana 46206-1050 very proud of it and I am certainly proud of this American Legion." Send me a free copy ofthe New 1995 Emblem Catalog into ' — Stone's article was entered the TB^nB fiW jfi[M§H| Wg Mm mm ~r "Sw-wSrsr Name Congressional Record on Sept. 16, 1994. Address The National Executive Commit- teemen also took time out from their City _State Zip business to honor the memory of two . Please turn page

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Wipperman, a veteran of both forces. the Korean and Vietnam wars, has Res. 17 Urges Post Commanders to supports the Help Hospitalized Veterans been a member of Post 127, Bothell, Program. for infor- distinguished Legionnaires who Wash., 25 years. For more Res. 18 Endorses a new Gl Bill that recently passed away. mation on Wipperman, see Page 52. would: provide benefits comparable to pre- In a moving eulogy, PNC Daniel F. vious Gl Bills; include offering health care, child care and all other benefits granted to Foley honored retired Army Col. RESOLUTIONS The following program and policy those eligible for the National Service Plan; Frank R. Kossa, who served on sever- provide tax exemptions for Gl Bill payments resolutions were passed at the Fall al national commissions and commit- to veterans; and offer other benefits that Meeting: tees in addition to many Department would enhance a service person's chances Res. 1 Makes copies of "The Min- for receiving a higher education. positions. Kossa, the only veteran neapolis Affirmation" available to Legion- Res. 19 Urges reopening the National served in known to have WWI, WWII, naires and other members of the Legion Service Life Insurance program for a mini- family request. Korea and Vietnam, was honorary upon mum of one year for all disabled veterans. Res. 4 Provides Legion funding to past president and secretary/treasurer Res. 20 Calls on Congress to enact review VA's epidemiological study of Per- legislation to provide equal benefits to natu- emeritus of the Army, Navy and Air sian Gulf veterans. ralized Filipino veterans. Force Veterans in Canada's United if legislation that Res. 7 Urges, needed, Res. 21 Urges Congress to amend title States Unit (ANAVICUS). He was would preserve the Legion's tax-exempt 38, of the U.S. Code, Sec. 107, to recog- also a lifetime member of Post 35 of status. nize the status of Filipinos as veterans. Res. 13 Commends and encourages Jeffersonville, Ind., when he died Res. 22 Supports free, fair and open the Heartland Museum of Military Vehicles competition in the high technology, finan- Sept. 15 at the age of 96. in Lexington, Neb. cial services, and information services mar- The NEC also sadly marked the Res. 14 Recognizes the devotion, sac- ketplaces. rifice and continued support of all women death of this year's National Historian, Res. 23 Awards the 1995 Region II who have served during war and supports LaReine Maxey, 74, who died in an American Legion Baseball tournament to the building of the Women in Military Ser- Danville, Va. auto accident last October on her way vice for America Memorial. Res. 24 Authorizes agreement with to the Department of Nevada's execu- Res. 15 Urges maintaining a minimum National College Services Ltd. to produce tive committee meeting. National of 500 Minuteman III missiles; 18 Trident the Need A Lift? book. Commander William M. Detweiler submarines each carrying 24 D-5 missiles; Res. 25 Reaffirms the Legion's long- 64 or more B-52H bombers armed with air- standing support of all law enforcement appointed Maxey the Legion's Nation- launch cruise missiles; 84 B-1 bombers agencies in their mission to protect the civil al Historian at the 76th National Con- and 20 B-2 bombers. rights and property of Americans. Res. 26 Authorizes the National Com- mander, with assistance from his Advisory Committee, to determine the Legion's final position on the Smithsonian Institution's exhibit of the Enola Gay. Res. 27 Provides continued Legion The American support of families in need of services formerly provided by the Vietnam Veterans Family Assistance Program. Res. 32 Authorizes The American Legion Annuity Legion to conduct a "Seeds for Sight" program with the Retinitis Pigmentosa Founda- tion. issued by Jackson National Life Res. 33 Requires American Legion Baseball teams to buy insurance from a A SINGLE PREMIUM Legion-specified agent. DEFERRED FIXED ANNUITY Res. 34 Commends the Special Com- mittee to Formulate Plans for Observation •jia Tax deferral of the 75th Anniversary of The American Current rate Legion. The complete text of these and (as of 10/15/94, subject to change) Safety other resolutions passed by the NEC interest rate, A bonus may be obtained by writing: Archives, Liquidity guaranteed for The American Legion National Head- one full year! No front-end loads quarters, P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, Expected renewal IN 46206. (if renewed today): 6.6%. Current declared interest rate includes a base rate and By T. Douglas Donaldson a first-year bonus which are guaranteed for the first pol- The American Legion icy year. Renewal rate will probably be less. The guar- Annuity is offered by the Jackson National Life anteed floor interest rate is 3%. Policy form no. B404. Insurance Cos., Home Surrender charges: 9% first year, 8% second year, 7% Office: Lansing, Michigan. third year, 6% fourth year, 5% fifth year, 4% sixth year, TAPS 3% seventh year, 2% eighth year, 1% ninth year and Taps notices are limited to only those Legionnaires thereafter. none Minimum premium $5,000. who have held high national or department offices. We regret that we cannot extend the honor to all members. At maturity, many income options are available.

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of debating will change it. EISNER: Interest payments will not spending money that would save us crowd out other spending only if PETERSON: Mr. Eisner may talk of money. We're not investing in job politicians do so. They are a piddling sacrificing virgins, but I would say that training, education, welfare reform, amount in relation to our Gross thanks to our public profligacy we have mainly because deficit hawks keep Domestic Product (GDP) and the fed- precious little fiscal virginity left to carping about the deficit. This is like eral budget. However, suppose we sacrifice. As a nation, we need to spend telling a business with a great idea that eliminated the public debt. Remember less and save more for the long-term it cannot borrow to build new plants. who owns it. That would mean people good, and to keep the United States an It's idiocy. would no longer be earning interest on economically competitive world power. And by the way, Jefferson as Presi- Savings Bonds or Treasury bills. Pub- Most Americans want their kids to dent ran up what was then a huge debt lic debt service may be a burden to the do better than they have done. They — $15 million — for the Louisiana government but it is a benefit to the want their incomes to grow. They want Purchase, which at that time doubled public. This hardly is a burden on the the American Dream to come to life for the size of the United States. Debt, as economy. them. That will take more productivity this shows, is not always a bad thing. and more investment. Therefore, it is in

Sometimes it can be very good for the Q. Should we sacrifice to reduce the national interest to save more. nation's long-term prosperity. the deficit? Q. Are entitlement programs — Q- How much do we pay in interest EISNER: Sacrificing to reduce the Medicare, Social Security, food on the debt? deficit now makes as much sense as stamps, welfare — the cause of the sacrificing a virgin for the gods. Nei- deficit? PETERSON: Interest payments ther will benefit us. amount to about 14 percent of the fed- We keep being told by people like PETERSON: There is no solution for eral budget. If we weren't paying that Mr. Peterson that we're not saving the debt without cutting entitlements. In interest, in the years since 1965 we enough, but no Big Brother should tell 1960, 27 percent of the federal budget could have doubled the amount we Americans to save more. People should went to entitlements. By the year 2000, it will be 60 percent. And we ain't seen nothing yet. When the Baby Boomers become seniors, entitlements will go out of sight. Defense spending cannot and should not be cut much more. Dis- cretionary spending may have a few

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