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PAGE4-THE JOURNAL, OGDENSBURG, N.Y.- MONDAY, AUGUST 17,1987 Editorials To Soviets Peddling Flesh The people who want to be the next chief executive of the United States have been out and about in Iowa for more than a year. Iowa will hold the first presidential caucus in 1988, and the candidates have thus been peddling themselves furiously over field and fencing. They haven't yet sold Jennifer Olson, however. She says the whole crowd is boring. She runs a gift shop in Cascade, Iowa, where she says, she rates politicians from the perspec- tive of a business person, and she doesn't think any of the candidates, from either of the parties, is the least bit ideal. So, Olson would like to see a new entry. She hopes someone else gets in the race. There are a dozen or more candidates already, but none of them have exactly caught fire, and she thinks someone should come out of the blue, \someone ex- citing, someone different,\ and ignite popular imagination. She's not alone in the view, either. Many of her neighbors in this eastern Iowa community feel the same say. They say the current presidential candidates are for the most part good and decent folks, and accomplished as well, but they also think there must be somebody in the country who is better. That attitude was recently made clear during an informal street survey in which 45 residents were questioned about the still distant presidential primaries. Thirty-eight said they had not decided who to support, 31 said the field was defi- cient, and 30 said someone else should run for the Oval Office. Who? There's the rub. The people polled in Cascade don't really know. Jennifer Olson says Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca would make a good president, \because it would be nice to have a businessman in that office.\ But most of the people questioned could not think of anyone specific to nominate. Iacocca got five votes, some prompted by the mention of his name. Mario Cuomo, the governor of New York State, got two; EdwinMeese, the attorney general, got two, andLt. Col. Oliver North got two. The rest of the picks included Edward Kennedy, Peter Ueberroth, Charlton Heston and David Rockefeller. The mayor of Cascade also received a (favorite son) vote. Mayor R.J. Loes says that indicates folks are defintely look- ing around. He says people are disillusioned with the way things are going in Washington, particularly in the White House, and \they want someone to bring back the democratic priniples.'' The mayor says the residents of the town have learned about the principles the hard way. He claims that before he took office Cascade was very much like Washington. He says the community was controlled by politicians who mismanag- ed public funds, violated the rules of conduct and savaged the public trust. Loes says the abuse stopped when the people turned to a new face. He says he was asked to run as a revolutionary. He was a former magazine publisher noted for an iconoclastic style (.\1 am the only man to ever break out of the local jail, but that's another story\) and, running as an independent, he swept the 1985 municipal elections. The mayor says the town has been in tune with popular opi- nion since then. The local river has been cleaned up, the budgetary matters have been straightened out, residents are said to be treated with respect, and \there's no more corrup- tion, everything is honest, the government in Cascade, Iowa, is clean.\ The mayor thinks the locals want the same thing for Washington. That's why they are casting about for someone different. George Bush, Joseph Biden, Bob Dole and Richard Gephardt may be honorable men, but they are the establish- ment. Loes says people do not want a politician, \they want a leader.\ And yet, again, who? The mayor likes Iacocca, because he was a takecharge personality. A constituent named Ron Woerdehof fer, sigh, would like to see Walter Mondale return. An Joe Peiffer, who wears a John Deere baseball cap, says the nation should chose \anybody but what is in the White House now.\ Peiffer has his finger on it. The people questioned in Cascade want change, but they have not worked out the details. Mayor Loes thinks the same thing may be true in much of Iowa, perhaps all across the nation. The elections are coming, the candidates are weak, and it's time to start getting worried. Joe Peiffer has the ultimate worry. He wonders if there really is anyone better than the candidates to date. He says someone could drop a bomb on Washington, to start things all over, \but the crooks would only be replaced by people just like them, and pretty soon we would have the whole mess again.\ Berry's World V. i' / BY JACK ANDERSON and DALE VAN ATTA A principal culprit in the sale of Toshiba propeller-milling equip- ment to the Soviet Navy — C. Itoh & Co. - has a history of leaking Western military technology to Moscow. A spokesman for C. Itoh, one of Japan's biggest international trading companies, insists that it didn't realize the Toshiba transac- tion was illegal until Japanese in- vestigators contacted the com- pany. Evidence we have gathered from the Japanese press and other sources raises serious doubts about this claim. Wereported, for example, thatC. loth had been identified three years ago in a secret CIA report as one of five Japanese firms suspected of il- legal sales of high-technology items to the Soviets. The CIA said C. Itoh and the other four should be monitored closely for such illicit but highly profitable deals. Japanese authorities have publicly identified C. Itoh as Toshiba's intermediary in the $17 million propeller-milling equip- ment sale, which has enabled Soviet submarines to run so quietly that they are extremely difficult to detect. Overcoming this technological advantage could cost U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars. While Toshiba has drawn severe punishment from the U.S. and Japanese governments, C. Itoh has escaped with nothing more than a three-month ban on sales to the Soviet bloc. But it is becoming clear that alarm signals were ringing in Japan for nearly three decades about C. Itoh. But recent- ly, Sen. Alan Dixon, D-II1., got wind of them. An internal memo in Dixon's of- fice, reviewed by our reporter Gary Clouser, reveals that a con- fidential source of the senator's reported that \the Soviet Union has had a long history\ of working witri the Japanese trading firm to obtain Western secrets. Additional in- formation, primarily from Japanese press accounts, was pro- vided to Dixon. It includes the following allegations: — In 1959, a 30-page classified document describing a Boeing ground-to-air missile was taken from the Japanese Air Staff Office. The Pentagon had sent the docu- ment to U.S. allies to promote sale of the missile. An official. Japanese investiga- tion resulted in an administration by C. Itoh that one of its top ex- ecutives had \privately borrowed\ the document and made three copies at the company's head- quarters. The Soviets subsequently obtained a copy of the classified document, though C. Itoh never ad- mitted responsibility for that. Two Air Staff officers were forc- ed to resign as a result of the inci- dent — and both were hired by C. Itoh or a subsidiary. One of them was an Imperial Army Military Academy classmate of Ryuzo Se- jima, the C. Itoh managing director in charge of military sales at the time. In fact, a memo written for Dixon identifies Sejima as the ex- ecutive who \borrowed\ the classified missile document! — In March 1968, a Japanese military officer was charged with giving C. Itoh a classified docu- ment dealing with electronic com- munications, and was suspected of delivering other classified military information to the company. — Sejima himself, though a \very close friend\ of Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone \and a member of his kitchen cabinet,\ according to the Dixon memo, has come under intense scrutiny for alleged ties to the Soviet Union. In. fast- one -story on- Seiima is the Japanese monthly Bundgei Shinju, implies that he may have collaborated with the Soviets when he became a prisoner of war at the close of World War II. Dixon's investigation of C. Itoh has led him to sponsor legislation that would indirectly penalize C. Itoh or any foreign firm that sells restricted technology to the Soviet bloc. ASBESTOS AFTERMATH — The dangers of airborne asbestos as a possible cause of cancer have been so widely publicized you'd think no one would be unaware. In- credibly, according to the En- vironmental Protection Agency's inspector general, the agency's own inspectors apparently don't take the warnings about asbestos seriously. Not only did some EPA inspectors in a six-state region around the Great Lakes fail to THE JOURNAL USPS 403900 393 1000-1001-NewsDept. 393-1002 for Business Office 393-1003 for Want Ads Dept. Published by Park Newspapers of St. Lawrence Inc., 30B-3U Isabella St., Ogdensburg, N.Y, 13669, Roy H. Park, Chairman and President; Charles W.Kelly, Editor and General Manager; James E. Reagen, Managing \Editor; Bryan J. Bowman, Business Manager; Patricia A. Charlebois, Advertising Manager; and Pete Shea, Circulation Director. Published Dally Evenings Except Saturday and Sunday Republican established In 1830 and The Daily Journal established in 18S5 Entered at the U.S. Post Office in Ogdensburg, N.Y., as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Carrier $1.00 per wk. L-.fosiS*^' • U <D 1987 by NEA, Inc ?.$ •'Maybe the fish aren't biting because they don't like that heavy-metal rock station.\ supervise asbestos removal strict- ly in a recent six-month period; they didn't even wear adequate protective equipment themselves. MINI-EDITORIAL — Super- power status often requires a cer- tain degree of patience with the im- pertinence of international troublemakers, but the Hezbollah religious fanatics have Ibeen pushing their luck lately. During a recent demonstration in Lebanon, the Iranian-backed fundamen- talists recently shouted wellr rehearsed anti-American slogans like, \You are threatening us with your fleet; remember the burial ground of the Marines in Lebanon.\ Someone should remind the rousers of this rabble that earlier tyrants — Adolph Hitler comes to mind — learned that American patience is not limitless. \mm tm& T& fomt> wete cm W$&& CKP3 3UCft AS \Beep oaKM* fact/' TPMNIM6T ?-8 Burnham Always Kept The Faith BY WILLIAM A. RUSHER When I was an undergraduate at Princeton in 1941,1 was required to read a book called \The Managerial Revolution\ by Jarries Burnham. Burnham had noticed that corporations were no longer being run by their owners, but rather by a brand new group he called the \managers.\ He further noticed that these managers close- ly resembled the technocrats who were increasingly running things in the Soviet Union, and concluded that we might be witnessing the birth of a new class, in the strict Marxist sense, which would seize power from both the capitalist owners and the Marxist ideologues. In later years, after Burnham had helped Bill Buckley found Na- tional Review in 1955 and I had become its publisher in 1957,1 had the privilege of meeting Jim and getting to know him well. By then the focus of his attention had shifted from the managerial \class\ to the Cold War and the worldwide advance of com- munism, but the basic cast of his mind remained unchanged: He was the supreme realist, coldly analytical, implacably logical, pro- udly unsentimental. In his youth he had toyed at some length with Trot- skyism ; at National Review he con- centrated undeviatingly on the menace he now believed com- munism represented. But throughout his life the central ques- tion of politics remained, for him, \Who shall be master in the house?\ Like all points of view, of course, this one has its limitations. At Na- tional Review, it precipitated many an intramural quarrel between Burnham and our house metaphysician, the late Frank Meyer. Meyer, whose column in the magazine was entitled \Prin- ciples and Heresies,\ liked to discuss such matters as whether political freedom is a moral necessity. Burnham, whose column was long called \The Third World War\ and later \The Protracted Conflict,\ was much more likely to want to know what the noted Kurd leader Khalid Bagdah was doing in Damascus last week. As a conservative ideologue with my own fish to fry, I had a run-in or two of my own with Jim's sometimes rather ruthless pragmatism. I vividly recall the day early in 1968 when he came into my office at National Review and suggested we form an in-house coalition to work for a Rockefeller- Reagan ticket (in that order) to head off Richard Nixon at the pass. I frostily declined what Jim would undoubtedly have admitted was, in technical terms, an \unprincipled coalition.\ But on the basics — above all, on the need to stop communism — Jim Burnham was a rock. President Reagan generously recognized this when, in 1983, he conferred on him our nation's highest civilian award, the Medal of Freedom. By then Jim had retired from National Review, felled by a stroke in 1978. But he soldiered on, largely silent now but sustained by his family and friends, until his death from cancer on July 28, at the age of 81. By coincidence James Reston, the longtime New York Times reporter and columnist, announced his retirement less than one week later, at 76. I couldn't help reflec- ting what different ways Burnham and Reston — almost the ar- chetypal liberal — had of looking at the world. In his farewell column, Reston duly noted the worldwide retreat of socialist concepts of economies, but felt obliged to add that Reaganomics isn't doing so well either. He then alluded to one of the unintended consequences of such loftly relativism by remarking that he \would feel better if marriage were more popular.\ Finally, he ended his lifelong love affair with the plebs by promising to \try to bring back the smoke-filled room so that the next presidential can- didates will be chosen by people who know something about them.\ Jim Burnham would have been amused. Maybe, he might have wisecracked, there's even hope for Scotty Reston. TO Be pretty 1bridge WEST • AK 6 3 *875 • 10 8 7 3 + 84 NORTH 8-17-87 • Q J 10 8 4 VKQ3 • AQ J5 *5 EAST • 97 V A J 10 9 • K9 64 + 973 SOUTH • 52 • 64 2 • 2 + AKQJ10 62 Vulnerable: Neither Dealer: North West Pass Pass Pass North East South 1 + Pass 2 • 2 4 Pass 3 • 3 * Pass 3 NT Pass Pass Opening lead: • 3 BY SARAH OVERSTREET my struggle with my own sexuality As I was standing in the super- and m y growing consciousness of market line a few days ago, myself as a woman. There's a fine Marilyn Monroe stared back at me une between healthy appreciation from the covers of magazines. I of sexual attractiveness by the op MotorRoute Single Copy 3mos. 6mos. lyear 3mos, 6mos, 1 year Mall Zone A In St. Lawrence Co. ZoneB Outside St, Lawrence Co. $5 00 mo. 25' $12.00 21.00 35.00 $15.00 25.00 45.00 Carrier Service Is available at the following, locations (within Village limits) the same day of publication: Hammond, Heuvclton, Madrid, Ogdensburg, and Waddlngton, New York, The Journal Is not available by mall on routes serviced by tube delivery the same day ofpubllca- Hon. POSTMASTER: Send address corrections to Park Newspapors of St. Lawrence, Inc., P.O. Box 409, Ogdensburg, N.Y. 13669. was surprised that it has been 25 years since she died, and even more surprised at the sadness and shock that still wells up in me when I think about it. Marilyn Monroe was the second woman I wanted to be just like when I grew up, my mother being first. I didn't know why she at- tracted me then, and I'm scarcely more enlightened now. I suspect it must have had something to do with the way men in my small world reacted to her (at the tender age of 5 I had already learned that men's reactions to me would be crucial later on), although I don't remember anything specific to pro- ve it. My girlfriends' admiration of Marilyn must have influenced me, although I don't know why they wanted to emulate her either. On the most basic level I can interpret, I know this is one sure reason I wanted to be just like her: Marilyn Monroe was pretty, and I wanted to be pretty. By the time I was old enough to notice Marilyn, I had learned another significant truth from my limited experience with my culture — the importance of be- ing pretty. (I'm not saying this isn't a bad commentry on society. What I'm saying is that at the age of 5,1 didn't care.) Being pretty was the key to having people like you and want to be around you. When you're 5 years old, not that many people are dying for your company, even other 5-year-olds. Still, I would have thought maturity would have given me a colder perspective on Marilyn. Neither her sad history of abuse nor the insecurities that drove her to drugs and death can account for the sense of loss I feel 25 years after her death. There are sadder stories among people I know. I suspect that my fondness for Marilyn, and my sadness over her tragic death, have more to do with posite sex, and the exploitation of that sexual attractiveness to con- trol and dominate the opposite sex. I haven't always been able to tell the difference, and I'm sure Marilyn couldn't. She went with whatever was advantageous at the time. I suspect I have, too — and like Marilyn, I've done it both out of ignorance and a desire to be desired. All of us, men and women, are pulled a multitude of ways as we try to establish identities that give us what we need, satisfy our egos and keep us from being outcasts of society. As the idealism and com- mon sense of feminism jerked me one way, the pragmatism of acknowledging our culture as it is pulled me another. At the age of almost 36 — the age at which Marilyn Monroe died — I want an identity based on achieve- ment, compassion and understan- ding for others, and a basic con- formity to physical standards I know other people consider attrac- tive. I know that's not a popular philosophy among intellectuals to whom the mind is more important than its casing, but I can't help it, I'm not attracted to a guy with a Robert Bork beard and. a John Belushi belly, and I wouldn't ex- pect the kind of man I like to run after Margaret Mead, either. Alas, Marilyn, what debate you have wrought among women of my generation of women like no other I know of. We saw where you started, how your life progressed, and where it all ended. FBI applications An applicant for the position of Spe- cial Agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation must be a citizen of the United States, at least 23 years old and not over 35 years of age, and a graduate of an accredited law school or of an accredited college or univer- sity with a major in accounting. A Whole Lot To Lose By James Jacoby Today's greedy declarer counted nine winners: seven club tricks, thedi- amond ace and a heart trick. If he tried the diamond finesse and it lost, the defenders could take no more than the A-K of spades and the heart ace, for a total of four tricks. So, not want- ing to sacrifice a possible overtrick, South cheerfully played the queen of diamonds. East won the king and — surprise — led back a club. Declarer won and began running all his club tricks. Can you look ahead far enough to see what happened? On the first five club tricks, declar- er discarded a diamond, a heart and two small spades from dummy. \What could declarer do on the sixth club? He could not safely throw a heart honor away, and letting a spade go would make the A-K-6 of spades in West's hand 1 all winners. He had to pitch the diamond jack. Now what? He could play the last club, but that would squeeze dummy out of an outright winner or a stopper. And if he played one of dummy's suits without cashing the last club, he would not have enough tricks to make his game. The mistake was made at trick one. If declarer takes the ace of diamonds and immediately leads the king of hearts, the defenders are helpless. They cannot stop South from making nine tricks. It was shortsighted of de- clarer to assume that East would tamely lead back a diamond if he won the king. Instead, South should have anticipated the possibility of the dev- astating club return by East and should have forsaken the diamond fi- nesse at trick one. A new book by James Jacoby and his father, the late Oswald Jacoby, is now available at bookstores. It is \Ja- coby on Card Games,\ published by Pharos Books. © 1987, NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN,
