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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (March 25, 1971)
PORTLAND/OBSERVER Thursday Mar. 25, 1971 SST By B ill belz I he vote on the SST appropria tion 1,< j set tor some tim e before the end of this month. Exactly when Is u n c e r t a 1 n, but the outcome Is of paramount ( If only temporary) Importance to the future growth of the Hoeing Co. which Is developing the plane, and to the citie s of Seattle and, to a lesser extent, Portland. In the past few weeks Oregon ians (and other Americans) have been exposed to a ta r rage of publicity about the SST, most of it designed to "w in them over” to s u p p o r t of the proje ct... We’ ve seen m aterial featuring an American flag with the caption "b u ild an American SST” and we’ ve s e e n ads emphasizing that the Soviets already have an SST prototype that is ca|>al>le of flying. It’ s been estimated that the Russian plane w ill be ready fo r o p e r a t i o n this F a ll; that the B ritish -F re n ch Concorde w ill be on the market within four years, and that the American ver sion w ill take at least eight more years before it, too, is commer cia l. Meanwhile, American com panies like Pan Am are talking about buying the Russian plane to keep th e ir competitive edge. I he American project ca rrie s a price tag of roughly 1.3—billion d o lla rs— that Is the ’ ’ develop- ment” phase of the p r o j e c t Right n o w Hoeing is short some $800 m illio n of that amount, and it is this figure Congressional l e a d e r s must decide whether or not to appropriate. Strangely, with all the hoopla lately over theSST (the American version), l i t t l e has been said about s im ila r hoopla five years ago about a d is s im ila r, though also quite costly project. At that time the American people were warned that it would be unwise to ‘ ‘ change horses in the middle of the stream ” regarding our rapidly-deteriorating position in Vietnam; that we were conunited and, that no m atter w h a t the u l t i m a t e consequence of our actions, we had better make the best of a bad thing. So we stayed and it ’ s not hard to see where that is getting us. ’ ’ Pacification” lias been replaced by "v ie ti.a m l- zation” ; respect fo r the neutra lity of other nations iias been re placed by "p ro te ctive reaction” that heady term that allows us to support m ilita ry operationsdi- rectly and Indirectly InCambodia and Laos...ad infinitum . Now I don’ t mean by all this that I wish tocompare thedevelo- ment of an American SST with the Am erican role in Southeast Asia. I only wish to state that a prim e argument u s e d fo r con tinuation of the SST project today- that we have commited so much now it would be too costly to shut the project d o wn at this point- smacks of the same type of a r gument that justified our pre sence in Vietnam at a time when most Americans were turning aganist the war. S till unanswered is the ques tion: Is it really worth it to have our own SST? True, it would mean Jobs fo r depression-ridden Seattle, as well as fo r recession- ridden Oregon— an estimated 1100 jobs in Oregon alone. But le t’ s look ahead for a minute. What happens If our SST Is unable to compete com m ercially with other SSI ’ s? Those o t h e r countries w ill have plenty of time to im prove th e ir products BEFORE our first-generation product even hits the assembly lines. So what if It’ s an economic flop? rtose 1100 Jobs w ill vanish overnight. There w ill lie no more government appropriations for this white elephant; Seattlew ill be faced with an even grim m e r economic situation, etc. etc. And its chances of success? We are now eight years behind the Russians, four behind the B ritis h and F bench. We must build a Xavier Tightens Belt K e lly ’s MOBIL SERVICE 2643 N.E. 7th 282-2858 Auto Repair Tune Up* & Brake Jobs It s a r a r e college these lays that isn’ t in serious finan cial s t r a i t s , and none of the college are hurting more than the small ones, the private ones, the church-related onesandthe and the black ones. Soall of t h e s rn a I I, private, church-related THE BARON...has 3 pool tables black colleges have had it, i ight? Wrong. The 36 m e m b e r 1 HE BARON...has Bowling institutions of the United Negro College Fund are showing some THE BARON...has foosball imaginative r e s p o n s e s to THE BARON...has soul music the troubled times. They do, in W ILLIAM H. DEIZ deed, have serious money pro blems, and other d ifficu ltie s to Now all it needs is your good vastly superior plane In every boot, but they’ re fa r from washed \company — so stop in today!! «verycey 11:00 a.m. til 1:00 e.m. category to pull business away up, and many of them appear to be from the established le a d e r s. entering a p e r i o d of vita lity How many more billions w ill that stimulated by new leadership and take? a s p irit of optimism. At a time when the government X avier U n i v e r s i t y of is cutting back Its services, when Louisiana is one of the. Three "people” programs are facing years ago, the 46-year-old New shortages of m o n e y , when Orleans institution— the o n l y ecological problems thr eaten to predominantly black Catholic destroy us. It seem just a little college in the country—chose strange that building our o w n Norman C. Francis as its n e w version of a plane that Is already president. The beginning of in being produced has taken on such stitutional revitalization pre KUTOMOTTVE PARTS A ACCESSORIES great importance. dates his tenure as president, Aside from the dangers the but Francis has stepped up the pio m . i . KiiuNOsworrw sTtirr plane may or may not pose to pace, and Xavier is not into the the environment, we should con .kind of basic changes that both 287-1254 sider, once again, its ultimate hurt and heal. By the end of this K a ON-SAI 8 a .m .-7 p.m.- 7 to M .I. KHlf'lQSWOtTM f u f ! price tag. Vietnam Is teaching decade, it could all add up to an us the f u t i l i t y of pouring inspiring success sto ry-o r to massive amounts of m o n e y funerals in the history of higher down the d r a i n in an e ffo rt education. Francis is betting on to save an inherently hopeless a success story. situation. Norman Francis is something We have seen billions d ive rt of a ssccess story in himself. ed from schools, housing, jobs, He used to shine shoes around slum clearance, health and wel the h o t e l in Lafayette, L a n fare because of the w ar. Are where his father was captain of we ready to gamble again, and the bellmen. Young Francis en ris k losing more billions just tered Xavier as a student ir. 1952 so we can claim the distinction then broke the color b a rrie r at of having our own Supersonic Loyola U niversity’ s law school, Transport? and went on to become Xavier's Let’ s hope not. d e a n of men and then its vice president. A t 37, he became the fir s t black person, the f i r s t male, and the firs t lay Catholic to be president of Xavier, which had been founded and operated We take pleasure in announ Formerly Kienows by the S i s t e r s of the blessed cing our new location - 2716 N.E. 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