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lias been replaced by "v ie ti.a m l-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
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It s a r a r e
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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
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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
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