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by Rep. Ron Wyden
Q. The W hile House Conference
On Aging seemed to end in alm ost
as much controversy as it began. In
yo u r opinion, was the Conference a
success?
A. Although the conference could
have accomplished more i f politics
had not intervened, it did produce
many positive suggestions as to how
we cun better the life o f A m erica’ s
elderly population.
For example, the delegates recom
mended:
•Strong support for home health
care— a cost-effective, more hu
mane way o f delivering health care;
•Strong support for expansion o f
employment opportunities and elim
ination o f mandatory retirement for
older people—a move I have long
supported and one which supports
the right o f older people who wish
to keep working;
•In s titu tio n o f prospective reim
bursement programs for payment o f
health care providers—a cost-effect
ive proposal fo r cu ttin g escalating
health care costs and the same con
cept contained in a bill I recently in
troduced, and;
• A proposal to eliminate the o u t
side earnings lim ita tio n s that c u r
rently p ro h ib its Social Security
beneficiaries fro m earning more
than $6,000 per year in outside in
come w ithout having their benefits
reduced.
The delegates also discussed other
Social Security reform s at great
length. But because o f a conference
rule which forced the delegates to
vole on all the reports as part o f a
single package, the resulting recom-
mendations were sometimes contra
dictory.
For example, although the main
com m ittee considering Social Se
c u rity voted against using general
funds to bolster the system, tw o
other committees voted just the op
posite.
In general, however, the co n fe r
ence did support restoration o f the
m inim um Social Security benefit
and maintenance o f existing levels
o f benefits for current retirees.
The fate o f benefits for future re
tirees was le ft in the hands o f
Congress and the A d m in is tra tio n
(albeit with the instruction that they
do everything in (heir power to
m aintain benefit levels fo r that
group).
Q. You said you though the con
ference co u ld have accom plished
even m ore i f p o litic s hadn 7 in te r
vened. Do you think there's any way
to prevent s im ila r p roblem s fr o m
occurring in the future?
A. Yes, and to accom plish that
goal, I have written a letter to Rep.
Claude Pepper, C hairm an o f the
House Select Com m ittee on Aging,
requesting: ( I) That the Committee
begin im m ediately to review the
rules and regulations w hich gov
erned the 1980 W hite House C on
ference on A g in g , and to lay the
groundwork for development o f ra
tional and responsible rules fo r the
1990 Conference, and; (2) That wc
take whatever action necessary Io
ensure that in the fu tu re , p o litica l
parlies and other organizations that
receive copies o f the list o f delegates
w ill be prohibited from using those
lists for political purposes
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correct solution A
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by Police C hief Ron S till
I have used this “ open le tte r" to
explain some o f the Police Bureau’ s
fu n ctio n s and policie s, w ith the
hope that this provides citizens o f
Portland with a better understand
ing o f how the Bureau works.
I w ill also use these letters to alert
citizens to problems w ithin the city.
Right now, the rising crime rate is a
significant concern that needs to be
addressed. D u rin g the past few
months, major crimes arc being re
ported to the police at a rate o f 50
per cent more than the past year.
This includes burglary, robbery
and rapes. This trend is not much
d iffe re n t fo r o ther cities, but it
should cause sonic reaction fro m
citizens in Portland. From 1974 to
1979, crim es against persons and
property showed cither a decrease or
a leveling o ff. 1980 ended w ith a
slight increase in most crimes.
A variety o f factors are involved.
Some o f these factors can be in flu
enced by the police and some by
citizens. One area that I am working
toward, is increasing the number o f
convicted crim inals that are incar
cerated. By keeping people in ja il
who have a h is to ry o f repeating
crimes, the city w ill greatly benefit
by the reduced crime rate. But (his is
something that cannot happen im
mediately. Portland is still confront
ed with the problem that requires in
put from everyone. It is everyone’ s
responsibility to help reduce crime.
Wc all want P ortland to be a safe
place to live. In order to m aintain
that, citizens need to be w illin g to
extend themselves.
P ortland did see a reduction in
the crime rate and much o f this was
the result o f increased participation
among citizens. The willingness to
report suspicious a c tiv ity and be
coming involved in your neighbor
hood arc two ways you can impact
the crim e rate. One o f the reasons
that burglaries are so high, is that
the burglar goes in a neighborhood,
unnoticed.
We have a Crime Prevention Unit
that can pro vid e in fo rm a tio n on
how you can secure your home and
learn about Neighborhood Watch.
They also o ffe r self-defense classes
and com m ercial crim e prevention
techniques. I recommend that you
call Crim e Prevention at 248-4126.
it’ s there to assist vou.
600 S W P in e
B e tw e e n 6 th Et B r o a d w a y
I f you have com m ents or ques
tions regarding the Portland Police
Bureau, send them to me through
the Public In fo rm a tio n O ffice, 222
SW Pine. Portland, Oregon, 97204.
I w ill not be able to respond in my
open le tte r to each and every
concern, but w ill select those which
w ill assist in improving communica
tion and relations with the commun
ity.
Cities in a new tim e o f crisis
by C arl Holman, President
N ational Urban Coalition
In many ways this is the most c rit
ical time for cities, for the poor, for
m inorities, since the U rban C o a li
tion was founded in (he midst o f the
urban riots in 1967.
M ost o f what was largely taken
fo r granted by many Am ericans in
the earliest days o f the Coalition has
now been called in question. That
includes guiding principles, p rio ri
ties, programs. The role o f govern
ment, particularly, has undergone a
radical sea change.
Minorities and the poor are pretty
much out o f favor and basic guaran
tees which offered them some p ro
tection are in danger o f disappear
ing along w ith the deadwood o f
bureaucratic waste and red-tape.
M any o f those who were about to
get a leg up on the jo b and educa
tional ladder fin d the rungs giving
way underfoot. Further up that now
shaky ladder, a good many m iddle
class Am ericans, who once felt se
cure and generous, now tu rn in
ward, holding on for dear life against
the threats o f economic uncertainty
and the fear and the ugly reality o f
violence.
The p rivate sector is o ffe re d in
ducements which somehow fa il to
induce (witness W all Street). In
some quarters the private sector is
expected to span an unprecedented
gap in services and resources. The
response has p redictably been un
e v e n -g iv in g both o p tim ists and
pessimists som ething to be self-
righteous about.
Cities that were on the rocky road
to coping w ith some o f their fiscal
and re vita liza tio n needs, now find
themselves saddled with new obliga
tions and drastically diminished re
sources. W hile physical in fra stru c
tures collapse and economists argue,
M ayors and city councils pare ser
vices to the bone and struggle to pla
cate increasingly irate citizens look
ing fo r answers to those problem s
uncerem oniously dum ped on the
steps o f City Hall by W ashington
A more positive development is
that luckier urban com m unities arc
fin d in g a new cadre o f volunteers
fro m business and civic groups,
along with some admittedly atypical
individuals, who bring to large cities
some badly needed skills —and a
touch o f that communal spirit which
rom anticists would have us believe
anim ated most small towns in the
past.
The past is indeed with us in many
ways. The near-past is censored
daily and a very harsh price is being
exacted fo r earlier errors. Social
program s which wc arc to ld over-
promised and underproduced, cost
precious tax dollars in the process.
I he Kian and less blatant peddlers
ol racism have once more emerged
tro m the dark fringes o f nationa l
life The media and politics arc loud
with the voices o f the harshly pious
apostles o f the new Salem in their
three-piece suits. A nd fo r every
thing from the economy, to crim e,
to foreign a ffairs, many seem con
vinced that com plex realities can
best be dealt w ith by simple reme
dies that worked well enough when
America and the world were a good
deal younger.
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Power o f the Week
W ith so much gloom being dis
pensed these days from Washington
and elsewhere, the battered cham
pions o f urban A m erica must
choose between despair or the bra
zen illo g ica lity o f that French Gen
eral in W orld W at I who is supposed
to have said som ething like: “ My
rear is threatened, my flanks are col
lapsing—therefore, I shall attack!”
W ar in the Middle East?
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United States, he must be good for
his people.
Conversely, those political figures
who arc favored by the U nited
Stales more often than not tend to
be unpopular among their own peo
ple. Anwar Sadat is the latest case in
p o in t, as the m uted F g yp tia n re
sponse to his assasination clearly in
dicated.
The obvious conclusion to be
draw n fro m this paradox is that
U S. policymakers either arc hope
lessly out o f touch w ith re a lity or
th e ir policies are in fundam en tal
contradiction with the aspirations o f
Third W orld people.
In recent m onths p a rtic u la rly ,
Muammar Khadafy has been char
acterized by the U.S. governm ent
and the American press as the most
dangerous man on earth, the p r i
mary cause o f all its evils: hijacking,
kidnaping, revolution. Thus, any ty
rant in Africa or the Middle East to
day who wants to remain in power
despite the popular w ill need only
in vo ke the threat o f K h a d a fy to
q u a lify fo r U.S. m ilita ry supplies.
Much too often, these arms are used
fo r suppressing their own people.
Sudan has recently locked away
m ore than 10,000 o f its citizens.
And the new leadership in Egypt is
credited w ith ro u n d in g up over
30,000 government critics.
The fact is that K h a d a fy ’ s real
threat docs not spring from his m ili
ta ry m ight but fro m his genuine
popularity among the inhabitants o f
neighboring countries. His progres
sive social and economic policies—
and his general support for the op
pressed— have enorm ous appeal
w ith o rd in a ry people, especially
when they compare the l.ibyan col
onel w ith their own leaders who so
frequently are exploitative at home
and subservient to the West.
To a large extent, the Muslim up
rising in the Middle East and Africa
is a repudiatio n o f Western econ
om ic and c u ltu ra l d o m in a tio n , a
re p u d ia tio n w hich also underlies
K hadafy’ s p o litic a l stance. He has
not engineered it, but he docs sym
bolize it, and this is the essence o f
his popularity.
.lust before the O rganization o f
A fric a n U n ity (O A U ) sum m it in
N airobi this past June, the United
Stales m obilized all o f its support
among African heads o f stale to op
pose Khadafy’s election to the presi
dency o f that o rg a n iz a tio n next
year. But to no avail: Khadafy w ill
be the O A U president fo r 1982-3,
after all, and host its summit in T ri
poli.
At N airobi, both France and the
United States attempted to make a
major issue o f the invasion o f Chad
by L ib y a 's a rm y — again w ith o u t
success. In fact, the O A U acknow
ledged that Libya’ s army has helped
reestablish peace in Chad after 20
years o f a French-manipulated civil
war which was terribly costly in lives
and property.
French president Francois M illcr-
and’ s assertion Oct. 23 at Cancún to
the effect that Khadafy is about to
o v e rth ro w President G o u ko u n i
Oucddei o f Chad suggests a contin
uing Western strategy to embarrass
and isolate Khadafy in preparation
■ for his forcible ouster.
It is an open secret that the United
States is readying its Rapid Deploy
ment Force for potential use in such
a move in con ju n ctio n w ith Egypt
and Sudan. As early as July o f this
year the U.S. press was discussing a
C IA project to set up a “ large-scale
o p e ra tio n " fo r to p p lin g Khadafy.
The Sadat assassination and the
shaky condition o f Sudanese presi
dent Gaafar N im eiri have provided
an ideal pretext for action.
But u n lik e the assassination o f
Sadat, any attempt on Khadfy’ s life
w ould be bound to set o f f c iv il
s trife , not o n ly in L ib ya but in
E gypt, Sudan and p ro b a b ly
throughout most o f the region. It is
well to remember the consequences
o f Western aggression on Egypt in
1956, when the conservative A n
thony Eden o f England and socialist
Guy M ollet o f France attempted to
oust Nasser over the Suez issue.
Instead, both Eden and M o lle t
were throw n out o f power in their
own countries, and Nasser emerged
as the leading figure in the M iddle
East and A fric a fo r m ore than a
decade
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Econom ic Developm ent o f T a n
zania. leaches at Amherst College.)
Dental Clinic
(Continued fro m page I column 3)
o fth e O H S U . Two denturists are al
so employed at the clinic.
“ M eeting the needs o f h a n d i
capped persons in our community is
one o f the m ajor goals o f the clinic
and som ething we are fu lly
equipped to d o ," said Dr. Rosen
stein. “ Several o f our dentists have
extensive experience w orking w ith
the handicapped and the c lin ic is
easily accessible.”
As part o f the OH SU School o f
D entistry’ s curriculum , dental stu
dents arc required to spend at least
one week o f their school program at
the clinic.
“ We want the students to realize
the excellent care that can be p ro
vided to low-income persons and to
see that it tru ly is appreciated by
these p a tie n ts .” said D r. Rosen-
stcin.
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President of one of the c o m m u n ity 's most
successful businesses is Henry S c o tt, w ho
presides over Coast Ja n ito ria l Service. The
com pany was established in 1957. Five S cott
brothers -- Henry, M anuel, A lb e rt, Sam and
Terry — are involved in the family business.
Primarily a janitorial service, Coast operates in
Oregon, W ashin gton and Idaho. A recent
acquisition is the contract for McChord Air Force
Base in Tacom a. The com pany is a major
em ployer fo r com m un ity residents and
contributes to the economic development of the
area.
S co tt belongs to the NAACP, the Urban
League, and is a member of Bethel AME Church.
He and his w ife Bernice have raised four
children. For relaxation, he enjoys boating.
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