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October 1986
No. 4
A R T
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TROUBLE IN PANAMA
Drugs, corruption and anti-Americanism threaten the canal.
10
By
Georgie Anne Geyer
'WHAT TO DO WHEN THE RUSSIANS COME'
A
survivor's guide for
12
members of the "worker's paradise" of America.
AFGHANISTAN'S IMPORTANCE TO THE SOVIET UNION
By Rep.
What do the Soviets hope to gain in Afghanistan?
CHANGING DIRECTIONS
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Robert J. Lagomarsino
CENTRAL AMERICA
IN
War or peace? The fortunes of the Contras
will
20
determine
By Roger Fontaine
that.
NICARAGUA: FANNING THE FLAMES
The Sandinistas are convinced
Bruce Weinrod
By
that the Soviet
Union
is
the
wave of the future.
W
TURNING THE TIDE FOR DEMOCRACY
DoD's Nestor D. Sanchez says
the
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hunger for freedom
is
strong in Nicaragua.
WHY MILLIONS CAN'T READ
Why our cities
are filled with a
26
new breed of urban
By Rudolf Flesch
illiterates.
UNDER THE BIG TOP
Go
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and
to the circus for chills, spills
By Gary Turbak
thrills.
THE HIGH COST OF DYING
At today's prices, planning your own funeral now makes good
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By
Vernon Pizer
WORKING FOR FULL VETERANS EMPLOYMENT
The Secretary of Labor describes whatDoL
is
doing
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WHAT'S RIGHT WITH AMERICA
A
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22
34
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"God Bless America. "
By Joe Rangel
SPEAKING OUT FOR DEMOCRACY
The Legion's Oratorical Contest
celebrates
40
50 years of educating young citizens.
DEPARTMENTS
BIG ISSUES Should Drug
Tests
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Be Made Mandatory For Employees?
LETTERS
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VETERANS ADVISER
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VETERANS ALERT
DATELINE WASHINGTON
6
POST OF THE MONTH
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We Won Them All
The
"Who Won?"
letter writer in
your July issue reeks of anti-Vietnam
sentiment.
The author
is
evidently upset
about two articles in one year acclaiming our victory in Vietnam. He says that
lying to ourselves cannot change the facts
of history. He needs to read the book,
"Order of Battle."
American troops won every major
battle of the Vietnam War. When we
left Vietnam in 1973, South Vietnam
was completely pacified, which was our
original mission in that country, not the
defeat of North Vietnam.
Michael A. Melluzzo Jr.
Hartford, Conn.
practiced marching on city streets, and
hotels were turned into barracks or hospitals. It
war
was
the only city drafted for
and quickly became the
on the East Coast.
The city will be the site of Camp
Boardwalk Revisited, a reunion Nov.
2-4, 1986. For further information, write
me at 12 N. 34th Ave., Longport, N.J.
08403, or phone (609) 822-9210.
Lawrence Luterman
Longport, N.J.
the
effort
major training
facility
Self-Delusion
"Berlin Wall: A Victory in Disguise" (Aug.) must have brought smiles
to the faces of Kremlin planners. It shows
clearly the West's boundless capacity
for self-delusion in the face of ruthless
Camp Boardwalk
From 1942-46, about 200,000 members of the
armed forces passed through
Camp
Boardwalk, Atlantic City, N.J.
The city was taken over by trainees who
Soviets would have backed
Soviets.
Thomas Drake
Riverdale,
Your "Berlin Wall"
for the
West.
worth
was
I
it.
Joe
A
Searcy
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Fayetteville,
N.C.
Magic Music Man
Your
We know for sure that the
article
III.
served with the Air Force
at Rhein-Main and Templehof air bases
in Germany during the Berlin Airlift.
Although very hard work, it was well
excellent.
Soviet expansionism.
The wall was no more a victory for
America than the Cuban missile crisis.
Kennedy's acquiescence to the wall's
construction was a moral catastrophe
down from
any direct American challenge because,
in 1961, America enjoyed overwhelming strategic nuclear superiority over the
in
in
testimonial to
Lawrence Welk
your August issue should be reprinted
every magazine and newspaper in this
country.
It
echoed the
beliefs, feelings,
convictions and heart-felt thoughts of
most Americans for
Music" maker.
this
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The Legacy OfAmericanism
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'A free nation,
live as free
men
in a free land.
said Sen. Christopher
Americanism teaches our youths about
Dodd of Connecticut,
patriotism, religious tolerance, freedom,
sum total
courage, integrity, and engenders a devout
of the people who
dwell in it, added to
love for the ideals that led our forefathers
to found this country. Americanism grad-
the inheritance of
those who have gone
uates believe in the complete and unqual-
A free
nation
as set forth in the Declaration of Indepen-
is what its people make
of it, working through the institutions that
they have inherited.
dence and the U.S. Constitution.
PNC Donald Johnson said that living
for our country means searching out
opportunities to serve and strengthen it. It
means being a doer in the community,
accepting responsibility for improving the
environment in which our children play,
study and worship. It means showing
respect for the flag of our country, displaying it proudly as the symbol of ideas
and institutions we hold dear in this free
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celebrate the anniver-
two special American Legion
programs: 50 years of the High School
Oratorical Contest, and 40 years of Boys
saries of
Nation.
Oratorical participants develop greater
knowledge and understanding of the U.S.
Constitution, and prepare to accept American citizenship, while Boys Nation youths
experience practical insight into the operations of national government and gain
deeper loyalty to their country.
Oratorical and Boys Nation mold and
sculpt
young Americans— tomorrow's
growth and perpetuation
of these ideals every day through the
Americanism programs of The American
Legion— itself a unique American institution dedicated to safeguarding and
foster the
leaders— into believers and practitioners
transmitting to posterity the principles of
of a vital, active living force called Americanism, a force which represents peace,
justice,
strength and the will and the courage to
Blot
On America
About your POW/MIA update in
August. North Vietnam kept French
POWs for 15 years after their war ended.
American servicemen are not considered to deserve better treatment. Some
day it will come out. Ignoring these
POWs will be the greatest blot on
America.
Edward J. Clarke
New
You Missed Us
The author of "At Home in the VetHomes" (Aug.) is a good writer,
erans
may have been incomShe didn't mention the State Veterans Homes system in Oklahoma,
which currently has the largest number
freedom and democracy. There is
no better legacy.
The Editors.
plete.
of veterans homes in the country. Also,
the state is beginning construction on a
new state veterans center in Claremore,
Okla.
C.J. Wright
Oklahoma
4
York, N.Y.
but her research
nation.
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American industry stands
to learn a
few lessons from Jap-
anese technology if a bill before Congress is passed.
Legislation expected to be adopted in this session of Congress creates a $1 million fund to translate Japanese technical
literature in such areas as computers, biotechnology and
robotics. Lawmakers said the time has arrived for such action
because the Japanese have moved well ahead of America in
some industrial areas.
The Japanese have long been watching America's
nical publications to
keep up with our
scientific
advances,
Congressional discussion determined that the United States
far from being out front of the competition in producing
the next generation of scientific breakthroughs. In many cases,
is
the nation
is
oblivious to the advancements
made by
the
has failed to train sufficient Japanese
translators to explain their technological literature.
it
Plastic Pollution
Add
the plastic six-pack beverage container to the
list of
attempting to stamp out.
group of senators, led by Sen. John Chafee of Rhode
pollutants the
A
government
Island, wants a national
is
ban on the
plastic pollutant,
which
clogging up the nation's waterways and drowning
fish and animal life. The proposed legislation follows the
lead of 10 states, which have previously banned the easily
discarded item.
The problem is reaching global proportions. Plastic pollution, the senators claim, is killing off thousands of birds,
seals, turtles, sea lions and fish because ingestion of the
material can be fatal.
Chafee said estimates from the National Academy of Sciences show that 50 million pounds of the plastic packaging
is dumped into the sea each year by commercial fishing
fleets, along with an additional 300 million pounds of lost
they say
is
plastic fishing gear.
Sponsors of the
bill said the
annual leave for additional work days
by sea instead of air.
lost as a result
discarded material also poses
a hazard to divers and to boat engines.
U.S. government research is being hampered by a shortage of qualified research scientists mostly because of low
pay, according to a report from a White House review panel.
Dave Packard, head of the panel and a leading industrisaid the pay ceiling for research scientists is considerably below the salaries of their counterparts in the private
alist,
sector. Currently, the top annual wage for most leading government scientists engaged in projects such as AIDS research,
plant and animal genetics and computers is $72,300 per year.
As a result, Packard said, the government is forced to hire
scientists who are less qualified to fill the gaps in many
federal research and development programs. He said if the
problem is not corrected, the vitality of public laboratories
will continue to decline and ultimately will affect the security
of the nation.
Bills pending in both Houses would correct the wage gap
and would improve current rigid management procedures.
Defaulters' Belusion
You might want to think twice about defaulting on a government loan and if you already have, look for your next tax
refund check to be grabbed up by the IRS.
A report by the Office of Management and Budget said
that the government recovered $135 million from 248,000
defaulters between January and April of this year. An additional $30 million was received from 50,000 people who
"voluntarily" chose to pay rather than have the IRS seize
their tax refunds.
Those owing student loans accounted
for the largest
collected by the ERS, totaling $116 million.
Public Love Boat
Some foreign service officers have taken advantage of the
U.S. government's policy of paying travel expenses for leaves
and transfers by booking first-class cabins aboard luxury
cruise ships, congressional investigators said.
The House Government Operations Committee reported
that between 1982 and 1984, an estimated 260 State Department and U.S. Information Agency employees and their
dependents traveled by ship at a cost of $556,232— about
3Vi times greater than air fare. Taxpayers picked up the bill.
When traveling alone, the cost by boat for a foreign service
officer was about 10 times higher than flying.
In one instance, a USIA officer and five family members
took a 12-day cruise around the southern tip of Peru when
transferring to the United States from Buenos Aires. When
that official's 10 lost working days are added, the trip's cost
totaled $16,000— compared to a cost of $6,400 if the family
6
of going
Brain Brain
tech-
bipartisan sponsors of the legislation said.
Japanese because
had taken a direct flight, the committee said.
Responding to the committee's report, the State Department and USIA revised their travel policies to prevent similar
abuses in the future. Government employees may expect to
pay the difference for traveling by ship. They also must take
The
amount
VA recovered
$8 million; Small Business Administration, $6 million;
Department of Housing and Urban Development, $5 million;
and the Agriculture Department, $1 million.
The OMB said that in many cases the tax refund was not
enough to repay a defaulter's total debt. In those cases, the
names will be resubmitted for checkoff again next year, and
if they have not paid by that time, their refund will be withheld again.
Quote Of The Month
"Neither the Germans (in both world wars) nor the Japanese ever presented a point-blank challenge to the Monroe
Doctrine as the Kremlin now does in its barefaced subsidization
and arming of Nicaragua."
Roger W. Fontaine
Newspaper correspondent
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BIS ISSUES
Should Drug Tests
Be Made Mandatory
For Employees?
Rep. Gary
Sen. Paula Hawkins, R-Fla.
Drug
testing in the
workplace must be
viewed
in the context
of
L.
Ackerman, D-N.Y.
On March 3, 1986, the President's Commission on
YES
Organized Crime touched off
the right of society at large to protect itself
a firestorm of controversy
from the threat posed by illegal drug use.
Other considerations are the rights of
employers and employees.
Opponents of drug testing neglect con-
mending
sideration of the public policy interests
of safety, health security, public trust and economic welfare.
Likewise, they shortchange or ignore the rights and interests
of employers.
Supreme Court precedent does not support the narrow civil
libertarian interpretation of the Fourth
Amendment
that an
employer must show "probable cause" to suspect drug use
before testing an employee for suspected illegal drug use.
The amendment extends
the probable cause protection only
to searches incidental to criminal prosecution, not the con-
sensual area of employer/employee relationships.
Testing has broad popular support nationwide, as dem-
March 7 USA Today poll, which found that
77 percent of all Americans would not object to being drug
tested, and that 62 percent support mandatory drug testing
for federal workers. Only 29 percent oppose it.
onstrated by a
Reliable sources place the annual costs to American busi-
More than
Fortune 500 companies conduct drug tests
already. Newspapers such as The New York Times, The Los
Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and the Miami Herald
already have employed drug testing for their staffs.
Experts at the National Institute on Drug Abuse said they
believe that drug testing may be the most effective means
available for significantly reducing illegal drug use. In 1980,
before drug testing was initiated in the military, the Department of Defense survey for drug use in the military found a
47 percent user rate. In 1985, after testing was employed,
the illicit drug use rate in the military dropped to 7 percent.
Surely, the best interests of the individual are not served
by providing the drug user a shield from reality, behind
which he can continue to use drugs undetected. Drug users
need help to face their problem, not hide it.
ness of drug use in the workplace at $16.4 billion.
25 percent of
Where
there
there
is
is
there
is
a way.
no
excuses.
all
8
all
federal
agencies" should implement "suitable
drug testing programs."
The commission reasoned that drug
testing would curtail drug use, which
would curtail a major source of income for organized crime.
In this effort, the
commission
felt that
federal
employees
should set an example for the rest of the nation. On March
18, the Subcommittee on Human Resources held a hearing
to consider the commission's recommendation.
Our hearing found that many drug tests are unreliable.
Urinalysis can make common foods register as illegal substances. Poppyseeds, for example, can register as opium.
Test results depend upon the ability of the testers. We
heard of instances where urine specimens had been switched,
mislabeled or contaminated. The Centers for Disease Control
recently surveyed 13 private laboratories and found that they
had error rates as high as 69 percent. One Army lab had 97
percent of its test results invalidated as "not scientifically or
legally supportable."
In addition, drug tests are expensive. The most accurate
ones cost $100. To test all federal employees just once would
cost up to $300 million. Those funds could be better spent
on drug education in our workplaces and schools, and on
interdicting drugs at our borders.
Another problem is privacy. Random drug testing
undermines our Constitutional prohibitions against selfincrimination and unreasonable search and seizure. The tests
can be humiliating. The Defense Department, for example,
requires that urine samples must be "collected under the
direct observation of a designated individual of the same
sex. " In addition, the Department's tests are conducted randomly, without any "probable cause." That, in effect, reverses
the traditional principle that everyone is presumed innocent
until proven guilty.
There may be cases where drug testing federal employees
is reasonable. For example, when their positions involve
national security or
there
testing in
money and Amer-
ican jobs.
by recom-
a will,
the workplace will save
lives,
heads of
Where
will, there are
Drug
that "the
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probable cause to
suspect a drug problem.
But even
in those cases,
our top priority should be
the rehabilitation of the
employee.
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TROUBLE
leaders and intelligence officers were
speaking about Noriega's incredible sins
even the administration, who just
that
PANAMA
Riddled with corruption, drugs and violence,
and basking in Manual Noriega's growing alliance
with Nicaragua, Panama may be our next hotspot.
By Georgie Anne Geyer
HEN
President
Jimmy
Carter signed the Pan-
ama Canal
treaties in
1979, most Americans assumed that it
was the end of a long
and proud American
story.
The canal would
be turned over to Panama by a generous United States before
2000. Such an act by a world-powerful
nation was unprecedented in history.
Carter, the idealist,
was
particularly
proud of nobly ending the American
control of the canal, which indeed had
been a source for constant unrest in
Panama and serious threats of terrorism. His men praised it then as "an act
of statesmanship that would preserve
the vital interests of the United States
in the waterway even after Panama takes
control."
And today? That situation has changed
completely. To the north, the Marxist
Sandinistas of Nicaragua, who took over
that same year, have built a 100,000man army backed by enormous Soviet
aid. Bulgarians train Nicaraguan pilots,
East Germans sculpt their lethal intelligence system and thousands of Cubans
run everything from the television to
military training. That alone poses a
growing threat to the historic canal.
But more potentially fatal by far to
the canal is what is happening inside
Panama. It is a gruesome, bizarre and
terrifying story of total corruption, of
new-style savagery and of a new alliance of the military, communists and
drug runners.
Georgie Anne Geyer, a foreign correspondent and syndicated columnist, has
written extensively on Central America.
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"The story" about Panama began to
emerge in October 1985, when a former
Panamanian deputy minister of health,
Dr. Hugo Spadafora, was murdered
when he
tried to cross by bus from Costa
Rica to Panama. Spadafora, who was
also a free-lance adventurer and guerrilla fighter, denounced the head of the
Panama Defense Force, Gen. Manual
Noriega, of big-time drug running.
Spadafora was taken off the bus by two
men in Defense Force uniforms; his
body, beheaded and marked in such a
way
as to identify the assassins as a
group believed to be part of
Defense Force intelligence, was found
two days later.
Nothing like this had ever happened
before in Panama. The shock was akin
to an earthquake. All through the winter and spring, revelations poured out
about Noriega, a cunning but ruthless
man who is known to be a multimilkiller
lionaire.
Finally, so
many American
wanted "no trouble" over Panama, was
forced to regard them seriously.
The charges go far beyond drugs,
although some officials say Noriega is
the biggest drug-runner in the world.
They
include, amazingly, charges that
Noriega and the military are up to their
ears in giving intelligence and even
American technology to Cuba, in sending guns to the Cuban-trained and deadly
M-19 guerrillas in Colombia, and even
in aiding the Sandinistas.
It had been long known— indeed, it
had been considered an advantage to
the United States— that Noriega's intelligence worked closely with Cuban
President Fidel Castro's. But this was
acceptable in the shadowy world of the
Caribbean so long as Noriega passed on
an appropriate amount of Cuban intelligence to Washington, and he did. But
nobody was willing to accept that the
unscrupulous Noriega should actually
supply the M-19, an ideologically
imprecise but extremely violent
Colombian group, with the arms to try
to overthrow Colombia's democracy.
American
officials
had always
assumed that any threat to the canal
would come only in communist clothing or in a direct attack by terrorists.
Today, the
is
threat
is
much
greater.
nearly total corruption in
no
real
democracy
There
Panama and
to act as a correc-
Noriega, on Sept. 28, 1985, even
removed the president he had put in,
Nicolas Ardita Barletta. With Panama's ties to Cuba and Nicaragua, the
tive.
now lies in the canuse for narcotics and gun-running,
threat to the canal
al's
anti-American atmonew and deadly
alliance. There is a threat, too, in a Panamanian government— which now con-
and the
totally
sphere developed by this
CAUSE FOR CONCERN-A///'ed to Cuba
and Nicaragua, Noriega wields the
power in Panama.
sists
of Noriega, period— that will dip
into the canal revenues
and have no
Panamanians
for
running the canal well, or at all.
What we saw before, and what
we
interest in training
assumed we could foresee for the future,
was a political pattern of communists
on one side and more-or-less democrats
and anti-communist military on the
other. Now, everything is up for grabs.
The new power structure not only
Panama Canal, but also
new era, an era shaped by
threatens the
introduces a
drugs and the nearly incomprehensible
amounts of money involved with drugs.
It is that new era that threatens an
upheaval in the entire region.
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WHEN THE
RUSSIANS
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By Blaine Taylor
Banks
are national-
ized and credit cards abolished, but few
money to spend or save
anyway. There are shortages of everything, even though the environment has
long ago been sacrificed in order to meet
people have
HERE are
which
several
disaster
America.
ways
might
We
in
strike
cannot
unreasonable Red Washingtonian
demands for increased "production."
exclude an all-out
nuclear war that is so
totally
"destructive that
Building contractors and business peoviewed as "enemies of the
people."
Ultimately, the American people rise
up in revolt, but it takes more than two
generations for the Soviet yoke to be
little is left
ple are
of either side; or one in
which America is largely
destroyed with far less
Soviet loss, resulting in the occupation
by Moscow's troops of a ruined and
depopulated land a scenario quite
commonly found in Soviet military literature. What seems more likely, given
the Soviet achievement of superiority,
would be the crumbling of American
thrown
—
States practically defenseless, or sim-
ply the threat of one.
This scenario, envisaged before in the
recent books of former President Rich-
ard
M. Nixon, now
bit
of the
realistic
is
the opening
gam-
and frightening new
work What To Do When The Russians
Come: A Survivor's Guide (Stein and
Day, 177 pages, $14.95). It tells readers—occupation by occupation, of every
class of society and all walks of life
what they can or should do when faced
by the immediacy of Soviet armed
invasion of the United States.
This engaging and highly-readable
book is co-authored by Dr. Robert Conquest, Senior Research Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, and
Dr. Jon Manchip White, Lindsay Young
Professor of English at the University
of Tennessee.
According
months of
to their scenario, the first
the actual occupation are
brutal.
Both Hawaii and Alaska are formally
annexed outright to the USSR, while
all officers of the rank of colonel and
above are shot in a sort of American
Katyn Massacre. What is left of the U.S.
armed forces becomes a new "people's
army," sent to fight far-off communist
wars of imperialist aggression in Africa
and against the still-unconquered Red
Chinese menace.
Physicians are seen as "murderers in
white coats," lawyers are viewed with
open hostility, all "affirmative action"
and "equal opportunity" programs are
cancelled and women are sent to farms
as manual laborers. Pet stores become
unnecessary, since pets themselves are
being eaten for food, and furniture stores
are closed because furniture is no longer
manufactured. Gas stations disappear,
too, since travel is restricted and few
private cars are to be seen on the roads
anymore— bicycles
The
,
is
a free-lance
military topics.
12
writer,
specializing
in
take their place.
nation's state police forces are
replaced on the highways by a
new
super-armed
with both tanks and artillery to quell
periodic urban disturbances against the
political police force that is
retaliatory attacks
by
—
takeover resist in the "forests of Colorado, Oregon and Washington ... the
mountains of Wyoming, Montana and
Idaho.
the canyons of Arizona and
.
.
New Mexico
and the marshes and
bayous of Louisiana and Florida ..."
.
.
.
In the end, there is "the eventual,
inevitable breakup of the Soviet
empire," and those old enough to
remember democracy in America begin
anew to dream of its restoration. In the
wake of continued American mass
insurrections, "The whole communist
network will have been shaken and
vir-
tually destroyed; the building of a
new
party on the discredited ruins of the old
will be
no easy business ... the Amer-
ican people once
invigorated
more
will be morally
..."
Finally, the Soviets will encounter,
U.S. national rebellion,
their grip on the rest of
their empire is being shaken, and their
internal policies have brought the Soviet
in addition to
"a time when
new regime. The Canadian and Mexi-
Union itself to catastrophe ..."
Thus, Moscow, like the Roman
can borders are rigidly patrolled to prevent escape from the new Soviet-
believe, but at what cost to humanity?
American
Blaine Taylor, a Vietnam veteran and
Legionnaire of Post 38, Dundalk, Md.
amid
and even nuclear strikes. America's
young people— aided by the nation's blue
collar workers and the more than 9 million privately owned firearms concealed by citizens at the time of the
resistance either after a limited Soviet
nuclear strike that would leave the United
off,
tanks, helicopter gunships, firing squads
state.
Extensive
lists
of people to be arrested
in the society are drawn up, and purges
and show trials are frequent news items
in the new, dreary communist press and
Empire,
is
doomed
to fall, the authors
Reading What To Do When The RusCome may be one of the sparks
we need to help delete the "American
chapter" from the Soviet march of consians
quest, so relentless since 1917.
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IMPORTANCE TO THE SOVIET ONION
By Robert J. Lagomarsino
EVEN
years ago this
the Soviet
Union shocked an unsus-
December,
pecting world with
its
brutal invasion of
Afghan-
swift,
Victory in Afghanistan
will bring the Soviets
closer to the oil-rich
Persian Gulf. But US.
aid to the Mujahedeen
can upset Soviet plans.
istan to save an unpopular,
faltering
communist
regime. Unlike previous
Soviet invasions and occupations of Mongolia and nations in the
Baltic states and East Europe, the Red
Army met head-on with a popular, mass
resistance that has already killed or
wounded more than 30,000 Soviet
troops.
The invasion represents more than just
the "Brezhnev Doctine" of preventing
any subjugated nation from freeing itself
of communism; it seriously affects the
strategic balance of power in the region
and presents new threats to the West.
First, the occupation of Afghanistan
brings the Soviets physically closer to
the oil-rich Persian Gulf and our sea
lanes in the Indian Ocean.
Second, a strong Soviet presence in
Afghanistan gives the Soviets better
opportunities to meddle in the internal
affairs
of Pakistan, a U.S.
ally.
Third, the total conquest of Afghan-
and weakening of Pakistan would
be a victory against China and seriously
upset the balance of power and stability
Finally, the Soviets cannot afford to
let
the brave Afghani
freedom
fighters,
Mujahedeen (Holy Warriors),
win. The effect on the Soviet Union's
called
burgeoning, repressed Moslem population would be too great.
The
tactics
employed by
the Soviets
based on denying
the Mujahedeen supplies, shelter and
to achieve victory are
Afghan nation
culture and traditions; and
support; eradicating the
with
its
U.S. Representative Robert J.
Lagomar-
sino of California is co-chairman of the
Congressional Task Force on Afghanistan.
14
until the
Mujahedeen, who
represent a clear majority of Afghanis
from all the different tribes, are included
and the Soviets become serious about
an expeditious withdrawal, we must not
divert our attention or sympathies from
the heroic struggle of the Afghani
people.
A
recent unclassified report on the
military situation in Afghanistan indi-
keeping the Red Army's genocidal,
inhuman policies from receiving undue
attention. This inhumane scorched-earth
policy is designed to deny the Muja-
cates that, given the current levels of
hedeen logistical support. Instead, it has
given the Mujahedeen increased popular support from those abused Afghanis
who now have nothing to lose. Recent
Soviet and Afghan communist incursions into Pakistani terrority and support for local opposition forces are
designed to discourage Pakistani support for the freedom fighters.
Unfortunately, there has been too little attention given to the heinous crimes
committed against the Afghanis. It is
saddening when Gorbachev's offer to
withdraw 6,000 unnecessary troops from
Afghanistan receives more coverage than
the murdering of thousands of Afghanis.
Cleverly, the Soviets keep attention
focused on negotiations they are willing to support between the Democratic
Republic of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
endurance
istan
in the region.
However,
FIGHTERS— Afghani rebels
aid and attention, the tide
is
gradually
turning against the Mujahedeen. While
the resistance will fight on,
not
mean
Afghan
not unlimited. That does
they have lost. Rather, with
is
increased diplomatic, military and
humanitarian support, these brave free-
dom
fighters could turn Afghanistan into
the "Soviet
Vietnam,"
inflicting
heavy
Moscow's money and men.
losses of
Along with their other allies, China and
Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan must be
provided adequate defenses against
Soviet air power, their worst enemy.
When
I
visited Pakistan last January
and met with the Mujahedeen, they
reaffirmed to me that their commitment
and they will fight to the last
with whatever weapons are available. It is our duty to help these freedom fighters liberate their country from
Soviet occupation. With our support they
is total
man
can succeed.
tenaciously refuse to accept Soviet domination.
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By Betty Mussell Lundy
live in the
United States.
My father was a good man— a Chriscommitted to showing love
and preaching the Gospel— but the sys-
tian minister
OW
do you explain to an
American what it is like to
I live without freedom?
Daniel Coltea, who became
tem
I
I a free man about
You must have
living hell."
couldn't separate night from day.
cion, fear and hate.
You may only have a relationship with
the party. You may not develop friendships because, eventually, one of
will think,
you
"He is getting too close. What
does he want?" From then on, the
friendship
It
is
is
sword does not touch the head which
If you bend your head and your
will, you can live another day.
You cannot criticize the government. The secret police are everywhere. They will tell you what you are
thinking and punish you for wrong
thoughts. They listen in on phone conbends.
versations.
members
"Other people do not exist for me.
what I have to do to survive."
But I cannot accuse that man. The party
used him, too. It uses weak people to
do the bad things. The system teaches
you that in order to survive you must
destroy your true self, your personality.
You cannot have an opinion different
from the party's.
said,
is
Rumania,
there
is
a saying:
The
Betty Mussell Lundy, a free-lance
journalist based in
LaGrange
Park,
III.,
specializes in the social problems of
immigrants
16
in
make family
America.
because
we were
persecuted
Christians, but
Christians are not the only ones
who
suffer. After
high-level
I
escaped,
I
Rumanian Communist
met a
Party
member who had
sought political asylum in Austria. I asked him why he had
left position and wealth for the life of a
refugee. He replied, "I cannot live with
myself anymore. I am full of my lies.
I cannot stand in front of my daughters
any longer as a liar. I know it will be
difficult, but I am happy to be free."
The communists spend enormous
amounts of money on propaganda. I
asked myself, "If the United States is
so bad, how come nobody from the
United States ever comes to Rumania
asking for asylum?" Lots of Americans
come, but nobody stays. And all the
time, Rumanians leave whenever they
a license to speak in
finally
took away my father's license, so he
could no longer preach. The only work
he could find was heavy, hard labor,
200 miles from home. We saw him only
once a month.
I loved my country and my people.
I didn't want to run away, but I told my
wife, "I can't cope anymore. I cannot
talk openly. Leaving will be my answer
to this system and to my country. I will
leave or I will die."
In a daring escape Coltea crossed
the border into Yugoslavia and then into
Austria, where he received political
asylum He described his first steps into
.
freedom:
The Austria- Yugoslavia border was
moun-
a white line halfway through a
tain tunnel.
made one
When
I
reached that line, I
it and said to
step across
myself, "Now, I am half-free." Then
another step, "Now I am all free." Then
I
meek perish.
I asked a Communist Party member:
"How can you live with yourself?" He
In
try to
Y FAMILY was
crawl right over one another to get what
they want. Only the powerful survive;
This
They
report one another's "crimes.
breaking up.
the law of the jungle. People
the poor and
The
after us,
The government
public places.
HHHHl
I
like a criminal.
were constantly
detaining, questioning, following us.
years
ago, grapples with this
problem often. Today he is
happy, living with his wife
and 11 -year-old son in a
Chicago suburb, working as a mechanical engineer. But he describes his former life behind the Iron Curtain, before
his 1980 escape from Rumania, as "a
six
Everything was dark. To understand,
you have to go back to the starting point
of communism— hate. Hate between
worker and management, friends and
neighbors, father and son, husband and
wife. The party knows this is the only
way to control people— through suspi-
him
treated,
secret police
fell
From
on
my
that
knees and thanked God.
moment,
I
was
a free
man
forever.
I have never lost the feeling that
poured over me at that moment. I was
finally whole, as God made me.
You cannot get information out of
Rumania. That is why I must speak. I
must be an open window to Americans
to show them the evils of communism
and to urge them to protect our freedom. We must spend dollars in peacetime, in order not to spend dollars and
lives in wartime.
In March 1986, Daniel Coltea became a U.S. citizen.
I love what this country is about:
freedom under the law. I'm willing to
do whatever it takes to keep it that way.
If
necessary,
I
ingly, happily.
will fight for
America
is
it,
the last
will-
hope
of the world.
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UNITED NATIONS
UNDERMINING PRIVATE ENTERPRISE?
The most imporof the Sea
April 1982, which
resources and mining.
tant
example
the
is
Treaty, adopted in
Law
the United States did not sign.
To
receive approval for sea mining,
must agree to transfer any
technology it uses to the Enterprise (a
governmental unit operating under U.N.
auspices) or to developing countries on
fair and reasonable commercial terms.
a private firm
Private firms are, therefore, forced to
subsidize and build the Enterprise, an
entity that
competes with private
enterprise.
A redistributive
one
is
Moon
scheme
similar to this
contained in the U.N.'s 1980
Treaty— another attempt by other
nations to get a free ride on Western
technological innovation. Since the
treaty declares that "the moon and its
natural resources are the
POWER PLAY— In a foray that seems beyond the limits of its charter, the U.N. is pushing
for
tough constraints on multinational companies investing
By Dr. Murray
L.
Weidenbaum
in
developing nations.
developed by a
commission of the Economic and Social
tinational corporations
MNC
the United Nations as an
Code apparently
Council. The
would cover almost any company that
tries to sell products to people in another
organization devoted to
country.
peacekeeping— the function with which it is most
the code
MERICANS still think of
explicitly charged in
charter.
There
is
its
little
awareness of the extent to
which the U.N. is be-
coming an economic regulatory body
involved in efforts to radically change
the performance and character of private economies throughout the world,
Of the proposals or actions of U.N.
agencies designed to control the dayto-day operations of private companies, the most ambitious is the
Code a draft code of conduct for mul-
—
MNC
Dr. Murray L. Weidenbaum is director
of the Center for the Study of American
Business at Washington University in
St.
18
Louis.
The vague language in sections of
is enough to make any com-
pany think twice before investing in
overseas locations, where it might run
afoul of the code. An example is the
provision that multinational corporations should "avoid practices, products
or services which cause detrimental
on
and sociocultural objectives as determined by
government." Should the U.N.
encourage the governments of its memeffects
cultural patterns
ber nations to set "socio-cultural objectives" and require private enterprise to
follow the "cultural patterns" set by
government? Those words describe a
mechanism used by totalitarian rulers
to enhance their power.
The most sweeping U.N. regulation
of private enterprise is in natural
itage of
mankind," any
common
her-
benefits accru-
ing from those resources must be shared.
Companies involved in international
marketing face a variety of U.N. regulatory measures, such as the Infant
Formula Code, adopted in 1981 by the
U.N. World Health Organization. This
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of breast milk substitutes, applying not
only to advertising and distribution, but
also to labeling and even the activities
and compensation of marketing
personnel.
The Infant Formula Code
entering
wedge
for broader
ulation of private enterprise.
is
the
U.N. regThe World
Health Organization is now considering formulating a code on the marketing of pharmaceuticals that
would
create
an international drug approval program
and possibly require that international
rules appear on drug labels and in
advertisements.
Companies that sell or license hightechnology products or services to
developing countries will be affected
by the Transfer of Technology Code
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our communist adversaries.
Secretary of State George
Marshall,
at a
National
Security Council meeting in
CHANGING
April 1948, told President
that Marshall's
attendance at an inter-
Truman
American conference
DIRECTIONS
Bogota
that
would
in
establish
Ameri-
the Organization of
can States was essential to
cement good relations with
Latin America. Otherwise,
he contended, the United
States would not be able to
MTBAl
meet
its
ments
postwar commit-
in other parts
of the
world.
It was a variation on the
theme first proposed by Secretary of State John Quincy
Adams who, in 1823, framed
what later became known as
Monroe Doctrine. The
prospect of a Soviet flag permanently planted on the
the
American mainland directly
challenges that longheld
belief of American statesmen.
America
is finally
focusing
The establishment of a
communist regime in Cuba
in 1961 was a serious and
its
national security priority on
Central America. But is it too late
to prevent a Soviet flag from waving
permanently in Nicaragua?
By Roger Fontaine
Cuba
costly setback. But
is
an island, and successive
American presidents have
managed to isolate the Castro regime within this hemisphere. But the success of the
what they have been all
along— hardened totalitari-
Sandinista revolution in 1979
ans
more serious
because Nicaragua
the Soviet
a far
is
reversal
is
situ-
ated in the heart of the Central
HAT
p e n
haps
to
Central
with the Soviet Union, the
future of South Africa, even
war or peace
in the
Middle
American isthmus.
earth.
Eastare of secondary impor-
central concern of the Presi-
dent of the United States, his
which
is
inex-
free-
are
strategists, but is the
tance compared to the fate of
this region,
and economic
doomed to disappear from the face of the
preoccupation of a few aca-
is
mount
political
doms
demic
are convinced that
Union and its allies
represent the wave of the
future while American-style
After decades of neglect,
the region no longer is the
the para-
America
who
senior officials, a prestigious
THE
tion
current administra-
also fully understands that this country
States.
of
ing the United States this
decade and quite possibly the
American presidents and
their closest advisers have
citizens.
Nevertheless, for years
has never before faced a
challenge on the mainland of
the Americas mounted by any
enemy, much less one with
the resources and tenacity of
next.
known since the United States
became a world power that
much of the media have tried
the Soviet Union. Neither the
Germans
vital interests in
dismiss the Reagan
administration's concern
about Nicaragua as some kind
lenge to-the
Western Hemisphere's
of anachronistic paranoia.
But bitter experience has
proved the administration
Arms
tricably linked to the history
bipartisan national
and security of the United
sion and a growing
confront-
control agreements
Europe,
Asia and the Middle East
could be preserved only if
our
Roger Fontaine, a former
staff officer with the National Security Council,
is
chief diplomatic correspon-
dent for The Washington
Times.
20
commisnumber
strategic
question
the
nations were on friendly
terms with this country and,
most certainly, not allied with
ordinary
American
to
The Sandinistas have
revealed themselves to be
right.
(in both world wars)
nor the Japanese ever presented a point-blank chal-
Monroe Doctrine
Kremlin now does in
its barefaced subsidization
and arming of Nicaragua.
If the Sandinista regime
as the
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throughout Central America.
to handle anything in the
Soviet air inventory.
Compared
to that, the
question of advisers becomes
almost secondary. Nevertheit is sobering to realize
that while the United States
has at most several hundred
less,
military advisers in the region
(in fact, they are trainers
a
and
few support troops), the
Soviet bloc has thousands of
and advisers who
trainers
already have taken on combat roles in the Sandinista
struggle against its Contra
adversaries.
By
if
the
end of the century,
present trends continue, the
Soviet Union, not the United
States, will be the predominant military power in the
Central American region, a
fundamental reversal in the
Western Hemisphere for the
first time in more than a century.
and
trends continue,
istrations are less vigilant,
it
will be comparatively easy
Nicaragua to subvert and
suborn its neighbors— never
through outright invasion
by greatly increasing the aid
for
given to guerrilla organizations that have already
declared war on the governments of Costa Rica, El Sal-
vador,
the Soviet
Union will be
the predominant
military
in
power
the Central
American
region.'
but also to undermine friendly
in
Central America would
reduce considerably our
ability to guarantee vital sea
lanes in the Caribbean basin.
These are the lines of communication through which the
bulk of our overseas trade
passes, not to mention our
ability to resupply and reinforce our armed forces in
Europe and the Middle East
down
on the German
central plain
to an air attack
on Libya.
their
survival can be guaranteed
only if there is a necklace of
Marxist governments on the
Central American isthmus.
If the Sandinistas succeed
in
doing so, Mexico
ulti-
mately would be threatened,
OCTOBER 1986
U.S. aid to
Communism in Nicaragua?
conflict— possibilrange from a showwith the Soviet Union
have little
choice. Not only are they
convinced it is their revolutionary duty— which they take
very seriously— but also the
tas believe they
comandantes believe
GAMBLE-Can
the Contras block
ities that
end, the Sandinis-
this
governments in the Caribbean and South America.
Confronting those prospects is an American government certain of the threat, but
Continued on page 62
in case of
Guatemala and
Honduras.
To
that, the Soviets
would be in a position to
threaten Mexico and Panama
IF PRESENT
manages to survive the next
few years, and future admin-
With
their supporters not only
Sandinista efforts to install
which would pose dire consequences for the United
States. The Panama Canal,
which, by the end of the century, no longer will be
American-run or protected,
also would be up for grabs.
The
loss of uninterrupted
passage through that strategic chokepoint reminds us
that the communist regimes
Marxist dictatorships in other
Latin American countries is
not
all that is at
stake in this
deadly game. Already, the
Soviet Union is building a
massive military and intelligence presence in Nicaragua
including electronic intercept capabilities for highly
mm
sophisticated airfields that,
when completed,
will
be able
21
ANOTHER CUBA? -Equipped with Soviet
rifles, 7-55 tanks and Mi-24 Hind
gunships, the Sandinistas form an army
that is larger than the combined forces of
all other Central American nations.
AK-47
FANNING THE FLAMES
By W. Bruce Weinrod
EBATE
over U.S. policy
toward Nicaragua encompasses so many issues one
aspect is easily overlooked
and underestimated— the
threat that small, weak
Nicaragua poses
HMHI
to the
security of the United
States.
The argument has been repeated
countless times that a nation of 3 mil-
can hardly be a threat to the security interests of a great power such as the
United States. No one is arguing that
lion
Bruce Weinrod is the director of
and Defense Studies at the
Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C.
W.
Foreign Policy
22
San Diego or any other U.S. city could
be taken over by the Nicaraguan military; nevertheless, Nicaragua does pose
a military and a geopolitical challenge
to U.S. security interests as well as a
direct threat to the pro-U.S. and anticommunist democracies of its neighbors.
From a military perspective, Nicaragua threatens U.S. security because
of the potential for the Soviets to use
the country as a base for operations. An
airstrip under construction at Punta Huete
could be used by Soviet Bear and Backfire bombers and other aircraft to conduct intelligence and reconnaissance
activities against the United States. Such
plans also would exert a psychological
influence by demonstrating to Latin
America a growing Soviet presence in
the Western hemisphere. In addition,
the deep port under construction at El
Bluff on Nicaragua's east coast could
provide Moscow another base for submarine operations like the base at Cienfuegos, Cuba.
Such Soviet presence would have
serious implications during a conflict.
Combined with Cuba, already the largest
non-U. S. military force
in the
West-
ern hemisphere, a Soviet-Cuban military
presence in Nicaragua would present a
U.S. efforts
to resupply its forces in Europe or to
shift forces from the Pacific to the
European theater. For example, in the
first five months of World War II, the
real military challenge to
AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE
'
United States lost 153 ships to German
submarines in the Caribbean. Soviet
submarines today are much more capable and less detectable than those German subs. U.S. defense officials have
said that the Soviet-Cuban military
Cuba already is sufficient
capability in
cause problems for the United States.
Nicaragua were added to this capability, during a crisis the United States
to
If
might have to divert significant military
resources that otherwise could be directly
employed in the protection of our
in Europe or elsewhere.
Further, should the
USSR
allies
at all possible, or
ever attack
delayed until the
last
moment. To the extent that the
United States cannot reinforce its forces,
NATO is less likely to be able to delay
or block a Soviet conventional thrust
into Western Europe. In this situation,
the United States might be forced to
consider using tactical nuclear weapons
at a significantly earlier point than would
be the case otherwise. Delays in reinforcing United States forces in Europe,
caused by Western hemisphere military
problems, could be significant. Critics
of U.S. aid to the democratic resist-
ance,
who in some cases
are critics also
of nuclear weapons, should consider
this
potential.
With a military larger than the combined forces of all its Central American
neighbors, Nicaragua, militarily, can
intimidate bordering nations, which are
developing nations with democratic
governments that could be easily destabilized. Nicaragua also could destaemerging fragile democracies
throughout Latin America, causing
bilize
polarization and
chaos— perfect
tions for small, disciplined
condi-
communist
factions to seize power.
Nicaragua could cause particular
problems for U.S. security by interfering in Panama or Mexico. One-half of
U.S. foreign trade goes through the
Panama Canal or the Gulf of Mexico;
two-thirds of oil imported by the United
States and one-half of its strategic minerals pass through the Panama Canal.
Even more than
many
of our
the United States,
allies in
Europe, Asia and
Latin America depend heavily on the
canal for their external commercial
of the
United States to resupply its forces in
Europe, or to quickly shift forces from
activities. In addition, the ability
OCTOBER 1986
Salvadoran insurgents.
Europe during a
would be hampered
substantially if the canal were
shut down.
For decades the United
the Pacific to
conflict,
States has been able to fulfill
its
security-related obligations
without worrying about its
If this were to change, the
United States might well need more
military forces in this hemisphere. A
reassessment of our military deployments in Europe, Asia and elsewhere
could result in a troop pullback to defend
to
its allies
own borders.
Western Europe, the agreed strategy of
the United States and its fellow NATO
democracies is that the employment of
nuclear weapons should be avoided if
possible
PALS— Nicaraguan President
Daniel Ortega and Cuban
President Fidel Castro are
partners in support of
our borders.
It is significant that most of those who
oppose U.S. policies toward Nicaragua
by and large acknowledge Nicaraguan
expansionism. Sen. Daniel Moynihan,
a critic of U.S. policy, has stated flatly
Nicaragua is providing aid to El
Salvador's insurgents. He said in 1984,
"It is the judgment of the Senate Intelligence Committee that Nicaragua's
involvement in the affairs of El Salvathat
dor, and to a lesser degree,
its
other
neighbors, continues." Perhaps most
decisive are the findings of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelli-
gence, which has opposed U.S. policy
toward Nicaragua. Chaired by Rep.
Edward Boland, a close friend of House
Continued on page 54
THE REAGAN DOCTRINE:
FACING THE TEST IN NICARAGUA
essence, the Reagan
IN
that communist conquests
Doctrine holds
and rev-
olutions are reversible, In a March 1986
message to Congress, President Reagan laid out his views on support for
freedom fighters: "Resistance forces
communist tyranny
deserve our support. The form and
fighting against
we provide must be
weighed in each case
must be more than simply sym-
extent of support
carefully
But
it
bolic
.
.
.
.
.
Our goal ... is to convince
Union that the policies on
embarked in the '70s cannot
.
port of active resistance forces in
Angola, Cambodia, Afghanistan and
Nicaragua.
The main test of the Reagan Doctrine is in Nicaragua because:
• Nicaragua is close to our borders.
• The Sandinistas made a written
promise to the Organization of American States to create a democratic,
peaceful society.
• The Nicaraguan freedom fighters
the Soviet
are a potentially potent force offering
which it
work."
Almost 20 years ago, during the
a democratic alternative to the Nicaraguan people.
suppression of liberalizing forces in
Czechoslovakia by Soviet might, the
Brezhnev Doctrine enunciated that
Marxist control of a country is not
subject to change. Brezhnev boldly
contended: 'Never will we consent to
allow imperialism, by peaceful or non'
peaceful means, from within or without, to make a breach in the socialist
system."
Between 1975 and 1980, Marxist
was extended to 11 Third World
nations from Vietnam to Nicaragua.
The Reagan Doctrine now challenges
control
those conquests, particularly in sup-
Nicaraguan freedom fighters
through lack of U.S. assistance,
communist totalitarian tyranny will
consolidate its deadly grip in Nicaragua. Establishment of a "New Cuba'
on the mainland of the Western Hemisphere will threaten emerging
democracy in Central America and
pose serious national security problems for the United States.
The symbolic damage to U.S. prestige would be even more catastrophic—revealing the United States
as a hapless giant unable or unwilling
If the
fail
to protect its interests close to its
own
shores.
23
.
Interview
Turning the tide for
DEMOCRACY
U.S. assistance to
Central America
is
a calculated effort to subvert the democracies in the region.
Q*
its
definitely paying
to
_
off,
says Deputy
Nestor D. Sanchez.
is
the only
nation in the area
Nestor D. Sanchez
that's not free yet.
American Legion Magazine: what
and Soviet aims
in Central
are u.s.
America?
Secretary Sanchez:
The u.s. policy
show for it?
Democracy has made
great strides in the region. Five
years ago, Costa Rica was the only democratic nation
in Central America. Today, there is only one country that is
A*
Assistant Secretary
Nicaragua
In the past five years, the United States has increased
involvement in Central America. What have we got
not free and democratic— Nicaragua.
based on
afford to turn
What has
_
A
renewal of economic development
and growth in the region is necessary to address the socioeconomic causes of turmoil and conflict and to provide
increased opportunity for all segments of society. Defense
of democratic governments of the region is essential to help
shield them from externally supported subversion and
exploitation as they develop more equitable and stable societies. Regarding diplomacy, the United States supports
peaceful dialogue and verifiable regional settlements along
the lines contained in the Contadora Document of objectives.
Soviet policy is one of expansionism. The strategic goal
of the Soviet Union is to force the United States to divert
political attention and military resources to its critical Southern flank and away from areas of the world vital to the Soviets. To achieve this goal, the Soviets and their bloc countries
with their proxies, primarily Cuba and Nicaragua, are actively
arming, training and assisting Marxist-Leninist guerrillas in
Nestor D. Sanchez, a federal employee for more than 40
years, was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Inter-American Affairs in August 1981
24
More
votes have been
more countries
the threatened region."
The National Bipartisan Commission
economic development, defense and diplomacy.
Democracy seeks to give political power to the people and
their representatives.
away from
on Central America resulted
four separate, but mutually reinforcing elements: democ-
racy,
elections and in
institutions. Democratic societies take time to nurture and
develop. Democracies face problems— economic, social and
political problems and, unfortunately, today they also face
a significant external threat. As the National Bipartisan
Commission on Central America reported, "Central America is both vital and vulnerable ... the United States cannot
Q*
is
more
in the region
than in any other five-year period in the history of the area.
In Central America, the United States has a fundamental
interest in the preservation and promotion of democratic
cast in
A*
It
in the
deliberations
in 1984.
Jackson Plan
the plan achieved?
has helped improve political development, the growth
of democracy, agricultural production, educational
opportunities, health services, housing, infrastructure devel-
opment and generally broadened the benefits of growth. More
needs to be done. Congress has not fully funded the Jackson
Plan. In fact, there has been more than a half-billion dollar
shortfall over the past five years from the amounts recommended. The recent congressional action to provide $300
million more for economic support in Central America indicates a growing awareness concerning the importance of
sustaining economic development in our hemisphere.
Q*
Is there hope for a military victory by the Salvadoran government over the insurgents?
_
There
A*
pects for victory in El Salvador. President Duarte has
is
every reason for optimism concerning the pros-
to be a great statesman and a leader for all the people
of El Salvador. The military is becoming increasingly procontinficient and professional while support for the
ues to wane. Social reforms, political pluralism and dialogue
with the armed opposition all bode well for successful consolidation of government efforts and continuing attrition of
proven
FMLN
guerrilla forces.
AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE
CENTRAL
AMERICA
G- Democracy
P- 4.4
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$753
M- 22,000
Q*
G- Communist
Can
the Contras become an effective
force capable of helping to bring democracy to Nicaragua?
_ Democracy can win in Nicaragua. The
Democratic Resistance Forces do not
Dictatorship
GUATEMALA <p
HONDURAS
to defeat the Sandinistas
on the
NICARAGUA
Legend:
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G-
1
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M- 43,000
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on the march
units.
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IN
Sandinistas -The
Sandinista National Liberation
Front (FSLN), taking their name from Augusto Caesar
Sandino, the organizer of a radical national movement in
the 1920s, formed the core of a coalition that overthrew
the Somoza government in 1979. Shortly after the revolution, the national Directorate of the FSLN, the so-called
Comandantes, purged the proponents of democracy from
the coalition, declared themselves to be communists, and
abandoned the revolution's promise for democratic pluralism. The FSLN, a political, not national, party, now
rules Nicaragua with the help of an elaborate Cuban/Sovietadvised security system and the largest military force in
Central America.
FMLN "Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front
is
the united military organization of five leftist Salvadoran
groups, armed principally by the communist bloc through
Nicaragua. Their stated objective is to overthrow the deminstall
a communist
government. President Duarte has initiated talks with these
dissidents on three separate occasions to explore the
potential for national reconciliation.
Contras "In
all
typical fashion, the Sandinistas termed
opposition to the consolidation of their regime as counter-
Hence the name "Contras." In reality,
Democratic Resistance Forces (DRF) are fighting the
revolutionaries.
the
Sandinistas to restore the democratic goals of the revolution against
Somoza. This force
is
presently 20,000
strong, three times the size of the Sandinistas
was overthrown. The
when Somoza
DRF is the vital force for politically
galvanizing the internal opposition in Nicaragua to pressure the Sandinistas to accept democratic reforms.
Contadora Process The
Contadora GroupColombia, Venezuela, Mexico and Panama— so called
because of their meeting place on Contadora Island, Pan-
OCTOBER 1986
.0
2.7
- $1308
M- 8,000*
is
THE KEY PLAYERS
government and to
PANAMA CANAL
RICA
G- Democracy
being suppressed by a communist, totalitarian
Sandinista regime.
ocratically elected
Military forces
COSTA
M- 49,000
for
Nicaragua, but
I
M5.1
and 13-year-olds for their miland the desertion rate is more than 30
is
Type of government
P - Population (millions)
- Per capita income (annual)
P- 8.3
are drafting 12-
freedom
$1132
EL"
What they must do is to continue to
apply military pressure against the Sandinistas. These actions can galvanize opposition
among the populace and force the Sandinistas
to negotiate seriously with those opposed to
communism. The church, labor unions and the
free press are ready to take a stand. The Sandinistas have devastated the economy. They
percent in
-
SALVADOR
battle-
field.
itary,
1
M- 75,000
A*
have
P- 3.0
Rural
Guard
CENTRAL AMERICA
ama,
initiated a regional
approach to resolving conflict
in
Central America. These countries were subsequently joined
—
the Contadora Support Group Peru, Uruguay,
Argentina and Brazil— in an effort to arrive at mutually
acceptable objectives furthering the cause of peace in the
region. The United States has supported the Contadora
Process since its inception and has pledged to support an
agreement that is comprehensive, verifiable and implemented simultaneously. As of this writing, there has been
no agreement primarily because of Sandinista refusal to
accept provisions for a democratization process, which
includes free elections. Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica
and Guatemala insist upon inclusion of these conditions
as a necessary safeguard against continuing Sandinista
by
aggression.
Caribbean Basin
by the administration
Initiative "Launched
to aid
economic recovery
in
1982
in the
region, the Caribbean Basin Initiative offers preferential
trade arrangements to 21 countries in Central
America
and the Caribbean. Duty-free entry of certain products
into the U.S. markets is provided for 12 years. The initiative has made some progress toward creating jobs,
expanding private sector development, promoting domestic and foreign investment, and diversifying exports.
Jackson Plan "Legislation named for the late Sen.
Henry "Scoop" Jackson and based on the analysis of the
National Bipartisan Commission report on Central America. It embodies the recommendation to advance the dual
purposes of national security, and economic and human
development. Extensive support is provided for food
assistance, housing construction, education, agricultural
improvements and balance of payments. Jackson recognized the importance of bipartisan support for long-term
initiatives that improve regional self-sufficiency and
enhance security and defense.
25
In my opinion
HY MILLIONS CAN'T READ
A
recent survey
concluded that
three out of
five high school
students couldn't
read well enough
to enter college.
A
noted expert
tells
why the
"Dick and Jane"
teaching method
is
much
to
blame.
SOUNDS— Flesch
By
Dr. Rudolf Flesch
ILLIONS of Americans can't read because
they've never been
taught how. To read a
language that's written
with letters running
from left to right, you
must learn how to sound
them out from left to
right. It's called phonics.
Most of our schools don't teach
they switched to the whole-word
method, popularly called look-and-say.
trains children to
memorize
and meanings of whole words, and most
Americans today are trained that way.
They look at the outward shape of one
word after another and try to remember
what it means. If they can't, they skip
it, and also skip all short words whose
shapes are not distinct enough to
remember. Many of them have lifelong
reading trouble, variously misdiagnosed as learning disability, dyslexia, minimal brain damage or
"attention deficit disorder."
One
the shapes
no safety warnings, no signs on
buses, no restaurant menus, no want
ads, no job application forms. Their
number grows from year to year. Our
cities are filled
illiterate
with a
new
breed of urban
peasants. In the suburbs, mid-
Rudolf Flesch, author of "Why
Johnny Can't Read, " "The Art of Plain
Talk," "The Art of Readable Writing"
and some 20 other books, is a noted
dle-class parents have their children
expensively tutored in reading, because
the schools don't teach it properly.
Thirty years ago I wrote a book about
all this, titled "Why Johnny Can't Read
writing consultant.
and What You Can
Dr.
26
Do About
It
has 72 lessons with which to teach
a child to read by phonics. In 30 years
I haven't got a single complaint from a
parent saying that the method didn't
work. It normally takes a few weeks to
get through the book. If it's done at age
four or five, the child will enter school
reading.
AIVELY,
It."
I
thought the schools
would see the error of their ways
and go back to phonics. But they
in five
can't read at all— no labels on medicine
bottles,
phonics. Instead, half a century ago,
It
says schools should teach phonics instead of the look-and-say method.
I
didn't. Instead, they attacked
me
and persisted in teaching lookand-say. They added a smidgeon of
phonics to their curricula, teaching
children the sounds of a few letters "as
a help in identifying unfamiliar words."
But they go on using their "basal readbitterly
ers" that offer a small stock of carefully
selected words to memorize over a period
of nine years from kindergarten through
eighth grade. Textbooks in other sub'dumbed down' to contain
jects are all
'
'
only those words.
AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE
A nationwide, federally funded survey of 25,000 high school graduates was
conducted in 1984-85 by the National
Assessment of Educational Progress.
More than three out of five— 61 percent—couldn't read well enough to go
to college or fill a responsible job in
business, industry or government. Their
schools had prepared them only for
menial jobs at minimum wages. For
blacks, the figure was 84 percent. This
is the downfall of American education,
the imminent loss of our place among
leading industrial nations.
For about 70 years, there have been
more than 100 scientific studies com-
words
make hundreds of
that contain the
same sound twice,
two
different
ways— words
such as
spelled in
skylight, redhead, play-
scoreboard,
newsroom, seaweed,
earthworm or powerhouse. So we have 88plus standard ways of
mate,
spelling our 44 sounds.
But that doesn't mean we
should abandon phonics. It's been used for
centuries by parents and
schools with success.
READING
£
members of
taught as a
ently
from the
rest, this
gives a child no
chance to grasp the alphabetic code. Give
children a story that starts with "Once
upon a time" and tell them that "once"
is pronounced "wuns" and you have
children
If you
who
are confused for
ciation assemble each
year for three days to
unpleasant
discuss the infinite varieties
No
A
of look-and-say.
whole pseudo-sci-
wonder the
ence of reading has
emerged, with thou-
children
sands of books, journals
and papers in a neverending flow. Remedial
reading courses have
begun in colleges and
hate
it.
J
second reason for the present
unbelievable growth
universities. Special education classes
influ-
all schools, paid for by the
government because students
have been misdiagnosed as handicapped by learning disability or dyslexia.
Commercial, nationally franchised
ential university professors preaching
tutoring services are available for mid-
was too hard for small children and should be replaced by letting
them read easy stories right away.
In the 50 years since, this false doc-
dle-class children in the suburbs.
crisis is the
of the anti-phonics establishment.
Back around 1930, when look-andsay started with the famous "Dick and
Jane"
series, there
were just two
that phonics
trine
has spread alarmingly. Fourteen
are held in
federal
And
remedial reading classes have begun for
new employees
in three out
of four major
corporations.
In short,
we have
a giant anti-edu-
mistake and system-
series of "basal readers," all with
cation empire. But I'm
a child the alphabetic code,
workbooks, flashcards and a large array
of other classroom machinery exist
today. A dozen textbook publishers
Sooner or later common sense will return
and our children will again be taught to
avoid
atically teach
life.
THE
the Inter-
national Reading Asso-
boring, highly
activity.
Seventy-thousand
this.
IS
paring the results of phonics with those
of look-and-say. Invariably they showed
the superiority of phonics.
Why? Because look-and-say insists
on letting children start by reading little
stories. Since the most frequently used
English words are often spelled differ-
mil-
lions of dollars out of all
this
your job is amazingly easy. You start
with 50 or 100 practice words containing a short a such as, jam or pat and
before you know it, the child has learned
to sound out words from left to right.
"Ddd— aa— dd" they say and then, with
a flash of recognition, they cry out,
'Dad! Four- and five-year-olds enjoy
such discoveries immensely.
None of this ever happens in our
still
optimistic.
read.
THE ABCs— Among schools
Bloomington,
Ind.,
teaching phonics is University Elementary School,
where Anne Gardner introduces her class to the long "a."
'
'
'
schools.
The children
learn to recog-
nize a tiny handful of words, one after
another, repeated endlessly in carefully
prepared, wholly unamusing "sto-
Reading is taught as a boring,
highly unpleasant activity. No wonder
the children hate it.
ries."
Look-and-say has spread through the
United States, England, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. How did the
English-speaking world get into this
mess? There are two main reasons:
One is the evolution of the English
language. Over the centuries modern
English has been built from AngloSaxon, Norman and many other sources.
The pronunciation of words has changed
enormously. But there never has been
an English spelling reform. To this day
we spell the 44 sounds of our language
in a variety of ways, usually at least two
for each sound. We even have lots of
OCTOBER 1986
poy
repay
fold
unfold
unchanged
unhappy
rejoin
untie
recook
.
The calliope plays
as elephants dance
and clowns cavort.
The circus
in town,
is
back
and kids
of all ages are
again spellbound.
.
SWINGERS— The daring
trapeze artists usually leave spectators gasping in awe.
U NDER THE
By Gary Turbak
1
ADIES
.
.
.
and
.
.
.
gentle-
men, you are about to witness death defying feats,
astounding magic, and an
extravaganza of color and
excitement beyond your
grandest dreams. You will
travel from the Wild West to
BIG TOP
the Far East to deepest
You are going to be entertained
for the next two hours by that wonder
Africa.
of wonders— the circus!"
wink in its eye, the circus takes all comon a breakneck ride into a threeringed world of fantasy. Up becomes
down, and the laws of nature stand tem-
heyday may have passed,
the big top is still on top when it comes
to thrills, chills and laughter delivered
practically to everyone's front door in
Anytown, America. Where else can you
ers
see elephants dance, clowns tumble and
Award-winning journalist Gary Turbak
specializes in travel articles for this and
At the circus, we all suspend our disbelief. We're all children under the Big
Top.
At the circus, fact fights with fancy.
Danger and comedy link arms in an
unlikely marriage. Suspense and farce
tug you in opposite directions. In adjacent rings, slender and supple acrobats
vie with ponderous pachyderms for your
other general-interest magazines.
attention.
Though
its
human cannonball sail through the air?
Where else do brave men and women
a
tease death at the jaws of lions or
on
the bars of a flying trapeze?
With exaggeration
28
in its soul
and a
Men eat fire. Bears
Women get sawed in half.
porarily suspended.
ride bicycles.
Even
the clown, the master
of timing and pause, seems always a
half step out of synchrony. You can
never be certain whether the one in baggy
pants and painted face will disrupt the
show or be the glue that holds it together.
There's a feast for the senses under
the Big Top. Here, a sequined splash
of color in a tightrope walker's costume. There, the familiar piping melody of a calliope. Smell the hay, the
hot dogs, the popcorn. Taste the cotton
candy. Feel the cushioned softness of
sawdust under your feet. Sit back with
wide-angle eyes and soak up the circus.
It is, after centuries of performances,
still
The Greatest Show on
Earth.
AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE
PLAYFUL PETS— Although
CROWD
"big cats"
seem tame and
PLEASERS— Brightly colored, frolicking clowns perhaps are
for preserving the ageless appeal of the circus to young and old.
OCTOBER 1986
obedient, Big Top fans sense the nearness of danger.
most responsible
PARADE OF ACTS— Action in the three
rings often dazzles the eye.
29
Faced
with what
some
critics
claim are
excessively high funeral costs,
many
Americans are seeking less expensive
make
to
the caskets "comfortable"
resting places; misrepresented
embalming as legally required for every
interment; and otherwise put the squeeze
on their customers. There were, of
course,
many
conscientious undertak-
whose business
ethics were above
reproach. Yet, enough engaged in
deceptive practices to provoke public
ers
alternatives to traditional funerals.
pressure for reform.
Reacting to demands for clean-up of
the final act in life's drama, the Federal
Trade Commission in 1972 initiated a
thorough investigation of the funeral
industry. As a result, the FTC in 1979
formulated proposed regulations to
protect purchasers of funeral services.
Lobbying
THE HIGH COST
0F
DYING
in opposition, the industry
persuaded Congress to send the FTC
back to the drawing board. The FTC
returned in 1982 with revised regulations and this time Congress approved.
Reluctant to concede defeat, the industry turned to the courts, but the judi-
FTC. The sobecame effective in
ciary ruled in favor of the
called Funeral Rule
1984. In essence
it
requires undertakers
provide detailed price data upon
request and to refrain from certain unfair
to
or deceptive practices.
By Vernon
Pizer
that often
going to meet one's maker could be the
most expensive trip some have ever
go out of
taken.
final irony of one's
THE
earthly passage
it
costs
this
more
is
to
world than
it
did to
come into it. The New
Testament poses this
question:
"O
death, where
thy sting?" Many would
answer unhesitantly, "Thy
is
sting
is in
the funeral bill."
The average charge
for a traditional
about $2,500, according to
David R. Bohardt, executive director
of the National Funeral Directors Association. Other sources estimate the
average to be more than $3,000. At its
upper end, the cost rises to more than
$6,000. But even this does not tell the
whole story because it does not include
cemetery-related items such as a burial
vault, grave opening and closing, and
funeral
is
memorial marker.
When
both the
funeral home and the cemetery charges
a
are added together the bill escalates
sharply. Thus, there
is
no denying
that
Author of 15 books, Vernon Pizer has
written some 500 articles for leading
magazines throughout the world.
30
Last year the American Association
of Retired Persons and the Continental
Association of Funeral and Memorial
Societies conducted a joint nationwide
survey to determine how closely the
Funeral Rule is followed. Based on the
results of that survey, Carol A. Coile,
Whatever else it may be, death in
America is a business. It has its mergers
CAFMS
and
Funeral Rule, but generally are less
meticulous in adhering to its spirit. For
its
conglomerates,
its
trade asso-
and public relations
directors. One industry giant is an integrated complex of nearly 300 funeral
homes, more than 50 cemeteries and 40
flower shops, and rings up yearly sales
ciations, lobbyists
well beyond $200 million.
As
a
whole, the funeral industry
executive director, concluded
complying with the
that undertakers are
instance, almost
all
provide the cost
breakdowns mandated by the rule, but
because they use no standardized format 'comparison shopping is often difficult, frustrating and sometimes next'
to-impossible."
grosses about $6.5 billion annually. But
are controversial business.
said that, although required
COILE
to grant customers free choice of a
More than two decades ago Jessica
Mitford, in her classic, The American
cific item,
funerals are not only big business, they
Way of Death, portrayed the "death
care" industry in general as greedy and
deceitful, exploiting the emotional stress
of grieving families to pressure them
into buying unneeded services and
excessively lavish products. She documented her charges by recounting a
litany of horror stories about morticians
who sold bereaved customers fancy
"gravewear" for the deceased; urged
the purchase of innerspring mattresses
vendor from
"many
whom
to
buy a spe-
funeral directors are
getting around that requirement by
charging exorbitant fees, sometimes over
$1,000, for 'handling' caskets purchased from sources other than themselves, thus effectively freezing out
third-party vendors."
One finding of the survey is that the
charge for identical products and services varies from provider to provider,
often with an enormous spread between
the low and the high. For example, it
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<
was found
one
that the charge in
state for transporting a
body from one home
to
another ranged from $90 to
$775. Coile cautions that
"now, more than ever,
it
pays
shop around."
to
Some critics charge that the
com-
industry has not been
pletely
purged of such
dis-
credited practices as 'bait and
'
switch"
— attracting
cus-
tomers with low-priced
products and then "selling
up. " One subtle ploy used to
"sell up" is to display lowcost items in unpopular col-
and finishes to make them
show up poorly beside the
ors
tastefully presented high-cost
products.
Seeking an undertaker
whose fees have not become
inflated
is
not the only
to rein in the cost
way
of a funeral.
Another method finding
increasing public favor today
is
cremation. Jack
M.
Sprin-
ger, executive director of the
Cremation Association of
North America, said
present, slightly
PAY NOW, GO LATER-One of the growing trends today is prepaying your own funeral, which
not only relieves loved ones of the emotional strain involved in making burial arrangements,
but also allows time for you to shop around for bargains.
that at
more than 13 percent
of funerals in the United States involve
cremation. He predicted that by 2000
have doubled. Cheryl
Whited of the Telophase Society— telophase is the scientific term for the final
stage of a living cell a group that conducts more than 2,000 cremations
that figure will
—
annually in California, estimated that it
already accounts for 15 percent to 18
percent of all funerals. (Nobody, how-
£
ANOTHER WAY
to
secure funeral
services at a reason-
able cost
through
membership in a
is
service that speak of "ashes to ashes
and dust
to dust."
Aside from cremation, another
growing trend today is to arrange for
and prepay one's own funeral on what
the industry euphemistically calls a "pre-
basis. Funeral homes have
received many millions of dollars in
prepaid charges from individuals who
need"
ever, appears upbeat about prospects for
have contracted for their own funerals.
One major establishment alone is holding some $83 million in prepaid charges.
a plan recently announced by a Baltimore undertaker who offers the option
many
memorial society. J
It is
of having the cremated remains launched
chamber designed
into space orbit.)
to
Rooted in antiquity, cremation dates
back to the Stone Age. Over the centuries it has claimed adherents of all
backgrounds— the rich and the poor, the
high-born and the humble. In America,
Columbaria, vaults or shelves
containing niches to receive and protect
the urns of ashes, are now common-
the
first
known formal cremation was
its
to reduce the
basic elements.
Today
some 800 crematories
remains
there are
in the
United
States.
place in cemeteries from coast to coast.
The columbaria in Arlington National
more than
of Col. Henry Laurens of South Carolina, president of the Continental Congress in 1777-78. In Great Britain, the
Archbishop of Canterbury and members of the royal family are cremated
before burial in Westminster Abbey.
Far different from the way it was in
Cemetery provide niches
75,000 urns.
antiquity when the body was simply
placed on a pyre, the modern procedure
uses heat and evaporation in a special
$500. As a spiritual matter, many see
in cremation a singularly appropriate
response to the words of the traditional
OCTOBER 1986
As
for
a practical matter, cremation offers
significant reduction of costs
by elim-
inating such items as burial casket and
vault; the outlay for a simple, dignified
funeral using cremation rarely exceeds
not difficult to perceive
find great merit in
why
so
"pre-need"
arrangements. By settling all details in
advance, people render their survivors
a paramount kindness: sparing them the
wrenching experience of making the
decisions related to burial of a loved
one. At the same time, the person is
comforted by assurance that his funeral
wishes will be carried out precisely as
he deems most fitting. Beyond that, the
economics of advance arrangement are
attractive, permitting price comparison
in a calm and deliberating atmosphere,
presenting the opportunity to reject
expensive and unwanted frills, and
granting protection from the cost-creep
of inflation.
Still another
way
to secure funeral
Continued on page 65
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Interview
WORKING FOR FULL
VETERANS
EMPLOYMENT
The Department of Labor plays a key role in finding jobs for thousands
of veterans. In this exclusive interview, Labor Secretary William E. Brock III
answers important questions about employment programs and
tells what the Legion can do to bring employers and veterans together.
American Legion Magazine: What
of the Department of
is
the role
Labor concerning veterans?
Secretary Brock:
Our
role
is
to help veterans train
and find employment. Historically, veterans have been
provided priority services such as counseling, job referral
and job placement through the public Job Service system.
Donald Shasteen, Assistant Secretary for Veterans'
Employment and Training, is my principal adviser on all
veterans employment and training matters and administers
the Veterans' Employment and Training Service. Through
this nationwide field staff, DoL lends technical guidance and
oversight of veterans' services provided by the State-operated Job Service; administers the veterans' re-employment
rights program and the grants awarded under the Job Training
Partnership Act for veterans' programs; and ensures that the
provisions of the Veterans' Job Training Act are carried out
for
cooperation with the VA.
also administer the veterans' affirmative action obligations required of federal contractors. It is the job of the
Veterans' Employment and Training Service to help federal
contractors meet their obligations in listing job openings with
in
We
and to take affirmative action in hiring and
promoting the employment of Vietnam-era and disabled
LVER allocations between states.
by using
However, we believe
that
formula all states are treated equally and a fair
distribution of staff can be made. This redistribution also has
helped to reinforce the LVER role as the local supervisor of
services to veterans, rather than the provider of direct placement activities. Experience indicates that when there is more
than one LVER in a local office, the LVER responsibilities
are diluted and their activities resemble an Employment Service
placement interviewer, rather than the functional supervisor
of veteran services. Again, I want to emphasize that this
allocation process is fair and equitable and emphasizes the
this
role of the entire staff in providing priority services to veterans.
Q*
Many veterans complain that after they leave military service they have difficulty translating their military
experience to civilian skills. However, except for a small
special program, veterans have not had special provisions in the $3.46 billion Job Training Partnership Act.
What
are your views on new legislation that would provide preferential status to veterans in all programs under
the act?
the Job Service
Q* One
state has lost as
many
as 20 Local Veterans'
of new rules that
eliminate veteran's status as a criterion for assigning these
positions. Why were the rules changed?
_ New guidelines dictate that the number of LVERs a
state is allocated no longer be based on population, but
Employment Representatives because
A«
instead on the
number of veterans requesting
local Job Service office. This
is
services at their
a needs-based formula pred-
icated on actual workload. Fiscal Year 1986 was the first
year this formula was applied and resulted in major shifts in
32
_
At oversight hearings conducted by the Subcommittee
on Employment and Productivity of the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, witnesses stated that
the increased autonomy and flexibility accompanying JTPA's
decentralized approach are essential to the continued
involvement of the private sector in the program. With the
possible exception of a few amendments to achieve some
fine tuning, the consensus among witnesses was that major
changes to JTPA should be avoided.
A*
veterans.
A significant portion of persons who served in the dislocated worker program for the year ending July 30, 1985,
were veterans. Of the 132,200 new enrollees, 21 percent were
veterans. Sixty-four percent of the veterans terminated from
AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE
program were placed at an average hourly wage of $7.12,
compared to an average hourly wage at placement of $6.20
the
as
MPLOYMENT Service
E
for all participants.
staff are required
Q»
The Emergency Veterans' Job Training Act was a
job-training program exclusively for veterans. How successful was it?
_
The DoL and
the
\to
by law
ensure that veterans are
given priority services.
VA are very proud of the accomplish-
J
A«
ments of the Emergency Veterans' Job Training Act,
which was extended and changed, and is now known as the
Veterans' Job Training Act. The VJTA reopens the period
that veterans and employers may apply for the program and
reduces the unemployment eligibility criteria from 15 of the
past 20 weeks to 10 of the past 15 weeks. The legislation also
introduced new support services to assist participants in completing their training program.
The VJTA program has helped more than 38,600 veterans
A VA report shows participants were paid an average wage of $6.41 per hour while employed in their training
into jobs.
programs. Post-program information indicated that those
participants employed at the time the survey was conducted,
earned an average of $310 per week. Nearly two-thirds of
the participants were trained in construction and machine
trades, and technical and managerial occupations. The majority
of participants and employers indicated the program was
successful in meeting its goal to help unemployed veterans
make
Q«
the transition to
permanent stable employment.
The discrepancy between the number who were ceremergency program and the number who
the counseling resources of the Job Service and the
to
VA
be made available for those participants experiencing
ficulties
during training. Also, the Veterans'
are
dif-
Employment
and Training Service has implemented a system
in
which a
assigned to every new veteran in the VJTA
program to assure early identification of problems that could
impede the completion of the training program.
case manager
is
Q» You referred to the role of the Job Service/Employment Service in providing employment services for veterans. There has been considerable discussion recently
over suggestions to relinquish the federal role in the job
service. What are your views on the DoL/Job Service role
in the future?
_
A
A,
roles
review of the Employment Service, including the
and responsibilities of federal, state and local governments, is just getting under way at the Employment and
Training Administration. When that review has been completed, toward the end of the year, I will be receiving rec-
ommendations on
this subject.
tified for the
were actually placed in training jobs indicates that there
a great need among veterans for this help. Is anything
being done about this?
_ Two new support activities have been added to the VJTA
A* program. First, contact must be maintained at least
is
monthly with each new veteran placed
in
VJTA and,
second,
Q« The need for such special programs must be balanced against the government's efforts to reduce expenditures. What do you see in the way of cuts in employment
programs for veterans?
_ The initial overall effect of the Gramm-Rudman-Holln* ings reductions on the DoL has been tolerable. While
there will be a need to curtail
expenditures such as travel funds,
there appears to have been enough
prior planning to keep hiring at a
level that will not require invol-
untary separations of staff or fur-
loughs without pay.
Q« What about funding for the
Employment
Service, where the
actual job placement for veter-
ans
is
done?
_
There will be a reduction in
ft* funding for the Disabled Veterans' Outreach Program and the
Local Veterans' Employment Representative program for Fiscal Year
1986 from about $120 million, as
previously requested, to about $115
million.
The funding
allow for 1,894
DVOP
level will
specialists
Continued on page 66
William E. Brock, a former U.S.
and senator from
Tennessee, was appointed Secretary
of Labor in April 1985.
representative
OCTOBER
1986
33
.
'
What's Right With America
Joe Rangel was deported as an illegal
alien five times before he became a
U.S. citizen and restaurateur. Now,
along with the Mexican food, he serves
up generous portions of Irving Berlin's
.
.
'GOD BLESS
AMERICA'
patron on the back and says, 'And God
bless you, too, my friend."
Just another meal at Acapulco Joe's.
anapolis. Inside, scores of
Rangel, 64, a naturalized U.S. citicustomers sip from frothy zen, came to this country from San Jose,
tumblers of brain-tingling Iturvid—a dusty hamlet located between
margaritas and watch their Mexico City and the resort coastal city
waitresses maneuver to of Acapulco. He arrived with 17V in his
tables, balancing trays of pockets and a passion to realize the
burritos,frijoles, guacamole salad and
"American Dream." But more imporenough hot sauce to thaw the snows of tant, Rangel said he wanted to be part
Kilimanjaro.
of a nation that he so long admiredfrom
A mariachi band blares out the life south of the border. In his words, he
and loves of a hapless senorita. Sud- shares with us his feelings on "What's
denly, out the kitchen shoots Joe Ran- Right With America.
dinner time at Acapulco
Joe' s Mexican Foods restaurant in downtown Indi-
£
'
because so many
in the world can
only dream of what
we have here. J
learned what
away in attics, and the strong
voice of Kate Smith build to a crescendo over the speakers. Rangel breaks
stored
a broad grin, raises his arms like
Mitch Miller and sings along with Kate:
".
from the mountains, to the
prairies, to the oceans white with foam.
"God bless A-mer-i-caaa
my
into
.
.
.
hommmme
.
.
.
sweeeet
.
.
.
.
.
hooommmme!'
By the time the song has ended, Rangel has been joined by a chorus of cus-
tomers. There's much clapping and
hooting and whistling. Rangel adjusts
the cook's cap on his head and pats a
34
I
remember
the
day
became a citiwas the proudest
I
zen of this country. It
and happiest day of my life and there
were tears in my eyes when I took the
oath.
I
put a sign up in
my
restaurant
"Hear ye, hear ye! Today, I
an American citizen and a happy
Mexican gringo. Now I can raise hell
about taxes like all other Americans."
But it was not always that way before
that said,
am
I
became a
this
citizen in 1971.
country as an
and five times
I
I
came
to
illegal alien five times,
was deported.
know about immigration laws
I
didn't
then, or
what it took to become a citizen. To
me, America was a dreamland. The last
time I was caught, I was put into a federal penitentiary for six
months.
I
then
it
would take
to
become
a
naturalized citizen.
gel,
I
CALL AMERICA
a dreamland,
nT'S
owner of the eatery. "Enough!"
he shouts. "Now, America's song!" A
scratchy tune, reminiscent of the sounds
that are generated from old 78 rpm discs
I
call
America a dreamland because
many in the world who can only dream
of what we have here: the freedoms, the
opportunities. Those who live in this
so
country and do not appreciate, or take
for granted what they have, should travel
abroad and see how others live. Children sleeping on streets, others begging
for food; poor people thrown into jail,
whose only crime is having been born
poor.
In this country, the law is fair to
everyone. Rich and poor, all men are
the same when they stand in front of the
judge or jury A person is innocent until
proven guilty in' the eyes of American
courts— not the other way. In many
countries, including Mexico, this is not
always true.
.
AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE
something few
we have
it here. Some say, maybe we have too
much, but I don't think so. I once heard
an Air Force man say to a Mexican, "In
my country, I can say anything about
President Truman and not have to
worry." The Mexican answered him,
"That's nothing, in Mexico I can say
anything about Truman, too."
What's right with America? There are
many, many answers I could give, but
Freedom of speech
is
countries give their people. But
I
think the most important
is this:
and see a young man
going through the dumpster, looking for
something to eat. He may tell me, "I've
looked but no one will give me a job."
I give him a sandwich and a glass of
milk and tell him he will never find work
if he does not clean up, make a real
effort and show pride. I realize that many
people need help and I say, God bless
them and let us help them. But others
must learn they should first help
themselves.
rant, in the rear,
Amer-
BELIEVE Americans
ican people are what's right with Amer-
They
good people and their
generosity has been shown to me often.
You can get ahead if you are willing
to work hard. I did not always have this
ica.
are
restaurant.
country,
I
When
picked
I
first
came
to this
fruit in California
and
decided that this was not for me. So I
became a dishwasher and earned more
money. I traveled a lot and then I moved
to Indianapolis and worked as a waiter
and dishwasher in a restaurant. Finally,
I opened up a restaurant in April 1961.
It was not the size of the one now, but
it
my own.
was
It
was mine. And I was
proud of what I had done.
This is what I tell young people. I
know there are a lot of people and not
always enough jobs to go around, but
work for most.
Sometimes I'll be outside
there
is
the restau-
I
have a
responsibility to stand behind
their country
them— to
when
it
needs
an obligation and right
is like boxing, where
everybody hopes the better man will win.
When something is not right, Americans let their leaders know. This is
something you rarely see in other counis
for all of us. Voting
We
can protest if something is
wrong, but we should do it without
tries.
violence.
This is a special land. The first time
heard "God Bless America," I said
to myself, this is my song; this is America's song. That's why I play it everyday at the restaurant. At first, people
would put their hands over their ears
and say, "Joe, turn it down, it's too
I
Have I found this "American
Dream?" Why do you think I kept
coming back
times?
I
to this country so
many
learned the hard way, but the
way, to become a citizen. Yes, I
have found this dream, because I live
it every day.
There is no place else I would rather
live. This country has given me more
right
than
stand behind the peo-
ple they elect to represent them.
Voting
loud." But I can't. This is how I feel—
God Bless America. My customers sing
it with me and they usually feel good
and applaud after it is over. They feel
as I do, and I believe they are proud to
be Americans.
I'll
ever know.
America
is
the
New World,
and once
man
has experienced the things it has
to offer, there is no looking back. Only
thanks for what he has and hope for
what he can be.
a
The pace has slowed
at
Acapulco
Joe's and Rangel jumps from his seat
and
turns up the volume on the sound
system. Kate Smith's voice echoes
through the restaurant. But this is no
solo gig for the late renowned singer.
Joe Rangel matches her note for note,
wordfor word, because this is his song.
This is his country.
SALUTING THE NATION-Joe Rangel's
unabashed patriotism inspires customers at Acapulco Joe's in Indianapolis.
VETERANS UPDATE
A
2 percent
COLA
increase for disabled vet
erans has passed the House, and similar legislation is
pending in the Senate. The
originally proposed by
COLA
the administration last February
consumer
price index
showed
was 3.7 percent, but
the
that inflation rose less than
was agreed upon.
exempts several programs affecting disabled veterans from automatic cuts under the GrammRudman-Hollings balanced-budget law. Exempted are grants
to disabled veterans for adaptive equipment for their automobiles and houses, burial allowances for veterans who die
anticipated, and a 2 percent increase finally
The measure
also
of service-connected disabilities, vocational training for
service-connected veterans, and education benefits for
dependents and survivors of totally disabled veterans. Each
of these benefits was reduced March
when the first round
of automatic cuts under Gramm-Rudman-Hollings took place.
1
sight
Some reliefVAmay beon in
homes
are liable for
loans
for veterans
they
sell to
program
the Vet Center
not pay
them before
through September 1989 received full House approval
it passed legislation as an amendment to the veterans
health care bill, H.R. 4623. The proposed extension, however, faces opposition from the Senate where its Committee
on Veterans Affairs is reluctant to give its approval.
The Legion has sought an extension for the program because
Vet Centers continue to assist thousands of Vietnam veterans
who suffer from psychological readjustment problems. In
addition, a report on the effectiveness of the program is long
overdue and will not be available to Congress before the Vet
Centers are scheduled to be phased out, Sept. 30, 1988. The
Legion said the program should be extended to ensure that
Congress has access to the report to make an informed decision about the future of Vet Centers.
when
benefits, decided the
tee
when
it
to court
House Veterans
to obtain
Affairs
va
Commit-
tabled legislation giving veterans the right of
judicial review.
In a vote of 20-12, the
committee said
it
would not give
any further consideration to the judical review proposal for
the remainder of the congressional session.
An amendment to H.R. 585 would have permitted veterans to appeal VA decisions in federal court and also would
have lifted the cap on attorney fees. Under current law, vet36
more than $10
for an attorney to represent
The ceiling on fees was
from reaping large fees from
veterans, regardless of the outcome.
The Legion opposes judical review because it believes
veterans should not have to pay to obtain benefits they earned
while serving in the armed forces. Legion spokesmen said
ratings boards.
initiated to prevent attorneys
the existing system of
VA
claims adjudication provides the
number of claimants. 'Judical
review boards less sympathetic to
greatest benefit for the largest
'
review would have made
veterans' appeals," said William F. Lenker, chairman of the
Legion's Veterans Affairs and Rehabilitation Commission.
He said, however, that the Legion was not opposed to
increasing the $10 fee as long as measures were taken to
prevent attorneys from charging clients unreasonable fees.
Legion posts usually have service officers available to
assist veterans in appealing VA claims denied them.
Veterans
may
sure
suffering
from radiation expo-
get another chance at redress, courtesy of
Rep. Frederick Boucher of Virginia. By unanimous votes
amendment was added to the Department of Defense
his
Authorization for fiscal 1987. The
the rights of veterans
amendment seeks
who were exposed
to restore
to radiation to sue
federal contractors allegedly negligent during the nuclear
tests
between 1945 and 1962.
Boucher last May
The issue was
created in 1982 when an amendment added to the DoD
Authorization bill resulted in nullifying all lawsuits filed by
the exposed veterans. Since then the Legion has been fight-
The House passed
similar legislation by
but the Senate has been dragging
its
feet.
ing to restore the veterans' right to sue.
A
bill to add three conditions to the list of
presumed service-connected ailments for POWs has
passed the House. The conditions are organic residuals of
hypothermia— particularly frozen hands and feet, spastic colon
and arthritis due to trauma. Also included in the bill, H.R.
4333,
ment
is
a provision reducing the period of
to be eligible for treatment
from
Similar, but less generous, legislation
is
six
POW
months
pending
to
confine-
90 days.
in the Senate.
any Legionnaires involved
in children
and youth programs are pleased to see the children's
Justice Act become law. S. 140 cleared the House with only
minor changes and was sent to the President in August for
his signature.
Veterans cannot go
VA
who
non-vet-
eran buyers. The House Subcommittee on Housing and
Memorial Affairs is studying possible legislation that would
require buyers who assume VA loans also to assume the
liability for that loan in case of default.
Many veterans who allowed their home loans to be assumed
by non- veteran buyers, but failed to obtain a release of liability from the buyers, are being billed by the VA because
the subsequent buyers defaulted on the loans. Present law
makes the release of liability voluntary, and the Legion contends that, especially on older loans, veteran borrowers frequently are not informed of the need for the release.
Extending
may
erans
The
legislation, responding to the increase in
child sexual abuse, authorizes additional grants to states under
the Child
Abuse, Prevention and Treatment Act. The act
also calls for establishing procedures for videotaping the
young victim's statements and testimony to reduce the trauma
of facing the accused in an open court.
Other important provisions would require the National
Center on Child Abuse and Neglect to compile, evaluate and
distribute information regarding child abuse programs to each
state. Also the FBI would be required to collect and publish
data on child abuse cases.
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BOYS NATION
to register for the draft.
CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF
GROOMING CITIZENS
Aug.
Aug.
Boys Nation
morning
5, 1946:
start this
.
7, 1946:
expectations
.
.
.
off to
good
.
.
Program exceeds
all
Commander
National
proud and enthusiastic
July 25, 1986: President Ronald
Reagan tells the 40th anniversary session of Boys Nation he has been long
familiar with their program and he'
'grateful to The American Legion for
is
.
.
.
'
sponsoring
it
."
.
.
ORE
than 3,900 youths
have graduated from the
Legion's Boys Nation
program in the 40 years
separating those
two
first
jubilant messages
the staff sent to National
Headquarters in 1946,
and the events recorded
last July at the White House.
Each year, 98 youths are invited to
Washington, D.C., for eight days to
learn more about national government.
They meet government
grams. Funding is provided by The
American Legion Life Insurance Trust
and covers all expenses from transpor-
democracy seems cumbersome because
it encourages differences of opinion.
"I believe as strongly as anyone that
there are no rights granted in our Constitution that should be watered down.
As a great nation, as a republic, we must
be willing to take a chance on what those
egation attended a press conference in
which only the boys were allowed
ask President Reagan questions.
to
In a written statement President Reagan told the youths, "If you want government to work smoothly, it only makes
sense that you should educate the people. The American Legion Boys Nation
serves to do just that."
The delegation, headed by 1986 Boys
Nation President Gregory Orman, of
Minnesota, and Vice President Patrick
Ungashick, of Missouri, gave Reagan
a copy of the session's legislative actions
that were approved during simulated
Senate meetings. Demonstrating a keen
awareness of the social issues facing
the nation, the youths cited their sup-
port for allowing religious worship in
public schools; for stricter penalties for
visit historical
and cultural
At
the end of the session, the youths return
to their home states with two things in
common: a greater understanding of the
mechanics of federal government and
new personal skills to help them assume
the responsibilities of citizenship.
Boys Nation is an extension of the
Boys State program that began in Illinois in 1935 and spread rapidly to other
World War n. Legion posts
sponsor delegates to Boys State where
the focus is on municipal and state
governments.
For Boys Nation the national program the focus is on the federal government and its agencies, and delegates
are the elected governor and lieutenant
governor of the individual state prostates before
OCTOBER 1986
it
rights guarantee. Otherwise,
we will
and this 200-year exercise
have gone for nothing."
suffer,
Over
the years,
many
all
will
of the dele-
gates evidently have taken to heart the
Boys Nation.
Boner of Tennessee spoke
lessons and experiences of
Rep.
for
Bill
many of the graduates when he said,
"My
attendance
Nation gave
me
at
Boys
State and
Boys
a greater appreciation
how government works on the state
and national levels. The friendships I
made and the experiences I gained from
participation in Boys State and Boys
Nation continue to have a beneficial
impact on my life."
of
Supreme Court and Pres-
attractions in the nation's capital.
—
should remember that
fect the world,
40 years, U.S. presidents
have met 17 times with Boys Nation
delegations. For example, the 1986 delIn the past
federal agencies, study the workings of
idency and
Discussions of current events have
been a mainstay of Boys Nation since
it began. Nat'l. Cmdr. John Stelle in
1946 told the first Boys Nation class he
wanted it to take home the knowledge
that government is the servant of the
people, that "you are free to think and
speak and worship as you please,
because you still are boss of all this great
machinery of government ..."
Reinforcing that sentiment, then
Nat'l. Cmdr. Dale Renaud told this
year's group that, as it set forth to per-
tation to T-shirts:
officials, tour
the Congress,
NASA appropriations for the
replacement of the space shuttle Challenger; and to require 18-year-old women
—
THE OPENING SESSION- Delegates
to the first Boys Nation met with President
Since then the White House visit is among the most
memorable moments for youths attending Boys Nation.
Harry S Truman
in 1946.
"
,
THE LEGION'S ORATORICAL CONTEST
SPEAKING OUT FOR
DEMOCRACY
1942, high school sopho-
more Albert
P.
Smith
Contestants gain
a better understanding of our
Jr.
nN
found it difficult to believe
words could shape opinions and effect change.
Today, the words of this
Kentucky journalist are doing
that
both
Constitution,
can win
in his radio-television
program focusing on state
government and politics.
Two decades ago, young James
Kay stood nervously before an
audience of strangers and talked about
the value of living under the covenants
of America's most important document. Today, this Presbyterian minister stands calmly behind his pulpit in
New York City and talks about Christendom's most cherished covenants.
and
ful
these and
persons have
in
many
other success-
common
is
that they
The American Legion
National High School Oratorical Contest, a 50-year-old annual program that
participated in
has taught countless thousands of students their rights and obligations under
the U.S. Constitution.
In the past half-century, the
Legion
has awarded more than $1 million in
scholarships to several hundred national
oratorical finalists. Scholarship funds
awarded at department,
and post contests, making it
possible for people such as Smith and
scholarships, too.
that
is
—
gave
me concrete
experience
before the public and the responsibility
it
entails."
These comments echo the very
essence of the oratorical contest, said
Robert S. Turner, chairman of the
Legion's Americanism Commission.
Turner said the program has taught
American youths how to think and speak
clearly about their obligations and privileges under the Constitution.
Like
many Legion programs
that have
prominence, the oratorical contest began at the post level.
During the 1934-35 school year in Kansas City, Mo. Legionnaire William A.
Kitchen experimented with the idea of
having high school students compete by
speaking out on some element of the
grown
to national
,
The
was
Constitution.
only a few schools, but grew to statewide competition the following year.
Kitchen, a former Missouri department
"I was a 15-year-old high school
sophomore," Smith said. "Winning the
national contest proved that anything is
possible in this country." Smith,
who
represented the Dept. of Tennessee,
became a top-notch print and broadcast
journalist in Kentucky, and served on
a number of state and federal social and
economic commissions.
contest
initiated
in
commander, convinced Legion
makers
in
to adopt
it
policy-
as a national program.
"The first national contest was in 1938
Norman, Okla., with about 4,000
students competing," Turner said.
When
the clash of the constitutional rhetoric
Kay,
was over, John Janson of Phoenix, Ariz.
was declared the winner. The oratorical
contest was a program whose time had
come, especially in light of the war
"confirmed that I had public speaking
abilities, which were readily transferable into the preaching tasks of a minister. It gave me a sense of the public—
clouds gathering across Europe.
In 1941, Frank Church Jr., of Boise
(Idaho) High School, took first-place
honors in the contest. A junior, Church
"Participation for
me,"
said
American Way of Life
.
bor.
Now
deceased, Church threw his
hat into the political arena and rose to
"In 1951, Jeanne Dickinson of Rich-
the 17-year-old entered the contest at
it
district,
to attend college.
'
mond, Va., became the first woman to
win the contest," Turner said. When
also have been
Kay
'
prominence as chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee.
college
Franklin
What
spoke on the
As fate would have it, that way of life
would be threatened in a matter of
months when Japan attacked Pearl Har-
40
the post level, she had
no previous formal public speaking experience. Yet,
she defeated a field of speakers that
included a descendant of one of America's most fiery orators, Patrick Henry.
The contest has accumulated a long
line of firsts, including Ronald T.
McCoy, an 18-year-old student from
who pulled off the
1966 when he won the
contest less than a year after serving as
president of Boys Nation; and 16-yearold Alan Keyes of San Antonio, Texas,
who in 1967 became the first black to
win also dethroning Church as the
youngest champion.
Nogales, N.M.,
improbable
in
—
from the honors of competand winning at national levels,
many orators have found other
rewards in local competition. "Partic-
ASIDE
ing
ipation
was a big confidence-building
me," said Judith Wilcher
experience for
Pickering, who won post and district
contestsinCamden,AR, in 1959. "What
I learned from these contests helped
me enjoy public speaking and everything I have ever undertaken in life."
Pickering, who later became a high
school teacher, said she
is
pleased to
see today's youths take an interest in
the program. That observation hits
home because her
won state contests in
especially close to
17-year-old son
1985 and 1986.
Although the times, the speakers and
some things remain
the speeches change,
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constant with the oratorical contest. For
example, participants must come from
grades nine through 12, they must be
less than 20 years old on the date of the
finals, and their speeches must focus on
a specific element of the Constitution
that emphasizes their duties and obli-
WHAT THE CONTEST MEANT TO ME
at
gations as citizens.
The
oration,
which cannot be
It was a rewarding and unforgettable experience that
played a definite role in my subsequent political life.
I'm proud to have been associated with the contest."
less than
more than 10, is given
without benefit of notes, and participants must closely follow a written vereight minutes or
Robert F. Bennett, Kansas Governor (1975-79)
1945 Kansas champion.
he oratorical gave me the opportunity to grow. My
were stretched and was able to travel and meet
new people. I'm thankful to God and for the Legion's
resources to have provided me this opportunity."
I
skills
I
The Rev. David B. Marth, Lutheran Minister, (Wis.)
1964 national champion.
lit
sion of their topic. Then, they are given
about five minutes to study a topic on
the Constitution before facing the judges
It
helped
me build confidence in my ability to speak
Any
in public.
experience
I
lecture
gained
I
give today carries with
contest."
it
the
in this
with an extemporaneous three- to fiveDr. John W. Frost, Stanford University chemistry professor,
1973 national champion.
minute address.
Those who win at local and district
competitions go on to department contests where the winners receive no less
than $1 ,000 in scholarship funds. Then,
it's on to the nationals. The four national
finalists receive scholarships
of $16,000,
$14,000, $10,000 and $8,000, respecbe used at the colleges of their
tively, to
choice. For most recipients, the financial aid
(III.)
won the state oratorical on my mother's birthday,
with her sitting in the audience. She remembers it as
one of her favorite birthday presents. remember it as
one of the earliest indications that could communicate effectively with others."
I
I
Carolyn Phillips, news editor, Chicago bureau of the Wall Street Journal,
1974 Tennessee champion.
has meant the realization of a
college education.
"Having
my
education paid for has
(C
The contest provided me with a greater sense about
the role of our Constitution in the development of our
government and society."
on my
parents," said 1982 national winner
William L. Kephart, now a student at
the University of Illinois at Chamalleviated the financial strain
paign-Urbana.
to feel
more
at
"And
has allowed
ease while I pursue
it
John
P. Mullen, investment banker, (Wis.)
national runner-up.
me
my
'The most important thing gained from the contest
I
education."
Success— whether
it
sional or personal lives
be
in profes-
— appears to be
was the realization that what / thought was important—
could make a difference. This is the confidence try
I
to
I
instill in
my students."
one of the dominant manifestations of
Laura Vance Stowell, high school teacher, (Okla.)
1980 national champion.
the oratorical contest. Past winners and
participants have
become judges,
leg-
islators, ministers, scientists, corporate
magnates and teachers.
"But success cannot be measured
solely by how others perceive oratorical participants," Turner said. "Words
such as 'confidence,' 'dedication,' and
'hard work' are commonly used by orators to explain what they have absorbed
from the contest. Certainly not the least
among these is a deeper understanding
of what government under We The People really means."
OCTOBER 1986
From a journalist's viewpoint, Smith
"The themes of this contest are
woven through most of what my life
said, Legionnaires are afforded an
said,
excellent opportunity to promote the
has been about the past four decades.
It shaped a great bit of my life and gave
responsibilities to students.
me confidence and reason to believe in
myself.
'
As
the 1986-87 school year
marks
importance of freedom and civic
(The winning speech will be published in The
American Legion Magazine's Special
Constitution issued in September.)
"It's our
hope
that
Legion posts
the 50th anniversary of the contest and
everywhere become involved and
the nation celebrates the Bicentennial
emphasize both anniversaries within
their communities."
of the U.S. Constitution in 1987, Turner
41
This Year, Over 60,000
Gardeners Will Switch
To America's Tiller
.
.
.
LEGIONNAIRES
ACTION
IN
and enjoy
gardening as
never before!
Remembering
the Battle of the Coral
Sea... a huff and a puff, and the TV
is on. ..a golden effort... young
veterans honor their seniors.
Mhe
Battle of the Coral Sea was one
of the first major naval engagements
in modern warfare and it marked the
first
big victory for the U.S.
Navy
life for our disabled vets," said Post
Adjutant Fred Schindler. "For now, the
target
one
is
TV
set per
veteran."
in
rver
the past 21 years,
Chan Coul-
ter of Post 721, Coralville, Iowa, has
rolled up his sleeves and helped his fel-
Why waste money on a big
tiller if
low veterans
you
at
Iowa City
VA hospital.
only have a backyard garden? Mantis, the
wonder tiller,
Americans garden!
20-lb.
changing the way
is
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they saw, and they were
War II veterans
who
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to operate a television set or contact a
nurse. By blowing into a tube, a patient
can operate virtually all functions on
the special television set. "It
is
a
new
ored by the younger members of the
post with a dinner-dance dubbed "World
War
as
II:
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Day." The
who came from as far away
Florida, renewed friendships,
vets,
inspected
war souvenirs and were issued
special T-shirts for the occasion.
decided
to
show them we had
"We
not for-
of the sacrifices they made,"
Cmdr. Ken Kinson. "It was
40 years ago this year that many of them
were returning from that war and they
decided not to let the world forget so
they joined The American Legion."
all
said Post
Address
State
at the
Mhey came,
easy to push a button
and watch images come alive on a television screen. But for the severely
disabled, it can be an impossible task.
Members of Carl Lindberry Post 1009
of Chicago have taken steps to solve
that problem for quadraplegic and spinal
disabled veterans at Hines VA hospital
by purchasing a special control board
most,
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MISSISSIPPI'S
JAMES
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painfully obvious that the
mood
in
Washington
DT'S
keep chipping away
is
at
to
VA
inth, Miss.
P.
Dean before 3,000
dele-
Cincinnati.
life to
the Legion, all as a
member of Perry A. Johns
Post 6, CorThere he developed a strong
sense of the Legion's role and responsibility to the community. "I have
always felt that the Legion is a community organization and that posts
should be the focal points for commu-
"Included in this erosion is the
enactment of PL-99-272— the means
test— which forces certain veterans to
nity spirit," he said.
prove they are unable to pay for VA
medical care," Dean said. "The American Legion has consistently opposed
commitment
this
measure was
legislation, but the
passed by Congress and is now the law
of the land and we will assist veterans
to abide by its requirements.
"However, we believe
through
its
that the
regulatory process,
VA,
may have
Missis-
Dean has devoted more than 32
deprived of their earned rights
and benefits," said newly
gates attending the 68th National Conat
office,
years of his
Cmdr. James
first
sippian elected to the Legion's chief
programs until America's
veterans are ultimately
elected Nat'l
vention
Korean War, and the
the
DEAN
P.
Dean's emphasis on community
involvement
reflects three
to
decades of
community develop-
ment through personal
efforts in exec-
utive-level positions in the Corinth
March of Dimes and Red Cross, and
through service with distinction in nearly
all
local
Legion programs, including Boy
to the state
House of Representatives
Dean
also is a private attorney
Judge. His legal expertise was put to
good use in the Department of Mississippi where he served as judge advocate
for several years. In addition to
ous post,
numer-
and department offices,
Dean was elected department commander in 1972 and subsequently was
honored with life membership in Nodistrict
vember 1972.
Serving in the Legion has been a
most of
Dean's 53 years. "I grew up in a Legion
family," he said. "My father helped
get Post 6 chartered and he served three
preferential style of life for
My
Scouts, High School Oratorical Contest
years as post commander.
and American Legion Baseball.
Children and youth programs also
served as Auxiliary president."
Dean's Legion career began soon after
he reached eligibility. The ink on
are
mother
of special interest
the current provision that states certain
our country and
the intent of
down from
veterans 'shall' receive medical treat-
how
that affects
ment when they apply. However, the
VA is interpreting 'shall' to mean 'may,'
the
wholesome
Congress in
train in
and there is a world of difference."
Dean warned the convention delegates that the interpretation controversy
our young people.
The very fabric of
our nation is being
was
torn apart
just
one of the ever-increasing
to the
new
national
'THE VA MAY
commander. "I'm
vitally concerned
have violated
about the erosion
of moral fiber of
by
age drug abuse and
by an epidemic of
child abuse and missing children. The
be a daily struggle just to stay where
we are. But these obstacles can be overcome through a strong, active membership of Legionnaires who speak for
strides to reverse this assault
America's veterans
determined voice."
An Army
46
veteran
in
one clear and
who
served during
is
making
significant
on youth.
during my year of stewardship,
we're going to redouble our efforts in
this area."
A graduate of Northeast Mississippi
Junior College and University of Mississippi School of Law, Dean was elected
And
the
Corinth-
in uniform
and was handed a
membership card
by his parents.
The
tradition
continues today.
Dean's wife, the
teen-
American Legion
discharge
papers
had
scarcely dried
when he stepped
his
still
interpretation
of the means test.
We'll not allow it?
its
development of
challenges to maintain veterans rights
and benefits. "Our real battle will not
be to regain what has been lost to budget
cuts, but to hold on to what remains; it
will
and
serves as the Corinth Municipal Court
Congess in its
interpretation of this law and, if they
are incorrectly interpreting it, I can
assure you that the Legion is not going
to stand by and allow this to happen,"
Dean said. "Our opposition centers on
violated the intent of
in
1960, during his freshman year of law
school. He served in the state senate
from 1964 to 1968.
former Carolyn
Phillips,
and
his
two daughters, Ellen,
23, and Sara, 20, are members of the
Auxiliary. "Family support is impor-
job," the new commander
be traveling for the Legion
most of the year, and my family has
dedicated themselves to supporting me
fully during those 12 months." The
Continued on page 56
tant in this
said. "I'll
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The story began in 1968 when the
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"When Pinnegar took over, he literally, physically, turned the post
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The post's membership comes mostly
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state. Its programs have become so
extensive that there are few residents of
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the Legion.
Many
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Legion activities include youth basketthe
ball for
100 youngsters each week, adult
basketball teams, bowling teams and
tournaments, boxing events, volleyball, Special Olympics and New Year's
dances. Other youth activities include
three Little League teams, high school
golf and tennis teams, cheerleading
squads and majorette groups.
American Legion baseball and the
Special Olympics are
among
the post's
major activities. In recent years, the post
hosted two state baseball tournaments.
Its work with Special Olympics pre-
dates the national Legion's recognition
of the program.
The post
initially
orga-
nized competitive sports events and
parties for the Special Olympians and
now
hosts the competitions, provides
refreshments, T-shirts and transportation for teams to the county, state and
national competitions, and pays
expenses for the chaperones.
But Post 93 isn't all sports. At
Christmas it holds an annual party and
dinner for needy families in the area.
Henry Artrip, the children and youth
officer, and his wife, Elizabeth, spend
weeks before the party obtainnames and determining needs so that
no one is forgotten by Santa. More than
200 children receive gifts especially
selected for them. The post also prepares and distributes 40 food baskets to
families and during the holidays preseveral
ing
pares a dinner for senior citizens.
The post is especially proud of its
college scholarship program, which
provides four full-time scholarships and
five grants each year to area youths. It
also sponsors four Boys State delegates
and helps send high school classes to
visit
Washington, D.C.
Among
other continuing
community
projects, the post provides a
van with a
tank of gasoline for groups to use
for short trips and, on a grander scale,
full
Day parade
with more than 90 units. The post's
sponsors an annual Veterans
informal communications network
makes it possible for the post to respond
quickly to assist its neighbors in times
of tragedy or disaster. For example, the
post received word one evening that there
had been a murder in the community.
Before noon the next day it collected
clothing and several hundred dollars to
assist the victim's family.
As the post has grown and taken on
new responsibilities, it has increased in
prestige and now is second largest in
the department, regularly sweeping
departmental awards.
'It is an example to posts in any small
town of what can be done with commitment and a resolve to excel," said
Vass. "It is an almost unbelievable story
that still is going on."
'
ALL ABOARD—Among Post
veterans in May.
OCTOBER 1986
93's special projects
was a
river excursion for disabled
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LEGION NEWS BRIEFS!
State
Law Cadet Programs
Teach Respect For Policemen
program
The Department
Nebraska
rHROUGH
growing
sponsored by
Law
a
number of Legion departments, youths in several states
are gaining a healthy respect for, and
deeper understanding of, the role of
police officers in promoting and safeguarding American freedoms and rights.
In South Carolina, the program is
called The American Legion Law
Enforcement Academy and is held in
cooperation with the South Carolina Law
Enforcement Division at Columbia.
Young men and women about to enter
the 12th grade are eligible for the oneweek program that has been held the
past four summers. Students get an upfront look at police activities, ranging
from handgun safety
to criminal inves-
tigation procedures.
"We
offer the
has
Cadet program for the past 19 years and interest
continues to grow. Students attending
the sessions one for boys, one for
girls
are screened by panels in each of
the department's 15 districts. Applicants must submit a written statement
and answer questions posed to them by
panel members. Two boys and two girls
from each district are selected to attend
of
sponsored the Junior
a special
—
—
camps
the
at
at the state patrol
"What makes our program unique
that these
here," said Lt. Robert "Bucky"
Buchholz, an academy instructor and
member of Lincoln Post 3. "We run
the camps as if we were training
to get
first-
As in the South Carolina program,
Nebraska cadets are exposed to several
police agencies and their responsibilities. Buchholz said the most popular
interests for students tend to be "handson"
students.
ing techniques in police cars.
Participants in the
program are
intro-
South Carolina police
agencies and the scope of their duties.
to several
Students also learn about military police
work
at
the nearby
Army post,
Ft. Jack-
son, and about state wildlife regula-
tions and the duties of conservation
officers.
"It's a very comprehensive program
and one we're proud of," Black said.
"We'd like to see it expand
nationwide."
Growth is the operative word for such
programs, according to Nat'l Cmdr.
James P. Dean. "Law cadet programs
are the types of vehicles that Legionnaires can use to help youths understand the criminal justice system and
the necessity of law and order in all our
lives," he said. Dean, a municipal court
judge in Corinth, Miss., said that
although several departments have similar programs, he would like to see the
same law cadet program in all Legion
departments, much like Boys and Girls
State and the oratorical contests.
50
is
young people must compete
recruits."
program on a
activities,
such as defensive driv-
But cadets learn more than
just the
standard survival tricks-of-the-trade;
they also discover that there is a great
deal more behind the badge and the
wheel of a squad car. "If anything else,
cadets learn that police officers are people, too," Buchholz said. "This, in turn,
means cadets are going to respect the
jobs we have to do and understand that
we're there to protect and to serve."
The South Carolina and Nebraska
programs are two examples of how
Legionnaires can become involved in
teaching their youngsters to understand
their freedoms and rights as citizens,
and how the criminal justice system
works to protect those freedoms and
rights.
TAPS— Former National
James
come, first-served basis," said Department Adjutant B. L. Black, "and we
always have more applications than we
do openings." The session, which is
coeducational, can accommodate 55
duced
academy
Lincoln.
Day
Vice
Commander
passed away
Aug. 8, 1986. The longtime active Maine
Legionnaire was a member of the National
Legislative Commission at the time of his
V.
(T955-56), 70,
death. Past National Commander William
Rogers of Maine represented the National
Organization at the funeral services. Day
is survived by his widow, Delma, four sons
and two daughters.
J.
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Collectible Art
Original Masterwork
86th Station Hosp. (Darwin, Australia) Joseph Fratereiii,
2711 4th Ave., Pueblo, CO 81003 (303) 542-6809
196th R.C.T. Hv. Mtr. (Camp Carson-1 950-51) Merlyn
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1 09 S. Haley St., E. Camden, AR 71 701 (501 ) 574-1 347
349th QM Trk. Co. (1945) John Bloom, 200 Birchwood Dr.,
Fremont, NE 68025
380th MPEG Co. (Windsor, NC-WWII) Paul Coffinberger,
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Ct„ Longmont, CO 80501
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OK 74467 (918) 485-8931
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51570
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The artist has meticulously carved over 1000 feathers onto the body of "The Golden Eagle". The wings
open gracefully to a span of 6 inches and each feather is layered in pure 24K Gold.
.
"The Golden Eagle"
.
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accompanied by an OFFICIAL CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION.
is
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Toledo, OH 43614 (419) 866-4735
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Carver Tripp
developed a
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On JULY 4, 1987, the original
He
and
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it
THE METROPOLITAN GUILD
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has created
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its
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magic!"
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