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Runners up settle for Tightness ftfte fiilabelprita Inquirer 1 Op-ed Page 19-A Wednesday, June 13, 1981 GI returns Mm 41 Italy remembered over many years iiHy reer of being the Republicans' runner-up and, therefore, their least favorite source of unwanted truths. When he finally won something the vice presidency, by appointment of Ford the habit of scorning him was so ingrained he was forced to yield to Sen. Bob Dole at the next convention. No one in modern times has outdone Rockefeller in dramatizing party indifference to the wisdom of the challenger. Who will ever forget the spectacle of the Republican delegates howling down Rockefeller's message at the Cow Palace in 1964, when he tried to say that the odor of "extremism" surrounding Sen.

Barry Goldwater's candidacy would doom him to defeat? The examples can be extended indefinitely, so clear is the rule that the runner-up is right. Equally true is the corollary proposition that the weaker the challenger, the greater the peril for the unwarned country. McCloskey was just a gnat-bite to the Nixon campaign in 1972, but look where Nixon and the nation were two years later when Watergate confirmed his warnings. Similarly in 1964, Democrats gave little heed to George Wallace's suggestions that Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society plans just might overstrain the management capacity of those "pointy-headed bureaucrats who can't even park their bikes straight." Given our history, the worst portent of Reagan's possible second term is that no one in his party was willing to be the runner-up who warned us about it.

But Democrats have no excuse. Gary Hart has sacrificed himself to fulfill his historic mission of prophecy. Pay close attention to what the man is saying. The runner-up is always right. (David S.

Broder, based at the Washington Post, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973.) 'I'll go for Hart's ideas unless Mondale comes up with new and improved of the disgraced former President, Richard M. Nixon; But, of course, they wouldn't listen. Ford had the delegate votes. On the Democratic side, the permanent No. 2 to Carter, Rep.

Morris K. -Udall, advanced what should have been an obvious proposition: Don't nominate a man who lacks a sense of humor. Even if he is elected, Udall said, you will live to regret it. He was. And they did.

Do you wish more examples? Skip over Hubert H. Humphrey's comments on what awaited the Democrats if they ran George McGovern in 1972. Go to the classic case of Richard M. Nixon, of whom the Republicans were thrice warned and by whom the Republicans were thrice burned. In 1972, it was Rep.

Paul N. (Pete) McCloskey Jr. who ran against Nixon in the New Hampshire primary, saying that Nixon was congenially incapable of telling the truth. Four years before, it was Gov. George Romney of Michigan who questioned whether Nixon had any intention let alone any "secret plan" to end the war in Vietnam.

And way back in I960, the first time Nixon ran, there was New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller telling fellow-Republicans that Nixon would not lead them to victory but to shame. Three times the challengers were right on the subject of Richard Nixon, and all three times they were ignored by the recidivists of the Republican Party conventions. Rockefeller practically made a ca By Tom Fox Inquirer Editorial Board Flying into Rome on the big Congressional 707, it all looked so familiar to Lou Esposito, the meat man from 9th and Carpenter in the heart of the South Philadelphia's colorful Italian Market.

Looking down from the great blue sky, Lou Esposito spotted the golden dome of St. Peter's glittering in the bright sunshine. Then he picked up the Vatican and the Colosseum with the gentle Tiber flowing and twisting through the ancient city. Lou at 61, was back back in Rome, a city he has visited perhaps a dozen times in the last half-century. Jetting in on the 707 as a member of a 12-man presidential delegation dispatched to Italy to mark the 40th anniversary of the liberation of Rome, Lou Esposito remembered his first glimpse of Rome.

It came on a sunlit summer day in 1935 when 12-year-old Louis Esposito, an honor student at St. Paul's Catholic School, at 10th and Christian, was one 'of the 110 young Americans of Italian ancestry, kids from all over America, who toured Italy as guests of the Italian government. Lou Esposito made the trip by boat back then. And at the tour's end he got io shake hands with Benito Mussolini, the fascist prime minister. The next time Lou Esposito got to Italy he saw Benito Mussolini again, but he never shook II Duce's hand.

He came upon Benito Mussolini dead dead and hanging by his feet in an abandoned gas station in Milan, his girlfriend, Clara Petacci, hanging at his side. It was wartime 1945, almost a year after the liberation of Rome by the Allies and the long reign of Benito Mussolini had ended in death. "That's when I knew the war was over at last," Lou Esposito said over a plate of eggs the other morning. Lou Esposito, St. Joe's Prep, '39, and Villanova, '43, was one of three veterans of the Italian campagin, veterans of Italian descent, picked by Ronald Reagan to join Sen.

Bob Dole, the Kansas Republican who was wounded in Italy. The group included assorted generals, ambassadors and Medal of Honor winners to celebrate the liberation of Rome, 40 long years after the historic moment. Lou Esposito was a big part of that moment. He was one of the first American soldiers to enter Rome on that warm June 4 in 1944. He arrived through the South Portal as part of an advanced Intelligence Unit with orders to establish a temporary government, open hospitals and police stations, provide food and shelter.

"I'll never forget the day we arrived in Rome," Lou Esposito said. "I can still see the flowers the Italian people threw at our feet the roses and daisies and carnations. I can still Japanese-style offshore waters to exploration see the smiling children and the beautiful girls inviting us.to dinner that evening. "Did I accept a dinner invitation? You bet I did. I had a steak by candle-light, six flights up in an old marbled palace in the shadows of St.

Peter's. I'll never forget that night as long as I live." But the next morning Lou Esposito was back on the Italian roads, headed north to establish some sense of order in the next town that would fall to the Allies. "I always pasted the Army of Occupation Proclamations to the wall of City Hall," Lou Esposito remembered. When Lou Esposito entered the Army in 1942, fresh out of Villanova, he was assigned to a supply unit because he had worked in his father's butcher shop as a boy. However, when Army brass learned that Lou Esposito had visited Italy as a boy and spoke a fluent Italian, too he was quickly transferred to Intelligence and dispatched to the Italian front where memories, happy and sad, haunt him to this day.

"As I flew in with Bob Dole and the delegation, I had all sorts of thoughts," Lou Esposito said. "I remembered the heavy rains that fell on Italy that spring. "I remembered the muddy Italian roads and fields, the sandy beaches at Salerno, the gunfire by the entrenched Nazis, the bombings by the German planes, the ships on fire in the bay. "I thought about all that and more the flowers in Rome, the Italian people reaching out to touch us, the day I came upon Mussolini hanging by his feet in Milan. "I thought about all that as the delegation unveiled an elaborate marble plaque on the wall of St.

Paul's Portal, the south entrance to Rome, the road we took to enter the city, a plaque officially marking the 40th anniversary of the liberation of Rome." It all happened long, long ago, when Lou Esposito and the world were young, but, Lou Esposito said, standing there at the South Portal, his mind filled with memories, it seemed like it all happened only yesterday. "War does strange things to a man's mind," Lou Esposito said. "War is a living hell. Men die in war. Death is everywhere.

Yet, the memories live on forever. "There were moments in Italy, moments that I will never forget. Never. But I suppose that's one of the prices a man pays when he survives the horrors of war." paid more than $41 billion in bonus payments for federal leases. This buys nothing more than the right to apply for more than seven dozen permits; it buys no oil or gas which, in fact, may not be there.

They also paid $302 million in rentals and more than $17 billion in royalties on production. In the end, the actual market value for all of the oil and gas produced was $103.6 lion, of which the federal government received 57 percent. Of the remaining 43 percent, the oil companies had to pay the expenses of exploration, development, production, transportation and marketing CAMERA1 i cm SHOP the By David S. Broder WASHINGTON Sen. Gary Hart is getting a great deal of advice these days on what he should do, now that it's clear Walter F.

Mondale will be the Democratic Party's presidential nominee. My own advice would be simple: He can relax and wait for history to justify his good judgment. Hart has been telling the Democrats they must update their message and their image if they are to regain power. Odds are, he will, be proven right. Among the more overlooked principles of our politics is the Harold Stassen theorem, named for the man who unsuccessfully sought the presidency so many times.

In its majestic brevity, Stassen's Law states: Runners-up are always right. The law got its name in 1948, when Stassen was a serious challenger to Thomas E. Dewey. Stassen tried to tell the unheeding Republicans that Dewey had the voter appeal of a turnip. But would they listen? Hah! From that day to this, the American voters have stubbornly refused to heed the wisdom of those who finished second.

Hart is just the latest in a long tradition. In 1980, George Bush said it was "voodoo economics" for Ronald Reagan to suggest that he could cut taxes, boost defense spending and still somehow balance the budget. No way, said Bush. Four years and sever-v al hundred billion deficit dollars later, he has been proven right. Also in 1980, Edward M.

Kennedy warned that if the Democrats nominated Jimmy Carter for another term, they would forfeit the election. Carter, as it turned out, was able to carry only six states. Go back to 1976. Reagan tried to tell the Republicans that they could not win with the unelected President, Gerald R. Ford, who had risen to his post through the good graces A good record Open By Stephen Van Dyck Special io The Inquirer For many Americans, the development of oil and gas resources in offshore waters brings to mind a stark image the Santa Barbara oil spill of 1969.

Such powerful images lend themselves to the development of political decisions that can have a profound impact on society. In the case of offshore oil and gas development, the image of Santa Barbara has led to a number of political decisions intended to protect the environment and to assure rational development of these tremendous resources. Unfortunately, many of these decisions have had an opposite effect they amount to an unwitting sabotage of our future energy security. This is a particularly crucial issue for those in Pennsylvania, since 98 percent of the oil and gas we use to fuel our cars, heat our homes and run our farms and factories comes from outside the state. Pennsylvanians should be paying close attention to what is happening now in Congress, where two important political decisions regarding offshore oil and gas development are being made.

The effects of these decisions could sabotage our future energy security. The first decision concerns whether or not to continue, or possibly add to, a ban on the development of millions of acres of federal lands in the outer continental shelf, where estimates indicate as much as 50 percent of future oil and gas supplies will be found. The second decision is whether or not to pass legislation (HR-4589; S-2324) that would overturn a recent Supreme Court decision regarding the applicability of the Coastal Zone Management Act to continental shelf leasing by the Department of the Interior. The court held that leasing per se was not an activity that would permit coastal states to intervene in the leasing process. The court simply said that the states could intervene after leasing, not before.

If one examines the arguments of those who favor both these efforts, one finds two basic themes: Oil and gas activity in offshore waters is environmentally dangerous; oil companies are not paying "fair market value" for the leases. Since the decisions that will be made in Congress will affect future energy supplies profoundly, especially in Pennsylvania, these arguments are worth examining to see if they justify delays in offshore oil and gas development. Does offshore oil and gas development pose threats to the environment? The fact is that, after the Santa Barbara oil spill, which caused no permanent damage, the regulatory framework governing offshore development was completely overhauled. Since that time, more than 4 billion barrels of oil have been produced from offshore waters and a mere 791 barrels have spilled, from blowouts. The environmental record is so good, in fact, that natural oil seepage accounts for 32 percent of world ocean pollution from oil, compared to less than 1 percent from outer shelf operations.

Yet, from an environmental point of view, our policy is still governed by the "image" of an oil spill that happened 15 years ago and is not likely to happen again. That's how we unwittingly sabotage our energy future. A second argument is that the federal government, as steward of public lands, does not receive "fair market value" from the oil companies that develop and market the oil and gas from public lands. Let's consider some cold numbers. Between 195Xand 1982, oil companies safe and proper development of offshore oil and gas.

But the current and prospective bans on offshore leasing would help undo that decision. Overturning the Supreme Court's ruling would add still more years to the delay it already takes seven to 15 years to bring a lease to production and would help undo that decision. These efforts in Congress to halt the search for oil and gas in offshore waters should be abandoned. (Stephen Van Dyck is president of Sonat Marine, Inc. of Philadelphia and chairman of the Pennsylvania Pro-Leasing Coalition.) SALE PRICES GOOD THRU MONDAY, JUNE 18th HURRY-IN FUJI COLOR PRINT FILM Stock Up On Three Packs Now JbaUyfate plus federal income and windfall profits taxes.

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We drive to music. We work to music. We eat to music. We wake to music. We fall asleep to music.

And, of course, it isn't music at all. Who could listen attentively to hour after hour of real music, especially while winding spaghetti on a fork? Our public music, like an endless tape, functions at the low level of a TV set after midnight with only the target pattern in place. The other day the chaplain of the U.S. Senate was prompted to remark, "Loving Father, this is a place of great power, and the powerful people usually suffer in silence." The Senate majority leader, Howard H. Baker could not in all conscience let this misconception stand on the record.

He broke the silence to say, "I have not seen a soul in this place be silent in weeks. They are the noisiest bunch I ever saw." Alas, Baker speaks for a lot of us constituents as well. We may learn to play games with silence in order to do business with the Japanese. But silence still seems a negative state to us almost an absence of life. Silence has a nasty way of interrupting activity, and even questioning the value of activity.

Silence makes us think not least of all about the effects of the noise in which we steep ourselves. Silence leads to peace. Is that why we fear it? Silence, somebody said, is the unbearable repartee. But the question is: If we wish certain kinds of knowledge and self-knowledge, can we bear to live without it? (Melvin Maddocks is a columnist for the Christian Science Monitor.) 1 By: Melvin Maddocks Christian Science Monitor An enterprising woman named Ikuko Atsumi instructing American businessmen on the Japanese- uses of silence. While her Greater Boston clients bite their tongues, she explains that her countrymen require a preliminary silence before all business negotiations as ritualistic as a tea ceremony.

Eventually there follows another kind of silence that serves as a middle pause a moment for reviewing the last things said to one while preparing the next thing one will say. During this silence, unnerved American businessmen are apt to panic, rush into concessions, and generally give away the store. The fact is, silence terrifies a lot of us under almost any circumstance social as well as business. We may argue, for instance, that the test of true friendship occurs when two people remain at ease with silence. But how quickly we flutter into small talk, filling the dead air with sheer sound like a desperate disc jockey.

As much as anything, the ubiquitous telephone signals that we abhor silence the way nature abhors a vacuum. About 25 million telephones will be sold In the United States this year, according to Consumer Reports. They will be stationed in basements beside the laundry, in kitchens, within reach of the refrigerator, in bathrooms, next to shaving mirrors. Need we mention the conference call, the equivalent of saturation bombing as far as silence is concerned? When human voices falter, the user-friendly synthesizer pipes up. The Japanese may cultivate the uses of silence, but Mitsubishi still produces a talking air conditioner.

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