Newsday from New York, New York • 48

A48 ART BUCHWALD I I i What the Latest Sex Survey Ask getting snookered by a most favored trea- Mrs think that the statistic is too high Only perverts would do it as often as once a week four times a month or 62 timea a year We have a rule in our house: If not full moon you can count Milton and me Mrs problem ia that if Americans do it onjy mice a week never have as maqy babies as they have in China It isn't a question of making Mr all depends on happening with the late-night shows We always made love when Johnny Carson was on but Jay Leno just put ua in a romantic you should watch Rush Limhaugh for rather go to love or making war it realty is making love or prepared to recommend that the agency issue request for proposals to lease the Coliseum site However Deputy Mayor Dyson an MTA board THE LATEST survey from the University of Chicago is full of surprises One of the biggest is the news that on average Americans have sex only once week The follow-up question that respondents were not asked was whist do people do with the rest of their time? I interviewed several members of the public in hopes of getting answers This is the question I posed you have sex once a week how do you fill the other six I say because no American in the survey admitted to having sex in the daytime Here are some of the answers I was given: Mrs just ait there each night and count my blessings with Mr have hobbies I do E-mail on my computer on Monday night I play poker cm Tuesday I watch wrestling on Wednesday and then Clara and I always have sex on Thursday unless there is a basketball game in which case she calls her sister and I spend the evening in the you ever think about doing it twice a I asked Mrs for Eriated people Lawton and I are Mrs told me middle class and sex mean aa much to us aa it does to Princess Diana or Madonna Sometimes we do it cm Saturday night because the worst evening for TV programs But we never fail to do it mice a week just so that the whole sex survey be out of Mr work very hard in a warehouse stacking boxes at one end and unstacking them at the other When I come home exhausted and I don't even want to think about having relations with my wife Whatever energy I have goes into my bowling Maybe we indulge in any hanky-panky together but I have a good relationship with my wife and she knows when I bowl a strike the same as making New "York Forum Continued from page A44 duced the purchase price to $100 million However that deal fell apart as welL Now is the time to reassess the Coliseum site and look objectively at what market forces will allow As a recent appointee to the MTA board and a developer with a great deal of firsthand experience in the real estate industry I can tell you that the current market will not respond to calls for a major sale much less one of the magnitude mi visioned nine years ago Leasing the Coliseum on an interim basis is not only viable but our most practical revenue-producing move Leasing the site provides immediate revenue to the city and transit system while giving us the option to pursue a major sale and development prqject once the market bounces back In fact MTAstaffconductedastudy to determine the value of the Coliseum today After a preliminary examination of interest among qualified parties the staff determined that the site could generate $10 million to $12 million a year in rental income with 21 percent ofthat being turned over to the city and the rest for use in the mass transit system After two postponements the Real Estate Committee of the BATA earlier thia month was finally member stated that he felt Wiring the property for approximately $1 million per month would not be in the overall best interest and asked for another postponement That was granted fay the committee but many board members found this delay to be unacceptable It is time to forget past history and work to maximise the value of the site and the immadiata benefit it can produce for the transit-riding public The mandate is to serve the transportation needs of the citizens in the downstate area in a safe efficient and cost-effective manner This transportation system in turn serves as the lifeblood of the citya and economy Over the last decade the agency has made enormous strides in improving the mass transit system by investing heavily in capital programs that buy railroad and subway cars and buses as well as improvements in stations throughout the city However there is still a long way to go With all nf thia prmir mwinting on flm trmwt finances it is unacceptable to allow a valuable lwvnnne iwnrnw to go untapped I Wng the Coliseum site now would provide the smartest simplest and quickest way to inftise significant amounts of revenue into the infrastructure serving New York City bua and subway riders -i -4 i I LETTERS ij GOP Is All Trick No Treat not even Halloween and the Republicans are perpetrating a cruel hoax on the American people Their slogan is: Trickle down and treat is for the impoverished the uninsured the single mothers without day care minimum wage workers and Social Security end Medicare recipients The income tax cuts and capital gains breaks is for the wealthy According to the with as the rich become even richer some crumbs from their table will become available to the poor The with is out of touch with the mass of America As Warren Rudman a former Republican Senator from New Hampshire and a founder of the Concord Coalition arid: cannot get deficit reduction of any substantial nature without a huge tax increase or significant moans testing of all entitlement programs inehidmg The Republican program of down and is cynical and lacking in compassion And most of all it work Eugene Werier Bronx Just Innocent Bystanders I read with meat interest Mike recent column Strike and Oct 5 demonstrating the effect of Section 592 of the Labor Law on individuals who lose their jobs because of a labor dispute to which they were innocent bystanders As chairwoman of the Committee on Labor I am all too familiar with the often painful human cost of the rule During the 1994 legislative session my first as chair I worked to ensure that two bills designed to protect employees who were the inrmiwnt bystanders to an industrial controversy were reported from my committee: The biUa A1777 and A9200 were successfully voted out of the Labor Commit tee and referred to the Ways and Means Committee for cost analysis The first bill would change the language of Section 692 so that the seven-week waiting period would not be imposed an those employees not directly participating in the industrial controversy The second mil would amend the law by dilating the reference to a waiting period imposed on employees of employment by their employer This legislation would protect timaa amplnyww looked out of their jobs by em--ployers a situation that occurred in the 1990 baseball season Perhaps when informed of the suffering of innocent bystanders such as Randye Ringler the public will find a renewed interest in righting thia iqjustice While the baseball strike has raised the profile of the vendors ushers groundskeepers clerks and ticket takers suffering under thia law there have been countless other unnamed New Yorkers who have been penalized in a like manner Catherine Nolan Albany note: The writer ie an ae-eembfywoman representing the 37th district in Queens Blame ACT UP David anger and frustration with ACT UP are understandable UP Has Let Us New York Forum Oct 18 when one considers how little actual progress has been made toward ending the AIDS plague I understand rags In fact I often fed it myself How- ACT UP demonstrators in action ever I believe his anger is misdirected Three US presidents have refused to implement tiu rammiiiwuintinni of tim National Commission cm AIDS Congress has refused to fully fund the Ityan White CARE Act diverse research inititatives fplifit wfocstv11 prevention campaigns pharmaceutical companies continually market (and make tremendous profits on) mediocre drugs with few benefitsyet refuse to conduct follow-up studies on their efficacy insurance companies set discriminatory benefit caps and the American public refuses to acknowledge AIDS for the medical and political crisis that it is For years groups like ACT-UP TAG and Gay Health Crisis have fought to get peoples attention and to make AIDS part of the national dialogue They have succeeded in doing so only to see it ignored like so many other pressing issues Joe Chiplock Manhattan New York Newsdagr wrirnmes your fatten Phase indude your address and homo and offics phone dgu of or fadsnot in the subject wetting bout Letters may be edited far fangth or cterity and Annua Mb floor New Yfacfc NY i i if i i.