European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 22, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Saturday october 22, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 11 government Troub Esho Ofer invites suggestions 3 any ideas to streamline legs by Mike Feinsilber Washington up have a Sugges Tion for improving the Way government regulations work write Wayne Granquist room 244, old executive office bldg Washington . 20503. Granquist a Democrat is an old govern ment hand who spen he last seven Republican years on the outside. He says it was a Chance to learn How government books from the Bottom  he is Back As associate director of the office of management and budget for management and regulatory policy. That Long title puts Granquist in charge of making Good on Jimmy Carter s prom ise to Reform government regulation of people businesses institutions and communities. It also makes him the Point Man in the Effort to clean up the government s often murky language. I spent seven years Back in a town of 80,000 people norwalk.conn., where he was president of a local Bank and vice president of a larger merged Bank i ran a Small business was chairman of the housing authority i was on the Board of directors of the anti poverty ageny i was founder of a Community Cen Ter i was president of a Small medical  saw Hud department of housing and Urban development from the Point of View of a housing authority with a Small budget screaming to get Money to put in storm windows Granquist says. The horror stories we went through the Lack of decision making authority he re Calls. You never knew where to go Washington Boston Providence Granquist son of a Foreman in a hard Ware factory is a graduate of Tufts and Harvard Law school. He worked in the for Art Iwaida Washington the most interesting thing around when you leave the nation s capital and travel around the country is that everyone believes what Washington has a mind of its own. I know this because i am asked such questions As what does Washington think of Jimmy Carter or How does Washington feel about Bert Lance or when is Washington going to do something about my fuel Bill or if you re talking to business executives the question inevitably is Why does t Washington leave us alone it is fruitless to explain to people that Washington does t think at All and if it has any feelings it keeps them bottled up inside. A washingtonian whether he wants to or not is expected to Tell the people in the country what Washington is up to. I find the Best Way to do this is ask the taxi Driver who is driving me to the Airport to give me a briefing on Washington s thoughts. All taxi Drivers in Washington before they take their cabs out on the Street Are handed a mimeographed Sheet entitled what Washington is thinking  whenever they Are asked a ques Tion they refer to the Sheet and respond european edition col. Billy e. Spangler Usa. Editor in chief it. Of. J. C. Taylor Usan. 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But it believes that it is important to get along with Moscow even if it can t love it Washington does feel warmer toward Moscow this week than it did last week but it is still holding its breath Over  is Washington taking the South korean scandal i  its stride the taxi Driver replied. Washington of course is very disappointed that ton Sun Park won t come Back to testify but it will have to live with other witnesses involved in the scandal. Washington does t believe it will have an other watergate on its hands mainly be cause most of the people who will be indicted Are no longer in  Washington worried about the Energy crisis Washington is worried about it but not panicking. Washington wants to forget the whole thing until after the 1978  were almost at the Airport. What does Washington think of our present tax Laws it thinks they Are a  one More question. What about sex in Washington Washington does t like sex any More than los Angeles does. But it knows that As Long As sex is available there is no Way to Stop Washington from having it. All one can Hope for is that Washington will soon tire of it and get on with the business of running the  i gave the Driver a Large tip but it was Worth it. After i finished speaking in Boston i received a standing ovation and i heard one woman say to her husband As they were leaving the auditorium in t it great to hear what Washington is thinking straight for the horse s Mouth c los Angeles times eign service for the space Agency and As administrative assistant and re election Campaign manager for sen. Abraham Ribicoff d-conn., before returning to Connecticut and his seven year stint in what government career people Call the Pri vate  thursday at 8 . A task Force meets around the Low Coffee table in Gran quist s High Ceil need office to report on  first goals Are to find ways to get citizens aware and contributing to govern ment Rule making and to find ways to calculate the True Broad costs to society when government tries to do something whether it is let s clean up the air or let s permit Banks to pay interest on Money people keep in their checking a  As things stand now Granquist says a Middle level bureaucrat works six months or More drafting a regulation before either the Public or top management in his own Agency has had a Chance to ask is it Nec Essary to regulate this is this the Way to go about it by time that fellow s idea finally gets published As a notice of proposed Rule making it is firmly fixed in the Bureau cratic mind As something that ought to get done and the Public comment process is really Only Fine tuning he says. But so often the regulated and the regu Lator know full Well what s going to Hap pen. They get together informally and the regulation marches Down the Pike. But by the time the Public knows about it All the deals have been made not in an illegal sense but All the accommodations All the compromises All the negotiations have taken place Between the interest that s going to be regulated and the regulator. What we Are proposing is that every six months an Agency publish an Agenda of what they expect to do in the future and of what the status is of things that Are ongo ing and have not yet hit the Public. We also want to make sure that before anything gets started the Agency head has signed off on approved a work plan so it just did t Start by  Granquist says that until the government improves its ways of calculating the entire often hidden Cost of its regulations it will have no intelligent Way to set priorities to decide what needs fixing first. He cites trucking. Interstate Commerce commission licences Are valuable. In the Northeast a trucker with a Small Fleet could pay $50,000 or $100,000 to buy someone else s License. Wayne Granquist. An open mind that s a Cost the Public pays in the Cost of freight and a Cost the Public does t know it pays he says. Maybe it s a Cost the Public May be prepared to pay for reliable service but it s never presented in that con  Granquist s other Job is to oversee the Effort to make government writing easier to understand. Here he sees the pressure coming from the top Down starting at Carter s desk. The president is so burdened by his own paperwork that he has put out the word very firmly that he will not tolerate anything that is not Crisp and concise Granquist says. We have a two Page memo Rule in the White House. Obviously there Are things you cannot say in two pages but you d be amazed How much you can  Granquist blames his fellow lawyers for gobbledygook. Lawyers Are very proud of their ability to think up three different ways to say something because it proves to their audience which is other lawyers that they re very smart. So you Don t say tomorrow everybody shall go to the office you say tomorrow it is hereby directed and under stood and agreed upon that. ". The Way to break the habit Granquist says is to inculcate top people and make them insist on Clear language. If a lawyer new to the government payroll writes his fir St regulation in legalese it has to be shot Back to  probe asked of claims spurred 1967 riots Newark . A mayor Kenneth Gibson has asked for a congressional investigation of allegations the Cia and Fri incited the 1967 Newark riots in which 26 persons died. The Fri says the charges Are absurd and  Gibson and the Fri responded wednes Day to the published claims of sol Chan Eles a Rutgers University professor and consultant to the 1968 presidential com Mission on civil disorders. Chaneles claimed in a report sunday that the Fri and Cia spurred the riots As an exercise in  Chaneles a sociologist said he was con Vinced that the disorders were engineered by the Federal government to deter mine what would happen if the anger and hostility of oppressed minorities and Politi Cal dissidents Ever developed into a Poten tial for armed  Gibson said if there is any evidence to support or disprove professor Chaneles theory it should be brought out immediately handled expeditiously and the mat Ter put to  doing work for the presidential commission Chaneles said he discovered an Fri memorandum of March 1967 in which a Field agent reported that informants were predicting a riot Here on july 13.the disorders began the night of july 12 and continued through july 17.louis Giovanetti Fri special agent for new Jersey said in a statement that for anyone to theorize that the Federal govern ment insidiously planned and designed the riots of 10 years ago is absurd and in  the presidential commission on civil disorders and a similar state level task Force agreed that Newark riots erupted in reaction to the arrest of a Newark cab Driver on july 12,1967, Giovanetti noted