European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 22, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                February 1981 the stars and stripes Page 15 William Safire How Sinatra did the obscene Gerund impossible the Nevada gaming control Board has permitted Frank crooner of All intimate of racketeers and presi to reenter the gambling at a hearing that gave Sinatra the forum to Flay his two remarks were made that invite one was the observation by Board Mem Ber Jack Stratton that the reason Sinatra had lost his gambling License 17 years ago was that the Singer had lost his Cool in a Telephone conversation with de the Veteran a newsman who was then the gambling commission not disclosed at the 1981 hearing was Olsen 1963 memorandum for the commis Sions file recounting that which was also monitored by two other Nevada since it shows a Side of Sina tra not attested to by Magazine publisher friends As diverse As to guides Walter Annenberg and the new republics Martin a selection from the unpublished document follows i wrote chairman Olsen about the phone Call from that i want satisfied at this time that Sinatra himself had told us the he what about 1 said he denied breaking up the fight involving while another wit your budget Walter Mears Reagan vows cure with his bitter pills a warning gentle but unmistakable built into president reagans economic message to Congress the voters expect action to curb inflation and Federal spending and he Means to see that they get the tone is Likely to get tougher As the White House joins the budget Battle for billion in spending cuts next with a formidable lobby lined up to oppose the beneficiaries and the congressional allies of 83 programs marked for curtail ment by Reagan will be marshalling their forces to hold on to what Treyve that lineup is going to include interest groups ranging from people who get food Stamps to people who go from airline Passen Gers to Dairy Farmers to patrons of the All of them Are going to lose some or All of their Federal subsidies if Reagan gets his in sure there will be some who will raise the familiar old cry dont touch my program Cut somewhere Reagan told there already i Hope Ive made it Plain that our approach has been evenhanded that Only the programs of the truly deserving needy re main he the problem is that conservative republicans and Liberal democrats have different ideas about who is truly deserving and who is the democrats put a lot More people in those and Treyve been in charge for theirs is the course Reagan wants to re with an austerity spending program that would define the limits of Federal government in conservative the question Are we simply going to go Down the same path weve gone Down before carving out one special program Here and another special program there he said wednesday i dont think that is what the american people expect of More i dont think that is what they Reagan spoke As a president with a Man the easy Victor Over a Democrat whose leadership foundered on the same economic woes the Republican administration now promises to one month into his reagans popu Larity rating is his political Powers have just been proven at the his standing has not yet been tarnished by the setbacks and controversies that inevitably go with the All that will change at least it has for every one of his so there is no better season for a presi Dent to ask for it Reagan wont get it but that what he is if the program is accepted piecemeal if Only those aspects that Are politically palatable Are adopted then this economic policy will be no More than a repeat of what has been tried Reagan and we already know the results of the Stop and go policies of the he blames those policies for double digit absurd Levels of a Ros Ter of nearly 8 million unemployed soaring Federal deficits and rising if we do not act and the Economy will get he but if Congress will take his Reagan it will get his message forecast an inflation rate Cut in half and a balanced Federal budget by the end of Reagan said nobody demands but those would be miracles of Jimmy Carter said hed get results like that during his first but he didst approach those that one of the reasons his first term was his and Carters political Fate is evidence of what could befall a Republican administration should it fail to show that is the risk Reagan assumes in con fronting Congress and the nation with his demand to adopt his economic recovery for Mula or come up with better if we dont do inflation and a grow ing tax Burden will put an end to everything we believe in and to our dreams for the he then the warning to the Congress that will have to approve if his package is to take effect the people Are watching and they dont demand but they do expect us to let us act c associated press Ness said otherwise the presence of mobster Sam Giancana As Sinatra guest at the Calneva Lodge was a reason for rescinding Sinatra to never coming to see you said i told him if i wanted to Sec him i would Send him a you just try and find he and if you you can look for a fat Surprise a obscene Gerund construed As an adjective you re member now listen to de dont obscene verb with me the tone of his voice was menacing and i Are you threatening me he re no just dont obscene verb with and you can Tell that to your obscene Gerund Board and your obscene Gerund i suggested it might be better for All concerned if he concentrated on his enter Prises elsewhere and departed the Nevada gambling he 1 might just do that and when i in going to Tell the world what a Bunch of obscene Gerund idiots run things in this today in things Are run by a different which includes Paul a Sinatra Friend and Reagan the Only fat surprises the new Bunch looks Forward to Are donations to favorite charities by they cannot believe there is a Side to their Friend which seeks to intimidate those who will not be charmed off or philanthropies so much for one remark at the and now to the of less import when asked if he had once carried million in an attache Case to a Sinatra said if you could get million in an attache ill give you soon after that derisive comment appeared in i received a Call from a Man who identified himself As Norman Ive been doing some the famous author on How Many Hun Dre Dollar Bills can be fitted into a Samso Nite attache Case 12 inches by 15 inches by 5 inches a Hundred Dollar Bill measures inches by said Mailer in his Lively you can squeeze 350 Bills Down to one that to a one Inch you can Lay six of those packets along the 17inch estimated warm ing to his task of metaphor and four others Lengthwise into the space that is left on that first and there is still lets ten packets per layer makes multiplied by five one Inch Lay that makes still Short of the needed two you forgot the said make half Inch and tilt them Ive worked it out you can fit into an attache he maybe mobsters think in terms of youd need a big suitcase for Mil lion in that successful calculation i Sug that Frank Sinatra owed Norman Mailer you collect and Well said the writer Frank and i have the same were victims of our own and what is the lesson in All this what do these two seemingly unrelated remarks at a hearing Combine to Tell us that it is possible to do the improbable to squeeze million in Cash into an attache that it is possible to do the seemingly with Persever Money and a talented lad with a lifetimes sinister connections can make gambling control com an attorney general and even a president All fit in his hip c new York times the opinions expressed in the columns and cartoons on this Page represent those of the authors and Are in no Way to be considered As representing the views of the stars and stripes or the United states