European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 10, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Think it s very like by he s going to be a  one thing that could cause a change say some associates of Laxdall. Is the outcome of a $250 million libel suit he has filed because of newspaper stories about the hotel and Casino he formerly operated. The stones in the Sacremento Bee and other dailies of Iho Mcclatchey newspapers group in California said the internal Revenue service was investigating evidence of skimming or illegal diversion Belore taxes of $2 million in profits Al the Ormsby House in Carson City while Yoxall was a majority owner. The stories did not say Lasall took part in the skimming or knew Aboul it if something comes out of the Sacramento Bee thing it could Well to  says Abbott the Farmer Republican Slala chairman but in would have to be some tie with some bad source or something like tha and in s absolutely unprovable. That s Why i have so much Confidence " Laxalt asked All at the time. According to pretrial records in the libel Case the hotel lost nearly $1 8 million in 1972 and 1973, while lax Al and his brother Peler were in control the idea was a lot better than the available capital Abbott says. There is no Way Hal anybody could have skimmed $2 million from the Ormsby  documents mod in the Case also show & $2,000 contribution to Laxalt s Senate Campaign fund in 1979 80 by Morris Daliz a Las vegas businessman listed in Laxalt talks to reporter outside the White House after � meeting with president Ronald Reagan. A California attorney general s report As an associate of organized crime figures other contributions were listed from Allen Sachs and Herbert Tobman who were forced to give up Casino operations in Las vegas alter investigations of alleged skimming and Clifford Perlman who sold Caesar s Palace in Las vegas alter new Jersey of Licals refused him a License to operate a Casino in Atlan scoty. In november after Mcclatchey asked or documents relating to a credit Extension granted by first National Bank of Chicago. U.3 magistrate Phyllis Halsey  ordered Laxdall to produce records of financing of the hotel Al inn same Lime Mcclatchy was ordered la produce noles and tapes edited to pro decl sources for its Story which said Lavail was aided by Del Burl Coteman a chicagoan described As a Stock manipulator and mob associate to arranging Loi the Chicago Bank to be the primary Lender Doublespeak English perversions of the language a by Fred m. Hechinger new York times after three american servicemen wore killed when they accidentally exploded a Pershing missile in Germany an army spokesman called the incident an unplanned rapid ignition of solid  a major manufacturer of greeting cards refers to them As social expression  a supermarket offered its customers Semi Boneless Ham probably a relative of the limited lifetime guarantee promised by a recent television commercial. These perversions of the language Are brought to thu attention of High school English teachers by the quarterly review of Doublespeak a publication of the National Council of teachers of English. Funny As some aberrations May seem the Council s committee on Public Doublespeak is not in the business Lor fun. Los serious purpose is to remind English teachers and anyone else who wants to listen that the English language ought to be used to convey meaning father than obscure in. By publicizing flagrant abuses. Trie committee Hopes to enlist teachers in the fight against language pollution. The commit Lee members see themselves not As pedants but As descendants of George Orwell. They annually give a George Orwell award for a distinguished contribution to honesty and clarity in Public  tha latest recipients were Torben Vestergaard and Kim Schroder authors of the language of  the committee also bestows a Doublespeak award on flagrant double speakers. Most recently it went to the Central intelligence Agency Lor language used in its psychological warfare manual to teach the nicaraguan rebels How to neutralize nicaraguan old vials. The manual has since been withdrawn. Not All crimes committed against the English language Are As sinister As the War is peace Way of speech in the Lolah tarian state of Orwell s t9b4w in the More current reference to a deadly missile As  Somo linguistic sins Are just born of trendy mindlessness. Recently for instance White wailing in a Kentucky Airport i was startled by a sign on the door to the Gate this door is  similarly a television commercial touts the soup that eats like a  an airline vice president recently vowed we re going to grow the  Alrine speak the Doublespeak committee Points out. Needs constant watching a delay caused by a change of equipment really Means this plans is broken and won t  and there is the redundant process As in we Are now starting the boarding process a Cousin to the activity As in Shower activity so dear to the weather people. These redundancies Are intended to show that those who use them Are experts As in a Navy manual s description of a Frame supported tension Structure its " a Lent trying to make less seem More makes a supermarket Chain say that it is open "24 hours a Day while suggesting thai customers Check local stores for exact  is the idea catching on a Bank in Detroit said its "24-hour banker machines would be open almost eight hours a Day. Often the aim is to cover up and deceive. A negative Cash flow position sounds better than no Cash. The Doublespeak people report that when an Oil company discharged several Hundred workers in said we Don t characterize it As a layout. We re managing our slain  sunday August 10,1986 since watergate governmental and corporate Lingo has tended to replace right and wrong Wilh appropriate and inappropriate " the educators show no mercy to their own they Cile a teacher s note informing parents that there will be a modified English course offered for those children who achieve deficiency in  the College Board explaining Why women who gel higher grades than men in High school and College nevertheless score lower on Scholastic aptitude tests said thai the under prediction of women s grades seems consistent and pervasive but generally the Bias is at a Low level of  a boys Camp reports the latest Doublespeak quarterly advertised thai it was deliberately designed with individual attention or the minimally  the committee on Doublespeak while exposing a wide variety of wrongs done to the language worries most Aboul the orwellian kind of abuses a patient died because a nurse mistakenly Pul a wrong fluid in an intravenous feeding lube and the Coroner classified Ilas a therapeutic  what alarms these concerned English teachers most is governmental distortion of the language to deceive the Public. Just As the United slates invasion of Cambodia was called an incursion " Iho current quarterly flew says. So three years ago the japanese ministry of education in updating history lexis used in All japanese schools called the japanese invasion of China in 1931 a Mere Advance " the committee on Doublespeak is trying to Lell the nation s English teachers thai language abuse can be dangerous to the National health. Ii would like teachers to show their pupils How to decode the absurdities and deceptions that pollute the language and the mind. They Point out that Hanible examples Are All around us and that Alert teachers can use them As a tax Lbook. The stars and stripes Page 17