European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes William Buckley the dirty Little secrets concerning education we have been examining proposals by several prominent commentators on what the Bush administration should do made on the Assumption that although the administration is vaguely coordinated to a program through general rhetoric we shall kill the Scourge of cocaine nothing very Concrete has come from it. Charles Murray is very Concrete indeed. He is the Manhattan Institute author of losing ground and most recently in Pursuit of happiness and  if Bush wants to be the education presi Dent As he has frequently said he need go no further than to Murray for specific advice. Murray begins by saying that Middle class liberals have three dirty Little secrets and we can get no better Start on formulating a Correct policy than by exposing these. The first of these supposes that Good education is tantalizingly difficult objective to Hope for. Not True. People who have enough Money to do so Send their children to schools with Good teachers and Safe Hall ways and High test scores. They do so by moving to the right suburb or by putting the children in private schools. These wondrous schools Are not especially exotic or expensively run. Most of them Are in Ordi nary buildings with Ordinary textbooks and teachers who make less Money than the people teaching in the Public school Down the  the second dirty Little secret is that the vast major Ity of Middle class liberals who oppose education vouchers including members of the Senate and House of representatives exercise precisely this kind of Choice for their own  and the third is that these Liberal critics in fact doubt that working men and women can be trusted with the same options they themselves exercise. Accordingly Murray urges president Bush to give Well a shirted hell to the critics of private Educa Tion and he proposes As Concrete an idea As Ever came out of a social critic take your school budget for the current fiscal year and Divide it by the total number of children Ages 5 to 17 in your jurisdiction. If you will agree to offer just two thirds of that amount of Money in the form of a no strings voucher to any Parent who wants to choose his child s school for himself the fed eral government will make up the difference Between that sum and $3,000." since the average tuition anon religious private schools was still Only $1,723 As of 1985, $3,000 should be plenty for even the poorest parents to find a decent school for their children. The Cost to the Federal government would be on the order of $16 billion to $18 billion which could be defrayed by eliminating the department of  that is direct advice. As is the advice proffered by Donald Regan a Walls Recter by profession who says that the budget deficit is an obtrusive irrelevance. The critical problem. James j. Kilpatrick Catt Johnny Hure  is keeping the Economy  or. Regan reminds us that As a percentage of the Gross National product the Federal deficit has been declining rapidly to the 3 percent level at present. When one factors in state an local budget surpluses and the capital component of the budget our deficit is not High at  but we Nee to keep the downward trend going. How freeze defense spending at the current  agricultural subsidies on the order of $8 billion to $10 billion  Cap doctors and or Hospital fees paid by medicare and medicaid. Regan pays great tribute to Ronald Reagan remind ing us of the naivete ascribed to him when he came to town his accomplishments which now include som of the great turning Points in history Are All the answer that is needed to this conventional  and on foreign policy the most interesting commentary is by Vladimir Bukovsky president of Resis Tance International author and heroic victim of gulag. He begins with a striking definition. A pragmatic communist is a communist who has run out of  it is Bukovsky s Point that the great political prob Lem facing the Bush administration is Europe. All soviet bloc borrowing from All Western Finan Cial institutions All transactions conducted with the soviet bloc countries should be tracked Down and publicized. Indeed Why is this information kept secret now and from whom the soviets after All know it and so do the institutions conducting such trans actions. Only the Public is kept in the dark. Where then is our right to know ? if the transactions Are truly in the Western countries interests and there is nothing to be ashamed of the businessmen and Bank ers should be proud to report them in some detail. If they Are not we Are entitled to be  in the Best of All possible worlds president Bush Calls up Jim Baker. Jim did you see what Bukovsky said about what we ought to do in Europe Well read my lips on the  Universal press Syndicate keep the Light Green for 65-Mph Speed limit \ if � o1tqci\71? nvsnim4 fun Vlf it a Tot a Vlot Roioas-1 Tell Ai 1iv n nor try 1\ _ a. An impressive amount of work went into this month s report on High Way deaths. The thing runs to 202 pages crammed with impenetrable tables of traffic statistics but if the report tells us the 38 states that raised their limits experienced 1,839 deaths on Rural inter states in 1986. In 1987 they counted2,191, an increase of 352 or 19 percent. If the statistics began and ended at. R i i i " Lluc i i  limit of As Mph Tine Nhuc on u  % prof a Speed limit of 65 Mph this observer can t find it. Nearly two years have passed since con Gress voted in 1987 to let the states fix a new Speed limit on Rural portions of their interstate highways. By the end of that tally valid cry of we told you  but the raw figures Are essentially meaning less and the underlying data Are baffling. Not All of the 38 states reported a increase 11 of them reported no increase Uii i Oia ii. Ingvi Vajra by m Viiu i uial i vow a i univ Ivy i Ivy us Niv Casc year 38 states had gone from 55 to 65 on or a decrease. More than 70 percent of Mese accidents occurred while the veh part or All of their interstate systems. What the increased fatalities occurred in just cles were travelling at less than the posted can he said of cause Anh Effort eight states Arizona. California new Cna a a or i k. B Sai of d effect not much. You May recall the bitter controversy kicked up by the proposed increase. The provision passed the sen ate by the comfortable margin of 65-33,but Only after a Knockdown fight. In the House the 65-mile limit squeaked Dakota s department of transportation were caused by a Driver s falling asleep made this Point in a letter included in to what extent do the data reflect in the report viewed m the worst possible creased traffic volumes could some of sri nil1168 a u10T13168 in the More distressing figures be merely a Uoo Dakota a wafd by to percent random year to year fluctuation per of thevncreased0 by an also u-1? its Rev s688 the ational800id t by an alarming Highway traffic safety administration p cent. Emphasizes Alli these uncertainties. The Var c .uiw68 Are a Rosy misleading table factors cannot be precisely identified bout Dakota counted Only seven fatal or quantified. The report also seeks to put accidents on 1-90 in the year after the 65 interstate fatalities in perspective. Of the mile limit became effective. Five of roughly 46,300 Highway deaths recorded in these accidents occurred while the Lehi 1987, Only 2,500 occurred on Rural inter states. In the 38 states that went to a 65-c r i accidents in mile limit the fatality rate in 1987 was 1.6 speeds of less than 55  per 100 million Miles of travel. The Overall Kentucky provides another example fatality rate based on total Miles of High a he Carrollton school bus crash occurred Way was 2.4. This was the lowest Highway it o nt/yl1islir  a s f i a _ t i. A. Eight California Nemenico North Carolina Ohio Tennes see Texas and Utah. To what extent was the 65-Rmle limit  pm Muir Onuki us n a Wiy was . I in to t Nign Wathe critical Factor no one can say. If the on a Highway posted at 65 Miles per fatality rate in . History and lower than fatal accidents resulted from speeds hour. The collision left 27 dead. Is this any other country no Mac m us Mic mini squeaked greater than 65 Miles per hour the High evidence of the Folly of the Law not at mis to no of o � through by a vote of 217-206. Members or limit scarcely can be held responsible All. The Carrollton crash was caused by a k Jmc by s sen Frank Lauten opposed to the higher limit predicted the Drivers were breaking the Law. If Drunken Driver. The 65-mile limit had si8 i n � e troubled to look at the new Levels of Slaughter on the highways some of the fatal accidents involved nothing to do with it. Data Cip Seiy. He popped off with a com ran Lomoso i  it t Ain cd _ a i ment that the 65-mile limit was a tragic it s time to go Back to 55." 1a Votte of in . 4rm rep. James j. Howard of new Jersey then chairman of the Public works com Mittee warned that hundreds of additional fatalities could be expected. The report made it Clear that inter state fatalities have indeed increased. So speeds of less than 55, again the new Law could not be blamed. What we Are looking for Are data on fatalities resulting from speeds Between 55 and 65, an such statistics simply Are not to be had. ,. Manv were Gerichard l. Howard Secretary of South result of Drunken driving How Many nothing i go Back to those 352 additional athe 38 states. How Many re it on the basis of this report. It s time i from weather conditions without to sit Back to gather More detailed anal exam mag each fatal Accident i Dividu uses and to wait for a few More years to no one can say. How Many the pass. Universal press Syndicate