European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 16, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 columns the stars and stripes William Safire Laws encouraging Eastern mismanagement Miami a viable corporation must be More than a collodion of assets. When employees believe management is interested Only in the profit from dismemberment loyally Dies and the com Pany Dies with if. That s what happened at Easu n air lines. My natural inclination was to blame Union Leaden for resisting the imperatives of Cost culling in an Era of de regulation and for trying to avoid bar gaining by getting the government to impost a settlement. Certainly Fie Union strategy to get Congress to Force management int binding arbitration was doomed in Las november s election properly. President Bush made Clear he would veto govern ment intervention. The disparate unions at Eastern the joined together and in effect scuttled the ship if that s what you do to an airline. So now they la ail be out of work at least for a time. Dan that sort of masad.1 spirit in bargaining make any Wise curiously it Doci. By setting an example of what can happen when Wheeler dealers calling themselves management offer employee no Hope. This Man Lorenzo is an Hie Al Cio s Lane Kirkland tells me with no feeling for the institution we spilled himself a inst the people who spent their lives in Tirats the blast of an opera enc cd Gladiator who knows How to per so Nalic an Issue. But labor s charge that Frank Lorenzo the Texas Raider who look Over ailing Eastern three ears ago was out top under the company for the Benefit of his other airline holdings is it least defensible. Look at that computer reservations i siem thai even he valued at $250 Mil lion says Kirkl Antl. He sold in 16texas air for $100 Mil lion in junk Bonds payable in the nest cd Flury it was an outright steal you can to blame the workers who. Spent their lives in this company for say ing that this Man is a stranger Selling the company to himself. Me intends to Dis Mantle the lire und pick off the pieces. George c. Wilson this is capt Ilij speaklw&.,.lf machinists Dor for accept my up me plane i Knight in this crisis understands some thing that the Lough Lorenzo does not a company is a Unity of interests Cre ated to profit stockholder customers employees managers and communities and not a collection of Little leverage buildings on a monopoly Board. Docs this sound sanctimonious from a lifelong proponent of the glory of greed perhaps but when the profit motive is used to kill the Goose that lays the Golden eggs capitalists Musl scramble loyally is a value. Customer loyally employee loyalty stockholder loyally All these values Are unmeasured on the balance sheets of financiers who think More of pulling companies in pay than resources to work. Two Way loyalty gives spirit and Pur pose to otherwise lifeless Legal in lilies. When companies Are shuffled about to and this is the time 10 say Slop what brought the Eastern unions to gel her was their conviction that the com Pany was being raped anyway and with bankruptcy or liquidation in Prospect they had nothing to lose a predator had purchased inc company on a shoestring using its assets As collateral an twas transferring the resulting financial heat from creditors to workers. This pass along of pressure poses a threat to All organized labor and is Why inc Al Cio closed ranks in this strike Lorenzo s defenders say this financial pressure is what makes a company competitive. They Point to How Well Carl Kahn also denounced at first us a Raider . But i think the Strong Icari who May turn out to be everybody s while prise is not by. Eastern windows Only As inc pod predicted comes in this Light throughout by business today we Sec traditional qualities of identity distinct live Ness and character being Thi threat of takeover unique corporate cultures that have earned deep loyalty ies now seek meet Nie Reers. They conglomerate and May homogenize diluting their loyalties ostensibly to compete on a grand International scale actually in fear of the abuse Ofle verage. .-.-. What s the lesson in Eastern s col lapse to survive a company needs Hope of growth not the likelihood of bust up. What s to be done change the tax encourage equity and discourage leverage. Stop double taxing dividends Start axing debt. That s a nigh plan for Loy ally stability and growth. The opinions exp mid in the columns and cartoons on this Page represent those of the authors and Are in no Way to reconsidered As representing he views of the stars and stripes or inc United states government. Pentagon will initially be Cool toward Cheney during a decade in Congress defense Secre tary designate rep. Dick Cheney favored Lic for Pentagon employees opposed cutting military and to the Nicaragua contras championed the use . Military forces in inc i Crisian Gulf and in the drug War and urged Hal the rail Mobile my missile be deployed whup the Small Mill Gilman was kept in the research stage. Along with this hawkish voting record Wyoming s Only House member has proved adept at what presi Dent Johnson called the Art of the possible rising inthe Louse Republican leadership to the no 1 Post of minority whip. Kip. William l Dickinson of Alabama ranking re publican on inc House armed services committee typified reaction to this Side of Cheney. I have no double can work with him 100 percent Dickinson said he will be confirmed with no trouble at Cheney began the Tonji Malion process tuesday when the Senate armed services committee opened hearings on his nomination. The committee could Vole on the nomination by the end of inc week. But Veteran Pentagon workers predict that inc warmth Cheney has Felt in Congress since 1�69 will be followed by coolness at the Pentagon at least at first As civilian and uniformed personnel size up their new Leader thru will be some resentment they said Over Chenev s Lack of military service even though he was of draft age during the Vietnam War the widespread use of lie detectors that Cheney and former defense Secretary Frank c. Carlucci have championed. Pete Williams Cheney s press Secretary said Che Ney will not discuss his views until he is confirmed lie said a series of student deferments and an exemption stemming from being sole support of his wife and child kept Cheney now a8, from being drafted As for random but widespread Lic dec for ests thai former Secretary of slate Jeorge a Shultz. Opposed Cheney told House colleagues on june 26, Security Agency there is no reason in the world Why he Pentagon should not be subjected to inc same restraints.". On other key defense issues Cheney has taken these stands on Nicaragua those familiar with history will be aware that tactics similar to those of the sandinista were used by the nazis during Hilter s Rise to Power in Germany. I find it almost Loo ironic for words Hal government whose political tactics arc beneath con tempt can be considered credible when it promises to democratize or that it can be considered deserving of support by those in the United states who claim they arc friends of political and economic Freedom and jus Ion the persian Gulf the United slates cannot permit Iran to control Gulf sea lanes or to engage in Oil blackmail directed against . Allies. Nor can the United Stales sit idly by while inc soviet Fleet sails into the persian Gulf to give the soviet Union he Power to bring pressure to Bear on countries in the Region which have previously shown a willingness to cooperate with the United on strategic missiles developing both the rail Mobile my to warhead missile and the single War head m i Getman finally solves inc survivability prob Lem but Only if we allow development to proceed but with budget restraints we have no Choice but to Gotor rail Garrison and support research on he Small icum midget Man Cheney stated his philosophy about separa. President has the authority without statute to use the resources placed at his disposal to protect american lives abroad and to serve other important foreign policy objectives Short of War Cheney also has supported in c strategic defense initiative nerve Gas production and draft registration and has opposed efforts to ban tests of anti satellite weapons and limit nuclear underground tests to less than one Kiloton providing the soviet Union does so too
