European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes sunday March 26,19b9 Leon Daniel crime in murder City demands no. 1 priority Washington there s trouble right Here in murder cily. Of course but you know inc situation really is desperate when while business leaders and politicians dare to criticise the Black mayor. White members of the establishment in the predominantly Black District of Columbia usually withhold any criticism that might conceivably scam racially inspired. Slut when crime threatened to damage tourism and business they joined some influential Blacks in speak ing publicly against mayor Marion Barry who is under investigation by a grand jury and denies allegations he Yuri cocaine. Until recently he Republican Federal administration pretty much left the predominantly democratic capital alone. But now inc top lawmakers and Federal officials Are among Barry s sharpest critics. President hush and his drug War. William Linn Chi Are grabbing headlines by vowing to win the first Attlein Itic Federal War on drugs right Here in the District where1 the homicide rate is the nation s highest. So far. The Only action has been a barrage of rhetorical artillery including reports that Federal troops might George will be committed to stemming the City s wave of drug re lated crime. All options arc open As far As the president s concerned spokesman Martin i Tiwater said solemnly. But before anyone hinted darkly of b-52 strikes on the City s notorious outdoor drug markets. Fit water acknowledged the use of Federal troops was most in which was a polite Way of saying it was a Dopey idea. \ "1 Bennett s aides privately have outlined other Possi ble Federal actions including imprisoning de dealers on barges on inc Potomac. One theory is that the administration with its leaks about Federal troops and floating slammers is sending the mayor the message that Federal authorities will intervene if the City can l curtail crime there has been talk in Congress of limiting the District s Home Rule. .--.rep, Stan Parris of Virginia ranking Republican on the House committee of the District of Columbia said the City May need an appointed Federal director of greater Washington Board of Trade in ils first major Public break with the mayor. Sail week sharply criticized District government. Banker l. Ralph Hicks or. Said Board members were driven to act because the cily s crime problem is dam aging the area s business Cli male. People Are beginning to keep track of the murder rate like Ball scores Hicks said. My anime the embattled mayor fights Back by Call ing for a full scale military invasion to destroy co Caine a its source in South and Central America. Most of the 119 killings so far this year have been confined to Low income neighbourhood. Tourists need not being gunned Down when they visit Monu. A cols. But William Sinclair the Trade Board s president was concerned enough by the negative publicity to insist that the City is a Safe place to live work and visit.". Perhaps those who live work and visit in affluent and predominantly White Northwest washing Tan will agree but washingtonians who arc Black and poor know that is baloney. Science May beef a future of social regulation Sas v a rvs of a i of. Future often moves cast fro the Wisl. Being foreshadowed in California. However news usually travels cast lowest so sufficient notice was. Hot taken of i2j intimations afro Morrow s social issues and political. The South coast air Quality. Manage Mem District s jurisdiction is the los Angeles Basin. I hat includes 1 3, Iso Square Miles an area larger than nine Stales and 5 percent of the nation s population Mure i Han the populations of a 7 a lev 7 he existence. Of the scam d a Tiki even new be Knon to most of the 12 million people whose Lues will be to flied by implementation if that happens r of inc 123 recommendations for reducing. Smog. If implemented it is possible. I hat within 10 years average visibility los Angeles Basin will be 60 Mili i instead of today s. 10 Miles. .1 he so operates on the Prova ble premise thai when 12 million people Hie inc Thor. Anything thai Large num Ber if them do. From driving cars to painting Patio furniture to firing up their barbecues matters a lot. It mailers be cause life is a matter of cumulation. Not Long ago the problem of air pollution was considered a problem of vehicles and Large stationary sources such As Power plants and Oil refineries. No any More now the scam d s proposals Range from tic minor and Murid me Banning aerosol hair sprays and Send Iran to the major and monary citric vehicles. The proposals include a Han on Bias pm non radial tires be cause inc throw off too Many particles sleep increases in parking fees for cars Cir ring Only one person and limits on the number of cars each family can have. I he Linte should stay out of the bed momok., bin i i May soon rummage around in lit bathroom even some non aerosol de Odonis Minglu Haic to be re formulated to eliminate certain reactive compounds Gas powered Lawn mowers think of millions of them shattering the sign cd of a May morn my in the Basin Nus Haselo go. So too May lighter flu ids for backyard barbecues. But then when millions of Barbe Euers substitute Iwig Sand crumpled newspapers. The scan my Agenda has ignited what full be a decade of fierce debate How much will in Cost in Money jobs and Freedom will the Cost be regressive failing heaviest tin those with the least disposable income 8vtm� horns six Days after the he Abmd spoke the East was heard from of the air pollution data gathered by the environmental Protection Agency indicates that 329 chemicals Only seven of them regulated by the re a 60 of them cancer causing Art being pumped into the air from Industrial plants at the alarming rate of 2.4 billion pounds a car. The spate of news about air pollution comes while notice is being taken of the Lois anniversary of what news stories still refer Loas the three mile Island disaster some disaster Nti one. Killed any measurable health consequences the bad environmental consequences of three mile Kland were the multiplication of delays in the development of an environmentally sound technology for generating Power. In he name of reducing risks from nuclear Power we arc incurring other risks. One of the Large industries in devel oped societies the insurance Industry embodies the modern determination m socialize risks. The welfare state More properly called inc Spidal Insu Ranee state social is risks of unemployment sick Ness and aging. The Pursuit of Public health through environmental regulation is a policy of dispersing responsibility for reducing risks. American Are intensely sometimes a healthily health conscious. But the nation s Public health priorities often ate Peculiar. The week that scan my pro posed measures hat would impinge upon Many freedoms the nation was mesmerized by the health Hazard posed by two lightly poisoned grapes Ileal la is indeed the first wealth and americans who Are More carefully polled concerning their appetites than concerning their willingness to pay the costs of them constantly Call for Mea sures to produce a healthier Environ ment. However the scan my Agenda is a cold Shouer of costs. The coils can be calculated in Money and in the social supervision of what once was taken for granted As spheres of private discretion. Philosophers of Freedom have frequently had recourse to John stunt Mill s essay on Liberty and his distinction Between self regarding and other regarding acts. Self regarding acts Are those that affect no one other than the actor. In an open society icy Are generally exempt from state control. The logic of environmental reasoning it is scientific As Well As social logic is this. High density Urban living in the Industrial age transforms Many actions such As driving and barbecuing from self regarding into other regarding us docs go eminent grow. The opinions expressed in lie columns and cartoons on this Puitz represent those of the author und Are in no Way to be considered As represent in the views of the stars and stripes or the uni cd slates Kim rement
