European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 10, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 columns the stars and stripes Andrew j. Glass from Rayburn to Wright a lot has changed in 196, when i became a congressional correspondent he House was run from an ornate roam just below inc actual chamber known among insiders As the Board of  around Sunset House speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas a Man of prodigious Energy and High integrity would often repair la his command Post pour drinks All around Lei funny stories and conduct the nation s business. Sometimes this meant exchanging ideas by Tele phone with president Kennedy. In one such talk thai i overheard Kennedy and Rayburn reviewed their prob lems with rep. Howard w. Smith known universally known As the  at inc time Kennedy sought to create a Cabinet department that would Cope with Urban problems. But the aged Smith had gone of for an extended sojourn to his Virginia farm in order he said to pain my  that prevented the House rules committee which he controlled from taking up the Urban Bill. You la i it your department. Or. President Ray Burn promised. But leave the judge alone. Let me handle  All that seems to have happened in some far away place where powerful politicians drank scotch with Young reporters because for better or worse they trusted them. Nowadays there is less liquor and less Trust in inc Halls of Congress there is however lots of High Lech bad try. Much of is is bring used to beam Back 1o the Home folks inc latest congressional soap opera what Fate awaits Jim Wright Wright like Rayburn hails from Texas and serves As speaker of the House. Bui inc resemblance ends there currently Wright is under investigation by the House ethics commit ice. In pad because lie earned $55,000 in royalties from his Book reflections of a Public Man which was sold largely to lobbyists. Broadcast journalists seek to lure members into pre maturely passing judgment on Wright s destiny with promises of splashy pay on the evening news. Eve though television Loday dominates Congress he More Asi Wilc my Mcra even among the republicans Are keeping their distance from this Story. For it s i is possible that Wright will survive at least for a Lime William f. Buckley or. The forthcoming ethics blast. And icy. Know that Wright knows How to keep score. There Are a set of rules and they arc pretty Clear says rep. William h. Cray Iii a widely respected Philadelphia Democrat. But i Don t want to speculate on potential  he. Has lost his Power or his influence notes rep. Tony Coelho of California. As the House demo cratic whip the no. 3 Slot in the party Hierarchy Coelio stands to accrue much More of that Power should Wright be humbled the More Newt. Talks about it the More political the whole thing becomes in inc democratic caucus Coelho observes. He refers to rep. Newt Gingrich of Georgia Coelho s newly elected opposite number in inc Republican ranks. Gingrich has spoken before the cameras of holding a National referendum in 1990 Over what he Call a House of ill repute thai sort of talk however aggravates rep. Robert h. Michel of Illinois the Republican Leader. Michel a Man More in the Ray bum Mold did All he could to keep Gingrich from being elected barely falling Short of his goal in the 87-85 vote. The other Day at a bipartisan congressional meeting at the White House Michel praised president Bush by noting that unlike his predecessor Ronald Reagan he had gone out of his Way to court congressional democrats. Bush has invited democrats to the family quart ers where he has sat them on the presidential bed along Side their spouses taken their pictures with a Polaroid camera and signed them on the spot i can count Bush said tartly As the democrats1 discussion turned to budgetary affaire. Co news 5yke Zacapu co Oak and Honou a on the concorde editor s note while William f. Buckley or. Is on his mint the world Concordi trip his column will be longer than usual Mauna aka los Nii there s a term for it in physics hysteresis if memory serves thai applied Here translate to you Are going to travel on inc fastest commercial vehicle in the world from Acapulco to Oakland Calif. To Honolulu Al speeds that dazzle inc mind. Only you have to have your Bass packed Al 7 ., which is a Barracks life hour not your super luxury hour which our round the world trip indisputably argues As right for our crowd. Tin i add the time to pick up Luggage from 98 passengers quartered in Lillic bungalows each with ils private swim Ming Pool deliver the baggage to the Airport and submit in to crr Krisl a c Security examination and in is 10 30  Before Jour concorde s delicate nose backed by us per Chiron engines lifts Jou liberated for the 2,350-mile trip to Oakland which consumes just Over half the Lime it look you Between when the bags left the hotel and you were finally seated in the plane. One thinks of stand ing in line an hour to spend a minute ceiling a passport stamped. The prob lems of the Idle Rich. Why go to Oakland when your Destina Tion is Honolulu after All the latitude of Acapulco is about 17 degree North and of Honolulu approximately 22 degrees Nonh. And Rawand san Francisco is Way up Iacre Al nearly 38 degrees  Well. The concorde has to abide by safely rules and if one engine Blanks out you dive Down from your haughty 60,000-Fecl, 1,200-Milc-per-hour trajectory to the  of Mere Juls and in doing so you lose 25 percent of your Range. If that were to happen to a concorde flying directly to Hawaii past the Point of no return you a Well land in the water and British airways and Lloyd s of London and entrepreneur Don Pevsner of this round the world extravaganza Are not going to risk hat so we 1 and at Oakland Are served a Fine chinese meal at the Airport which comes about 60 minutes after the. Fine meal in route from Caput cd and pre cedes by about 60 minutes the Fine meal in Pulc to Honolulu which precedes by about three  Fine meal served at Kona on the Island of Hawaii. On the Island the bus Driver passes a splotch of Green where he tells you with Gravity some really serious nature Lov ers including Sylvester Stallone have built in Oasis a True organic Little Par Adise. They have no telephones he announces Over the Loudspeaker and no television. Just a Little private heliport am reminded of Art Buchwald who years ago after president Nixon s first nominee to the supreme coun Clement of Hainsw Orlov was turned Down be cause he owned stocks and Bonds in companies that had been involved in Liti gation that came before the Bench wrote that Nixon had nominated to the court a retired and reclusive Southern lawyer who was instantly surrounded by the press do you own any Stock. Colonel no sir any Bonds no sir,1 any real estate no sir Al 1 own. Is a Lew  the following  there is general exhaustion. Five thousand Miles of Ravel in one Day even aboard a con Corde is debilitating so that when the  to to take 98 potential Pas sengers on a nine hour Lour of the Volca Nic delights of inc Island of Hawaii Only nine conc orders showed up for duly the rest rusticated a Little Brach life a Little Reading a pickup of Energy in inc tarty  a helicopter trip to the Volcano s roiling maw it erupted As recently As 19s4, and belches up enough Gas to sue sol it is gathering its strength for. Another molten 1 extravagant in that could just reach jumbo Down in that Little pastoral enclave unless he makes in in time  heliport ,. And then we Settle Down and listen la Hie chief economist of he Bank of Hawaii David Ramsour born in Hawaii and intimidating 1 Learned having Stu died and taught in Japan Sweden and Lebanon Speaks of this Lake by which he Means the Pacific Ocean with its staggering economic potential one billion people waiting for Contact   quietly prosperous with the lowest unemployment rate in the United slates bul hark 40 per cent of its income Conie from tourism and if you apply says our Learned economist a 2.04 multiplier on that you gel something on inc order of so percent of the hawaiian Economy dependent on tourists and that is just Plain not Safe. All those pineapples and macadamia nuts the whole of the agricultural pro Duce of Hawaii bring in Only 4 per cent of its annual 120 billion income. Hawaii must Hope to bring that tourist income Down to not More than 30 per cent developing its other facilities. Lite what Well he tells us inc economic explosion on he Borders of the Pacific Jake is creating a need for a mini Geneva the great Oriental economies a South Korea Japan Singapore taiwan1 Don t like litigation. They prefer to face economic problems via arbitration and increasingly they think of Hawaii As truly cosmopolitan 25 percent japanese population 15 percent native hawaiian and also As an outpost of a superpower with established constitutional procedures. Down the line Hawaii May become a great service Center brokering the conflicts that might otherwise bring sclerosis to an area exploding with demand and latently with Supply. Hawaii the Geneva of inc far West far East i depend on whether you arc looking at Hawaii from new York or from Hong Kong. The questions from the conc enters Are shrewd experienced. They weigh the ques Tion of Hawaii and the Pacific Matist with agility is there a risk that the next Genera Tion of commercial aircraft will travel at such speeds As to make Hawaii a Mere Way station a Mere refuelling spot in route to major Industrial Pacific enters it does t seem conceivable looking out on Laurence Rockefeller s yellow while Beach the neighbouring Volcano sullen bul not mutinous