European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday May 22,1989 the stars and stripes Page say he of to Sam and Gwen of the fudge factory by Bryan Brumley Washington a the mushroom treat ment is not the latest in French cuisine and fort Fumble is not one of the . Bases slated to be closed next year. Both Are examples of . Defense department Lingo the Pinnacle of bureaucratic jargon used by the men and women responsible for . National Security. Fort Fumble the fudge factory and the five sided wailing Wall arc nicknames for the Pentagon used More or less affectionately by the 23,000 people who work there. Jargon May be the most distinguishing feature of the vast building erected in the Early months of world War ii in a style known Here facetiously As Early  but on closer inspection Pentagon terminology resembles that of other big bureaucracies. As in any bureaucracy Pentagon workers who Haven t Learned the Lingo risk the mushroom treat ment defined by retired air Force maj. Gen. Perry Smith As being kept in the dark and fed on manure. In his Book assignment Pentagon Smith has compiled a glossary not Only of defense department gobbledygook but of the acronyms that the military uses in Smith s words As a shortcut language for defense issues. Mews pronounced bemused for example is not a verb meaning to plunge into thought but is the nation s ballistic missile Early warning system. Gwen is not a woman s name but the ground wave emergency network. Mir and Sam arc deadly multiple independently targeted re entry vehicles and surface to air missiles. Stars is not a breakfast Cereal but the joint surveillance target attack radar system. Mad is already familar As Mutual assured destruction. Moa and Mou Are More recent additions meaning a memorandum of agreement and a memorandum of understanding pols is not the shorthand for politicians but Petroleum Oil and lubricants. Slep is not yiddish meaning to carry but the surface life Extension program for aircraft carriers. Warmups arc not what they seem but rather wartime manpower planning systems. And Wavd is Western theater voc Enikh Dis Vii a combined English and russian language acronym for the Western theater of military operations or the european front. Other terms in the glossary include above my pay Grade perhaps the most commonly heard expression along the 133 Miles of Pentagon corridors it Means go ask someone More  analysis paralysis what happens when you study excessively. Bears big Bosses. Feeding the bears Means giving information to senior commanders. Bedbug letter an effusive non responsive answer to a complainer similar to one from the presi Dent of a Motel who never mentions the bedbugs in his letter of apology. Boo blazing Flash of the obvious elephants another word for big Bosses As in let s solve this before the elephants get  elevator speech a Short two or three minute briefing. Face time time spent near big Bosses in at tempts to impress them with Diligence and loyalty. Night face time spent with Bosses at night counts twice As much As Day face time. Weekend face counts four limes As much As Day face. Go ballistic get Overly excited. Pearl Harbor file a Complete record of an action so that when disaster strikes you can Trace the course that led to the disaster. Tap dance a Slick briefing usually lacking sub stance. 10-foot-High Wall to be built around school Long Beach Calif. A gang violence and drug peddling at a housing project behind a Junior High school show no signs of going away so officials arc trying to make the Campus bulletproof by building a 10-foot-High Wall. Faculty and administrators wore t shirts bearing the great Wall of Lind Bergh logo to show their enthusiasm for the $ 160,000 project at Lindbergh Junior High school. It is scheduled for comple Tion in six weeks. Judy Wade a physical education teacher has said she s seen Beer bottles and even bicycle handlebars tossed at students Dur ing her 25 years at the school. Now it s not what they re throwing but what they re  she said. Students were evacuated from the recreation Fields twice during one week in april because of gunfire. Two years ago. A student playing basketball after school was hit in the Chest by a Bullet that whizzed through a Chain link Fence. The Wall is terrific said student Joe Trojo 13, who lives in the car Melitos project next door. Why because i Don t want to get  they be had trouble there for As Longas i can remember said principal Max Falcy referring to the housing project that is adjacent to the schoolyard. It is a very Large area where a lot of drug Deal ers  the Concrete Block Wall will extend 300 Yards along the school s playground separating the school and 1,200 students from the 713-unit Carm Lilos housing project Falcy said. Funds for the Wall came from the City school District and los Angeles county after teacher Joan Reedy was nearly hit recently by bullets As she walked with students to a softball Diamond. Cruising first lady Barbara Bush and Danielle Mitterrand wife of French president Francois Milter and wave from aboard the 52-foot yacht love Dove As they head out of South Portland Maine fur a cruise on Casco Bay while their husbands discussed world affairs at the Bush estate in Kennebunkport. Experts Challenge Cost claim for Bush s so bailout plan Washington a Wall Street financial experts have said president Bush s savings and loan bail out plan will Cost taxpayers Between $30 billion and$50 billion More than a democratic alternative. A special task Force of the House budget committee was told the extra expense of paying for the bailout through 30-year Bonds to preserve the illusion of Defi Cit reduction will Likely be 10 times the $3.8 billion to $4.5 billion the administration has acknowledged. This is an incredible Price to pay for budgetary window dressing said Bert Ely head of a financial consulting firm in Alexandria a. Billions of Dollar scan be saved if the cleanup is funded for a Lew years with Short term borrowings until Long term Rales de  the administration has acknowledged taxpayers will have to pay up to $4.5 billion More Over the 30-year life of the private Bonds than if the bailout costs were borrowed directly through the Treasury. Ely however Coli match the extra Cost of Bush s plan at $49.7 billion Over 30 years assuming the administration is right in saying interest rates will drop by More than half be tween now and 1995. David Jones chief economist for Aubrey g. Lan Slon & co., said there has been a substantial underestimation of the added costs in Bush s financing plan. Agreement on mail order sales tax collapses Washington a an agreement among lobbyists for stale and local governments on a Bill allowing sales taxes to be collected from mail order buyers has collapsed triggering a Sharp dispute among group representing the nation s mayors and governors. At Issue is the Bill sponsored by rep. Jack Brooks a Texas chairman of the House judiciary committee that would override a 22-year old supreme court decision that permits customers to escape sales taxes on purchases from big Oul of state mail order houses. Groups representing local govern ments want the Bill to include provisions guaranteeing that states which would col Lect the taxes from the mail order retail ers will pass along a share to cities and counties. But Brooks Bill leaves Illo the states to decide whether and How to pass on Money to local governments. And the head of the . Conference of mayors charged that the National governors association had reneged on an agreement and agreed to Cut the cities out of the Bill this is not just a simple Little quarrel said j. Thomas Cochran executive director of the conference which rep resents mayors of cities of More than 30,000. Instead Cochran said the Dis Pute goes to whether or not Organiza Lions will keep their  Ray Scheppach executive director of the National governors association acknowledged the Bill docs not match the agreement but said most states would act on their own to pass along a portion to cover local sales lacs if Brooks Bill is passed. The agric Mcnol was reached last Yearby inc mayors and governors groups the National conference of state Legislatures and two other groups represent ing elected municipal and county officials