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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1990
Page
4
David F. Lyons as publisher and M. Olaf Frandsen as managing editor lead a Odessa Texasbased effort promoting community improvement. The message advocates living, working, and playing better in the Permian Basin region.
The piece argues that both the savings and loan crisis and the education system reveal government failures. It criticizes federal deposit insurance for masking risk and shifting losses to taxpayers, notes deregulation in the Carter era, and condemns schooling as a monopoly with rising costs and declining quality. It urges governors to question what government can do well.
Readers are invited to send letters to the Odessa American to voice opinions. Contact details include P O Box 2952 Odessa 79760 for submissions and community feedback.
A provided OCR list shows U S representatives and senators from Texas with office addresses in Washington and Austin. Names include Combest Coleman Gramm Montford Sims Craddick Fraser Watkins and others with district or state offices in Longworth Cannon Russell Hart Capitol and Capitol Station.
George F. Will analyzes Saddam Hussein’s regime as a pan Arabist force akin to a dangerous German nationalist current. He compares Hussein to Bismarck and Hitler, notes Jordan and Kuwait’s fragile nationhood, and argues U S interests lie in oil and deterring aggression rather than aligning with fragile regional states.
In a satirical dialogue, the Devil advises Hitler from Hell about postwar power shifts. Germany reunifies, Japan resurges, and the US faces debt and political strain as Europe eyes renewed dominance. Grizzard notes the piece is by a columnist for the Atlanta Constitution.
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