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SECTION 2 - PAGE 2 - PLA1NPEALER - WEDNESDAY. JUNE «, 1979 Perspective ASIAN STYLE PROBLEM SOLVING By RONALD REAGAN Many differences separate the worlds of East and West, but the approach to solving problems may be one of the most striking. The Western approach is see-a-problem- solve-it. We Americans are especially restless about unresolved problems. The Eastern view, on the other hand, is to let time work its way , to use subtle, indirect and piecemeal approaches. In recent days it begins to look as if the British government may be conferring with Oriental sages in crafting its approach to the Rhodesian situation. The other day, Lord Carrington, the new foreign minister, announced that Her Majesty's government was sympathetic to the new black- majority government in Salisbury, and that it considers the recent elections to have been free and fair. Lord Carrington did not, however, announce that Prime Minister "Thatcher's government would 'recognize Rhodesia or lift sanctions at this time. Instead, he said the British would send a liaison officer to Salisbury to confer (and presumably cooperate) with the new government of Bishop Abel Muzorewa. There is more here than meets the eye. What might be called the Orient Wisdom Factor comes into play. Con­ sider this: the Commonwealth nations gather in August in Lusaka, Zambia, for a con­ ference. If the British were to recognize Rhodesia before hand, black African nations in the Commonwealth (including oil-rich Nigeria) would feel bound to save face, pirobably by kicking the United Kingdom out of the organization it founded as the last echo of an empire. Sanctions against supplying the British with important natural resources might be imposed. Next, consider that Britain's parliamentary sanctions against Rhodesia expire in November. If, in the meantime, the Thatcher government has moved gradually and Rhodesia continues to show that it won't fall to the guerrillas of Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, the odds of Parliament allowing the sanctions to die a natural death will increase sharply. Finally, all this makes it less awkward for the U.S. govern­ ment to ease away from its stubborn and mistaken judgment that the Rhodesian future lay with the Cuban - and Russian-backed guerrillas and that the terrorist leaders simply had to get a big piece of the action. With congressional pressure increasing on the president to lift our sanctions on Rhodesia, the British ap­ proach of gradualism seems designJ?tt~to let time work its way. A Washington analyst of African events, fresh from a ELECTRONIC SERVICE CENTER Professional service on most imported makes WARRANTY SERVICE FOR .... •VIDEO TAPE •TELEVISION "STEREO •CASSETTE •REEL 'TURNTABLES •Pioneer *Craig *Sony •Panasonic *Sharp •Dual 'Garrard *$010x0 •Soundesign •Phaselinear Many Others BROADCAST ENGINEERING 815-344-1830 3721 Elm Street (Across from Jewel) McHenry three week update visit to Rhodesia and other Southern African countries, told me last week that for the short-term ("the next year or so") it is not likely the Cubans or Russians will be drawn into the Rhodesian war. He says that Zambia, which harbors Nkomo's guerrillas, is in danger of virtually running out of food supplies by mid summer and is much more worried about keeping its economy afloat than about inviting fresh problems with guerrillas and their backers. Another important factor, the analyst says, is that throughout Rhodesia, the recent elections are seen as a defeat of the guerrillas, especially Nkomo, who had promised to prevent them from being held. Because he didn't back up his threat, he is viewed as a paper tiger. To add to Nkomo's decline, his recent U.S. tour was a flof). He lost his temper on television's McNeill-Lehrer Report; his lectures played to small audiences; the press largely ignored him; and he cancelled his visit in mid-tour. Robert Mugabe, the Mozambique-based Marxist guerrilla, though he tias more men injfljtfHfesia itself, lacks weaPQra: fthd supplies. His troopsFjipi poorly trained, though tfie Washington analyst says Mugabe is a greater long- term threat if the new govern­ ment is unable to keep up its current momentum. At the same time, the analyst givbs Muzorewa high marks - fbr political acumen. So, a change of government in London. American public opinion and the application of that particularly Asian concept of patience in the solving of problems may converge in such a way that, at last, may "give peace a chance" in Rhodesia. Rose Lillegard Leaves NIPC Commission June 9 Five commissioners of the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission (NIPC) will be elected Saturday, June 9, by dn assembly of suburban maydfs and village presidents. The assembly will begin at 10 a.m. in the Sheraton-O'Hare hotel, Rosemont. I All five commissioners selected by the assembly must be elected officials of municipalities in suburban Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, and Will counties. No more than two can be from any one county. They will take seats now held by five NIPC commissioners who were elected by a similar assembly in October. 1977. They are NIPC President Cyril C. Wagner, former Tower Lakes president; Virginia M. Hayter, Hoffman Estates president; John J. Hill, Aurora mayor; Rose Lillegard, former McHenry Shores president; and Chester Rybicki, Naper- ville mayor. A municipal trustee or clerk could be elected, but only mayors and village presidents can vote in the June 9 assem- 1 bly. Each member of the assembly will cast a vote weighted iq proportion to the population of his-her suburb. In addition to the election, the assembly participa rife will hear Matthew L, Rockwell, executive director of NIPC, discuss "NIPC: The Third Decade" at a noon luncheon. Rockwell is leaving the com­ mission at the^end of June, concluding sixteen years as director. The five commissioners elected by the assembly will serve on NIPC until the spring of 1983. Those who still hold elected municipal office are eligible for reelection to NIPC. NIPC is composed of 25 commissioners. In addition to the five elected by the assembly, commissioners are appointed by the governor of Illinois, the mayor of Chicago, the Chicago Transit authority, the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago, and each of the six county board chairmen in the region. UNDERSTANDING ALCOHOLISM a health CQlumn from the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Flour Varies The amount of flour you use when baking bread will vary each time you do it. Flours differ jn composition from one time of year to another and from one part of the country to another. Humidity can also affect the amount of flour the recipe will need. . Alcohol and Tranquilizers ' The benzodiazepines are the most frequently used minor tranquilizers. Tlie most com­ mon ones used are diazepam (Valium) and chlordiazepox- ide ' (Librium). One of the difficulties with convincing the public and, possibly, physi­ cians, of the particularly in­ sidious results of combining alcohol with diazepam is that earlier studies did not show . synergistic effects when it was taken with alcohol, nor addi­ tive effects at clinical dose ' levels. Indeed, one study ifound enhanced performance levels in certain mental tests when diazepam and alcohol were combined in human sub­ jects. Apparently these pre­ liminary findings were mis­ leading, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alco­ holism points out. The majority of recent stud­ ies on the alcohol-diazepam combination indicate that such mixing of drugs is dangerous. Investigators have found that reaction times are slowed considerably in subjects given both diazepam and alcohol, compared with alcohol alone. Furthermore, test subjects who combined alcohol and diaze­ pam did not realize the extent to which their judgments been affected. These sut also showed increased deficits in coordination tasks without decrements in mood level and ignored steering instructions in driving simulation tests, making increased steering er­ rors. In all the studies cited here, diazepam and alcohol .together produced greater mental and motor impairment than alcohol taken alone. One of the most important findings from these studies is that subjects may be deceived as to the correctness of their judgments when taking alco­ hol and diazepam together. It would appear that individuals are much less able to judge the degree of their impair­ ment from alcohol ingestion if they have taken diazepam. Indeed, it has been shown that using alcohol and this drug (e.g., in the form of Valium) together increases in­ toxication at lower levels of blood alcohol without the user's awareness of the effect the alcohol may be producing. 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Other disposable products are coming on the market, such as the new throw- away razors. In a hospital, they're likely to take your tem­ perature with a one-time thermometer. Mothers change their babies with disposable diapers, and so on the list grows. For reasons of economy and sanitation, many throw- away items make good sense. But we are in danger of rearing a throw-away genera-; tion of young people who view everything as disposable. My mother often pointed with pride to a kitchen utensil or an item of furniture that she "started housekeeping with." Today, many young brides < take lightly their initial furnishings, forseeing the day when they can "throw it all away" and go out and buy a new set of this or that. My big concern, though, is with marriage itself. With divorce so common and so easy, is the family itself now disposable? "Till death do us part" is now translated "Till I find someone I like better!" In the fall of 1977, I saw a program on WBBM-TV in Chicago that touched me deeply. Produced by the Arthritis Foundation, it featured an interview with a couple married 34 years. The wife, now crippled with arthritis, said all she can do is "feed myself and wash my face." In the interview, the husband turned to his wife in the wheelchair and said, "Thirty-four years ago we made a deal, to love each other, to stick with each other. She's still my woman." Then on the TV screen were flashed photos of his wife' when she was young and attractive and in good health. 1 ad­ mired this husband who refused to look on his wife as "disposable," regardless of how infirm or helpless her condi­ tion. In marriage, we never find the perfect partner. True, some marriages are a riot, and apparently impossible from the start. But if we'd say "1 accept you" and mean it, then marriage wouldn't wind up in Monday's garbage -- like a spent razor or a dirty diaper. 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