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<br />1121 <br /> <br />"With all thy getting get understlUJding" <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Fact and Comment <br /> <br />By Malcolm S. Rubes, Editor-in-Chief <br /> <br />Ridiculous, isn't it. <br /> <br /> <br />IMAGINE-THE YEN ISN'T WORTH A CENT! <br /> <br />THE DROUGHT LOOMING IN MUCH 01' THE U.S. REMINDS US <br /> <br />of wbat we wrote bere six years ago IFoRBES, Aug. 16, 19821: <br />"Not in the lifetime of some of us, but Canada's most vital overuse and pollution have combined with growing usage <br />expon to the U.S. will one day be water-not oil, not to create our problem. y <br />natural gas, not minerals and metals, not newsprint. "In the lifetime of younger readers, OUI present pipe- <br />''While the world has no less water than it evet did, lines, and future ones, will be carrying morc water than oil <br />where it's lifted and where it drops has changed. Misuse, and natural gas." <br /> <br />AT THE MOMENT, ALL 01' SOUTH AMERICA COULD BECOME DEMOCRATIC <br />With the ouster of Paraguay's General Stroessner, for plug on free elections if they think there's a danger of <br />the first time every country of South America either is militant leftist takeovers. <br />democratic or an interim government has promised to The most vilely pernicious threat of all is drugs. Their <br />bold elections. ravaging spread is destroying people and governments on a <br />SUIe, the c(,cumstal"lces ate hagile. Very tragile. Theu uudeat-oomb sca.le. Some South American governments <br />beavy burden of debt threatens economic upbeaval, but are bostages to drug dealers to a scarifying degree. . <br />that problem could be leavened by encouraging free enter- Despite these grave threats, it is exciting to bave <br />prise. (See Faa and Comment 11, Feb. 20) Leftist terror democracy a reality or a real possibility in every country <br />threatens in many places, and the mili tary will pull tbe of South America. <br /> <br />..,.. <br /> <br />WE'RE CRIPPLING U.S. JUSTICE WITH GROSSLY UNJUST SALARIES <br /> <br />Most good, and innumerable not-50-good, lawyers prac- <br />ticing before federal judges haul bome incomes that mock <br />tbe pay of the judges wboserulings powerfully affect lives, <br />human and corporate. <br />With people's fate on the one band, and multiple $roil- <br /> <br />lioos and $billions at stake on tbe other, the infinite wortb <br />of baving judges of caliber and character on the bench is <br />beyond measure. <br />Pay scales to make the bencb unaffordable for the ablest <br />judges is no way to tip the scales in favor of justice. <br /> <br />BUSH UNDOES PUMMRLING PUNDITS BY HIS CANDOR, HUMOR, HAPPINESS <br />Washington press pontificators of the Right, Left and cbev's initiatives" and more such blah-blah. <br />some muddled Middle have been critically cborusing And blah-blah is exactly what these attacks are. <br />that the Bush Administration "hasn't spelled out policy The President and his very astute Secretary of State have <br />directions, II "doesn't know ~ow to cope with Gorba- made it clear that they welcome the Kremlin's disarming <br /> <br />FORBES. MAY 15,1989 <br /> <br />19 <br />