PRAYER BREAKFAST SOON; "BEHIND THE HEADLINES" RETURNS

Mark your calendar for the annual Mayor's Prayer Breakfast to be held Friday, March 1 at the Show Me Center. This year's speaker will be Bill Armstrong, a lay leader, business executive, and former United States Senator from Colorado. At least one nationally syndicated columnist has recently touted Sen. Armstrong for the presidency.

This event over the past four years has become an important event in the life of our community. Tickets for the hearty breakfast that is served cost just $8.75, which gets you a reserved seat for the entire program. Call L.R. (Mickey) Roper at 335-8005 if you don't already have your tickets.

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We continue to try to bring you an interesting way to engage in two-way communication with "Behind the Headlines", our live, cable-access program on Channel 13. After a hiatus of two weeks (one for the President's State of the Union program, followed by my being out of town most of last week), we'll be back this evening at our usual Tuesday night time of 8 p.m.

Tonight we will once again be discussing local angles, together with your observations, on the Persian Gulf War. My guest will be Cape County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Ian Sutherland, who had three decades' service as an officer in the Special Forces of the U.S. Army and is the author of the definitive book on the history of that elite fighting force.

Ian has thus far survived: several rugged combat tours in Vietnam; time Iran during the late '70s, among other international hot spots; and a stint at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, prior to attending law school at Missouri University. Ian makes no claim to being a Middle East expert. But he's spent decades in the elite military forces, is a scholar, and has served time in the war region. I think you'll find him interesting and insightful.

Join us, maybe even give us a call, so that you can be a part of this attempt to stimulate more communication in our community.

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"It is no coincidence that the collapse of the Soviet Empire occurred at the end of a decade of sustained conservative government in every major country of the Western world. From Ronald Reagan and George Bush to Margaret Thatcher (Great Britain) to Helmut Kohl (West Germany) to Francois Mitterand (France) to Bettino Craxi (Italy) to Yasuhiro Nakasone (Japan), the voters in every major Western election since 1979 have favored candidates more strongly committed than their opponents to Western military strength and vigorous market capitalism ..."

Adam Myerson,

Editor, POLICY REVIEW

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News item, Monday, February 4, 1991:

"WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush today sent Congress his proposed Fiscal Year 1992 budget, which proposes to spend $1.44 trillion this year..." (emphais mine).

President Carter's last budget, in 1980, proposed spending approximately $660 billion.

Now, what was that we've heard for a decade now about those heartless budget cuts of the Reagan-Bush years?