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GRAPEVINE, Page 15
By JANICE CASTRO
Feeding the Enemy
Half the estimated $100 million worth of BOSNIAN RELIEF
SHIPMENTS sent to Sarajevo this year have been seized by
Serbian troops. U.N. officials have allowed the thefts to take
place. Heavily armed Serbian forces surrounding Sarajevo airport
skim a large share of every relief shipment as a form of
safe-passage payment, carefully selecting all the meat,
telephone gear, fire-fighting equipment as well as the newsprint
being donated for an independent paper.
Why Annie Can't Fight
President Bush has thrown up his hands after reading the
report from his PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION ON WOMEN IN THE
MILITARY, and may reverse its ban on women in combat cockpits
before sending the recommendations on to Congress. After a
yearlong, $4 million study, the 15-member commission came up
with several odd objections to women serving in combat. First of
all, the report argues, women might be taken as prisoners of
war. Servicewomen, who are asking for assignments in which they
could be killed, have already said they are willing to risk
imprisonment. The commission also insisted that if both parents
in a family are in the service, one should be forced to quit.
Guess which one?
The Pentagon's Porsche
Some folks say the B-2 STEALTH BOMBER is worth its weight
in gold, but that's not true: it is now worth three times that,
thanks to defense cutbacks. The Air Force says the aircraft
cost $44.4 billion to develop. The Pentagon originally planned
to build about 130 but has scaled its orders back to 20, or a
cool $2.2 billion apiece. And costs may rise, since the Air
Force is having trouble getting the much vaunted Stealth
radar-evading technology to work properly.
There Goes the Neighborhood
Bill Clinton may have enjoyed his vacation at the
Bloodworth-Thomason's beach house in SUMMERLAND, California,
but some wealthy neighbors are sneering about "our tax dollars
at play." Huffed one neighbor: "Have you seen the Porta Potties
along Padaro Lane?" Others carp that on the $200,000 salary
Clinton will earn as President, he is not rich enough to buy a
house in the area. Ronald Reagan, of course, lived up the road,
but at least he wasn't a Democrat. Sighed a jaded millionaire as
Clinton departed: "We survived Carter, and we'll survive him."
Ho Chi Minh Capitalism
American companies are eager to do business in VIETNAM.
Citibank, Philip Morris, Mobil, General Electric and
Caterpillar are said to be lobbying for an end to the U.S.
economic embargo. Coca-Cola and Kodak are already well known
there, thanks to black-market sales. Last month the Backer Spiel
vogel Bates advertising agency, one of the world's largest,
hosted a marketing conference in Ho Chi Minh City. Said Carl
Spielvogel, chairman of the firm: "We believe there is an
enormous potential there, and in Indochina generally. We intend
to be pioneers in this market."