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No Complacency on Asia A SIA'S CURRENCIES have stabilized, and economic reform. But even South Korea remains stock markets are bouncing back. The U.S. vulnerable to shifts in fickle and sometimes irratio- economy continues to roll, with 358,000 jobs nal international financial flows. So do nations not created last month as wages rise, unemployment yet infected, or barely infected, by the Asian remains low and the Dow Jones average forges "contagion," from China to Hong Kong to Russia to ahead. Maybe, a member of Congress might think, Brazil. Any one of these developing nations, or all the Asian financial storm has blown past. Maybe of them, could be tripped up by a congressional we don't have to give the International Monetary refusal to support the IMF. Fund all those billions the Clinton administration is Critics attack the IMF, the international organi- pressing for. zation leading the financial rescues of Asia's econ- If only it were so. Unfortunately, on many levels, omies, on two grounds. Some accept its impor- it is too soon to relax. For millions of workers and tance but cite the mistakes it has made. It has made their families in Indonesia, Thailand, South Korea mistakes, and it does need to be more open in its and elsewhere, trouble is just beginning. Even if functioning. But the reforms it's promoting this their nations' currencies and stock markets have time around-for less corruption and cronyism, bottomed out, the consequences of rising unem- ployment, slowed economic growth and declining greater openness, reliable unemployment insur- standards of living have yet to unfold. To some ance and more-will promote democracy and extent, such consequences are unavoidable. But social welfare if faithfully implemented. Americans have more than a humanitarian interest Other critics question the need for the IMF at all, in mitigating Asia's pain. saying it distorts the free market and rewards, or at So far, the economic impact on the United States least relieves, those in the private sector who have has been, if anything, beneficial, as Asia's crisis gambled foolishly and do not deserve relief. The dampens inflationary pressure here. But in the simplest answer to this is that we do not know what coming months the impact is likely to be less might have happened, and what might yet happen, positive, as competitive pressures threaten some without the IMF as a stabilizing force. The possibility American jobs. And if the economic crisis worsens of global financial meltdown is real enough-and and provokes ethnic riots in Indonesia and social frightening enough-not to be trifled with. instability elsewhere, the national security and At the same time, no one likes to have to choose economic impact on the United States could be between bailing out the unworthy and risking adverse in the extreme. world depression. After Mexico's financial crisis in Moreover, the financial situation remains pre- 1994, the IMF instituted some reforms that were carious. This is especially so in Indonesia, where meant to guard against a repetition. They obvious- the dictatorial President Suharto refuses to recog- ly didn't do the job. Now it would help the nize the need for more democracy or to prepare administration's position, and the IMF's, if both TheWashington Post MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1998!] the ground for a political transition. Democratic were seen to be hard at work to prevent the next South Korea is in far better shape, thanks to the crisis. Shoring up the IMF's financial position is a earnestness and skill with which President-elect necessary step toward that end. But it can't be the Kim Dae Jung has devoted himself to far-reaching only step. A New Surgeon General T HE SENATE is finally to vote this week on tion of this doctor. "Dr. Satcher's confirmation would the nomination of David Satcher, currently reject America at her highest and best and would director of the Centers for Disease Control say we are willing to accept a series of values far and Prevention (CDC), to be surgeon general and beneath what the American people endorse," he said. assistant secretary of health at the Department of "We should not have a surgeon general who would Health and Human Services. To get to the nomina- participate in an assault on the values of America." tion, it will apparently have to invoke cloture and He objects to the fact that Dr. Satcher supports break the equivalent of a filibuster by Sen. John the president's highly qualified position with re- Ashcroft of Missouri. The 60 votes for cloture are gard to so-called partial-birth abortion. The objec- said to exist, as well they should. The effort on Mr. tion is fair enough. But the president hardly can be Ashcroft's part to make this nomination stand for something it does not has been a misuse of the expected to send up a nominee who disagrees with Senate's power to advise and consent, which the his position, and the doctor says the issue is not Senate should reject. one with which he would be particularly concerned Dr. Satcher was president of Meharry Medical as surgeon general. That's hardly enough to College in Nashville until he became director of the convert him into the symbol Sen. Ashcroft seeks to CDC in 1993. He has spent pretty much his entire make of him. Nor are the carefully balanced career in the fields of medical education and commu- professional positions he has taken on the other nity health. His professional qualifications for the job issues Sen. Ashcroft raises-clean needles for for which he is nominated are beyond question. drug users and protocols for testing and treating Sen. Ashcroft, who has been trying to drum up people with the AIDS virus. "Satcher's in trouble support within the religious right for a run for the because he's outside the mainstream not only of Republican presidential nomination, claims not to America generally but of America's medical com- question Dr. Satcher's professional qualifications. munity," the senator says of the nominee, who Rather, he portrays the issue as one of morality In a carries the endorsement of the American Medical remarkable floor speech the other day, he said. "I can Association as "a man of tremendous integrity and remember a surgeon general of this administration commitment to public health." who wanted to legalize drugs. We have seen Cabinet Surgeon general is a mostly hortatory job but secretaries come forward to admit their infidelity. potentially an influential one for which Mr. Clin- Then one day the vice president goes out and ton's first choice was ill-suited. His second was a endorses and embraces Hollywood and all of the victim of abortion politics. Dr. Satcher, finally, values that Hollywood would propound." From that, would fill it well, and after three years, the position and from the swirl of scandal surrounding the ought to be filled. Sen. Ashcroft should find himself president, he somehow made his way to the nomina- another stage.

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Democratic\nwere seen to be hard at work to prevent the next\nSouth Korea is in far better shape, thanks to the\ncrisis. Shoring up the IMF's financial position is a\nearnestness and skill with which President-elect\nnecessary step toward that end. But it can't be the\nKim Dae Jung has devoted himself to far-reaching\nonly step.\nA New Surgeon General\nT\nHE SENATE is finally to vote this week on\ntion of this doctor. \"Dr. Satcher's confirmation would\nthe nomination of David Satcher, currently\nreject America at her highest and best and\nwould\ndirector of the Centers for Disease Control\nsay we are willing to accept a series of values\nfar\nand Prevention (CDC), to be surgeon general and\nbeneath what the American people endorse,\" he said.\nassistant secretary of health at the Department of\n\"We should not have a surgeon general who would\nHealth and Human Services. 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