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UK police cite
2 on PPD staff

in paper theft

By TIM WIESENHAHN
Senior Stall Writer

Two UK employees were cited yesterday for taking newspapers from a

newspaper rack on campus.

Physical Plant employees William Applegate and Ruby Washington
were cited about 6 am. yesterday for theft by unlawful taking, said UK Po-

lice Chief W. H. McComas.

UK police officer William Wheeler observed the pair pay for one copy
of the Lexington Herald-Leader and remove six from a rack in the base-
ment of the Whitehall Classroom Building, McComas said.

Theft by unlawful taking is a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by up to
12 months in the county jail and/or a maximum fine of $500.

Wally Skiba, the UK campus personnel director, said the matter is still
under investigation and refused to say if Applegate and Washington would

face disciplinary action.

The UK Police Department placed an officer in the basement of the
Classroom Building after a complaint was filed by Bob Byers, an indepen-
dent contractor who serviccs nearly 75 racks on campus.

Byers filed a complaint with UK police Jan. 23 after losing about 2,100
newspapers from Jan. 14 -I8 — the week war began in the Persian Gulf.
He said more papers had been taken from the two racks located on the first
floor and in the basement of the Classroom Building than from any of the

See THEFT, Back page

SGA committee passes
one bill, tables another

By MARY MADDEN
Assistant News Editor

At last night’s Student Govem-
ment Association committee meet-
ings, the appropriations and revenue
committee passed one bill to the
floor and tabled another for a sec-
ond time.

The committee passed to the sen-
ate floor a bill recommending the al-
location of $1,000 to the American
College of Health Care Executives
to assist in payment of expenses for
members to attend the I991 ACHE
annual conference in Chicago.

If the bill is passed by the full sen-
ate Wednesday, the money will pay
for hotel expenses and pan of the
group‘s registration fees for the con-
ference, which will be held Feb. 12-
15.

Although the senate only has
about $1 I.000 left in its budget for
the remainder of this academic year,
the senators thought the bill would
benefit the students attending the

conference and the College of Al-
lied Health enough to merit passage
to the floor.

Another bill, which had been ta-
bled previously, was brought before
the committee again last night.

The bill, sponsored by Lexington
Community College Senator David
Lilly and LCC student Keith Clark,
recommended the allocation of
$2,600 to the LCC Audiovisual Pro-
gram for the purchase of eight vide-
otapes to be used in and out of the
classroom.

“I feel badly that LCC's library
isn’t very new and updated, but this
just seems like a lot of money for
some videotapes," Freshman Sena-
tor Misty Weaver said.

The bill was tabled again at last
night‘s meeting to allow Lilly to
find out about the possibility of get-
ting the tapes loaned to LCC from
the Lexington campus' Margaret l.
King Library. The tabling also will

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CAUGHT IN THE ACT: Swim team members Jon Craciun (top), an exercise science major and
Sean Wheddell, a communications junior, snoozed yesterday morning at the Aquatics Center

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Iraqi
troops
cross
border

By JOHN KING
Associated Press

DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia lra
qi tanks and troops, some faking
surrender, smashed into Saudi Ara-

bia's northeast corner and some l .in
empty border town early yesterday
in “hellacious” lighting: With \n:;r~.
can and allied forces.

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ed killed in the hemiest c'(lll'lL'.l' l
the 2-weekold war J1 tir-t
Americans killed in ground art; ‘l‘.
Saudi and other allied losses 2‘» ‘r'
described as light. lraqi casualt
as heavy.

The l'S. military said much if
the lraqi advance had been bca'en
back by (S. airpower. Marines and
allied troops.

But as the bloody day wore on to
ward midnight Iraqi forces still
held the town of Khal‘ti, on the Per~
sian Gulf. and Marines and Saudi
troops mounted a eounterattaek to
retake it

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See WAR, Page

Students organize pro-troops, pro-war group

By KYLE FOSTER
Staff Writer

A new UK campus group, Stu-
dents Mobilized Against Saddam
Hussein (SMASH), will hold its
first rally Thursday, Feb. 7, at the
Student Center Free Speech Area.

A Republican group at Columbia
University started SMASH after
US. troops were deployed to the

UK TODAY

A videoconference will
be held trom 13 pm.
in the Student Center
Theater to begin
Atrican-American
History Month at UK.

Chapman
practices
with the
Cats.

Story.
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Persian Gulf. The UK College Re-
publicans recently organized
SMASH on campus as an unofficial
group.

“It (SMASH) is basically a group
of students who support military ac-
tion in the Persian Gulf with a spe-
cial emphasis on supporting our
troops," said John Middleton, vice
chairman of UK College Republi-
cans.

Middleton said the group‘s pur-
pose is to show support for the
troops and the liberation of Kuwait.

“We‘re trying to mobilize the
American public to show that we‘re
behind President Bush and Con-
gress," he said.

The group began its mobilization
at UK by selling T-shirts displaying
the SMASH logo: “Stop Hussein.
Support Our Troops.“

Alan Comett, chairman of the UK
campus and state chapter of the Col-
lege Republicans. said each
SMASH chapter receives the same
T-shirts by the national chapter,
based in New York City.

Comett said the UK group is be-
ing formed by students upset about
the anti-war protests of some liberal
campus groups.

"We feel that vital US. interests
are at stake in the Middle East and
only US. involvement and military
action will protect these interests."
he said.

Middleton, a history and political
science senior, sees SMASH as the

1 Campus war rallies
different from ’60s

SAM CARLETON Kernel Contrbutov

Members at Students Mobilized Against Saddam Hussein are wear-
ing the above T-shirts to show their support at US involvement.

"silent majority“ speaking out
Zagainst the “radicals burning
American flags and screaming.

“We have to make sure that Sad-

dam and anyone else that wants to
cl'mllenge freedom knows that the

American public, students, young
and old, are behind the president."

In addition to the UK rally, 150
other SMASH chapters also will
hold rallies at college campuses
across the nation.

By CAROL J. CASTANEDA
and GAYLE JO CARTER
College Information Network

(‘ollege campuses. traditionally
seedbcds of political dissent. are
sprouting war-related demonstra-
tions different from those produced
in the Vietnam War era a generation
ago.

While fostering voCiferous ilnll‘
war sentiment in the early days of
the Persian Gulf war, campuses also
are producing plenty of groups that
support the war Just as vocally.

“Before the war started, most of
the rallies were in protest of troops
in the Middle East,“ said Michael
Clark. Ohio State Universuy student
body president. “But now that war
has started. the silent minority has
come out in support of our Middle
East policy and the troops."

Scenes and comments such as
these are occurring on campuses
across the nation:

About 200 antiiwar activists are
camped in tents lining the meadow
on the Indiana University campus in
Bloomington. Wooden crosses are.
planted nearby.

“Most of us plan to be out here
until the end of the semester or the
end of the war.“ said freshman Da-
vid Paperrnan.

INSIDE: WORSHAM CHANGING ITS LINEUP

-More than ~00 miles
Oklahoma State University .n std:
water. l7 S. llags drawn on
es of butcher paper cover Iirum»
mond Hall donnitorx's iillfil "mot
windows. “'lhts is the time the
troops) need us the most." .t'tiho
more Stacy Steiner said

The \\;lf has many college in
dents scrambling to check their sil-
iics and llhllllSOpillt‘s

“This is my first war 1 need time
to make sense of it.. said ltail
Stern, 2]. student bodv president at
the l'niversitv of lllinois. \‘hc said
she. wants "to bring the troops
home “

JP \luir. iindcrgmdiiate student
body president at ’ennsylvunia
State 1 niversity said not evermne
is ready to take a stand. ”A lot at
people initially didn't want war:
now that we‘re in war, thcv‘re eon-
l‘iis‘ed." he said.

t)nc emerging movement is the
.\.itional Network of Campuses
Against the War,

Students from 85 colleges and
universities have ~ioined the net-
work, which is calling for a day of
student protests Feb. I

“People believe this is about oil

oil that isn‘t ours." said network

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See PROTEST. Back page.

 

 2 — Kentucky Kornoi, Thursday, January 31, 1991

Activism leaves some disillusioned

By ELIZABETH SNEAD
College Information Network

In scenes reminiscent of the '60s,
hundreds of thousands of peace ad-
vocates are on the march. But some
of the young people who raced ea-
gcrly to the peace from this time are
already disillusioned.

Some believe they have been ma-
nipulated at rallies; some have dis-
c0vered less-than—peaceful behavior
or questionable devotion to the
cause among some fellow protest-
ers.

And many of them —— at first
swept up in a wave of ’603-ish anti-
war spirit —- are struggling to come
to terms with a movement peppered
with factions and elements that
don't always live up to their expec-
tations.

“Too many people are trying to
relive the '60s or be a part of a time
they weren‘t part of," says Quentin
Nardi, 20, a San Francrseo State
University student who marched in
San Francisco right after the bomb-
ings and was left with nagging
doubts about the movement.

That sort of reaction “isn‘t sur-
prising," said Gerald Marwell, a so-
ciology professor at the University
of Wisconsin at Madison.

For most, it‘s their first participa-
tion in a cause, and youthful ideal-

ists are dismayed to find not every-
one in it shares their high ideals, he
said.

Many '603 pacifists “were also
horrified at people like Abbie Hoff-
man and

Jerry Rubin, burning flags, hand-
ing out drugs at marches, running
around naked,“ Marwell said.

“The reality is that some who be-
come involved in the peace move‘
ment may find it compatible," he
said. “Others will find their values
systematically violated."

One of the biggest surprises for
today‘s young peace activists is vio-
lent activity —— hostile language,
smoke bombs. flag-buming and the
like.

“The violence is very sad." Nardi
said.

“In the early hours of the (San
Francrsco) demonstration, the at-
mosphere was peaceful, there was a
real sense of unity," she said. Then
“things got out of control. They
started burning flags. It was like a
war zone."

One demonstrator screamed ob-
scenities and made obscene ges-
tures. “I finally gave him the peace
sign and said, "Ibis is not what it’s
all about. That's not going to ac-
complish anything.‘ "

Christine Trankiem, 19, a Univer-
sity of Pittsburgh student, marched

on campus before the Jan. 15 gulf
deadline and was astonished to see
protesters “trying to get arrested.
That is really ridiculous."

Pierre Barolette, 23, of the Wash-
ington, DC, area National Student
and Youth Campaign for Peace in
the Middle East, said that while his
group is committed to peaceful
demonstrations, “obviously you
can‘t control everyone. But the ma-
jority of the demonstrators under-
stand what we are there for and be-
have accordingly."

Another matter of consternation
among some: what they see as at-
tempted manipulation by various
factions who circulate at anti-war
gatherings.

“A lot of the signs were off the
subject; a lot of people were talking
about gay rights, the homeless and
racial issues," said Sue Ann Palma,
13, Louisville, who attended the
Washington, DC, rally.

”There are a lot of people there
just using the students," Trankiem
said. “I thought one petition I
signed was for peace. Then I found
out it was actually for Lyndon La-
rouche."

“There's a unification of all left-
wing causes at these rallies,” said
Jacob

Weissberg, senior editor at The
New Republic. “A lot of marginal

 

 

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groups haven‘t had anything to do
for years. They’re coming out of the
woodwork and becoming part of
this larger coalition."

Marwell agrees. “i don‘t want to
sound cynical, but there are groups
that are capitalizing on anti-war sen~
timcnts for other purposes.”

While some young marchers
voice concerns over some older
marchers who have been attached to
many other causes, they also ques-
tion the motives of some contempo-
raries.

“It’s like peace is the cool college
thing to do.” said Jessica MacMa-
nus, 19, Antioch College, Yellow
Springs, Ohio, who, though con-
cerned about that. is encouraged
that “such diverse groups can come
together for a common goal.”

“Many young people have a nos-
talgia for the excitement of '605,"
Weissberg said. “They missed it
and want the chance to do it them-
selves."

Baroiette disagrees that protesting
is a retro trend like bell-bottoms:
“We know all about it (”603 peace
activity); but now that we’re living
it, it doesn't have much bearing.”

Whatever the new protesters must
face, said Greg Grummer, 37. grad-
uate student at George Mason Uni-
versity, Fairfax, Va., the real lesson
may be “this is just the way the
world works."

Grummer, who protested against
Vietnam while in high school and
attended the rally in Washington
two weeks ago, believes that while
“all of the concerns are probably to
some extent true,” protesters were
“naive“ to think they'd find abso-
lute harmony and mirror images in
the movement.

And he hopes they’ll continue to
“explore all the information at their
disposal” and not be turned off by
the negative elements.

Some are beginning to think the
gulf situation is not a simple black-
and-white scenario.

“I have a lot of inner conflict,"
Nardi said. “I suppon our troops,
but don't want them to get killed.
Saddam must be stopped." Still, she
believes “war isn‘t the solution."

Nardi will march again. “I’m ex-
pressing my opinion. That's what
being American is about."

But Trankiem has called a tempo-
rary halt. “I won't march ifl don‘t
totally agree with it. I want to dis-
cuss the situation with a lot of peo-
ple until I figure out what‘s right.“

SAB prepares
for homecoming

By CHRISTINE BOTTORFF
Contributing Writer

Homecoming 1991 preparations
are getting under way, and applica—
tions are now available for students
interested in chairing a homecom-
ing committee. They can be found
in the Student Activities Board of-
fice, room 203 of the Old Student
Center.

Ten positions are available, in the
following areas: homecoming secre-
tary, royalty, Wildcat Roar, parade,
Community College princesses,
Downtown Wildcat Rally, halftime,
public relations-on campus, public
relations-off campus, and market-
ing.

Applications should be returned
by next Tuesday, Feb. 5. Interviews
will be held from Feb. 6 through
Feb. 8. Homecoming Chairperson
Laura Gum and a committee chosen
by Gum will conduct the inter-
views. Homecoming Adviser Barry
Stumbo will also be present.

Stumbo said that any UK student
“in good standing“ is eligible to ap-
ply. “Wc need people who are en-
thusiastic and excited,“ Gum added.
Both encourage as many students as
possible to apply. “We would like
to make [Homecoming] a major
event, a it is at other SEC institu-
tions," Stumbo said.

Students interested in joining —
but not chairing ~— a homecoming
committee can also come by the
SAB office and leave their names
and phone numbers so they can be
contacted later.

For more information, call 257-
8867 or come by the SAB office.

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Gorbachev has lost power, sources say

WASHINGTON -— Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev is no
longer in complete control of his government and is, in effect, shar-
ing power with the military, according to knowledgeable Soviet of-
ficials.

In private conversation during Foreign Minister Alexander A.
Bessmertnykh’s visit to Washington this week. one source told The
Associated Press the Soviet president “can’t make decisions on his
own and expect them to be carried out."

“Gorbachev is not completely in control," said the source, who is
well placed to observe Kremlin decision-making.

The source said the military high command is pressing Gorba-
chev to go along with a nationwide crackdown to restore order in
the crisis-tom country. Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov, who is gen-
erally viewed as loyal to the president and supportive of his re-
forms, is “not necessarily" among those urging the Soviet president
to get tough, this source said.

Pitt announces smoking ban

PITTSBURGH, Pa. — The president at the University of Pitts-
burgh announced that a campuswide smoking ban, enforced by a
$50 fine, will go into effect Feb. 1, putting the university in line
with similar campus policies across the country.

Wesley Posvar, university president, said the ban — prohibiting
smoking in all areas — would comply with the city code that for-
bids smoking in public places except for designated rooms, said
Sharon Flake. communications representative.

“Overall, people are pretty much used to the idea that they
couldn't smoke in places in the university," Flake said. “This takes
things a little bit further. Students may take it a little bit harder, but
I think they will comply."

Designated smoking rooms will be established only with the con-
sent of the area supervisor and after the approval of an environmen-
tal health specialist insures that proper air ventilation is maintained.

Mentor of black artists dies

WASHINGTON — Ellis B. Haizlip, a New York stage and tele-
vision producer and mentor of black performing artists, has died
here, his family said yesterday. He was 6i.

Family members said the Washington native had been suffering
from lung cancer and died Friday at George Washington University
Medical Center.

Haizlip was an executive producer at public television station
WNET in New York from 1967 to 1981. Staring in 1986, he was
director of special programs at the Schomburg Center for Research
in Black Culture in New York.

FDA asks orange juice leaders
to not mislead consumers

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration is asking
two orange juice makers to stop referring to their pasteurized and
made-from-concentrate products as “fresh."

Use of the word misleads consumers into thinking they are buy-
ing freshly squeezed orange juice, L. Robert Lake, director of the
compliance office in FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied
Nutrition, said yesterday.

Lake explained the agency's position in letters sent last Friday to
the makers of Citnis Hill Fresh Choice and Fresh 'N Natural Brand
Premium, saying it was reviewing its regulatory options.

Treasury to borrow publlc’s money

WASHINGTON — The Treasury plans to borrow $34.5 billion
from the public next week, a record for any quarterly borrowing, in
a series of debt auctions to replenish the government's coffers, it
was announced yesterday.

None of the money is earmarked to finance the allied Desert
Storm operations in the Persian Gulf, Deputy Assistant Secretary
Michael E. Basham told reporters.

Ethics Committee holds deliberations

WASHINGTON — The Senate Ethics Committee held inconclu-
sive deliberations yesterday on the fate of five senators who inter—
vened with thrift regulators on behalf of former S&L owner Charles
H. Keating Jr.

Members of the committee emerged from their first day of pri-
vate discussions and told reporters that no votes were taken on
whether any of the five broke any rules.

“We're not to that point yet," said Sen. Trent Lott, R—Miss., who
has predicted the panel would recommend at least one senator be
censured by the full Senate.

Clsco promises changes

WASHINGTON — The maker of Cisco fortified wine has told
Congressional critics it intends to change its bottle design so the
product won't be confused with less potent wine coolers.

In a letter to Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., the Canandaigua Wine
Co. of Canandaigua, N.Y., said Cisco's new bottle, pending Federal
Trade Commission approval, “will be mature and masculine; cer-
tainly, we believe unlike any wine cooler on the market today.”

Miller, who is chairman of the Select Committee on Youth, had
been demanding a packaging change. saying his concern was based
on reports linking Cisco to alcohol poison and violence among
teen-agers. Surgeon General Antonia Novello has complained that
Cisco is known as “liquid crack" among youths.

Cisco is 20 percent alcohol. Miller has said that because of its
similarity in bottle design, retailers often place it next to wine cool-
ers or soft drinks. Wine coolers are about 4 percent alcohol.

Barometer rises

WASHINGTON — The government's chief economic barometer
rose a slight 0.1 percent in December, the first increase in six
months, and what one analyst said was “a faint ray of light" the re-
cession could end by midyear.

Many economists agreed that the Commerce Department‘s Index
of Leading Economic Indicators, released yesterday, suggested that
the contraction will not deepen. though they cautioned it was no
harbinger of sudden recovery.

"It indicates only that we're through the worst of the downturn,“
said economist Allen Sinai of the Boston Co. ”It does not tell us the
bottom is in sight” although “it is a faint ray of light in terms of sec-
ond-half recovery."

Mandela cancels speech

CAPE TOWN. South Africa — Nelson Mandela, who is under a
doctor‘s order to “cool it,” has canceled a major speech at an anti-
aparthcid rally outside Parliament, the African National Congress
said yesterday.

The 72-year-old ANC leader has maintained a punishing sched-
ule since his release from prison last February, and the “traveling is
killing him,” ANC spokeswornm 'l'hery Matlala said.

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By Mohameden OuId-Mey
ere we are again with an-
H other climax in the process

of the so-called “new

world order" that the Rea-
gan and Bush administrations have
been talking about throughout the
last decade.

The Reagan administration built
the military arsenal, and the Bush
Administration is testing it on hu-
man flesh with all the “fun” and the
“excitement" of the media machine.

The turn began when Saudi Ara-
bia ceased to be what it was sup-
posed to be, and became simply
Saudi America in less than six
months. A dramatic evolution in-
deed, which really beats all records
in the theories of development, as-
similation and Darwinian evolution.

A proverb says that people often
follow the religion of their kings.
This time they may even follow the
religion of the kings of their kings.
In other words, the ideology of the
niling class became unfortunately
the predominant ideology in society
at large, alienation oblige.

The climax was reached when
“Desert Shield" turned out to be
“Desert Storm." Although these
terms were engineered by poor ex-
perts in desert weather, we should

remember and understand the se-
mantics, analogy. and metaphor in-
volved in the vilifying term “jun-
gle" used by the Pentagon war-
mongers during the U.S. war
against the people of Vietnam if we
are to understand the hermeneutics
of the term “desert” drawn from the
Pentagon files.

Yes, the barbarian U.S. aggres-
sion against the people of Iraq be-
gan with massive air strikes on
Jan.16, 1991. Like all U.S. aggres-
sions against many other peoples of
the world, this brutal onslaught was
hellish, cowardly and particularly
inhumane.

During the first hour of the at-
tack, U.S. war planes and long-
range missiles dropped 18,000 tons
of bombs on Iraqi cities. That is
more than two pounds of high ex-
plosive for every Iraqi citizen and
twice the equivalent of the nuclear
bomb dropped by the U.S. on Hi-
roshima in 1945.

During the first 11 days of the
immoral and wrong war, Bush’s ra-
vens have flown more than 22,000
sorties. The attack took place dur-
ing the last hours of the evening
(Baghdad time) while people were
sleeping and probably dreaming of
peace, targeting innocent civilians
of Baghdad instead of military posi-
tions in Kuwait.

The brutality of the onslaught

Ethnocentric attitude
real American enemy

 

By Chris L. Soon

B

dren):

Where will the Rambo-style of
ethnocentric jingoism end? I
thought you displayed an unprofes-
sional level of bias before I opened
that big, beautiful Jan. 16 edition of
the Viewpoint Page. Ronald Rea-
gan with a halo? Yeah, right. But
let’s get down to the proverbial
brass tacks, shall we?

OK, if you dislike government
policy and protest against it, you’re
a drug-crazed, free-love, 19603
throwback, hippie-wannabe. Un-
less, of course, you live in a Baltic
state, in which case you’re a great
pau'iot and a model of democratic
ideals. Clearly any national leader
who would use force to keep such
great heros within a union they
deem unjust must be a brutal tyrant,
indeed.

Now if such a brutal tyrant hap-
pened to be a tall, thin man with a
beard, who was fond of stove‘pipe
hats, well, that would be a different
story, wouldn't it.

Don’t you fellas remember a little
disagreement around 186] about
states rights and independence?
You know, the one where the two
sides calmly discussed their differ-
ences then killed each others‘
young men by the thousands for
four years.

Further, snappy slogans like
“Hell no, we won’t go, we won‘t
fight for Texaco” or “One, two,
three, four, we don‘t want a (racist,
'nother; you pick ‘em) war" serve
to prove the intellectual bankruptcy
of the anti-war movement.

Let’s see, what‘s the pro-war, oh
sorry, I mean pro-liberation move-
ment‘s favorite ditty. “U.S.A.,
U.S.A., U.S.A." Shucks, you gotta
be some kind of independent-
thinking rocket scientist to come up
with that kind of dazzling mental
gem.

Frankly, I have to agree that at
this point protesting the war is of
little significance. The time for such
activism was immediately follow-
ing the initial deployment of troops.

 

oys (used here in the con-
descending manner one
would apply to unruly chil-

Be careful

I atn a young man (23) and am
deeply disturbed that other people
my age and younger (some are my
friends) are facing imminent danger
and possibly (probable?) death in
Saudi Arabia due to the policy-
making of government.

What are these young people with
so much of their lives ahead, your
sons and daughters, our brothers,
sisters, and friends, going to die for,
never to return, lost to us forever?

 

I remember how good ole Sens.
Bob Dole and Rich Lugar were so
hot for a war they tried to push
through a pre-approved declaration
of war months ago.

The cherry on top of that was see-
ing Dole on national television say—
ing it was important to push the
measure through before public
opinion had a chance to turn against
a U.S. military action in the gulf.
I’m surprised you haven’t tried to
canonize them for their clear think-
ing.

1 also throw you a bone on the is-
sue of validating U.S. defense
spending on cutting edge technolo-
8%

We’ve been told how wonderful-
ly every big ticket item the taxpay-
ers have purchased has performed.

Ijust don‘t have any idea how a
bunch of fanatic towel-heads oper-
ating in an environment with virtu-
ally no ground cover have still man-
aged to sneak in a few crude Scud
missile launches here and there.

Yeah, a war like this could justify
spending billions of dollars on con-
ventional fixed wing aircraft for
perhaps the next 50 years.

(Important note for those who
don’t follow advances in weapons
systems: virtually all advanced
modem aircraft require long take-
off and landing runs over fairly
smooth, hard surfaces, i.e., airfields,
and while it is relatively easy to
prevent damage to these areas in a
conflict with fairly dated and se-
verely outnumbered opposition, in
any war with another country that
possesses equivalent quality and
numbers of delivery systems these
high performance, high-cost beau-
ties would soon find there was no
room at the inn.)

Who cares if we can't feed or
house our poor, who cares if our ed-
ucational system lags further behind
the rest of the first world, as long as
our fighting boys have the hottest
ride around and we’re willing to use
’em that‘s what really matters, isn't
it?

Now let's get to the environment.
I like to use the expression “I spit
on it/them” to express my contempt
for ideas or groups I dislike.

Occasionally, though, I‘ll come
across something so distasteful that

For oil? I miss my friend Pete, a
Marine Reservist, and my brother-
in-law Tommy, a Marine also, who
were both called, and I want to en-
sure their return.

I dread having to hear taps played
as I watch them put in the cold
ground, as was described to me by
an older friend who endured several
such funerals of her friends of the
Vietnam Era. Perhaps several of
you remember?

Please people, let us think, think,
very carefully what we are doing
and what we allow our government
to do with our loved ones. I get the

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Perhaps one may not be surprised by this culture of
games and wars when listening to a Congressman
saying the U.S. government went to war 200 times
during its relatively short history of 215 years.

fi

cannot be imagined because it is
simply the use of soft human flesh
as a real testing ground for the most
destructive high-tech weaponry, in-
cluding 8-52, F-l 11 and F-l 17 stra-
tegic bombers, and long-range mis-
siles, and many other laser-guided
war heads, designed originally to
destroy the Soviet Union.

It is really hard to believe that
such horror could ever happen in a
self-declared civilized world claim-
ing to be governed by law.

The cruel indifference of those
who waged the war (the Solarz fac-
tion in the Congress and the Bush
Administration) can be understood
when listening to an American pilot
comparing the bombing of Baghdad
to a football game, or to Bush
launching the super ball season si-
multaneously with “Operation
Desen Storm,” or to some newsmen
laughing on the air at how Iraq’s air
space was so crowded by U.S.
planes that it can not take any more
Israeli war planes, describing it as a
really busy space.

Perhaps one may not be surprised

by this culture of games and wars
when listening to a Congressman
saying the U.S. government went to
war 200 times during its relatively
short history of 215 years.

The last decade alone is full of
examples in which U.S. military
might was savagely used against
Iran, Nicaragua, Lebanon, Grenada,
Libya, Panama and, today, Iraq.
The list is far longer if we take into
account undeclared wars, covert ac-
tions, economic sanctions, block-
ades, etc.

So, there is nothing new in the
“new world order." It is simply a
new chapter of an old book, an ar-
chaic book indeed which opposed
by “all necessary means” any form
of Arab unity or Palestinian self-
determination.

Anyway the U.S. has nothing to
do with a dispute between Iraq and
Kuwait and will be held responsible
for the destruction of both Iraq and
Kuwait.

Mohameden Ould-Mey is a geog-
raphy graduate student.

 

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"MAN. HOW MANY MUNTRIES GIVE YOU
THIS FREEDOM OF CHOKE?“

 

 

 

 

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