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Qn Wednesday, )\pril 13tp, Jesse ~ en_titled "PsychopoliLics: What kind of· . _Jackson made a campaign appearance at - / ·the SUNY.:.west Gym. -, Prior to his: party is · this anyway?", facts w·ere · presented as to ,f:he c6nl\~ctioh between . ~speech a crowd of ·oyer one hundred the New · York · Ip-stitute for Social protestors gath~red, holding signs that .Therapy, .run by Newman anq ,the . . condemned J ackso'n for his anti. NAP. This network of mental l)ealih . ·semitic rhetoric and anti-AJ.Ilerican · clinics appears . to be _a front and · a · activities. The speech went fair-ly major source of revenue for the NAP. smooth-with only one incident of anti.:. .

Semitic hatred. ·The NAP is running its own In~ subsequent iss~e ,of 'Pip,e. candida:te in· the 1988 Preside'ntial · Dream; a conne·ction was. made · · between Jackson's c~rnpaign and the '.: election, Dr. Lenora Fularii, ·· but Ne,w Alliance Party. Further · ,endorsed . Jackson in its oftkial allegation~ were made by Thomas F. · · publication, The National Alliance.

- - Weiss. a social · worker_ from Westchester county and Editor of Up _The NAP-LaRouche c-o nnection Front News , a New York . City . was reported in the major media in · _:_publication . · Weiss 'claimed . that 1986, when Republican gubernatori._al Jackson was endorsed· and has accepted candidate AndFew O'Rourke refused to the endorsement ofthe NAP. - ' participate iQ. dcbatc_i'in whiCh one of the candffiates, was Lenora Fulan.i.

The New Alliance ~arty was started _ Fulan1 was the NAP candidate_ for in the 19'70's when Fred Newman, its < · govemor. At a campaign stop in · pie.~e~t .~head; ) o1ned t·he Natiqnal . . - SiJNY-Bingha.m to·n , · O'R~ou r.k e Caucus of L4bor Co~nmittees, run by · "reaffirmed he would not participate in Lyndon LaRouche. The two met at . a public debat~ with G~v. Cuomo and the City .~allege inANew YGrk,. where other ~candidates · because of the LaRouche w.as ·posing · as - ~ Leftist inclusion · of the · NAP. candida~te, · going under the name of Lyn Marcus.

F1,1lani.", accordiqg to TheBinghamton The two colla'I:Sorated on such projects Press. Weiss said that O'Ro9rke's as lf .. Then, and __ Encounter'flouse, official reason for withdrawal from the both ultra left publications, bordering · campaign·was· because "lie would not Fascism. · · · ·

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Jackson could not afford to refuse NAP S''imon · like. the other candidates, · support. We~ss poin_led out .th~t the h~s· failed io attack Jackson on any· .- NAP, posi,ng as a lib_eral grass-root$ ·; salientissu.es of credibility because he - ~ organization has "an· ac.ute -abi)ity"to is black. Any questioning of his ta~~ mobilize support. ~or their candidate, . of experience or his _ultra-liberal their,¢andidatebeing·Jackson." ' · positions on most issues woyld : E1e~tion experts on the . major . immediately be interpreted as racist by television networks specuH.itcd that the media arid his supporters . .-The fact . Presidential hopeful Paul Simon was · that the other candidates . have · said about to witbdraw -after losing the . nothing abo'ut the· NAP involvement Democratic primary in.Wisconsin. · A · does not mean that they do not know . ', wi~ctrawal ·would automatically _give about it. Any mention qf a pos~ible Simonis delegates to ·Jackson, 1 c nm 0 ectianwould,again,beinterpreted a&ording to the mles of the Wise,:orisin _ as-racist; · · Democratic party. Simon suspended . ·· his campaign instead of withdrawing ·continued on p4 after hearing about -the Jackson-NAP

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The seventy two year old mito the Democratic platform even Senator has had the dubious honor of _ though Humphrey preferred running as 'the·"do.ve candidate" duril)-g ~ . continuing ))resident Johnson'~ · the i968 Presidential election. The ·policies. · M.cCarthy -then rCfused _to former Senator from Minnesota has · ~- "bury the· ..hatchet" . after .. the since- fallen into relative obscurity r · convention by - not endors~ng after losing th.e Democratic Humphrey for Pre?ident -nomination ·to Hubert Ht,unphrey. , :By creating dissent in the After· retiring from the Senate in coqtiQ.ued pn p4 1970, h~ has gone on to a career as a: .

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Once again it is election' time . . H is thai .time p( year ~hen candidate~ twist .figures ·.A quick glance back at this year -proves that it has not been a boring O!Je. · Co0rs and facts to their liking irt order tO.catch somy votes. These formulated argumen~ are .· beer was boycotted by the Student A:ssembly 'on the initiative of Jon Nevett. · A few especiall y misleadin g :in any ..discussio n of U.S. defen~e budgets artg spendmg .· angry derriyslifiers made a spectacle of the.m selves_at an "Art Festiv~l" pre~ented by Anytime you Watch the qeFs,' listen to :a spe·ech .or tum 'on your radio, you' will hear TAU: . many misconceived report$;". ':. .

A few ~months later a di(fer.e nfgroup of people tastefully decorated therr· ~ppara! ., .. . . . '. . as well as a maniken wiih X's and various meat product~. all in protest of a few cute .

Some· ofthe .biggest misconce ptions ahout defense spending. are 'attributed to the · Reagan administr ation. .F irst of all, ma~y try to blame·the large federal deficit that. . girls,trying ~~ PJ:OVe WhOiS CUter. .I " • _ . . ' • .· . . . exists today on Reagati's defense budget. B~t if one takes ~he time to look at the real · A./revo'lutioriary leader (what;n~vol~tion?) came and insulted f~rty _percent of the · numbers it can be seen that in the last three decades, while defense has gone from one, - ·half of d~efederal budget to one-fourth, it is social spending that has doubled. :In 1955, . campus pop_ulation. ·-Ture spoke-and we regressed thirty ~ears, back to the Sout~, b~k U.S. defense spending accounte d for 9.1% of the .n~tion's Gross National Prodq_€t · to the segregatie n, back to where it took us ,so long to emerge fr?,m .. Two 'Pre~Idenual (GNP) and som~ 54% of the federal budget went tOward nati~n~l security. ·Today, in - candidate s; one who assured us that he · would- not. run agam ~and another, who demonstr ated to us that he was highly unqualifie d for the position, spoke. Qn campu_s 1988, 26.2% of the federal budgeq~oes to secur,ity·and defense accou~ts for only 5..9% . · · · The ·first one cost us $10,00(}-and the second caused a ·~Hymie~· uproar. Jack~on could . of tlie GNP. By contrast, non-defense outlays, 'as a percentag e_of GNP, incr~sed from riot ·contidl his -mouth and we all know what ~t could not control --a slip o~ the · 8.6% in 1955", to 16.2% i_n .1975, to 16.5% in 1988 (DepartmeQt of Defense, Report to tongue so to S.Peak; op both their parts. ' Congress , FY19.88 p.327). SiH"ce 1982, Congre~s. has :add~d "$ 2_5 0 billion tqreques ts · .for the non-defen se' budget (not includjng interest and social sec~rity) w~ile it ha~ cut . . ' ~ · ·. Donald Woods gave aleeture d~mqnstiatipg his cornplete _lack of unders~nding-_o def~nse r~tiests·by, $125 billion. The'rcal.pmblerri wit4 ~urJeder.al ~ocial ·programs is f the.probleni fu So~th 'Africa~ He gave our staff some healthy advice -a nd re-dedicated the ,not that Reagan has cut th~ir funds. The propleJfl :th~ wast~ful-.mi~tnanagernent of .

Soci3l .rooni to that worfd ·reknowne d lover of peace; Nelson Mande4l. these programs. _lt has not ·been ·b udget cuts that h~ve_ de~eriorated .social program~, but . · .· ·· the inefftc~ency in the handling offurids allo_cated~and that can't.P~ b~med .on ~estdent :Aworld famo~S· theologian;"ptofc$S~r of religion Sid Thom-a s· initiat~ ·a ·massive 'Reagan. . · .· · · ·. · · . . · ·· . , · . letter wfiting ·campaig n tq_the .Pope,!requestin g th~t he fornicate (tp "k!low•.r i.n __the . Another great misconception about die U.S. def~nse budget is its r~lation to Spviet Biblical sence) with himself. _ . spending and _its, emphasis O!l strategic nuclear forc~s. , Fi.r st of all, n;ta!IY· P?litician ' ,. s· campaign against the' fqolish "arms race" ·pursued l;>Y the Reagan admm1strat10n. }he . .A . former Bingham ton Review editor -decided. t9. i~for;m. the.campu~ about a s~ady .problem with ; the analogy that the U.S. is racing against the U.S.S.R. is that,'onc. e resu~e filling 'c.on~pitacy in Roosevel t Hall of Hinman College: Guardian o's ag-a:in, -the numbers prove it \Vrong. The Soviet Union -devotes two-arid_-a:-_half times -Perspectives abo~t the "Clique" ~ere historically accurat~ (wen somewhat) and were . more percentag e, of th~ir 'GNP to the lTiilitary. From 1970 to 1986, the Sovi~tUI)ion accompan ied by a baby pic_ture that made us all appreciat e the perm he had. last year. has · outspent the tT.s : in defense i~vestmen~s . by .$ 500 · bil~ion and anually far .. Unfort~nately the controver sy ended .on a sad note for; all involved becaus~e m 't he true outprc:>duces the U.S~ in tanks, artillcry, ,mival v~ssels, bombers, 'IC~M~ and SLBM's.

Chri$tian fashion,,Father Bob beset a "plague orr both our houses"·, . . _-).

If the U.S. was in a "race'', we 'w ould long ago ha,ve forfeited and pulled out. . . . . .....,_ ' . '"" . ~ Finally~- many of our misunderstanding- politician s will suggest that cutting bac~ on All in all the year was full- of intoleran ce on the piu:t of ali those freedom lo:ving nuclear forces will slash the defense budget and leave more funding fOP$OCial programs. intellectu 1lleftists that tried so hard to supress us. What ever happened to· freedom of The fact .is that only about 7.5% of the defense budget gbes toward nuclear fo~ces. The the press? ·Just ask Gayle Gor~ali! · majority, goes toward tlie 'ge~eral -operatioh of th~nnilitary. In a<,ldition, a. cut in · spending on nuclear weapons will mean only an increase in cdnventional forces, whkl} So to all of those who anxiously await the demise of the .B_inghamton Review , · is the more expensive of the two. Once agai·n, if. yeu continue the "rac,e" ai'lalogy, it is ,thanks f9r all of your support. .. and we'll s~ you nex~ year. interestin g to note that only 11 o/~ ofl~e Soviet military bu.dget is spent.on personnel (includin gpaymen ts to. military ~rid civilian pe{sonnel, medicaJ-costs;n:tamtenance and ... repair) whil~ the U.S; spends 55% of it budget for the: same purposes: . -~ · . .

Mo§t American~ will ·agr(',e that the preservation offr~om andthe· p~otection of our nation is one- of the most.importan t purp0ses of our government. But ·before V!e ar~ by that bunch of Ollie Iovin', ·", pursuade d by the attacks waged against the system that exists today, it is important to Coors drinkin', Commie killin' look at the facts on the U.S. defense spending and assess ·our priorities. '

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In Pop~ John Paul II's most recent· ency'clical, SoUicitudo Rei Socialis, he analyzes and criticizes- the . continuing lack'of economic -progress .

This· . in : de~elopin·g nations. · docum1ent states that the great :progress in the·underdeveloped nations· ·of the world, whicH'- was hoped for in Po.p ulorum . , Pope Paul' VI's 1967,' has' in Progressiq. . , written failed to iake· place. - Pope John Paul, in aligning himself with the poor and ' -underprivileged of the worl_d, has written a eritical, although flawed document about the world's ec0nomic ' systems, in which -he says that it. is · .the duty of the weaithy nations to aid · / in the progress of developing nations.

This document-is much more · intelligently written thim Pope Paui · VI's Pbpulor..um ProgressiQ , since it , omits the socialist rhetoric of ·central planning, · ( highly regulated · marketplace; and_national pride,- wlijoh dire·c ted more. at fhe "economic · 'experts" in the developing nations: . than the. people of those . nations . .

Pope John Paul has properly grasped · · certain economic principles, which he · believes can help -developing nations. , · He advocates the .reform o'f .the international trade systcrri, awa}'.; · from . pro_te~tionism .-}awards a free trade·" system; which would allow ·' underdev61opep. . nations to bett~r­ compete in the world m(}Ikets. He ' also believes that .there musCbe more . stabilizat,ion in the world mone-tary., and financial systems, since> the , · current dr~stic ·currency 'fluctuations ' hurt developing nations in balance· of · payments and debt repayment. Also tatgeted~ for 'i:efot'tn by the Pope ar.e ,' "International OrgaNizations", ie. the_ World Bank and.. the IMF; whicfi he criticizes for their methods and · · effectivenes~. Thg Pope goes on to mention what the developing natio_ns can do for- themselves. :What is . needed is "a spirit of initiative 6n the part of the countries _wbich need it · ~· . not exp~ecting everything from the more favored: countdes." He further recog'nizes the unjust politkal and . economic situations present in .in any develop'ing n_~tions; · authqritariart ';: · · forms of gov.ernmcnt must be_replaced . ~ by "democratic and partk'Ipatory · !'

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. The most co~troversial p<irt -:of this-- document . states · "The g_( two opposing blocs.~ J existenc·e commonly known: as' ihc East and the · West ... heJps to widen the · g'ap , already existi~g on the economic leve~ .

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by Hod Hellman b(!tween North and South'." He goes different than the examples c·ited Freedom of choice and individual on further to ·· state that the Church, ~bove: Many people came toge,ther to ' a critical 'attitude toward both . . responsibility are the . pillars ; ,._adoptS observe several attractive wo111en. society ;_ . People observe their 'liberal . capit~lism and Marxist , Furthermore, the women who envir0ntnent, and glean .frorri it -what • collectivism," ·bGCause both.sitfes have ' exhibited themselves chose do SO, . they choose. ~ .. Apparently, however, . a "tendency· towards imperi<\l.ism.~· .· and were not coerceq to by 0 me \ some groups on campus are opposed .

•this seems to state tha( th.c greed' in/.' pseudo psycho-social role perpetrated · ~. to this concept. · tlre West is the same. -thing as the · by the Greeks on campus, or those mi While maintaining a valid social ' East's militarism, · ahd therefore both ·.·. .

Madison Avenue. commentary on. society, the Art of sides are responsible for ..continuing-.

Not only is humaJi · nat'ure ' Flirting coalition has passed all the economic .suffering of the·. -· attacked, but . so is ' free ~ market bounds of rational ' argument with . ' . ' ' - . developing nations. . . capitiliism .~nd the media. According ·their taSteless actions. True, there are . · If the Pope believ.es what .he . · . . to the AOF, a "cycle" is created· into .. ·those unfortunate souls who put the''. has writte~, then he has seriously · which people "feed" themselves, thus · :pleasQres _of the." flesh in -front -of · misunderstood the I1bcr..tl: capitalist ·"' developing ''a value system based p~rsonality. But awicking social system of the West. He ·fails .to. . the values of mass advertising" (does etiquette and ideas of aesthetic beauty mention· the· biHions of dollars · and · "opiate of the masses" ·sound and labelling these things as "sexist" tons of (ood and other supplies that familiar?). However, one ·thing is · belies and undeill'lines this -argument. the West distributes annually to tpe· · ignored?. pro,ducts are supplied bas~d dictates Human -nature .developing nations. Als~ he fails to On"demand,and are advertised to meet attractiveness Jietw~en- the sexes . . ~ Cite the fatt tjlat the capitalist syste~ demand. If anything, these seeniipgly . Human beings have a funny habit .· · provides the best basis for .de~ocracy. ~eceptive ads are .a · reflection of. called flirtin~, and. they invent and pet'sonal freedoms .. · This · · · · society, not vice-versa. methods arid games facilitate their misunderstanding of the capitalist .· Events sqch as tlw . -Campris ·• · motives. uThe Art of Flirting"-book system is probably based on the false · : Queen pageant celebrate the v~ety · is a· manifestatioq of these particularly belief -still· widely accepted in the. and beauty of the human condition. It human characteristics. Is it a crime to Church that the wealthy can be ... does not force anyone to see b~_uty aS~ . ~dvocate females to' act like women, wealthy only at .the expense of. the ,' ()De · hogwgeneous .thing. To slap . and males to/ act like males- in dress, · poor. This befief, however,· does not . l~yers of salami _OI1' a dummy, wear-·_,~ speec!J,. and behavior? The book is take into acc'ount that wealth - is . silly X-marked t-Shirts or draw hideous -. about _elerp.entary biology-; not createtl, :not 'JTiefely transferred frq~{ human figures is 'a _'self.,defeating · · misogyny. ·· .. one to another> attempt to proniote · a -rational -idea. · · ~- : The ~Pope would have been ·the AOF apparently gives little credit .

Perhaps the AOF is out iouch ( . rightly justified if·he had attacked the- ' · .to the ~verage person' by .assaulting_-· From ii me, with society > capitalist system.'o n the basis of its · the sen$es with a self-deprecating ·. immemorial, h1,1man beings have held . greed · and- overwhelming material display of intolerance. Most peoplean aesthetically pleasing image · or' success. ·Material success, accord,lng . do not b~e their rehitionships on the people. . From cave paintings to the Church, is 9ften worshipped as size of their genitalia. While theii . · depicting f~rtilewomen, to the classic ~a false god~ ·and tlrlerefore m-akes message of' the ~ importance · of .

Qreek image of _tlie h'Qman body, to. redemption very. difficult. The Pope individual personality is Jauded, their. the grea~ ar~sts such as Michelang~lo · would have been on target if he had actions. show a malicious contempt_ -who have adorned our most sacred and · spoken about {he spiritual corrupti-on for all ' things normal and socially' respected monuments, an idolized calfsed by greed and selfishness, and acceptable in our cultlire. picture of beauty is -expressed'. its detritnentat effect on developing . . . , . nC;ttions, , . , \ The Pope is also critical ol the single-party rule and tiglit inefficient control of the economy · found.throughmlt Eastern Europe and He . many developing riat-ions. . con~nued from pg ... l believes -that the · developing nations Senator Me Carthy 'has been . must dev ~lop .' l~b.eral democratic yputh · yote, Me CarLhy made it institutions · which allow . for po'ssible for Nixon to win the election . - ~own as the Liberal's liberal,.and we . - indivi~ual right~. participation ·in '< · by 43% (George Wallace carried 13% government, ~nd . ~ . fair economiC _:.. on his Independ_a nt_ticket): Bringingwo~id like to congqtulate the SUNY . sy~tem that1·aUows for individual ..MeCarthy to BinghamtoJ! to ,speak, Convocations for -bringing yet another initiat~ye. hi e:ffect then; the Pope is t~etHy years .aftcr 1968, during an left-of-Cefller lecturer to speak on · · · c3n:tpus. · not critki:z.i ng thd' capitalist syste.m election where Jesse Jackson · is itself.. He is ,criticizing the attitudes · ach~~vin'g similar aims ' is v'er'y Of greed ai}d s~lfishncss (armed by ihe ;, i~teresting. capitalist system. Although he fails to _mention 1t, th~ pope must' realize . that strong ec6nomic growth and, ·a · _stable 'political system, ·which can · ' .only be provided by capitalism, the development in the poor-and · · key undewrivileged nations of the world. ' . ,' . continued from ·pg: 1 ,· Weiss · and - others n~ed to be ·.

Weiss suggested that a deal might substantiated: yet Jackson's l~ck of be in the works between Jackson and · comment on .the issue needs to be · . investigated as well.

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President Rea,gan~ who wants a· trade bill and _is willing .to ~· work vigotou$ly to secure one"-, was opposed to the provision that required companies ·to issue' sixty > days,notification of plant closings .or layoffs. · Reagan said th~t the -requirement would be "very · restrictive on bu_§iness and industry iri America" and' "if the bill .reaches my desk in the present form, I will · veto it." · House Republican leader;· Robert H. Mic·liel of Illinois, said ·. that the requifement " impose~ straitjacket around small bu~iness as well as large ones, inhibiting them from making deCisions that can save jobs and create .new ones." 'fh e notification .requirement is expected I

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by William R. Hawkins ammunition and fuel while the USSR Sec}etary of Siate George Schultz ~has. f~iled to sell t!le· latest installment ·- "" . poured supplile s . in~o the ·north.~~ .In ·· January 1975, North Vietnam launched of tb.e .·so-called· ·Mideast "peace }... its final offensive to conquer the;sbilth. · .process"· to Isr.ael. · It was a defective -/·Four months later, ;'peace was at hand" product to begin _with and should be ' ·~ . 'withdrawn. as Hanoi's i~nk~ r olled into Saigon. the peace plan was -b as_e d on the Now Hanoi's . troops are fighting· in .

Cambodia, and ·behind theni .lie the _·notioa of "tradin~ land for peace." , remai~s of fol,lf m_ill!on people :tCiued - Israel "was to give :up the buffer ·. .

• • .p·ar1S~ ' d' m sm' won in 1.967 t~rritbries . . e was proc1·rume . ce "peac . ip. exchangefor . · · ln .February 19&8. CongresscJt off promises from the PLO . and_Syria to ~ ~all aid to the anticommunist Contra leave Israel alone. But the buffer zones: · · This tr~de legislation has its resistance army. in Nicar_agua.·.• .This are tangible assets in Isratd's secqrity, · chiefs and benefits and ·c ould provide some from terrorist · and promises was done to advance the Arias. peace . tlictators are nothing rpor~ tha·n thiri relief to the huge trade deficit. But · .

-·"plan. Under its terms, the Sandinista the measure of retaliation ~gainst · · . air~ . \Yo:ds c~ berep~diated overnight regime was to . me-ve towards , c.o untries with unfair trading · democracy. The tangible asset_· of an . an~ tern tory lost cah,only be recovered ·· · · byblood. pr~ctices may cause moFe ·p:r:.obl.e msanny of freedom fighters in tqe fi~ld .

Recent pistory shows what bad than it will solve.. Foreign countries was traded for - a\ promise:',.by a ~·.bargains - such trades are. At Munich in that have a trade surplus with the communist dictatorship to :·t:¢fot:m· , September 1938, Epglandand .France U.S. may not waJilt to give up their itself.. A month. later, the Sandinistas ' .• advantag~us position: and may VGry . ' ·.. agreed to trady_:~land for pea9e" . . The launched an all-out offensive. to · · well embark in a, counter-retaliatory . eliminate the Contras. This occ.\.rrred Sudetenland - was taken from policy against th·e U.S. · The U.S. while ,Israeli Prime· Minister ·Shamir · -czeGnoslovakia and· giv.en to Nazican not attac}c -the problem of the · · Germany. Czecltoslovilia lost a third was _visiting Washington. It seryed to of its population - ar~d. its extensive :· ' trade deficit by singling vout specific ' call into question once more the . countries that arc unfair in their trade , . border f~>rtifications. In ·e xchange, of the U.S. as an ally . . And reliability ./ wh:at .attack to not promfsed Hitler ..

This' '}!>rOVi$iOn also , -practice~.. it destroyed. the credibility of American . rem'a ined of.Czechoslovakia. British narrows the power ·of-the-President · advice on how to find · peace ·in', the · .

P nme Minister Neville Chamberlain t? ' n'e~oti~fe .· int9tnatio?al trade · · 'ddl Mi . e East or anywhere else. . .· . '--'claimed "peace . in .our ti~e". Six· hberahzatiOn -pactS With- Other · Trading strategic assets, ·fand or . months ·later, Hitler'i tanks rolled into · countries. weapons; for mere words or. scraps of what remained of Czechoslovakia. su' The trade ·legislation provides . . paper may be called "peace" butit has months after tha,t, Hitler in v ad_e d . short-term relief to· the workers and an older., more accurate name: '. busin~sses that are h'u rt by foreign surrender. That is' how pe~qe is Poland and World ~ar ii began. competition~ Jobs are saved and the . achieved.. War ends when orie>:side I~ January 1973, .the U.S. signed ·ailing iQ.dustry receive much needed the Pruis Peace ·Ac·cords, supposedly · . . . loses . and the otl_ler ,/side wins. _; The : .. ... ·aid. But this could also hurt the ending the war in Vietnam. · To gain . . great error is to think of peace QQtside . workers and.businesses·in the long·.. ihe context ofvictory and defeat."J t is . this "peace", the u.s . traded t~ngible ~un. ·, If -we protect ''tb,.e. "hurt" ' an error our enemies do not make for assets. The U.S; agreed to withdraw ·._ .. industries -and give them aid, we will they defip._e __pea,c.e o.n_ly. ~n ..ter:m s 0 j_ , all of its troops in South. Vietnam: .risk the danger of allowing f-oreign J victory. In. contrast, we place peace' Jus~ as Londo~' had given away Czech' ~ompeti~ors to '!dva~ce) to a higher above victory . and thus end up with territory without_ .'telling Prague,~ level while we are trying to reach the defeat. We knew better in 1945. It is Washington gave _a~ay Vietnamese · foreign · level Qf efficiency. This · time we remembered. territory . without telling Saigon.

President Thieu first learned of could leave . the protected industry Washington's concessions by reading. remaining in an uncompetitiverstate.

William R. Hawkins is an au't hor documents his troops had captured .·Workers will · once again find 1who writes on military ·issues for the · . from a VietCong headquarters. . themselves in job insecurity , rather \ US Business an4 Industrial CounCil. Then, i!l ·· the ,name of "pe~ce", ' than job security, in a dec1inrng by · supplied .Viewpointw(JS This Congress cut . military- aid to South · . industry .. There is .nothing new with - · "' . the USBIC Writers Syndicate~ Vietnam b~ half qver the next ,two ailin,g ind.ustries : asking ·_for protection · by / the .government, stating that it will make the "proper .· adjustments" to foreign competition. face stronger oppositi·on -· in the Senate, fuakmg it 1ess) ikety that the ·proposed trade legislation would gain · ·enough votes to override a veto.

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Southern Lebanon was before the • . The Palestl'niafis, .orn ·.tbe other . invasion of 19-82, when hundreds of - hand, point out ·that tlie: Isr~elis thousands·· of PLO and pro-PLO should not be there ,in the first place. , · mi-litary factions used that area as a Thus, the press l.s rightfullyshowinff military base to dircct.their \activitics . the oppression. of their people in thci~ against Israel. ,, · · · , homeland, as they are being relocated, -The withdrawal _from the Gaza forced to . observe freq_uently strip woul~-~~t.'(preccdent ~hat_·~~uld

ihterhal upnsmgs at home and a · The Middle ·_ East has been ' , successf61 rebellion in the ~Gaza strip_ synonymous . with ·violeQce and .might very well encourage .other antiprotests in . recent mon,ths. In f~ct, . establishment An~b groups t6 ·rebel one tan hardly sit through the evenmg . . against their own governments , _One news without seeing clip$. of Is.r'aeli cl~ ~Xample is: th~: expepien~e wit~ soldiers attempting to.quelLrebellious whtch the Synans deaft with the stone-throwing Arab youngsters, or~ prol:>lem of the. Sunnite Brotti<?rs of . soffit~ politician: commenting about Islam.in Hamma and Aleppo i11 1982, the latest developments .in the area. It an expediency that'led to the death of' seems .as- though everybody .dis'ag;rees . thousands of Sunnitcs and the virtual oil what actions · should be .taken to dis-appearance :of .· thp mov;cmcnf " anywhere in Syria.

--·stabilize the sit~ation in the · Gaza · .- In conclusion, it does not look-as . strip, ~- ~mall piece of !and that-is fl_ve if the uprisings in the _occupied miles-by twenty-eight miles, but With regions are goin·g to yield _positive a population ~9f 600,00.0 . t~at · is results for the Palestinians. Naturally · expected · to reach 1~ million by the.

-Israel is very wary -about losing Ililuch year20oo. . of the support that it still has · 16ft ·The .recent uprisings wl~hin ~e ·" _.among its friends in the ·w est, and Palestinian .cam·ps started .m mid., . will keep . trying to- deal with the Decewbe~. even i.qough the reas~n f@t. ._ problem as· tac'tfully as possible. This t_he prptests can ~e dated back ~to means that s,ome copce~sions are· 1967, when Israel occupied thc -G.aza . strip'_ (prt?viously govcrn,cd by Egypt) · ' , goin~( to have to be . made to ~~e - ,~ alotig 'with the . West' Bank and the · Palestinians of the occupied territories. However, the same parties Golan Heights. Thcsq territories were captured at the end of>thc_famous 'Si~,; who are putt~ng so much pressu.rc ori Day War, · when Egypt a11d Syva· Israel are al'so aware of the · impracticality . of an .independent :jo'in,tly at~ackcd Israel. B,:ver .sinG9. then . Palestinians· have ac tiVel,y Palestinian 'state, . le~lSt for flOW . encourage turther Palestinian claims Unfortunately for t!k Palestiniahs, prot~s-ted the loss· of' their hotn(fland, imposed curfews. Their claim is that on all of Israel. indeed, at this. point their interest ruris opposite to th<;>SC of .either by· rebelling internally against . · the ~only . way io end ' the uprisings · is the . i.ssue is only the fat~ , of. the . . both their friends arid their· foes. the lsmeli rulers or by diplomatically to-have Israel pull out its. forces from territories that. were occupied after . Furthermore, their activities -arc pot · protesting- t_he . occupation, . o{t.cn.

-"':. tbe.· .. Gaza .. snip . and . allow the 1961; .once ~hese regions arc given well coordinated, as shown· by l~c · through · the. Palestine ·Liberation estab iishment of :a Pakstinian back to the -'Palestinians. ; the · n ew reeent hijacking a Kuwaiti plane by - Organization (PLO), an organization government there: issue will be the establishment of an some Palestinian terrorists. The . that. is · officially acceplC?d · by the - If one were to look "at the situation Arabic government · in all of the \- hijacking could not have come at a_ United NatiOI).S a11d · has \)bsem-cr the Gaza. strip from an uninvolved . region that c;pnstitutcs Israel tod31y. . worse time; aU or the media ,attention · status". · but rather humanistic perspective, the The Israelis could m afford ·such a that was concentrated on the occupied The )atcst uprisings, however, first thing that would come·to mil}d is c.ontroversy on their. right of regio~s shifted to the fate of the plane· have beeri the most violent so f~. -and " th.a t tnc Palestinialil claim is sovereignty over Israel. It is in their. and . -1ts passengers. This was probably the most effect-ive, as ·the compl~tely legitimate and _that the best interest to continue· the p.robably the most dcstru9tiv~,Jhin~· international press has covered it.quite. only fair and acceptable solution controversy · over the fate of the · that couid have happened to tl,te cause extensively. Furthermore, for the would be for Is(ael to unc~mditionally occupied lands as long as possible. · · of the Arab· citizens in the Gaza. first time, there ' has been · some . with.draw ·frGm · thc J occupied · -Finall,y, thG. Arab states have.

Even Yassir Atafat was in-furiated by serious talk about Israel pulling out territories. - After all , the P-dlcs.tinians hardly shown~any enthusiasm aboutth·e hijacking and ordered the terrorists · of the ·;occ!Jpied regions . or ·at least have been deprived of their homeland · the recent Palestinian activism ~ In ,to give. up. . · allowing more autonomy. Indeed,- "' for more than twenty years ·now and it · fact, Mubarak, the .Egyptian Premier,' Whatever the outwme, there are ,_ Israel has been under tremendous . is, time . that they g¢'C .an acti've . cal,led for freezing the movem_cnts,Qn dim hopes that they would be in the: pressure to "solv.e" the .~~lestinian govern~mcnt rep_rcserrting them. both : sides . for six -months.

Palestinians' interests.' . Everyone - pr9blem, and its willingness to Nevertheless, im ·Istael'i withdrm.yal .

Furthermore •. he 'is keeping a dose understands their right to exi,st and withdniw. froin ·those ocGupied. areas .. would ' have ~ important: inip1jcalions· , , watch on Pa10stinian ·movements in · have a homeland, ol'l't · their ends . ·has often been _pointed out as the· only 'that ihoulq be a.filalyzod ~lnd usuaHy his 'o wn. cou_ntry, ··wnh .his · law s.e ld.o m ·justify -their:. means. _ reasonable solution to · the problem · do not appear- in press reports. Her:e , ' enfo rc ~mein· ·officers ' Watching ·International terrorism ·will not get even by some of )sr'ael's allies. are a few-of them: . . · · 1.~ mo,sques aiild universities for any sign them anywhere but will instea~ htjrt . ~·The establishment· .of another However-, the .situation is. much too of P~llestinian activism. . their cause . . They also· need the Arab :state on Is-racr~,__, boroer _would complic~ted to have a ·simple solu~ion Also, in jordan, King H.usseiri··support of the Arab nations which is·' as bo~h sides have legitimate ~ hums . · t~rther endanger Israc,l's already · -'cannot be too enthusiastic about the, often lacking: Fi~ally their 'demands ·. and with every passing d~y there arc : · : precarious situation-. · The c~mnter-protests continuing in the Gaza strip: . ~ should be mad,e- acceptabk to Jhe . , dimmer hopes for a · possib~e .argument wo·uld ·bc that the Ga2;a strip with tb.e likely conseq,hlence of having Israelis. Everyone wants to' sec an · compromise. . · ·./ . coulcL be a demilitarized zone, but it. " more Palestinians being deported intoend to .the Palestinian proble111, ~ ·According .to .th6 !sraeli side, the · would ·be ·e ~tremcly clifficult; if hot .· his country:~ He already has enough ' whether it be the Isr.acli$ who~are tired press has been much too unfair in its. . .impossible, for ,.Israel· to enforce that _. ·.. problems controlli'ngt hc Palestinians of living in constant threat from their . coverage of the m.ovements: iQ thos.c· ~' situation :without sacrificing the self" who ate established there· (one · can hostile neighbors,_or the Arabs who regions . . , The. claim is that .-the autonomy. of the region.. The Israelis . hardly forget the incident of "Black 'would like to have more tirne 'to deal · cameras const·antly focus on you~g are not wjlling to toJerate another ~ . b Ord er, September" in. 1970, when the(PLO with their own · internal- problems.

-Palestinians (often much too young), ··pernfeiOUS State. on "their tried to take .over Jordan in ·a. failed · The only way for that to happen is· if espeqially since the strip "Yas .taken as or even women -. being chased by' · att~mpt that c:.r~sed ·: the lives of · ·the Palestiniim.s · come up with a , .. heavily armed Israeli soldiers. This_ a result of a war that was w~ged by thousands of Palestinians). ." , proposal in' which/ they . will· : the Arabs. · gives th~ ihipression ·of civilians ,, At its core, the problem wilh the compromise with the Israelis and/' · · -If an indcpend~nt state was being repressed by a ruthless militart)'. . Arab nations is that they would rather .guarantee them a safe existence. · ' formed, .how~ could that state 'provide The tn~th, they claim, is that these keep the status quo. ·" They fear However that could be a Hereulean . l '-· taSk in irself.

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Electoral Coliege · system "is~ a-k~gacy _ 'One can be sure that . the n ext ·· · of the,Foundmg Fathers' an-x~ety: that · •president of tile·Unjted S!3tes. ~ill b~ the 'mob' should riot be ·entrusted·with· severely tested. ·America's ·adversaries -po\yer, ' and tliat sober men !hould; -__,_ wanf to know~ ffrst of all, what kirtd1 · \ choose ·a sober chief executive." That ,-, of m~--they ~e dealing _with. if the.y ..

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- ftom S:o uth Affica. · '[his, they _;(¢al, 1 . ·Rev. Hunter:, in -introducing the film, . ·would put pressure on the . a o'tha ·called f6r the "d-isinvestment of · _·go~emmen~ in South Africa to ref6J;m · American cornpaqies from -Bouth · thei~ distdillinatory :,policy )_:;:o f , AfriCa and stated that .it was our -~partheid. . ·-~ . .

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-~ presiden..t ':is an ability -to surviv.e . · of !~symbolic" target$. Mandela 'docs grueling ordeals: \f~is is a j~dgmen~ riotl!IY to hid this f act. ·He state.d'·in a tblat should .impress American voters J98S, W(lshingto~ Tifnes interview · . who will dete-r mine the fate -of the ~ that, "There. is no room.for peaceful .republic by .ti-ieii actions .on deed on · struggle in South Afrl.ca," ~y. . lfhe Sou~h African government was poh rayed--in·.rne 'movie as being .. unreasonably ·paranoid of COqlrriunist \ . infil tration jn!p ~ tne· pf!ght of 'South African bla~ks. At one point in the ·· Anthony Harrigon is a: s:indicated movie {>Olice captain stated, whily D.C. . columnist based in Washington showing a slide ·of Mandela, ~hat be . . , .

(Mandela), was meetiRg with _ "bloody communists" in Angola, Ethiopia, and France. Thi{ anti communist rhetoric: howevei., . was ' ' not substantiated in· the mo:v_ie. In, · fact, . the Sonth.Afri6an government •. ..J-·· . ...... . :·had many reasons JOs'uspect :rvfandda ' and the -. ANC .p f _ pro~co·mmunist · · activities. · . ,. f · Jcie Slovo~ founder of the ANC's · mUitant wing ,and co:authot of the .

Freedom Charter was a member and · . later beca~e ..Chal.nrian of the,·south . . African Communist Party. At lea~~ · · · nine.t,e en _mernbcrs · of the thirty . merriber·: Exec:utive Com.rn·ittee;· a" .functional rnajof ity, ~ h~·y e . be~n ­ identifiad ·as members of the .South .African Com~tinist Par~y. 1vf.andelp. h.ihtself has · ev'c n authored · a bo-ok -: e[\titled · Ho w to Make a · 0 o:d ( . Comm,·unist.

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-s uppo£t him do ;wtion -~hhy ~laim-. ttiat :"}esse· Jackson is nor· a:~bigot: " . Do . . ·', Nt.uch controversy has been stin'ed' · . 'these people _believe that bigOt.ry .rmd - upi¢cently over Jesse _Jacksopis VI$it . td -citm:pus. Tn~re are a fot of people -.,~: · radsm c~ be tmrrt€d on an,Sf--o~f like a aiotificf hei;e who seem to think the man:rs';some kind of divin~ incatnatiorf . ~ . ·light switch?.·. Beeausc he .apologized,· (itnof~od ni~self) . .An equally ioud, .. they thi~ ~e l f ves; th~ _Jc~-~ -·now? I and yoc.al group fee~ that Jes.se Ja~kSon am surpnscd aByone g.o mg _to college <;an even -think ·scrmcthing'_ sO , stupid.· is more <like- .a diar-diea attack--no ' m~i~~~ whatj~J:IdO ~~- Stop him?.. be . · .'/ . . ·':> · · :t · just· ~keeps corning baek. · · Many 'of .. · .. " thii{ :i~,tter gtoup· .are ·.Icwisp.- people~ .· . , .·. knewn ' to the · Jacks·on ·dan ·as :. Jackson can _say he is. sorry ~U ·he "-hy:IDJ~s", \vho -are still offended·- by ._ wants, lmf his eorrim((nt tuns d0epcr . . ~ this'~I,ittle commenrq~ his he made so - ·' thim a: simple· insult: It is ~ the· . ' chi>ssification ,bf race WC "hymies" . long ago. Jackson supporters _SaY,: that t~ m,J~n has ·apoJogi:?ed for - t~at-;- -, so cbjecuo, nonhe comment itself. ~We .. wil{ ypu let it go alteady,J ··.tpe rnaq do noi;iilce being, grouped together and '··: makes. one -m·istake-- can't. y·o u forget ,. . h~lVe it'insinuated that we are lesser . it? ·Why can't by-gones be by-goncsZ ' - ~- .· · hum~n ·beings . . IJ is ,really.. shocking , : Why,. can~t Jesse be forgiven? ··,; · .

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. education,:the coll~ges would flaVe to · ,~ .decrea'Se_their high tuitions in order to . · On April 13: Edward Fiske, · e~h1cation editor_ of the il ew ·Y{jrk - . · .attract thy divers·e , and ~ hi-ghly .. intelbgeht pe.ople they want.. Also, . ,.

Times; ~ -gave~ a speed1, ·eiitit(e'd, '· · by emphasizing low.,.inte£est Ieraris ' "Higher Educatiqr,. . in the U.S., _rather - than ,gr~n.ts ; · the · Reagan · :rWhat's in it ·foF You?:", i.rt front of .

Administration is tryi_l)·g to keep a lid · ·. apprex!mat({ly" 125 people in the .. oh the· deficit, wi_thoui ~utting· crucjal · Mandela Rook!' of .tire -University _Union. · In his speeclJ. .he spent ~ great ._ . mili~y·, s'p~ending. ro~ .say, t.~at· the . .. ·. Reagan administ raion ~ does- . not · deaL ~ of tirp.e talking about the · ,su_p port learning i:s min~ly a . ch~ap . ' per~yived ~ problems of u.s~ chigher shot. ·A big federal :g ovemment and · · ed1mation~ spch as the disptafe over higher taxes lea~·ing . to de,s tiuction of \ . high college c_osts without . an " incentive is certainly not the answer . . appreciable increase in quality, and the AmeriCa's educational difficulties. ' declirie in· inirJori-ty cnrollmen.t. · He · - in discussing ·the rampant · ·also talked ~bout the _current~ebates debates riatioh ~ide o:ver .curriculum .. . \ . on-maJiy :College campuses over what . change~, Mr. Fisky djd not seem to ·s hould and :should not be·:in the core take a- ~strong Slai;Ice in· regards to curriculum;, or . whetb~r there should · whether he supports a core cprric'utum . be a .c_o re curriculum "at all. '' ' or ~oC He did however show a-slight · In :disc~ssing the cost of 'l dislike fo£ distribution requireinents, ~, big,het education, Mt. F!ske maoc it c-alling them,-'"Chine·se menus'~ . .He clear ·that ·collegqS:: wo~:ild charge · . ,. also stated _that by reestablishi-ng _, , ~hatever th.~ .m arket -}Vquld ~car_. . Mr. di~tribution requirements, "the faculty _ ·Fiske, in refe!T_ing to tuition and room · ·was reasserting qontrol . over , the and poard,_states that despite the fact . currkplurh., whichJ hey h~d ceded . for tllafthey are in different geographical ·some good reasons and some bad ones regions·, and have·: greatlY . -varying ·-~ . to '. students d'uring the 1->tu'd cnt . _endowmenJ;s, "If y.6ti.'look at Harvard, 'revolution- of the 60's and 70.'s. "· Mr. . . · Yale,and Princeton, there's no ·more ·Fiske ~I so spoke out favor of'the :than :$~06 betweeri the -three of them.'.'· liberal arts, by- Si~tting that, "there is ·He s~ted that coHcges in certain . ·greater ~attraction · to ihc liberal arts, ":p~ck" charge about the sameqmount .. sirrwly auf o_f pragmatism ~ " - To ofnione.y, with, "Harvard, Y rue,- and · clarify this point, he talked about ·how Princeton Bei~g in ono.pa,ck," and ,the, the worl<;I is cc>nstantly changing, apd .. oth~r ivies being -another -pack, He how . the -liberal · arts gi:ves one t!ie · -also · articulated the · unfortunate abilitT·io change. ·He said -that ·the con§equence that, ''You want to.,.in- , · liberal arts g_ives one, "The ability to some cases, charge a higf.l tu-ition not 'Communicate, to think in an abstract a low tuition because people identify · man;n er, . havifig a sense of quality ,~·ith pr~ce." .. perspectiv~." . _. . · rn· discussing the._problem of .

Overall, Mr. Fiske proved declining minority enrollment in himself to- be . an interesting and higher education_, which Mr.· Fiske ·.entertaining spea,ker. Be ce~tainly did . Clearly sees · as ·a .p rob_lem of great give some enlightening Information _ importance, he unfortunately resorted about 'the benCfits of a libcnll arts to P'olitidtl- arg.uments .

When education. _However,_ his numerous_ speaking of th,is declin'e~ :he stared, ' · . attacks on the polici:es of the Reagan · "You can. cerUiinly, fault ·the. policies ~ · admin~sti:atio:n, including, - "The · of .the Re<;~.g~n · Adm~:nis.tra'tion and .· · mes-sage tllat's comirig through ·from -· 'Congress, ' both." . He · ~ncntio. ried the Reagan Administraton that they speci(icallythe policy of emppasizihg' minority . . , don't belong",- jn rcfeience.to loans rather tb..an _grants as well as . . c.utting - tuitien .pid. Ho also stat~d, college students, were ccrc~iniy not .

- ·"T~e Reagan..Administration has ,not , . called for whcri one takes into account been particularly big boosters , of the title of the speech . .· ~ddition; learniFJ.g,_. hi_ghei or lowcr/·or ·Mr. Fiske said of Rev. Jess.e Jackson, · whatever." Clearly, Mr. Fisk~ .docs ·.

"He's .reaHy a remarkable chiuacter. ": · not understand thG ec.onomic principle It· might have been nice ifMr. Fiske · · had stuck to_the pr9posed topi~, about · that the mc,>fe. the federal ·govcrnt~e·nt · ~which he quite o'Qviously knows. a· gives out . if!: grants, _ lhe' more great deal, and had ·not abused his: ... institutions· of higher learning are -able being -behind ' tpe. ·p'o wer t6 charge . .. If, in :fact, the · federal. · ·microphone to lake_a polihcal stapce: government inteffereq less in 1

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· But its not too late to do sometfiinQ.' As •in Afghanistan, the East Germany, libya. IJietriam, !I"<! the rest of the.Soviet bloc Nicaraguan people are rej~cting the Soviet-controlled' Sand' form ·a veritable occupation force' in Nicaragua. The Russians · ' are building a na~~l base on Nicaragu~'s Caribllean coast"' . : ifiista aictiitorship: Thousands more would if they only had the : •. right 'near 'the Panama Canal. A fortified air base. is under means.

• ~onsfruction ~at Punta· H~ete near Managua- which can .lhey are looking to Ame.rica for help. The Nicaraguan accomodate Soviet bombers. . , democratic resistance looks to our country: and our denioThe. Soviets are'taking over all of Central America. Subvercratic exam~Die, for fiope. we' helped them a(cing this far. It's our ' · sio~ is spreadipg irqm 1\jicaragua throu.gh Costa Rica to · -dut~ to help them win.

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