University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, March 4, 1988 Page: 3 of 8
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UNIVERSITY PRESS March 4,1988*3
Comment
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Candidates
lor president
lack abilities
£ Like a giant dragon striking
tear into the hearts of many a
^pndidate, Super Tuesday is
dibout to rear its head for the
first time.
^Democratic and Repub-
lican candidates have been
Crisscrossing the South for
t|ie past few weeks, kissing
pigs and throwing slops on
fiabies ... or is that the other
toay around?
K The candidates’ ideas and
programs have been washed
over with a flood of southern
t
roots, hospitality and just a
Sit of an accent — even in
Massachusetts Gov. Michael
Dukakis.
I The candidates left active
*
after the bloody run through
fowa and New Hampshire?
©ukakis, Rep. Richard
Gephardt of Missouri, Sen.
Albert Gore of Tennessee,
Jesse Jackson and former
den. Gary Hart of Cofbrado
4re still active on the
democratic sida
i On the Rdi&rblican side,
Ijlew Yorkffrdp. Jack Kemp,
Kansas Sen. Robert Dole,
vice President George Bush
and televangelist Pat Robert-
son are still campaigning.
„ No one candidate has
daught the hearts and minds
of the voting populace in any
4tate; and, indeed, none of
fhese candidates deserve to.
* All of the candidates are
Similar in their qualifications
for the job, and none are too
impressive.
As one staff writer com-
mented, “You could just put
them all in a hat and draw one
out” and get the same result
as a national election.
Rhetoric has been heavy in
the campaign — new ideas
and a new generation are the
key topics. But, so far, the
candidates have not given us
any ideas for this new genera-
tion that make sense or that
will benefit this nation.
The only candidate bucking
the establishment right now
is Jesse Jackson, and most
observers don’t give him a
chance — that’s a shame.
As former Arizona Gov.
Bruce Babbitt said when he
withdrew from the race, “The
campaign trail is no place for
new ideas.”
Whether it’s the
Democratic “New Deal” or
the Republican “Reagan
revolution” carefully crafted
to seem “new,” the ideas are
still the same.
For these reasons, the
University Press has chosen
not to endorse any of the ac-
tive candidates for the March
8 primary.
It is indeed a shame that
not one of the nine national
candidates has come forward
with ideas and actions that
would show he could truly
lead this nation with skill, in-
telligence and integrity, not
sound bites, slogans, invec-
tives and rhetoric.
Democracy calls
students to polls
L So you don’t like “the
• system”?
;* Well, it’s time to take ad-
vantage of Democracy, folks.
;* Now is your chance to help
change things.
!t Filing begins today for the
Student Government Associa-
*
tion spring election.
* Positions up for election
are SGA president, Setzer
Student Center Council presi-
dent, class senators,
penators-at-large and
senators from each college
bn campus.
* The elections present
another chance, in addition to
^he open meetings of the
Task Force on the Quality of
Student Life, to present your
J^iews.
fi SGA and SSCC are forces
on this campus that do effect
changes. This is your prime
Opportunity to be in on policy
Processes.
•’ Candidates for president
fjnust have 45 semester hours
and have been enrolled at
Lamar for at least a year
before running for office.
Senators-at-large must be
commuter students and be
activg in only one student
organization.
College senators must
have an academic major in
the college they will repre-
sent.
Class senators must have
the required number of hours
for that classification at the
beginning of the fall semester
of their term.
Filing ends March 11 at
12:30 p.m.
Even if you are not the stu-
dent leader type, you can at
least cast your vote on April 4
end 5 for the candidate that
will best represent your
ideology.
It’s an election spring, and
campaigning is in the air.
The old admonition stays
true: If you don’t vote today,
don’t complain tomorrow.
K
Student laments music
heard in Setzer Center
fcditor,
* Every time I come into the Setzer
Renter, I am really annoyed at the
music being played over the
loudspeakers.
i', I don’t usually mind
^background” music being softly
{flayed, but the music in the Setzer
Renter is neither soft nor relaxing. It
may seem like a good idea to have
file music played — it certainly
gives people experience working in a
'{‘radio” station, but the execution of
fjhe idea is poorly done.
U
Letter to the editor
I have talked to several other peo-
ple who share similar complaints, so
I know that it is not just me being
bothered.
In the meanwhile, my only
recourse is to avoid the “student
center” as much as possible.
Mark Wales
Beaumont Junior
Gephardt spiel changes with weather
The New Republic
By Fred Barnes
MANCHESTER, N.H. - Richard
Gephardt is no hero to the press.
Two days before the New Hamp-
shire primary, columnist Mike Bar-
nicle of the Boston Globe wrote of
him, “If he thought dressing up like
a vegetable would help him win,
(he’d) appear as a head of lettuce.”
The Des Moines Register called him
“the most disappointing (candidate)
of the field.”
The other Democratic presidential
candidates view Gephardt even less
charitably.
Gephardt’s opponents complain
about how he’s changed positions on
many issues. But what truly offends
them is Gephardt’s populist spiel.
What infuriates them all the more is
that the spiel works.
It won the Iowa caucuses for
Gephardt, and it carried him
through a storm of criticism to a
second-place finish in New* Hamp-
shire.
His spiel is also adjustable.
Gephardt sounds less anti-
establishment in prosperous New
Hampshire than in downtrodden
Iowa. With the addition of some pro-
military rhetoric, it should make
Gephardt formidable on “Super
Tuesday,” March 8.
In short, he’s now the man to beat
for the Democratic nomination.
The catchy part of the message is
an attack on trade barriers that keep
out American goods. In December,
Gephardt told his aides, “What
we’ve got to do is tell people what
these countries do to our products.”
William Carrick, Gephardt’s cam-
paign manager, asked researcher
Pat Brookover to “find how much
American cars cost overseas.”
Brookover said he already knew
that. In Korea, a Ford Taurus costs
$76,000, he said, and a Cadillac
$87,000. He was assigned to find what
a Chrysler K car costs. When he did,
the fact that the $10,000 car costs
$48,000 in Korea became a central
point in Gephardt’s TV ads and
stump speech.
Even before the ads went on the
air, Gephardt was stirring au-
diences with his new spiel.
In Portsmouth, Gephardt called
for new trade, environmental and
education policies, and said the
Social Security and Medicare pro-
grams should be run by a separate
agency so Republicans won’t be able
to cut them.
The Gephardt campaign goes to
great lengths to prove he’s not an op-
portunist. Gephardt has unwavering
“principles and goals,” House Ma-
jority Leader Thomas Foley said.
What changes is his method of
achieving them.
On health care, for example, he
says, he once opposed a federal role
in holding down costs and now
favors a limited one. But his goal of
“the best possible health care at the
lowest possible price” hasn’t chang-
ed. His shift is politically shrewd. He
opposed cost containment in 1979'
when anti-government sentiment
was running high, but favors it now
that this sentiment has subsided.
In the South, Gephardt will sound
hard-line on defense and tax cuts.
He’ll zing Massachusetts Gov..
Michael Dukakis for opposing
Reagan’s policy in the Persian Gulf
and the Midgetman missile, for “his
reluctance to use military power,"
and for declaring the Monroe Doc-
trine dead.
Gephardt says Tennessee Sen.
Albert Gore won’t be able to get to
his right on foreign policy issues.
“We’re awfully close,” he says. The
chief difference between them is
that Gephardt has a spiel on
economics. In a presidential race,
that’s no small thing.
U.S. terrorist policy
needs more resilience
By Helen Thomas
UPI White House reporter
WASHINGTON - President
Reagan says he would like to free all
of the American hostages in
Lebanon before he leaves office.
He has got to hurry. And maybe
even adopt a more resilient policy.
The president, Secretary of State
George Shultz and Vice President
George Bush have pounded their
fists for the last several years,
declaring they would never
negotiate, never deal with terrorists.
The Iran-Contra scandal in-
vestigations concluded that indeed
the administration did deal, sending
Iran weapons in hopes of freeing the
hostages.
David Jacobsen, one of the
hostages, was released on the basis
of the tradeoff, and more had been
expected to be freed. So the ad-
ministration said one thing publicly
and did another secretly, and the ex-
posure of the clandestine operation
was costly in terms of the
president’s credibility and accoun-
tability.
The administration, much as it
has protested, of course had dealt
with captors of Americans when it
was possible or feasible. The TWA
plane incident is a case in point. The
exchange of American journalist
Nicholas Daniloff for a Soviet accus-
ed of espionage in the United States
is another.
It appears there is some selectivi-
ty, although White House
spokesman Marlin Fitzwater now
says the administration, with the
devastating experience of the scan-
dal, is now back to square one — no
deals.
In his book “The Veil,” about the
CIA, author Bob Woodward was told
by William Casey, the late director
of the cloak and dagger agency, that
the United States enlisted the sup-
port of Saudi Arabia to try to do in
one of the leaders of a radical
Muslim group in Beirut.
The operation ended in about 200
casualties when a building was
blown up in the Lebanese capital and
the one man who was the target got
away. Later, the CIA found out that
by forking over a couple of million
dollars, it could subdue the leader,
who wanted the money for food and
clothing for his followers.
The terrorists have their own
agenda, and their own demands. It is
not known whether contacts are
made in channels behind the scenes
or whether any negotiations take
place, and whether the demands
could be lessened.
The Israelis gave up about 2,000
Arab prisoners for three of their
soldiers. Salvadoran President Jose
Napoleon Duarte freed 93 political
prisoners to win the release of his
daughter from her kidnappers.
With the latest capture of Lt. Col.
William Higgins in Lebanon, the ad-
ministration has restated its policy.
Peggy Say, sister of Terry Ander-
son, the Associated Press bureau
chief who has been held more than
1,000 days, apparently by an
Iranian-controlled Lebanese Shiite
group, is becoming discouraged with
the State Department and the White
House for what she said is written in
stone: “No concessions. No deals.”
“Why do we accept that?” she
asks. “Why do we say because it
comes out of the White House that’s
just the way it is? Hostage-taking is
nothing new; we have always made
concessions.”
She made the remarks in an inter-
view on CBS-TV’s “Face the
Nation.”
Contending the government has a
double standard and may make
more of an effort to help Higgins, she
said that while the State Depart-
ment’s policy was an “absolute no
negotiation for Terry and the others,
and I reminded them that they had
told me that before TWA, and I wat-
ched those negotiations, and then
they got back to me and said ‘now we
are back to our old policy: no
negotiation.’ ”
But Reagan hopes for a
breakthrough that will bring the kid-
napped Americans, and others in-
cluding the Anglican cleric Terry
Waite, back to their homes.
If a policy isn’t working, there is
no law against trying something
new. The people will understand,
and the administration may win
points with a little more above-board
resilience.
"THE ATTORNEY 6ENEWL IS VERY BUSY RI6HT NOW
— M0UL9 YOU CARE TO TARE A NUMBER?'
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