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A-2—THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Spring*, T«u, Friday, February 17,IBM.
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Fencing them out
might not work
The poet Robert Frost once wrote, “Good fences make
good neighbors.” L
The wisdom of that observauon has been realized
many times. But we’re not certain Frost had international
neienborliness in mind at the time.
Some in federal government have tak'en that track,
however, coming up with a plan to construct a five-foot-
deep ditch along about 20 crucial miles of the border be-
tween the United States and Mexico.
Although the United States shares 6,000 land miles of
bonier with Mexico and Canada, 90 percent of all un-
documented-alien apprehensions occur along just 200
miles of the southern border. Fujly 45 percent of all ll-
legal-alien apprehensions occur in the area around San
Diego, Cal. , while the El Paso area of Texas accounts for
21 percent.
The federal government isn’t the only agency yrging
construction of a barrier. The Federation of American
Immigration Reform (FAIR) proposes a plan that would
include — within a framework of deterrence, detection,
apprehension and repatriation — a sunken wall topped by
a fence along parts of the border where the flow is
heaviest. • ,
A gentle sloping grade would be constructed facing
Mexico ensuring that illegal aliens approaching the fence
could not harm themselves. Upon reaching the bottom of
the incline, intruders would be confronted by a smooth,
concrete wall 12 feet tall, all below the grade of the sur-
rounding terrain so there would be no appearance ot a
walled Barrier between the two nations. On top of the
wall, there would be a difficult-to-cut, 8-foot metal fence
curved inward at the top to discourage anyone with a tall
1 &ddcr.
FAIR recommends that the barrier be constructed along
ts of the border where the illegal immigrant flow is
..^viest. The cost would be borne by charging a $2 per
person border-crossing user fee at all U.S. pons of entry,
similar to the S10 fee now levied on most airline arriving
passengers to the United States.
Granting that statistics indicate that over half of the il-
legal-alien border crossings occur1 in just a few miles of
the border, one has to wonder if those numbers would
remain true should a moat or wall be built. Certainly,
much of the border between the United States and Mexi-
co is inhospitable terrain. But one suspects that those
dedicated to crossing from Mexico northward would not
continue to butt their heads against a wall along short
stretches of the border for long. They would simply find
another way around.
No other nation has a more generous policy of admit-
ting aliens for citizenship through the front door than the
United States. No other country countenances the back-
door entry of so many illegal immigrants as does the
United States. .
We doubt that short stretches of fencing between the
U.S. and Mexico would do much to change this
“neighborly” condition.
pans
neavii
The opinion page______
Bush may confound advisers
By Jack Anderson
mad Dak Vaa Alta
WASHINGTON - The political
pros who ran George Bush * presiden
tial campaign are stunned at his new,
lake-charge style
As a candidate Bush was compli-
ant and followed their directions
That gave his aides the idea that they
would really run the Bush adminis-
tration from behind the scenes In-
stead. he has ignored most of their
recommendations and shunted them
aside
Sources clone to Bush explain that
he didn't feel secure as a candidate
Since his election to Congress 20
years ago. he had lost all his political
campaigns until he linked up with
Ronald Reagan Bush was willing,
therefore, to let the experts run his
presidential campaign
But President Bush understands
government better than any of his po-
litical advisers do He knows how to
plav the political power game inside
the' Washington Beltway He may
lack Ronald Reagans gift for com-
municating with the voters, but Bush
can speak to the bureaucrats in their
own language He knows his way
around the compounds of
government
So. George Bush intends to be a
hands-on president and will run his
own show He took his sweet time se-
lecting and screening the people he
wanted to serve in his administration
and was infuriated when his cam-
paign chiefs tried to force his hand by
leaking stories to influence his ap-
pointments The leaks were calculat-
ed to tarnish people he wanted but
whom his advisers opposed — John
Tower as secretary of defense, John
Sununu as W'hite House chief of staff.
Louis Sullivan as secretary of health
and human services Bush nominated
them anyway
Hu advisers were also opposed to
keeping William Webater as Central
Intelligence Agency director, ap-
pointing Jack Kemp as secretary of
housing and urban development and
bringing Elixabeth Dole back to the
Cabinet as labor secretary Again.
Bush overruled his subordinates
He is so angry at the use of news
leaks to influence his choices that he
may begin doing what Harry Truman
did — the opposite of what the leaked
stones say he will do Bush has also
discussed with intimates a suitable
punishment — perhaps outright dis
missal — to discourage the kind of
flagrant leaks that plagued Reagao
Bush's great strength — his empa-
thy for the bureaucracy — may also
be his greatest weakness lake the
professional bureaucrats he finds so
compatible, he is inclined to adopt
government solutions that look good
on paper but lack human quality.
For example, the federal appara-
tus that Bush has mastered tends to
rely on affluent bureaucrats to solve
the' problems of the poor and on pro-
Abortion thinking changes
By William A. Rasher
When one side in a public contro-
versy starts resorting to outri^it
falsehoods, you can just about figure
it's slipping That's what the pro-abor-
tion activists and their pals in our lib-
eral media have been doing lately,
and why I take a certain encourage-
ment from their behavior
One can certainly see why they
sense that the abortion cause is losing
ground For one thing, the pro-life
forces have recently begun ‘putting
their bodies on the line’ engaging in
non-violent forms of civil disobedi-
ence. such as blocking the entrances
to abortion clinics and compelling the
police to drag them away „
In the IMOs. when civii rights advo-
cates and Vietnam war protesters did
that sort of thing, the media covered
their activities with husky-throated
reverence In the case of the pro-life
demonstrators, the media's tone is
likelier to be ooe of open contempt
But don't he deceived The moral pas-
sion of the protesters is getting across
to the public, and having a very defi-
As a result, it's becoming harder
for pro-abortion activists to find polls
William fi.
Rusher
that support their contention that a
majority of the American public fa-
vors abortion on demand At the mo-
ment they are hanging on to a New
York Times CBS News poll conduct-
ed in mid-January which asked, ‘If a
woman wants to have an abortion and
her doctor agrees to it, should she be
allowed to have an abortion or not?’
Sixty-one percent of those questioned
said yes. and only 25 percent said no
(Eleven percent said it depended on
the circumstances )
But what is that weasel I y little
clause about the doctor's consent do-
ing there’ It seems to imply a medi-
cal necessity of some sort Why not
just ask. ’If a woman wants to have
an abortion, should she automatically
be allowed to?’
Because, naturally, the answer
would inconvenience the pro-abortion
lobby As the Time* itself pointed out.
not once since 1975 has the National
Opinion Research Center found a ma-
jority of those questioned in favor of
abortion if a pregnant woman simply
’is not married and does not want to
marry the man ’ In recent years, not
even 40 percent have favored it
And Gallup, m the past five years,
has consistently found nearly M per-
cent of those questioned declaring
that abortion should be ’legal only un-
der certain circumstances *
Add to these statistics President
Bush's recent outspoken attack an
abortion-on-demand, the Supreme
Court's apparent decision to reconsid-
er Roe vs Wade, and Attorney Gener-
al Richard Thornburgh's frank hope
that that case trill be overturned, and
one can see why abortion activists are
plunged into gloom these days.
But that doesn’t justify flat misrep-
resentation of the facta, which is what
they are now resorting to. Again and
again, TV news reporters and com
menu tors have described abortion on
as having majority support in
the facts (as dr-
this country,
scribed above)
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no such thing
Jock
Anderson
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fessional women to decide what's
best for mothers at home.
Our nation is being weakened by
government specialists who obey the
codes of their narrow specialties, but
claim no responsibility for larger is-
sues Their rules stifle innovation and
obliterate social mores
All in all. Bush is off to a good start
But he may be too calculating in bal-
ancing rival interesu and too cau-
tious in putting off what should be
done
RECHANNELING MONEY -
Old-line Democratic moneybags are
considering a shift in their contribu-
tions under the Democratic National
Committee chairmanship of Ron
Brown The shift won't cost the party
much, but it could devalue the com-
mittee’s role in future political
campaigns
Brown's support of Jesse Jackson
In 1999 and his long friendship with
Sen Edward Kennedy. D-Mass. have
not endeared him to the Southern
wing and other party conservative*
Many well-to-do Jewish contribu-
tors have not forgotten Jackson s
anti-Semitic remarks in 1994 and his
former alliance with Black Muslim
leader Louis Farrakhan. who has
openly insulted Jews
As a result, insiders tell us. instead
of sending political contributions
through the Democratic National
Committee, aeveral major party
backers will give their money direct-
ly to the Senate and House Democrat-
ic campaign committees and to unof-
ficial groups like ’Democrats for the
Eighties ’
State parties may also get funds
that earlier would have been donated
to the national committee for distri-
bution Our sources stressed that
overall donations are not likely to
decrease
Some party elders will also seek to
have the party apeak through Senate
Majority Leader George Mitchell of
Maine, instead of through Brown, our
sources said
Brown s backers believe that even
if contributions to the national com-
mittee drop off initially. Brown's
fair-mindedness will soon woo the do-
nors back into the fold They point out
that his predecessor. Paul Kirk, was
originally considered too liberal by
Democratic moasbacks. but Kirk won
them over
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ADMINISTRATION.
Madison Avenue challenged
By Vincent CarruB
Do advertisers have a right to make
their pitch so long *9 they don't de-
ceive us’
The U S surgeon general doesn't
think so
The National Commission Against
Drunk Driving doesn't think so, either
Nor do the Children's Defense Fund
and a boat of other self-proclaimed
-interest groups and watchdogs
r've all decided advertising needs
regulation - and. in some
cases, outright *>*«»»
If Surgeon General C. Everett Koop
had free rain, he'd outlaw cigarette
ads altogether The commission on
drunk driving is leas severe, but fa-
vors legislation to regulate alcohol
beverage advertising ' Children's ad-
vocates meanwhile favor a clamp-
down on commercials targeting kids,
suck as ads for sugared cereals
Notice, please, the galling cooccit
of thane regulatory tree believers
They alone poaaa the wisdom acces-
sary for a healthy life The reot of no
are gullible — so much so, in fact,
that we cannot be trusted to protect
our own interests
In the tree believer's eye*. the aver-
age consumer is a passive slug ac-
cepting commercial msessgss with
no less awe than if they were en-
graved tablets handed down from
high Adult consumers are so passive,
apparently, that they slavtahly defer
to their kids' demands If children
plead for marshmallows and cola for
Waakfast, our would-be protectors
imply, moat parents simply
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Uincent
Carroll
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Truth in advertising they rightly as-
pect But full disclosure of such obvi-
ous facto that barflies are not all
healthy, happy and handsome’ Of
course sot
Even men who succumb to ads tout-
ing a cure for baldness rarely expect
to be sporting* lush growth of hair in
n few weeks They purchase the prod-
net as skeptics, praying for a pleasant
whether advertising creates demand
for products or mainly caters to it.
but we do know this much about con-
sumers Neither advertising nor regu-
lation created their growing taste for
lean foods, low-calorie drinks and
-light* alcoholic beverage* Quito the
contrary Advertising responded to
the rational dietary concerns of
Not even the cleverest commercial
can sell anything to anyone. No
amount of advorttoing. for
and David
"paradoxical
individuals who
(K M)
staunchly oppose gov
tion of opinion and
quite frequently those who ardently
ver using They hold that the consum-
er is at once discerning enough to as-
similate information and make wtoo
choices but aomehow is totally Inch-
ing w this ability when It cornea to
evaluating opinion or ex prooat on em-
bodied ax advertising ‘
Most of no bucoree more discern-
ing. not lea. when confronted with a
gaudy adverttoemsnt. Ms knew we're
an our own la deciding whether to
trust It. but the staunch adults among
a — an endangered species, admit-
tedly - wouldn't have H any other
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example
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a majority today rejects aaokiag a a
■mmmu du-tv habit Cigarette cen-
cigarates, for the simple reason that
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like reality to you?
Nor to me. In the rani world, people
treat advertising a they do all one-
sided messages attentively, ha with
caution. They rely on advertising to
discover (among other things) new
bargains or the nama of
particular goods
past 19 years and will <
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