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TIM POTTER Managing Editor
GEORGIA HRDLICKA Advertising Director
CATHY WALL Cleisitied Manager
TERRY HAMMONDS- Agnculture/Bimneei Editor
VIRGINIA OCHOA Competing Room Supervisor
CAROLINE GRANATO- Circulation Meneger
EDWARD HAWTHORNE JR.- Preaaroom Foremen
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Like the bad penny, Yasir
Arafat turns up again this
time in Egypt meeting with
the Egyptian dictator. Hosni
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highlighting of poor student
discipline as a mayor pro-
blem in the nation s schools
Summarised by Gary
Bauer, deputy
undersecretary of the
Department of Education
the report proposes that the
departments of Justice and
Education work with school
districts to limit recourse
students have to local courts
w hen they are suspended
Bauer said one of the
unintended consequences of
past actions was that
students who disrupt schools
and make learning impossi-
ble become a protected
class Tools that teachers,
principals and
superintendents use to deal
with unruly students “were
badly deteriorated
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cnticism of too much federal
intervention, authors of the
report proposed no m a jor
federal programs or spen-
ding to deal with discipline
problems This omission
leaves action to local school
txiards where it belongs
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repor t on discipline a 1/78
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implement his stated goals or to otherwide promote his post
lions in the three years following the 1980 elections
The Federal Election Commission certified Anderson as
the 1980 presidential candidate of what the Federal Election
Campaign Act designates as a new party. " but the law
required that he wait until after the election to receive $6 5
million in federal funding
Because Anderson received more than J percent of all
votes cast in the 1980 presidential election he is qualified
under FECA provisions to be the candidate this year of a
minor party eligible to receive $6 6 million or more in
public funds during the campaign
But Anderson s National Unity Party exists almost exclu-
sively as a vehicle to qualifv him for federal funding under
the FECA's requirements He has made no real effort to
establish national, state or local party structures or to
involve potential supporters in the decision-making process
leading to his entry in the 1984 presidential campaign
Andersons relatively strong showing in recent public
noils presumably is attributable to the celebrity sta-
them meaningless < If, by
the way, “dictator" raises
an eyebrow, let it be said
here that countries which
have but one party permit-
ted to win elections are dic-
tatorships and the persons
who head the one party that
is permitted to win elections
are the dictators The im-
plication is not that Mubarak
is Andropov on the Nile, only
that these appealing little
realities QED I
Now for Yasir Arafat to
get to Egypt required that he
get out of hia jam in
Lebanon, and to get out of
that jam in Lebanon he had
to be permitted to depart,
permission granted de facto
by Israel, which made the
same mistake a year and a
half ago. when Arafat was
defeated and the U S and
the other Godfathers
demanded that he be allowed
to leave, the condition, sup-
posedly, attached to that
departure being that he was
not to return Ah. yes
Now he turns up in Egypt
and Hosni Mubarak fetes
him and pledges his undying
support of the Palestine
Liberation Organization
goals and affirms - is this
now the nine-zillionth such
affirmation from somebody
in or out of the Arab world? -
that the PLO is the "sole
legitimate voice of
Palestinian people"
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Other leading conservatives including, for example.
Phyllis Schlafly the one-woman vanquisher of ERA disa-
gree They know that most television news broadcasts are
average increase was billion In the first three years
under Reagan, the average has beer, approximately 870
billion
•Allowing for inflation and measuring real" rates of
grow th the recent rate of increase has been even more rapid
From 1978 through 1900, for example, real Federal spending
increased by about one to two per cent above inflation in the
period 1981« the real increase has been a hefty 22 per
cent
•As noted by Maxwell Newton of The New York Past, the
main component of this upw ard surge in spending has been
■transfer payments for social welfare purposes Under
Carter these rose in real terms by 5 7 per cent in the period
'81 Kt they have rise® by 19 4> per cent
•All of this has occurred against a backdrop of nsing
Feders. revenues Between 197f and 1982 Federal revenues
more that doubled between MH! and 198'. they increased by
81 «■ biibon Cmiy in 1MB after s tax increase, did they
decline
•Before the five-year S22F billion tax hike adapted in 1982
the deficit for fiscal ’BS was pro.ieeted at BIST billion after
that tax hike the Oefict rose to almost CBM hilhon
These figures make it reasonably clear the Federal
sperndmg has not as advertised been brought under control,
ether by way of cuts or even in the form of slowing down
the rate of increase That spending continues to surge up-
ward despite the efforts of an econom-mmded President is
testimony to the power of the spending blocs and the
automatic nature of the budgetary process It is also in-
dicative of the fact that control of outlays not receipts, is the
key to whittling down the Federal deficit
open sewers of liberal misinformation and disinformation,
and suspect that what little evenhandedness occasionally
creeps into the reportage is largely attributable to broad-
casters' fears that somebody may try to invoke the Fairness
Doctrine and revoke their license to broadcast As for the
' free speech ' argument, conservative defenders of the Fair-
ness Doctrine say speech is scarcely "free" when all most .
Americans see. as a practical matter, is one of three net-
work news broadcasts all produced by people with the same
liberal prejudices
In addition, Mrs Schlafly and a few other conservative
activists have actually been successful, every now and then,
in using the Fairness Doctrine to shoehorn an occasional
conservative viewpoint onto some hermetically sealed liber-
al station
Fowler, however, has been after the Fairness Doctrine
ever since he took over as chairman of the FCC in 1981 That
very September he asked Congress to abolish it by passing a
law but Congress cautiously refused So on June 29, 1983 the
commission issued a "Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.''
announcing its intention to promulgate a regulation that
would have the same effect Opponents were given until Jan
5 to file objections to the proposed regulation, and now the
FCC must decide whether to promulgate it over those objec-
tions
This is one of those cases in which slavish adherence to a
sound principle (the less government regulation, the better)
merely plays into the hands of forces that already possess a
dangerous monopoly of the channels of public communica-
tion in this country It may be clever to tell people who
disapprove of the violence and leftist bias in most major
television programming to go and buy their own station, but
it hardly faces up to the problem Even assuming that people
who can't afford that solution are just out of luck, the num-
ber of broadcast frequencies available to people with money
to play the game is severely limited and ail of them have
already been preempted by the early birds
In the circumstances. America will be well advised tp
keep on a bare minimum of fairness on the part of TV broad-
casters Who, in any case, wants to argue that he is seriously
inconvenienced bv such a requirement7__
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W ASHINGTON (NEA) The bad news Ik that mdepr-no
ent presidential candidate John R Anderson probably will be
allowed to fritter away at least 6 million in public funds
this vear to finance his second futile bid for the- White House
The- good news is that Anderson s share ol the vote next
November almost certainly won't he as high as the 12 per
cent to 16 percent he has been receiving in recent public
opinion polls
Indeed Anderson will be fortunate to match the 6 6 per
cent of the total vote he- received in the 198(' presidential
election But even if his 1984 vote percentage is only hall
that he could distort the results ol the election in a sizable
number oi states
When Anderson entered the presidential race tour years
ago he offered himself as a progressive ihoughtful and
independent alternative to the hidebound policies and self
serving politics embraced by the two major parties
But the campaign which initially reflected Anderson s
Commentary
Of deficits and taxes
ness Doctrine comes comfortably under the virtuous heading
of "encouraging freedom of speech
Conservatives, on the other hand, are sharply divided The
more libertarian varieties (including Mark Fowler. Presi-
dent Reagan's choice as head of the FCC) consider the Fair-
ness Doctrine just a particularly vicious example of govern
ment regulation, and are eager to get it off the backs of
America's TV and radio station owners Who is the FCC.
they demand, to tell American citizens who own such sta-
tions what they must (or mustn't) broadcast? •
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By William A. Rusher
NEW YORK (NEA) - If you think the coverage of politi-
cal topics that you see on television is fair, you can safely
skip this column If. on the other hand, you think it is about
as lopsided as the odds an ancient Christian faced when they
tossed him to the lions, you would do wel) to be concerned
about a step the Federal Communications Commission is
preparing to take The FCC wants to junk the Fairness Doct-
rine
The Fairness Doctrine which requires broadcasters to
give reasonable amounts of time to both sides of controver-
sial issues) is hardly the solution to the problem of biased
television reportage, it has been on the books as an FCC
regulation for lo these many years and nobody would pre-
tend that it has in fact compelled broadcasters to be fair
But junking it assuredly isn t going to make a bad situation
any better On the contrary it will be understood by TV
producers *and rightly) as a signal that it s sjfe to abandon
what little caution they have heretofore exercised When it
comes to TV bias, in short, you ain t seen nothin yet
What makes this such a slippery issue is that it doesn t
divide people neatly along the usual conservative vs liberal
lines Liberals by and large favor abolishing the Fairness
Doctrine There s not a thing wrong with current television
news coverage as far as they can see and lunking the Fair-
discovered, by Mr
Mubarak, as to Egypt’s best
course of action vis a vis
Israeli relations
If so, then welcoming that
PLO leader who must ref-
joiced at the death of Sadat
is a fairly plain way of mak-
ing the point Those who care
to observe the not so fine
lines separating the treat-
ment of buddies from the
treatments of necessary
bothers, will note that
Mubarak has cast his arms
around Arafat's shoulders
but he has not invited the
new Israeli premier. Yitzhak
Shamir, to come to Cairo for
the Mubarakian embrace
There are those, such as
the Jewish Defense league,
that warned against the
Israel Egypt “peace' and
called it a sham Others
warned against letting
Arafat go in '82 Now Israel
let him go in '83, too When in
'84 will Israel commit its
ongoing folly again?
Quote
A lot of people thought I
was going to whip out a gun
and blow their heads off
But I'm just very deter-
mined like any person seek
ing a career ’
— Joan Jett, one of the
first women to pick up an
electric guitar and make it
as a female punk rocker
Her current album,
“Album,’’ is approaching
gold sluts*
that 282 000 students were at-
tacked that year and 2.5
million were robbed Eighy
percent of all junior and
senior high school students
in big cities, the study siad
missed one day of school a
month out of fear they would
be attacked or robbed
The latest report sug
gested having the Justice
Department intervene as a
friend of the court and file
briefs in local court cases in-
volving school violence The
department would attempt
to limit the setting ol
precedents restricting prin-
cipals and superintendents
in dealing with problem
Brudnoy's Complaint by David Brudnoy
$ John B. Anderson's petty political crusade
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refreshing candor and integrity, rapidly deteriorated into a
slick promotional operation most notable for the candidate s
self-delusion and his deception of the public
While Anderson s positions on most issues were <and are)
appealing to many well informed and concerned voters, his
self-nghleous sanctimonious preaching antagonized vast
numbers of potential supporters
Perhaps most importantly Anderson held out the promise
of radically transforming the nations political system by
establishing a new party to serve as political home for those
who had tost contidence in both the Republican and Demo
cratic parties
Instead the 1980 campaign organization was little more
than a narrowly focused enterprise to promote Anderson s
candidacy The 1984 campaign committee probably will
serve an equally ignoble purpose
Although Anderson offered himself to the public as the
leader of a sustained crusade tor improved governance he
did virtually nothing to build the organization needed to
Arafat gets away
PLO ” And the beat goes on
The United States
welcomes the Mubarak
Arafat meeting -- meaning
that it wants to have
somebody over the age of six
believe that a conference of
the leader of the most
populous and most impor
tant of the Arab states with
the leader of a faction of an
organization that is now
busily engaged more in kill
ing its own than it bran
dishing its weapons in
Israel s face, is A Good
Thing
Furthermore, the Israelis
believe that America has
asked Mubarak to sound
Arafat out about the pro
spects of US PLO relations,
If only the PLO will
recognize Israel, whose ex-
istence it is committed by its
own charter to terminate
How quickly everybody
forgets When Mubarak s
predecessor, Anwar el-
Sadat, was killed, Yasir
Arafat danced in the streets
of Beirut Perhaps Hosni
Mubarak is signalling to the
Arab world
obliterate
Egyptian
The fight that continues te rage in the nation’s capital on
the subject nf gigantic Federal deficits is in reality a battle
over taxes
On one side of this dispute are those who say that deficits
are crucially important and that we need a tax increase to
trim deficits aren't as important as is usually sugges.ee
A review of recent fiscal history indicates both sides of this
debate are right — up to a point Deficits of the size and
duration of those confronting us today are obviously im
porta nt because nf the pressure they put on crre-cb: markets
and interest rates But there » little reason to suppose they
can be cured by still another hike in Federa. taxes
What generally gets ignoreo ir these discussions is the
other par. of equation The fart contrary to the usua. public
image that Federa. spending continues to surge upward as
rapidly as ever II is the runaway course of Fe-oera. outlays
not lack of revenues- that is the mart source of the yawning
deficits
To hear the usual budge: debate your couid only suppose
the Reagan Administration had cut the Federa; budget to the
bone or drastically slowed its rate of increase that the
deficit therefore can't be whittled down by any more
restraints on spending and that if we are going to eliminate
the rec ink forecasts we anil have to have a hike in taxes
Suet discussion ignores a number of key facts about the
budget As may be seer from the accompanying table
Federal spending in the past decade has been on a steady
upward path — which has continued in the 19tWs Further
analysis a! these budget data reveals the following
•Federal spending over the past three years has gone up
even more rapidly than ;t did in the era of Jimmy Carter For
the four years of the Carter Administration, the annual
Wove wondering
Rights of our students
We have advocated for a
iong time that strong action
be taker, to protect tne ngmts
of students who attend
school to learn and that those
who interfere with the
teaching process be severely
punished up to and in-
cluding expulsion
Now a report submitted to
President Reagar calls for
similar action It was writ-
ten by officials at Justice
Education and Office of
Management anc Budget
and is entitled Disorder in
Our Schools '
It says L' S students
should nave trie right to at-
tend a safe and orderly in-
stitution and national con
cem should be focused or. the
r.grits of attentive students
rather than on protecting
those accused of misbehav-
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President Reagan has in-
dicated ne supports findings
in the repwt and will feature
the school disciplinary issue
in his State of the Union ad-
dress
The Reagan admimstra
bon is urged in trie report to
begin aggressive
his intention to
the laraeli-
peace ar-
rangementa, as he has
already interrupted the sup
posedly nomalized
diplomatic relations by
recalling his ambassador un
til Israel self destructs in
Lebanon and until,
somehow", the "will'' of the
Egyptian people is
tus he attained in the 1980 presidential campaign, but moat
political observers expect that popularity to dissipate in the
coming months
Even at lower levels of support, however. Anderson could •
be a spoiler" in some states because two-thirds to three • •
fourths of those who vote for him would otherwise cast their
ballots for the Democratic presidential candidate
Thus. Anderson's candidacy could shift from Democratic '•
to Republican the Electoral College votes of states in which
there is a close race between the two major party candi-
dates
In 1980, there were more than a dozen states in which the
Republican candidate won the presidential election by a
margin so narrow that the Democratic contender might ' ■
have been victorious if Anderson had not been in the race
Anderson's involvement didn't affect the outcome of that
contest because President Reagan, the GOP candidate,
scored an Electoral College victory of landslide proportions ,
- but the circumstances might be quite different this year . ,
students
Also, the report recom-
mended having the Depart-
ments of Education and
Justice informally send case
studies of schools with tough
discipline standards, which
have been upheld in court, to
schools trying to improve
discipline
School discipline is a sen-
sitive matter and poses one
of the most difficult pro-
blems for teachers
mimstrators and elected of-
ficials But the time has
come when stronger action
must be taken to guarantee
the right of attentive
students to an education
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