Gainesville Daily Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 286, Ed. 1 Monday, August 1, 1988 Page: 3 of 10
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OPINIONS
Gainesville Daily Register
Mon., Aug. 1,1988—3
William Buckley
Is freedom of speech protected for Dartmouth students?
servative weekly whose editors last and of the violation of privacy. They
were suspended from Dartmouth,
30 years ago
Editorial
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winter published a transcript of an
hour from a course taught by a
black music professor, which hour
was substantially devoted to ob-
scene animadversions on anybody
and anything whose views attracted
the professor’s fish-eyed dis-
EDITOR’S NOTE — George
Gedda has covered foreign affairs
for The Associated Press since 1968.
INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL ATTIRE
AIN’T WHAT IT USED TO BE.
areas.
But it’s difficult to say whether
these gains are the result of ad-
ministration policy or just plain war
weariness among the combatants.
The fighting in Angola dates back to
the early 1960s; the war in the gulf
has claimed more than 1 million
lives.
Even Vietnam is showing a far
friendlier face to the outside world
these days. Vietnamese forces have
occupied neighboring Cambodia for
more than nine years, but Hanoi has
promised to withdraw 50,000 troops
this year and the rest in two years.
It also has demonstrated a far
more forthcoming attitude toward
the United States on such issues as
Convention.
Verdict: The students were found
guilty of “vexatious oral exchange”
mbodia and a satisfactory accoun-
ting of MIA’s. -
On at least two issues, Shultz is
unable to claim progress. His
efforts to promote Arab-Israeli
peace talks have not borne fruit. In
Nicaragua, although a fragile
cease-fire remains in place, the
peace process is at an impasse.
has denounced Dartmouth con-
servations as “racist dogs.. .scum of
the...earth.”
The students did two things. They
wrote to alumni of Dartmouth
By GEORGE GEDDA
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — Secretary of
State George P. Shultz completed
his sixth year in office just a few
days ago, and it’s hard to recall a
time during that period when things
looked better for him.
East European nations are show-
ing an increasing tendency to diver-
sify their diplomatic contacts,
reflected in planned visits to Wash-
ington this week by Hungarian
Communist Party leader Karoly
Grosz and Poland’s Foreign Minis-
ter Tadeusz Olechowski. Years
have passed since either of these
Soviet allies sent high-level visitors
to Washington.
In southwestern Africa, pros-
pects have never seemed brighter
for the withdrawal of Cuban and
South African troops from Angola
and for Namibian independence
from South African colonial rule.
Pushed along by a U.S. mediation
effort, South Africa, Cuba and
Angola have agreed to a statement
of principle governing future nego-
tiations and are to meet next week
to discuss a timetable for the with-
drawal of all foreign forces from the
region.
Perhaps the best news for Shultz
lately is Iran’s decision to accept
the terms of a United Nations Secur-
ity Council resolution aimed at end-
ing the 20th Century’s longest major
war.
Gainesville Daily Register
Donald W. Reynolds,
Chairman of the Board
Warren G. Flowers,
General Manager
Eric Williams, Managing Editor
David Scott, Advertising Manager
Floyd Ferguson, Circulation Manager
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On Wednesday at a press con-
ference in Washington, a lawsuit
was launched the effects of which
may prove profoundly significant.
The plaintiffs’ case was complex to
describe in full circumstantial de-
tail. But what it comes down to is
really this: Is it a violation of statu-
tory and constitutional rights for an
institution that receives federal
funds, and whose practices are sub-
ject to codes governing civil rights,
to discriminate against students
who are white?
Much publicity has been given to
The Dartmouth Review, the con-
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Four Muenster girls are in
Stillwater, Okla., this week at-
tending the first summer
school of Catholic Action. The
five-day session is being held on
the campus of Oklahoma State
University, under the chair-
manship of Father Elmer C.
Robnett of Tonkawa, Okla. At-
tending from Muenster are
Misses Joaline Mollenkopf, Jo
Ann Hess, Virginia Schilling
and Sarah Ann Fleitman.
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working hard to encourage nego- nam became independent more
tiated settlements in both south- than 30 years ago. For now, how-
western Africa and the Persian ever, the administration refuses
Gulf. And administration officials even to discuss that possibility,
in recent days have been feeling waiting instead for a complete
heady about the progress in both Vietnamese withdrawal from Ca-
accounting for the nearly 2,400
American servicemen still listed as
missing from the Vietnam War and
its treatment of former officials
identified with the former
U.S.-backed regime in Saigon.
An American team of technical
experts is in Hanoi for discussions
on arrangements for joint on-site
inspections to help resolve the fate
of the missing Americans.
All this raises the possibility of
eventual diplomatic ties with Hanoi
for the first time since North Viet-
s
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The Rev. and Mrs. Elmer W.
Barnes and five boys and girls
from the First Assembly of God
returned last week from a
five-day camp at Cisco. Mr.
and Mrs. Barnes served as
counselors. Attending were
Herbert Robinson, Junior Cole,
Charles and Dowlene Slagle
and Faye Goldsmith.
***
Perhaps major football
arenas in this gridiron-happy
land of ours haven’t seen the
last of Gainesville’s great
Roddy Osborne after all. Hot-
Rod Roddy, the man behind the
gun in Texas A&M’s surge to
the Southwest Conference foot-
ball championship in 1956, has
decided to give professional
football a fling. The former
all-state quarterback at
Gainesville High left for
Hiram, Ohio, Thursday, where
he’ll bid for a defensive half-
back post with the always
powerful Cleveland Browns.
***
The second-place Truckers
kept right in the shadow of the
Pony League-leading Bankers
Monday night at Locke Field
when they whapped the fading
Bomber Bat nine 10-7. It took a
lot of pitching from the Truck-
ers to finally pin down the tri-
umph, but the ever-available
relief work of Delbert Dutton
kept the winners buzzing down
the winningtrail.
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Washington Today
in some cases for 28 months. For a seeking support to finance a law-
man or woman in middle age, 18 suit. They succeeded, and then
months is like the day after hired a New York law firm (My-
tomorrow. For students, it is like erson and Kuhn). They have now
being suspended until the 21st cen- launched a suit that asks three
tury. questions an honest answer to
his benediction to the lawsuit lodged and Fidel Castro (whose health he
against the college from which one toast).
pern rnhgramertean ortonsbap-sstis eradually, occurringto more
ties Union endorsed the action, as andmre people that they have
did Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, reasonstoresent being called racist
Secretary of Education William merely hecause th y hack public
Bennett and, most eloquently, Ppoliciesdifferent.from‘thoseofthe
former Treasury Secretary Wil’ NAACP. At Dartmouth, the ques-
nenaremsury secretary wn tion has been raised with the kind of
pristine directness one finds among
By The Associated Press In 1946, the Atomic Energy Com-
Today is Monday, Aug. 1, the mission was created.
214th day of 1988. There are 152 days Today’s birthdays: Actor Arthur
left in the year. Hill is 66. Actor-director Geoffrey
Today’s highlight in history: Holder is 58. Composer-lyricist
On Aug. 1,1873, inventor Andrew Lionel Bart is 58. Actor-comedian
S. Hallidie successfully tested a Dom DeLuise is 55. Fashion des-
cable car he had designed for the igner Yves St. Laurent is 52. Sen.
city of San Francisco. The car, Aifonse D’Amato, R-N.Y., is 51.
pulled along by an underground Rock musician Jerry Garcia is 46.
cable, traveled down Clay Street Actor Giancarlo Giannini is 46. Ac-
between Jones and Kearny, first m tress Tempestt Bledsoeis 15.
a private test, then in a public dem- Thought for today: “The only
onstration. things that evolve by themselves in
On this date* an organization are disorder, fric-
in 1774, British scientist Joseph tion and malperformance."' -
Priestley succeeded in isolating Peter Drucker, Austrian-born
oxygen from air American writer, consultant and
educator.
which could be politically ex-
plosive: /
1) Can a university discriminiate
against a conserative white critic-
izing a left-wing black without vio-
lating Title 6 of the Civil Rights Act
of1964?
2) Can a professor, in virtue of
being a member of a minority
group, claim effective immunity
against criticism by students con- young people. Student editors spot a
ventionally protected by the First The Dartmouth Review case may professor doing a lousy job and they
Amendment? well be saying something to report on him in their newspaper
, And, 3) Can the federal govern- American history. We find it en- Bang! They are fired out of Dart-
ment legally continue to award $30 tirely conventional to hear the head mouth for offenses that if they had
million per year to Dartmouth if of the NAACP, or of the black cau- been committed by liberal blacks
there is evidence of a violation of cus in Congress, accusing the against conservative whites would
due process at the expense of an President of the United States of have got them one hour without TV
ethnic group lin this case, four “facism.” Jesse Jackson implies by it is not reckless to predict that
white students) ?, . . his rhetoric that everyone in this Dartmouth Review et al. vs. Dart-
The auspices of the plaintiffs are hemisphere is guilty of racism with mouth College could be the Brown
this side of kookville. Sen. Gordon the exception of his delegates at the vs Board of Education or the Uni-
Humphrey of New Hampshire lent Atlanta convention, members of the versity of California Regents vs
his support. Rep. Jack Kemp gave Palestine Liberation Organization Bakke of the 1980s.
pleasure. Four students from the The students in question have the
paper then approached Professor singular disability, as far as official
William Cole to invite him to reply Dartmouth is concerned, of being
to their criticisms of the way in very bright and very resourceful,
which he conducted his class. The They decided to protest the treat-
professor lost his temper, and there ment they received, alleging that
was an exchange of verbal inciv- they got that treatment for only one
ilities in which the professor was the reason: They are white, and the
clear aggressor. And then? A professor they criticized is black,
“trial” by the Dartmouth Moreover, the students’ political
authorities, which for adherence to inclinations are conservative, and
form might as well have been con- the professor’s are liberal, if that is
ducted at a Democratic National the way to describe a professor who
Twelve months after sign- In fact, Nicaragua is no
ing the Central American closer to democracy today
peace treaty, Nicaraguan than when the Soviet-backed
President Daniel Ortega has Sandinista junta seized power
made an utter mockery of the nine years ago. On the con-
democratic pledges embodied trary, President Ortega has
in the accord. Moreover, the consolidated his political grip
head of the Sandinista dicta- over the country while
torship has made fools of the strengthening his already-
Democratic leaders of Con- inordinate military might
gress who naively put their with hardware supplied by
trust in him by cutting off Moscow.
U.S. military aid to the Con-
tra resistance movement. And the congressionally
l.,0j j , imposed suspension of mili-
President Ortega endorsed tary assistance to the Contras
the regional peace agreement ranks as one of the decade's
last Aug. 7 at a moment when colossal mistakes of Ameri-
the 10,000-man Contra force can foreign policy. Yet, with
threatened to make major the Democratic-controlled
gams on the battlefield. By House in no mood to admit its
promising to implement dem- error during an election year,
ocratic reforms, the Marxist , ,
regime in Managua hoped to the chances of a resumption
broaden the Democratic op- of U.S. backing for the Con-
position on Capitol Hill to tras are slim.
continued American support
for the Contras. .. s .
This situation will confront
Mr. Ortega’s strategy has the next president with a
proved extraordinarily sue- worsening crisis in Central
Meesuj America and a heightened
risk of a wider military con-
.« 1. frontation as the oversized
of reversible measures such sandinista army increasingly
as allowing opposition politi- intimidates its fledgling dem-
cal groups to organize more differences between
freely and permitting the in- George and
dependent newspaper La kakis, the issue also presents
Prensa to resume publica- 11 A . . ...
.. 1, c 2 . . H ... . the American voters with a
tion, the Sandinistas bided . . .
their time until lawmakers in
Washington abandoned the
Contras. Then, when the pros- Mr. Dukakis not only
pects for renewed American poses U.S. backing for the
aid were virtually ml, Presi- Contras, he also intervened as
dent Ortega launched a mas- governor to prevent the
sive crackdown against his Massachusetts National
political opponents, including Guard from participating in
stepped-up military assaults joint training exercises in
on the weakened and demo- democratic Honduras. Mr.
ralized Contra fighters in the Dukakis’s isolationist foreign
field. policy would give the San-
in recent days, the regime dinistas a free hand to domi-
has used truncheons to break nate the region.
up a peaceful demonstration
by anti-Sandinista groups, Vice President Bush
shut down La Prensa and strongly supports the Contras
Radio Catolica, expropriated and would no doubt press
Nicaragua’s largest privately hard for a resumption of
owned enterprise, and ex- American aid, particularly
pelled the U.S. ambassador now that the Sandinistas have
and his top aides. The revealed their true colors,
promised freedom of speech And, unless lawmakers were
contained in the Central willing to be outfoxed by
American peace treaty has Daniel Ortega once again,
long since been rejected by they would be hard-pressed
the Sandinistas. not to provide it.
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