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Mon., Nov. 141988—3
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“Do you have a friend like Doris Duke who
can make bail for you?”
During the half-time of the
Era-Callisburg game Saturday
night, the Hornet gridmen pre-
sented their 1958 Football
Queen, Donna Davis, a fresh-
man at Era. She will be offi-
cially crowned at the Hornet
Football Banquet.
Aaron Copland is 88. Actor Brian
Keith is 67. Actor McLean Steven-
son is 59. Actor Don Stewart is 53.
Jordan’s King Hussein is 53.
Britain’s Prince Charles is 40.
been to induct them into a new coun-
try: the United States of America.
And here the lingua franca has been
English.
We are poised at this moment in
history to go in either direction.
Either toward a single language, in
which we transact our business and
our poetry, or else in two languages.
If we go in the latter direction, we
will encourage a cultural sep-
aratism that is distinctive in the
American experience. To go in that
direction merely to save the immi-
grant from the brief pains of total
immersion is a mistake. Penny-
wise, pound-foolish. We do not want
a day ahead in which Gov. Dukakis’
grandson will take the oath of office
and feel obliged to recite bits and
pieces of it in English, Spanish and
Greek.
"IT CALLED THE HOME FIELDADVANTAGE."
Bea Wattenberg
***
Miss Fonda Rue Williams,
junior at Callisburg High
School, will serve as reporter
this year. President of the peop
club and cheerleader, Fonda is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
G.C. Williams Jr.
Donald W. Reynolds,
Chairman of the Board
Warren G. Flowers,
General Manager
Eric Williams, Managing Editor
David Scott, Advertising Manager
Floyd Ferguson, Circulation Manager
LOCALLY OPERATED MEMBER
DONREY MEDIA GROUP
Thought for today: “Extremists
think ‘communication’ means
agreeing with them.” - Leo Rosten,
Polish-born American author and
political scientist.
***
Register photo: The 1958
Leopard football team owns a
whole family of Nichols boys.
Pictured is George Nichols,
starting varsity end. His
brother, Billy Joe, is a regular
halfback. Robert Nichols,
starting center, and Sammy
Nichols, are also brothers, but
are cousins to George and B. J.
***
David F. Smith of 706 N.
Commerce St. retired Nov. 1
from Sinclair Pipe Line Co em-
ployment, after more than 33
years of continuous service
with the pipe line transport-
ation firm and its predecessor
company. A native Texan, he
was educated at Tyler Comm-
ercial College and LaSalle Ex-
tension University in business
administration.
The prospects for such lib-
eralization, admittedly bleak,
would be greatly enhanced if
other Western governments,
led by the Reagan adminis-
tration, took the realistic
Thatcher line against Gen.
Jaruzelski’s repressive re-
gime.
***
Dennis (Tunky) Murphy,
Citizen of the Month at Gaines-
ville High School, is well known
on the campus. The junior
student is active in many school
organizations. He is secretary
of the Key Club, active in the
German Club, National Honor
Society and the Student
Council.
***
Highlighting the Muenster
Hornet vs. Callisburg Wildcat
game Friday, Oct. 31, was the
coronation of football queen
and presentation of the dads.
Miss Margie Flusche, chosen
as the 1958 Hornet FootbalL
Queen, was crowned with a
helmet and presented a
bouquet or red roses by Captain
Billy Otto during half-time ac-
tivities.
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renege on his promise to
reach an accord with the
workers in general and Soli-
darity in particular. Indeed,
wildcat strikes broke out
Tuesday at the Lenin Ship-
yard and a smaller shipyard
nearby.
Last August, the govern-
ment gained an end to nation-
wide strikes by agreeing to
confer with the union and
other opposition groups on a
plan for economic reform and
renewal. Those talks, origi-
nally scheduled to begin in
mid-October, have been
stalled because of the govern-
ment’s objection to the com-
position of the Solidarity
negotiating team. It’s become
increasingly obvious that
Gen. Jaruzelski has no inten-
tion of honoring his pledge.
The general’s duplicity
could ignite another labor
convulsion that would further
ravage Poland’s ruined econ-
omy. Meanwhile, Mrs.
Thatcher backed up her tough
talk with a tough threat.- She
warned that only political lib-
eralization would open the
door to increased British eco-,
nomic assistance for Poland
and support for the Interna-
tional Monetary Fund pro-
gram to reschedule the na-
tion’s staggering debt.
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To look to the future of the Demo- mon, Alan Cranston, George McGov-
cratic Party after yet one more presi- ern or Michael Dukakis. Moderates
dential political trouncing, it is neces- didn’t: not Walter Mondale, Gary
sary to understand the nature of their Hart, Al Gore, Richard Gephardt or
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British Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher gave Po-
land’s communist govern-
ment a piece of her mind that
bolstered the, cause of Soli-
darity and those who support
the outlawed independent
trade union. During her three-
day state visit, the outspoken
Mrs. Thatcher warned Gen.
Wojciech Jaruzelski that
there would be no economic
prosperity in Poland until its
citizens are granted greater
personal freedoms.
The tumultuous welcome
accorded Mrs. Thatcher in
Gdansk by thousands of Pol-
ish citizens lining the streets
had overtones of a massive
public protest. The huge turn-’
out was all the more signifi-
cant because Polish authori-
ties had set up an elaborate
screening process to
discourage crowds. The sym-
bolism was unmistakable as
she met with Solidarity lead-
er Lech Walesa and laid a
wreath at a workers’ monu-
ment just outside the Lenin
Shipyard. The solemn cere-
mony, to honor dozens of
Poles who died in 1970 at the .
hands of security forces, .
focused international atten-
tion on the continuing strug-
gle of a brave people against
a brutal government.
A recent manifestation of
that brutality is the govern-
ment’s decision to close the
Lenin Shipyard, where strikes
in 1980 spawned Solidarity.
The closure seems designed
to provoke further labor un-
rest and thereby provide Gen.
Jaruzelski with an excuse to
the two names that come most readi-
ly to mind. There could be others.
And then there must be a fight. Pol-
- x j x x ... v ■ .. ..... -■ - . iticians in presidential primaries
current sad estate. Bruce Babbitt. Conservatives didn’t: don’t usually like to fight over sub-
Consider this stunning, symbolic not John Glenn, Ernest Hollings or stantive matters. In the back of their
and real situation: Over the course of Reuben Askew. minds, bells go off: I want that fel-
two election cycles — 1984 and 1988 If we understand why Democrats low’s delegates to come to me later; I
— about 40 intra-party debates took have not disagreed with Jackson, we want his supporters to vote for me
place Fifteen major Democratic see what needs doing in the Demo- later; a split party is a losing party,
presidential primary candidates were cratic Party. It is partly because etc
involved. And in those debates - NO Jackson is black. That is the first han-
ONE DISAGREED DIRECTLY AND gup that has to go. It is not racism to All normally somewhat valid con-
REGULARLY WITH JESSE criticize a black politician on substan- cerns. But when a party loses five out
JACKSON! tive grounds. (In fact, it is racism to of six elections, by mostly big mar-
Incredible! Here is a party vulnera- treat a black politician differently.) gins, for roughly the same reason, and
ble for 20 years for being “too liber- But, Jackson aside, most Demo- can’t seem to stop nominating loss-
al.” And here is Jackson, a brilliant crats believe that there is a “left-wing prone, liberal politicians — the rules
and electrifying candidate, preaching veto” in the presidential-selection change.
a set of views far to the left of liberal process. That view is bolstered by the Th , +hing th at an mate th
on foreign and domestic issues. And special treatment given to that super- p emcrt-cpty,ononetitii poe
yet no candidate said, “Rev. Jackson, liberal, activist-dominated, “mug-a- the presidency is a S-on fight -
you have articulated some important moderate” parody of democracy (no honeful decorous and reasonable —
issues with which I agree, but I have secret ballot) - the infamous Iowa huaf iMtEFnsrS for the soul
profound differences with many of “caucuses.” The Democrats have to of the party
your views and values.” take away Iowa’s unfair status as the start now J r
,7, always-the-first-in-the-nation
Would it have made a difference? contest. The Democrats must finally decide,
Suppose candidate Michael Dukakis Then, potential candidates should one way or the other, whether they
had said it, regularly. When George scrub their brains of the notion of a are a moderate progressive party, or
Bush later attacked him for being — left-wing veto. (Jimmy Carter won a very liberal one. Doing it quietly, by
eek! a liberal, Dukakis could have primaries and caucuses running as a compromise, won’t help. The longer
used the famous Latin defense: “Quis, Southern, anti-Washington moderate.) they dither, the quieter the argument,
Ego?” (Who, me?). As in: “Who me? Next, some of the Democrats who the more the image of “very-liberal”
Impossible. Why I’m the fellow who are of the right wing of the left-wing is cast in concrete. Splitting the dif-
disagrees with Jesse Jackson.” party (that’s the American center) ferences can be considered later. For
Who didn’t disagree with Jackson ought to get active, pronto. Sen. Sam now, the marching banner must be,
publicly? Liberals didn’t: not Paul Si- Nunn and Sen.-elect Charles Robb are “No Compromises — Yet.”
finishing the trip in 72 days. above the 1,000 level for the first
On this date: time, ending the day at 1,003.16.
In 1832, the first streetcar - a in 1973, Britain’s Princess Anne
horse-drawn vehicle called the was married to a commoner, Capt.
“John Mason” - made its debut in Mark Phillips, at Westminster Ab-
New York City. bey.
In 1851, Herman Melville’s novel In 1984, astronauts aboard the
“Moby Dick’ ’ was first published in space shuttle " ‘Discovery’ ’ plucked
the United States a second satellite from orbit and
In 1881, Charles J. Guiteau went secured it in the spacecraft’s cargo
on trial for the assassination of bay—the second successful salvage
President James Garfield, mission in two days.
(Guiteau was convicted and hanged In 1986> the Securities and EX-
the following year ) change Commission imposed a re-
in 1922, the British Broadcasting cord $100 million penalty against
Corp, began its domestic radio ser- inside-trader Ivan F. Boesky and
When Canadian Prime Minister the rules are broken), four lan- wave brought in Mexicans and whenthe Vietnamese consolidate, a stressed the benefits of, so to speak,
Brian Mulroney came to the White guages are spoken, and the great other Latin Americans, we pitched trilingual state; and on and on. total immersion in the language of
House in 1986 and exchanged formal majority of the people speak only into one of those bouts of per- Now both Mr. Bush and Mr. the country into which you are being
greetings with the president, he one. It is not unusual to walk one missiveness, this one specifying Dukakis declared themselves as introduced.
would glide from time to time into a kilometer from where everyone that where other languages were opposed to the one-language state. The trouble with the idea of
sentence or two in French, back to speaks in French to find yourself densely used, the relevant language With all due deference to their tran- bilingual America is that it tends
English for a while, and maybe a surrounded by pleasant people who should appear on all federal forms, secendent concern for the comm- not to happen. What does happen is
final arabesque in French. This was speak not one word of French. That was the same season, roughly, onweal, one must suppose that they that people tend to concentrate on
done, of course not for his audience But such pockets of single- in which we decided that voters took the position they did because their own language to the exclusion
either at the White House or on tele- language isolation are insulated in didn’t have to prove they could read they feared to offend a minority, of the other. The statistics are not at
vision. His target audience was in Switzerland (and in the Low Coun- or write. Toward the end of the campaign one hand, but one’s general sense of the
Canada, where the Quebecois ne tries) by long-standing traditions. suspected that when bedtime came situation confirms that as we en-
sont pas du tout amuses when you What is distinctive about the When these words are read, we at Brookline, the Duke would ad- courage schools in which Spanish is
speak only in English: Dammit, the American culture is the demo- will have heard from Florida, dress Kitty along the lines of, “Dar- spoken, the pressure to learn Eng-
country is officially bilingual. graphic energy. Almost everyone, Arizona and Colorado whether the ling, let’s go to bed. Estoy agotado.” lish lessens. And as this happens, so
it sometimes seems, is on the move, people there desire that English be “Of course, mi amor.” ' also do corollary pressures lessen to
In South Africa, government offi- and it is for this reason that the idea the one official language. Even if Their positions are shortsighted, introduce the immigrant into a new
cials weave back and forth so of the melting pot took hold. It is these states vote as California did in Former Sen. S.I. Hayakawa of Cal- culture.
readily from Afrikaans to English extraordinary to reflect that 1986 in favor of the mother tongue, ifornia struggled while in office, Although it has never been a part
that they hardly know in which lan- although-the whole of the Southwest the feds could still get in the way of and continues to struggle, on behalf of the American rite of passage to
guage they are conversing: The spoke only Spanish 150 years ago, it things by insisting that in federal of a clean sweep. As a professional require new citizens to jettison tra-
state is truly bilingual. Para- was speaking only English 50 years matters, we become bilingual etymologist and literary ditions they brought from the old
doxically, in Switzerland (where all aso. But when the most recent tidal today, and perhaps tommorrow, sociologist, Mr. Hayakawa has country, the objective has always
INCUMBENT
vs.
CALLENGER
By The Associated Press vice. barred him from working again in
Today is Monday, Nov. 14, the in 1935, President Franklin D. the securities industry.
319th day of 1988. There are 47 days Roosevelt proclaimed the Phil-
left in the year. ippine Islands a free comm- Ten years ago: King Hassan of
Today’s highlight in history: onwealth. Morocco arrived at the White House
On Nov. 14, 1889, “New York • in 1940, during World War II, for talks with President Jimmy
World” reporter Nellie Bly (EL German planes destroyed most of Carter, who was seeking support for
izabeth Cochrane) began her at- the English town of Coventry. the Camp David peace accords be-
tempt to top the fictitious voyage of In 1969, ‘ ‘Apollo 12’ ’ blasted off for tween Egypt and Israel.
Jules Verne’s Phileas Fogg by the moon from Cape Kennedy, Fla.
traveling around the world in less in 1972, on Wall Street, the Dow Today’s birthdays: Composer
than 80 days. She would succeed - Jones Industrial Average closed
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