| Show '1 tie Sail lake Inbuilt 'I November 10 1988 hurxdav A31 Incredible Uprising in Soviet Estonia Tests Limits of Perestroika Universal Press Syndicate TURKU E inland — Unb knownxt to most of the world an engrossing drama of critical consequence to Mikhail Gorbachev and his refonns has been acted out daily for the last three weeks in Estonia From across the mere 30 miles of wintry Baltic Sea have come calls from the new ’ ' popular front for "secession ' from the Soviet Union ENen those Finns who have close contacts with the linguistically related Estonians do not believe this could conceivably happen But as Moscow threatens to move piobably on Nov 29 to tighten laws against any republic’s secession from the U S S R the Estonian popular front has grown more and more nervous and active In open meetings that would have been unthinkable even a year ago there have been many calls for secession before the laws are passed The entire scenario is little less than incredible which Gur mg point fur pi hue hev needs rale Fxtomni battalions in the Hui sian anny and tiade and commeice to be contj oiled by Tallinn not Mos- ") think that Gorbachev has planned using Estonia as an jexam pie The Estonians have some idea of dt mociacy and of maiket economics —- and w hat really is possible m practice One could be worried in the Baltics if not enough happens " During the last eight months Esto riia has become the most extiaoidi-narexample of change in any June within the US S R Estonia got the unique right from Moscow to grant its ow n passports — and the number of requests went fiom several thousand a year to more than 100 a day The popular front foimed under Marju Launstin son of a leader of the 1940 Estonian fight against annexation by Russia held meetings at which 300 000 attended (in an Estonia of only 1 6 million population! They wanted their Estonian language as the official language sepa- But also inn edible is the fact that Soviet Communist Party leader Gorbachev may have been using the lib eiahation — in effect the very formation of a popular front in Estonia c to balance off the power of the Communist Party there — as proof of his perestroika” or reforms "The national fronts in the Baltics are the surest support for Gorbachev" Jarmo Virmavnta editor in chief of Turuh Sanomat the leading paper in tins Finnish port told me "There is no sign he is against them They may even have become a test- ‘ - cow As in other obstreperous republics such as Armenia env lionmental problems became a metaphor for nationalism — an Estonian 'Gieen’ movement also has sprung to life becoming a new power factor virtually overnight But after the months of utter eu phona — nights would see hundreds of thousands gathered in the beauti ful squaies of Tallinn emotionally singing old Estonian nationalist songs and hymns — problems began to anse Nothing of consequence improved Rationing continued and nothing was done to stop the threatening Russian immigration to Estonia which is close to 50 percent Russian now Moscow began to warn that if the demonstrations went too far it would stop them — but no one w ould Sandy Grady Knight-Ridde- r you can come out of the bomb shelter The air is fairly safe to breathe You might even try turning on the TV set Yep they've gone away I mean the two guys who ve been screeching in our ears "He's throwing garlib'” "lie s a bage'” "He’s a far-ou- t distorter'" "He’s a whiner'" Our long national nightmare is over Yes I know President Jerry Ford said that talking about Richard Nixon and Watergate But Ford s quote keeps bouncing around my skull The 1988 presidential campaign has been one of those nightmares with no escape hatch We've been caught m bedlam Willie Horton1 Manuel Noriega’ Polls' Furloughs' Flags' Consultants' A silly man riding in a tank' More polls' If you vote they blessedly let you wake up Has the election of 1988 been as bad as everybody says9 Yes absolutely As a journalist who’s followed this mess for 16 months submit that this has been the most empty cynical trivial election of the television Fair Is Foul and Foul Is Fair age- - Don't tell me politics has always been scurrilous Sure opponents called Abe Lincoln a black baboon r AnGrover Cleveland a drew Jackson the son of a mulatto Martin Van Buren a transvestite stuff or That was papers or printed in yellow'-racrude comic books Don't tell me things were just as nasty in 1964 when LBJ's crowd creTV ad against ated that atomic-blas- t Barry Goldwater The ad ran only once thanks to moral outrage And don't tell me Jimmy Carter in 1980 said Ronald Reagan would be "a catastrophe" and "would divide America ” Compared to 88 that sounds as innocent as a Dick & Jane slickster Lee Atwater — discovered in May while watching a Paramus N J focus group behind a mirror that furloughs and the Pledge of Allegiance hit the hot buttons "Every person in America" Atwater allegedly vowed "is going to know who Willie Horton is " So the plot was set in midsummer Bush s operatives considered him a weak candidate Bush's negative ratings were over 40 percent Even with peace prosperity and the Reagan mantle they calculated only one way to win — trash Dukakis If the campaign would be tainted with racism and irrelevant to the presidency so what" Two caveats Bush became a confident strong campaigner And the Dukakis amateurs didn't But the wake up until manipulative vacuous Bush campaign could earn a tarnished presidency — Democrats in Congress furious a public in revulsion at the process Yes there are other villains On every Main Street 1 heard the same " gripes "It goes on too long "How'd we wind up with these two guvs9” "Too many polls " "They never talk about real issues " Etc But presidential campaigns may only get worse Bush set a standard wife-beate- two-wa- word-of-mout- h g reader Nope this year wins the Sewer Trophy for groin kicks rabbit punches and eye gouges No doubt in my mind w ho gets the main credit for this dispiriting brawl Let's not beat around the Bush Both George Bush and his manager James Baker argue that they only atbegan their tacks to counter Democrats' taunting of Bush at the Atlanta convention "They castigated him as old Silver-foot- " said Baker "We had to re” spond e Balderdash In truth the Bush — TV guru Roger Ailes pollster Robert Teeter and political e Need New Office The Soviet Union has some of the best minds m the world and what do they do w ith them9 They w aste them The United States has some of the best minds in the world and what do we do with them9 We ignore them It was 10 years ago I first heard of global warming due to our fossil fuel addiction of the threats posed by deforestation of rain forests and by acid rain on our own forests and of the danger of losing the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere think everyone is now aware that the earth will not indefinitely sustain our present way of life I still admire the Carter administration for making an effort to come to grips with that unpleasant reality Then came the Reagan administration which to dwell on declared it unpleasant realities I think the charge can be made that the Republican party has become a party of flatterers the party that gets the most mileage from telling Americans w hat w e want to hear that we are good we are strong That message is needed from time to time I admit and maybe it needed in 1980 Perhaps we need a separate office with the title of king or lord protector occupied by a handsome figurehead whose charge it would be to reassure us to remind us we are good we are strong At the same time we need leadership and a good hard look at the deepening for 92 and beyond Mavbe it's time for the politicians and media to put on some brakes A few ideas — Shorten campaigns Don't pick the early primary stales until New Year s Day of election year And don't start with Iowa and New Hampshire — Put a muffler on polls which make reporters lazy and dominate issues Why not media — a mutual pledge by networks and major papers not to carry polls the last 10 days" — Why not a similar ban on negative ads the last 10 days9 This isn't some newspapers have such a rule the last weekend of Senate and congressional races — Provide some honest debates not phony press conferences Each presidential candidate going into the election year should agree three debates with only one y Claude Lewis Newspapers There are few better barometers of the paradoxes of American life than our holidays Thanksgiving and Christmas are careless symbols of an orchestrated decency in our country On Thanksgiving we usually gather to thank one another — and when we remember God — for our good fortune Christmas is the birthday of Christ but many of us celebrate the dav while ignoring his precious presence Some have turned the celebration into an obscene display of transforming it into an annual opportunity to glean generous gifts that have little real significance Despite extraordinary excursions into opulence and excess one is constantly reminded that there is anoth er America a place occupied by the have-not- s of oui society We group them under a wide blanket railed homeless" a softer more comfortable euphemism for America s poorest peoplr They are men and women ol all ages — and too often childien — lost on the overcrowded land si ape of despair This year millions of Ameiicatis will owe their Thanksgiving dinner lo lood stamps welfare doles or the si isonal good will of local charities earnest police officers and othei kind souls In our hind of plentv mere is a growing mass of lmmanilv who dwell in doorways and who liw on steam grates for the length of the winter season Ui find whole fain dies without income food health plans oi even tin means In a (lei cut By r bm in! Despite the presence of the poor Hu nations ictail establishments old $128 billion m goods m tin In t month of tins year Kidd million tin in w as sold m Dei einli r iiimi !‘87 I’lii nation s aitpoits do unclear at this moment just w hat this means But there is assui edly tension in Moscow over the popular front and its demands ' We have the impression that the popular front has entered a moment of crisis" Kan Huhta the foreign news editor of the Helsinki paper llrhxngin Sanomat told me We 1 i i hull" ihali lv alt' r 'I bald spn m ! im v tow at d loi tmas al In i In reading Josephine Townsend'S 1 1 1 to have attended the University of Utah at a tune when the emphasis was placed on teaching rather than on research It was a time when teaching was done bv the professors rather than by the teaching assis-- j tants and a tune when most of the (Forum Nov 2) asks "What is happening on Room H j J Three days only ing gifts for people we take for granted most of the year We bury in the deep recesses of our minds those who are less fortunate and w e get on w ith our eelebra tions While there are reasons for outrage there are also reasons for hope There probably are few er w ars in the w orld and more people survive cancer than ever There has been movement in the movement to disarm and the United Nations has regained a measure of its lost respect But problems persist We hear the noise of exploding guns in our urban communities We see legions of teen-agrunaways on our streets spoiling themselves and their futures And young Americans die silent deaths from drug overdoses and an epidemic called AIDS in communities from coast to coast Abandoned elnldien continue to perish from carelessness from cold from starvation and broken hearts Despite it all man s spirit is in domitable his desm to relcbiate is constant Perhaps we cling to our comforting l duals as a piotcetive de-- 10th FT and th 49 c e the area on the area's best fur selection Pius every one of our furs carries with it our guaranteed price promise We'll meet anyone s price on the same fur of the sarnie still quality Which means that even when others have a fur sale they can’t surpass our prices Or our quality Which is the very best the fur industry has to otter As always we guarantee lowest prices in Just wait until you see all of our fabulous furs' Hundreds of styles and one is just what you've been looking for at a price you can truly afford We know you be pleasantly surprised1 II ICC lid we liei d out eelebia turns to help save out sandv and to help us sut vive the tnosli paradoxes of out personal lives and public ef forts Uoie it not for holidays the crush ol public failuti would soiclv dev oui ns So am thankful fm main of our rituals though not all nut lives haw hoi mm "implex and must be pure t uitcd In i brief period of escape a line icspitc Dorn rtaldv ( clctua tioniivi 0 I hev help us to go tin want and provide us with Hit hopi nd it that next vcii will to In in i in xt y a) is ii" moi than a t o bon o( tins oui ioIi dav s w ill In lp mu' o( us to mi (I u tin pa r a il o i s t h a t 111 the Financings In addition to layaway you may want to charge your purchase to your ZCMl Option Account VISA MasterCard American Express Carte Blanche or Dmers Club cards We even have our ?d Month Pay Pian i ihoniai for your dont miss out But convenience tis the season prices this Thursday Friday 1 i available guaranteed I" west the lake "wnt"wr of the fur now at and Saturday only m Salt Cottonwood Ogden arid Grand Teton Cameo Room Fur Salons Special hours: Friday and Saturday i r ' professors seemed to sincerely care' about the undergraduate students When I read about some of the" meaningless material that is now' be- ing written in the great quest to either ' publish or perish" I am wondering w hat is happening to this once great university WM BROWN! Ruins the Best Richard Christensen j in which she letter (Forum Nov piaised the late Piofessor Kenneth Eble realized how fortunate was image-meister- additional slums mini iimo m creased coil option t In lit abuse and e Fortunate Era Public Forum letters must be submitted exclusively to The Tribune and bear writer’s full name signature and address Names must be printed on political letters but may be withheld for good reason on others Writers are limited to one letter every 10 days Preference will be given to short typewritten (double spaced) letters permitting use of the w riter’s true name All letters are subject to condensation Mail to the Public Forum The Salt Lake Tribune PO Box 867 Salt Lake City Utah 84110 hot-wir- i w t 1 v mil'll' e 1 Forum Kules know well get amnesia Sure The inaugural balls and the presidential honeymoon blot out the campaign s raunchiness And in 1992 ans will other gang of e our emotions like guinea pigs There'll always be a Willie Horton If it happens to quote Pogo we ve met the enemy and it is us Mill of on tills dav is like) In In t lie happv goigmg not ih spnndent gu hug meium exi ess is not alwavs a happv oi i asion E at h yeat vu new people out o uoik gieat in hum'' t on ii mi ii di up ait'l" t ion les' toll am i ov ei i ow ded pi si ms V the political scene today9" To my-wav ol thinking the geneial public is so (Ted up with the political lies they are told by most if not all of our politicians today I am and I have not talked with anyone who is not — Democrat Republican or indepen- - ” dent 1 would like to believe that most of the men and women who gao into politics do so with honesty in’ their hearts but the "give and take" of the political world soon ruins even' the best of them M T NELSON Trernonton cracks in the foundation of our son ety As much as I've flirted with cvrn-cisthough 1 still feel that theie is a human heart of our nation from which comes leadership when it's really needed which gives rise to an Abraham Lincoln or Martin Luther King in our hour of need CHARLES AS HURST Logan Christmas in November g referee brisk business each w inter deliv ering the more fortunate to the warm climes of Florida and California and joyous ski crowds to the majestic hills that range from Connecticut to Colorado Sharp contrasts separate Thanksgiving and Christmas The character of Thanksgiving is not spending but unity It is a day of quiet dignity No yelling no whooping it up onlv the serene celebration of each other and the things w e appreciate Thanksgiv ing is a celebration of the spirit of family friendship football frivolity symbolized by food and abun dance In millions of households on Thanksgiving morning the smell of fn?shlv roasted turkeys will fill the air The color of cranberries and the aroma of boiled turnips candied yams steaming pots of vegetables rice gravies spices sauces and rich desserts will cause us to salivate with anticipation If we are guests rather than hosts Thanksgiving arrives without exhaustion Dm onlv preparation is a loose belt and a heartv appetite Thanksgiv mg is a ritual to the god of plentv But on this holidav no one is e are expected offended by excess to engage in gluttonous bohavioi it is a part of the proiess that makes Thanksgiving what it is A lwmgmei i lree-doin- aragua1 Given the complex and confusing lay ei s of pow er — w lelded at any one moment by the party the fiont or the government bureaucracies — it is Toie Cameo d Feast or Famine Thanksgiving Comes Kmght-Riddc- ’ 1 1 ! The tlnee little but ferociously independent Baltic states — Iatvia Lithuania and Estonia — were always different Largely Protestant they were members of the Hanseatic League and so have a deep memory of free enterprise and political to draw upon That apparent ly is why Got bar hev has tapped tin in for or allowed them to try to be examples for the mure slothful and collectiv 1st Sov lets But this presents a conundrum for Moscow w Inch talks about the ' power of the masses ' but by that means ' Ijcrunist police control of the state over them A real power of the masses can be seen in Estonia What Moscow decides to do now will tell us a great deal about where MikhaiJC Goibarhev is really going to go Tribune Headers’ Opinions Newspapers — OK over The Public Forum The US Nightmare Is Finally Over WASHINGTON have noticed that the laws drafted m Most ow are nowhere in ar the front x explication 1 am afraid that the honey moon w lth the popular front is tell the Estonians what was 'too fai Then on Sunday Nov 6 news came out of 'lallinti to Finland that Estonian Prime Mimstei Bruno Saul was going to resign — again mcredi bly — because he did not get the' support of the Gieen movement and that the party s ideological secretary lndiek 'loomea was going to take over with the aid of Communist Party leader Vaino Valjas w ho had served Moscow as a diplomat in Nic- 9-- 9 |
