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Show P3t Eight Fridcy, Otefmbtr 11, 1t31 Hit Defy Utah Chronicle All we want for Christmas is peace on earth The Chronicle staff wishes all of you a Merry Christmas. And we hope you wake to find what you've been wishing for under the tree on Christmas morning, We're holding out for peace on earth but we're not holding our breath. limiting some of these weapons not very many of them, but it's a start. And our most ardent Christmas wishes and prayers for peace goout to them. The future of mankind may depend on their success in starting to stop the proliferation of horrifying weaponry. And in despair I bowed my head There is no peace on earth, I said, For hate is strong and mocks the song of Peace on Earth, Goodwill toward men. Another year has come and gone. The holiday season is here again. While ihe prospects of a wild and wonderful New Year's celebration and the joy of giving (and getting) that comes with Christmas loom happily before us. the Christmas season also serves as a painful that there is no peace on earth. Coming to grips with that realization wouldn't hurt so much if we could at least say that there was a little more peace on earth this year than there was last year. Unfortunately tragically, for mankind things in the peace department, rather than getting any better, got ft una mail no a raiiuiuaiG would be against capital punishment, for social reforms, opposed to the arms race, in favor of the ERA and therefore unacceptable to the worse. The president of the United States was nearly assassinated again. The usual outrageous number of xxple were killed in senseless acts of violence and armed conflicts continue on various parts of the glove. Anwar Sadat, one of the most courageous believers in peace the earth has ever known a hawk turned dove who knew his xace overtures would mean his own death was killed violently by a group of men with apparently no comprehension of the greatness of the man or the work he was doing. In the meantime, the United States and the Soviet Union both continued to pour whatever funds they could get their hands on intoanescalatingarmsrace, the leaders of both nations all the while citing the insane j ust if icat ion of "deterrence." As i f one of t hem suddenl y getting the jump on the other would discourage the other from continuing the pursuit of the greatest stockpile of nuclear weapons on earth. And now, in the midst of this arms race, a small group of men meets in Geneva to discuss the (xmibility of Moral Majority . II Sfc . . lJ w 11 I t if h r Jk A 'F-i- I -- sr Wv i 111 II ill I J kX ULJ V-l.- XI W BRIAN AeeEILEB - TV reflects viewers Nuke the arms race advances by Dennis Bedolla and Preston Truman of a job (which you and For a long time now, there has Ixrn an increasing aims race sentiment surfacing throughout the world. hotli from the East and Hundml of thousands of Eurox-ans- , WYsi, have participated in rallies and demonstrations against having nuc lear wcaxms on their soil. Rcxms dealing with the subject can be seen every day in the media. The recent conference on the health effects of nuclear war, held on campus at the SEC drew much attention in the area. But so far, nobody has volunteered any real concrete answers to deal with the question of what we ran do about it in a bomb shelter or all. All we hear about is being dying an ugly death of radiation sickness shortly after a nuclear exchange. And the nuclear arms race advances faster than ever with nuclear weapons-relate- d contractors like our own Hercules Corp. of Salt Lake and Thiokol Corp. of Btigham City making a killing on our fear of the Russians. There is a very effec tive measure that ran easily be taken, though one that not too many people know about but one that can basic ally halt the progress of the nuclear arms race between the suxTxwcrs. It involves ending the ac tivities of the Department of Energy's Nevada Test Site, 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas, where the United States and Great Britain test (by exploding) all the new warhead designs for our next generations of nuclear wcaxns that are scxn to be deployed into the nuc lear arms race. The lTnited States and Great Britain presently test warheads at the siteon the average of one every three weeks. The measure that can be taken is the signing and ratification of a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTB) by the United States. Great Britain and the Soviet Union. This, in effec t, would end I he development of new nuclear weaxns systems by the sumtjhwcis. Ixrause in order to be certain that your new design ac tually work, you must first test it by anti-nucle- dry-roast- way. Besides being a comfort to our sanity and giving us a bit more confidence in our government, the signing of a CTB would benefit the health of everyone in this region. For the past 30 years, the continual atomic testing at the Nevada Test Site has periodically dumped radioactive fallout in this area, but of course we either never hear about it or are told that it was "insignificant levels" and there is "no danger." Whether there is really no danger in the fallout or not, it would still give us more peace of mind if we knew it wasn't floalingover our heads all of the time. The MX debate in our area has shown us that the government can be affected by. public opposition. The MX, though, is only one of the many new nuclear weapons systems being introduced into the arms race by the United States. Why not get to the rcxt of the problem and stop all these new and deadlier wcatxms from being conceived of in the first place. Postcards and letters written to elected officials really did make a difference in the MX decision and they can on a CTB. With an elec tion year coming up a CTB should be made an issue the c andidates will have to address, especially since testing of nuc lear weajxms directly affec ts this area. It was done with the MX. There is no reason why it can't be done with a CTB treaty. Dennis Bedolla and Preston Truman are members of detonation. A CTB agreement was virtually completed by U.S. and Soviet negotiators in August 1980. but remains to be signed by the U.S. go eminent, mainly due to pressure front the nuclear weapons industry, including corporations like Thiokol and Hercules. Far and away the leaders of this opposition to a CTB. though, are the scientists from the nuclear weapons labs such as Lawrence Livermoie Lalxiratoty in California am! Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico. It's easy to see why they opjxise it: they would t SuHiriMionv S2fi a rar, S an a.adrmii qujrirr All subtription mul bf prepaid. fnrard all uhription ,irrr.fondrmr. im lading hana;r of addtrvv to KuMnr Manacrr Oail l lah C hrotiiilr. 20 I mm. I niTrm of I iih. Sili I air ( Hi. I'lah Ml 12administration. . wi iatt Pjltiik klingaman ManaifrT I dllnr I Hnoi ditortal I .ttior ' Rill Raine J"an I Riirn an imrnt Irmr Nn. t . Inlnlainmrm I dilor Sim Fditor op F ditor Spwt t dllf C At. ...... Editor . . C alhmm t 4o 'ie Rjird all-ev- il Much of commerc ial television is. as Smcdley allege s, "sex. speed and noise." Howe ver. I have personally watched many episodes of Dallas and have ye t to try to emulate the show's e haiac lets in the ir various inc identsof adultery, crime, etc. I merely find it a mildly amusing entertainment. And afte r a hard day, I inorcoftcn want to than cduc atcd and saturated with culture. As to the effec t of violent programming on c hildren, any parent not take to the initiative to control the television is willing a shirking rcsixinsihility. The sad truth is that the majority rf the Amcric an xoplc would rather watc h The Dukes of llazzard than Master-piet- e Theatre. Today's network programming exists Ixe ause the majority w ants it to. Public te le vision isa lie sh, intelligent alternative, but that's no reason tocondeum its commerc ial counterpart. Brian Aggeler is cartoonist. ed J,n bmn 4 Mike Prater Senior Phntogtapher Photographer m Rooemnn Kimberl H ilvm Brian Hillimon Da id Trapp Rat ihop Foreman Rakhop Ad Paul Reane Rulh Siemuii Jean Nolle tiarrn Smith karenAendell Run arrli a "Chronir le" toluininst and rtant Repreentatie y,lr Jhnon Lee John Jrltr karrn rrman Ton 1aiaii high-qualit- kim Rrpor.rr i He presented as our only salvation the intelligent programming of public television. Smcdley gave as support for his argument that commercial television is worthless the fac t that among the top 10 shows are Dallas, Three's Company, etc. Does Smcdley believe that the networks themselves are responsible for the ascendancy of these "immoral" shows? Does he believe that the network which produced it y condemned 77ie Paper Chase, a prcxluclion bomb to standard, by any commercially? The networks don't decide this. The "victimied" American public, through ratings, decree what they shall watch. Unfortunately for Smcdley, Campbell and others who hold the theory that evil networks "force-feed- " the public materials which will desensitize it, the truth of the matter is that the condition of commercial programming is but a symptom of sexiety's ills, not a c ause. In his blanket statement that network television isa "vast wasteland," Smcdley seems to haveovei Icxiked sue h oases of commercial quality as MA SII. 1 1 ill Street Blues, and the Holocaust special. His blatant public television snobbery seems to make him unable to ac know ledge comparable programming on the commercial ne tworks, rare as it may be. Senior l.lni oln Hohb sier Framt Robert M.OmSrt Mn.iciiic Idiioi RuMiir Salt Lake City based educational organization whit h is working to get the Xawda Test Site losrd by the signing of a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty by the I 'nited States and the l.S.S.R. hirf I dllof Photograph Iditorial ftoard: Stor Fran, iv l.imoln Hobhv Palritl Kltncjman Joan O'Brien. Jean Armenl Ormr. Rill Rainev a Down-winder- Ix-ou- I diim-tn-f- pay for with taxes) if it went into There is absolutely no reason why we should not sign this treaty with the Soviets. Although our technology is still ahead in this field, our edge is eroding over the years. We can stop it right now where it is by signing this agreement. Verification of compliance of the treaty can easily be checked through satellite observation, use of spy networks and watching for telltale seismic signals in the earth that betray an atomic blast. The one thing the people running the Nevada Test Site really fear is widespread public opposition to their testing program, especially in the areas downwind of the test site. In these areas reside the same people who said no to the government over the placement of MX, and they got their ed The "Dail I 'tah ChrmtM le" i an independent Mudent nr p aier pubhhed dail during (ail. winter and prmg quarirtv rtduding let week and quarter break. h rhe I niierit Puhluation C (mm tl. Editorial rrflnf the opinion of ihr rditmtat fntard. and nol nr,rariU ihr opinion ol ihr iudrnt bod or ihr I effect. ar In Monday's Chronicle, J. Michael Stnedlcy, citing the support of Dr. Rex Campbell, made the c ase that network television is soc ializing us into "a nation of brutal thugs." A.iouniant Tipeetler Oflne Staff Lnr, Trai K t C ollin 0'er R,adha Julia Jenktn Sheila Hamilton Si oil Pitt Rarin Sione lebbre aughn Liha nungherg terti Budd Sandra Can ia Sue Lear Rill Throneburg Peg Mitntee C .nthia Sefali |
