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Show Friday Ju'y Opinions m 20 THE. HLRALD. Provo. Utah, The Herald, its readers, syndicated columnists and cartoonists discuss vital issues - Page 25 'v'v lirj 1 The Daily Herald Comments tin An important fundamental of social organization in the United States is that any rule of law is considered valid and constitutional until it is tested in a court of law. That is a vital element of the social contract that binds us to- gether. H a law is duly passed by a city council, a state legislature, the Congress or any other group, or if a reg- ulation is lawfully wri-te- n and adopted, we are all expected to obey it until it is overturned by a court of law. That is something we are used to doing. A problem arises when someone in society feels threatened by some rule or regulation and he or she turns to the courts for help and judges hide behind some technicality to ab- rogate their responsibility to validate or vacate law. This week a federal appeals court walked away from a clear responsibility to speak when it rejected a challenge brought by 26 church and labor groups to President Reagan's 1981 executive order de- - far outside of town you can count on come to your rescue. well-traine- d firemen to Thanks, fellows, you did a great job and we appreciate your help and concern. The Gerald Loveless Family Payson Bowling Worker Tells View My deepest sympathy goes out to my employer, Linda and Eaton, all my all the people who came in Art City Lanes. The pain I feel right now I know is felt by everyone who patronized the lanes. It was a place to come and have a cup of coffee or a quick sandwich and chat with friends and loved ones. Besides love, the atmosphere was of caring, sharing and understanding, a place where you could go and feel as if someone cared about you. I had worked there for barely over three years. I didn't know when I started I could come to love a place and the people who came in there so much. I felt like it was my second home and the people I served were my family. Most people have a family with happy memories they can look back on, a family they are close to and can talk to at anytime whether they are happy or sad or just want to talk, there is someone there. I have never had this until I went to work at the lanes. I learned to love and to be loved back. We had customers who came in for coffee or to eat everyday like clockwork and if they missed a day we all wor- ried about them. It was the same when one of us didn't come to work. When I went to the hospital last year, you couldn't imagine the phone calls I received from my customers, and the get well cards they sent telling me to get well and hurry back. . There were many who came to see me in the hospital and when I got home. Some of my special customers made meals for me and my daughter and brought them over. That is love, and all these people are good, honest working people and when someone needs help they're right there. I never thought anyone in this whole world cared about me or loved me except my daughter until I met and recently married my husband who was also a steady patron. Now the bowling alley is gone. When it burned a part of me went with it. It hurts so badly to know I won't be able to see all my friends congregate Your front page article ("Cruising Main Street," July does a great disservice to the residents and merchants on Spanish Fork's Main Street. I've known your writer, Clark Caras, for many years and have great admiration and respect for him, but this article is an open invitation for even more of the goons from out of town to party on Main Street and disturb the peace for most of the night. It's hard to believe that the quotes- of our city councilmen 16) and policemen express their true feelings. It doesn't sound like what I've heard from them when I've brought up the subject. Your article emphasizes that "They have every right to be on Main Street" and "We don't want to harass the kids because ..." and "It's no worse this year ..." and "It could someday become a problem." Come on, you guys, it IS a problem NOW. Didn't any of your sources mention the underage (illegal) drinking, or the wreckless (illegal) driving, or the loud noises 3-- National Council of Churches and a related suit by Rep. Ronald Dellums, if. In their suit, the church groups said the orders violated constitutional guarantees' of free speech, political belief, freedom of religion and the Constitu tion's protections against unreasonable search and seizure. They argued that fear of being victims of illegal surveillance would have a "chilling effect" on their exercise of these constitutionally guaranteed rights. The judges did not sustain the president's order, but they ducked the issue by finding that the churches will have to prove they have been directly injured in some way by the major order. Writing for the three-judgpanel, Judge An-ton- e in Scalia said the Constitution requires that groups show "some actual or threatened injury'" as a result of the defendant's conduct in order to have the legal right to sue. The harm cannot be subjective, but must be "both real and immediate" or "concrete," said Scalia, appointed by Reagan to the bench. Even those groups which allege they have been victims of unlaw- surveillance ful was the Episcopal AfChurchmen of South rica, which has charged its mail does not reach its destination. In a footnote, Scalia said that was a charge too generalized to merit the court's attention. Exactly what does it take to convince some judges they should be willing to face up to their important respon-sibiit- y to pass judgment on the validity of law? It appears that the presented claims "too Washington court of Appeals turned its back in a clear case when it plaint," Scalia should have acted to prevent abuse before it generalized and nonspecific to support a comcon- cluded. Among those, he said began. SAN FRANCISCO Delegates and others attending the 1984 Democratic convention are finding that this city by the bay is very expensive as well as very beautiful. The average house here costs over $150,000 more than in any other city. Downtown hotel rooms also run high. The Four Seasons Clift, for example, charges up to $220 per night for a double. deleConnecticut's gation, by the luck of the draw, was assigned to the Clift. State party leaders, responding to Yankee frugality among their members, objected to the steep prices, and one of the few hotel switches was made. Georgia's delegation is now at the Clift, in place of Connecticut's which is at the Travelodge at Fisherwhere a double man's Wharf runs $79 a night. Journalists, who outnumber delegates more than three to one at the convention, also have been hit hard by high costs. Two Scripps League reporters sat in the lobby of the San Francisco Hilton official press center hotel for the convention and had a cup of coffee on opening day. The bill for two cups: under 12, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for $4.25. Soft drinks (there are no ice or soda machines) cost $1.75, plus $1.50 for service charge. The tip is T national Helping to ease the financial pain a bit is the Association of American Railroads. Continuing a convention tradition, the Association again is running a press lounge in Moscone Center, with free sandwiches and drinks for reporters. The Association expects to spend a total of $100,000 at the Democratic conventions nearly tiree-fourth- about $5 V cone. Along with gay city superv , - t . ; r . L,ee r i I. noaericK H Herald Washington Bureau! a head. s earn at $30,000. percent describe themselves as "white-collar- " About . I and Republican At least 21 percent of the delegates should have no trouble survi 'ig the city's high prices. to i survey, they Accorain maka more than $75,000 a year. Another 20 percent earn between $?0,000 and $75,000, and least t 19 workers, 15 percent as business executives, 15 percent as government officials and 13 percent as attorneys. Three-fourth- s of the delegates are white and 69 percent are married. Those fancy network anchor booths overlooking Moscone Center will get double duty this year. The prefab structures. convention location in recent memory, is named for the late Mayor George R. Mos- extra. $3.50. The room service menu at the Hilton includes a continental breakfast for $5.95, cheeseburger for $9.50, and for children T Moscone Center, whose squat structure and seemingly endless corridors make it the worst costing about $250,000 each, will be dismantled and trucked to Dallas for use at the Republican National Convention in August. ABC, CBS and NBC have more than 2,000 of the 14,000 members of the press covering the Democratic Convention. With few surprises predicted during the four days, the networks for the first time since 1952 are not providing convention coverage. But their commitment of resources to the Democratic gala is typically huge. CBS has laid 45 miles of cable and put in 400 phones to aid coverage by its convention team, headed by anchor Dan Rather. ABC laid 40 miles of cable, built 10,000 feet of work space, and has 44 cameras covering the happenings. gavel-to-gav- visor Harvey Milk, Moscone was slain by Dan White in 1978. Since then, the city's sizable gay and lesbian community has invoked Milk's name in such organizations as the Harvey Milk ArchivesMuseum of Lesbian and Gay History and the Harvey Milk Lesbian and Gay Democratic Club several of whose members are among the 40 openly gay delegates at the convention. One of the 40 is the Gay Atheist League of America, which bills itself as "a forum to promote a positive image of lesbians and gays." Maybe in San Francisco, but not likely beyond the Golden Gate Bridge. Banners and buttons have proliferated both inside and outside Moscone Center. They include such sentiments as "Stamp Out Boll Weevils" congressional Democrats who have helped pass President Reagan's proand a labor button, grams "Boycott Campbell Soup." Also seen is this button: "Mickey Mouse and Ronald Reagan are both from Califor- nia. Vote for Mickey." anymore. They will be in my heart and I will think about them everyday. The memories I have of the bowling alley are the most wonderful memories I've ever had in my life, no fire can take them away from me. Anyone who has ever worked or been a customer, if they didn't feel the love and closeness of everyone, I feel sorry for them for they missed out. I'm proud to have worked at Art City Lanes and anyone who can run it down did not open their eyes or their hearts. Jeanette Barton E. Springville 1010 S. 400 Main St. Has BIG Problem Editor, Herald: FBI and the CIA. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia voted 0 to uphold a lower court ruling dismissing a challenge spearheaded by the United Presbyterian Church and the - Family Thanks Firemen Editor, Herald: fining the intelligence collection powers of the W8tt Reporter's Look at Beautiful City Feedback Editor, Herald: We would like to publicly thank the Payson City Fire Department for its rapid response to a fire at our home on West Mountain. It's a comforting feeling to know that even though you live ?i?ba ft ft If from modified cars and full blast stereos at 2 a.m. 3 a.m.? How abut the loud foul language that comes through our bedroom windows late' at night? Didn't anyone telLyou about the fire they started in the church parking lot late at night? What about all the broken beer bottles that I have to clean up from my front lawn each Saturday and Sunday morning? Or how about the sexual immorality that takes place behind the churches on Main Street? Aren't these real problems that should be corrected now? They're real problems to me, but then, I live on Main Street. I'm upset that the Herald makes this problem sound like a minor annoyance. If the article reflects the true feelings of our city council and police (which I doubt) then I'll join with several of my friends on Main Street who have suggested that we start calling some key people a.m. so each night about they can join us in our frustration. John T. Parkinson P.O. Box 218 Spanish Fork 2-- 3 Invalua hie Inf owner Defenseless WASHINGTON - U.S. au- thorities are desperately seeking information about terrorist groups that might kill or kidnap overseas. The State Department got invaluable information from a Guatemalan refugee and then, believe it or not, handed him over to the Americans Guatemalan government for prosecution. The informant, Jorge Zimeri, had been part of an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the repressive Guatemalan government. He fled to the United States after miraculously surviving an assassination attempt that left him with 13 bullet wounds. Zimeri knows who's who in the Guatemalan underground. He told the State Department which groups have been murdering American diplomats and advisers in Guatemala. A State Department Zimeri's service to the United States, the State Department deported him last August to Guatemala where he was dumped in prison to await trial. In May, he was acquitted of the murder charge, but he has gone into hiding in fear for his life. The State Department has refused to issue him a visa to return to the United States. Meanwhile, he has never seen his infant daughter who lives with his wife in Miami. Zimeri's experience should discourage other informants from cooperating with the State Department to combat the terrorist threat. Certainly this is the opinion of a Washington, D.C., homicide detective, Jack Chaillet, who brought Zimeri to the State Department. "He turned out to be a gold mine of information," Chaillet told my associate Indy Badh-wa- r. "I'm really upset with the way the State Department has treated Zimeri. First, he should never have been deported, and he should now be allowed back. He might get killed over there." intellig- In Miami, where she lives with her daughter, Norma Zimeri said: "I feel because he helped the government here his life is in danger. I cannot stay here alone any longer. I will have to go to El Salvador where Jorg can come to see his daughter." of this warning and Footnote: There is one minor With 13 bullet wounds to remind Zimeri that he's on someone's hit list, he purchased two handguns in Miami without disclosing his alien status. This is a law violation, and he served 11 months in complication. searched this case and have sons." In spite i ters." re- strong doubts as to the credibility of the charge. Recent information indicates the possibility that Zimeri was not even in Guatemala at the time of the alleged murder. ... There is supportive reason (to believe) that the accusations could have been made for political rea- Jack Anaerson Chaillet, who is now retired, added: "Zimeri was our source, a police department source. It was because he trusted us that he agreed to talk to the State Department. If this is the way the State Department treats informants, then the local cops are going to tell those guys to shove it when they ask for cooperation on intelligence mat- ence officer, Belle Johnstone, flew to El Salvador and Guatemala and corroborated Zimeri's information. Her report was so sensitive it will be kept classified until the year 2005. Meanwhile, the Guatemalan government issued a warrant for Zimeri's arrest on a murder charge and trumped-u- p demanded that he be extradited. In a secret memorandum to superiors, Ms. Johnstone wrote: "I have extensively I re 0 '984 by NFA " dunno! What do YOU think vice president?" Inc about a woman jail. A State Department consular official, meanwhile, said no final decision has been made on Zimeri's visa application. Ms.. Johnstone refused to comment. |
